The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1931, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDESI NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) oe ORS ah bina a Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ‘48 second clas mai! matter. George D, Mann .............. President and Publisher joka rales te vito dah herman eae Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Datty by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bi Daily by mail per year in state, outside Bismarck) ... Dally by mail outside of North Dakota . ‘Weebly by mail in state, per year ...... Weekly by mail in state, threé years . Weekly by mail outside ot North Dakota, Der yeaz ..... Weekl7 by mail in Canada, per year Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use {or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein ll 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 North Dakota Still Leads in Wheat! A statement has been recently prepared by the traffic | department of the North Dakota Railroad Commission, showing the amount of revenue freight originating within the state during the calendar year 1929. ! The statement is especially interesting because of its | analysis of the kinds of freight carried by the railroads, | thus showing at a glance the kind of commodities pro- duced and exported by this state in greatest volume. On a basis of 100 per cent of total shipment, farm crops! make the biggest showing with a little over 65 per cent of the total; products of the mines, principally lignite, come next with about 24% per cent; livestock and poultry are next with slightly less than 5 per cent, and manufac- tured products and products of the forests are credited with about 2 per cent. Especially noteworthy is the fact that wheat monopol- izes the section relating to crops, its share being over 45 per cent. Rye and barley together are only about 9 per cent of the whole, and potatoes, a very important crop; for this state, is credited with only 2 per cent. These figures, encouraging on the whole, are in some respects disappointing. The showing made by mining and | manufacturing is good, but the export of cereal crops is too large and the output of animal products is much smaller than our present tremendous interest in that branch of agriculture would seem to indicate. Considering the above crop percentages in relation with last year's tragedy of price reductions, it may be said that North Dakota is still “The Desert of Wheat.” A Hundred Years The Country Gentleman, oldest agricultural publica- tion in America, has been published a hundred years, and the Bismarck Tribune, oldest daily newspaper in the agri- cultural state of North Dakota, extends its congratula- tions. The anniversary number of the magazine which! appeared last week is a splendid mingling of the arts of literature and printing, The century covered by the Country Gentleman has been America’s own. It has seen the United States rise to supreme power in politics and industry, and has wit- nessed the emergence of the great Canadian Dominion. In 1831, when the Country Gentleman was established, the country had a population of only thirteen millions. Forty-two years later, when American youth had set out on the adventure of winning the west, the Bismarck Tribune was established to supply the needs of what was then an outpost of civilization. The states and terri- tories at that time had a population of fifty millions. The 1930 census places the figure at about 122 millions. A hundred years ago there were only 30 miles of rail- road in the country. A half century later a great net- work of railways had covered the then “western” states of the east, and rail lines were being pushed westward | across what at that time was known as the great Ameri- can desert. A hundred years ago the Dakotas, Minnesota and! Montana were still a part of the vast, unknown Northwest ‘Territories. About 50 years later General Grant came to Bismarck to help dedicate the capitol of Dakota territory. A hundred years ago Cyrus McCormick was beginning his experiments with the reaper, which was to supersede the sickle and the scythe. Fifty years later his great in- vention was playing a major part in conquering the west- ern plains, A hundred years ago men’s minds were being unfet- | tered from the old habits of servitude. America was then physically, if not intellectually, free, and Europe was aflame with revolution. Fifty years later the Civil! ‘war was a thing of the recent past and the agricultural revolution, due to improved methods of production, had been practically accomplished. | A hundred years ago the upper Mississippi and Mis- | souri valleys were known only to the hardy explorers and missionaries. Fifty years later these unknown regions! had become flourishing states and territories. The cata- log of the century’s events, even so far as our western States are concerned, is bewildering. The western star of empire is still on its way, and what the next 50 or 100 years will bring is something to challenge the most fertile imagination. China as a Customer China has become a customer of North Dakota. ‘Ghe fact is that the well-to-do class of Chinese are buying pork raised in this state, and this business is rapidly growing, along with the other export business from Pa- cific ports. For some years there has been a quiet but growing demand on the west coast for the best class of North Dakota hogs, most of which have gone into the Chinese export trade. That this trade is already of some impor- tance would appear from the fact that buyers are com- Peting for the business of supplying the west coast de- mand. China today, like Japan 60 years ago, is undergoing a social and economic revolution, and will emerge a more Progressive nation. It is friendly to the United States and is ¢ertain to become one of this country's best cus- tomers. There are a billion people in those Asiatic regions called the Orient. These people are near neighbors of ours. For instance. Yokohama, which is 12,000 miles from London is only 4,500 miles from Seattle. There is keen rivalry for the Oriental export trade between that city, San Francisco and Los Angeles, each of which aspires to become the “New York of the Pacific.” The west coast export trade has also a promising ficld in Central and South America. That this whole business has vast possibilities is indicated by the fact that English, German, Norwegian and French shipbuilders are laying new bottoms with a view to getting their share. The common folks of the Orient do not have much | \ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931 inch added to the cotton shirts of the coolies would Keep the spindles of that country humming. These Orientals are already buying American pork, butter, tinned milk and fruits in considerable volume. What will happen when China settles down and begins to buy in earnest, can only be guessed, but the picture is | alluring. ‘ | The producers of North Dakota have felt rather | sioomy over the fact that thelr marketing channels | seemed to be hedged in on all sides—but there is bound | to be an opening somewhere. To the west the Pacific coast is beckoning; to the east | and close at hand is the almost realized promise of a waterway to the sea. The Mind as a Mirror The Tribune has received from Warden C. C. tether @ brief but very sensible reflection on the actions of the | human mind, written by one of the inmates of the state! prison. McBride's essay is quite philosophical and in; submitting it to The Tribune, the warden Says that he! wents the world to know that he has some bright and Shining lights in his little penal colony. The short | Fs It’s a Great Life If You Don’t essay is printed in full: “Minds are like mirrors, reflecting the light of truth incident to them, tho very seldom in its original purity; for most are cheaply made and carelessly employed. Being shallow and full of flaws they pervert, not only~the light shining on them, but also the light they reflect on others. To them all is distorted. The sublime seems small and the petty great; the divine seems vile and the vulgar right. They see nothing and reflect nothing in its true image. “Yet there are some, tho rarely acknowledged, which are well made, having depth, solidity and firmness; seeing the distant as well as the near, and reflecting everything in its true light and form, regardless whether it be good or bad. “But neither of these are responsible for their condition; their fate lies mainly in two things: the material they were made cf, and the way they were made. Eugenics and euthenics should be used as preventives where it is not too late. The warmth of love and the matrix of respect should be used as correctives where there is yet hope of reforming. Never use cold pressure, for where it does not crush or break it usually cracks.” Doubtless there are many experiences behind this obscure but philosophic expression of a prisoner. It seems probable that the restrictions of prison life weigh heavily upon the spirit which indicted the admonition, “Never use cold pressure, for where it does not crush er break it usually cracks.” Louis Wolheim It is the queer fate of the actor to be remembered, not so much for himself as for certain characterizations that; he has given which have found a warm place in the heart of the public. bered by most of us, not as Louis Wolheim but as Katczinsky, the uncouth German infantryman of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” and as Captain Flagg, the officer of marines in the stage production of “What Price Glory?” Those two characterizations got from Wolheim what might be called perfect performances; perfect, in that i {it is hard to see how they could possibly have been im- proved on. As long as there are living people who saw j either one of those two fine shows, Louis Wolheim wili j not be forgotten. But it will not be Wolheim himself that we remember. It will be, rather, the Katczinsky and the Captain Flagg that he created for us. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib- une’s policies. Radio Libels (Duluth Herald) If a newspaper lets a contributor put a libel in its columns, it is legally liable for the offense. If a radio station lets a speaker broadcast a false attack, apparently as the law stands only the speaker is liable; the station, which profited by renting the time, Goes scot-free. . That, of course, is not right. A bill offered in the Minnesota house yesterday pro- poses to make radio stations liable for libels spread through their agency by applying to them the same law that now applies to newspapers and magazines. ‘That is so clearly sound and just and in the public interest that there should be no doubt of its passage. A Big Risk (Mott Pioneer Press) A vision of the risk Hettinger county taxpayers are in not providing a safe and adequate court house with modern fireproof vaults to protect its land titles and valuable documents can be gleaned from read- ing the report in another column of the value of the records destroyed in the burning of the state capitol at Bismarck. The survey for insurance settlement values the total loss on state records destroyed at $619,544.30, based on replacement value. The ratio of insurance to new re- Placements is 50 per cent on the building and 48.1 per cent on contents. ‘The state was lucky in that the vaults and safes which held land titles and mortgages and bonds preserved the records. If these had been de- stroyed in the fire, the litigation resulting might have been endless. In Hettinger county, one shudders to think of the end- j less controversy and litigation and expense which would result if the records of the land titles were destroyed. If the present courthouse burns and the roof timbers fall on the roof of the vaults and puncture same, all would. be lost. In the report of the state capitol fire, it is shown that in the north wing falling roof timbers went through the floors to the basement, leaving holes in otherwise solid floors, Where vault dr safe doors even warped slightly, records were destroyed. A Pennsylvania exchange recently noted the starting of litigation over land titles destroyed by the burning of a court house sixty-four years ago, and in another case after more than one hundred years. This condition creates a burden for all time to come and should be overcome in this county at the earliest possible date. On Ideal Husbands (Los Angeles Times) It has been quite popular in the past for young un- married women to advance the characteristics of an ideal husband, just as some young bachelors know all about the qualifications of a perfect wife! But now comes a college professor who forsakes his logarithms and other things with which he is familiar to tell the women how to pick a husband. The rare bird must be ambitious and industrious. He must hitch up to a big job and not loaf. Then he must have a good disposition. As if any in- dividual with ambition and industry could have a sweet disposition! Geniuses are noted for their rotten tempers. Even movie stars without other assets than a pretty face and figure are supposed to fly into fits of temperament. As for tact, the man of affairs usually leaves that to his wife—or the buffer in the’ outer office. So it is that Louis Wolheim will probably be remem-j | Salamis, Chios, Argos and Athens. | likewise can stand a slight frost, but Weaken! What do you need to know ? Is there some point about your business or personal life that ytizzles you? Is there something you want to know without delay? Submit your questions to Frederic J. Haskin, Director of our Washingtcn Information Bureau. He is employed to help you. Address your inquiry to the Bismarck Tribune, Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has- kin, Director, Washington, D. C., and enclose two cents in coin or. stamps for return postage. Q. What were the best ten motion | Pictures in 1930. T. F. A, The Film Daily compiled the votes of 333 motion picture critics employed by newspapers, syndicates, end fan and trade publications. The result was the following: All Quiet on the Western Frant, Abraham Lin- coln, Holiday, Journey's End, Anna | Christie, The Big House, With Byrd at the South Pole, The Divorcee, Hell’s Angels, and Old English. Q. How much life insurance is now in force? T.G. A. On June 1, 1930, there were 120,- 783,521 insurance policies in force in the United States, making a total of $103,146,440,473 in force. Q. What is the area and popula- tion of Ecuador? G. M. A. Ecuador has an area of 118,596 square miles and approximately 2,000,- 000 inhabitants. . What were the seven cities that “warred for Homer dead?” H. J. D. A. Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Q. How large were some of the Plantations in Virginia in the early days? M. K. A. There were many plantations of 5000 or more acres. Nicholas Hay- ward had a unit of 30,000 acres, and William Fitzhugh at one time owned @ total of 45,000 acres. Q. Can cotton, watermelon, and banana and orarge trees stand a frost? A. W. A. Cotton can stand a very slight frost if only of a short duration. A certain sub-species of orange trees the banana and watermelon would be instantly killed by frost. Q. Have any firms of the United States been in business for 200 years? 'M. 8. A. The George Washington Bicen- tennial’ Commission {s compiling a list jing Company of New York. of business firms which have been in continuous existence since the days of George Washington. Commission has found the surprising | number of 225 business firms which have had an unbroken existence since | the eighteenth century. Q. Who said that all military knowledge could be summed up in three words? A. L. B. A. The Russian general, Alexan-| der V. Suvarov. The three words were | “Stoupai i bi’—“Forward and strike.” Q. In English stories, when they| talk about having a B and S what do they mean? E. C. ' A. A brandy and soda. ly. Q. What was the money known as “hog money”? 8S. E. J. A. Coins struck by the colonists in the Bermuda Islands about 1616-1618, Shillings, sixpenses, and three pennies are now known as hog money because they bore the figure of a hog on the obverse side. Q.. What was Petroleum V. Nasby’s Teal name? I. L. W. A. David Ross Locke. ‘ z Q. What is chewing gum made of? . T. A. The ingredients of chewing gum are gum chicle, sugar, glucose, cara- mel butter, balsam and paraffine wax. Q. Who was the first to have his home lighted with electricity. E. T. U. A. The National Electric Light As- Sociation says that the first private residence lighted by electricity was that of J. Pierpont Morgan, a direc- tor of the Edison Electric Illuminat- Add ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ... G What became of Paganini’s vio- lin? W. C. S. A. Paganini played a very fine Guarnerius violin. He bequeathed this instrument to the municipality of Genoa, Italy, the town where he was Lorn, and it is preserved there as one of its most valuable possessions, Q. Why was the Monroe Doctrine restated in the 90's? F. B. A. Senator Bingham in his book on the Monroe Doctrine says it was not until 1895, during the second ad- ministration of President Cleveland, that a secretary of state thought it expedient cr necessary to restate the | Monroe Doctrine and to bring us to the verge of a European war by back- ing it up with an absolutely uncom- Already, the | promising attitude. Venezuela had had a long-standing boundary dis- pute with British Guiana. Nobody cared very much either way until it was discovered that in the disputed territory were rich gold fields. In the | excitement that ensued, the Vene- | zuelans appealed to the United States, land Secretary Olney, invoking the Monroe Doctrine, brought matters to a crisis, Q. How many people are usually employed in the automobile industry? W. FF. A. Facts and figures of the auto- mobile industry says that there were 4,700,000 persons employed in the au- tomobile industry during 1929. Of these, 3,963,459 were employed direct- ly and 737,000 indirectly. as Today Is the Anniversary of BUENA VISTA BATTLE On Feb. 23, 1847, the Americans Gefeated the Mexicans at Buena Vis- ta in one of the most decisive battles oi the Mexican war. Congress had declared war against Mexico nine months previously over a dispute arising from Texas boun- Garies, On Sept. 24, 1846, General Taylor aitacked the Mexicans at Monterrey and took the town after a desperate battle of four days. Early the next year, Santa Anna, the Mexican president and command- er-in-chief, led a force of 20,000 men against Taylor, who had only about a fourth of that number. The battle was fought in the mountains of Buena Vista. After an all-day fight, the Mexicans retreated. Among the —> Davis, of Mississippi, particularly dis- tinguished himself. This victory gave the United States Possession of northeastern Mexico, and won for General, Taylor, who! southern officers, Colonel Jefferson | a TO’‘COOK OR NOT TO COOK it often happens that perfectly good foods are made indigestible and dangerous to the health through im- proper cooking. Good foods may be also made so unpalatable that one does not eat a sufficient quantity of them. It is really on the cook that the health of the household depends, because if the meals are properly bal- anced and arranged in an attractive manner, one will be encouraged to eat the right foods and will find them go tasteful that there will not be the craving for foods which are unwhole- some. There is probably no other factor which plays as important a part in the health of a family as its food. The preparation of foods through the use of fire has undoubtedly play- ed an important part in the history of the human race by making it possible to obain more nourishment out of foods which could not otherwise be well utilized. Some foods, such as the grains and starchy tubers are un- doubtedly benefited by cooking, which breaks down the starch cells and en- ables the digestive juice to penetrate into the center of the starch granules, On the other hand, there are a hum- ber of foods which do not seem to be benefited by cooking and in fact in some cases the uncooked food digests more quickly than when it is cooked. ‘This seems to be generally true with the green vegetables and, ripe fruits, and especially noticeable with cab- bage. It is necessary to eat some of the raw green vegetables at least once or twice a day in order to supply the body with certain important vitamins aud mineral elements which are ren- dered less valuable by the use of heat. It is not necessary to use all of the food uncooked as claimed by some raw fooders, for the body only re~ quires a comparatively small amount of the elements which are destroyed by heat, and this need can be satis- fied by the use of from a half pound tu a pound of uncooked foods a day. There is no evidence to show that cooking in any way injures food pro- vided it is properly prepared. Of course, saturating food with grease and oils makes it very difficult and slow to digest. Also, rich mixtures of sugar, starch, protein and fat may in time wreck the strongest digestion. Over-seasoning is also a frequent cause of digestive disorders. It seems that the most healthful as well as the most satisfying dinners can be arranged by properly balancing beth cooked and raw foods. Raw Salads should form an important part of every meal. I do not, however, think that it is necessary to go to the extreme to say that all of the meal 1926 MeCOY EAC SE RTS TO oe Mag bo hnly seo. enteiane Pare should be uncooked, as 1 no evidence which would inne the use of cooked food is injui Dr. McCoy will gladly a: personal questions on health and | diet addressed to him, care The Tribune. ' Enclose a stamped envelope for reply, “area Provided some raw food is but on the other hand 1 pe," many where people lived § several months or years on nothing but raw foods. Those who do Ae however, are usually troubled ‘with, Jarge amounts of gas and have tens dency to be hypoghondriacs anq anti. social, q Every cook should make a study of Properly arranging and Prepari both cooked and raw foods. In tp morrow’s article I am going to you how to construct a menu so that it will be properly balanced. QUESTIONS AND A} Catarrh and Goitre Question: F. E. J. writes: years olf‘and bothered with catarth, and a goitre. Can both be cured by a strict diet? What would be best for this diet?” Answer:. Yes, both can be cured, by a fasting and diet treatment, byt the instructions for this diet are tog long to be printed in this column | Pleage send your full name and aq. dress and I will be glad to forwar the instructions to you. Don't for. get a large stamped envelope. = Nervousness Question: Mrs. L. D. writes: “My daughter has been treated for ner. ousness for some time but still seems unable to stand excitement, as she be. ;comes extremely nervous and feck faint. She cannot stand being ing crowd. She is 19 years old Answer: You should have a good diagnosis made of your daughters case, as you apparently do not know the cause of her nervousnes are always. definite causes w be determined through an ex: tion made by @ good diagnostician, When the causes are found and known it is then easy to remove them, Nervousness is not just an imagin. ary disease. “Am Ih Blue Lips Question: Sharron asks: “What is -the cause of blue lips and what would you advise to overcome them?” Answer: I assume that the blue lips are caused by poor circulation which is doubtless due to some heart derangement. Send for free leaflets on Heart Derangements, and enclose @ large, self-addressed, stamped en- velope. here, apparently. se 8 Englishmen, statistics show, live longer than Americans. The phi- losophy of Americans is that it is better to iive fast than long. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) There's no danger “muscling in” |——\———-¢ KFYR ——} KFYR DAILY SCHEDULE Tuesday, Feb. 22 34,580 Millocyeleh—545.1 Meters Farm Flashes. Weather Report. 5—Farm Reporter in Washington 0—Old Time Mus 5—Meditation Pe: ‘Around the Town; Radio Floor alker. Aim a | Quotations I] 7 Cruel as it is, poverty has its uses. Nell ee Booth. ”" * mother happy. here fought his last battle, the presi- Gency of the United States two years later. [____BARBS ot No compiete list of the animals is vailable, but it seems there is plenty of bull connected with Big Bill ‘Thompson's mayoralty rodeo in Chi- cego. * * * plumber is proud of the good con- nections he makes. * * ® “Can the spring be far behind?” ag the convict wisecracked on the gallows. iy * eK A scientist suggests the arm grasp greeting instead of the hand clasp to minimize germ transmission. LOOW “HERE, MA ~ THEY GANG ME A RAISE = ANID IM MANN MoRE THAN DAO, Now, Hind’ OF 1TH Just. A KID YET, ANNO 1M MAKIN! MORE MONEY THAN MY FATHER EVER MADE. AT I TI VS Ser Sad WELL -LOOH’ GIRL- AND ALMOST AS MUCH. AS. PA. WHY ‘MOTHERS Ger GRAY ME—A MAHING COULD do 11? SttH4 Goop HEAWNS! DONT D0 THAT ! WHO WAS IT WORKED “To PAY FOR Your EDUCATIONS , SO You ee | OUT OUR WAY By Williams | Cit Though his profession is humble, a |< —Jeanne Juilla, “Miss Europe.” * * * If a machine does not get you, a stop watch will; and if you dodge both, there is a merger waiting | around the corner. Po saa Chase. * It feels fine to.be 84. —Thomas A. Edison. ** ® Competitive experience teaches the —Gene Tunney. * * It is unbelievable how many unbe- Hevable things were believed by peo- Pie during the war. x —John Galsworthy. se A great defect of modern life is the. desire to know about everything and to place more importance on know- ing about things than on doing them. * In this age of biography it is get- ting 80 that a good man is afraid to e. William Lyon Phelps. WHY, * TRAMs, 1698 iv ma oa mc. “fates to Minot Many ‘Are Attracted To Minot Exhibition My greatest ambition is to make my 1 0—Sunshine Hour. 0—World Bookman. 10:00—Opening -Grain Markets ‘Weather Report. :10—Aunt Sammy: Daily Household Chats. 0—Musical Program. 7—Arlington Time Signals. 0—Organ Program: Graco Duryes Morris, :00—Grain Markets; Bismarck Trib- une News ‘and Weather; Luncheon Program, 0—Grain Markets; High, Low ant Close; Bismarck ‘Tribune News, Weather and St. Paul Livestock. 2:15—John Law: Singing Ev 2:30—Siesta Hour: Good New ngelist, Radio )0—Musle, 15—Uncle Paul's Kiddie Time, 35—Stocks. and Bonds. 40—Bismarck Tribune Sports Items 45—Bismarck Tribune News. 50—Musle, 6:00—Dinner Hour Organ Grace Duryee Morris, 6:80—Studio Program. 45—Newscasting. 00—Lonny Kunkel, Justine Bahmet 115—Legislative Tidbits. :30—Harmony Sisters. :45—Robert E. Bruce, Cornet; Hazel Johnson, Ace. 8:00-—B. A, Oestri De U. S. Civil Service Exams to Be Held The U. S. civil service commissioi has announced competitive examina- tions for the, positions of assistant dairy husbandman, head of industrial training department, junior and sen- jor instructors to shop subjects a Recital: ich, Lemmon, &. schools, and teachers of intermedial and primary grades. The salaries listed range from $1,860 to $3.200 4 year. Pull information may be obtained from Alice Sales, secretary of the hibits are expected. Railroads are offering reduced from all sections of the state to those attending the show. McFarland Imposes 10 Year Prison Seritence Gustave Lautt, 42-year-old farmer living near Cleveland, N. D., was sen- tenced to 10 years in the state peni- Civil Service board at the Bismarck Postoffice. ‘The island of Borneo is larger in grea than the state of Texas. SAYS: He is the father of 10 ‘Two daughters, one 14 and another 18, are involved’ in the case. Stickler Solution J teachers of senior and junior high . 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