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PAGE FOUR ‘THE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE An ladependent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) tmarck iCeorg second class mail matter. President and Publisher Mana Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per ysar ... Daily by mail, per year, (in Bi $7.20 + 7.20 ismarck) .... Daily by mail, per year, J (in state outside Bismarck) ....... Daily by mail, vutside of North Dekota + 5.0 6.10 Weekly by mail, im state, per year Weekly dy mail, .1 state, three years for Weekly by mail, outside of North Dako a, pe VOAT ..ccceecseneveenetteveneesrecerenreee oe 180 Member Aadit Burean of Circulation | 250) Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press {s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news uispatches credited | to it or not ctherwise credited in this newspaper, and * also the local news of spontaneous origin published, herein. All rights of republication of all other mat-| ter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives ¢ G. LOGAN P. COMPANY CHICAGO ¥ Bower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. | | | | | (Official City. State and County Newspaper) Prosperity and Campaign Blah | “The state of North Dakota is the | one white spot in the business map | of the United States today. Business | conditions in this state are excellent. \ Florida, California and other states would be capitalizing the condition if they are enjoying it. Every big na- tional publication would be carrying illustrated articles about southeast- » southwestern prosperity if it s; but North Dakota and fb, dts fl ail norhtwest are not in on the pub- licity business in a big way, and when wonderful conditions exist such as at the present time, we have no medium by which the public may be properly informed.”—John DeWild to Bis- marck Retail Merchants, Political lamentations and jeremaids are the order of the day in this great state of North Dakota. By way of contrast a stranger comes =I{nto our midst and gives us a different impres- sion of conditions than that which the politi- cians of a certain clique seek to convey. i- The statements of Mr. DeWild are true, as ‘ everyone knows who has traveled recently throughout the far East and along the Pacific coast. Yet a few leather-lunged job hunters : are going up and down the state seeking to . ,8care the voters into camp with the kind of /-3an argument that will mean a decided setback to present economic conditions in North Dakota. ~ _The North Dakota tax rate compares favor- ably with other agricultural states, all things considered. Regardless of the cost of the so- ( ajealled state industrial program the increase of § ‘taxation can easily be explained. Any thought- » ful student of government knows that the pgchief tax load is occasioned by county, city, school district and other strictly local levies. All the hullabaloo about state taxes is so much ~dust in the eyes of the voters. ~ But the most vicious propaganda is that being put out by the Independents to injure _.the reputation of the state by picturing it as . tthe home of bolshevism; by soliciting funds to | thwart the honest efforts of the farmers of the ) -state to secure better marketing conditions; i 4by opposing the wishes of a great majority of b population upon whose business the cities and villages must rely. Mistakes have been ‘made and will be made in this struggle toward i@ solution of the agrarian problems, but the game mistakes are being made over a wide ithe interest payment on that debt, which an- Published by the Bismarck Tribune C mpany, Bis-|™ : ete Jee N. D., and eniereu at the postoftice at Bis-,4re the dollars the taxpayers begrudge. jgive him credit for things he never did. We years. One of the reasons the public has been so insistent on retiring the war debt quickly is ually eats up millions of tax dollars. These The First Atlantic Flight A dispatch from Washington, announcing that Colonel Lindbergh would greet the mem- bers of the crew of the Bremen, said that “the hand of the first man to fly a plane across the Atlantic from west to east” would clasp the hands of the first men to cross it from east to west. Lindbergh is a magnificent man and a fa- mous flyer, but let’s not, in our national pride, just make ourselves offensive to other peo- ple. He was not the first man to fly across the Atlantic from west to cast. Captain John Al- cock and Lieutenant Arthur Brown flew across in 1919. Their flight is fomous and the} British are rightly proud of them. There is no sense in claiming for Lindbergh a record that isn’t his. He himself would be the first to give Alcock and Brown the credit. Editorial Comment | Pay as You Go—Into the Mud (Minneapolis Journal) An official map of State road conditions, is- sued by the Highway Department several days after the mid-April storms had ceased, was designed solely for the guidance of travelers, so they might avoid routes that were in bad shape. Nevertheless, this chart furnishes the strongest kind of an argument for a reasonable bond issue to hasten the paving of important roads carrying heavy traffic, and the strong- est kind of an argument against the diversion of gasoline tax money out of the Trunk High- way Fund, as proposed in the unfair and un- wise Amendment Number One, to be voted on next fall. Take Trunk Highway Number Three, the road to Winona and La Crosse.. From Sauk Center down through the Twin Cities and clear down to La Crosse; this great travel route is paved, except for three short stretches. But oh, what stretches! On April 21 the gravel between Hastings and the point west of Red Wing where the pavement recommences was described as “fair to poor,” and the short un- paved gap just south cf Winona was marked “good to fair.” Now driving over a “good to fair” gravel road is no great hardship, even in a spring thaw. And a “fair to poor” stretch can be put up with, even though it be for twenty miles, provided the going called “poor” is occasionally relieved by brief bits of going called “fair.” But the fifteen miles of gravel from Lake City to Wabasha, half way between the Twin Cities and La Crosse, was marked “poor to im- passable” on the map of April 21. Here is a road paved nearly all its length, from Sauk Center right down to the southeast- ern corner of Minnesota. Two hundred miles of concrete rendered useless for through cross- State travel, by just a few miles of bogged- down gravel. And there have been others. Important Number Ten, paved from Pennock to Litchfield, and from Wayzata to Minneapolis, but with many impassable spots in the gravel between Litchfield and Wayzata, another example on the map of April 21. Nor has the present spring been an exceptional one. A year ago Number One, at the time paved all the way to Duluth save for two short gaps of gravel, was closed to traffic for days and days, when those brief stretches bogged down. A road is no better than its weakest link. Weak links are the inevitable price of piecemeal paving, and piecemeal paving is the inevitable result of “pay-as-you-go” highways, as opposed area of the agricultural domain of this nation. North Dakota is not unique in that. _ Why continually hold up North Dakota as a horrible example? Why erect wailing walls in our midst? Why paint a dark picture of conditions here when the one given by Mr. De- '4\Wild is nearer the truth? If the voters are keen to the situation they twill register next month their hearty disap- ceeerel of the kind of campaign which the In- lents are launching. It lacks truth and igincerity ; it blackens the fair name of a great jf <atate; it belittles its people; it flouts the ‘wishes of a great body of its citizenry. There should be only one answer to those ‘{avho would scuttle a ship to gain a political ‘Sob; to those who would destroy simply what cannot rule. |. North Dakota has had four years of clean ‘business administration and the insinuations, charges and counter-charges which constitute ‘the curtain raiser of this state campaign are \prejudicial to a condition which Mr. DeWild |no warmly praised in his recent address to the merchants of Bismarck. ! Another Billion Paid ~ On June 30 when the treasury department ‘writes another billion off the national debt the United States will add another chap- ter to the most amazing story in the history ‘of public finance. In nine years the nation reduced its war debt from $26,000,000,000 to $17,500,000,000. It is a remarkable record nd one that is a credit to even this fabulously J and prosperous nation. This money was borrowed by the govern- nt from its own people and a large part of ‘was loaned to America’s allies in the World » but most of the $8,500,000,000 repaid in nine years ending June 30 was from ean taxpayers, not from European debt- i. Vast treasury surpluses year after year have is rapid retirement of the pub- if continued will wipe out the long before the time predicted by the asury department. But the day of large in the national treasury seems to be zeal of ers and lus funds in t, it will be and for- taxpayers to bond-built highways. Muted “Big Bill” ( New York Times) Mayor Thompson has learned resignation, even if he won't resign; and his machine philosophers are pragmatists. Well licked, they know it and are ready to let the successful opposition run things. In the rapid shifts of Chicago Republican politics, the friend of to- day is the foe of tomorrow. So the pragma- tists take their medicine and wait their time. For the sake of harmony the masters of the Cook County Republican Convention, having shown their power by electing its officers, were magnanimous to Governor Lowden, Senator Deneen and Secretary of State Emmerson, the abaser of Governor Len Small. Cruel only to be kind, they had to tell Thompson to “take a back seat.” Reversing the fable, the Ox unswelled himself into the Frog; “and don’t let us hear a croak from you till we give the word.” The trainers of this gifted amphibian of the prairies, lakes and waterways must have told him. So the bellow heard round the world is followed by a lovely hush, and George V_ no longer has to take veronal o’ nights. Ten days ago “Bill” was “hurling defiance” at all his-opponents and glaring at the “Cossack thugs.” Then he was everywhere. Monday he stayed away from the convention. The posters are torn. The slogans have shut up. America is presuma- bly last and her champion’s ambition has shrunk to this: He is one of a Committee of Three to offer a platform at the Judicial Con- vention in May. Old tragic figures fallen from high estate crowd the memory. The teeth of Marius chatter in the marsh. Belisarius rattles his begging-dish. They are not so piteous as “Big Bill.” They had a de- cline and diminuendo. The Big Noise was almost instantaneously reduced into the Big Silence. The drafter of Coolidge, the “recep- tive” candidate for President, dwindles into one-third of a trifling committee. The student of fortune and its mutations thinks of the an- cient yarn of the officeseeker who went to the White House to ask to be made a Minister Plenipotentiary and left contented, a pair of Old Hickory’s old breeches over his arm. Still, we don’t have to o’ergall our eyes with recourse of tears. Sweet William hasn’t lost his voice. Alas! He will revive, resurge, re- bellow. He will doff this strange garment of meekness. For the present, by advice of his council, Brer Bill, he lay low. 2 Scat eee he Bismarck Tribune|* be relieved of this burden in nineteen | | 00-00! What Big Teeth You Have, Grandma! WASHINGTON LETTER By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer Washington, May 8.—An echo of the loose and liberal days of the last century, when congressmen were more susceptible to slush funds and lobbies and hi public land grants were tossed ‘here there with lavish hand, is heard in the Northern Pacific railroad land|f case now before Congress. After receiving and waxing fat on a grant of more than 40,000,000 acres in 1864, the Northern Pacific in mere recent years cast eyes up- on some 3,000,000 acres of our na- ined forests and laid claim to 1e1 Forest Service became very sore. D. F. McGowan, its chief counsel, led the fight to protect the forests. He charged that the claim was an outrage, that the railroad had already received $270,000,000 worth of public lands for building a railroad that cost only $70,000,000, that the road had obtained 1,200,000 acres never intended for it and 2,700,000 acres of questionable title and that it was still holding onto 6,000,000 acres of the original grant although required by law to sell it years ago at $2.50 an acre. cee A joint congressional committee investigated the scandal. Testimony centered on the deal by which, some 30 years previously, the road had been able to exchange a great acreage of practically worth- less territory for choice agricul- tural and timber lands belonging to the government. This was done un- der a peculiar reclassification law passed by Congress, Two of the federal land commis- sioners who reclassified the rail- road’s Idaho lands in 1895-7 were given valuable timber rights. One of these commissioners, still living, testified before the committee that he had been given timber rights to 54,000 acres and that the railroad had promised to buy cross ties made from this timber. The ex-commis- sioner admitted that the deal was while the reclassification was in progress, but said that if any land steal was involved it had been dictated from Washington. McGowan charged that the rail- road had not fulfilled its obligations to the government, that President Grant had been dragged in as an in- corporator without ever buying any stock, that only 17 of the inal 135 incorporators ever did sub- scribe for stock and those without putting up real money and that no more than $200,000 was ever raised lopment to meet the act's lor de provision for at least $2,000,000. In less than 15 years, he said, the promoters had pocketed $49,000,000 of the stock, whereas they were supposed to capitalize for $100,000,- 000 and sell all stock in a bona fide way. If Congress had known that the promoters would pocket the $49,000,000, he said, it would never have awarded the huge land grant. eee As to the looseness of former pub- lic land administration, it developed that the Interior Department ad- mitted the question of error in the taking several million acres in the northwest by the railroad due to misplacement of survey lines. The committee finally submitted a record of its hearings to the at- torney general, who upheld 19 of 22 contentions of the Forest Service. It has since asked for an opinion as to proper legislation to ape | the situation. Whether this will cover only the 3,000,000 national forest acres demanded by the North- ern Pacific or 5,000,000 more acres held by the road and demanded back by McGowan has not been decided. . Grants as large as the total area of three or four eastern states were given to railroads in the lush post- Civil War days. Northern Pacific was granted 47,000,000 acres, Southern Pacific 18,000,000, Union Pacific 13,000,000, Kansas Pacific 12,000,000 and Central Pacific 9,000,000 and together they were given more than $125,000, In 1906, the Great Northern, other favored grantee, was able to give its stockholders $127,000,000 worth of ore certificates. But in 1921 the Southern Pacific gave its stockholders, in the form of an independent corporation and | F. for only $43,750,000, assets includ- ing California oil lands which a government commission estimated to be worth $440,000,000. The Southern Pacific, of course, had ob- tained the lands from the govern- ment of the people of the United States. Both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe were also en- riched by timber, lands. The last great grab at the public lands within our borders came through the reclassification joker in the forest: .-servation bill. Some of those millions and millions of acres were bad land and the ,ail- roads decided they must have good land in exchange. Reclassification ‘was supposedly designed to com- pensate settlers for land taken for the forest preserves. The railroad lobbyists slipped in the four words “or any other claim- ant” when the bill went to confer- ence after being passed by both houses. Then the railroads swapped millions of acres of barren desert lands, denuded forest areas and snowy mountain peaks for millions of the best lands still held by the government. This fraud was de- nounced in Congress, but the law was not aled until the swap- ping was all over. Less than 20 years ago, H. H. Schwartz, chief of the Department of Interior Field Service, reported 32,000 cases of land fraud and said that about $110,000,000 worth of public lands had been fraudulently acquired in the two years from 1906 to 1908. IN NEW YORK (| —_—_— New York, May 8.—Some of our most important citizens, it seems, once carried water for the ele- phants. And _they’ve never quite recov- ered. The spirit of the “small boy” lives on, and the lure and love of the circus never have been lost. Thus, I learn, there is a very small and very select organization in this realm known as the Circus Fans’ Association of America. I came up- on this when I stumbled over a gathering of “P. T. Barnum Chap- ter No. 1.” Glancing down the list of celeb- rities who belong I came upon the name of Governor Harry Byrd of Virginia; Governor Al Smith of New York; Senator Watson of Indiana; . Truby Davison, assistant secre- tary of war; Karl Knecht, the Indi- ana newspaper editor; Mayor Schwab of Buffalo: E. F. Albee, the | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern I GIF You sucH A DUMMER! ane A SEFUN VEEKS Now I DRY “TEACH You DER VATER-FALL FAIRY DANCE, mrt HOPES Nov BLAY IT IN MY SWDENTS RECIDAL! un HuM-m-P ayer Gl BREATHING OUT TOXINS The lungs have two useful pur- poses. One is to supply oxygen to the blood, and the other to throw ‘out poisonous wastes. The ordinary air inhaled into the lungs is PURE, and that going out is IMPURE. There is an unseen burning up of tissues going on in the body at all times as long as there is life, and this oxidation of tissues can only continue from the absorption by, the blood of oxygen which is extracted from the pure air we breathe into our pears It is important to learn to breathe oa gee i co keep up an late supply of oxygen which the body can use, but, at the same time, equally important that the Poisonous gases of the body be thrown out through these same or- gans. The double action of inhaling and exhaling must go on day and night without interruption. Oxygen is necessary that the foods may be burned within the cells. Poison- ous gases must be exhaled with every breath, or death would en- sue within a few minutes. When you consider that the lungs are important organs of elimination, you will realize how valuable it is for one who is ill to understand how to increase the throwing out of poisons through these organs. The blood and lymphatic circu- lation go to all parts of the body and must pass through the lungs. 4No matter where disease exists at any particular place, the wastes from tissue changes and toxins are finally carried to the lungs and at least a portion eliminated. Any exercises which will inerease deep inhalation and exhalation of the lungs will assist in emptying the blood of toxic substances which | are hurrying about through the circulatory system looking for a place to exit. Walking at a leisurely gait of two miles an hour will force the lungs to eliminate twice as much poisonous air as when one is rest- ing. If one will increase the speed of his walk to four miles an hour, the elimination of poisonous gases will be four or five times greater than when one is comfortably seated, or working at some seden- tary occupation. If deep breathing is taken with calisthenic exercises two or three times daily, the amount of elimination of toxins is mate- tially increased. An offensive breath is usually an evidence that the body is literally loaded with impurities, and in- creased deep breathing is always indicated for the one who is suffer- ing from halitosis. Many will argue that it is not natural to do any more breathing TUESDAY A: Dr: Frank Mc MAY 8, 1928 MAY cE 0 le” remains that it is a “trick” we have learned which can be used to in- crease health, to improve efficiency, Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. | and which is a valuable aid in the actual cure of every disease. Take my advice and try a little “un-natural” deep breathing and see what wonderful improvement will be made in your general health. Those who are ill and too lazy to take deep breathing probably de- serve to be sick: In tomorrow's article I will ex- plain how to increase elimination through the intestines. QESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: Mrs. J. L. writes: “I am anemic, and my doctor advises blood transfusions. What do you think about this kind of treatment?” Answer: Blood transfusions are most helpful after a loss of blood through hemorrhage. If you have pernicious anemia you are in a serious condition and must not de- pend upon the advice which I can give you in such a short answer in this column. Transfusions of biood can at best be only . temporary help. You must at once’ start get- ting rid of the vicious toxemia which is destroying your red blood’ cells. It may seem ridiculous to you when I tell you that you can best do this through fasting for ten daye or two weeks. You need so much information about this that I urge you to go to some doctor who under- stands how to apply the fasting cure, or write me again, giving your name and address so I can answer you personally. Question: Dorothy D. writes: “You seldom include sweet potatoes in your menus, and as my children like them so well I would like to know if they are good for them.” Answer: I place sweet potatoes in the “not so good” class, although when properly prepared by roasting or boiling instead of adding quan- tities of sugar and fat as in thc preparation of candied yams, for in- stance, they may be used as_ the starch part of a meal in combina- tion with the non-starchy veget- ables, such as spinach, string beans, asparagus, etc. Question: S. Y. asks: “Is there any charge for your booklet, ‘Weaning the Baby?’ I would like to have one.” Answer: I have written severs articles on the subject of weaning the baby, and how to feed him aft- than that which is involuntary. But |erwards, and they will be sent te whether forced deep breathing can be called “natural” or not, the fact you upon receipt of your name and address. vaudeville magnate, and Joe Cook, the Broadway comedian. kiss really is an electric shock and is intensified by insulation. We of- Inquiring what it was all about I, fer the rubber heel peopie free the was handed a slip of paper that read: “The organization is made up of non-circus folk banded together for the purpose of rendering assist- ance to circuses in overcoming; What kind of hushand does the wife evils of legislation directed against them and for the betterment of the circus people.” Seemingly there’s nothing lingers longer in the blood than the mem- following slogan: Uninsulated Os- culation Invites Electrocution. see A magazine asks the question: miss most? The answer to that seems to be the one who can duck quickest. are ° A_man in Pennsylvania , voted ory of those barefoot days when we for Harry Sinclair for president. all trudged out at dawn to see “the big show? come in, ° At least two Broadway plays and a popular gang history tell us of the evils of the Bowery, when the Bowery was the Bowery. Just how far away those “tough days” are can be gathered from an incident related to me the other day ! She had j be a newspaper woman. started for a little Italian theater in what once had been considered a “death zone.” Having difficulty locating the place, she hailed a passing truck and asked the driver to direct her. “Sure,” I know where it is, “Hop on an’ I'll take you there.” Recalling that, after all, she was on the Bowery, the girl hesitated a moment and then hopped on. She was driven to the theater and when she tried to tip the driver for as- sisting her he blushed angrily, in- formed her that he was “just doing a lady a soivice,” drove on. It is crude chivalry, then, and not danger that one meets on the Bow- ery in these vapid days! Speaking of chivalry, visitors oft- en comment on the lack of it in the New York subways. Invariably one will see most of the seats occupied by men while momen are a fo: hangers. Invariably one will see men crush through and their seats, leaving indignant women in their wake. These same men will, for some reason, get up and give their seats to a» lady in the street cars or the elevateds. But there is an unwrit- ten law that governs the subway rush. Here humanity gets its most primal expressions. law ‘dog eat dog” maintains in the face of any civil gestures elsew! i f survival of the fittest, or pel ges iced a hi imes ‘and are singularly complacent about a GILBERT SWAN. (Bares —_}|i* A conceited is one suffer- ing from I nial a ‘A man calls a spade # spade until his wife bids wo, clubs. Prince Carol of Rumania went to land to take a rest. The burd- Parr ‘being a Rumanian prince in Paris must be d ing. Everything is going to be all ke: speal an torial wher {ported yet from that state, No heat prostrations have been re- how- ever, BY RUTH DEWEY GROVES eae Mom: ‘0 go on with my story about the meeting of Normanand me with aes . orman said some good, old- fashioned words when Pede insist- " on my going with him, and hen Pede stepped back and looked straight at Norman with fire in his eye. “The Senor forgets the lady,” he said in a voice that sounded like the rustle of silk. “You'd better do the same,” Nor- man told him. “She doesn’t seem to want to keep that date.” Then he turned to me and asked me if I knew this masher. I had to say I did, of course, but I was not going to have Norman think I had delib- erately walked him into the man. So I told Pede I was very sorry but he’d have to excuse me because I didn’t know-I had a heavy date with him. Then Norman took a step for- ward, with me on his arm, but Pede got in the way again. He put out a hand and stopped me. That was too much for Norman. He swung on Pede’s jaw and spun him half way around. I guess Nor- man didn’t stop to think how per; fectly insane it was. But he knew in an instant all right. Pede whirled back and smashed him in the eye. By that time a crowd had gath- ji “ay wy vas fi ting mad, too. coming. was . it certain! wasn't my use fault if those two dumb-bells wanted to indul in a cheap street scene. duc! When Norman followed me back into the apartment after finish: i ve im 3 e men pu ‘em apart—I gave him a good sound talking to. And put some chopped steak on his ye. I didn’t have an: other kind. It would have been all right but I'd already salted and pep- pered it. Norman didn’t si very long after that but this torning’he wae feeling better. aunt won't hear le who kiss] i pba should wear rubber bees because’ s | (Copyright. 1968, REA Service, nc.)