The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other mat- ter herein are also reserved. wort gee Rates Payable in narod h ll, Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY ORK +--+ Fifth Ave, Bldg. omcaco™ * vere DETROIT Tower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) IS MUSSOLINI HASTY IN THE WAR? Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares that Europe has reached the halfway station in its post-war rebuilding process. “Within the next decade,” says I] Duce, “the effects of the war will be entirely absorbed.” It would be highly comforting, in a way, if we could believe this; comforting, yet at the same time pro- foundly discouraging. As it happens, however, it is not true. To suppose that the world can, in 20 years, wipe out all traces of a war that cost some 5,000,000 lives, over- turned three empires and burned up a simply incalcu- lable amount of money, is to be an optimist of the highest order. It presupposes a faith in the recuper- ative ability of the human race that is little short of miraculous. Our own Civil War was neither so bloody nor so costly as the World war; yet in 63 years we have not got away from all of its effects. If we can heal the World war’s wounds in less than half that time we are, indeed, talented. Talented—or sublimely foolish. The World war was the most expensive object lesson in human history. It ‘was the price the human race paid for a long accumu- lation of mistakes, follies and greeds. If we can put it all out of mind within two decades, we have learned nothing by it. We are simply asking for another spanking. But all of this moralizing is futile, after all. The effects of the war will no more be “entirely absorbed” in another 10 years than the effects of Columbus’ dis- covery of America. The war was one of those earth- shaking facts in human history, like the French Revolution, that leave reverberations for centuries afterward. Consider the situation. Russia, that was an absolute monarchy, is now a Communi: experiment. The Austro-Hungarian empire has dissolved. Germany is arepublic, The financial empire of the world, formerly in the hands of England, now has its center in New York. Mussolini himself, for that matter, is a product of the war. Italy would not be saddled with him if there had been peace between 1914 and 1918. It ought to be obvious that we have hardly begun to realize the effects of the war.’ A century hence they will be much clearer than they are now. Between 1914 and 1918 there came an end of one period of his- tory and the beginning of a new one. It may be years before the new one takes definite form, but it is here nevertheless. To say that we shall have absorbed the war's effects in another decade is simply to shut our eyes to the facts—and to invite another tragedy. DISCOUNTING THE KISS SLAYER A New York high school boy goes to call on a 15- year-old girl. She tries to kiss him. He seizes her, snatches up a length of eleetric light cord, and chokes her to death. Now he awaits trial on a charge of first degree murder, The district attorney calmly announces that he will ‘ask for the death penalty. “The state,” declares this official, “is not interested fn reference to the boy’s supposed abnormality. He ‘was absolutely sane when he committed the crime to which he has confessed.” On the face of things, one might almost be forgiven for supposing that any lad who strangled a girl to death merely because she tried to kiss him is, without ques- tion, somewhat off mentally. To say that a perfectly normal, balanced mind would have reacted in that way is to talk utter nonsense. Yet, at the same time, the attitude of the district attorney can be understood. A murderer’s first act on being arrested nowadays is to yell for an alienist. Many @ scoundrel who richly deserved hanging has gone scot free because some psychiatrist interpreted his dream life for a credulous jury. The tragedy of the situation is that our boasted ad- ‘vancement, with all its fine knowledge of medicine, its scientific research, its painstaking efficiency, seems utterly powerless in the face of mental disturbances, We can cure many of the ills of the body, but when it comes to the ills of the mind we are little better off than the witch-hunters of Salem, A high school bof who would kill a girl who tried to kiss him is, obviously, suffering from some profound be. mental trouble. Yet we know of no cure. We know of no way of finding it out in advance so that we can Protect ourselves. We do not even seem to have any certain way of getting scientific agreement on whether or not he actually is legally responsible. It is the old story over again—the story of the Leo- pold-Loeb case, of the Hickman case. Half a dozen respectable alienists arise and say that a murderer is perfectly sane and accountable; half a dozen others, equally respectable, arise and say that he is not. Mean. while we are left defenseless. There are, according to psychiatrists, thousands of men at large today who are apt, at any moment, to break out just as inexplic- ably as this New York boy did; but we cannot protect ourselves. The field of abnormal psychology is a large one, and thus far it has been, apparently, poorly explored. It ‘would seem that the country’s crying need is for ac- curate, scientific knowledge of it. Our doctors know @ good deal about such physical ailments as typhoid fever, diphtheria and smallpox. Cannot they do as well ‘fa the matter of mental disturbances? BETTER ELECTIONS the record-breaking election, with its un- outpouring of voters, is over, it is inter- It was inevitable that he should get steamed up about things. Accordingly, we believe that all future national cam- paigns will draw huge votes. The day of national apathy in a presidential election seems to be ended, PORTO RICO STILL SUFFERS The hurricane that struck Porto Rico this fall is already pretty well forgotten by the people of the United States. But Thomas E. Benner, chancellor of the University of Porto Rico, writes in the current Review of Reviews that it will be five years before the island completely recovers from the effects of the disaster. A half mil- lion persons—a third of the entire population—are still destitute, supported largely by the Red Cross, Total Property damage exceeds $100,000,000. There is a possibility that the United States Congress will be asked to appropriate funds for rehabilitation of the little island. If such a request is made, the Amer- ican people should retnember that Porto Rico’s suffer- ings are fare from ended. THE GREATEST VOTE Virtually complete election returns show that a little more than 55 per cent of the nation’s qualified voters went to the polls on election day. The vote was larger than ever before in history, and the percentage of the electorate that voted was larger than it has been in many years. Still, 55 per cent seems rather small. The recent campaign stirred people as has no cam- paign in decades. Yet 45 per cent of the people who could have voted did not bother to do so. What is the matter with us, anyway, that we are so apathetic? Is prosperity making us too contented? We are entitled to rejoice over the size of the recent vote; but there is no harm in making ourselves realize that it should have been a lot bigger. THE MURDER OF ROTHSTEIN The big news of recent days, aside from the presi- dential election, has been the murder of Arnold Roth- stein of New York, “gambling king.” Nearly as much fuss has been made over this affair as though Rothstein had actually been a useful citizen, He was not, of course. He was famous simply because he rolled up a fortune of $10,000,000 by gambling. He was accused of various shady deals; he apparently was not even that curious anomaly, a “square gambler.” But, after all, he had $10,069,000. And, in this day and age, any man who has that much money can be sure of fairly respectful attention when he passes on. THE FEAR OF BOND ISSUES American taxpayers seem to have lost their tradi- tional fear of big bond issues. In the last election Missouri voted $75,000,000 for good roads. Iowa voted $100,000,000 for the same purpose. Kansas also voted for a new state road sys- tem. Other states followed suit with smaller amounts. This is highly important. The automobile and hard- surfaced roads have done more than any other thing to knit our country together. Every dollar spent for good roads is a dollar spent for the further unification and development of the nation. The result of the votes on these huge bond issues indicates that the voters have come to realize that. | Editorial Comment WHAT IS THIS ATTRIBUTE? (Omaha World-Herald) In the year of Our Lord 1928, in the Christian state of Georgia, two men took Ernest Sikes from his car, doused him with a bucket of gasoline and then applied a match, The victim is so little conscious of having offended anyone that he cannot account for a motive for the crime. In a near-by state, Arkansas, the people are engaged in a red hot fight to decide whether the teaching of evolution shall be permitted in tax supported schools. Evolution supposes that the human race is the cul- mination of a steady progress upward from an inferior form of life. The anti-evolutionists assert that the effort to establish a flesh and blood connection be- tween man and the animals is abhorrent to a Christian Philosophy, that we humans are endowed with a divine spark which forever separates us from the world of beasts no matter how close a physical connection may be established. In view of this utterly fiendish occurence in Georgia it is difficult to reconcile either theory with the type of men who committed the deed. If they were the products of evolution it appears to have been an evolu- tion for the worse. If they were the result of a divine creation, it seems as though the Creator would have done better to stop with the beasts. Sometimes it strikes us that we might better em- ploy our time trying to find out what the devil is the matter with us rather than waste it in fruitless specu- lation over whence we came and whither we are bound. +S he By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Nov. 17.—No bright young man need yearn for excite- ment as long as the army and navy air services are operating. If it isn’t one thing in the air it’s another. Neither service appears to be killing off its pilots with the fre- quency noted a year or two ago, but military and naval flying are still adventurous as compared with mere bootlegging and chauffeuring. Even the little birdies sometimes afflict the pilot with thoughts of home and mother. Recently, during some illuminated flying here, three planes in formation had some anx- ious moments with what apperaed to be a flock of wild ducks. Search- lights playing over the planes from the ground prevented the pilots from determining just what they were, One bird collided with a wheel of Captain Ross G. Hoyt’s plane and started it spinning violently. Bird fur flew in all directions, The three airmen devoted themselves to get- ting outside the searchlight zone, which appeared to attract the birds, and finally got ‘way from the feathered formation. ; If one of the birds had become mixed up with a propeller, air serv- ice officers say, the engine would have been likely to have been un- seated and seriously damaged, caus- ing considerable trouble and pos- sible disaster. . * At last reports the membership of the famous was just a little shy of 100. The initiation fee of this club is an emergency life-saving jump with a parachute. Unless someone has jumped in the last day or two, there are now 96 members who have made 101 such jumps. DOCTORS COP THE CASH (Cleveland Plain. Dealer) Radcliffe, which is sometimes facetiously and in- correctly called the “Harvard Annex,” is a women’s college holding respectable rank among American in- stitutions of higher learning. Like other colleges, Radcliffe is given to the collection, collation and inter- pretation of statistics. Recently published investiga- tions prove that, so far as Radcliffe is concerned, the more education a woman receives the more cash she will earn when she ventures forth into the cold and cruel world. _The Radcliffe output is for purposes of comparison divided into four classes. First are the doctors, who hold a Ph. D. degree and who have probably spent six or seven years at college. Next are the masters, with the M. A. degrees, representing a minimum of five years. Third are the bachelors, with only four years to their credit. And last of all are the special stu- dents who have attended college without complying with the requirements needful for a degree. And the average salaries of women now engaged in gainful pursuits are in direct proportion to the years of study spent by the earners. The Ph. D.’s have it all over the bachelors and the special students, and are measur- ably above the masters, If education is good this seems to be as it should This is how one joins the Cater- pillar Club, as described by Lieu- tenant H. W. Pennington of Fres- no, Texas, one of the newest recruits. Pennnigton ran into a terrific rain and wind storm while flying in a cloud at about 7,000 feet. “The ship became uncontrollable and went into a spin,” he reported. “It made two turns and came out, then went into another. I was Zs The more education the better. You cannot have too much of a good thing. But the deduction is directly at variance with the views of those who hold that over- jpapcation is a handicap and too much knowledge a urden, AVIATION’S GROWING APPEAL (Philadelphia Bulletin) Establishment by an Elizabeth, N. J., junior high school of an extra-curricular course in avation with 141 pupils to start with is another bit of evidence -of the way the youth of America is becoming “air- minded.” The course at the Elizabeth school does not include actual flying, but there will be taught the theory of aviation and the designing and construction of planes and motors, with the commercial possibilities of air transportation. As yet the board of education in Philadelphia has not included aviation in any high school course, even in an extra-curricular way, but there are areo clubs of several of the high schools formed by the boys them- selves and the members are giving considerable time out of school hours to the study of the science of flight. Temple university has a regular course in aviation and after the “ground work” has been mas- tered the students are goon instruction in flying itself ip tt Hr be dxcected a3 government as expe encour- sens, aviation through the navy and war departments, former, to build up a supply of pilots, is soon to give recruits a chance to become aviators and how agd the interest is among the men is shown by the ‘act that the highest tage of re-enlistments is in the air branch. Flying ites , Naturally, attracts the adventurous spirits among the young, but transpor- are to realize the commercial le, and in Iniversity of taught after Passengers and i. - A $1000 f= No SIR #f | WASHINGTON bs = LETT ee er ee ee | Can She Ever Put ‘Humpty-Dumpty’ Together Again? Ro. handicapped by not having an air speed indicator and the fact that I was blinded by the rain. ~ “As the ship was nearing the ground rapidly, I realized that my mechanic and I had to leave the ship that we might save our lives, which we did by jumping overboard and pulling the rip cord of our chutes, : “Wind on surface was blowing approximately 15 miles an hour. The rain was coming down in torrents. “Bruises and scratches about the face and body due to landing on a barbed wire fence and being dragged on the ground by the chute. Swol- len ankles due to the force of hitting the ground.” , The mechanic, Air Corps Private J. S. Wilson, is now also a member of the Caterpillar Club, which makes no distinction of rank. Another of the most recent mem- bers, Major Floyd E, Evans of the Michigan National Guard Air Serv- ice, saw his right wing collapse while about 2,000 feet up with Lieu- tenant Edward C. Snell of the Na- tional Guard Infantry, as a pas- senger. Evans jumped after order- ing Snell to do so, but Snell failed to follow and was killed. Caterpillar Club| to “Could not leave the ship head- first due to air pressure. Put left leg outside the cockpit and rolled out, passing underneath the tail sur- faces. “My first act on leaving the ship was frantically trying to find my rip cord, which I finally managed do. Then I felt a sudden jerk and I realized that my chute had opened, “oe ® “As I came to the ground, which I could see dimly at about 200 feet, I was drifting into a clump of large oak trees. “Managed to miss them by slip- ping the chute, but landed on a barbed wire fence. After landing I was frantic, thinking that my me- chanic was killed, but found him unhurt, standing by the ship, having also made a successful parachute \ C id) AN wit Risuebida tl WANs jump.” When we write the truth it isn’t so necessary to keep a carbon copy. = Sawin His a L WoULDAT BE . oe [IN NEW YORK New York, Nov. 17.—The other day, idling about the “big street,” a friend pointed out Rose Melville. Of course that won’t mean any- thing to the boys and girls of the Charleston and companionate mar- riage era. I don’t expect any of the younger generation to recognize the name. i But for those of us who dwelt in the small towns in the days when Diamond Dick or Young King Brady were sneaked into the barn loft, Rose Melville :; as muck a part of our youths as kites, one-old-cat or ice cream soda. Each year we waited for Rose Melville to come in “Sis Hopkins.” And each season, or so it seemed, she brought her pig-tailed, toed-in comic figure to our town in Michi- gan. Each year we all shook a few dimes out of the penny bank, bought a “dime novel” and some peanuts and climbed the gallery stairs, Heaven only knows how many times I witnessed this performance. Now that I try to remember, it seems to me that the same people went back again and again. They must have, For it was a medium sized town with a relatively small number of theatergoers to draw, from. T have an idea that Rose Melville had one of the most loyal and wor- shiping audiences of any actress within her time. Otherwise she could not have stood the test of the years, nor could she have kept coming round and round the same circuit season on season. She must have made a most pleas- ant fortune from it in her time. She must have possessed the ‘“Abie’s Trish Rose” of that particular pe- riod. She was able to retire quite a few years ago and settle down with- in echoing distance of the “main stem.” Need I add that she has—well, yes, grown older! Need I add that, time being erased, I wouldn’t dare go to see “Sis Hop- kins” today. I would be a bit afraid that I might not laugh; that I might not fancy the “big hearted Sis” stuff now—in fact, for half an hour I’ve been trying to remember the plot. It was something about the country girl—the old “ugly duck- ling” theme. She was funny looking for the boy friend, even if she did have a heart of gold. The course of true love ran rather rough. Somehow she got to Paris—or was in London? I forget whether she |OUR BOARDING HOUSE * . By Ahern| Gel 2~ WHATS THAT You B SAID,. ALLUDING -1o “THIS P COAT 2ue SOMETHING © ABOLT “THE OLD BUFFALO KT THE ZOO EXPIRING fe w HME TLL HANE Vows KNowW SIR, “THAT “THIS COAT IS OF GEAUING SIBERIAN BEAR ! “A EGAD, Yaul COULDAST, P=ah> DUPLICATE IT FoR j8¢ SEEM FALLING “THRU WHAT THAT a ‘ESKIMO RUG Z~- hari ANYBODY WHo'D. PAY $75. FOR ONE LIKE 2 (t, AINT SAFE WALKING PAST A MEDICAL COLLEGE we WAT “TILL, MRS, etic RACES “THC Mots IN -THS: HOUSE BACK: fz 2 A MANHOLE, WEARIA’ ry A Deaa ie iS FUR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1928 THE GLANDS OF EMOTION Doctors have come to realize that stro emotions act as powerful stimulants or inhibitors of the duct- less glands. Prolonged fear and anxiety seem to have a special tend- ency to produce diabetes. Severe fright often results in paralysis or mental aberrations. Anger often stimulates the adrenals to such an extent that the blood pressure is increased and apoplexy the result. Chronic ill temper may cause a se- rious toxic irritation, severe enough to injure the heart or blood vessels. Shock has frequently been followed by hyperthroidism, or an increased secretion of the thyroid gland; mental depression frequently results in its underactivity. Many of the appearances of old age are caused by the emotions of worry, grief and sorrow, producing a worn expression of the face and an exhausted attitude. White hair may occur within a very short time from worry or sorrow. — Baldness may result from a lack of glandular activitiy caused by the action of de- structive thoughts. A lack of men- tal control will produce a prema- ture old age more rapidly than any other factor, It is a well known fact among doc- tors that patients with weak thy- roids and gonads are continually seeing the dark side of life and fur- thermore are usually absent-minded and lack even the ordinary elements of precaution and are almost sure to fail in any of their undertakings. They are frequent victims of acci- dents which occur as the result of lack of caution or foresight. Many “jay-walkers” and those who cross the street against the traffic signals may come under this class. On the other hand, those individuals in whom the ductless glands are functioning properly are courageous, full of vi- tality, and usually successful in their undertakings. There is such a close connection between the action of the ductless glands and the state of the mind that these glands have actually been termed the organs of emotion. We may be disappointed in our faith in friends or in the allure- ments of love; we may have acci- dents whitch cannot be avoided, or we may in lonesomeness desire the presence of absent’ ones, but for- tunately time places a healing hand over our grief. Forgetfulness of our sorrows is a God-given blessing. Those who reverse this normal proc- ess and remembering, store up their sorrows and grievances and forget their joys, are suicide subjects, and if they live on, through a greater fear of death, their faces are lined with furrows and their ambitions have fled. One of the finest methods for for- getting our irritations is to make a sympathetic contact with nature— with the mountain crags, the forests, the vine-covered hills and the fields of wild flowers. They will teach us something of the vastness of life and the smallness of our problems. As Schopenhauer said, “The world has existed for 50,000 years and will last for 50,000 years more, and what are a few years of our lives in the face of these thousands?” We rec- ognize this saying as being even more true when we realize that the latest researches of science have sub- stituted millions of years for Scho- penhauer’s thousands, Dr. McCoy’s menus suggested for ee week beginning Sunday, Nov. Sunday Breakfast: French Omelet, *waf- fle, Buplensuce: Lunch: Cream of tomato soup, came into some money, or just what happened. Anyhow, she came back all dolled up and full of culture and knocked the Loy friends and all the home folks for a five-foot shelf. Anyway, when Rose Melville passed—she was limping a bit and someone said she’d been hurt in an accident—something of my youth went down the street with her. I went home and began to look for gray hairs. Which, sadly enough, were not hard to find! Maybe it’s the gray-toned day, suggesting the coming of snow. M it’s what Rose Melville’s passing on the street did, but I find it easier to think of “Hy” Mann’s barn than of the sidewalks of New York. ... Hy Mann’s barn, with hid- den chest containing a couple of hundred copies of Frank Merriwell, Diamond Dick and all the rest that. we were forbidden to read in the pre-movie eras. . . Of pom-pom- ull-away, prisoners goal and Char- ley Clancey’s corner, where you could find pinch bogs on a hot night. Stop me, please, before I burst in- to tears! But it does make me wonder, how many other humans find themselves yanked out of their hum-drum real- ity back into boyhood by some per- son who passes in the street, or some mention—such as this daily letter— of a figure who glistened brightly in the long far-away! GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Sevice, Inc.) I BARBS | “Collegian is wounded, enistaken for bandit,” says headline over a story from Montgomery, Ala. Who shot him—his father? Famous last words: “I'll just put my gun here and we’ll see if we can change seats without rocking the boat,’ ae * President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico is said to be interested in aviation. The airplane is quite a swift means of transportation, Canadian lawyers say they are surprised by the latitude given the press in court matters in this country. Perhaps the Canadian editors aren’t much given to the use of the word “alleged.” It’s fine to be popular, but the popular vote doesn’t seem ‘to get you anywhere, | ee It cost $12,000,000 to crown the Emperor of Japan. It must have been almost as grand an event as a gangster’s funeral, baked eggplant, raw celery and ripe lives. o"Dinner: Broiled Belgian hare, baked parsnips, cooked lettuce, sal- 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. ad of sliced cucumbers, (no dress- ¢ ing), prune whip. 7 Monday 5 Breakfast: Wholewheat muffins, Peanut butter, stewed figs. Lunch: Glass of buttermilk, with ten or twelve dates. Dinner: Vegetable soup, roast beef, cooked string beans, stewed to- matoes, salad of chopped raw cab- bage and celery, Jello or Jellwell with cream, Tuesday Breakfast: Coddled eggs, Melba toast, pear sauce. Lunch: Steamed rice, cooked beet tops, head lettuce with olive oil. Dinner: Broiled lamb _ chops, cooked spinach, cooked beets, salad of molded vegetables (green peas, string beans and celery), no dessert. 4 Wednesday Breakfast: Oatmeal with butter or cream, no sugar, stewed raisins, Lunch: Glass of grapejuice. Dinner: Roast pork, cooked okra, baked eggplant, McCoy salad, baked apple, Thursday Breakfast: Baked eggs, toast, stewed appricots. Lunch: Celery soup, cucumbers and olive sandwiches. (chopped Melba Dinner: Veal loaf cooked veal molded in gelatin with generous amount of chopped pars- ley), cooked squash, string beans, ice cream. e on toasted Shredded Wheat Biscuit, stewed figs. Lunch: Raw apples or oranges as desired. si Dinner: Baked Halibut, spinach, cooked cauliflower, salad of sliced tomatoes, (no dressing.) No dessert. Saturday Breakfast: Genuine wholewheat bread slightly toasted, Peanut but- ter, stewed prunes. Lunch: Spaghetti (wholewheat product) boiled and buttered, salad of cold cooked asparagus (canned) on _lettuce, Dinner: Vegetable soup, Salis- bury steak, steamed carrots, cooked ee soe ot crisp raw spinach eaves, raw celery, pineapple sponge. “Waffles: 1-2 cup of flour, (sift: ed with baking powder and salt), 1-2 cup of cream, 2 eggs, 1 level tea- ae of baking powder, pinch of salt. Separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs. Beat the yolks and add the cream, mixing thorough-* ly. Next, add the flour, into which has been mixed the baking powder and salt, and beat until smooth. Fold in the whites of the eggs which have been beaten into a moderately stiff froth, but not too dry, or they will be inclined to separate and rise to the top of the batter. The quantity is sufficient for five or six waffles, which should be baked in aluminum waffle irons to which no grease has been- added. Bake very thin, allowing waffle to become a light golden brown all the way through. This will dextrinize the starch in the white flour, as in Melba toast. Serve with butter and a small amount of maple syrup if desired, Friday Breakfast: Poached 4 is date in MAAMERICAN « HISTORY November 17 1800—Congress met in Washington, D. C., for the first time. 1863—Fighting began around Knox: ville, Tenn, 1891—Alaska asked Congress for a tarsiterial form of govern- ment, TEN YEARS AGO Brooks Hoskins returned to his home in Bismarck, having received his discharge from the United States sy engineering division at Wash- z ington, » ee Mrs. S. Christenson, 79 years of age, who resided southwest of Man- dan, celebrated her birthday, anni- versary by attending her first mov- ing picture show, The Bismarck Salvation Army corps, under the command of Cap- tain James C. Bell, began a drive, ¢ for the Christmas Cheer fund. St. George’s guild of the Episco, church gave a silver tea the jee of Mrs. F. E. Shepard on Avenue B, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Eggs were Selling for 25 cents a dozen, and higher prices-were pre- dicted for the winter. Supplies were ¥ ‘ng shipped to the smaller towns since farmers could not supply their home stores, J, H, Newton was appointed mem- ber of the school board, followii the resignation of J: D. MeDonald, Capt. and Mrs. W. F. Cushing entertained at euchre, e included Messrs. and Mmes. ke White, H. L, Michelson, B. E. Jones, F. L. Conklin, E. K. Bull, W. P, Kitts, J. W. Foley, G. A. Rawlings, E. 8S. Miller, M. M. Cook, G. berlain and Frank Laurence. FORTY YEARS AGO x ay a B. fae Fetrned from. ennsylvania to occu; it of the Bismarck Presbyterian eae -Miss Emma Peters. Paint Woods was visith ee aa pod of Mrs, Bothe on Fourth street, Electric light wires were bei extended to. fhe. capital wo that te state house could be illuminated by electricity, :