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EOE ARAN 8 i ye ae peavairs ante B aT PAGE FOUR hindrance, merely because they would be embarrassed by fran. expression of their views? Not while a sense of humos holds out, not to mention a sense of duty. The candidatorial pack should be made to run the gauntlet. Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company Bts- } Marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck DEATH UNDER THE WHEELS ted second class ‘aera neat Presideat and rublisne: | Unless the motorists of the country are very careful, E the toll of traffic accidents can be expected to rise sharply durin: the coming month. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance » Dally by carrier, per year .............. The arrival of warm weather prings a much greater 1 Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck) number of cars on the highways than the winter months Eaerineasa cavisoe | Bismarck) had seen. The increased congestion, naturally, renders Daily by mail. outside of North Dak + 600) the possibility of accidents greater, and puts on each oe driver an added responsibility for care and caution. Weekly by mail, in state, per year : 100) ‘In addition, many cars did not get the care during wank, iS wall AGUAS OT WC Gans, “~|the rinter that they get in the summer. A number of i pe year Sioltsie : +» 150) drivers will be using cars that need mechanical adjust- t Member Audit Bureau of Circulation laents or repairs—in brakes, stecring knuckles and so on—in order to make them really safe. This, of course, Member of The Associated Press adds to the hazards of driving. ‘ The Associated Prees ls exclusively entitled to the use Evury motorist should see to it that his car is in gocd ‘ for republication of all news dispatches credited to tt M 2 Or not otherwise credited in this newspaper ang also | WOrsing order, and should bear in mind that conditions the loca] news oi spontaneous origin pubi'sle: herein |arc more hazardous now than they have been during All rights of republication of all other matter herein | the last few months, In this way the “spring rush” of are also reserved. traffic can be robbed of its terrors. ign Representatives Pear rae Derr a. HOGAN PAY OOMPANY AN INLAND NEW YORK NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. Industrialists and business men in the middle west | CHICAGO DETRO!'l | are -tready looking forward to the time when a “second Bldg. Kresge Bldg | }--- york will appear on the shores of the Great Lakes Sea to handle much of the great inland empire's import (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) and export trade. . Eventual opening of the St. Lawrence canal—which ‘While h eS eaten caren Hoover | 'S taken for granted in the middle west—will, it is be- ded 7 4 eins leved, be a tremendous help to the industry and trade ig eee en eect one fepeeeane Work sn’showing of the interior. Such lake ports as Chicago, Detroit, Bees eictiativity ct is tahini and the general level Cleveland. Toledo and Buffalo are making extensive aes plans for harbor development. They sce a new era of of our prosperity were raised to higher levels ween ele prosperity on the horizon, and ere getting ready to make @iscovered better ways to use their resources wishout HHOOSRO IE: pee Sy of them: * = ae In some sections, particularly the east, the St. Lawrence Ree ee ee oe Waste, however, heels waterway is not much talked of. But the mid-west wants vl Lone co or em most inexcusable form iby analwants ib uel, In the April issue of Hygela, the health magazine of ) the American Medical association, Donald A. Laird tells} When a man picks up a money-making idea the folks how a psychologist recently descended on a group of who overlooked it are likely to consider him lucky. Ordinary day laborers who were busy digging a scwer ditch and gave them intelligence tests. Reports about the delights of Venice must be exag- Most of the laborers showed just about the kind of | serated. That town fs said to have 60,000 cats, result you would expect. But three or four of them, f to the amazement of the psychologist, proved that they| A new height of ignominy was recently achieved by had unusual intelligence. Their brains were keen enough |® Missouii pedestrain, now in a hospital after being run for them to become members of the professions, The | down by a bicycle. marks they got in the tests were about what would be expected, say, of an average good lawycr. 7 Yet, fitted by nature to work with their brains, they | H 4 | ‘were doing jobs that any ordinary halfwit with a husky Editorial Comment physique could do just as well as they. nation. It is more serious than waste of oil, of coal, of (Chicago News) N. power, of timber, of soil. Yet it is a matter that seldom gets any attention. We expect it to right itself. We take | problems is not apparent. Neither does the public know it fer granted that every man will somehow find his | how many expert evchloniats Gah eu ee ne pc eng ee ger i oe 2 is | bureau has in its service. Hence one finds i icul ne . 's 5 ‘way into the place where he can exercise all of his appraise at its exact value the curious report of that | gyn,” she said. Sawyer left-the table who have nage ee about it. agency on the relative intelligence of the several strata| and a minute later the shot was Tessly overlook the hundreds and thousands of cases | of the population of the country. heard and his dead body found on the whc:2 this fails to happen. The bureau's principal conclusions are that there are | floor. ; Mrs. Emma Sawyer, the widow and | another first novel well worth read- equal number of persons of average intelligence, and|the woman who handed the deadjing. Queer and thwarted and pa- facuitics and powers to the best advantage—and care- The psychologist who tested these ditch diggers didn’t | @bout 20,000,000 morons in the United States and an bother to find out why the three or four men of above- | that the person of average intelligence has the mind of | mi the-average intelligence happened to be digging ditches. | normal 12-year-old child. a + Probably we wouldn't be much wiser if he had. The These findings are based on the Binct intelligence thing is not uncommon, and there is a variety of reasons | tests that were applied to the men who were drafted in- ms to the United States army during the World war. But for it. We're fairly familiiar with most of them. the bureau of labor statistics seems to be unaware of the Much as we talk about the “glorious opportunities” of | strenuous scientific opposition to those tests that de- law to penalize the indirectly guilty our country, the plain fact remains that many, many | veloped after the war, and to be equally innocent of the] as well as actual murderers, People never get a fair break. It is a lot of poppycock important fact that the intelligence of a normal child of |a ‘h higher thi man in the street, or the or- to say that every man gets just what he is entitled to. ALPEN papabised be be-n of wealthy parents is occupying a pleasant, | late against pedantic disparagement of the ability, and ~ the mental endowment of the mass of mankind or of the | times when even the legal-world, the highly-salaried position today while another man, with average men. The geniuses and the persons of excep-| very anatomy of which is definite tional talent not infrequently emerge from the mass. | black-and-white reality, is inclined| had she been able to acquire that Moreover, the work of the complex modern world re-|t¢o stray a bit from the exact letter | easy contempt toward a man which women have toward men who love them too much. For her they had remained bewildering, arrogant gods.” @ brain ten times ~3 good as his, who came from the _ depths of poverty and misfortune, and never had a chanze to develop his latent abilities, is working as a day laborer. ‘That is th> kind of waste that demands checking most. of all. Suppose we do waste gasoline, steam, food, elec- | that he should be judged by his achievements. If the m quires not only the industrial and commercial leaders to | of have keen brains but the millions of workers directed | to by those leaders, ity or such-like things; we are rich, an von't | mind of a child of 12 can do what the average American | someone or other may be indicted as ! sa us. ee = are a pee oe ce Re Be aoe is doing in factory, mill, shop, railroad yard, office anid | accessories to crime, our courts will ; told her that “frills make a 3 y pari social institution for the development of the country in| surely become fearfully clogged and |ting for a woman's han every direction, material and moral, then all honor to| the wheels of justice will grind more the mind of the child of 12. | Slowly than ever. | me - can be. And every brain that lies unused when it might have been put to work in the service of the whole nation represents a loss than can never be made TOO MANY GET OFF JURY DUTY (Christian Science Monitor) i trlal by jury in American state courts is the low stan- No other element has been more conducive to public | dard of the juries themselves. How can juries have Opposition to government ownership of utilities supply- | High levels of intellizence when long lists of professional in 4 are excluded by law from jury duty? | t is told the judge in| __ tive shown under private operation in developing natural In New York a campaign is now under way to raise iLaoi i hat inoh Pree Jue in |ared. t and in improving distribution of electricity | the standards of panels by bringing back the professional otl uk has been introduced in both houses of the state legisla- ‘The public is convinced that the amazing strides made | ture for this end, and the state crime commission has recent years in dependability of service and in exten- | issued what it describes as a “call to arms” to all citizens of th uses of electricity could not have been brought | to fight the law’s errors and delays by enlisting under ® bureaucracy, And while it appreciates the | ‘he flag of this campaign. necessity of safeguarding the interests of the consum- New York's example is an illustration of what has of a BE happened in scores of other states. Little by little, class ascertaining whether the business of up- | by class, the exemptions from jury service have ‘been ex- Great industry is proceeding along proper | tended until judges in many jurisdictions throw up their far-reaching importance of the work being hands in despair in their efforts to give litigants a trial “by their peers.” Here is a Partial list of exemptions unquestionably had large influence in per- | trom jury duty in New York state at present, as con- the American people that the industry has | tained in Paragraph 546 of the state code: i itself so far as actual results are concerned. 1. A clergyman cr a minister of any religion. * 4s need of control and regulation, but private 2. Officers, attendants, teachers and are em- wecment and private capital are demonstrating in| ployed in state asylums, i Hy ) this field, as they have in many others, efficiency that 3. Employes at prisons, jails and almshouses. ds a tribute to American genius, foresight and’ ability. 4. Doctors, optometrists, pharmacists, veterinar- 2 ‘3 jes and embalmers, Due to the great cost of transporting electric power 5. Attorneys and counselors at law. d and into sparsely settled farming country, 6. Professors, teachcrs, editors, writers, artists ower distribution in this field, under private ownership, | | 24 reporters. ts head of what it would be under gov ety 7 Employes of glass, cotton, linen, woolen or iren manufacturing companies. 8. Superintendents, engincers or collectors on canals, 9. Engineers and firemen on steam vessels, 10, Employes of railroads, other than street, falonas, telegraphers of railroads or Prcss associa- ions. 11, Officer, noncommissioned officer, musician or private cf the National Guard; or a person who has been honorably discharged from the National Guard, efter five years’ service. 12, ‘vans of military forces of the state, after orien Maher ee, » Members of fire companies or o1 Served faithfully five years. mi revere Dae 14. Licensed engincers of boilers, ae A person otherwise specially exempted by . ¥ Rs ‘This list can be duplicated, with certain additions and omissions, in many other states. There inclination to give exeraption yh lige reward for “faithful “@wnership.. Rural communities whose pleas for good 0a's hav> lorg gone unheard can attest to this. Private until compelled to act. It is far easicr to sell and stocks of companies to finance new power dines than to prevail upon governments to issue bonds 3 some farming section electricity. « If I had a gun I'd shoot myself.” | Waste of that kind is waste that hurts the whole THE 12-YEAR-OLD MIND Emest L. Sawyer of Elizabeth City, Just what the federal bureau of labor statistics has to | Court, said that at his dinner table do with intelligence tests and intricate psychological one night last December. His’ wife her mate to shoot himself. * * : on the charge that he taunted hei _ Many a perfect dumbbell who had the good fortune to Men of science have protested on various occasions of | and goaded her into it. cant looking CAPITAL THE PIONEER One of the chief obstacles to prompt and equitable Banlowe of New York City was locked whether generated by steam or water power. jen and other exempted classes to the jury box. A bill | met ‘his wife on the street she'd say, | “Get away, shrimp!” THE BISMARCK TRIRUN BEANS / BEANS! BEANS! “NOTHING BUT BEANS “" 1M GONG TO y CHANGE |, EATING peaces! Soy UWANT A BIG Juicy CUT OF PORK -- WITH LOTSA APPLESAUCE, AND GRAVY, AND MUSHROOMS .«. Wotta Life! Wotta Life! AND FRENCH FRIED POTATOES, AND LOBSTER SALAD, AND SHORTCAKE Fy, WITH WHIPPED CREAM, Ete! ETC!--- 7 absurd.” “I can't stand things any longer.{ s5 writes Joseph Hergeshetmer in an article telling why he prefers men as companions to women. His point seems to be that women, regardless Of age, continue emphasizing love, and that no real companionship is Possible with this idea in their sys- tem. Possibly, and probably, he is right, but he is one of the few men . C, and clerk of the Superior | ing it, the great majority of men are done with love. As a -moving and controlling force. Love, in reality, gl ALLENE SUMNER, |atter thirty, begins to appear rather “DARK STAR” TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929 HEALTH “DIET ADVICE & Dr Frank McCoy __, shits De Sast bey. WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE TONGUE A coated tongue is found in prac- tically all acute diseases where there is a rise of temperature, but is not of much value in distinguishing dif- ferent diseases. Coated tongues are sometimes found in persons who are apparently in perfect health. ‘The coating is usually caused by a growth of bacteria and becomes more abund- ant when there is @ lack of saliva of when the system becomes less re- It has an intense itching and sistant. usually causes much worry to the pa- Biliousness is often the cause of the | tients, who imagine it is the begin- tohgue being continually coated, but | ning of cancer. if the tongue is only coated in the| Most of the diseases of the tongue morning and clears off toward even- | yield when the underlying cause is ing, it has no diagnostic significance. | corrected, but it is important at the If the tongue is usually clean, but | same time to practice cleanlinéss and suddenly becomes coated, it is gen-/in some cases local treatments are erally an indication of some stoppage | also necessary. of the digestive tract, either indiges- — tion or constipation, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Thyroid Tablets Much can be learned by the way the patient puts out the tongue. If| Question: Mrs. T. W. E. writes: “I the tongue protrudes very far and is|am 42 years old. Up to three years slender, the individual is usually a/ago I never weighed more than 135 neuristhenic character who is in the | pounds. Now I am getting fat and habit of examining the tongue fre-| my hair kee) getting thinner. A quently in the looking glass, and is friend told it is because I have always looking for digestive symp- | reached’ the age where there is a toms. If the tongue trembles, there | thyroid deficiency and she says if I may be an indication of some ner- | will take one 5-grain thyroid tablet Vous disorder or of alcoholism. When | each day I will come back to normal the tongue protrudes toward one side | weight and my hair be improved and more than the other, it usually indi- | 1 will feel better all around, She cates a nerve or spinal paralysis. says she has done it. But another The color of the tongue is some- | friend says it would be dangerous— times of value in diagnosing. For | she claims it would have a bad effect example, @ bright red color in a per-! upon my heart and I Might get a son suffering from digestive disturb-|goitre. I am not a heavy eater and ances may indicate @ stomach ulcer. | do not care for sweets, do all my own A yellowing tinge to the tongue may | work which gives me plenty of exer- indicate jaundice. A dry, coated | cise. Tam tempted to try the thyroid tongue is often found in uremia, and | tablets but am afraid. If they are & dark brown coat on the tongue may really harmful, will you explain in imony when thers ts 4 One diseases or pro- teed ute they would have a The tongue 1s also subject to ulcer-| Answer: These tablets should only until after ma Che @ possibility of alimony. * * * MALE COMPANY Y “After thirty, quite without know- ation from accident or from irrita- | be taken under the advice of a phy- tion by the teeth. Canker sores also |sician, but I have never séen a case occur upon the tongues of people | where better results could not be suffering from acidosis. Cancer and | teceived through simple dietetic Peecharee tay may mH “ieee the papel uile fo are niceties hav- ngue, and are ficult to dis-|ing the change in both the ovaries A SELF SUFFICIENT CHILD = |tinguish except by microscopical ex-;and the thyroid, but can keép your By ALICE JUDSON PEALE amination. weight to the normal if you will stick Occasionally one meets a child who} An enlargement of the tongue may | to the right kind of food, using it in seems by nature unsociable. It is not | occur from tumors or in connection | limited quantities, taking only one or that he shrinks from the companion | with ship of others but that he seems not a teliciency of the thyroid |two meals a day if that is necessary to need it. He is sufficient unto him- | ¢ Self. Usually he is superior in intel- | ‘The tongue is sometimes affected | Question: A.L. P. writes: “I ligence and capable of complete sb-| with smooth hard patches called lin- | should appreciate your advising me sorption in the materials of his soli- | gual corns, which really are simply | through the columns of the paper if tary Play. Such @ child has much |thickoned skin of the tongue and may | you consider @ ten-day orange juice to learn of the art of getting on with | exist for a long time without causing | fast followed by an exclusive milk his fellows, but only the most shrewd | pain, They are simply caused by and tactful handling will help him. | some irritation, such as the rubbing |* Answer: The orange juice fast ‘ 43 Teddy at the age of four was quite | ¢, 1 4 rf * ‘Dark Star’ by Lorna Moon is| content to play Wy ciieeslt than rom ill fitting plate or the contact | should bring about excellent result: gland, as in either myxedema or cre- | to keep your weight normal. inism, Milk and Catarrah diet a cure for nasal catarrah?” with the end of a pipe in smokers, | but should be followed by a diet. com- effort to make him more sociable his |They are dangerous because of the | paratively free from starch, sugar, or mother sent him to kindergarten an the gun, has been indicted on, thetic and lovely people e in its} where, ti Possibility of turning into an epithe-|milk. While milk is an’ excellent murder charge because she advised | Pages. There is “Miss Clari:” the old forced to play with other children. maid daughter of the village veter- * inary surgeon who, when her father j in LAW GETTING THAT WAY died, turned his house into “a home This is not the first attempt of the | for selected few months ago an Ohio hus! the law and fit the individual case the law. If, however, all husbands and all Because he was such an insigni:! his room by his wife, Doris. when | are only a she had company, so that. she (canines pes annoy the dog catcher. t “ wouldn't have to show what she;Goats, too, have decreased. There| > ing light and power than the vision, energy and initia- | ™¢" 89d groups of the most successful and able citizens drew in the matrimonial lottery. | isn’t one licensed goat in town, while | 10 years ago there were several hun- her day. He also said that if ‘he “It was a pitiful weakness in Miss Only | Clark that she could never bring her- band | self to condemn any member of the was held for the suicide of his wife; male sex, no matter what his guilt. x | The bare fact that he was a man put a glamour upon him and called forth NOT SO DOGGIE Fresh water is found 200 miles at sea off the mouth of the Amazon About all one can say is that it’s;river, South America. The force of queer how many women do not dis- |i current carries the fresh water cover how shrimpish their men are | this far out to sea. gentlemen.” His first weeks in school were spent materials which he found there.’ He spbke to tons volte abbas cue ing dishes in half the time it used and was thoroughly happy sliding to take. Now maybe father can get | down slides, building with the blocks, | the jab:done in time to see a show. playing in the sand. Only when he = {struck a little girl who inadvertently | Gene Howe, Amarillo, Texas, edi- | crushed his fine sand tunnel, and | tor, says the Chicago Opera Company p when he pushed ahead of his turn It is an encouraging sign of the) her admiration. She admired men] for a chance at the swing, did his singers, giving Thais in Amarillo extravagantly, perhaps, because no| teacher interfere and offer sugges- |®@Ved their voices as much as pos- one of them ever admired her. Never med to tind out mat he capes cn girls fled 1 iy eal Passed realize himself fully alone, that cer- orus led | in scanty attire | however, no prov: made tain kinds of fun and adventure only | from a fire-in a New York theatrical Eatie ahr persslon. ea this cog can be had if one is willing to play | boarding house. A group of trained] sion, silver coinage advocates later she thought, he would be/lioma. ‘This condition is called leuk- | food, its use should be carefully re- oplakia buccalis and resembles psori- | stricted by all those with a catarrhal asis, tendency. exploiting all the wonderful play AME BN THE FIRST U. S. MINT Today is the anniversary of the tions. sible. Indeed worthy of ye editor's One day, however, when a fine | Praise. Gearon hy, Congas: of! the, sirkt ferry boat game was in progress, Teddy was observed standing on the Ragreed paver has sa! the white sidelines with an interested, almost | house ac! fe quarter- | had been made by Al ler - n il Wistful expression on his usually pur- | master and close the white house |ton, His plan aH ‘ouutilize noth gold All that need be said about the average American is| wives whose impulsive bitter mo- ‘Miss Clark” spends all her jam Poscful small face. .On~ his own] Stables. Further evidence of an écon- ents lead to fearful disaster to} money on frills for her sleeves be- cause once upon a time a man had United States mint. This act, passed April 2, 1792, fol- lowed closely the suggestions which and silver as monetary standards. He accord he asked to join. Thereafter | omically stable government. recommended that the ratio between he joined more and more in games i lovely set-| with the other children, seal be- Sriaieene beans sate g coming a leader among them aus. | govern and now the chief justice | time, le favored coinage of his inventiveness and imagination, | of the supreme court is in for it. | ¢1 pathic $1 “ id 10 meeptepad The self sufficient child can be|Couldn’t some kind of a job be ar- pieces, and 1 cent and % cent cop- ** & Richmond, Va.—The dog population taught sociability only by being per- | ranged out there for Senator Heflin? pers. “SUCH A SHRIMP!” jot this city has decreased more than - 50 per cent during the last 10 years. little shrimp,” Louis!In 1928 there were more than 5,000 dogs.roaming city streets. Now there the two be 1 to 15—a proportion based. on the bullion values of the When the mint act wi few over 2,000 licensed | with others and play fair. fleas kept their heads and let their | insisted that the original unit of ° Add this to your list of similes: “AS unnecessiry as a murder mys tery serial in a Chicago newspaper.” A University of Chicago student FORTY YEARS AGO reveals a scientific system of wash-| John Harris, Duluth, Minn.. stop- trainer pack them safely into a va. @/ lise, (A flea in scanty attire wouldn't | veustiy" held “sove"tge one, ts BARB 3 (Oopyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | piies to numbers and not to neue? Incidentally, the ‘ : Our Yesterdays ] ipper U8 ped here for a visit with his brother NEWS, SAYING IM FAT Jan “I AIN'T TRYING To KEEP IT A SECRET /~ I'D RATHER BE HEFTY AN* HAPPY, THAN BE A -SAWED-OFF SMELT LIKE You Fu... You MADE A CRACK THAT IT .WOULDN’Y BE HARD For TH’ COPS To KEEP .TAB ON A GUY MY SIZE, www YEH, we WELL, WHEN THEY Go AFTER’ You, THEY USE A BUTTERFLY NET fe ~~ Two TELEPHONE BooTHS WoudLD MAKE A MANSION For Y AFRICAN LAKES YI HAF SEEN J HIPPOS VoT Youd Y ENVY You MIT - NouR sizé fw ~ IT AIN’DT So MUCH MIT feoD DoT MAKES You FAT, AS ~~ YAH, “Dor'’s 7 _'T,—-NUDDING BuT LAZINESS / IT Ss Laziness ! by ) : Foule to the Paoltie soeses es aly carrying wheat OUR BOARDING HOUS __. By Ahern é 7 should be removed A ~You AIN'T TELLING ME ANY VY HM-M ~ IN nce Z PuRPoseLy’ a Ri ELS F. C. Barkman, Steele, , Bis- pag sh sapaas marek a visit ths. week. ms BUSTER DOES H. C. Hansbrough, editor of the His Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, made a call pon Fick Yi, ou the governor and other territorial officers. FACT (3.~-Y aa PuEaS BusreR is TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO MaKe um Call aanger a NA t fol nd .| plants from damping-off or mil as > re ¢ Pe]