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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-19
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

III 1SOOAVG1 LIZ i AHEn
Washington, Dec. 19.-Congress-
men, who are subjected to contempt
uous criticism both by intelligent
persons who know what they're
talking about and nit-wits who
don't, are often more to be pitied
than blamed.
One phase of the system by which
men and women are made into
representatives is so queer as to be
almost ridiculous.
Many of the current crop of con-
gressmen, old and new, have spent
much more time campaigning and
waiting for their seats than they
will now spend in said seats.
Long before the Congress met
early this month, they had been
forced to begin their campaigns for
the next Congress, which assemblies
two years hence in December, 1929.
A congressman retains office Is
months after he is seated. Very
often, his campaign had to be begun
two years or more before he was
seated. Thirteen months elapse be.
tween his election to the next Con
gress and frequently he began his
campaign more than 13 months pre-
vious to the election, which means
that numerous members of the Sew
entieth Congress had to step off the
stump and onto the floor of the
House.
For a specific example, take
Rathbone of Illinois. Rathbone was
elected a congressman-at-large in
November, 1926, after being forced
to get set late in 1925 for the April,
1926, primaries. On December 5,
1927, he took his seat. But months
previously, he had to look to his
political fences when Mayor Thomp-
son of Chicago promised revenge
for Rathbone's opposition in the
mayoralty election.
In October, 1927, Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormick announced her candidacy
and began a vigorous campaign
which put his political life in
jeopardy. Hence, Rathbone is and
has for some time been working
to win in the April, 1928, Illinois
primary, after which he will have a
six-month campaign for election
ahead Of him. If he is licked, he
will go out of office a year from
next March and Mrs. Mccormick, or
a Democrat, will come to the hill
a year from next November.
All Of which, among other things,
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Good Will

= The season is suspicious to charity and good
ALL Our thoughts and affections are pledged
pr while to common Interest, in prepara-
ZION for festival whose sacred meaning and
oyful observance are wide enough to include
II mankind. We find once again, and perhaps
9th some surprise, that we are brothers and
aisters under the skin and are willing and eager
p forget for season the small jealousies and
sssntagonisms that divide us through the year.
IS The grand name of charity deserves to be
: @eed of its faint disfavor of sentimentality Or
,,areless and casual generosity. True charity is
! good will toward the good in others, and it
! (erves best in the partnership of intelligent
knowledge. We cannot love the thing we do not
<<now, and to understand our neighbor in his
4opes and purposes is first essential to helping
.~~Sim in his need.
s. The old proverb insisted that charity begins
: Vt home. but this is no sign that it should stop
Il 5here. Wider knowledge has made the whole
Vorld kin and teaches us daily that our COM
hon humanity knows no boundaries. The sea-
) son of good will, established twenty centuries
go in village in Palestine encompasses now
! The world and it's nations and does more for the
4 heace and unity of mankind than any institll-
! ions of our own fashioning. For knowledge
- now increased, and it is knowledge that leads
10 understanding, which is the backbone of
charity and the sure foundation Of good will.
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Yale fraternity SYSTEM" the article says; "for,
although the by-products of fraternity life are
of considerable value, it must be admitted that
elections are. very largely determined by the
reputation Of the fraternity and the individual.
Each house seeks to gather into the fold those
men whose names will increase or maintain the
fame already won. And each candidate for
election desires to associate with those men
whose positions in college will bring the maxi
mum reflection of glory upon him.
Zone cannot fail to admit the destructive in
flLences resulting from this worship of the
great god prominence"
We don't have to go to Yale to learn les
son like that. Life holds it, too.
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Chivalry? Surely

The other day Miss Jean Schoen of New
York completed fourteen months trip around
the world The journey was made in II ships,
most of them little freighters in the eastern
tropics.
Everywhere, she said, especially in the east,
she found respect for womanhood. AS she
puts it:
"Chivalry has not lessened since the days of
as long as every woman is lady,"
Miss Schoen puts part of the burden of the
proof on her own sex, but there's two-edged
sword there in her implication that the gentle
man ceases to be a gentleman before women
who are not ladies. You could hardly call their
gentlemanly qualities chivalrous in that light.
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WASHINGTON AZ
LETTER &M

places discount on candidates
campaign speeches. One who has
already served may run largely on
his record, but for one who would
make promises for his next term
or for his non-incumbent opponent,
it is difficult thing to talk to the
voters sincerely and convipcingly
about what he will do from Is to
Is months ahead.
If he wins, then even after his
election he must sit and twiddle his
thumbs while the defeated incum-
bent sits through another session
of Congress and casts ''lame duck"
votes which need take no inspira-
ton from the wishes of his >constit-
uents who defeated him. He can't
possibly make legislative promise
which he can begin to put into eff
feet in less than ID months, even
if he announces new platform on
election eve, which he does not.
In one year, or two, conditions
! obviously change. Issues aren't
what they were. National or local
sentiment may shift. And it may be
too much to ask, a self-respecting
candidate to bind his mind and his
vote for the more than three years
that may elapse from the beginning
of his campaign to the end of his
term. Few protest this to the
voters, however. Being principally
concerned with getting in, most of
them who face any trouble over
nomination or election will promise
almost anything.
Senators are elected for six-year
terms instead of two-year terms as
representatives are. Every short
session, of course, finds some of
them in their seats although they
have already been voted out.
The system. of course, is not so
tough on the individual senator who
meets competition as for the in
dividual congressman who must
fight for his seat. Nevertheless.
the proposed Norris amendment
which would cut out the 'slame
duck" session and bring elected
members of both houses into, ses-
sion, within two months of their
election has often been passed by
the Senate, brt has never even been
voted on by the House.
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Probably if Faith had given her.
self time to think she would not
have sprung SO impulsively to Cher
RVS defense, reaching for Nils JON
sons hand and dragging him along
with her, willy-nilly. Certainly, she
told herself later, she had had
enough experience with Cherry by
this time to know that any
'trouble" Of this sort into which
Cherry managed to implicate her
self was cleverly stage-managed.
But she did rush from the sun
parlor, through the door which
Cherry had purp~sely left open and
into the living room, her grasp still
tight upon Nils hand. Cherry was
standing a few feet from Bruce
Patton, whose left cheek bore a
dark red imprint of Cherry's hand.
The girls body was tense, both
small hands knotted into furious
but MISUNDERSTANDING fists, gol-
den eyes blazing in q dramatically
pale face. Bruce Patton looked
foolishly surprised and indignant as
he retreated slowly from the small
fury who had attacked him. In
congruously the dance music from
the radio still poured invitinglN into
the room.
whats the matter, Cherry?"
Faith demanded sharply.
Ill was dancing with Bruce,
and he tried to kiss me-" Cherry
painted. 81 told him to stop and he
wouldn't. He-he kissed me any
way, and slapped him. And I'm
glad / did," Her voice rose, shrill
and vindictive. Her blazing eyes
swept from Bruce Patton to Nils
Jonson, challen ,ingly, and Faith felt
quite ill with disgust.
It was very clear to Faith now.
Cherry, unable to endure the
thought of Nils devoting his atten-
ton to her sister, and. insatiably
n - NNA%A
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(Offieial City. State and County Newspaper,
Captain Pamphlet

NAL Captain Robert Pamphlet, true sailor,
Ain recognition of his action in rescuing the
ish crew Of our S. S. Caoba at sea, February
5 mi.3 1925-Suden and Christensen.
incs That is the inscription carried in gold
thaatch presented to Captain Robert Pamphlet.
pas It means more than heroic rescue at sea,
ws3wever. 1t means that the captain held hu-
as an life more precious than the cargo Of rum
WHAT he carried.
1aiI Now it is going to mean prison for the brave
canadian skipper, who might have gone his
lay and left sailors to perish at sea il his heart
wveAd been wrong.
~ But the captains heart was right. Skipper
tod the rum ship Pescawha, in a storm that Feb
traary night Off the coast of Oregon, Pamphlet
Waited for the rum runners that would take
o ovsf his cargo lifeboat was sighted, carry
veg eight exhausted sailors from the lumber
:hooner Caoba which had been wrecked in the
W",orm.
= Nearer inshore, the sailors told him, was yet
lanother lfeboat from the Caoba, with men
fighting death in the flashing sea. There was
ccssever question in the captains mind. He o.
dsered his ship shoreward at once in search Of
gne missing craft.
de On Dec. II Captain Pamphlet is to begin
irving two-year term on Mcneil Island, be-
,ndes paying a fine of $4,000.
/ l. Rum running is against the law. But here
g case where the skipper of rum craft set
w,uman life higher than the stuff his boat car.
ICED The government now might prove that
&C, too, values heroism more than to let this
atave man suffer.
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Questions and Answers

and lead to q closer cooperation in
tie matter Of consultations.
Questions and Answers
Question: High school girl asks:
'What would you advise for . girl
that wanted to sleep all the time ="
Answer: If eight hours Of sleep
do not refresh you It is because
your system is bu-dened with poi.
sons from bad habits Of eating, and
from the effects Of too much study
and not enough physical exercise: #
a physicians examination has failed
to disclose any definite disease, you
can rest assured that you need .
thorough bodily housekeeping
which will eliminate the morbid
material in your blood stream with
which you are burdened.
Question:: L. s. writes: "Please
a.vise when cottage cheese II used
in place of meat, what is the ample
portion per nerson?"
Answer: It is all right for most
people to use about one-quarter Of
a pound Of cottage cheese in place
of the same amount Of meat. This
is approximately an ordinary sauce
dish full.
Question: Mrs. X. writes: ~
weigh 100 pounds and should weigh
100. If I take off my surplus flesh
at the rate Of 10 pounds per month
would that be too much? II / walk
five or six miles ever yday will that
help me very much in taking off
flesh? ?"
Answer: It is all right for you
to take off surplus flesh at the
slow rate Of 10 pounds . month,
but you can lose much faster than
that if you will first take . short
fast and then follow it with = limit
e. diet, free from carbohydrates.
There is no danger in reducing rap
idly if you will follow the plan
have so often suggested in this
column. It is essential for you to
walk at least five miles daily if
you wish to reduce the weight
around your hips and buttocks.
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Growth of liquor drinking in
France has been more pronounced
among women than men since the
war, surveys show.
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A Thought

Be not overcome of evil, but
overcome evil with good-Romans
Evil, once manfully fronted,
ceases to be evil; there is generous
battle hope in place Of dead, pas
sive misery: the evil itself has be-
come = kind Of good Carlyle.
Italy manufactures . third Of the
artificial silk now produced.
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( Thought About Fraternities

Fraternities at Yale are "a destructive in
,lence," according to the Yale News, official
Efudent publication.
III one questions the truth of that sociology
TT theory which makes pride one Of man 8
daJnental motives, he need only analyze the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-19

It is just as we'll not to have grand opera in
summer 1t woun't seem natural without the
coughs anyway.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-19

" Kids naturally believe in evolution, anyway
Mhey think they're an Improvement on the old
olks
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-19

"A college town is place where the locomo-
i've that hits coupe kills all seven passen-
vers
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3 Work never hurts man unless he keeps
lWay from It.
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view his difficult cases, placing Be.
fore the others his provisional AID
laboratory findings, diagnosis,
treatment, results and follow-up.
DR.. Mccoy will gladly answer
personal questions on health and
diet, addressed to him. care Of
the Tribune.
Enclose . stamped addressed
envelope for reply.

The entire group, sitting then - .
benefited by this procedure, he said,
and lead to closer cooperation in
tie matter Of consultations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-15
By ELSIE ROBINSON


eats into the body. She tries to
make the mother see this but the
mother cries in anger and horror
You do not know good from
eviln'
"AT LEAST" answers the
young wife, II KNOW LIFE
FROM DEATH"
A love that Kills
The psychologists have sinister
name for such an attachment.
They call 1t a mother fixation.''
A mother .ixation is sex diverted
from its beautiful, normal course
and turned into a deadly menace.
The love which a woman should
have for her husband and which
a son should have for his wife
is cheated of its fulfillment and
becomes this deadly vampire that
fastens on the sons life and
sucks away the ambition and
romance which should build the
future generation. There is
something fouler than selfishness.
There is perversion and destruc-
ton of precious human treasure.
Arnold's mothers love Is YAM
pire love like that. It Is not
beautiful. 1t is a greedy, suck
ing thing that will drain his life.
How often We see such mother
love"-and yet how slow we are
to realize what a monstrous thing
1t is. 1t u more abominable
than the blacSest hate, because it
is masked byfa noble pretence.
Look out for 4 mother and
son attachment that prevents the
normal tulfiIment Of that sons
life. It's bad medicine. !.
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RECREATION
FOR BLIND

TAMES and other forms of
VI recreation have a special
value in the training of the blind.
for they help to overcome self.
consciousness and to develop free
dom of motion and social grace
that are great assets to persons
handicapped in this way. This
statement Is made in new report
of the United States Children's
Bureau. Recreation for Blind
Children" written by Martha Ira.
villa Speakman. after a study of
many schools for the blind in the
United States. England. Paris, and
Vienna.
The bureau report IL intended
for use as handbook by teach
ers of the blind in institutions and
day classes. and Of other persons
associated with the blind, such as
club leaders and parents. 1t in.
cludes a foreword to teachers.
chapters on games and play for
little children. with detailed in
struction for recreation for older
boys and girls: on music as recre.
alton for the blind: a description
OF playground. playroom, and gym
nasium equipment: and a list of
references for further reading.
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probably mouth breathers.
Wher Nature manufacturing you she bored holes
in nose, for you breathing Your mouth was
made for eating drinking, and talking and to convey
the air to your lungs.
The nostrls especially fitted up with
The open mouth is germ-nest.
Breathe through your and you 50 liable to
catch cold
And you'll be handsomer You won't look So much like
fish Or a boob
Also you will snore. 1t is common mistake to sup
pose people through the They really snore be-
they do not breathe by the they would shut
the mouth they would the noise.
When get the habit of keeping your mouth shut It
has most benefcent reflex action your soul You
don talk so much Talking is process by which we get
into trouble Keeping the mouth shut is the trick by which
get out of trouble
Sometimes.
shut in languages. most envisble reputation!
When we talk people find out how little we know
whereas the Wisest Man said:
Even fool is counted wise when he holdeth his
peace
One of the biggest numskuls ever knew was elected
mayor OF the town because his clever political woudn
allow him to say word during the campaign
It's always better to have people wonder what you
would say than wonder why you said it.
For this reason the best means of rendering the ras
Drained dsturber harmless when he has gone crazy over
religious political economic theory to hires him
hall
Silence is the formidable eoquence It offers moth
ing to interfere with the bysanders imagination They may
think you whale, if you keep still They lend you
their own wisdom, when they cannot find yours.
Keeping still is the best way to make love- Why
CAB? Just hold her hand If you go explaining you may
spoil it ALL
Keeping the mouth shut is most valuable business
asset Let the other fellow talk Then he taking all the
chances And if you don't say anything at ALL you won't
say anything you II wish afterwards you hadn't said
OF course, there's such thing being too silent Men
may call you glum You must speak little So you'd bet.
ter learn about three harmless phrases and repeat them
when your turn like Edward Everett Hale epis-
lator, who fame by saying, upon occasion only ri
quite agree with the gentleman the other side Of the
house, and There has been much said, and so well
fnpIT add frrfhar
like that.
And, personally, Angel Face you in danger of
being tactun Pardon my plain speech but you don't
know much and you keep your mouth shut people won't
discover it,
Anyway, it's bad habit to set your mouth going and
then 70 go off and leave it, you do.
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the predecessor Of most of the
calculating machines, beginning
with simple slide rules" which
today abound in many surprising
forms and do feats of mechanical
calculation that make their pow.
ers seem uncanny to those who
are not familiar with their con-
struction and working. But Bah
bage had an idea far outstripping
the performance of the best OF
existing engines of this kind.
He believed that he could con-
struct an analytic engine" that
would perform amy series of pos
sible arithmetical operations" This
masterpiece was unfinished at his
death In 1871 and the mathemati-
clans since then have not been
quite decided on the question
whether Babbage could ever have
carried it to successful completion.
If there Is any moral to this
story it tells itself. Some things
that young collegians might league
themselves to do after going out
into life might be had for the peace
and happiness of mankind, but
bow could harm ever come from q
resolve to make the world wiser2
But, somebody may interject, that
depends upon the definition of wis.
dom.
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when Eating Pickles

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
THO settle an argument am
j writing to ask you whether
It Is proper to eat any kind of
pickle with a fork or the fingers?
Is this shade of writing paper
proper for girl Of sixteen?
PAT.
IT is better to eat pickle with
a fork IL fork is served with
1t. How one eats pickle de-
ponds, usually, on what utensil
is served with 1t. For instance, II
pickles are served with plate
supper, the pickle is cut with the
knife and conveyed to the mouth
with the fork. If only a fork If
placed, then of course. only the
fork can be used. But the idea is
that. in as many cases BIS possible,
the fingers should not be used
with foods that can be classified
as moist Always give the pref
erence to the fork.
The shade of your paper Is very
good for the use of a girl of six
teen. But to my mind you would
have handsomer letter IL you
would use the regulation double
sheet letter paper, instead OF the
more husiness-like single sheet.
/ just tried folding your sheet
to make the doiible-sheet. and /
think that 1t is better looking than
your single sheet Try it. 1t IL
not good taste 70 have the edges
of the paper covered with silver.
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ever leave you. You're the only
sweetheart that I'm ever going
to have" And he braces him.
self with a little conscious pride
in his own devotion, while his
mother smiles blissfully.
That's what people say In q
beautiful sight"
Sidney Howard didn't think that
such sights were beautiful when
he wrote his play--"The Silver
Cord" that sensational attack on
this type of mother love-"
The Silver Cord" is the story
of mothers abnormal attach
ment to her sons. The mother
has been disappointed in her mar
riage. She Is a woman of intense
emotional hunger and, when her
husband fails her this hunger
turns toward her two boys, and
literally feeds upon their young
lives.
She does not realize the selfish,
morbid nature of her devotion nor
do they. She makes herself the
center Of their lives and allows
no outside interest to distract
thOmt AhSy grow TO MANHOOD
but in spirit they are still infants
bound to the mother by a tragic
attachment which should have
ended in infancy.
One brother becomes the typical
"mama'S boy" chained to his
mothers side. The other brother
goes abroad to study and almost
breaks the deadly silver cord"
He loves and marries an In
tellisent girl and brings her to
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ONCE-OVERS

Have you often active vigorous boy get into step
behind fast walking who has just passed him and try
to initiate him ssi rs3.t I -s t.ss
Ever fall into step with spritless walker'
No. because youth not attracted by the hafheared
Youth has desires be grafed and ambition to be salts
fled.
Vigor of stride appeals to the redbooded active fellow
springy swinging gait and alert mind 60 together
Youth has desire to get somewhere and get there quick
But the discouraged sumps with his shoulders
we'll his work and his attitude does not entice youth
Often the detected individual has reached stage where
he sees no future ahead Of him.
He loses the desire to get somewhere.
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A STUDENT PACT =

Second Wrang Ier." standing next
to Herschei; while Babbage, who
did not compete for these skiey
mathematical honors, nevertheless
gained a great reputation At the
university for his mastery OF
mathematical subjects.
While they were studying to-
gether at Cambridge these three
scholarly young men entered into
a remarkable compact. They
formally resolved that they would
do their best to leave the world
wiser than they found it,
Whether the success of the
three knights Grant of wisdom in
their field exceeded that of the
crusading monarch in his, may.
perhaps. be judged by what hap.
pened with the three when they
went out into the world. TounR