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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
Industry Changes Pace

Il hasn't been such long time since the
surest way for politician or writer to gain
popular favor was to get up in meeting and at
tack "the trusts"
The word 'trust" was used, rather loosely,
to include any and all business organizations
larger than the small manufacturing plant or
the average department store. There was a
general public feeling that big business organ
izatiOns, by very reason of their blgneSS, were
dangerous to the republic.
Now, however, Edward A. Filene, well
known Boston merchant, declares that the
small business, everywhere in the United
States, is doomed. 1t can survive he asserts,
only by becoming large one. America, in his
view, no longer has place for the small con-
Germ.
few years ago such remarks would have
created furOre. Liberal journals and states
men everywhere would have deplored and con-
tradicted. We would have been shown, as
from high mountain, the stately edifce Of
our nation tottering to fall
Yet today these statements pass almost un-
needed. We have ceased to distrust the big
banker and the big industrialist; instead, We
are coming to look on them as our leaders.
We have accepted business prosperity as the
base Of our civilization, so to speak. We have
learned that it is not the politician with his
promises Of glittering reform who can make
conditions more comfortable and pleasing for
us, but the industriaist.
For industry itself has changed front. No
longer does an enlightened manufacturer seek
to hammer down wages and boost prices to the
limit. Instead he is raising wages and low
ering prices. He is giving us things that we
never had before; Topping hours of drudgery
off our lives, making the conditions Of our eX-
istence easier and more pleasant.
To be sure, there are men who see danger
even in this. They protest that mentally and
spiritually We are becoming enslaved that we
are attempting to live by bread alone; that our
prosperity is improving our bodies, but dead.
ening our minds.
But such men see only one side of the pic
ture. A worker in vast factory may be only
cog in a machine, whereas his grandfather
was an honored craftsman; yet the modern
workman has more money and more leisure
than his grandfather had, and with them he
can win greater spiritual development than
his grandfather dreamed Of
The soul rises easiest when the body is
freed. Our dependence on our business lead
sTs-is sound. The path that stretches out be-
fore us, thanked by huge factories, great sky
scrapers and the other insignia of our culture,
is full of promise.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22

on its never-ending voyage to port that we
do not suspect, and wars and scandals and
great inventions and uprisngs of massed hu-
mainly will continue to breed slowly, unseen.
For the fact is, we are on a journey SO great
that one day more or less does not matter.
Here in America we are proceeding to dis.
tant goal The shouting that will greet US
cannot yet be heard over the last horizon No
hint of the tabled cities of the future can come
to u.s. save that now and then a seer, clear
eyed, can just detect the tips of shining tow
ers and can smell the fragrance Of soft winds
blowing over spacious prairies
Days are unimportant. We can take Febru-
airy 20 in our stride. We do not know where
We are going, but we do know that we are on
our way, and that our destination is worthy.
usual tasks, knowing that the unseen sentinels
who stalk the borders of our land will be able
to fling back CHEEKY "Alrs Well" to the
challenge Of the restless night.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
Battling the Borer
(St. Paul Dispatch)

Farmers around Dearborn, Michigan, are
giving the European corn borer an old Ameri-
can treatment. They are riding the pest on
a rail. 1t is an iron rail which is dragged over
the corn stubble by team or tractor. This
quarters and he dies from exposure or is sight
ed by some bird and supplies desirable lunch.
For those farmers who have been unable to
burn the corn stubble and refuse, this method
is proving fairly satisfactory. The depart
ment OF agriculture recommends the burning
and blowing under even Of dock and ragweed
in addition to the corncobs, stalks and stubbe
1t is hoped that the farmers have found way
OF ironing out their corn borer troubles That
portion of Michigan is pretty severely infested
and damage to the corn crop ran last year to
high percentage. On their success in fight
ing the westward progress of the pest rests
the hope Of the cornfields of Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22

sort of place where, the moment one
is recognized as a film critic, a
columnist or something equally
divine, a young Russian makes an
excellent caricaturc and frames it
on the surrounding wall. It's the
sort of place where you point out
personalities" to- your Cousin Lii
liam from Brooklyn, and whisper a
magic name. It's the sort of place
where the greetings are often just
bit too loud, as though certain
persons were trying to give notice
OF their wide acquaintance. And,
sprinkled generously through the
crowd, are persons who really "be-
long," For each OF these there are
a dozen pretcnders.
! For, such is the strange state Of
things, that one who achieves a
degree of prominence in New York
is likely to have this reputation
splatter over and attract attention
III other quarters of America.
Meanwhile, the army of FOUNDERS
come and 60 and conversation-how-
ever meaningless-goes endlessly on,
while waiting ears leap upon any
new quip which might be serviceable
Tor future gag" purposes.
But New York does not cling to
the latest idol. It demands new
faces, new names, new ideas, new
chatter. And the wise ones, sensing
this. cash in on their moment that
they may sit back in ease when their
brief hour is done.
GILBERT SWAN.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22

Congress-. according to Representative Con-
nally of Texas, ought to pass resolution asking
Colonel Lindbergh to end his flying activities,
since Lindbergh's life is too precious to be
risked any further.
1t isn't bad idea, in some ways. We simply
couldn't stand to lose this young man. But
it would take more than congressional reso-
luton to keep him on the ground.
And, If we did clip his wings, he wouldn't be
happy. Apparently he was made for flying.
To ask him to stay on the ground would be like
claiming an eagle. He'd pine away Of sheer
boredom.
Probably well just have to keep on trusting
that his uncanny flying skill will keep him safe
from harm.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
Britain's Problem in India
Oakland Tribune)

Off for Bombay where it's members will
make survey and seek to discover the answer
to many old questions the royal commission
from London carries with it the knowledge il
IS engaged in serious and perplexing task.
The government of India has been a difficult
task for Great Britain, it's problems have un-
seated prime ministers, it's details have made
men grow old before their time and it's per-
plexities have never disappeared.
That royal commission goes forth at least
stands, in the eyes of the British public and
possibly before the Orient, as an admission
that the old order is not satisfactory and that
something must be done. It is easy enough
for the world to say that Downing street has
muddled along in its Indian policy; it is SIM
pie matter to point to causes for unrest and
dissatisfaction in India, but man who would
speak knowingly must have first made study
OF conditions in country which presents an
amazing variety of contradictions and PROF.
lens.
That Britain admits her Indian policy is not
calculated to quiet the discomfort there, is sig
nlficant At the same time Britain knows
that Tor years her ablest statesmen have
sought in vain to find the answer to the riddle.
Today there is new complication, for Russia
IS watching India with the hope that Britain
Will be unable to handle the situation. The
orient is regarded by the Soviet as a fertile
1leid Tor propaganda and revolution.
IN the large efforts Great Britain is now
making to handle situation which has lorY
oeen acute, there are indications of changed
poncles, hint Of q new program the success
o. failure Of which the next decade may dis.
close.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
Meeting the New Day

Every fourth year, the month of February
gives us whole extra day.
This is the lucky month. Before March we
shall have had an entire "a hours dropped in
our laps, free. The year has expanded and
is making us present. What are we going
to do with it?
A lot can happen in "a hours. A whole
epoch can be compressed into the period ex.
tending from one dawn to another. States
men in morning coats can sign the papers that
plunge the world into war; chemist in a
smelly laboratory can discover in his test tubes
something that will change the future of the
world; politicians can gather in smoky hotel
room and pick our next president for us; oil
men can meet and market untold numbers of
barrels OF oil to one another, using the pro-
cee4s to buy cabinet members; great things,
in short, can happen in one days time.
That being the case-what are we going to
do With our extra day this year? Will it be
devoted to rascality or to good works? When
W9Eome to sum up the years accomplishments
yielded anything of Importance?
Probably not For, in spite of the fact that
we like to think we are the speediest nation on
earth, nothing ever really happens overnight.
everything, from wars to the purchase of cab
met members, has to terminate before it can
come out into the light of day.
we DO wrong when we ascribe the world war
- - tnc HiacninatlonS OF Wllnelm IL, lsv0lsky,
Poincare or Lord Grey. The pistol shot at
SaraJevo did not set the world ablaze The
war was brewing for many, many years. It's
roots ran back into antiquity It's causes were
hoary when the Pilgrims sailed for America !:
ancient when the Spanish armada went to
pieces in the North Sea.
It Il the same with everything else The oil
scandals did not happen overnight. They be.
gan before any Of the principals were born.
They we're founded in public indifference, in
9et-ricn-quickism, in mass Indifference to
peculation in high places. The growth Of
America made them inevitable.
So - shouldn't expect too much of our ex.
n day this year. As likely as not it will be
3nSt smother day. Perhaps it will bring us
aews that the Prince Of Wales is learning to
~ The saxophone, or that Mayor Thompson
- aeain defied the British; but what Of that
iquk enrth will continue to wheel through space
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22

Dear Marye:
So hospitality has become an aid
to business, has it? I'm sure don't
know what you young folks will do
next to the traditions of your
fathers before you find out that
you're destroying all the worth
while things in life.
We used to consider it an honor
and a pleasure to entertain our
friends and were glad to do it in
the best way we could without think.
ing of the expense. And we didn't
spend our money extravagantly
either, just to make a splash. We
stayed within our means and we
had feeling that hospitality was
sacred. We would not have thought
of offering it to anyone in expecta-
ton of benefiting financially from
it. For us it was enough to have
the company of our friends and we
took a real interest in each others
affairs.
AOu0y yOu 6AAAo IahG yOuI SuCotc
to hptel and while l suppose that
has it's advantages, it seems to me a
sorry substitute for true hospitality.
It used to be woman's greatest
pleasure when she entertained to
prepare favoritc dishes with her own
hands and it was mighty nice to see
how heartily they were enjoyed.
I'll never forget how your ia
theirs friends liked my lemon
meringue pie. One time he brought
a stranger home and I served him
three pieces with meringue two
inches thick. The next day your
father told me he got big order
from this man but we hadn't either
Of us given a thought to that when
we had him in our house.
Father had asked him to como
because he knew there wasn't any
place he could get a meal fit to
eat. You couldn't satisfy man
with restaurant food in those days
if he could get home cooking. And
I'll venture to say you couldn't do
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
HEALTH DIET ADVICE
6N DH. Fas01nk Nc Coy
MHgs .2kI 2anM l5W Maz1f
BACKACHE

SO many correspondents writs
asking me to explain the cause OF
their backache, SO l am writing this
article in an effort to assist these
readers to understand the various
causes of backache.
The most common form Of back.
ache is in the lower back, and is
caused in the female by displace.
ment Of the uterus, or cong stion in
this organ produced by various
causes. This will produce a persist.
ent dragging down pain in the lower
back, because of the fact that the
sagging organ is pulling upon liga.
ments which are attached to the
spine, or because the uterus, being
heavy with congestion, presses upon
the delicate nerve centers, which are
located just directly in back of it.
This lumbar ache in the male is
caused by some disorder Of the pros
tate gland, or by an irritation of the
urethra or bladder. Trouble in the
uterus or prostate will cause a
reflex pain in the lower back, in that
portion of the spine called the lum-
bar region. This kind of. backache
is therefore called lumbago.
One kind of backache is caused by
inflammation of the bladder, and this
occurs in either sex, and produces a
constant source Of distress in the
lower back, as chronic inflamma-
ton of the bladder will often show
more pains in the back than in the
bladder itself.
"A little further up in the back, a
sharp colicky pain in either the
right or left side, will often indicate
kidney stone.
Aches in the upper back are many
times caused from occupational
strain, such as brought on by sewing,
or knitting for long period of time,
or by working at some occupation
where the hands are used in some
strained portion, wllich ovcr-exer-
ciscs the M lies OF, the UPPER back
that control the movements Of the
arms.
Backache may be caused simply
by general weakness of the back
muscles, which have not been suffi-
GENTLY exercised, and are therefore
too weak to hold the vertebra in
proper position.
There arc various forms Of back
ache caused by spinal LESSONS. These
LESSONS have been caused in some
cases by accidents, faulty pastures
assumed in certain classes Of occu-
pations, or a relaxation of the
muscles attached to the spine. SPIN
al LESSONS are generally caused by
vertebra which ere slightly out Of
their proper alignment. Backachc
from any of these spinal LESSONS may
occur in any part of the spine, and
will also affect organs of the body
by an irritation or enervation of the
nerves issuing from the sub-luxated
vertcbra.
If you are suffering from any form
of backachc, you will find it neces-
sary to adopt general body build
ing regime, in order to be pcrma-
nently cured. If spinal LESSONS exist,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
IN NEW YORK

New York, Jan. 22.-Fic!sle New
York makes and breaks its transient
idols with unvarying regularity. 1t
glorifies certain individuals into the
status of vogue, and when this
vogue runs it's course it is through
with them. Meanwhile the favored
individuals gather to themselves
great followings Of sycophants.
Those who cannot see the imper-
manence of their status are indeed
unfortunate, in thct they are raised
to the Manhattan peaks only to be
crashed back to earth.
A year or SO ago young man
appeared from the ranks Of the
vaudeville song and dancers. He
was given the chance of editing a
newspaper column that would reflect
the night club chatter and the Broad
way SLANG, the current gags and the
snappy side talk. The idea caught
on and the gags were passed about.
There was something Of the rough
and-slangy of the "big street" in it
that made Variety, the theatrical
magazine, the classic periodical that
it is. The "snart" magazine began
to notice and, at the present writing,
he is quite q fad. Perhaps he will
rise above the "fad" class; perhaps
he will not. Others, better and
worse, have come and gone.
Not SO many winters ago, it was
the young Michael Arlen, out of
London, who was quoted, touted and
lionized. Manhattan would have
nothing stronger or weaker with its
tea. "These charming people" be-
came more and more charming. Re-
Gently someone told me Arlen was
critically i'll, suffering from tuber-
culosis and fighting for health some
where in the Alps. And I'll bet
my new Christmas neckties not one
in twenty has the slightest idea
what's become of him.
Also, in Manhattan, it becomes
the thing" to be seen at certain
eating places if you are to be identi-
fled as "among the who's who.
For q number of years the Algonquin
practically went without competition.
1t had become "the place" largely
because OF the presence of the "round
table," where gathered such Man
haitian "celebs" as Alexander Wolf
colt, the critic; Haywood Broun, the
columnist; Harold Ross editor Of
q sophisticated weekly; q few of the
bright young men from Life and
Judge-and many such. Thereafter
9 second circle began to grow about
the first. Movie folk, actors, writer's
with an eye for Celebrities" hang
ers-on Of all sorts and literary
leeches in profusion.
This year it's Sardi's. It's the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
Editorial Comment

(Des Moines Tribune)

VDGS WUI11eS ITIDUnGJ
Ferdinand Buisson, French leader of peace
movement, who won half of the Nobel prize
for his work in that direction, was speaking
the other day on Youths Part in Assuring
Peace" While he was making his address a
crowd of ruffians entered, broke up the meet
ing, and beat him severely. He is 81 years
old, and the beating put him in his home for a
period.
The disturbers protested against a peace
movement, against peace speech, and against
a pacifist. No doubt while they were about
the business of hitting the old man and STOP
ping his speech they insisted that they were
the only friends of peace, and he and his lis
teners were misguided.
But somehow in France as in this country,
the only answer these true friends Of peace"
can make to the workers for peace is by vio-
lence and by calling names. They lack othcs.
arguments
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WASHINGTON az
LETTER &M

duVlCe ID Do eagerly dUSOFDeu Oy
southern delcgatcs-impelled, you
might say, by an unseen force.
Go back to the very beginning
when there was no j. Boomboom Nc.
Whorter to run for his great office
in later years. Suppose that my
parents never had met and had
married other people. Where would
old Boomboom be today? l ask YOU
Why should those twain progenitors
of him who was to add luster to the
McWhorter name, happen to unite
together when there are so many
other ,oplc around?
"What cce but DESTINY could have
inspired me with such distaste for
farm labor that my father was
forced to allow me to lounge in the
village store, where I attained suf-
ficient popularity to win my first
political office?
what but destiny could have
caused the incumbent county uog-
catcher to go lame two weeks be-
fore election, allowing me an easy
victory? Yes, they laugh at the
lowly keepers of the pound and at
tn statesmen who there got their
start, but destiny moves with small
beginnings and in mysterious ways,
and the people of my section soon
came to know that, like the North
west Mounted Police, l always got
my mani mean my dog!
"What but de- tiny could .havc
suggested to me that / lengthen the
pole of my net SO th~t might perch
aloft and become famous as the first
man to catch dogs from tree limbs
overhead?
"But why go on? If my enemies
will net ADMIT that destiny has
trailed me close I'm willing to call
it pure genius. Why be a bra.-
CART ?"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
BARBS

A psychologist says the modern
girl is adept at concealing her feel
ings.. Well, the modern girl surely
should be expected to conceal some
thing.
The government wants more col
lege men to take up aviation. Or
aviation to take up more college
men, it doesn't make any difference.
An arctic explorer says Lapland.
ers rub noses when they meet.
Americans rub tenders.
Nature balances things. It is hard
for fellow to keep above suspicion
when his stock gets below par.
Don't judge too quickly. It il
difficult to get the goods on the
modern girl-that is, more than q
yard or two.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Washington, Feb. 22.-"No man,
says Senator j. BOomboom Nc
Whorter, candidate for the presi-
dency, "has a corner on destiny"
This extremely significant pro-
nouncement was made by the SEN
ator in an exclusive interview the
first he has granted since his recent
announcement of his candidacy.
McWhorter had become impatient.
He paced his office with knotted
brows as he spoke.
One after another, he had observed
the rival candidates in both parties
held up as men Of destiny" But
nobody had yet referred to Nc
Whorter as imam of Destiny" the
idea not even having occurred to his
stenographer, and finally he had
come to the conclusion that if any
one were to call him imam of
destiny" he would have to do it
himself.
IF they can be that, so can l."
the senator went on in rather snap
pish tones. "What becomes of all
these men Of destiny when they get
licked? | have seen more men of
destiny doublecrossed in the political
business and left in their underwear
at the post than there arc million
aires in Detroit. Mark my words,
young fellow, there will be only two
men of destiny in sight after next
June and there will be only one man
of destiny after next November.
Meanwhile, everybody is permitted
to call himself a man Of destiny.
II myself never have been a be-
lever in prcdestination. l believe
that every man is what he
makes himself with the aid of
his friends if they happen to
have any money. But lately
have begun to think tina. there
may be something in the idea
and that when we find ourselves
exalted in high places we may be
boosted there by some unseen in
fluencc-no, l don't mean Wall
Street and l don't mean Sam insult
Don't interrupt me!
"The more I think of it, the more
! think that maybe some power has
guided my life toward this great op-
portunity for public service which
now lies before me. Instinctively,
l find myself guided toward wealthy
men who are interested in politics
and toward those politicians whose
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-22
Thinking CAMPAIGNS

Politics is quieter than it used to be-
A few years ago presidential campaign
meant lots of excitement, with torchlight pre-
cessions, impassioned stump speakers and bar-
ing brass bands. The color has gone out OF
it now. The campaign is conducted quietly.
Probably this is change for the better.
Presidential campaigns call for clear thinking
on the part of the voter. And certainly brass
bands and torchlight parades didn't induce
thinking. Their appeal was solely to the emo
lions.
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it now if most of them hadn't for.
gotten what it tastes like.
But l suppose you're going te
tell me that man would rather
look at your lily white hands, anc
maybe kiss 'em, than sit down be
fore a big slice of fresh apple pie
with spicy juice running out of it
We wouldn't have called such fool
man in my day.
Well, | dare say some of you might
be willing to make the pies if you
could wear rubber gloves to do il
but that's one piece Of lunacv
haven't heard your getting to yet
l really don't know what you're
coming to.
Lovingly.
MOTHER.
NEXT: Wifely jealousy.