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= THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
Christians Are Sold Into SlaUe1y
Written for The Times by Will Durant

dea, protesting against the heart
less pleasures Of the rich, and
adopting a life of puritanic SIM
plicity and almost nonaStic seclu-
sion.
They became distinctive order,
marked off with girdle and white
robe. They condemned city life,
trade, slavery, competition, and
wealth; they healed the sick with
herbs and took no payment; they
practiced community of goods,
and ate supper together daily as a
religious feast. Their tradition and
their spirit passed down into the
Carpenters son.
At first it seemed to the Jews
that their savior had come in the
person of John, whom posterity
would call the Baptist; his father,
zacharias, welcoming his birth, pre-
dicted that he would lead the revo-
luton against Rome.
And when John, grown to be go
came out into the public places and
called upon every man to be spirit
ually reborn through the symbol of
immersion many hundreds followed
him; surely this strange and holy
man was the Messiah, the redeemer
who would bring salvation to Israel.
Now says Josephus, when
many came in crowds about him,
for they were greatly moved by
hearing his words, Herod, who
feared lest the great influence John
had over the people might put it
into his power and inclination to
raise a rebellion (for they seemed
ready to do anything he should adj
vise), thought it best, by putting
him to death, to prevent any mis-
chief he might cause, and not bring
himself into difficulties by sparing
g. man who might make him repent
of it when it should be too late"
Copyright. 1898. by Will Durant)
Ito Be COntinued)
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TN the sixth year of the Christian
Il era an instruction broke out in
the northern provinces Of Judea,
led by Judas the Galilean.
Quirinus, the Roman governor,
had ordered a census, to ferret out
all tax-evaders; and the Jews, ac-
cuStomed to q theocracy, and con-
sidering all civil power as a usurpa-
ton and all taxation as robbery,
gathered together their remaining
weapons, and fought once more TO
free themselves from the yoke OF
Rome.
1t was not merely the taxation
that oppressed the ancient pride Of
Judea. Everywhere In the land
Greek and Roman customs, dress
and speech f1ourished; and pagan
idols, athletic games and bac-
chanalian festivals desecrated tenn
pies and streets made sacred in the
memory Of the Jews by their i'm
memorial struggle for liberty.
And in every home was poverty;
not the wonted and bearable poverty
of the open fields and the friendly
stars, when men peacefully followed
the fiocks, and lived with them their
quiet life; but a new and cruel
thing, the poverty Of the huddled
city mob, the dirt and stencil Of
almost homeless crowds, the mean
and bitter perjury of slaves who
could remember their ancient free
dom.
y
PERIODICALLY this helpless pro-
L letariat of Judea'S cities, bore the
terror of Roman armies, and slave
raiding Roman generals.
Fifty years before the birth Of
Christ, $4,000 Jews we're sold into
slavery; doubtless this was one Of
the grim stories that he read when
he pored over books in his youth.
While he lived as a carpenters
son at Nazareth, an entire town
nearby was sacked by the Romans,
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928, by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace: K-king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower than
LIN playing against no-trump
what is the very common error
made?
Against a no-trump, partner
not having bid, what do you lead
if you do not hold three honors in
sequence?
3.-Against a no-trump, partner
not having bid, what do you lead
when holding three honors in Sc
quence?
THE ANSWERS
1.-Switching the open suit.
Fourth from top of the long
est suit.
3.-Highest.
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The Rules

1. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and do
it in par, or a given number of
strokes. Thus to change COW to
HEN, in three strokes, COW, HOW,
HEW, HEN.
2. You can change only one let
ter at time.
3.You must have a complete word
Of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order Of letters can not be
change.
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It Is only to the extent that the
rest Of the Anti-Saloon League
follows Shumaker's example that
it will come under the same SEN
tence.
The league is not an organiza-
ton capable of terrifying a brave
official in the discharge Of his
duty to uphold the Constitution
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The Vague Admiral

Admiral Plunkett names no names,
but leaves the impression that this
nation is threatened either by some
folks who speak the same language,
or by some who speak different
one, which includes everybody.
Abraham Lincoln never INDUCED
in such vagueness. He was one Of
those men whose convictions per-
NIT them to speak definitely.
He said, this nation cannot sur
vive half slave and half free" leav-
ing no doubt as to who or what he
had in mind.
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Life ReV0Iutionized

Civilization has come to a point
where it permits science to revolt
tionize life without resistance, much
less bloodshed.
Edison and a few others like him
completely have altered domestic
and industrial methods during the
last century.
Many of their inventions and in
noVationS are more marvellous than
the miracles of old.
The greatest marvel of all is the
calmness and quickness with which
people have made the necessary
changes.
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What Other Editors Think

of the United States and the
fundamental law of Indiana.
Mr.. Gilliom is not taking "job-
lot" action, for he is interested
only in bringing the guilty to time.
He has made a splendid beginning,
and we have confidence that he
will continue in the good work
which he so fortuitously has ini-
tiated.
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the zenith and often suggesting
tongues of flame. The color may
be white throughout or it may be
shot with brilliant hues of red, yell
low and green. The auroral line
of the spectrum is green and is ap-
parently always present in the sky.
The rays or beams of light proceed
ing from the arch are really par
allel to the dipping needle; that Is,
the follow the lines of magnetic
force.
What was the official date Of the
termination of the Civil War?
The proclamation by President
Andrew Johnson on April 2, 1866,
declaring that the war had now
terminated was the only formal no
tice that the war was ended.
What is the address Of Bruce
Barton?
"a E. Tenth ST., New York.
Is it good form to send announce
ment cards of an engagement?
It is not good form to send out
announcement cards. The news
papers should be given a notice of
the engagement, if desired, and the
parents of the girl may give a din
ner at which the formal announce
ment may be made.
Did the ancients begin a new
year in January?
The Aathenians began the year in
June; the Macedonians in Septem-
Der; the Romans first in March and
afterward in January; the Persians
on Aug. IL; the ancient Mexicans
on Feb. %; the Mohammedans in
July. The Chinese year, which be-
gins late in January or early in
February, is similar to that of the
Mohammedans.
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To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Our farm tariff being decidedly
out of joint, it is in order to
challenge j. c. Brileys stray notion
on onions.
I fear this gas farmer, who in 1917
called me a mud road statesman
for proposing the Indiana highway
commission law, again has failed to
take himself out of the realm of
guessed assumption. His knowledge
of either the elastic provisions of
the farm equality bill, as it could
apply to onions or other unnamed
dirt commodities, or the pretty onion
tariff problem presented American
growers, seems most incomplete.
The fundamental causes of the
onion farmers grief which Mr.
Briley attempts to defend and
justify soon must yield to an ap-
plication of the fundamental prin-
ciples of equity and justice. The
farm bill soon will.prevail over the
gross sum of all onion ignorance
and selfshneSs.
1t is true that our squat onion
farmers occupy the last mudsill
niche in the plowman's hall of
gloom. Mr.. Briley could cultivate
his onion judgment by reading
either the Industrial Conference re-
port, the Farm Bill itself, or the
Ohio Onion Farmers Petition, which
a large group of planters addressed
to Senator Willis and the Tariff
Commission.
Any of these documents cover the
onion matters Mr.. Briley is guessing
about. The onion instrument shows
our planters to be in almost open
competition with Spain and other
countries on onion supplies for our
American market.
The Ohio Bill Of Onion Rights
floats an indictment against the
patronage of lowly SpaniardS, who
work on great onion plantations,
setting onion sets for SO a month
in American money; who live on
dirt floors; who dwell in stick and
grass novels by the field-Side; and
who dress in mid-man style on
burlap sacking.
Think of these low onion high
lands Of the universe Looping over
a small American tariff barrier,
supplying the free-trade elements
which win our markets and destroy
our American onion values; the
more serious consequence of which
is the destruction Of the value of
our onion farms An analysis of our
onion situation makes it appear that
our national administration doesn't
know its onions"
AS result of our Governments
nominal tariff procedure on incom-
ing onions, we saw the onion pro-
ducers roadside-price-b board last
season all through Ohio, Michigan
and Indiana quoting onions, high
grade domestic grown onions, at SO
and so cents a bushel, when even
Mr.. Briley knows Is merely a
digging, picking or grading price.
Evidently these Hungarian en-
eralds have been grown free and out
of clear loss to all our American
onion producers.
A legislative enactment, like the
McNary- Haugen Bill, is needed to
vest our onion farmers with some
effective bargaining power, and rid
them Of such cheap competition as
comes from all spheres of world
onion farming.
Admonishing Mr.. Briley to sin as
little as possible against his down.
trodden fellow onion farmers, and
contending his onion notion to be
put a barren onion husk and an
empty onion jacket, as he fails to
know his onions, I am,
Yours for improved onion con-
ditions. LUKE w. DUFFEY.
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Lincoln and Patriotism

Lincoln not only grew up with the
conviction that this Government
was wrong in its tolerance Of
African slavery, but with the idea
that he wanted to help change it.
He took stand which caused him
to be eXecrated by millions, and
which had little foundation at the
outset except his own conviction
that it was right.
The question is, should Lincoln
have voiced what he thought was
right, or have kept quiet out of
loyalty to the Government as it
then existed?
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They Don't Get AWAY With It

reader has sent us cartoon, clipped from the
New Orleans Times Picayune 1t pictures confessed
murderer in court, weeping for the benefit of the
judge, while his attorney likewise weeping, pleads for
his life on the ground of insanity.
The attitude Of the criminal and the speech Of his
lawyer burlesques Of the sort of thing
and heard daily in American criminal courts. "Ana
They Get Away With til" Is the title of the cartoon.
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(Blunton Banner)

(BlufftOn Banner)
While in Washington Arthur
Sapp of Huntington says he has
receievd numerous entreatieS from
Republicans to enter the guberna-
torial race, but so far finds he has
power enough to resist the ad-
vances made.
Fine idea to roll under the
tongue, but the idea of a Hunt
ington man resisting" anything
in the political line is interesting
and amusing. The latest word
from Mr.. Sapp is that he is still
resisting" although, in the COM
pany of Jim Watson and other
leading lights in Washington, he
may "break" down any time, and
thus allow his name to be cast
in the lot.
In the meantime let the friends
of Mr.. Sapp hope he may be
strong enough to cast aside the
tempter.
TT. Wayne News-sentinel
An upstate weekly rusheS to
the defense of DR.. Shumaker
against Attorney General Gillionl,
asserting that -GilliomS action
against the Anti-Saloon Leagues
high mogul in Indiana is case of
personal persecution instead OF
prosecution.
1t cites the fact that, in his re-
ply to DR.. Shumaker'S statement
that the contempt proceedings
against him were initiated to
break down the Indiana Anti-Sa-
Icon League, the Attorney Gen
eral set forth that the suit against
Shumaker was brought for a per-
Sonal violation of the law.
The upstate weekly adds: 1--WE
don't know much about law, but
if we ha6 suffered damage at the
hands of some employe while per-
forming his work, as an employe
of some corporation >. we would
sue the corporation and not the
employe, unless we had some
grudge against the employe and
wanted to get even rather than to
get damages"
This journal need not have ex-
planned that it doesn't know much
about law. Shumaker it was who
committed the contempt. Many
supporters of the league did not
agree with his course. Many of
them did, but they did not commit
the overt act. Shumaker did.
Hence, he was made defendant
and afterward convicted of con-
tempt. 50
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Times Readers
Voice Vices

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must accompany every contribution. but
on request will not be published. Let
preference.
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Questions and AmS1VerS

You can get an answer to any answer
able question Of fact or Information. by
Editor, The Indianapolis Times. Wash
ington Bureau, 1922 New York Ave.
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gal advice cannot be given. nor can ex-
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cordially invited to make use Of this
What Is the remainder Of the
verse that begins, what is so rare
as a day in June?"
The verse is from James Russell
LowelrS Vision of Sir Launfal, u
and is as follows:
What is. so rare as a day in June?
! Then II ever come perfect days.
| Then heaven tries earth If it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays.
Now many members Of the Marine
Corps Of the United States during
the World War were entitled to the
Federal bonus and how many ap-
piled for it?
The number entitled to adjusted
compensation was 1882 and by Oct
81, 1926, 59,575 had applied and
SIS, 204 were certified.
Who played the part of the
mother in the picture called "Over
the HIP"
Mary Carr.
What Is the meaning OF "Honi
soft qui maly pense?" Are they
Latin words?
Evil to him who evil thinks" 1t
is French.
What is the aurora bOrealiS?
1t is display of light in the up
per regions of the atmosphere, seen
in the direction of the north mag
netic pole and sometimes called
northern lights. The aurora is usu-
ally a broad arch of light with
streamers above it reaching toward
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
ABSENT HOOVER
HOLDS KEY FOR
FARM EQUALITY
Republican Leaders in Doubt ..
as To President Elett'S
Attitude

Washington. Dec. 7.-F-Farm
relief legislation, long in q state Of
uncertainty, finds itself muddled
now by the absence Of the president
elect, Herbert Hoover.
One bill, thought to have admins
trative approval, has been introduced
by Chairman McNary Of the senate
agricultural committee, but even be-
fore it is out Of the committee room,
doubt has cast . shadow on its path.
Republican leaders do not seem to
know what Mr.. Hoover's idea on this
bill are and asking him may be q
little difficult, since he is in South
America. And q spokesman for him
apparently has not been found.
Nevertheless, leaders in congress
opposed to an extra session next
spring are believed to be thinking Of
asking Mr.. Hoover to pass on the
McNary bill. They feel that with
his approval the measure might be
passed at the SEVENTEEN congress
and q special session for tariff re-
vision delayed until autumn. If it
is decided to ask Mr.. Hoover the
question, then will come the worry
over ways and means Of doing it.
Some congressional leaders un-
derstand that if the McNary bill is
passed at this session that President
Coolidge will leave the appointment
of the farm board to Mr.. Hoover.
They believe the president feels that
the Hoover administration will be
saddled with the responsibility Of
farm relief and that the president
elect should be entrusted with lay
ing the groundwork.
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KING GEORGES
STRENGTH AIDS
Powers Of Resistance Serve
Well in Battle Against Lung
Infection

London, Dec. 7.-(AP)-King
Georges powers Of resistance today
were serving Kim well in his battle
with the severe and persistent illness
which attacked him more than q
fortnight ago. His illness, however,
was still causing anxiety to his sub
jects and to countless well wishe5s
throughout the world.
Several recent medical bulletins
and particularly the one issued short
" before noon today indicated how
well hiS powers Of resistance were
serving the monarch. Today's hui
letin reported that he was maintain
int his general strength, to the boil
stering up Of which some restful
sleep that he had during the night
doubtleSs contributed.
The bulletin, signed by Sir STAN
ley Hewett and Lord Dawson Of
Penn, said:
1.-THE king had some Festful sleep
and his general strength II main
tanned. Further investigation Of the
right side 81 the chest will b un-
dertaken during the day."
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MCPHERSON TO
DOCTORS
Mandan Physic ian Ma m e d
President of Sixth District
Medical Society

DR.. B. S. Nickerson, Mandan, was
elected president Of the, Sixth Dis
trict Medical society at their meet
ing Wednesday evening. The cleo
ton followed q dinner at the Grand
Pacific hotel.
Other officers named for the COM
ing year are: DR.. o. w. Schoregge,
Bismarck, vice president; DR.. w. L.
Diven, Bismarck, reelected secre-
tary. DR.. A. NJ. Fisher, Bismarck,
was elected to fill q vacancy on the
board of censors. DR.. H. A. Brandes
and DR.. G.. E. Stackhouse were
elected delegates to the State Medi-
cal meeting which will he held next
spring in Fargo.
DR.. J. B. Doyle, Rochester, Mimi,
presented q paper on pain as Z
Symptom in Neurological Condi-
tions." DR.. Doyle's remarks were
regarding the Importance of recog-
MIXING the early symptoms Of dis
eases OF the nervous systems in their
relation to general medical and sur
gical conditions. It was illustrated
BY slides.
DR.. E. P. Quain spoke on "Infec-
ions of the Hand" illustrated by mo-
ton pictures and pathological speci-
mems. DR.. Quain stated in the treat
uAent Of hand infections, the first
treatment is the most important.
Dr.. G. N. Constans discussed
"Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis" He
pointed out the danger Of the devel-
opment Of this invariably fatal con-
dition following relatively harmless
infections about the face and head.
Attendance 1t the meeting was
the best in the history Of the society,
81 members being present.
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CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS
CLOSED BY DOCTORS

Los Angeles, Dec. 1.-(A')-AI-
though 1900 new cases of influenza
have been reported in Los Angeles
in the last two days, health author
tiles announced today that the prev
alence Of the disease, which has cost
1872 lives in q little more than three
weeks, had not yet reached its
height, which they expect to come
next week.
Health department figures show
that there have been 5000 cases here
since the disease became prevalent
November IL. Yesterdays new cases
numbered 400, Whine 500 were re-
ported Wednesday.
Schools remained open in Los An
geles today but those of Pasadena
have been shut down. Reports from
health officers in the adjacent coun-
ties Of Orange, San Bernardino, Ven
tura and Santa Barbara, where the
disease also had gained hold, said
that it had been subdued.
More than 500 children, or about
fifty per cent Of the grammar school
children Of Azusa, CAL, which was
closed yesterday, were reported by
Charles Carpenter, school principal,
to be i'll with the disease. Azusa is
in Orange county.
Schools Of Santa Ana, which were
closed last week because Of the wide
spread illness, have been ordered re.
opened next Monday
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BOY INJURED IN
SLED ACCIDENT
John Conrad, 6, in Mandan
Hospital Suffering Severe
Gashes in Face

John Conrad, 6, Mandan, is in the
Mandan Deaconess hospital today
suffering several serious cuts and
bruises about the head and face as
a result of crashing into an automo-
bile after he had slid down hill on q
sled. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. j. Conrad, 8O6 First street
northwest, Mandan.
John, together with a group of
Mandan boys, was sliding down hill
this morning, the bottom of the hill
being on Eighth avenue between
Main and Second streets.
The accident occurred about
a. m. when his sled struck the rear
wheel of an automobile moving
along Eighth avenue. Boards in the
sled were broken, gashing his face
and knocking him unconscious.
The driver of the automobile
stopped and the boy was taken to
the hospital Immediately. He was
said to be recovering consciousness
at noon today.
Several stitches have been taken
on the cuts in his head and face, but
no X-ray pictures have been taken
Of the bones, the physician said.
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BUS OFFICIALS
T0H0LD
MEETING HERE
Between 50 and %, State Mo.
tor HaulerS Come to Bis
marck Wednesday

Between so and 60 North Dakota
members of the Dakota Motor Car
riers association will conduct their
first annual meeting in Bismarck
Wednesday, Dec. IL, according to
H. P. Goddard, secretary of the As
ISOLATION of Commerce.
Fhe Dakota Motor Carriers asso-
citation is made up of motor haulers
in North and South Dakota.
A meeting Of the South Dakota
members Of the organization will be
held at Watertown Saturday, Dec.
Is. Three annual meetings of the
body, meeting as one organization,
have been held in the past.
North Dakota has $50 members
in the organization. The object Of
the organisation is stated as follows:
Better and more uniform service.
To gain the confidence of the public.
Work together for the good of all"
Local arrangements were placed in
charge of ]. G. Belanger, manager
Of the Interstate Transportation
company, but Mr.. Goddard is assum-
ing the responsibility in the absence
of Mr.. Bellanger.
The meeting will be held in the
Prince hotel. Among the speakers
secured for the two meetings are:
John w. Meighan, secretary of the
bus division of the American Auto
mobile Association; Tom Snyder, Sec
retary- treasurer of the National
Motor Truck Transportation Con-
gress; T. A. Harrocks, secretary
treasurer Of the Truck Association
Executives Of America; Frank
Schmidt, president Of the Liberty
Highway Commission and chair
man Of the board of directors
Of the Ohio association of Com
mercial haulers; Joseph Hays, gen.
eral counsel Of the National Mo-
tor Truck Transportation Congress,
Inc, and the Iowa Truckers associ-
alton; and members of the railroad
commissions of North and South Da-
kota. The meetings are being held
in both states in order to accom-
modate everyone interested.
G. G. Johns, DeSmet, S. OAK, is
president Of the organization and
r. G. Mills, Sioux Falls, s. OAK, Is
vice president. Other officers are:
J. r. Lewis, Flandreau, S. OAK; D.
J. Mcmahon, Fargo; F. M. Skiold,
Minot; Herman E. Schwarz, Mid
land, s. OAK; Paul E. Bellamy,
Rapid City, S. OAK; and John Nc
Cormick. Fargo.
Members Of the legislation COM
mittee are r. c. Mills, D. ]. Nc
Mahon, and o. H. Shade, Mitchell,
s. OAK. Mr.. Shade is secretary
treasurer Of the organisation.