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N *PRDERAL COUNGL _MAS01S cRMOED ~ AS A SUPER-CHURCH Home Life Improvement Advo- cated in Preference to Two Jobs by Couple NOW 82,180,000 LUTHERANS Movement for Raising Endow- ment of $10,000,000 for Colleges Under Way By HERBERT D. RUGG {. Companionate marriage, with the * bride continuing her pre-marriage employment is condemned by Lu-~ heran church althorities in the new ‘Lutheran Almanac and Encyclo- pedia” which now is in press. ‘In an appraisal of the world events - in religion and morals, the “Almanac i, and " records the fol- + lowing: The League of Nations has +. steadily gained in moral approval; + the League of Nations has steadily \) gained in moral approval; the World Court is gaining in international es- ; teem; the Church of Rome has = strengthened its distinctive position +. in every part of the world with suc- + cess, for a time at least, which seems i. greater than has attended similar previous efforts since the days of the ; Reformation. and the Federal Coun- + cil of Churches of Christ in America ; has become a force in the present + world with great personalities; but ‘ by its activities and aggressions it frequently suggests the question ; Whether it aspires actually to repre- + sent @ united church or to become a | 1 sort of a super-church.” Gain in Membership A net gain of 231,495 communicant members hy the Lutheran churches ; of United States and Canada, since 1926, is reported in a statement in- cluding returns received up to yester- day. The total confirmed member- ship now is 2,777,617, and the total baptized is 4,224,360. A new total of - 82,180,000 for the Lutheran population | |, of the world is given in place of 81,- | 023,000, as reported in 1926. The most *: significant trend in Lutheran circles recorded, is tae movement toward unity represented in the recent es- tablishment of the World Lutheran convention on a permanent basis and «in mergers of Lutheran bodics in this ~- A concerted effort by the church to provide instruction for parents in Christian home-making is advocated - in a discussion of “The Home,” by the * Rey. Dr. H. C. Jersild, of Philadel- ~.- phia, who denounces companionate marriage as follows: “A quite common practice among: . Christian as well as unchristian *- young people is to marry with the Y distinct understanding that the wife * is to continue her occupation in pub- lic life. This condition tends to de- . Stroy home life and makes child- + bearing unwanted and impossible. | ‘! The result is often an irregular and *- discordant home life, since no home \ is complete without children.” Big Endowment Move On | <. Warning also is given against the * destruction of the ideal home by the husband and wife, where there are children, having so many outside time-consuming interests that the vo children are left to be trained by a ‘hireling” purse—the mother having “_“mothered the body of her child, leaves the great anc-noble task of ‘ mothering its soul tc an ignorant Federal Council of Churches of in America, of which the Lutheran church is a consult- member, is viewed with some iC by th '. . W. because of its “rather phe- ” interest in affairs. He re- that its surveys and findings field of industry, its sponsor- field of Suge sae potion. especially), e rel service, its ‘sanctions” to community church en- terprises and its “spokesmanship” for * the churches on many questions con- churches involved themselves spoken raise . Greever pays his re- philosophical cults of the new humanism t the former “gives license to anarchy, in- ‘and social, while under the termines his own , and self as sum of his 1000 | ing unanimously in favor of the bill. Some i gests it HEE Hye 5 : i | a I i 2 “ 5 & Sea gel ' Bete. 2 H.| ships carrying liquor to the United - |States. In addition, it THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY | SIDE GLANCES - - - By George Clark CANADA’S LIQUOR EMBARGO TO SKYROCKET SMUGGLER’S PRICE ments will be over. Instead of load- ing a big cargo of several hundred cases, bought direct from a distillery, the rum-runner will be able to load only what he can buy from the gov- ernment liquor stores; and in Ontario, at least, the Liqvor Control Board is very strict about selling rum in large quantities. The cargoes will have to be loaded and cleared by stealth. There will be Canadian officials to dodge as well as American. Will Double Cost A rum-runner at Windsor says this will practically double the price for American consumers. “Good, uncut Canadian whisky now sells in Detroit for $7 a quayt or $75 a case,” he says. “When this new law goes into effect, the prices will be at Ban on Exports to U. S. Expect- ed to Double Cast to Amer- ican Consumer WILL DIMINISH RUM FLOW New Law Will Cost Dominion $25,000,000 a Year in Reve- hue and Enforcing Costs Editor's Note: This is the fourth and last of a series of stories presenting an impartial survey of conditions under On- tario’s liquor control law. least $12 or $14 @ bottle and $150 a case, It will be profitable, then, to smuggle over a bottle or two ‘at @ =e gets across with tro quarts, hell have gets across wo quarts, he'll have asc saps bi made a decent day’s wage.” Ottawa, Ont., April 14.— (NEA)—| another prospect is a boom in trade The Dominion of Canada is on the itor the two French islands of St. verge of clamping down hard on the | pierre and Miquelon, which lie just lpusiness of exporting liquor to the! ofr the coast of Newfoundland. United States; and the rum-runners! ‘These islands are under the French who have got rich out of the traffic| nag. Therefore it will still be legal to are divided between joy and despair. export liquor to them. ‘The probabili- Despair — because the Dominion | ties are that they will become import- means business, and the job will be ® ant way-stations for the rum-runners. great deal harder than it ever haS/ already a good deal of smuggling been before. ‘goes on there. ‘ Joy—because the prices for ‘smug-| Tt will,of course,be impossible, forSt. gled liquor will go skyrocketing, and | pierreand Miquelon to take care of all the rum-runner who puts up with the/ the liquor that used to go over all increased danger will make much jsiong the border. This trade has spar cringed reached huge proportions. In 1929 Canadian exporters sent to the Unit- ed States beer, wine, gin and whisky valued at $32,000,000, according to of- ficial Canadian government figures. State Gets $7,419.39 On Bond of Former Traill Co, Auditor Payment of $7,419.39 on the bond of Carl N. Skarnes, former Traill county auditor, was announced to- day by the state bonding department. It was one of the largest payments Under the urging of the Right Hon- orable William Lyon Mackenzie King, prime minister of Canada, Parliament now is engaged in passing a new law prohibiting all clearances on liquor cargoes destined for the United States. Brewers, Runners Linked Premier King points out that un- der present conditions government Officials, issuing legal clearances to ‘States, are “direct links” between the preweries and distilleries, on the one hand, and the rum-runners on the other. “This is a condition,” he remarks, “that I believe the citizens of this country when they understand it would not wish to countenance.” This law will undoubtedly dimin-| ish the flow of rum over the border. It is going to cost Canada plenty, too. At present the ment profits $15,000,000 = excise tax of ed on all liquor c! that the Dominion will have to spend around $10,000,000 to enforce the new law. All in all, Canada will be out about $25,000,000 a year. Opposition Develeps ‘The Canadian press is far from be- aq get | isi i pite i k i i ae on a bond claim ever made by the| which ssails Trial Marriage and Working Wives “Boy Is Held — {2 BISMARCK NURSES GIVEN CERTIFICATES North Dakota Nurses’ Examin- ing Board Passes Favor- ably on 41 in State poms Twelve Bismarck nurses are among 41 who have been granted certificates of registration by the North Dakota nurses’ examining board, according to Mildred Clark, Devils Lake, secretary. They are Sister Mark Braun, Mar- garet Schwartebauer, Marie Carlson, Stella O. Lund, Marie Mannetter, Agnes Robertson, Johanna Delbert, Emma B. Hayes, Esther Knudtson, Hilda G. Knudtson, Viola Kissner, Marian A. Helenski. Others granted Helga Samuelson, Dorothy LeFevre, Frances. M. White, Dorothy Hadden, | insists the Mildren Gjesfjeld, Arlene F. McKer- | The coroner's jury, however, decid cher, Leonora Solum, Saima L. John- | it was “felonious.” ° son, Helen A. Cleary, Mildred Inge- a Rohrer, Forks, Marla, Rogn =| County Boards Can’t. Deduct Taxes from Officials’ Salaries] ace If county officers fail to pay their boards William Stratemeyer, 14, Sturgis, 8. D., is being held for the juvenile ; | Personal iy 3 berg, | County commissioners have no’ ai thority to deduct from their pay Present, amount due, Attorney General James | son’s Morris has told Philip R. Bangs, Tax Voted for Band’ | 7" *orney of Grand Forks coun Legal Despite Ten ‘The law, Morris said, requires coun- | \ | ty boards to audit claims against the Voters Not Voting | county and authorizes them to deduct The tax voted by residents of Northwood for the support of a mun- ictpal band is legal, Attorney General James Morris notified Theodore H, Tufte, Northwood city auditor. Tufte raised the question of the legality of the tax because of the fact that 342 votes were cast for alderman but only 332 were ‘Yecorded on the band issue. Ten votes on the band tax ballot were blank. ‘The law requires a 60 pér ‘cent vote to pass the band tax and Morris held that advocates of the band’ tax had met that requirement. Tax Delinquents Can Redeem Property by Paying Before Sale Persons who owned or had an in- terest in property which has been taken over by the county for non-pay- ment of taxes, may redeem it at any time until the county sells it, Attor- ney General James Morris has ruled in an opinion to F. A. Hoare, auditor are fixed’ by law and county boards are not required to audit them, they have no right to make salary ded it tions to pay taxes, Morris held. WHAT A SHOCK! | Menominee, aeictctimagine living with your husband for several years, and never once during that time he helped you with the dishes—and apron around soiled plates, That happe! lly to Mrs. Charles Baldwin whe: entered the home of Mrs. Grace lan. Baldwin was arrested. ‘Konjola’s Merit Beyond Words,’ Says This Lady New Medicine Strikes at Root Of Nervousness and Offers Speeds Relief Bismarck | Winners In Quill and Scroll News Writing Tests/ Three North Dakota high school students won places in district com- Petition in journalism contests spon- sored by Quill and Scroll, national high school journalistic . society, Patsy Parson, Mandan, was fifth in the western district in the news writing contest. Margaret Will, Bis- marck, was fifth in the western dis- trict in the heagline writing contest, and Robert Bismarck, was | fifth for the western district in the | ad writing con‘est. Pea National winners in the various | contests were: | ‘News writing, Marie Thomas, Fer-| Ge county high school, Lewiston, | promote mixed bathing on the beach- es, but the attendance feil so that the attempt was abandoned. Georgia, has approximately 1,500, | | 000 hogs. 5 “greater value for your A NEW SMARTNESS! Lanpuer’s new smartness is particularly compli- mentary this year. You always look your best in a Laripher. Made of imported fur! Choose from a wide array of shapes, sizes and colors at our store. $5 to $10. LANPHER HATS Dahl Clothing Store Since the salaries of county officers tock Of gutter Service | Business today 'is based upon service. The “grab and run” manufacturer is almost extinct. Advertising has played its part in his passing. By contrast with the open methods of others, it has thrown his operations into such sharp relief that it has left him no recourse. His failure was inevitable. 4 \ People have come to depend upon consistently ad- vertised merchandise. They have confidence in the manufacturer who places himself on record month after month as to the merits of his product. They know he will maintain that product at the standard he has set, not only for their protection but for hisown. Should he. dro below, the buying public would soon discover it, and his business would be faced by ruin. No manufacturer who is spending large sums to produce, advertise and sell an article ‘is going to take that risk. Quality, utility and value are the things uppermost’. in the mind of the advertiser today. Iepeering his: product, making it more useful ‘to bea he succeeds, he tella you a pueit—in the adve ‘one of the most vital features inthis: