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Editorial Comment
THE DOCTOR AND OLD AGE
New York Tines)

While old age is not preventable its years are as
inevitable as the Inevitable hour which all alike
await But significant symposium at the Academy OF
Medicine is considering the question-one which has
tession-how the pathology of those who are old in
years may be postponed altogether avoided Despite
sanitary and medical science it appears that the maxi
mum span Of life has not been heightened much if at
not live beyond the limit fixed by the "predestination
OF heredity." What he can do is to lengthen some
what the life OF individuals within that limit and
assure more comfortable and efficient mental moral
and physical existence.
What the layman wishes to know, as Dr. George o.
Vincent said in his brilliant address at the opening
OF the symposium, is "can average man or woman
OF or eighty hope to be fairly fit reasonably
alert ana OF some use to the community is it only
the exceptional person who may entertain that hope
and reach that Standard" What has been accom-
pished far has been in the groups under forty and
especially under fifty. That has been remarkable
achievement, but pretty large minority of the race
now much concerned about the years that lie beyond
change is needfu in the attitude of doctors toward
the old people with whom they have to do and in that
OF the old people toward themselves They are not to
thought OF simply bodies that have to be patched
up by the doctors when there is disorder or dstemper
here there but as persons with the characteristic
powers OF Old people who have "a significant contrbu-
tlon TO make to the common welfare" The doctors
must OF course give attention to the healing of ills but
ney should nave the more positive function of trainers
70 Keep even the old tit. To Dr. Vincents smile:
Doctors ought to be like the mechanicans who take
contracts to keep clocks going and on time rather than
emergency men to be summoned when timepieces stop
Or are too fast too slow
Men have written and talked about old aoo FROM
Cicero to oser, but CHRONOLOGY" is now coming for
1rst time to make place for itself in the science
81 human health This symposium is significant sign
.ne concern that is taken not in finding springs Of
ing themselves fit. ~ y Asep'
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The Prince Of Wales. wore two
hats while playing golf the other
day, q soft felt for walking down
the fairways and . stiff-brimmed
chapeau for making shots. Won
der if he puts on his admiraPs
uniform when he comes to the water
holes?
Edwin w. Ely is head Of the
division of simplified practice of
the United States Bureau of Stan
dards, Department Of Commerce."
You'd think the division would take
a day off and simplify that title.
The name Of the new president of
Mexico, Emilio Portes Gil, is pro-
nounced heel" Here's hoping the
new president never has to take to
his Oils.
Several gentlemen Of our acuuaint-
ance who had been planning business
trips to St. Louis and Philadelphia
changed their minds 1t the last
minute and went to New York and
st. Louis instead.
When Lots wife turned into a
pillar of salt, she probably was driv-
ing on the wrong side Of the street.
A Boston newspaper, citing popu-
lation figures Of 799, 200, claims
eighth place among the cities Of the
United States. Standardization of
the claim is amply provided by the
Boston Red Sox.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service. Incl
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sLENDERIZING AND FARM RELIEF
(St. Paul Disnatehl

= Inc stream waist line is bad for the American
iarmer. IA these words, Dean H. L. Russell Of the
University Of Wisconsin College Of Agriculture adj adj
soata9 the Of s American
lzlns he declared has materially reduced the ner
capita consum ption Of food in the United States and
proanced figures to sustain mis- contention-aHd
me iads OF feminine fashion are answerable for
s mirn Textile mills slow down or quit when short
yardge Cotton take less nrof - ,ae
r C,ins from percae and gngaam to sill! AMI rayon
girls meet poverty when the demand for hair
ing market for their lovely tresses once sVu ssd N %
swltcnes The hairpin makers occupation Is zone and
re corset maker Is groggily trying to come bacI
SON on her nor CHARGED her ways Tn, INV one addad
~ ussn Russell will cau.e her sr,al concern WIN
saoaa e! Without frr there would not be farm mr.
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SCIENCE AND THE LAW

Every year sees the gap widening between the an
Gent concept of justice embodied in system OF
law, and the idea Of conduct it is being evolved
by science particularly medical science. The old idea
was that there certain which criminal that
the person who committed such act should be pun
ished for it, unless he were insane or otherwise men
tally incapable, and in the latter he should be
segregated from the community until such time as he
became like other people.
But science claims that good many, if not all,
crimes are caused by circumstances over which the
doer has no control The "brain-storm" is an
old theory And there plenty of other explanations
known to physicians and psychatrsts. Meanwhile the
courts their side, have been striving to make
elastic the old definitions Of responsibility for crime
They getting away from the ancient idea that the
person who commits act defined criminal is nee
essarily "bad" and needs to be whipped into better
frame of mind by system of punishment. Thus we
have long had asylums for the criminal insane, and
reformatores for those who have been driven
to crime by external conditions; and prisons de-
signed for odfashioned punishment trying to teach
their inmates useful trades and to extent create
in them that attitude of mind which the majority of
people recognize normal
The fact remains however. that notwithstanding
the changed and still changing attitude of the law and
its administrators toward crime and criminals, it is
still far behind science. The encouraging feature is
that DID, bitter laws based the desire of the majority
to protect itself against apparently vicious minority
and framed in ignorance of the of this so-caled
vicousness have been found to be elastic enough to
the conceptions evolved by science, in the
hands Of lawyers trained in the discoveries of
seence, and enlightened judges. The greatest defect
system of justic remains the herd-treatnent of
in ails and prisons, in violation of the scientific
tide, which holds that each person is a distinct
dual, with problems peculiar to himself, and
I'D be so treated.
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Most Fires Start
in Rubbish Piles

Fire Prevention Week is an excel
lent time to remove rubbish and
ERECT . genuine cleanup. Fires do
not usually start in Clean places.
regular cleaning, particularly in
attics, cellars ard under stairways
would prevent numerous fires which
are constantly destroying American
MONIES. In the presence Of rubbish
only = chance spark or flarae is re-
CURED to court disaster. Every
citizen In this community is urged
to see that all refuse and other waste
material is collected and destroyed.
Some suggestions have been pre-
pared BY the Insurance Department
q the Chamber Of Commerce Of the
United States to eliminate hazardous
condlslons caused by rubbish. They
arc as follows:
"ComcuStiblo waste material
should be removed periodically. II
burned out Of doo-s. care should be
taken to Ess that no sparks or
eMoers ignite nearby property. A
SAFE practice is to provide IN incin-
erator or metal basket for burning
such material.
Rags and cloths which have been
used Tor polishing furniture and oil
ing floors are subject to Spontaneous
lenitlon = lett exposed g tho mir
Tor = period 81 time. II order to
overcome this hazard they should
% Kept in tightly covered metal
containers or elee DESTROYED.
I'm the @a11 - Al -..-.. -.
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OAKA
Okra or gumbo, the fruit Of q
large herbivorous plant resembling
the cotton plant, has = ridged, mu-
cilaginous pod which is excellent in
soups, or stewed as vegetable.
This plant was first cultivated by
the ancient Egyptians, but it is very
popular in Europe around the Med
iterranean and in the Southern
states. Fresh, canned or dried, it is
a wholesome vegetable.
Okra pods contain mucilaginous
substance which forms jelly in
water. The pods vary in length from
four to six inches, but some are even
longer. They become tough as the
pod enlarges in size. As the pods
are usually cut into slices for cook
ing purposes, one can easily test
their value, because when they are
too old they are hard to cut.
Okra should only be cooked in
enameled pots, since metallic vessels
are apt to cause it to discolor. An
analysis of the okra pod shows that
it is alkaline forming, containing
fair amounts of sodium and calcium.
Many correspondents have written
me asking how to prepare okra.
Here are some recipes:
Stewed Okra
Cut off the stems of the okra
pods, boil in salt water until soft,
then allow the water to evaporate
and stir in lump of butter. In
this way okra may be used either
as vegetable or rs q garnish for
rice or fish.
Tomatoes and Okra
Cut the Okra into small pieces.
Boil one part Of okra with two parts
Of tomatoes. Add -~'+ and butter
when cooked.
Okra Escallop
Arrange a layer Of Melba toast
in the bottom of baking dish, then
place layer Of cooked okra, then
another layer of Melba toast and
last of all a layer of raw sliced to-
matoes. Sprinkle with cheese and
celery salt and let bake until the
tomatoes are soft.
Okra-Lima Bean Soup
Cut into small pieces two cups Of !
okra pods. Add to one half cupful
of diced carrots, one turnip diced,
one half cup of chopped celery, and
. tablespoon Of chopped parsley.
Cook for thirty minutes in enough |
water to cover, then add a cupful |!
of mashed, cooked lima beans and
cook over q slow fire for one hour.
When ready to serve add one fourth
Of 4 cupful Of cream and salt to
taste.
Corn and Okra
Slice and steam the okra until it
does not offer resistance to fork.
Add the okra to equal parts Of
canned corn, add crushed Melba
toast to take up the moisture, and
sprinkle with parsley. Place in 4
baking pan in q hot oven for about
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their lives to taking pedigreed
hounds out for the evening air.


MOUNDS out Tor the evening air.
In a sense, there is q tragic note
in such attention to animals in q
city where thousands feel the pangs
of hunger.
Let me, if you are patient, quote
from letter that lies on my table,
concerning the dog quarters on the
31st floor:
"The diet kitchen will be under
the supervision of trained nurse.
Weight charts will be kept of each
dog. Each kennel will be sound
proof and no visitors will be allowed.
The keeper exercises the dogs at
different times. Owners will not be
allowed to visit the kennels, but will
be able to make appointments with
the keeper"
Fancy that, Algernon-"I have an
appointment at four with. little
Fluffy. And / couldn't keep her
waiting-qot for the world"
But to go on: "Soft cushions
will be supplied"
| guess like dogs as we'll as the
next fellow. But, after all, fun is
fun. -
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright, 1928. NEA Service, Inc. J
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tions which are undesirable for bak.
ing or broiling, such as the neck
head, feet, etc. Add the desired
amount Of sliced okra and let cook
until tender, then add small
amount Of cream, Z little chopped
parsley and celery salt to taste.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Question: r. H. asks: "Could
you advise mo what to take when
there are phosphates in the urine :"
Answer: The important thing to
do is to stop the mental oyerwork or
any other nervous strain which is
the cause of the excess Of phos-
pilates in the blood or urine. Yon
can probably get rid of the excess
by drinking large quantities Of water
between meals, but the cause is a
waste Of nervous energy, and this
cause must be considered in a real
cure.
Question: K. L. asks: "Is water
q food?"
Answer: Water must be con.
sidered as food, as three-fourths
Of the bodily weight is made up Of
this indispensable element. There
would be no form Of organic life
without water, and although a man
can live for many weeks without
other foods, he cannot live more than
a few days without water. Water
is composed Of oxygen and hydrogen
gases, and when these gaseous ele-
ments are SO combined as to form
water they are able to have q more
important effect upon metabolism
than when they are extracted from
any other kind of food material.
Question: K. H. writes: RI have
= mouthful of perfect teeth that are
all loose. ! can brush them hard
three times day, still they do not
bleed or hurt me in any way. Do
you know of any way can tighten
them up again :"
Answer: Go to = good dentist
and get his opinion about your teeth.
You are doubtless having some ab-
sorption of the alveolar processes
which are the bony structures hold
ing the teeth in place. Proper
treatment will sometimes stop such
necrosis. or degeneration Of bone.
but it is best to rely on your den
lists judgment as to whether your
condition can be cured, or whether
your teeth must be extracted.
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IN NEW YORK

New York, Oct. 11.-When some.
one invented the phrase, "a dogs
life," he didn't mean what they mean
in Manhattan.
The life of any dog able to sport
something better than a mongrel's
background is likely to be an infin-
itely better one than, mayhap, that
Of the master who owns him.
There are, on the uptown side
streets, beauty parlors for purps,
haircutting establishments, haber-
dasheries, biscuit emporiums and
hospitals. The ritzy hotels, know
ing we'll that most of their guests
will insist on at least one schnauzer,
have snappy kennels in the basement
and, long since, have served special
dog meals at so cents per each. The
service is personal and Fido eats
out Of no tin receptacles.
But the last word, to date, has
been spoken.
One Of Manhattan's latest sky
touching apartments-the New
York Town Housewife have a
floor for the Fidos, Carlos, Doral-
dinas and Rexes.
Far above the world so high-on
the 31st floor, to be exact-is to be
a section for dogs only.
Here, If you please, will be re-
ception room. where the owner can
call to the lacked servants and say.
"Garcon, trot out Jezebelle!"
Here veterinarian will be in
constant attendance; here an expert
in canine gastronomics will attend
to properly balanced diet lest Felix,
the Pomeranian, develop waistline;
here will be private elevator.
labeled, Tor dogs only" here will
be q private entrance to each kennel
and q high hat Setter can put a mere
Pekinese in his place.
It, somewhere out in Nebraska.
Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan or Mis-
souri, this gets a laugh, please try
and consider the problem of the
average New York dog owner.
New Workers, Of all the people
in the land, 60 in for dogs, if only
because they suggest back Yards.
companionship and family life.
And since most New Workers. with
money insist on going to Europe or
to weekend fracases, they are con-
stantly bothered over what to do
with the purp. Buffers, doormen
and private dog hotels have done
flourishing business. Easy side
money has been collected for many
year by young men who devoted
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Democratic organization and has
taken an important part in the pre-.
convention and electoral campaigns.
But she works quietly. One seldom
finds her name in the newspapers.
Mrs. Willebrandt has had more
publicity in the last few weeks than
Mrs. Moskowitz has had in her whole
Life. She is not regarded as one of
Hoover's closest advisers, and hence
does not figure as 4 strateRist like
Mrs. Moskowitz. But she has set
out to defeat Smith with all the
courage and burning zeal with which
the other woman has applied herself
to the task of getting him elected.
And both are able women.
There is no reason to suppose Mrs.
Willebrandt is any great worry to
Hoover. While some of his prom
inent supporters among politicians
and newspapers were demanding
that she be muzzled, Hoover kent
hands off.
Mrs. Willebrandt isn't the only
woman who has kicked up q stir in
both the Smith and Hoover. camps.
There was Mrs. Willie Caldwell, Re-
publican national committeewoman.
over whose name went out the now
notorious appeal to women to save
the country from being "Romanized
and rum-ridden." She was Hoover'g
worry, and Hoover went up in the
air when her letter was published,
completely repudiating oil such SEN
timents.
Anti-Smith women have been the
principal culprits caught thus far in
the whispering campaign" First
there was the lady in Syracuse who
wrote to the lady in West Virginia.
Al thought the kind of stuff she was
spreading, to the effect that he had
been helplessly drunk at the state
fair, was worth exposing to the
country.
Then there was the New York
lady who spread the untruthful yarn
about Smith being drunk at a Bow
Scout camp. When that one was
spiked, she said it didn't
make any difference because "every-
body knows he drinks and men who
drink get drunk"
Women certainly are taking an
active part in the campaign. In fact.
they are producing most of the sem
sations. Millions more of them will
vote this year than ever before.
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The new Catholic church Va.
opened ct Dickinson with dedication
services by Bishop Shanlev.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Glenn Thompson, law student in
the office Of ]. L. Lewis at Minot
attempted suicide by slashinr lii
throat with a pen knife. "'e
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William Behrbaum, former clerk
in the First National bank At Nav
Salem, who was serving penitenti.
ary sentence for embeEzlement
sued his former fiancee, Mrs. Sid.
ney Z. Mason. for money realized
from his flax crop.
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Mr.; and Mrs. r. W. Grambs lat
70. Tor Honesdale. Pa, to spend q month nth
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A. =. McGahey was tried in ~.
pleme court for resisting an officer
VINO was enforcing q search warrant
y the raid Of alleged blindpie IN
the basement Of the Northwest
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raul Pierce, son Of ex-Goyernor
,rlerea, became associated with IT,
law firm Of Truesdale and Wick. Is
Minneapolis. =
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
(NEA Service WritAr)

Washington, Oct. 11.-By the end
Of the campaign, Governor Alfred E.
Smith ought to be one of the worlds
most important authorities on the
feminine sex.
Herbert Hoover, too, is learning
about women from politics. But
Smith. who, incidentally, has a wife
and daughters, has been receiving
the more intensive education. Two
women especially have been taking
an important part in his political
life. One has devoted years to build
ing him up; the other has recently
undertaken to tear him down.
One is Mrs. Henry Moskowitx.
the New York social worker, whose
iife's ambition is to make Smith
president. The other is Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, who for eight
years has been an assistant attorney
general and whose chief interest
lately has been to destroy Smith
politically.
Mrs. Moskowitz is older. She
has had more, perhaps, than anyone
else to do with the remaking Of AL
Smith. The two first met when
Smith was vice chairman of a lepis-
lative committee investigating sweat
shop conditions such as existed be- !!
fore the horrible Triangle fire in
New York. Up to that time Smith
had been little more than q capable
Tammany politician. With the aid
OF Mrs. Moskowitz his eyes were |
opened to host of social injustices.
This Jewish woman became in
time his most trusted adviser con-
corning affairs of New York state.
Under her inspiration, Smith be-
came the champion of humanitarian
legislation. Meanwhile, she deyel-
oped an immense admiration for the
character and ability of AL Smith.
When Smith developed presidential
aspirations she fostered and guided
Them.
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Miss Ruth Plants left for Wash.
lneton, p. G., to attend school.
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Lieut.: L. A. Schipfer left for
lamp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe.
Ia, for service in the army medi.
cal corps. ag = '
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4. >. Snod.:rass Of Minnaano,i.
s Mao o.. wa =. visiting IN Bismarck,
Iclaimea - - = direct defendant Il
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fifteen minutes Or until Drowned
on top.
Chicken Gumbo Soup
Make : soup stock Of the left ove,
chicken from : meal, or those mr.
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Dr.. Mccoy win gladly answer
personal questions on health
and diet addresssd 20 him
care Of the Tribune.
Enclose . stamped addressed
envelope for reply.
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the Deacon Snodgrass of Dickens
fame.
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One Of Smiths biographers, Henry
+. pringle, has suggested that #
Smith were elected Mrs. Moskowitz
might become the first woman cab
met member. But Mrs. Moskowitz
obviously by her own wish, holds no
public office. She is chairman Of
publicity for the New York state
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Our Yesterdays
TEN YEARS AGO.

Mrs. Christina A. Conover, 81
died here at the home Of her daugh.
ter, Mrs. F. J. Marcellus. The de-
ceased was the granddaughter of .
nero OF the Revolutionary war, .
daughter OF Capt. Henry Green who
fought in the war of 1872 and the
Mexican war of 1910, and the
widow Of Capt. F.. D. Conover Of the
10th Illinois volunteer infantry.
who served in the Civil war.
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selves within. For if good fortune, is TO more
than anesthetc to character it brings more ill than
good.
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FORTY YEARS Acc

n... - 11sxAAS0 AO0
Over $4,000 bushels Of wheat wera
mar IN Bismarck during . be.
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Ryan Bequeathes Son
Pair of Shirt Studs
in S300,000,000 Will

The filing of the 80 page will Of
Thomas Fortune Ryan disclosed the
startling" news that the not so
benevolent despot left a pair cf
shirt studs to one of his sons, Allan.
Whom he left the shirt in which he
died, is not disclosed. Most of the
rest of his fortune of over $780,
100000 was divided up among his
family, unto the fourth generation,
in true feudal fashion.
The old bandit, who exploited New
York traction workers, Southern to-
bacco slaves, Belgian Congo Ne
groes, and Belgian workers with
impartiality, wrote his will like a
patriarch of old, decreeing that
those of his parasitic offspring, or
their offspring for couple of gen.
erations later, who dared to ques-
tion his decisions, would lose their
share of the Doodle.
"Unfortunate" Allan, whom papa
had set up in business, offended him
by marrying at a time objected to
by his father, and thereby lost his
share. Mamma received no less than
three portraits and one bust of the
old man, among other things.