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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-29
New Football Rules

The new football rules promulgated
recently indicate that the rules COM
mittee has given its best thought to
the problem of making the game safer
without robbing it Of its distinctive
features, It will take a couple of
playing seasons to show whether or
not they have actually succeeded;
meanwhile, it is evident that these
changes would never have been nee
essary if the proper spirit had al
ways been observed in the playing of
the game.
The urge to win at all costs, appar-
entity, has been largely responsible for
many of the injuries that have given
football such a black mark.
Rules depriving linesmen of the
right to use the rabbit punch, and
players from 'piling up"
on ball carrier would not be nee
essary if coaches had uniformly
taught their boys to play the game as
sportsmen The fact that these
changes were needed is a direct re-
Election on the coaches as a group.
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Passenger Parachutes?

A bill was introduced in congress
the other day which would require all
air transport lines to provide para
chutes for every passenger, much as
steamship lines are required to pro-
vide life preseryers; and, as might be
expected, it has stirred up a good deal
of argument Oh both sides.
In theory, perhaps, the idea is a
good one. Any transport company
certainly is under a moral obligation
to do everything it can to ensure the
safety of its patrons. But, as officials
of the transport companies have been
pointing out, there are plenty of OBJ
stacles in the way of this measure.
In most airplane crashes there
would not be time for all the passen-
gers to jump to safety even If they
did have parachutes. Novices might
operate their chutes correctly, if they
did manage to Jump in time, and they
might not. Besides, the expense of
providing parachutes for everybody
would put most air transport COM
panies out of business.
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If Duluth Must Move, Why
Not Ahead
Duluth Herald)

The Association for Tax Relief is
circulating petitions requiring the
charter commission, if there are sign
ers enough, to submit to the voters a
new city charter reverting to the old
mayor awkward plan, somewhat re-
vised as an evident experiment in city
government A council of, fifteen,
eleven from wards and four at large,
would do all the taX-levying but no
spending, and mayor would do all
the spending and no levying
The association says it takes this
step because the city council has
failed to reduce the tax levies as the
association asked it to, and because
there is disappointment in the work.
ing Of the commission plan after
twenty years.
OF course there is disappointment in
the commission plan, and there will be
disappointment in the working of any
plan of municipal government that
may be proposed, because the uni
versal tendency is to put too much
stress on forms Of government and not
enough on the public spirit Of the
ClCCCOI 0OCs
And there Is sure to be disappoint-
naent If change in the form of gov
eminent is looked to for tax relief.
because there is no city in this coun.
try that is not complaining about
taxes, no matter what kind of gov
ernmental form it uses.
Such a change as this should be
made only after due reflection has
made it clear that 1t will improve
things. Progressive cities quite gen.
orally have condemned and many Of
them have repudiated the mayor land
ward system, to which It is now pro-
posed to revert. Progressive citizens,
here and elsewhere, hope that when
change seems necessary-though there
IS no very visible necessity here at
this moment for any change at all
1t will be change forward to the
council-manager plan, not a change
back to the mayor-and-ward system
The present proposal, therefore
seems an anti-climax.
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tinued to advance as peace negotia-
tons between the two nations rapidly
approached q climax.

My own belief is that if the cosmic
process is doomed to pass out of ex-
ktence there will be, and probably are
already, other world orders of which
we know Nottingham William 1nge
Of st. Paul's, London.
Credit is the blood stream Of our
economic life.-President Hoover.
All mankind is looking to this con-
ference.-Arthur Henderson, chair
man, Geneva conference.
X X X
We are all in the same boat.-Otto
H. Kahn, capitalist and philan-
thropist.
If Britain can only rule India by
the sword, we should come away
George Lansbury, of the British House
Of Commons.
I congratulate labor on its new
champion in this country, Senator
Bingham of Connecticut-Senator
George w. Norris of Nebraska.
X X X
Our powerful neighbors to the south
caused and brought on this depres-
sion. It is their duty to end it-Sen-
ator Raoul Dandurand of Montreal,
Canada.
X X X
All I want to say at this time is
that the plan we are working on will
be 100 per cent perfect before we
spring it.-Colonel Frank Knox, head
of the withdrawing campaign.
X X X
I have no fear for the future of
the railroads.&c.. E. Williamson, pres
ident of the New York Central.
X X X
America needs Herbert Hoover
again as president.-State Senator Jo-
seph G. Wolber of New Jersey.
X X X
have not declared and I shall not
declare for any presidential candi-
date.-Jouett Shouse, chairman, DEM
ocratic executive committee.
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killed recently when Japanese airmen
shot him down in flames q few days
ago.
In this connection it is worth re-
membering that the U. s. consul gen.
eral in Shanghai recently warned
American aviators that Shanghai is
no place for be-winged soldiers of for
tune these days. The Chinese air
force is small, and it evidently is not
ready to recruit airmen from this side
of the Pacific. The jobless aviator
who would like to do little fighting
will, apparently, have to possess his
soul in patience for while.
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By DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal Of the American
M1>ASn~l AcnnNfaHnn

Now that football casualties have
had due attention, medical experts
are beginning to focus their attention
on the winter sports-basketbal ana
hockey, which are also associated WIN
q considerable number OF injuries.
A German investigator has recently
recorded observations on injuries re-
ceived at hockey as they occurred IN
2152 games in which over $4,000 play
ers took part. He divided all OF the
injuries into two groups, according 10
whether the person affected was
obliged to give up playing from three
to five minutes or to abandon the
game altogether.
In mems teams the incidence OF IN
iuries was OBS per cent; in boys.
teams OBS per cent; in women's ana
girls teams, O.34 per cent. The aver.
age number Of persons injured Is o.sS
per cent.
In SO per cent, the injury was
caused by the hockey stick, in 10 per
cent by the ball, and in AZ per cent
by accidents which were not partic-
ularly hockey accidents. but might &C.
cur in any sport; for example, 1all
or collision with another player.
OF the injuries caused by the hockey
stick, 43 per cent affected the head
and 80 per cent the legs, II per cent
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Barbs

If hats keep flying in, the Demo-
Gratis will have to get bigger ring.
X X X
An ex-postmaster is going to enter
AL Smiths name in the North Dakota
presidential primaries. Maybe he
wants his job back.
X = \
War Looms Between China and ia
pan, reads headline. From that you
might gather that the battles around
Shanghai were just practice.
X X X
A beer strike has been called in Ger
many, and in some towns there it's
impossible to buy it. Maybe we'd
better keep prohibition!
X X X
If the 500 head tax on Kentucky
colonies goes through, many of them
will be reduced to ranks.
* X X
Now that the last two elements have
been found and named by an Alabama
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during his eccentric dance routine.
And the attractive Lillian Roth,
late of the screen, with a party of
theatrical folk headed by Irving Mills,
the gent who sends bands on tour.
X X X .
Beauty Contest Blah
Meanwhile, found myself seated be-
side Russell Patterson, the illustrator
whose pretty gals adorn SO many mag
azine pages. And fell to talking
about winners of beauty prizes.
"You know" said Mons Patterson,
"that one of the toughest roles an
artist can play is to be called in as
judge of a beauty contest. The ideas
Of beauty Of the average show pro-
Queer or man-on-the-street and that
Of an artist are-well, so different!
zone of the big hotels had crowd
Of so-called beauties rounded up the
other day and was judge.
II looked them over and decided
that, in fairness, not one of them
could pass an artists muster. So
I went quickly to the phone and
called up a couple of my best
models. The minute they arrived
the show was over.
1.-THE crowd on the side lines
cheered and applauded. They won in
a walk. And the others, mind you,
had been the selections of recognized
theatrical pickers. So what?"
X * X
Debate on Beauty?
Incidentally, Patterson informs me
that Howard Chandler Christy is one
Of the best-read and best back
grounded gents in the popular art pro-
feSSion.
He's trying to rig up debate with
one Of the CAROLS, ziegfelds OF
Whites on the beauty subject.
Copyright, 1882, NEA Service, Inc)
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HE'LL STAY FAT

Long Beach, Cal.-Although Ben
Mc1enden isn't what you'd call fat, he
doesn't care to reduce any even if he
gets to weigh lot of pounds. The
reason is that Ben was held up when
he got home. He had $500 ring on
his finger. The thief demanded he
turn 1t over. Ben tried but couldn't
remove the ring from his finger. He
still has the ring and his fat fingers.
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SUPPORT FOR RAILROADS
Sweet Briar, N. Oak,
Feb. ~. 1882.

Editor, Tribune:
I am writing a little piece on rail-
roads and if you think it is worth
printing would like to see 1t In the
paper.
If the railroads Of our great coun-
try should fail to function, what
would happen? The railroad Is one OF
the chief industries Of the United
States. It has followed the trail
blazer. It has played its part in
building empires. It has brought
closer together the east and the west,
the north and the south. It has spent
billions of dollars in building lines,
terminals, yards and various other
improvements. It has given employ
ment to many of our people in its con-
struction, maintenance and opera
ton. Each year it pays hundreds Of
millions of dollars in taxes. This
great industry is now in distress and
will cease to function unless the peo-
pie awaken to their duty and re-
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PEOPLES Forum

Editors Note.-Tho Tribune vel.
comes letters on subjects OF In.
terest. Letters dealing with con.
troversial religious subjects. which
attack individuals unfairly. or
which offend good taste ana TAR
play will be returned to the
II yvu wish to use a pseudonym.
sign tho pseudonym first and your
own name beneath It. We will re.
spect such requests. We reserve
tho right to delete such parts OF
letters AZ may be necessary 70
conform to this policy.
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(Official City, State and County
Newspaper
Foreign Representatives
SMALL. SPENCER, LEV1NGS
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Incorporated
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Hindenburg's New Fight

Hlndenburg S new Flsnt
Paul Won Hindenburg, running 1or
reelection as president OF Germany
at an age when most men have long
been in retirement, is undoubtedly the
sentimental favorite in the race-on
this side of the Atlantic, at any rate.
But in order to understand the kind
of race the grand old warrior has en-
tered, it is necessary to realize that
this German election is utterly I'M
like the ordinary American presiden-
tial election. Dark clouds hang over
all horizons, and the thunder rum
bles ominously. The road ahead has
three forks, and two of the three lead
to revolution and turmoil unspeak-
able.
The CommuniSts-fourth strongest
party in Germany in the last election
and strongest of all in Berlin-hope
to lead the nation down their road.
The Nazis-German name for the
Fascist headed by the flighty Hitler,
have another road in mind. Won Hin
denburg is all for the third one.
Until recently, the Reds and the
Nazis had things very much their
own way. The Nazis have cloaked,
beneath q platform of irresponsible
nationalism, the aims of a reaction
airy big-business clique, which hopes
to use the party to crush the labor
unions and the Social Democratic
party and to give Germany a dicta-
torship of wealth.
Caught between two extreme forces,
the ordinary citizen has at last begun
to organize into group known as
"The Iron Front" This group draws
its recruits from the leading repub-
lican organization, the Reichsbanner,
from the labor unions and the Cath
olic Center party; and like its oppo-
nerts it has organized into semi
military outfit which already owns a
fleet Of autos, motorcycles and air.
planes and which is prepared to match
blow for blow with either Reds or
Nazis II it comes to fighting.
The peculiar character of the ap-
preaching German election thus be-
comes apparent. A victory for either
Reds or Nazis would probably mean
civil war-which, In its turn, might
mean any kind Of catastrophe you
care to imagine for the rest of Eu-
rope. Only if this Iron Front group,
behind Won Hindenburg, triumphs can
the rest Of the world breathe freely.
It is probably the old soldiers last
fight. But it is one in which the rest
Of the world will wish him we'll.
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counter to ask how she had spent
the weekend.
The other girl continued making
out her sales slip. Since Jenny did
not speak, Ellen decided that she
had not heard the question. She re.
peated it. Jenny raised a flushed
face.
Doing nothing much" she an.
swered coolly.
II haven't done anything to Of
fend you. have II" Ellen asked in
surprise.
"Of course not" Jenny responded
airily.
She tore of the sales slip. handed
the carbon to her customer and at.
fably urged the perspiring woman
to come again to Barclays. She
was so affable that the customer
looked a bit startled as she hurried
away. She was less startled than
Ellen. Ellen knew how Jenny felt
about customers.
Unfortunately at that moment her
attention was diverted by a renewed
run on cretonnes. She was COM
PEELED to dash back to her own
place. Eventually she decided to
ask Jenny to lunch with her. She
really preferred to lunch alone, but
she had no intention of permitting
her counter-mate to sulk over an
imaginary injury.
At the stroke of IL and before
Ellen had a chance to speak, Jenny
disappeared. That was odd. too.
Generally there was some casual
discussion of luncheon plans. Ellen
ran toward the employees stairway
and caught up with Jenny who was
making her way to the rest room.
| I'LL set you up to lunch IL you
don't 60 over so cents" she offered
guilefully. knowing how broke
Jenny invariably was.
Sorry" answered Jenny.
Look here" Ellen began sud.
denly and with spirit, 1T you're an.
noyed with me over something In.
sist that you tell me what It Is"
The stairs were full Of hurrying
girls. All at once Ellen was pos
sessed Of the notion that Jenny did
not wish to be seen with her. Ger.
tainly she was galloping UP the
stairs In an unusual manner.
Tell me-" she urged again.
"It's nothing" Jenny responded
sulkily.
1T is too, or you wouldn't act
this way" Ellen persisted. "You're
not In such q hurry 40 all this
Let's stop moment"
She walked through the door al
the second floor and into the prac
tically deserted furniture depart
ment. After q longing glance a
the stairs and fearful. fascinated
glance at Ellen's back, Jenny fol
lowed.
Nov, out with it," Ellen said.
Jenny was plainly embarrassed.
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GERMAN ATTACK FAILS

ULkSNxfAIV "A i L f1Nn + AXA0
On Feb. %, 1918, a German SUI
prise attack on positions near DIX
nude held by Belgian troops was re-
pulsed.
The German attack was made in
force and. was beaten back only after
heavy fighting.
Heavy German raids in various Sec
tors of the western front were gen.
orally regarded by Allied observers as
forerunners of the long promised
March offensive.
The chief purpose of these raids
was to discover how strongly the var
led Allied positions were held, and at
the same time to keep secret the act
ual spot chosen for the great Of
fensive.
New stories of Turkish attacks on
defenseless Armenian cities were told
in Europe, following the collapse of
the Russian army which had con-
Quered much of that territory.
The German army in Russia con-
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out Of sight and the door had swung
after her. Presently she turned
and started stiffy down the stairs.
She would not go into the common
rest room where others would cease
their conversation as she entered.
She would not risk their staring,
curious, inferential glances. Not
now.
There was only one thing to do.
After lunch hour spent walking
blindly up and down Fifth avenue
Ellen decided on that course. She
would see Steven Barclay no more.
She would give him any excuse ex-
cept the real one. She could not
give him that. Let him think that
she was ungenerous, that she de-
spised him. that she was a false
friend. Let him think what he
would. He would never. she
thought, hit upon the truth. Surely
no one would be bold enough to
carry tales to him.
She would say nothing, offer no
explanations to the curious. She
would have to stare them down.
There was nothing else to do.
Throughout the afternoon she
treated Jenny Elkins with the Same
cool disregard that Jenny herself
had shown in the morning. She
succeeded to the extent Of giving
that young woman a puzzling and
uncomfortable afternoon.
1t was nearly 4 and Ellen had
begun to feel the lack Of her lunch
when Molly Rossiter telephoned,
with her usual disregard Of the fact
that Ellen was supposed to receive
only business calls during business
hours. Jenny answered the tele.
phone and very formally told Ellen
that she was wanted.
At that moment Ellen knew she
could have brought Jenny back to
her, chiefly because It was agony
for that little magpie to be silent
for any long period. Instead Ellen.
with Just as much Formally, &C.
cepted the telephone.
For once Molly was not in trou.
BILE. For once Ellen was glad she
had broken the store rules. Her
mothers voice was very dear to her
just then.
Don't you suppose. honey. You
could set away from Dreamland TO.
night? Molly began. "Ne're having
guests.r
Il can easily. was going to
anyhow" Ellen replied, conscious
that Jenny fingered in earshot.
/ She added curiously, 'Who?" In 1
voice 80 low that Jenny missed It.
"Why-" her mother hesitated
and then dubbed with laughter.
"Bert's coming"
"l'll be there" Ellen promised.
/ As she moved back to the end OF
the counter she wondered Why her
mother called Myra's lance
guests" For years Bert had run
IN and out Of the apartment much
as Il he lived there. But Ellen was
too troubled and worried by her
own problem to ponder long about
SO small a mystery.
= Ito Bo Continued)
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No ssWar Birds" Wanted

Cauadlan olSpatcneS reported the
other day that 30 aviators. released
from the Canadian Royal Air Force
recently because Of q governmental
eccnomy program, have offered their
aefvicee to the Chinese government In
- Neht with Japan: but the Chinese
eonsil general In Canada, after
thanking them, explained that he
kuew q no way IN which his country
eould take advantage Of the offer,
since no preparations have been made
for taking on foreign flyers.
II Only one American, to date, has
1eryed under fire as flyer for the
OhineGe aviation corps and he was
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BEGIN HERE TODAY

Beautiful ELLEN ROSSITER, q
salcsgirl I'm Barclays Department
Store, lives with her extravagant
mother. MOLLY ROSSITER, her
elder sister. MYRA. and her young
brother. MIKE. The two girls
ishly spends money saved to pay
the rent. Ellen decides to work
nights at Drenmland NJ q dance
hall hostess until the sum IL made
mp. The hOstcsses must wear eve.
ming dresses and Ellen has none.
STEVEN BARCLAY, 81 and Ell
ing and discovers the situation.
He lends Ellen 4 lovely frock
when she refuses to accept It ~ .
gift. Ellen fOrEcts his kindness
when ut Drcamlnnd she meets
handsome LARRY HARROW
GATE. an artist. Later she learns
BOWEs. debutante. Even
though she believes him 10 be .
philandercr she continues to see
him.
ELLEN qunrrels with her mother,
refusing to break an engagement
with Larry to accept one from
Barclay. She goes to Coney Is
land with Larry and fnds herself
more and more in love with him.
NJ" uO ON WITH THE 0VOhx
CHAPTER XIV
MONDAY was sale day at Bar
90 clay's. Monday was the day the
basement invariably reached its
peak for the whole week. The girls
dreaded Mondays. Most of them on
Sunday critically examined the
store advertisements to determine
which counters were to be mum
dated. That particular Monday
Ellen and Jenny Elkins, her coun.
ter mate, were the victims. Their
counter drew a large and vocifer.
GUS proportion Of the crowd. Nine.
teen-cent cretonnc. hundreds OF
bolts, apparently were passionately
desired by every woman in New
York.
Ellen as she mechanically cut
lengths Of gay colored material and
tossed them to the wrapper. as she
tried vainly to keep some order
among the bolts on the counter. as
she again and again assured cross
and weary shoppers that any one Of
the patterns was precisely what
was wanted for summer draperies
had not a minute to think Of her
self or Of Larry. She had dreamed
Of him the night before. No dream
had chance Of survival at Bar
clay's on Monday morning.
Toward II Ellen began to notice
that Jenny Elkins. little chatter
box Of IS. was strangely silent. Or
dinarily nothing could stop Jenny'i
active tongue. She was always
talking and gigsling between salei
or during them. calmly oblivious o.
the fury Of her customers. Ellsr
missed her cheerful chatter and
her breathless condolences OF what
1.-THE boy friend" had said or done
the night before.
During a temporary lull. she ven
turcd to move to Jenny's end Of tn,