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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-08
mamie MAIDEN IS
AMONCLEADERSAT
STATE INSTITUTE.
Stutsman and Barnes County
Girls Awarded Trophies in
Home Economics
PAGE STEER GRAND CHAMP
Hereford Exhibited BY Alvin
Trieber, Hebron, Is Victor
in Its Class
PAGE STEER GRAND CHAM

Fargo, N. D., Dec. 8.-(F-Lucille
Buzzell, Courtenay, Stutsman county,
and Verna Bruins of Valley City, In
Barnes county, were awarded tro-
phies by Phi Epsilon Omicron, ma
tional honorary home economies fra
ternity, at the North Dakota Agri-
cultural college Wednesday night for
GU t standing accomplishments in
clothing and foods club projects.
Trophies were presented at the an
nual banquet program attended by
nearly 400 All club members and
leaders and many Fargo residents.
Mary Jane Phelps, Mimic, Walsh
county, was winner of the dress re-
vue held as part of the program.
She was awarded first place in the
cotton school dress division. Second
was Borghild Headland of Fargo and
Jeanella Mccormick, Temple, in
Williams county, was third.
In the tailored wool dress class the
winners in the order of their placing
were Mamie MAIDEN, Braddock, Bur-
leigh county; Dorothy Saumur,
Grand Forks, and Wilma Myers, Mi
not.
In the semi-tailored silk dress di-
vision the winners were Clara Zim-
ner, Munich, Cavalier county; Anna
Hanson, Carpio, Ward county; and
Bernice James, Windsor, Stutsman
county. Winners of the informal
party dress section were Alice Nepp,
Absaraka, Cass county; Edna Erick-
son, Devils Lake, and Lucille Buzz
zell, Courtenay, Stutsman county.
Barnes Woman Outstanding
Mrs. F. L. Widdifield, Leal, Barnes
county, was named most outstand-
ing as a local All club leader and
was awarded special recognition.
Repeating his triumph of 1881, Le-
roy SorenSon of Wild Rice, CasS
county, came through the North Da-
kota All club fat livestock show at
the institute with another grand
championship In the lamb division.
He exhibited Southdown lamb which
judges placed ahead of the Shropshire
reserve champion owned by the Guy
Brothers of Armenia. At the sale fol-
lowing the show in 1881, LeRoy's
grand champion Southdown was sold
for the record price Of 1925 per
pound.
Winner Of the grand championship
In the beef class was Earl Davis OF
Page, another Cass county youth. A
close decision put his lowset Aberdeen
Angus above the Hereford shown by
Alvin Treiber, Hebron, in Morton
county. A Benson county Duroc Jer-
Continued on page two)
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BELIEVES
ENGLAND WILLPAY
ITS NSTALLMENT
Gathers That Impression in
Conference With Prime
Minister Macdonald

Paris, Dec. 8.-(P-Premier Her
riot, in conference Thursday with
Prime Minister Macdonald of Great
Britain, received the impression that
England will pay the sos, $4,000 due
the United States on Dec. Is.
The report was that the premier
left the conference disposed to rec
ommend to the French parliament
that his country pay the $4,000, 900
interest due America on the same
date, but with the stipulation that
this will be the last payment pend
ing negotiations.
It was understood that Herriot told
Macdonald that he would have to
consult parliament before taking a
definite stand.
Macdonald told him, he said, that
public opinion in England favored
payment to the United States. He
told the British prime minister that
French opinion seemed to be against
payment.
An official communique issued
after the conference said the two
countries will continue independent
action with regard to the debts but
also will continue their efforts to OBJ
tain by international cooperation
measures calculated to promote the
economic restoration of the world.
While preserving their independ-
ence of action, he said, both France
and Great Britain will exert every
effort to induce the United States
to cooperate in the general economic
reconstruction, especially in the
handling Of debt questions.
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Open Your Heart Drive
Gets Under Way Thursday
Headquarters of Legion Charity
Enterprise Ready to Re-
ceive Gifts

Bismarck's third annual "Open
Your Heart" campaign, sponsored
and directed by the local post of
the American Legion, got formally
under way at noon Thursday.
The headquarters in the Baker
building at Third st. and Main Ave
was opened by General Chairman l..
V. Miller and Charles F.. Martin,
head of the headquarters committee,
with all necessary equipment in place
for the handling and sorting of goods
which will be donated by citizens of
Bismarck and Burleigh county for
the benefit of. the needy.
Meanwhile, cash donations to the
fund reached total of $3.50. This
money will be used for the purchase
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BUSINESS OUTLOOK
FOR STATE IS GOOD
ANALYSTS DECLARE
Noted Economic Service SAYS
Entire State Is in One of
Few Favored Areas
Business will he better

Business will be better in North Da-
kota during the next six months than
anywhere else in the country when
compared with last year, according to
an analysis issued Thursday by the
Brookmire Economic service, one of
the nations leading business analysts.
The entire state is shown on the
economic map as a. shaded area, indi-
eating that prospects for business in
the area are fair. Only a few locali-
ties In the United States are so list
ed, the largest part of the map being
in white, the method used for desig-
mating poor business prospects.
It Is estimated that consumer in
come for the state during the next
six months will be 102 per cent of the
income reported for the same period
a year ago, even though it will be only
81 per cent of the average income as
compared with the average of the
last three years. Included in the dis
trict with North Dakota are Northern
South Dakota. western Minnesota,
part Of Montana and a considerable
area in the provinces of Manitoba,
Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Commenting on the outlook for the
agricultural area comprised by the
Dakotas. Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
Nebraska and Kansas, the survey
says:
Compared with year ago, total
consumer income for this section dur
ing the next six months will be about
% per cent lower. Except for North
Dakota and portions of South Dakota
agricultural sections will again have
very poor purchasing power. The
farm mortgage situation Is desperate
and debt moratorium is generally ad-
vocated. Relief measures for agricul-
ture will doubtless come up for action
In the coming short session Of con-
gress, but no definite solution of the
numerous problems is yet in sight. In
dustry continues quiet, as does con-
struction. Respective. declines of 20,
IT and 20 per cent from a year ago
were shown during October for de-
partment store sales in the st. Louis,
Continued on Page Two)
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Agriculture Ready
To Press Demands
Farm Bureau Will Support Any
Plan For Effective Con-
troll of Crops
UNITED FRONT ORGANIZED
Farmers Union and National
Grange Adopted Similar
Programs Earlier

Chicago, Dec. 8.-(R)-With general
agreement among its leaders, organic
ed agriculture Is ready to present to
congress its demands for relief from
low prices and heavy debts.
Authorization to support any sur
plus crop control plan and demand
currency initiation were given officers
of the American farm bureau fedora
ton as its annual convention closed
late Wednesday. AS he made plans
for conferences at Washington, Presi-
dent Edward A. O'Neal said:
1.-The farm bureau has Its most
united front in years. We are ready
for militant campaign in pushing
legislation to carry out the farm pro-
gram"
With some variation, similar stands
on major issues were taken at earlier
conventions Of the Farmers Union and
National Grange, the other major
farm organizations.
The domestic allotment plan for re-
duced acreage was not mentioned
specifically in resolutions adopted by
the farm bureau, which abandoned
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TOday's Donors to
Open Heart Fund
Fifteen dollars was added to the
Legion'S open Your Heart" fund
in contributions reported Thurs
day. The donors were:

of shoes, overshoes and underwear
for the needy children of Bismarck
and Burleigh county. Careful use of
the money donated is expected to
enable many school children to con-
tinue with their education. Some
now are unable to attend school be-
cause they lack footwear of any kind,
according to reports received by the
war veterans.
Householders of Bismarck and Bur-
leigh county Thursday were asked
by Chairman Miller to ransack their
atticS, cellars and clothes closets to
ascertain what they can give this
year for the relief of suffering in this
area. Cast-off clothing and shoes,
discarded household equipment and
toys or any other item which can be
mentioned is acceptable to the open
Continued on Page Two)
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WILL SPEED WORK

Washington, Dec. 8.-(P)-De-
termined to speed relief legisla-
ton, the house agriculture COM
mittee Thursday agreed to open
hearings on the Democratic farm
aid program next Tuesday with
the intention of concluding them
during the week.
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ETHEL WILL RETURN

Los Angeles, Dec. 8.-RHEthel
clayton. star Of silent motion pic
lures, is coming out Of retirement.
She has been signed to play promi-
nent role in picture which will star
Lee Tracy. Mike Linehan, former
Yale football player, also will take q
part In the production.
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MARILYN IN ENGLAND

Southampton, Eng, Dec. 0-(P-
Marilyn Miller, who was carried to
sea last week when the liner Bremen
sailed from New York before she had
time to leave farewall party, reached
here Tuesday from Cherbourg. She
denied she was engaged to marry Don
Alvarado. motion picture actor. who
also made the involuntary voyage.
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Jamestown, N. D., Dec. 8.-Re
DR.. G. A. Ottinger was reelected pres
ident OF the Stutsrnan County Fair
association at an annual meeting
here. o. H. Bennett was named vice
president, and E. w. Mueller, treas
urer and assistant secretary. Dates
for the 1888 fair were set for July 8,
and S.
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WOULD ABOLISH sYsTEM

Washington, Dec. S.-(ReA bill to
repeal the home loan bank act, and
abolish the system created ut the last
session Of congress for Nberalnlhg
home mortgage conditions was intro
duced Wednesday by Senator Horah
(Rep. Idahol. He said the oct hnd
proved wholly unsatisfactory."
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WORKHOusE HEAD DIES

Minneapolis, Dec. 8.-(R)-Dr. STAN
ley o. Lockwood, So, superintendent Of
the Minneapolis workhouse. died late
Wednesday at his home near the In
stitution at Parker's Lake. He has
been Ill for three weeks with heart
disease.
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Held FOE Robbery

, Omaha, Neb., Dec. 8.-R)-Police
Thursday held Louie Zach, heavy
weight pugilist Of Sioux City, Iowa.
arrested after r. w. Welcher, Sioux
City taxi driver, identified him as the
man who forced him to drive his cab
10 Omaha Wednesday night after
robbing him Of $3.35.
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Weather Report

Generally fair tonight and Friday;
continued cold tonight; somewhat 4
warmer Friday afternoon.
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Christmas
Customs
Hom FOREIGN LANDS

In Poland. the peasants believe
the cattle are endowed with
the power Of human speech in
the hour when Christ was born.
So they refrain from entering
the stables At that hour, but
before midnight mass, visit the
animals with courteous greet
ings and . promise Of extra al
lcw:aces Of grain, beets aksi
straw / for the morrow,
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-01

Make every month consist of four weeks.
Make every year consist of 13 months of %
days each
The additional month should come between
June and July and be called "Sol."
Every year there will be one day left over and
this is to be considered apart, possibly as a
kind of international holiday.
Every four years (leap year, there will be an
other day to be disposed of in a similar manner
The proposal of this plan has brought forth
the following arguments in its favor:
All months have the same number Of work
days, Saturdays and Sundays and are directly
comparable.
Each month has the same number of whole
weeks Fractions of weeks at month ends are
eliminated
The shifting Of weekday names to different
dates in every succeeding year and month is
avoided. The fixing Of permanent dates for pub
lie meetings, court sessions, educational sched-
ules, etc. would be facilitated
Periods of earning and spending would be CO.
ordnated; family and business budgeting would
be simplifed
All months would be comparable without any
adjustments being necessary for unequal num-
Der of days or weeks Split-week payrols would
be avoided.
great amount of clerical work would be
eliminated, and expense saved in the prepara-
ton of accounting and statistical reports in
business, government scientific, health and
home affairs.
AS there would be Is monthly settlements dur
ing the year there would be a faster turnover
of money; the same business could be handled
with less money.
Holidays would always occur on the same
weekday. (For the interest of both industry
and workers, it has been advocated that ire
spective of where the anniversary dates fall in
the week. the holiday itself be transferred to
Monday, as when it falls on Sunday, the
anniversary dates not being changed)
The 13-month plan would revise the calendar
scientifically, completely and permanently.
The arguments which have been advanced
against the 13-mOnth calendar are these:
The number 13 is not divisible by 2, 8, 4, or 6
The quarters Of the 13-months year do not
contain a whole number of months
There would be 13 business closings instead
of II, involving increased bookkeeping.
In general, a greater number of adjustments
in comparing past statistics and dates would
be required than in the 12-month system
The introduction of year of 13 months i'm
plies comprehensive change in long established
customs
| Superstitious regard for Friday the 18th, oc
curing every month, is difficult to overcome
| 1t interrupts, once a year and twice in lear
years, the regular Occur renee of the 7th day Sun
day or Sabbath day Of rest
| There would be complications and expense In
volved in calendar change.
| Believing that the international fixed calendar
! or the 13-month plan, is too extreme for nation
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-01

WHO WAS
WHO?
ST. VALENTINE
By Louise NJ. COn,stOck

CT. VALENTINE, in whose name
~ expressions of sentiment have
been exchanged since early Roman
times, appeared frequently in early
church history. Monks or priests
have been sainted under that name
in France, Italy, Spain and South
Africa, and it was given special
significance in the Third century by
a Roman priest noted for his good
deeds and also by a certain bishop
of Umbria.
But a favorite legend Identifies
the saint who is responsible for our
annual indulgence in lace paper, Gu
pids and sweet ditties with Roman
youth of the early Christian era,
who chose to be crucified rather
than deny his adherence to the new
faith. While lying in prison await
ing execution, he fell in love with
his jailer's daughter and left for her
farewell message signed from
your Valentine" Early rites in his
honor are identified with the RO-
man festival of the Lupercal. in
which suppliants prayed for success
in mating.
Valentines in the familiar heart
shape were commonly exchanged in
England as early as the Fourteenth
century, and st. Valentines day is
mentioned by both Chaucer and
Shakespeare. Probably the earliest
valentine in the English language
was written in 1919:
This day Dame Nature seemed In
love,
The lusty sap began to move,
Fresh juices stirred the embracing
vines
And birds had drawn their valen-
tines!
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-01
Y Y Y
ANNIE LAURIE

1T is Annie Laurie to whom tour
L lists pay reverence when they Wis
it, in Forest Lawn Memorial park,
Glendale, Calf, the reproduction Of
the "Wee Kirk in the Heather" the
church the heroine of this oldest
and sweetest of love songs is said
to have attended at Glencairn, near
her Scottish home. But it's William
Douglass, her devoted lover and au-
thor of the original version of the
poem, to whom honors are due.
Annie Laurie, stripped of Doug
lass adoring poetry and the lifting
music which we all know. was but
a Draw Scotch lassie after all, with
trolling eye" and but little sense
of duty. Born in 1862, at Maxwelton
house. Glencairn. she grew up to be
the most charming and provocative
young lady in all Dumfriesshire.
How William Douglass felt about
her he wrote down for all the world
to sing. In spite, however, of her
promise true" of which he bOaSted
in his song, Annie married one Alex
ander Ferguson while William was
off to the wars. AS the wicked often
do, she flourished, even to her eigh-
ty-secOnd year!
Douglass has been as unlucky as
poet as he was in love. Bereft of
his Annie Laurie, he was eventually
bereft also of his song. The original
version had but two verses The
version familiar today is modern
adaptation by Lady John Scott.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-01

al and international adoption, group of Amer
leans organized as the World Calendar associa-
tion, have offered the world calendar plan,
revised 12-month device In its behalf they ad
vance these II points:
l. The world calendar regulates the 12-month
year. 1t is balanced in structure, perpetual in
form.
2. All holidays are stabilized and placed on
Monday whenever possible. Christmas remains
the as it naturally falls Monday, De-
cember 25th.
3. Religious customs are respected and up
held with Easter falling regularly on an estab-
lshed date.
4. Astronomical conditions are recognized. 1t
acknowledges the Importance of the solar year
over the lunar cycles.
s. The quarterly divisions of the year con-
form to the four seasons as they do now. This
is important for agriculture and certain season
able businesses.
6. The II months multpes of halves and
quarters The equal quarters consist Of 8
months the first month has 81 days; the re-
naming two have 30 days. These quarters also
comprise 13 weeks 81 days. of which 13 days
are Sundays and 78 are week days Each month
has 26 week days. Sunday is always the first
day of the week. whereby the continuity of the
week Is maintained
4 Inc OQO SO0tn Qay or the year is 1nterp0lateQ
between December and January; the 366th day
of Leap year is set between June and July.
These days are known as Year day and Leap
day and have a weekday name, Saturday They
fall on the second day of the double Saturday,
the last day of December and June. Year day
and Leap day designated as the second Sat
urday. December 30th and the second Saturday,
June 30th with the year-date following.
| 8. January 1st and July 1st fall on Sunday,
the first day of the week, and wandering Sun
day is avoided A regular rest day every week
is vital for the welfare of humanity.
| 9. Only seven days changed. Two days,
the Goth and Both in February are added; the
31st day of March is taken away; to April is
given 31st day; the 31st days Of May and
August are eliminated; and the seventh day,
the 31st day of December, is converted to Year
day. extra day, the second Saturday Decem-
Der 3Oth
TO- The 12-month calendar is an economic
saving; it does not add to existing expenses
neither does it call for an increase in labor. A
tons is avoided All phases of living are not
subordnated to commerce.
II. This calendar, which is regular in its sys-
TEN, contains certain variety within each quar-
ter division of the year. Thus it avoids the cut
and-dried method of a fixed mechanical plan by
giving it a flexible regularity. This gives life to
! its structure.
IL. In the world calendar the revisons are
few there are no drastic reforms; and the
transition into the new order is made easy by
| the retention Of the twelve months.
&c by Western Newspaper Union)
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-01
Highest Happiness in
Labor Well Performed

Today the most welcome word that
can come to millions is a promise of
emplOyment-to have a share in the
worlds work. The song on which
many of the older generation were
brought up urged one to work in the
morning hours, to work mid spring
ing flowers, to work even through
the sunny noon, and then on till the
'last beam fadeth, fadeth to shine
no more" But it was a Joyous song.
and the only unhappy note in it was
the one that suggested the oncoming
Of night, 'when man works no more"
The most fervent prayer that most
men make, especially those who have
not much goods laid up against
days of ease, come from ancient
times: 'May be taken in the mdsl
of my work"
SO far from work being a curse
Carlyle speaks of it as the grand
cure of all the maladieS and mispries
that ever beset mankind" 1t is the
DCEL pAN olNiRII' tNb III STNhli1S- W tlliu
employment for those out of work,
the problem of misery is attacked at
its root.
Skill in labor is mans highest vo-
cation, but it is through labor Of
some sort, whether by hand or brain,
whether of ones choice or by COM
pulsion, whether as a vocation or an
an avOCation, that he finds his way
to his better and best self.
Giving a man job is the best
form of helpfulness, if he is still able
to work.
1t has been often said that there is
no good Obtainable without labor; but
it is better said that there is no
good that is TO he put above the
ability and the opportunity to labor.
Kansas City Times.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-01

TO HER friends Alice Longfeilow
l. was the grave Alice" of her
fathers loved poem. "the Children's
Hour" thoughtful, widely Travelled
woman of unusual personal charm.
AS a young woman she attended
Newnbam college, Cambridge, thus
becoming the first American woman
to attend foreign college She was
a member of the first class o. Rad
cliffe, was among those whose vi
sion and energy founded this "Har-
ward Annex" In 1879 as four-year
experiment In feminine education,
and was actively connected with its
growth and progress until her death
Just a few years ago.
But Alice Longfellow couldn't
have been such a grave" little girl
after all, for her father, who was
already forty-four and famous when
she was born and inclined to grand
fatherly indulgence toward all his
children. wrote of her just after her
christening, "The brightest, gayest
of girls, who enjoyed the ceremony
as much as any of u.s." And it was
Alice he used to tease with that lit
tie classic:
There was a little girl, who had a
little curl
Right in the middle of her fore
head;
When she was good, she was very.
very good,
But when she was bad, she was
horrid
;0. 1881. Western Newspaper Union.)