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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-11
What Do the Ladies Saw?

A snrill and raucous voice on the part Of a wife should
be grounds for q divorce, according to DR.. Robert Morche
French government expert on deafness, who Is visiting the
United States to study noise conditions.
Constant high pitched speech by wives" he SAYS, "real-
ly should be considered sufficient grounds for divorce.
Many American women have rasping. nasal voices that
would wear down any mans nerves. Let women realize
there is as much sex appeal in the tinbre Of a lovely
voice as there is in a beautiful face or FORM"
OF course metropolitan life in the United States abounds
in disturbing sounds. There is the clangor of traffic. the
screech of riveting machines. At home there is the
radio or a temperamental display Of static by
your own. There is the perpetually ringing telephone.
But to charge breaches in the domestic harmony en-
tirely to the account of American wives seems a harsh
Husbands do occasionally talk back and not
always in dulcet tones. There is little likelihood that the
doctors remarks will have any appreciable in
fluence upon the divorce rate. But what about the
clubs, sewing circles and bridge groups when
they hear that their voices are "rasping, nasal and lack
ing in sex appeal? Instead of helping to solve the ma
tons noise problem it looks as though DR.. Morche may
done a good deal to augment it.
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Although he had secured some
hits from me ! could see that he
was still n and ugly over his
opening attempt when l had
famed him. He would work as he
never worked before to smack any,
thing / might toss him so far that
it couldn't be brought back in hall
an hour.
Manager Gibson was, as Mr.. Jar
dine had told me, hard as nails"
Excuses won't 60, you've got to
do your stuff" he said to me.
What a sweet little comforter
you are" I retorted, "you might
smile when you talk like that"
Gibson grinned then. and I re-
called that Mr.. Jardine had also
said of him, But he won't bite"
I thought that the heat vas
against me. but that was because
l Still had much TO learn II. this
game. 1t was really a help. When
the first Tex lad marched to the
plate the fans didn't yell, not even
the Mesa City boys. They all
seemed to hold their breaths as !
slowly twisted into throwing posi-
ton. Just as I got the batsman all
keyed up I unwound myself and
P1CCCAAACu w DA uSlA a Aly OAA ClIC
back of my neck. Then I delivered
the ball almost from the position
of my right hand at the back of
my neck.
The batSn1an made a wild swing.
It was a trick all right, for I had
counted on him being ratified md
sent q fairly fast straight ball.
In quick succession then I sent
two different curves and the man
Wcc ont
All right, I thought, as the Mesa
City lads howled their "Whe-e-es"
and their "ki-i--yips," If I can
shut out the next two, Mister De-
mo Batsman Poll won't get a
chance at the pill.
The Tex manager hadn't changed
his batting order and so the next
two men were the two fairly sure
hittefS always placed before Poll.
Number two went down, but he
fouled once and / had given him
two balls, solely to rest a bit before
I tried my SpeedieSt ones
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to me, especially the c%otton-seed OH
mills where, I was informed, so
much Of our supposedly "pure olive
oil" comes from.
I dropped into an attractive res
taurant for some eats as soon as it
got dark. I could have gone back
to our hotel, but was so hungry, and
the window display looked so good,
that I decided to take care of that
appetite of mine right there.
Just as ! was sailing into a Juicy
steak with onions. served in regula-
ton Texas style-quantity and quail
1ty-some one behind me said:
IF IT isn't Bert Rushe-away out
I. nearly chosed on a piece of
steak, ! was so surprised to hear
my real name spoken.
When l turned I found myself
staring at Dolly Dawson!
I first met this pretty show girl
when she came to teach us makeup
at college the time we nut on a
show. The last time I saw her was
in Providence. when we ate and
drank and danced so much that I
was a flop at next days game with
the Browns.
l pulled out q chair as I arose to
greet her.
For gosh sake, Dolly" 1 whis-
pered, my name here is Ben Rid
ley. don't forget i'll"
She shook hands. flashed me a
merry grin and said. louder, Flows
old Ben these days?"
W. sat down for a gab-fest. Tex
arkana was Dolly's home. Her real
name was Swanson. and her mar
ried sister owned the restaurant.
WI chartered a lot of the "Isn't-it-
a-small-world" stuff and I agreed
to meet her an hour later and 20
to a movie. She lived with her
sister over the restaurant, she said.
l was back at the appointed time
and went up the stairs to the apart
ment above. In answer to my knock
a giant OF a man opened the door,
rs Miss Dawson here?" 1 asked.
His ham-like left hand shot out
and dragged me inside. His right
hand stuck q gun under my nose.
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"This Luck Can't Last!!"

Never before had I wanted to win
as much as I wished for victory this
time. Our Mesa City rooters were
bowling like hyenas by this time,
for we were one in the lead and
there were two men down in the
ninth.
I will admit that l had various
forms Of swelled head at times, but
this fast company had almost given
me IN inferiority complex. My mis-
take was In thinking to myself,
"This luck cannot last forever"
The third man smacked the pill
the first time I grooved it down.
It shot out to that aggravating spot
between. left, and center. where
neither outfielder could possibly get
s;n11s Of II q He m got T. E 9 %iabt I Ssss
ssseSle a ot two u ba 1!e; b but t'i his co oaSS
wouldn't let him attempt it. The
coach was wise, for Poll was next
and the chances were better in
letting this clever hitter send the
man around.
Poll came up to the plate and
glared at me.
Like Dempsey Just before the
battle, that mug OF MS" I said to
our third baseman, purposely for
Poll to hear it.
Then I scoWled back at the bats
man just to show that I could put
on an even uglier look than I was
born with. I pretended that the
man on first had me nervous. ]
kept turning to watch him. This
was, he thought. his cue to prance
down toward second and rattle me.
Finally, after I had kept Poll
waiting until he seemed to think
I'd never throw it. and while Tex
arkana fans howled, "For Pete's
sake, throw it," I pretended to hurl
to first to catch the man. But as ]
turned ! again slipped the ball to
my left and sent it without warning
What happened vas exactly what
happened to the first mar up In
this inning, the great Poll made a
terrific swing al. it but he missed
by q hairs breadth.
The yelp from our rooters at this
evidently did Poll no good at all, be-
cause the ball was no sooner in my
hand and / in position that I let It
90 again, my best bet in pitching.
thus Tar, q seemingly slow ball that
dropped in deep bowl fashion.
Only one more like that!
Again I sent it down almost as
SoOn rs the catcher got It back to
me. Poll found 1t. I felt actually
sick at the stomach when I heard
that terrific smack. Poll was too
cleyer a-man to be fooled for lo-~.
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Example

Every man has some power over others that Is exer-
eised without conscious effort on his part. It IS a re-
gponsibility he cannot dodge. II he is q strong man, 9th
ers win strive to emulate his strength II he Is . weak
man, others. In passing, viii saudder at the thought Of
being like him. Both serve the noble cause OF uplift.
In almost every group, organization OF community
there Is one man who walks his chosen way without
thought for the preferences. opinions and will Of others.
ne y : strong man: original, dominant. cocksure. II he
has Looked TIE world over and decided against it: II it is
Ills custom to attribute the worst possible motives TO al
men: Il be 4, IN short, = cynic. those who come within
his inf1usncs are almost certain to find themselves sheer
NJ " mankind and calling the world q failure.
nut Il this strong man = Z conservative With q well
lined net and : conviction that al who advocate change
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Quotations

To attempt any wheat production
for export in the United States is
foolish. Alexander Legge, former
chairman of the farm board.
A reasonable amount of learning
must OF course accompany an educa-
tion.-Nicholas Murray Butler.
To be happy, live. It is as simple
as that.-Mme. ErneStine Schumann-
Heink.
II woodrow Wilson had been as
sassinated at the climax of his popu-
larity. his fame today would equal
Lincoln's.-George Bernard Shaw.
X X X
The trouble with most people to-
day is they treat sin a If it we're a.
cream puff.-Billy Sunday.
X X X
I have been more or less shocked
by the reports of the framing of in
nocent women. = Mayor James J..
Walker.
I often wonder how much OF Solo
mons wisdom was the result Of the
pooled wisdom of his 800 wives.-Dr.
Helen Boyle.
4 \
Too many mothers have assumed
the duties of fathers, Sinking their
own.-Judge Francis B. Allegretti, Of
Chicago Boys Court.
X X
The best way to spend money now
Is to save it.-Sir Hugh Bell.
\ 4 =
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like
life and consciousness. And ,:le in
telligence which goes with sex and
beauty. and arises out of SIX and
beauty, is intuition. The great dis
aster Of civilization is the morbid
hatred Of sex-D. II. Lawrence.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-11
Today Is the
Anniversary of
CUBA'S WAR MESSAGE

SOAAGA
On April II, 1917, Speaker Champ
Clark laid before the United States
Congress. amid applause, 6 message
from Miguel Coyula, speaker of the
Cuban House of Representatives. re-
garding the Cuban declaration of val
against Germany. It read:
THE House of Representatives of
the Republic of Cuba, in declaring
that a state of war exists between
this nation and the German Empire,
resolved, all members rising 70 their
feet and amid the greatest enthusi-
asm, to address a message OF con-
fraternity to that body announcing
the pride felt by the people Of Cuba
in uniting their modest efforts to
those of the great nation contcnding
for the triumph of right and respect
for the liberty of small nationalities.
1.-THE House also resolved to express
the special qualification of the Cuban
people in uniting their flag side by
side to that of the glorious nation
which in days of undying memory
sacrificed the blood of her sens to
help the people of Cuba to conquer
their liberty and independence"
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KFYR
SUNDAY, APRIL IL
$50 KflOcycles-S45.1 Meter

SUNDAY. APRIL IL
$50 kilOcycles-545.1 Meters
s:3O-Popular Program
9:00-Lew White
9:30-Troika Bells
10:0O-Weather Report
10:10-Judge Rutherford
10:S0-Roxy Symphony
11:45-Weather Report n News
12:oo-National o~ratorio Society
1:O0-Grand Opera-What it has
been and what it should be
1:30-Studio
2:oo-Gospel Tabernacle
3:00-Dr. Cadman
Educational Vespers - DR.. Fos-
dick .
5:0o-Catholic Hour
6:0o-Dickinson State Normal Sym
phony.
7:15-Studio
s:45-Adolph E~ngclhardt's String
9:15-Dr. Francis Coe
9:30-Grace Duryee Morris
9:45-Seth Parker
MONDAY, APRIL Is
7;oo-Farm Flashes and Weather
7:15-Morning Devotions
7:45-Farm reporter in Washington
old Time Music
SCHOLARLY Birds
S:15-RadiO Floor Walker
9:15-Sunshine Hour
9:3O-World Bookman
1O:00-Opening Grain Markets
Weather Review
10:10-Aunt Sammy
1O:57-Arlington Time Signals
11:00-Grain Markets
IL :O5-Grace Duryee Morris, Orzanist
11:3O-National Home and Farm Hour
p. Nj.
12:30-Music
2:OO-Music
2:15-Close, High and Low Markets
-News-Livestock Markets
2:30-Weekly Market Review
2:45-Good News Radio Magazine
,3:0O-Tea Dance Program
4:OO-Classics
4:30-The Lady Next Door
5:00-StudiO
'5:15-MOrmon Tabernacle
5:45-Stocks and Bonds and News
6:OO-Grace Duryee Morris, Organist
6:30-Program
t6:45-Prof. John Dewey-Full Ware.
houses and Empty Stomachs
7:OO-How Is Business? Merle Thorpe
7:45-Studio
S:00-Orchestra.
S:S0-Episode No. 12-Mystery of
Harlow Manor
9:0O-Farmers' Union Terminal As.
s:15-Episode No. 13-Mystery OF
Harlow Manor-Conclusion
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ARB

What tourists would like more than
a United State of Europe is some
united rates of Europe.
X 4 i s
Mayor Walker of New York may
have acquired a fine burn in Califor-
mia, but it will be nothing compared
to the roasting he'll get back home.
X X 4
They arc renting the Empire State
Building at $1,000,000 a floor. it Is
said. These stories sell, and how! s
X 4 s..
Dorothy thinks that Welsh tarebtt
refers to some new hold in the bunny
hug.
X \ X
Boston, a strong hockey town, lost
the hockey title to q Canadian team.
Now it's probably the Hubbub Of the
universe.
Copyright, 1881. NEA Service. Inc,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-11
Carr Tells Jamestown to Lay Off
Ward County Independent)

Ward County INDEPENDENT
John w. Carr, lieutenant governor of North Dakota,
who resides at jamestown, in a lengthy statement, urges
the interests within his home city that are advocating
the removal of the state capital to Jamestown. to with
draw their petitions and save the state the bother and
expense Of an election that could only result In James
towns overwhelming defeat.
Carr points out that there is very little sentiment for
the removal of the capital outside Of Stutsman county,
and the sentiment for the capital removal is far from
unanimous. He learns that the scheme has brought more
harm to jamestown during the past three months than
can be repaired in IS years by all of the service clubs,
civic and ~fraternal organizations. He says the business
interests of the city are being boycotted.
Carr has undoubtedly seen the light and his state
ment should be needed by those few who have let their
enthusiasm override their better judgment.
Our lieutenant governor should have spoken weeks ago.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-11
GETTING THE MOST OUT Of

LIFE
Recently I read III article by a very
| brilliant medical writer in which he
stated that every is born with a
certain inheritance of vitality and age
TO which not over a month OF addl-
tional life could be added by the best
of living habits. This man is un-
doubtedly a wonderful stylist of the
English language, but it seems to me
that his words, SMILES, and metaphors
| were chosen with more care than his
facts and logic.
Think of the incalculable harm that
would result If people believed that
they could live just as long with bad
habits as with good ones. 1t Is that
kind of belief which makes so many
patients for doctors.
The idea is inherently wrong. For
example we can take the grains from
an ear Of corn, shake them well and
divide the grains into two piles. The
o~retically both groups of these corn
seeds will have the same inherent
vitality and length Of life, but you
plant one half of these seeds in good
soil, water it properly, keep down
weeds and parasites, and take the
other seeds and plant them in poor
soil, where there is not enough water,
where the weeds are allowed to flour
ssh. What happens? In the first
tield will be beautiful green stalks ten
or twelve feet tall. with large well
filled ears of corn, in the second field
will be short, stunted, yellowish stalks,
many of which will die when young,
ard in the remainder the ears will be
small and only partly filled with
grain.
The same thing is true with human
beings. The food we eat Is the soil
for the body's growth. If we take a
school room oil children and feed one
half on a diet that is deficient in
fruits, vegetables or milk, these chill
dren will be neither as tall, well
termed, or as healthy as the children
who are properly fed. The idea of
teaching people that their habits of
eating, sleeping, breathing and think
ing, have little or no influence upon
their health or length of life is one
of the greatest of follies.
1t is true that many hooters have
such a fatalistic view. They have seen
people apparently in the best of
health suddenly die of an acute dis
ease, and they e others with scarce
ly any vitality exc out a miserable ex-
istence for two Or three score years.
Many such observations may incline
the physician as well as the untrain-
ed layman into the belief that there
is no way to tell when will live
CT die.
The ways of Providence may seem
mysterious to those who rely upon
theory or chance observation, but to
those who study carefully will come
the belief which was so forcibly i'm
pressed upon Humboldt that "The
Universe is governed by Law" The
small immutable laws of nature gov
ern all living and inanimate things.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-11
Reapportionment Problems
lNau1 X0rlk TinnaSl

Senators and representatives in the early days of the
republic were chosen by entire states. In 1912 the
house, under constitutional warrant, enacted the district
plan" for representatives, the reason being that the SyS-
tenn OF choosing members at large gave too much ad-
vantage to the majority party In each state. Certain
commonwealthS have recently been returning to the
state wide manner Of choosing members of the house.
The working out of the changes under the new apportion-
members. who will be as much the elect Of a whole state
Is are their senatorial colleagues.
ON the Watca-ToWer page today q Minneapolis dis
patch describes how the northwest, struggling with the
necessity Of reducing its number Of congressional dis
tricts, IS returning to the at-large type Of member.
North Dakota had three districts, which in the seventy
third house must be reduced to two. Despairing Of
working out q plan to the satisfaction of the present three
representatives, North Dakota has simply decided to have
the whole state choose the two members to which it Is
where which have lost districts In the reallocation of
population. may come to the same solution. The prob
lem Is before all legislatures and must be settled some
time before nominating time for 1882 comes around. States
gained in the number Of their congressional districts may
add members-at-large II their politicians cannot agree
on the ~reshaping Of districts. Perhaps this Is not en-
tirely consonant with the ideas Of the act Of 1912, but
the federal government Is not likely to contest North
DAkotas action. Under the law congressional districts,
where districts are retained, are supposed to be "as nearly
equal as practicable" This. too, is a generally dis
regarded provision.
Wherever reapportionment is on the docket another
phase Of American political life has risen in the path
between country and city members. Like that Of New
York, most state constitutions assure numerical pre-
dominance in the lower house to the rural districts. The
result is that, as in Minnesota. where Minneapolis will
ton entities It were congressional districts made equal.
the cities win be helpless to prevent the country from
taking most Of the reapportionment gains and avoid
Ing the lenses.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-11
Reforming by Dress Reform

An old-fashioned Mother Hubbard dress-the last
thing to be expected on Fifth Avenue in New York
made its appearance there the other day.
No one had ever seen anything like it on that CLAM
orous thoroughfare. The dress was ugly, uncomfortable
and outmoded by 30 years. It was shown with others as
unattractive as part Of an exhibition arranged by Julia
Jaffray, penologist. All Of the dresses in the exhibit were
institutional costumes selected from various charitable
and penal institutions for women and children. 1t is
~Jaffray,s hope that seeing these drab, harsh cos
tunes may crystalize public sentiment to support a move
ment to do away with such clothing.
The agitation to substitute bright colors and up-to-date
patterns for the hideous aprons which women prisoners
row wear can not be ignored as just another fad of the
sentimentalists. It is reported that present prison garb
is wasteful. Mother Hubbards require more cloth than
modern cuts would. The heavy, od-fashioned materials
cost more by the yard than attractive. equally service
able fabrics. A feature of the New York display was the
bright colored cotton frocks in which New Jersey clothes
its homeless children of school age. These frocks were
made by women in one of the states reformatorles. 1t
is said the demeanor of the women prisoners was con-
siderably improved by the change in the material and
patterns on which they work.
Prison stripes for men have long since been abandoned
in most reformatories and the beneficial effect Is gen.
orally recognized. It seems logical that women prison.
ers may be even more affected by the appearance of their
garments than are men.
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or a disturbing of dividends are dangerous cranks who
should be Jailed or deported. those who associate with
him soon learn to use his pet phrases in denunciation Of
dreamers and to feel q certain awe Of money in large
piles.
Therefore, since it IS a certainty that the average man,
who lacks a dominating personality, will be remade after
the image of the strong men within whose orbit he moves,
why shouldn't he exercise what little discretion he has in
the matter and attach himself to men who now are what
he would like to be?
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But it vas Polls hard luck. at
that, for our center fielder picked It
out of the air as easily as Il he had
picked it from a table.
The game was over.
Mesa Cty-3.
TeHarkana-2.
"And that's that" I said, throw
ing down my glove and starting for
the bench, so utterly tagged out that
I didn't want any one to see me
stagger.
1t was Gibson who met me. He
put his arm about my shoulder.
II shouldn't have overworked you.
kid" was all he said.
He had a heart, after all.
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179 Schools Enter
Annual Contests

Grand Forks, N. D., April IL
Winners of II districts, representing
ITO high schools. will compete here
in the annual high school contest
May 20 to %, which Is under the aus
pices of the University Of North Da-
kota Extension Division. The con-
tests consist Of music, defamation
and commercial competition.
District contests at which contest
ants to appear here are to be chosen
will be held within the next few
weeks.
Cities in which the various districts
will hold their contests are: Grand
Forks. Fargo, Wahpeton, Valley City.
jamestown, Devils Lake, Minot, Man.
dan, Mott, Dickinson and Williston.