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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-02
K. G. WORK IN
HOSPITALS is
SOON TO STOP
Lack Of Funds to Aid Dis
abled Soldiers Will Re-
suit in Halt

Activities of the Knights Of Column
bus among ex-service men in govern
ment hospitals will be terminated
June 30, State Deputy James A. Gar
rity of Moorhead. Mimi, told men,
bers of the order at their recent con-
vention here.
Lack of funds was given as the
reason for disseminating the work
started during the war. Commenting
on the work Of the order among dis
abled veterans Clarity said: "The
order at the present time is conduct
ing welfare activities in 459 hospitals
in which there are 4O.5O9 ex-servics
men. The work is handled by 1874
secretaries and besides rendering
.plp'y services of ) personal nature
~ Ve disabled men they distribute
y .ttes, smoking tobacco, pipes,
a ~, chewing gum and other ar
Must End Work
Entertainments and athletic events
are conducted for the welfare Of the
disabled soldier. Because of the
small balance in the war fund and Of
necessity, these activities must be
terminated on June 30 Of this year.
For the ten years that the order
has served the ex-Servlceman this
work has received the favorable COM
mendation Of all officers in charge
Of hospitals. The soldiers them
selves, knowing that the work has
come to an end, have extended the
hand of friendship to the Knights of
Columbus, and have said well DONE
Praises Columbian
Commenting on the work of the
Norder in North Dakota, Clarity urged
She membership to support the Off
cial state magazine and mentioned
with pride the fact that the state
sent two special trains to the Euchar-
istic congress at Chicago.
He urged that every member lend
his support to the statewide Catho-
lie Day to be observed at Valley City
on Sunday, June 12. The program
for the Valley City meeting, which is
expected to attract several thousand
visitors to that city, is under the di-
rection of Grand Knight Mccarthy of
the Fargo council, assisted by com
mittees from Wahpeton, jamestown
and New Rockford.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-02
FIFTH VOLUME OF PRAIRIE BREEZES
DEDICATED TO n. D. TRAIL BLAZERS

visers Of each class, precedes the pic
lures.
Alumni, athletics, organizations.
activities, literary and features are
the titles Of the other sections. Pic
lures, descriptions and histories
make up each division.
The. annual was literally patron
lied by local advertisers and ma
jority Of the Bismarck business firms
ere represented by announcements in
the advertising section.
This years issue of Paririe Breezes
is from the presses of the Bismarck
Tribune company.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-02
Former Inmate of
North Dakota Prison
Gets Life Sentence

st. Paul, June 2.--tP)-Nichola
Schon, rs, was sentenced to life inn
prisonment in the state penitentiary
by Judge j. c. Michael here Monday
when he pleaded guilty to killing
Mrs Ida Robinson at her roomng
house here May 10. Schon told Judge
Michael that he shot Mrs. Robinson
in dispute over money matters and
intended taking his own life but
changed his mind. Schon admitted
having served term in the North
Dakota penitentiary for first degree
manslaughter in connection with the
death Of his wife. He said he struck
quarrel at Glendale, N. d., and then
set fire to the house while her body
was in the kitchen of the home.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-02
Anti-SOviet Rebellion
Ms Reported in Russia

London. June 2.-(P)-Reuters
Warsaw correspondent says reports
from a seemingly reliable source as
sert that serious trouble is being ex-
perienced in the Minsk region of
White Russia.
Soviet officials from numerous
villages and smaller towns arrived at
Minsk, demanding the dispatch Of dis
culinary detachments to enforce the
governments prestige and arrest
leaders Of an anti-soviet movement,
it is declared.
More than 200 inhabitants Of one
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-02

village were taken to Minsk by a
disciplinary detachment and impris
oned, ard several executions occur
red on the spot, the reports state.
Anti-soviet detachments are de-
clared to have attacked and captured
blockhouses at Cxerwianka, near the
border lines. and to have held them
for two days.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-02

auditorium and Judge A. G. Burr Of
the North Dakota supreme court will
give the address. A solo by Kenneth
Preston and numbers by the nurses
glee club will complete the program
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13

their innocence. whether or not they
ever re-enter base ball.
The general result of these charges
and hearings is that the base ball
public is quite well satisfied that.
whatever may have been the loose
practices of nearly n decade ago.
base hall is now on a high plane of
integrity that the games are played
on their merits. and that the players
give their best services TO their
teams. The owners and directors of
the sport are bent upon keeping it
free from the contamination of pro
fessional gambling. More rigid rules
than ever win perhaps be adopted to
restrain players from engaging in
any form of betting on the games or
other forms of sport. Thus organized
base ball passes another crisis which
for a little while seemed to menace
its prestige as the most popular form
of outdoor entertainment in this
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13

Red hair may make woman beau
tiful and give extraordinarily quick
mental powers to a man, but so far as
the biggest taxicab company in New
ark is concerned it is a dead asset. A
young fellow by the name of kelberg
was out of job. He had been driving
trucks around the New Jersey city for
several years and decided that oper-
ating a taxicab was probably his best
chance of advancement. His refer
ences were good and he was just about
to he assigned to a cab when he unfor-
tunately took off his cap. showing
mop of the reddest of red hair. The
subsequent conversation was az fol
lows:
Nothing doing" said the enploy-
ment manager. NO red heads in this
business. Nice fellows, but reckless
drivers
How do YOU get that way?" an
swered kelberg. Julius Caesar, Ma
poleon Bonaparte and Benjamin
Franklin had red hair. They had
brains. didn't they"
''Proba bly, nice fellows personally"
agreed the manager. but whom did
they drive for and when?" And so
kelberg is still looking for job.
Come to think of it, there do seem
to be few red haired taxi drivers, but
if it were put up to the average citizen
he would undoubtedly give as his OBJ
servation that the color of the hair
has little to do with recklessness.
Here in Washington passengers in
cabs have watched with terror-stricken
eyes blonde driver miss a big truck
by an eyelash while "A brunette, in
skirting the near,collision, has scraped
the side of street car with his cab,
SO that whether or not red-head
would have been even more reckless is
a moot question. In any event, the
Newark ruling need not discourage
red.topped prospective taxi operators
in other parts of this large country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13

Judge lands decision on the base
ball scandal of 1917, in which he
sxcnerates the ball players accused
OF participating in a bribery for the
throwing of a series of games, was
fully expected. There was nothing
In the testimony given before him to
convict these men of corruption, as
either tenders or takers of cash. Two
former players now on the blacklist
OF organized base ball had brought
the accusation. 1t was unsupported.
One of the men named as recipient
OF the fund denied it explicitly, and
all others plainly demonstrated their
innocence OF any such nefarious
practice. But 1t did appear that there
was passage of money in the form
OF reward or expression of gratitude
by the Chicago players for the defeat
by Detroit of the Boston team some
time previous. That could not be
construed as bribery, though Judge
Lands strongly reprOves such a
practice as being dangerously close
to corruption.
Thus probably ends the second
chapter of the ante-commission base
ball scandal. No matter what the
now discredited accusers may claim.
the public is satisfied that there is
no justification for their contention
that games were "sloughed" in 1917
for a money consideration. There
remains now of this unsavory matter
of base ball unplea sa ntness only the
appeal of two star players, former
managers. for a complete clearance
of their names In connection with
the alleged throwing OF a game in
order to make money through gam
bling. That charge itself has been
Investigated and has been shown to
have but little, IL any, basis in fact
The two ex-player managers, how
ever. feel that they have not received
full Justice, and Judge lands may
have 70 raepsn ths case In order Il
give than . chance to demonstrate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13

the Department of Agriculture to
show that Burley tobacco is one or the
major farm crops of Indiana, and Is
grown In very large quantities In sew
eral other States.
Jones Is charitable in his views of
the various tobaccos he has tried,
believing that every brand will suit
some taste or other. The senses OF
taste and smell, those playing the
largest part in tobacco smoking, are
VIGOROUSLY various.
What la one mans meat is an.
others poison" truly, so it does not
argue because one smoker does not
like blend that another will not.
Jtpon no one point do smokers more
disagree, for instance, than upon that
of "mildness."
Jones recalls his discovery OF the
tenth mixture he smoked, which, for
several weeks. he fondly imagined
was the long sought perfect blend.
This particular mixture struck his
tongue and mouth tissues as the mild
est he had ever tried; at the same
time it was possessed of Character"
another elusive quality, easy to real
ize, but hard to define.
He was surprised. however, in offer
ing his prize to several friends, to find
that the mixture was regarded by
them as Strong One man, who or
dinarily smoked very strong tobacco,
that bit . out of 10 tongues, declared
that the new mixture was a great deal
stronger than his old onei
Jones discovered that all smoking
tobaccos may be divided. broadly
speaking, into two general classes, &C
cording to taste:
j. Straight tobacco taste.
2. Swedish taste.
This is by no means a scientific
classification, but it will do for ordi
nary use. There are, of course, some
straight tobaccos that are sweet In
taste and some "doped' ones that
are not.
Generally, however, this division
holds true. The English are particu
larly fond of the straight tobacco
ginias" possessing crisp, spicy
aroma.
1t Is not generally known that one
ought to select his pipe tobacco partly
according to his habits of smoking
either indoor or outdoor.
The man who does most of his
smoking outdoors can use stronger
tobacco, everything else being even,
probably from the first classification,
whereas the indoor smoker must take
into consideration other factors.
One of the latter is the after odor.
A charm of the pipe Is that it
leaves no disagreeable stencil behind
it, such as the "cigaretty" smell, or
the stink of the average dead cigar.
Pipes that do leave disagreeable smells
behind them need cleaning. Yet all
pipe tobacco leaves an odor of some
sort.
Templeton Jones has discovered one
tobacco, a very expensive one, that
smokes cool, is comparatively mild
and leaves a most delightful scent in
the room.
A real tobacco, it yet leaves behind
it an aroma resembling fruit cake. or
a real pound cake fresh from the oven.
Jones Is giving this tobacco extern
sive trials at his proving grounds,
and if it holds up he believes it will
turn out to be the perfect blend"
We wonder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
Business in 1927

The head of one of the largest in.
dustrial corporations in this country
at a dinner In New York Tuesday
night expressed the opinion that the
coming year will be fully as prosper
Gus as 1926. Some of the experts. he
said, seem to think differently. basine
their judgment on the argument that
1925 was so good that the country
can hardly hope for a better.
Undoubtedly the fact that the wear
just closed was one of the most pros.
porous in the history of the country
in point of trade, earnings, profits,
general employment and countrywide
well-being has led to a diminution of
confidence as to the future. There is
no reason in economics to look for
such decline. OF course, business
cannot go on indefinitely along an
upward plane. There must come a
slackening, else impracticable peaks
are reached. But prosperity itself
does not breed disaster unless through
FViSotiiAeiiIC SAccssIFe production
occurs and unless values are inflated
unduly. There is no present sign of
overproduction, and there In no infia.
ton such as to cause anxiety. The
stock market Is active, but not on a
BOOM Every sign points to steady
investments rather than to specula
ton.
Doubtless the feeling on the part of
conservative forecasters that 1927
would show recession in prosperity
conditions has been a wholesome in
fiuence in checking production, and
thus preventing starting the year
with glutted warehouses and shops.
In the management of the large indus.
trial corporations the greatest care is
exercised nowadays against overstock-
ling. Factories are operated with a
view to the prospect of early sales.
| This Is particularly true in the motor
industry, which has heretofore sui.
fered from overmanufacturing. Gen
eral economic conditions are watched
closely to determine the buying power
of the public. Prices are adjusted to
suit that power. In short. the bust
meas Of the United States b being con
ductsd now on sound principles, with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES f. TRACEWELL.

Templeton Jones' search for the
perfect pipe tobacco still continues
merrily. Compared to finding 1t, the
discovery of the famous lost chord"
is easy.
The last chronicle along this line,
set down here last August, showed
Jones to have individually tried some
10 smoking mixtures.
Today r. Jones, esq, proudly boasts
of having smoked some so brands,
from the cheapest to the most expen-
sive, in his efforts to find the one per-
feet smoking mixture.
OF course, it must be a mixture.
Jones is convinced that when he
discovers it, it will be blend of vari-
Gus tobaccOs, not one straight variety
of the weed.
In this his opinion merely comedies
with that of the universal tobacco
trade, which devotes itself almost en-
tirely to mixtures" in the fancy field.
Various cheaper smoking tobaccos
are straight" but most of the higher
class ones are blends. the mixtures
appealing both to the taste and to the
fancy of smokers.
The Imagination of the smoker, If
one can believe Jones, plays quite as
much a part in smoking as either the
pipe or the tobacco.
He says that fancy packing helps a
man think he is getting good tobacco,
whereas the best blend in the world,
put up in a plain bag, would strike
no one as good.
The eyes. too, Jones declares, play
their part.
One might almost say according to
Jones) that a man smokes with his
eyes, so large a part does the visual
ization of the curling Vapor play in
the total act of smoking.
Cats, watching human friend
smoke his pipe, are obviously fasci'
mated by the play of the wreathing
clouds, especially II sunshine coming
through a window makes the layers
easily visible.
The cat. below the smoke level
watches the curling clouds with ire
mendous interest, never once taking
his eyes off them, except now and
then, when he looks curiously at the
smoke issuing from his friend S
mouth.
Smoking is q great mystery to a
cat, as. indeed, it must be to every
thoughtful creature, in the last an.
alysis.
Templeton Jones is ready to brand
as the most exquisite sort of bunk the
statement that any one ever really
enjoyed smoking in the dark.
Merely to close the eyes, while
smoking, reduces the taste and aroma
of the weed no matter how fiavorous,
about so per cent. Try it some time.
Cigarette smokers who often smoke
on porches after dark, do so rather
out of habit than anything else. There
is, too, certain visual enjoyment
even here, since one may look at the
glowing end.
X
Jones' friends no longer try to argue
tobacco with him, since they realize
that his vast experience, resulting
from his search for the one perfect
blend. has made him somewhat of an
authority.
If you venture the statement that
Burley is grown only in Kentucky,
Jones will quote the latest statistics of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13
The Public Utilities Commission.

Under the new Jaw creating a Pub
lie Utilities Commission for the Dis
trict Of Columbia distinct from the
Board of District Commissioners, the
President was faced with an eN-
ceptionally difficult problem Of selec-
ton. For the law imposes limita =
tons and requirements as to eiiGi-
bility and qualifica tons which reduce
the field of selection to narrower
limits than usually obtain with re
spect to public office. The respon-
sibilitv of the choice lay definitely
upon the President, and he has met
ton of John w. Childress and Ben
jamin F. Adams as members of the
commission, with whom will be as
sociated the Engineer Commissioner,
Col. J. Franklin Bell, ex-off1cio. At
the same time. the President names
Blaine Mallsn as peoples counsel,
thus fully organizing the commission
for service as soon as these appoint
A most careful investigation was
made as to- the eligibility of all cam
didates. The limitations imposed by
the law crea ting the new commits
sion We're fully checked by the
Executives legal advisers and the
President has produced as far as
possible a commission that satisfies
him that it is under no influence one
way or another calculated to impair
It's full usefulness to the community
In the administration and regulation
of the public utilities in Washing
ton. He has chosen men whose fit
ness In their general makeup and
their experience for the proper ham
ding of all questions that may come
before them has been demonstrated
to him.
In spite of individual disappoint-
ments, there is every disposition in
the District to accept the result and
to hope that the new commission
will make good and will work faith
fully and fairly for the welfare of
the community. 1t takes over from
the District Commissioners difficult
task. 1t is charged with response
bility for the efficient control of all
the utilities that affect the people,
that serve them with transportation,
power and illumination. There are
cornmunicat ton facilities, power and
illumination. There are financial and
administrative problems to be solved.
The utilities commissioners must con.
slider the requirements of the people
and ct the same time deal justly with
the corporations that serve them.
There is every reason to expect from
those whom the President has chosen
q full measure of unprecedented and
faithful service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-13

Secretary kellogg's disclosure he
fore the Senate foreign relations com
mittee Yesterday of communistic in
f1uences directed against the prestige
of the United States in pan-America .
and especially in Nicaragua. is sum-
married. in statement embodying
numerous specificat tons which point
clearly To the existence of an organ.
lied movement of that character.
Under the banner of an IAN America
forces directed from Moscow are at
work to break down American infiu-
ence in Latin American affairs. A
close association between this league
and the government at Mexico City
is indicated. Citation after citation
is given to show the persistent pur-
pose of various groups united in the
single aim of destroying American
authority in this hemisphere. A reso-
Mutton adopted by the Congress of the
Third International in July. 1924,
declared Mexico to be "the natural con-
Meeting link between the movement
of the United States of North America
and Latin America; therefore. Mexico
must be the center of union All
subsequent activities are corrobora-
tive of this purpose.
Bolshevism has failed to gain foot
hold in the United States, though
vigorously promoted by active agents
directed from Moscow. Organized
American labor has refused to be
dominated by Russian radicalism.
Yet it persists in it's endeavor to
proselyte the working people to com
munism by insidious methods. That
the Moscow-directed campaign is now
seeking to effect a flank movement by
attacks from the south is plain from
Secretary Kellogg's disclosures and
other evidences that have been pro-
duced heretofore. In his statement
yesterday before the Senate commit.
tee the Secretary of State presented
an accumulation of proof of an or
ganized effort to destroy American
prestige in pan-America.
What the Secretarystold the commit
tee regarding the precise situation in
Nicaragua Is not made public. There
will be further hearings, and per-
haps soon the whole matter will be
given to the country. Meanwhile
there is a plain indication that the
Nicaraguan crisis is passing. through
an announcement by Sacasa which il
interpreted as an intention to quit
the fight to secure the presidency.
There Is no ground for fearing that
an armed conflict will result from
these complications. Critics of the
administration policy in Nicaragua
and toward Mexico are contending
that that policy is an invitation to
war, when, in fact, there is no con-
ceivable likelihood of war.
Nothing is to be gained bv taking
the ground that the. Department of
State has a chip on its shoulder or
that the President is without iustifica.
ton carrying out the traditional pol
icy of the United States toward the
Southern republic policy not of i'm
perialism, but of self-respecting in
sistence upon regard for American
rights, firmly and fully established by
treaty and custom.