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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-08
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Faithful Service IinreWarded

For a number of years I have been
fairly consistent reader Of your COL
umn, but never before have I found
it necessary to solicit your help +.
1.-TWO pages OF symptoms) -. hoping
you have something to fit my case.
=. wv. M. w.
Answer-For as many years I have
been consistently trying to make read
ers understand that this Is no clinic
and that I am neither a long distance
diagnostician nor a wizard of absent
treatment. Any one who has any
symptoms to get off his chest should
tell EN- to his physician and to no
one else.
Bubbles
Are carbonated drinks acid or aka
line in effect on the system? Does
carbonic gas in drinks destroy vita
minis? IF. K)
AnSwer-The carbon dioxide Gear
bonic acid gas) with which drinks are
made sparkling or effervescent has
rather an alkaline effect. Carbon
dioxide tends to preserve. vitamins.
Somersaults and Some Are Not
Bad spell Of apoplexy three years
ago -. now good health but weak #.
blood pressure rises to .. memory
very poor am under doctors care
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Keep General Fraser
(Grand Forks HeraId)

North Dakota national guard Off
GERS have asked Governor-elect Will
liam LANCER to retain G. Angus Fraser
in the position of adjutant general of
the state, but they have little hope
that their request will be granted.
The replacement of General Fraser
will be a loss to the state military
forces. He has held the position for
number Of years. He Is familiar
with the needs of the guard, and has
been able to obtain consideration and
favors for the North Dakota national
guard that man less familiar with
the military regime at Washington
will be unable to get.
General Fraser is a veteran of the
Spanish American. the Philippine and
World wars. He has a wide &C
quaintance with men of high rank in
the army, for military men give more
consideration to war service than to
any other qualification. He has
an influence in Washington that a
younger man cannot have. An army
officer speaking of him recently. said
that General Fraser knew every turn
in the military pathways of the ma
tional capital and could obtain what
he wanted for North Dakota troops
with less loss Of motion than the COM
manders of states with much larger
military forces than North Dakota.
General Fraser has been elected
president Of the United States Ma
tional Guard association, an honor
that is usually given to men from
states that have at least a divisional
guard force instead of the regimental
force that North Dakota maintains.
At present he is president of the Ma
tional Rifle association, practically a
military organization.
To dispense with General Fraser
services at a time when a national
program Of economy may curtail fed
eral assistance to the state troops
seems to be mistake, and the Herald
urges that Mr.. LANCER overlook part
isan politics and retain a valuable
man regardless of his political affilia-
tons.
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or sneeze on the back of the neck of
the person just ahead In church, in
the theater or in other public gath
erings.
It is the consensus Of medical
opinion, think, that single isolated
infections, such as the lady may have
suffered by the bad habit of mois-
tening the pencil with tongue or lips,
do not produce tuberculosis. It Is
necessary that the infection be fire.
quently repeated over a period OF
time, as by cumming with one who
has the disease.
In any circumstance where exposure
to cri Is concerned beware Of the con-
versational spray.
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$1,OOO,O0O for Farm
Board Recommended

Washington, Dec. 8.-iR)-A 81, 000.-
600 appropriation for running the
farm board during the next fiscal
year was recommended to congress
Wednesday in the presidents annual
budget message.
This represents an increase of $780,
600 over the present year. The larg-
er amount was advocated Ito eliminate
the necessity for administrative fur
loughs."
If the full million Is approved by
congress, farm board officials said, q
number of employees who had been
dismissed or furloughed would be
returned to the payroll. During the
current year the staff has been cur
tailed from $50 to 205 employees.
A $4O,000.000 appropriation was
made for the board last July for wheat
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There exists at this moment q grave
crisis across the Pacific, a crisis which,
If it is not treated both fairly and
firmly, may endanger not alone the
powers Immediately concerned but all
the worlds great powers as well-and,
not least Of all, the United States of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. w. Warren Bar
bour of New Jersey.
\ X
am not going to discuss the mer-
its Of my indictment by the Cook
county grand jury. That is purely a
legal question which must take its
course. am content to rely on the
justice Of my cause and the upright
ness OF Greece.-Samuel insult, for
mer utility car now in Athens.
A woman has all she can do in the
care of one man, whether it be a hus-
band, father, a brother, or someone
else. She has no time to NEEDLE in
things she doesn't Understandable.
Fritz Kreisler, wife of the violinist.
X X X
I do not believe that prohibition
primarily is responsible for the reign
Of lawlessness, and I do not think
there is any ideal method by which
the liquor problem may be solved
Senator Joseph T. Robinson OF Ar
kansas.
I thought 1t only fair that I should
not stick on, so that others might get
q chance Of promotion.-Sir Henry
Fielding Dickens, "a, son Of the Brit
ish novelist, on his retirement.
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waved his hand, dismissing the no
ton. But Mrs. Morgan agreed
that Thatcher Colt might question
the little girl, if it ever became
necessary, unless her father OBJ
jected. Mr.. Morgan was not then
at home.
For the second time that night,
we left the house and returned to
the street. There were q dozen
questions clamoring in my mind,
but the mood of Thatcher Colt
forbade any inquiry just then.
"A ioness of a woman, that Fe-
lise Morgan" was his only COM
ment.
Indeed, when his mind is work
ing on a problem in crime, Thatch-
er Colt is never a talkative man.
All the way to Headquarters he
was silent and commemorative,
smoking his pipe as he lounged
back in the car. Center Street was
deserted when we reached the
grim old Department building,
with its marble trim and its orna-
mental iron, very massive and
Georgian in the December night.
/ was glad to get inside, for there
was a raw, pneumonia wind
abroad. As we walked through
the vaulted stone corridors, past
the marble tablets carved with the
names of policemen and detectives
who died in the nerformanre NJ
their duty, our footsteps echoed
on the resounding flagstones. Still
Thatcher Colt remained silent, but
the very atmosphere of the old
building, a place Of badges, rain
coats, billies, caps and handouts,
seemed to charge him with new
life. No Commissioner ever loved
the Department with more ardent
or fantical interest.
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THE UNCONSIDERED SOURCE OF
INFECTION

A correspondent says she was call
ing OH friend who has pulmonary
tuberculosis. Her friend asked for her
telephone number. The visitor wanted
to write the telephone number on
card. The invalid handed her PEN
Gil. Without thinking of what she
was doing the visitor put the point OF
the pencil upon her lips or tongue to
moisten it. Now she is alarmed and
wishes to know what precaution she
can take to prevent infection.
! Too late! Too late! If the lady Is
destined to contract tuberculosis from
| her sick friend the infection probably
occurred while she was chatting with
the patient and before she used the
pencil at ali.
OF course it is possible that the pa
tient had just moistened the tip of
the pencil with her saliva, and, if her
tuberculosis is active, some bacilli may
have been deposited on the pencil tip.
But even If a transfer of tubercle ba-
cilli were accomplished in this in
! direct way, it is highly improbable
| that they can gain foothold in the
body of the visitor. Even few mo-
ments of exposure of the tubercle ba-
cilli to the baneful effects Ito them)
! of dryness, daylight and the compar-
atively low room temperature (Which
is far below what tubercle bacilli are
accustomed to and require if they are
to live or thrive), renders the germs
innocuous if it does not kill them.
! Assuming the patient has active
tuberculosis (and therefore tubercle
! bacilli are being given off in the spu-
/ tum), If visitor stands or sits within
five feet the visitor is being sprayed
with spray of moisture or mucus
droplets, most of them invisibly mi
mute, some of them perhaps contain
| ing tubercle bacilli, all the while the
patient chats with her.
That is the usual mode of infection
with any or all respiratory infections,
| believe.
The public has been fairly well edu
Gated about the danger of the spray
of coughing or sneezing, but con-
tend that the health authorities have
subordinated public welfare to their
own popularity or their reluctance to
offend some prudish dictate of good
taste. At any rate they have re-
manned silent about the danger of
conversational spray, and there can
| be no reasonable question that this is
quite as dangerous as cough or sneeze
spray is, the only difference being
that conversational spray has a range
of five feet or less, while cough or
sneeze spray has range of 10 to IL
feet.
Among intelligent or polite people
open face coughing or Sneezing is now
as objectionable as is splitting
on the floor. Still there are plenty
of Doors who do not hesitate to cough
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Barbs

In his later campaign speeches
Hoover was termed the fighting
Quaker" Now, let's see-werent
those old Quakers supposed to take it
on the chin and then turn the other
cheek?
The Democrats spent more than
1927 900 during the current cam
paign; Republicans spent 1855 900.
The question now is: was it worth
It?
Along about this time Of the
year we cold sufferers commence
20 wish some brilliant scientist
would discover the influe n "a
germ-and keep It!
\ y \
Late hours, an English scientist
contends, are not good for one. But
they're just the thing for two.
= = =
The big question Of the day
now is-what does . straw-vote
expert do between elections?
= = =
Conditions must be returning ia
normal. after all. -Four persons were
killed and an unknown number
wounded IN the Cuban election day
battles.
Copyright. 1892, NEA Service. 1nc.)
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pert, and similar mysteries. Not
all OF his morning, however, was
spent in the college. While wait
ing for his first caller, he ex-
planned to me that he had done
some solitary providing in Wash
ington Square, just after break
fast, and had learned two inter-
esting facts.
Il talked with q girl named Liz
zie Clark" he explained, with a
g!int of amusing Renaissance in
his eye. "She is a nurse-maid for
an Italian family living in the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lizzie re-
members seeing two women leave
the house, where Maskell has his
office, on the afternoon of Christ
mas Eve. What fixed it in her
mind was that each of the women
carried a large bottle, almost the
size Of a Jug"
Can you be certain one of them
was Gearldine Foster?" INQUIRED.
NO." admitted the Commits.
sioner,. with q sigh. "But there
was a large jug-like bottle in Mas
kells office last night - and near
IT some wrapping paper with a tag.
showing three bottles to be deliv-
cred before three p. m. on Christ.
mas Eve"
He spoke lightly and yet could
tell there was a worried note in
his voice.
"Also." added the Commission
er, Doctor Maskell has left town."
Where on earth"
Right you are Where on earth?
Checkles doesn't know. No one
seems to know. The smiling doc
Tor OF Washington Square has de.
camped. He eluded my man. an
hour after he began to tail him.
But Why shouldn't he 20 away?
mere are no charges against him."
was alert to ask for more
details, but Captain Laird arrived
and l went back to my notes.
The chief Of the Bureau Of
missing Persons promptly stated,
as his theory, that the rirl was
alive and in deliberate hiding. He
pointed out that she had remained
away before for days at a time.
so far, it is just like any one
Of a number Of such cases." argued
Captain Laird. 1--WE have them
all the time. / am certain The
girl will return"
81 hope you are right" said the
chief emphatically. "But there
are elements in this disappearance
which make ma skonf;rof r..
remarks over the telephone and
in that fragment Of note = also
the curious mystery Of the fur
coat and the purse. And now
Maskell has run out on us. Makes
me remember other cases that
were not so simple, Captain. You
remember Alice Corbett?"
Captain Laird remembered ner.
On Friday, November 13, 1928.
Alice Corbett, 4 junior student.
vanished from Smith College. in
Northampton, Massachusetts,.
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The Flash of an Eye

Briefly and naturally, Thatcher
Colt explained who he was and
why he was there. But at the
very mention of Geraldine Fos-
ter's name q CLEAN flashed dan
gerously from the woman's blue
eyes. -.
II knew nothing about Geraldine
Foster" she answered firmly.
Making no comment upon the
evident spirit with which this state
ment was made, Thatcher Colt re-
peated to her the story that had
Just been told to him by Doctor
Maskell. To all its details Mrs.
Morgan nodded confirmingly. It
was true that her little daughter,
Doris, had helped the doctor with
the distribution Of his Christmas
presents. II was true that they
had been gone on their trip about
the length Of time fixed by Mas
kell.
Knight W talk to your daugh-
tart" suggested Colt.
ssShe q asleep," protested The
mother, upon which Thatcher Colt
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and he tells me to am rolling
somersaults every day. What should
I do-continue with your treatment
or take the purgative the doctor pre-
ScribeS? IN. o. j.
Answer-What do you mean my
treatment? I think any man Is a
fool to have q doctor and not obey
the doctors orders.
Copyright, John F. Ollie CO..
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CHAPTER TX.
HAD started down the whit
marble steps of the house or

marble steps of the house OF
Washington Square, North
when l was suddenly halted by a
brief, tense wor from Thatcher
Cold. Looking back, l saw that he
was standing in the vestibule, his
pocket electric torch playing over
the municipalities beside the door
bells. AS l returned to his side, he
was pressing a button near the
name "Gilbert Morgan"
Presently the familiar clicking
of the latch was heard and once
again the front door yielded to my
hand on the knob. Up the broad
staircase l followed my chief, to
the second floor, where we found
a woman standing at an open door,
her face in shadow, but her blonde
hair was radiant in the fall of
yellow light from a lamp suspend
ed above and behind her head.
"Is this Mrs. Morgan?" asked
Colt promptly.
without Immediately replying
the woman looked at him close
" and meanwhile studied her.
In spite of all that has since been
said against her, I have always
maintained that Mrs. Morgan was
a beautiful woman. Odd as this
may sound to those who know the
history of the case, / neverther-
less mean beautiful in its finest
sense, There was more than pref
tiness to her soft and gentle fea.
lures, and the tragic restlessness
of her large lustrous blue eyes.
She was a young woman, and, ]
repeat it, beautiful, but there was
. lifetime Of suffering in the
watchful eyes, in the very tone
which she greeted Us.
81 am Felise Morgan" she re-
piled. "What is it you wish"
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and cotton which was distributed to
the needy. No amount for this pur-
pose was recommended for next year.
The budget dealt only with admin
istrative expenses. A total OF $780,
000, 900 already has been made avail
able to the board as revolving fund
for aid to cooperative associations.
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The Sales Tax Again :


Proposal by President Hoover to
broaden the sales tax may have
sharper repercussions in North Da-
kota than In most other states be-
cause . state sales tax Is being pro-
posed here As q means Of balancing
North Dakota,S budget.
10 be sure, the suggestion has al
ways been accompanied by the pro-
viso that It would be an emergency
measure. But on the other hand no
one doubts that the fiscal situation
which the next legislature faces will
come under that classification.
A. = practical matter, however. .
federal sales tax would act to prevent
the enactment Of q duplicate levy by
the state. II the federal government
provides for such : tax there will be
no escaping II. Il. in addition, the
afate enaStS = tar Of its own. the cf-
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(Official City, State and County
Newspaper
Foreign Representatives
SMALL. SPENCER, BREWER
(Incorporated)
CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON
Drawing a Jury


eral defects in our system Of jury
drawing and at the same time adj
mitted that he. as judge, was power
less in the case at issue to revoke a
panel improperly drawn. OF course
there was not at any time hint or
suggestion of fraud. Irregularities
merely were shown.
Speaking Of some sections, Judge
Mcfarland admitted that there are
perennial jurymen. Their faces APP
pear term after term until some law
yers jocularly refer to them as pro-
fessional jurors.
Litigants as rule don't like this
system in the trial of their lawsuits.
They dislike the professional juror or
the witness who offers his services
voluntarily. II the foundations of our
jury system are weakened. the whole
structure Of justice topples.
Occasionally We hear it charged
that prospective jurors are selected
because Of political pull or to re-
duce the strain on the poor list, the
assignment being considered sort OF
job.
Wherever this is true, justice oper-
ates under an obvious handicap. Such
jurors are too likely to make an eff
fort to curry favor in order that their
services may be repeated.
Every defect in the jury system UNI
dermines justice In our courts. The
juryman Is the foundation of our en-
tire judicial system and the process
Of selecting men and women for this
duty cannot be too strongly safe
guarded.
That the jury for the December
term Of the Burleigh county district
court was challenged Is no reflection
upon the persons whose names ap-
pear on the list. The challenge was
not directed to their ability, integrity
or Intelligence but to the system by
which their names were selected.
What casts a shadow upon the
whole business Is the fact that there
was an insufficient number of names
In the jury box when the drawing
was made and that the law regarding
proportional representation in the
jury box was not observed.
The whole situation is deplorable
and one that should be remedied,
either by change in the law or by
the insistence of the public servants
charged with jury selection tnat the
job be taken more seriously and the
existing statutes be adhered to more
scrupulously.
LtigantS facing criminal or civil
proceedings are entitled to considera-
ton at the hands of jury selected
in every respect in strict accordance
with law. To laymen. legal vagaries
are a mystery. Why the courts
hands should be tied in matter so
important as jury selection they can
not grasp.
II out Of the challenge of the draw
ing of the Burleigh county jurymen
for this term comes a more careful
compliance with the law, the issue
has been well raised. Practices not
strictly in conformance with law
should cease or else members of the
bar, backed by an aroused citizenry,
should see to 1t that Burleigh county
jurymen are drawn as the law pro-
vides. II the laws respecting the Sc
lection Of juries in this state are
vague and loose there should be no
delay in applying the proper remedy.
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(ls|
YORK
s|l5as}
OFF THE CUFF

OFF THE CUFF
New York, Dec. S.-Notes from q
convenient cuff: One treater there
is In Manhattan where the stand
ing room only" sign is never hung
For no one ever stands =. Neither
are there ushers to show the audi
ence to seats Nor feet to stumble
over getting to a seat -. The au-
dience arrives In wheel chairs! -.
IT'S the newly opened little play
house in the Home for IncurableS
and accommodates about 800 per-
sons.
GOOD PROP EFFECT
Most alert and inventive creatures
wandering the sidewalks of New
York are the "pitchmen," otherwise
known as the lads of "the tripes and
keyster" tripods and cases, as We
have previously explained.) They
seize each break. however. insignific-
ant, and push to the ultimate those
intervals between the appearance Of
policemen with their move on"
warning.
But something approximating the
'pay-off' might have been noted the
other day just off Times Square ;. (.
A couple of mountain peaks. prob
ably scheduled to decorate a Wag-
merriam opera, had been placed just
outside the stage door of the Metrop-
olitan :. =. Along comes pitch"
with collection of papier mache
birds =. Within 10 minutes. hun
dred birds were perching on the crags
and levels Of the scenery and the
pitchman was yodeling: Take home
a Hartz mountain canary!" :. Now
I ask you'll
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RECOMMENDS RESERVE FUNDS

RECOMMENDS RESERVE FUNDS
Nav York. Dec. 8-LFETo MINI
mize future depressions, Prof. Sumner
H. Slichter of Harvard proposed We'd
nesday that industry In boom times
establish reserve fund In federal re-
serve banks. His proposal was made
at an economic round table Of the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers. This fund would be an I'M
employment reserve accumulated
from extra profits in boom times.
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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 Tribune's policies.
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
By William Brady. NJ. D.

Signed
diagnosis treatment will be answered by
selfadded envelope enclosed Letters should written
In No reply made queries conforming nstc
ons Address DR.. William Brady this newspaper.
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The enrolment of Columbia uni
versity in New York is about $500
resident students and about 10000
nonresident ones.
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A machine has been invented In
England to hang wall paper.
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EDUCATING ANIMALS

Into the columns of Billboard,
bible Of the outdoor world" fire.
quently creep advertisements which
appeal to the imagination and the
bump of curiosity.
Thus. read in a current issue that
"a sea lion tanner is at liberty" And
what, may ask, can a jobless sea-
Evening star., 1932-01-19

composers is to be called upon to write
an anthem for the corps, and one of
the best painters will be commissioned
to perpetuate the corps on canvas.