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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-08
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-08
Waste

| wan boy in tenement coughing his life away
, an overfed and pampered poodle in limousine, an
artist sleeping in the gutter, well-musced strong
backed man complainng-these common images
Of waste
Walk down any street and watch for the signs Of
it-waste. Walk through the home. through the
slums, through the halls Of lawmakers. through the
courts Of justice, along the docks in q crowded
cabaret. Look for effort thrown away, lives tossed
to the winds. precious time neglected.
What is the remedy: How shall society we
capitalize it. for the worlds great waste? How
shall government obliterate il! How shall human
ity bend down and lift up what is wasted to place
Of usefulness?
How? There can be blu. Philoso-
piers know it and MASTERS know it, too. The an
swer is knowledge. We knowledge with educa-
ton What could be more logical than that?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-08

AlexandeE - Eddie Esale was sem
fenced. to LIE imprisonment It Still
St: Paul-Northern Pacific railway
received word that ]. Basilie. Pull.
man porter who stepped from
speeding train near Jamestown Mon.
DAY. was on his. way back to St. Paul.
". 4. Hearst. owner Of Old Glory.
says at Los Angeles he did his best
to prevent plane starting and had no
'dea Fayne would 60 a. passenger.
Friends Of Brock and .Schlee peti-
ton Acting Navy Secretary Robinson
ct washington to prohibit flyers
transpactfic flight ~ nothing less
than suicide" but are told that navy
department has no authority.
Albert W. Biegs. %, Of Memphis
ana Lieutenant James p. McFadden,
-. Of uniontown. Pa, are killed when
their airplane falls into q nose dive
an1 crashes in outskirts Of Memphis.
Judge Thomas Slick denies 1t
south Bend. Indiana, petition for
writ Of habtas corpus filed by D. C.
stephenson. former grand dragon Of
the Indiana Ku Klux Khan. and now
life prisoner In Indiana state prison.
Three are killed and Is injured in
Evansville, Ind, when crowded i'm
terurban, ear returning from Dad
park. race track, speeds tkrou9h
switch and crashes int ibe1 oars.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-08
MAYBE IT'S TRUE

Assistant: Have you an account
with the house. madam?
arrange matters with the manager.
Assistant Ito msnaeer): A lady
Of no account to see you sir.-Pass.
ing Show, london.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-08
Justajingle

Pop liked the family picnic. and
He shouted, This il grand"
He bit into . sandwich. and
His mouth was fall Of sand.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-08
A Thought

He that believeth shall not make
haste.-lsaiah xviii: Is.
Haste u admissible only in catch.
ing flies.-Haliburton.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-08
PAYS FOR HAIRCUT, g.
ARTRR ~ W m

s-Des hoines. la.-Twenty- five years
ago. . man named Brown entered the
bsroer shop. Of Philip Wenger, rot !
haircut. ssked the barber Tor credit
since u Was his wedding day, and a..
parted. The. other day the same
Brown. now superintendent 81 mails.
got another haircut in Weneer'e har.
Der shop and paid the bill Brown
has been visiting The same shop ali
these years. during which time the
unpaid bill has been prise Joke BE-
tween the pair. Brown sa,d IL
would pay IN his silver wedding an
nivoH1ary hnd he did.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-08

The average sized oyster consumes
thirty quarts ef' water = dsy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-08
News Briefs

AIexandeE - Eddie Esale was SEN
fenced. to Life imprisonment at Still
water.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
Partners of Congress Are Indispensable Specialists

of Congress. the House and Senate
Office Buildings, and the Maltby
Building, in first-class condition. He
is soon to undertake the job of super
vising the erection of a new $4,000.
900 House Office Building. He at
tends to the repairs and additions to
the Library of Congress, the District
of Columbia Court House. the Court
of Claims Building, and the Colum.
bia Hospital for Women, where ne
will soon supervise the erection of Il
new $3.50, 900 nurses home.
The architect of the Capitol is also
in charge of the Capitol power plant,
which furnishes light, heat and power
to all of these buildings in the
Capitol group and in addition to the
Government Printing Office, the
Washington City Post Office, the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Pub
lie Health Building. the Botanic
Garden and the Government hotels.
As architect of the Capitol. he is a
member of the Zoning Commission
and the Public Buildings Commission.
Charles T.. Fairman is chief clerk
to the architect of the Capitol and
art curator. rounding out Is years
by the preparation of an elaborate
volume on the art of the Capitol,
which IS now being printed at the
Government Printing Office. Arthur
E. Cook, the supervising engineer.
has, during the last 20 years. made
everybody about the Capitol his
friend
Evening star., 1927-12-04
Snelter Stacks.

TT is generally supposed that the
stacks of smelters are built to
great height in order TO get rid of
the smoke. That is partially the rea-
son, but it is principally because the
higher the stack the greater the saw.
ing in metals to the smelling com.
pany. The action of the blast fur
naces carries the fine dust containing
minute particles of gold or silver out
with the fumes. This is first precip-
itated in what is called dust cham
be~, a room several hundred feet in
length and many times wider than
the vent from the furnace. Much OF
the dust settles there. Then the
fumes from the molten metal enter
the stack. BY that time their tenn
perature is greatly reduced. The
higher the stack the cooler the dust
will become, and the wider 1t is the
slower. relatively, it will move as it
approaches the top. After it cools
it loses a measure of it's buoyancy
and settles down to the base of the
stack. The dust is gathered up by
mechanical scrapers in the flue cham.
bers, is damped and pressed into little
disks like biscuits. When dry they
are thrown back into the blast fur.
naces again.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
BY STERLII G HELLO.
,cial Correspondence of The Star.

PARIS, November 25. 1927.
What are smart French me1 wear
ing this Winter? The question arises,
because
It's not raining for US any more in
London!
And friendships sun is shining
On our chummy diplomats and on
their clothes!'
According to Pierre de Trevieres.
whose speciality is LA Mode" He
refers to the League Of Nations. That
respectable body of men from 81 ma.
tions may not be particularly well
dressed, but its September assembly
left Paris a leader of mems fashions
for the coming Winter.
What are such Paris newest styles?
How do they compare with those Of
London and New York?
have inquired good bit around
Paris, and particularly at 4;icoll s.,
which was English half century ago
and now has more French customers
than English or Americans--so 1t
must please all three. like the League
or Nations. Further. I was shown
the impression made on q French
artist OF peculiar ability by clothes
which he has sketched on mems backs.
He has done men walking along the
boulevard. men at the races. men in
elegant evening dress and men at the
bar. where he spied an American.
AS an "actuality" (which is French
for latest news) it comes about as
close as one can get to reality as seen
through an artistic temperament, more
real than. dead photograph Of
clothes. A London tailor who has
been working rs years in Paris ex-
planned:
''The styles Of French men of Paris
are inspired by English styles and
American styles, you know"
/ had not known the latter fact. !
] had always thought that when men
Evening star., 1927-12-04

dar, the Spring months had come. IL
was really still Winter. AS a result of
tnls the calendar experienced many
reVlslons. but it was not until the time
OF the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar.
VINO fixed the number of days in n
year at 365, that the present calendar
was born,
This was not a perfect adjustment,
however. for the earth's journey
around the sun requires 365 days, 5
hourS ana AZ minutes and a quarter
OF day was still lost each year. In
an effort to remedy this defect Caesar
then ordered an extra day to be mt
on Feoruary every fourth year, max.
ing That year what we call leap year.
because the calendar makes a .1eap"
or one day. There was still a differ.
ence which would amount to about 10
Gays In three or four hundred wears
and to avoid any further confusion il
was arranged that instead of every
fourth year being leap year, it should
iot occur IN years ending in 90, as
EOo. Io0o and 1900. 1t was not until
the adoption of the Gregorian amend.
ment of the Julian calendar in 1753.
however, that the Roman year began
with January. making December the
twelfth month in the series instead of
the tenth. -
Unlike the highly commerciaIized
calendar of today, which serves as
KIND OF signboard to advertise ONES
wares, the calendar OF olden times
was beautifully decorated with emble.
lnatlc Vlgnettes, which were highly
allegorical as we'll as practical in na.
ture. December was represented on
the old Saxon calendars by a drawing
OF a very old man, clothed in heavy
1urs' riding a shaggy-bearded goat.
The background of the design was
mace 10 gently blend into q wreath of
hoily ana mistletoe. the sacred plants
OF the Saxons. The old mans f,Irs
were Indicative of the very cold wealth.
er Oh TINS season of the year. while his
extreme old age was emblematic of
.ne apparent end of life in all nature
a. a. Ihls time. The presence of the goat
tlne sign or the zodiac entered by the
sun on the 22d of the month) in the
craving Is in keeping with the early
aHegorlcal comparison made between
the goat as climbing animal and the
ascent or the sun, which, after reach.
ing It's lowest declination at the Win.
Ter soistice on December 81, recon.
mences its upward path and continues
70 rise until 1t has attained its high.
est altitude at the Summer solstice on
December was styled wintermonath
or Winter month by the early Britons.
which after their conversion to Chris.
tiantty was changed to Heligmonath
or holy month, from the anniversary
which occurred in it of the birth of
Christ. Among the modern Germans
this month Is still from that circum.
stance distinguished by the epithet of
Christmonath.
tc9pyrisht. 1927. BY Jessie G. Beach,
Evening star., 1927-12-04
MorT NnyP Permanent adHe Have Long Service
yfu lReardHn

Baltimore, but, never having seer
| Washington, decided to stop off anC
get a glimpse of the city. Washing
| ton appealed to him, he found an open
| ing at the Capitol and remained here
he is now 81 years old.
In charge of the Congressional Rec
| ord at the Capitol is William A
| Smith, better known as Andy" who
has been on the job for So years. He
| has lived in the District OF Columbia
since 1868. He went into the Gov
ernment Printing Office in 1873 as the
| first messenger appointed in the proof
room, and has served under all lU
public printers but the first one. Cor
relius Wendell. The Government
Printing Office started that year to
print the Congressional Record, the
official record previous to that time
having been known as The Globe
w. Fl. Collins, afterward chief clerk
of the Government Printing Ofi1ce,
was in charge of the Record at the
Capitol for two years and then ANDY
Smith took the work over. Since that
time he has known all the public men
and transacted business with the
leading business and professional men
of the country. AS the members OF
CONGRESS have to pay for the print
ing of speeches to be sent to constit.
uents under the congressional frank,
Andy" Smith does neat little busi'
ness of some S75 900 a year at the
Capitol for the Public Printer.
Assisting Mr.. Smith are two con-
creSSiOnal Record messengers, for the
Senate and House respectively. Sam
Robinson. after 46 years work, Is best
known as the wheel horse of Con-
gress. from the practice of riding his
bicycle all over town each night that
Congress is in session, collecting the
speeches that members have held OUT
for revision. BILLY" Madden per-
forms a like service on the Senate side
where he has been on duty nearly 40
years.
For As wears Jake Cameron has been
connected with the office of official
reporters of debate in the House and
for So years he has been at the
Speakers desk in charge of assemo-
ling all the transcript Of debate Tor
the Congressional Record.
During the Summer, while Congress
was scattered throughout the States,
one veteran and much-valued employe
died, Joel Grayson. who served for b2
years, six as page boy and for 46
years indispensable to members In the
House Document Room. He will be
greatly missed by the returning men,
bers.
Mr.. Grayson was one of two men in
the whole Government service who
have their salaries appropriated in
their own name. A job was made for
each of them and ends as each passes
on. The other is Henry M. Rose, as
sistant secretary of the Senate, with a
background of 80 years of high-grade
work. From 1900 to 1905 Mr.. Rose
was the chief clerk of the Senate, who
read with dignity, beautiful express
sion and infection. In 1905 he was
about to take the post of collector of
customs at Detroit, but the Senate
protesed and passed a resolution Great
ing the office of assistant secretary for
him by name and fixing salary of
Evening star., 1927-12-04
The Log of Columbus

, of understatement, for he says so
simply. Sailed this day 10 leagues
and determined to count less than
the true number that the crew might
| not be dismayed." 1t holds a naive
faith in his power to reach the Indies,
and even a greater belief in his duty
to his sovereigns.
Regularly the recordings confess
how many leagues were daily deduct.
ed from the number actually accom-.
plished. Always, too. he sails west
ward" He saw in one day bolt
of fire fall into the sea, on another
a great bank of dark, heavy clouds.
The sea was smooth as a river, the
air the finest in the world, and a
whale sported in the water. It was,
as sea days 60. this 21st day Of
| September, a day of varied delights.
Since the wind always bore them
westward, the sailors came to fear
that they would never meet with a
fair wind to carry them back to
Spain.
On September rs the sea was sc
4, smooth that the sailors went in to
battle. Some thought that they saw
land, but the next day revealed that
the discovered land was a bank Of
| clouds. From this point on often the
the little harbingers of a mighty
continent. Because the needles varied
a point by night but came true in
the morning. it appeared to the ad.
miral Of the seas that the polar star
moves.
When the true record Of the watery
course totaled 707 leagues Columbus
showed to the crew a record Of 584.
On Friday, October s, he sailed II
miles an hour, day and night. and
Swallow fish in great number came
on board" Sunday. October z. the
course was altered from w. to w. S.
w. with a resolution to continue SC
for two days 1.-THE sea was like
the river ut Seville. the air soft
as that of Seville. April air SC
fragrant that 1t was delicious to
breathe. The weeds appeared very
fresh" Sheer poetry that, and a
homesick heart for the sunny land
of Spain.
BY October 10 the men lost al
patience and complained Of the length
of the voyage. but the admiral con
vinced them that, having come sc
far, there was nothing else for them
to do but continue.
The longest entry comes under
October IL Steered W. S. W.. the
sea the heaviest SIlCOuitcICu ooAAH
the whole voyage. q land dove came
to the rigging, a cane and a log were
seen by the crew OF the Pinta. Stand
ing on the quarterback at 10 O'Clock
at night. the admiral saw light The
crew sang the "Salve." and the ad
miral promised silken vest to The
sailor who should first discover land
. The last entry is brief but mo
!, mentous: "At 2 o'clock In the morn
ing land was discovered at two
: leagues distance by a sailor. Rodrigo
!, de Triana." Thus was a new age and
a new world given to the hopes o,
the Old World by the simple feat oi
sailing westward.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
Steam for the Soil.

FOR some time certain growers of
tomatoes, cucumbers and similar
vegetables for the London market
have been injecting steam into the
soil with a view to destroying in.
sects and slugs. 1t is reported that
the plan works very we'll for that
purpose. but the operation brought to
light an unexpected fact, namely, that
the soil thus treated increased great
ly in fertility; so greatly, indeed. that
the ordinary amount of manure can.
not be used afterward.
This effect has been explained as
being due to the sterilization produced
by the steam, which kills the phago-
cytes or protozoa which in ordinary
circumstances keep down the mum.
ber of bacteria in the soil whose
operations are benefcent in turning
organic nitrogen into plant food.
Evening star., 1927-12-04

| turned up their trousers in Paris it
was for the same reason, purely and
| simply, that they do % in New York
to-wit, namely: 1T rains in London
IT do not know If the young man
at the bar IN this picture. IS an Amer
ican," said the tailor, but his clothes
are obviously in American style"
A Paris bar, by the way, is not a
hole in the wall for mere drinking.
but Is often quite smart socially. and
the Prince Of Wales might say Howl
in it.
"Observe the very straight cut, from
shoulders to feet" continued the
| tailor. "The coat is a straight sack
and the trousers are straight. When
a Partisan wants them wide, also, he
says: Give me a Charleston Amer
| lean influence Is seen in this change
of names-originally, he said: Give
me an Oxford meaning oxford
bags"
/ Pierre de Trecieres says of this
| Winters Paris ''pantaloon": "It is
| worn honorably wide. 10 to II inches
across at the foot. Shoulders are
worn straight" he says. by which he
means both across and down. This
used to be considered very American;
but the tailor tells me:
Square shoulders are maintained,
most particularly, by both English
and French. Americans wear them
naturally, from their build, like all
who go in for sports or outdoor life. "
I found my old ideas almost up.
set. So / asked him about the loose
! clothes Of the English. and his answer
surprised me still more.
1--WE see smart Americans wearing
things looser than either English or
| French"
Only recently a Washington news
paper publisher, on a trip abroad,
asked me to take him to a proper
English tailor in Paris. mo French
corset waist for me-" he said. Well,
he came out from Q quite English
Evening star., 1927-12-04

wv YHEN the Seventieth Con
gress starts again the legls
wv lative grind, there will be
on the job more than a
score of long faithful public
servants and legislative specialists
who are the silent partners OIL Coh'
gress.
What a pity it is" says Addison
'that we can die but once to serve
our country" These veteran aides 10
Congress- believe that it is much better
to live for their country, and nave
proved their devotion through scores
OF years.
In both Senate and House there are
veteran members: Senator warren OF
Wyoming, with 81 years of service be-
hind him: Senator Gillett of Massachu-
setts. who has served 80 years, SO of
which were in the House; Senator Sim
mons of North Carolina, 26 years, and
Senators Overman of North Carolina
and Smoot of Utah. "a years each;
Representative Cooper of Wisconsin,
80 wears; Butler of Pennsylvania, 30
consecutive years; Burton of Ohio. rs
wears. 6 of which were in the Senate:
Haugen of Iowa. 2S years; Pou of
North Carolina. 26 years. and Garner
of Texas. who will soon be Democratic
leader, "A years.
But these few men in the legislative
chambers, who have been conspicuous
in the public eye and who have been
heard throughout the length and
= breadth of the land, are outnumbered
and outdistanced in longevity records
by several score men and a few wom-
en-, who from the last quarter to half
century and more have kept the legis-
lative machinery in motion, and who
have carried on" whether Republican
or Democratic party was in control.
When 1.-The founding fathers are
mentioned reverently, these preserving
sons should not be forgotten. They
cama to the Capitol as boys, with a
thrill and high fervor. They stuck,
served Well each in his humble sphere,
they specialized. They grew to love
the old building, matchless in the ar
chitectilre of the world. and what 1t
stands for. They came TO know all
the moves and gestures of parliament
ary procedure in the making of laws
and the services of lawmakers. They
blazed the trail as the business of
Government expanded They have
nodded the character and set the
standard for service to Congress.
Their youthful zeal has mellowed and
been tempered into most expert, eff
cient routine service. They are an in.
spring and wholesome example to the
youth of today and for years to come.
X *
THE nestor of them all is Theodore
F. Shuey, who has not missed a
days work at the Capitol in SO years.
What would Congress be without the
Congressional Record preserving for
posterity the verbatim account of de-
bate and proceedings? Mr.. Shuey is
dean of the official reporters. and for
almost threescore years has been TAX
ing down the senatorial oratory. AT
the age of 1S he obtained books on
shorthand and taught himself.
Mr.. Shuey began his long career at
the Capitol more or less by chance.
In 1868 Col. Crutchfield of Richmond
Va, publisher of Literary Pastime."
decided to remove to Baltimore to es.
tablish a weekly paper and offered |
Shuey a position. Shuey started for