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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-03
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal Of the American Med.
zeal Association, and Of Hygeia,
the Health Maxaxine

lcal Association, and Of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine
Diphtheria is one Of the diseases
about which scientific medicine has
most information, yet the condition q
far from being under complete con-
troll.
Every year the American Medical
Association checks the records OF 90
cities, with & view to finding out the
extent to which the disease Is gain.
ing Roadway or being subdued in each
one of them.
Duluth and Salt Lake City had
only n death each from diphtheria
in 1880 and in both cases the victim
was a nonresident. San Diego, Calf,
had three ceaths from diphtheria, all
OF which were non-residents. All Of
the New England cities, except Wa
terbury and Summerville. had lower
rates for 1880 than for the preceding
five-year average.
The rates for New York City, 20,
and for Philadelphia, rs, are astound-
ing when it is considered that the rate
for New York City between 1890 and
1894, before the discovery Of antitcxin,
was 1914; from 1900 to 1904. So: from
1915 to 1919, 21.8, and from 1925 to
1923, 10.7. The rates for Philadelphia
are approximately the same. These
are excellent examples Of the way In
which modern scientific preventive
medicine can control a disease of this
character, If given the opportunity.
Wilmington, Dela., and Norfolk.
Va, In their particular section, have
the highest rates, and Wilmington
would seem to be in particular need
Of a campaign on the subject, since
its rate has never gone below 10. In
Detroit a special immunization cam
paign has been carried on In recent
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The Unsteady Tax Pyramid
(St. Paul Disoatch)

Secretary Mellon has chosen an o~pportune time to re-
call attention to deficiencies In the existing system OF
Federal taxation which have been responsible for the
enormous deficit which the Government faces this year
The three main sources Of Federal revenues are the In
come tax, tobacco excise and customs duties. OF these
the income tax is the greatest. contributing about two
thirds OF all Federal receipts. Out Of the population OF
12o million persons. only 2500,000 individuals and a
quarter Of a million corporations pay an income tax.
And In the individual income tax, $4,000 persons pay
about 81 per cent Of the total collected.
1t IS thus apparent that the Federal revenue system
Is a pyramid resting on . very narrow base. This makes
for greater instability. While the prosperity Of a few
years ago seemed to produce greater and greater sur
pluses OF funds the lower the rates were reduced. at the
first touch Of business recession the pyramid has toppled
over. We have gone from feast to famine and the years
deficit will be something between 900 millions and a bill
lion dollars. Any system so sensitive to changes In eco
nonic conditions Is not soundly organized.
Secretary Mellon seems to favor re-establishment Of
some OF the more stable excise taxes which Congress re-
pealed In the course Of its four tax reductions since the
war. The Government happens to be in q good position
to Withstand the large deficit Of this year, but rs Sec
rotary Mellon says, the only sound principle Is to close
each fiscal year with . balanced budget.
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Snowden Among His Foes

N01CVC1u11Q 9d11 OCdgeII
The fate Of politics may thrust frail Philip Snowden
into the House OF Lords. The noble peers have received
so many unexpected accessions In recent years that they
probably won't gasp at the suggestion so much as they
would have a few years ago.
The political trend that puts grocers' clerks and former
miners into the cabinet will be no more than loeicaI II
1t sends to the Lords one who has been their most i'm
placable and eloquent enemy.
For many years Snowden dragged his feeble bodv IN
ana down England as he used his vigorous brain to de-
nounce the institution Of nobility as p~racticed in Britain.
his attack was not upon the political power Of the Lords.
That does not amount to much and has not as long as
SnoWden has been in politics. But year In and year out
ne failed at the land system which gave the peers their
hunting lands tax free while 1t pressed heavily upon the
worker. In grubby halls and from soap box rostrums he
preached the doctrines Of single tax and Of socialism.
NOW as chancellor OF the exchequer he Is carrying out,
his vehemence softened a bit by the responsibilities of
office, the tax system which may destroy these 'land
autocrats" at whom he rallied from the hedgerow. And
tomorrow ne may sit down with them Is brother peer.
British politics Is as interesting as ever.
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wore a sort Of loose mother hubbard.
some distant relation Of q kimono.
They told me that when she left
the boat to come to the fold Of Zieg-
fields glorified hula gals, she wore the
latest French creations as though
accustomed to them. And that when
she arrived by train in New York she
donned a grass skirt for the photo
graphers, but that she appeared quite
as much at home-if not more so-in
the attire one meets on Fifth Avenue.
After all, Tahiti, from whence she
came, gets its full share Of tourists
these days.
And on this evening, q press agent
fitted about and whispered stories
Of the island Of Bora Bora; and told
how that very day she had been late
for rehearsals because she was max
ing her first airplane flight: and
someone else whispered that she lived
In a grand suite at q swanky hotel.
Meanwhile, Rer1-whom the gods
Handicapped cigarets against the
palms Of her hand like the best Of
tho debutantes, and slipped at punch
and chartered away in French.
And, old sentimentalist that I am.
I wish they would leave the Reris in
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New York World Telesram)
Mussoltni got excited some months ago over the adj
verse publicity he received In this country from . speech
by General Butler Of the marines. II Duce had enough
bluff to make the State Department bow to him.
But how IS Mussolini going to censor American opinion
OF the To6canini incident? That has revealed the Fascist
dictatorship in all its cheap and cruel futiNty. Many
Americans, especially Of the wealthy class which has
tended to admire the dictator, are more enraged by the
mistreatment Of the great conductor than by all the
Fascist murders Of labor leaders and liberals.
As q conductor in New York City and on tour signor
Toscanini has won the admiration and loyalty Of music
lovers. They resent the ~indignities which he has SUI
fered from the dictatorship Of his own country.
Because he exercised his right Is . free man and a
musician In declining an impairment demand to add q
tawdry Fascist anthem to his concert at Bologna he was
knocked down by . Fascist official. Mussolini, instead
Of punishing the subordinate, has now sanctioned the
assault by Withdrawing Toscaninis passport and holding
him q virtual prisoner.
Serge Koussevitsky. conductor Of the Boston SYM
phouy, has cancelled q concert engagement In Milan in
protest against this unbelievable outrage against the
whole artistic world"
Il Is hardly to be expected, however. that such boy
colts and baA publicity win change the nature Of the
Mussoini dtctatosship. The moral. apparently, Is that
those who wish to retain their self-respect and freedom
should stay away from Fascist Italy.
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AS00A4E2Ev D NUN
On June 3. 1917, an official memo
randum presented to the United
States government by M. de Cartier,
the Belgian Minister at Washington,
was made public. It summarized the
facts OF German rule in Belgium ard
explained the enforced idleress of
Belgian workingmen. .
The memorandum said In part:
. The. depressed condition Of Belgian
industry Is not q case Of accident
caused by the force of extraneous
circumstances unconnected with the
action Of the German authorities;
these authorities are. on the contrary,
personally responsible.
"Since the occupation Of Belgium
the German authorities -. have
put into effect the plan worked out in
August, 1914, at Berlin, by Dr.. w.
Fathenau, for the systematic exploit
tatiou Of all the economic resources
Of occupied countries to the profit Of
the war organization Of the empire"
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IN
NEW
YORK
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New York, June 3.-The first time
I saw Reri, she was sliding down a
glass-smooth rock, over q waterfall
and into a sparkling pool, framed by
exotic South Sea vegetation.
With her were a dozen lovely Poly
nesian girls, whose skins seemed of
Suntan hue and whose eyes reflected
the merry gljsten of a tropical sun
upon the waters. There were, in pur-
suit. q dozen native boys, who seemed
as young gods Of the far-away islands.
There was an infectious glamour
about them; a poetic simplicity and
aaivete completely unspoiled by any
contact with the peoples Of an out
side world.
It was, TO be sure, all revealed in
a motion picture, the name Of which
was "Tabu," for which I predicted
a healthy tate-and it's running for
its l4th week or SO in New York at
the moment. Sitting back in a thea.
ter seat, 1t allowed q moments escape
into the idyllic.
But, a the story unfolded, it ap-
peared that Reri, most beautiful Of
her tribeswomen, had been promised
as a gift to the gods. She had been
pronounced "tabu," insofar as men
were concerned. Only the old gods
of her primitive people were to
possess her.
So the Eden was soon reSounding
with overtones of tragedy. She de-
fled the gods and ran off to other
islands with the lad she loved, only
to be haunted by the sinister shadow
Of an inevitable doom. The agents
Of the temples did not intend that
she escape them. It was their mis-
sion in life to keep the island deitieS
placated.
So the trail led to places where
civilization had brought bars and
dance halls and trading posts and
all the rest. Barter and money and
worldly lessons came to these charm
ing children. The man she had loved |
died trying to recapture her.
X X *
The second time I saw Reri was
just the other evening.
It was on the elaborate balcony
Of a New York theater. She was
there In person. Downstairs it was
possible to glimpse the illusion; up
stairs was the reality.
And 1t seemed to me Just a bit too
bad that az could not end 1t, even
as the lover, In illusion.
Reri was surrounded by a murnur-
Ing crowd Of New York girls in eve
ming dresses and young men in tuxe-
does. Walters made a precarious way
through the groups carrying trays
with punch.
Reri, speaking In perfect French
for hers was a French father-sat
On a lounge Of some soft silken ma
terial, decorated with gilded trim
nings Of the Louis XIV period. She
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-03
Americas First Railroad

The Delaware and Hudson recently discontinued op.
Grafton of q 23-nile branch rail line extending from
Carbonate to Honesdale in Pennsylvania. The line dates
from 1928 and was the first to be projected in the United
States. It was built to transport "stone coal" a. an
thracite was then called. The coal was hauled from
Carbonate to the terminus Of the Delaware and Hudson
canal, where 1t was loaded on barges for reshipnent to
New York.
The building Of this little railway illustrates the fact
That necessity has always been the mother Of invention.
a coal shortage following the war Of 1912 was the CIR
cumstance which led to the construction Of the first
nteam railroad. william and Maurice Wurts, Of Finnish
ANCESTRY. had heard from Indians that "stone coal' would
burn, and conceived tho idea Of supplying the existing
shortage BY mining and marketing this type OF fuel
While engaged in canalizing the Lackawaxen river for
kafting the coal down stream, the Wurts brothers heard
rhat George etephenson, n English engineer. had In
benAed the steam lncomottve. THIS caused them TO
thsnGe thedr plans. The survey Of . route for the rail-
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remember every detail Of my
first inning-both sides OF the
frame. I didn't make any phenor1e..
nal Oh!
stunt. but I was quite satisfied, and
I smacked the second pill tossed TO
me.
Buckbee let me pitch the seventh
and eighth. The game was then q
tie. He put Mcpherson back in the
box. and no one could blame him
for that. Mcpherson was rested, .lt
was q critical inning, and who would
trust a rookie who had pitched three
frames? 1t was all O. K. With me.
It had to be, anyway.
We took that game by two runs
and ] got a two-bagger. but was
left there when the game ended.
Mcpherson had shut them out.
Sears had never been Oft the
bench in this second game, just as
I had been glued there throughout
the first. He looked worried, and
despite my dislike for the poor boob
! began to feel sorry for him.
100 bad you uouiunr a. socked a
coupla holners and made your
brother Jealous" Sears said at the
end Of the game.
Didn't I have luck enough7" !
asked.
I'LL say So" he agreed.
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Daily Health Service
Diphtheria Is Still Far from Being Under
Control Despite Progress Made by Scientists

years. The figures promptly. reflect
this In . steady decrease, the rate for
Detroit In 1880 being the lowest in the
history Of the community and one
halt the average for the previous five
year period.
The rates for Chicago, Evansville
and Peoria in 1880 were somewhat
above the previous five-year averages.
Nashville vas much worse, but Chat
tanooga and Louisville showed i'm
provement. San Francisco and San
Diego had approximately the same
rates TOR 1880 as for previous years;
Los Angeles showed extremely slight
improvement.
Ten cities with the highest diph.
liberia mortality for 1880 include
Elizabeth, Chicago. Detroit, Newark
and Lynn, Mass. They were also on
the high list in 1929. Grand Rapids.
New Haven, Cambridge and Duluth
are on the list Of cities with the 10
lowest rates for both 1929 and 1880.
Flint, Mich, is the only city without
a single diphtheria death in 1880. Des
Moines was the only city with a SINH
lar enviable record in 1929.
Experts in epidemiology are not
certain whether the recent sweeping
reductions in diphtheria mortality
have been Caused by a natural change
in the disease itself or in a decrease
Of susceptibility to the disease. Meth
er can 1t be estimated exactly what
part has been played by the gradual
ly extending use of toxin antitoxin
and other methods of increasing re-
sistance to the disease.
However, the steady improvement
IN records is certainly a warrant for
the preventive measures
that have been used 30 successfully
and with so few harmful results in
recent wears.
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Why al this interest Of q sudden
In balloon ascensions when our pitch
ers 60 up In the air almost every day?
A Chicago school boy wrote q short
story on 782 feet Of ticker tape. But,
unfortunately. his teacher didn't take
any stock In 1t.
- 4
When his actors are hams. says the
office sage, q producer hasn't got q
show.
= s. 4
The Mediterranean fruit fly men
acc q under control, It Is, said. Is
this the blight that failed?
= i
TN get the swing Of things" as
the confident golfer said.
Copyright, 1891, NEA Service, 1nc.)
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Quotations

The Siarnese adaptive do not
adopt.
king Prajadhipok.
X X
The great majority of those doinr
useful work are naorons.
DIR. Hastings H. Hart.
X y
I have no intention at present NJ
becoming a (tennis) professional
Mrs. Helen Wills Moody.
X X
Unemployed money represents q
greater problem than unemployed
men.
-Adolph Ochs.
X *
An aspect Of our revolution which
IS unique is that we have made IT,
without money. We have no mort
cages. '
President zamora OF Spain.
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What Are ChGnces?

A little later when Manager Buck
bee was passing me he stopped Q
moment and grinned.
"Were you rattled?" he asked.
"A little nervous at first" I ad-
nitted.
"You surprised quite a number,
including myself. Why was it you
never sprung that southpaw stunt
in training?"
mo emergency"
Were you naturally left handed,
once?"
mo, l learned 1t by accident.
tossed at a stick target, my arm
would get, SO tired I would practice
with my left. I'm gooo for a few
fast ones that way, but can't stand
ITS 2 good stunt. and don't use
That's all he said. But 1t meant
a lot to me.
Don't use it too often" Didn't.
that mean that he expected me to
keep on playing?
You sure played fast ball, Bert"
Kirby Yates said, "and your stick
work made Sears look like a sap"
I was going to answer, but saw
Buckbee talking with Sears.
Hes letting him CO." Kirby Hhis-
pered.
It looked like it. from poor Sears
expression.
He disappeared soon after this.
And Pollock, the fourth rookie. also
disappeared.
Lon Hale was at the same table
hotel.
Two down." he said. Sears and
7 heard they we're let out" Noyes
"He didn't want to turn all four
OF US loose at once" Kirby said.
Fat chance of turning YOU two
Kids loose" Lon declared.
Jaw, you're fixed" Noyes assured
us.
I hoped SO. I thought of nv suc-
cess and of the fast bali Kirhv
played. I remembered that I GOT
plenty or fan applause during the
three frames I played.
But I also remembered u,hot
Nlrpy mad said e few days before.
Notning IS sure until your name is
on the dotted line.
SO Kirby and I grinned and chat.
TED, and all the time we were keen.
ing up a lot of thinking.
Were we to be major ,eac,,e
players this season? e"o
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road followed and several locomotives were purchased
from the British inventor.
The first rails were built Of wood and capped by strips
OF sheet iron. These rails were not strong enough to
support the locomotives, and several years elapsed be-
fore thcy could be rebuilt and strengthened to bear their
weigh.
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MOT a pleasant situation-on the bench watching a rlVal
~ rookie hurler pitching good ball. -
Only one new hurler would be signed up. Sears, IL
seemed to me. had been called out because Manager Buckbee
believed he was the better pitcher. ~
writle. I was sufficiently human to be jealous; -
But the next man got a %two-bagger which gave the
TIGERS one on third and one on second, two men down.
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Before Sears could end the frame
another man got q hit that let in
one run. Again Sears famed q man
one, two. three, and stopped 1t right
there.
That's good work." I admitted to
Kirby.
Not bad, the darn sap" Kirby
grumbled. He had no more use for
Sears than myself but, also like my.
self, he was willing to give credit
where It was due.
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the idyllic picture scenes, and not
carry the "tabu" beyond the end Of
the film.
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright, 1881, NEA Service, Inc.)
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:: PITCHING FOOL:-:

SYNOPSIS: After quitting college and E Hl shndth IN D%1 the "f famous
ME league home run king, Harry kusne, ets ~ Shetther % can NAV
Nth The CHICAGO Loopcrs in the big league, but wnetneLI ~ Ia a. 4.
well enough to ret a contract is a question. He mas a e such s"r whMs
4. o !. d I.ss1e5 rival Il a retss = chance at pitching. 1t looks like berts
finish.
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Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show the trend Of thought
to whether they agree or disaEree with The rib.
unss policies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-03

when a woman finds time for reflection" remarks
the Office Cynic, "she looks into the mirror"
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"Cabbages on the Isle of Jersey grow as tall as a mans
head" This would no doubt result in q great deal OF
confusion were it not for the fact that the cabbage heads
are stationary.
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The Cost of Medical Care

A committee formed at Washington, d. c., for the
purpose OF studying the cost of medical care Is now in
its fourth year Of operation and expects to conclude its
labors in 1882. DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the
interior, is its chairman.
This body recently finished at Philadelphia the first
complete survey of the medical facilities Of q large city.
1t was found that the people Of that city spend every
year $lo3, 743,939 for medical care, or more than $50 for
each inhabitant. The amount was divided Is per cent
to physicians, ~ per cent to hospitals, Is per cent to
dentists, 20 per cent for drugs and medicines. and the
balance for public health services.
The expenditure Of $50 per capita for medical care may
be taken as q pretty fair average for the country. The
western states, however, have a much better health rec
ord than the east, and 1t is to be expected that the per
capita cost will be found to be much lower In this area.
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The matter under discussion when the statement was
Issued was q charge that the Red Cross had refused to
accept aid from some western communities in the form
of food products rather than money. These folk con-
tended they were long on produce and short on cash
and that they could best help the Red Cross by giving
Of their SURPRISES.
In view Of the fact that 100000 pounds Of foodstuffs
were accepted. however, 1t would seem that these rejec-
tions Of offers were purely local and determined by un-
usual conditions.
The statement Of Red Cross policy Is Of interest in view
Of the fact that it Is supported by millions Of Americans
who regard It a. one Of the best possible agencies for
quick and effective action when disaster, disease, famine
or other calamity stalks the land or any section Of 1t.
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Will the crazy stunt Bert
pulled work for him or against
The decision on the players Il
to be handed down in tomorrow;s
1nstaliment Of this exciting base
pail serial-"The Pitching Fooi.s
Te obtain todsy's pattern, write to Ruth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
WOMAN IS KILLED,
z CHILDREN HURT
CoIored Victim Ran in Front
of Auto, Says Miss Ethel
Blair, Driver.

An inquest will be held tomorrow In
the death of Annie Thompson, colored,
so years old, of the 800 block of Twen-
ty-third street, fatally injured yester-
day when she was struck by an automo-
bile at Connecticut avenue and r street.
Miss Ethel Frances Blair, 26-year- old
Government employe of 1901 Cathedral
avenue, driver of the car involved, was
taken to the third precinct, where she
was released in the custody of an at
torney on the instructions of DR.. j.
Ramsay hewitt, District coroner. Sew
eral witnesses were summoned to ap-
pear before the coroner's jury.
The accident occurred during the aft
ernoon rush hour, as Miss Blair was
driving north on Connecticut avenue
Miss Blair told police the woman and
two children, Lillian Herneon, years
old, and Clarence Baker, 2 years old,
ran into the path of the machine with
out warning. The children were only
slightly hurt. They were removed to
Emergency Hospital in an ambulance
with the Thompson woman.
Miss Blair's automobile crashed into
two parked machines after striking the
trio.