The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 14, 1929, Page 6

i 7 a tq a | better use could money The Bismarck Tribune THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14, 1929 An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis- arck, N. D.. and entered at the postoffice at Bismarcs 4 Second class mai] matter eorge D. Mann i Subscription Rates Payable in Advance | President and Publisher ally by carrier per year ........ $2.25 aily by mail, per year (in Bismari + 120 aily by mail. per year (in state outside Bismarck) Fy . 5.00 aily by mail. outside of North Dakota . + 6.00 eekly by mail, in state per year ......, . 190 feekly by mail. in state. three years for 2 200 eekly by mail outs‘" of North Dako a E per year . . Sheees LOO ied to the use credited to it or Isc the A are ted Press 1s exclusively tion of all news dispatch’ ted in this newspaper and neous origin published herein fon of all other matter hereit yal news of » ights of republ ‘Iso reserved. Foreign Representatives i SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS Incorporated) Formerly G. L Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Diplomats Started the War If you eve: wonder how it happencd that the murder | f an Austrian archduke by 4 fanatic ould plunge all of Europe into four y aight read Fil Ludwig's new book, ‘July ‘14. nlighten you considerably. It will rapidly approaching mobile: s on to our highways every year. matter for pessimists to think about. The importance of the group life insurance scheme hh more and more business organizations are adopt- is shown in figures just issued by B. A. Page, vice president of the Travelers Insuranc: . who announces that approximately $20.000,00C will be paid out this year to the families of some 53,000 workers whi to compa This averages nearly $1,500 per family—a sum that i er than the estate left by 65 per cent of the country’s ‘Thus the wages or salary of many in- Gividual workers have been projected into the future a e earner: year o1 The paymeat of these sums of insurance money noi only serves to save many families from suffering; it acts a strong stabilizer of the cou uillton dollars is no small contribution to the nation’s | annua’ Automobile drivers as a class are fearfully untruthful people, if figures collected by George A. Parker, Massa- chusetts registrar of motor vehicles, can be believed. i Registrar Parker declares that out of more than 30,000 “| persons who were questioned by his office last year after they had figured in motor accidents, only six were wih | ful enough to admit that they had been driving faster than 20 miles an hour when the accident happencd. | Furthermore. he added. only one man in the 30,000 Stabilizing Prosperity ¢ their employes Dy ins d under the group plan. r more beyond death. 1 buying power. Our Untruthful Drivers admitted that he had been at fault. We don't know just what these figures prove, except Indeed, this is a hook that ought to be read by a:l peo- that the average motorist always believes he is right. | dle who are interested in preserving the peace @f the} And that's not so hard to belleve either. orld. It presents a terrible, damning picture of the way a which a dozen diplomats were able to drag their coun- ries into the worst war in history. It ought to be a varning to the world for generations to come. Ludwig uncovers no new facts, but he summarizes the | id facts admirably. Here is the picture he paints: A dozen men in different European capitals were play- ng a very interesting game—the game of international wlitics, It was an insane game, but it had been played or generations, and the players liked it very much. In Vienna there was Berchtold, scheming for a war in he Balkans. In Russia there was Sazonov, looking for + chance to strike Austria and get “revenge” for an insult” that Austria had dealt Russia some years before n Berlin there were Bethmann and Jagow, egging Berch- old on. In Paris there was Poincare, playing a deep same with the tsar of Russia. In England there was 3rey, honestly desiring peace, but bound by intangible ‘ecret “understandings” with the French. The murder started the ball rolling. All of these men vent into action. War crew near. These men grew ‘rightened and tried to draw back. But they tried only talf-heartedly, and each effort was followed by a new nove toward war. Worse yet; in each capital the army seneral staff came into power and moved relentlessly ‘or conflict. "The tsar of Russia assumed a frantic last-minute ef- That ‘Red Menace’ Again Edwin Marshall Hadley, of Chicago, former president tice of the Military Intelligence association, demands thet | the senate Investigate communistic propaganda and the | | extent to which it is disseminated in the American pub- | ® lic school system. There's no real need for such an investigation, but it! the other day. the point where it will simply throt- | tle our social and economic growth. No problem that we | tace is much more serious than this one. Yet, instead of solving it, we are pouring more auto- What the situa- tion may be in five more years—unless something muc more drastic than anything yet attempted is done—is 4 Y's prosperity. ~ iF [ CouLdD GeT dowd “= OF A SHoT-Guii ID GO Z DdDucK HUNTING ~~ AN’ wHaT A Duck dusTER © AM! ac YOU FELLAS WOULD BE EATING DUCKS AROUND HERE UNTIL YOUR BEARDS GREW WO PIN: FEATHERS # ~~ TH’ MAJOR WONT LET me TAKE HIS GUN BECAUSE HES DEALOUS!/~ awl WENT HUNTING wrth Him aw AN HE COULDAYT HiT TH’ GRAF ZEP IN-TH’ HANGAR witd A HANDFUL OF RICE P/), | g HE -ToLD Eighty © course in press agentry. BARBS | can enter the journalism | turn ‘em down, se 8 A Kansas City dentist | An author married a rich widow One good way to US f~ HE SAID HE GOT A DOZEN QUAIL ww} AN" ALL You BROUGHT DOWN WERE SOME HoBOES OUT OF A HAY-LOPT, WHILE You WERE A WEATHER-VANE ON Td’ BARA f- if: / 4 But you also course and @ earn how to become a city editor and asks $10,000 might not be a bad idea to have it, at that. Perhaps it! achieve success at col writing game. damages because his name was left | would super-patriots, to ne; reveal, that the gro slavery. | @ good thing. Banking, the sedate rock of ages to which dynamic | business was wont to anchor, is now itself in the midst | Editorial Comment The Future of Banking (Nation's Business) . ‘ort for peace. He would halt Russian mobilization. But; of a process of radical transformation. ais general staff informed him that this would be im- The tsar let himself be persuaded. srying to mobilize on the castern front only. sold, once started. had to go forward. So, with only two or three responsible officials really Berlin, St. Petersburg or Paris who really wanted peace, and who was willing to work for it, there would have been no war. But such a man was lacking. Thus the world went to war. It went because Its diplomats had played their game so long that they had Jost all sense of values. And millions of men lost their lives! handling ‘by the world, read this book. 11 will persuade you. Paid Football Talent No true philosopher, of course, could possibly be dis- turbed by anything that might develop in connection with college football; so it is hardly surprising to find the eminent Will Durant greeting the recent Carnegic Foundation report with an amused, “Well, what of it?” Dr. Durant, far from being shocked by the disclosures in that now famous report. remarks that he can see no Yeason on earth why @ collcge should not pay a star football player. ‘To begin with, Dr. Durant asserts bluntly that inter- collegiate football is quite as apt to teach its partic- “It is too bad.” he says, “that there is a general feel- ing that those who indulge in college sports are wast- ing their time, because, really, athletics require quite ‘@s much gray matter, and often more, than the mos: involved academic course. “When a football player weaves his way through 8 of opponents for a touchdown his mind has not been a blank.” ‘Then he takes up the question of paying football pe OE a scholarship when I went to college and no ‘one thought there was anything irregular about that,” he says. “I reccived the scholarship because I answered correctly test questions that had been written on paper. “Now, if a boy plays an unusually good game of foot- ball, is there any reason why a college should not assist through school? I do not believe there is. To what sen in at a Yale-Army foo'- ball game be put than to completing their educations’ A good deai of ineffectual indignation has been aroused ‘by the Carnesie report; but. really, Dr. Durant’s sug- m is fer from being humorous. ‘The American colleges have turned foota!! into a big oss. In such matters as ballyhoo, gate reccipts 35 and general interest aroused i: in no way cifiers {i710 such a business as, for instance, big league baseball. ‘hat, being the ense, it is hardly out of the way to siiggest that the football players ought to be paid, quite ‘epely, for what they do. ‘To be sure, it may be said that proiessionalism of that d is out of keeping with the whole theory of under- sist players on the team in! r Penrgere raed American banks are becoming increas- ° . | ingly unspecialized. Instead of continuing to concen- eee Teeninery could ‘not easily be stopped. -ote on the old-fashioned job of financing shorten | trade transactions, and accepting deposits, national and fhe German kaiser made a similar last-minute effort, | state banks and trust companies have become depart- But rags po marr soayr finance. on, # tion, he was {@eposit facilities to business firms, but also seek to Zeneral staff, too, overruled him. Mobilization, he Was juinister to the entire circle of financial wants of the ‘ fadividual and the corporation. Nowadays, nothing with | § ‘ | a dollar sign is alien to the progressive banks. Mean- wanting war, war came. Ludwig makes it perfectly clear | ia heeled pg eae are changing from small units ‘ veal statesman in Vienna, | Of comparatively slender resourees to financial groups that if there had been one real statesm of giant proportions, ‘Through mergers, absorptions, al- liances, and natural growth the banks arc undertaking | to keep step with business, which is gravitating to an increasing extent to the large and efficient corporations. | What will the bank of the future be like? The only sure answer is that it will be unlike the conventional | bank of the past. It will be more progressive and imagin- ative. It will be predicated on the notion that change ts | | the most insistent law of life, and that the only thing | If you ever doubt that some entirely new method of eee se iaieuagn can count on is that conditions will | § 5s i ferent. international relations is imperatively needed | In order to meet the tremendous changes that are taking place, the great banks are searching for execu- It once was thought | that an individual had to be long on timidity in order | Being a moss-back was a use- The reverse is now the case. The | new banker must be progressive and extraordinarily well ‘informed. Soundness of judgment is the one old-fash- | foned banking quality which remains at a premium, but | & jthe new banker has learned that that is no longer synonymous with ultraconservatism. tives | and a) Tax) ‘raised by local taxes. come The aduate sport. But so are the monster stadiums, the iF I is no longer an undergraduates’ diversion; it | ® large-scale business venture. Why not trest tt as ? The Cost of Congestion ry of Commerce LaMont estimates that traffic p in the United States costs the country somm- @ yer. ; out, is practically equal to our Doubtiess this explains why more and more states | to succeed as a banker. ful qualification. erty tax. who can sense the trends. Taxes, Taxes, Taxes (Capper's Weekly) | State and local taxes again are higher this year almosi | & everywhere in the United States. | | Under twentieth century conditions the country 1s | verywh nding, ipants something as the average course of study in class- | pale bd el trae apart tg paneer ey a a _ Fooms. it deliver enough revenue. but every year our local gov- ; | ernments have piled fresh burdens upon the general prop- | We have no uniform system of assessment | ppraisal. It is becoming plain that we must rebuild our state _ and local taxation machine and give it a first-class | § | equalizer, with a sure-st:ot method of assessing j valuing real estate for tuxation—or tax at least half our population out of business or out of their homes. | In most localities it has long been cheaper to rent | ja home than to own one. In the cities this ¢2s added | {ne more economic reason tor the trend toward apart-_ ment houses and the abandonment of the detached or: family home. i payers in the United States are now paying out | more than $10.783,000,000 a year in taxes, federal, state and local. This is about the division as it stands now: + $3,781,335,953 ! 1,485,242,240 a| 5,517,302,934 proces sete eee e eee + $10,783,071,127 More than half of this $10.000000,000 of revenue is §.ate and local taxes together All Federal taxes All state taxes . All local taxes . Total to more than $7.002,635,174 a year. And nearly $1.000,000,000 of this $7,000,000,000 of state | and local taxes are raised by taxes on farm land, on jelty lots and unplatted tracts, and on lots in villages, entire income tax of the United States—federal more than $50. try—federal, state and local—the tax on incomes pays gate receipts, the skillfully arranged ies by $17.26 of each: $100 raised. ate levying an income tax, and of e. It is interesting to note that revenue. openly’ i Ne c: r. Durant’s proposal is not as far-fetched es it sounds. to some of our eternally apprehensi’ “communist menace” in tl country is so slight as to be practically non-existent. | This nation is just about as apt to go red because of | | communist propaganda in its schools as it is to return If a senatorial investigation would | serve to reveal that fact, and thereby deprive a few | Professional red-baiters of their thunder it might be They offer not only loan and -_* A stitch in time makes a little going to be a somewhat | money for the doctor. traction. | se xe O* (©.1929 by NEA ic CHAPTER IA criminal prospects, as winked again at Lieut. Strawn.) sbread west. “What do you ‘deduce’? | understood very well that bis uncle ; stations, was “riding” him good-naturedly, | but felt no resentment. When a/ ; boarding is house, man Is only 25, he does not expect | elders. “L ‘deduce’ that Mrs. Emma ” jletter-writing nut.’ garth writes a very logical, lucid | wp) letter for a ‘nut’,” he answered, | promised, laughing. put it up to you rather strongly. | '° Strawn shrugged. E ld say.—‘My alm, as police com: | dom bas sound and logical methods of pre jut Scotland Yard.” vention’” be quoted, bis blue eyes | sicht smile on his big, that speech for you, Uncle Pat?” whippersnapper!” bis uncle re- ing eyes. torted. “And just to prove | meant! around to talk to the old dame—” “Who scems to be quite an ad mirer of yours,” Dundee inter. | rupted, smiling broadly. “She knows ; | = how to get what she wants out of the Irisb, doesn't she? . . . Say, ' | you know, but | had to i He likes you, all righ! have a powwow with this shrewd |that I like him, too.” ' old miser?” i “Blithering old nut, you mean,” | force for more than Strawn commented sourly. “As the O'Brien went on. “He's commissioner told you, Dundee. ve've got hundreds of letters like tireless, relentless—" that on file, and not one of the! “But writers has been robbed or mur- | suggested, rising. H dered yet.” j “Somehow,” Dundee said, “I tect! that this case is just a little differ | ent ¢rom those hundreds of others. | ( think UU sce if the: vacant toom at the Rhodes House—" “If you're to believe this letter. ‘a more likely to be a Rogues'| House,” O'Brieo chuckled. Then | his smile faded, as he realized the! significance of his nephew's remark “Listen, boy, you're not going to leave your Aunt Mary and me flat. 2 Isn't our guest room good enough for you?” H and lad,” his uncle warned on! .'m going to call it and-waffles brand of Poor Mary! she'll be—" “Too good, since 1 can’t pay for! it.” bis nephew answered seriously | “i ood of you and Aunt Mary to want me, and I've immensely | * enjoyed this weck of being a pam- pores aan yn ow that I've landed a job I'd like to scout around for a boarding house. glad | twinkling. Mrs. Hogarth’s letter while 1 was here. She at least makes the | Rhodes House sound—well, inter. esting.” alone, Uncle Pat.” he 8s ‘A through the outer JEUT. STRAWN rose, knocked | the ashes from his pipe into the police commissioner's big brass cgepinon, and reached for bis unl rn plain girl who hoped Pretty, because of the of make-up she had complexion. caroled a iP . Commissioner, I'l) be am | bitng on over to Headquarters. Glad te have met you, Dundes. This But Bonnie be ready to report till Monday.” it eee 2 eet this evening. tenant,” idee an | who swered. “That is, If you aud Uncle| “what's thet rautee Pat are wi! for me to look into | yourself, Bonnie?” bis old lady. as she requests, and get) “Was 1 good bearding house at the same! fushed and taughed. I'am decent piace, 1 enp-|s stanza from one of B “One of the best.” Strawn ad} ‘I've lived a life of mitted. “Aside from its tascinating strife; ‘ out of the telephone director y. That's painful ex- An eastern university announces a| A pastor says that women who sing outlined fn aera «9 .| that letter, the Rhodes House is! SOMTELL, Bonnie.” O'Brien chal) coi senient to Headquarters’and the tenged, when Dundee had pysiness district. One of those old finished reading the letter. “Looks: mansions deserted by their owners like a big case, doesn’t it?” and he|When the business district began! Chestnut avenue the Hogarth wom: houses are going up in their places |#onnie Dundce retorted. “1 can't If you really want to find a good; help thinking about her. 1 supp try to bear up,” Dundee! uncle reminded him cheerfully. “By Then, seri- Srinning. “What are you going to/ously: “But if | should think her| Money? 1 don’t want you to have do about it, Uncle Pat? She does | Story important enough to pass on | to rob the old lady to get the money you, could | reach you tonight?” “Sure! leave Headquarters before missioner of Hamilton, has becn| midnight. Glad to have you drop) tate; enough to sce me through if! and will be to decrease crime by |around any time and tell me all) the fair city of Hamilton pays its! When the detective had Icft, a| By the way, at the Rhodes House square face. emil- “Well, boy, 1 think we put It, live there incognito. I rather think every word of it, I'll send somebody | over.» Strawn’s one of the finest, | life will be pleasanter for my fel- bandie him with kid gloves to keep him from setting sore for slipping @ man I pass my examinations,” he added into his department over bis bead | jt.” “He conceals it admirably,” Dun- | xpanding, | Uncle Pat. how about Ictting me/dee laughed. “I may as well add and education and public improvements and welfare | { Projects call for more and more revenue. Our ancient system of taxation was never intended to bear these strains, it was devised for simpler times ; | and is showing serious signs of breakdown. For years we have patched it up with duplicate taxation to make | § “John Strawn has been on the 25 years,” 's @ splendid routine detective - thorough-going. | unimaginative?” Dundee! “You'd better park your imagina tion outeide Police Headquarters | Monday morning. young feller me him. “Ho! a day. We'll go home to lunch and break the; news ‘o your Aunt Mary that you prefer @ prunes-and-oatmeal board: {ng house to her honeydew-melon hospitality It’s a lonely woman | Bonnie Dundee laid an affection ate arm about his uncle’s shoulder | |“Suppose you give your brogue a rest when you're talking to me, know it goes over swell with the I. cops and the voters, but—" “You're an impudent rascal,” his; The house wi {unele charged, but his eyes were! of the two she looked tra layer 4 to. her jeet “Good: by, Mr. O'Brien. Good-by, Mr. Dun- | dee.” her eyes coquetting hopefully with the tall, slender young man. Dundee was not being Saturday. gues you won't! thinking about her. scarcely neard his own voice answering. He was thinking of a fat, sick old woman her tife, “What's that you're muttering to;in newspapers, with the uncle asked, this Hogarth letter, It seems to me| when the elevator bad deposited that & might as well ‘protect’: the! them on the main floor of City Hall. muttering?” Dundee “It was just urns’ poems: strut and * SERRE SRPMS AOR IE - [our BOARDING HOUS By Ahern] THAT ISNT WHAT THERE ISNT ANY HUNTING AROUND THESE PARTS DAKE! ~~ WHY DONT You Tie A SET OF ANTLERS oN Your HEAD AN” Give Td” BOYS’ A THRILL, > id FoR A MOOSE !: while washing dishes break fewer than those who don’t. It all depends upon whether you'd rather hear a broken dish or a cracked voice. * ke * How will the United States of Eu- rope ever be able to get along with- out a Heflin? (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) More than two-thirds of the people of India are Hindus. ISH MN MA cA ST EAT At OH wAVENGI Service, Inc. 1 die by treacherie: It burns my heart I must de part, And not avenged be.” ni e “Have you gone clean daft over} m6) Anne Austin. auth ot MORE ABOUT GAINING WEIGHT Often underweight people are trou- bled with mental outlooks which keep them thin. They may get into such a habit of eternally worrying over little things that they cannot avoid it, and will invent something to worry about if necessary. One who is continually thinking “I just know something wrong is going to happen—am looking for it any minute now” is just in the frame of mind which prevents a nor- mal digestion of food. Those who are tangled up with domestic troubles and don’t know how to obtain harmony in the home also come under this class. There is usually one martyr in every family who waits upon all the others and agonizes over the little things that go wrong, who must sit up after the others to see that the lights are out and the doors closed, and get up early in the morning to pay the milk- man. One who loses too much sleep is chronically underweight. This kind of a person should make a business jot sleeping, just as a baby does. Some people are underweight be- cause they prefer soups, coffee, tea and other liquids. Consequently they indulge in a taste for these articles. It is not so much that these items of food are bad as that they take up room in the stomach which should be- long to the more nourishing and vital | foods. |. When one wishes to drink liquids jit is better to do so between meal- ; times rather than start at the begin- ning of a meal. One cannot gain by doubling the food intake, although one | may lose by cutting it in half. All we ~{ get when we try to eat twice as much is indigestion and biliousness. Some people become so excited and |nervous that they get into the habit of never eating enough at mealtime. | Nervous children sometimes come un- ‘der this class, as do the millions of shop girls and office workers who can miss their luncheons quite cheerfully !and feel no hunger whatever. Nature, always obliging, knows the full capac- ity of the stomach, and if it is not be- ing used it accordingly makes the ONNIE DUNDEE set down his heavy suitcase and extended a and as friendly as the greeting. Nice folks, these Middle-Western- ‘Glad to know you, Mr. Sharp. his uncle de-| sty name is Dundee—a stranger to used to be Hamilton's Park avenue, |manded in genuine astonishment.! Hamilton, I'd like very much to {in the good old days, Now the old| “Surely you're not taking that fool / get board and room here.” Bonnie Dundce saw the wink.| houses are coming down and filling letter to heart. my boy?” G@arascs and apartment “You picked a good town, Mr, “Not ‘to heart! yet, but ‘to head’,” \ Dundee!” Mr. Sharp boomed heart- ly. “Fastest growing city in the If she! Middle West. Yes, sirree! One hun- you really has a miser's hoard hidden | dred thousand by 1930 is our slogan, might ‘do worse than the Rhodes|*way In her room, and everyone | Mr, Dundee—Oh, here's Mrs. Rhodes fo be taken very seriously by his House. But I hope you won't be| knows it. she’s asking for trouble). . . Mrs, Rhodes, I'd like to make ' too disappointed when you find that |and—well, I'm afraid she's pretty | you acquainted with @ newcomer to irs. Emma Hogarth is just another | Sure it's coming.” ur fair city—Mr. Dundee, of — “Not with you on the job,” his, where did you say you're from, Mr. the way, how are you fixed for |to pay your board—” ut “Thanks, Uncle Pat. There's a few hundred left from Dad's es- cub detectives a living wage... . I'm going to be a newcomer to the| n; sparkling with mirth. “Who wrote! Police Commissioner O'Brien tilted | city, looking for a job, Which is {back in his swivel chair and re-| true enough, “1 wrote it myself, you young /sarded his gephew with fond, n't it? And even if |the Hogarth affair proves to be as {trivial as you think it, I'd like to low-boarders if they don’t know I'm on the detective force—provided with a grin. “And, of course, if | Mrs. Hogarth actually docs need Protection, I can give it to her much more efficiently if my official | {connection with her is unsus- pected.” away.” H eee At 5 o'clock that Saturday after. noon, June 29, a tall, slim young man, wearing a well-fitting suit of blue serge whose Bond Street label he bad rather regretfully removed, turned up the cement walk leading trom Chestnut Avenue to the front orch of the Rhodes House. On the east lawn there was a big garden swing, glistening from a recent coat of green paint. And tn He swing a pretty girl sat rocking ly. “I know ['m going to like this place,” Dundee told himself jubl- lantly. She was a very pretty girl, with the late afternoon sun siant- ment. Then, smiled, stating the exact truth, for i “All right, lad. Have your fun,”| his uncle agreed. “I shan’t give you | ing golden beams through the cop bery brown of her unbobbed hair. He flicked his eyes away, for he had stared just Jolly old thing. No, he correcte? himself swiftly. He must not lapse into those Eng- jlish phrases he had picked up un- consciously. But it was a fine old uncle and nephew passed place. Three stories, the top one many-gabled, in the fashion of s | offices that made up the Police Com: | bygove architecture, imissioner's suite in City Hall, a The wide porch, supported by many slender posts, was duplicated ‘on the second floor, and over this double-deck porch extended an abruptly sloping roof from the of the third story. Certainly a pitable, comfortable-looking in spite of the shabbiness decayed gentility. Later, Bonoie Dundee ‘a curious sympathy for t! | house, when pictures of ti = 3 & ffs 8s es 2f ri | ese Mansion.” 1g. pompous, middle-aged in a freshly taundered suit of white duck rose from @ porch chair and boomed a friendly greeting: “How do you do, sir? Do you wish to see the tandiady, Mrs. Rhodes? ['m Mr, Sharp—Mr. Law- rence Sharp.” - Dundee?” Bonnie hesitated for only a mo- ‘New York City,” he e had come from New York to Hamilton. “Were you looking for a place to board, Mr, Dundee?” Mrs. Rhodes asked horpitably. Ten minutes later, the prelim- inary negotiations concluded, Bon- ie Dundee and his landlady stood in a little room on the thin floor, charming with its sloping ceiling, faded but pretty wall paper, crisply laundered dotted Swiss curtains in the little gable windows, “I'm sorry I haven't a room the second floor, as you wanted, Mrs. Rhodes worried, “but { think you'll find this room very comfort- able, Mr. Dundee. Quiet, too, if you like quiet. There are only two other rooms occupied on this floor at present. Miss Jewel Briggs, who has the room ac~oss the hall from you, is away visiting her family over the week-end, and Tilda, the chambermaid, has the little room at the rear, I'm sorry there's only one bath on this floor—” “Ob, I'm going to be luxurious up here,” Dundee assured her. “Dinner's at 6.” she told bim. “1 koow that's rather early for summertime, but my guests are always so hungry after their long days at the office. { hope you'll be happy here. 1 have a nice little crowd of guests—more like a fam- fly than just boarders.” Freshly tubbed, Dundee descend- ed the stairs at exactly 6 o'clock. © Somewhere below a deep-toned gong ‘was summoning the boarders—a rather unnecessary formality, he thought, for when he entered the dines room the tables were almost all Mrs, Rhodes was waiting for b' and escorted him to the long table ip the center of the room. “This is the house guests’ table, Mr. Dundee, The little tables are for ‘mealers'—trans: you know, who come in only for dinner.” With ber hand on his arm, she performed the introductions: “This is Mr. Dundee, folks. And Mr. Dundes, this is Mrs. Sharp. You've already met Mr. Sharp. And this is Miss Barker; g z H : g H The young detective his feet, his face Te Be i -~ size of the stomach smaller, after which these geal when cating a full meal, feel crowded and too Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health end diet addressed to him. care of The Tribune. i Enclose @ stamped addressed envelope for reply. | full because the stomach does not stretch to its normal proportions. Often patients find that the addi- tion of citrus fruits and green salads to the diet causes a gain in weight, even though these foods are not in- jtended as weight-builders. However, they do help by balancing the dict with mineral salts and vitamins, with- out which the complete assimilation of food in the body is impossible. There is a paradox connected with underweight, and that is that often |the best way to gain weight is first ; to lose some. By this I mean under- weight people are suffering from a ; Poisoning in the body, and elimination | is the only method of overcoming this | condition. In the elimination program the patient will find. the shortest route lies along the.way of the fruit fast. While on the fast one may lose considerable weight. The Joss of weight need cause no concern, as it is ‘of more importance td you to build up your health than to build up your weight if you are suffering from | autointoxication, After the fast is over jand the body is well cleaned out and jready for food you will find that tood jis much more tasty and nourishing. * Chronically thin people too often suffer from adhesions in the abdom- inal region and are poisoned as a re- sult of insufficient elimination. All those who are thin should make a special effort to take exercises which will tend to overcome the cendition of prolapsus which is usually present. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Bladder T« Question.—M. J. ask: “Will a tear jin the bladder heal in time, or is it necessary to operate? What method of treatment would you suggest to help the condition?” Answer.—The cure of the condition mentioned in your letter depends en- tirely upon the extent of the tear. The best thing to do would be to place th: patient on a fast of orange juice for four or five days. However, not mucii water should be given during this time. If it is going to heal it will heal within a few days. Orange-Milk Combination Question.—H. J. J. asks: “Are gra- ham crackers with milk and orange juice a good combination for break- fast?” Answer.—Milk and orange juice is a good combination for breakfast, or to be taken in place of any other meal of the day, but graham crackers or other starchy foods should not be used with this orange-milk combination. Poliomyelitis Question—Mrs. W. G. writes: “My children have been exposed at school to infant paralysis, one of the pupils having recently died. Will you pleasc tell me the symptoms that I must be on the lookout for? My children have just gotten over scarlet fever, having followed your advice through this dis- Answer.—The incubation period of acute poliomyelitis, or infantile paral- ysis, 1s from three to ten days, so if more than this time has elapsed since exposure it is unlikely that the chil- dren have contracted this disease. The first symptoms of the disease are drowsiness, irritability, digestive dis- turbances, fever, twitching and jerk- ing. There is usually stiffness of the neck and back. (Gopyright, 1929, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) f Our Yesterdays , _ ° FORTY YEARS AGO John Homan, as good a baker as ever crossed the Mississipi, will today open a bakery and confectionery on Main street. Mrs, Lull, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Isaac Hooper, for sev- tea weeks, left for her home in St. | Paul., Attorney R. H. Johnson leaves for Dickinson today where he will cn- gage in the practice of law. Judge W. H. Winchester, who tock office today as judge of the sixth Judicial district, enjoyed a busy day. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Louis Bureau is visiting in the city after an absence of several years. Mrs. Bureau remained in St. Paul. and he will join her there later. J. P. Jackson went to Braddock this on a business mission. The Growlers club is now located in its new home at 414 Sixth strect. Mrs, B. H. Bronson entertained at progressive five huncired last evening. Mrs, Newton received head prize. The first vessel ever built on the waters of the west was the brig Dean. She was launched at the present site fed oda City, near Pittsburgh, in toe (AN)