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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-12

the hand of the wrecker has reduced
t. a jagged ruins my favorite Fifth
Avenue structure-the Qrientalsar-
chitectured Jewish synagogue, with
its priceless mosaic and its intru-
sion Of the far away upon the close
at home. I find that Ethel
Waters has opened>a night club and
Texas Guinan has moved into the
basement Of the Century Theater;
Major Boles' Capitol Theater and
Ed Wynne is once more the big
gest laugh in town; that Louis
Bromfield has dramatized one Of his
books and "Harlem's smartest rem
dezous" has opened; that the Thea
ter Guild has knocked. Broadway
silly with its production Of "Porgy"
and " race Liveright has brought
"Dracula" to town; that the New
York Symphony has started its sea-
SON and Eva LIE Galliene has won
. prize for theatrical enterprise;
that two lew literary magazines
have started and everyone has writ
ten q book; that a horrible new
skyscraper now towers completely
over Washington Square and the
subway wreckers have just about
finished with all that was left Of
the old Greenwich Village; that
Pauline Lord is still after q good
play and the musical hit, to date
are Manhattan Mary" and "Good
News"-But Why 60 on?
GILBERT SWAN.
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Editorial Comment

(Lincoln State JOurnaD

(LncOln state JOurnal)
Whether business is growing worse or better
is still the subject of animated debate in Eng
land The optimists quote trade statistics to
show that it is better and the pessimists quote
them to show that it is worse. The facts are
that there is improvement in some lines while
in other lines no substantial gains have been
made. Coal, cotton and shipping still make a
bad showing. Nevertheless the optimists claim
that taken on the whole business is on the up
grade.
The debate is having one sautary effect
1t is diverting attention from fruitless class
controversies to economic facts. A hundred
years ago the discussion of such situation
would have brought out flood of panaceas
But democracy is becoming dsillusioned. Not
even the radicals have any cure-als to propose.
Both the right and left wings appear to agree
that the only hope lies in intelligently directed
effort
Philip Snowden. one of the leaders of the
Socialist wing of the labor party, holds that
there is no possible way to make the nation self
supporting. The suggestion that a revived
agriculture would afford adequate relief he dis
misses as manifestly untrue. The amount of
food could be considerably increased by inten-
sive cultivation of all the land available and adj
ditional workers would be needed on the farms
but there would not be enough food. for all nor
would the army of unemployed be provided with
jobs. To get enough to eat and employment
for all workers manufactured goods must be
sold in domestic and foreign markets at prof
it. Competition is sharp and the urgent need
is to lower costs of production and at the same
time increase consumption by raising wages.
Capital and labor appear to realize that both
ends can be attained only by greater industrial
efficiency. Signs of get-to-gether movement
are visible. The very problem which precipi-
tated the general strike may in the long run
bring about permanent relations of cooperation
between employers and workers. If so another
MARKHAM hope will be destroyed.
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MANY TYPES or APHASIA

MANY TYPES OF APHASIA
The police authorities in every
city are constantly perplexed by
true or faxed cases Of aphasia. The
newspapers almost every d..y con-
tain reports of persons being found
who cannot remember their names.
Many Of these people have simply
told imagin ry stories to account for
their voluntary disappearance, and
to make excuces which will be &C.
cepted by their friends or relatives
to account for an absence which
they are not willinr to explain in
any other way.
The true aphasia cases do not al
ways present the difficulty over the
memory of names, but sometimes
the one SO affected loses the power
Of control over the vocal cords, or
over movements Of The arms " legs.
They actually forget how to make
certain motions, and when cured of
the cause Of their trouble they must
learn the movements al. over again.
Aphasia, in any form, is caused
by some disturbance in the nerve
centers of certain ortions of the
brain. A blow on the head or the
breaking Of a blood vessel may in
terfere with the nerve impulses
emanating from the higher brain
centers which control tho intellec-
tual processes.
Where this trouble occurs in chill
dren, the probabilities are that with
proper care the patient will get we'll.
A form of aphasia often present
with young children of decidedly
nervous temperaments. Many chill
dren have difficulty in developing
the power of speech. They are
sometimes bori with an improper
development of the speech centers
in the bl ain, but by careful training,
such defects can be, at least, par
tally overcome.
The adult person who develops
aphasia has very little chance for a
complete recovery unless radical
constitutional treatment adopted.
If a bloodclot has formed on the
brain. this must be absorbed, and
the fasting treatment has proven
best for the purpose of not only alb
sorbing bloodclots, but for getting
rid Of the effects Of an injury to the
brain which may have been caused
by a blow.
If he police would start fasting
every arhasia patient, they would
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The Glory of J. Ray Akers

8 Overnight ]. Ray Akers was transformed
from street car conductor to one of the lead
ing figures ip the Fall-Sinclair trial. Now J.
SRay Akers is q street car conductor again, and
5the hardest part of the battle is his.
z Edward ]. Kidwel one of the young Jurors in
1.-THE trial. was his friend. Kidwell's remarks
THAT if he didn't "get an automobile as long as
this block out of the trial. were repeated to a
newspaper man by Akers, who had overheard.
THE Jig was up, and the case that the govern
cment had been preparing for five and half
I years against former Secretary of the Interior
tand world figure in the oil industry fell like
: = child's paper house.
! Akers got no money. He achieved little
flame. But what is tormenting the man now is
?the knowledge that he has "squealed" on a
Friend. It is that knowledge that hurts.
a street car conductor had great moment
there, and we hope he does not regret it. If
: the motives that prompted him were right, he
reed meyer feel remorse because he told on
fKidwell who was his friend.
is Akers' story results in 4 criminal trial, he
will be the governments star witness. Now
that he has identified himself he must stand
1ready to carry through. That's where the real
test Of his character will come.
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SAlNE A and ASSs(5|fN SINNER u
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"Oh, excuse me, pleased" soft,
frightened voice begged. II didn't
mean to bump you"
for the girl who in trying to slip
as inconspicuously as possible into
the room had joggled her elbow.
Something about the girl arrested
her attention instantly. Perhaps it
was because she looked as fright
ened and out Of place in the en-
ployment office as did Faith her.
self. Her big eyes were polished
turquoise marbles pushing into the
yielding plul.. pness of her pink and
white face. Ropes Of pure gold hair
were wound about her round head,
under badly fitting cheap blue
felt hat. She was very young and
plump.
"Are you looking for work ?"
Faith stopped her as she was seek
ing with frightened, country-girl
eyes for a chair in which to crouch
as she awaited inspection.
"Oh, yes, ma'am," the girl
breathed. But the lady outside
said there wasn't hardly ever any
call for unframed girls. l come
here from e farm in Minnesota to
live with my aunt, but she-she
died last week and got to work."
"Do you like babies :" Faith ask
ed. There, a five-months baby in
my family, my sisters baby"
"Oh, ma'am," the country girl
breathed ecstatically. There amt
nothing / love better'n babies!
Would you give me a chance,
ma'am? I'm strong and wiling" she
added, with pathetic eagerness. my
pop used to say / was rs strong as
a mule, and there amt q lazy bone
in me. I'd like to work for YOU"
she added ingenuously. "My name
is Rhoda Jonson, ma'am, Jonson
without an H."
NEXT: The first clash between
RhOda ard Cherry.
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The gray-haired, efficient-looking
woman at the desk in the recep-
ton room of the employment
agency made short work of the in
terview, her eyes apparently maxi
ing notes of Faiths costume as her
pencil jottet down less personal de-
tails.
"Four in the family? Any chill
dren? Oh, baby! How old?
HIM! A five-months-old baby does
make Il hard-the address? Thank
you. Serenity Boulevard is a little
far out but-the maid will live in,
of course?"
Faith nodded eagerly.
The head Of the employment
agency ran briskly through a card
file. then looked up at Faith with
keen, measuring eyes. II sent you
Kate Lundy, didn't /? Was she
unsatisfs :tory?"
A flush swept over Faiths ivory
colored cheeks. mot at all. She
was exit emel. capable. She-she
left me only to take a position that
paid more" she explained, painful
~ aware that the woman so casual
ly discussed as a servant was now
her stepLlother.
Him. l see. How much are
you willing to pay, Mrs. Hatha-
way? I'm afraid"
mot over eight dollars a week,
If she lives in," Faith answered.
mo one available for less than
ten. Sorry" the woman answered
briskly, her eyes Ticking toward
another woman who was waiting
impatiently to tel! her own needs.
"Please let me interview some
one" Faith humbled herself, afraid
Of having to confess failure to Bob.
When Faith opened the door lin
dicsted she was seized with embar-
rassment at the prospect Of inter-
viewing any Of the half a dozen
be ligerent-looking women who sat
about the room.
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Restoring Our Faith

Il & Little deeds of selfishness, seen day after
CLAY in the news columns, almost lead us to be-
We've that the nobility of man has indeed de-
No.ayed. There are SO many stories, it seems,
spf banditry, divorce, murder, embezzlement
gthat we become nearly convinced that man
hasn't many qualities above the animals that
prey upon one another.
Then comes story like that Of Lloyd Squire,
awhose manhood stood out clear and fine above
the panic and horror of the flood that ravaged
the Winooski valley in Vermont. 1t restores
that tagging faith, and makes us again take
Istock in mans bravery under fire.
s Lloyd Squire was assistant editor of the Wa
ttterbury Record. When the river went on its
2rampage, Lloyd Squire went on rampage, too
tMaybe he had been writing editorials about
pheroism, such as this one, for so long, and
.,despairing of finding it, had gone out to prove
epersonally that such qualities had not vanished
vfrom the world.
2 Driving team of swimming horses through
1.-THE flooded areas of the city, for twenty hours
CHE toiled, effecting rescue after rescue, swim
ming himself after the horses.
: Swinging hand over hand on steel cable
across the Winooski river he brought quinine
land relief to stricken residents of Duxbury and
kNorth Duxbury. Without sleep or rest, he
sworked wherever help was needed until he
dropped, exhausted.
i It took catastrophe for the people of Wa.
sterbury, Vermont, to learn that the man whose
lpen dug into their weaknesses and praised their
goodness, himself is hero. We hope they
won't forget it.
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dent Coolidge says he wants to white he means
he wants to be left alone with his thoughts for
while, to let them run untrammeled.
Man needs periods alone with himself. 1t is
when we are alone, cut off from the circum-
stances that people call society, that real con-
centration on the meaning of life is ours.
Back home, and a whittier, Coolidge can re-
view his life and see where it has led him, and
how, and why. Whiting, he can recall the
deeds of his governorship, of his presidency
and 60 back very close to that boyhood when he
was preparing life's course,
Life isn't so complex, after all, when man
can sit alone and white after he has been the
chief figure in his nations eyes. Simplicity is
beautiful gift-and it comes to man when he
is alone.
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he didn't take . girl friend along
on his flight.
Until this Teapot Dome thing
started we didn't know what crude
oil producer really meant.
Blackmer and O'Neil, the missing
Fall Sinclair witnesses, are Just q
couple Of oil men trying to keep
out Of troubled waters.
The British journalist who wants
the United Statea to agree not to
laid, abet or comfort" an aggres-
sor nation, probably means some-
thing about loaning money.
Bangs in front, is the new Paris
style edict for the ladies. The
trouble is, the husbands are the
ones usually banged.
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What Are Ethics Between Crooks?
(MinneapOlis JOurnal)

In Chicago and in some other cities, so an
investigator has found, it is the practice of
many a firm Of busy criminal lawyers to employ
in it's office girl whose job is described in the
jargon of the profession as being ION the box"
The duties of this CIR. are simple, but i'm
portant. She sits at little desk, equipped with
a list of names and time schedules and tee-
phone that has blind number and an indie
pendent wire that does not lead through the
law office switchboard.
Each professional criminal who is a client of
the firm calls in on this phone, at stated inter-
walls only few hours apart, with the same
regularity with which patrolman or night
Waterman pulls the boxes on his rounds.
So long as every crook on the list calls in on
check him off on her list. But let crooks
scheduled call become five minutes overdue, and
she promptly reports the delinquency to the
head of the firm.
This failure to call means that the delinquent
has very likely been picked up by the police
Does the head OF the firm try to ascertain
whether this has actually happened? He does
not. He assumes that it has happened, and
Immediately sends clerk to the nearest Judge
with an application for writ of habeas corpus,
directing the police to produce the man, and
either to place charge against him at once or
liberate him. And, under the law the Judge
must comply.
Now, the privilege of examining>a suspected
man at length without formally charging him
with crime, is one the police find immensely
valuable; so valuable, indeed, that here in Min
nesota twenty-four hour leeway is provided
before the habeas corpus machinery can free
2 suspect. On the other hand, the writ of
habeas corpus, descending direct from the Field
lot Runnymede, is an indispensable instrument
for the protection of innocent men against
official persecution.
Which in no way excuses the offense commit
ted against society by any criminal lawyer who
maintains any such automatic habeas corpus
machinery as that discovered in Chicago. When
an attorney accepts pay from criminal, in
advance of the latters crime, for keeping him
out of the hands Of the police, that attorney
comes mighty close to being the criminals part
ner. Every accused man. innocent or guilty,
has right to be defended by the best legal
talent he can obtain But no lawyer has moral
right to sell his services to professional crook,
plotting crime, before the crime II even COM
mitted g doing. be virtually becomes.a plot
ter himself.
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slow in speech DEVELOPMENT will
show a sudden improvement after q
few days last followed by > care
fully restri.te.. diet. Dull children
who would otherwise grow up with
only meager intellectual powers can
thus be help /, and their whole
mental lives changed by . few days
Of fasting and then the establish
ment Of a regulated, hygienic
regime.
Questions and Answers
Question: Mrs. L. B. A. writes:
Els there a cure for goitre without
the knife? If so, what is it,"
Answer: All goitres can be re-
duced by dieting. Please send
your name and address so ! can send
you q special article on the SUBJ
ject.
Question: Mary B. writes: "What
is the roseapple?"
Answer: The rose apple il the
fruit of an East India tree that is
grown in California for its foliage.
The fruit, although very fragrant,
is insipid and Of no food value. It
is used in the tropics for making
jelly and preserves.
Question: E. w. writes: "Kindly
advise me If there is any harm in
using non-perspirants for checking
perspiration under the arms"
Answer: Your system is bound to
be harmed by anything which will
check elimination of poisons from
the body. Stopping the elimination
through the pores will hurt you in
much the same wa, as if the flow
Of urine were partially stopped, or
in the same way as # you did some
thing to make your bowels more
sluggish. It all right for you to
use some deodorl..t or just. plain
talcum powder whic- will keep the
c,,roaf from snilinne uoal,. clnkhinn
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BARBS


Prince Fernando Of Spain has
been found, according to dispatches
from Europe. We didn't even know
he had been lost.
Mayor Thompson Of Chicago was
praised as the Senate committee
took up the flood situation. He
"crystallixed public sentiment in
favor Of flood control" and what
4 job he must have had Of It in tho
Mis- 'ippi Valley!
George Haldeman, pilot Of Ruth
Elders plane Tor was it Ruth Wo-
mack'p?) got In lots Of sleep while
+ turning home on an ocean liner.
Indy made an awful mistake when
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IN NEW YORK

New York, Nov. 12.-Stay away
from Manhattan two months and It
takes You six months to catch IN
with what's happened.
Stay away from Manhattan two
months and it takes you all Sunday
morning just to read the ads of the
new Broadway productions that
have been born. 1t takes you the
rest of the day consulting friends
regarding what is worth seeing. It
takes you until midnight to 70 over
the list of new cinema attractions.
new art exhibitions and new musi-
clans. BY that time you take one
glance at the mountain of books
that has piled in the corner-merely
the first installment of the swin-
ter list"-and you fall into bed to
toss through the night in the throes
OF confused Nightmares.
In the morning you are ready to
admit that things happen lust q
little. too fast in Manhattan. But,
at least, they happen. By the fol-
lowing morning, after q hectic
plunge into the night-life you know
that Broadway is the gayest, mad
dest, noisiest, snappiest, jazziest
place upon this earth. By contrast,
the joy spots of Montmartre are
soporific. Broadway has gone over
the world and come back with both
the bawdy and genteel gayety of
every other land in its pocket.
In London, it took little effort
to take stock of the drama. There
were few new things by British
playwrights-the rest were Ameri-
can importations. Returning to
Broadway, found all the new Lon
don plays already arrived on this
side and enough American products
to keep London playhouses going
for two seasons. ! found the bright
young London and French writer's
Beverly l'ichols and Andre Maui
rois-lecturing in our market
places. found the most eminent
London prowler, Stephen Graham,
deserving his native Soho for our
colorful corners and rushing to
press in America with volume he
dubs "New York Nights"
And, from the pen Of this author
Of London Nights" and "Under
London" ard innumerable essays on
by-ways of merry England, ! read:
broadway is the mother Of Broad
ways all over the world, mother of
the lights Of Picadilly Circus and
Of the Place Pigalle and the Teat-
rainy Plotschad. The Great White
Way is the greatest white way"
New York columnists could do no
more.
Away from Manhattan just two
months and come back to find that
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WASHINGTON ~
LETTER &M

asked why as many as 16 men were
trusted with the very delicate job
of jury shadowing, with apparent
disregard Of the possibility that one
or more might spill the beans. It
seems obvious that if anyone was
trying to tamper with the ju---, such
method would indicate either
sheer desperation or indifference as
to whether or not a mistrial were
declared.
Your correspondent talked for
half an hour with Henry Mason
Day, now under $25, 900 bond as an
alleged fixer, before he went be-
fore the grand jury. Day is a tall,
almost swarthy, apparently power
full and sartorially immaculate man
Of the world, not cultured but
suave. He seemed alternately steely
or penetrating and boyishly naive.
One felt that one would rather have
Dav as friend than an enemy. His
official title is vice president of the
Sinclair Exploration Co., an organ
ization of Sinclair biologists. Day
is not geologist; he is much more.
One gathers that Day is COM
mander-in-chief of Sinclair's for
eign forces = a fixcr, as'it were,
who has mixed with cabinet
members in various parts of the
world where there is oil or inter-
est in it. He has represented Sim
clair in the latter's bids for vast
fortunes in oil. For instance, Sin
clair left him in Russia in 1923 to
negotiate a huge concession from
the Soviet government. Until a few
days ago, Day was better known in
Europe and Asia than in the United
States. He is devoted 70 Sinclair.
If the government proves any of
its jury-tampering charges against
Sinclair or Day, the question will
promptly arise as to what the jury
fixing rates would have been had
the plot gone through.
Day hired chauffeur for Sin
clair at wages of $27 day, and
when taken into consideration
along with the large sums paid for
wages and expenses Of the detec-
tives, that fact would indicate that
plenty Of money YVES available for
one purpose or another.
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by RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE blow
up of the Fall-Sinclair trial turned
the spotlight on more peculiar sit
uations and circumstances than any
incident in Washington since the
Teapot Dome, Doheny and Daugh-
erty scandals were first uncovered.
For instance, it brought that most
astonishing person, William j.
Burns, back into the stocks of no.
toricty. Only one brief sequence Of
events is needed to show that the
Burns career has been with parallel.
In 1912, it was revealed that Burns
had been involving in the picking
Of a jury which convicted man
named Jones. In pardoning Jones,
President Taft accepted the con-
illusions of Attorney General Wick
ersham about Burns activities and
referred to them as "the most bare
faced and unfair use of all the ma
chinery for drawing a jury" which
he had ever encountered.
Yet, when Harding became pres
ident and Daugherty was named at
torney general, Burns was put in
an extremely important position OF
trust as head of the Investigation
bureau Of the Department Of JUS
tice.
Now we have Burns, again a pri-
vate detective, involved as. an EN-
ployer Of men whom the govern
nlent charges were used in a plot
to influence the Fall-Sinclair jurors.
Burns never was a respecter OF
persons. The attempts of his bu-
rcau to "get something on" sena-
tors who sought to expose corrup-
ton in the Interior and Justice De-
partments should be recalled. In
vestigation Of Department of JUS
tice files during the Senate in
quiries revealed some hair-raising
sidelights on methods and results of
the Justice Departments attempts
to "get something on" others, little
Of which was never publicly ex-
posed because of the prominence of
persons concerned.
Now, as grand jury investi-
gates the Fall-Sinclair trial fiasco,
the government reveals that q
Burns man Swallowed and reported
on an assistant attorney general of
the United States while his COM
rades were trying to establish con-
tact with jurors. It is charged that
one of Falls counsel urged another
department official to investigate
this assistant attorney general!
The question continues to be