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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-12-14
RrainS and Sex

Those who believe that brain power
is something that does not vary
greatly with sex differences will be
glad to learn that University of Cali
fornia scientists have furnished at
least a partial confederation for their
belief.
Those scientists recently used mo-
ton pictures to test the learning ca
pacities and memories of some 400
adults. All in all, they found that
there was very little a%ppreciable diff
ference between the sexes. In other
words, women can learn things just
about as readily as men and can re-
member what they learned just about
as we'll.
Every onc in a while you will hear
some man remark of an unusually
intelligent woman, "She has q mans
BRAIN" Most psychologists will agree
that such a man is generally talking
complete nonsense. The test men,
toned here indicates that a mans
brain" is about like that of a woman.
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IN
NEW
0 NN
G!'!! Gilbert Swan

New York, Dec. 14.-Dear Burton
Rascoe somewhere in Burlingame,
Calif.)-1f I tell my readers that
you've been sick from drinking alkali
water out west, they'll only laugh.
Some will say: $50 that's what he
calls It'll"
And some who didn't know you
when and don't know you now are
going to ask: Who is that bird, and
what difference does 1t make whether
he is sick?" So, because you are prob
ably so pale that q good blush would
improve your looks, I'm going to ex-
plain that you're a lad from down
Oklahoma way who prefers gushers to
remain in the oil belt and not to spout
at Manhattan parties; that you trek
ked to Chicago and newspapered and
wrote q column, "A Bookman'S Day.
book" and edited The Bookman and
Cabell dedicated "Jurgen" with your
moniker; that you have discovered a
flock of authors and still write pieces.
y hi,
But what I'm writing about is that
after all this elegant start you 60 and
get into a newspaper argument with
DR.. Brill, the eminent psyche gent, on
why New Workers keep Boosting about
coming from small towns.
DR.. Brill, I understand, finds q psy-
choanalytical reason for this. They
are supposed to be sensitive about
their provincial backgrounds; to have
a yearning to be taken for New York
ers, urbanites and metropolitan citi-
zens and, hence, to harp upon the
home town because they are inwardly
bothered by their background.
And I note that you speak Of many
celebrities, who have reached a point
where they don't have to care about
their rural beginnings, yet who still
parade the fact that they came from
Sank Centers, Elm Pastures and way
points; aye, that since they have ma
tional audiences it's actually good
business for such celebs to say: I'm
Thomas Lamont and I started out in
Claverack, N. Y"
This Is all very we'll, Burton, and
there's probably something to be said
for both sides. But what about gents
like myself and q considerable flock
Of my friends? I live in New York
and I came from a large assortment
Of small towns, middle sized towns
and large towns. But the trouble with
me Is nostalgia. Since you've been
sick out in a flock Of western small
towns, you may have had q touch OF
nostalgia yourself; wondered what the
gang in New York might be doing,
and all that.
Well, when I keep repeating the
names of such towns as San Bernar-
dino, OXnard, Denver, etc., as having
been one-time home ports, it's part
Of what DR.. Brill might call an "es-
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New Wheat. Hone

The new regulations for the ration
ing Of bread in Soviet Russia, an
nounced the other day by the news
paper Pravda, in Moscow, may even
tually be good news for American
wheat farmers.
One of the factors that put wheat
prices down not long ago was the
presence in the world market of con
siderable quantities Of Russian wheat.
The Russians were exporting wheat,
even when their people at home were
not getting enough to eat, in order to
pay for their extensive imports of ma
chinery and other factory equipment.
Now, however, the individual Rus
sian is going to get more bread; and
If he does, Russia will have far less
wheat to export. If this new ruling
continues in force for a year or SO the
effect on world prices should be dis
tinctly beneficial.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-12-14
Lowell Bayles' Sacrifice

The tragic death of Aviator Lowell
r. Bayles is a distinct loss to Ameri-
can aviation; and it emphasizes, in
an unmistakable manner, the dangers
that attend the flyer who makes ex-
Fermentation with speed planes his
field.
Bayles vas a speed specialist. Late
last summer he won the Thompson
trophy race at the National Air Races.
Since then he had been trying to
break the worlds speed record for
land planes-a record now held by the
French, with a mark of 278 and q
fraction miles per hour.
This wa not mere stunt work. Both
commercial and military aviation need
faster planes. Men like Bayles show
how speed can be obtained; and
Bayles' death, unlike the death of a
sumter. was one of those sacrifices
that the air seems to demand, every
so often, of the man who would con-
quer it for the service of mankind.
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cape" or release" or whatever it is.
New York, as you know, gets pretty
complex, and it's nice to be able to
get aboard q dream and go floating
back to adolescence; back to high
school dances and buggy rides down
to the Ventura and Camarillo lima
bean sheds where they used to have
grand parties.
X X
And you should see a bunch of the
old San Franciscans sit down for a
good cry. A dozen of us have wept
into our beer many a night, and there
was no hint that New York might be
just outside the door. For the mo-
ment We were all back reliving some
Of the SWEETEST events that will ever
come III way. The strain and worry
and bunk of New York fell away. In
the group has often been one or more
celebs-like Will Irwin - who has
reached the place where he doesn't
have to care where he came from.
What I'm trying to say is that I
never drag out the name of some old
small town without a certain yearn-
ing to be back. I suppose I'd want the
place to be just as I left it. And I
think I'm representing a large number
of my friends. Don't let DR.. Brill see
this, for I know he'll find something
worse than mere inferiority. We're
all probably cases of maladjustment,
Illustration and retarded development.
Hope you're the same and feeling
better.
Copyright, 1881, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-12-14
The Presidents Message
(NeW York World Telepram)

wa OAA4y
President Hoover sent to congress
yesterday his best message since he
took office. He recommended a tax
increase, and promised to maintain
the peace treaties in the Manchurian
crisis.
These two policies are vital. Both
represent a hopeful Hoover conversion.
Until nov he has opposed a tax in
crease and has failed to uphold the
treaties violated by Japan. Federal
measures to cope with the depression
depend on higher taxes. World peace
depends on American defense Of the
treaties.
The president should, and doubtless
will, receive the full cooperation of
congress in these policies.
These two policies do not exhaust
his constructive recommendations.
Others include: - Economic improve
ment through extension of federal
land banks, thawing Of frozen assets
IN closed banks, creation of home Joan
discount banks and of an emergency
reconstruction corporation patterned
after the former War Finance corpo-
ration. Also essential banking re-
forms, including separation Of differ
ent kinds Of banking to safeguard de-
posts, emergency restriction of immi-
grafton, reorganization of federal ad-
min~iStrative departments for economy
and efficiency, and armament reduc-
ton.
With the exception of his unfortu-
nate proposal for widening the eligi-
btltty provisions Of the Federal Re-
serve law, his economic and financial
program probably will commend it.
self to congress and the nation, SO fa1
Is that program goes.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal OF the American
N4eAieal Association

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal Of the American
Medical Association
The anthrax bacillus was one Of the
first germs discovered by Pasteur. It
is found in hair, hides, fresh excre-
lions Of infected human beings and
animals. It usually gets into the body
from contact Of a wound or scratch
with some of the material containing
the organism, from inhaling the spores
Of the organism, from eating INSULT.
GENTLY cooked or injected meat, and
possibly sometimes by Transmission
from some infected animal to man by
the medium Of the fly or the mosque
to. Seven days after the germs get
into the body the symptoms appear.
The disease is manifest in the form
Of boils that contain the organism.
These open and discharge and the
material from the discharge may in
feet other people. Epidemics have &C.
CURED in the United States due to
hair from infected shaving brushes
imported from Japan. They have also
occurred in tanneries where infected
hides have not been properly con-
trolled.
Because of the great danger Of the
public health officials have
worked out q series Of measures for
the control Of the disease. Animals
that are infected should be immedi-
ately isolated and kept away from
other animals. Animals that die OF
anthrax should be promptly burned
attempting to remove the
or otherwise opening the body.
In the plants where hides are han.
died, every employe with any boil,
pimple or bruise on the skin should
report to the physician
for examination.
In order to prevent the spread OF
this disease to people outside factories
Or tanneries where hides are handled,
It Is recommended that all waste VA
ter or sewage from such factories be
disinfected before permit.
outside the plant. Because Of the
possibility that anthrax germs may
directly infect the lungs, 1t is recon-.
nended that tannerieS and wooden
mills be provided with proper venti-
ating apparatus.
Finally the sale of hides from all
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Quotations

II there is NO purpose II the uni
verse, then indeed there is no God
and no good.-Professor Edwin G..
Conklin. department of biology,
4 4
The greatest problem today is to
find employment for all our people,
Senator Reed of Utah.
X X. 4
The idea that nature is at bottom
benevolent has now become well nigh
universal.-Robert A. Millikan, Nobel
prize winner in physics.
Buildings a thousand feet high, as
they have been putting up in Amer
lea, would overwhelm and destroy ar
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81 TO-DAY S.
A%9RERyAzBB4
EXH f23E
ATTACK ON YPRES

-
On Dec. II. 1917, the Germans at
tackled on the Ypres front and car
ried 800 yards of British trenches near
Polygon Wood.
On the italian front the Austro-
German forces reached Col Coprile
from the slopes Of Col della Berretta,
at the head Of the San Lorenzo VAL
ley. The enemy announced that in
the five past days Of operations be-
tween the Brenta and the Piave that
5000 prisoners had been captured.
A. Bergos Qrorocico. q Mexican, was
arrested In Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and
brought to New York city on q charge
of being an enemy alien. He was
questioned, and his explanation ef-
fected his release.
Mrs. K. Mccormick, in an address
before the National American Wo-
man Suffrage association in New
York, declared that German propa-
ganda was seeking to defeat the
American food pledge campaign.
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BARBS

Thirty three speeches were made
the last day Of the Indian round-table
conference in London. They said,
NO" =
Prohibited from drinking white
wine, firemen in Paris got hot under
the collar. But that was no cause for
alarm.
A news story says million dollar in
comes aren't as common as they used
to be. It's no trouble to get the re-
ros, but it's hard to get one to stand
by them.
\ X y
Soviets have invited unemployed
engineers to come to Russia for jobs.
Probably will put them to work on
the steppes.
X X \
An English professor has okayed
Henceforth school children will
be able to understand their teachers.
4 Il +
Headline: Slump Hits Fur Coat
Sales. That's going to be an awful
disappointment to the rabbits wait
ing to be promoted to Hudson seals.
Copyright, 1881, NEA Service, 1nc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-12-14
Are Children Happv?

The story about the 13-year-old In
diana boy who killed himself because
he couldn't make a n%eighborhood
football team IS one of the most pa
tnetic bits Of news that the papers
have printed in a long time.
It emphasizes something that we
too often overlook; that a child can,
on occasion, be the unhappiest NOR
tai alive.
Little disappointments have a way
Ct seeming blacker, in childhood, than
adults generally realize. Most of us,
as We go humping along from one
disappointment and establishment
to another, acquire a sort OF case
hardened philosophy, and learn to
discount the value of the prizes we
fail to get. But a child hasn't any
philosophy Of that kind to sustain
him.
Instead, he has to grin and bear
it; and sometimes the grin doesn't
come easily. Even an adult gets the
notion, now and then, that he faces
a world which is In conspiracy to
cheat him. How much more terribly
must such an idea bear down on a
child's mind?
For children, in general. are rather
lonely. We can do our best to un-
derstand them, to be pals to them,
to comfort them; but there is always
something Of a barrier between us,
because they look out at the world
with unspoiled eyes and we do not,
and they know it. There are moments
in which . child feels that it is hope
less for him to 90 to an older person
Tor sympathy, no matter how kind
and well-meaning that older person
may be.
SO, when things 60 wrong, he has
= fall back on his own resources
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which means that every 20 often he

which means that every 70 often he
has a pretty thin time of 1t.
OF course, it very seldom ends as
tragically as this case in Indiana did.
But If we r wise we shall let this
pitiful story teach us something;
teach us that a youngsters unhappi-
ness can be infinitely more real and
deep than we dream, and that our
greatest wisdom and VI deepest SYM
pathy and understanding are impera-
lively demanded, over and over again,
II there has been given to us the ire
mendous and priceless responsibility
of bringing up a child.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-12-14
HURT TOO MUCH

Houston, TEXAN unemployed man
attempted to commit suicide here by
cutting his wrists with a razor blade.
But 1t hurt so much that he called an
ambulance and was taken to a hospi-
tai. After his wrists were taken care
of, hospital authorities released him,
cautioning him not to attempt sui
eide again. Don't worry" he said.
"You won't see me any more. That
hurts too much"
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(Official City, State and County
Newspaper)
Foreign Representatives
SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS
e. BREWER
Uncorporated)
CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTOl
Crime and Youth

Stories about juvenile criminals are
always horrifying. This is especially
true of two recent news dispatches
from the middle west-one telling how
q group Of young Detroit newsboys,
the oldest IA, calmly shot another boy
to death after a fist fight, the other
telling Of q 1~5-year-old hoodlum in
Cleveland who had a band Of seven
other youngsters committing robber-
les under his direction.
The lads involved in these two
stories have managed, somehow, to
get q frightfully bad start in life.
Probably not more than n or two
Of the whole group will ever become
useful and trustworthy members of
society.
And this does not simply mean that
the two cities concerned will have a
dozen new gunner and second-story
workers q few years from now. It
means that there has been, in each
case, q horrible wastage in society's
most precious possession-young man
hood.
It is a wastage in which all of us
share the responsibility. For boys of
IA and Is do not turn into robbers
and murderers by accident. They
don't get that way because of Unborn
%perversity or original sin. Somehow
the adult world has persuaded them
that the red law of the jungle is q
good law by which to live-the only
law, indeed, worth paying any atten-
ton to.
And why shouldn't it? When the
youngster who starts out under the
handicap of bad housing, poverty and
allied misfortunes looks about him he
can see the kings of the underworld
In alliance with the politicians who
rule his city. He can see respectable
society winking at the growth OF
liquor rings and vice rings and gam
bling rings. He can see rich men
conniving at graft and c~rookedness,
and he can e how gently the courts
deal with such cases. He can see, in
fact, that society still lets the strong
man do about as he pleases, and
clamps down severely only on the
weak.
So all Of us, who accept that kind
bf society and do not cry out against
It, share in the guilt. And there is an
old text for us to ponder over . 1T
were better that a great milestone be
hanged about his neck ..."
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Indianapolis, Ind.-Jude Stone
houses face lights up with an occa-
sioual smile now and then as the re-
suit Of q recent order by Judge Cam
eron. Stonehouse vas up before the
Judge on q charge Of injuring his
daughter Mildred. She stated that in
additional to physical hurt, her father
hadn't smiled at her for four years.
Il believe 1t would crack your face
II you smiled" the Judge told Stone
house. 1T isn't enough to support
your family. You better smile when
you 60 home"
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chitecturally all we have inherited
from the past.-Professor G. H.
Reilly, department Of architecture,
Liverpool university.
Women are more cunning than men.
They study cause and effect.-Peter
B. Kyne, author.
|. y X X
Europe has no money.-Bronislaw
Hubermann, Polish violiniSt.
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row when We bring back The Fly,
do you?
you're going over?"
lat sun-up."
"But-he may shoot you!"
well take the chance. II he
knows what's good for him. he'll
come along peaceably. That's q
horrible hole he's taken refuge In.
I doubt II there's q drop Of fresh
water. II the sun comes up hot
again tomorrow he'll know what
hell is"
Where did he get the gun-and
the chloroform?"
1.-THE gun was his own. I got It
back from the Ambassadors house
detective who took 1t from him, and
have been keeping it in my room
till lately. But I've got my own.
and yesterday l persuaded Mr.. Jupi.
ter he ought to keep one handy. He
had it lying on his table. But some
time yesterday it disappeared. The
door was locked. Either De Iona
had a skeleton key and walked in
and filched 1.-THE could see 1t plain.
ly through the porthole-or he
snagged it through the open port.
hole. 1t could be done easy enough.
with a bent wire.
Anyway. Bruce has got . So
slug in him. and the gun in Ques-
ton was a SO. 20 it's reasonable to
suppose it's his own gun De Iona
STOLE"
But the ch1oroform? And where
did Bruce get his gun? l didn't
know he had one"
Neither did l. l must take a
look at 1t. The chloroform came
out of the captains medicine chest"
When the lovers had finally part
ed, Bates took Mary to her room.
He conhded that the radio had re-
sponded to Captain Hendricks at
tentions. and that he had gotten
through to Key West at last. A tug
with q doctor aboard was speeding
to their aid and should arrive be-
fore noon.
II haven't seen Louise about. She
couldn't have been very anxious
about Bruce or she would have
stayed with him. wouldn't she?"
"She's standing over by the port
rail. staring at the prison." Bates
said. "She started crying, want.
ing to know II he was dead, and I
told her no. he'd recover. I thought
she meant Bruce. She said it was
De Iona she meant. Well. you
could k.ccx me over with .
feather!
"He's her husband" Mary told
him. "She hates him, but-she
loves him, too. Once I wouldn't
have understood how such . thing
could be. But these last weeks.
I've learned a few things"
THERE was little sleep for any.
one on board the Gypsy the rest
OF the night. Dawn found them all
dressed and roaming the deck.
watching anxiously for the wisp of
smoke on the horizon that would
herald the arrival of the tug-and
deliverance.
Mindful Of what had been told
her about the old prison and ito
sorry state. Mary found 1t impos.
sible not to speculate about The
Fly and what had happened to him.
The prison itself presented as blank
and guarded . face as ever. There
was no sign Of life in any Of its
staring. sightless windows. It waa
possible The Fly had rested there 4
short time and then gotten back
into his boat ard rowed to the next
key. The small jutting bits Of land
called the Florida keys are so close
together that It Is a fairly simple
matter to row from one to another.
Most Of them are barren wastes.
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Mlr1ipInc

OF Bates cheerful voice sickened
her. a. he beloved up to his EN-.
ployer, grim and white-faced. lean.
ing over the rail:
Here she is. sir!" He held up
the ruby necklace, cleaning like
drops Of hearts blood In the early
morning sun. Mr.. Jupiter nodded,
but there was no triumph or even
pleasure in his face.
Does he live?" he asked In 4
low voice as De Iona was carried
up the deck and laid on the bed in
his room.
Bates nodded. "Crazy in the
head" he said softly. "Keeps talk.
ing about the sun getting in his
eyes. What does he mean BY that?
The sun wasn't up till just . little
while ago."
THE doctor came out Of Bruce's
cabin. and greeted tho Assem-.
blage with tho false cheerfulness
Of those who are not directly con.
cerned In . tragedy. "Your son
will live" he told Mr.. Jupiter. but
J he must be gotten to q hospital i'm.
mediately. This heat . some
thing might happen to the
| wound -
Mr.. Jupiter looked like a man re-
prieved from death.
Here" no said. "here's another
job for you." and led the surprised
doctor to De Loma's stateroom. This
time the medical man did not even
pretend with them.
The mans all broken to pieces
inside" he said. "He's got a bullet
wound besides. Ny God, what hap
pened to hint II he has any people
here. call them. He's likely to 20
at any minute"
But It was not Louise who was
called first. Bates. enlisting q
white-lipped Mary with pad and
pencil in hand to take down tho
dying mans words. was given a
little time alone with him irst.
Halt an hour later they came out.
Mary was white and shaking. and
Dirk. seated just outside. drew her
down to him and put . strong arm
about her just in time to prevent
her collapsing.
HE did it," she sobbed. HE
killed them BOTH"
HE made Eddie telephone me
and say he was coming over, then
he put OF Eddie's coat and came in
his place. Eddie was locked in,
with the other man guarding him,
but he got away. That vas when
no called you. and he hid some
where. They looked for him In the
car. but didn't see him until just
fas he was crossing the street to
meet me-"
Dirk patted her shoulder reassur.
tngly. Mr.. Jupiter jerked about
abruptly and walked to the rail,
dropping his head IN his hands.
When she was quieter, Mary
lifted her head and asked bashfuliy:
DO you think Eddie knows that
We know be didn't do It? I hope
SO! For. God forgive me. I've
never been really sure until now!"
She buried her head again for Z
moment. and this time It was the
dry, hard sob Of shame that shook
her. I'm = liar and . cheat. It
wasn't the world I was proving Ed.
dies innocence tot was myself!
All the time I was blaming you. I
was a. bad as you were"
Dirk held her hands tightly, and
said. Listen. You've forgiven me
q lot Of stupidness because you love
me. Don't yon think Eddie-might
do the name for you"
Presently she dropped her head
and kissed him. Love aud gratitude
were boil, IN her Kiss.
Ito Be C~oncludcd)