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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-22
IN NEW YORK

New York, May 22.-Manhattan
snapshots: The flower wagons with
their 1nulti-colored wares, reflecting
gay colors along the drab miles of
tenements. The croquet players
bobbing up in Central Park with the
first signs Of spring. The Indian
sssnake doctor" Of Ninth Avenue and
the imam from India" who sells
cheap fountain pens in q Times
Square auction which displays q
huge sign reading pencils free,
which brings in the crowd: But
you learn that the pencil is free
only if you buy pen. -. Yet they
talk about the country yokels.
Dorothy Gish taking her dog for a
walk around Gramercy Park. !. .
Just what happened to Dorothy,
anyway? And to Renee Adoree,
who was 80 splendid in "The Big
Parade? And to Mae Marsh? And
q lot Of others?
The fellow who fixes the clock on
the Paramount tower. From the
street he looks like q fly crawling
along q wall. It seems that the
velocity Of the wind Is 50 great at
that height that it blows the hands
around and the time is seldom cor
rect. On . particularly blustery
day the clock gained an hour IN SIX
seconds. The largest clock IN
the world, by the way, is on the Jer-
sey side Of the Hudson facing Man
haitian. The dial II more than
so feet wide. The minute hand
weighs more than q ton. When
lighted at night it can be seen for
miles.
One Of Manhattan's most famous
panhandlers is now model at the
Art Students League. He was
cumming dimes in the league neigh
borhood when IN instructor decided
he was a fine type" for sketching.
Now he gets his so-much-an-hour
and has merely to sit down and look
around. Wherefore Subway Slim"
for such is his moniker-philoso-
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Editorial Comment

(Oil .IOllrnal

Cuttings from the Glenfield deep test well
which has now been sunk to the $500 foot leve
have been sent in to government biologists at
Washington for examination 49,.
On the basis of what these cuttings indicate
to government biologists they make the state.
ment that North Dakota is underlaid with oil
and that the first enclosed structure that is
drilled in the state will bring in production
The cuttings indicate that North Dakota has
passed through the same geological history
that other sections which produce oil have
passed through, and the only thing left t.
make a strike is the location of dome that
has not been drained.
It means that North Dakota has oil and all
that is left to make the state producer is the
location of formations.
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an hour of labor given. but will count when
more modern road development gets under
way.
There is nothing more refreshing in this age
of sophistication than to come again in con-
tact with the pioneer spirit as it is still to be
found in Dunn and few other North Dakota
counties.
All the world admires the builder. His
work is never lost in any field Of endeavor. He
seldom takes credit to himself His artificing
is upon the basis of After me cometh a
builder"
What a debt we owe this old rough-and-
ready engineer, this practical builder for the in
situations Of today as we have developed them.
He laid the corner stone of them all.
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Massachusetts, Debunks the Falls
(MinneanOliS Trihune)

The debunking artists are at it again and
this time they're straining our own Mlnnehaha
Falls through their precious sleeves. Still
blushing over the Goldfish on it's automobile
license plates, Massachusetts casts about, like
a self-conscious child, for some means Of for
getting it's embarrassment. Thus it stun1bles,
in its extremity, across the undebunked Min
nehaha legend.
The plot, as we see it at this distance is to
hammer away at the Minnehaha fraud until
the nation works itself into a fine lather and
forgets the license plates, notwithstanding
that the cod is an essential and inelegant item
in the Bay States cultural existence. Hence
we have the Massachusetts Historical society
suggesting that Minnehaha Falls no more in
Mr.. Ponzi inspired the much less famous bal
lad, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"
Such skepticism, of course, is a little dis
heartening to those of us in Minnesota who
assumed Longfellow had taken box lunch to
Minnehaha park and penned his verses, in
moment of inspiration, within earshot of the
falls. We had always taken the statue Of
Minnehaha and Hiawatha, which now graces
the park, as proof-positive that the whole
the supervision of the local park board, and
that Mr.. Longfellow had merely recorded the
affair in something much better than dog
gerel.. If not, then apologies to Boston and
Cambridge, and violent salaam to the Mas
sachusetts's Historical society for calling the
matter to our attention. The matter is not
serious, for "Hiawatha" has already made the
falls world-famous, and they will likely stand
or more appropriately fall-on their estab-
lished reputation for a good many years to
come. The Washington myth, after ALL still
publicizes the cherry tree, Rupert Hughes not
withstanding But the Massachusetts attack.
which centers about the claim that Longfel-
low never visited the falls, seems just trifle
weak. After all. Massachusetts, there was
Dante's Inferno" The descriptive details, so
far q we know. were all gathered second hand.
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Lear Nom:
I've been thinking over a lot of
things and I'm not so sure but YOU
may be right about Florence is the
kind Of girl to whom education is
fatal. Anyway I think I've heard
that a half-knowledge is a danger
Gus thing. And it looks as if Flor
ence's finishing line is RICH on the
halfway mark. So if she cant get
any good out Of being here and hav-
ing perfectly marvellous oppor-
tunity to learn life at first hand
she might as we'll 60 back home and
keep house for her mother.
One of the things she certainly
should have learned by this time
is how to shoot straight. And if
anyone can call it straight shoot
ing to abuse the trust I've placed in
her / don't know what their ethics
can be like.
She kept Alan and me worrying
our heads off last night. I told her
she ought to be in by one o'clock.
She and Norman were going to a
show and I had a hunch they would
70 somewhere to dance afterward.
Alan wasn't very keen on her 60
ing out with Norman in the first
place and after he saw that letter
Of yours about Norman's treatment
of the girls he told Florence to can
him. Florence gave him a nice little
sisterly answer and went along with
Norman. But I knew Alan would
be storming around until she got
back. That's why I asked her to
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-22
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer


Washington, May 22.-There are
many stubborn critters who refuse
to admit that Herbert Hoover has
the Republican nomination dangling
from his girdle and the best bet one
can get on it here is even money.
But Herbert's hand is loaded with
so many trumps that the chances Of
the opposition lie chiefly in some
what desperate measures.
He might miserably misplay his
hand-and then again, the boys who
now look like losers may steal his
cards or upset the table. Heaven
knows they will do either or both
if they can.
On the face of things, It ought to
be about over. Hoover has far
more delegates than any competitor,
so many that the field is united in
an attempt to gang him.
He is the only candidate who has
aroused any particular sentiment in
the politically powerful east, along
with the border states, the south
and the far west.
He is the only candidate in his
party who has shown q disposition
to go out and fight for primary
votes and he has done better in
those primaries than many of his
own supporters expected him to
do.
Now he has the endorsement Of
the sanity Mr.. Mellon. with its
tacit inference that Mr.. Coolidge
isn't unkindly disposed toward him,
and is more than ever tagged as the
nearest approach to an administra-
ton candidate.
It will be hard for the party to
take Mr.. Hoover. To take him it
must violate various presidents,
something the party hates to do.
For instance, with the exception Of
Grant, no man has had the Republic
can nomination without q SUBJ
stantial record of partisan Repub-
licanism behind him. No Repub-
lican president has had nomination
after being opposed at the outset by
a united sectional opposition like
Lowden's. And a few more things
like that, always remembering that
Mr.. Hoover has broken precedents
before.
The trouble is that it is likely to
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She did, early in

come in early. She did, early in
the morning.
But that wasn't the worst Of it.
Norman was taking me out for a
game of golf this morning, or SO
thought. But when l called his
aunt's apartment at ten o'clock he
hadn't got up.
told Florence we might as well
60 some place and have lunch and
maybe 20 to matinee but she said
she couldn't because she was lunch.
ing with Norman. Well. that's
what l call betraying q trust. She
also added something about mar
ried woman's place being in the
home.
But along about 1890 I had my
revenge. She called Norman her.
self-just to get my goat, l guess
He was still asleep and his aunt re-
fused to wake him. It looked like
we both were stood up, so when
Pede called and asked me to lunch
with him had to say yes just to
show Florence that I haven't died
with my shoes on.
It's the first time I've seen Pede
since the day he Dashed Norman in
the eye. And he was as sweet as
could be to me. Nothing for even
you to criticize, Nom.
Devotedly,
MARYE.
NEXT: Nom blames Marye.
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WASHINGTON 81
LETTER XM

prove much harder to deny him than
to accept him. It's true that many
Hoover delegates are not of the
sort who can be expected to stay
with their man through fire and
water for 80 or 40 ballots, but more
Importantly it's also true that
they're his to start with and that
unless someone can dragon Cool
idge or Hughes into the plot. they
won't for awhile have anywhere
else to go-and by that time Hoover
is likely to have been nominated.
Furthermore, Mr.. Hoover repre-.
sents the administration policies
and the only other important can.
didate does not. It's possible that
an anti-administration man will be
chosen, but darned improbable. And
again, this is no safe year to lick
Mr.. Hoover with a dark pony. II
any horse flesh figures at all, il
must be big black stallion like
Coolidge, Hughes or Dawes. Cool
idge can only be taken as a desper.
ate measure. Hughes is q good bet
to beat AL Smith in New York but
not worth a whoop in the west, anu
Dawes is poison to the administra-
ton.
The issue will be decided, as
usual, in that powerful contiguous
group Of states, Massachusetts, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. Indiana and Illinois
are against Hoover, but he has
broken into New York, Ohio and
Massachusetts, and now Andrew
Mellon shows a disposition to give
him Pennsylvania.
Obviously Mellon holds the bal
ance Of power. Apparently he is
anxious to be able to say, after the
nomination is made: II did it," OF
course it would have been much
kinder if the old gent had given
Hoover the last full measure of en-
dorsement in the form of an in
structed delegation instead Of MAX
ing his followers wait until conven-
ton time before feeling able to draw
q long breath.
But if he can't have Coolidge or
Hughes, he's virtually certain to
wind up for Hoover, regardless of
the fact that General Atterbury of
the Pennsylvania railroad, the new
Pennsylvania national committee
man, is violently anti-Hoover.
Virtually certain, that is, unless
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(Offlclal City. State and County Newspape,
Leadership Speaking Up

{ Republican leadership is speaking up frank
! in the present national campaign. Demo-
rats everywhere are organizing and returning
% the fold. Many distinct developments indi-
late this condition.
Candid spokesman for the Republican party
re telling it that if Mr.. Hoover is the nominee,
opposed by Mr.. Smith, he will have no cinch.
The Democrats have heard and are cheered.
! Governor Lowden qualities as one of the
1ankest of his party's spokesman.
He told a senate committee the other day that
liscontent in the farming regions is certain to
inter into the presidential election this year.
The farming regions and those closely in touch
nth the sentiment in them will bear him out
n that statement.
No one of much prominence except Mr..
tIoover himself and President Coolidge is openly
taking the position that the Republican party
5 out of the woods. And it isn't.
! There is very good prospect that Governor
1mith of New York would defeat Mr.. Hoover
IS the party nominee. That is everywhere in
sicated in the middle west.
y This is a practical condition and it must be
seckoned with in practical way. The prac-
ical answer would seem to be Lowden, or
dawes, or Curtis as the party's nominee at
Kansas City.
Governor Lowden clearly indicated in his re-
lent appearance before the senate committee
hat the Republican faith that is in him still is
trong. He is doing his party real service of a
t1ost practical nature by his frank declara-
1ions
Meantime the Democrats are watchfully
waiting and rolling up margin for AL Smith
Ct Houston. They are preparing to become the
~enefciaries Of any failure of Republican lead
rshp to see the situation as it is.
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frequently their diets are lacking in
important elements so necessary for
growth which are found in the fruits
and green vegetables.
Health is not obtained by stuffing
with food or quantities of drugs, but
with a well balanced diet containing
all of the essential elements, eaten
in the proper combinations to avoid
intestinal poisoning-taken with
sufficient exercise and fresh air to
insure consuming the surplus and
eliminating the waste.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Question: J. L. writes: II am un-
able to do the exercises you recon-
mend, that is, those taken while
lying on the back, as my entire
weight seems to rest on the end Of
my spine and it is very painful"
Answer: 1t is a good plan to
place quilt on the floor and take
your exercises on that, or put
small pillow under your hips to
furnish additional padding if you
do not have enough of your own.
Question: Mrs. L. M. asks: "Will
you please explain in the question
and answer column how to prepare
Salisbury steak?"
Answer: This steak is prepared
by grinding through a meat grind
er only the red, lean part of round
steak from which all gristle and fat
have been removed. This may seem
similar to Hamburger" steak, but
it is really more palatable and more
easily digested, and has an entirely
different flavor when the fat is left
out. Press the ground meat into
dry cake pan to a depth of about
! one inch, place in a hot oven and
turn the fire down. Meat will cook
through in about five minutes. A
tasty addition may be made by
grinding spinach or parsley with
the meat.
Question: L. w. asks: "Is the only
way to cure mouth breathing by re-
moving the torsils and adenoids?
When l wake in the morning my
teeth and tongue are coated with a
hard. dark substance which washes
off like blood. What is the cause,
and how can it be stopped?"
Answer: Surgical removal of
adenoids, or reducing them by diet
ing, are the only cures for mouth
breathing, but consider the treat
ment by diet to be the best and of
more lasting benefit in every way.
Enlarged tonsils can be reduced to
their normal size by diet treatment
alone, and operations are not
necessary. The dark substance may
be caused by bleeding from the
gums. Consult YOUR dentist
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Let Us Hate Not at All

!, Entering the present state campaign it is
evident that between the opposing factions
here is more disposition to reason together
The trend in that direction has been distinct
or some years. 1t is pronounced at this time.
! Whatever his political affiliations every
forth DakOtan who has the interests of his
ltate at heart will welcome this condition
]; North Dakota is politically progressive
there isn't much question about that-using
zhe term progressive as it is applied to the Re-
publican grouping.
I Circumstances prevent the issue from being
Exactly clear cut at this time. But the time is
lot far distant when it will be.
! The Nonpartisan League Of today is not the
,,lonpartisan League of Walter Thomas Mills
Arthur LeSeuer and others of their day. Its
4adership is progressive. It is doing nothing
% foster the old hatreds.
] The Independent faction qualities as bal
snce wheel. It's militancy is subdued. Yet in
1he larger aspect it has useful field of activity
h this state.
!, The factions are good for each other
I Sometimes a candidate here and there in
}oth groups loses his head and voices senti-
aents that are outworn in North Dakota. That
= only natural and to be expected. Personal
ambition ever takes itself seriously.
But the old spirit of hatred is gone, never
q return. It is better so. It has the biggest
obstacle to a grand getting together of North
Oakotans for North Dakota.
LET us hate not at ALL would be good
MOTTO for the militant partisans Of all group
Mgs to adopt.
I They are adopting it. The people are forcing
Them to. For the people are tired of hatred and
bitterness. They want reason and progress.
And they will get it.
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DO FOODS CURE?

There have been many attempts
to classify foods into their disease
curing properties. In fact, I have
seen many lists of foods that re-
sembled q medical pharmacopeia,
but I have found that the belief in
specific curative foods is largely
one of superstition. Foods are
only curative" when they supply
deficiencies in the diet.
frequently use the orange juice
fast in diseases where there is a
condition Of acidosis, that is, a
lessened alkalinity of the blood, be-
cause I have found in my private
practise that no other method will
increase the alkalinity of the blood
as rapidly and, at the same time,
permit the elimination of poisons
unhampered.
The reason that we do not con-
slider starvation and excessive thirst
as diseases, and food and water as
medicines, is because Of the obvious
cause and effect. Yet, food would
undoubtedly help starving man
more than all the medicine in the
world. There is no doubt that many
diseases are caused directly by a
lack of certain elements in the food
just as other diseases are caused or
at least prepared for by the over
eating of rich pastries.
Scurvy was the plague Of the
middle ages. Every boat going on
a long trip or every large military
encampment was likely to suffer it's
quota of victims. Now we know
this disease is directly due to lack
Of vitainin C which is so abundant
in the citrus fruits. In this sense
only may food be regarded as a
medicine.
Fortunately, because Of the
abundant supply of food at the dis
posal of civilization, scurvy is rare
among adults, but it is all too fire.
quently found among babies, par
ticularly those who are fed exclu-
sively on those prepared baby foods,
or pasteurized milk, from which
vitamin C is absent. Had they been
fed properly, with the addition of
orange juice, this trouble would
have been entirely avoided. I have
prepared an article on the feeding
of infants which will be very glad
to send if you need it. Practically
all children would develop into
strong healthy adults if they were
properly fed from infancy.
The citrus fruits are possibly the
most valuable foods to use in the
majority of diseases, but Of course
one should be very careful not to
use them in combination with starch
because this will very likely pro-
duce fermentation enough to off
set the good of the fruit.
Recently a test was made in the
Berkeley, California, schools where
in certain groups of children were
given oranges at recess. The weight
increase was even more than with a
similar group who were allowed q
glass of milk each at the same re-
cess. This confirms my own dis
coveries that the increase of weight
is often more than can be &C
counted for in the mere addition OF
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phises on the strangeness of life.
He walks the street for dimes and
has to dodge crowds and then along
comes someone and pays him for
sitting down. What cock-eyed
world, says he.
And there's "Top Coat Dan,"
known from one end of the Bowery
to the other. He was always to be
found in the bread line. He'd wait
for hours for a handout of soup or
beans. They caught him sleeping in
the subway the other night and,
when they took him to court, they
found bankbooks in his pockets
showing he had $4,000 on deposit.
Dan is 20. Now just what he ex-
pected to do with his money nobody
seems to know. Least of all Dan!
He got his name, by the way, be-
cause in winter he always wore
three overcoats. He would explain
that the other two were for quilts
and bedding if he couldn't bum
place to sleep.
GILBERT SWAN.
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One Of the new spring fads is
the ankle corsage. We almost had
forgotten where the ankle was.
"A special branch Of municipal
court has been set to work airing
election fraud cases in Chicago. Do
the courts hold nothing sacred any
more?
Mussolini has decided handshak-
ing is undesirable. He can; he
doesn't have to run for reelection.
An official edict bans the red
suspenders the firemen wore at Tul-
sa, Okla. Fires out in Tulsa won't
be nearly as good entertainment as
they used to be.
The American people pay $780,
O00,O q year for music, that is
their-well, their music.
A London newspaper says the
prince falls off his horse 50 often
because of crowding, hysterical
women on the race courses. Well
believe it if the newspaper will ex-
plain how it happens the prince
never falls off dance floor.
Every man to his taste; some of
us read the comic strips and others
get Their amusement out of the D.
A. R. blacklist.
(Copyrirht. 1928. NEA Service. Inc.)
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L; The pioneer development era Of the United
5tates is passing. It was colorful era and it is
regretted that with its passing go motivating
influences for which the succeeding order would
- much better.
81 The pioneer knew few obstacles. If raging
liver confronted the onward march of progress,
ne bridged it. Mountains meant nothing to
him as physical obstacles. Climatic extremes
left him undaunted.
II The American pioneer was the greatest
4ough- and-ready engineer of all time.
h The pioneer spirit fingers in few sections
20 North Dakota. One Of these is Dunn county.
Dunn county farmers and their friends long
TO realized how vital good roads are to de-
k1cpment and growth. Then they went
|nrther. They did something about it.
Dunn county has road system that repre-
Dts sort Of cooperative effort in which just
out every settler in the county who had
poetunity Joined.
u his given the county pretty fair system
Graded roads at q cost estimated at 500 q
r. A good deal Of the work on them was
1900, The Tribune Is informed.
This road system serves practical needs to-
y. Il is the corner stone Of better road
11m Tor the future. Not dollar spent. o.
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the anti-Hooverites dig a success
full pit or plant bomb that really
explodes. There are enough slip
perry Hoover politicians to help him
avoid the pitfalls, but they'll be the
first to run if any bombs 60 off.
And Mellon, of course, has left him
self a good-sized hole through which
to climb back.
just now Hoover is in the posi-.
ton of man walking home through
tough section with a million dol.
lars in his pocket. He has body.
guards, but every bandit in town
knows what he's carrying.
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Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc

At Worsley, near Manchester,
England, is clock which strikes
Is instead Of one. The Duke Of
Bridgewater caused the works to
be altered because the workment
who were engaged on one Of his
canals excused themselves for pro-
longing the dinner hour by saying
that they could not hear the single
stroke.