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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04
(Onicial City, state and County Newspaper


The continent Of North America. says 4 scientist,
is sinking steadily into the Further, il is sink
ing at very rapid rate,
How rapidly? Pretty swiftly. measured by
geological sandards-say about a quarter OF an
inch in five years.
That may not seem so speedy But the scientist
declares that in thousand centuries or so our
middle west will be at the bottom of new ocean.
There will be a few islands where the Appalachian
Mountains are and the Rockies, OF course. VIII
stay dry: but it looks as though the rest of the
country rs going wet.
To he sure tie whole thing is far enough off 50
that none Of us need to lose any sleep over 1t. Ana
yet it's rather good thing to think about. now
and tlen, If one is inclined to be too cocky.
We manage to keep pretty busy in this country
We build big buildings and tunnel through noun
tains and harness streams and fling railroad tracks
across deserts-and il never occurs to US that TINS
sort OF thing isn't going to last forever. So We go
ahead, pcrsuading ourselves that it's tremendously
important: and most Of us make ourselves work
50 hard that we haven't any time left to play or
listen to music or watch the big stars go wheeling
across the sky on a warm summer night
And then, in while, some scientist looks
up from his test tubes and charts long enough to
smile and say:
lyon think you are important! Why, the earth
gest cities and taHest towers buried beneath
the Why. strange fish will swim through the
pillars your banks and theters, and seaweed will
grow between the stones in your streets. You're
just an incident, that's ALL.
1t may be very true, though it's discomfortng t.
think about. But after all. we have reply that
the scientist can't answer We can say:
you're probably right. But, meanwhile. we'r,
concerned about what's happening to us here ant
now not about what's going to happen hundred
thousand years from Perhaps this country i
going to sink under the sea; for the present W.
have life and sunshine and open meadows and gold
rivers and green leaves in springtimc and mist.
moons on August evenings; and these things ar,
quite enough: You worry about the future i
you want To. We will enjoy life now, and laugh
Then, later if the flood comes, We will not care
And It's a. good answer. Just so long as we under
stand that happiness and love and laughter, honest
earned, are among the chief of the things To b.
gained here on eartl-wel should worry abOn
the scientists threats
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04
ADVENTURES
Me.TWNS
N OLIVE ROBPRTS RApT0N

Tweekanose, the bad little goblin,
went on having good time, or at
least he thought he was having Il
good time. But if you think it's fun
to spoil other peoples good times,
l don't.
But 'then--goblins are different.
Just after Christmas when the
boys and girls were home from
school and enjoying their Christmas
presents and their vacation, it was
Tweekanose's chance to be mean.
He never seemed to be able to
keep his long nose out Of mischief.
The Fairy Queen became more and
more worried, and she telephoned TO
Inch o. Pie and Inch o. Pie told the
Twins that they would just have IL
catch the mischief maker.
So the three Of them tried harder
than ever.
But the trouble was, you never
knew what on earth the goblin WAS
going to do next.
He ruined "a playroom OF toys one
day, and he ruined /; party the next
day, and he even ruined things for
crOWn-upS.
Well!
One night Jack Frost got busy.
les a queer one, too. never to be
counted on, and generally asleep on
his job just when he is needed to
make sled tracks and freeze ponds.
But this time he took jolly notion
to make everything lovely for the
children on their Christmas vaca-
ton.
So he shook down some snow and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04
Dixie" Still Holds Us in It's Spell

The scene IS the sumptuOus interior of a gigantic
moving picture theater in large northern city.
The audience listens in less boredom until,
suddenly, there is sharp rufe of drums and the
musicians go lifting into Dixie"
The half-bored audience instantly grows awake
Feet tap the floor. tiny thrills run down thou
sand backs, and spontaneous burst of handicap
ping browns out the music for moment.
Why is this: Surely not in fifteen members
OF the audience comes from the south. In fact the
ancestors ct good quarter of them, probably were
living in Europe at the time of the Civil War But
It makes no difference one and all burst into APP
plausc when "Dixie' rings out.
3 Funny tune, t:sat Dixie" You may be the grand
Eon Of q Union veteran or the descendant of 100
per cert aboltionist; hut somehow, when that most
stirring Of all war tunes strikes up you find your
sBelf wishing, just for fraction of second that
You, too, had been one OF Pickett's gallant men in
Tint maryelOus charge through the wheat at Gettys
burg: or that you had stood in the trenches al
vicksburg when Grant was hammering. Ahammerina
~ the gates. NJ
y IT. ODD, too Vhen you stop to consider IT; tor the
|soag Mass 56dnaIly written for minstrel show
md wAs sung = Dlch performances before the wa,
Sta Peft,apa through the four yeers from 81
81 something q tie Wild spirit, the fearless ar
1. ~ leantpg friotism o. the men WHO mad,
npskSs1ag infused Into tie music; i
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04
KEEP AIR MOIST TO
KEEP WE'LL

gated in q work room, by con9re9a-
tons massed in churches, by audi
ences in theaters and other buildings.
raises the temperature and increases
the moisture.
In winter, on the other hand, the
heated air in buildings il usually
too dry. Often the humidity falls
to as low as 20 per cent and humid
ity as low as this is lower than that
found in desert regions. Air as dry
as this draws moisture from the
skin and irritates the mucous MEM
braRes of the nose, throat and mouth.
Keep Humidity 50 Per Cent
To he comfortable the humidity
of workr0om should be about 60
per cent II would be we'll for plant
managers To see that the humidity
is kept at least that high, for at 30
per cent humidity less heat is re-
quired and much coal is saved. This
saving applies to factories as we'll
AZ homes. A temperature of &c de-
grees Fahrenheit is quite high
enough if the men in this tempera-
ture are doing work which requires
average physical activity.
II you are afraid Of drafts upon
the body at night take q piece If
hoard about II inches wide and
equally as long as the window is
wide, raise the window sash, slip the
board in beneath, and draw the sash
down upon it. Fresh air will spill
in over the top of the sash. Even
this unsatisfactory measure will
help to dissipate that dull, sick feel
ing that you have upon waking up
in the morning after having slept
in a room inadequately ventilated.
Plant manager, ventilate your fac
tories. Workmen, ventilate your
homes. The net results of such
proper and adequate ventilation will
be increased health, greater eff
cheney and more economy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04
BY DIR. HUGH 8. CUMMING
Surgeon General, Z. 8. Public Health

Service
In order to keep living every one
must have sufficient air to breathe,
and in order to keep on being
healthy this air should be sufficiently
pure as well as sufficiently moist.
II we could spend our lives in the
open air, away from noXious gases.
ventilation would take care of itself.
The air OF our rooms, in order to
be healthful. must be renewed con-
stantly either by natural. or artificial
means. When we breathe in we take
oxygen from the air. and when we
breathe out we add carbon diOxide
and other substances. Oxygen is
taken from the air we inhale. by the
blood which circulates through the
lungs and is carried away to help the
food build up the body. keep it warm
and energize it.
Oxygen constitutes about one-fifth
Of the air and about One-half Of that
one-fifth is breathed out unchanged,
and may be breathed over. Carbon
dioxide is part of the waste that is
left over in the body when oxygen
and food combine to build up the
body. It is picked up from the blood
by the lungs and breathed out. IT
is injurious when it is breathed in
again in too large amounts.
Have Thought for Others
In using window ventilation care
should be taken that some persons
do not suffer from bad air, while
others shiver and sneeze. To renew
air, some factories now use big cleo
trio fans so placed as to drive off the
foul air or to drive in the fresh air
or both.
Temperature and humidity, that is
the presence of moisture in the air
must also be considered. The body
heat given off by s,orkers congre'
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04

then blew his breath over everything
as hard as he could, and wish you
could have seen the grand sled track
there was on one special hill.
It was wonder!
No automobiles came that way, or
no street cars, and not army people
and the hill was mile long.
All the Christmas s!eds we're
brought at once, and everything was
as jolly as sleigh-bells.
But there was one little boy. quite
little, with long nose and peaked
cap, and if anyone had looked close
ly, they would have noticed that his
shoes were pointed too.
He had no sled. He just looked
on, and sort of chuckled to himself.
"Come on and have ride OF my
s!ed," called jolly little boy.
"Plenty Of room on behind"
mo, thanks" said the queer little
boy, keeping his hands in his peck
cts, which seemed to stick out most
peculiarly. II don't like to sled
ride"
what" almost shrieked the jolly
little boy with the sled. And he went
off and told the others about it.
There's the noon whistle!" said
the children by and by. well "a
home for lunch and come back this
afternoon"
SO they took their sleds and went
away, leaving the sled track shining
like polished glass in the sun. Yes
the sun had come which made
IL all the merrier
But the queer little boy just stood
still. He didn't 30 home to luncn
Then when he was quite alone. III
took some white stuff slyly out Of
his pockets, and going up and dowr
the Sled track, he sprinkled it. There
seemed to be no end to the amount
they heM.-those tiny pockets.
And the ice began to split an'
crack and melt. The beautiful slet
track soon began to lose its polish
and look very rough and dull.
Then the queer little boy, whose
name you may have guessed. wen
away.
When the children came back after
lunch, the poor sled track was
ruined.
"Oh, it's the SUM-" they cried
1.-The sun has melted our lovely
track! What shame!"
But I know that if they could hav'
tasted the tiny streams OF me1tet
water, thew would have noticed salt
Ito Be C0ntinued)
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04

Mussolini pays the United States q
perhaps undeserved compliment. He
says that. alone among nations, we
regard work not as an irksome ne
cessity, in order to live, but as the
very purpose and Joy Of life. We
welcome life, because it is chance
to work, and rejoice in rich con-
tinent. because it gives US sone-
thing to work on.
This may be too high praise, as to
our actual achievement, but surely
it is none too high an ideal to aspire
toward. When God laid on Adam
the curse of work, he also sowed for
him the seed Of progress. Work,
even the humblest, is its own reward.
The street sweeper must needs get
wages. to live; but his most direct
reward is the clean street. made so by
his effort. The mason sees a wall
come into existence which will out
last him and house unborn genera
tions. He has projected himself into
something eternal. So far as Ameri-
ca has lived by this spirit, it has led
the world.
+! The London Daily News wanted to
know how many hours q day men
long list Of eminent men all over
that age. Senator Smoot, who is Ga,
found that he was all right so long
as he did not exceed sixteen hours
a day. Raymond Poincarc. at IS,
says "ten or twelve hours day, or
even more" Sir Oliver Lodge, who
is "a, now finds eight hours enough.
M. Loucheur, at 53, works ten hours:
Lord Inchape, u, ten and half,
and Sir Flinders Petrie, ~, ten.
The interesting thing in this list
is not merely the hours, but the fact
| that these men take hard work for
! granted. Most of the men on this
list are wealthy. and all of them are
| distinguished. They have achieved
, the highest ambitions to which men
aspire. And they celebrate this
achievement by hard work and long
hours.
If you think work an evil, to be
escaped, do not aspire to the heights.
The new king Of Persia gracious
~ announces that he will not slaugh-
| ter he'rclatives of the deposed Shah.
Which indicates that the precepts
of Nicolo Machiaveli are not known,
or are not followed, in Persia.
A prince who conquers q new
country. says Nicolo, lis obliged to
have a care of two things more par.
ticularly; one is that the family of
the former prince be extinguished."
Further: ITO secure the possession
there needs no more than to extir-
pate the family of the prince which
governed before"
Old Nicolo was cynic, but he UNI
doubtedly was good authority on the
practical politics Of his time. Persia
seems to be in about the same period.
The usurping sovereign might be
safer if he followed Machiavelii's adj
vice. But the world win be glad
that more modern principles have
penetrated at least enough to pre-
vent this. It is enough for one cen.
fury that the Russian revolutionists
did it. in the name Of the dictator.
ship Of the proletariat."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04
Pifle

American society women, read are to try to
lead America back to the way of moral leadership
and what nc. by bringing back the ankle length
skirt and banishng the cgaret from the mouths
OF all who young and female.
These things, it is said, have caused American
girls stray from the straight and path and
have made young men lose respect for them.
All OF which ia pifle. Don't forget that in the
staid nneties, when skirts touched the ground and
good women scorned tobacco and rouge every city
in the country had a thriving rcdlight district and
moral uprightness thing that simply wasn't
expected of Now skirts short and cigarcts
are pulled but segregated vice has died and new
moral standard is rising
In the things that really matter we've advanced.
Short skirts and cigarets have little to do with
morals.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04

has an echo OF the wild rebel yell, touch Of the
tragic pathOs of the lost cause
And the country is better because the song does
mean these things For it reminds all citizens,
north and south. native born foreign-born. that
the Civil War is not merely dusty memory to the
people of Dixie, but a thing OF suffering and heart
break that is not easily forgotten.
And also. it, reminds that the Confederate
army, no less than the Union army. trod path OF
glory that is our common heritage as Americans:
that America is the richer for having produced a
Robert r.. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, just It
is richer for having produced Abraham Lincoln.
Good old Dixie! Gallant song breathing the
old fire of American herOism and selfhenial! May
il ring long as America lasts!
What this country needs is onions too polite to
smell in company.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04

New York, Jan. Anew names,
like meteors, flash from time to time
across the financial sky, cutting so
bright a path that the whole business
world watches and gasps.
Most of them disappear like COM
cts over the horizon and few join
the established constellation of Nor
gans and Lannon'S and such. There
are many number of whom the IMAM
in the street" seldom hears and
scarcely knows. Yet their money
power is great or greater than the
Rockefellers. Vanderbilts, -Astors.
and all the other names associated
by the average person with wealth.
Of such are the George w. Bakers
senior and junior-whose names
would probably be listed second or
third among the worlds richest.
They are never seen by reporters.
and the elder Baker is famous for
making the briefest speeches on
record.
Just nov the sky writer's are spell
ing out the name Of Clarence Dillon
A giant merger Of banks, involving
$500, 900 900, finds his name linked
at least in general gossip. This
Dillon made Wall Street and the
business world in general gasp not
SO long ago when he outbid the
Morgans-yes, the mighty ]. Pier.
pont Morgans-in the battle for the
Dodge Motor Corporation. Up to
that minute only financial circles
knew his name, but this group had
watched his rise as certain movie di-
rectors watch the talent Of u budding
star, or the mentors Of music hear 8
tone that gives promise Of greatness
Dillon breezcd out Of San Antonio
Tex, in the general direction of Har.
ward University just about Is years
ago. His father, am told, had run
u department store in the southwest
city. Today Dillon is hut 43, = mere
youngster as financial giants 60.
He took his A. B. and within q few
years was married to Milwaukee
girl.
The story from that point on |:
rather fainiliar--an interest in gas
and coke concern in Wisconsin,; from
that to western mining connections
and finally an appearance in New
York as co-partner in the banking
firm of Dillon, Reed & Co.
! In contrast with such comparative
~ conservative risers are the hun
! dred and one restless meteors tina
forever cross the Wall street can
yons.
The street rings with such tales a.
are left behind by cyclonic Durants
who one moment are rcputed to hav,
lost a hundred million, and who re
turn to stage the greatest motto
coup in the streets history.
Young men from Texas, California
Tennessee, Georgia - they flasl
across the street of streets in tn
world Of money, they come to pla!
with millions as once they playet
with marbles in the old home towl
corner lot. They come to love tn,
power and the thrill and the lust o.
i battle.
And the point that lures more an.
more to swing into the fight is this
there's always room for another:
GILBERT SWAN.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04
Tonight's Radio

Eastern Time
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04

The sewing machine was patented
IN 1880 and neighbors have dropped
in to use it ever since.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-04
MeskLAA1GIBzh

children. l wish I were going with
you, for ever since l told them you
were coming, Jack has been beside
himself with JOY. Presently your
mother will be here. You will want
to see her alone while l talk over
business with Mrs. Atherton."
Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)
TOMORROW: This letter continued.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-12-11

Mr.. Thomas H. Outten, who has
been confined to his home on Walnut
street, because of illness, is slowly
improving.
Rev. and Mrs. G. v. Bell, this city,
are receiving congratulations upon
the birth of a little daughter, born
this week at the Peninsula General
Hospital, Salisbury, Md. The little
lady weighed 91s pounds, and both
mother and daughter are doing splen-
didly. Mr.. Bell is the rector of st.
Mary's Episcopal Church, Pocomoke.
Mrs. L. Paul Ewell entertained the
Card club this week. Those present
were-Mesdames Stevens, E. Mat
thews, Lloyd, Cullen, Parker, Ash
burn, E Scheduled, Stevenson, Paul
Young, H. Young, E. ]. Clarke, and
Mrs. E. w. Corwin, of Chestertown.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-12-11
HENRY B. HANDY
EDITS FRAT JOURNAL

The Democrat is pleased to &C.
knowledge the receipt of a copy Of
the Kappa Alpha Journal, official
publication of the Kappa Alpha Fra.
ternity. Z
Thanks are due to the editor, Henry
B. Handy, for the book, and congratu.
lations are due to this former POGO
moke boy for the distinction he has
earned in occupying the position as
head of the editorial staff.
Of course, Pocomoke people know
Henry B. Handy better as "Brantley"
Handy; and so seldom does he visit
the scenes of his early life that his
friends can not get rid of the diminu-
tive tone of his middle name. since
they recall him as a much younger
individual than he is at present, even
tho he is still counted as young.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-12-11
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. Local Happenings

Mr.. E. j. Lambden and two chill
dren Corlene and Julius, and Mrs. L
l.. Nunez have been recent visitors in
Philadelphia.
Crescent Chapter No. "A o. E. S..
will hold its regular meeting Monday
night, December 18th, at 7.3O o'clock
Mrs. Charles Hill, of Snow Hill
vas in Pocomoke on Tuesday.
The Coksbury Ladies' Aid will holC
an oyster supper Thursday Dec. 16
Ice cream and cake will also be or
sale. Small bazaar also held. Supper
will start at 5 p. M.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Corwin, OF
Chestertown, Nd, spent several days
this week with Mr.. and Mrs. E. j.
Clarke of Clarke avenue, this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. 4Corwin will leave short
ly after fhe christmas holidays for
Florida, where they expect to spend
the winter.
On Wednesday evening last Mr..
c. l.. Mason entertaind at his home
a large number of friends with q coon
supper. Among those present was
Evangelist George w. Cooke, who
asked the blessing on the spread be-
fore. them. All report an enjoyable
evening.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-12-11
NEW CHURCH. VA

Mrs. Emma Rowley spent the week
end in Horntown.
Rev. Samuel Barnes and family
left for their new home Tuesday.
Mrs. Lizzie Poulson spent the week
end with w. P. Goodwin at Bloxom.
Master Clarke Taylor spent Sunday
with his sister, Mrs. Wallace Vincent.
Miss Margaret Niblett spent the
week end with Miss Drucilla Mat
thews.
Mr.. Alonza Matthews is on the sick
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Continued from Page ~
Farm Bureau; Carl H. Monsees, Mas
ter Paije Chesser, Miss Wilson Hud-
son, representing the boys and girls
club work of Worcester county, A. M
Palen, of the Federated Fruit anc
Vegetable Growers and DR.. F. B
Bomberger of the Maryland Exten-
sion Service. C. r. Hare acted as
toast master. The following menu
was served by the Christian Endeav-
or Socity of the Bates Memorial M
r. Church:
Clam boulllon, saltines, young stuff
fed turkey and cranberry sauce, green
peas in nest of rice, candied sweets
green tag oysters, celery, Maryland
biscuits, hot rolls, pineapple salad
Harlequin cream, homemade cake,
demitasse.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-12-11

Rev. C. E. Graham returned home
from Delaware where he has been
helping in the revival meetings.
Mrs. F. A. Covington had as her
guests Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Kelley.
Mrs. Hilda Mason, of ,Pocomoke,
spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs
Alonza Matthews.