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CHICAGO DETROI1 Tower Bldg. Kresge Bidg ‘heat iain ae eee ee a (Official City, State and County Newspaper) CAMPBELLIZATION OF RUSSIA America used to feed Russia in the old days of the czars, when the land of the vast steppes was recurrently stricken with famine. Shiploads of food used to be col- lected and shipped from Atlantic seaports. It was a bit of charity into which America puts its heart, for Russia and the United States had become good friends during the Civil war in this country, and this friendli- ness had been cemented in the purchase by this nation, from the Muscovite empire, of Alaska. The friendly ties originally developed from one of those gestures which | Europe was so skilled, in a poker-face way, of making | to avoid resort to vulgar might. At a time when the at- titude of England scemed on the point of playing into the hands of the Confederacy, Russia sent some war- ships on a visit to this country. The crisis was tided over. England kept hands off of the Civil war. Now, when the two nations are not on friendly terms— when, in fact, no relations exist between them except as the business men of this country find roundabout ways to make commercial deals with the soviet junta that rules the old empire of the Romanoffs—Ameriea again is to feed Russia. This time no shiploads of food will ve sent. America is to confer on the Russians, instead, that greater gift, the ability to feed themselves. The Tom Campbell way of farming little empires of | acreage is to be taught the mixture of Muscovite and ‘Tartar peasantry. Ivan is to adopt the great system of engineering agriculture which the son of North Dakota | has demonstrated as the new agriculture in his adopted home of Montana. Grain tracts, none under 75,000 acres, | are to be sown and reaped—a vast network of them. | All that the soviets ask is that America show how and supply the great aggregation of farm machinery that will be required. Campbell, himself, has been over and laid the groundwork for this training of the peasantry— Campbell, who was graduated from North Dakota uni- versity. The new farming policy terms farms “bread factories.” Neither horse, bull nor camel will function as tractive power on the vast areas to be sct aside for operation on the Campbell scale. All work not by human hands— operating—will be by machinery—tractors, gang plows, combines. Thus Campbell carried to Russia a new form of Amer- icanization—the economic cult creeping in everywhere all over the world. No other country could hope to give a real tryout to the particular form in which the Campbell Americanization has been transplanted across the seas. His transplantation of the idea that succeeded in Montana, will be followed by the developing process * which will root the Americanization permanently in the soil of the former empire of the czars. Trained agricul- tural experts are to go to Russia to train Russians in the handling of the machinery and in the methods of vast- scale farming. American professors will be among the experts going over to teach the Muscovites. Russia will make a five-year test of the experiment. ‘There now are ten “soviet economies” (Sovkhozes), the Official names of these farms. By the end of next year there will be 46 and at the conclusion of the five-year Period, in 1932, there will be 125. They will be from 75,- 000 to 125,000 acres each, although one of those already established covers 375,000 acres. ‘These “factories” will be located in various sections of the vast soviet territory, so as to prevent the pos- sibility of bad weather hitting them all at the:same time. Government lands now unused will be given over for these farms, and no peasants will be disturbed in their present land holdings. The labor for the farms will be drawn from the landless peasant workers, which will help solve the pressing industrial problem of their idle- ness by tens of thousands, Tractors to the amount of 2,600,000 rubles are already installed on these farms, and by the end of the five years the amount will have risen to 64,780,000 rubles. Investments in other machinery will be in Proportion. Of the total planned investments, from 350 to 400 mil- lion rubles, half will go for equipment, This is a step in mass production that not only is of significance to Russia and of pride to America, but it embodies in it possibilities of vast consequence to the occidental world, and it may be equally filled with ele- ments that involve the future of the Orient, with its teeming hordes to feed, and these never more than a jump ahead of famine and starvation. A Possibility of tremendous dislocation of the economic relations of the world lies in this contemplated policy of Russia. The Grain fields of the northwest may feel the effects when once the new Russian agriculture gets under way, and it is just as likely that the grain-growing fortunes of the of Canada may have to meet with readjustment of their agriculture, for Russia will raise its wheat on peasant THE OLD HATREDS DIE A few years ago the announcement that the commander- ,| was @ second Napoleon; and it must be admitted that ) | “Di who fought against each other, grown gray and bent by now, can sit down together in perfect harmony and discuss the tremendous experiences that they shared to- gether. But the rest of us, to whom the whole thing is only a tale out of a history book, don't see it as they do. Very fortunately, we are able to discard the ancient grudge; but we sometimes come perilously close to look- ing on the war as something romantic, picturesque, thrilling and stagey. And, whatever it was, it was none of those things. To be sure, Lee was a courtly knight out of Camelot, and Sheridan was a colorful, swashbuckling cavalryman m to order for a novelist, and Forrest was a gaunt, untaught genius fit for incredible legends, and McCel- lan had the knack of making 100,000 fighters think he is a stirring bit of music, and that Pickett’'s | charge was magnificent, and that Thomas’ men fought in story-book fashion at Chickamauga, and that the Ala- bama wes a ship for the saga-men. All of these things are true. But when we let them make us look on the Civil war as something gallant, dramatic and picturesque, we are tumbling into as bad an attitude as the discarded one of lingering hatred and jealousy. The Civil war, from any viewpoint, was a tragedy. It occurred because of folly and blindness on each side. It cost many lives, saddled the nation with debts and bit- ternesses that still remain in places, reduced the south, for , to economic impotence, and gave the north an era of moral laxness that was responsible for some of the most shameful events in our history. | As long as the nation endures, that war ought to re- main as an object lesson—an eternal warning against sectionalism and blindness. We do small justice to the | j fighters on both sides when we sink it to the realm of | musical comedy and romantic novels. It wasn’ > pretty | thing. LUXURIES The automobile was once condemned by a ;eligious sect as a worldly luxury, There have been many religious sects and denominations which have denied their con- verts every luxury and every pleasure not definitely spiritual. This one sect banned the automobile because it did not believe it to be a necessity of life. This religious body made that mistake so often made by the individual and «sometimes made by a generation |or an age of mankind. That error lay in failing to see the value of luxury as the experiment station of neces- sity. The luxury of today 1s often the necessity of tomor- row. The patrons of luxury foster progress and by their | patronage give to mankind that luxury when it has be- | come a necessity. In its incipiency the automobile was a luxury. It did not become a necessity until it had been mechanically perfected, many years after it had been adopted by the THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Hold Everything! : YOUR CHILDREN ty Olwe Roberts Barton | wealthy as a luxury. The wealthy by adopting the auto- mobile as a luxury made it financially possible for the engineers and inventors to perfect it for commercial Purposes. The same was true of the electric light and many other civilized comforts. In isolated communities with no luxuries, people lack j imagination to change, and continue their primitive liscomforts. Luxury which represents desire to refine life contributes much; that which is ostentatious does not, FORM THE THINK HABIT | Fear of making mistakes has made failures of as many men as mistakes have made successes. Failures are awed into retrogression by the same possibilities- ; of-mistakes challenged by the successes among men. A popular adage is “The man who never made a mis- take never made a dollar,” but a truer statement of fact might be “The man who never made a mistake has not yet lived.” Conceding that all men make mistakes, it is manifest that only the same mistake repeated is unpardonable and the habit, not the individual mistake, is costly. Somebody pays every time somebody blunders, and the only way to correct the habit of blundering is to form the habit of doing things right. Form the habit of being careful and take pains today that you may spare yourself incalculable pain tomorrow. Many are blunder- ing on to success by making the most of their blunders. The haunting regret in every mistake is the thought that it could have been averted by a little thought. The indolent find actions easier than thought and much of humanity is indolent. Thinking can be made a habit just as most bodily movements are from force of habit. Cultivate the habit of thinking before acting and that bugaboo, the mis- take-habit, will decamp for more salubrious foraging. THE SPIRIT OF AN AVIATOR We're willing to make a prediction, right now, that when David Clark of West Orange, N. J., grows up he is going to be quite an aviator. To be sure, he’s only 11 years old now, and that may be predicting quite a long way ahead; but we're confident. Why? Well, here's the story: David went to the New York aviation show recently and was all stirred up by what he saw. So he went home, got some laths and cloth, and made himself a set of wings. He wasn’t quite sure how they would work, but the spirit of the pioneer was in him; so, in defiance of his parents, he went to the porch roof of a friend's home and boldly jumped off. Unluekily, the wings didn't work. David took a spill, broke his flying apparatus and cut » bad gash in his head. But he's still confident that he'll do better next time. ‘With a spirit like that, we predict that David eventual- ly will be quite a flyer. Editorial Comment SUGGESTION FOR STOPPING CRIME (Detroit Free Press) The commissioner of police for Buffalo has his ideas about crime waves and the best if = a (©1928 by NEA Service,Inc There is no use inquiring if your | children ask questions—for they do, | of course. Very likely, if you have; a boy, you are at your wit’s end to! think up answers for his seemingly | @ witless queries. “What does the lamp have a string for, Mother?” “To allow the electricity to come | through.” “Where from?” | “Well—from a big place called a power plant where they make it. It comes along wires to our house.” “Why?” “Why—because. What questions you do ask, Johnny!” “Is it wet?” -o! I guess not. No, it isn't wet. “why?” “I'm busy, Johnny. Go and get your tricycle.” Questions Clear to Him Now both of Johnny's “whys” were Perfectly lucid—to him. It was his | way of wanting to be told all about it. He hadn't the slightest idea of what his mother was talking about, but his mind had sensed another of the won- ders of the big world about him and immediately sent out exploring an- tennac to inform itself about this new curiosity. - Children are inarticulate. No one can ask intelligent questions unless he knows a little of something about what he is talking about. The awk- ward, seemingly mi less ques- tioning, and their “why's” are merely their incoherent way of saying, “I want to know all about it. Please tell me the whole story.” There are two ways of learning for both old and young—one is by actual | indifferent after awhile and dull of give opportunity for discussions. Dis- cussions are wonderful wit cultiva- tors. It is amazing the amount of actual knowledge children pick up in this way. A child who is constantly put off, who never has his questions answered, nor things explained to him, becomes wit. When he loses that keen nat- ural interest in things around him, it is serious, indeed. BARBS i Rome saw two suns the other day as the result of the sun’s rays refrac- tion against small floating ice par- ticles. There ought to be some way for California and Florida to arise to this oe, « Dr. Zinsser of Harvard urges the underpaid pioneers in medical science wed heiresses. That ought to be a nice plan for sipbanraeaiad too. * * | ° Joe Saltis, Chicago gangster, says he is quitting the beer racket and will take up golf. Did you ever no- tice how successful men keep in- creasing the difficulty of their tasks as they go spo . A reformer in Washington finds 342 speakeasics in convenient reach of the capital. A newspaper reporter writes that speakeasies in Washington are harder to find and harder to get into than those in New York. What do you make of this, Watson? * ke * If Mrs. Depew's $120,000 endow- ment of a department of public speaking at George Washington Uni- versity only would give them some- thing to say! x *k ‘We have the electric eye and elec- tric ear. Now why doesn’t some savior experience or experiment; the other is by getting knowledge from other people who know. Older people get the latter by read- ing, but children have to be told. A Hour” “Question *I have thought that public schools would do well to have a short period each day set aside for questions. Of course the teacher would find herself in some tight positions, but such ses- sions could be conducted in the na- ture of an open forum, in which other children could volunteer answers to questions. That would of the race come forward with an electric foot to bear down on the in- step of the lady bridge partner who wants to tell everybody all about a movie just after you have bid one no trump? (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) PARTICULAR Mistress (engaging new maid): I had to dismiss my last maid because she wore my dresses when I was ill in bed. I hope you will not do that. New Maid: May I see your ward- robe ma’am?—Passing Show. Farmers must be protected from such erroneous information that Col. Charles Lindbergh has been secretly married to Greta Garbo for ten years, or that the Prince of Wales is taking ® special course on how to eliminate the smell from green onions. That's what co-eds of Ohio Uni- versity discovered a few weeks ago when college authorities stopped their selling of their annual “scandal sheet,” filled with such startling and erroneous information. They ex- plained that visitors at the “Farm- ers’ Week” convention were horrified. I wonder if ‘they were. Today’s farmer is considerably more sophis- ticated than yesterday's farmer, and it is very probable that he knows that Lindbergh and Garbo are unwed, even as does the “city slicker.” He needs Protection from no one. * * * NEEDLES AND. PINS Did you know that handbags in all their variety evolved from the silken bag or pouch which Oriental ladies wore to contain their back hair? This interesting fact, along with many others, is told in a new and unusual volume called “Tools of Toys of Stitchery,” by Gertrude Whiting. It traces the history of the needle from the first one of bone on through all nations and all time. * * FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS The nation’s youngest woman at- torney, Miss Irma Von Nunes, 19, of Atlanta, Georgia, practices law with her father. An obvious comment might be something to the effect that various psychoanlyists are right with their decision that daughters get along best with fathers, and sons with mothers. It would be interesting to know if this idea that sons and fathers can’t compatibly work to- gether is borne out by much, if any, evidence. * * * MARRYING SCHOOL-MARM A 26-year-old school teacher of Tappen, N. D., married a 17-year-old pupil the other day. He will continue to be supported by his parents until he is through school. The school board has not yet fired its pupil- marrying teacher, but it probably T WENT BACK To CHicaGo TD GE VERY LONESOME FOR You RUMMIES, ~~ So WeNT IN A PET STORE TobAyY AN” BOUGHT THiS MONK ‘TH’ RESEMBLANCE IS STRIKING, DoT You THINK 2 w UP Tic Now, THAT DARWIN THEORY z WAS JUST A GAG wiTH ME, w. BUT SEEING THEM BoTH TOGETHER LiKE THIS, REMOVES ALL DOUBT!, fv DoN'T GET TH’ ¥ MONK STARTED Z ON THOSE RED BANANAS, JAKE~ Wwe oR HELL NEVER GIVE You A MOMENTS REST EVERY Time HE SEES THAT Nose oF yours | ™OR WOULD You GIVE TH’ MONK A SLUGHT EDGE iS HEALTH LIQUID DIETS For therapeutic reasons it may be necessary to employ a liquid diet for @ time dyring the treatment of spe- cial diseases. There are a number of liquid and soft diets employed by Physicians and institutions but only &@ few of these diets are distinctly advantageous. Most of the dictetic experiments have grown out of the fasting cure which became fairly popular about 20 years ago. In fact, almost every doctor who experimented with diet at that time prescribed the plain water fast. When I first began my experiments with diet at about that time, I soon discovered that better results could be obtained with a diet which supplied the necessary min- eral elements at the same time as it excluded the richer carbon foods. By using an exclusive water fast the patient lives on his own tissues with much the same result as he would if on an exclusive meat diet. Authentic cases have been known to live and recover after as long as 100 days of this regime, and in some cases good results were produced, especially with those patients who had obviously been poisoned by auto- toxemia from using the starches and sugars in excess, but in other cases it produced a decided acidosis. After the patient has been on an exclusive water fast for 2 few days, his body is literally flooded by poisons and a toxemia develops which, how- ever, disappears within a few days, but recurs at irregular intervals if a long fast is taken. For instance, the patient will feel well for two or three days or perhaps a week, and then de- velop a crisis. The tongue becomes more coated, headaches develop, and @ depressed lassitude comes over him. As I observed these crises, it seems to me that they were caused by the poisons of the body not being elim- inated with steady regularity, and 1 believed that some means could be devised for overcoming these crises of acidosis. Accordingly, I experi- mented with further fasting and found that if the patient took drange juice, apple juice, or even the whole fruit, the elimination of toxins by the fast was not interfered with at the same time most of the unpleasant symptoms were also avoided. This was especially true in cases of ex- treme toxemia, where the liver was eran burdened with accumulated le. Many who advocate the fasting cure at the pre-ent time still recom- mend plain water fasting, but I am sure this is because they have not experimented sufficiently with the fruit juice fast and other diets. My experience has shown me that the elimination of toxins proceeds as rapidly while the patient is taking a small amount of fruit as when only ee eo etn id ENCLOSE STANPED AODRESSEO ENVELOPE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 1929 “DIET ADVI Frank Mc CE Coy plain water is used. A fruit regime in also more pleasant to the patient anu he is satisfied to continue on it for a 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. longer time than with the plain water fast. The unpleasant symptoms are also largely avoided by the use of the various fruit juices, vegetable extracts and milk diets. In tomorrow's article I will tell about the soft diets and the miethod for taking the water fast. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Blood-letting Question: X. Y. Z. writes: “Since high blood pressure has become so common why have the doctors aban- doned the old method of bleeding the patient? This seems a logical way of getting rid of a surplus of blood. ‘When this method was being prac- ticed high blood pressure was un- known.” Answer: Bleeding the temporal blood but it does not cure the cause of the arterial tension. The blood pressure can very readily be brought down to normal by a fasting and diet regime, and the patient’s general health at the same time is improved. This method should be understood by every practicing physician, since it is much more satisfactory than some of the methods of treatment now in vogue.” Fattening Cereals Question: Mrs. C. B. asks: “Will you please tell me through this paper whether dry cereals, such as Rice Crispies, Bran Flakes, Corn Flakes, etc., if eaten without sugar, are con- sidered fattening foods?” Answer: That would depend, of course, upon how much of these foods are used. Many of the breakfast foods contain molasses in addition to the dextrose content. As far as combinations are concerned, these foods should be used the same as any other toasted foods. They make a Jeu substitute for toast at break- fast. Sarcoma Question: Mrs. J.C. M. asks: “Can sarcoma be cured without medical treatment and how must it be treated?” Answer: The sarcoma is a kind of tumor and may form in any part of the body. The treatment, whether medical, surgical or dietetic, would depend upon the type and location of sarcoma. It would be unwise for me to attempt to give you any definite advice in this column about such a condition. ° will. Perhaps it should, but it’s hard to generalize about such things; there may be individual motives here that no one knows. is date in MERICAN HIST OY FEBRUARY 26 1635—First legislature convened Maryland. 1833—Congressional Temperance So- ciety founded in Washington. 1857—Steamship Tempest, with 150 on board, sailed and was never again heard from. 1901—Eight-hour day law, declared unconstitutional in New York. 1905—Engineering committee of the Panama Canal Company rec- ommended sea-level canal at Cost of $230,500,000. 1907—Major Goethals appointed chief engineer of Panama canul con- struction. in Our Yesterdays | FORTY YEARS AGO Senator McDonald went to-Valley City today to spend the week-end. Senators Ryan, Ericson and Craw- ford left for St. Paul last, evening, Because of the number of cases of scarlet fever in the city, the annual firemen’s ball has been postponed. Many members of the house and senate, as well as visitors, left today on an excursion to Helena, Mont., where they will be entertained by the Montana legislature. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Mrs. Frank White has returned to her home in Valley City. T. K, Joon, a former Bismarck at- torney, spending a year travel- ing abroad, is now in Italy, J. H. Wishek, merchant of Wishek, is visiting. in the city. Richard Boyle, Northern Pacific operator, from James- town, where he was called by the ill- 49. FINESSING WITHOUT LOOKING AHEAD North (Dumny)— a@1052 ¥ os 2 1 : BY West— Leads & 6 East— South (Declarer)— South bids no-trump Deciding the Play: West leads 6 of clubs. What card should be played The Error: Declarer plays Queen Dumny. f of clubs from le The Correct Method: Applying the Rule of Eleven, Declarer knows East can hold only Eighty thousand were used’ by Great the war, ab