3 THE FRONTIER D' H~ CRONIN, PUBLISHER, * iV.C, TEMPLETON, IMItor and Business Manager. C’Reill, NflahAskj Action of Northwestern In Federal Court Interests 30 S. Dakota Counties Sioux Falls. S. D.. T . (—Litiga tion of interest to more than 30 coun ties In South Dakota Is scheduled for presentation In ffiteral court hers Thursday In a si-lt brought by the Chicago and Northwestern railway company In protest against the 1927 assessment levied against its property in this state. It is maintained that the value of its property in the sev eral counties was excessive. The action Is a setiuel to similar proceedings brought by the same rail way company on the Issue of the 1921 assessment. According to the annual report of the state tax department the total asseessed valuation for the railway in 1922 was 541,956,406. By agreement approximately 70 per cent, of the company's tax under this as sessment has been paid, leaving the balance to be paid In accordance with the court ruling. Byron S. Payne, former attorney general, who will appear with Attor ney General Buell F. JoneB In defense of the county assessments, conducted the case for the state In the 1921 tax litigation.. lie said that the Chicago and Northwestern presented two Is sues in the former case, under the claim first that their property was over assessed, and second, that the valuation was unjust in comparison to that turned in for neighboring farm land In the several counties. In the present case, only the first issue Ik being presented, he said. In the former case at Sioux Falls, Judge Elliott held iis favor of the state assessments on both issues pre sented. Final decision in a subse quent appeal to the circuit court at appeals was prevented when full payment of the assessed tax was made by the plaintiff company. ' Th# company ,has provided against (Ills circumstance in the present action. Attorneys for the state believe that the valuation as made Is backed by the force of a valuation of ail railroad * property that has bean completed by the interstate commerce commission, and which, it is said, places th* amounts in South Dakota at approx imately the same figures of th* as sessments. PARTY PLATFORMS OFFICIALLY PRINTED. Pierre, S. D., T" * <-The plat forms of the different parties, ma jority,and minority, have been print ed by the secretary of state, and show how the different parties and branches and factions look upon af fairs, state and national. In comparison, the majority demo cratic platform is longer than the combined platform of all other parties and factions except that of the minority republican, which Is about half as Jong as the democratic ma “~“jority, each evidently building on words as political "strong medicine.** While neither the majority or mi nority republican platforms In' any way attempt to discuss the present “Richards’’ primary law, the majority and minority farm-labor platforms are demanding the restoration of the repealed portions of that act, which would restore the presidential debates, and th>» publicity pamphlet as a portion of the law. The demo cratic minority takes the same po sition and the democratic majority, while in no way discussing the lam in itself, goes oh record against any legislative repeal of initiated or re ferred laws, which puts tt In effect, in opposition to any change in the present election law as one of thir class. All of them are for lax reduction, state and federal, and all are for a soldiers bonus or compensation, which President Coolidge has announced will be an impossibility so far as both are concerned. GRAVELING TWO ROADS OUT OF PARKER. 8. D. Parker, 8. iD., ' y us. Mr. Borg, with $2,000,000 made in (Vail street, says, "I have all the mon »y I want. My employes may have jiy Wall street business. 1 am going >o run a newspaper. I'm not a news paper man but I have ideas as to how a newspaper should be run.” Poor Mr. Borg will miss that Wall street brokerage office, when he begins get ting the bills for hie newspaper. If It goes the wrong way, as it generally Joes, with an amateur, he will find $2,000,000 about as useful as two ham sandwiches would be on a walking tour around the world. Venizelos favors a hereditary pres idency for Greece, Instead of a mon archy. What’s the difference, If the president's son inherits the pres idency? If our presidency were hered itary, atir presidents would have more power than any European king. They have that power now, Mr. Wilson, for Instance, used it. in the war. An election every four years, and tha desire for a second term, keep our presidents careful. Things are better than they were, even for kings. In Cromwell's and Danton’s day, their heads were cut »ff. The Greek king goes away, with l pension of $28,000 a year for Ufa, Jl8,00(> cash being paid on his leaving. The Greeks will have to pick and dry many currants to pay for that. French money was very weak yes terday. The government went into the market, to keep up the price. Con ditions have changed In Europe, to the disadvantage of those that plan ned a continental dictatorship for France. At least financiers think bo, and they establish the value of ex change. The Pope is striving through nego tiations with Franco and Germany to establish peace and friendship In the Ruhr. Much has been accom plished in that direction by the Eng lish elections. Poincare knows that Lloyd George And British labor—Lloyd George, es pecially, will talk plainly when the time comes. The protest of Italy Against the occupation' of the Ruhr And the establishment of any French dominion on German soil as a viola tion of the Versailles treaty will have Its effect. Middlemen of the uYmccessary or unproductive kind get too big prof its In this country. Vioitors to New York pay $12.00 for theater tickets sold by managers at $3.30, Including tax. The cost of living is the great national question. It depends entirely on retail prices and with those prices the people that own the nation, have pothlng whatever to do. They may gamble but they must pay. It la nobody’s business to protect the con sumer. Ask the coal men. The British have set up a puppet king in Mesopotamia,'with all the royal fixing court, grooms in watt ing, royal chamberlain and the British a« usual are wise. Young children need a nurse, backward peoples need a king with Britain's hand above him. This modern king of Mesopo tamia would aeem a strange doll to old Kings, like Hammurabi or Cyru% who wrote in his epitaph, "I am Cy rus, Q Man,” but Britain’s doll will be useful. If England can restore the fertility that once lined the Ti gris and Euphrates, that will be even more useful. POET KNOWLEDGE. I know the primrose huo of morning fills My spirit with repose that heals and stills. 1 know the dying sun’s emblasoned fold Betrays tomorrow's birth In tints of gold. 1 know the chickadees la early spring Maks wayside firs with heavenly pre. hides ring. I know the twilight breath of meadow bay liprinkles with myrrh the drowsy snd of day. I know the gentle hush of falling snow Pours through my heart a warm reli gious glow. I know, as I go out beneath tho star* That God himself has taket^ down tho bars, To let me wander In the pastures where Tli*< one Impulsive utterance Is prayer. -P* Wilbert Snow In The Forum. Every cadet at WeBt Point Is to have a Bible. At the request of the Rev. ■ Clayton E. Wheat, the chaplain, offi cials of the American Bible society and .he American Tract society will pres ent them at Sunday service. Nobody Happy. ' From the Aurora Advertiser. Eggs are 50 cents a dozen, hot dog; thought I would tell a farmer tho good news. Farmer Bald he didn’t have any eggs to sell. Tough luck. Told a town man eggs was 50 cents. Town man said, “Ain't it-.’ No body happy. Thought Magnus John, son would like to bear this. Wired nSm, charges collect. He refused •lamn. Must ba something the may ; wr with the government at Waif hgon. V Some Diets for Diabetics. Mrs. M. F. writes that she had charge of her mother who had diabetes. By following the plan described below the mother was cured in five years: Substitute Jireh or diabetic flour in ail cooking where ordinary flour is used. Saccharin for all sweetening. Famous Austrian physician allowed some oat meal. Use home made cottage cheese with one-third quantity of beaten sour cream, eliminating the water from same. Plenty of good sweet cream in butter milk. The use of butter fats extensively as a substitute for the nourishment gen erally derived from sugar and flour. Itecipe for splendid oatmeal cakes: One cupful oatmeal. One cupful pecans, chopped. Saccharin to sweeten dissolved in tablespoonful of milk. Two eggs beaten. One and one-half teaspoonful baking powder. Knough milk to make stiff batter. Drop in small spoonfuls on waxed paper and bake till brown. Make bat ter stiff enough-to keep from running together. Will keep a long time. Patient should have plenty of eggs, milk and butter fat. - Mrs. H. D. was not so successful, but she writes: "My son, 5 years old, had sugar dia betes with 5 per cent sugar before we were aware of it (it is one of the most deceiving diseases). We took him to a specialist, who put him on a strict diet. In a week's time he was stronger and began to play as he formerly had. He lived mostly on green vegetables and chicken or meats unfloured. His bread I made of soy bean flour, and he could _tat alt he wanted, as this contained no “starch. I used this flour for his gravies and to thicken different dishes. "For breakfast he had unsweetened oatmeal with plenty of cream, and cof fee. At noon, his bread and butter, one or two green vegetables, a meat, coffee, dessert or jellp and whipped cream or unsweetened fruits with cream. At night he usually had a poached egg, slaw, bread and butter. "He had celery, nuts, cheese, ripe to matoes (In season) to eat between meals. His percentage of sugar was reduced to none fo~ Bix months; then' it gradually increased. By starving all one day we could reduce it.” Chicago May Walk in Air. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Double-deck sidewalks are proposed in the Chicago city council as a meas ure of relief for the pedestrian Jam in the region of the loop. Vehicular traf fic has been hoisted into the air and put underground to ease surface trans portation. It is now the pedestrian’s turn to detour above or below to give his fellows more elbow room. The Chicago plan suggests useful pos sibilities. It is proposed to connect the upstairs sidewalks directly with the ele vated railroad stations. The existence of an elevated railway is not, however, essential to the success of the plan. An elevated sidewalk would naturally connect with business structures by way of their second story. It would bring second story space Into a new de mand for retail use. No small part of the pedestrian congestion Is due to people merely going from one store to another In shopping or going from of fice to restaurant for lunch. It is said that In New York one may leave home In the morning, shop all day and return at night without ever seeeing daylight or setting foot on the surface of walk or street. Something of a similar possibil ity might exist in a comprehensive sys tem of elevated sidewalks. Advice for T. B. Patients* . Consumption is one of those diseases with which many people must learn to live or pay the penalty. The average length of the Illness occasioned by It Is said to be almost three years. I have known of people who have lived with consumption for more than 10 years. 1 have In mind very prominent railroad man In the southwest who has been a consumptive for 40 years. He, In spite of his infirmity, is a very powerful and important member of society in his section, perhaps the most important In a range comprising several states. The secret is this: He has learned to live with his disease. I wish every consumptive could have a copy of “Hints and Helps for Tubercu losis Patients," by Dr. Charles L. Minor, of Asheville. N. C. This book of rules of less than 6,000 words has been published five times by the Journal of Outdoor Life. That Journal will reprint It and •ell It for 10 cents. It can be procured through local tuberculosis societies. The first IS rules relate to rest. The /Ules for outdoor living are five in num ber, and go into minute details. The ad vice is to stay out of doors at least eight clothes without due consideration, re membering that: "Beneath this stone, a lump of clay, to 10 hours a day. One rule Is never to stay out of doors when you are chilly, but this means that a person mis taka pains to be warmly covered, not that they are to stay Indoors In Inclement weather. The only weather to keep out of Is that of sleet storms. In hot weath er a person should cover his head against the sun. The rules about eating are 12 in num ber. There are six rules relating to •Vtthlng. Chest protectors are advised ■febinst. The winter underclothing Is to be worn until about June 1, and the avmmcr weights until about November 16. "Never change the weight of your Lies Uncle Peter Daniels, Who early in the month of May Took off his winter flannels.” Five rules are given as to bathing. One is: "If you suffer from chilliness try salt and alcohol rubs. If you tend to perspire too freely, vinegar and alcohol rubs." Other subjects covered are: The room, bed, and sleep; amusements, care of the voice, cough and expectoration, medi cines, miscellaneous, and mental atti tude. American Leadership In Peace. From the Chicago News. Representative Mondell, republican leader In the federal House of Repre sentatives, put the case for American Inltiattye In respect of armament limi tation very convincingly In his state ment to the naval committee. Mr. MondeU’s argument Isthat an intema tions' agreement to reduce military and naval budgets is absolutely essential to certain old-world countries If they are to avoid bankruptcy and possibly worse internal and external evils. It is evident that none of them will act unless all act In concert. It is equally evident that the duty or privilege of leading in this movement for genuine economy and reconstruction devolves upon the United States. Lenin Against Unions. From the Springfield Republican. Lenin Is at last on common ground with a large group of capitalists and employers in this country In his sharp criticism of labor unions. The extremes oddly meet. The Russian labor union ists, writes Lenin In his Petrograd or gan, "are out for material benefit to themselves at the expense of the genera] welfare of the communist state.” Labor unionism, he complains, threatens to destroy the supremacy of bolshevism. HUGE BOGUS MONEY RING IS DISCLOSED Five Persons Arrested in Million Dollar Counter feit Discovery Universal Service Chicago, Dec. 28.—Five persons Were arrested by secret service op eratives today, charged with forging $10 bills. Nine others are being sought. Operations of the band ex tend from New York to Denver, ac cording to the government agents. It is believed by government agents that more than $500,000 and possibly $1,000,000, of bad money has been worked off by the band during the past few weeks. Of the five arrested one is a wom an. The government officials refused to disclose their names. Nine hundred counterfeit bills were found in a road house near Chicago. The “plant” where the bills are print ed is believed located in the east. EX-CONVICT OFFERS BLOOD TO HELP MAN WHO CONVICTED HIM Universal Service Paris, Dec. 28.—A former convict, prosecuted and sent to San Quentin prison for two years by Thomas Lee Woolwine, Californian, who has been ill here, called on his fbrmer prose cutor Friday, and offered his blood In a transfusion operation to restore Woolwlne's health. "You sent me to prison," he told Wooliwine, “but you helped my wife get a Job and support herself while I was doing time. Now I want to do something to show my gratitude*" Woolwine declined the man’s offer, explaining that his health has so im proved lately that transfusion is no longer necessary. He declined to give the former convict’s name. U. S. Engineer* Urge Improvements on Coast Universal Service Washington, Dec. 28.-—Expenditure of $149,000 for dredging portions of the San Diego harbor to a depth of 82 feet was urged upon congress by the chief egineers of the army Fri day. Expenditure of $365,000 for the Duwanlsh waterway in Seattle was also asked. Secretary of War Weeks made an additional allotment of $300,000 for •’improvement of the upper Mississippi river, the original allotment of $1,* 050,000 being found nsufficie{nt. Building Activities In Iowa Show Great Gains Chicago, Dec. 28.—The seasonal de cline in building activities in the states included In the seventh fede ral reserve district came during Nov ember this year when contract* awarded amounted to $43,690,353, or 25 per cent, below October, the monthly business condition report of the federal reserve bank of Chicago announced today. The decrease In residential con struction amounted to 18.9 per cent, for the district, although In Iowa, It Increased 41.2 per cent. Decreases for November amounted to 2 per cent, for Chicago and 5.1 per cent, for Des Moines. Venizelos to Start for Greece Within 48 Hours Paris, Dec. 28.—A delegation sent from Greece to persuade Ex-Pre mier Venizelos to return home and help unravel Greece’s political tan gle, arrived here today. It* mem bers were happy to discover that their mission had been accomplished for them by telegraph while they were on the way. M. Venizelos’ departure 1* fixed for sometime within the next 4$ hours. _ Radio Fans Hear Concert Broadcast From England Chicago, Dec. 28.(U. P.)—Radio programs broadcast from Scotland and England were heard at A. P. Combs, Enid, Okla., and M. B. Norm an, Eureka Center, Wls., according to reports to Chicago radio oflce to day. Both men, using three-tube re ceiving sets, are believed to have established a long distance receiving record. Contrary to Rules. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Deacon Jones was snoozing in the rear pew as the minister closed his sermon with the words: "we will close with a short prayer. Deacon Jones will lead." Deacon Jones opened his eyes and sat up with a Jerk. "Tatn't my lead. I just dealt!*‘_ At the time of the recent eclipee of the sun September 10, along the southern coast of California, there were on the state highway 140 miles of automobiles, packed closely together. The occupants were Journeying from Los Angeles to San Diego and T!a Juana. Mexico, to see the total eclipse. TnKTflc moved at six miles an hour and 1,000 arrests were made for cutting out of line and en dangering others on the Torry Pines grade, Just out of Pan Diego. Gaso line stations were drained early In the dav and fuel was sold for 40 cents a gallon Instead of 15 cents. Eskimos in th* Canadian northwest have asked the Anglican church to send missionaries to offset the de moralising tnfluenci of vicious whites. Anton Lang, of Passion Play Famey Smiles at Recital of Religious Furies From the Philadelphia Record. Into a city and country torn by the bitter battles of evolution ists and fundamentalists, where the hell-hounds of religious pre judice and hate have been let loose, there came this week a re markable old man who has tried through life to catch and give out something of the spirit of Christ—Anton Lang, the Christ of the Passion Play of Oberammergau. And when they told him of the hates that have been evoked in the holy name of religion he smiled and said: “At Oberammergau we have all kinds. There is a Catholio church, and a chapel that is used by the Protestants, Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, all kinds. But that isn’t what counts. It is how one lives that makes one good or bad; and Jesus, I be lieve, will take us all to heaven according to our virtues. There are no religious quarrels in Oberammergau. He did not mean to scold, for he is seemingly a gentle soul, but the rebuke to the little beasts in the Kilkenny catfight of clashing creeds is no less real. And if he smiled, it must have been with pity. Possibly he smiled because he could not see how evolution ists and fundamentalists can denounce and damn, hate and des pise one another in the name of Him who came to tell us to love on» another. And barely possible, because in the story of the Klan hfr biit saw anew the age-old mockery and sham of stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in. Maybe he smiled in meditating on the fact that while God’» purposes and God’s love are eternal, the petty bickerings of men who come and go and are forgotten are of very little moment after all. And again, perhaps, when they told him, if they did, of the. lashing of men and women because of creed, and of the gesticulat ing evangels of scorn and hate in pulpits and on platforms—all ia the name of religion—he may have thought of the admonition of the Christ—“Love one another.” And that, too, would have mad» him smile. There are enough bigots of the fifty-seven varieties, lighting the fires of hate by using torn Bible leaves as tapers, to amuse, amaze, or shock the gentle figure from Oberammergau. INCREASE IN EYE INJURIES. New York.—The National Com n ittee for the Prevention of Blind ness reports a striking increase dur ing November in the number of serious eye injuries. A total of 424 such Injuries were reported in No vember, against 318 in October. Five women seriously injured tlielr eyesight when they stuck hot curl ing Irons in their eyes. In all 92 children were victims of eye ac cidents, 47 resulting from games. Glimpsing ■ Figure. From the Los Angeles Times. Twenty thousand Americans on Armistice Day made a pilgrimage to the home of Woodrow Wilson. They were inspired by a sentiment almost devotional in its character. Many of them wept with emotion when they were permitted to behold the wan and wasted figure of their former chieftain. On virtually the Bame day thousands listened for tho message over the radio from the same distin guished patriot. The temper of his utterance was courageous and inspir ing, but the voice was a feeble and faltering one. It Is manifest that, while the mind and heart of Woodrow Wilson are clear, strong and wholesome, his physical being does not respond to tne exactions he would place upon it. Those who gathered at his door agree that the former President was serene and cheerful in his communication, yet his words came to them as a voice from another world. But, if the physical being of Wood row Wilson has wasted in the judg ment of human eyes, he continues to vastly impress the American mind. No other man in America carries the influence in the same way as is exercised by this pale figure at the national capital. Even his political enemies will agree that he is the greatest private citizen in the world today. As an intellectual idealist he stands forth like a Himalayan peak and, even where his judgments erred, he still commands the almost reverent respect of millions of American men and Women. U. S. MINISTER SAYS PRESIDENT HARDING WAS CHINA’S FRIEND Peking.—Speaking at the unveil ing of a memorial tablet to the late President Harding, erected by Chinese subscriptions, In the Central Park here, Jacob G. Schurman, United States minister to China, read a portion of a personal letter which President Harding wrote him April 1, 1822, regarding the Washington Conference. In his letter, the late President said: ‘‘I really think we have done things which will be an exceedingly great help to China, and, as you know, they have all been done with utter unselfishness. We are all hop ing that most benencial results will fellow, In every way. If the Chinese government wishes to strengthen and fully asStert itself, the provisions wrought In the conference must be exceedingly encouraging." Minister Schurman said that Presi dent Harding wanted to see China freed from foreign restrictions and fendowed with full powers of sover eignty at the earliest moment. While some of the provisions of the Washington conference did not ful fill this, Mr. Harding believed that the prospects were bright for an early consummation of all provisions. * She Misunderstood. Miss De Style—I read a lot In the paper about separatlonlsts. Who are they? Miss Gunbusta—Residents of Reno, I suppose. The Price Booster. A man who had lived several years on a tropical South Sea Is land came north one winter. He sought out a coal dealer and asked him the price of a ton of coal. The dealer told him. "What’s the matter?” whispered the former South Seas man. "Have they passed a law against selling that, too?” Meant It. "I ’aven’t seen v*r 'usband about lately. Mrs. ’Iggins, I ’ope ’e’g quite well?”’ "Didn’t you ’ear—’e fell off a tram an' got conclusion of the brain?” "You mean ’concussion.’ Mrs. ‘Iggins ” "I mean 'conclusion,' Mrs. 'lagging 's died.” DAY PIECE. The poplars run before me as a child* And hide behind the bend, I find in all this nun-like loveliness Of trees a quaint sweet friend. With green and purple thoughts Jf walk the hills, I linger near the sea; Not for the deeper shadows to coma on With evening mystery; Nor for the red canoe of sunset on Its way to whiter streams; Nor for the overtones that stars and moon Give me and take—night’s dreams. It’s only for a something in my heart That life has given me And still withheld * • *; I have and yet have not A tree, a hill, a sea. -—Benjamin Rosenbaum in Poetry* BY HENRY VAN DYKE. - i THE USEFULNESS OF COURAGE. Deal courageously, and the Lord be* With the good.—11 Chron., 1911. Courage is a serviceable virtue. There is hardly any place in which* it is not useful. There is no type-of character, no sphere of action, in which there is not room and need for it. Genius is talent set on Are by cour age. Fidelity is simply daring to be truo in small things as well as in great. As many as are the conflicts and perils and hardships of life, so many are the uses and the forms of cour age. | It is necessary, Indeed, as the pro tector and defender of all the other virtues. Courage is the standing army of the> soul which keeps it from conquest* pillage, and slavery. Unless we are brave we can hardly be truthful, or generous, or just, or pure, or kind, or loyal. “Few persons,” says a wise ob server, “have the courage to fippear as good as they really are.” You must be brave in order to ful fill your own possibilities of virtue. Courage is essential to guard thw best qualities of the soul, and clear the way for their action, and make them move with freedom and vigor. “Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end; Courage, an independent spark from Heaven’s throne, By which ths soul stands raised, triumphed, high, alone; The spring of all true acts is seated hers. As falsehoods draw their sordid, birth from fear.” If we desire to be good, we must first of all desire to be brave, that against all.opposition, scorn, and dan ger we may move straight onward tc* do the right Lucky Girl. From The Chicago News. “Many people Imagine that good looks are the principal asset of a film actress,” said Ethel Clayton, the Eng lish actress, recently. “That’s wherot they’re wrong. Ugliness is sometime* an equally valuable asset, provided It Is coupled with a talent for facial ex pression. Which reminds me of a story A movie actress of this type with whom, I am acquainted has a little sister, who came with her to the studio the other day. Between the acts she volunteered the Information that ’Sis is a lucky girl.’ ‘In what way?’ I smilingly asked the little lady. ’She went to a party last night,’ explained the child, ‘whero they played a game In which the men, either had to kiss a girl or pay a. forfeit of a box of chocolates.’ ‘Well how was she lucky?’ I asked. ’Sha came home with thirteen boxes.’ ” British Tennis Fans Will “Seed the Draw’* London.—The American system of “sedlng the. draw" will probably bo Introduced at the Lawn Tennl* Championships at Wimbledon next year. This was decided by the rules Com mittee to avoid “the possibility of foreign and overseas players who come from a long distance meeting each other In the early rounds of tho championships.’’ The new method Is expected to provide exciting finals.