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4 namo ecm AR HV AENRE SVM EEE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931 THE BISMARCK TRIBUN An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ASS a aeeattaiot caniates tat aetna eterno Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- imarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck fas second class mail matter. George D. Mann ............... President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ..........- -$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) - 7.20 Daily by mail per year ., (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 . ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year .. o ‘Weekly by mail in ada, . 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The similarity of the two situations persists through efforts to obtain relief from congress and the fact that those efforts have failed to prove wholly satisfactory. A statement issued by officials of the Independent Petroleum association of America outlines the situation. It says: “Regardless of the long fight of the independent oil ‘men, congress again failed to limit the importations of foreign oil—and hardly had the gavels in the senate and in the house marked the end of the Tlst congress than drastic reductions in the price of crude oil were an- nounced throughout all of the fields of the United States. ‘These reductions came regardless of the successful fight that the industry has been making to reduce its daily Production of crude oil—and its unsuccessful fight to make corresponding reductions in its staggering stocks; of crude oil which today stand at around 500,000,000 bar- rels. On March 10, 1930, the production of crude oil in’ the United States averaged about 2,620,000 barrels a day and on March 10, 1931, about 2,100,000 barrels a day —or a reduction of 520,000 barrels a day in crude produc- tion. “The average price of crude oil throughout the United States on March 10, 1930, was about $1.20 a barrel and the output at that time was worth about $3,144,000 a day. “On March 10, 1931, the average price of crude oil throughout the country was about 85 cents a barrel and the output was worth about $1,785,000 a day. This means that the gross income from the production of crude oil dropped from $3,144,000 a day to $1,785,000 a day—a, shrinkage of $1,369,000 a day.” With the farmer it is the exportable surplus which causes his trouble. With the oil men it is the tmported surplus, for oil is steadily being imported into this coun- try by the larger refiners. With production at 2,100,000 barrels a day, 2,266,000 barrels a day are going to the stills, but the surplus is not being diminished because of oil brought in from Mexico, South America and other international fields. ‘Thus, that huge stock of surplus oil hangs over the market like a sword, much in the same manner that the surplus of wheat hangs over the grain market. As almost always is the case in an economic crisis, there is a villain in the piece. In this case, of course, it is the oil importers, those firms which are big enough to have interests outside of continental United States. ‘These firms, the independents contend, are making new records for big profits while, at the same time, “thou- sands of workers have lost their jobs and hundreds of operators have lost their properties,” because of their al- leged refusal to curtail the importation of petroleum. Another factor bobs up in the situation which dis- courages the “little fellow.” It is the fact that, while production in the United States has been curtailed in an effort to work off the surplus—this having been done on a prorata basis suggested by the president—the im- porters have refused to extend the proration principle to their activities. Unless some action is taken, the prorata agreement made among producers in this country may be cast aside and this valuable natural resource wasted in large measure by a@ battle for survival among the oil giants of America. As he views the plight of the oil industry, therefore, the agriculturist may find some blessings of his own which heretofore have seemed of doubtful quality. If he does his part by reducing production of wheat so as to make the tariff on that grain effective, the tariff is there to take effect. We commonly think of oil in terms of easy money, but the petroleum men are talking in a different key these days. They actually envy the farmer his opportunity to pull himself out of the hole by curtailing production of some things and expanding in others, for curtailment thas done them no good and they have no allied lines of industry to which they may devote their energies. A Million Letters Down in Winston Salem, North Carolina, one of the enterprising cities of the new south, there is a great bustling and hurrying to and from the postoffice, for last week the receipts of first-class mail were more than @ million letters above the average. ‘There was @ reason for this, of course, for a million Americans do not sit down and write letters, all on the same subject, without something to urge them on. All of the letters in this case were addressed to one firm. It makes @ popular brand of cigarette and it of- fered $50,000 in a contest which had to do with people's opinion on the cigarette and the manner in which it is packaged and sold. The United States was informed of the contest through one of the most intensive advertising campaigns ever staged in this country. The appeal for“interest in the competition was made by placing announcements in the leading newspapers of the nation. It was a brief cam- paign but it attracted the attention of more than a mil- Yon persons so strongly that they took the trouble to NEW that in this nation, more than any other, the man who Tuns may read and thereby inform himself. Representatives of great commercial organizations who spend their money for advertising do so on a cold- blooded basis, They ride no hobbies and indulge in no philanthropy. What they want is results, That million letters demonstrated clearly, to the com- pany placing the advertisements, that their money was well spent. ‘To other persons who have a story of commercial initia- tive to tell, it was a demonstration also. Public Education The worst thing about trying to appraise the status of common school education in the United States today is| the fact that one gets so many different verdicts from which to choose. On one hand, it is asserted that the education that is given children today is immeasurably better than that which was given half a century ago, and on the other hand there are people who declare that modern educa- tional methods have lost themselves in a maze of tech- nicalities, so that the pupil emerges with a narrow hori- zon and a poorly-trained mind. In the current issue of World's Work magazine, for instance, a teacher calls for a simplification of the public school program. Experts in the field of education, she asserts, have learned teaching everywhere except in the classroom. They know nothing of children from first- hand observation—and try to study them through charts, curves, graphs and tests. They bedevil the teachers with questionnaires and extract profundities from the tabulations thereof. They then write new text-books, and put them into the schools—and the hapless child is the goat. ‘Undoubtedly, there is ground for complaint in this respect. Faddists and theorists do settle on the public school system very often—so that one wonders, now and then, if the little red schoolhouse of the old days did not, after all, train its pupils just as well as they are trained today, if not better. On the heels of this, however, comes Dr. C. V. Good, professor of education in the Teachers College of the University of Cincinnati, to point out the genuine ad- vances that have been made in elementary education. “The chief qualifications of the schoolmaster of 100 years ago,” he points out, “were to manage the big boys and to rule the school with an iron hand. Two of the favorite pedagogical maxims of the time were: ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child, and ‘A boy has a back; when you hit it, he understands.’” In addition, Dr. Good points out that much of the in- formation contained in the old text-books was actually untrue, Geography and history, in particular, were so handled as to give the child a faulty picture of the world in which it lived. Furthermore, no effort was made to enlist a child’s interest or stir his curiosity. Undeniably, enormous advances have been made in these respects. In the light of Dr. Good's remarks it is impossible to deny that the modern school is leagues ahead of its predecessor. But we have, nevertheless, two verdicts. Which is right? Or, if neither is entirely correct—which attitude {comes the closer to expressing the truth of the matter? Officials of countries in both North and South Amer- ica are to meet in Panama and talk about the proposed Inter-American highway from Hudson bay to the tip of South America, The road has been charted as far south as Panama. That's more than Columbus had when he set sail for America the first time. Editorial Comment Fditorials 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. A Peeved Sun (Lisbon Free Press) The Jamestown Sun is getting peeved and personal because this paper and others fail to see any reason for removing the state capitol from Bismarck to Jamestown, and because we do not break our neck to sanction this move we are dubbed “a puppet.” We are accused of re- hashing editorials from The Fargo Forum and of prac- tically having no initiative whatsoever so far as editorial ability is concerned. The editorial writer of The Times- Record was wielding a pencil when the editor of The Sun was in swaddling clothes and from the way he is: talking right now, it would indicate that he is still in swaddling clothes.—Valley City Times-Record. The above applies also to The Lisbon Free Press be- cause it failed to fall in line for removal of the capitol to Jamestown. We have been informed that The Sun took a slam at The Free Press but as we do not get the former paper as an exchange we shall say little more than that we have not changed our mind one particle, but if it comes to a vote, Bismarck will be favored by The Free Press editor, and this, too, without instructions from any source. The Legislature and University Discipline (Minneapolis Tribune) If members of the state legislature can find nothing better to do than to rummage into matters of student discipline at the University of Minnesota, we see no rea- son why that body should continue in session another | Shades of St. Patrick! | F ‘The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great Information Bureau main- tained in Washington, D.C. This valuable service is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plain- ly, enclose two cents in coin or stamps for return postage, and address the Bismarck Tribune Information Bu- reau, Frederic J, Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. What is the stick called with which an elephant is prodded by the man driving it? H. A. B. A. An elephant driver is called a mahout and the stick is an ankus. This goad is a stick about two feet long, capped with a sharp spike and hook. It resembles a short-handled boat hook. Q. Where does Angelo Patri teach school? N. F. M. A. He is principal of School No. 45, New York City. Q. What kind of paper is used to make our stamps? H. Y. A. The paper used in the manu- facture of postage stamps is made of bleached chemical wood fiber deriv- ed, at the present time, from North Carolina pine trees. Q. What does it cost to collect the internal revenue taxes? J. A. S. A. The total cost of administering the internal revenue tax laws for $1.13 for each $100 collected. Q. Is the centrifugal force of a revolving wheel greater at the rim than inside it? G. S. A. The Bureau of Standards says that the centrifugal force of a re- volving wheel is greater at any point cn the rim than at any point nearer the center. Q. What was the first industrial undertaking started in this country? FED. A. The first industrial enterprise in the United States was a glass bot- tle factory erected In the Virginia Colony soon after 1607. It was locat- ed in the woods about one mile dis- tant from Jamestown. Q. What were the measurements of the city of Néw York a hundred years ago? B. J. M. A. An article published in The Christian Advocate says: “At the be- ginning of the nineteenth century 24 hours. ‘The suspension of 17 farm school students for either drinking or selling liquor was not, of course, bound up in the slightest degree with the merits or demerits of prohibition, and any effort to argue the rightness or wrongness of such disciplinary action on the part of the university would be stupid and absurd. The fact of the matter is that student drunkenness and student bootleg- ging have never been countenanced at the university, and the further fact of the matter is that it was no worse for the university to suspend 17 students on charges of the sort than to suspend one, or three or half a dozen. ‘Thus the wholesale characters of the suspensions which were modified by the compromise agreement of Friday had little or no bearing on the propriety or impropriety of those suspensions. It is hardly to be hoped that cer- tain legislators will admit it, but the truth remains that the only question involved in this disciplinary action was the right of university authorities, and the fitness of university authorities, to establish and enforce certain rules of student conduct. If these authorities are not to be trusted in the matter of disciplining students, it is palpably silly to trust them with any responsibilities whatsoever, and Minnesota might conceivably do well to turn over the whole business of administration, in- struction and student contro] to the state legislature. Un- til such action is taken, however, the desirability of per- mitting the university a free disciplinary hand must be generally conceded. If the legislature is properly the arbiter of student conduct, it cannot, of course, conscien- tiously confine its interest to liquor suspensions, and if we are to have legislative committees on cribbing, frat- ernity rushing, and football eligibility, the university might as well be moved to the capitol lawn, ‘The Tribune is disposed to believe, however, that the university authorities are well qualified to administer student discipline and much better qualified, gs a mat- ter of fact, than a great many legislators. For legis- write a letter. The number who were less keenly inter- ested can be estimated only by the number of news- papers printed by the publications in which the advertise- ments were placed, multiplied by five. ' urge to write, of course, was provided by that im prize money, but the information upon which were based was contained in plain print. letters give testimonial to, the enormous seems to us, would be unpardonable folly, and for the simple reason that nothing could more quickly break down university morale or prove more completely devast- ating to student respect for faculty authority. A legis- lature functioning as dean of men and moral counsellor to a state university might conceivably turn out to be @ perfect arrangement, but so long as legislatures must concern themselves with such trivialitjés as redistricting afd taxation, we shall entertain jus doubt on that score. There is a great deal to be said, at least, for the lature to make a practice of meddling in such matters, it}, the ‘commercial metropolis of the United States’ occupied only the low- er end of Manhattan Island, what is now ‘up town’ being still made up of spacious farms and country estates, including the little village of Harlem. The actual measurements of the city proper are given as three miles in length (from the Battery to Four- teenth Street), one and a half miles in width and eight miles in circum- ference.” Q. For whom was Thomas A. Edi- son named Alva? R. W. A. His middle name, Alva, was giv- en him in honor of an old friend of {his father’s, Captain Alva Bradley. Q. What is the difference between Memorial Day and Decoration Day? M.H. A. The terms are used interchange- ably. They refer to the same day. Q. Why do woodpeckers bore into trees? C. B. A. They are hunting the burrows of wood-boring insects for food. Q. How much money was there in Savings banks last year? C. W. A. In 1930 there was $9,190,969. deposited in the mutual savings banks. In the stock savings banks there was $1,166,192,000. This amount of deposits represents the deposits evidenced by savings pass books and time certificates of deposits, Q. What does the term, loading, signify in the insurance business? R. 1930 was $34,352,063.41, the cost being | G. D. ‘A. It applies to that amount which is calculated as the cost of securing the desired business. ° Q. What will Russia’s cotton crop be this year? G. A. K. A. In 1930 the cotton crop in Rus- sia amounted to 1,400,000,000 tons. It is expected that this year’s crop will exceed this, It may be as much as five times as large. Q. Please give a brief account of Madame de Stael’s girlhood. D. N. A. Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stael-Holstein, was born at Paris, April 22, 1766. Her father was the famous financier, Necker. Her mother was Suzanne Curchod. She was a plain child but a coquette and desirous of prominence and at- tention. Excessive study and intel- lectual excitement injured her health which was improved by the family’s removal to Coppet, her father’s es- tate on the Lake of Geneva. In 1786 Mile. Necker published a novel, Sophie, and in 1790, a tragedy, Jeanne Gray. Her first marriage was to Eric Magnus, Baron of Stael-Holstein, first an attache of the Swedish Lega- tion, and later minister. She was twenty at the time and her husband thirty-seven, Q. What kind of stone was used in the Great Pyramids? B. P. A. The pyramids were built of a hard, rough-hewn limestone, but large blocks of granite were also used, especially on the outside. The stone was taken from quarries in the cliffs which line the Nile Valley in its lower Teaches, ES | Today Is the | Anniversary of i d MADISON'S BIRTH On March 16, 1751, James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born at Port Conway, Va. After graduating from Princeton at ed age of 20, he studied law. Five years later he entered politics by be- coming a member of the Virginia convention, and, though too modest for an orator, he became one of the ;most eminent, accomplished and re- spected of American statesmen. As a member of the convention of 1787, which framed the Federal Con- stitution, Madison took complete notes in shorthz.nd, thus producing the only record of its proceedings and debates. In 1792 he became the leader of the Republican party in Congress, and wrote the Kentucky resolutions of 1798, which contain the basis of the State Rights doctrines. In 1809, after he had served as sec- retary of state under Jefferson. Mad- ison was elected president of the United States. In his second term Madison approved the establishment of a national bank as a financial necessity. In 1817 he retired to his home at Montpelier, Va., where he served as rector of the University of Virginia. oe | Quotations | Americans buy books but don’t read them.—John Boynton Priestly, British author. * * * ‘Thank God for clothes.— William B. Powell, writing of a visit to a German nude cult (naked) club. * *e It is ruining Europe to have Ger- many underbidding all markets—Dr. Lauritz Birck, Danish economist. * * * People are becoming tired of hear- ing about justice and liberty and equality, and the old conjure words. They want to know how to get a job OUT OUR WAY By Williams OH, THAT 2? PuLUN’ TH’ TABLE CLOTH COWN | Lve THAT 2 OF THATS) T SAVE WORK SANES A LOT OF WwoRK FOR WHO ? I DONT HAFTA WALK CLEAN “TABLE CLOTH ALL TH Wats ALONG SANES A LOT OF Tet TABLE — Jisy POL aANoRH FoR WHO? TH TABLE CLOTH ALONG, Pic’ OFF TH’ DISHES AN’ rT SAVES A de | gf ROECDY WADOMR BE BY DR. FRANK Mc COY it Wag 10 IN REGARD TO HEALTH € DIET WILL BE ANSWERED ADDRESSED IM dl CARE OF THIS PAPER ENCLOSE STAMPEO AOORESSED ENVELOPE FOR REPLY SERVICE -LOS ANGELES- CAL: © 1926 MSCOY HEALTH STOP INTERFERING WITH ' HEALTH The only ones to take up the sub- ject of dieting are those who are suf- fering from some ailment, or whose loved ones have been told they have some serious disease. Those who have searched from one method of cure to another, and who have failed to get results from medicine and surgery, finally turn to dietetic treatment in hope of a cure. It seems to me that as I have studied the minds of pa- tients, the first thought that comes to them in this regard is to find some food to bring about a cure; by the body to effect a cure. eases as pernicious anemia the “fast” cure will be found to be the most ef- fective. Patients who are anemic can Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet addressed to him, care of The Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. live for two or three weeks cn nothing but orange juice, and the quality of the blood will increase steadily during that time. It is simply because the body is free from its burden of too I am more and more convinced | Orange and convert it into valuable that this is not possible of accom- plishment in most cases, but that the | the powe- secret lies in what may be called “negative dieting,” that is, learning to blood cells, where the body had lost t do this when eucum- bered by too much food. After you have tried the milk cure, eliminate those articles of food which | the buttermilk cure, the Salisbury have been used regularly, and which | diet, the raw food regimen, etc. and have interfered with health. these cure. have failed to bring about Disease is an unnatural condition | the desired results, remember what I which may be said to be simply “im- paired health.” Health writers, and dietitians are too inclined to lay emphasis upon such have said in this article and try the “fasting” cure in some form—learn to give up those foods which have been interfering with your health. Don't ri beri, pelegra, rickets,| be as anxious to build up health as paren i aerrt out that they are | to remove the obstructions which have caused by an absénce of the normal | interfered with health. Disease then vitamins in food, and that this ab- | disappears as if by magic, and you will sence produces diseases. While this is| find yourself once again a radiant no doubt true in certain parts of the | transformer of universal energy. world, such as in India, it is not true that these diseases exist to any great extent in civilized countries, as in America or Europe. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Acid and Gall Bladder Question: L. N. C. asks: “Is it The fault in America is that 999| true that one who has no gall bladder out of 1000 eat too much, and are) stores up more acid continually?” over-nourished rather than under- nourished. All of the common diseases, such as fever, headaches, rheumatism, indi- gestion, etc., are not caused by one particular food, but by using too much of every kind of food, especially those such as the starch and sugar foods which contain an abundance of waste material not necessary for use ——— eee ©] There's many a beauty parlor with in the body. It is difficult to think of a single common disease which is not caused by overeating, or by using foods in wrong combination. Of course, it is true that people often neglect to use food of the right qual- ity, but you will usually find if you study their diet for a week that they have used a sufficient amount of all Answer: It is possible for one to continue in good health after the gall bladder is removed if the bile flows into the intestines from the liver at regular intervals after food is eaten. Bile is alkaline and therefore counter- acts the stomach acids as they enter the small intestines. If the bile is detained too long in the liver or does not flow sufficiently, there will be an over-acid condition of the intestines, and this causes certain digestive troubles. This may be true with those who have a gall bladder as well as those who have had it removed. Gas from Lettuce Question: Mrs. D. M. writes: find lettuce causes gas. Why?” Answer: There is no known ele- ment in lettuce which directly pro- “y of those natural elements for the; duces gas, but the fact that using body. It is often the case that they do not get the good from the vital foods that they do use because of a poor mixture with so many other foods, which produces indigestion, and consequently the good foods can- not be assimilated by the body. In my experience as a dietitian, I have never felt the need in any one case of advising a patient to use more food as iong as the food he was eat- ing was of the right qualit:. My edv’ 2 in almost every disease is invariably to cut down on the food supply—to eliminate this—or to cut cown on that kind of food, and if the patients do this they are sure to get good results. Even in such dis- large amounts of lettuce does actually produce gas with some people has led to the belief that some chemical in lettuce, such as the hyoscyamine, has an effect upon the digestion in such @ manner that excessive gas is pro- duced from the digestive fluids of the stomach and intestines. Tapeworm Question: W. H. S. asks: “How can I tell if-I still have a tapeworm? One passed about 30 years ago, and 1 wonder if I have another?” Answer: If there are no segments appearing in the stool, about the only sure way is for you to take some tapeworm remedy which your drug- gist can furnish. and how to prosper.—Governor Albert Ritchie of Maryland. * Journalism is life—Vittorio Musso- lini, 14-year-old publisher and son of Premier Mussolini. * Ke OK There is nobody like Garbo.—Mar- lene Dietrich. BARBS ? 2 rooms for impr »vement. * Lots of men of few words often say 1 @ mouthful. * * Pilsudski, president of Poland, re- fuses to have a female domestic serv- ant in his home. A self-maid man, apparently. see Inferiority complexes don’t worry some women as much as inferiority complexions. aes Tunnels are called tubes, points out the office sage, possibly because of the squeeze you get in them. * * * The burning problem with most families just now is whether that coal pile is big enough to last out the winter. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) 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Stickler Solution jai |8 Kea Kia) 20] 5 COSBOS@E o_o KFYR ‘ e TUESDAY, MARCH 17 530 Kilocyeles—o45.1 Meters AM. report, Sammy. e Morris, organist. rm and Home Markets: high, low, and close; news, Weather, livestock ma ets. 2:30—John Law, singing evangelist. 2:45—Siesta program: Good News magazine, dance program, Time. ‘ho's Behind the Name: sdwin Alger (NBC), ‘tocks und bonds; news; eather, NBC. :45—Minneapolis Chamber’ of Gom- merce, \—Thurley Snell. nuet theatre. ‘oet of the Organ. 00—Sammy Kontos and his trouba- dours, The average size of the 35 ton lit- ters of pigs produced in the 1930 North Dakota ton litter contest was 10.1. Of the seven heaviest litters tree were 12 pigs and four were 11 Pigs each. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Whether you kid her or not, you can always get a rise out of an cle- vator cirl Yow wd vA _y aA