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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-14
rRuH SUCCEEDS PATTERSON

FRuH SUCCEEDS PATTERSON
Minot, N. D., Sept. 14.-tR-A. M.
Fruh, Minot, took the oath Of office
late wednesday rs deputy United
states marshal, to be stationed here
taking the place Of Dell Patterson
who recently resigned to become war
den Of the state penitentiary.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-14

N. d. BOARD TO KANSAS CITY
Devils Lake, N. D., Sept. l4.-F-
The North Dakota public works COM
mittee was called to Kansas City
Wednesday night for q conference
with Colonel H. NJ. Wait, deputy ad-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-14
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1893

the sheriff and police department IS
punishable by $500 fine or six
months Imprisonment or both.
Evening star., 1933-05-18

there = no indication that the Ma
hatma's desire for the revocation OF
the obnoxious laws will be complied
with. The government has merely
taken notice Of the avowed object OF
Gandhi,s latest determination to abstain
from food, and because Of the attitude
Of mind which 1t discloses," decided to
set him at liberty.
There Is no doubt that the British
government would like to make peace
with Gandhi. It Graves the Indian Ma
tionalists' help in putting the new
Indian constitution to work and would
value the Mahatma's cooperation most
Of all. Obviously 1t would not have
served .-itish purposes to incur the
reproach, in the event Of Gandhi's
death, that he might have survived If
not imprisoned.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
CO-OrdinatOr of Railroads
Declared Helpful to Nation

past" The Rock Island Argus advises
ough trial" The Morgantown Do
minion-News concludes: Government
transportation plans for the future are
said to be, and ought to be, much
broader than the railroads. The country
Is going to need more co-ordinated
system Of transport, by land, water and
air on rails and on rubber The trans
ition period will be difficult There will
be many losses to write of. But Sc
curity owners may gain eventually and
the Nation as whole certainly should
gain. in more efdcient transportation
at lower cost"
"In the main it offers a promising
chart for a new deal in transportation"
advises the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in
agreement with which the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram records: Advance in
formation indicates a revision of the
entire railway service of the country,
and that at an early date. That which
is needed seems due for early consum-
nation. The Government seems in the
act Of classifying rail- land. water and
air transportational service under one
head-properly arranged for co-ordina-
ton. That speaks for relief to the
shipping and travelling public and for
the greater prosperity of all"
"A long step in the direction OF con-
solidation" is observed by the Altoona
Mirror, with the conclusion that elm
tnation OF antitrust provisions will no
doubt authorize and encourage the rail-
roads to enter into other forms Of
transportation" although the Buffalo
Evening News fears that railroad man.
ayers ARE likely to lose almost all
initiative in the handling of their busi-
ness" The Scranton Times commends
"a more flexible rule of rate making;
the Chicago Daily News, "a fair chance
TO effect economies; the Providence
Journal, impetus to permanent con-
solidation." and the Oakland Tribune,
"a possible forward step toward meet
ing expenses" Opposition to too much
regulation Is voiced by the Cincinnati
Times-Star and the Lexington Leader.
Support of those who demand fair
treatment Of railroad labor, in the
course of the working out Of any plan
for improvement of rail conditions, is
advanced by the youngstown Vindi-
Gator and the Rochester Times-Union.
On this subject, the prospect that busi-
ness gains by the roads will restore en-
ployment is emphasized by the Gary
Post-Tribune and the Lincoln State
Journal. The Boston Transcript feels
that rail labor cannot "lift itself by the
bootstraps." The Nashville Banner
states: THE rights of collective bar
gaining are preserved for the railway
labor unions, and the proposed law will
not amend or modify in any way the
railway labor act or contracts entered
into under that act"
Evening star., 1933-05-18
Gandhi's New Fast.

At liberty now for more than a week,
having been released from imprison-
ment at Poona on May 8, Mahatma
Gandhi is in the midst of solemn three
weeks fast of "purification." Stimuli
taneous with his liberation by the
British authorities. the Mahatma issued
. dramatic announcement, calling OF
for one month the Indian civil dis
obedience campaign and anti-British
boycott. Although physicians believe
that Gandhi has deliberately embarked
upon a course which will cost his life,
the Mahatma insists that those who
think that his new siege Of starvation
will kill him are doomed to disappoint-
ment.
The mere shadow Of a frail little old
man, the sage and philosopher, who has
languished in jail for more than six
teen months, is still looked upon as a
Messiah by unnumbered Indian mill
lions. His present fast is undertaken
in order to dramatic Gandhi's crusade
4Of ICuiOfdl VI lllS Stl6Aud IA1dG AAoo
rested since time immemorial upon
India's "untouchables. His hunger
strike is directed, therefore, not against
the British oppressor. but against his
fellow Indians. Gandhi would put an
end to the discrimination against the
''untcachables." the lowest caste Of the
community.
Apparently, If the Mahatma survives
his self-imposed ordeal, it is his in
tention to renew the civil disobedience
campaign. On leaving Yeroda prison
last week he appealed to the govern
ment to answer his gesture by releasing
oil political prisoners and withdrawing
the so-called anti-terrorist ordinances
These were invoked by the British as
. means of sitting the civil disobedience
actiNties Of Gandhis followers. A. yet
Evening star., 1933-05-18

proper degree Of public appreciation
and support L justified.
At the main building. Seventeenth
and X streets, half . million women
and girls have come into contact with
activities In q single year. Each such
touching Of hands and meeting Of
minds has gone to aid the thing called
civilization. It would be impossible to
exaggerate the value Of the institution.
It's pragmatic social significance recon-
mends it to thoughtful citizens. For
1t they will hope continued prosperity
and success, an even larger member
ship and an even greater influence.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

"A gentleman visiting Warrington
happened to be In the presence Of some
local friends when he CHANGED to use
. sentence containing the words when
We were first married"
His wife, stickler for grammati-
cal forms, laughingly denounced his
language by remarking that 1T was the
Dutch In him which made him talk so. F"
As . matter Of fact, the poor fellow
was nearer correct than she thought,
because he spoke according to usage,
increasingly makes poor forms good
forms.
when we were first married" is 50
commonly used that 1t tends to super
sede in ordinary conversation, the more
stilted although more correct, When
first we were married"
y
The rule Is to keep the verb forms
together, as far a. possible. To split
were" and married" by the introduc-
ton Of FIRST" gives the critical great
pain.
Yet what Is more natural than to
say when We were first married" or
what really more sing-songy than the
form when first we were married?"
Instinctive1y one wants to add "tra
Ia la" after the latter.
when first we were married,
Oh, ira, ID, Ia, la!"
The use Of the so-called split infini-
tive Is a stumbling block to thousands.
but not all Of them trip up there who
seem to stumble.
Some of them use this form purposely,
for the sake Of emphasis. Almost every
one does it. when speaking, but many
are bound down by the old-time rules
think of splitting the infinitive, in
writing, than using swear words.
The curious thing Is that many Of the
best writer's Of the past and present
have not shrunk from the use Of the
split infinite and similar disunited
verbs. They have done this deliberately
because it seems better English to them
than the other way around.
He who does not hold this attitude
toward the matter will at first not be
able to understand it. but If he will
consider 1t q bit, he may come In time
to realize that the split inf1nitive Is
not the grave mistake" he was taught
to regard 1t.
It Is all q question Of what language
Is Tor, after all.
Usage Is greater than grammar.
Usage Is the final arbiter.
1t Is usage which says. Words are
for men, not men for words"
There always will be place, OF
course, for the man who becomes so
conscious Of words and their rules that
he tends to put emphasis upon them.
He performs a very useful function
by forever calling attention to the rules.
If it were not for him, many would
become more careless than they are!
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1t is this very carelessness, however,
which makes English the really great
language it is.
The genius Of the tongue, In other
words, lies there.
The one man adheres scrupulously to
the rules: the ninety -and-nine want to
forget the rules.
The tendency Of the one man Is to
call the others barbarians all, but in
that verdict he would be repeating the
mistake of all Zealots.
His indictment Is too sweeping
Evening star., 1933-05-18

Among the others there will be q
surprisingly large number Of persons
who understand and appreciate the
dogmatic rules Is well as he does.
They believe, however, that there Is
something better than the rules Of the
game, and that Is the game itself.
Some Of the rules, they hold, are not
necessary, or ct least may be violated
at no great cost.
Indeed, they feel, some Of the rules
ought to be broken, for the languages
Now this Is exactly what Is done In
speech.
It is speech which opens up and
broadens the formality OF . language,
SO that out Of 1t comes something more
in keeping with life.
experiments, by some wrong usage, and
1t u the will Of the people In express
sion; the accepted phrases Of one era,
used by the best people," were the vul-
garisms Of the past.
Such words and expressions, owing to
their pungency and tang finally work
their way into general speech, and from
that onto the printed page.
In doing this grammatic forms are
changed somewhat. The old rule may
hold, but it tends to become widely
overlooked. 50 that even authority
comes to doubt itself In time.
4 \ + +
Doubt, Of course, Is the beginning OF
wisdom. It will be found that those
who have the best knowledge Of the
language are the last to resort to hard
and-fast rules of grammar They know
the history of their medium too we'll,
that many forms regarded as good to-
day once were frowned upon, that some
which were all right . century ago are
not used today.
Something more than one hundred
years ago q very we'll educated young
woman in an obscure parsonage in Eng
land wrote half a dozen novels which
have delighted many generations Of dis
eliminating readers since.
One form she used persistently Is
| frowned upon now. She wrote these
sort" Of things, time after time, and
since she was exceptionally well edu-
Gated, there can be no doubt Of her cor
rectness In her day. Now We say this
sort of thing" or these sorts Of things, "
the former sounding much better to
our ear.
Instead Of don't you" or. more for
mally. do you not?" Miss Jane Austen,
throughout her novels, made her char
acters ask, do not your" It was cor
rect form then but would cause stares
today. in speech. Even in print it is
regarded as merely q delightful oddity.
+ 4 y 4
Language is never finished, any more
than any thing which is alive.
1t is a sort of Immortality, since the
generations of men come and go. but
their language lives on, the same in es-
sence, but ever changing.
Perhaps we could talk to Chaucer
and he to us. and no doubt all would
understand, in the main.
The forms change. that is why II
never does to insist too pointedly upon
them.
Making ones self understood, max
ing the other fellow understand-these
are the fundamental objectives Of Ian
guage. and, if they are attained. some
Of the rules may go overheard, to GER
tain extent, at least.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
The Y, W. C. A.

Perhaps no other organization OF its
kind In the world has a finer record
than the Young Women's Christian As
sociation. But because its work is done
without great publicity. because 1t shuns
rather than courts the limelight, the
public at large may not be as familiar
with its worth as 1t otherwise might be.
It may come as surprise to some that
it Is to the Y. w. c. A. that both the
Travellers Aid and the National Asso-
citation of Business and Professional
Women trace back; both are outgrowths
of its development. The association
also has to its credit the opening Of the
first school for instruction in typewriting
and shorthand, the first gymnasium, the
first swimming pool and the first cafe
terra for women.
The Washington department Of the
international sisterhood was established
in 1905. Its earliest home was only
three rooms. Today it has more than
four thousand members, and its activi-
y LleS are 1eBlOIl III uuIllUcT. "A OIlVc w
increase enrolment is going on, and
friends of the association welcome the
opportunity to express good will and en-
couragement. Obviously, the advantages
Of participation in so helpful an enter
prise should be made available to the
largest possible company Of girls and
young women. The Y. w. c. A. is a
democracy to which it must be privil-
ege to belong.
Race, creed, social or economic status
have no influence in the organization.
All that is needed is the instinct of
helpful comradeship, and probably it
is this high ideal which stimulates its
constructive function in the community.
There are a thousand volunteer work.
ers who carry oc the major portions
Of each years program, and the effect
Of their labors is general, reaches out
into the whole city. benefits the whole
people. It Is for that reason that q
Evening star., 1933-05-18
High Lights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

again transported hundred thousand
unemployed miraculously to an unin-
habited island. reasonably fertile, and
asked what would happen. Most GER
tainly they would not sit down and die;
they would get to work to supply their
own needs, just as the population OF
the world does normally. Any hum
dred thousand of the unemployed have
the same wants as any other hundred
thousand people. and, by and large. are
just as well qualified to satisfy those
thing is to put them to work. knowing
that for whatever they produce there
will be a hundred thousand customers.
Belgian Police Seize
Smuggied Pigs.
LIE Soir, Brussels: Wednesday morn
ing the post Of gendarmerie at Fouron-
Saint-Martin were advised by telephone
that q large truck loaded with pigs was
Just about to cross the Dutch frontier
with the intention Of depositing the
shipment In Belgian territory. The
gendarmes hid themselves along the
highways which the smugglers were
likely to use, and before much time had
elapsed were gratified to see a sus-
piciously creaking vehicle approaching,
escorted by another and smaller car.
When the truck was not stopped upon
the sharp command Of the oficer. shots
which punctured three Of the tires soon
accomplished that desire. The automo-
bile, however, when Its occupants per-
ceived the gendarmes, Immediately
turned around and sought to escape by
secondary road. This turned out to
be a cul-de-sac, and in order not to be
captured, the defrauders leaped from
the conveyance and ned cross-country.
In the truck, which was completely
screened with tarpaulins, were found
48 pigs Of great size (de forte taille) !:
they were Immediately seized for the
benefit Of the treasury.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,
The Standard.

The Standard.
It is clever to endeavor
Promises to misconstrue,
But we can't 60 on forever
Sinking obligations due.
There's a standard we are finding
AS the world keeps growing old
That Is even still more binding
Than the measurement called gold
Though the documents may hover
Where on pen and ink we call,
WORD of honor" we discover,
Is the one test after all.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
A Quaint American Custom.

One Of the silliest forms Of public
demonstration is the picketing parade.
Wherever 1t may have originated, 1t has
come to be an established form Of ex-
preston in this country. It is easily
organized. A few pennies spent 70,
cloth and laths and paint will produce
IN array Of pictorial exhibits and there
Is never . lack Of bearers. A street
corner meeting, with two or three gill
takers, possessed Of a fluent vocabu.
larry of denunciation and abuse, attracts
some attention and If the police are
tolerant q parade can be organized
Once in q while the spectacle draws
enough Of . crowd to compel inter.
ference to prevent blockade Of trafnc
and maybe a few blows are struck and
the battered demonstrants are happy
in the belief that they have "defied'
the law. Sometimes o handful Of lead.
ers are sent to jail to cool of, emerging
as martyrs to q cause which Is only
vaguely understood even by them.
Just now New York, perennially thu
scene Of such performances, Is witness.
ing picketing march by little grour
Of radicals and artists in protest against
the rejection Of the mural design OF
a Mexican Communist on the walls o,
the Rockefeller Radio City. The paint.
ing was almost completed when 1t wa.
discovered that a portrait of Lenin hac
been introduced In addition to the
figures included In the original design
The work was stopped, the artist wa.
paid in full and the mural was covered
from public view. A furious protest
arose. Art students and radicals Joined
hands-in some cases they were iden.
tical-and now for several days picketers
bearing legends Of denunciation and
demand have been moving to and frc
before the portals Of Radio City and
also from time to time in front of the
Rockefeller residence.
Such proceedings will not, OF course
change the decision or effect the COM
pletion Of the painting according to the
artists design. Lath and painted cotton
cloth rarely make history. The public
is altogether indifferent and the prin-
cipals are not to be inundated by such
foolish maneuvers. But 1t Is one OF
the quaint customs of the time and i,
will probably persist for a while, until
some other question arises to give the
sidewalk demonstrants . fresh occasion
for their maneuvers.
Evening star., 1933-05-18

After so many attacks on his veracity
CASTOR Means manages to be heard
with attention, on the theory, perhaps,
that a man Of his type must tell q
little of the truth eventually, even If
only by inadvertence.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
Last of a Famous Group.

From the Birmingham Age-Herald.
We Americans are not given to
philosophy. and so may ind little to
notice in the announcement Of the
death Of George Herbert Palmer, the
Harvard teacher, who divided distinc-
ton with James, Royce, Muntsterberg
and santayana, in the Augustan Age OF
his university. But those Of US who
have read Owen Wister's PHILOSOPHY
4" may be interested In knowing that
this was the course given by Palmer,
who was mainly concerned with
placed to catch the admiration OF the
idealistic lads who sat before him.
Those were the days at Harvard, we
are told, when "a favorite habit among
serious undergraduates was to visit
James lectures, pass on to hear Royce
demolish James and Munsterberg de-
molish Royce, and to hear Mr.. Palmer
speak from his heart, with none OF
their warning creeds. Mr.. Palmer had
no theory. He did not believe that any
system Of philosophy taught men how
to live. More than any Of his col
leagues, he leaned toward religious con.
vction, particularly to the meaning OF
the Christian doctrine"
He was an ordained Congregational
clergyman, but he preferred becoming
a Greek instructor at Harvard, and
continued in active service on the
faculty for 20 years. During that time
he worked out his conception Of In
tuitionism, although he was not PREF
pared to make that an exclusive ap-
proach. Named after George Herbert,
the English religious poet Of the seven
teenth century. Mr.. Palmer was master
of Greek thought and literature. That
combination gave his views the color
and direction which they had.
He was 81 at the time Of his death,
and for two decades he had been In re-
tirement. He married Alice Freeman,
president of Wellesley, and wrote her
biography. Other books came from his
hand during a long stretch Of intel
lectual power. The world must have
become a strange place to him in his
latter years. He could never accustom
himself to automobiles, which he called
murder wagons" He did not attain
the popular reputation Of his more
famous colleagues, but he must have
meant fully as much, If not more to
the generations Of college men who
gained from him q way Of life fun Of
durable satisfaction.
Evening star., 1933-05-18

Americans are advised to leave the
vicinity Of hostilities in Asia. In spite
Of the curiosity concerning all sorts
Of encounter, the fighting in this case
is not OF kind to make a ringside
seat desirable.
Evening star., 1933-05-18

New adjustments Of banking condi-
tions are obviously necessary to take
care OF new systems of business and
the prosperity that is confidently ex-
pected to result.
Evening star., 1933-05-18

II all the power and fertilizer ex-
pected from Muscle Shoals can be pro-
duced new song Of "Old Man River
may be written and sung to more
CHEEKY tune.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
Debased.

From the Fort Worth star-Telesram.
They used to call crude oil black
gold" But not any more. It has
slipped from the gold standard to a
postage stamp and penny bimetallism.
Evening star., 1933-05-18

Japan is interested In present peace
plans, but not sufficiently to permit
them to interfere with what it regards
as unfinished business.
Evening star., 1933-05-18

BY surviving his fast so long in de-
fiance of physicians, Gandhi calls at
tention to the admitted fact that
stomach specialists are not invariably
to be relied on.
Evening star., 1933-05-18

The question Of how much grain Il
worth in dollars is complicated by that
Of how much dollar IS worth in for
eign money. Debate is still possible as
to what constitutes basic value.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
Reciprocity.

From the Detroit News.
Mutual aid is wonderful, as when an
attorney and q doctor collided in a
California town, each throwing . little
business the others way,
Evening star., 1933-05-18
Dirigible and Plane.

From the Chicago Daily News
While the dirigible Macon waited for
good weather for her trial trip, airplanes
carried the United States mails as usual.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
Seeking Excitment,

Seeking Excitment.
What has become Of Cactus Joe?"
asked the travelling salesman.
Crimson Gulch has been so well
behaved and orderly" said Mesa Bill,
that he couldn't stand it any longer.
So he just packed up and went to
Chicago"
"The possessor of great wealth. said
Hi-Ho, the sage of Chinatown, must
be prepared to meet both praise and
blame that are often undeserved."
Evening star., 1933-05-18
Hitler's Halted Progress.

From the Toledo Blade.
Hitler Is surprisingly slow in making
q move toward adopting a shorter
dachshund.
Evening star., 1933-05-18

Reforestation does not appeal to
some of the veterans. The fascination
Of working over bookkeeping calcula-
tions is one of the things that make
It so hard to take care of a super
abundance Of white collar men.
Evening star., 1933-05-18
Futile.

From the Detroit News. .tV
An extorticnist who tried to wiring
$500 from school teacher was trapped
by the police before he broke his
wringer. .{
Evening star., 1933-05-18

Fatigue Duty in the Camps.
From the San Antonio Evening News.
viii the private in the forestry army
who Is late to reveille be put on fatigue
saving wood2
Evening star., 1933-05-18
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