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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-29
Mr.. Gilbert Points the Way

In his latest review of the operations of the
Dawes plan, S. Parker Gilbert comes to grips
with the essentials of the reparations problem
The plan formulated in 1924 had to take ac-
count of the atmosphere of bitter controversy
in which the whole subject had been enveloped
since the peace conference. France would not
have consented to any fixing of the total to
be exacted that Germany could possibly have
accepted. But France could be brought to see
that it was absurd to expect to get more from
Germany in any one year than expert deter
mination fixed as it's reasonable capacity to
pay.
!. The plan, therefore, ignored the problem of
the total to be demanded and safeguarded Ger
many against currency instability and budget
.disequilibrium by empowering the agent gen.
eral to halt transfers of scheduled payments
whenever they threatened to upset German
financial stability.
The situation thus created, although in
finitely better than that which it superseded,
has two great drawbacks. AS long as Germany
does not know its ultimate liability it lacks
4 s'moral incentive to the sound financial prac-
tice which exact knowledge of its future posi-
gtion would give. Furthermore, the protection
afforded by the creditors guarantee against
financial instability in the Reich has tend
.ency to make German government financing
careless, if not reckless, extravagant and prone
to borrow.
The remedy is plainly Indicated Germany
must be placed on it's own financially. It must
be left to perform it's definite task on it's own
responsibility without foreign supervision
and without transfer protection"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-29
Perishable Goods

All but an insignificant minority Of the nov
elists of today, it is believed, began their writ
ing careers with the desire to achieve fame
or to satisfy creative urge as the main IN
centive The making of money through the
sale of their books was secondary consdera-
ton; probably it was not until they had pub
lished one of two volumes that most of those
who now depend upon their novels for liveli-
hood decided to make the writing of fiction
their principal occupation.
Since fame, glory, and place among the
immortals of literature are the guerdons that
have been most prominent in our novelists'
minds, there is good deal of irony in the
statement made by the president Of the Amer
lean Booksellers association, that almost with
out exception q contemporary book OF fiction,
after having been published three months, is
practically dead, forgotten, and awaiting re-
moval to the bargain tables" Merit or lack
of it has nothing to do with the phenomenon /;
admirable novels may last no longer than poor
ones.
There is something pathetic in the idea of a
writer putting the energy, the thought and
feeling of year or more into work which,
though excellent, should be SO evanescent.
The situation directs attention to certain
conditions of modern life which are not to our
credit-the constant craving Of the public for
something new, even if the old is good and has
not been utilized as it might be, and the
tendency to follow a fad in an unreasoning
way as a flock Of sheep follow their leader.
Contemporary novels have become, from the
booksellers standpoint, perishable goods be-
cause the craze for novelty has advanced
to the point where book buyers are not
satisfied unless they can get fiction which is
just off the press. Each wants to be able to
talk about novels that are new and have not
yet been much discussed. Literature suffers
grievously as result.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-29
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer


Washington, Dec. ga few bills
you never heard Of, with the con-
gressmen who propose them, are
here offered for your education and
entertainment:
House:
Allgood: To prohibit the importa-
ton Of jute or jute-made products.
Houston (of Hawaii): To author
ize coinage Of 5O-cent pieces to COM
memorate the 150th anniversary Of
the Hawaiian Islands by Captain
Cook.
Celler: To authorize a military
or naval firing squad to furnish sa-
lutes for dead ex-service men.
Blanton: To reduce the member
ship Of the House from 435 to 300.
Blanton: To pay each Confeder-
ate soldier and each living widow of
q Confederate soldier 81, 900 cash
and $50 monthly for the rest Of their
lives, to compensate the south for
cotton tax wTongfully collected
from 1863 to 1865"
Kindred: To regulate traffic in
certain clinical thermometers.
Linthicum and Celler: To make
The Star-Spangled Banner the ma
tional anthem.
Smith: To print and distribute
pamphlets giving . biographical
sketch Of George Washington.
Begg: To give the iron gates In
West Executive avenue between the
White House and the State, War
and Navy Building to the Ohio State
Historical Society.
Guyer: To rebury an unknown
Union soldier and IN unknown Con-
federate soldier in = memorial shrine
ct Lincoln and Lee University, Kan
sas City.
Tillman: To pay Confederate SOL
diers and Confederate widows 1000
in cash and $50 monthly for the rest
CARRIER: TO provide for : ma
tional agricultural day.
Kindred: To set aside Christmas
Day as . national full holiday for
carriers and all other postal EN-.
ployes.
Brand: To provide for. holiday
service on rural mail routes.
Mooney: To erect . monument
here to the memory Of Haym Solo.
mon.
Sears: To designate the Colum-
bine q the national flower.
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The Sound Of q Face
Living Arel

Televlson, noctOvisiOn and the phOnovisor
are the most recent inventions to which the
present age has fallen heir. Television. or the
radio transmission of moving pictures, is in
the vanguard of this parade of scientific mar.
vels, and we learn that already there are two
efforts under way to manufacture the appar-
atus SO that it may be installed in the home
for no more than $780,
Plans are being made to 'televise" irnpor-
tant news events SO that they may be pro-
Jected on screen in any home owning q re-
celvlng apparatus. Although the apparatus is
still rather crude, the day may not be far dis
tant when we may sit in our own homes and
watch worlds championship boxing match,
see the knockout blow at the very time it Is
delivered, and hear the referee make the fatal
count Of ten.
Most of the apparatus devised so far. par
tlcularly the more successful attempts of j. L.
Baird and Denes Won Mihaly, rely upon vibrat.
ing or moving mirrors, but Professor Max
Dieckmann, another pioneer in this field
makes electrons do the work.
Noctovision is more interesting from q sci
entlfic point Of view, as it enables one to take
picture and transmit the photograph over the
ether when the subject Of the picture is II
total darkness.
The phonovisor, which was demonstrated at
the meeting of the British Association at
Leeds, makes photograph record Of picture
Mr.. j. L. Baird, its inventor, says that all faces
have their own peculiar hum, some of them
sounding like gargle and others like squeak
In time it will be possible to recognize persons
merely by the sound of their faces.
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DON'T GET EXCITED!

It is an evidenceof thehighestcul.
ture when one can live in this rapid
~ changing, hurry-up age with q
good control over all Of the end-
lions. Those who have not attained
such control find themselves torn
By the passions Of love, hatred, jeal-
ousy, etc. They are storm-tossed by
over-emotion-going from the depths
to the heights-fron pleasure to
pain, becoming alternately too de-
pressed or too>exalted.
Besides tho ordinary emotions
which we recognize as existent, there
Is doubtless another common one
which few have recognized. This is
the simple emotion Of excitement.
Many get q nerve-stimulating thrill
every time they hear the fire en-
CINE dashing by, or when they read
OF q great disaster. Their excite
ment is not truly caused by either
fear or sorrow, or any other Of the
emotions ordinarily understood.
One who has the proper poise and
calmness Of mind does not allow him.
self to be too often excited by any
emotion. But it !. nevertheless true
that there are many nerve-racked
people who allow their minds to be
storm-tossed by every unusual story
or news about happenings which can
in no way Immediately concern them.
Such excitement only depletes the
nerve forces and brings on enerva-
ton.
The man Of power is always one
who has q steady control over all
emotions, and who uses his mental
and physica.. energy W.. re they will
do the most good. The fault seems
to be that many do not understand
upon what events and emotions they
should place the proper emphasis.
Women, as rule, may be said to
be the more nervous, and seem to
waste more energy upon trifles. The
business or professional man Would
not 60 very Tar in accomplishing
any successful work If he could not
learn to concentrate upon the inn
portant, things Of the day, but spent
most Of his time wasting his nerve
forces by continually being either
too sad or too glad.
The successful man is often the
one who is effeminate enough to
have the nature Of an extrovert,
which means one who is dominated
by things outside of himself.
It is probably best to work about
take an emotional inventory at the
end Of each day. Take a piece Of
paper and write down list Of these
emotions: love, hatred, envy, jeal-
ousy, fear, malice. Then, on an
other lire, put these down: work,
sleep, recreation. Check off on ev-
cry one Of these items, trying to
remember back through the day how
much time and energy you have act
ually spent in the power of emotions
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From where she stood, unable to
move in that first horror which
paralyzed her limbs, Faith could
see through the arch that divided
living room and dining room, could
not help seeing the tableau that was
being enacted on the big couch that
faced the arch, placed as it was at
right angle to the fireplace.
Cherry sat on the couch beside Bob,
but her head was bowed upon his
knees, and her shoulders, from one
Of which her negligee of orchid silk
chiffon had slipped, were shaking
with sobs. Bob's right hand was
straying through her disordered cop
per-and-gold curls, alternately rum
ping and smoothing them, with fing-
ertips that seemed to Faith to be
quivering with tenderness. His own
head, bowed upon his breast, look
ed rs if it were weighted down with
despair. !.
So it was true, true! Faith
caught her lower lip between her
teeth to keep from screaming out
her horror and pain. Her husband
and her sister. were in love, had
been in love all this time, hope
lessly, despairingly' in love. And
it was she, Faith, his wife, who
was responsible for their despair
She felt her very flesh shrink with
loathing Of herself, as if her body
wanted to destroy itself, so that
those two whom she loved 50 much
would be free free Shrill
words, zigzagging with sobs, cut
through her horror:
"I'm in q trap, Bob! There's no
way -.out-s I'd rather kill myself
than"
"Hush, Cherry darling, you
mustn't say that again." Bob's
voice = stern and sad and heavy.
"And you can't run away from
love. You've got to give yourself
to love. Only q coward refuses to
face life-I'm not going to let you
be q coward, Cherry. Look at me
child! Stop crying like that!
can't stand it. Face this thing
Cherry: could anything be worse
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Worthless Statistics
Newark Star-Earle)

That venerable journal of agricultural life
the Country Gentleman, is authority for the
statement that statistics upon the economic
condition Of the average farmer" put out by
the federal department Of agriculture for 1926.
were based on returns from only 13,476 of the
more than 100000 farmers in the United
States. According to the same periodical. the
year book Of that department Tor 1925 under.
took to state the average expenditure of farm
families for clothing" and figured It out upon
. survey Of 1887 such families.
One unit in every 4,46e, as in the survey Of
Two years ago, or even one in as, q last year.
is 2 pretty poor sort Of cross section upun
which to determine facts about any class ST
the population. Figures Of this kind have be-
used as arguments for supposed measures Of
farm relief such Is the one President Coolidge
vetoed.
An array Of digits has IN awes6ne effect
upon the people, few Of whom stop to aualyze
how much or how little It may mean. The
public Is not given to analysis. Put any Kind
Of nonsense in tabular form, and It Is taken e
Law and gospel. It has been said there -
three kinds of.liars: plain lars, internal liars,
and statisticians; but it Il not creditable % !
great nation that this remark has 70 Be %.
piled 70 its own Official disssminators 81 Ia.
formation.
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America Spendthrift?

Other peoples call Americans extravsgsnt,
spendthrift and wasteful. Maybe, after al. It
only seems that way.
During the last twenty-seven years our pop
ulation has increased by about 80 per cent.
But the number Of life insurance policyholders
has increased 500 per cent. The people are
putting something aside for the rainy day.
Payments to beneficiaries and holders Of en-
dowment policies this year amounted to eight
times the total Of such payments in 1900. And
in each Of the last two years the amount Of new
insurance written exceeded the total amount
outstanding seventeen years ago.
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IN NEW YORK

New York, Dec. 29-Now it comes
out that certain Of the pretty ladies
that Papa Bountiful from Des
Moines and Punxatawney can find
just most anywhere, have the "Buy-
Me- This" ailment.
John Solid Citizen, we'll say, gets
In Tor his annual visit to Manhat-
tan, and seeks companionship. A
friend in q hotel cigar store who
knows . friend who knows q friend,
arrange for him : feminine steer
ing committee Of one.
That or one Of those playful lit
tie flirtations that can start most
And off tiiey; 60. up this street
and down that. It's "Oh, buy
me this" ''Isn't that sweet" and
"What q pretty perfume bottle chat,
bracelet Or whatnot)" SO Papa
Bountiful buys many things for his
little friend, mostly in q store she
has chosen.
Next day the girl returns the SOL
id citizens gifts to the store. The
clerk puts them back on the shelves
and clerk and lady split the pro-
ceeds. Prices, Of course. had been
doubled for Papa Bountiful's bene-
tit. It yields . handsome profit.
In the vicinity Of one night club
] know two such darnsels who make
moro money in q month by this
means than John Citizen from Punk
atawney does himself.
Where do the old folk 20? Now
and then In the newspapers we read
Of some aged person receiving an in
heritauce that drives away the wolf
in her last days. and Of some once
colorful character Of Broadway dy.
ing without Z dime. Where do oil
tho old folks GO?
There are Il homes for the aged
but, Of course; these do not begir
to take care Of al. Besides it ID
hard tor . man or woman to get in
to these homes unless he be-
longs to . certain church or lodge
or has reached . specified age.
The Welfare Council helps Il
take care Of the others, among
whom are many who wouldn't sc
TO . home Il they had to.
There was John Smith, for IN
stance, who said he would rathel
die than 60 to such . home AND
.. "be penned up with . lot Of old
cronies." He had left Z foreign
country early in LIE and now found
himaalf alone In New York will
no relatives and no near friends.
A worker from = big family
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WASHINGTON ~
LETTER &M

Fitzgerald: To regulate the
height Of buildings in the District
Of Columbia.
Oldfield: To permit rural letter
carriers to act as agents or solicit
ors.
Deal: A constitutional amend
ment to limit the presidential term
to six years.
Sears Of Nebraska: TO authorize
the treasury to redeem twenty war
savings stamps now held by DR.. John
Mack of Omaha.
Taber: To spend $4,000 for q
monument at the birthplace of Mil.
lard Fillmore at Summerhill, N Y.
Tinkham: To reimburse the state
Of Massachusetts, with $7,056.37 fol
expenses incurred by the state guard
during the Boston police strike.
Sirovich: Resolution to break of
diplomatic relations with Rumanis
if she doesn't stop her "barbarous
and cruel treatment Of innocent
Jewish citizens upon this country's
demand.
Jones of Washington: (No. y Fol
the relief Of C.. II. Reynolds, as.
signee Of the Bitu-Mas Paving Co.
Of Spokane.
Golf: To erect a monument K
Patrick Gass at Wellsburg, Va.
Edwards: To remit the duty on q
carlton of bells imported for Grace
Church, Plainfield, N. ].
Copeland: To officially define Z
white person as one who sis Of thu
following peoples: Scandinavian
German, Dutch, English, Flemish
Lithuanian, Scotch, Irish, Welsh
Russian, Polish, Czech, Servian
Croatian, Montenegrin, Slovals
Slovenian, Ruthenian, Dalmatian
Herzegovinian, Bosnian, Albanian
Armenian, French, Italian, Ruman
ian, Spanish, Spanish-Am
Mexican, Portuguese. Greek, Hindu
Parsi, Gypsy, Arabian. Hebrew, Syr
ian, Caucasus, Basque"
Mcclellan: To change the title o.
deputy assistant treasurer Of tn
United States to assistant treasurer
81 the United States.
Blease: To require separate &C
commodations for white and coloret
passengers on street cars in the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
Robinson: II i~"~ease the eff
cheney Of army bands.
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\ Cabled advices from Minister Sterling, who
represents the United States in Dublin, that
William 7. Cosgrave, president Of the execu-
tive council Of the Irish Free State, conten,-
plates paying courtesy visit" to this coun-
Try next month, give official confirmation to
the previous report. President Cosgrave will
he welcome visitor and assured Of all the
diplomatic courtesies due to the head Of gov
nEnment which is an especial object Of SYM
mathAtic interest in America.
4 Establishment 81 the Irish Free State in the
amidst Of turbulent reactions from the world
aNar WAS ! task Of extreme difficulty. Presi-
fdenf Cosgrave and his colleagues set their
l(aces 70 the work and pursued It unflinchingly
~ the end that Ireland is steadily emerging
Into the sunshine Of prosperity.
The 316,00O,O00 loan noated in New York
ut uoek Is part Of the cost Of constructing
o Great electric works on the Shannon river,
lhl6h 4 now well advanced toward completion.
Subsidized beet sugar industry is . going
ccrn Of great benefit to the farmers. Az
c11ture and dairy industries are in q more
toroblo condition than for many years. All
fo pepves that even Il sternly repressive
1ley hns hem necessary 81 combating forces
r. tion, thGre has been = concurrent and
lGG1x directed effort on the part Of the Cos
RI1o Standardization to improve Ireland's eco
position, which had been distressful for
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OAllNkAme A9Sstd|iaN NLN

than life as you're living it now.
starved, frustrated, miserable?
You can't fling away love and hope
ever to be happy. II it's the real
thing"
"oh, it isl" Cherry walled, and
Bob laughed and held her close
against his breast, grooming some
thing that Faith could not hear
against his breast, grooming some
how she managed to make her
horror-stiffened legs carry her
through the noiseless swinging
door back into the kitchen, her Icy
hand stopping the door gently, so
that those two would not be dis
turbed. Oddly enough, pity for
them struggled upward through
her horror and her loathing Of
herself as the barrier between
them. And her pity seemed an
impersonal thing, q cosmic sotrew.
Later she would be angry and do
and say terrible things, but now
she only felt vast sorrow, which
for some queer reason did not in
clude herself. Poor Cherry! Poor
Bob!
Tiptoeing carefully, though
there was small chance Of her foot
steps being heard above Cherty's
hysterical sobbing, Faith picked
up the box which held the carving
set that had been one Of her we'd
ding presents. Aunt Hattie had
given it to her Suddenly abe
remembered how happy she had
been the day Aunt Hattie's gift
had come. And now Bob was
undoubtedly kissing Cherry, whom
he was persuading not to Be =
Coward
Because Fay was expecting her,
Faith drove back to the Myrtle
Street house, tears running stead
| lily down her cheeks, 80 that Il WAS
miraculous that there was no acci-
dent. She wished there could b,
but she might only be hurt, and
then Bob and Cherry could not 50
away together ~ they wanted to-
NEXT: The breaking point.
Copyright, 1927, NEA Service lnc.)
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These are the days when father
finds his old level-deed broke.
Who said the world wasn't fiat?
Nobody can. quall{y for the 100
per cent American club thee days
until he has asked Lindbergh not
to do somsthing.
Love f. that which. . GIRL he's
who goes With Z man Who decent
own . motor car. but meybo her
Idea i compassionatQ maFsisge,
A new phenomenon IA the skies
has three tails. Maybe we'd better
ask Billy Sunday what Il b.
What this country needs Is mors
presidential timber and . few les
congressional blpcs.
Last Lines: 1--WE were told tWo
could llv1 ~ cheaply @ one.s
Copyright, 1927. NEA 6eFvices 1nc.l
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

xuSOtlOUs AuA1Ou0 0OkSs ~ tueC0
anything that can be given . man
secretly that will cure him Of the
drink habit? I wish could find
something that would make him
dreadfully sick If he touched liquor"
Answer: There Is nothing I know
Of which will cure>the drink habit
unless the drinker is really willing
to be cured It is then very simple,
A fast on acid fruits will In q day
or two destroy all craving for IL
quor. The cure is then complete If
the drmker really desires . cure.
Question: Mary w. asks: "Does
sugar combine well with starchy
Answer: Starchy foods should be
used only with the cooked and raw
-starchy vegetables. Sugar should
no Be used at the same meal with
starchy foods.
Question: ]. L. X. writes: 81
know several children who were vac
cinated about q year ago. Their
arms were not sore, and appeared to
be entirely we'll. The scar left an
|indention, as usual. Recently the
place has pulled up and formed 4
hard, knotty pone. The children also
complain Of their arms being sore.
Please tell the public what causes
this, and also the remedy
Answer: The remedy for such Z
condition as you describe is for the
children to be put ON fairly long
fast Of, say, ten days or two weeks.
This is the only method know Of
getting rid Of such . deep-seatsd
infection. The experience Of those
children is very common, and comes
from the infection from the strep-
rtococcus or staphylococcus bacteIia
which are. always present in tho
smallpox vaccine.
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A Thought

Can the Ethiopian change his
stin, q TIE l1opsrd his sDots7-
jeremiah 1875.
Believe, Il thou wilt, that noun
tains change thor placed, but believe
not that man changes his nature
nohammed.
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and observe how we'll Of, have bal.
anced the hours Of the day.
It is probably best 70 work shout
eight hours, sleep eight, and use the
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Justajingle

Ho rot upoa IT, street. eos, op1
II quite : frien11y air
SID. ny: - wsatAef's 6An1y.
Cesduetor answered. Hrsssls
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Dr.. Mccoy will gladly answer
personal questions on health and
diet, addressed to him. care Of
the Tribune.
Enclose : stamped addrossed
envelope for reply.
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other eight hours for recreation and
study. There should certainly be 4
smattering here and there during
your waking hours Of remembrance
Of mild enjoyments. lovely thoughts
and joyful moments; but % you take
an inventory Of your emotions you
may find It helpful to cut down the
amount of time you are wasting ON
fear, hatred, jealousy, malice and
other emotions and excitements
which only W: .te energy and con-
tribute their share to producing both
nervous and physical disorders.