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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

promising attitude. Venezuela had
had a long-standing boundary dis
pute with British Guiana. Nobody
cared very much either way until it
was discovered that in the disputed
territory were rich gold fields. In the
excitement that ensued, the Vene-
zuelans appealed to the United States,
and Secretary Olney, invoking the
Monroe Doctrine, brought matters to
a crisis.
@. How many people are usually
employed in the automobile industry?
W. F. F.
A. Facts and figures of the auto
mobile industry says that there were
400, 900 persons employed in the au-
tomobile industry during 1929. OF
these, $685. 59 were employed direct
~ and $4,000 indirectly.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Many Are Attracted
To MinOt Exhibition

Fries, premiums and special
awards totaling over $1,000 are at
tractlng many entries to the second
annual North Dakota state Seed
Grain and Potato show which will be
held IN Minot Feb. "a to. q. according
70 DR.. E. G. DeMots, secretary of the
show.
Preparation is being made tor
nearly 1000 entries in the various
sections of the show and more than
20 commercial and educational ex-
hibits are expected.
Railroads are Offering reduced
rates to Minot from all sections of
the state to those attending the show.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Mcfarland Imposes 10
Year Prison Sentence

Gustave Lautt, 42-year-oid farmel
living near Cleveland, N. D., was SEN
fenced to 10 years in the state peni-
tentlary by Judge R. G.. Mcfarland
at Jamestown Friday after he had
PLEADED guilty to q statutory charge
He Is the father Of 10 children.
Two daughters, one IA and another
IL, are involved in the case.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Radio Libels
Duluth Herald)

If a newspaper lets a contributor put a libel in its
columns, it is legally liable for the offense.
II a radio station lets a speaker broadcast a false
attack, apparently as the law stands only the speaker
is liable; the station. which profited by renting the time,
goes %scot-free.
That, of course, Is not right.
A bill offered in the Minnesota house YESTERDAY pro-
poses to make radio stations liable for libels spread
through their agency by applying to them the same law
that now applies to newspapers and magazines.
That is so clearly sound and just and in the public
interest that there should be no doubt of its passage.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

What do you need to know /? I
there some point about your business
or personal life that puzzles you? I.
there something you want to know
without delay? Submit your questions
to Frederic J. Haskin, Director of oul
Washington Information Bureau. HI
is employed to help you. Address!
your inquiry to the Bismarck Tribune
Information Bureau, Frederic j. Has.
kin, Director, Washington, D. c., anc
enclose two cents in coin or stamps
for return postage.
@. What were the best ten motion
pictures In 1890. T. F.
A. The Film Daily compiled the
votes of 1873 motion picture critics
employed by newspapers, syndicates
and fan and trade publications. The
result was the following: All Quiet
on the Western Frant, Abraham Lin
coin, Holiday, Journeys End, Anna
Christie, The Big House, With Byrd
at the South Pole, The Divorcee, Hell's
Angels, and Old English.
@. How much life insurance is now
in force? T. G.
A. On June l, 1880, there were 12O,-
753,521 insurance policies in force in
the United States, making a total Of
sos, 146, 440, 473 in force.
@. What is the area and popula-
ton of Ecuador? G. M.
A. Ecuador has an area of 1856
square miles and approximately 2,00O,-
600 inhabitants.
@. What were the even cities that
"v'arred for Homer dead?" H. J.. D.
A. Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon,
Salamis, Chios, Argos and Athens.
@. How large were some of the
plantations in Virginia in the early
days? M. K.
A. There were many plantations
of 5000 OF more acres. Nicholas Hay
ward had a unit of 10000 acres, and
William Fitzhugh at one time owned
a total of $4,000 acres.
@. Can cotton, watermelon, and
banana and orange trees stand a
frost? A. w.
A. Cotton can stand a very slight
frost if only of q short duration. A
certain sub-species OF orange trees
likewise can stand q Slight frost, but
the banana and watermelon would be
instantly killed by frost.
Q. Have any firms of the United
States been in business for 200 years?
S.
A. The George Washington Bicen-
tennial Commission Is compiling a LIST
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
u. S. Civil Service
Exams to Be Held

The U. S. civil service commission
has announced. competitive examina-
tons for the positions Of assistant
dairy husbandman, head of industrial
training department, Junior and SEN
Tor instructors to shop subjects
teachers Of senior and junior high
schools, and teachers of intermediate
and primary grades. The salaries
listed range from $3.50 to $4,000 a
year. Full information may be obtained
from Alice Sales, secretary of the
Civil Service board at the Bismarck
postoffice.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Catarrh and Gnitre

Question: F. E. j. writes. "Au !,
years old and bothered with catarrs
and a goitre. Can both be cured Nv
a strict diet? What would be best f.,
this diet?"
Answer Yes, both can be cursd
by a fasting and diet treatment. bnt
the instructions for this diet are tn
long to be printed in this column
Please send your full name and al.
dress and I will be glad to forward
the instructions to you. Don't for.
get a large stamped envelope.
Nervousness
Question: Mrs. L. D. writes. INV
daughter has been treated for nerv.
BUSINESS for some time but still seems
unable to stand excitement, as she be-.
comes extremely nervous and feels
faint. She cannot stand being in 4
crowd. She is 10 years old"
Answer: You should have a good
diagnosis made of your daughters
case, as you apparently do not know
the cause of her nervousness. There
are always definite causes which can
be determined through an examina.
ton made by a good diagnostician.
When the causes are found and
known it is then easy to remove them.
Nervousness is not just an imagin.
airy disease.
Blue Lips
Question: Sharon asks: what
is the cause of blue lips and what
would you advise to overcome them?"
Answer: I assume that the blue
lips are caused by poor circulation
which is doubtless due to some heart
arrangement. Send for free leaflets
on Heart arrangements, and enclose
a large, self-addressed, stamped en-.
velope.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

There's no danger "muscling in"
here, apparently.
Englishmen, statistics show, live
longer than Americans. The phi
losophy Of Americans is that it is
better to i've fast than long.
Copyright. 1881, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23
Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show the trend Of thought
by other editors. They are published without regard
to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib-
une's policies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

Q. Have any firms of the United
States been in business for 200 years?
M. S.
A. The George Washington Bicen-
tennial Commission Is compiling a list
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

DR.. Mccoy will gladly .n.--
personal questions on health ANA
diet addressed to him. cars Guy !.
The Tribune. e u
Enclose a stamped address.
envelope for reply. e0
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

The island of Borneo is larger IN
area than the state of Texas.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

provided some raw food is also ,,,..,
but on the other hand I hava u ssl
many cases where people lived '1 sa
several months or years on notn; ~
but raw foods. Those who do .all
however, are usually troubled u Sis
large amounts OF gas and have . WV wy
dency to be hypochondriacs and a n4'
social. 'ua'
Every cook should make a st,,d, ),
properly arranging and prena,;ss
both cooked and raw foods. In ~
morrow's article I am going to t :,
you how to construct a menu 50 thu.
it will be properly balanced. "A'
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

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no evidence which would indicet .ouua 4
the use OF cooked food is ini', taa
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-23

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
The Rev. Mr.. Shuler's Radio

Los Angeles, home of the romantic Aimee also is
the field of the Rev. Robert P Shuler Mr. Shuler is
however, more than the pastor of Trinity Methodist
South. He is radio reformer.
The Rev. Bob is not pleasant person. He goes in
for class, religious, and racial bigotry. His weekly
broadcasts his aerial pulpit KGEF ares however
potent because he wades in and assails people and
their regulations right and left high and low. He is
credited with having defeated the former Governor
and many times he has had Los Angeles by the ear
His KGEF violates not only good grammar, good
taste, good WILL it violates what many Californians
been lodged with the radio commission against re-
newal of his license
He there is charged with having stirred passions
resorted to sly innuendo SANDER Examiner Ellis
Yost, while admitting many Of the charges recon-
nends renewal
Mr.. Shuler is not only vulgarian and braggart
but he to have missed the whole spirit of the
religion he breaches and become town gossip and
Scold.
However, it is hoped that the radio commission
renews his license The Shuler radio case is an issue
of free speech Short of actual Islander or libel for
which the courts give remedy even the Shutters must
be heard
The federal radio act forbids censorship. Examiner
Yost has upheld the law and the Constitution by his
recommendation.
Absolute freedom of speech, especially for those
whose ideas we oathe, is a safeguard of democracy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
The Tree Tax

We are learning that many of our troubles might
be less acute if our tax systems were overhauled.
The timber industry has learned this, and it is
reflected in a statement by United States forest
service economist who is making a forest taxation
inquiry. He finds reforestation and development of
commercial growing of timber is being retarded pend
ing solution of the lumber tax problem
If the real estate tax levies annually on the value
OF standing timber from twenty to seventy-ve times
what can we expect but hating of the reforesaton
movement?
If the yield tax plays havoc with the revenues of
counties where lumber is grown, how can it be ex-
pected that timber production will be encouraged?
If there is not some Encouragement of tax systems
how can it be expected that farmers will heed the
excellent advice to put part of their land in timber?
This is way, and a very good way, of cutting
down production of other crops But taxes appear to
be delaying any general acceptance of this system
They will continue to do so until the timber states
scan and revise their tax laws
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
Reason ContradiCted

THE "space-time world" will seem
the pinnacle in revolutionary
advance to many readers, but the
effect of the quantum theory is even
more revolutionary.
General SHUTS says, "The space
time world, however novel, however
shattering to common sense, is not
in conflict with reason. Indeed, the
space-time world is largely dis
covery of the mathematical reason
and is an entirely rational world.
ut is world where reason, as ID
were, diSsolves the refractoriness OF
the old material substance and
smooths it out into forms Of space
time. Science, which began with
empirical brute facts, seems to be
heading for the reign of pure rea-
son.
But wait bit; another funda-
mental discovery of our age has APP
parently taken us beyond the
bounds of nationality, and is thus
even more revolutionary than that
of space-time. I refer to the guam
tum theory, Max Planck'S discovery
at the end of the nineteenth CEN
fury, according to which energy is
granular, consisting of discrete
grains or quanta.
1.-THE world in space-time is
continuum; the quantum action is
a negation of continuity. Thus
arises the contradiction, not only
of common sense, but apparently
also of reason itself.
1.-THE quantum appears to behave
like a particle, but particle out Of
space or time. AS Sir Arthur Ed
dington graphically puts it, guam
tum of light is large enough to fill
the lens of 100-inch telescope, but
it is also small enough to enter an
atom.
1T may spread like a circular
wave through the universe. but
when it hits its mark. this cosnic
wave instantaneously contracts to a
point where it strikes with its full
and undivided force. Space-ti.ne.
therefore, does not seem to exist for
the quantum, az least not in it's
lower multiples."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
Cut Those Rates

Whatever stimulus comes to business
from the new plan of credits will be lost IN
this city and state unless industry and bust
ness throw off the burden of utility extor-
tons.
These utilities handicap every other en-
terprise in this city by their high rates. The
exactions in the state amount to as much as
the cost of government.
You do not tie ball and chain to the
leg of half back in a desperate game.
Europe found that it could not force
every worker to carry soldier to his job
and still exist.
No business can afford to carry the bur-
den of unjust charges for essential utilities
and then compete with communities that
have fair rates.
In preparing for whatever prosperity
may come, the one big job is to get these
rates down to level of justice.
The public service commission has an
nounced that present fair rate of return IS
5 per cent and not T. and that the present
basis is out of line
It will require strong, determined and
organized battle by citizens to get these
principles translated into the monthly bills
1t will require a determined, organized
citizenship to combat the political and secret
influences which these utilities now control
over government.
But the job must be done. The concern
that controls the cost of electricity controls
industry as much as the owner of slaves
controlled the cotton industry before the
Civil war.
Enlist for the fight, and fight now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07

have declined rapidly than the price of things
the farmer must buy.
We quote from Ethelbert Stewart United States
commissioner of labor:
Between December, 1925 and June 1881 whole
sale prices Of all commodities fell approximately IS
cent, and the decline in food prices both whole
sale and retail, was almost as great.
But during the same period the cost Of living of
the working mans family-made up of many other
items besides food-fel only about Is per cent and
still more significant to the working man, the total
amount disbursed wages in manufacturing industry
dropped almost 40 per cent
This decrease of 40 per cent in pay roll does not
mean OF course that individual wage rates were cut
in such proportion Most of the decline was due
to the discharge of employees the pro-ratng of jobs
and to short-time work. But it does mean that the
income, and consequently the purchasing power, Of
employees in manufacturing industries was less by
40 per cent than it in 1925.
I'm terms of wholesale prices, the dollar of 1925
increased in purchasing power to SLAB in June 1884,
but in terms of total cost of living the dollars pur-
chasing power increased only to Glib
There thus, in actuality two distinct dollars
the dollar of commerce. or the wholesale dollar,
which has increased in value 48 cents during this
period, and the dollar of the home-hat u.s. the cost
of-lving dolar-which increased in value during the
same period to the extent of 18 cents
Meanwhile, as the number of dollars which the
workers, at least those in manufacturing industries
had to spend had shrunk, as noted by some 40 per
cent the workers attached to manufacturing indus
tries taken as whole, had suffered far more from
declining pay rolls than they gained from lowered
prices on the things they had to buy their net loss
being roughly 80 per cent.
Similar detailed information for other groups of
industrial workers is not available, but such as is
available indicates that the situation of most other
groups OF workers has been little any better than in
manufacturing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07

its passage; then serious symptoms
intervene.
Long ago Sir William Osler de-
scribed the symptoms of stone in
the gall bile duct as including
paroxysmal and collicky pains,
chills, fever and jaundice, followed
by periods of complete freedom
from the symptoms.
The reason for this intermittent
character is the fact that the stone
passes through and the symptoms
are relieved until another stone
comes down.
Sometimes the stone may lie in
the tube and not obstruct it until
an Inflammation occurs, when the
passing of the bile is stopped.
Associated with this, infection
may take place. Severe jaundice
follows and the patient is seriously
sick.
Of course, the X-ray sometimes
helps in locating stones and meth
DDS are now available for visualiz-
ing the gallbladder by the use of
an injected substance.
In any disease of mechanical orr
gin of this character, the treatment
is quite obvious. 1t is necessary to
open the abdomen, find the spot at
which the stone is blocking the bile
passage and then to remove it sur
gically.
At the same time, the surgeon
makes sure that all other stones in
the tube and in the gallbladder are
removed.
Indeed, it is common practice to
remove the gallbladder completely
in such cases, provided that the
operative risk is not increased by
this work.
Thousands of patients have been
treated by this method with re-
markable success. The mortality is
not great from the operation, and
in the vast majority of cases, the
patients-more than 95 per cent
are relieved permanently of symp-
toms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
Matter Disappears
layman found it difficult

THE layman found it difficult to
Il accept electrical energy in
place of the solid atoms of matter
of which he had grown accustomed
to thinking.
But with the development of rela-
tivity, even electrical energy melted
into something yet less tangible.
This, as General SHUTS pointed
out, was due to the fact that time
was given a new role in the uni
verse by relatively. 1t was realized
that time did not exist by itself
but was an integral part of the uni
verse, united with space to form
space time"
Under this new theory, matter
became a part of space-time. The
material world, according to this
new view, consists merely Of the
curvatures and unevenness of space
time. Matter becomes, as it were.
so many humps in Space-time.
1.-THE new concept has made it
possible to construe matter, mass
and energy as but definite measur-
able conditions of curvature in the
structure of time" says Cen
eral SHUTS.
Assuming that electromagnetic
eventually will follow the fate of
gravitation, we may say that space
time then will appear as the scien-
tific concept for the only physical
reality in the universe and that
matter and energy in all their forms
will have disappeared as indepen-
dent entities and will have become
mere CONGREGATIONS of this space
! tin1e''
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
Just Every Day Sense
THAT woman is going to make man over acc
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THAT is going to make man over accord
L ing to her own ideas is the opinion of Norman
Lindsay, Australian novelist
He may be right But for the sake of controversy
and columns, hope that day will be far in the future
When the time comes that all men are what wom-
en- wish them to be, life and marriage will be very
dCll affairs
For the first decade now the real zest of matri-
mony comes from the primeval feminine urge to make
husbands over and the effort that attends it. The
bride may have heard that this feat is impossible but
that does not deter her from attempting it,
She goes to her job with the fond belief that in
her case victory is assured. Once she can rid her
husband of certain defects certain little habits he
may rise to the heights of fame and in time she
dreams will appear the ideal person whom she al
ways has lurking behind his outward semblance
Moreover, she is perfectly sure that this trans
formation her heart is set on will be easy.
rTNHEN comes disiluson. And the second ten years
i if she is sensible woman, will be as zestful as
the first because during that period she will be learn
ing to accept the reality of her husband adjusting
her personality to fit his ideals
And by that time she has figured it out that she
may be wasting energy on reforming him. she
begins to concentrate upon all his pleasant traits
instead of broodng on those she dislikes.
Then day she discovers that he is a pretty
grand person after ALL and that maybe he wouldn't
be half nice if she had changed him into somebody
else
And here, it seems to me, is the hitch in Mr.
Lndsays theory. If could make the over dc
you suppose we'd love them we'll that all ou1
fond dreams Of reformation ss2l with US?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
Greed Is to Blame

A S the late Senator Dwight Nor
4 n row said, greed on the one
hand and an unfair distribution of
income on the other did much to
land us where we are.
Those who had much wanted
more, and did what they could to
perfect the right kind of set-up for
getting it.
We were advised to be kind to
large incomes, on the theory that
they would be returned to us in
the form of increased business, and
to let the spectators pile up more
capital to finance new and larger
enterprises.
Small investors were counseled to
be content with or 5 per cent in
savings banks, building and loan as
sociationS, or bonds, while big in
vestors made Is or 20 per cent with
call money, or even more by specu-
lating.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
SCIENCE
.RY DAVID DIETZ

BY DAVID DIETZ-
Under Three Ne0 Scientific
Concepts, the World and
Matter Become So Many
Humps" IN Space Time.
THREE new concepts of twen-
l. tieth century science have de-
stroyed completely the old COM
nonsense view of the nature Of
the universe, in the opinion Of Gen.
Jan C. SHUTS. president Of the
British Association for the Adj
vancement Of Science. These three
concepts are:
l. The electron theory.
2. The Einstein theory Of rela-
tivity.
3. The quantum theory.
The electron theory was the first
of the three to be established and is
most easily grasped by the layman.
It states that the atoms of matter
are in their turn composed of posi-
tive and negative electrons. For
this reason, it is sometimes called
the theory Of the electrical nature
of matter.
AS General SHUTS points out its
basic effect, from the scientific
viewpoint, was to dissolve matter
into electrical energy.
Matter itself, the time-honored
mother of ALL" said General SHUTS,
practically disappeared into cleo
trical energy"