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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

"The men Of the four seas are all
brothers." said Confucius; but
sometimes it seems doubtful whether
the world has found it out.
Confucius himself was Chinese;
Ruddha was a brown man of India;
Jesus was a Jew.
Any one of them would have diff
ficulty getting by the immigration
officer Of the port Of New York, and
none OF them, if perchance h" en-
tered the city, would be eligible TO
membership i'm its better clubs. The
age of brotherhood is not yet.
Yet there are corners of the earth
where some beginnings of the broth
erhood Of races have been made.
Witness Chinese dinner recently
attended in Honolulu.
The host, DR.. Dai Yen Chang, j. q
cultivated American gentleman Of
Chinese race, and his wife gracious
lady of the same sort. The guests.
number of distinguished Cnincse
from the Orient, the elite Of local
Chinese society, and number of
American visitors.
The talk is gossip Of American and
European universities, stories of
travel, personal repartee, and touch
es of the greater things Of rany
lands.
One Of the guests, james Y. c.
Yen, is the head of the history Of
the human race-the mass education
of literally hundreds of millions Of
people, from six to GO years old, to
transform a whole race from illitcr-
acy to literacy, almost over night.
To do this it was necessa:v, first
to devise simplified Chinese writ
ten language, and then to standard
ize method of teaching it in So
lessons and enlist a whole army of
teachers and enthuse a whole h;:tion
of pupils.
In few years the newspape" read
ing public of hitherto China will
be four times that Of the United
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

New York-The mist seeps up
from the East River and envelops
a dingy. barnlike building at Twen-
ty-ninth street. All about are tene-
ments and poverty. This is neigh
borhood where tragedies outnumber
the comedies. And here in this
dingy old building which is New
lorK's morgue goes on from day to
day the tragedy of death.
10 this morgue comes the failures,
the down-trodden ones. the humans
ground to grst in the mill Of the
great city. Men and women who
have fought what in the eyes of fe!-
low men is the losing fight, but who
in the end find here surcease from
their. struggles. Suicides, paupers,
and others who have lost themselves
in the great city, hiding from old
troubles or from the long arm Of the
law They so lived as to keep from
being claimed by their responsible
ties and so die unclaimed. Their for
tune is a number that temporarily
Identifies them. shallow grave in
Potter's Field after that.
Day and night there is strag-
cling procession of the living pass
I ing through the door. They come to
Hlcet tIdSeuy, Will HO alternative.
Mothers hunting sons, spouse
'"rcn,np for missing spouse, chill
dren tracing senile parents. If their
quest ends there in the gray mist
they come out weeping. If their
quest fails there they come out with
the anguish of uncertainty incrcas-
ed.
Also the police visit the place fire.
quently to scan the features of the
dead. Recognizing face they have
long sought they pull out their little
books, cross off name and relin-
quish their quest. Either way there
was no escape.
When pass this disquieting place
l look upon it as harbor into which
the back eddies of life have washed
their flotsam, as the port of missing
men who flolndered going upstream.
Walter Kingsley tells of veteran
dramatic critic Of Cincinnati who
recently visited New York and told
him that he had never heard of
Karl Kitchen or Odd Mcintyre, al
though both are Ohio products.
can't believe that the dramatic critic
is such q veteran, because it seems
only few years apo that McIntvre
was city editor of the Cincinnati
Post and Dave Tarbell, the puDiisner
of the Norwood Enterprise, would
send me down to him with "a note
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
The Hold Your Wheat" Cry
(St. Paul Dispatch)

farm organization known the National Pro-
ducers Alliance is now sending out speakers into
its territory Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota,
parts OF Minnesota and North Dakota-who have
revived the old cry. Hold your wheat" That this
is wisdom remains to be seen, if it means what it
meant in previous years. But the appeal of these
speakers that the farmer refrain from dumping his
grain - that he feed the market = that he keep as
much possible Of the wheat his FARMS III
line with the argument of the Department of Agr
culture, the railroads and the agricultural econom
lists everywhere. 1t is the dumping that produces
the fall sag in wheat prices.
TO go further than that and to argue that the
continued export OF wheat on crop that is appar
emily little the domestic need, means higher
prices in January, is problematic in its value. Ii
1t be taken for granted that the winter wheat crop
is much lower than usual. that the Canadian crop
has been hit by rust and frost and that spring
wheat is even less than government estimates. then
possibly the advice to hold your wheat" is sound.
But under the campaign waged by the Farmers
Union, farmers in Kansas and other winter wheat
states not revealing the extent Of that crop,
by Withholding shipments in any large quantity.
Except for the government estimate, that crop is
yet something OF guess. Again. the extent OF dam
age done the Canadian crop is not known definitely.
nor can it be till after the Northwest crop is cut
and for the most part threshed That is another
guess Once more, the extent of our commitments
Tor export can only be estimated and that these
| exports VIII be so great as to compel oar mlle"s
to import wheat and pay the AZ cent tariff like
wise guesses, particularly the latter, for the miller
to meet his export contracts Of flour, may ship in
! wheat under bond, grind and export without paying
/ the tariff
In brief that farmer is fortunate who is not forced
to pour his entire crop on the market from the
threshing machine With the remainder in his gran
airy. he can sell as soon the price seems righ'
to him, or when the basis mostly estimates sha
be changed to facts, upon knowledge of which h,
can market intelgently Putting all his wheat
! in one basket-whet:er in selling now holding
! to sell all later is not in the long run any NOR.
profitable than putting all his land into one crop
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
Germany Meets the Issue

After hours OF debate the Reichstag has pu;
through the governments tax bills in line with II"
Dawes plan to stabilize the finances Of the German
republic.
Under the plan the Reich is assured of seven
billion gold marks and the payment of Obligations
under tho Dawes plan. DR.. Hertz, GernNn
financial expert, criticiZes the system Of taxation
under the tax measure. He declares tnat there
il a discrepancy between the imposts levied on
The masses and those imposed Oh capital.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
ON HEALTH
DON'T LET YOUR WEIGHT SHRINK

So much has been said and written
during the last few years about the
danger Of overweight that one is in
clined to forget the danger of un-
derweight.
OF course underweight persons
are not considered as bad risks by
insurance companies, but still. an
undernourished body is susceptible
to many fatal diseases.
If underweight, one should con-
suit physician to determine if there
are any apparent symptoms which
might indicate disease
If there are no such symptoms
then one may take himself in hand
for a time and with little care and
attention he may put on weight.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
=: The TQngle ::

crate scale. and it would be most I'M
gracious for me to refuse at the last
minute even when Bee lay dead in
in California.
He pointed out that many of my
friends here knew Bee. and Sgd. to
my surprise. sided with Jack in the
matter. Re remarked that after we
had so quickly accepted the invita-
ton. he did not see how could get
out Of it. 1t would be different, he
said, if Mrs. Summers had lived and
died in this city rather than in Los
Angeles.
] let them have their way, Ruth
and the next morning we all assem-
bled at the Travellers Club where
found all my friends. There were
beautiful flowers in all the rooms,
and they were passed around with
great warm coats for all of US wo-
men and men. Even Jack looked
surprised at this.
When Mr.. Sartoris asked US to put
them on. although the day was
warm asked him. in turn if We
were going to the ice house.
thought this rather smart, but no
one smiled, and Mr. Sartoris an
swered: mo, we are going to lunch
in the Travellers dining room, but
just want to try on this coat to see
if it is going to fit before we go in
to luncheon.
Amid much laughter we tried the
coats on and found they fitted, sgd
helping me on with mine and Jack
doing the same for Marta Davies, {;
young widow who has recently come
OF Pittsburgh.
After divcsting ourselves of the
coats, we were ushered into the din.
ing room where the most exquisite
luncheon was served, the room and
tables being one mass of white flow
ers. ! had told Mr.. Sartoris at my
own party that my favorite flowers
were white.
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

IL think we shall have to look on
the Moon after all for some of Puff's
lost buttons" said Juggle Jump to
the Twins. Mr.. Peerabout may have
heard Of something"
SO he pushed one Of the magic
buttons on his coat market "stretch."
And taking the Twins by the hand,
they stretched too.
With one long step all three were
on the moon. Then Juggle Jump
pushed another button market
shrink" and they all returned to
their proper sizes.
why, how do you do!'. said Mis-
ter Pee rabout, the Moon Man. "Do
you mean to say that you haven't
found the lost buttons yeti" For he
knew all about it.
"Some, but not all,' said Juggle
Jump, patting his pocket where the
buttons were tucked safely away.
1--WE came to see if you knew any
thing"
mot very much," said the Moon
Man. 81 have had so much trouble
with my brakes lately. l haven't had
time to think of much else"
whats wrong?" asked Nick.
81 can't say exactly" said the
Moon Man. But the Moon goes too
fast, particularly down hill. The
first half Of the evening it does
, pretty we'll, goes right up the hill
of the sky without any trouble. l
scarcely ever have to change gear.
"But when I get to the top, it
wants to 60 down lickety split, like
racing car. / can't hold it back.
Why, the other night was right
over China when / should have been
only as far as Japan. l was morti-
fled to DEATH"
"Queer! Queer! Very queer!"
said Juggle Jump.
Just then the Dream Maker Man
| and his three sons came along. His
three sons were Snoozlc and Snuggle
and Shore.
II know the trouble" said the
| Dream Maker Man. cts the clouds
The Weather Man makes the clouds
run too fast past the moon and that
makes the moon look as though it
was fairly galloping along.
"Snoozle. you run along the Milky
Way and tell the Weather Man to
blow his clouds more slowly. That
will fix the trouble, Pm sure"
So off went Snoozle on his errand
Pretty soon he came back.
"The Weather Man says he cant
help it," said Snoozle.. "There's &
qucer-looking new star in the sky
and he's trying to blow it out-the
star, mean.'
They all ran along the Milky Way
to see the queer new star in the sky
what do you think! One of Puff.
pearl buttons was haHging to another
star by a thread. 1t had gone al
the way to the sky when he sneezed
"Hurrah!". cried Juggle Jump ant
the Twins. another button for thu
Fairy Queens cook! Puff will soor
have enough buttons to hold him to
gether again."
ITO Be Continued.)
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
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A couple always at odds soon
comes to odds and ends.
When you see tree torn down
these days you never know if ii
Next TO the water cooler and the
most popular summer resort.
The good die young. Just as soon
as homemade wine begins TO get
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
Men or Women Teachers?

The National Union of Teachers has branded
the proposal that everybody over years of age
should be taught by men "a principle that ought
to be reegated to the mad house "a product OF
war and the pugnacious prancings' of the mill
tant educator.
1t the National Association of Schoomasters
that started the controversy. AS yet the matter
is confined to English educators. Substitution OF
teachers for boys in the United States has not
been debated to any extent, but the British Isles
quite agog over the educational issue.
The Milwaukee Journal answers the question for
most normal Americans in this way
Most any mddle-aged American could
answer this question that the. English
wrought up about. He would remember,
back in the grades some kindly woman who
the mother of his school days and who
gave him qualities of heart and soul that
have always remained He would remem-
Der other women who taught him respect
for womanhood patriotism, love Of home,
love of community, courage and faith in
others. He would remember his first con-
tact with some man teacher who taught
him the delight of physical prowess fair
play and the honor Of the fed. And he
would believe that the boy-and the girl
should rub elbows with both masculine and
feminine qualities
I'VE have accepted in this country the
principle Of coeducation and it should APP
ply to teachers as well to pupils. Many
of grade schools fail to meet this test,
being under the exclusive control Of women.
But it is not easy to introduce men into the
traditional grade building Departmental
organization and the platoon school do
make it easier to have both women and men
on the faculty, and to that extent they APP
pear to meet more fully the childs needs.
The school prepares for life, and life con
sists of things both masculine and feminine,
doesn't IT,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

Plenty Of fresh air, exercise.
wholesome food and eight or nine
hours of sleep daily will do it,
In gaining weight good strong
muscles should be developed. Mere
fat is not desirable.
Therefore the basis of the diet
should be milk, butter, cream. oil,
potatoes, cheese, peanuts, bread.
crackers, rice mullins and flour
mixtures Of all kinds
Also vegetables. cereals and fruits
Some folk may be thin because
they are too active. or because they
work at too great tension. These
should change their habits of thought
and work il they would put on
weight.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

States and much more than that of
all Europe.
Other guests were almost as dis
tinguished: the leaders Of the renais-
sance Of China. The lady the writer
takes out to dinner is q Welleslv
graduate, and an honor to her col
lege.
These are the repre- sentativeS of
Il people which provincial America
thinks of as race Of laundrymen.
They show Il fine pride Of race, and
are only amused at Caucasian de-
lusions Of superiority.
One of them, u world traveller.
master of many languages, gentleman
Of culture and distinction, tells with
some glee the story Of the conductor
of an American railway train who
was curious to know in which laun-
dry he was going to work in the city
Of his destination.
The dinner, just for the interest
of it, was Chinese, with chop sticks,
sharks fins, birds nest soup, and
the rest. But the culture was cos
mopolitan.
Are such people our superiors or
our inferiors-or just, in the words
of their own sage, our "brothers?"
Are the Black Ones Our Brethren.
Too?
1t recalled another occasion,
year earlier, in far Ceylon. The
house: a palace.
Tea served in the great library,
lined with thousands of books in
every European language, by a lady
of queenly grace and dignity,
The conversations: books, art, phil
osophy, education, the influence of
various religions on the temperament
Of peoples, the gossip of many lands,
international repartee-such talk as
one expects only in the most cult
waited circles of Europe and America.
And the faces, with one palld ex-
ception-blacker than the lbackest
negro!
Are those, too, our brethren?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
NATIONS SEEK
SYNTHETIC GOLD
BY DAVID DIETZ
NEA Service Writer

An animal no bigger than large
insect. He's to be found on most
farms and in many large gardens.
Because of his size. he usually es-
capes attention. Farmer finding
HIM in a trap usually call him
baby mouse.
But he's full grown creature.
His scientific name is Sore: Person
atus. His ordinary name is the long
tailed shrew.
AS a rule, his body is about three
inches long, his tail one inch.
The shrew is Of particular interest
to the pioneers on the frontier Of
science who are engaged in inveSti-
eating evolution.
They believe that the shrew more
today resembles the first mammal to
appear on earth.
Some ten million years ago, the
great reptiles, the dinosaurs, ruled
the earth. Some of the dinosaurs
reached a length of 100 feet.
About this time, scientists believe,
the first mammals made their ap-
pearance.
They were only two or three inch
es in length-much like the little
shrew of today.
But conditions on earth changed.
The mighty dinosaurs died out. And
the little mammals thrived until
they in turn ruled the earth.
Attempts to produce gold by syn
thetic methods are going on in three
nations.
Professor Miethe Of the Photo
chemical Department of the Berlin
Technical High School, Professor
Nagaoka of the Tokyo Imperial Un:-
versity and Professor H. H. Sheldon
of New York University are all en-
gagged upon the problem.
Their method is to send heavy
electric currents through mercury
vapor. The current, they believe,
knocks electrons out of the nuclei
OF some OF the atoms of mercury,
turning them into gold.
So far, the method has no COM
mercial value. 1t is believed that
microscopic amounts of gold have
been produced at ocst of more than
100 times the value of the gold.
1t is interesting, however, to sec
science at last beginning to realize
the age-old dream Of the alchemist
OF turning "base" metals into gold.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

they all are iliiterate or lacking in
the intellectual attainment. Read
ers of the Public Library here wear
out $4,000 BOOKS a year. In that
period Of time l,l25,O0O books are
withdrawn by patrons Of the library
total of 9,549.000 times. Usually
book is sent to the bindery after
the fifteenth reading. Also it needs
new cover then. After so to GO
readings it is in such condition that
it has to be discarded.
JAMES W. DEAN.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
To Avoid Third Party

If the views Of its executive committee are suS
tanned the American Federation Of Labor is done
with third parties. Resolutions adopted re
Gently to the effect that if the Federation is to b."
true to its mission "it must be free from political
domino ion.
A wise decision. The late Samuel Gompers
tried hold aloof from party politics. He was
dragged into an endorsement of La Toilette, bu;
the labor vote did not follow the action Of the
Federation. Labor usually votes independently.
No leadership has been able to handle this bloc .:
votes effectively and the of labor has never
prospered as well as when its leaders avoided
partisan Arguments.
The Federation desires to be free in matters 81
a political nature and to enter campaign with
the purpose of supporting those who be de
pended upon to be true TO the people,
Those responsible for the policy Of hands Off.
state labor's position as follows:
Since the nonpartisan political policy
has been followed many Independent
third party movements have come and
gone. Generally they existed only for
election
THE people generally beginning to
realize that hide-bound partyism does not
benefit them All too frequently they have
learned that pledges in party platforms
not always respected but were used
simply stepping stone to office.
1.-The Executive Council believes that as
Il result OF its nonpartisan political policy
the launching OF third party movements has
been proved wasted effort and injurious to
the desire to elect candidates with favor
able records. The 1922 and 1924 political
campaigns definitely determined this fact.
Experience therefore has taught labor that
to be successful politically it must continue
in the future in the past to follow its
nonpa rtisan political policy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

that would read something like this:
Dear OoM-will you please let this
young fellow have the cut of Rem
milford that ran in Yesterdays
Post? III buy you "a drink if you'll
come out to Norwood to get it. Dave"
Of Course. many New Workers are
numbskulls, but don't believe that
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
Resources of National Banks

Resources of more than 5000 banks reporting u
the Controller Of Currency are more than twenty
four billion dollars This is greater than at an
time in the history of national banking with one
exception when in December, 1924. the figure passed
this mark by few millions.
Surplus funds in anks amounted to 81 ,6OO.63Jo"t
which is more by $lS,OO0,0OO than a year ago
Figures analysed by government officials ndica i"
an Improvement in banking conditions throughout
the nation
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

Herbert Hoovcr's summary OF the business out
look is cheering. He says: BY and large the
economic situation of the United States is better
than it ever in the Nations history. That Is
a sweeping statement but coming from Hoover i
entitled to credence.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

Roosevelt party is seeking lost race il Africa
1t could find plenty at any track.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

Photographs have been made at
MT. Hamilton in California, which
show the highest ranges Of the Sierra
Nevada mountains more than 800
miles away.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11
A THOUGHT

A thousand years in thy sight are
but as yesterday when it Is past, and
as watch in the night .-Psalms
9O:4.
o time! Time! How it brings forth
and devours! And the roaring flood
of existence rushes on forever, for
ever changing.-Carlyle.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

The temperature of the SUMS
photcsphere is 10000 degrees Fab
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-11

So Swedish people can enjoy Amer
lean radio programs the official
Swedish radio service will offer q
course in English this fall.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-03
American Accused
AS Wife Smuggler
Made Numerous Trips Across Border,
Brought In New Wife Each
Time, Is Charge.

Washington, D. c. The i'm
migration service is taki..g steps to
obtain the deportation of the numer-
Gus "wives" of a certain American
citizen who adopted novel plan of
faxed relationship for smuggling them
into this country through Mexico.
AS brought to light by the Depart
ment of Labor, the plan of the Ameri-
can citizen, who was not identified
but who has been convicted and
sentenced for smuggling aliens across
the border, consisted first of obtain
ing passport for use in travelling to
and from Mexico "on business" His
application stated that he would be
accompanied by his wife and four
children, of specified ages.
The scheme worked we'll until the
smuggler, having used all ports of
entry once, tried one for the second
time. Customs inspectors observed
that he had different "wife" on this
occasion. Inquiry revealed in fact
tha' the only wife he had ever had
had been dead for years, and the
prosecution followed.