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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11

occur. The railroads have given unremitting effort and
spared no expense to assure their customers and en-
ployes that lives and property will be protected The
only form Of railroad accident which has increased is
one over which the lines have little control-grade cross
ing accidents.
Such accidents are essentially the fault of the motor
ist. He knows that a train cannot deviate from its
right-of-way and that 1t is up to him to make certain
the track is clear before venturing onto it. Grade cross
ing elimination has proven impractical, due to the fact
that each year, while thousands of crossings have been
eliminated, more thousands have been built.
However, even this problem gives hope of solution.
During the first six months of the year less accidents
took place at crossings than in any corresponding period
since 1925. Perhaps motorists are learning the wisdom
of stop, look and listen"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11
A New Envoy on the Job
(Fargo Forum,

NCdISO EOTuWD
The United States, was particularly fortunate when
President Coolidge sent Dwight W.. Morrow to Mexico
City as the American ambassador, and we believe that
1t is equally fortunate now that President Hoover has
dispatched j. Reuben Clark, Jr, there to succeed him.
While MI Morrow had not been in public or diplomatic
life before. his record demonstrates that he was a sue
cessful diplomat. When he took over the job, Mexico had
been in turmoil for a number of years. International
issues between the countries were at a rather acute
stage. There were those who felt that some day there
might come an open break. Within the country itself
there had been revolution after revolution. It's finances
were in a bad way.
Mr.. Morrow had a real job ahead Of him. He proved
equal to the task. When he left Mexico the relationship
between. Mexico and this country was in excellent shape.
He had done his utmost to gain Mexican friendship for
himself and for his country. He had helped where he
could with the internal problems. He engaged himself
with the Job Of aiding in getting governmental finances
IN order, and no man was better equipped to render such
service.
MI. Clark now goes to this field as a trained diplomat
with o record Of achievement. His way is going to be
smoother BY reason Of the splendid work Of his ~predeces-
sor. but there IS work yet to do in Mexico. Mr.. Clark,
because Of his former position as undersecretary of state
is acquainted with the intimate details of the Mexican
situation. There should be every confidence that he will
be able to both maintain and to strengthen the bonds
Of friendship that have been reared there in the last
few years.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11
Hens Fall Down
In 1880 Egg Laying

North Dakota hens must have the
spirit of decreased production dur
ing 1890, judging from the annual
summary of poultry flock records just
released by the agricultural college.
At least the 1851 hens in 20 farm
flocks upon which complete yearly
production records were kept by their
owners from November l, 1929, to &C.
tober 81, 1880. indicate this. The 1880
average was 80 eggs per hen, while
the 1929 average was 112 eggs.
However, F. H.. Turner, farm econ
omist who summarized the records,
does not believe the hens knew or
cared anything about SURPRISES. He
credits the difference in average egg
production this year to a larger num-
Der of cooperating flock owners and
to the fact that last year two unusu-
ally high flock averages were figured,
which raised the general average OF
the entire group.
But even 80 eggs per hen is mot
to be sneezed at" for it is about the
average for all hens in the state,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11
Business First with the British

MinOt NeWS)
The British imperial conference in London has been
disappointing to the whole empire. BY the same token
1t has been reassuring to America.
The danger from that conference was that Great
Britain and the dominions would be drawn so closely
together as to frame q trade pact which would shut out
American goods. The closer the dominionS draw to the
mother country and to each other, naturally the more
they draw away from the United States in their business
relations.
What happened was illuminating. The various men,
berS Of the empire loosened instead Of tightening their
bonds. Sentiment is fine, but business is finer. Instead
Of putting the empire first, every member put itself first
including Mother England.
Great Britain stands firmly for free trade. The domin-
ions stand firmly for protective tariff, even against theil
British brethren. The most that can be expected now
is a 10 per cent tariff preference for each other among
the members Of the empire, and that is uncertain.
The United States. while wishing the British empirt
no harm, naturally derives satisfaction from this situa'
ton. The looser the bonds between Britain and her little
sisters. the more freely nature can take its course il
their trade relations with the United States, provided
our own country doesn't interfere unduly with natura
business relations. This is particularly true as regard
Canada.
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ARB

Then there's the Chicago gunman
who sprayed his mischievous son with
bullets in the belief that to spare the
rod" is to spoil the child.
X X X
Bobby Jones may escape some
grueling competition by going In the
movies, but he'll still have his gallery.
The noise abatement committee
which has just been appointed in
Philadelphia probably will find the
city considerably quieter when the
worlds championship changes hands.
X X X
Earl Sande. jockey. is giving vocal
recitals this winter. Expecting to
stirrup q little change in the off sea-
son, eh?
Residents of Linoleumville, Staten
Island, N. Y, have changed the name
Of their town to Travis. Probably be-
cause they felt they had been walked
on enough.
The best quality Of hard red win
ter wheat. says the Department OF
Agriculture, is produced in the United
States. Is this calculated to make
the Russian reds turn green with
envy?
Copyright. 1880, NEA Service Incl
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Liquidating the Kulaks
Devils Lake JournaD

devils Lake JOurnaD
In a copyrighted Associated Press article from Russia
today. Valerian v. Kuibyshev. president of the Soviet
Russian state planning commission, speaking Of the five
year industrial plan in Russia, referred to the ~'liquida-
ton of the kulak or landed peasant class as a step in the
success of the plan.
The term liquidation as regards the kulak is interest
ing. in view of the fact that liquidation of this class OF
land owners means nothing more than confiscation Of
their lands by the government and making them prac-
tically penniless. Unless a farmer is a member of the So
called "collectives' in Russia he has a small chance Of
making enough to earn q livelihood. The kulaks have
been prosecuted by the soviets and the collectives, theil
land Is being taken away from them, and many of then
are being reduced to poverty.
They are classified as minor capitalists or %bourgeuois
and as such are not considered parts of the soviet sys'
tenn. The proletarian in Russia has everything to gair
kulaks have everything to lose and nothing to gain.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11
Witchcraft in New York

A year or so ago, when tales Of witchcraft in q
rural district of Pennsylvania came out into the open in
connection with q murder case, certain New York writer's
professed to be deeply shocked and Mortified. They
pointed out that such weird superstitions linger in rural
communities. and intimated that it is only in the great
cities that civilization really comes to flower.
Now might be a good time for these critics to do some
more articles on the same general theme; for press dis
patches from New York reveal that thousands upon
thousands of New York's citizens are devout believers in
witchcraft and black magic. A report issued by a health
survey remarks that "witchcraft workers and evil.eye
healers are still flourshing and exploiting the ignorant
and superstitious, particularly the foreign-born. In New
York CITY,"
Ignorance, apparently, can be found in the city as we'll
as in the country. Our New York writer's can find,
within a few blocks of their offices. conditions quite as
shocking as those in Pennsylvania which Mortified them
recently.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11
County Agents to Be
At State Conference

County agents from 80 North Da-
kota counties will assemble at the ag-
ricultural college this week for their
annual conference with members OF
the state extension service staff. The
session opens December 13 and con-
tinues to December II, according to
the program which has been outlined
by G. F. Monroe, director OF exten-
sion work in the state.
The conference is held annually and
is the m time of the year when all
extension workers of the state gather
to consider mutually the problems
connected with agricultural and home
development. At this meeting many
of the extension activities for the
new year are mapped out.
Among the speakers who will ad-
dress the county agents and extension
workers during the conference are a
number of representatives of the
United States department of agri-
culture.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11
No Cause for Fear

It isn't often that Joseph Stain, chairman OF the execu-
tive committee of the Russian government, gives aid and
comfort to the enemies of communism on this side of
the water.
However, the remarks he recently made to an inter-
viewer about propaganda ought to be very reassuring to
those of us who live in mortal dread of a red uprising
in this land.
In effect, Stain said that communist propaganda in
capitalistic lands is not, by itself, and never can be, very
effective. Propaganda does not make communists.
They are produced by national conditions. If the condi-
lions are not favorable. all the propaganda on earth will
be useless.
Few people anywhere are as afraid of communism as
we are in America: and few people anywhere have so
little reason to be afraid of it. Stains comment shows
how groundess our fears really are.
AS long as we maintain the kind Of conditions here in
which the ordinary workingman can be reasonably sure
of finding and keeping a job, getting a decent amount of
pay for his work and enjoying a fair amount of the
luxuries of life, we shall have no cause for getting exer-
cised about the red peril"
Nevertheless. it does us no harm to keep a watchful
eye on connunistic and socianstic activities in this
country. America has absorbed the shock of many
changes without slackening its pace, but communism is
different. 1t is revolution from the system of individual
freedom and personal property rights which we now
have.
To understand communism it is necessary to study it
and find out what it really means. If this is done by
the business and other leaders of the country, we shall
have neither blind fear nor blind optimism but intel
ligent understanding.
All Of this was made clear by L. r. Baird in his ad-
dress to the Bismarck Rotary club Wednesday.
We watch the experiment in Russia with interest and
hope that the best will come of it, both for Russia and
the world. At the same time we can devoutly thank God
that the experiment is being tried there instead of here.
|. A life insurance company executive says the United
States has 70 per cent Of the life insurance Of the world.
We need it, too. We seem to have about 30 per cent
of this old planets gunner.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11
AT THE MOVIES
CAPITOL THEATRE

Packed with drama, thrill, appeal
and delicious comedy, and produced
on q lavish scale, "Her Man," a Pathe
picture featuring Helen TwelvetreeS,
Marjorie Rambeau, Phillips Holmes,
Ricardo Cortez, James Gleason and
FRANKLIN Pangborn, was presented
with splendid success at the Capitol
theatre yesterday.
This is a tremendous story of the
slums of Havana and the regenera-
ton of a young woman through the
power of love. Miss TwelvetreeS has
perhaps the best role of her career
as frankie, a dance hall habitue, who
until she meets "Her Man" is the
plant tool of Johnnie, a rascally
knife throwing bounder.. finely por-
trayed by Ricardo Cortez. Dan. a
sailor who salvages the soul of
Frankie and wins her love, is artisti-
cally presented by Phillips Holmes, a
young player of stellar ability. James
Gleason as a mirthful wise-cracking
sailor and FRANKLIN Pangborn pro-
vide many laughs.
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Today Is the
Anniversary of
ROBERT KOCH'S BIRTH

AVOA1ASASA AAOSA
On Dec. II, 1843, Robert Koch, a
famous German physician and dis
coverer Of the tuberculosis germ, was
born at Klausthal, Prussia.
He was nearly 80 when he began
the researches in bacteriology upon
which his fame chiefly rests. While
a member Of the Imperial Board OF
Health in Berlin he invented new ap-
planes for microscopic work and
new ways of staining specimens
which proved of ineStimable value to
medical science.
Soon after he had isolated the tu-
berculosiS germ Koch was made chief
Of the German commission which
was sent to Egypt and India to in
vestigate cholera. AS q result, he dis
covered in 1883 the cholera germ and
in the same year published a method
of incubation to prevent anthrax.
In 1905 he was commissioned by
the German government to investi-
gate West African sleeping sickness
and in the same year was awarded
the Nobel prize for medicine. He died
in 1910.
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CHEMICAL ANALYSIS NOT A RE.
LIABLE FOOD STANDARD

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS NOT A RE-
LIABLE FOOD STANDARD
For many years it has been my
contention that the final proof of the
value Of a food is not in the test tube
of a laboratory but in the living bodies
Of human beings and animals.
Only a few years ago food chemists
had arrived at the conclusion that the
human body needed certain food sub
stances for its nutrition, such as pro-
tetnS, fats, carbohydrates and miner
ais. These were the only substances
that the chemists had been able to de-
tect in foods. Other scientists, believ-
ing that proof is better than theory,
fed rats and guinea pigs on apparently
balanced rationS of proteins, carbo-
hydrateS, fats and mineral elements,
and the animals died within q very
short time. Thousands Of experiments
were used to prove that something was
lacking. in these foods, even though
the missing elements could not be de-
tected by any known chemical method.
This new method of examining
foods by observing their effects upon
living animals is called the biological
method Of food analysis. It has re-
suited in the discoveries of the vita
minis, the effects of the different min
eral elements upon the body, the great
difference between the proteins of
various foods, and many other facts
about foods. The discoveries of chem
lists about foods are very important,
but they should not be regarded as
conclusive until tested by biological
analysis.
When I first became interested in
the healing art, about twenty-five
years ago, I noticed that many babies
were affected with scurvy and ricketts,,
inflammation of the eyes, digestive
disorders, and malnutrition. Nearly all
of the babies SO affected were arti-
ficially fed-a few were nursed, but
a relatively small number. Naturally,
the only conclusion was that some
thing vas wrong in their diets. The
babies most severely affected we're
those living on cereals, gruels, sugar,
and either boiled or skinned milk.
I thought that the cereals and boiled
milk were at fault and told mothers to
avoid the cereals and to give only raw
milk. The babies did much better on
this diet, but still there was something
lacking, because the babies did not
thrive quite as well as when nursing.
After a number of experiments I
found that when orange juice was
used with cows milk the babies fairly
thrived and often did much better
than when they were nursed. The a
son for this was not apparent at the
time, but the particular value was
that this diet really worked for babies.
The reason became apparent in later
years when the vitamins were discov-
cred by the biological experimenters,
such as McCullem, Funk, Eijkman,
Mendel, Hopkins, Steenbock, and
many others.
The fresh orange juice contains
vitamins A, B and G, and the fresh
whole milk contains large amounts of
vitamin A and vitamin B, but not
much of vftainin G. The cereal and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11
Eight New Official
Newspapers Elected

Eight counties chose new official
newspapers, according to returns
compiled in the office of Secretary Of
State Robert Byrne. In the other As
counties of the state the incumbent
official newspapers we're reelected.
The changes are:
Dickey county Herald to replace the
Cakes Times; Divide county Journal
to replace Divide county Farmers
Press; the Beach Advance Golden
Valley county,, to replace the Senti-
mel Butte Review; Ozone-Press to re-
place the Kidder county Farmers
Press (merged); Nelson County Arena
to replace the Lakota American:
Sioux County Pioneer to replace the
Selfridge Journal: jamestown Sun to
replace the Stutsman County Record:
and the Minot Daily News to replace
the Ward County Independent.
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KFYR
FRIDAY, II
$50 kilOcycles-S4S.1 Meters

<1sAs -
7:0O-Farm flashes.
1:1O-Weather report.
7:15-Farm reporter in Washington.
7:3O-Special bulletins: u. S. depart-
ment of agriculture.
Rehabilitation period.
S:00-Shoppers' guide program.
9:00-Sunshine hour: Myron ]. Ben
nett, conductor.
1O:O0-Opening grain markets; wealth.
or report.
10:10-Aunt Sammy: daily household
chats. M
10:30-New release hour.
10:57-Arlington time signals.
11:0O-Grain markets.
IL :3O-Organ program: Clara Morris.
12:00-Grain markets; Bismarck Trib-
une news and weather; lunch
PM. con program.
1:00-Old Masters hour.
1:45-Grain markets: high, low, and
close; Bismarck Tribune news,
weather, and st. Paul livestock.
2:O0-Musical matinee melodies.
2:30-Siesta hour Good News radio
magazine.
3:00-Music.
5:00-Music. ,.
5:15-World Bookman.
5:30-Stocks and bonds.
5:35-Bismarck Tribune sports items
Establishments Tribune news. 3
6:50-Music.
6:00-Dinner hour organ recital: "
Clara Morris.
6:45-Newscasting.
7:00-Studio program.
7:30-Plymouth world tour.
S:00-Chevrolet chronicles.
S:30-Music.
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THEATRE

If Maude Adams didn't pronounce
the name John" with such a thick
Scotch accent that it sounded like
"Joan," Joan Bennett. screen star
would have become famous under
another name.
Miss Bennett, who heads the all
star cast of Maybe It's Love"
Warner Bros. Vitaphone collegiate
comedy-drama at the Paramount
theatre, was supposed to have been
a boy. Her father. before she was
born, was appearing in the Barrie
play What Every Woman Knows
with Maude Adams. He and his wife
decided to name their son John but
when the son happened to be a girl
they called her by the name Maude
Adams used in saying John.
Joan portrays a beautiful campus
coed in Maybe It's Love-" The
cast also includes Joe E. Brown
James Hall and Laura Lee.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-12-11
Livestock Remains
Farmers Best Bet

Beef cattle. sheep, hogs and the
dairy cow still appear to be the best
bets for North Dakota farmers who
would get the largest possible returns
from farming, judging from statistics
compiled by Rex E. Willard, farm
economist of the agricultural college,
The data show that livestock has de-
clined considerably less than grain in
value.
It is estimated that the total value
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Second Only to Agriculture

It is said that in the scope Of It's operations, the oil
industry is second only to agriculture.
It employs more than 100000 workers, has an in
vested capital Of $l2, 900 and more than 1885,
600 stockholders. It pays In excess OF $l00Oo0,O0O an
nually In taxes and its gasoline customers. through tho
gas tax, contribute over $780, oO. 900 more.
The industry produces a billion barrels Of crude oil
a year and has developed an export trade amounting
to over $780, 00.O 900 annually-one-tenth of the nations
entire foreign business.
In Its relation to other industries, oil Is likewise one
of the major contributors to progress. It Is one Of the
, largest purchasers Of steel. iron, motor vehicles, rope
and the like. It is the second largest buyer OF ships
and the largest purchaser Of tank cars. It moves by rail
a greater tonnage Of manufactured products tt&a any
other industry.
Yet oil Is q young industry whose history began within
the memory Of living people. Its existence has been
characterized by a series Of problems each Of which. up
to the present, has been successfully solved. When more
fields were needed, the industry found them and when
better products were required the industry developed
them. Now it is working toward the solution Of the most
important problem 1t has yet faced-that Of conservation
Of our irreplaceable petroleum resources.
Transportation, employment. living standards, indus
trial d~evelopment-ol has played an invaluable role ir
all Of them.
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cause foreign consumers prefer some
of our products."-Dr. Julius Klein.
x 4
"Never again must a race in naval
ornaments be allowed to develop
President Hoover.
X X X
Don't answer the doorbell these
days. It might be the wolf."-Frank-
lin p. Adams.
X X
people say we should diSarm.
America is already disarmed."-Gen-
eral John j. Pershing.
* * *
Familiarity breeds contempt only
in contemplate minds" - William
Lyon Phelps.
X X
"A sense Of humor is no bad thing
in a clergyman."-Dean Inge.
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of the wheat, flax and rye produced
in the state in 1880 is $74,613,0 900, in
contrast to q valuation of $131 ,099 900
on the same crops raised nj 1929.
Livestock and livestock products de-
clined from $56, 026 900 to $42, 729, 900
in total value during the same period.
An estimated reduction in value of
about ~ per cent has taken place in
farm-grown feeds. The aggregate
value of all the agricultural commod-
tiles produced in North Dakota in 1880
is placed at $l31 ,319, 1000. This is about
a third less than in 1929.
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May Change Schedule
Of Bus from Devils
Lake to Jamestown

An application to cancel one of its
schedules applicable between James
town and Devils Lake has been filed
by the Studebaker Bus Line of Devils
Lake with the state board of railroad
commissioners. A hearing on the ap-
plication will be conducted at the
courthouse at Jamestown Dec. %.
The company desires to substitute
a new schedule for the one which 1t
seeks to cancel, but protests have
been made to the board regarding
this change.