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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-01

pastry that would knock your eye
out.
Since it has been quite long time
since Alan and l have had quiet
evening at home, with the dressing
gown and slipper idea FREEDOM
mating, I decided we would just
start out with that general idea. and
that / would be the nice, sweet little
wife you are always asking me ia
be.
Everything planned we'll, but did
not execute according to the recipe
About 5 o'clock, just as / was get
ting out the bus, preparatory to 60
ing after my husband at his place OF
toll, the telephone rang. Yes, it was
the husband. He couldn't come
home to dinner. He was working
late-would just have a bite to eat
at the restaurant in the building,
and would probably work until II.
l demonstrated, but Alan was SO
impatient that something in me
grew reckless, and the vision of his
stenographer came to my mind, and
so I told him not to let my pleas
ure interfere with his work.
I banged up the phone, and 50 did
he. And the apple blossoms and
the tulips seemed to wonder what
it was all about.
Then the phone rang again. !
thought it might be Alan, reconsid-
ering., 1t was not. It was Norman.
He began by being apologize for
having made trouble for me the last
time I saw him. told him / had
nothing else but trouble, and it
ended by his asking me out to din
ner, since Alan was not on the job.
grabbed on the idea.
All we did wa- just to 60 out to
dinner and to a movie. Then we
went home. It was only about 10
o'clock, and Norman said he would
have just one cigaret and leave.
We fell to talking, about q little
bit Of everything never felt less
sentimental-but we were both Of
us sitting rather cozily together on
the davenport when Alan came in.
Unfortunately we did not hear him
come, nor notice his presence until
he announced rather bitterly he
hoped he wasn't disturbing anybody,
and bolted upstairs.
We have not spoken since. !
guess you had better advise me how
to get out Of the situation.
Lovingly,
MARYE.
NEXT: Wrong again, says Nom.
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WASHINGTON ~
LETTER SKI

drive out competition by low prices,
the losses being covered by profits
Of established stores in other cities.
This. Celler says, constitutes un-
fair competition involving inter-
state commerce" He says that
packers are again entering the re-
tail meat business and that retail
chain stores are also becoming pack
ers as well as retailers.
Congressman Clyde Kelly of
Pennsylvania, who introduced a bill
forbidding chain stores to cut prices
on standard articles, also charges
price cutting below cost III order to
drive out the entrepreneur. The
complaint that corporations are en-
gaping in both production and re-
failing, to the obvious disadvantage
of the pure retailer, is quite COM
mon.
Pending the Trade Commission 8
study, facts about the extent of
chain store business are rather
meager, bu. in increasing numbers
the American people are going to
them for groceries, drugs, tobacco.
clothing, shoes, candy, gasoline,
bread, laundry work-and what
not?
One student of the situation, DR..
Paul H. Nystrcm Of Columbia Uni
versity, estimated that chain stores
did IL per cent Of our O.OOO, OOO, 900
retail trade in 1926. He also es-
timated: independent unit stores
63.75 per cent, department stores
1875, mail-order houses 4, company
stores 2.5, house-to-house canvass
ing /, and consumers cooperation
.25 Of l per cent.
In three years, Nystrom said,
chain store business had jumped 80
per cent. Independents lost, while
department stores and mail-orde !.
firms, some Of them now establish
ing chain stores, gained little.
Nearly Is per cent Of mems cloth
ing stores are operated by chains.
Grocery chains increased Is per cent
between 1923 and 1926 and candy
stores Sc per cent. In a survey of
Chicago, Denver, Baltimore, Provi-
dence, Kansas City, Seattle, Atlanta
and Syracuse the census bureau has
found that chain stores did nearly
a third Of the $500, 900, 900 retail
business Of those eight cities.
The chain store wins through
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-01

y One Of the never-to-be-settled questions is
srKhether the lawyer who acts as counsel for
criminals is to be censored and held in dis
aesteem by the public and his fellow barristers.
The defense, and it is q just one, usually adj
syanced for the criminal lawyer is that every
teawyer should take any case offered to him,
Elor the man justly accused has as much right
90 whatever aid or protection counsel honestly
IN give him Is the man falsely accused.
Nobody denies this right to the Justly &C
FUSED" but unfortunately the distinctly Grimm
lawyer, so-called, too often gives laid and
beotection" which is not honest, and it is be-
snhse Of the frequency with which this occurs
Init criminal practice has fallen into whatever
tDsepute it has.
The public did not think any the less Of the
pyyer who defended the assassin Of Presi.
80 Mckinley because he did only what he
nj have done for the man-saw that he had
III trial and Was justly convicted. The Grim.
20 Iawyer who does only. that excites no In
lGent criticism. The criticism Is only Of thu
~ who blocks the wheels Of justice and re-
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Washington, June 1.-The chain
stores, because Of their expansions,
are expected to receive more and
more attention from the govern
ment.
Nearly all the necessities of life
may now be obtained from them
and some members of Congress look
forward to the day when the chain
system will exert virtual
monopoly. The Senate recently
adopted Senator Smith w. Brook
harris resolution directing the Fed
eral Trade Commission to investi-
gate it's methods of marketing and
distribution with q view to provid-
ing any necessary regulation.
Other members have been inter-
ested in bills designed to eliminate
unfair practices" which they insist
are being used by the chain stores
to take business from independent
retailers, although there seems to
be little intention or hope of slow
ing up the growth Of the system as
long as it continues to attract con-
sumers at its present rate.
Congressman Emanuel Celler of
New York, in a letter to the Fed
eral Trade Commission, recently
presented a formal complaint
against the chain organizations now
covering the nation, on behalf of
the National Association of Retail
Meat Dealers, representing associa-
tions of butchers in about 80 cities.
"By deceptive advertising, by
price-cutting campaigns, and by OPP
Grating through interstate sub
salaries and subsidies" Celler
said. "the chain stores are slowly
forcing the independent dealer off
the market. BY these means, the
chain stores will eventually be in a
position to control the market, I'M
duly raise their prices, and in other
ways operate to the detriment of
public interest"
Celler accuses chain stores of such
tactics as advertising common heif-
err or steer beef as "prime beef" at
ridiculous prices" and of selling
pork loins for Is cents = pound at
a loss which cost the independent
dealer Is cents a pound wholesale.
He charges that chain stores in
new territory are authorized to OPP
crate at a loss in new territory to
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Dear Nom:
Maybe you don't believe it, but |
do take your letters to heart. And
sometimes, go further and follow
your advice.
This ! did yesterday. Said / to
me, I'll find out if l have a roman
tic husband or not.
So started to provide the set
ting. l ran up quite bill at the
florists in so doing, but every
thing has its price. I bought the
most heavenly apple blossoms, and
arranged them around the living
room.
l placed big bowlful of red
tulips on my little black lacquer
table.
I wanted to have a romantic din
ner, but l remembered that Alan
has a very realistic appetite, so
saw to it that we had a nice thick
steak, mushrooms, and some French
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:; You still hear, now and then, repetitions of
tEhe arguments that ragged so furiousy few
Years ago-Whether or not married women
should work outside the home.
: Now Miss Mary Anderson, head of the
1Women's Bureau Of the U. S. Department of
labor, announces that there are 1000, 900 mar
1Fded women gainfully employed in the United
States. Furthermore, she asserts that all but
Il very few of them are working because they
e VERY few women choose to carry two jobs
TOR the pleasure of doing il" says Miss Ander-
9Jon. "Only about per cent Of the employed
@narried women work for luxuries or career. "
9 One concludes that the issue isn't q very
live one, after all. Most women, when they get
emarried prefer to stay at home, unless
Financial conditions compel them to 60 to work.
THAT, at least, is what one infers from Miss
.,Anderson's statement.
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IN NEW YORK

New York, June 1.-Anagrams.
charades and other parlor games of
grandma's time are still played.
it seems, by some Of Manhattan's
most sophisticated folk. Variations
on these have been invented to keep
the wolf of ellnui from the door on
those evenings when only tea and
iadyflngers are served.
l have at hand q little volume
exposing the very pastoral pastimes
OF many Of New York's most per-
sistent party tossers. It's entitled.
"What'l We Do Now" and here
in ! come upon Frank Crownin-
shield, Rube Goldberg, John Weaver.
the poet; ina Ferber. Alma
Gluck, Alexander Woollcott and Z
great assortment of the who's
who."
Herein we learn that Crownin-
shield, though "the worldly and dis
enchanted editor Of Vanity Fair"
has contrived a game called "Aver-
ages. Cards are passed about on
which are charted = sort Of score
board Of an individuals qualifica-
tions, such as "brains, charm, sense
OF humor" and SO forth. The in
dividual selected for the test is sent
from the room to make out his own
card, while the rest Of the party has
a pleasant time at his expense,
gossiping and weighing his various
merits. Later their "score" is conf
pared with his own average" and
he is made to defend his own
analysis.
You can see what q Mid, wild city
Mahattan can be. .
And Herbert Bayard Swope, the
eminent editor, has . game he calls
murder" which seems to me tn
be one Of the best. It's . memory
test, and the purpose 10 to demon.
strate what would happen to IN
average individual were he to be
suddenly called upon as . witness
n court trial. A crime ID
imagined and q definite date de.
termined upon.
OHc OF the guests Is suddenly
called upon for cross examination
and is asked, even a. q witness. to
recall what he was doing on q Ger.
tain day and at various hours there
Of. Generally the guest fakes his
replies. since he is unable to re-
member what he actually did and Il
ashamed to admit this. The person
playing the role Of lawyer makes
notes and trips him up by catch
questions, to the amusement Of the
guests and the discomfort Of the
witness"
Seemingly these far famed par
ties OF the cognoscenti cannot be %
wild after al.
From which any reader, whether
IN the smallest Michigan hamlet or
the largest California metropolis.
can take out grandma's anagrams
with perfect assurance that, should
anyone call him old fashioned, b
can reply "So's your Aunt Tiddley.
winks."
GILBERT SWAN.
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AvOCADO-THE MORT NOUR-
ISHING FRUIT

The avocado is q tropical fruit
which is becoming very popular in
the United States. It was original.
ly native of Mexico and Central
America, where it is regarded as a
staple food. It is now being grown
very successfully in Florida and
California.
The flavor of the avocado is un-
like that Of any other fruit since
it is neither sweet nor sour, and its
delicate flavor becomes quite fas-
cinating after one has become &C.
customed to it. The first taste is
usually disappointing because it is
so unlike the taste that is ordinarily
associated with fruit.
The avocado is picked when green
and allowed to become mellow in
storage. The fruit is just right for
eating when the flesh yields from
a gentle pressure of the fingers and
the pulp presents a consistency very
much like that of butter. 1t is rich
in vegetable oil, containing from
about 10 to 30 per cent, besides a
considerable amount of protein and
organic minerals.
The avocado is one of the most
nourishing foods and may be used
at any meal, since it combines with
any other kind of food. 1t adds a
pleasing variety to salads or as a
filling for sandwiches, and is even
used as the basis of a delicious ice
cream. One of the simplest but best
ways to use the avocado is to cut
it lengthwise and serve a half por-
ton to each person. No dressing
is necessary except little salt if
desired. The fruit should be soft
enough to be readily eaten with a
spoon. Since it is so nourishing it
should be used either in small
quantities or as the principal part
Of a meal.
This fruit varies greatly in size,
the larger varieties weighing as
much as four pounds. In all prob
ability the single large seed that
fills the center of the fruit will
become smaller in the course of
cultivation. The outer skin is tough
and leather-like varying in color,
some fruits being bright green and
thin skinned, and others Of a dark
purple thick skin.
There seems to be an endless
variety Of these fruits. About $50
varieties are at the present time be-
ing cultivated in California. Sew
eral of the original growers in Cali
fornia and Florida have made for
tunes through this fruit, it having
formerly commanded such q high
price in the United States as to be
used only by epicures.
The avocado tree is one of the
most beautiful evergreens that can
be grown in semi-tropical climate.
It is easily destroyed by frost, but
the harder varieties will survive
wherever the orange will. The tree
requires a great deal of moisture
during it's fruiting season. and for
this reason it was originally known
as the "Ahuacatl' which is the
Spanish understanding for the
Aztec name, "Water Fruit"
The most difficult problem for the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-01
Economy Begins at Home
(St. Paul Dispatch)

High taxes in Minnesota are predoninantly a
local problem They are caused by high costs
of county, city, village and town government.
The proportion of direct tax revenue which
goes to the local governments in Minnesota is
so large and the share going to the state gov
eminent is so small that the state may success
fully economize without checking the ascent of
property owners tax bills. The effect of econ
omy in the state government is overwhelmed
unless the local governments follow the states
example in reducing expenditures.
This, in substance, was Governor Christian
sons answer to State Auditor Chase's an
nouncement that direct taxes, meaning real
estate and personal property taxes have
reached a cord-breaking total in Minnesota.
Just how adequate an answer it was is shown
by new statement issued from the state aud
itor's office. This report discloses the aver
age tax rates in the various counties of Mime
sofa in 1927, which are the basis for taxes to
be collected in the counties this year. Tax
rates vary in different cities, townships or
school districts. in the same county, but the
averages for the counties are fair index to
the rates of taxation in different parts of the
state.
Tax rates range all the way from 31.16 mills
in Steele county to 1919 mills in Koochiching
county, the auditors statement shows. A resi-
dent of Steele county, owning property assessed
at 81, 900 will pay $31.16 taxes in 1923, while a
resident OF K0Ochiching county owning piece
of property assessed the same will pay $157.49.
Koochichin9 countys tax rate is five times that
paid in Steele county. The direct tax levied
by the state is ~ mills in all counties. State
expenditures therefore have no effect upon the
variations in tax rates from one county to an
other. Local government expenses account for
the differences.
The excessive tax region comprises northern
counties suffering from deforestation, rampant
tax delinquency and immense financial burden
assumed in guaranteeing payment Of drainage
Of wild lands. These conditions, like invest
ments in schools, land clearing and public build
ings, are local. They are observable close at
hand.
The tax problem, affecting owners of real
estate and personal property, stands revealed
in its simplest outlines. It is local in nature
and largely local responsibility. Much hokum
thrown about it is dispeled; for example, the
fable that tax money is being taken from rural
populations to provide luxuries for the big
cities. It is revealed that Ramsey and Henne-
pin counties, excepting only the northern
counties, have the highest average tax rates
in the state. The taxpayer who considers his
tax bill exorbitant need not blame something or
somebody far removed. He need not rail
against the state, nor against extravaganza in
some remote county. He must look to expend-
lures in his own school district, his own town.
ship, his own village, his city or his county. He
pays the bills of his bailiwick. Others else
where do the same.
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sorts to secret and corrupt devices to free his
client.
In any discussion of this question it must not
be forgotten that under the law of the land no
one is criminal until he has been convicted of
crime and everyone guilty and innocent, has
the inalienable right to trial BY Jury and to
the services Of counsel. 1t would be contrary
to the Constitution of the United States to
deny the guiltiest criminal either of these
cherished privileges Of free people.
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There is some talk Of mediation
by the United States between China
and Japan. Easier than that: why
not have the D. A. r. look into the
situation and blacklist one Of 'em +?
Bathing alone does not make
good health" says DIR. Bundesen,
Chicago's former health commits
sioner. Well, Chicago has gone
pretty far.
Judging by the increase in auto
mobile accidents recently, some Of
the motorists must have reached
the well-known saturation point.
Five new busts were unveiled the
other day in the Hall of Fame. We
feel sure. somehow, that among the
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number was the advertising man.
ager of the Alabama, Tennessee &
Northern railroad who christened a
freight train "The Lindbergh."
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grower is to market the avocado %
that it will reach the consumer at
the right time-when the fruit has
thoroughly ripened. The price Of
the avocado will always be q little
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-01

m Man is an inconsistent animal at best. And
Pie is large bundle of Boosting at all times.
reAssociating the two traits men boast in one
breath and call their fellows braggarts in the
next. Though our dual standard of human ap-
9,praisal will not permit of sef-prase, the trades
nJnan, the manufacturer and the auctioneer
olboast of the superiority Of their wares and
are not charged with complacency even by their
competitors in business. Sef-prase in in
ssidividuals is not pardonable even of such in
dividuals who can prove their boastfu claims.
mThe business man is never charged with brag-
dEadocio but he must make good his claims or
,obear the indelible stamp of the cheat and fraud
inThe boasts Of men will always find them out.
" Continuing the analysis this duality of boast
ding may be carried to communities, nations,
'fraternal orders, religious, racial distinctions,
vautomobes, horses, wives and so on down to
wpigs and whatnot. Boastful beings brag up
hhtheir country, town, church, automobiles, and
acpigs and accuse the other fellow of prejudice
and partisanship when he ventures to narrate
the fine points of his country, political party
and wife, THE faults which men condemn are
Their own.''
n There is an ancient fable which contemplates
aboasting in this manner:
e A man walking with that noble animal, the
Lion, showed the lion in the ostentation of
9human superiority sign of man Staying q
dion. Upon which the lion said very justly. we
Mons are none of us painters, else could show
9 hundred men killed by lions for one lion
killed by man.
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higher than other fruits because Of
the delicacy of handling which it
requires, but this difference in
price need not be seriously con-
sidered when it is known that the
avocado is more nourishing in
health-giving and bodybuilding
qualities than any fruit grown.
Some reduction in price will UNI
doubtedly occur when more groves
come into bearing so that this
wholesome fruit may find its place
in every home.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Question: J. NJ. writes: II get
much from your articles in the
paper, but I seem troubled with con-
stipation, and someone has sug-
gested / try the Bland Diet as
roughage seems to irritate. I want
to know what you think Of this
diet"
Answer: I know what you mean
by "Bland Diet" but I do not
recommend it. Rather, l advise you
to take plenty of exercise, eat a
large amount of cooked and raw
greens, and take an enema daily if
necessary until your bowels move
naturally. Drink only moderate
amount Of water, and that between
meals, and not at mealtime.
Question: r. w. asks: "Nhat
foods, including vegetables, contain
vitamin 'A'?"
Answer: Vitamin "A" is found
in milk, cream, butter, egg yolk,
and many vegetables, particularly
the green parts, but also the roots,
as in the carrot and sweet potato.
Also, a few fruits, such as tomatoes,
oranges and apples. The lack Of
vitamin "A" produces ricketts,, and
a dangerous eye inflammation called
keratomalacia and susceptibility
to tuberculosis.
Question: Ora w. asks: "What
remedy do you recommend as being
correct for the treatment of dia-
betes?"
Answer: I do not recommend any
remedy" for diabetes outside Of
living on carefully planned diet.
Stop using starches and sugars and
write me personal letter, sending
a large self-addressed, stamped
envelope so I can send you more in
formation on this subject.
Question: L. NJ. writes: "Please
state the normal weight of a per-
son from childhood to manhood"
Answer: The weight would vary
with the height and measurement
at the different ages; also, in rela-
ton to glandular activity and tenn
permanent. No set standard can be
used, but each case must be judged
Separatelv.
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DR.. Mccoy will gladly answer
personal questions on health
and diet, addressed to him,
care of the Tribune.
Enclose = stamped addressed
envelope for reply.