The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 4

The Bismarck ‘lribune AD independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDES1 NEWSPAPER (Eatablished 1873) and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck mall matter. eo. President and Publisne: thatck, HN. FR i j } if E 3? il rt [ cet : 1.00 3.50 & 5 per ot North Dakota, 66 = ggg Es mail, year . Member Acdit Bureau Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use Tepublication of all news dispatches credited &% It Otherwise credited in this newspaper and alsc news of spontaneous origin published herein hts of republication of all other matter herein reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO - DETROI1 Tower Bidg. Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and County Newspaper) SOLVING REPARATIONS FINALLY The financial locksmiths are on the point of setting about the task of turning the key in the international fetters of World war debts and reparations. Assembling at Paris are the experts who are to say at last just how great a total of reparations Germany shall pay, as a se- quel to the Dawes plan. This means the manacling of the reich. But as the whole proposition is bound up with the payment by the Allies of their debts to the United States, and, as they are insistent on making the amount of reparations cover this debt, any decision on that basis at the same time will mean easement of the financial shackles of France, Great Britain, Italy and Belgium. For the Allies, under their agreements with the United States, the period of financial servitude has been set at 62 years. It will be decided inthe present conference not only what the total of reparations shall be, but Ger- many is to learn how long the period of payment is to extend. The United States is not officially taking a hand in the conference. The American experts who are to partici- pate, Owen D. Young, of the former Dawes commission, although made chairman of the conference, and J. Pier- pont Morgan, with Thomas Nelson Perkins and Thomas W. Lamont as alternates, will sit unofficially by choice of the Allies, President Coolidge having ruled that this government could not participate officially, though there would be no objection to the European participants call- ing in American experts in finance to help them work out their problem. ‘angement is important, as it does not commit States to the debt entanglements of Europe and, in a way, restates the president's attitude that the question of allied debts owing to the United States can not by American assent be regarded as having anything to do with the problem of reparations between Germany and her war opponents. It also is important from the viewpoint that when it comes to finance the conclusions of the conference, the United States wi" be looked to, at least, to do this, as the world’s chief financial center. The Dawes plan committed Germany to the temporary annugl payment of $625,000,000 as reparations, leaving the total amount dnd the period of years to be deter- tined later in such a conference as now is about to as- semble. S. Parker Gilbert, the agent general of repara- tions payments, recently announced in a formal report on the situation, that Germany was able to continue pay- ing this annual charge, and it is possible that the an- nuity amount will stand. alli 1.50 of Cirewiation SEg8s 332 F Published oy the Bumarck [ribune Company tu- | As to the total, of reparations, there is talk of $8,190,000,000. This is the figure that France has tenta- tively set. This is far from what France and the Allies, in the first flush of their Versailles impositions, expected to get from the vanquished Germany. Clemenceau raved about a total as vast as $200,000,000,000, England, lacking the volatility of France and the virulence of the Tiger, spoke of $120,000,000,000. Then there was talk of $32,000,000,000. Now, in the realization that one can overreach and that there is such a thing as the unat- tainable, cooler judgment has replaced the heated hate that set these tremendous ransoms and thus there is a proposal that Germany pay the $8,190,000,000. Possibly the big feature of the commission's decisions will be what it does as to commercialization of Germany's debts. France demands this. The securities would be marketed, and thus Germany would be held fast without possibility of any renunciation of the war obligations to be imposed. ‘The French stand, which is likely to be the tentative basis of proceeding to consider the problem, may be summarized in these five points: 1. France claims 102,000,000,000 francs ($3,978,000,000) for damage to her property, which would amount to be- ‘tween 130,000,000,000 and 140,000,000,000 franes when in- terest is included. 2. France renounces the right given to her in the Versailles tresty to make Germany pay for French war . Pensions. } 8. Germany must reimburse France for the French war debts to the United States and England. “4, Germany must pay on a schedule of fixed annual “annuities instead of on a sliding scale. _(&° France demands international commercialization ‘Germany's debts. total of $8,190,000,000 was indicated as France's Germany has held to the hope that the conference nu to reduce payments. The plea was ability to pay should be the basis of any total amount reached, but France put be the basic consideration in fixing the total. her obligation under the treaty of Versailles. There would be, simply, the operation of conversion repeated over and over. In a way, the request of Germany to 2 to'¢ how much she will be asked to pay in totality amounts to a gauge of the recovery of Europe from the financial disruption that followed the war. It will be“remembered that at first payments demanded under the Versailles treaty were defaulted. The mark became a jest as a measure of exchange and value. It became so bereft of valye that .| it took cartloads of the worthless paper medium to pay the most ordinary trifles. Then came seizure, by France, of the Ruhr area of Germany and a situation that would have renewed the war had not Germany been helplessly ~ disarmed. France, however, discovered that collection could not be made at the point of the bayonct. An in- tolerable situation for the whole world ensued. Charles: Evans Hughes unlocked this deadlock by his speech at New Haven, December, 1922. He suggested a commission of cxp*~*s and a year later, after protracted correspondence with Lord Curzon, the Hughes idea be- gan to take definite shape. The Dawes commission re- sulted. Germany was given a fixed temporary annual sum to pay and tho Europzan, especially the Ruhr, sit- uation was smoothed down sufficiently for German recuperation to slowly take its course, wherein the mark was again given a reasonable value and Germany began to prosper. Now, once more, the genius of American financial perspicacity is called to the assistance of the_Allies in this new deterthination of the problem of reparations. The situation has been likened to the legend of the goose that laid the golden eggs. The Allies realize that they might go too far in exacting reparations. Figuratively they might kill their goose. They realize that the danger of such possibility will be best evoided by having Ameri- can experts sit in the game, for it is America that must finance the settlement in the end. E. Y. SARLES E. Y. Sarles, whose gallant fight for life in a persist- ent illness ended with the death, Thursday evening, of the former governor, was of the builder type of man. He was not only able to bring into actuality his personal visions of success, but in his own affairs he carried along the development and well-being of his community. This community at first was limited to Hillsboro and Traill county, but in time it came to embrace the entire state of North Dakota. After he had built up a successful business for him- self in bahking and lumber and made Traill county one of the leading areas in the Red River valley, he was called to the governorship of the state. The Sarles ad- ministration is remembered for its business tendencies. The man who had attracted more than $2,000,000 of out- side capital into Traill county, spent half a million in extraordinary expenses made necessary by law and yet closed his term with a surplus of , $200,008 in the treasury. The son of a Methodist minister and 4 native of Wis- consin, Elmore Sarles came to North Dako in ite formative period and thus he adjusted himself to his environment for the rest of his life. He became a typical North Dakotan. He recognized this ss a big country and made his plans in conformity with that vision. That is why his life was such a@ big success. Editorial Comment SHALL WE LOSE A CONGRESSMAN? (New Salem Journal) North Dakota stands a very good chance of losing one congressman when the national body assembled in Washington takes up the reapportionment. North Dakota has only congressmen and due to the fact that its population is a little less, while the east- ern states have a large increase in population. The larger cities in many of those states have become densely popu- lated to a large extent by foreigners that come from the southern countries of Europe. They increase the population and give those cities and states a larger rep- resentation in congress. But is that fair? New York does not give her alien population a voice in determining who shall represent her in Congress; why then should they be counted in determining how many representatives she shall have? A much fairer system of representation nationally would be on a basis of voting population. Refusing to count the alien popula- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 192% HEALTH“DIET ADVICE wth ee Seat Ay vo Moh Fog thy ys iyi ENCLOSE STAMPED RODRESSEO BHVELOPE FOR REPLY }' THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | A Delicate Shot to Make! ete It is possible to cure ‘a hernia that progressed too far by reduc- internal pressure and tnen abdominal snuscles. cannot take place in large jee the tear protrudes in the muscles, and these can- #8 strangulation and gangrene or ob- struction. In cases of long standing, an operation may be advisable bt ‘t is better to this method first, since the operations are not always successful and even if they are, they do not remove the internal .- fi and there is a danger of recurrence. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Dyeing Hair Question: M. R, J. asks: “What discovered. The patient | kind of dye do you suggest one use should immediately secure a -good|to darken the hair?” rupture support and wear it con-| Answer: Different types of hair stantly until he is assured by his|require varying formulas. Any dye doctor that the cure is complete.|not containing lead or gallic acid Through a delay in using this truss | might be used, but I suggest you first @ cure may be frustrated. The next consult a competent hair specialis: regardjng the type most suitable for your hair. It is well to try the effect upon a small strand first to see what the general effect will be. Starch In Bran Question: D. K. L. asks: “Does bran, contain very Ras ae ‘on comparison with wholew! le are using your muffin recipe, using half bran and half wholewheat. By using half one and half the other, is the starch content cut down?” Answer: Bran contains very little starch in comparison with either wholewheat or white flour. You will find’ difficulty in making bran muf- fins out of real wholewheat flour and bran mixed half and half unless you use sugar Or a large amount of short- ening, as the muffins will be crumbly ayd will not stick together long enough for you to bake them. The wholewheat flour you are now using is probably not entire wheat flour but one of the sixty-four kind which con- tains sixty per cent of wholewheat and forty per cept of white flour. Clabber Milk Question: May J. asks: “Does not @ pint of clabber milk with a baked apple, an orange, or grapefruit make a wholesome breakfast?” Answer: Clabber milk combines better with the baked apple or with some other stewed fruit than it does with oranges or grapefruit. This is Probably because the clabber milk contains quite a large amount of lactic acid which does not combine well with the citric acid of the orange or grapefruit. loses his home should get compensa- tion rather than pay for the loss. Ladies, what a ee *.* * The father may be the head of the home, but motifer usually is the re- ~ ceiver. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Services Inc.) aa Hu | ul g 5 g g infiy have to be Ee} ge —. Be i 3 ui [ cabbage, etc. The quantity of food should be kept to the minimum of the body’s It is a good plan to take at least one enema a day and better two, one in the morning and one at night, using only a quart of Plain water each time. The enema should be taken in the knee-chest Position and the rupture support should be worn at the same time. These enemas should be continued for several weeks or over several months if it is necessary. Ope should also -start developing the"abdominal muscles through tak- ing a careful course of setting up exercises, the most beneficial of which are those exercises taken whil lying on the back with the hips ele- vated so that the abdominal contents will be carried by gravity toward the thorax. These exercises must be taken very carefully at first and used at least twice daily, gradually increas- ing the amount each day as the strength of the abdominal walls per- mits. Long walks should also be used each day to increase the general strength to produce a better tone of all the muscles of the pelvis. The cold sitz bath is also of ser- vice in this trouble, as it assists in increasing the strength of the muscles and ligaments. In «fact, if one is sure that the hernia has been prop- erly replaced, a jet of cold water may be directed upon the ruptured area exclusively for fifteen to twenty purpose. There has been a vast in- crease in population since prohibition, @ corresponding increase in divorce, and a natural increase in the num- ber of marital troubles explained by ny one cause. * * BABIES AND WITCHCRAFT On the subject of figures, the Chil- dren’s Bureau reports that witch- craft and forms of mediaeval super- atition explain the mortality rate of about 64 women out of every 10,000 maternity cases. One could compla- cently murmur, “it’s these foreigners” to such an observation, it being true that such superstitions are part and i parcel of the lomulerent rs problem. i CHILDREN 4y Olwe Roberts Barton | (©1928 by NBA Service,Ine \ FEBRUARY 16 1801—House of representatives broke tl Can Mrs. Brown ever forget the | look her daughter gave her the day the shoe bill came without her silver slippers on it, and she cried happily, “That's rich! It will buy us a couple of theater tickets, Ed.” And there is Mrs. Smith who fairly curdied the cream at the table every day, with mean remarks about people who were supposed to be her friends. Suddenly, out of a clear sky one day, or rather out of Junior’s mouth, came these words: “Don’t you like any- body, Mother?” A certain man and his wife had a habit. of discussing the night-before Party at the dinner table. Mrs. Adams would tease Mr. Adams about @ beau- tiful blonde and Mr. Adams would come back with the number of dances Mrs. Adams had had with one Tom, or Dick, or Harry. Then she would refer to her husband’s memory as blotto and therefore not depend- able on the night preceding, as he had had so many cocktails and so many highballs to her certain knowledge. The Lesson They Learned They stopped this form of warmed- over dissipation for good one day when ten-year-old Betty burst into tears and ran up stairs, sobbing her heart out. Another dinner-table derby takes place at the Joneses nightly when Mr. Jones accuses his wife of extrava- gance and she jumps all over him for SD on Mrs. May Davis of Washington, D. i of this struggle to make a j 1898—U. 8. navy court of inquiry ap- \pointed to investigate Maine disaster. Our Yesterdays FORTY YEARS nie A oe Su endent Simpson deat nad ths school at Sioux Falls, 8. D., is in the city. Bishop Walker will occupy the pul- pit of the Episcopal church General Allén is seriously room at the Sheridan TWENTY-FIVE BEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Patterson en- tertained a large number of friends at a dancing party at the Northwest hotel yesterday evening. Mrs, George A. Hughés arrived to- day from Minneapolis. ill in his tion in the big cities would reduce the representation of those states which already have too much power in Congress compared with our western states. North Da- kota has nothing to lose by counting out our alien popu- lation but it is not just that our state, comprised of a solid voting population, should lose a representative while they gain one because of a growth in population not entitled to vote. Depriving the flower of the coun- try’s citizenship of a representation which is already too meager to give it to the all-powerful states because they can show a “mushroom” growth in population? Is that equality of citizenship? Is a North Dakota farmer no more nationally than a poor wop just arrived, seeking only the chance to make money here and having no in- terest in our national welfare? ‘ It is this very class of population that make up the bombing gangs, rum ring gangs, and many other kinds of gangs that live from the spoils that are taken from the better class of people and the working classes. We do not believe for one minute that this class of people should be on equal footing with the people of North A North Dakota voter and citizen is shipload of them, and our gh cougrens soe or Congressman Blaclatr if you Unik 20° wor tones Ot ssman ou too, bef it reapportionment bill comes ip. i ane SO THIS IS NEW YORK (New York Herald Tribune) x the citlee aa we . tered “4 galted wns sca! throughout the United States to warn’ their children to beware of New York. In this supposed habitat of sophistication none but the thoroughly “hard-boiled”. to the outlanders— stand @ chance. Long accustomed to offers of the Brooklyn Bridge for a few hundred dollars or of Central park for # song, the inhabitants had become suspicious by nature, and believed in the honesty of nobody. How could patient merit in a metropolis whose resi- dents had long lost all faith in human yature? Int» this mistrusting community there came not long ago a Massachusetts Yankee with a. stock of penknives ased for two cents apiece. In the e asserted her inability to continue paying the nt eet by the Dawes commission as the annuity, but ‘was no doubt of Germany's ability to continue stale of payments. Despite the colossal x um, German trade revival is i é i : | is i aTeR & Gilbert challenged and denied this claim. He d Person human nature is human nature, ists on Manhattan island or in the most remote of rural districts. He took his penknives into the moved through the trains simulating illness, and isposed of so many of them at 500 per cent profit that Soon taking in $100 a day and was able to em- valet-secretary to keep his accounts and assist in being too lazy and too dumb to maze decent living for her and the child- ren. It usually winds up with talk about divorce. i The children sit there big-eyed and silent. There are meals when they scarcely touch a bite. The family doctor is getting ready to speak a lit- tle piece to these parents, for their quarreling obviously, is making the children unhappy and ill. i And so it goes on—there are a thousand things that parents do that Owing to the shortage of coal, the trolley car is off duty today, and un- less more fuel is received, the elec- tric light plant will shut down at 10 o'clock this evening. There is * WHAT’S BEING DONE? 1 the wonder what America is doing in | | the. way of giving the. superstitious | immigrant midwife alittle more a. REFUSING TO DUCK FOR hy . oh, Bnlighte FRAR OF LOSING HIGH CARD why doesn’t mean much. n- ment and education come first. a Nese hia distress their children very much. POM A i REE, 9986 Daily Lenten Sakses ; Thought BY WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. cl Hera East-- South (Declarer)—~ akKQ7 OUR BOARDING HOUSE Saks 4310 The Bidding: South bids no-trump and all pass. 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