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4 \ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, ‘AUGUST 21, 1930 ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE » An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- N. De end entered at the postoffice «t Bismarck titer. George BMAD ocr arssas resident and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by Daily by Daily by (in state, outside Bismarck) ....... Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota ... Weekly by mail, in state, per year ......++ Weekly by mail, in state, three years for .... 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He sees the accreted betterment in midwest prospects, The farmer of that region has turned the corner, in his view, and in due time he will find himself better off than the pessim- ism created by the drouth led the nation to fear. His view is that of leaders who already are beginning to see ways around the crop decline. Better prices are almost inevitable in the opinion of economists and statis- teiahs. Even the drastically serious condition with reference to livestock, due to feed shortage, is a spotted one. Montana, for instance, is hardest hit, but if it can be arranged for North Dakota to take over the feed- ing of some of its neighbor's sheep and beef herds, even this serous outlook will be ameliorated. Much depends on averting the necessity of rushing stock to -mar- ket because of lack of feed, still further depressing prices, Babson sees Europe coming into the market to buy, as a result of the drouth reports, Gradually conditions will take on increasingly forward tendency and the country will swing back to better days, though the period of recuperation may extend from 10 to 20 months, in Babson's view. John E. Edgerton, president of the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers, also is of the opinion that a normal economic condition will be achieved from now on through 1931, He surveys the national process of recov- ery from the recent business slump in the August Re- view of Reviews. Edgerton sees in even the present demoralized state of business and the resulting pessimism, evidence of an upturn froth underneath the forbidding surface:. The Speed of. recovery will be in ratio to the readiness of pessimists ceasing to bemoan conditions and losses and setting themselves to recover lost ground. ‘The existing pessimism is partly the result of com- parisons with abnormally prosperous years, says Edger- ‘on. We measure with a wrong yardstick. Instead, this year should be compared with far unhappier years in the first three decades of the present century. In these 30 years there have been worse ones than 1930, he main- tains. Pace has merely slackened at this time, he main- tains, but it is recovering by imperceptible degrees. The bright feature in his view is the maintenance of wage scales. This will maintain the high standard of liv- ing which is the basis of American progress and pros- perity, It is to the credit of American employers that they have rebisted all temptation, even under terrific pressure, to recede on the matter of the high wage stan- dard. Business in general will reap the benefit of that as recovery proceeds, Installment Taxes This is the age of installment payMents. Somebody has proposed that taxes be paid that way. Not on the 50 per cent basis as is done in many counties and some cities at present, but on a monthly basis, so that ‘he home owner can meet thgm just as he meets water, rent or gas bills and telephone charges. . The plan was one of those recently proposed by the United States Building and Loan League, which met in annual session at Lansing, Michigan, and heard various Plans for encouraging home building. : The idea was not the suggestion of a lot of shallow thinkers, for the report was signed by an imposing ar- ray of financiers and businessmen. It was urged with an equally imposing: array of arguments. 7 For one thing, the authors of the plan contend it would tend to develop tax consciousness. That, it is held, would make the taxpayer more vigilant in his duties of citizen as they concern the public finance and expenditure, It would make him more watchful, lead to closer contact with such activities as municipal and county government and would improve the quality of citizenship, so that a greater percentage again would go to the polls on primary and general election day and discharge the present neglected obligation of the fran- chise, The effect would also be beneficial, say the proponents of the idea, in avoiding borrowing on both sides, There are times when the taxpayer, not having accumulated the necessary funds at tax paying time has to make a Joan to pay up. In Bismarck and Burleigh county, the practice is more prevalent of allowing the tax to run delinquent. Once the property owner ‘gets behind, the tendency is to get in deeper, whereby city lots, for in- stance, are abandoned and the municipal treasury loses the steady income, while the delinquent amount is gen- erally compromised to get the ground back on the tax lists again and thus become a municipal asset. The present system of lump payment is a survival of a day that has passed in many respects. It originated in the time when the country was agricultural. Al! busi- ness was done more or less on an annual settlement day. Then more of it was done on the cash and short Period payment plan while now the era of installment credit has developed. Most incomes now are received in weekly ar® monthly payments and the new tax pay- ing idea is merely an extension of the “pay as you go" vrinciple to public obligations as well as private. As Others See Us Over in India, the British officials are objecting to American movies. They are blaming the length of our Aisses, the meandering love of our theme-songs, and the way in which our heroes and heroines of the silver screen do a grand fade-out to live happily ever after, for the fact that there is discontent in India. Just what all of this has got to do with Gandhi's de- sire to make salt from the sea water is rather a Problem. sust how the fact that somebody’s love story ended with wedding bells should encourage an uprising in Calcutta or any other eastern city we.do not know. i It would rather seem that this objection is a compli- ment to American life as thrown on the screen. Life in ja, as the last yet ve revealed, is certainly not gliding along like a story in a book of fairy tales. It is unhappy, struggling, uncertain. Life as shown by our films, for the most part, man- ages to give people a little happiness for their moncy. If the people of India have decided that we must be @ land of happiness which they would like to follow, and think that uprisings will bring them the joy on which theme-songs are based, it is not our fault. We can send only the type of guiding star that we know. And if itisa happy one that makes other nations tremble because it will cause their people to envy us, we admit that it is a good advertisement for America, anyway. Making Highways Safer We rather approve of that new policy just adopted by the state officials in New Jersey. Providing the owner's consent can be obtained, all autos declared unsafe or unfit for operation on public highways are destroyed by fire. Abandoned motor cars unfit for operation will be disposed of in the same manner. Such measures may seem a little drastic, but the pur- bose is good—and the effect probably will be the same. Our annual traffic death toll is far too high, and one reason for this is the number of ancient wrecks cruising our highways under the guise of motor cars. Bad brakes form their chief danger to life and limb and it is safe to say that most of these old pieces of junk are so afflicted. An unsafe car on the highway is not only a menace to its occupants, but a menace to all other traffic and Pedestrians as well. An auto that cannot be controlled quickly and efficiently in congested traffic is just as apt, perhaps more so, to damage other cars as it is to damage itself. A King’s Code Lots of editors and other folks as well have viewed with mild and good-natured criticism the personal code of King George of England which has recently been made public and which is said to be framed on the wall of his bedroom. The gist: of the criticism seems to be that it is too platitudinous for a sophisticated age. As you may have fortgotton the king's code or may have overlooked it in the daily news we reprint it here: “Teach me to be obedient to thé rules of the game. “Teach me to distinguish between sentiment and sen- timeiitality, admiring the one and despising the other. “Teach me neither to proffer nor to receive cheap Praise. “If Iam called upon to suffer, let me be like a well- bred beast that goes away to suffer in silence, “Teach me to win; if I may not, teach me to be a good loser. “Teach me neither to cry for the moon’ nor to cry over spilled milk.” : Perhaps the critics are right; perhaps this code does His Future Shadow? HERES sTO' YOUR. HEALTH Pde AVOID EYE TROUBLE The process of seeing requires an almost unbelievable amount of energy. It is estimated that about one-fifth of our nervous energy is spent in this manner. You can readily understand that where there is a definite defect in the vision, this strain may be great- ly increased, The introduction of scientifically made glasses has added many years to the life of the average person. Man can now continue to enjoy life through many additional years where formerly he had to sit in his arm- chair and wait for the end. The enervation from eyestrain is such an important factor in causing disease that I discuss this with every patient who comes to me in my pri- vate practice. No diagnosis of disease can be accurate if the physician does not inquire into the amount of energy that a patient wastes through eye fatigue. The eye is a marvelous organ and is necessarily very sensitive to convey the delicate shadow impressions from the outside world to the optic nerve so that these impulses may be im- pressed upon the center of vision in the brain, Today Is the Anniversary of Nice rene, THE SLAVERY DEBATES On August 21, 1858, Abraham Lin- coln and: his great political rival, Stephen A. Douglas, began their se- ries of memorable debates on the question of slavery in Ottawa, Ill. Douglas, @ Democrat, was recog- nized as one of the ablest men in his party and was styled the. “little giant.” It. was his contention that the federal government had no right sound somewhat flat and school-boyish; perhaps it is not in keeping with a sophisticated age. But you can’t deny that if you attempted to follow the king's code closely it would be a difficult feat and, more- over, if you-succeéded in following the code, it would make a better man of you. niente | Editotial Comment | ‘Whisky Breakfast Food’ (Detroit Free Press) oy Prohibition ‘officials are becoming inclined to ‘admit that some good may result from the manufacture of whisky. oe ee Don't be startled, those persohages have nidt’ gone mad and turned. wet... They have merely received from ex- perts at the American chemical‘ laboratories a. report that breakfast food can be made from the whisky mash left over after the 2,000,000 gallons of medicinal booze Permitted by the government has been manufactured each year. Indeed, some of the by-product has already been shown to the prohibition overlords who say the stuff is like any other breakfast food, hut has a “distinctive flavor.” Since, according to description, the food is “prepared by merely drying the mash left in the stills after making whisky” we cannot -help wondering just what the expression “distinctive flavor”. may. mean: Is it designed as a selling slogan? (Certainly something like this would be effective: “Governinent whisky break- fast food. Has a flavor alt its own.” Goods like that would put money into the United States treasury. ges" : The Cunning Mr. Ghandi (Minneapolis Tribune) There can be. no:discounting the importance of the Teport that Mahatma Gandhi is prepared to talk terms with Great Britain. With Gandhi-placated, the back- bone. of civic revolt in India: would be instantly snapped. ‘That slight, brooding, sad-eyed figure remains, even in @ prison cell, the supreme arbiter of the Nationalist fortunes, As Gandhi moves, so.runs the whole course of Indian revolf and insurrection. It is highly significant, then, that the Mahatma, as leader of the non-cooperative movement, appears ready to modify and soften the origi- nal demand for immediate self-rule. He can now be con- ciliated. according. to reliable reports, by the definite and official pledging of Great Britain to a policy guarantee- ing ultimate dominion status. . Self-rule is to be no longer & matter of now-or-never with Mr. Gandhi; but it is to be a matter secured, and beyond all question of doubt, by ironclad British guarantees. If there is a suggestion of retreat about this, it is cer- tainly a suggestion of strategic retreat. The sudden shift of front. can do the Gandhi cause no harm, and there is at least a fair likelihood that it will have the effect of forcing Britain's hand. It is a -well known fact, of course, thaf Britain is not much more enamored with the idea of ultimate dominion status than it is with the idea of immediate dominion status, Where Ramsay MacDonald is committed to dominion status and where Lord Irwin, viceroy of India, refers to it as “the natural completion of India’s. constitutionat growth,” the great body of British opinion ts still rather solidly against it. In Britain there is considerable talk of dominion status. A great many fine phrases have been conscripted to prove that it is the ideal theoretical solu- tion of the Indian problem. But as a practical proposi- tion the idea of a dominion of India embracing, that crazyquilt .of nationalities, religions, vernaculars and castes is one which strikes the average Britain as hope- lessly grotesque. It would seem a shrewd move on the part of Mr. Gand- hi, therefore, to-seek a-showdown on the broad ques- tion of self-rule before goading Britain further with specific time demands. That Britain would not counten- ance the granting of immediate dominion status he must now be well aware, if he has ever entertained any se- tious doubts on the subject. “The campaign of civil dis- obedience has certainly not budged Britain by so much as an inch from its determination to make no such grand concession. But whether or not dominion status is to be an actual and. established governmental policy, or merely a handy-governmental sop, is a question which Gandhi may reasonably and profitably press. By moder- ating his demands, the Nationalist leader unquestionably strengthens his case. If some. definite and. favorable commitment on dominion status is not forthooming at the November round table conference, the entire unrea- sonableness of the Gandhi stand cannot at least be set forth in extenuation for Gandhi will be, by all past standards, intensely reasonable. That the Labor government will suffer no little em- barrassment as a result of the new Gandhi strategy is obvious, If it repudiates dominion status as a definite Policy, the hollowness of its present pretensions will be Painfully apparent. And if it pledges itself to dominion status as a definite policy, it must prepare to weather the blasting fury of its critics. But it is important, at least, that Gandhi has edged nearer to a common meet- ing ground. Presumably Britain has had about enough of the campaign of civil disobedience which has added heavily to its economic burdens and which has flared, on occasion, into open and bloody revolt. If there was ever an auspicious time for the Nationalists to talk rea- sonably, iv is the present, for Britain is pathetically eager to be reasonable, Any other course, as a matter of cold, hard fact, might be fraught with tragic con- sequences. Mr. Gandhi is being moderate, we suspect, merely because moderation happens to be, for the moment, the sharpest, most effective tool at hand. 0 See to legislate on the matter of slavery in the territories. In discussing this question with his opponent, Douglas, gained sufficient fame to .elect him to the United States senate. At the same time Lin- coln’s admirable stand agains! slav- ery won for him a national reputa- tion. Whatever hope Douglas had of becoming president was ruined be- cause of a shift in his position during the debates. He was forced by Lin- coln to make statements which un- dermined his popularity. But after Lincoln was elected Douglas continued to exert.a power- ful influence and his hearty support of the Lincoln administration upon the outbreak of the Civil War was of Powerful effect in the defense of the ‘Union. ———_____———_ + | BARBS | o—____________+ A hot weather tip from the sur- geon-general’s office is to keep the spinal cord protected. We doubt, however, if women will make their frocks conform to the suggestion, * Oe OK ‘Walter Damrosch says: “The radio will save the family life from ‘disrup- tion by the automobile.” P, S.—Wal- ter Damrosch plays for the radio. x * * A house without doors has been erected in London. The builders are thought to be amateur bridge fans anxious to avoid further grand slams. * * # The mayor of a North Carolina town who was arrested for drunken- ness recently probably felt it was his duty to Jessen that infernally long time between drinks. * Oe OK Now that he has recalled Primo Carnera to the Italian.army, Mus- solini will feel that war can begin any time. * oe \ It really wasn’t necessary to recall Carnera for training in the army. He was getting splendid “setting up” exercises in this country. (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) A perfect pump will lift water 34! feet at. sea level, but the practical | limit is 22 feet. At 5,000 feet elevation | the water lift is reduced about 18 feet. Although his vision is normal, Miles Robisud, 8-year-old Verdigre, One who possesses perfect eyesight is indeed fortunate, because such an individual will usually live longer, have better health, and learn more through observation than one with imperfect sight. Where there is a definite eye defect, it is a possible cause of headaches, wasted vitality and even functional or organic dis- eases, These defects are also possible through a straining of the eyes from faulty light and bad reading habits, even when there is no actual defect in the eye itself. The optometrists of today are high- ly trained specialists who have be- come edlucated through an intensive training, and they are better able to examine tHe eyes and discover the errors of vision than is the average physician. Some of the defects of vision can only be corrected through using the right kind of glasses, but the majority of cases can undoubtedly be benefited through developing good habits of reading and the additional help of electrical treatments, diet and eye exercises, I have prepared a series of eye exer- cises for strengthening the muscles and improving the circulation of the eye. If anyone desires this article and will send me a large self-addressed stamped envelope, it will be mailed withovs charge. If ya: wish to preserve your eye- Neb., boy, writes backward. sight you should avoid the giare of BEGIN HERE TODAY loves ALAN STEY) co MORLEY, DANCING JUDITH GRANT, artist’s model, nd loved Steyne at her memory 7 | would work?” ith fuses to marry Steyne, telling him he belongs to Chummy. Judith pl to marry Gide herself. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLI Au a slight doubt crept into Dumont’s mind. “Are you quite sure of all this, Chummy?” he asked. “Of course I am. When she came back the other day, she was only eager for Alan and me to marry; but she loves him, Bastien, Judy loves him and he loves her, but she will never marry him while I am alive; so you'd much better have let me die.” “That was your way out,” he said. “The only way,” she replied. Bastien rose and walked up and down the room. Chummy was re- covering her self-control. Her voice no longer had that wild tone; it, was her ordinary, beautiful, bell- like voice, “I don’t think it’s the only way at all,” he said, “It 1s, Bastien; and now you've . Spoiled it. You see, I’ve been per- fectly horrid. When Alan used to be worried about Judy and Mr. Gideon, I used to think that Judy could look after herself, and that he was being too fussy. I never dreamed that I was standing be tween them!” “You needn't stand between them any longer,” he said. “I must while ‘I’m alive. You know Judy. She'll never give way.” “Chummy, you couldn’t marry Steyne if you were married to someone else.” i: “To someone else! To whom?” “To me.” Chummy stared at him. “Oh, Bastién!” “It's a perfectly sound sugges- he assured her, “But Bastien, you love Judy yourself!” “So you know that?” “Of course I do,” “And so do you love her, Chummy. Between us, we can give her her happiness. If you marry me, you can’t marry Steyne; and then she can.” “Bastien, you would be willing to do that for Judy2” ~ “Of course F would.” Then he CORALIE STANT _ COPYRIGHT 1950 looked at Chummy and laughed a little awkwardly. “And, after all, we've a good deal in common, Chummy, and I don’t think. we should get on each other’s nerves, I dno’t want to. be rude.” “You're not ru: jastien—you're wonderful. But are you sure it “I don’t see how it could help working. Married to me, you couldn’t marry Steyne. Why should Judy imagine you married me, when you were free to marry Steyne if you wante? to?” eee ((HUMMY nodded. “And, of course,” she put in, “Alan loves her too much to think.” “That's right, Chummy,” said Dumont, “Men don’t think.” Then again he looked at her deprecating- ly, “What do you say? Can you do 1t?” “If you can, why shouldn't 12” she asked. Her voice was deeper than ever. “I don’t think you love her more.than I do, Bastien—only differently; but it’s not fair to you.” : “Why not?" he asked belligerent- ly, “Aren’t. you'a wife. any man would be-lucky to get? I should gay you were!” “Oh, I don’t know, Bastien. I'm rather funny, you know. Remem- ber all those years! And then, when Alan did come back, I didn't know him; and I didn’t know that I didn’t know him, Bastien, I might easily get queer again.” “I'll take the risk,” said Dumont and his eyes met hers with an un- flinching purpose behind which lurked the humorous twinkle neces- sary to leaven the situation, diffi- cult as it was. And then they both laughed. “My way out is better than yours,” Dumont went on. “In fact, it's the only way. If I hadn’t come in tonight, Chummy, and you had really done that supremely idiotic thing, do you think Judy wouldn't have known? Do you think for a moment Judy would have married Steyne then? Do you imagine Judy would have been happy again? “I believe Judy cares for you, in & way, more than she cares for anybody on-earth. There's a place in Judy's heart that nobody but you can ever fill. It’s a bargain, then?” $ “If you really think it's the best way, Bastien.” “You'll have to buck up and do some acting,” he said a trife nervously. “You've “ got to be happy, you ktiow. We'd: better get married at once quite quietly, with- out letting them kpow, and go away. They'll do some wondering. Then we turn up again, an old married couple. That it won't give Judy such @ shock.’ “No, Bastien.” “Oh, yes, of course we can.” She smiled at him—that wonderful young smile now tinged With the maturity of pain. “I believe you're Xia ‘dinner, * right, Bastien. It's pérhaps the only way, You know Judy.” JU DEL and HEATH HOSKEN™ by CHELSEA HOUSE. “We won't come back too soon,” he said. “We'll go abroad some- where, After all, Clarissa, we have ‘ir work.” They shook hands on their pact, and Chummy washed and changed her dress, and they went down- stairs together and around the corner and across the road to in- dulge, this being a special occa- sion, in Ginori's special table d’hote pers A MONTH later, 1t was the first week of November, that was soft with the lingering sunshine of @ summer loath to depart. Judy left the nursing home and went back to her old lodgings. The landlady of the flace and her daughter were Judy's bond slaves, and a nurse from the nursing home came every day to attend to her re- maining bandages. Madame de Toros, too, was most kind. Judy liked her more and more; but she would not meet her bfother—which seemed really a little ungrateful, as he had brought her home in his yacht, “It's no good,” she said to his sister, “It's really no good. He won't be just friends, even if I could forgive him. But there, what's the good of talking about him? He's going to be married, and he'll soon forget all about me.” “I don't think he will,” Thirza de Toros replied. “Do you mind telling me why you refused to marry him?” “How do you know he asked me?” “He told me so.” “I didn’t want to—that’s all.” “You rather led him on, didn’t you” ~ “Thats my business—and his. He knows why.” His sister said no more; but a few days later she brought a mes- sage from Gideon to Judy's lodg- ings. He was going aboard, and he implored Judy to see him once more to say goodby. Judy relented sufficiently to say that he might come to tea the next day. * When he came, he was shown into her sitting room. Presently Judy hobbled into the room on her two sticks, a-regular little shadow, dressed in black, and with a quiet glow in her eyes that the man had never seen before. “Good gracious, what a wreck you.look!” she exclaimed. “What on earth have you ‘been doing? Haven't you been to bed for a month, @zd have you had too much to drink every night?” » “Something like it,” he answered. “I'd be ashamed of myself, Mr. Punch.” * “It's your fault, Judy—” he be- gan, but she interrupted him. “Now drop that! Be civil, please. I thought you'd come to say good- by.” “So .I have, unless changed your mind.” “I shall never do that, silly! Be- sides, I thought you were marrying your beauteous princess, after all.” “You know perfectly well I'd chuck her tomorrow for you, as I did before,” he said brutally. you've FE st down heavily at some dis- tance and looked at her with Sore, red eyes, a great wreck of a man, Tea was brought in, and Gideon made a pretense of taking some. Judy chattered away, and all the time the man never took his eyes from her face, Presently she found nothing more to say. Into the room there had crept an ominous atmosphere. To the girl it was as if some mighty beast were there, very silent and invisible, holding its breath. “I think you'd better go now,” she said a little faintly. Gideon rose and came toward her. . “You drive me mad!” he said. It was a whisper, but it went raging through the room. He was shaking from head to foot. - Mad- ness had entered ‘into him. He could not have her, and he wanted to kill her. She was in actual physical dan- ger. He put out his hands. The veins on his forehead were big to bursting. He was like some pri- meval creature balked of his de sire. He could not have her, so.he thirsted for her blood, Judy was not afraid. It was not like that other time. She was not afraid of death. Of course, she knew that he could kill her with those great hands, She was very small and weak, and he could easi- ly choke the life out of her; but she was not afraid, “Ob. you great big bully!” she said. “Hit a man of your own size, can’t you?” His jaw dropped. So did his arms. He went ashen white, tot- tered, and would have fallen, but saved himself by clutching a chair. With those light words she had conquered him agaih. There was nothing he could do to her—nothing he could do to a girl who did not want money and was not afraid of death, “Here, you want pulling to- gether, Mr. Punch,” ‘she went on. “There's somé brandy in that cup- board—take some.” He helped himself, and gradually recovered; but he was a broken man. He hardly dared to look at her. He kept his eyes on the car- pet. He answered in brief whis- Pers when she rallied him gayly. He went away, after saying some meaningless phrases, He shuffled down the stairs. She watched him from her win- dow, ambling along the street, like a sleepwalker.* She saw him hold- ing out his hands and looking at them. She knew what danger she had been in. No doubt he almost feit her neck between his fingers, The next day Bruce Gideon start- ed for France. He went alone, In his pocket was a letter from Luna Colt, fixing the date of their marriage for the first of December —the date that he himself had pro- Posed. Gidgon was taking his last fling of freedom before he tied him- self for life, (To Be Concluded) meee | | |bacilli out of one’s bandag 1 OF “THE FAST ir FRANIC' NECOY. way To HEALTH direct light into the eyes, or a direct reflection from shiny paper. The light comes over the left showWer personal diet addressed to him, care of The Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. onto the paper. The best artificial light is from indirect sources or from. powerful frosted globes. Learn to stop reading as soon as your eyes ‘f tired. It is no good to continue rene! ing a book all night long simply be- cause one becomes interested in the story. Avoid doing work that requ’ close application, such as fine needle work, or redding very small type. Reading on trains while objects are being passed is enervating to the eyes as is sitting too close to a motion pic- ture screen, Do not wear improperly fitted glasses. It is a poor economy to pay 15 to 25 cen‘3 for your glasses when they may ruin your vision. There are often injurious effects from glasses even though they seem to fit. Only @ scientific examination can deter- mine the correct glasses. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Handball for Office Workers + Question: C. E. W. asks: “Do you recommend the game of handball for the office worker? If so, how often should it be played, and what addi- tional éxercise do you suggest?” Answer: Playing handball is a very good exercise for the office worker. Three 40-minute periods per week would be valuable. The different ma- chines used in the gymnasiums are also to be recommended. However. a certain amount of calisthenic exer- cises should also be taken each day in connection with walking, swimming, ete, Dried Beans a Question: P. H. asks: “Are ude beans the best dried beans to use as food? Or which kind of bean woy’’ be the best to use in an emergenc, Also, the best way to prepare drie, beans as a food so they ‘will retain’ their flavor and the vitamins. Will Jong or hard boiling injure their vita- mins? Would simmering be the best way?” 4 Answer: Any dried beans may be used by those in good health. They should be cooked a long time by sim- mering or slow baking, where only a small amount of heat is used. Brown Spots Question: H. L. K. asks: “What would cause dark, rusty-brown spots to form on my forehead?) They haxe last ti | been forming-within the | years.” nswer: The brown spots you refer to are often caused by biliousness, and if this is true in your case, the thing to do is to get rid of ‘congestion in your liver and gallbladder, Send for the article called “A Cleansing Diet,” which outlines a splendid regimen for you to follow. Please enclose a large | self-addressed stamped envelope. (Copyright, 1930, by ‘The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ——$——__—_—_——_+ Quotations | “Nature reserves the right tot flict upon her children the most ter- tifying jests."—Thornton Wilder, * * * a bd “If women were to have a gospel of beauty, one word would contain it, and that word is ‘refinement.’ ”"— Marilyn Miller. : * Oe “Virtually rather than perfection is the measure of achievement.”—Sam- uel Hoffenstein. see “The public demands simplifica- tion. It likes to say that Pershing won the war with some little help from the Unknown Soldler.”—Vilhjal- mur Stefansson. xe “Titles count for nothing nowg: days.”—Sir Oswald Mosley. ony xe oe “It is as important for the purpose of thought to keep language efficient as it is in surgery to keep tetanus "EET Pound. FRINGED EDGES ~ A French blue basket weave suit, with unlined straight coat, has all of its edges fringed and a little white chiffon blouse with fringed bows trimming it. Te! intel Having one’s a ton fabric of one’s frock is 4 new’and interesting style. A pink pique frock has its black rough straw banded int pink pique, with a smart bow right in: front. A device has been perfected which enables the discovery of “failure péints” on railway rails. No one can tell how many lives that research has saved. FLAPPER FANNYISAYS: Cigarette are cemetimes match.