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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17
The Receding Wave of Sophistication

The World war, which had such a cataclysmic effect
on mental outlooks and ethical standards, left a state
of moral anarchy in the nations affected which some
times made it impossible to maintain a line of demarca-
ton between right and wrong, truth and falsehood,
liberty and license. The young people who were reach
ing adulthood when the war terminated, suddenly found
themselves in a limitless pasture with all the old bar
riers broken down. The rules Of life handed down by
parents and teachers were thrust aside and the "disillu-
stoned" youngsters joined in a revolt against blue laws
end the social and intellectual restraint Of the Victor
ian age.
Having attained their freedom, the young people set
out to study life at first hand, to scrutinize all its hid
den seams and to formulate a new and realistic code
of ethics. After being engaged in this adventure as
long as the illusion lasted, many Of its participants have
retraced their steps, heart-hungry. soul-weary, and ready
to admit that moral standards that have stood the test
Tor 20 centuries cannot be ignored.
To be sure, the returning ~straggers have brought back
4 mass Of intellectual plumber. Most Of this is utterly
worthless, but an occasional pearl Of wisdom has been
discovered that may endure and prove of social value.
Another useful result of the revolt is that the old STAN
dards have been cleaned up and stripped of numerous
shams. These items will go far toward counteracting
what might otherwise be called a 10-year social debauch.
Since the war the printing presses have speWed forth
a constant stream of books utterly devoid Of love,
modesty or reverence and preaching the sordid doctrines
of irreligion, cynicism and despair. Such books have
pictured the world going to mechanistic rack and ruin
RuQ pICIlSluS OuAAAi6 ~ AoPPAA'~ 0A""" O"~
essayists, noyelists and playwrights have found it i'm
mensely profitable, financially, to produce lewd and
shocking material that catered to the depraved moral
taste of the period. These %panderers to depravity are
now losing out because the people have become so used
to having vulgarities paraded before their eyes that they
no longer care. This negative attitude is at least a
healthy sign and gives promise of a coming moral re-
construction.
The present situation is graphically illustrated by an
other student, in these words: Yesterdays youth, dis
rusted with traditional morality, traditional religion
traditional standards of beauty, threw the whole lot over
board. Todays youth. disguised both with traditional
standards and with the chaotic results which have been
achieved by throwing overheard those standards, is look
INC for a reinstatement Of morality. of religion, OF beauty.
pf love-" ..-
One Of the young women who recently bid farewell to
wrote as follows: w are not at all
s,re that self-expression must necessarily take on the
rorn Of promiscuousness and that every baby Is a mis-
take. We think that q modernism that leaves you
ras,,ed out and cynical at 80 is q flop. We VIII have 70
be1ieve that life may hold beauty"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17
News of Interest
in N. D. Towns

(By the Associated Press)
Aneta-Miss Beulah johnson was
awarded the silver scholarship cup by
the local American Legion post for
being the outstanding student of the
1881 class graduated from the Aneta
high school.
Valley City-BidS have been
called for by the city council for
q proposed extension of water
mains in the southeastern part of
the city. Contracts will be let
July 6.
Linton-Eleven aliens were granted
full citizenship here following an ex-
animation by Judge W. Hutchinson,
LaMoure, and l.. l.. WEIGH, repre-
Senting the government, of applicants
who applied for the final citizenship
papers.
McCluSky-AS the result of
federal aid appropriations, the
state highway department is un-
dertaking the greatest program of
road construction and improve.
ment since its organization, A.
D. McKinnon, project engineer
for the department said in an
address here.
Selfridge-Sioux county school Of
ficers gathered here for their annual
meeting. Superintendent Of Schools
H. o. Pippin, Dickinson, was the
chief speaker.
FesSenden-A four-day program
with many Of the features of the
larger state fairs will be staged
here July ITO. when the Wells
county fair holds it's annual ex-
position, E. w. Vancura, secre-
tary, announced.
Minot-The House of David Base
ball club Of Benton Harbon, Mich.
will play at the northwest fair
grounds, Minot, June 10 at $3.50 o. m.
The House Of David team will bring
portable flood lights.
Engineers have uncovered five new
seams Of coal near Gadsden, Ala.
which they say contain fuel in paying
quantities.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17
Cadets and Kisses

The company Of cadets at the u. S. Naval Academy
that SURPRISES the other companies in matters OF drill,
athletics and all-around smartness has the privilege, each
day, of receiving the colors from the hands OF
a pretty girl.
In former years the company commander who received
the colors got, at the same time, a kiss from the pretty
girl; but this year he had to go unkissed, by order OF the
academy authorities, who felt that the custom was un-
dignified, fippant and vaguely unmilitary.
1t isn't any of our business, to be sure, but we can't
help feeling that the authorities have made a mistake.
Commencement time at any institution of learning is a
time for kisses-and especially so at a place Of uniforms
and romantic traditions like the Naval Academy.
Democracy rightly figures that the first step toward
self Improvement is to get out OF debt.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17
(BY The Associated pra~~I

(by The Associated Press
Mountrail--The county was formed
out OF a part Of Ward county In 1908
by a vote of the people. at that time
ward county comprised the present
counties OF Ward. Burke, Renulle and
Mountrail. The soil is Of a rich! black
a!luyial nature, and is prolific IL.
Yielding wheat, oats. barley. rye. flax
and other cereals and vegetables. The
county lies within the Missouri, river
watershed. Stanley is the county
seat.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17

Methods of teaching music in
1owa's rural schools will be demon
stra6ed this summer at the Anglo
American music conference in Lau-
same. Switzerland.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17

arumblines from Senator Norris hoicaee 'nA -
nm refuses to believe that he Is q war; Is wa -
1870 81 the Pulitzer prize editorial.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17
MOuntrail Once Was
Part of Ward County

Editors Note: The following is
one OF a series Of articles dealing
with the history of North Dakota
counties.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17
Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show tho trend Of thought
by other editors. They are published without regard
to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib.
unes policies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17

Next: The Cost Of medical treat
ment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-06-17

Engineers have uncovered five new
seams Of coal near Gadsden, Ala.
which they say contain fuel in paying
quantities.
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-02-15

newsprint factories in SOuth- east Alaska-Which appeared in The Empire Monday-is not dis couraging although it would be idle to deny that It came as disappointment to Alaskans generally His conclusion was, briefly, that MT. George T. Cam eron and his associates remain fixed in their determination to develop what is officially known as the Thane Pulp Timber Unit of Tongass National Forest and construct their manufacturing plant at or near Juneau; and that the Zellerbach interests are going ahead with their plans for a similar development in the vicinity of Ketchikan.
 The hope had been fervent that both of these projects would be initiated this year; that crews would be put in the field to begin the construction of tunnels, dams, power trans mission lines and power plants
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-02-15

has been eliminated in the ne- gCtiatiOns which were recently ended in San Francisco.
 The Cameron-Chandler group, and the Zellerbachs, only await Q favorable turn in current ecO- homie, business and financial conditions. International and national authorities are general ly agreed that the bottom of the trough of depression has been reached. Between the low point and a definite upturn, there is always a period of convalescence. No one has yet been bold enough to predict it's duration, but it is evident that the beginning of the period of recuperation cannot be indefinitely delayed. Those in- terested in the local project are not going to wait for prosperity 10 return to normal, but will proceed with their construction programs as soon as the upward trend has been definitely estab- 1ished.-Juneau Empire.
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-02-15
THE ALASKA FISHERMAN

which go into the complete hy- drO-electric development that will furnish power for the manu- facturies. Lack of finances, due to current depression, the un- favorable market prevailing for pulp and neWsprint, were fac tors too significant to be ignored, and have resulted in delaying the inception of both projects.
 There is, however, much that is encouraging about MT. Hein- tzleman's statement of condi- tions. The Federal Power Con- mission has granted the neces- sary licenses for power develop ment. The United States Forest Service has written a contract for the sale of timber from which raw materials will ba a. vailable. And both of these are entirely satisfactory to the in- terests committed to the en- tcrprise. There is not a single obstacle in the way of consum- mating the deals. Every hitch
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-02-15
Free or Tempered Citizenship for Alaskans-- Which

associating with those who choose the more genuine satis- faction of wringing from a hard and stubborn world by their own efforts independence for them selves and their children, how under such circumstances can they ever realize that the whole world honors and respects the man who dares to hold up his chin and say his soul is his own but despises him who willingly and needlessly begs for com- petence or accepts it as a dole from others?
 Within the memory of men still in their prime, the reserva- ton system of dealing with the so-called Indian problem" has grown from a few employees and the appropriations of few thou sands of dollars to over five thousand employees in the h. oian Bureau and an appropria- tion of $24,000. .000. And what are the fruits of it all? In spite of the crimes that have been com- mitted against him, the Indian has survived. Like Israelites be-
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-02-15

From Cordova comes a protest originating with the Mining Committee of the Cordova Chamber of Commerce against the withdrawal by President Hoover, of 625 square miles of the public domain in the Porcu- pine district for an Indian re- servation. According to the terms of the executive order, all miner als, oil, coal, etc., in this area are reserved to the government of the United States to be administ- cred by the Department of the Interior According to a recent statement by Ernest Walker Sawyer, mining is not prohibit ed). The land is not being given to the Indians-they are not permitted to own it or any part of it. All that is expected of them is that they forsake their citizen ship and all their efforts at self help, social, moral, political and financial betterment, move in- side the fence and remain there as incompetent wards of the present government in the land where their fathers were free
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-02-15

men. There a paternalStlc gOV- erment will take them under it's all-protecting(?) wing and care fully guard them and shield them from all the bufeting of the winds of chance, from all need for taking thought for the morrow, or any incentive for re- sponsible management of their own affairs. In such an encour- aging environment and Whole- some atmosphere where youth may be spent in idleness with old age secure, they are expected to develop, quite contrary to every precedent of history, not into helpless hothouse gerani- ums, but into sturdy oaks and pines ready and able to serve the world and it's needs! And the children who are to be rear cd on this reservation, shielded from every contact with the sterner realities of life,-by what strange process of education shall be fitted to accept respon- sible citizenship in the common wealth we strive to build in Alas ka? Segregated and kept from
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
FRANCE OFFERS
GOOD MARKET
FOR j. {.
Ranks With Best Customers,
But Needs Cultivation, View
of Commerce Department

France, a country Of approx
mately $4,000, 900 inhabitants, is
one of the five best world markets
for American goods and, as such,
merits the sareful consideration
of exporters in this country,
Commerce Reports says today.
Products imported from the United
States, in material quantities. in
each of the main groups into
which international trade is di-
vided.
In 1880, the imports of Amer
ican merchandise, according to
French figures, were valued at
6,0S9, $50, 900 francs ($238, 709, ,576),
or 11.6 per cent Of total imports.
Ground Survey Needed
In planning to extend opera
tions to the French market, q
sales survey of that field should
be made by the company before
the type of selling organization is
decided. Wherever possible, the
survey should be made on the spot
in order to get the best under.
standing of the economic snd com.
mercial background necessary to
the successful conduct Of business
in France.
In this respect the office of the
American commercial attache in
Paris is particularly well equipped
to aid American business. In fact,
it is the principal function Of the
commercial attache and the var1-
Gus specialists in his office to give
advice on all problems that may
arise in connection with the con.
duct of business in France. ~-
Assistance Available ~
Valuable assistance may be had
as we'll in planning and conduct
ing sales surveys, and in choosing
reliable and qualified representa-,
tives from the extensive list Of
dealers maintained in the files Of
the office, the qualifications OF
whom have been thoroughly in:
VeStigated.
Through the commercial at
tache's office it is usually possible,
even by correspondence, for the
American company to select 3
dealer or dealers qualified to rep
resent the company in question.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
new BONDS SET
1881 MARK

Volume of new bond offerings
last week established high point
for the year at 1924, 1878 900,
which also is the largest total
since January II, 1880, when a
record peace-time volume Of $685.
05S, 5000 was floated. The previous
weeks aggregate was $114,7lO.00O
and total for the corresponding
1880 week, $1s2,111,OOO.
1t is not common for totals Of
more than $3.50, 100000 to be
placed on the market in a span
Of five active business days. Only
five such periods have surpassed
that figure within the past few
years.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
W|DENS COTTON
OIL TRADING

Enlargement of trading facili-
ties to provide for broadening
the market in cottonseed oil has
been announced by w. c. Ross
man, secretary of the New York
Produce Exchange, who outlined
plans made to begin trading in
prime summer yellow contract
Wednesday. Development of the
new market follows nearly a full
year of successful operation of
the market in detachable prime
summer yellow contract.
Pointing out the need for the
new future market, Mr.. Rossman
explained yesterday that it will
give the oil trade two contracts
in which to operate-the present
detachable prime summer yellow
loose contract of $4,000 pounds
and the new prime summer yel-
low contract, the basis for. which
will also be $4,000 pounds loose
with New York and Southern
deliveries.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
FAILURES
UP IN QUARTER

Both in number and amount,
banking failures in the United
States during the first quarter
of this year increased sharply
over the totals for the correspond
ing period of 1880, and also were
appreciably higher than in most
other years.
The number of such defaults
in the three months recently
ended was 27O, involving liabili-
ties of $144,O09,21O, comparing
with 1914 in number of $51, 1,578. $50
in Indebtedness in the first
quarter Of 1880, according to a
compilation announced today by
r. G. Dun & Co.
Except in New England, where
there was no change, and in the
Western States, where a decrease
of three failures occurred, bank
ing defaults for the first quarter
of this year were more numerous
than for the same period Of 1880
in each geographical section.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
HOMES CUSTOM
. AIDS UTILITY

CHICAGO, April 13.-DemandS
of domestic customers for gas and
electricity are the greatest Stabiliz-
ing factor in the public utility in
duStry. and their normal increase
is a. safeguard against utilities fol
lowing the general trend in any
years of industrial recession,
william H. Wildes, executive vice
president of Central Public SerV-
ice Corporation, operators of the
Washington Gas Light Company,
declared in an interview today:
The records of leading utility
companies during 1880 con-
vfncingIy demonstrate the ex-
tent to which domestic use
stabilizes utility operations.
Throughout the year industry
was suffering from the effects
Of depression, and industrial de-
mand for utility services was
down sharply. But normal in.
crease in the number Of do
meStic customers, and in the
demands of existing customers,
offset the entire industrial de-
crease"
Domestic demand now accounts
Tor approximately 20 per cent of
sales of electricity, and 80 per
cent OF gas sales, he said, and, due
to the fact that smaller users pay
for service at higher rate, the
effect Of domestic sales on
revenues is larger than this.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
TIDE LAND CASE
HINGES ON OLD
DOCUMENTS
River Boundary Dispute Set
for Argument Today Be-
fore U. S. Supreme Court

MuSty old documents dating
back to Colonial days were
busted off today preparatory to
arguments before the United
States Supreme Court in a case
which will decide whether the
low or high water marx of the
Potomac River is the boundary
Of Virginia.
Charters and papers dating
back to 1906. when Kins James
granted the first charter to
Virginia, are to be quoted i'm the
legal battle which will decide
whether the tide lands on, the
Virginia side of the river are
part Of that State or are part
Of the District of Columbia and
therefore under Federal jurisdic.
ton.
Decision Is Important
Decision of the case is ex-
pected to be Of far reaching i'm
portance. BY the ruling of the
court it will be determined
whether the State or Federal or
District governments have police
jurisdiction over the territory in
dispute, and also whether the
Federal Government in carrying
out its development projects must
buy the land on the Virginia
shore or whether it already
owns it.
The case is scheduled for ar
gument today, but it is probable
that it will not be reached until
tomorrow, owing to the fact that
the court has been in recess and
many decisions are expected to
be handed down before lawyers
are permitted to argue.
History of Controversy
The matter has reached the
Supreme Court through dispute
between the Washington Airport,
incorporated, and the Smoot
Sand and Gravel Corporation.
The airport asserts that the
gravel company trespassed on its
property when it conducted
dredging operations on the land
between high and low water mark
between the airport and the
river.
The Government has joined
the gravel company in contend
ing that the Virginia boundary is
the high water mark and that
therefore the property of the
airport extends only to that
mark.
The case hinges largely upon
the language of the original
grants of Maryland and Virginia
and upon subsequent cOmpactS
between those States. The de.
CisiOn also is affected by the
terms of the act of Congress re-
ceding to Virginia that part Of
the District which she originally
ceded for the establishment Of
the National Capital.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
FIX OIL PRICES,
BORAH URGES

Control of the retail oil prices
by the Federal Government, on
the same lines as railroad rates
or other public utility charges are
controlled in interstate traffic, to,
day was suggested by Senator Will.
liam e. Borah (RO Of Idaho.
The Idahoan declares that if
production is to be controlled by
an interstate compact in the oil.
producing territory, an equal
measure of control must be eXer.
cised over prices in order to pro-
tect the consuming public.
Public Protection
Says Senator Borah:
"If the imports of oil are to be
restricted upon the initiative
and under the protection of the
Government, and If domestic
production is to be restricted
upon the initiative and by au.
thOrity of the states with the ap-
prOval of the Government, then
the Government and the States
will certainly be constrained to
protect the public in the price
it must pay for oil and the pro-
ducts of oil.
'It is just as practicable and
quite as lawful to treat the sup
plying of oil to the public rs a
public utility as it is the supply
ing of electric power"
Huge Profits Made
There have been huge profits
in the oil industry, Senator
Borah declares, despite alleged
over-production and the slump in
wholesale petroleum prices. There
has been no drop in retail oil
prices proportionate to the whole
sale price.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
JOBS STABILITY
NSL|STED

Progress made by some Amer
ican corporations towards employ
ment stablization and the methods
which have proved most effective
in protecting workers are re-
viewed in a report made public
here yesterday by the American
section OF the International
Chamber of Commerce.
The report prepared by a COM
mittee of six outstanding business
executives, will be submitted to
the May Congress of the Inter
national Chamber here as a basis
for discussion of the broad Ques,
tion of employment regulariza-
tion. A similar report on
European efforts in this field
also will be presented for con-
Sideration.
The report shows more than
200 American concerns are using
permanent employment regular
ization plans, while several thou
sand are trying temporary meas
ureS.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
Citrus Fruits MGy
Cause EgQ TGintS

Eggs may become tainted from
being stored near other COM
modities, particularly citrus fruits,
according to the opinion of poul-
try experts of the Agriculture De
partment.
A report was received from the
departments office in London
that several shipments of eggs
consigned to Great Britain have
been found tainted as the result
Of having been stored too near
shipments Of fruit,
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
so Representative
N. Y. Stocks Gain

The market value Of so repre-
sentative stocks on the New York
Stock Exchange at the close Of
the week ended Saturday, April
II, was $19,240,640,0 900 an in.
crease of $70,622,8S9 or apprixi-
mately O.37 per cent over the
value of $19,17O,O17,111 at the
close of the preceding week, ac.
cording to a compilation by Paul
H. Davis k Co.
This compares with $28,650,-
292, ,9O5 the value of the shares
at the close of the correspond
ing day in 1890.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
.|NSULL To TALK
OVER RADIO

Electric light and power hold
ing companies, a subject of wide
interest at the present time, will
be discussed by Martin J. insult,
president Of the Middle West
Utilities Company, and one of the
leaders OF the utility industry, on
the Halsey, Stuart & Co., radio
program next Wednesday night,
at z o'clock Eastern Central Time.
The talk, the third in a series
by national business leaders on
American business, will be broad
cast over a nation wide chain Of
the National Broadcasting
Company.
AS Mr.. insult has been aggres-
sively supporting to utilities in
the controversy over the So-called
power trust" his talk should
attract widespread attention. Mr..
insult is the head Of an organiza-
tion whose subsidiaries render
essential services in 80 states, and
serve over 1900 900 customers.