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The border vidette., 1928-09-15
Political Announcements

For President
ALFRED E. SMITH of New
York.
For Vice-President-
JOSEPH T. ROBINSON of Ar.
kansas.
The border vidette., 1928-09-15

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The border vidette., 1928-09-15
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PRlMAR,

Patterson, Bettwy. Dumbauid and Mrs
Larimore Successful Candidates
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22
WHOSE THE BLAME?

Disasters like that which overlook the Vestrs appa
the public, for it is human nature to think they
be prevented and that lives have been lost through
negligence carelessness. Every tragedy inspires
countless accusations and condemnations most Of which
arc without foundation.
The charges growing out Of the wreck Of the Vestris
have been heard before Ship captains usually
blamed for error of commission omission.
Methods Of ship inspection in for their share Of
blame and the of the ifated craft accused
of everything from negligence to murder.
There all the elements of criminal negligence in
the present but nothing is to be gained by pre-
judgment. Especially should there be compassion for
the captain and those Of his who went to their
death with their chief. The least that be done
for them is to grant them fair trial before judging
them guilty.
The Vestris cannot be raised from the sea bottom
and those hundred odd lives be recalled from
eternity, but thorough PROBE nelligently conducted
may to other ship and its passengers
from the terrible fate. There is to be learned
from this disaster lesson in safe seamanshp. It
should be learned.
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22
IN THE NICK OF TIME
(Omaha World-Herald)


University of Chicago paleontoogist has discov-
cred snake tracks made 600 years ago in
piece Of Pennsylvania sandstone This fact in itself
may not be SO remarkable but it does emphasize with
an awful pognancy garng defect in our whole pale
ontological structure. Think of letting those snake
tracks lie out there that piece of sandstone for 2OO
100000 years! Is it possible that modern paleontoogy
so Indifferent to snake tracks as to leave whole
bunch of them lie neglected in the weather for nearly
quarter of a billion years
snake may be humble animal. 1t may even be
an unpopular ANIMAL but who shall say that it's foot
prints not worthy Of archaeological consider
alton the footprints of any other fowl? Suppose this
particular paeontologist had not found them when ne
did? rain might have come up over the weeks
and washed them awav and then where would we be?
Not only would have known that snake once
walked across that stone, but would have remained
eternay ignorant Of the highly significant fact that
having walked it left it's footprints the sandstone of
time, as Longfellow said in poem about snake
tracks
We urge our archaeological friends to be care
full After ALL the country is depending upon them for
it's snakeology If they won't take any interest in our
snake tracks who is going to take interest in them
Snake tracks not nearly numerous as they once
were That may be because Of prohibition or it may
not be because Of prohibition. At any rate haven't
such supply of them to an indifference that
will permit flock Of them to lie on piece of sand,
stone for 2O0,0O0,OOO years and then dash out and
bring them in just before the first fall freeze.
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22
A DOLLAR COURT

The great increase in small claims noticeable for
several years. has led to the creation in Des Moines
Iowa, of concliation court for small claims Before
this court the litigants plead their without
benefit Of jury lawyer. The only court record is
the settlement agreement and the only court cost is
fee of 81.
During the courts first year it heard $500 claims,
and it is hearing than half of the FORM
erly tried in the municipal and county courts, with
their cumbersome procedure of juries and lawyers.
This perhaps, is start toward simplificaton of legal
proceedings, which have become involved and
hampered by conflicting statutes that when plunges
into lawsuits he has commenced journey most tor
tuous in its and with end far far into the
future.
It is doubtful however, if the Des Moines experiment
is the remedy for court congestion. Since it makes
going to court easier and cheaper, it will encourage
litigation, which is the very thing the nation desires
least Of ALL II the figures ascertanabe it prob.
ably would be found that fewer small claims being
settled out of court in Iowa.
An ideal justice is granting full and fair hear
ing to every claim matter how trivial. Modern
justice, obviously, must fall short Of that ideal, al
though with the dollar court it approaches it.
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22
CATARRHAL DEAFNESS

Practically every case of deafness
not resulting from accident can at
least be partially cured by dietary
measures. Complete deafness does
not come on suddenly without warn
ing, as there is usually a gradual
loss of the sense of hearing covering
a period of several years before one
becomes conscious that he cannot
hear as we'll asshis friends:
There are q few cases where the
eardrum has been ruptured or some
other portion of the hearing appar-
atus destroyed by accident; there are
also a few cases where the sense of
hearing is interferred with by a re-
tention of wax in the external ear
passage; some are caused BY
chronic state of engagement Of the
tonsils, which may produce deaf
ness, and the inflammation may
spread to include the eustachian
tubes leading from the nose to the
middle ear; but by far the greatest
number of all cases of deafness are
the result of chronic catarrh. I be-
lieve that over 80 per cent Of all
cases are caused by chronic catarrh.
An unusually severe cold in the
nose and throat may cause such a
change that it seems as if the deaf
ness comes on quite abruptly, which
is seldom true, as the chronic state
Of catarrh preceding the cold had
been developing for a long time. The
eustachian tubes leading into the
ears have been slowly becoming
more and more filled with mucus un-
til finally only the cold was needed
to cause the passage to stop en-
tirely. Local treatment from your
physician, in removing the wax from
the external ear and opening the
eustachian tube, will prove helpful
in many cases, but you must remem-
Der the constitutional cause of your
trouble and endeavor to remove this
by the proper dietetic and fasting
measures.
In most cases the orange juice
fast will bring a quick relief from
the annoying throbbing and in some
cases hearing is restored in a re-
markably short time. Of course this
cannot be expected in those cases
which have existed over a period of
years since the delicate tissues of
the inner ear have undoubtedly be-
come thickened by the chronic in
flammation.
If the trouble is purely catarrhal,
one must not only avoid the starches
but should leave out the oils and fats
for a considerable period of time.
Even the use of milk may retard q
recovery. Remember that the blood
stream must be cleared Of its ac-
cumulated toxins Of years. 1t must
be literally starved Of the mucus or
acid-forming foods for about a
year before the catarrhal inclina-
ton will disappear altogether. In
many cases osteopathic or other
manipulations of the neck are help
full in addition to the fasting re-
gime.
It is striking fact that while
those with catarrhal deafness al
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22

TRAFFIC WASTE

(U. S. Chamber of Commerce Bulletin)
AS a measure of the possibilities of saving money
through modern traffic regulation and control, a. B.
Barber director of the National Conference on Street
and Highway Safety and manager Of the transporta-
ton department of the Chamber of the United States,
points to the enormous due to traffic congestion
aside from the human factor he says, "clties
using modern traffic methods receiving a direct
dollars and cents return.
"A survey of traffic delays in downtown Boston
showed that they cost the community $245O0OOO year.
in addition to losses from accidents amounting to more
than $2OO00OO year. Chicagos cost of traffic con-
geston has been estimated to be in of $6O0OOO
a day and New Yorks more than $1,OOO,OOO day. The
nations bill for traffic delays is conservatively placed
at So, 900 year.
"There is another side to the picture. San Francisco
found that it's traffic code resulted in reductions
of accidents ranging from 30 to 40 cent in the rec
ords of companies operating SO, 100 and 400 motor
vehicles. One street railway company reported re-
duction Of PAT per cent in pedestrian accidents A
saving Of $2,0O00O0 year in the cost of automobile
accidents is being made for San Francisco motorists
Los Angeles reports increase Of 80 per cent in the
movement of street traffic after revising its regu
lations."
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22

only be accomplished by extensive advertising" This
explains why advertising has been Of the greatest
constructive forces for prosperity and higher standard
of living.
The old ht-or-mss methods of advertising have given
way to campaigns based careful scientific research
and conducted by experts. The business man who
plains that advertising is not pulling it did
is confessng that he has been bested in the competition
of advertising His method Of advertising, not the
institution of advertising is to blame.
Newspaper advertising is integral part cf Amer
lean business and is keeping jump ahead of the
rest Of this stupendous structure To business it is
the light that leads and the staff that supports.
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22

More than $4,000 deer hunters
stormed the Michigan woods this
year. Will men never cease to war
upon one another?
You can tell a town is growing
up when a wig is called transfor-
nation.
Police Of New York city invited.
suspects in the Arnold Rothstein
murder to visit headquarters. Per-
haps the reason the party wasn't
successful was because the invita-
ton wasn't sent on scented note
paper.
A prisoner in Cleveland got mad
at a Judge and killed his cell mate
in revenge. A person can't be safe
even in Jail these days.
An Illinois man won the corn
husking championship. It hasn't
been determined who's the best 1t
drinking it.
The cabinet of Jugo-Slavia for
bids high school girls to rouge their
lips. That ought to improve the
rouge business in that country.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Incl
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22
WASHINGTON 4 4
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5000, Missouri 235,O00 to 100000,
New Jersey $4,000 to $4,000, Ten
nessee $4,000 to $4,000 and so on.
Blaine had California 100000 to
$4,000, Illinois $4,000 to $4,000,
Iowa 1900 to 177,OOO, Massachus-
etts 146,OOO to $4,000, New Hamp-
shire $4,000 to $4,000, Ohio 100000
to 368,O00 and so on again.
The two Cleveland Harrison con-
tests show even closer results in
some states. In 1883 California was
carried by 1000, Connecticut by 334,
Indiana by 1000, Michigan by $4,000.
In 1892 Cleveland carried California
by 29O votes, Delaware by 500, In
diana by 1000, Wisconsin by 1000
and lost Ohio by but 1912.
In 1888 change of 1900 votes in
New York alone would have elected
Cleveland over Harrison and in 1892
switch of $4,000 in seven states
would have elected Harrison over
Cleveland.
In 1880 Hancock would have been
elected if he could have picked up
1857 Garfield votes in New York
or changed II, ASP others in Maine,
New Hampshire, Connecticut, In
diana and Oregon.
In 1876 Tilden had more than $780,
600 more popular votes and needed
no more until the attempt was made
to pilfer some of his electoral college
votes.
Many more instances would be
tedious, but it may be noted that
such interesting figures have been
consistently announced as something
of sensation for long way back.
A switch of 2,20O Pennsylvania votes
from Van Buren in 1886, for in
stance, would have thrown that cleo
tion into the House.
Old Bryan men still sometimes
moan that their hero, with change
in 1896 of 10000 votes in Califor-
mia, Indiana, Delaware, Kentucky
Oregon and West Virginia, would
have defeated Mckinley in 1896.
The most classic recent example
of what few little votes might do
occurred in 1916, when a change OF
1877 votes in Minnesota would have
elected Hughes over Wilson. That
one is really the prize statistic Of
them all.
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22

hailed and urged to buy a suit
cast off, mayhap, by a member of
his STRENGTHENING department.
Chinatown reflects most of it's
daily color through it's children. The
youngsters still wear the gay and
decorative costumes of the home
land. Now and then Chinese wom-
an patters past, in costume OF silk
pants and mandarin coat.
Slowly the city begins to edge in
on this quarter. The number of
tourist busses increases annually.
The skyline Of lower Manhattan
comes gradually nearer. Only few
blocks of tawdry tenements and the
shops of the Bowery now protect it
from invasion.
Noted in passing: Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien, the ex-pug, entering a
broadcasting station in the early
morning to recite his routine Of
setting up'' exercises. A mother
bird teaching her young to fly from
nest beneath the elevated tracks.
George Gershwin, the Brooklyn
boy, who still cashes in on his
Rhapsody in Blue" -. They say
the talking movies have offered him
$5O, 900 for its use. 2. Tex Guinan's
mother, a shopping bag under her
arm, leaving the Guinan menage in
the heart of Greenwich Village. i.
A moth-ball peddler. And the
fellow who peddles strings of dried
herring.
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright 1898, NEA Service, Inc
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22
is HAPPINESS A BYPATH?

If you want to be happy you must learn how to busy
yourself with unmportant things.
This bit of advice comes from A. Edward Newton in
a recent book, "This Book Collecting Came Mr.
Newton explains that by following it himself he has
found happiness, and he cites instances Of others who
have done likewise.
There was, for instance, clergyman who got inter-
ested in studying the natural history Of his parish
He spent hours daily watching the birds, bats, frogs
squirrels fishes and insects of the nearby countryside
and lived exceedingly happy life. To be sure, he
neglected his pastoral duties very badly forgot to get
married and took interest in the things that were
going in the world-but, after all, he was happy
A philosophy like that hardly fits our American
temper. From the day the first Pilgrim father stepped
ashore slippery, surf-splashed Plymouth Rock we
have had scant for anything but hard work. and
plenty of it. Whether our own ancestors came from
England from Lithuania have all been imbued
with the American idea of "servce"an idea prevalent
years before the luncheon clubs took it up.
Probably that is reason why SO many foreign
visitors have gone home to report that Americans
do not happythey too restless. 1t is large
ly true We born and bred to tradition that says
that Americans first duty is to find job that will
take every ounce of his energy and ability.
In the old days this was necessary. pioneer in
wilderness cabin who tried to interest himself in the
unmportant would presently have provided the Indians
with scalp. The early settlers had to conquer
continent and it was tremendous job They did it
and most of them had time to wonder
whether they happy as they might have been.
The pioneer days over now, and We have more
leisure. We can devote ourselves to unimportant
things if want to and nobody will be harmed Yet
there is small chance that any very great number
Of us will do it.
For the old tradition still is strong-and rightly
We have left the DID, physical frontier behind only
to reach We have taken the puzzling, in
comprehensive industrial age which burst upon the
world with the invention of the steam engine and have
undertaken to develop to its logical conclusion. We
are still pioneering.
So, probably, most of will have to defer the bust
Of devoting lifetime to the search for happi-
It would be fine thing to debut it just isn't
in We fated to be hard workers. And it is our
hope that out Of this endless struggle and devotion to
duty will flower day, in which the chill
dren of children hold fast to the happiness
which have not time to seek.
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22
IN NEW YORK

New York, Nov. 22.-New York's
Chinatown has long since ceased to
supply sinister snatches Of melo-
drama.
A demonstration of "Young Ma
tionalists," parading pennants that
express their opinions of political
events in the homeland, is the most
exciting thing to happen in many a
month. The color, spice and ira
dition of the district is best revealed
on certain holidays when the old
world customs are dragged from
their hiding places and staged in an
incongruous background of ORR
entails wearing knickers and pana-
mas.
Tong guns gather rust in back
rooms and killers" have had to 60
to work. Chinatown learned that
tong wars are not good for business.
Such sporadic outbursts as may
have threatened were soon stilled
as the merchants organizations in
sisted upon peace. Threats of boy
colt against potential warriors have
had their effect. Also peace par
leys have been introduced. The plain
clothes detectives who once went
about spotting trouble, now spend
most of their time scrutinizing the
faces of suspicious characters as
they drift into the Bowery. The
hatchet man of old is a curiosity and
his hatchets have been peddled to
curio seekers.
The Americanization of the sinis-
ter scenes progresses yearly. The
chop suey restaurants cater to the
trade of the tourist and jazz tunes
tinkle in their monographs and auto
matte pianos.
Around the corner from China
town, the peddlers' markets flourish.
Up and down the blowsy side-streets
are rows of cellars lined with stalls
displaying slightly patched shoes.
On the ground floor are the cast
off clothing shops. Here the per-
sistent barkers literally grab their
customers from the streets. The
wandering sailor has small chance to
escape. The bargains are driven
hard and fast. For few dollars it
is possible 70 take home a suit of
clothes, which may have passed
through half a dozen hands before
reaching this. final junk-heap of ap-
parel. Every known device for
camouflaging wear ad tear has been
applied.
The statesmen Of this belt apply
no sense Of discrimination. Jimmy
Walker, himself, walking past in all
his sartorial splendor, would be
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22
By RODNEY BUTCHER
(NEA Service Writer)

Washington, Nov. 22.-Perhaps
we are travelling back toward the
good old days when election results
were sure to be close in large
number of important states.
College professors and newspaper
men with mathematical minds have
discovered that if Smith could have
switched 100000 additional votes in
the right places he would have been
elected, thanks to the electoral col
lege system, and that 100000 more
properly switched votes for Hoover
would have given him every single
electoral vote. Yet, in the first in
stance, Hoover could still have had
a popular majority of more than
5 100000 and lost and, in the second
case, Smith would still have had
Is, 900, 900 popular votes without q
single electoral vote.
All sorts of funny and seemingly
unfair things can happen under the
electoral college system. Forum
ately for the system, they seldom
do.
Until the Harding and Coolidge
landslides, however, one election
after another showed that a switch
Of few thousand votes-sometimes
even a few hundred-here and there
would have changed the election re-
suit. But in 1920 and 1924 Repub-
lican pluralities were SO huge in so
many of the most important states
that there was little nourishment in
such figuring.
This year the result was so rela-
lively close in so many states that
the boys once more got out pencil
and paper.
Well, Smiths present yearning for
that switch of a half million votes
is probably nowhere near as poig.
nant as that Of James G. Blaine, who
with change of 600 votes in New
York in 1884, would have been elect.
ed over Cleveland. Those were tn,
days when the Solid South was gooc
and solid and most of the northern
and western states were invariably
doubtful.
In that year Cleveland carried
Connecticut $1,000 to $4,000, Della
ware $4,000 to 10000, Indiana 244,
600 to 238,OO0, Maryland $4,000 t,
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-11-22
MIR. COOLIDGE TAKES OFF THE MUFFLER

minneapolis
President Coolidge has been called "Silent Ca' by
fppant critics. The epthet is undgnfied, but it rests
basis Of truth fact. On the whole it is one OF
of words The country doubtless has gained than
it has lost because be does not have the garrulous
habit If many others of our public men were as much
given to retcence he, it would be to our advantage
The President be freely artculae when he wishes
to be and believes he should be- He was SO in his
What he said of much interest abroad to
own people, and he obviously intended it should be.
Whether he felt freer to talk because he to re-
tire from the presidency merely took off the muffer
because he thought the time had arrived for plain
speaking, only he can say. Anyhow. he was specific
representatives Of the British and French
in particular something to think and talk about. and
he did not exclude the rest of Europe from the audience
No doubt should be left in anybodys mind that Pres
dent Coolidge is for sufficient and efficient defense
desirous than he that shall cease as means Of
settling differences between nations He is for making
every honorable sacrifice to prevent war; but ne counses
that the first law Of progress requires the world to
face facts and he ventures to say that of these
facts is that and conscience yet by
means supreme in human affairs"
He puts it up buntly to the French and British gov
that their attitude toward the matter Of naval
| armament makes it indispensable to this country to
have greater cruiser tonnage measure of our
national security
1T no doubt has some significance" he said, "that
ngton conerence) limiting that class of combat vessels
in which superior. but refused Limitation in
the class in which they were superior"
He submits that this the situation to france
and England late last summer when they made
tentative offers Of ostensble armament limitation which
the United States refused accept because they would
not have been limitations at all to those countries
From armaments Mr.. Coolidge passes to financial
credits with the suggestion that the time has come
when further advances Of capital abroad should be
made only after the most careful consideration and
with due regard for home needs In this connection
he refutes the idea that the American people profited
BY the war and that they thus have certain implied
obligations to 60 extending financial help to Europe
wherein some countries notably England and France
are making large outlays for military purposes.
In this instance silence is not noticeable as White
House attribute.