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Improving Sugar Crop.

Nov and then. a period Of adverse con-
ditiOns brings about future benefit, and
this appears to be the promise of the present
depressed condition of the sugar bowl" in
Louisiana. The low price of sugar has hard
pressed grocers and manufacturers alike, and
they have been eager to accept the result Of
the extensive experimental work carried on by
the Bureau of Chemistry and Soil of the De-
partment Of Agriculture. More cooperation
with the Federal experts has resulted from
the present conditions than years of effort
could have brought about during prosperous
times
The Federal scientists have been seeking for
years types of cane containing a great per-
centage of sugar and better adapted to the
growing conditions In the sugar bowl They
have experimental with various kinds of fer
tiizer, with factory equipment and with va
rious possible uses for the bagasse. Some Of
the bagasse has been turned into wall board in
the past, but the greater part has been used
for fuel in the sugar factories The result Of
the present cooperation is expected to be Of
great benefit to the future of the sugar in
dustry!i bringing 2aBoGteaa greater yield at D.
lower cost, and restoring the prosperity which
is none too evident at present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

Dear old grandma and grGpdpG didn't
understand geniUs-siDlPLy sU0LIOPed a
PrOdigy's northern exposure whenever
he shOsOed temperament.
ences and background. He finally took clerks
job.
Yet the chart Of Sidis showed that at 6
months he recited the alphabet at 2 he both
read and wrote, he started school at 3, he
had masters degree at Columbia when most
youngsters are starting high school, at is he
astounding the professors with his dis
courses on nom Euclidian geometry.
Is science going to find new roads for such
a lad to travel? Is the world to blame?
IAN the new psychological researches ft such
phenomenal youngsters into the scheme of
things?
Or take that other wonder child'-this time
girl-Winifred Sackville Stoner. At years
of age this youngster could operate a type
writer and spell words. At 4 she had received
diploma in Esperanto. At she could hold
conversation in five languages. She became
a gllitarandf piano player--a student of world
literature and history Yet she never attended
a school. Her mother had "a definite ecuca-T
tonal theory.
She did not consider Winifred a prodigy
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and never has. Prodigies, she once pointed
out, are those with one particular talent de-
veloped beyond all others.
At any rate-Winifred is a grown woman
now. She has Travelled about the world and
she has participated in a dozen movements
directed toward the betterment of things in
general. Yet her domestic life is one that has
bobbed in and out of the front pages for years.
The world of the ordinary man has been in
volved, despite all her learning.
Again, the inquiry arises-can a greater
capacity for adaptability come from the school
room experiments now being undertaken? DR..
John b. Watson for one, thinks that with
better understanding of behaviorism, the world
will soon be better able to handle its unusual
children, and will learn how to direct them.
And the scientists interested IN glandular
phenomena are finding still other answers
answers based upon the discovery Of certain
gland developments which create precocious
tendencies They believe that just around the
corner are chemical solutions to many of the
problems of backwardness, as well as prodigious
development.
IN the cases of many front page" young
sters, adolescence has seemed to interrupt
careers. Thus Jackie Coogan was the phe-
nomenon Of the child actor world Then time
and growth came along, and Jackie dropped
out OF the picture for some time. When he re-
appeared it was as q gangling lad The stage
and screen have a dozen such instances, all
well known to the man-on-the-street
Nathalia Crane the amazing child-poet, ap-
pears to be one who has thus far weathered the
childhood crisis. A truly extraordinary poet
as a child her work 2ows q gradually matur-
ing quality-thGWgh Il Is dropping a great many
OF the qualities &hich made it more than merely
charming.
Miss Crane has been given an unusually
intelligent background by her parents and
chapters Of her home life and the attitude Of
her mother, in particular. toward her work
may prove helpful to the scores Of psychologists
and social service workers now working among
the Nations youngsters
1t is a dificult problem. requiring the most
patnstaking study. How to develop fully the
unusual talents Of q youngster, and yet make
room for such general development as win
enable him to live a more or less normal life I'm
. hard-bOiled world-that Is the question. And
now it is being attacked scientifically in such o
way as to lead to hope Of success. Unusual
ability must not be allowed to 60 to waste.
The world needs every bit Of it. But it must
not be developed In such a one-sided manner
that the talented ones life goes on the rocks,
and even the genius is virtually wasted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
BY GILBERT SWAN.

@ARNEGE HALL New York's temple Of
music, was packed to the doors.
High hats reflected the street
lights as their mirrored surfaces
bobbed from taxicabS and lmousines.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-02
Ornate Futility

State officials who have advised the members of the
Capitol Commission seems unanimous on one point at
least and that Is that the new capitol structure should
first Of all be q convenient office building and that at no
time should utility be sacrificed for ornate futility.
Gov. Shafer was quoted recently in The Fargo Forum
as being committed to the office building type of capitol,
relieving that severe kind of design as much as was pos
sible by the artistic. This seems the right and proper
attitude. Essentially a state house should be designed
to facilitate public business. Millions can be wasted in
ornamentation, spacious corridors and marble pillars
supporting a massive but thoroughly useless dome.
A few years ago every state capitol had to have a dome.
As the Minneapolis Tribune recently, in commenting on
the North Dakota situation so well pointed out, this
idea came to be accepted as a cardinal feature Of all
state capiols because the builders of the national capitol
adopted that form Of design
Beautiful as the stately dome Is architecturally, 1t Is
disappearing as a distinguishing mark Of state capitos.
Some few states large enough build an ornate capitol
for show purposes and then flank it with modern office
buildings where the routine business of the state IS
transacted. In North Dakota, the members Of the Capitol
COMMISSION are charged with the task of building one
structure which will serve practically all functions Of
government.
The commission has made an excellent start when 1t
decides to spend little in ornate futilty and concentrate
on q fine, practical office building where public business
can be transacted efficiently and with dispatch.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-02
Our Effective POOrhOuse'

President Hoover is not giving to phrase-making but
on his recent trip to the Caribbean he dubbed the Virgin
islands as an effective poorhouse." That appellation
probably will cling to the islands for years to come and
it effectively sums up the situation unless these pos
sessions should receive some credit as a naval base for
the protection Of the Panama canal and other interests
In the Caribbean
Fourteen years ago the United States paid Denmark
So, O00,O 900 at a time when it was feared Germany would
secure the islands as a submarine base. The ~exigencies
Of our national defense forced the purchase which has
been costing the taxpayer some 100000 q year ever
since. To date the federal government has expended
upon the Virgin islands more than 100000.
In the three small islands there is a population of only
$4,000, ninety per cent Of which are colored. It costs
Uncle Sam for upkeep about $2 per capita for each
man, woman and child on the islands and over a period
Of IA years the United States has spent more on these
islands than did Denmark in 200 years. Under Denmark
the islanders were able to pay their way through the
manufacture of rum and bay rum, but since prohibi-
ton has followed the flag. new ways and means must
be devised to aid these islands in working out their
economic salvation.
The way out seems to be a demonstrating system and
steps toward reforestation, supplemented by an educa-
tional system to meet the peculiar needs of the islands.
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enough to be splendid. but one punster throws . stall
cabbage: no says. why bother teaching girls how to pick
husbands when they already know that art all too weu7
We know from experience that the husbands already
picked have been picked clean down to the pin-feathersl"
Then. too we hear it remarked that prospective hus-
bands are getting shy. In women, they say, the cosmic
urge has been replaced by the cosmetic urge. Is It any
wonder, then, that the young man takes no stock In tho
latest propagandist. q woman. who tells him that he can
raise q family on $1,000 q year? Why, it would take that
much to keep one Of these modern girls In face cream
and gasoline for the sport roadster!
These difficulties are not 80 rampant in this state,
but North Dakota has q problem Of an even graver
nature. Here we are short Of women-3S,385, to be exact
and this may account for our backwardness in some
respects. For the solution Of this problem we solicit the
earnest attention Of our three Cor should we say two)
congressman, our gerrymandering politicians and our
commissioner of immigration.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-02
Low Heels at Last, Thank Goodness

Fashion has at last given up spikes for my ladys
slipper, and low heels have been prescribed for 1881. The
reason given is that high heels are bad for the health
and carriage. This objection to high heels has long been
known to doctors and students of physiology, so 1t is safe
to say that this latest decree of fashion is based, not
On q discovery but on a concession. Besides, stylsts are
demanding good carriage as an essential element Of
s~uartneSs.
One of the writer's on style makes this explanation:
rFewer spikes are seen even for dress occasions, because
women have come to realize that while really high heels
look well when their wearer sits, they rarely do when she
walks. Also they usually lead to thickened ankles and q
panied expression"
A panied expression? And why not, when the per-
sistent wearing Of spikes has resulted in millions Of cases
Of crooked legs, bumped backs and spinal curvatures?
But fashion can hardly be expected to lay such an indict-
ment at its own door.
The abolition Of high heels follows naturally the revolu-
ttonary emancipation in dress that has come to woman
kind throughout the world. The disappearance Of tight
corsage, "the Grecian bend" and the suffocation folds
Of long trailing skirts and balloon sleeves IS no less i'm
portant than the abolition Of steel shoes for girl babies
In China. How often have we laughed at the Chinese:
but II we will look upon our own ~frivolities Of fashion
from our gay nineties down, it will not be necessary to
turn to the heather races for entertainment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-02
The Good Shin Marriage

An army Of parents. parsons and pamphleteers. not TO
msutiou . few punste1s, have climbed the American
waiing wall to benoan the laundering and possible
toundering Of the good ship marriage. It's getting pretty
bad. according to Old standards. Reno is no longer the
so,e divorce colony Of the country; other states and
ueighhoriug nations have let down the bars and there -
. lively scramble Tor the divorce business.
Judge Ben Lindsey, . s~et-styled ships carpenter, Is
eryiue to stop the leaks in the old hulk by applying patch
= labeled "cosnpanionate marriage" but is booed by most
Y the passengers. Someone points to Hollywood and
ems Is that o. IS film folk who became welded in 1928.
anIv q have weathered the gale. Somebody else remarks
ebat MIN stars are In . class by themselves and that
natxinonlal nevs from HOLLYWOOD ought % % sup
Nrsme4
heuectacled professor. Connecticut Yankee, By thu
~ wants 70 establish . course In college ca1IicIla "a
.str,,ct ycasng women IN the art Of picking husbands.
cnMd aerees that TIE p~rofeasors suggestion = suy
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-02
Today Is the
Anniversary Of
BIRTH

On April 2. 742, Charlemagne,
French name Of Charles the Great,
king Of the Franks and Roman en-
peror, was born in either Aix-la.Cha-
pelle or Ingelheim.
Charlemagne began his conquests
by crossing the Alps and completely
subduing northern italy. He was
acknowledged King Of Lornbardy in
TIA. At Easter Of this same year he
visited Rome where the Pope con-
ferred upon him the title "Patrician
Of Rome"
For several years thereafter Char
lemagne made frequent expeditions
into Spain. He later defeated the
6axons and carried his arms into Bo-
'hemia. Bavaria, and Hungary. The
Ffankish dominion now comprised
the whole Of France, and most Of
Germany and Austria.
Great as a warrior, Charlemagne
was even greater as an administrator
and civil ruler. He divided the en-
pire systematically, placing each d.
vision under military, judicial, and
civil authority. A real, but short,
renascence of learning took place In
the Frankish kingdom. Charlemague
died January %, 8l4.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-02

Jack (John Gilbert) was a good hus-
band or not: he hadn't time to be a
married man.-Ina Claire.
=
The full, free, unconscious utter
ance OF the broad "ah" sound Of "a"
Is the surest indication, in speech, OF
social culture which began at the
cradle.-Richard Grant White.
American women are too enterpris-
And they are spoiled. In Eng
land we spoil the men: they stand it
better. Women turn out best in adj
verstty.|. B. Priestley.
I am accused Of having invented
1T" Though I have explained many
times exactly what I mean by that
word, there is always the
by people who quote it
that I intend the word to suggest sex
appeal. I repeat that sex appeal has
nothing whatever to do with it.-Ei-
nor Glyn.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-02

Many people showed resentment at
the Benedict Arnold trial over the
radio. They felt, perhaps. that there
was no good treason for it.
4 i
Dorothy thinks that q salutary
event is what happens when a buck
private meets q superior officer.
IS \ *
The woman who buys an article for
. song usually hears q refrain" from
her husband.
i
It doesn't cost anything to have a
seat On the Stock Exchange kicked,
muses. the office sage.
= 4
Some businesses lately are like sub
marines. After q period Of clear sail
ing they suh-merge.
Copyright, 1891. NEA Service, Inc.)
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Coach Rockne
minneapolis Tribune)

kIlUU1lCJ
Followers of athletics throughout America are mourn
ing the death of Knute Rockne, famous football coach
and director of athletics at the University OF Notre Dame
who was killed in an airplane crash near Bazaar, Kan,
Rockne was easily the greatest figure ever associated
with intercollegiate football, a sport in which he reached
the highest pinnacle as a player, coach and S~trategSt.
From the days when he first became interested In foot
ball as a player, he fairly lived the game. In the begin
self one Of the greatest ends Of all time by listening at
~tentively to the instructions Of his coach, studying the
possibilities of the game from all angles and then work.
ing out original ideas.
AS football coach at Notre Dame he proved himself .
strategic genius. He originated plays year after year
which baffled teams tutored by men who would have
been hailed as master coaches had they not been called
upon to match wits with a wizard like Rockne.
Rocknes success at Notre Dame gained international
fame for the South Bend institution as well as for him
self. Football followers came to regard Notre Dame
teams as utterly unbeatable, and they were just that dur
ing the past two years.
Perfection Of teamwork was one Of the secrets Of
Rocknes success as a football coach. His teams played
with q machinelike precision that was almost uncanny.
Every man had his part to perform in every play and
he was drilled 50 thoroughly that he did his work letter
perfect
Rockne was q firm believer in psychology. He was Q
keen Judge Of human nature and this asset proved tn
valuable In the handling Of athletes. He knew after
watching q football player for several days whether he
could obtain the best efforts from the player BY treating
him kindly or harShly.
Rockne was the type Of man who undoubtedly would
have been just Is successful in some other profession IN
business as he was in football had he gone In for some
other line OF endeavor. He was gifted With . brilliant
mind. as attest the fact that he was q professor Of
chemistry at Notre Dame and was q noted lecturer On
this subject, as well as possessing amazing knowledge
Of the innermost workings Of the business and pro-
fessIonal world.
Above all, Rockne was human. He held the highest
regard for his fellow men and never was known to hurt
intentionally the feelings Of any person with whom he
came In contact. He believed in developing intelligent
minds and character as well g strong, healthy bodies
Students Of Notre Dame who learned how to b success
full on the athletic field under Rockne. went forth Into thl
world to 10 equally successful g doctors. lawyers, bank
ens and business men. HI taught his proteges tn
responsibility Of life and moulded them into wgtt
while men .
Yea Rockns was . remarkable man and his La VII
fbo keenly felt
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-02
THE TREATMENT FOR A HERNIA

In the treatment Of q hernia, the
first and most important thing Is to
push the protruding organ back into
the abdominal cavity so that it no
longer protrudes. In many cases this
IL readily accomplished by having the
patient lie on the back with the hips
elevated 50 that the internal organs
are drawn away from the front OF the
abdomen, then q little gentle pres
sure applied to the protruding part
viii usually accomplish its return in
side. Where the return is not readily
accomplished by this simple proce-
dure, it Is often possible to relax the
tissues with q hot sitz bath for fifteen
or twenty minutes so that this tech
nique can then be used to return the
organ to its proper place. Where it
Is impossible to reduce the hernia by
any ordinary methods, surgery Is
usually advisable.
In young children where the rup-
ture is Of q recent development, If the
hernia is pressed back into place and
a truss Immediately used, q cure may
almost be considered certain. Once
the hernia Is pushed back into posi-
ton It should not be permitted to
reappear. A truss should be worn
night and day for from one to two
years. At night q lighter truss may
be worn so that 1t will not be uncom-
Portable. In adults q ure is not as
certain, but much good may be ac-
complished and sometimes a cure
takes place II the patient will imme-
diately secure q good rupture support
and wear 1t constantly until assured
by his doctor that q cure is complete.
It Is very important that one with a
hernia avoid all g~as-forming foods
and bad combinations. The foods to
be avoided especially are onions, gar
lie. cooked cabbage, dried beans, or
any particular food which the pa
tiert finds to be gas-forming in his
case. The quantity of food should be
kept to the minimum Of the body's
requirements. The menus outlined
every Friday In this newspaper COL
lmn may be used.
The patient must avoid straining
the hernia by lifting or violent exer-
,istng or coughing. It is a good plan
Tor the patient to take two enemas
! day, one in the morning and one in
he evening, using only q quart of
warm water each time. The
enema should be taken in the knee
hest position and a support worn at
he same time. These enemas should
,e continued for several months If
necessary. One should also start de-
the abdominal muscles
through q careful course OF setting
lp exercises, the most beneficial ex-
.rcises being those which are taken
While lying on the back with the hips |
Elevated. These exercises must be !
AIKEN very carefully at first and used
vice daily, gradually increasing. the
mount each day as the strength of
he abdominal muscles increase. The
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also of great service in this trouble.
It increases the tone Of the muscles
and ligaments of the abdomen.
A rupture should not be allowed to
continue because of the danger Of
strangulation. In cases Of long stand
ing, where the cure appears to be inn
possible, an operation Is advisable, as
it is in cases which cannot be readily
pressed back into the normal position.
I know of many cases where the
method which I have just outlined
brought about q complete recovery.
In order to effect a cure, however, 1t
is important that treatment be begun
as soon as possible, and it is also I'M
rortant that once the hernia has
been replaced it Is not allowed to re.
appear through carelessness.