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“PAGE FOUR us 13 month. of 28 days each, with the 365th day separ- ated as a holiday and known as “Year Day” and ob- served as an extra Sabbath. “Leap Day” would be trans- ferred to June 29 and al 2 observed as a holiday. The months then, it is pointed out, would be steady and de- pendable. The committee will embody its conclusions in a report to the secretary of state in connection with an interna- tional conference it is proposed to call to decide the The Bismarck Tribune THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marek, N. ied entered at the postoffice at Bis- marck as second class mai] matter. George D. Mann ...........-President and Publisher Daily pan rr, Phage paved im Advance $7.20 calendar ,uestion. The inquiry seems to have many Daily by mail, per rear, good points. Daily by mail, per year, ———— % (in state outside Bismarck) ....... “MAN FAILURE” ) eee eee oe eet DARE It isn't without significance that New York's terrible Weekly by mail, in state, per year . 1.00 | subway tragedy is ascribed to “man failure.” t Weekly by mail, in state, three years 2.£9/ ‘That subway was supposed to be 100 per cent safe. All Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, 1.50 {the devices that engineers could think of had been in- tei Member Audit Bureau of Circulation — ~ |stalled. It was said that no possible defect in equip- 1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusi use for republication of all news to it or not otherwise credited in tl : also the local news of spontaneous origin pub!ished herein. All rights of republication of all other mat ter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives NEW YORK s+ Fifth Ave. Bid ooo ve. 5 3 ‘Berroir ICAGO as Kresge Bldg. ment could cause an accident. There were too many safeguards. There’remained, however, the human element. A man cannot function as a machine functions. Al- ways there is the chance for a little mistake in judg- ment, an error in calculation, that a machine cannot make. Safety devices are valuable, but they can’t quite do it all. The individual still counts for something, after all. The finest machine in the world can go smash; and, when it does, the engineers look into it and report, tersely, “man failure.” No matter how well we make our machines, we still need capable men to handle them. Tower Bidg. 40 (Official City, State and County Newspaper) THAT WEAKEST EXCUSE Somebody ought to collect statistics some day to find out whether more human suffering is not caused by boncheadedness than by cussedness, When someone makes a costly blunder, we're apt to excuse him by saying “it was a mistake of the head and not of the heart.” We seem to feel that if a man “means well,” as we say, he can be forgiven almost anything. } But it sometimes seems that nearly all of our troubles come from just these mistakes of the head. Few people are downright perverse; nearly everyone means well. Incompetence, not malice or dishonesty, is the great foe of happiness, Here’s an example, The late Lord Asquith’s war diary was printed re- cently. It gives a number of inside views of the con- duct of the World War. And nowhere on earth is there quite such an example of the price people sometimes have to pay for these easily forgiven “mistakes of the head.” Asquith tells how Sir Winston Churchill, then a prom- inent cabinet member, was all absorbed, at the begin- ning of 1915, in a plan for a g: attack on the Darda- nelles. Admiral Fisher, Britain’s famous old sea-dog, opposed the plan violently; but Churchill was enthusias- tic and carried the day. The Allies were to bombard and reduce the Turkish forts, send troops up the straits, capture Constantinople—it was all very nicely planned. ‘The world doesn’t need to be reminded what happened. Of all the battlefields of war, Gallipoli was the most tragic. Thousands upon thousands of young Austral- ians died there; and after some months the British min- istry was obliged to admit that it was all a ghastly mistake, Troops and warships were called off, and the Dardanelles remained unmolested for the rest of the war. The attack on the Dardanelles was ordered by men ‘who had the best intentions in the world. -But they lacked the wisdom of such men as Admiral Fisher, who ‘was shrewd and war-wise enough to see that the ven- ture would be worse than useless. As leaders, they simply did not measure up to their jobs; and some 50,000 Australians, therefore, had to die. That's the way things usually work out It isn’t lack of good intentions, but lack of knowledge, ability and foresight, that causes most of our trouble. Never forgive anyone on the grounds that “he meant well.” That is the weakest of all possible excuses. NEW WAYS TO GET KILLED Human nature and human standards being what they are, the number of ways of getting into a fatal argu- ment is : Imost infinite. But James Smith of Manches- ter, Ky., found one that seems to be unique. Smith happened into a residence in the mountains in which a prayer meeting was in progress. Sitting down, he lighted a cigaret and puffed away. A tall mountain- eer arose to remonstrate. Bitter words followed; and a moment later someone produced a shotgun and Smith was shot to death. Getting killed on account of a cigaret is a new one. The little story helps to give a picture of what life among some of the isolated mountain towns of the in- terior is like. THE DANGERS OF SUNBURN The sun’s rays possess health-giving qualities, and it is fine to expose one’s body to them. Young children, in particular, need sunlight; shut off from it they can- not grow properly. Yet it is possible to overdo the matter. Get a coat of tan, by all means; but avoid sunburn. And if you have a child, make his “sun baths” rather short. A child’s skin burns more easily than an adult’s. If you expose his naked body to the sun too long the consequences may be tragic. | Editorial Comment | HAVE NEWSPAPERS HEARTS? (La Crosse, Wis., Tribune and Herald Press) _ In Shullsburg, Wis., a young man committed suicide, and the story was printed in the local paper as a part of the regular grist of news. The mother of the youth sub- scrikes for that paper, but the copy she'received told of her son’s death caused by pneumonia. Hers was the only paper that carried that story. The editor had “his hell” the suicide article after the edition was printed, had put in the short item about the boy’s death, and had run off one copy to be mailed to his mother. In Evanston, Ill., Miss Jennie M. Constance, former La Crosse teacher, was killed brutally by a negro. Her mother, seventy-five years old, was kept in ignorance of the true circumstances of Miss Constance’s death, and the local newspaper printed one copy, delivered to Mrs. Constance, telling of her death in an automobile accident. NATURE SMILED TOO MUCH (Kansas City Star) Apparently 1928 is going to prove about the “grow- ingest” year in ry. From Texas to Alaska every kind of vegetation started in early to grow furiously and hus kept it up. Take wheat. Every day since the first of February in this part of the country has been a wheat day. The government estimates for the crop are 100,000, bushels above the early reports. Corn may Tun 5,000,000,000 els above the latest government estimate. is aes Oats have flourished. Potatoes have multiplied. Pas- tures have grown, and weeds. All the West from the Gulf to Hudson Bay has proved a garden. Rain and sunshine have conspired to pull growing things out of the ground. : Unhappily, as an incident, too much has been pro- duced and prices have crashed. We like to have Nature smile on us; smile, mind you; not laugh out loud. CAL PERFORMS ANOTHER MIRACLE (Minneapolis Journal) President Coolidge, say dispatches from the Brule, has cured an old time fishing guide of the cussing habit. The silent man from Vermont has done a number of remarkable in the five years since he was called to the presidency. He has made Washington bureau heads save money, something long considered impos- sible. He has found ways to run ahead of schedule in the reduction of the public debt, long regarded as other impossibility. And when he ran for re-election he carried the Country with less apparent effort than any candidate in many years. These were indeed unusual, not to say amazin; complishments. But not half so unusual, not near! amazing, as his most recent and most striking ac ment up there on the Brule. Anybody that can cure an old time fishing guide of the cussing habit surely is en- titled to be called a miracle man. THANKS TO DEMOCRACY William F. wane on Soonegieg bert H . illiam F. iting, suecessor to Her! loover as A lad from the cornfields of Iowa and a young urchin secretary of commerce, was given the oath of office at sug the Raloctney streets of New York chosen to lead jpeperior, Wisconsin, in President Coolidge’s private of- great national parties in test - | fice. . ort 8 fon HOE the :Dpeal There is nothing particularly significant in that fact, except the thought that in a democracy or republic like the United States of America the people care little where the so-called “seat of government” is situated. The country ore right along whether its President is in Washington, Superior, San Diego or Pensacola. Amer- ieans are strong for results, even if weak on methods. The President can go to any point he wishes, or even to Exrepe or China, and nobody is going to try to “cap- ture” Washington while he is away, or usurp the func- tions and privileges of state. With all its attendant ills, democracy must be accredited with having brought about such a state of mind both in the Americans and Fereat results are sought by opposing factions or p: ties, but whereby the form and establishment of govern- ment itself is a settled fact. A HIGHWAY PATROL (St. Paul Daily News) C. M. Babe “MONOTONOUS ROUTINE” Because he was “tired of this monotonous routine,” a Physician in a Pennsylvania town ended his life the other day. He had found in the human spectacle merely an unchanging series of events, dull and uninteresting, empty of inspiration and surprise. This monotonous routine—the miracle of a birth; the fearful and wonderful mystery of our making— The marvel of a mountain morning, of a seaside sun- set, wild flowers in a mountain cranny, of trees and clouds ind rain— ‘The thunderous legions of the sky sending barrages of crackling fire into the heart of a mighty forest— A child with eyes aglow giving to a beggar in the street the coin that had been saved for treasured sweets— Lovers on a park bench in the moonlight, with soft music stealing from a nearby pavilion where dancing feet keep a merry beat— Men with planes and ships flinging their brave chal- * Tenge at the Poles, defying winds that blow men flat and cold that eats its way through clothing of the heaviest skins— Adoctor, slipping his knife into a mi skull and restoring ..: faculty by which man differs from horses and cattle, or straightening the limbs that cruel disease deformed— A family in poverty lifted into the light by an “un- _ known” friend— : A truck driver halting his ponderous machine that Taughing children may cross the street in safety— A boy ‘sading a blind man across the street, and a man who can’t swim leaping into the surf, hoping against hope to save one drowning— dency— ‘ *Monotonous routine? Rather, miracles! “TRIBUTE TO CAESAR” Julius Caesar has been dead and gone for lo! these many centuries, but the world stil! pays tribute to him, to the National Committee on Calendar plification, ‘The ommittee, composed of many prominent men in different ~alks of life, and headed by George Eastman, “the Rochc.ter camera manufacturer, points out that while Caciar was a good general and politician he was rrible calendar maker. Julius Caesar, in 40 B. C., the calendar we're using now. . oho . Visi b, WITH APOLOGIES To ) WILLIAMS % “QUT OUR WAY’ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | others Get Gray! Why M AQ h (e, BY RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Sept. 6.—Almost a hundred years ago, young Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote “Old Iron- sides” and saved the famous old frigate Constitution from being broken up and junked. Today the remaining national shrines, places where reverent tour- ists bare their heads and tiptoe about as if in sacred precincts, have dwinuied to a very few, for not many of them have had an Oliver Wendell Holmes to save them for further generations, Congress passes numerous bills to erect expensive monuments ,in commemoration of insignificant In- dian skirmishes and to the greater glory of individual congressmen in their own districts. But it seldom concerns itself with objects of ‘na- tional interest much more significant in American history and one can hear a fine tale of woe from old hackmen here who wail that there isn’t much “to show” any more, eee Congress, seems to be the only body that can prevent the destruc- tion of one more splendid structure which links this age to the past. To do that, however, it must decide whether it dares flout the will of the Hon. William Howard Taft, chief jus- tice of the United States. It must join the school of thought which holds that anything old ought to be replaced with something bigger, Saudier and better or another school which believes that some old things, because of their part in history and their remaining beauty, ought to be preserved. A long time ago Mr. Taft began to feel cramped in the supreme court's present quarters in the cap- itol and looked around him for a site for a fine new judicial building. He picked on a square and a couple of triangles just south of the capitol grounds, between the Methodist building and the Library of Con- gress. The block contains, among other things, the old capitol’ where the House and Senate met after the British burned the original capitol in the War of 1812. Fearful lest the ASHINGTON LETTE S eS— seat of government be moved per- manently to another city, the people of Washington combined to erect what was then a splendid new build- 'ing—and probably thus saved the | capitol for the District of Cqlumbia. It remained the capitol for four years. ese 8 Henry Clay was then speaker of the House. James Monroe was in- augurated as president of the Unit- ed States in this building in 1817. . For a while later it was a fash- ionable hotel. John C. Calhoun lived where he breathed his last is a shrine for many southerners. A man once tried to buy the place so <hat he could die there, like Calhoun, , There Anne Royall, the enterpris- ing young woman who fore: i terview from the austere president, John Quincy Adams, by sitting on his clothes on a river hank where she caught him swimming, became the first woman to edit and publish @ newspaper. During the Civil War political prisoners were kept there, among them Belle Boyd, the famous Con- federate SPY and Mrs. Surratt, ex- ecuted for her alleged part in Lin- coln’s assassination, Many Confederate officers, includ- ing Mosby, were imprisoned there and today many southerners come here to see where their forcbears were often mistreated or menaced ‘by mobs outside. Later.Chief Jns- tice Field lived there and General Leonard was married in one of the rooms. And many niore things like these. see It is an immense building, one of the finest examples of Anierican architecture of the period to be found anywhere in Washington. On Capitol Hill, its interior stands as a constant source of delight for vis: ors who appreciate its type of beau- ty. It has been well kert up and various wealthy persons have con- tributed toward decorating it with appropriate furnishings. Mrs, O. H. P. Belmont gave the pie to the National Woman’s party in 1921 and that organization has been fighting for two or three years and died there and today the room|} yy to save it from demolition, prefer- ring that it be taken over and pre- served by the government. All attempts to persuade Taft that there are various equally ap- propriate sites bordering the capi- tol grounds, now owned by tha gov- ernment and thus available without cost, have failed. Taft insists that the old capitol be torn down and his new court house there erected. Condemnation proceedings have been begun. The Woman’s party values the property at a million dollars and has brought the leading real estate men of the city to testify that its physical value alone is worth more than half that amount. But the government witnesses have told the condemnation commissioners that the ground is worth but $231,- 000 and that the building is quite valueless, “Perfectly outrageous!” says laude Younger, a national execu- tive of the Woman’s party. “They only have $1,500,000 to spend for the site and they’re putting values on property in this section lower than the owners originally paid for it. Confiscation!” Senator T.H. Caraway of Ar- kansas is the prince on the white horse who is trying to save the old capitol from Taft and the modern- ists. Last session the Senate unanimously passed his resolution which would hold up condemnation pending an investigation, only — to have it sidetracked in the House by Speaker Longworth, When Con- gress meets again, the supporters of the resolution hope to get it through. It’s the only hope they have left. Although no promise is made of bigger and better justice in the new supreme court building, there is no question that the court needs more room. Most of the members now maintain offices in their homes, at| their own expense. But Caraway, Miss Younger and the Woman’s party can point out a lot of other nice places where noth- ing would have to be torn down which would ever be missed. f IN NEW YORK | , New York, Sept. 5.—When the big liners from Europe arrive in flocks passengers often are held for hours on the piers until customs in- spectors can get around to them. The situation is “meat” for the ship news reporters and camera men. The other day 12 big ships from OUR BOARDING HOUSE : By Abc: | aus ALL I WANT-To Do (IS SELL MY TALKING-SIGNBOARD For ENaued MONEY To ACCOMPANY COMMANDER BYRD ON His EXPEDITION To “HE SOUTH we HE WILL oe oot ee ike YeARs, AND I Feet lo WCLUDE IN HIS PARTY, -Te ONLY ~ MAN ALIVE “TODAY WHO Kiouls “HE PROBLEM OF “THE ANTARCTIC, EGAD!~, “ Do You KNowW, THAT You CANNOT STAND UP AT “THE SOUTH POLE 2 ao uw NO SIR! ~oTHE POLAR MAGNETISM NY Y POLE ! EGE, Arrects YouR AD You HAVE “To . RAWLS FACT? EQUILIBRIUM, OH GRANDMA, WHAT N BIG INLAYS, You WAVES. an ME; (S Bi a HERES A MERRY-Go-' D on “tHE seeel POLE 2= BIG BAD “TRAFFIC-CoP op Me HAT, WHEN TJ STALLED MY CAR OK QD His SHot f= 5\ B) a GOITRE This disease-has been found in every country in the world, and many theories have been advanced as to its cause. For a long time it was supposed that the absence of -|iodine in food was responsible for this condition, and this idea is still being exploited by manufacturers in many parts of the country, but this cannot be the true cause of since it is present in the female sex about six times as freque: as in the male, and both sexes presumably consume about the same amount of iodine. The fact that goitre is very prevalent in Switzerland and in other mountainous districts where pone not obtain much iodine in their drinking water or food has been frequently used as proof of this statement, However, along the Jer- sey coast and in many parts of Japan, where iodine Ee erred fora teens water, go! requently found. ive use of starch seems to be an important factor in producing en- largement of the thyroid gland. It is a well known fact that the thyroid gland is slightly larger in women than in mem, and this gland becomes swollen at various periods in a woman's life. In fact, Cand Goitres in women originate and ai associated with some type of female derangement; possibly one-sixth of the cases of women, or about an equal number of the cases of ..en can be traced to toxic substances that accumulate in the thyroid gland and cause it to become enlarged. The thyroid is one of the ductless glands that have furnished material for much research, and probably more is known about the action of the thyroid than of the other duct- less glands, such as the pituitary, adrenal, or gonads. This little organ, situated at the base of the throat in front of the windpipe, is shaped very much like two small kidneys, one at either side and connected together below the Adam’s anple. Experi- ments tend to prove that it is a regu- lator of other glands, too much thy- roid secretion speeding up, and too little causing a slowing down. A person affected with too much thy- roid secretion will have a pulse of 130 or over, which is probably the most dangerous effect from the thy- roid. Nearly 5,000,000 fiorle in the United States suffer from some form of thyroid trouble, and most of them are in the hyperthyroid, or too much thyroid secretion class. It is one of the principal causes of heart trouble, which claimed over 12,000 lives in California alone during a period of one year. This friendly little gland can be- come your greatest enemy, if it is irritated by toxemia. If your nerv- ousness is increasing and your heart action more rapid, your little thyroid may be responsible. There are many forms of thyroid derangement, but the two most com- mon types are called simple, goitre and exophthalmic goitre. The‘simple WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 65, 1928 man can recognize this trouble the enlargement in front of the ear” In some of the mountainous dis- tricts of Europe, Japan and Oregon this enlargement of the thyroid may be so great that it hangs down lik a large sack in front of the neck. Most cases of goitre can be rected He dietetic measures alone, and I will be glad to send anyone in. terested instructions for the treat- ment of this disorder if he will send a large self-addressed, stamped en- velope, in care of this news) 1 Hoh het measures usually to bring lasting results in this disorder, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: D. W. R. asks: “Is there 3 Py can sometimes be broken up oe manipulative treatment. Question: Mrs. C. J. asks: “Will you ae sepa how to cook eggs Answer: Place the unbroken eggs in a deep pan which is not standing on the fire; and pour over them boiling water. At least one quart of water should be used to each two eggs. Allow to stand for from five to ten minutes. When broken open the eggs should have a jelly-like con- sistency, but should at the same time be so well cooked that there is no transparent albumen which has not been coagulated. If the pan is cov- ered less time will be required to get the same effect, but it is pos- sibly more desirable to have the eggs cogk very slowly for perhaps eight to ten minutes, as in this way the: are cooked through more thoroughly. Question: Mrs, H. asks: “Would you advise: X-ray treatment for dis- eae tonsils et sent D eke any danger of drying wy glan of the throat by the X-ray treat- ment? A woman. who taken this treatment is troubled with a us discharge from the throat. hat might be the cause of it?” Answer: X-ray treatment for ton- sils or adenoids is a very dangerous method to use, as the other glands in the throat and even the brain itself may be injured. The toxic cause of enlarged tonsils will remain even if these glands are shrunk by the X-ray, and therefore a patient may continue to have an excess formation of mu- cus or still be troubled with ‘pus pockets in the throat. You would be interested in my article, “Save Tonsils.” Address ‘your request me in care of this paper and-I will be glad to send you the article free if you will inclose a large stamped, self-addressed envelope. abroad went into a huddle at their piers and passengers had to wait for baggage examination. That day the ship news columns were full—stories and pictures. Harry M. Daugherty, he of the un- happy Harding regime, was among those who arrived. Hoover would carry Ohio, he thought, as a matter of course... . “I’m through with politics, however, and won't take part in the campaign.” But we all know that. Daugherty, a wet, says he thinks the ei; nth amend- ment is enforceab! will be en- forced. gee Bringing his bride, a Berlin news- paper woman, Sinclair Lewis, who took Main street to a serious spoof- ing in one of his books, bestows upon the nation at least temporary ap- proval, His first remark? “After all,” he says, “there's no lace like home.” . .. And if that isn’t a Main street crack, please just what is? : Mr. Lewis establishes some kind of world’s record when he confesses frankly that he “has no views on Europe.” “Comparisons are frequently mis- unde i,” are his words. “Wise cracks come easy, but comparisons require ane thought and cannot be 01 conversation.” Mrs. Lewis is writing a book on Russia—and it will be “By Miss Dor- Months ago land’s r barked into the face of Frankie Yale as he drove his automobile along a city street. It was Gangland silenc- pe mpi Roti Meet reo teed fairs like this the police seem to ho stones Pare ae Hi ee | BARBS | o One of the advantages of open air grand opera is,that there are fre- quent postponements because of rain, se 8 Now that the treaty outlawing war is all signed and tucked away, it is to be hoped every nation will have an army and navy big enough to make it binding. sor 8 *« Gene Tunney is the most cultured Auntie, nee ea Neg odeong li- rar: ‘inity » in, cording to the librarian. Wondet why more cultured Americans haven’t visited there? se 8 A woman can dress yow in fifty seconds, says a New ‘York style dic- tator. Does it take that long? (Copyright 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) [Our Yesterdays TEN YEARS AGO Ladies of the U. C. T. auxiliary ismarck entertained at the Bi Conptey club. The afternoon was devoted to knitting and in the evening a hard- time dance was given. Proceeds from the party were donated to the Red Cross, en Governor Frazier has leted the nization of the Ni Da- kota War History commission with reat ce rag ment, ,Universi Dr, Gi | | | | | |