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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08
Starving to Avoid Hunger


1t is pleasant little picture which
Admiral Mineo Osumi, minister of
the japanese navy, held out to his
people in recent speech in the Jap
anese parliament. The admiral as
serted bluntly that Japan must be
prepared to go through with any
naval race that may develop. "even
il We are reduced to eating rice
Cruel"
Now statement Of this kind indi-
Gates the confusion into which mill
tary men are all too apt to fall. For
if nation maintains a navy for any
sensible purpose at all, it Is for the
purpose of warding off enemies that
the nation will not be reduced to pow
erty and hardship which the eating
OF rice Cruel is supposed to signify.
To accept such hardship and pow
erty voluntarily to support a navy is
to get the cart a couple of nautical
miles ahead Of the horse.
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by the other speakers in asking ques-
tons and making observations OF
their own. Burdick, to VIII ON the
time had been allotted, found himself
called out on strikes without himself
taking more than one swing at the
oratorical ball.
But congress has cure for its own
inefficiencies and Mr.. Burdick finally
got his ticks home--in batting prac-
tice. He was permitted to extend his
remarks in the record and there he
did so, without interruption. Saliva
ton was had at last.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08

Proposal by the Bismarck commit
tee In charge Of the Presidents birth
day ball to form a state association
to aid crippled children reflects the
sound common sense for which the in
dividual members Of the local COM
mittee are notable. It is obvious that
the expenditure OF thousands OF dol
lars In small dahs and dribbles will
produce no worthwhile benefit,
whereas the launching Of a state
wide effort might do vast amount Of
good. The opportunity for achieve
ment IS large enough to satisfy the
most ambitious.
One of the first things to be done,
If really effective attack is to be
made upon the appealing problem Of
the crippled child, is to ascertain
how extensive Is the need for treat
ment. Various agencies which have
long been interested may have an
accurate census Of those needing help,
but the number Of children needing as
sistance and who have been overlooked
has been found surprisingly large
where any real effort has been made
to disclose the truth. In too many
cases families are ashamed Of handi-
capped children, keep them out Of
sight as much as possible.
Attention also should be given to
the education Of fathers and moth
ers, who have handicapped children.
Too many Of them take their childs
misfortune as . matter OF course.
make no effort to correct 1t. Proper
publicity. which would be organized
by a state committee through agen-
cies already available, could do much
to rouse the interest Of neglectful
parents, stir them to action. Clearly
the problem IS not one which can be
met by public charity alone.
The Elks, Shriners and other
lodge organizations which have long
been active in this work have en-
perience which would be valuable in
any statewide effort. They should
be consulted and should have a voice
In any new development, for it Is not
to b expected that they will aban-
don enterprises which have won them
much renown merely because addi-
tional energy is being made available
in this field.
A state council for the care and
treatment Of crippled children, which
could be formed by the big-hearted
and right-thinking people Of our
state, would be a splendid agency for
bringing Joy into lives which other
wise would be blighted. It Is worth
working toward and fighting for.
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Barbs

Japans renunciation Of the WASH
ington naval treaty shouldn't worry
u, II Japan builds warships like the
five.and.ten nick.nacks it sells here.
= = i
Adolf Hitler, his associates In.
sist, never has been shot at
except with mean looks.
4 \ \
Sports reviewers have called st.
Louis the country's sports capital.
But only the kind Of capital that
doesn't mean money. so far as the
Browns and the Cardinals are con-
cerned.
= +
The United States probably win
show Z gain Of 100000 wrong
numbers. which the A. T. 4 r.
facetiously calls telephones.
Copyright, 1884, NEA Service. IncJ
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
HiccOugh

Husband had hiccoughs inces-
sanity for five days. The doctor was
unable to help him. put two tea
spoonfuls of flaxseeds sometimes
called linseed) in q jar and filled it
with hot water. When it cooled
enough he drank 1t, and did not have
another, hiccough. Mrs. j. j. HI
Answer-Anyway it IS harmless
enough. Limitations OF carbon dioxide
are the best emergency remedy for
hiccoughs I know. Let the sufferer
hold a paper bag snugly over nose
and mouth and breathe into it and
rebreathe the air from it for q min
ute or two.
Fish and Milk
Impression that fish and milk or
even canned salmon and milk at same
meal poison. How, then, can cooks
prepare creamed fish or how can they
fry fish in cream? (Mrs. j. j. A.
Answer-There Is no ground for
the quaint notion that fish and milk
at the same meal will prove poison
Gus or in any way injurious. # one
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08

In the lower house Of congress at
Washington the rules provide for q
sort Of open forum on Mondays at
which time the members may present
anything they wish. During most Of
the time the house operates under
stringent rules but on Mondays 1t is
different.
The manner in which this system
operates Is evidenced by the expert
ences Of Usher L. Burdick, a baby"
In congress despite his 27o pounds, in
his initial effort as = congress
eional orator.
The whole thing is contained in the
Congressional Record. copies Of which
are being distributed to North Dakota
voters by Mr.. Burdick to acquaint
them with his activities.
Whatever the purpose IN distrib-
uting these excerpts from the record,
the effect Is to give even . casual
observer m uproarious laugh, not ct
Burdick or 1T any individual but At
the manner in which congress oper-
ates on these festive Monday after
Moons.
The record begins with Burdick
winning recognition OF the speaker
and starting In to make . speech, the
gist q which Is that the feed relief
system y not being properly oper-
ated IN this state.
After getting through Just 20 lines
In the Congressional Record without
interruption. there came the usual
congressional question will the gem
tleman yisld7" and the fun was on.
Before Burdick had 5inished with
his 70 minutes-the limit = five but
he gecsivsd IN extra period without
objection"-hs was interrupted exact
~ - times BY 10 different individuals,
ono q them The speaker who In.
formed him that his first five minutes
vas exhausted.
Nr. Burdicks speech occupied ap-
proximately two and ono half pages
Of the Congressional Record. but
more than half Of it was taken up
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Of al news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this
newspaper and also the local news Of
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ScRAP1No ACQUAINTANCE


Mark smiled q he found the
deck-chair to his right occupied BY
an elderly bearded gentleman whom
ne recognized as Professor Mac
duane, one Of the passengers placed
at Marks table. There was no sign
OF the blonde seeker after hoWl-
edge nor her mother. The Profess
sor barely glanced up from his
book to answer Marks greeting:
he had been . silent table compan.
ion too, Mark recalled.
The following day had found him
little irked by the daily routine Of
the voyage. He emerged on deck to
lind that the wispy clouds Of the
preceding evening had massed
themselves into billowy white sky
islands that checkered the deep blue
Of the heavens. The sun shone in
termittently between them as they
scudded eastward toward America.
already nearly two thousand miles
astern. The wind had freshened out
OF the southwest, and the ocean Of
the peaceful name seemed bent on
disproving its cognomen.
Mark managed a glimpse Of the
book in his neighbours hand. It
looked like-it was indeed!-the
General Theory of Relativitv By Al.
bert Einstein! Mark sighed, and
gave up all hopes Of any converse.
ton in that quarter. He stared out
at the heaving expanse Of threaten.
ing green water, and noted that the
ship had developed . perceptible
pitch.
I'm for . little heavy weather.
he thought, with . tinge Of hopeful
ness. Mark was good sailor, and
the prospect Of an unsteady deck
bothered him not at all. He looked
forward to it with some anticipa.
tion: ct the least, . storm might re-
lieve the monotony Of shipboard
routine.
Ten more minutes Of silence, and
he was lonely enough even to tackle
the Professor.
Professor MacQuane,s he ven
tured, sis it possible to explain Elm
stems Theory Of Relatively to an
interested layman? One reads 90
much about it nowadays, you know;
I'd like to get the gist Of it # pos
NUTSHELL"
The Professor turned . pair Of
bespectacled and chilly eyes on
Mark. In deep .lecture-hall tones,
emphasizing each syllable with wag-
ging finger and beard. he enunciated
slowly:
"Said . mathematician named Black.
oh, Einsteinl Alas and alackl
If I 60 out tonight
And move faster than light,
III bump into myself coming backl' I"
The finger and beard ceased war.
ging, and the Professor returned
serenely to his perusal Of the vol
un1e.
"Wow!" thought Mark, recover
ing from his establishment. "That
chair must be hexedl First q talk
alive lady who thinks in exclama-
ton points, and then . silent gen.
tleman who thinks in limericksl"
He rose and went below. Under
the door Of his stateroom was Z
radiogram folded neatly into I gel
low envelope. He tore il open, and
smiled IS he read it. From his
mother good SCOUT OF course
John would just have arrived in
Spring Brook from his fruitless
journey to the coast, with the news
Of Marks determination. L was
nice Of his mother to take the de-
cision gracefully, and wire her love
and faith in him.
At th4t monent Spring Brook
didn't seem % objectionable. Dbl.
perhaps. and Internally quiet and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08
SYNOPSIS


Tired of the smugness and re-
strictions Of civilization. Mark
Talbot books passage on the SIS,
Orient" hoping to find the adven-
ture he Graves in travel. His
brother, John, pleads in vain with
him to remain home and settle
down. At the dock, Marks atten-
ton is drawn to an attractive girl
who stares at him in q hostile way.
Next day. Mark goes from deck to
deck in search Of her. He finds the
girl in the steerage, the same ex.
preston of helpless rebellion
against something or someone on
her face. Mark learns from the
captain that her name is Vanya
Prokovna and that she is being de.
ported from San Francisco to
Honolulu.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08

Both trees and men are living me.
chanisms more complex than any
political state. Both are controlled
by decentralized powers, from which
messengers, as of the gods. transmit
the signals for balanced action to all
parts of the organism.
DR.. D. T. MacDougal, Of the Car !
negie Institution.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08

hear sarcastic Senator Homer Bone
of Washington demanding to know
whether IS per cent of that 100 per
cent price increase went to labor.
Grapevine reports say the admirals
are planning to admit that the wool
was pulled over their eyes. rather
than admit they went into ship con-
tracts with eyes wide open.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08
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.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08
likes such a combination it is per.
fectly wholesome.

The Charcoal Bimbo
What Is lacking in the diet of
IL year old boy that makes him try
TO eat such things as charcoal and
soft stone? Mrs. w. G. ID
!Answer-Eat;ng "dirt" or other
things than food is not an indica-
ton Of any deficiency in the diet.
Many babies have the habit, called.
plea" and they get over 1t in year
two. and no harm done, as long as
they don't eat polluted things.
Copyright, 1885, John F. Ollie Co..
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08

I believe that in future the flying
OF long distances belongs to the
SHAKESPEARE.
Capt. James Mollison, famous flyer.
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The individual is nothing without
the state.
DIR. Hjallnar schacht, economic die
tator OF Germany.
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NAVY MEN WORRIED

NAV WIEN VONNbEO
Navy officials have been in lath-
er Of apprehension. not so much be-
cause Of the wartime contracts, but
because Of revelations they knew
were coming as to battleship con-
tracts made in peacetime.
The price Of a common type of
cruiser was stepped up 100 per cent
between December, 1882. and Au-
gust, 1884. Some senators say that
sort Of thing means q Roman holi-
day for the big Three" under the
new naval program unless they can
head it off by drastic curtailment Of
profits.
One pious fib due to be exploded
is the assertion Of Secretary Swan
son and other naval officials that as
per cent OF the cost Of battleships
goes to labor" You can expect to
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08
WHITEWASH YARN SPIKED

Lobbyists for the munitions COM
panies have been whispering-and
apparently believe-that Roosevelt
consented to allow the investigation
to go OH with a new appropriation in
return for a promise to go easy on
Baruch and to refrain from bringing
in the name Of Elliott Roosevelt, the
presidents son.
That yarn happens to be a canard.
The committee had dug up some
information as to Baruch's wartime
work which it felt would tend to dis
credit Baruch's position as an inn
partial expert on war profits, though
there's no evidence yet that this was
discreditable to Baruch himself.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08
PRESIDENTS SON NAMED

Elliott Roosevelt is an official in a
large aviation organization. Certain
members Of the committee have whis-
pered that his name would appear at
the hearings in connection with an
interesting story.
Although they're all mum about it
now, several insist that no names are
going to be suppressed.
The spotlight may or may not be
turned on couple of prominent SEN
ators-one Democrat and the other
a Republican-who have been found
to have received loans from an i'm
portant figure in the munitions in
dustry.
In that instance the question Of
senatorial courtesy tends to get mix
ed up with the question whether
there was anything sufficiently cul-
pable about the loans to demand pub
lie disclosure.
Copyright, 1885, NEA Service, 1nc)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-08
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Rv William Rradv M ID.

letters pertaining health hygiene not to disease
diagnosis, treatment will be answered by DR. Brady stamped
envelope Letters should be brief and written
ink No reply be made to queries conforming to
Address DR.. William Brady in OF this newspaper
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FATTENED ON U. S. CASH

IT was Shown That the navy had
made wartime contracts with the
New York company under which the
government paid all taxes and some
preferred stock dividends for the
company-whose officials said it was
the navy's own idea. Senator Ben
nett Clark of Missouri asked:
Then the more taxes assessed
against you, the more profit you
made. since YOU got cost-plus pay
on the basis OF total cost, including
taxes?"
Treasurer N. r. Parker Of the COM
pany admitted that was true.
Those were hard blows at the con-
ventional army-navy- Baruch ideas as
to what to do about war profits.
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Washington. Feb. 8-Crowded off
the front page by Mr.. Hauptmann
and many new varieties of local ex-
element, the senate munitions COM
mittee nevertheless resumed its
hearings with some Of its most i'm
portant revelations.
Its new disclosures were designed
to discredit in advance the ineffec-
tive, halfway measures for taking
the profit out of war" which it felt
would be advocated by B. NJ. Baruch
and Gen. Hugh Johnson, key men,
bers of the presidential war profits
committee.
And when time comes to propose
legislation, this groundwork will be
used in argument for more radical
legislation than Baruch or johnson
would agree to.
What the committee showed, with
almost no publicity, was that war
profits taxes were an unsafe and I'M
certain means of reducing war profits.
The New York Shipbuilding Com
pany. one Of the big Three which
has made large profits in its business
with the navy in both war and peace,
reported taxes for the 1892 period
Of only $2,941, 627.
Bureau of internal revenue agents
claimed the company owed the gov
eminent $l4,561 ,091. The final set
Element came in 1926, 705 1903.
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| THE
| NEW = DEAL
WASHINGTON
Tribune Washington Correspondent
by RODNEY BUTCHER

IIr1bune Washington CONSEQUENTLY
Bloated Profits for Navy Building
Barred -. Munitions Probers Put
Early Spike in Guns Of Baruch's
Group -. Big Names Are Linked
In Deals -. Roosevelt Hush Tale
Discounted.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
u. s. First Bonus Marc7,er Won
Point and Boarded at Capitol
PRINCESS KATHERINE

ter quickly assembled small force of
desert tribesmen and prepared for a
land attack on Tripoli-but arrived
just as the United States had agreed
to a peace treaty with the usurper.
Yussuf. The fleet was not interested
in the claims OF. .Carmelli, who had to
seek refuge in. the desert again. Lett
Zendorfer was taken aboard an Amer
ican ship ana landed in Sicily.
This claimant for American bounty
was born-according to his own story
as it was related to Congress-in the
Austrian Tyro1 in l772, educated as a
surveyor and enlisted in the Austrian
Army for war with Turkey. He
killed fellow soldier in a duel, was
sentenced to be hanged, but escaped.
He fled to Milan, then In control of
the French. He was suspected as an
Austrian spy and arrested. Once more
he escaped by poisoning his guards.
He made mis- way into Switzerland,
where he obtained some money from
home and set up as wandering ped
dler of watches and jewelry. 1t was
at this time that he changed his name
from Gervasio Probasio Santuari to
John LeitZendorfer.
After an incredible series of adven-
lures he found himself destitute in
Sicily. Then he entered a Capachin
monastery, but was unable to endure
the discipline and escaped on a ship
bound for ConStantinople There he
was in desperate circumstances until
he met with fellow renegade Capa-
chin, who loaned him pack of play
ing cards and a pistol. He was a
clever slight of hand performer and
the two made living for a time by
exhibiting their tricks on the streets.
His next role was that of a Moslem
dervish. He joined a Turkish cara
Evening star., 1935-05-23
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
Congress had a "lodger" in 1910.

Congress mao lOQger IN l6lU.
The Senate that year provided a
room in the Capitol for certain John
Leitzendorfer until it could decide what
to do with one of the most extraor-
dinary figures of his generation.
Man of many aliases. ex-engineer,
eX-Soldier. eX-monk, eX-dervish, ex-
doctor-and withal under sentence Of
death in three countries-Leitzen-
dorfer was Washington's first bonus
marcher" Also, one would assume, he
was a most accomplished liar.
1t was during the war with Tripoli
in 1903 that he first came into the
American picture. He was then an
engineer in Cairo. To the Egyptian
city came William Eaton, Revolu-
tionary general and then American
consul at TuniS. He let it become
known that he wanted the services of
some man familiar with the desert
and with the ways and language of the
Bedouin tribes for mission of extraor-
dinary danger Shortly after his ar
rival he was introduced to Lietzen-
dorfer-the ideal man for his purpose.
Eaton Planned Coup.
Gen Eaton. apparently without con-
sulting either the Government at
Washington or the American Fleet in
the Mediterranean. had planned a sem
sational move. The ruler of Tripoli,
with which the United States was at
war, was Yussuf Bey. an usurper.
Shortly before he had overthrown
Hamet Caramelli. who now was fugi-
tive among the Bedouins. Eaton
wished to get message to Hamet, tell
ing him of the presence of the Ameri-
can Fleet and arranging for a Bedouin
attack upon the city from the rear
the reward to be the fugitive'S restora-
ton to power with the aid Of the
Yankee guns.
Leitzendorfer agreed to undertake
the mission-frst making the Ameri-
can general take an oath of secrecy on
the Koran. At that particular time in
his checkered career the adventurer
was a devout Moslem. Travelling
alone through the desert, he got the
message through to Hamet. The lat
Evening star., 1935-05-23

van bound for the south shore Of the
Black Sea. The dervish was supposed
to serve not only as priest but physi-
clan. He claimed that he made a
small fortune on this expedition by
selling quotations from the Koran on
slips Of paper which had been sancti-
fed by contact with his sacred shaven
crown. The expedition arrived at
Tregibond. There, it was reported. the
"bashaw" was dangerously Ill with a
fever and going blind. The "dervish"
was ushered into the royal presence.
He noted film forming over the
bashaw's eyes.
Lacked Confidence In Cure.
Leitzendorfer-he then had the
alias of Murat Aga-assured the ruler
that Allah willed he was to get we'll
after the new moon. He proceeded
to blow lime dust into the afflicted
eyes. He thought it might "eat away
the film" But he was none too
sure of the therapeutic properties of
his heroic remedy and proceeded to
join a pilgrimage to Mecca, so that
he would be far away from the
bashaw's vengeance when the test
came with the new moon.
A few weeks later his caravan was
attacked by some desert marauders
and purchased its liberty. The at
tackers then gave their victims the
Evening star., 1935-05-23

ington with q letter to the Secretary
Of State recounting his services and
recommending that something be
done for him. The Secretary had no
authority to do anything, and sent
Leitzendorfer to Congress with Gen.
Eaton's letters. There he found a
sponsor in Senator Bradley of Penn
sylvania, who introduced a bill to
give him a half section OF the public
lands, 800 acres, and the pay of a
captain from December Is, 1904, to
December Is, 1805-the period when
he had served the United States In
Egypt.
But in the meantime something
had to be done for the destitute "bo-
nus marcher." He was provided, ac-
cording to the account of the affair
in Niles Weekly Register of Balti-
more, with vacant chamber in the
northern pile Of the Capitol, provid-
ing and cooking for himself and en-
ploying his hands in almost every
Evening star., 1935-05-23

latest news from home-the most In
teresting item Of which was that the
bashaw had been miraculously cured
of his fever and his blindness by q
Heaven-sent dervish, and that a
search was being made for this holy
man that he might be suitably re-
warded. So the doctor" went back
to claim his fee.
Next we find him In Egypt, un-
dertaking the perilous mission for
Gen. Eaton.
After the American ship had put
him ashore in Sicily the pennyless
Leitzendorfer was In a desperate Sit
uation.
The French were threatening to
arrest him for the murder of the
two guards years before. He escaped
as sailor on an American ship and
in December, 1909, was landed at
Salem, Mass. His old friend, Gen.
Eaton, had gone into retirement at
Brimfield, about so miles away.
The general sent him on to WASH