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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-01
BY RUTH DEWEY GROVES

Dearest Marye:
Betty called me up this morning
and asked me to come over and see
the layette you sent her.
Dear, it's just too sweet! Betty
says she doesn't know how she's 60
ing to thank you and if she has a
girl she's going to name her after
you.
stayed to lunch and helped Betty
fix peach cobbler. 1t would have
been lovely time but Florence came
in all upset about some trouble at
the store. She wouldn't go back to
work and pretty soon she had poor
Betty so nervous she didn't know
what to do. / asked Florence if she
would not come home with me and
stay to supper with US and she said
she'd like to.
AS soon as we were out Of Betty's
house she burst out with the whole
trouble. It seems that Mr.. Martin
got fresh with her, as Florence eX-
pressed it. She told him what she
thought of him and walked out! !
was dumbfounded to think of Mr..
Martin doing thing like that so ]
asked Florence how it happened
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EYES. POISE AND ACCIDENTS

There is an appalling increase in
the number Of deaths due to auto
mobile accidents, and the number of
injuries creating temporary or per-
manent disabilities is, Of course, even
hundreds Of times larger than the
actual number Of deaths. A certain
number of automobile accidents
must be expected, for the automobile
will doubtless always be dangerous
instrument.
Great changes could be made at
once if laws were made and en-.
forced, to compel eye examinations
of everyone driving automobiles
motorcycles, or other fast moving
vehicles. In some communities those
applying for chauffeur's licenses are
compelled to pass eye examinations,
but this law is usually not extended
to include owners Of automobiles,
who make up the greatest number
Of automobile drivers. While MAX
ing SO much other restrictive legisla-
ton, our public officials could do
we'll to see that such eye-testing
laws were passed and enforced.
Each city should employ as many
optometrists as necessary to give
examinations without cost to all who
apply for automobile licenses. A
little money spent in this way would
save much more in the reduction Of
needless accidents, the results Of
which cost the taxpayers of America
millions of dollars each year.
There will ALWAYS be certain
number of accidents due to nervous
ness and carelessness on the part
of the driver. It is difficult to see
how any law can be passed to con-
troll this, but each individual can
help great deal by understanding
the mental causes which lead to the
accidents caused by nervous persons.
There are few people who can have
perfect poise under all kinds of try
ing conditions. The one whose nerves
arc jerky is one who has not retained
control over the vital energies which
are surging through his nervous
system.
The out and out neurotic is al
ways in danger Of creating an ac-
cident, but even those who do not
consider themselves nervous are
stimulated to a kind of nervous &C.
stacy when riding behind the steer
ing wheel Of an automobile. The
hum of the motor and the ease with
which the machine can be speeded up
have undoubtedly a definite effect
upon the nervous system, and a PEE
culiar wild desire to "get t,iere first"
possesses the driver. Before he
knows it he is stepping too hard on
the gas, cutting in and out, as we'll
as cutting corners, and doing other
unreasonable things which he seldom
feels like doing while sitting on the
back seat. Standing on a corner, he
curses and condemns all the "fools"
who race past; but once behind the
steering wheel he too often loses all
Of his accustomed poise and becomes
as foolish as the rest.
! hope not one of my readers will
think I am only referring to the
"other fellow, but will take the
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WASHINGTON Al
LETTER '&M

Assuming that there were only
100000 such workers in 1923,
some $4,000 factory workers had
lost or left their jobs since Decem-
Der, 1926, when the percentage was
90.9. Eleven Of twelve groups sur
veyed showed decreases for 1927.
Farmers and farm laborers who
left the farms in 1927 and years
just before can't be accurately es-
timated, but Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Jardine estimates that more
than 100000 persons have left the
farms since 1920, many to be
thrown on the labor market. A
total of 1,749, 439 persons earning
livir.gs on farms left the farms be-
tween 1910 and 1920 and if the
same ratio continued some 1926
600 have departed in the last seven
years.
AS for mining, a surplus Of metal
mining workers was general in the
west as late as January. About
100000 bituminous coal miners are
on strike and $4,000 anthracite
miners are said to be idle. A sur
plus of miners has existed for
years.
Building trades: Workers in this
industry have been especially hard
hit and union officials estimated re-
Gently that 100000 were out Of
work.
Transportation workers: Class I
railroads reported 100000 fewer
!, employees Nov. Is, 1927, than on
Nov. Is, 1926, including a drop of
$1,000 in the preceding month.
There are more clerks, more sales
and other white collar jobs and
more new occupations open, but
while such opportunities have alb.
sorbed some Of the huge labor sur
plus pouring from factories, mines,
farms and railroads they have long
since reached virtual saturation
| point.
One Of the most important things
to remember about unemployment,
however, is that an accurate esti-
mate Of it is impossible. Even in
most prosperous times Labor De-
partment officials say about 1,000,-
900 are jobless.
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Limit of Endurance

That Kentucky mule which is reported to
have demolished small car with its bare hoofs
appears, from the disclosed facts in the case,
to have fair measure Of defense. The fliv-
yer crowded the animal and bumped it in the
rear. That in itself was an insulting injury
which no self-respecting mule with pair OF
heels in working order could be expected
even by the most jealous pacifist-to ignore
As the flivver foolishly remained within range
the mule, acting within its rights and main
tanning mule traditions, proceeded to loose a
volley Of kicks that reduced the offender to q
junk pile.
It IS fair supposition that into every lunge
Of ho0fs went vengeance for innumerable and
cumulative wrongs and insults debited on the
mule ledger to the account of the flivver-for
hooking honly Of horns, for sitting clouds OF
dust raised under the nose, for crowding off
highways, for binding flashes of lights and
many other injuries to mule dignity and pride
and peace.
Truly, there are limits to endurance OF
wrongs and insults beyond which no mule, any
more than man, is called upon to 80. AND
that limit, both flivvers and men sometimes
learn, is passed by aggressors at their peril.
In "Culliver's Travels" there is q race Of
horses, the Houyhnhnm, that rules man, and
treats him as he is accustomed to treat his
horse. If there is ever Houyhnhnm race Of
horses in real life, let automobile, truck and
tractor beware. Many have been the wrongs
suffered by the equine race at the hands oil
gasoline propelled vehicles.
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Lindbergh Coin Disapproved

Colonel Lindbergh would be the first to ap-
PROVE the stand taken by Secretary Mellon
'r9ainst minting s2o,ooo.ooo in special half
lis history-mak'sy flights. The aviator and
= ycretary Of the treasury differ only in their
reasons for opposing the special coin. Lind
bergh would not admit that he was deserving
~ the honor, while Mellon feels the honor is
due the flyer, but an embarrassing and costly
precedent would be established.
simultaneously with the proposal to coin a.
indbergh half dollar came q suggestion to
mint similar coin il honor Of Uncle joe
'a9non, and had either proposal been approved
q utl1ro sessions q congress would try to out
~ eneh other q finding new heads and events
~ stamp On eoine,
## ~ Mhat voluo ~ such special coins? Some
of1 linta1e, Il +, true. And after all but
II m % them hA89 been lost or melted for
1k metal the remaining few become valu-
: lo n rare coins. Another use they have
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thinking maybe she had misunder-
stood him. She said he had tried to
paw" her.
Well, Marye, I looked at her and
I guess she deedn't have put all the
blame on Mr.. Martin. She had on
blue chiffon dress and from all
outward appearances nothing UNDER
meath but those matchmaking At
fairs you girls call scanties. It was
way up above her knees and she'd
gone to work without any stockings
on because word got around here
that that's the way they went in
Hollywood. So some of our girls had
to be like movie stars.
told Florence If she would dress
like q chorus girl on the stage she
couldn't blame q man for taking lib
critics with her. She said any decent
man was too used to seeing girls
legs to get excited about them.
That's another idea you young
people have that amazes me. You
think that the biggest part Of the
world is moving as fast as you are,
and when you find someone who
doesn't act like you expect him to,
you're surprised.
Don't you believe you will get the
same treatment from all men just
because they all live in the same
world and maybe ought to feel the
same about some certain things! !
hope you have too much respect for
Alan, if not for yourself, Marye, to
dress as some girls do.
Dearest love,
MON.
(Copvrirht. 1928, NEA Service Inc
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drink. Llewellyn Powys, the
critic and novelist strollir through
the twilight like broodir,r Hamlet,
his brown English cape over his
shoulders. The matinee-l looking
men in the mid-Forty tea rooms.
And the rather tragic youthfulness
Of the girls you see these nights in
the speakeasies. And those be-
ginned college students trying to
sober up over oyster stews in Grand
Central station. ;. It's all q bit sad.
The green young grass sprouting
in Central Park. And another
skyscraper rising under the name Of
Lefcourt. They call him the
imam who owns a skyline" It's
ceased to be a skyline and is almost
. city by itself. For city Of
more than 100000 persons occupy
his buildings during the working
hours. And he started out az an
East Side newsboy.
The fog horns playing their tire
less discords through the murky
nights. And most of Manhattan
losses in its beds what with the wall
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IN NEW YORK

New York, Mar. New York
snap-shots-Corn peppers in an un-
derground shop in Pennsylvania sta
ton. Which reminds me that
there's an opening in Manhattan for
some enterprising young nan who
wants to start a popcorn stand. In
all the length and brea 18th of Man
haitian Island, l have never seen one.
Those green, orange and red be-
r'bboned punches Of spaghetti in the
cafe windows. And . sign in one
Of these restaurants: 1.-THE doctor
doesn't tell you 1t to eat hotcakes
-he eats sem himself" 80. Which
may be the reason the doctor is un-
able to tell anyone anything.
Those gay Austrian scarfs and
sweaters youngsters Ore wearing on
the Avenue. Bill Van, the comic,
who for countless years has imper-
sonated inebriates, yet never takes a
-. = .fs. n ~ n. - ><@s
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Idle Prisoners and Bad Roads
(MinneapOliS JOurna)


A Wisconsin prison warden, speaking re-
Gently in the east, told of penitentiaries-in
other states than his own-in which he had
seen convicts marched around in circles for ex
ercse, because of lack of facilities for their
employment at useful labor.
With prison populations ever growing, this
problem of penitentiary unemployment is
steadily becoming more and more serious for
many states. Nearly every kind of productive
labor at which convicts may be employed in
side prison walls comes into competition with
free labor on the outside. Vigilant unions arc
constantly objecting to any extension OF such
competitive activity.
In Minnesota the situation is we'll above the
average. The state prison industries employ
the convicts both to their own and to the
states advantage, though there is not enough
for state reformatory inmates to do. But in
other states scattered here and there over the
country, there are some thousands of convicts
who are either idle or working at fruitless
tasks. These men have been sentenced to
serve varying terms at hard labor. The law
requires that they work. Yet they remain
idle
And this, despite the fact that virtually
every state in the union has on its hands a
highway construction problem, growing out Of
a demand for good roads that exceeds the sup
ply of cash to finance good roads.
Why not work the idle prisoners OH the
roads?
Too risky? California has two thousand
convicts working OH roads, with some of the
camps hundreds of miles away from the near
est penitentiary, and California finds the plan
satisfactory. So does Colorado which has
built most of it's fine roads with prison labor
under Warden w. lyman. Virginia has more
that fifteen hundred convicts working in twen-
ty-two camps on state road building.
That would seem to dispose Of the risk OBJ
lection. What are the others? Too humil-
iating, from the standpoint of the prisoners?
IA felon owes any such humiliation to his own
cussedness. The work too hard? The law
prescribes hard labor" and is presumed to
mean what it says.
working convicts on roads rises out of mental
pictures of southern chain gangs ruled BY
whipping bosses; mental pictures Of men
beaten to death in logging swamps, overtaxed
sick men felled by sunstroke at their toll.
| Such things doubtless have been. But they
are no more necessary to the successful en-
ployment Of prison labor on public work. than
whip-swinging Simon Legree is needed to
get the potatoes harvested on Minnesota
| arm.
It is better, of course, to teach prisoners
trades, that they may be better fitted to earn
honest livings when their terms are ended. Blu.
| It is better to teach them that fair days
labor in the open is not fatal, than it is to let
them idly exchange lessons in criminality in
side prison walls.
There is no rational excuse for any state to
have prison unemployment problem and a
highway construction problem on, its hands at
one and the same time.
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Do We Still Have Votes?

These are great days for those VINO IKE 20
bristle with indignation. The man who is not
satisfied except when he is viewing with alarm
is right in his element
To begin with, there is Indiana. The gov
ernor has Just been tried for various unsavory
acts winning acquittal because the statute o.
limitations had expired. A former khan Off.
cial has been telling the attorney general about
assorted skullduggery at city and state cleo
tons. The Hoosier states dirty linen still Is
going on the line.
Al Washington there is more of the same.
The odor Of Teapot Dome still hovers, and the
despairing fight to send somebody to Jail for
it continues, four years after the odor was
first noticed.
New York City is discovering unbridcd
graft in sewer job, and is struggling through
festoons Of legal red tape to see If something
can't be done. !,
Now it would be comforting to assume that
the troubles Of Indiana, Washington and New
York are the work Of unspeakable villains who,
in some strange manner, had fastened them
selves on the government. But we can't let
ourselves down that easily. The responsibility
is ours and we cannot escape it.
Corruption in politics never is the work OF
q few rascals. It's roots go down to the very
center of our social organization. Every ma
ton, every state and every city gets exactly
the kind Of government that it deserves.
Has someone taken away our votes? Have
the newspapers stopped printing news about
our councilmen, our mayors, our congressman
and our political bigwigs? Are our legs pal
sied so that we cannot get to political mass
meetings? Is our power Of speech gone, that
we cannot tell our fellow citizens what we
think?
The guilty officeholder who uses influence
to get charges against him dropped is blood
brother to the private citizen who gets his
councilman to fix parking ticket. The mar
who lodges jury service has no complaint il
a Remus is set free. The man who votes tc
put a typical machine politician" in high Of
flee, knowing the mans record, has no kick
coming if that man, after election, connives in
the theft of public oil lands.
Political reform must begin at the bottom
It will be long task, but there is no other
way.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Westinghouse may be true, as
Secretary of Labor Davis believes,
that current estimates of unem-
ployment are exaggerated. But his
comment on estimates that 4,OOO,-
600 persons are out Of work has
emphasized the absence of any
agency which kept accurate track
Of the facts. Such facts and fig
urcs as are availabl, furnish little
nourishment for those who agree
with President Coolidge's assertion
in his message to Congress last De-
cember that employment is plen-
tiful."
In round numbers, the 1920
census showed 100000 900 Americans
engaged in gainful occupations.
There were 100000 employers
and self-employed, including 8,O0O,-
600 farmers; 100000 wage earn
ers and 100000 salaried workers.
The employe class included 2,7OO,-
600 farm workers, 100000 miners,
100000 manufacturing workers,
100000 building trades workers,
100000 clerical workers and 81
100000 transportation workers.
Now to take up the available
facts for these various classes. The
Bureau Of Labor Statistics, part of
the Department Of Labor, has COM
piled since 1923 q monthly index
showing the percentage Of employ
ment which uses the average en-
ployment for 1923 as 100 per cent.
It is based on payroll reports from
1000 industrial establishments
employing some 100000 workers.
It has been said that this omits
manv smaller factories which have
been hardest hit, but let that pass
and assume that the average fol
these holds good everywhere and
for want of actual figures-that
there were still 100000 manu-.
featuring employees in 1923.
The percentage of manufacturing
employment in the last month Of
1927, as compared with the 1925
average, was 85.1. This would
mean, discounting the 192O-23 dror
in employment, that some 1900, 00(
jobs occupied by manufacturing
workers in 1923 were not occupied
the first Of this year.
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ing Of one and the groaning Of an

ing Of one and the groaning Of an
other.
They're passing around that COM
muter story about the young mar
ried couple from Connecticut VIII
come to New York to attend the
theater.
Darling" suddenly burst out the
husband, fumbling in his pockets.
I'VE should have brought the piano"
"Why?" asked the puzzled wife.
Because the theater tickets are
on it."
And they're also passing around
that one about the vaudeville actor
who trained doves and rabbits and
pigs. Then he went about the
agencies trying to get bookins for
his act. But everywhere he met
with disbursement. OF course, he
went through the routine t leaving
his name and address lin case any
thing comes up"
A lew months later he received
notice from an agent: "Come right
over. Have arranged 20 weeks
booking"
To which he replied: "It's too late.
l ate the last Of my act yesterday"
A notice from the annual Man.
haitian dog show informs me that the
highest price to date was paid for q
Chow. It amounted to $500. Which
some people ! used to know in the
small Michigan towns considered a
sufficient sum to retire on-that is,
when was boy. A prize Boston
terrier brings $4,000. One wealthy
dog fancier in the upper Seventies
has . kennel valued at $4,000. The
dogs, I am told, occupy three rooms
Of this woman's apartr ents.
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
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been put to is to raise money for erecting mon
uments. All in all. they are more expensive
than beneficial to the nation.
Those who would honor great Americans
and great American events should adopt the
suggestion of Secretary Mellon that they cast
suitable medals. Thus would the federal gov
eminent be spared unnecessary expense and
from the sale Of the medals could be obtained
sufficient money to erect mere lasting monu-
ment to the memory of their Inspiration
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Dr.. Mccoy will gladly answer
personal questions on health and
diet, addressed to him. care Of
the Tribune.
Enclose a stamped addressed
envelope for reply.
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Lawyers. and Right and Wrong

A famous New York lawyer, whose fees rur
around $1,0OO,OOO year, said recently that ali
prominent trial lawyers have to win their cases
or drop out. "Three defeats in a row would
about finish me-" he said.
He ought to know what he's talking about
yet it hardly seems that this state of affairs
is going to work out for the best interests OF
the public. 1t would be SO easy for a lawyer
to forget all about rights and wrongs under
pressure like that. It might even be possible
that lawyer in such circumstances would be
induced to take a side that he knew to be
against the welfare of the community-if he
thought he could win with it.
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suggestions l am giving you to heart.
Learn to stay as poised while driving
a machine as you are ut other
times. Don't race, hurry, or try to
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The founder of the linen thread
industry was q woman, Christian
Shaw, who first made thre near
Paisley about 100.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Question:: w. B. X. Writes: ~
have been reading your articles on
health with interest, and wish your
advice in regard to my grandchil-
drcn. ages 3 IL and 5 years. They
are very healthy looking children,
but the older one quite frequently
eats his breakfast and vomits it up
Immediately. They both grind their
teeth at night till one can scarcely
sleep in the same room with them.
Will you kindly tell me the cause,
and what should be done for them ?"
Answer: Your grandchildren are
probably overeating, and using bad
combinations of food. The grinding
Of teeth at night is usually caused
by some form Of indigestion. The
older child who vomits his break
fast doubtless does so because his
stomach is upset from the meal Of
the evening before. Try giving the
children lighter dinner, and ! an,
sure these troubles will disappear.
Question: Thank You asks: will
you tell me through the Question
GAllu hnSWCL AOAuLiII VA0U ~ A0 kuOSt
makes me dizzy when l turn my
head? When I lie down or turn
over in bed everything seems whirl-
ing around"
Answer: There are many causes of
dizziness, but from your short de-
scription it would appear that your
trouble is caused by some lesion or
congestion in the vertebrac or in the
muscles Of your neck. Consult some
doctor from one Of the schools of
manipulative therapeutics.
Question: Reader asks: 'Is salt
fish good food in rheumatism,
when the most misery is in the SWELL
ing of the joints, and continuous
pain?"
Answer: / do not advise the use
of salt fish at any time if fresh fish
is available. In a case of rheum-
atism it is better to almost entirely
eliminate salt, so sailed fish could
no the considered a good protein food
for the rheumatic patient.
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"make time, and don't let the hum
of the motor make you so nervous
that you drive rccklessly.
Don't think of other worries when
driving. You will have enough ia
think about to avoid injuring your.
self and others.
Have your eyes examined by q
competent optomctrist, and use your
influence to get the necessary laws
passed to compel everyone who ap-
plies for license to drive an auto
mobile to submit to an eye examina-
ton.
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Every day is payday for the man who en-
joys his job.