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cinerea touler 4 -The Bismarck Tribune Ap independent Newspaper THE STATE'S ULDEST NEWSPaPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoftice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. -George D. Mann ................President and Publisner Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier per year . Daily by mail, per year (in * Daily by mail. per year, (in state, outside Bismarck) .... Daily by mail, outside ct North Dakota Weekly by mail, in state, per year Weekly by mail. in state. three years for ‘Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, per year ... Member Audit Bureao of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled to the use | for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or | not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the * focal news of spontaneous origin publisheo herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Oe z Foreign Representative. SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK (Official City, State and County Newspaper) OUR MATERIALISM SPIRITUAL It is the fashion in this country, especially among people who are better educated than the average, to speak - slightingly of America as a “materialistic nation.” By this, of course, it is meant that we think too much = about making money and not enough about living finer, ~ freer and more satisfying lives. Our scale of values is material rather than spiritual. The cash ledger is, if not . our Bible, at least our prayer book. All of this sounds quite discouraging. Yet there is a - side to it that is often overlooked. One of the approaches | sceseeees 150) | necessery that we should insist strongly on it that | dividual a new viewpoint on life; never before open to him; to a fine spiritual civilization may lie straight through < the region of crass materialities. ‘Take this little story as an illustration. Not long ago 8 California farmer loaded a refrigerator ship with a cargo of green vegetables and ripe fruits ~ from his farm and sailed for the Orient, determined to = gee if lands like Chinese, the Philippines and the Malay “Islands could not provide a good market for such produce. The home market was glutted. Prices were = low. An industrious farmer with a fertile piece of ~ ground could not always count on finishing the year with = more money than he had when he began it. So this enterprising farmer sailed to the Orient. He visited a dozen ports—Shanghai, Manila, Sourabaya, Bankok, Saigon, Batavia; and he found a ready and eager market for his wares. He sold all he bad, at a nice = profit, and returned home to tell his fellow farmers that the Orient, properly cultivated, could make them all us. ‘Now that man was strictly a materialist. He wanted only one thing—a chance to get more dollars. Yet the = thing he did may eventually open the way to a broader, = finer life for many, many men and women. = This is a simple example of what American material- 3 1sm means. There are more conspicuous examples when = one considers John D. Rockefeller, or the late Andrew Carnegie. Both were Midas-like strivers for money. They built up vast businesses seemingly merely to amass <= wealth, to pile up the dollars by the millions. However, ~ when they had their millions, they turned partly aside from the game of dollar chasing and began to transmute the accumulation of riches into beneficences. The Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations arose. Vast ap- propriations were made to causes having to do with education and health. The material aspirations of the money grubbers became as conspicuously spiritual. They = fave had many imitators among rich men since then and the world has been made better and human senti- ment is loftier for what they did. r Despite all of our talk about the crassness of the quest for money, the fact remains that it is a lot easier to get Spiritual values into your life if you have money than * if you have not. Nothing shuts a man out from a free and satisfying existence like poverty. = Consider it, now; on a farm where there is a constant ~ struggle to make both ends meet, how are men, women = and children going to lead lives that are anything but - sordid, uninspiring fights for more money? How can = they enjoy the fruits of a rich civilization—musie, litera- - ture, leisure, quiet study, and reflection? They simply can't. The job of making a living takes all their time. But suppose a “materialistic” exporter finds them a new market and enables them to make more money? ‘They are freed from the grip of poverty. They have the time and the money to go after the things that are really worth having. They can think about something besides their bread and butter. The “materialist” has been given too bad a name. ‘There are times when he is by way of being our salvation. WRITE CHEERFUL LETTERS Maybe you never thought about it, but a cheerful let- ter is a fine tonic, and it is just as easy to write a cheer- ful letter as a gloomy one. Of course, some of us are better writers than others, but there is no reason why the ordinary letter can not be cheerful, there is no good rea- son why the ordinary writer, or the poor writer, cannot sound a cheerful note when writing the ordinary letter. Cheer is a big thing. The clever writer of a business letter studies the scientific meaning of the word; he | knows all about it—psychotogically and tempsramentally, ‘The bulk of a business letter may be purely matter-of- fact in text, yet, somewhere, the clever writer will sound the cheerful note that leaves a splendid taste in the mouth of the reader. | You are always glad to receive letters from some peo- ple. Why? The answer is that you know their letters s The spirit of rivalry and competition which they foster is on the whole a good thing. But it is well to remember that such mere acquiring of facts is by no means the whole of education. The fact that it is often mistaken for education renders it | he mere acquiring of facts may have in itself but little io do with education. What gives such information value is the use to which the holder of it may put it when there | is occasion to use it. It is what you do with a fact that makes it important and worth while. Otherwise our minds remain lumber-rooms. | It is this practice of using facts which distinguishes the educated man from him who is a mere collector of | fac’ A half dozen facts properly used may give the in- it may open vistas it may stimulate thought of a depth and scope wich could never be ob:ained through the haphazard collection of hundreds of fac Facts, definite and irrefragible facts, are the for jon cf learning; they are only the foundation. superstructure is thinking. That's what facts be used for. da- ‘The should HANDCLASPS Nothing so eloquently reveals character as the hand- clasp. One may train his voice to express courage and a cordiality unpossessed; one may acquire a poker-face; one may feign pleasure at meeting and displeasure at. parting; but the offered hand neither conceals nor deceives. A blind man, deaf and dumb from birth, can read this message of the hand. Is it a strong hand that functions with the irresistible determination of a vise? If it is, it belongs to a he-man go-getter—or to a true friend. Its warm and sturdy clasp belongs to a frank countenance and a feeling heart. Is it a hand that gives a quick, slight pressure and at once liberates itself? That sort belongs to the busy man and is born of independence and individualism. Is it a imp hand? Then it belongs to a limp man, to one who is too tired to be interested in persons and things. To him hand-shaking is an unnecessary formal- ity in which no energy should be wasted. Is it @ lingering hand which caresses rather than clasps and which refuses to liberate its prey—is it a predatory hand—until it has accomplished its purpose? This is the practiced handclasp of the politician, the swindler and the cheat. It belongs to the man with a “mission” or a “message.” Grasp the hands of those you would have show their “hand.” WHEN YOUTH LEARNS Education does not begin until one is 25 and con- tinues until 85, if it ends at all, says a British novelist. Tell that to the sophisticated youth of the present. Is there a flapper who does not think she knows infinitely more than her mother, and is there a cigaretted youth who does not think he can teach his father? While the older may know better, youth holds to its fancied su- periority. As for the diplomaed thousands, how dare even the boldest novelist question their education? Do not most of them nurse the illusion that they know all that is to be known? Age will teach them otherwise, but youth has to learn for itself. And when it has Icarned that its fancied wisdom was largely folly and that its imagined education was lacking in much of the real thing, it is no longer youth. That is the tragedy of it. - SELF INTEREST The most fascinating subject of conversation to the average man is—himself. He likes to meditate upon himself, talk about himself, and be talked about favor- ably. Which is quite natural, considering the fact that, so far as he is concerned, he is the most important creature on earth. A man’s job, his family, his health, his achievement of fortune, his life are the most interesting and vital things in the universe to him. Anyone who can offer light and leading on these paramount issues is a public benéfac- tor. He gets a hearing, or a reading. No wonder the average American is a confirmed newspaper reader. The honest and clean journal of events is an open book revealing the heart and mind of the race. It deals in human interest. It sketches the average man in his universal chara@eristics. It satis- fies his hunger to know about himself. ADVERTISING HELPS CREDIT There is one way by which a business man’s credit is improved, and that is by a policy of consistent adver- tising. Bank men believe in advertising, for they know it pays. Their feeling, therefore, is that when a mer- chant who is a good advertiser applies for a loan, that @ reasonable amount of goods, bought by him on credit, is likely to be turned over quickly and promptly paid for, on account of his methods of keeping his goods con- stantly before the public. Discriminating buyers of every class know they can get fresh goods from the store that advertises. The mer- chant who advertises seldom has shop-worn goods. And in that way advertising helps the merchant's credit not only with the banks but with his customers. And one is just as important as the other, | Editorial Comment | THE SAD STATE OF AMERICAN VITALITY (St. Paul Dispatch) Dr. C. C. Dowden, addressing the American Medical association convention at Portland, states that one of the most common complaints of the American public is @ lack of pep. He diagnoses this complaint as duc, not #0 much to any serious disease as to the influence of bad liquor, the mental depression following the war, and the after effects of the “flu” epidemic. It comes as something of a shock after years of prid- ing ourselves on our American vitality and pep to dis- cover that dociors find exhaustion to be one of our most common complaints. American energy and exuberance have always been a favorite topic with foreign visitors and lecturers. The moving pictures, the press, and con- temporary novels and magazine stories have joined in The First Hundred Years Probably Will Be the Hardest | a4 ANS AY When the old-fashioned college cut-up got tired of shooing the cow into the chapel he organized a night- shirt parade. And all of alma mater’s husky males paraded the town at- tired in flapping nightshirts. The old-fashioned nightshirt pa- rade is giving way to the pajama pa- rade, which the old college cut-ups, as well as many who never were col- lege cut-ups, are staging in our towns, great and small. W-. O. Saunders of North Carolina seems to have started it when, agi- tated by too much perspiration under the collar, and spurred on by all the mutterings of the various male dress reform organizations, he hied himself off to work one morning all clad in nice clean white pajamas, a string tie under the pajama collar, white hose and oxfords, and a palm leaf fan, * * IDEA SPREADS Crowds gathered and hooted and wasn't such a dumb idea, at that. Other males in other cities have fol- lowed the editor's example. Acting fellows have found a pajama-clad stroll a splendid way to get publicity, especially when accompanied by a sweet young thing who seems not at all abashed by an escort clad in smart orchid or pale green or blue pajamas, white straw hat, white shoes and hose, and carrying a cane to offset the feel- ing that, after all, one of those hor- rible nightmares of running around the street in nightclothes has really come true. The main, and almost only, interest which I find in pajama wear on the strects by men is all the hullabaloo that is made about the only obviously sensible way for men to dress in warm weather. That men are reactionaries and conservatives is amply proven by their slavish adherence to dress that is ut- terly unaesthetic and uncomfortable. When woman wants something dif- ferent, something chic, something comfortable in clothes, she wears it, and if the rest of the world doesn’t like it that's just too bad. Point is that she does not have to be conspicuous, for all her sister sex |1s discovering the same thing about the same time. * * * BUT MEN —-! Man can not change his ways with- jout a terrific wrench; when one of | them refuses to conform to standard | he suffers as a martyr, he is hooted at. and jeered upon, and it will take years | and decades and centuries of a few pioneering males wearing pajamas, | the only sensible street raiment in | hot weather, before they can avoid | cat-calls and derision. | Here's betting that your husband | John will not live to see the day of emancipated males, sartorially speak- ing. UOTATIONS “If we can offer the worthy long- term or life prisoner some ray of hope for parole, this, in my opinion, is the greatest preventive of rioting and jailbreaks."—Harry G. Leslie, governor of Indiana. * OK “Each generation may profit by must all discover the big things in life for ourselves."—Theodore F. Mer- | Seles. xe * Oe “No industry has anything but what is put into it by the men who are in it."—Henry Ford. se ® “The truth is, of course, that vir- tually all stock market operations are speculative. People buy for the rise or sell for the decline. Only those who do it on a big scale and can af- ford to wait for years, prefer to call it investment or prudence.”—John Carter. (The ae ae Mercury.) ‘ ar “Don't be deceived into thinking that golf is a game for the masses. Not yet. It costs money to play, all propaganda to the contrary.”—Jack Daray, Chicago pro. oo “It is not geniuses the world needs so much as honest men and women.” —Rupert Hughes.. The total number of hospitals in the United States’ possessions is 229. More than 60,000 persons applied for jobs as bus drivers in London re- cently. Of this number only 1023 were accepted. jeered, Some remained to consider the | What has been done before, but we | situation seriously and opine that it, On Napoleon | Bonapa ner, sailed from | En; . Helena, where he lived in exile until his death in 1821, | “After the terrible defeat at Wat- lerloo, Napoleon returned to Pa |where, after several futile attempts jto regain hi ige, he abdicated jon June 22, 1815, His mighty of power crumbled, and fear ing death at the the triumphant faction in Napoleon went on the KE h cruise:, “Bellerophon,” {and surzendered himself July 15. To the Prince Regent in England, he wrote: “A prey to the factions which divided my lenmity of the powers \have terminated my ‘hands of iF * Europe, I public career, and I come, like Themistocles, to jseat myself at the hearth of ‘the British people. I pla If un- ‘der the protection of which {1 claim from your R the most powerful, the most con- \stant and the most generous of my enemies.” The English decided to lena, to separate \olutionary party \preclude any po vernment finally leon to St, Hel- him from the rev- in Europe and to lud ible chance of him regaining powe: > o ik BARBS i We are living too fast, says a doc- tor. But it still takes a lady 39 years to reach the age of 23. * * Probably this will be remembered as the age when the girlies wore only the bare necessities of life. * 8 There is expected to be a deficit in the Postofiice Department again this year, despite proposals of mar- riage received by endurance flyers. oe & Some people don’t care what they say in the presence of company; others are marricd. * * OK The new $10,000 bills bear a picture of Salmon P. Chase, according to a report. This, however, is mere rumor | OUR BOARDING HOUSE | ax AH DANIEL MORTAL SO LONI Less, EGAD! FROM EUROPE,— MY WIFE AWAY VISITING, “THE LADS OF THe Haus wm AND ALL MY PALS AT THE ++ NEVER WAS ELY AD FRIEND- Dust BAcK E ON A VACATION, et WELL SAY, WHY Nor COME OVER TO MY + House 2. TH” WAR PAINT 1S WoRN oFF-TH’ WIFE NoW, ABOUT OUR ALL NIGHT PoKER GAMES LAST WINTER! | the {but do not be sat board | Sr OLICCIY WHO ON BE USE HARD SWIMMING STROKES Many women take up swimming in order to hecome graceful or to de- velop their bodies with more sym- metry of form, Sometimes, how- [ever, a woman learns strokes which {become easy to her, and does not give her as much exercise as if y difficult strokes were tried. often of value to use all kinds of peculiar and difficult strokes in order to get the most exercise. For this reason it is visable for ev- eryone to take s nming lessons and learn as many different kinds of strokes and movements in the water as possible. The easiest stroke is the so-called “dog stroke” which is a sort of paddling stroke. When one cannot swim is suddenly thrown into the water, he will usually na- turally resort to this stroke and be able to’ keep afloat. When the side stroke is used, the swimmer should learn to alternate troke so that acer the right erm is used in the forward ‘roke for a short distance the swimmer should turn to the other side and use the left arm forward. Begin- ally like this stroke, since they do not have to submerge the face, as in, the crawl stroke. The breast stroke affords a very good exercise and more resembles the swimming movements of the frog. In the crawl stroke the arms are used alternately, reaching far for- ward on each stroke, and rolling the body from side to side. The breath- ing m as th time, it i y breaths through the mouth while the mouth is out of the water, and ex- haling through the nose when the fave is passing under water from one side to the other. This pro- motes vigorous deep breathing and makes the crawl stroke especially beneficial to health, The back stroke is another excel- lent movement which uses the mus cles in an entirely different way than any of the other strokes taken while lying face downward. Any good swimming instructor can teach you these different kinds of strokes, ied to continue using only the movements which are easy for you. lt is sometimes a good simply stand in the water about shoulder high and churn the water vieorou: your arms and hands, you migl while exercising with chest weights. At least part of the time while you are swimming try to make the swim- ming as difficult a3 possible so as ENCLOSE. STAMPED ADDRESSEO BVELOPR plan to} HEALTH DIET ADVICE Dr Frank Mc “he Test Hy: 70 Kobe TO HEALTH € DIET WILL BE ANSWERED ADDRESSED Coy on. REPLY to get the proper amount of strenue ous exercise which this sport afd fords. Part of the time changd , Dr. McCoy will gledly answer personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune. Enclose @ stamped ecddressed envelope for reply. around so that you use strokes which you find hard to do. This will tend to equalize the play on your muscles and make swimming a better alf round exercise. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Child Lame in Knee) Question: Mother writes: — “I ~ have a little boy three years old who has been lame :n one knee since he began to walk. I have had him to several doctors, each of whom nas something different to say about it. However, a recent X-ray shows tha knee to be in a rachitic condition, What would you advise?” _ Answer:—Sometimes a _subluxa- tion of the sacrum or hip joint may produce a lameness such as you de cribe, and I would advice you to have & competent osteopathic physician examine your little boy’s limb. If the point is only aficcted by rickets you could undoubtedly notice an :m- provement by following a correct diabetic regime and the use of short sunbaths daily, (Symptoms Not Definite) Question: Mrs. H. J. L. writes:— “My symptoms are drawing in the top of my head—can't converse withe out nervousness, Pain in the low er part of back extending to pelvis,’ but a chiropractor says nerves are the major trouble. Am sixty-five years old. _Answer:—The doctor may be right, and still you may have high, blood pressure, lumbago, and any number of different disorders. As - much as I would like to help you, it would be ridiculous for me to ate tempt to diagnose your case through this column. The source of your ¢ trouble must be ascertained, and this is only possible through a careful examination. (Diabetes) Question: Reader writes:—“Would be glad to know your treatment for diabetes, What about insulin?” Answer:—I have written many articles on the subject of diabetes, and some new ones will appear in the near future. In these articles I will tell you hcw to effect a cure without the use of insulin. (Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndie cate, Inc.) and has not been very generally veri- fied. eo 8 : - Sometimes both the engine and driver of an automobile seem to be missing. 2 ‘ Our Yesterdays ] om a FORTY YEARS AGO ‘The work of the constitutional con- vention was finished last evening, with the exception of the considera- tion of the committee on schedule, which was directed to be made to the committee on revision and adjust- ment today, Frank Fisby is in Fargo this week attending the meeting of the North Dakota Pharmaceutical association, Miss Emmiline Pollock, Casselton, is in the city for a visit with her uncle, John C. Pollock. Secretary Richardson was called to Sioux Falls yesterday by the serious illness of Chief Clerk Pat Byrne. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO F. D. Hagar, who has been visiting SUGGESTIBILITY (By Alice Judson Peale) Ann is one of those children who always follows the leader. She fol- lows wherever she is lead, no matter what the course or what the end. Ordinarily she is a serene cheerful youngster, full of energy and ready interests. But let the leader of the moment prompt her in another direc tion and she becomes overnight a dis- Obedient, fault-finding child who tries the patience of her elders to the last notch, a at the mercy of whatever influence is free to play upon her. Suggestibility is a valuable quality, since it is through it that children largely are t:achable. But suggesti- bility carried to extremes leads to an unstable and irres| friends in Bismarck, left yesterday for | Child his brother's ranch west of Mandan, Mrs. Louis Peterson and daughter returned yesterday from their trip to Sweden. They were met in St. Paul by Mr. Peterson. William Betchel, watchman at the Northern Pacific bridge, accompanied by his family, has returned to his old home in Indiana. Because of ill health Mr. Betchel will not return to North Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Wentz, Menoken, are spending the week in the city. TEN YEARS AGO Miss Margaret Barfknecht enter- tained a number of friends at a mat- inee party yesterday. ¢ Miss Flora Lewis returned to her home in Moorhead today after spend- ing two weeks with Misses Irma Lo- gan and Ann Atkinson, also necessary that he should know how to lead or at least to stand his ground, Watch your child through the vicise situdes of different friendships. If « throughout these he holds for the most part to his own values and his own standards you need not feel that he is too suggestible. But if it seems! to you that he readily loses his beare ings and, like the chameleon, changes to the color of his immediate envire' onment, you must try to strengthen him in his own values. Let him feel your approval of his independent actions. Give him your moral support when in spite of his own feelings he is in danger of drifts ing the way of the herd. Such an, attitude on your part can help much to counteract his natural over-suge , gestibility. There are about 38,500 differen® ¢. commodities always in stock in the! stores of a first-class battleship. They! range from anchors weighing eight tons each down to tiny screws, creating this illusion of boundless health and spirits. Major Walter Fraser, San Diego, ! are cheerful, that these writers have a way of telling OWLS’ CLUB OFF AT SOME Ri 9 mm wnt = things without the gloomy aspects, and—well, you just feel good over hearing from them, that’s all. Again, ‘there are some people who seemed determined to look altogther on the dark side of everything and their views are invariably reflected in the letters they send out to their friends and their business correspondents. eerful letter is like a beacon light to a weary Now we discover that all has been a mistake. We are really on our last legs. What, in heaven's name, will foreign authors and statesmen comment on? What wiil become of the “RA RA” college siories? Alas! for our traditions of enthusiastic salesmanship, ef business bustle, of the “speed” of the younger generation. They are all false. Actually we are in a bad way and oniy @ great inevease in the consumption of breakfast food and vegeteble tonics can save us from slowing up like who has lost his way; it comes with ell the re- sweetness of a summer morn and the honeyed of spring. HOW DO YOU USE YOUR FACTS? Educationally we seem to be in the midst of an ere of usty alarm clock, THE OLD CHURCH SOCIAL (Duluth Herald) Time was when the ladies’ aid society of almost every American church, especially in the middle west, felt that tt was derelict in its duty if at least one oyster supper was not on its annual program. But it is seldom heard more and is recalled only as a pleasant memory an earlier generation. nerable church sociable is being questioned to further life. This is an age of effi- businesslike church people scem to has outlived its usefulness. the ~~ C'MON HOME CAMP tw AX ME, [ AM With me Now! LONELIER AT HOME “HAN WAS AMONG “STRANGERS Calif., is visiting here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hughes, Mrs. J. L. Whitney has as her guests. her -sister, Mrs. J.P. Brown, and son Dean, of Lambert, Mont, HOT HEAVEN “What she: wants,” said the doctor, “4s a warm Climate. The son-in-law suggested Monte Carlo, and then more torrid climes, but the doctor persisted in declaring for something hotter. ‘The son-in-law went away, and re- turned with en axe. “You hit her, doctor,” he said. “I can't."—Tit-Bits, b GIVES RECITAL London — (AP) — Margaret Hal stead, daughter of Albert Halstead, American consul general in don, has geen her second public song recital here and has been kindly treated by critics. One of the lat- ter hoped that in her next concert iiss Halstead’ would use some of the non-jazz songs (if any). tl ing produced on the other the Atlanti Ptolemy, in 150 A. D., made thé first gazetteer, but his work was lost, until the fifteenth century. are ide of |

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