The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1928, Page 4

a S _ ip the long line of chain enterprises as a fixed project. ‘4f it is to be a success it will have to hew close to busi- PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE An Independent Newspaper \ ‘THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ‘as second class mail matter. George D, Mann .............. President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance | Daily by carrier, per year .... $7. Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year, (in state, outside Bismarck) . 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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) A GREAT CHRISTMAS STAGED Bismarck is concluding a big task well and meritor- {ously accomplished for the final step—its community Christmas celebration, which has been occupying the | stage visibly for two weeks in street decorations and to- | day comes to the peak event of the great festival in the | distribution of gifts to 2,000 children at the auditorium. Furthermore, tomorrow, the Good Fellows will follow up this splendid exhibition of community spirit on a large wale with the distribution of dinners and other thing: of need to the under-privileged of the city. Nobody is to go without Christmas cheer, thanks to this generous | instance of cooperation with the organized forces that look after the welfare of the community's needy. ‘Then, to make still more ample Bismarck’s application of Christmas opportunity for doing kindly good, the Li- ons club will entertain a party of children in combina- tion with Boy Scout Troop No. 10, of the Richholt school, at a dinner in the den under the Grand Pacific hotel at 1 o'clock. So, as a community and in general individual exper- fence over the final weeks of shopping and preparing, the Period of strain ends as Christmas eve brings the great celebration to the world’s doors. The day of joyous merry-making and relaxation comes tomorrow. To re- ligious observance of the greatest feast anniversary in Christendom are united the Christmas dinners, happy family reunions, the exchange of gifts that are the vis- ible symbols of the common spirit of good-wijl dominat- ing the world at this holiday time. May the world have the merriest possible of Christ- mases tomorrow. CHAIN FARMS AS A SOLUTION While politicians and doctrinaires go on seeking the solution in plans some of which conform to economic law | and some of which do not, farm ills find, here and there, @ relief in the application of common sense, vision and business principles and practices that is effective. The phase of the problem that falls to the lot of solu- tion approached from the business side is that chiefly of overhead and marketing. Hail, drouth and the ravages of hot winds in the crops are matters in which only the application of insurance seems able to alleviate their con- Sequent loss to the farmer. Relief from plant diseases and pests must be sought from the plant specialist's re- researches for their counteraction. Likewise the prob- Jem of production and quality belongs to the domain of agricultural scientists. Now remain the costs of production and the methods of marketing. In some of the applications of business and engineering to the farm problem, the feature of overhead and marketing is combined in the new methods, in others overhead is dealt with by itself while market- ing is left to some solution of its own, as cooperative selling. Tom D. Campbell, over in Montana, has been able to develop farming into a profitable commercial activity by developing it on a vast scale, such as single tracts of wheat aggregating 30,000 acres, or plats of flax totaling 10,000 acres, Also by the application of machinery to his operations, whether breaking the soil, seeding it or har- vesting the subsequent crop. He also has been able, in addition to this engineering system of agriculture, to market his crops sagaciously, for he is a man with vision and alert on all economic phases of marketing in relation to farming. So he has prospered finely in his annual million-dollar crops and has been blazing the way through the farm problem for others with his nine-mile furrows across the leased lands of the Crow reservation which he farms. Now comes still another solution of how to farm with ‘Success and profit without an offer of heterogeneous pan- ‘aceas to be enacted into legislative wands that shall, like the staff of Moses in the wilderness, make streams of Prosperity to gush from a rocky soil. The latest develop- ment is from the land of Montgomery Ward & Co. and Sears, Roebuck & Co., and it simply takes over their ideas in merchandising and applies them to farm man- agement and operation. It is the chain farm. ‘This idea is adopted at a time when the chain prin- ciple is being taken up in so many ways for the better- ment of business, whereby a corporation conducts its own operations at widely separated points on that prin- ciple or independent businesses are organized to cooper- ate on a chain basis in the conduct of the separate but similar business. So it comes about that the country has chain stores—the pioneer application of the principle— chain banks, chain theaters, chain newspapers, likewise chain restaurants, beauty parlors, pharmacies, bakeries and orchestras, not to draw the line on railroads oper- ‘ated by a common owner much as on a chain basis, The chain farm plan is being worked out in the vicin- ity of Champaign, Illinois. There 32 farms of 7,500 ‘acres have been placed under a single supervision and it 4s claimed for this plan that a saving in overhead has been effected that more than justifies the cost of $1 an ‘cre for management. The plan supplies expert super- vision to the entire farm combination, and production is better baianced. It is said that where the average farm May produce 40 bushels of corn to the acre at a cost of $26 with a sales value of $28, the chain farm may achieve ‘Production of 70 bushels as an average to the acre at a ‘cost of $29 and a selling possibility of $49. These figures fre taken from example results on the Champaign ex- periment. 3 So the chain farn{ bids fair to arrive and take its place ‘and industrial principles. It must be organized as Campbell operations. There, a good scale of high | | has an accident. 4s paid the workers and living conditions on the ‘are such that the labor is well housed and fed, be- Placed on the basis of expert and mechanical labor. Campbell method suggests that operation under di- ‘ 4s the best form of applying these new Gt ‘vast scale of the Hardin man’s operations or in the newer idea of the chain farm at | Champaign. The experiment may even be afforded fuller | development by the general evolution that is taking place | in so many places of the nation’s commercial systems, as in more fluid finance and the growth of motor trans- | portation on its present increasing scale. PLODDING ALONG The chap who makes a sensation and bursts in on our attention like a metcor 1s all very well as a subject for literature, but it is the steady, unexciting plodder tha: makes the wheels go ‘round. ‘There Ssn’t anything especially original in that state- | ment, to be sure. But it is called to mind by a consider- ation of aviation in general and the cirmaill in particular. During the last year and a half we have witnessed any number of highly spectacular flights—north, south, east and west. Some of the flyers got through to reap glory | and honor, and some of them died mysteriously out in | empty space; but all of them claimed a great deal of at- | tention. | Many of us, no doubt, drew our attitude toward avia- tion as a whole from the emotions aroused by these haz- ardous, long-distance flights. These flights were thrill ing and dangerous; so is all aviation. ‘They were just a bit uncertain; so is all aviation. They were romantic and exciting; so is all aviation. That is about the way a lot of us look at it. It happens that we're mistaken in this attitude. The air mail service, spanning the continent and flying day and night through good weather and bad, is a living pro? of it. While all of these spectacular flights were being made, | the airmail service pilots were going about their daily | routine, plodding steadily ahead without any bright lights | or welcoming crowds, developing the scicnce of aviation to a point where it is safe, reliable and unexeiting—re- ducing it from an adventure to a business, and saying | nothing about it. We seldom hear of the airmail except when some pilot | Then, with our minds colored by the | mishaps that attend so many of the “stunt” flights, we shake our heads and mutter, “Ah, aviation—there’s a dangerous calling for you all right.” How dangerous is it, anyway? ardous leg of the whole ti tinental line. seen continucus service—two . day and night. And how many n killed on this dangerous route? Just For eight trips a day, pilots ha eight! An average of one a year—on the riskiest route in where flights are made in sno ‘ms, bliz- and gales, at night as well as in the daytime The airmail’s great defect, from the standpoint of pub- lic interest, is that it is not exciting enough, It is peril- to becoming routine plodding—whic of course, that the air hfs just about been mastered. While the ocean hoppers have gained the most attention, it has been the airmail that has made aviation a service- able means of transportation. A WAY TO END WAR Dr. Friedrich Bergius, German inventor, believes that the scientific invention of synthetic substitutes for such basic commodities as rubber, cotton, gasoline and silk will do more to advance world peace then any other factor in the world. Writing in the current issue of The Living Age, Dr. Bergius points out that a cheap synthetic gasoline would end all talk of an “oil war” and would stop international competition for oil fields, Similarly, cheap artificial rub- ber would obviate such misunderstandings as that which the Stevenson rubber restriction act caused between America and England. His thesis sounds reasonable. Many wars have been fought because some nation had or sought a monopoly on certain essential raw materials. To break such mon- opolies would be a great step forward. It is said thet gowns now coming into fashion make it possible for a woman to dress in 55 Is after spending three-quarters of an hour deciding which one to wear. Editorial Comment DOUBLING UP WORDS (Spokane Spokesman-Review) Our mention the other day of a new portmanteau word, “guesstimate,” has caused a number of persons to write One calls our attention to the compound heading, “Giraffrica,” in a current magazine, over an article on hunting the giraffe in Africa. Another correspondent in- forms us that many of our common words are probably | compounds, instancing the following: Grumble from growl and rumble. Flaunt from flout and vaunt. Scurry from scour and hurry. Boost from boom and hoist. Dang from damn and hang. We print these examples for what they are worth. Word sharps may differ with our correspondent or they may not. One mixture that we are sure of is Lewis Carroll’s “chortle,” which is a telescoping of “chuckle” and “snort.” A third writer asks if we ever heard of Christopher Morley's neat invention, “Decanterbury pilgrims,” to des- ignate excursionists who depend for their fun on the amount of liquor consumed. We had not heard of it, but we recall that some years ago we, in this column, wrote of such persons being out for an “alcoholiday.” FRED HOVDE AS EXAMPLE AND TYPE (Minneapolis Tribune) Fred Hovde of Minnesota “U” football fame was one of the outstanding quarterbacks of the country in the 1928 playing season, There is plenty of expert judgment that he was the premier man in that particular playing job in the Western conference. That is very interesting to Minnesotans and to Hovde's home town neighbors in Devils Lake, N. D. Still more satisfactory is it to them, however, that Hovde is a good enough student to be named for a Rhodes scholarship in Oxford university, England. He is not merely a good student; he is exceptionally good, else he would not have been given the benefit of $2,000-a-year financing in’ a famous foreign institution of learning. The distinction that has come to Hovde is just one more Proof of the fact that a young man can be a first rate active athlete in competitive games without any. impair- ment of his work in classroom or laboratory. Hovde is not a unique example of the good football player and the achieving student. There are plenty of others of his gen- eral type seatteted throughout the country. Players on university and college football teams under present re- strictive and regulatory conditions are as a rule credited with good standing in classroom work, and so credited on Sheer merit. In the football of today something more than brawn or brute strength is necessary to stardom. It is the excep- tion that a good football player does not have a good thinking head on a pair of sturdy shoulders; that he is not a quick and straight thinker; that he lacks initiative, resourcefulness, and a large measure of ability to extri- cate himself from difficult positions. Gray matter is an important backer-up of muscle, fleetness of foot, alert- ness of vision, endurance, physical daring and the like. An outstanding football player, who meets the test through the seasons, needs the qualities that make for leadership, and the qualities of leadership are rightly taken into account in determining the awards of Rhodes scholarships. The talent for leadership, natural or ac- quired, signifies that the man who has it is not one who Jets others do his thinking for him; it implies the ability and the resolution to think for himself, and other things being equal the man of that will and habit is the man most likely to advance into the front line position in in- dustry, the professions, or any other field of human ace tivity. The coordination of a strong body and good character with a trained, self-starting mind—what better Prescription can there be for real auccess in the affairs of life? The example of Hovde helps us to set or keep us straight on the relation of sports to scholarship, He is in- teresting as an individual, but much more interesting as a tr ay ¥ East, West Blow, titales at battle, Ghe marches of peace North and South Let the lon quarrel ceasi Sinn the soma of areat joy Ghat the annels began tmaof Glory to God | Take the route be- tween New York and Cleveland, considered the most haz- | TaN HS RIE | Miracles don't happen these days—not very often, any- jhow. We put our faith in things that we can handle and understand and diagram. A matter-of-fact and | skeptical age has stopped looking for marvels, and for that reason it doesn’t see any. But, for all that, we still have one miracle left, that even the most case-hardened of us can experience. Every | year, when Christmas comes, each one of us can trans- | form himself, for a space, from what he is into what he would like to be. Christmas—though the glittering shop windows some- times lead us to forget it—is more than a day on which hange gifts, eat hearty dinnérs and speak cordially ngers. It is a celebration of the greatest miracle and the most beautiful story fhe world has ever known. | And, as we brate it, we unconsciously absorb some- thing of the reflection of that miracle and that story and become better men and women than we knew we were. The world 20 centuries ago was not a very refined or |civilized place. The southern fringes of Europe, Asia | Minor and the north of Africa were under the dominion ot Rome. Beyond, in all directions, stretched barbarism. The world's stock of hope was not large. But into that world came something new—a hope and a promise. Before the eyes of those who would trouble to look there was raised a new vision; a vision that showed mankind proceeding along an ever-mounting MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1928 [__THE MODERN MIRACLE —_| road, that showed men, not as blind strugglers in a los- ing fight with a hostile creation, but as glorious sons of light rising to claim an everlasting heritage. That vision is still with us. On Christmas day, as we re-read the old story of the little town, the star in the , Sky, the wondering shepherds, the devout wise men of the !east and the caroling angels, we realize, once more, the full significance of it. And that works a miracle within us. For the moment we are lifted out of our daily shells of caution, reserve, fear and suspicion. We get a glimpse of the deathless nobility of all human lives, and it transforms us. We can greet the strangers all about us as we are meant to greet them—as brothers. We forget to be jealous, resentful, suspicious, cold. We become what we have always wished we might become. ‘The transformation does not endure. A few days after Christmas we go back to our old ways, and the stranger in a crowd is merely someone to elbow out of the way and not an immortal spirit clothed in the miracle of human flesh. But some residue lingers in our hearts, Bit by bit, over long years and centuries, it builds up an accretion of faith, good will and hope. : So we may take courage. Each Christmas leaves us a little better than it found us. Each year, as the tiny lights blaze out on the little green trees, the race moves little bit closer to the ideals for which we should strive. ‘COFF Pittsburgh. known as “Coffee Jake” in Pittsburgh years ago when he conducted a coffee |WOULD SHIELD \house here, left an estate valued at IE JAK RICH an ae ve Od fur Coste Were jeauy Aa lead - they Didwt eneba uch ExerciGe ~ - bre Tule Gr heton _TAEY MAY HAVE BEEN GORI-GENE $750,000, his will probated here dis-| Virginia Wild Life league has recom- ”)—Stanislauz Zoch, |closed. He died in Los Angeles. mended legislation making it unlawful STATE FLOWER |‘0 Pluck the official state flower, the Parkersburg, W. Va—(?)—The West |rhododendron. FS pur~ ATHLETES LIVE LONGER A short time ago some medical ar- ticles appeared which attempted to show that the use of athletics would shorten life. A few instances were cited asa proof of the assertion. ‘While many people were probably misled by these articles, a few earn- \est investigators took the trouble of compiling statistics, not of special cases, but of large numbers of aver- lage cases. By taking the average age at death of the athletes who grad- uated from several of the larger col- leges, they discovered a longer aver- {age length of life than that of the laverage insured person. When we consider that insurance companies do Not accept people who are suffering {from any serious disease, these fig- ures are even more important. The death rate of football men at the age of sixty was only 21.5 per , while the average insured was 26.2 per thousand. The least number of deaths occurred among those classed as athletes who used exercises that are repeated a great many times. The best exercise ap- pears to be roadwork, since the track men or runners had a death rate as low as 16.1 per thousand at the age of sixty compared with the average insured man’s rate of 26.2. 4 ‘When one thinks of physical culture exercises, the usual picture brought to mind is of an athlete with bulging muscles engaged in some feat of strength. Outside of a few profes- sional strong men, it is generally rec- ognized that large muscles are not as important as endurance. This is especially true for one seeking health. Longevity depends upon the acqui- sition of the ability of sustained ef- fort. Of special importance to the health seeker is the development of strong abdominal and back muscles. Strong muscles in front hold the stomach and internal organs in position, and strong spinal muscles hold the back straight and keep the vertebrae in their proper relation. It matters little from which dis- order you are suffering, a ‘training and strengthening of your muscles will help you in overcoming disease and assist very materially in prolong- ing your life. Physical exercises also assist in attaining a wholesome ap- pearance, and who is not desirous of @ comeliness of face and symmetry of form? I believe that everyone should en- deavor to become interested in some branch of athletics. Only systematic exercises can build vim, vigor and vi- tality. An hour # day given over to physical exercises will add many years to one’s life and bring in daily re- turns or health and endurance. One of the best forms of exercise is hik- ing or walking. Those who are not accustomed to long walks will do well to start with a fifteen minute walk @ day and gradually increase the time with distance each succeeding day. If you seem to be all run down, a daily Our Yesterdays ] FORTY YEARS AGO Mrs. J. W. Stroup of Manitoba is the guest of Captain and Mrs. F. Flick. A special train has been chartered to convey the people of Mandan to the ball here on Christmas eve. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hood of Mandan are visiting friends in Bis- marck. Miss Ella L. Norris and O. P. M. Jamieson will sing solos from Han- del’s “Messiah” at the special Christ- mas services at the Baptist churchr. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Miss Ida Johnson, sister of Mrs. Dan Slattery, is dead. C. E. Chubb left for St. Paul to ene the holiday season with rela- ves, ‘The Salvation Army will have their annual tree and program tonight. ° Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Howland have arrived from the west to spend Christ- mas with Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Scott. H TEN YEARS AGO H. Steele was elected president Bismarck Country club for the of the Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wright have as their guest for over Christmas Mr. Wright's sister, Mrs. Guy F. Hunner of Zap. Children of Bismarck under 14 years will be guests of the Elks lodge at a Christmas party at the City auditor- jum. C. M. Henry Hollst is chairman of arrangements. ‘The Bismarck Choral club will de- vote an hour on Christmas eve to us HEALTHDIET srenem naan Meeey walk and exercising regime will build up your strength in @ short time. I have prepared @ short series 0) and lying down exercises in 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. chart form which I will be very Pleased to send to any of my read- ers who are- interested if they will write to me in care of this news- Paper and enclose —a large, self-ad- dressed envelope for reply. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Petit Mal Question: Mother writes: “My 12- year-old daughter is very forgetful. I have noticed her start to do things and would forget what she was going to do, somethies standing in a blank condition for a few seconds with her eyes staring. On one occasion she stood partly stooped putting some- thing on the floor, until she came to her senses again. Upon questioning her she said she didn’t even know where she was. Also, she does not seem to comprehend readily. She is overweight, but her flesh is solid.” Answer: Your child is undoubtedly suffering from a mild form of epi- Jepsy which is called Petit Mal. My opinion is that this condition is def- initely brought about through ex- cessive toxic poisoning from the colon. In most cases the colon will be found in @ paralyzed and kinked condition. Suitable dietetic treat- ment with manipulative treatment to the abdomen will usually bring about @ complete cure. Malarial Treatment. Question: M. K. writes: “I read in the paper this morning about malarial treatment for syphilis. Do you think it is a dangerous treat- ment?” Answer: The malarial treatment for different diseases has been used with indifferent success in various hospitals and clinics in both this country and Furope. Some good re- sults have been reported in the treat- ment of various forms of paralysis and in cases of paresis. The treat- ment is given by injecting malarial serum into the patient which brings jabout a violent reaction, inducing fever and in some cases death. If the Patient recovers from the treatment it 1s often found that the system has succeeded in throwing out both malarial infection and other toxins, and in this case the patient's condi- tion is improved. It seems foolish to attempt to get these results in such a round-about, way when fasting, diet- ing, enemas and exercises will do far more in the expulsion of toxic wastes with no danger of making the patient (Copyrient, 1928, By Th (Copyright, , The Bell = dicate.) 4 at en where it is exploded. 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