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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-17

Radio fOrthe Illiterate
(~Philadelphia Bulletin)

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Whiie the potentialities Of radio as an adjunct to
educauon nave long been recognized, the idea that under
certain circumstances it may completely take the place
OF education without specialization of its programs to
That end Is q novelty. With the idea the United States
ot1lce OF education Is preparing to experiment in a hun
dred laboratories.
The subjects Of the test are dwellers in isolated noun
taln MONIES; nhterates whose knowledge of life is limited
10 what they see, hear and experience; adopts most of
tnem' at understanding the simple phenomena Of ma
lure, but absolutely innocent of informing contacts with
the outside world. Can radio, with such people, in q
measure take the place Of reading? Will its ~broadcasts
enlarge their vocabularies, extend their horizon, Undue
tnem with new conceptions of the scope of existence,
arouse their latent cultural instincts?
Inese are the questions to which answers are to be
sought by the installation of donated radio sets In q
hundred widely separated mountain homes, the apparatus
TO be serviced by the department of the interior and the
visits for such purpose by agents of the governments
specialist IN adult education, to be used as opportunities
for scientific observation Of the results.
Such a study should be fascinating and useful To
sKeptics 1t will instantly occur that the mind of even an
iliterate mountaineer cannot be improved by much OF
the matter transmitted by radio for the entertainment of
supposedly educated people. But with the moaning of
the blues and the saxophonic dissonances is intermingled
q great deal OF really good and inspiring music and with
the verbal chaff OF low comedians and the piffle of bana]
orators goes a valuable mixture of No. 1 wheat. The
STUDY to be made by the federal authorities is justified
IL may pave the way to special uses of the radio partic-
ulariy designed for the raising of the standards Of citi-
zensnip OF an clement Of the population now handicapped
by abysmal ignorance.
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PLAY Ball Nav Mean 1O8 Games

PLAY BALI means baseball or football to the average
American, but that call of the umpire can mean 100 9TH
er and quite different things, for there are no fewer than
los games played with a ball of some kind in the world
today. And there is hardly a country, civilized or not,
that hasn't some national sport involving a ball.
These are the interesting facts compiled by John r.
Tunis in the current issue of The Elks Magazine, where
he traces the evolution of ball games from the time when
a primitive Palestine shepherd knocked a rounded stone
into a rabbit hole with his crook and thus laid the cor
ner stone of golf.
Far from being of Scotch origin, golf began with the
shepherds of the Near East, found its way to Rome of the
Caesars. was carried by the Roman legions to Gaul in a
crude form and then spread to other lands, Mr.. Tunis
finds. The game was adapted to an ice field in the
northern countries. thus becoming the parent of hockey.
Scotch sailors in Holland became addicts of the ice game
and took 1t home with them 500 years ago, returning it
TO a grass field and c%orrupting the Dutch name "Kolbe"
to "Kowf," from which comes the modern golf"
AS a matter of fact. Mr.. Tunis observes, the Romans
led the way in developing each of the three branches of
ball games, those played with clubs, those played with
racquets and those in which the ball is kicked. The
Roman legions were trained on a football game played
with a stuffed or inflated sphere; their officers were de-
voted to a game called trigUn, employing a small ball
which could be grasped or batted with the hands. This
they played by batting the ball against the walls of a
court, similar to the modern handball court. It was the
French, however, who in the eighth century added the
use OF a racquet to the game and began the development
of tennis-a game which takes its name from the French
word "tenez," meaning take i'll"
Football in which apparently a whole male population
OF neighboring towns played against each other, both
kicking and running with the ball until the opponents
goal was reached. was played in England about the time
Columbus discovered America, this writer shows. There
the game became so popular and also so rough that laws
were passed against it about that time, and a critic flayed
the sport in these terms:
Nothing but beasteley fury and extreme violence,
whereof procedeth hurte and consequently rancour and
malice to remayne with thym that be wounded, there
fore it is put in perpetual silence"
Although baseball, as such, dates only to 1886, the game
undoubtedly evolved from the British FOUNDERS, which in
turn traces to cricket, Mr.. Tunis believes. And there are
records OF "krikett' played by English monks in 1850.
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Quotations

Poets r born, not made."-Chas.
Hanson.
1.-THE English have pandered to and
accentuated our
Gandhi, nationalist leader of India.
\
Large and waSteful letters Con sign.
boards) destroy the beauty of our
country."-Secretary of Interior VIII
bur.
=
I'm its true sense science is the one
proper positive expression OF Chris
tianity that the world has yet SEEN"
Professor John MacMurray.
\
"The job of thinking Is a real one
probably the hardest work there is
to do."-Henry Ford.
y =
There Is nc reason why regular
airship service should not be inaugu-
rated between Europe and South
America."-D Hugo Eckener.
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Canned Food Standards


The housewife will have a choice of two classes Of
canned foods under the amendment to the federal food
and drugs act enacted by congress and just signed by
the president, says w. G.. Campbell, chief of the food
and drug administration, U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture.
This amendment, known as the Gamers bill" author
ICES the secretary of agriculture to promulgate from time
to time reasonable standards of quality, condition, and
fill of ~container for each generic class of canned food
except meat and meat products and canned milk. Such
standards are now being formulated by the department.
The law also authorizes the secretary to prescribe a form
of statement which will clearly differentiate substandard
articles from those which meet the standards.
The value of this law to the housewife will be the as
surance that the canned foods she purchases meet a def
mite standard established by a government agency. Mr..
Campbell points out. The amendment will not constitute
q bar to the manufacture and sale of wholesome canned
foods of q quality lower than the standard. but such
products must be labeled informatively so that If the
housewife wishes a less expensive canned product she win
be able to buy it with full knowledge of its character
presumably at a lower price-and with full assurance
that it is q wholesome product and neither adulterated
nor nisbranded.
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SWOLLEN NECK GLANDS


Whenever you have a cold or acute
tonsilitis, you probably have noticed
a number Of hard small Jumps on
both sides Of the neck or under the
jaw. These are swollen lymph glands
Of which there are six or seven hun
dred in various parts Of the body.
The largest groups Of these glands are
In the neck, upper chest, in the
axillas under the arms, and in the
groins. These glands act as filter
and storage stations Of the Emphatic
vessels and they r frequently a
battle-ground, where the white blood
corpuscles fight disease germs and
toxins.
The Emphatic circulation really IS
q drainage or sewage system which
takes care Of q large part Of the fluid
coming from the cells which must be
purified before returning to the gen.
eral blood stream.
Whenever one suffers from an In
lection, the Emphatic system must
work overtime to get rid Of the toxins
and offending bacteria. This is the
reason the lymph glands so often be-
come inflamed and swollen during al
acute crisis of a disease of the head
and throat or other parts drained by
the lymphatics. The glands IN the
neck enlarge rapidly during acute
disorders and more slowly with
chronic disorders, such as catarrh and
tuberculosis.
Children especially are susceptible
to enlarged lymph glands because
they more often r affected by acute
infectious disorders. The lymph
glands become enlarged in the per-
Torrance Of their normal functions
Of filtering out toxins and bacteria
and preventing them from entering
the blood stream. These cases of en-
larged lymph glands often are dag
nosed as tubercular glands and liable
to be operated on and the worst Of
the enlarged glands removed.
I do not believe these glands ever
should be removed except as a last re-
sort. To take out only a single lymph
gland throws an additional burden on
the remainder Of the Emphatic system
which must result in further trouble
in the future. When the glands r
removed and examined they seldom
are found to contain tubercular
baccilli.
It does not matter whether these
glands are tubercular or not. it Is
merely a quarrel over names. and
places too much attention on a dread
ed disease, when the fact is there
must be q definite cause Of some in
lection in an adjacent region which
Is forcing the glands to enlarge. The
cause must be searched for and re-
moved, and the swollen glands then
will subside Is soo as they have
completed their work of elimination.
After the infection has been cleared
up the glands always can be made to
disgorge their contents by such sensi-
BILE treatment Is fasting and dieting
and the use of hot applications to the
affected parts. An operation on the
glands is not necessary to do this.
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Brazil Teaches Stabilizing Lesson

Rack of the efforts of Chairman Legge, of the federal
farm board, to induce the farmers of Kansas and the
Southwest to reduce wheat acreage for 1891 is the pur-
pose to relieve the board of pressure for Sterilization
Of prices by the dubious means of buying vast guam
titles of grain and holding it off the market. The board
tried that earlier in the year and was left holding a lot
of wheat which it is selling off in part at a loss. This
experience has caused the virtual abandonment of the
policy. Curtailment in production is regarded by the
federal organization as better both for the farmer and
the board, by relieving the situation OF the troublesome
surplus. It is understood that the board does not intend
to finance the grain Sterilization corporation In buying
1890 surplus wheat.
in the valorization of coffee palpably is behind the new
attitude of the board. In fact, not only coffee, but also
rubber and sugar in the past have failed to respond to
this system of bolstering by withholding SURPRISES off
the market.
Persistent withholding of ~surpluses from the market
without definite control of production 1t has been found
merely serves to speed up production until the supplies
held become unwieldy and have to be disposed OF at
sharply reduced prices. Take the case of Brazil. for in
stance.
In 1924 the Brazilian coffee institute was organized to
buy up surplus coffee and hold it back from the market
to keep the price from falling. But there was no ade-
quate provision for curtailing production, which was es-
sential to the success of the plan.
Coffee crops continued to be large enough both to sup
ply current demand and also 10 increase the surplus
which grew to the enormous total of l6500,00O bags, four
tifths of a years supply for the world.
With this vast supply in existence, which must event.
ually be placed on the market, green coffee prices could
no longer be held at their artificially- maintained level
and broke to as low as 9 cents a pound wholesale.
Destruction of the surplus or permitting the 1880 crop
to rot on the bushes has been suggested as an emergency
remedy. American and British bankers have furnished
a sloo,o0o,oOo loan to the industry, however. with provi-
c:op that o~oJrok;o ~ c,,rkoiled "a thu s,,ryol,,c oro
ually exported over 10 years.
British rubber growers in 1928 organized the Steven
son pool to buy up surplus rubber and control the mar
ket. The result was similar to that In Brazil. The price
of crude rubber broke in half and has gone as low as
12M cents.
Cuban sugar growers tried to restrict marketing
through the single seller agency, but this proved unsat-
~isfactory and raw sugar prices tumbled close to l is
cents a pound before payment of duty, the lowest for
100 years.
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Today Is the
Anniversary Of
ASTOR's BIRTH

On July II, 1864, John Jacob Astor,
American capitalist, inventor and SOL
dier, was born at Rhinebeck, N. Y.
Following his graduation from Har-
ward in 1888 Aston travelled extensive
ly and afterward devoted his time in
the managing Of the Astor estates.
In 1897 he built the Astoria hotel,
New York, adjoining the Waldorf
hotel, which was built by William
Waldorf Astor, his cousin, the two
forming one building under the name
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, at the. date Of
completion one of the largest and
most costly hotels in the world. The
structure was recently RACED to make
way for a modern skyscraper.
During the Spanish American war
Astor served as staff officer in the
Santiago compaign and presented to
the government q fully equipped
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for Ill those things. and that you
could make me 4 SUGGEST"
Mot 10 you who will make the
success" Gideon said.
"But supposing I didn't? You
could make me one-that's what
you mean"
Gideon made q mistake.
Something Of the kind" he said.
And then. seeing her furrowed
brows. he corrected himself. II
mean, until we get tho public to
appreciate your art, Miss Judy"
She looked at him with the i'm.
menss gravity Of q child.
"You mean that you would pay
for me to be Z success. Why would
you do IT."
Because I am convinced that you
are one Of the worlds greatest
dancers" Gideon replied. 1T il q
business proposition. pure and
simple"
Judy attacked the ice cream and
the forced strawberries that the
waiter had Just placed before her.
mo. thank you, Mr.. Punch" she
said . moment later. 1T would
worry me too much. After all. I'm
Independent now. I amt got much
! money. as they say, but I do see
life. I never did have any fancy
for responsibilities. I should owe
you hundreds Of dollars"
Gideon smiled ut her simplicity.
"NNhat about Miss Morley-wasn't
she . responsibility" he asked.
"Oh, but I love her 50 much!'
Judy replied.
AT the same moment she looked
"a toward the far corner, and saw
that CAummy and Alan had gone.
you don't refuse my offer, do
your Gideon asked.
Eyes. I do"
mot outright? Please. Miss
Judy. think 1t over. Let's say q
week. It il more than foolish Of
you to give Up the idea Of . career.
Here he proved himself very guile
full. "Of course. I know that you
could set . job any day in any com
pany where there was dancing t.
be done. and work your way up;
but it's = long Job. even for q
genius. and there's SO much to be
got over-jsaiousy and prejudice
and pull and all that"
II know. I don't really want tt
think 1t over at all, Mr.. Gideon
Judy was very solemn now. ani
businesslike, too. "I'm quite happ,
az / am. l couldn't bear the ides
Of owing you such . LOT Of money
and perhaps never being able t
pay It back. And-1S months!"
She mad Z little face Of dismay
that was almost comic. She hat
never studied anything In her life
She had never even tried TO con
centrate her thoughts for NOR,
than Z moment at . time. She Wal
all instinct and impulse. like
feather in the wind: her only bal
last was her big. loving, loya
heart.
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KFYR
FRIDAY, JULY 10
$50 kflOcycles-S4S.1 Meters

FRIDAY. JULY IL
$50 kilocycles-S45.1 Meters
G:OO-Dawn reveille.
Early Risers club.
6:3O-Farm flashes.
6:45-Time signal.
7:00-Farm reporter in Washington.
REHABILITATION period.
S:0O-Shoppers' guide program.
9:0O-Opening grain markets.
1O:0O-Weather report; grain markets.
1O:1O-Aunt Sammy.
1O:57-Arlington time signals.
markets.
11:03-Organ program: Clara Morris.
2:OO-BiSmarck Tribune news and
PM. weather; luncheon program
12:25-VOicc of the Wheat Pool.
l:15-Grain markets: high, low. and
close.
1:1S-Farm notes.
1:45-Bismarck Tribune news,
weather, and st. Paul livestock.
2:00-Musical matinee.
2:3O-Siesta hour: Good News radio
magazine.
3:00-Music.
5:00-Stocks and bonds.
5:15-Bismarck Tribune sports items.
5:25-Bismarck Tribune news.
5:45-World Bookman.
6:0O-Time signal.
6:45-Baseball scores.
6:50-Newscasting.
6:55-Your English.
7:OO-Studio program.
S:00-Music.
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II won't take no now. Miss Judy"
Gideon gave her q light for her
cigaret. do think It over, please!
My offer Is open for q week."
As Judy and Gideo left the hotel.
q woman passed them. Gideon
waved his hand at her in a IA.
miliar greeting.
Judy at once recognized that long.
sallow face, the bold. Indifferent.
half.humorous gaze. and the raven.
black hair Of S~tornaway's portrait.
The long drop earrings were of
black. pear-shaped pearls today.
The woman had a superb figure.
and was dressed in black, with re.
gal sable furs.
my sister," Gideon said. to Judy.
There is a charity bazaar on here
today, and she has a BOOTH"
TUDY met his eyes with a blank
y stare. She was furious with him
for making her realize that she was
not Of his world. He had not at.
tempted to make her known to his
sister. He would come and mix
with her friends, but she was not
good enough for his.
II must get back to Dickbreads,"
she said. HE was mad with me
for coming"
I'll drive you."
mo, thanks! I'll get on a bus"
He gave way. seeing that she was
irritated. She would have been
more furious still could she but
have known that It never entered
his head that she could be angry
with him because he had not intro.
duced her to his sister. She would
not shake hands at parting. and.
when he begged her to think we'll
about his offer. she did not answer
him.
The next afternoon, close on I'VE
o'clock, she stumbled out of Max
Dickbread's studio, half dead with
fatigue. Tho great man had fin.
ished his picture. and. raving at its
badness and her hopelessness as a
model, had pushed a 50-dollar bill
into her hand. This represented
riches to Judy, but she was too
tired to think Of the nice things It
would buy.
The acute financial crisis, indeed,
was over. Judy could always earn
enough for her own erratic needs,
In which food played such a small
part. Their rooms were ridiculous.
~ cheap. and now that Chumhny
had her little allowance and all her
wits about her, and the doctor was
paid, and everything was going
smoothly, there was no need to
worry about money at all.
1t had been a wonderful day, and
Judy, though such a town bird,
sighed for fresh air and trees and
some open space. She boarded a
bus to 60 down Fifth Avenue. but
at Central Park she got out.
Almost the first person she met
WAS Alan Steyne.
! Ito Be Contt.ued)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-17
Coward and Hero Akin

Medical science may some day be able to make heroes
Of towards and to control both the flaring rage of the
bully and the panicky emotions of the shrinking weakling
through its knowledge Of those two small oval bodies
tucked away just over the kidneys. the suprarenal. or
adrenal. glands.
This Is the hope indicated by Dr.. Louis Klein. authority
on endccrinology. in an article written for the current
American Druggist magazine. DR.. Klein points out that,
60 far as the bodys chemical reactions are concerned,
the man who fights and the man who flees from danger
are closely related. The same chemical changes take
place in both when either the emotions of anger or fear
are aroused. The physical reaction, whether of fight or
flight. depends entirely upon the psychological attitude
Of the individual, and it is this aspect Of the problem
which now engages the study Of a corps Of outstanding
scientists.
TO illustrate how closely fear and anger are related.
Or. Klein describes in detail how the signal Of danger is
transmitted from the brain to the adrenal glands which
Instantly begin to discharge their powerful secretion into
the blood to prepare the body to meet the emergency.
THE superficial arteries contract, increasing the blood
pressure and redistrihuting the blood so as to favor the
heart. lungs and muscles" he says. The heart beats
faster, the lungs breath deeper. The sluices Of the liver
are opened. allowing the reserve supply Of starch to be set
free, to be converted into sugar for rapid utilization as
muscle fuel. The spleen is contracted, forcing out an ex-
n supply Of red blood cells which are needed to carry
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curing the acute and chronic nasal
and throat catarrh which is usually
present. The dieting program which
I have so. often outlined for catarrh.
will be found to be beneficial in prac-
tically every case of swollen neck
glands.
II the glands are enlarged because
Of tubercular infection, then the
regimen I have outlined for tubercu-
losis should be used. But always, in
treating swollen glands, treat the real
cause Of the trouble and not the ef-
fectS.
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mountain battery. which was named
for him and which did effective work
in the campaign before Manila.
Astor became known as an inventor
Of several useful devices, such as the
bicycle brake and q turbine engine.
He was drowned at sea when the IT,
tanic sank in 1912.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Rahv'S Care

Question: G. F. p. writes: my baby
took ultra : violet ray treatments all
last winter for ricketts, and appears
to be cured, but her abdomen extend.
unnaturally. Should a support be
worn to correct this, and if so, what
kind? She is also flat-footed. How
can that be taken care Of? She is Ia
months DID,"
Answer: Your child should have q
diet of pure Holstein milk, each feed
ing to be preceded by a plentiful
amount Of orange Juice. in six
months or SO some non-starchy veg
etables, such as spinach and carrots
should be added to the diet. Keep up
the ultraviolet treatments OCCASION
ally, but you must depend on correct
dieting for permanent relief. An alb
dominal support will not help, but the
abdominal distension can be corrected
when your child is old enough to take
the proper exercises. This also is true
about the flat feet. Send your full
name and address on a large stamped
envelope, and I will send you special
articles on developing a flat abdo-
men, and also for overcoming fallen
arches.
Twitching Eyelids
Question: c. A. S. writes: BE KIND
enough to advise what you would rec.
ommend for spasm of the eyelids.
Have had this for over a year, but the
last few months it has shown a mark
ed improvement, in fact, disappeared
almost entirely, but now seems to be
about as bad as when it started"
Answer: First, go to an optometrist
and wear glasses if he advises you to
do so. If the fault is not from eye
strain, 1t is caused by nervousness
and e%nervation which can be over
come through strict adherence to the
hygenic rules for healthful living
which I recommend in this column
each day.
Copyright, 1880, by The Bell
Syndicate, Inc.)