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Evening star., 1932-03-22

needs to watch her diet, keeping her
waistline in place.
We advise her to do stretching exer-
cises and to straighten the curve in her
back, which comes from incorrect pos
ture. Flattening ones self against a
wall until shoulders, buttocks and waist
all touch the wall Is a great help.
"She% needs to strengthen the dia-
phragm muscles. They need to be toned
Lp. It isn't so hard really. If one truly
wants to achieve q waistline'
Evening star., 1932-03-22

z. E. N.-A paradox pronounced
pare-a-dox) is a statement or propo-
sition which on the face of it seems
self-contradictory, absurd, or at vari-
ance with common sense, though, on
investigation or when explained, it may
prove 70 be well founded. Therefore. it
is incorrect TO speak of seeming para
dox, since the idea of seeming is car
ried in the word paradox. Omit SEEM
ing
Evening star., 1932-03-22
REGULAR Delivery

Over 100000 families read The
Star every day. The great ma
jority have the paper delivered
regularly every evening and Sum-
day morning at a cost of ~
cents daily and 5 cents Sunday.
If you are not taking advantage
Of this regular service at this low
rate, telephone National 5000 now
and service will start tomorrow
Evening star., 1932-03-22

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anonymous letter in
NaoeL of legal
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ALWAYS the purpose the mory
letters rightly supreme contempt.
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letter
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instance
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dress that she
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needs
diet or Mr. gets evbodys
ment topic that comes
perbans that
mig well take DOROTHY
Evening star., 1932-03-22

It matters little what It Is that you
want-whether situation or a serv-
ant-a WANT ad In The Star win reach
the person who will I'LL your need.
Evening star., 1932-03-22
DOROTHY DK'S LETTER BOX

FAD 1opoTHY DIx-What do think
tsIs Some time article to me anonymously
faults that it
@ think that would have been lots
with me? WONDEH1NG
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-28
Highway Consolidation

When the next legislature begins
consideration of road matters it is more
than probable that some one will dig
up the records of North Carolina and
suggest that North Dakota follow
that states lead.
In North Carolina road conStruc-
ton, township, county and state, is
financed from motor vehicle and
gasoline license taxes and is done
under the direction of the state
highway department. County and
township boards have no jurisdiction,
even over the less used roads in their
own areas.
The effect of the law has been a
slackening Of construction on North
Cardinals main highways but pro-
ponents Of the plan claim that it has
reduced the costs of the states road
expenditures.
Main opposition to such proposal
in North Dakota probably would
come from those who oppose extern
sion Of state control over local opera
tons. The tendency of the next legiS-
lature probably will be to return to
the counties, cities and townships
those duties and rights which have
been usurped by the state in the past
rather than to further concentrate
those activities under a central state
bureau.
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ing wet feet and similar discomforts,
or that they are passing out Of the
pedestrian class.
In 1929 their sales In the United
States totaled Sill 100000 as COM
pared with $88,0OoooO in 1880, $751;
100000 in 1881 and about $32, 100000
in 1892. This is drop from 8 to
rs cents per capita in four years.
Part of the decrease Is due to the
drop in unit prices, so per cent on
some items, and to the further fact
that an improved product wears
longer, but the most cogent reason,
according to some observers, is the
fact that automobiles now bridge
many puddles which formerly caused
the American citizen to wear rubbers
and galoshes.
1t Is improbable that the down.
ward trend for the nation as whole
is reflected here in the northwest.
In severe weather substantial foot
wear is a protection for health as
we'll as necessity for comfort and
the general situation is not fully felt
in this area.
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Selling Wheat
Duluth Herald)

CooperativeS representing Cana
dian wheat growers are sending men
to the Orient to sell wheat now on
hand and to build up permanent
markets.
Exports of wheat from Canada in
the week ending Nov. II were more
than six million bushels. Shipments
from the United States amounted to
less than half million bushels.
The policy under federal farm
board direction in the United States
seems to have been to hold wheat
for higher prices while attempting
to limit acreage in this one country
The plan in Canada seems to be to
sell the grain and get it eaten up by
folks who in the future may buy
more.
Apparently, the United States will
carry over three hundred seventy
million bushels of wheat this year,
nearly equal to the entire crop of
four hundred thirty million bushels
in Canada, and fifty-six per cent of
the carry-over of the five principal
producing countries of the world.
AS selling organization, the farm
board seems to be less capable than
the farmers organizations of our
northern neighbor.
But maybe the board is planning
to guard against crop failure. We
shall have in our record carry-over
this year enough wheat to furnish
food. feed and seed for year of
almost total failure throughout the
land. There is nothing like being
safe!
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The Lame-Duck Amendment

The lame-duck session of congress
probably will become a thing of the
past after this year Thirty
legislatures will meet n 1888 and all
of them will be called upon to ap-
prove or reject the constitutional
amendment to eliminate delays in in
stalling new national administra-
tionS.
To date no legislature has rejected
it and indications are that the sup
port necessary to make it a part of
the nations fundamental law will
have been forthcoming before the
next election rolls around.
Little trouble is expected in secur-
ing approval by the North Dakota
legislature. This state has indicated
a desire for rapid governmental &C
ton and the amendment would in
sure that in national affairs. Under
its provisions, the president AMI con-
gresS elected in November would
take office in January.
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Barbs

A Cleveland councilman has intro
duced legislation to abolish the ZOO.
Cleveland. however, need not be with
out amusement; the people always can
60 to council meetings.
X X X
A dispatch froTa one of the CT
ties visited by Candidate Roo &C.
welt said business stood Still"
while the governor was il town.
And what was unus'. III about
that?
X X - }
Michigan State &C :lege will inau-
gurate a, course "A horse shoeing.
Probably to accom-, .lodate the football
squad.
Governor l3inchot says we think
too much of our bankrolls. Well,
there's no harm in reminiscing
once in while.
tx \. X
Henry Ford recently repeated his
first suggestion to his employees that
1T might be a Smart thing to vote for
President Hoover, probably to just let
them feel sure THAT he wasn't spool
ing.
n X
Some of the leading speakers
in the presidential campaign urg-
ed the peoplel to do some "clear,
sane thinkingt" But they won't
begin to do I that really until
along about january.
Copyright, 1884, NEA Service, Inc.)
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THE DARK HOURS

I was in the station about three
hours, during which time I did my
best to convert the police to Com
munism, without, am afraid, much
success. - Tom Mann, British labor
leader expelled from Ireland.
X y X
If the nations of the world at one
time entertained doubts about their
solidarity, today, facing the world,
they must admit solidarity at least in
misery.-Paul Reynaud, former minis
ter of justice of France.
X x \
wonder if a neWsreel of a parade
of British soldiers before the king Of
England would be interpreted as
monarchistic observation-disclosures
de MARITIME, retiring Italian ambassa-
dor to the United States.
X X X
1t is my Judgment that the world
has set it's face toward the goal of
peace. - Senator Alben Barley of
Kentucky.
X x X
External difficulties lie ahead in
connection with our Manchurian pol
icy, and We are faced with the i'm
poverishment of the rural commune
ties, the distress of the smaller mer-
chants and industrialistS. the depres-
sion in trade, the growth of unem-
ployment and the increasing confu-
sion of thought. - Admiral Makoto
SaitO nremier of Tanan
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-28
PennSylvania'S Forests

Pennsylvania, which has some
100000 acres of marginal and un-
productive farm land is growing new
state forests as the result of work
done by men on the poor relief lists.
The men work in the woods, produce
ing firewood for the use of their fam
lilies and for sale, and improving the
forest situation by removing dead
timber and thinning out underbrush.
The result is expected to be improve
ment in the quality of lumber pro-
duced by the forests and more rapid
growth of the trees as well as reduc-
ton Of the fire hazard
On this basis Pennsylvania is a
leader but, on the basis of planting
10000 acres year to trees, it will
be $50 years before it gets all the idle
land in the state back into produc-
ton.
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help he would give would be OF no
assistance to the agricultural grad
yates. Dad should know by this time
that as fast as these graduates sour
ry back home he or some OF his
neighbors will have to feed them and
donate salaries, etc.
As soon as the agitation grew tense
with reference to letting few
Of these gentry 60 and the question
was about to come up for vote, how
the boys and girls clubs grew. Why
they multiplied like rats. Every pa
per one picked up, had something in
it about another boy and girl club
that was just organized. Homemak-
ers clubs, too, Slprang up like crop
of mushrooms. Home economics was
being taught in every nook and cram
ny and one would wonder how we
had succeeded in days gone by and
before we had county agents. I have
heard of stopping the old cow to get
the calf, but this was the rule reversed
- stopping the calf to get the vote
of the old cow-and it worked too.
In this (Kidder county, there was
extra help put on in the office OF
the county agent 1.-TWO extra helpers)
and the U. S. mail was kept full of
letters directed to the rural class,
asking them to support the county
agent. The Agricultural college at
Fargo did its bit, too, and every mail
that went into the country was
freighted with its pleadings that the
county agent be retained. Isn't 1t
rather queer that an office that is SO
beneficial to the public should have
to put up such a strenuous fight Tor
its life just before the election?
Not long ago we had a talk with a
gentleman from Bismarck-a man
whom we consider one of the most
brainy business men in Bismarck
and he told us that at the beginning
of the activities of the county agent
in Burleigh county he and others,
business men of Bismarck, had chip
ped in and paid for the services OF
the county agent out of their own
pockets for the first year and half.
And" said he, lit is plain to me that
the rural districts don't want the
county agent, but We, the city people,
voted him on them" He went on to
say that he did not believe it was
right. That if the rural people didn't
want county agent then the city
people should get along with him.
He also said that many people iii the
city who did not pay a cent Of tax,
were in favor of the county agent
because he was good man socially.
1 wonder what the city people
would say if the rural folk-if they
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where there is any sudden demand
for muscular effort and endurance.
Cross Eye
Three year old son tends to cross
left eye. A doctor said he will grow
out of it. Giving him eye exercises
several times daily. Will this cure
him? (R. NJ
AnsWer-Unable form opinion on
data given. If the doctor" is an
eye physician of good standing the
treatment may be correct. Nowadays
one never knows what a layman may
not call doctor"
Raw Liver
Chances of getting tape worm,
meat poisoning or other affliction
from eating unlocked liver obtain
ed from the ordinary butcher shop?
(E. L.
Answer-Beef or calf liver, If clean
in the cut, is safe. Reject any liver
that shows any little spots, blad-
ders, measles or unusual appearance
in the fresh slice.
Copyright, John F.. die CO..
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.or,d-vere to vote on them city
agent. We have mental picture OF
inst how the city agent would come
out if he went into stores IN Ine c,ey
of Bismarck and began telllng tne
proprietors how to arrange tneH
stocks of goods. I am of the opinion
that he would come out the back way
in a hurry. Not so, however, WIN
the patient farmer. He has long
since become accustomed to having
his business run by others ana real
ICES now that all he has to do III the
premises is to do the work and pay
his taxes. well" say some. inns
tax for the county agent dont
amount too much, only about 63c per
quarter section of land" Well, what
if that is true, the matter involved at
the time of the Boston Tea Party
was not large either but our fore
fathers saw that if the matter was
not taken in hand then it would
develop into matters of greater mag
nitude; so they stopped it. And 1t IS
nv best Judgment that if this mat
ter Of county agents is not taken III
hand at once 1t will not be long pc
fore we will have township agent
for every township in the state ana
one will be crowded clear out OF ones
kitchen by assistants OF the county
and township agents. They, or some
Of them, will have your kids out OF
bed in the morning before you are
up, washing, dressing, and scrubbing
teeth, but bear in mind that you will
be paying the fiddler COR rather the
agents. and your farm would not be
big enough for playground for
them.
What's the remedy? Let me give
you my opinion. Just cut off the ap-
preparation for their salaries at the
next session of the legislature in
January, 1888, and see how quickly
the good agent will vamoose.
In two years they would be as ex-
tinct as the dodo. Ask yourself this,
question: Is there any other coun-
ty official (big hearty mem who
must justify the drawing of their
salaries by teaching how to keep
house, how to economize in the home
and how to raise calves, pigs and
chickens?
Instruct your representatives to
make no appropriations for the next
biennium. period for this office, and
if none is made, you will then hear
another roar for the higher author
tiles who want you to assist with crop
reports, etc.
Yours truly,
j. N. McCARTER.
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Peoples Forum

Editors Note.-The Tribune well
comes letters on subjects Of in
terest. Letters dealing with con-
troversial religious subjects, which
attack individuals unfairly, or
which offend good taste and fair
play will be returned to the
writer's. All letters MUST be sign ed.
If you wish to use a pseudonym,
sign the pseudonym first and your
own name beneath it. We will re-
spect such requests. We reserve
the right to delete such parts Of
letters as may be necessary to
conform to this policy.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
CnDor

Very fond o. sugar, and every one
says it's bad for me and they humble
something about kidneys. Swimming
is my chief exercise. I am % and
would like to know q. Cd. NJ
Answer-Any child or youth who
plays hard or gets plenty of exercise
such as swimming, may take sugar in
any form quite freely with benefit
It is only the mollycoddles, the work
dodgers, the sport fans and the old
sters who just sit or ride or have n.y.
sterics at the game or in the grand
stand who must beware of INDUCING
the craving for sugar. Sugar, either
refined cane or beet sugar or any
natural sugar, is the best of foods
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befurr lang y'r book'll be filled and
you'll have to be buying some new
covers" commented Lauder. When
others joked about this later, Sir
Harry added that the real reason was
that he was saving ink for the sign
ing of contracts.
Fact is that this book is invaluable
and one OF BroadWay's treasured keep
sakeS.
X X X
THE DARK HOURS
Grimly enough, it was while re-
hearsing play titled, 1.-The Dark
Hours that Don Marquis was
stricken with partial blindness!
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I'm
NEW
YORK
Gilt
OFF-STAGE TRAGEDIES

OFF-STAGE TRAGEDIES
New York, Nov. 28.-(P)-A recent
cycle of death, affliction or severe
illness among prominent folk I have
known and liked has made me almost
jittery over opening kilograms.
Old Bill Morris no longer will greet
one with his quiet chuckle and inquire
for the umpty-hundredth time: Say,
Gid you ever sign my gold book?" -.
Belle Bennett, who used to help me
out years ago when she was starred
at the old Olcazar in San Francisco
and I was lad chasing around for
stage notes, is dead, too Don
Marquis has been tragically stricken
with a malady which threatens his
eyesight E. Nal Douglas has had
to quit the cast of his show.
X X 4
A DECEPTIVE ROLE
Life and the theater have tangled
strangely in the case of Douglas. We
teran of the Mansfield troupes. NAL
colin became one Of the better known
character players and usually was
cast as a suave, unfaithful husband in
those .'sophisticated'' comedies. In
the Players Club and the theater, it
was known that Douglas wife was
hopelessly i'll from a disease which
fingered on for many months and
kept the devoted husband almost
frantic. On stage he was a roue; off
stage, one of the fondest of husbands.
When his wife died, Mails health
was affected for some time. Last
winter, his weakened condition led to
double pneumonia. His chance for
recovery seemed slim. But early in
the fall he was about the theater
again, and, despite his long absence.
walked into the famous all-star cast
of Dinner at Eight"
The role in which he was cast was
that OF a business man, who has been
stricken with serious ailment but
told no one save his doctor. In real
life, Nal Douglas was going back to
the stage against the advice of his
doctor. who felt the actor was not
yet sufficiently strong. Nor was he.
Last week Douglas-himself facing
serious illness unless he quit--Was
forced to leave the cast.
*'* X
A BROADWAY TREASURE
And that big gold-bound book in
the William Morris offices would send
autograph hunters into fever. Nor
ris had asked thousands of notables
and near-notables to jot down a few
lines in 1T. He had managed such We
terans as Eva Tanguay, Nora Bayes,
Nat Wills, Will Rogers and AL Jolson:
although 1t had particularly amused
him to manage such folk as william
Jennings Bryan and Laura Jean Lib
by. One of the best Morris bets was
Harry Lauder.
! And one Of the amusing yarns about
the big gold book is associated with
the So tch comic. Lauder, asked to
write something. looked at the gold
covering and was advised that this
was real plated gold leaf. Whereup-
on, when he penned his entry, Lau-
der selected a tiny corner and wrote
in minute script.
/ I'm thinkin' y'd better moot be
lettin' folk take SO much space, or
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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 Tribunes policies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-28
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY William Brady, M. ID.

health
will answered
Letters should
No conforming instruc
Address William Brady this
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-28

In 1924 Daniel Webster was re-
elected to congress by a vote of 1890
out of a total Of 5000 votes cast.
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The Vanishing Pedestrian

Aue VdulSuluX euSSITI du
Data offered by the rubber foot
wear industry indicates that the peo-
pie Of the United States are either
harder than they used to be, ignor-
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.AGIN' COUNTY AGENTS
Steele, N. D., Nov. %, 1882

Steele, N. D., Nov. %, 1882.
Editor, Tribune:
We have just read in the Tuttle
Times, published at Tuttle, North
Dakota. that at the last election nine
more counties in this state have de-
cided that they can and will struggle
along without county agent. We
do not know just how they intend to
do that but the fact remains that
they so elected. What an awful jolt
that will be to the members of the
Home Demonstration (Homemakers
clubs who have not yet learned how
to make homes for their families and
who, therefore, must call to their as
sistance good husky men like the
county agents to advise them just
how to go about making home for
their brood. Back in the days when
the writer was boy our mothers
managed in some mysterious way to
get us to bed and to our meals with
out the aid and assistance of a coun-
ty agent. And we will affirm that
poor old Dad never ate a meal that
was prescribed by county agent.
He lived, too, to a ripe old age and
at no time did he ever pay any taxes
for the maintenance of any field
agents who taught home economies.
Some say that all we spend for coun-
ty agents is mere bagatelle and
that we should not kick. Well, let's
get busy and recite the laws with
reference to county agents extension
work and see just how much was
appropriated in the last two sessions
of the legislature for this work. Ses-
sion laws 1929, page AZ, provides as
follows: There Is hereby appropriated
out of any moneys in the state treas
ury not otherwise appropriated the
sum Of $1l7,773.64 or SO much there
of as may be necessary to pay the
general expense in carrying out the
work of the extension division of the
Agricultural college, Fargo, N. Oak.
Now this money is appropriated as
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-28
.$334,363.66

Total 1884 1863 &c
Now, if climbing from the meager
sum of $117,773.64, to the neat little
sum of 1894 1886, from 1929 to 1881
isn't going some, then We wot not
what it is. We now have % county
agents and in A. D. 1881 we had p
The appropriation of $334,363.66 IT
the rate per capita of at least !. 5000
each and, in addition to .senat sum,
the U. S. governm y. under the
Smith-Lever bill Tappropriates as
much more. rr.ew If this was to be
allowed to - unchallenged and we
were to h we county agent for each
county IN the state-what would the
har', st be-? At least two million dol
lars per year just to them alone.
There was time when the county
agent could justify his office by say
ing he could teach us how to raise
more and better crops. That time is
gone, however, for now we know that
the more we raise the less we have,
so the agent must justify his exis-
tence-if at abby showing us how
he is worth his salary while helping
our housewives to make doughnuts,
waffles, flapjacks or tomato catsup
in the HomemakerS clubs.
How we will miss his teachings in
the eight counties which have reck-
lessly discarded him. How the home
economics will suffer, now that he is
no more. How the little boys and
girls will weep, and gnash their teeth
that now they have no one to teach
them how to raise bull calves.
OF course, Dad might assist them
some If he was not too lazy; but any
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We would like to know from
whence cometh the estimated income.
If any one ever got any income out
of county agent it must have been
his family. Certainly no taxpayer
ever did,
Now, we have given you the ap-
preparation for 1929, and next. in
order to convince you that it is high
ly necessary to keep our weather eye
on the indicator lest we are bank
rupt paying county agents, and to
convince the most credulous thai
something should be done now, we
will quote to you the appropriations
for the year 1881, thusly: emitting
the appropriation title, we find that
the county agent gets as follows:
/. County Agent .........$121, 1922 90
T1o1I ,{c ala