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DINNER GUESTS

w J. Hardie and Miss Iris Har-
die, Mrs. Effie Kellog and Mrs.
Paul Brown were dinner guests
at the ]. B. Welzenbach home on
Friday evening.
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SOCIAL EVENTS
MRS. o. c. JOHNSON HOSTESS

MRS. 0. c. JOHNSON HOST ESS
Last week Thursday Mrs. o. c..
johnson was hostess at a lunch
con party in honor of Mrs. Ed Alb
lin and Mrs. Huber. There were
twelve guests who spent a delight
full afternoon visiting and sewing.
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The Lovejoy Studio
High Glass Photographic Work

r.. E. LoVEJoY, Proprietor
WOLF POINT, MONTANA
Now located u block north Of
City Hall.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-08-21

Singer Hemstitching
Experienced Operator
Machine at Stephens Mere. Co.
Leave and get your work there
Belle Gordon
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MURDER MYSTERY
TIL

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indictments in use at the present time
by physicians in their daily prescrib-
ing" Perhaps no other profession"
he went on, lis so prone 10 swing TO
extremes as is our own profession" and
added that doctors cling too tenacious
ly to methods which the progress Of
medical science has found to be value
less"
Such frank statements, coming from
one who has held the highest position
of honor to which the organized med
ical profession of America can elect
man, may well give pause to physicians
and medical educators. What can be
done to restore the doctor to that po-
sition of confidence in the home and
in the community which Is so perfectly
pictured in Sir Luke Fildes' painting
The Doctor" which hangs in the Tate
Gallery In London? That portrait I'M
doubtedly represents conception OF the
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LONDON-An enormous capital ex-
penditure, rivaling in imagination even
the most audacious projects Of the
Soviet f1ve-year plan, has been made
public in the report of the Lord Weir
Committee. recommending the electrifi-
cation of the entire railway system OF
Great Britain.
At the present moment only 1900
miles Of Britains 81 900 miles of rail-
way are electrified. 1t took 26 years to
do it. The Weir scheme calls for the
total identification of the remaining
$4,000 miles within a 20-year period
The total expenditure is estimated at
about $4,000, 900 900, of which the rail-
ways would have to spend 1900, 900, 900
on their main and branch lines. an
other s225, 100000 on the suburban
lines, and the central electricity board
some s400,000000 to provide the re-
quired motive power.
The committee appointed by the
Labor government to investigate such
possibilities arrived at the conclusion
desirable and that the capital spent
would yield handsome revenue. The
economies effected by the change-over
alone. it Is estimated, would yield the
railways Z per cent on their capital,
while the suburban identification is ex-
pected to return Is per cent These
calculations ignore the increased traf-
fic likely to be secured, other substan-
tial advantages such as speed and COM
fort, helping the railways to win back
the substantial passenger traffic they
are now losing to the motor buses
and the fact that the proposal would
greatly alleviate the unemployment
situation by providing work for $4,000
men over the 20-year period 1t also
would provide cheaper power for in
dustry.
Press Attracted to Scheme.
The committees proposal has re-
ceived an interesting reception in the
press. attracted. strangely enough, by
the schemes very magnitude Britons,
with their war debt, staggering unem-
ployment statistics and other burdens
they are carrying so patiently on their
financial shoulders, are beginning to get
accustomed to thinking in large figures.
Assured Of the technical feasibility of
the scheme, its financial magnitude
does not loom insuperable. If British
money were sure of big return 1t
would probably stay at home.
It Is interesting to note, aside from
being a significant example of what the
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BY CHARLES r. FERLIN.

"A n CSCOW.-"Joseph Stain has
M made master move that will
wv do more than anything else to
4 L make the five-year plan sue
cess" This Is how one promi-
nent American engineer characterizes
the Soviet governments new wage
policy, enunciated by Dictator Stain
last week at conference Of industrial
managers.
Now for the first time" the Amer
lean said. with the prospect Of re-
ceiving pay according to his degree OF
skill, general worth and experience. the
Soviet worker has been given an in
centive to do good job"
Several other American engineers ex-
pressed similar views, nearly all agree
ing that the workers with whom they
had come in contact long had felt the
necessity OF such new policy.
Workers Stirred by Speech.
Stains speech, which the newspapers
all over the nation printed in full,
profoundly stirred all circles. Factory
workers throughout the Soviet Union
are organizing meetings to discuss the
speech and adopt resolutions with the
purpose Of carrying Stains recommen-
dations into effect
AyPACdA dCtiOAA Wdo tAidI VI Vic 1dl &c
Trekhgorny textile mill in Moscow, en-
ploying $4,000, where the workers passed
resolutions, first to organize courses for
training their wives and children to
work in the mills; secondly, to make an
agreement with the factory manage
ment whereby the factory patron would
train the collectivists for mill work;
thirdly, to work out by July IS a plan
for replacing male labor by female in
a number Of departments, to Mechanic
production still further, to work out a
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Why So Many New Novels?

dom for ideas and the rest-but he
writes because he must.
That creative urge Is neither POM
pous nor false. It Is simple and, so
long as it lasts, the novelist Is, on the
whole, happy man. A name, q scene,
an idea, group, and his imagination
is fired! He knows that for months to
come he will be lost in this world of
his own, seeing that, missing this,
above all, making the intimate acquain-
lance of exciting. likable, deteStable,
amusing people. finding that he can
know them as he never knew his neigh
bors Of the real world.
Yes, for while he Is in that creative
world the reality Is absolute He sees,
of course, far more than he can tell;
his ability as interpreter, revealer, Is
far. far less than his capacity for per-
ception, and that again Is leks, far less
than all that is spread out there before
him. Nevertheless. while he is doing
his best to catch and hold come little
Of that fantastic, thrilling and exasper-
ating world he Is, whatever his exas-
perations and disappointment may be,
a happy man.
It Is when he has snatched what he
can and comes up to the surface with
his prize-it is then that his disap-
pointments begin! What a sea-change
Is there! The thing that looked so
lovely an hour ago. Where are its
colors, its shadows, its lovely rhythms?
And even though to him 1t Is still beau
tiful. to every one else it is disappoint-
ing. why. you told me that your sea-
shell was Of a color never before seen!
Why. that Is an ordinary pink"
And so it i-very ordinary. There
are thousands Of others like i'll But
next time. .ah! next time! You will
zee that next time. And so, once
again, with beating heart and eyes
glowing, you prepare for your dive!
This, and this only, Is the real reason
why novelists write novels.
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He Never Made Mistakes
BY BRUCE BARTON.

Why then has he stayed on
top?
First, think, because he
is absolutely truthful. What
he sometimes imagines to be
the truth turns out later to
be an error, but he never con-
sciouSly hedges for anything
or anybody.
Second, he is always trying.
Roll him in the dust, and he
Is up in a minute and start
ing forward again. Lay some
thing before him which you
think is pretty good, and he
inStinctively reaches for a
pencil and begins to try to
improve 1t. Let him accom-
plish an objective, and i'm
mediately he has set his eyes
on another point further
ahead.
Finally, he never wastes
any time in regretting the
past. Regret" said some one,
takes as much out of you as
a prolonged drunk"
This man has been an en-
couragement to me. So have
the words of Stevenson, who
exclaimed, God give us young
men who have the courage
to make fools of themselves"
figure that I am entitled
to one major mistake a week.
This Is my quota. AS lone
as I keep within it I feel all
right.
And frequently I run over.
/. iesI.l
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new wage scale and to organize a num-
Der Of discussions with engineers and
technicians in the factory regarding
their working conditions
The party organization in the city
OF Kiev wired a resolution to Stain
congratulating him on his bold move
and promising to carry out his recon-
mendations throughout the city. From
American sources which contact with
Soviet engineers it has baen learned
that the latter are greatly encouraged
by Stains recommendations to improve
their lot, hitherto none too enviah,e,
and which has been to some degree re-
sponsible for considerable friction. It Is
reported that many Soviet engineers
feel that the responsible authorities at
last realize that the five-year plans
success in no small measure depends
upon their whole-hearted cooperation,
which cannot be expected unless their
remuneration is in keeping with their
skill and efforts and their living con-
ditionS are at least on the same level
as those Of the workers.
Press Sees Improvement.
Press comments and the opinion of
Main street agree that the new wage
policy is the most important factor con-
tributing to the five-year plans success,
and it is generally believed that the
next half-year will witness a great i'm
provement all along the line of indus
trial activity If the new policy is car
ried out consistently.
The intellectuals' reaction to Stains
speech and recommendations is some
what lukewarm, as 1t is generally be-
lieved they are not benefiting from the
new policy-at least SO far as getting
higher wages is concerned. 1t is even
feared in some quarters that the new
policy will have a detrimental effect on
them, as higher wages for workers and
engineers and better living conditions
can only be achieved at their expense.
Few people. however, fail to see that
the new policy will at least have the eff
feet desired, namely. giving fresh i'm
petus to the flve-year plan, which, after
all, is what its proponents realize is
presently necessary.
(CopyriRht, l931),
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British Plans to Electrify All Rails
At Cost of s2,OOO,OOO,OOO Proposed
Copyright. 1880.

Englishman suffers in direct taxation,
that during the last five years death
duties alone amounted to f40o 100000
(S2, 000, 900 ,000)-a sum sufficient to
pay for the entire Weir scheme. Dur
ing the last 10 years, largely as
measure to provide relief for unem-
ployment they have already raised and
spent over $4,000 ,000, 900 on road de-
velopment a national expenditure on
highways that is continuing at the rate
of $500, 900, 900 a year.
The chief obstacle to the Lord Weir
scheme will probably be political. II
the railways were to complete the cleo
IRRIGATION Of main and branch lines in
Is years, the minimum period, they
would have to borrow at the rate of
500, 100000 a year. The effected saw
ings would not become operative soon
enough to enable the railways to meet
the charges on these loans for the first
few years. Underwriting might be called
for; 500 100000 in lump sums is q
big problem for any private house to
handle-perhapS the government might
be called in again, as it was to under
write the insurance on the new Gu
narders.
Loan Aid Hints Public Control
Assistance by the government in the
raising of loans would naturally en-
llCle tHeIn 70 certain measure OF puDllC
control to insure that such help was
for the public good-and not merely
to improve the price of railway shares.
And here the more extreme conserva-
tives in Great Britain might descry the
cloven hoof of naturalization.
But so welcome Is any scheme. no
matter of what magnitude. that prom
Uses to boost British business activity
that even Lord Beaverbrook's news
paper. the Evening Sta>dard, an avow-
ed enemy Of the present Labor govern
ment comes out fortnight in praise
of this one.
1T is audaciouslv imaginative as 1t
is soundly practical. Nothing like It
has ever been attempted by any coun-
try but that is no reason why we
should not attempt to carry 1t to sue
cess.
Whether the government has to the
same extent the qualities Of audacity
and imagination to translate the re-
port into action remains to be SEEN"
The Manchester Guardian says hope
fully THE report of the Weir Commit
tee may turn out to be one Of the most
important things that have happened
since the Labor government took Office"
(Copyrieht 1917
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Heidelberg Opens
New Schurman Hall

BERLIN.-Former Ambassador Jacob
Gould Schurman went to Heidel-
berg on June 8 to be present at the
dedication Of the new Schurman Build
ing of the university, which stands on
the site of the former "Kollegienhaus."
1t Is a white structure, which con-
trasts sharply with the surrounding
gray buildings of the old university and
with the red sandstone library.
One enters through a portal Of shell
limestone into vestibule whose ceiling
is supported by four marble pillars. A
graceful staircase leads up to the great
hall In the second story, lighted by six
high windows on each side.
The west wing contains an audito-
rum seating 500 students. There are
Is other lecture rooms, the largest of
which seats $50 students.
In the first story Is a marble tablet
bearing the names of the American
donors for the building, which include,
in addition to DR.. Schurman, who was
student at Heidelberg In 1878 and
1879, the names Of SO other prominent
Americans, among them being John
Rockefeller, jr.; William Fox, James
Speyer and Adolf zukor.
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TIME head Of a large Phil
adelphia company de-
cided to open q New
Il England branch. Look
ing through his organization,
he selected a prudent, INDUS
trious young man.
"I am thinking Of appoint.
ing you our New England
manager, with headquarters
in Boston," he said.
The young man received the
news gravely.
81 believe it will be- a wise
move, sir" he answered. i
never make mistakes"
Never make mistakes" the
boss repeated incredulously.
"My, my, then I couldn't
think Of appointing you; just
imagine how I should feel,
having a man in Boston VINO
never makes mistakes, wnen
I am down here in Philadel.
phia making them every DAY.
The young man was not
sent to Boston. He lived out
his business days In an OBJ
Scure position, minus errors
and minus hits.
One of the most interesting
men of my acquaintance has
been wrong about 40 per cent
of the time.
I can look back over his ca
= reer and point out a dozen
different points where he took
one stand and subsequently
had to revise It.
" e0nozYas
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DANISH SOCIALIST PREMIER
LIKE GIANT OF VALHALLA
Thorvald Stauning Rose From Life OF
Poverty to Power, But Retains Ideals
With Practical Force.

poet with the politician. Stauning's po-
litical creed came out of sterner stuff.
Not academic, logic nor cultural pur-
suits, but hard environment gave him
the preceptS of his faith. SO his ap-
proach to life and work is different.
Poverty, injustice and illness beat
down upon his boyhood.
His early life in Copenhagen drama
tized for him the difficulties Of existence
and developed in his youth class con-
seriousness that now directs his politics
and at the same time furnishes him
with the tools Of expediency. His boy
hood was clouded by the illness OF his
mother, and as a child he knew the
moral and physical degradation OF un:
employment. At the age OF 10 he lived
in a small back fiat overlooking q
squalid stone courtyard. The terrors Of
penury were enhanced by an alert
childs imagination.
Never Thought Of Defeat.
The home was Of two cramped rooms
one without a window. An IRON
barred slit in the roof let in the
meager light and air. In this barren
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<ersely you want to open their eyes to
the truth? He would be bold person
&ho today would admit to the first of
these causes. Write because want to
do people good? Oh dear, how ridicu-
Ipusly old-fashioned? Art has nothing
10 do with morals" Neither it has, but
I have never understood why it should
be such shy-making notion that a
number of people, after reading your
book, feel happier and look upon life
more hopefully. OF course, If you twist
your sacred Art to point moral, that
Is wicked indeed, but even, beyond TINS,
that you have given number OF ord1-
nary human beings some agreeable
hours seems on all sides to be most
shameful confession!
On the other hand, that you have
written your book ito show people what
life is really like" seems quite honor
able motive. That you have shown
them what makes them acutely uncom-
Portable and unhappy Is only to your
credit, of course. The actual trouble Of
this motive, however, is that no one can
be sure-not even the most dogmat1c
people like Mr.. st. John Ervine-that
they are right every time! They may
say they are right. They may know
just how people ought to live, the very
accents, indeed, with which they ought
to speak-but just once, once in mil
lion times, they will be wrong, and then
there may be something of catas-
trophe!
Telling Truth Held One Motive.
will admit, however, that the desire
to tell the truth. to support a theory,
to play with an idea-this is motive
very active behind much Of the more
modern fiction of the day. Very often,
as in the case of Mr.. Huxley himself, 1t
leads to brilliant work, but very seldom,
1 think, to the novel. Mr.. Huxley Is as
ta1lly by nature and instinct a novelist
as a monkey is an association foot
6aller. They have certain obvious re-
eernblances, and the monkey-who is
rood deal cleverer and more agile than
8he foot baller-may wear jersey and
Ssrod a foot ball with his toe, but 1t Is
3nIv a charade. Mr.. Huxley takes the
novels disguise because he gains more
hearing for his ideas that way. He Is
heqinning to use the drama, most bril-
lfantly, for the same purpose.
Now the real noveliSt-the novelist
Ohio was born a novelist and will die
0ovelist-not Wells, but Arnold Bennett,
,Aot George Moore but GalSworthy, not
Stella Benson but Storm Jameson, not
aNyndham Lewis but Francis Brett
Young at will be seen from these names
Mat the question has nothing to do
SAith the relative quality of the artist)
Ibas only one main motive Tor writing
sHts novels. He may. want-ne almoss
certainly does want-fame, money, nee
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A 1aborious two-year effort to find
out why the moon, alone Of all the
heavenly bodies, erratically seems to
disobey the law of gravity has been
undertaken by astronomers here and
at number Of other places in the
United States and other parts Of the
world.
Computers Of the Naval Almanac
ONCE here are engaged in calculating
the occultationS of stars by the moon
two years in advance as they should be
observed from stations in Washington,
New England, Chicago and California.
These calculations will provide theo-
retical time table showing when the
moon Should" on the basis of present
knowledge, pass between various stars
and the earth.
Moon little Late or Early.
But, it is explained by Prof. James
Robertson, director of the Almanac
once, for some unexplained reason the
moon Is always o little later or a bit
early for those occultations, and never
exactly where 1t should be in its theo-
retical orbit. Astronomers can tell with
precision where the stars will be from
any point on the surface Of the earth
at any time, for they all obey the known
laws of gravity. If the moon were
equally law abiding, they could deter
mine its position just as exactly and
predict within small fraction of
second when 1t would pass between the
earth and q star.
The project undertaken here and else
where Is to make the calculations well
in advance and check them against as
many observations Of OSCILLATIONS as pos
sible. In this way 1t will be possible to
determine the variations between a
great many observed and calculated
times and try to work out some equa-
ton to explain the seemingly erratic
behavior Of the moon.
Calculations Carried Forward.
The American computers have calcu-
lated the theoretical time table for the
last six months for the four stations in
the United States and are carrying 1t
forward for the next two years. Similar
calculations have been undertaken by
the British Almanac Once for occulta-
tons at Glasgow, South Africa, India,
Australia and New Zealand, and OBJ
servatories in other countries are check
ing OSCILLATIONS with the calculated
times published by their own almanac
makers.
There Is no real reason, Prof. Robert
son says, to believe that the moon Is
not as obedient to the law of gravity as
any other object In the universe. The
astronomers probably have failed to take
into proper account some factor, posi-
nv the distribution OF mass IN the sun.
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physician which every community holds
before itself as an ideal in the hope
that some such human personality may
always be available for practice in Its
midst.
1t may be impossible to provide. in
this age of competition, just that sort
of devoted physician in ever community.
On the other hand. the medical pro-
fession can scarcely hope to be a dy-
manic force in the social order If it is
constantly put on the defensive. The
task of conserving and improving the
nations health belongs to it by right;
and yet far too frequently it falters and
follows, instead of leading. Too often
the community discovers that many of
its practitioners need to be prodded to
keep up with the advance Of medical
science.
Here. for instance, is a surgeon in a
little country town, standing beside
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Astronomers Seek to Find Why Moon
Seems to Disobey Law of Gravity

which affects its movements, and the
evidence being assembled for COMPARE
son with the calculations Is expected to
provide a clue that will go far toward
explaining the mystery.
About so stars will be hidden by the
moon during the next six months as it
passes over the meridian of Washington.
Other stars will be similarly shut out
from view at the other stations, and
Prof. Robertson hopes that a great num-
Der Of such observations will make It
possible at least to calculate with in
creased exactness the orbit of the moon,
even If they do not provide an explana-
ton of the variations.
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BY DIR. CHARLES GRAY SHAW,
Profesaor of PhiloSophy

Professor OF Philosophy.
N NATIONAL culture is noble ex-
N pertinent. The people are not
definitely opposed to it, the gov
i eminent has not prohibited it
and We can import it as some
thing on the free list of the new tariff.
But the American is queer bird.
The original American was a Yam
kee Doodle. who had the spirit of
cock doodle; he crowed about every
thing peculiar to the land of the free.
He was brought up on an antiTory diet
and became intoxicated with 1.-THE
Spirit Of rs" 1t was quite proper
then to say nasty things about Eng
land, but not so smart to say ridicu-
lous things about Europe generally.
But this was done on a large literary
scale by innocents both when at home
or abroad.
Writers Scoffed at Europe.
One hundred per cent American
Twain, wrote smugly about our own
land and snickered about things in
Europe. In Twains case it was, of
course. the idea that the laugh is