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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-17
Editorial Comment
The Whole of War
Baltimore SUM

Baltimore SUM
Protests against the British film about
Nurse Edith Cavell are heard in England
They take the line that the exhibition of the
picture will recall tragedy which in the ill.,
terest Of international friendship had better
be forgotten. "Other war films" it is said,
"have had an element of chivalry and heroism
in which both sides had part"-but not this
one.
One recognizes the intent of the protestants
But what travesty on realism it is to approve,
even by implication, the perturbation Of war
as solely an occasion for the display Of the
nobler emotions. The execution of Nurse Ca
veil did occur. Incredible sufferings were ex-
perienced by millions. Injustices beyond be-
lief were perpetrated. They were part of that
war, as was the allied embargo after the war
which withheld food from the central powers
and brought disease and death to innocent
children.
Can war films reproduce such horrors so i'm
personally that the attenders at movie thea
ters will think of them, and even of the death
of Edith Cavell not as the deeds of an enemy
people, but as the natural and inevitable con.
comitants Of war itself? That is asking much
both of the motion picture producers and of
the movie patrons. But the alternative Of
keeping war films altogether sweet and inspir-
ing does not commend itself except to individ.
uals who have developed miraculous capacity
for refusing to see war as it is.
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Tr0tsky's Bubble Bursts
(.TerSev .TOl1rnaN

The romance of Leon Trotsky turns out to
be tragedy. The story started back in 1916
with the frowsy-headed, wild-eyed radical, a
writer for Russian and Socialist papers in New
York, earning scarcely enough, wandering from
one Red nest to another on the East Side, to
keep his wife and child decently in their
Bronx home. Two years later he was the
hero of Russia, second only to the great Lenin,
foreign minister of the new Soviet nation and
then war minister and organizer of rather
formidable army Of 100000 men.
That was romance, indeed no matter what
one might think in the meanwhile of the prin-
ciples upon which the career was built. Now
comes the closing chapter-waiting only the
final word Of fate to mark it finis It is the
picture of man, near death from tubercu-
losis, accompanied only by the wife and SON.
marching through weeping crowd to the start
of 5,O0O-mile journey to living oblivion in
the far eastern corner of Russia.
1t is a romance broken broken because it's
basis was world revolution that the world
would not tolerate.
That Russian crowd murmured, "Oh, how
sad as Trotsky passed. But the sacrifice Of
Trotsky on the political altar that he helped
to build up may be sign that the end of the
power of Trotsky, Zinovieff, Kameneff and the
others means an end of the Russian menace to
the peace of the warld
1t seems victory of the moderates over the
extreme radicals. It is the reaction at home
to the collapse of the Third Internationale's
world revolution program throughout the
world. Even Russia will have no more of the
men who made that revolution their creed.
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MEAT, VEGETABLES, OR FRUITS

MEAT, VEGETABLES, OR FRUITS
Many dietetic Investigators have
reasoned that man belongs to the
frugivorous class Of animals and
should, therefore, live only on fruits.
The fact is that practically all Of
the so-called frugivorous animals,
including the ape, baboon, and men,
bers Of the monkey family, do not
live on a strictly Unitarian diet.
Carnivorous animals such as the
tiger and lion use only flesh foods,
while the herbivorous animals, as the
COW, horse, and rabbit, use only
grasses and grains, and will not use
flesh food, even though actually
starving.
Primitive man, as we'll as the mon
keys, lived on both fruits and vege-
tables and also on small animals such
as lizards, grubs, birds and insects,
besides using birds eggs and the
eggs Of reptiles. Mollusks and
oysters were apparently common
foods for ancient man.
It seems foolish to me to attempt
to put man in the class of fruit
eaters when every evidence has
shown that he has always eaten
whatever tasty food he could secure
and was only slow in eating the
flesh of larger animals because Of
his lack Of ingenuity in being able
to kill them.
In a strictly botanical sense, fruits
include not only apples, pears,
peaches, etc., but also all berries,
nuts, grains, beans, peas, pumpkins,
squashes, and melons, which are
those parts Of the plant containing
the seeds. A vegetable is any part
Of herbaceous plant commonly used
for culinary purposes, and may con.
sist Of the root, as in the beet and
turnip; the stem is in the asparagus
and celery, or it may be a tuber or
underground stem, as in the potato;
or the foliage, as in cabbage and
spinach.
Man has been able to adapt him.
self to varying mixtures Of flesh
foods combined with fruits and vege-
tables, and it seems impossible to
determine that any specific food
was intended by nature as the one
food especially proper for the human
family.
It may be that man has actually
developed his superiority over tine
rest of the animal kingdom to a
large degree in that he has used all
Of the different kinds of food and
thereby assured himself of plenti-
full supply Of all the food elements
necessary for the hni1dino of a strong
body. Certain 1t is that man and
the monkeys who have lived on such
varied diets have shown unquestion-
able superiority over all of the
animals who live either on a purely
carnivorous or herbivorous diet.
If it can be proved that any single
article of food produces injury to the
body, it is folly for anyone to con-
tinue using such food, no mater how
delicious its taste or how easily it
can be acquired or cultivated.
OF the common foods used on the
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There was truth in those old fables. For they
presented world which, while filled with
lurking shadows and half-seen shapes of hor-
ror, was at the same time world of surpass-
ing beauty and majesty. If there were de-
mons hiding in the night there were also slen-
slopes.
Most of us lead lives that are pretty well
padded. Our efficient age gives us automc-
biles and radios and moving pictures and SIM
liar inventions that lull us to an easy belief
that life is not so very puzzing, after all.
But once in while we are Jared into a
realization that We are wrong. And it is good
for us. We need to rediscover our own po-
tentialities; to learn anew that we were meant
for the utmost extremes of being; to find out
for ourselves that the most commonplace vii
lage street, lined with sleepy frame houses, is
a temporary stopping place for beings who
have come down out of the sky.
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Lieutenant LeBrix says one Of his
reasons for wanting to marry an
American girl is that he could learn
to speak English. Quite an optim-
istic young man.
A Missouri man who hasn't shaved
since Lincoln was assassinated
claims to have the Oldest whiskers
extant. Is it possible this man never
read q joke book?
America is country where juries
decide whether or not criminal is
insane, but where the jury always
gets the benefit Of the doubt.
While the country Is talking about
this disappearance and that, wouldn't
it be good idea to find out what
became of those fellows who used to
make their living playing Hawaiian
guitars?
Miss Grace Moore from Tennessee
crashed into stardom in Metropolitan
opera the other night. The queer
part Of that is that she weighs only
100 pounds.
DIAMONDS HAD SEX, SAYS
PROFESSOR, Is one Of the head
lines picked up the other day. That
leaves as the only thing unlisted as
having sex the coal shovel.
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NORTH DAKOTA

Oh Land Of broad acres, wide, flat and green,
Oh Land Of sweet fields with sunshiny sheen
And valleys and hills and rivers and streams,
Little cities and towns-how peaceful it seems.
No lofty structures where toll and sweat;
No choking streets with q big business net;
Here you can breathe Of Gods untainted air
Here is the freedom strife Of care.
oh spaces Of grain. bowling golden their heads,
Oh acres Of life, grown from Gods cultured beds.
And lowing Of cattle, and porcne thud,
And drumming Of bees, from flower to bud.
With ribbons Of brown leading over the fields
80 No avenues these, but where farmer Yields,
Mighty these roads, for they amble along
Through the food that East feed the throng.
What matters the marts and the feverish gain,
The teeming cities, their strife and their pain.
what matters tho gold and the bargaining all?
I've come and I've seen and needed the call
And 80, North Dakota, take me to you.
Your bosom r. Wide. your promise 70 true.
I'll b part Of the soil and part Of the grain,
And land you and praise you and love you a.ain.
EEmvoi
For those who viii toll with heart 81 thar work,
FOR those Of the staunch who never would ohirk
There's = horn Of plenty from Gods lavisk hand
II old North Dakota, the promising lard.
Il ~ pMvS
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A Los Angeles man. is building "pilotless
airplane." Next summer, he says, this plane
will fly from Los Angeles to New York with
out an occupant. 1t will be controlled entirely
by radio, operated from second plane half a
mile behind.
The science of aeronautics, verify, has been
making vast strides. 1t was only rs years
ago that the Wight brothers made the first
airplane flight in history. Now plans are be-
ing made for plane that will fly without any
one in it. What marvels of engineering and
scientific skin have been compressed into the
period between those two events!
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Beings From the Sky

) woman in Cleveland the other day killed
]. or three-weeks-old son. She explained: Il
!. we him too much to let him grow up to face
: he poverty and struggles I've been through"
{ Every so often, just when we get lulled into
!! condition of contented satisfaction with the
<-~woTld as it seems, something like that pops up
in the newspapers to jar us out of it.
=. That little paragraph about the woman who
Eskilled her son tells of tragedy as poignant
xsas any dramatist ever wrote. Think of the
@Smisery, the suffering, that must have filled
THAT woman's life to turn her mother love for
Ia helpless baby into channel like that. And
$khen see if you, too aren't Jared out of your
E$placid acceptance of this world as an easy
4dQoing place where all things work together for
&3good
20 It is good for us to be Jared like that once
lin WHILE For We too easily forget that life
{-is not always a safe and sane round of work.
ling and playing and eating and sleeping.
~ There is more to it than the encountering Of
{runexciting joys and the endurance of uninn-
portant disappointments It has infinite pos
ssibilities; sometimes it is dark beyond belief,
and for some of its tragedies we can find no
$3Bolution, no rational explanation.
& Yet that is not the whole story.
30 If life can be cruel, bitter, uncomfortable, it
&Scan also be more meaningful and glowing than
but it also has towering peaks, shining in the
{Sssunght, which we may scale. It holds posi-
abilities Of ecstasy as well as terror.
~ It was something like this no doubt, that
1.-The old-time makers of fables had in mind
t.when they peopled the world with fantastic
&rsuccession Of satyrs. aegipans, demons and
4&witches, and wove stories about men who had
sold their souls to the powers Of darkness and
TO had descended lower than the lowest beast
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WASHINGTON ~
LETTER &M

Hoover. There are scheming politi-
clans and scheming Hoover politi-
clans. The latter include such veter-
ans as Walter Brown, recently APP
pointed assistant secretary Of COM
merce; Secretary Work, Postmaster
General New, Ogden Mills, and SEN
ators Moses and Edge.
There may be little choice be-
tween the rival sets of politicians,
but the Hoover politicians have the
advantage of possessing a real can
didate, whereas the eastern anti.
Hoover politicians merely ask the
voters to leave everything in their
hands with the assurance that it will
come out all right.
Until a few days ago, the pre-
convention can,raign was almost en-
tirely one Of politicians. Hardly any,
one wondered how the voters felt.
It was a question of how the organ
ization felt in Michigan, how Wat
son stood in Indiana, Edge in New
Jersey, Mellon and Ware in Pennsyl-
vania, the divided leaders in New
York, Charles Innes in Massachu-
sets, Moses in New Hampshire,
Dave Mulyane in Kansas and so on.
Thus, far, the presidential pri-
maries have never produced presi-
dent. Only II states, with SOP dele
gates in the Republican party and
456 in the Democratic party, have
it, and in some of these, as already
demonstrated, the machine politi-
clans generally control the situation.
Roosevelt mopped up the terrain
with Taft in the 1912 primaries and
was licked. Wilson beat Clark by
one state and 40 or SO delegates, all
of which helped but was far from
decisive. In 1920 Harding carried
only Ohio, running fifth in popular
vote. Leonard Wood and. Hiram
Johnson cleaned up in the primaries
and were in turn cleaned at the con-
vention.
But delegates are delegates and
politicians want them even if they
sometimes resort to the perilous
expedient of allowing the voters a
small voice in determining the party
candidate.
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Dear Marye:
/ am sending the cool book as
you requested, also a box of jellies
and preserves, and I hope you won't
confine your interest to the latter.
It is very sensible of you to plan
to have Alan home for lunch but
isn't it too far from his office to
your apartment for him to come
home every day? He would have
to bolt his food, and that would be
bad for his digestion.
I'D suggest that you arrange to
give him nice, nourishing dinner
instead. ! never have approved
your going out 50 much. It must
be expensive, and after all it's much
the same food that you say he
shouldn't have for lunch. Besides
! think it's a mistake to drag a man
out of his home in the evening, too
often. And it won't do you any harm
to get more rest either.
! saw Norm:n Darby on the street
today and l must say he looks fright
fully dissipated. I hope you didn't
wear yourself out trying to live up
to your new freedom" as you call
this showing aside Of natural feel.
ings. You say Alan told you to do
as you pleased. And he hasn't con.
fessed he is jeasr MS, has he?
Well. my dear, people don't al.
ways confess, do they? Even we
old-fashidned fogies have that much
in common with you up-to-dete hus.
bands and wives. People always had
pride and much the same general
feeling about things that you have
Only we didn't act like ostriches
and stick our heads in a sand pile
And some Of your theories are
exactly as blindfolding to you al
sand is to an ostrich.
One of your theories seems t.
be that love Of home life will come
natul ally to husband whenever
his wife gets tired Of running around
and wants to spend the evenings
listening in on the r1dio. A woman
with any sense gets tired Of it about
the time she sees her freshness
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form a union and demand-among
other things-their rights.
Otto Kahn's latest contribution
and all New York has tried to get
few Of his dimes at one time or an
other-is an apartment house in the
"Village" where artists, poets and
creators of one sort or another cap
live within the limitations Of their
limited incomes. The "starving-in-a-
garnet" vogue, having gone out Of
fashion a bit, an old tenement has
been fitted out in modern dress and
a cooperative method of rental has
been arranged. Since the "Village,"
as of old, is the recognized @literary
center" of Manhattan, and since
rentals in that section have climbed
to considerable heights, the sons and
daughters Of struggle can find
berths that actually include bath
rooms and heat.
GILBERT SWAN.
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beginning to fade. AMI then what?
Most likely her husband has the
habit Of going to theatres and night
clubs.
I'D advise you, Maryc darling, to
begin cultivating Alan's taste in the
right direction before it's too late.
You haven't been married SO long
that you can't do it. It. generally
the woman who rants t. 20 some
place almost cve-v night the first
year or so. Then along comes a
baby, chances are, and if they can't
afford a nurse she has to stay at
home while her husband keeps right
on leading the life she got him into.
I hope this won't happel to you.
With all my love,
MOTHER.
NEXT: How Alan feels about it.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Sew >.--nc.)
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100000 Villagers

13,OOO,UOU VMIagerS
The American village once more is coming
;tnto it's own. In the early history of the coul,-
try the village played much larger part than
hhe village has been lost sight of somewhat
because Of the spectacular growth and in
crease in the number Of big cities.
But Dr. Luther Fry, who may lay claim to
being an authority in sociology, has written a
book entitled american Villagers" in which
lhe makes out pretty strong case for the de-
STABILITY of living in the smaller centers of
population He says the number Of villages is
INCREASING rapidly and the character of their
population changing.
The village population OF the country is OF
An Importance not to be sighted, according to
DR.. Fry's estimate. He says there are $4,000
nearly 100000. That means that about
une-tenth Of all the people in the United States
live in villages.
And DR.. Fry thinks there are decided ad-
kantages in village life. There are more
home-owners in the villages, he says, larger
percentage Of the boys and girls 60 to school,
che ordinary man has better chance to be.
Tome his own boss, and women find more op-
porlunities to engage in business and exert
public influence.
The future of the American village, DR.. Fry
thinks, is highly promising. He estimates
That the number of villages in the country in
creased nearly as per cent during the perlou
1900 to 1920, and this growth, he says, was
caused by removal of inhabitants from cities
as we'll as from the country.
! 1T may be,"says DR.. Fry's book, "that
America is at the beginning of new agricul-
iural era in which farmers more and more will
come to live together in villages to enjoy
greater social advantages"
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KFYR Radio
Programs
Saturday. Feb. Is

Saturday, Feb. 10
$3.50 to 11:00 q. m.-0rthophonic
program, complete weather forecast.
1880 to 100 p. na.-Music.
100 to 1:15 p. ni.-Weather fore.
cast and news items.
1:15 to 1880 p. rl.-Aunt Sammy's
chat.
$3.50 to 1880 p. m.-Ths Music Of
Victor Herbert.
1880 to 7:46 p. m.-Weather, mar.
kets and news items.
'7:45 to 500 p. n.-Radio farm
school.
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New York, Feb. l7.-Belleve 1t or
not, but there's sign in a Bronx
store window that reads: "Watch for
our fire sale next week."
Two months ago she was juggling
pancakes in q restaurant window.
It was one Of those restaurants
where tired show folks 60 when
they're tired Of entertaining the tired
business man. And Paula was a bit
pleasant to look upon. And how she
could catch a hot cake on the rebound
was nobody's business. One night
a casting director came in. He took
one look at Paula and asked her If
she could dance. Could she dance
and how! Anyway it's another of
those stories of Broadway accidents.
Paula doesn't toss pancakes about
any more. Paula Pierce is on the
"who's who" Of Ziegfeld's merry
crew.
Now, on the other hand-he was a
New York newspaper man when the
movies got him. And, less than 10
years ago, Larry Semon signed a
contract for three years that was to
reward him with $1,000, 900. A few
years ago it was said he had earned
So, 600, OOO-or whereabouts. But you
haven't heard much of Larry the last
year. A wire dispatch on my desk
tells me Of Larry's being brought
into debtors court. He owes some
one a couple Of hundred dollars. And
the intimation is he'll be floating
back to Manhattan one of these days.
And, then, 60 back to the silver
lining-they now line half block
deep to hear the young choir girl
who came from Jellicoe, Tenn, and
who gave the Metropolitan one Of
the thrills Of its old age the other
night when she made her debut. She
won't have much trouble getting
along from now on. If you can be-
lieve her concert manager, who has
been engaging in little legal diff
ference of opinion with her, Marion
Talley has earned $334,892. And
several Of the critics, and at least
one non-critic who conducts this
column, seemed to prefer the voice
Of the newly arrived Grace Moore.
| - -
They tell me that the Manhattan
Theatre ushers are getting a bit
tired Of being insulted by partially
or totally liquored patrons who ar
rive well after curtain time and then
make themselves Objectionable by
talking in loud tones and demanding
to be seated Immediately. There are
other little difficulties that make the
life Of an usher other than the trail
Of roses it might be. Wherefore, /
have heard, the ushers are going to
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Washington, Feb. 17.-When poll
ticians fall out, honest voters some
times are permitted to kick them in
the pants. True, the voters do not
always fall to this task with all the
gusto that might be desired, but
that's their own business.
It may be doubted whether the Sc
lection of presidential candidates Of
fers as good an example of this
truth as some of the senatorial and
gubernatorial contests, but it is con-
ceivable that some of the ordinary
voters may actually have something
to say this year about the choices Of
the convention.
The ray of hope appeared when
Hoover's managers decided to fight
Senator Frank Willis in the Ohio
primary for convention delegates and
to, enteg primaries in other states
whose politicians had planned to
send favoritc sons or uninstructed
delegations. It may be that Hoover
will lose his shirt in some of these
primaries, but at least the voters
will have had hand in the process.
Tuesday, April "a, may prove to
be the Hoover Armageddon. On that
day primaries are held in Ohio, Mas
sachusetts and Pennsylvania, which
have 169 delegates to the Republican
convention. Previously, Hoover will
have won 80 delegates from Michi-
gan and IL from New Hampshire
and Lowden or someone else presum-
ably will have captured nearly all
the 122 delegates from Illinois,
North Dakota, Nebraska and Wis
consin. Hoover is assured of a
healthy platoon of delegates in SUBJ
sequent primaries, but the dominant
politicians of Ohio, Massachusetts,
and Pennsylvania have refused to
put up a Hoover slate.
After the Gath, there will be much
more light on the claim that Hoover
is the choice of the great majority
of Republican voters. That claim is
what Hoover is trying to establish
in those three primaries. It has not
been proved to date.
Hoover will invade the three states
only because the politicians have
fallen out. In Ohio, for instance,
every effort was made by the Hoover
generals to arrange the eventual de-
livery of the ills delegates to
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A Thought

Train up : child In the way he
should 60, and when he g on he
will not depart from it.-Prov. 11.6.
It is better to keep children to
their duty, by q sense Of honor and
BY kindness, than by fear and pune
ishment. -Tcrtullian,
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DR.. Mccoy will gladly answer
personal questions On health and
diet, addressed to him. care Of
the Tribune.
Enclose . stamped sddressed
envelope for reply.
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average table it will be found that
there are very few which can be
placed in the class Of dangerous or
poisonous foods. It seems to me