The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1930, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1930 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDESI NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice t Bismarck as second class mail matt George D. Mann ..... Subscription Rates Payable tn Advance Daily by carrier per year ............ Daily by mail per year (15 Bismarck) . Daily by mai) per year (in state, outside Bismarck) ...... Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota ty) ..President and Publisher “ Weekly by mail, in state, per year . Weekly by mail, in state, three years “ Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the tocal news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON No Reason for Pessimism ‘There is no valid reason for pessimism in the states of the Northwest. Drouth has taken but slight toll here as compared to the southeast and southwest. In fact North Dakota's crop while not a bumper one, is in some sections an average yield and in many in- stances more than an average return. The slowing-up process has come through a sluggish and glutted market. This state is going through the winter with plenty of feed for stock. Where there was a crop, it has been harvested at a very low cost com- pared to former years. There are many new and effec- tive marketing agencies at work to help the’ farmers which have not been present in past years. On the whole, the situation in North Dakota is better than in most states. Every farmer suffers from low prices—an economic condition which is most distressing and slow in adjustment. Legislation has for the most part proved ineffective. Every move made here to stimu- late prices is negatived at Liverpool or some world market to the dictates of which the farmer must submit. ‘Wheat poois, cooperatives and even the speculative markets at Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago are all play- ing a legitimate part in affording an outlet for farm products. ‘The farmers are beginning to learn that their most effective weapon is organization. No great results can be obtained at once. It is a long hard process to revert from haphazard marketing to an orderly scheme just as it is hard for a farmer to regulate his crops so as to reduce the menacing surplus. But the outstanding feature of it all is the lack of any excuse for undue pessimism. North Dakota's unemploy- ment is practically nil. Here in Bismarck with great public undertakings under way, the local pay roll is greater than in the past. Citizens of the Northwest have just to look elsewhere to realize how fortunate they are. Business as usual should be the slogan and the sooner the awakening the better for, everyone. North Dakota faces in any event an average year if not a little better than average. The purchasing power is here in greater proportion than in mapy states. Prob- ably many are suffering from a lack of confidence. That inertia once overcome and the wheels will turn merrily egain. There are many evidences that such inertia is disappearing locally. Future Assured Statisticians may figure that casualties of the air are greater than on land or sea, still aviation will continue to forge ahead. The sturdy pioneers of air transportation know that accidents will continue, blunders will be made but out of the experience will come greater safety. Probably no-mode of transportation has made such rapid strides as aviation. It is Rot such a far call from Uriah Green and his flying machine. The Wright broth- ers gave one of the first most convincing tests of what could be accomplished by aircraft and the value of the aeroplane in cur national defense has been demonstrated beyond a doubt for more than ten years. When Ignatius Donnelly, the Minnesota sage, wrote his Cesar's Column, several decades ago, he featured the possibility of aircraft. Many of his predictions have come true and his wildest dreams have been exceeded by the science of aeronautics. \ Danger never , the steam engine or the steam- boat promoters to hesitate. The same was true of the automobile and those who are advancing each year the | For real progress in Wilton we need the cooperation of use of aircraft will not be deterred from their great task, by casualties, however great. Neither does this or that accident curtail travel. Peo- ple more and. more are accepting the facilities of the great airways as a matter of course. Hawks, the man who broke the record for cross country flight, speaks now of “loafing in the air” at 100 miles an hour. He declares that a speed of 200 or 300 is just as safe and a possibility for general transportation. His chief interest is to spur the engineers to build even a ler engine for air travel. Even the cost of the plane is coming within the purse of the average man. It won't be long before types of planes can be had at a price somewhere within the reach of the business or professional man who prefers such type of transportation, especially in such lines 6f en- {most when we have both old and young cooperating for | deavor where every minute counts. A Popular Star Gone In these days of few outstanding stars, the death of Lon Chaney is a blow to the movie. The talkies retired | hobgoblin like Lon Chaney should have crashed the many of our favorites, the ones left after Will Hays’ moral code went into force. Chaney was a star whu kept to his last. He knew his limitations and stayed within them. He gave more than a modicum of entertainment. A Chaney picture was usually a drawing card and Lon Chaney never rested_.on his oars, nor did he trade on his Past. Few stars worked as hard or produced as remark- able effects as he. His was a rather melancholy role. There never was @ pleasant “fadeaway” for the man of “a thousand faces” as the versatile press agent dubbed him. He always yielded to the handsomer if not the better man. There were no great Alger triumphs’far him through various romances. He never married the boss’ daughter and yan the old sawmill—he always tdok what was left “on the chin”, as it were. His roles were made of sterner stuff. Both in the silent pictures and the talkies, he main- tained popularity. His picturization of Hugo's hunch- back was a good piece of acting and brought him great- est fame. He starred successfully in many other roles, some light, others most grotesque, and hardly pleasing, but Lon Chaney was always entertaining, and after all the greatest function of the drama is to entertain. “To an American,” declares Odette Myrtil, the actress. “everything is either lousy or marvelous.” To the Amer- fean girl, in particular, everything is simply awful or oe | Needed: A Good Press Agent It is getting harder every day to read those long-drawn | reports from the vicinity of Los Angeles about the ad- ventures, misadventures and whatnot of Aimee Semple McPherson and her mother. At fir.t the stories were interesting, and then they became mildly amusing. Now they are only boring, in the last degree. A good many citizens, beyond doubt, are reaching the point where they would be quite con- tent never to read another line about these two ladies. One thing does stand out: Aimee and her mother need a public relations counsel. No press agent worth his salt would ever allow the two of them to get involved in pub- licity of the kind they have been getting lately. ‘One-Eyed’ Menaces Bismarck and Burleigh police authorities should con- centrate upon the problem of poor auto lights. As the days grow shorter, the problem of the auto light is with us again. One motorist between Menoken and Bismarck the other evening met five or six “one-eyed” automobiles, probably the worst menace on our highways, after the drunken driver. It has been suggested that autoists carry an extra bulb for such a contingency, but whatever is the solution, there is one plain duty for the police. Anyone operat- ing such a car under the very nose of the authorities should be stopped and compelled to remedy the defect. Glaring headlights alsé are too prevalent. The old courtesy of dimming seems to have gone by the boards. Many accidents can be avoided by a little police super- vision of automobile lights. In this connection, too, the parents can aid by keeping children from making a playground of the public high- ways. There is too much strect playing in Bismarck and a drive to end that will reduce materially the hazards of motoring. A Trifle Too Enduring Possibly it’s just the summer heat, which always makes things seem hard to bear; but it does seem to grow in- creasingly certain, every day, that life would flow along a little more smoothly and happily if all of these endur- ance-contest gentlemen would quietly and speedily re- move themselves from circulation. | It wasn't so bad, at first. There was, originally, quite a thrill in seeing just how much punishment human bodies would stand. When two men can sit in an air- plane continuously for three weeks or more the feat is} bound to have a certain amount of interest; and for a while, at least, there was a weird sort of fascination in watching people stay out of contact with the earth for a longer period of time than anybody had done since | the world began. But we're getting case-hardened now. Some one really should take all of these ambitious young people aside and explain to them that it isn’t funny any more. | After all, it isn’t the length of time you can do a thing without stopping that counts so much as it is the way you do it. The latest endurance flyers set a record of upwards of 600 hours in the air; yet on the whole, their | flight was not quite as significant as the 40-second affair | contrived by Orville Wright over the sands of Kitty Hawk @ quarter of a century ago. Quantity is still a trifle less important than quality. Probably there is something to be said for the dogged quality of determination that stirs in the breasts of these endurance-record seckers. Yet determination, after all, isn't the highest virtue attainable. The beaten path that. the world is supposed to tread through the wilderness to the door of the manufacturer of superior mousetraps is never made because of the mousetrap maker's long- windedness. The editor of the New Mexico State Tribune, of Al- | buquerque, recently hit upon an idea that seems to have Possibilities in this connection. The boys of his city | were indulging in an orgy of tree-sitting—surely one of | the most harmless but, at the same time, one of the | dizziest, of all competitions possible—and this editor de- cided it had gone far enough. So, through his paper, he offered prizes consisting of movie tickets—nct to the successful sitters, but to such lads as would recover their senses, come down out of their trees and return to a normal life on the ground. It worked, and Albuquerque has not been bothered with tree-sitters since. In considering a means of ending this tree-sitting craze, it would seem best first to get at the root of the! matter. | fetes oats Lc otieomesoo ES, | Editorial Comment Youth and Age (Wilton News) “What this town needs,” we frequently hear, “is more | young blood in its various community activities. The | old stagers who .have made their way are not so inter- | ested in seeing the town bloom as the younger folks.” | There is much truth in this, but of course we must recognize the need and value of older heads in all effort to promote the town’s business and industrial interests. both old and young. For a community is not essentially different from a business, and how successfully a combination of youth- ful enthusiasm and mature judgment carry the affairs of an organization forward to success. Youth is the time of ideas, enterprise and enthusiasm. | It is impatient of delay and ever ready to plunge ahead in search of new activity. Age is the time of judgment, caution and analysis. It is hesitant about rushing into error. It wishes to take time to consider. Logically the best course is somewhere midway between these two points of view. A community or business made up entirely of young men would be eternally plunging into costly errors, making a considerable furor but accom- plishing little. A community or business handled entirely by old men would be continuously planning and consider- ing but getting little started. Hence it becomes evident that a community prospers | the best interests of the town. » Lon Chaney (Minneapolis Tribune) It was always one of Hollywood's little ironies that a kingdom of the perfect profile. Back in 1919, when he scored his first big motion picture success, Mr. Chaney was not only committing the unpardonable Hollywood sin of being unbeautiful, which was bad enough, but he was brazen to the point of being positively ugly. The notion that he could actually capitalize on that ugliness and would ultimately emerge as a star of the first mag- nitude must have seemed as preposterous at the time as the notion that all anatomically correct young men who Passed a profile test were not actors. Whether or not Chaney sensed a glut condition in the Adonis market at the outset of his spectacular career may never be known. But forehandedly or not, he did develop the art of being brilliantly grotesque and gorge- ously hideous to a very fine point. No gentleman of the silver screen ever lost a leg, an arm or an eye in the dressing room and proceeded to the set with greater poise and sang-froid. No one ever tied himself into tighter knots, or twisted himself into weirder shapes, or exhibited greater facility for impersonating a first rate accident going somewhere to happen. It was not with- out cause that Chaney became, almost over night, the modern fe-fi-fo-fum equivalent of all of fiction’s ogres. In a sense Chaney was simply a freak of the films, yet he was more than that. There seems to be more than press agent substance for the story that he was a pains- taking craftsman, that he devoted three hours or more @ day to the difficult art of makeup, and that for him the business of being distressingly repulsive was a serious and highly technical life's work. Chaney found a mar- ket for the grotesque and cultivated it intensely. The one talent that could have pulled him above the dead level of mediocrity he developed amazingly. And because he did, he died in Los Angeles last Tuesday a world figure, one of the cinema's few vivid and distinct and inimitable personalities. It would eeem to pay. even in Mr. Hays’ lovely rose garden, to be a first rate cactus. sia. GETS UP TWO HOURS: ++ PLAYS BALL, SWIMS, GETS IN FOOT RACES, ‘Labor’ Day —Is Right! EARLIER THAN ON WORK DAYS --= # -ANO THEN HAULS ‘THE WHOLE FAMILY TO. STAE, BIG PICNIC =--= Today Is the Anniversary of TOLSTOY’S BIRTH On August 28, 1828, Leo Tolstoy, a famous Russian novelist and one of the world’s greatest novelists, was born in the government of Tula, Rus- He went to the University of Kazan but after he graduated he said he knew “literally nothing.” Induced by his brother, an army officer, to visit in Caucasia, Tolstoy became so fascinated with the life there that he, too, joined the army. It was at this time he wrote of his experiences in Sebastopol. Because his sketches painted the horrors of war with its false and real heroes with such real- ism, he soon rose to fame as a writer. Leaving the army after the Cri- mean war, Tolstow decided to devote himself to literature. He first went to Germany to add to his learning and culture but his experience there only intensified his doubts and dis- appointments. He had lost faith in modern civilization and became a champion of the common people, an enemy of the artificial upper classes. Tolstoy wrote much on education and in his later years devoted him- self to religious teaching. He made “Resist not evil” the keystone of the Christian faith. His religious views are set forth in “My Confession.” His “War and Peace” is regarded as his masterpiece but his “Anna Ka- renina,” largely autobiographical, is the more popular. mu MeHoll , COPYRIGHT, 1930 HE voice was pleasing. Rorimer was altogether unprepared to find it so. Nice and low, and he had expected a strident sound, full of freckles and long legs. It had poise. It made him think that tts owner knew exactly what to do with it, For an awkward moment he paused. Then he sald, “Well, how do you like Hollywood?” And he thought immediately that it sounded very silly. “I’m in love with what I’ve seen of it,” said Miss Winter. “You see, I've had a rather bad cold and have had to stay in. I’m not,” she has- tened to add, “blaming it on your climate, I caught it on the train coming out.” Rorimer laughed. “I'm not a Californian,” he said. “I'm @ stranger here too.” “Oh, really? That encourages me.” Rorimer said he felt a little cour- age himself and glanced toward the tray on the writing desk. “Are you busy this evening?” he ventured. She was not. “That’s fine,” Rorimer said. “If you haven’t eaten, perhaps you'd like to dine with me. If you're at all like me, you're not crazy about eating alone.” “I think that would be lovely,” said Miss Winter. “I was just about to go out to dinner when you called.” “It’s a date then,” said Rorimer. “And later maybe we can dance— unless you think your cold... .” “Oh, I'm entirely over it now. And I'd like to, very much." Rorimer said he would be over as soon as she was ready. “We needn't dress unless you want to.” “Then I'll be ready when you ar- . Five.” He hung up the receiver feeling decidedly better, He even felt friendly once more toward Ziggy Young. Standing before his dresser he gave a final careful adjustment to his tie and with military brushes did a little unnecessary work on his hatr. It was brown hair, rather wavy and of a slightly coarse texture that, once combed, required little attention. But Rorimer brushed it anyway—straight back above the ears—and glanced critically at the part. A tanned reflection looked back at him from the glass, strong- mouthed, firm of chin and blue of eye. A not unpleasing face, espe- cially with regard to the eyes, which had little laughter wrinkles at the sides and were Intense in their blueness. Rorimer’s watch showed a quar- ter after seven. A block away from the hotel was the garage where he kept his car, a sturdy roadster of low price but sporty lines. The evening, he re- flected, climbing in behind the wheel, might turn out rather well after all. . . TE brought his car to a stop presently in front of a small apartment building and found, after looking at the letter boxes in the vestibule, that Miss Anne Win- ter lived ih Number Two. A door opened half way down the ground floor corridor in answer to his ring and the “blind date” came advancing to meet him. She said, “Hello, Mr. Rorimer,” in a nice comradely manner. “You see I was ready.” Dan, feeling her warm handclasp . and noting the brilliant perfection of teeth revealed by her smiling lips, vowed that he would send Ziggy Young a couple of the finest ties on Hollywood Boulevard. His “How do you do, Miss Winter?” sounded stiffly formal to him and entirely inadequate. Holding the street door open for her to pass through ahead of him, he mur- mured something about hoping he hadn't kept her waiting too long for dinner, “Of course not,” she assured him. “You got out here so quickly you must have flown.” Rorimer said, “Well, here's my airplane—hop in.” “Are you a good pilot?” she asked. “Perfectly trustworthy as long as my mind is on my work,” he as- sured her, and was rewarded by the pleasant sound of her low- pitched laugh which told him that none of the implications of his re- mark had escaped her. “Now then,” Rorimer said, climb- jing in beside her, “where away? | Any choice in the matter of eating | places?” ; She told him she preferred to leave the choice to him. He said, “Have you been to the Brown Derby?” “Just once—for lunch.” “Let me see, now. Would you |like to go to the Blossom Room at ;the Roosevelt? That's a good place to eat and dance, but it’s a little learly. I'll tell you; let's have din {mer at the Brown Derby and then ; 80 to the Blossom Room to dance?” She nodded her head vigorously. “Check!” Dan Rorimer came from New York to write scenarios. “We're taking off. Stand by for & loop,” he said, and swung the car around in the street in a tight are, eee OME minutes later, as they were being shown to a table in the restaurant, Rgrimer heard someone call, “Hello, Dan,” and he turned to see a young man waving to him from one of the tables along the wall, Rorimer sald, “Hello, Johnny,” and saluted, and when he helped Anne Winter with her coat he in- formed her: “That’s Johnoy Rid- die, He's a free-lance press agent. And the girl with him is Olivia Marden.” “I saw her as we came in,” Anne Winter said. “I’ve heard a lot about her, of course. I think she’s just lovely. I’m tempted to turn and stare.” “Lots of people do,” Rorimer said. “I'll have to tell you about Johnny later. He's quite a boy. You see, he has a bunch of movie stars for clients—Olivia Marden is one—and he, falls in love .with every one in turn, . . . Shall I order for you?” She nodded. “I'd love to have |you. It's so comforting to have someone do it for you.” “It's a gift,” said Rorimer, laugh- ing. “I merely choose what I want myself and then double the order.” Nevertheless, she noted, he studied the menu with considerable care and turned now and then to ask a question of the her a cigarét which she declined with @ murmured “No thanks—not u euTHoR SOME CUCUMBER RECIPES. . Many people only think of cucum- bers either raw or pickled but they are equally delicious cooked. Here are a few ways of preparing both cooked and raw cucumbers. It is a good plan to serve them often dur- ing the time they are abundant and inexpensive. Salad of pas with Cucumber relly Soak a tablespoonful of gelatin in a half cup of celery water (drained from cooked celery) and dissolve over the teakettle. Have Dae 1 cupful of finely minced cucuml to which add a few celery seed and a little et ai an the Sein a hal lozen toma’ Pyater, slip off the peel and hollow out slightly at stem end. Fill with the cucumber and gelatin mixture and place on ice to become firm. Serve the tomatoes on let- tuce, with a cream cheese dressing which is made by thinning. the cheese with cream to the desired consistency and adding a_ little chopped parsley or cress. Garnish with bits of pimento. Chopped Cucumber in Beef Jelly Prepare a broth from lean beef, skimming off all fat, and to each latin. Tito boils cupful of the hot liquid add a well rounded teaspoonful of gelatin which has been softened in a little cold water. Stir until thoroughly dissolved and set aside to cool. When it begins to thicken add the desired amount of chopped cucumber and placed on ice. Serve in slices on crisp lettuce leaves, garnished with parsley and ripe olives. Sliced Cucumbers with Grated Raw Carrots Arrange cucumbers either sliced or quartered on a bed of lettuce over which grate the desired amount of raw carrot A little olive oil or pea- nut butter dressing may be added if desired For Picnics If the cucumbers are wrapped in a wet cloth they may be taken alon; as a good picnic salad vegetable an then can be peeled and cut to pieces HERES TO YOUR EALLH Dr FRAN SCOyY OF “THE FAST WAY TO HEALTH rogerding Health and Diet wil be enewered. self eddrewed envelope must be encieed. of paper eal. Lotion aust not excqed Address Dv. Frank McCay, eave of thin paper. just as the lunch is served. In make ing a sandwich spread of vegetables for children to take on picnics oF outings, grind finely three small carrots and, through a larger grind- er, oone cucumber and two st of celery. McCoy Salad A large combination salad of fresh tomatoes, lettuce and cucum- bers is advisable for patients who need more mineral salts and vita- mins in their diet This combina- tion salad and small broiled chops make a satisfactory reducing diet if no other food is used often. The bulky cellulose contained in salads of this sort is beneficial to the teeth and assists in overcoming consitpa- tion. Other good salads can be made by combining spinach, nastur- tium leaves and blossoms, and c cumbers, or cucumbers, water-cress and tomatoes. Stuffed Cucumbers Select cucumbers of medium size, peel, and cut in halves lengthwise. Scrape out seeds and place shells in @ pan with enough water to simmer for about five minutes. Drain, and fill shells with @ stuffing made of mushrooms and tomatoes. Sprinkle with Melba toast crumbs and bake wood . Stor by NEA SERVICE /nc: 4y ERNEST LYNN before meals,” she leaned across the table toward him and said, “And now you'll have to tell me all about yourself.” Rorimer smiled, and his nose ex- uded thin streams of smoke. “All?” he said. “Well, all you discreetly can.” “Well, I'll give you a tabloid ver sion. Born in Knoxville, Tennes- see. Went to school at Vanderbilt. Worked on & paper in Nashville, and another one in Detroit. Went to New York and worked on a couple of more there. Met Ziggy Young on the Herald Tribune and roomed with him for a while. When I went over to the Telegram we split up, Ziggy having night hours and I working days. Not so good for sleeping, if you know what I mean.” She nodded and smiled, Rorimer continued: “Wrote @ short story while I was on the gram, based on a murder story I covered. Much to my surprise, it was accepted. Wrote another one about a certain high-hat prize fighter and that was accepted. Then I got a swelled head and listened too attentively to my literary agent, who advised me to give up news- paper work and devote my time to fiction. . . . In a little less than a year I wrote 12 short stories and a play. Two of the stories were ac- cepted. The play is still kicking around Broadway and by this time must have been turned down by every producer in New York.” ee HE stopped. “Still interested?” She nodded eagerly. “All right, if you insist. Two out of 12 is not so good—especially at the prices I got.” He smiled wryly at some recollection as he explained that more than once dur ing his year of freelancing he had regretted divorcing himself from a weekly payroll. Pride, he said, was the only thing that kept him from going back to ask for his old news- Paper job—pride and the good- natured razzing his old associates would have given him. “They used to call me O. Henry and ask me if I was eating regu- larly. I always did,” he said, study- ing the cigaret in his fingers, “but toward the last I was going without, lunch and trying to kid myself that three meals a day was too much, “Then, Miss Hunt—my agent— sold one of my stories to Conti- nental Pictures.” .He stopped abruptly and extingwished his ciga- ret at sight of their waiter return- ing. ~ Anne Winter watched him atten- tively, She was a good listener. She rested her elbows on the table, supporting her chin In her hands. She leaned back now as the waiter placed dishes before them, but said, when he had departed again: “You haven't finished. I can’t eat until I hear the rest.” There was, Rorimer said, little else to tell. Someone at Continental had thought he liked Rorimer’s stuff well enough to offer him a con- tract. “Someone without much judgment. . . . And that’s the end of the story.” “Have they made a picture yet from your story?” she asked. “What jis the name of it? Rorimer said that production was about to start. “Grim Holiday,” he said, was his story. “But Lord knows what they'll call it wien they're through with it.” | He spoke with a shade of resent ment. Anne Winter, watching bim, thought she saw rebéllion in his eyes and in the set of his lean jaw. (To Be Continued) until tender in a moderate oven about 40 minutes. Serve hot with butter and chopped parsley. , _ Cooked Cucumbers Slice cucumbers and cook until tender in a heavy aluminum pan. Remove cover and allow any excess liquid to cook down. Just before serving add a small amount of hot cream, butter, and a little chopped parsley, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS e Migratn Question: Mrs. H. D. asks: “What is the cause of migraine and what can one do to prevent it?” Answer: Migraine is the name given to periodic headaches which occur only on one side of the head at a time. It is due to various disturb- ances of the nervous system and from the common cause of toxemia which is usually present with all headaches except those resulting from an acci- dent. Colitis, constipation, and ex- treme prolapsus of the abdominal or- gans are also contributing causes. Bad Habits Question: Mrs. E. H. writes: “i am very nervous, have indigestion, low vitality, and am extremely under- weight for my height and age. What can I do to overcome this unhappy condition? I do office work.” Answer: Your condition is caused mainly by your habits of life, such as & sedentary occupation and insuffi- cient physical culture exercises. Try 8 fruit fast for from 12 to 14 days, foi- lowed by a starchless diet, including vegetables rich in mineral elements. I will be glad to send you my Cleans- ing Diet Course if you will write again, enclosing a large self-addressea stamped envelope. Salt Question: G. F. asks: “Is common salt to the body? I have been told that one would lose weignt if it were not used.” Answer: Inorganic sodium chlorid is never necessary for the body. : this salt is found in an organic form in vegetables and other foods. There is no harm in using a small amount to imitate that which has been de- stroyed im cooking, but it will have no perceptible effect one way or an- other upon your weight. Mules, according to an announce- ment of the Department of Agricul- ture, are retreating before the ad- vancing tractors. But you can say this for them: they put up a stubborn resistance while they lasted. Z * *e * “Day by day.” said the wisecracking miniature golf course owner, “our business is getting putter and putter.” * * * The fellow who breaks off with his girl after promising to marry her learns sooner or later that she was worth her wait in gold. * * * The average American woman to- day, according to a cosmetician, uses three times her weight in cosmetics during her lifetime. One reason for this may be she has grown querulous and is obliged to kiss and makeup more often. * ‘Why do they hand aciund sere corners zouncera? the Swiss. He seems, at least, to have inherited their attitude on navies. (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) FLAPPER’ FANNYISAYS: ay Oe [amrnans : je go fishing they an eight-pound He