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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-21

a great number of the finest Japanese print
collections have been made in the United States
and in England, has been for years buying up
may Of these examples of the art of his native
land. Having acquired representative COL
lection he started home with them. There he
was told that his articles were luxuries and an
import tax of S5OO,O0O was demanded before
he could take them into Japan.
Refusing to pay such an exorbitant tax,
the Jap collector is bringing his prints to the
United States and will probably dispose of them
here unless he finds them costly to land here
also.
One thing may be said for the custom house
officials. they declare art is luxury and then
prove it. But the alert and appreciative Jap
revenue agents have deprived their country of
valuable art collection and there is no assur-
ance that this country will not lose the same
collection for the same reason.
AS congress cannot foresee every exceptional
case when it makes the tax laws it should en-
dow the revenue collectors with some discretion
airy powers or at least correct it's own errors
as soon as they are discovered.
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The Full Page AID

AS the newspaper man looks over exchanges
oming from various parts of the country, he
5 impressed with the great use that is being
made of advertising. The advertising space
sed in newspapers has greatly increased.
Take the big city dailies, for instance. II
'ou took the newspaper which before the war
sed to run an average of about 16 pages, the
hances are that paper will be running today
rom "a to 80. The enlargement is not pr
narily due to the use of more news, though
he space given to reading matter is increased.
he big share of the increase is due to adver-
Using.
It is interesting also to see how many con-
ems and interests there are that are taking
ig ads Of half page or full page, or two
ages. The fact that so many concerns are
Wiling to put up the money for this big dis
lay. shows how thoroughly standardized adj
-ertising has become, and how much it is de-
,ended upon for results by those who use it
persistently and with judgment. Fortunes are
Peing made every day through advertising, and
~ this means a multitude of business men are
Using out of small and inferior positions into
leadership in the business community.
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BARBS

The new flivver airplane was
forced to stop on top Of . hill on its
way to Florida. It's safe bet that
the radiator was steaming.
Old fashioned oil lamps are com.
ing back. They make excellent
stoves for modern apartments.
The crooked line is among the
notable features Of Paris fashion
for spring. Probably copied from
the American tourists.
The California poet having her
nose reshaped probably figures that
nose in any other shape would
smell Is sweet.
Alaska has instructed it's six del
egates to the Democratic conven-
ton to vote for AL Smith. The
solid north is warming " 70 AL.
Even 50, old saws arr better than
musical ones.
Copyright, 1928. NEA Service. Inc.)
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Editorial Comment
Still at Work at Ninety.five
(MinneapOlis JOurnaN

That Thomas A. Edison. who was eight-one
years old last Saturday, still works, and goes at
his labors with avidity, is cause for some COM
ment. But how about our own DR.. William
Watts Folwel still active as a writer and cele-
brating his ninety-fifth birthday today?
When little Tommy Edison snapped his last
Ipinafore for his first breeches DR.. Folwell was
already grown man. When Edison's earlier
inventions first began to attract nationwide
attention, DR.. Folwell had already served for
a quarter of century as president of the
University of Minnesota and had yielded the
post to younger man.
And the man who retired" when Edison was
Just getting good start still does as fair day
work as many another who has not yet reached
middle age. Perhaps the years have dealt so
kindly with Thomas Edison and DIR. Folwell,
because there has always been work in the
world that these could do better than anybody
else.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-21

keeping its library and archives
sections in order.
Until a few years ago the library
was in charge of semi-invalid who
had . memory system BY which he
knew where every book could be
found. When he died the knowl-
edge in his head was no longer
available. Officials began to look
around and discovered . large part
Of the library had never been
catalogued at all and that much of
it had been catalogued under an
antiquated system.
Tyler bennett Of the archives sec
ton has made . survey Of all the
rooms in the department from the
sub-basement to the skylight rooms
on the sixth floor and found thou
sands Of valuable papers and docu-
ments lying around loo.e - papers
relating to various boundary sur
veys, old claims and minor treaties.
In the sub-basement was found a
letter signed by George Washing
ton. It was cracked and about to
disintegrate. With the aid of the
government printing office the
letter was restored and has been
put in = safe place. Other old
papers-worth millions of dollars,
bennett says-ate stuck around
where there has been no care or
preservation.
The department plans to get
these documents in some order with
n the next two or three years and
eventually II counting on congress
appropriating money for an ar
chives building.
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The Ladies in Politics

It has been the custom, of recent years, to
speak rather lightly of women's efforts to
participate in politics. There has been gen.
eral impression that the ladies were wasting
their efforts.
But now it begins to look as if they had been
working to some effect.
When congressional leaders announced the
other day that the "big navy" plan was being
modified radically they said that this was to
be done because of the great storm of public
protest that had reached them. And they
added that most of this protest came from
women and women's peace organizations.
We may not have very many women in public
office, but it would seem as if women are begin
ming to take pretty active part in our govern.
ment after all.
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CURING SIMPLE CO1TRF

I am firmly convinced that the
cure Of simple goitre depends al.
most entirely upon the control Of
the amount Of carbohydrates used
by the patient.
The normal functions Of the thy.
roid gland are dependent, to a large
extent, upon the action Of the small
amount Of iodine which this gland
contains. When the thyroid en-
larges, as in simple goitre, it is
found that there is always a dimin-
ution of the iodine content.
! have seen these simple goitres
develop with one person in a family
where the diet was the ordinary
mixed diet found on the average
table. Plenty Of foods containing
iodine were used, but for some
reason, one member of the family,
and not the others, developed a
goitre. From my observation 1t
seems to me that this one person
grows a large thyroid not because
he has not received sufficient iodine
but because, for some reason, in his
case the iodine contained in his food
has not been transferred to the
thyroid, or it's action in the thyroid
has been interfered with. I have
seen such case improve at once
as soon as all starches and sugars
were entirely eliminated from his
diet SO that he used the rest Of the
foods he was formerly accustomed
to but simply left out all grain foods,
starchy tubers, and sugars.
After rest Of several weeks from
carbohydrate metabolism, this pa
tient is then able to resume the use
of small amount of carbohydrates
without any harm resulting or any
enlargement of the thyroid.
It seems that in a case Of simple
goitre the patient has become so
suited with starches and sugars that
their action il the blood interfcres
with the work of the iodine which
has something to do with producing
normal secretion of thyroxin, the
valuable fluid absorbed by the blood
from the thyroid.
The cure of simple goitre is
still more Simple" if short fruit
fast is taken preceding the non
carbohydrate diet. The gland re-
duces very rapidly under the fast,
and the changes are SO great that it
is inadvisable to wait for the slower
changes which would come from
simply eliminating the carbohy.
drates. A best plan is to take a
small amount of fruit juice each
day, combined with large quantities
Of distilled water. A large thyroid
may reduce to nearly normal size
in two or three weeks of this fruit
diet regime. A further reduction
will take place on well-balanced
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the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS diet and then
again take q short fast to further
reduce the size Of the gland.
In some cases the thyroid has
been SO misshapen through long en-
largement that it will not return
entirely to its normal shape, but
usually the cure is sufficient to re.
move any ugly enlargement.
The addition Of carbohydrates to
he diet must afterwards be cautious.
~ experimental with.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Question: Mrs. r. L. e. writes:
II have been told by a friend that
a rolling-pin is good for reducing.
Another friend contradicted the
statement, saying that it was very
injurious. Is it or is it not? I am
five feet five inches tall, 30 years
old, and weigh 1875 pounds. Am I
underweight or overweight"
Answer: The only correct way to
reduce is through diet and exercise.
Massage with a rolling pin is not
very effective, and only tends to
UIC6h OOWu IlIC NCAANA0A OSA uSSuASs
Your weight for your age and height
seems to be about normal.
Question: Mrs. L. G. writes: II
am very interested in your articles,
and would like very much to see q
write-up on Alcoholic Drinks"
Answer: / cannot elaborate on
this subject in a short answer in
this Question and Answer Depart
ment. Alcoholic drinks should be
used carefully if at all. They are
stimulating and helpful in certain
cases and under certain conditions.
Where too much is used, stimulation
stops, and depression or intoxication
begins.
Question: G. NJ. asks: "What
would you advise for gall bladder
trouble? am having sick head
aches, and vomit often"
Answer: ! have written q great
deal on this subject, and will be glad
to send you complete information
about the cause and cure of various
forms of gall bladder trouble if you
will send me your name and address.
In the meantime cut down on the
amount Of food you are using, and,
to begin with, try short fast on
fruit for few days.
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IN NEW YORK

New York, Feb. 21.-Stranded
upon this island on the eastern rim,
Of the continent, New Workers are
forever accused of being completely
out Of touch with conditions and
life in the rest of the country.
The other day young lady, who
has been eminently successful as a
writer Of fiction serials, returned
from a two-month visit with rela-
tives in Des Moines, Kansas City and
way points.
She burst in on me with a heated:
1.-THE rest of the country could be
starving to death and you wouldn't
know Of it! You sit there and write
about modes and manners of Man.
haitian, without the slightest idea
Of what will interest the people out
there. You take it for granted, for
instance, that people elsewhere are
interested in prohibition. They've
forgotten what drink is out there.
They don't care one way or another.
"As for smoking-well, I've had
one cigaret since I left. Girls in
polite society don't smoke out there
at least not in public. Had ]
smoked at home, it merely would
have caused an unpleasant scene
I never so much as heard of a cock.
tail and when I was asked to talk
about New York, it was with the
furtive sense that I would tell some.
thing shocking. People still look
upon going to New York as being
associated with kicking out the lights
and visiting the wicked big city.
was called upon for speech, and
when I asked for q topic suggestion
they told me to tell them about
Greenwich Village. Now what car
/ tell them? I've lived in the Village
for two years and I've never seer
anything to make speeches about
unless it be that the Village must
have changed, since can't find any
Of the things people expect to hear
about. Why don't you enlighten thu
people out there?"
I don't know just what can de
about it that ! haven't done. People
don't want to be disillusioned. Il
they want to think that New Yorl
Is the way they think it is, DOM
see just what can be done. Heaven
knows that, week in and week out
have written the dirge Of a Green
WITCH Village that has gone, never tx
return. ] have told Of the sky
scrapers that rise where studio gar
refs once flourished. I have con
fessed that we, in New York, become
as provincialized by our island iso.
lation as the folks Of the hinterlanG
become provincialized by rural iso
lation.
! know that some of our heavies1
girl smokers come from Kansas.
Iowa and way points. And I'vi
helped pour more than one young
lady from the corn belt into q taxi.
cab after too many cocktails.
cant 60 out there and teach then
to smoke and to shake an "orangs
blossom" They can smoke or leav.
| it alone, in 50 far as am concerned
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An Oct0genarian Who Heightened Lives
New York Times)

There must be hundreds of thousands of
persons who unconsciously owe their length
ened life to the pioneer efforts of Nathan
Straus, the New York merchant who nearly
forty years ago began his pasteurized milk
crusade in behalf of children. If the years he
has by his preventive labors added to the lives
of others were added to his own, he would en-.
JOY virtual immortality. AS it is, reaching
the age of 80, he should have all the satisfac-
tions that one deserving such Immortality could
wish. What makes his desert the greater is
that he had to fight against prejudice and greed
and ignorance in his persistent and finally
triumphant efforts to aid mankind in his own
day and generation and pass on his gift of
heightened life to generations unborn.
What he began to do from his private means
is now coming to be public undertaking or
requirement. His own laboratories were
turned over to this city several years ago, and
pasteurization has been generally adopted in
the other cities throughout the United States
Other countries have been benefited by the pio-
neer work done here. The eminent authority
on child health, DR.. Pirquet Of Vienna, has ties.
titled to the influence abroad Of his work while
here at home tribute has been paid to him by
thousands, including such distinguished sur
geons as the Doctors Mayo, who have attributed
largely to his efforts the credit for the wide
public recognition of the benefit of pasteuriza.
ton, which is now made generally available
Mr.. Straus is pre-eminently one of the great
heroes of peace. He has waged incessant war
fare, day and night, year in and year out, for
more than thirty years, against the invisible
enemies of mankind-and especially in behalf
of children. He has crowned romantic bust
ness career with philanthropy that will con-
tinue to Tighten the mortality tables and
brighten countless homes for years to come.
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MARE 81
| e. and M.
| * NOM
|Qhelr Letters
Mother Dear:
BY RUTH DEWEY GROVES

Mother Dear:
Don't you know that a woman's
first duty to herself and the world
is to keep herself looking attrac-
tive? Of course we don't 20 in for
holding husbands any more. # q
man wants to 60, let him. IT'S q
broader view we have now, big
ger reason for taking care If our
looks.
We know that all the activities
of business revolve about woman.
Does that sound far-fetched? Just
listen. Why do men do things
To be successful Of course. And
whv do they want to be successful?
To make money. And who do they
want to make money for? A wom-
an. And they want that woman
to be pretty and well groomed. If
she measures up, they like to show
her off at the opera, and if she
doesn't, they'll join q po''er club.
A lot Of good it will do me to
60 to bed with the chickens Just
so l could get p en-. make some
coffee that Alan can make better.
He'd go out when I went to bed
and he wouldn't be around the next
day after breakfast to see the good
results.
Anyway, I'm not so sure a man
wants to see his wife early in the
morning. I don't like to look al
Alan befor" he's shaved and he'C
hate to have me crowding the
bathroom. And if you think I'c
ever sit across the breakfast table
from Alan before I'd gotten my.
self looking decent you don't know
your darling child. What men mus,
have thought Of those early-worm
women with their boudoir caps anG
cotton kimonos I'd hate to listen to!
No, stree, we wouldn't lift .
finger to hold a man when he's
through, but we know enough about
the male species to credit them with
little esthetic taste, and that's
something women did not do once
upon q time.
And the way to get on in business
has changed too. The other night
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WASHINGTON 81
LETTER 81

pect that the Democratic politicians
might not run the country any bet.
ter than the Republican politicians
the Republicans would be out Of
luck.
If it were not suspected that
many of the politicians who oppose
Mr.. Hoover were as reactionary and
useless as politicians can be, Mr.
Hoover's candidacy would lose rather
than gain because of the number
of reactionary and useless politicians
now under his flag.
And so on. Suspicion, of course,
is only a fuse, often wet. If all the
Suspicion now at large in Wash
ington were verified, passenger
traffic to Europe would show large
gains. 1t is generally only when
Suspicion causes an investigation
proving that it was justified, that
important events result.
The friends of Suspicion and its
enemies are fighting this year in
the Senate, harder than ever. When
last counted, there were 20 resolu-
tions demanding the investigation
VI 0OAACtl1u6 VI VttIC4s
There are always senators to scott
at the suspicious prompting the reso-
lutions and others to claim them
justified if not already verified.
Here's an incomplete list of senator's
and what they want investigated:
Walsh Of Montana, public utilities;
Johnson, bituminous coal fields con-
ditions and telephone industry; King,
Federal Reserve System and con-
dition Of the Indians; Reed of Mis-
souri,, primary and election slush
funds (continuance); Mcclellan, tax
refunds and private loans to the
French government; Wheeler, espion-
age in industry, how Americans have
obtained foreign concessions, and
concessions and other matters in
Nicaragua; Mayfield, Department of
Agriculture cotton reports; Norris,
Teapot Dome "elush fund.-" Tram
NELL, sinking Of the Submarine Sd;
Blease, telephone, telegraph and
cable rates; La Toilette, our Carib-
bean and Latin-American relations.
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Alan asked me to doll up in my
scantiest evening dress because We
were going out with the Driscolls.
He's trying to land contract from
Driscoll and if he'd followed fathers
rule of early to bed he would have
a swell chance, wouldn't he? AS it
was we hurled real party after a
show and gave the DIS a thrill.
They're out-of-town people, you
know. 10
He enjoyed it but she was kind
Of quiet. She's awfully dowdy, too.
You'd think the wife of such prom
inent man would have more class.
Well, I hope Alan closes the deal.
The party cost enough!
With all my love,
MARYE.
NEXT: Hospitality? Not to
"MOM!"
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Sunday Afternoon Walks

Some customs and institutions pass away so
Witty and completely that succeeding gen.
ration can scarcely realize to what extent such
custom was once prevalent and how much it
1eant to the generation that came before.
The boys and girls, men and women who live
"A our large cities cannot appreciate how much
he pastime known as the Sunday afternoon
salk once meant to people who are now along
/ years. This diversion is not to be COM
AIRED to what is now known as "hiking"; the
,unday afternoon walk was not so strenuous
], nd energetic as this latter-day form Of leg
xercise.
The modern hiker expects some tangible re-
urns on his investments. He is out for air
nd exercise and he proposes to get them.
!, .,ver hill and dale along the country road he
tretches his legs and the more tired he gets
he better he likes it. Though he has no par
ocular destination in mind and sets no time
! nit on his performance, the modern hiker is
lone the less very businesslille person.
). Not so the Sunday afternoon walker of gen.
ration or two ago. His was lesurey pro-
ceding. He was in search neither of roman
ic scenery nor of violent exercise. His per-
!, ormance consisted of nothing more strenuous
han an amiable ambling through parts Of the
ity into which he did not venture every day,
perhaps his stroll took him for short way
ut into the country.
= But it is gone this custom. One by one con-
= itions changed as mechanical inventions came
: to cut us off from this simple pleasure. The
icycle, the automobile, the motion picture
how, and the commercialized amusement park
all contributed to supplant the Sunday aft
moon walk with something more hurried and
,everish than we had ever known before. We
ave become hot in our pursuit of pleasure and
diversions; we must be always going SOME
there, and when we get there we must either
entertained or hurry off elsewhere.
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explain, however, what the publica-
tons are used for.
To insure that representatives Of
this government abroad appear to
tho people there in an American
setting. the state department is sup
plying government owned buildings
with government owned furnish
ings.
The furniture was selected from
styles in the new American wing
Of the New York museum and made
In New York factories.
At Penang, in the Straits Settle
ments, however, white ants eat Ill
the wood furniture provided and
bids are being asked FOR metal furni.
ture. Presumably the department
will explain to the natives there
that oil Americans don't use alum
mum chairs.
The appropriation committee
hearings brought ont that the state
department is having difficulties
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