THEY MUST DO
ON TWO MEALS
Prisoners in Burl Counly
Jail to Be Fed But
Twice Each Day
Tekamah, Neb.—(Special) - Only
two meals a day will be allowed
Burt county prisoners in the future,
by authority of the county board of
supervisors which voted to order
Sheriff Lawrence Phipps to cut down
the tlmee meals now given.
Phipps said it was a losing busi
ness for him to serve three meals.
He also said some of the inmates
Raid the food they got in jail was
better than they had at home.
The state law allows 75 cents per
day to feed prisoners. This amount
will now be spent on two meals In*
stead of three.
BLACK HILLS CLUBS
GROUP ELECTS OFFICER*
Rapid City, S. D.—Bert P. Bell,
Deadwood. was elected president and
secretary of the Associated Com
mercial clubs of the Black Hills at
Its annual meeting here, succeeding
R L. Bronson, Rapid City, who held
the position for the last 13 years.
Other officers elected were: W. J.
Beck, Hot Springs, vice president,
and L. C. Morrison, Belle Fourche,
treasurer.
Under the provisions of a new set
of by-laws adopted at the annual
meeting, the board or directors was
increased from 5 to 17 members, and
the two new offices of treasurer and
vice president were created.
Development of a larger and bet
ter type of advertising program was
outlined as one of the principal
projects of the association for the
ensuing year. Greater stress, it was
decided, will be laid on the adver
tising value of Mount Rushmore,
national memorial being carved by
Gutzon Borglum, and on the min
eral and agricultural resources of
the Black Hills region.
The association’s new president
has been secretary of the Deadwood
chamber of commerce for the last
two years.
CHILD LOST BUT WAS
GUARDED BY DOG
Yankton. 8, D. — After a two
hour search, officers located Arthur
Reetz, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Art
Reetz lying In a cornfield nearly a
mile from home, sound asleep and
closely guarded by a large collie
dog, pet and pal of the lad.
The boy had been playing in
front of his home when his mother
la X saw him, but when she called
him for lunch, he could not be
found. After searching the neigh
borhood, she became alarmed, and
called the police to aid her. Two
hours later, while searching along
the north edge of town, a colored
boy told Mr. Reetz that he had seen
a child sloping in a cornfield near
by, but when he tried to pick him
up the collie chased him away. The
lad was none the worse for his ad
venture.
THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN’S
NAMES BEGIN WITH “L”
Canton, 8. D.—(Special)—The
letter "Ij” is evidently a favorite
with Mr. and Mrs. Art Husman,
Canton. They have just named their
latest baby Lucile Jessie. They now
have eight children all of whost
first names begin with L.
BIG POTATO CROP
SHOWS NICE PROFIT
Camp Crook, 8. D.— —A
bright spot in the 1931 crop report
for western South Dakota was dis
covered in Camp Crook with an
nouncement by McKnelly and Ja
cobs, large scale farmers of the Lit
tle Missouri river valley, that this
year brought them a record potato
crop.
McKnelly and Jacobs reported
disposition of the entire crop of
nearly 40 tons. Potatoes were sold
to customers in South Dakota and
Montana.
Owners said the cast of producing
the record crop was about $50 an
acre, leaving a profit of $75 to $80
an acre. The potatoes were sold at
$1 a 100 pounds.
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GREATLY IN SIZE
Vermilion. S. D.—(Special)—This
county should become famous for
Its odd-sized calves. A short time
ago the birth of a 13-pound calf
was reported on a farm near this
city. Now comes Harry J. Hansen
of near here reporting the birth of
a 110-pound calf to one of his Here
ford cows. The first calf was sev
eral times under average weight
while this last calf is around double
normal weight.
Bennie Johnson, who owned the
midget calf, conceded it was the
result or hard times. Mr. Hansen
believes his giant, calf portends
prosperity or. at least, bumper
crops next year.
ALLEY PROWLER MAKES
ESCAPE FROM OFFICER
Menno, S. D.—(Special)—Because
of so many robberies in other
towns, Menno hired Fred Huber as
a special policeman to patrol the
streets and alleys at night. Recently
at 2:30 in the morning, he found
some one prowling around the
Heckenliable clothing store and
called ‘‘halt,’' but the person ran,
though the officer fired two shots.
FREEMAN, S. D.. COUPLE
MARRIED 62 YEARS
Freeman, S. D.—(Special) — Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Preheim, 83 and 82,
celebrated their sixty second wed
ding anniversary, November 7.
Mr. Peter Preheim was born in
Russia in the part which Is now
Poland. He is of Swiss and German
parentage. Mrs. Peter Preheim was
born in the same province of Rus
sia.
When they came over to South
Dakota, this state was still a ter
ritory, and the site of Freeman was
a prairie.
Efficiency Is Pulling Business Out of Slump
COTTON SHOWS NOTABLE IMPROVEMENT IN SEPTEMBER
SSfB;
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BY ALLAKD SMITH
Executive Vice rresident, Union Trust Co., Cleveland. Ohio
In the midst of general business
pessimism the fact is frequently
over looked that tome industries
and a good many individual com
panies are making progress. The
energy and ingenuity of American
business brains are quietly but
surely discovering paths to profit
even in the face of the present
difficult situation.
This progress by individual en
terprises is being made by in
creased efficiency in production,
improvements of old products and
introduction of new ones, and re
organization of various depart
ments leading to lower costs, and
better manufacturing and mer
chandising. These companies are
facing realities and adjusting their
affairs to them, hence their suc
cess. ,
Among the important industries
showing improvement, that of cot
ton textiles is outstanding. In
September consumption of cotton
by American spinners was 4{>.j,7<n
bales compared with 425,819 ba.es
in August this year, and 393,3t0
bales in September of 1930.
Behind these figures of raw cot
ton consumption are the records
of the Association of Cotton Tex
tile Merchants showing that sales
of cotton cloth in September were
8 per cent more than production of
287.708,OCO yards. Stocks of goods
are reported at a lower level than
at any time since the records were
started in January, 1928. Unfilled
orders increased 4.4 per cent dur
ing the month.
It is significant that this gain
for textiles is matched by en even
more emphatic improvement re
ported from the long prostrate
cotton mills of England. Large or
ders from the British mills are
partly explained by the drop in the
pound sterling which automatically
increased the purchasing power of
foreign currencies
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Government and the Railways
/
From the Minneapolis Journal.
Having refused the railroads the right to charge freight
rates adequate to meet their revenue needs, government
would now seem to be under obligation to let the roads
have a relatively free hand in the working out of economies
to reduce needs that cannot be met.
In private business, as in government business, there
is only one sound fiscal policy: If revenues cannot be forced
upward to fit requirements, then scale down requirements
to fit revenues.
For a quarter of a century, and longer, government,
first through the states and then through the federal pow
er, has dictated Just what the roads must do for the public,
and just what the roads could take from the public for ser
vices rendered. Government has undertaken to tell the
roads, not only what they must do, but how they must do
it. And, if the services ordered cost more than the re
muneration the roads were permitted to collect, that was
Just too bad.
The result has been most unfortunate. Railway securi
ties formerly considered so gilt-edged that they formed an
attractive investment for savings bank, trust estate, and
life insurance funds, have shrunk in value, due to the in
ability of the carriers to make both ends meet while con
fined in the strait-jacket of governmental regulations.
Ther? are, however, avenues of relief that the roads
may expli re, perhaps with considerable success, if govern
ment will permit. Among these are: Mergers of noncom
petitive roads that make for operating economy; repeal of
laws forcing the carriers to avoidable expense, and greater
tolerance of suspension of service where service has be
come permanently unprofitable.
Exploration of these avenues has been restricted by
governmental objection. Government has denied the roads
the right to effect such consolidations as they thought
would be profitable, and has planned to insist upon other
consolidations that probably would be against the interests
of the roads themselves. Government has forbidden other
operating economies. Government has insisted upon con
tinuance of services performed at a loss.
( Your Children
V_/
(By Olive Roberts Barton)
In the middle of November
comes 'Children's Book Week."
It was inaugurated some years
ago, not for the primary purpose
of selling juvenile publications
but to educate parents about the
importance of children's reading.
That it is important goes with
out despute. Children should learn
the habit of reading when they
are small. Their tastes will
change from year to year, natural
ly, as they grow older but the
fundamental idea is to establish
the habit. A love of books is one
of the greatest means of education
in the world, as well as the high
est type of recreation and enjoy
ment.
As we learn more about chil
dren, so does literature for chil
dren improve. Prom the tiniest
tot with his stories written in pic
tures to the boy curled deep in a
tome of simple mechanics, the
new writers are basing their works
on the natural development of the
child mind.
Books for young children used
to contain harrowing tales of
fear. Now. except for large and
harmless generalities, that is left
out. They used, also, to go in for
the goody-goody type of story that
could not resist a moral. Now
the morals and lessons of behav
ior are there but so cleverly done
that the child does not realize he
is being preached to.
Old Books Lacked Understanding
Again old-time books were too
dften over the children’s heads,
even those written especially for
youngsters. Also there were no
clever illustrations to hold the eye
and attention. In other words, the
world and most of its writers
1 were guessing at childhood and its
i needs and floundering hopelessly
as to its literature.
The new books are too numer
ous to name; never has there been
such a wealth of excellent reading
for young people, from the baby
up to the 16-year-old, as there is
now. It is worth a trip to any
book store just to go inside and
lose yourself in the facinating
pages of fairy land, adventure and
travel.
There is one side of the book
\ question that too few people real
| ize.
In school a boyfror girl has from
| two to six books. He cannot pos
sibly get all his knowledge of the
world and its people from them.
He certainly will get a lor bigger
and broader education outside of
school than in, if he learns to
read independently when he is
young.
So many parents do not realize
this and begrudge book money as
an extravagance. In our house
from the time the children could
understand the tiniest story we
have considered books a necessity.
When Christmas comes don't
rush into a store and ask the clerk
that stupid question, 'What shall
I buy for a boy of ten?”
Go pourself during "Book
I Week” or before and become fa
miliar with the different volumes
j on sale.
Storms to be Regulated.
F. H. Collier in the St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
A scientist thinks that weather
eventually may be controlled by
electricity. We contemplate with
awe the bringing on of a thunder
storm by pressing a button. Will
powerful sirens warn the people of
the storm's approach so they will
stop the |*iperfluous watering of
their lawns and shut the northwest
windows? For we do not suppose
that the electrical rain-inakers will
-o far defy established natural laws
as to bring rainstorms from un
heard-of directions.
The rains should be quite orderly
and never freakish. Ruskin said:
' As men do not walk on their heads
; there are natural laws that clouds
do not obey.” We have always
thought that man would, one of
these days, determine when rain
should fall and when it shouldn't.
I and electrical control may be the
secret. But we have profound doubts
j ofw his being able to do a thing
when a Gulf of Mexico hurricane
comes ashore.
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Badly Broke.
From Pathfinder.
"Have you felt any change since
you came back from your vaca
! tion?”
I “Notji nickel"
• GREAT VARIATION IN
YIELDS OF TEST PLOTS
' Kearney. Neb. — (UP) — A dif
ference of 20 bushels per acre was
| ;hown in the yield of test corn plots
; planted by Buffalo county farmers
this season.
Harry Pink, who irrigates his
farm, had a high yield of 66.1 bush
' els for h hybrid corn variety. The
I low yield, 46.7 bushels, was from a
corn tha' had been brought here
from the eastern part of the state.
Tom Blaschko. dry land farmer,
received 44.1 bushels to the acre
from a corn which originally came
from Illinois, while ris low yield
was 34.8, from a corn of rough va»
i rlety.
SHAVES BUDGET
FOR THE YEAR
Executive Committee of
Legion in Nebraska Gives
Its Approval
Lincoln. Neb.—< UP)— Committee
ftnd other appointments and ap
proval of a year's budget have been
announced by the Nebraska depart
ment of the American Legion.
The executive committee of the
department has approved a budget
of approximately $18,000, which is
$1,000 under the budget for a year
ago.
Robert Armstrong, of Auburn, was
appointed department judge advo
cate and Charles Sherman, of Lin
coln, was re-appointed department
sergeant at arms. Dr. A. E. Bu
chanan, of Fremont, was re-ap
pointed chairman of the state fund
relief committee.
Dwight Griswold, of Gordon, was
reappointed chairman of the state
finance committee. Thomas Mur
ray, of Grand Island, was appoint
ed a member of the finance com
mittee and Marcus L. Poteet, of
Lincoln, was designated to fill a va
cancy on the board of the Nebraska
Legionnaire.
Other standing committee ap
pointments included: Ralph Pierce,
Omaha, Americanism: Max Kier,
Lincoln, aviation; Dr. E. M. Leigh,
Hardy, community service; Louis
Horne, Lincoln, child welfare; V.
Krikac, Comstock, disaster relief;
Homer Ankeny, York, junior base
bMl; Clinton Brome, Omaha, na
tional defense.
SIDNEY, NEB. MAN
NOW 100 YEARS OLD
Sidney, Neb.—Believed to be west
ern Nebraska’s oldest resident, Ja
cob Whisler of Sidney will observe
the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Thursday.
Born in Cirleville, Ohio, in 1831,
he came west in the early 80’s and
hase been a resident of Nebraska
for almost a half century.
Relatives, friends and civic or
ganizations of Sidney are planning
to extend greetings to Mr. Whisler
when he reaches the century mark.
Still well preserved, despite his ad
vanced years, Mr. Whisler hopes
to take an active part in the cele
bration.
IRY NEW ARRANGEMENT
ON LIVESTOCK SHIPPING
Lincoln, Neb. — (Special) — The
state railway commission has
granted authority to all railroads
in Nebraska to try out for a period
of six months a plan of advancing
freight charges on livestock assessed
by motor truck lines in a sum not
exceeding 10 cents per 100 pounds,
he commission says that since this
will operate to the advantage of
the shipper and may serve to re
gain some of the truck traffic for
the railroads, the application Is
granted without a formal hearing,
to become effective December 1,
1931, and the trial period to ex
pire May 31, 1932.
It is hoped that through this ex
periment truck and rail transporta
tion of livestock may be co-ordin
ated, livestock at the present time
being almost entirely hauled to mar
ket by truck lines. This change will
permit movement of livestock ship
ments from farm to country station
by truck, and then by rail to mar
ket, the truck haul constituting
part of the operation for through
movement from farm to market.
HE CARRIED RADIUM
AWAY IN HIS NOSE
Omaha, Neb.— —A Mr. Hus
ton went to a hospital for treatment
for a nasal infection. Radium was
used and Mr. Huston left the hos
pital. ,
Five minutes later panic ruled at
the hospital. Someone had forgot
ten to remove the radium, $15,000
worth of it, from Huston's nose.
As Huston reached home, the
phone rang. It was the hospital.
He answered that he had not re
moved the cotton from his nose. A
doctor went to his home and re
moved the cotton and also the $15,
000 worth of radium.
NEIGHBORS PICK CORN
OF MEADOW GROVE MAN
Meadow Grove—(Special)— D. A.
Sandford, living north of Meadow
Grove has been too ill to gather
his corn this fall, but a group of
his neighbors went to his farm and
husked all of his crop. There were
25 men and 10 teams. Mrs. Sand
ford. assisted by her two daughters
and three neighbor women, prepared
a substantial dinner for the husk
ers.
SCHOOL BOY KILLS
LARGE GOLDEN EAGLE
Meadow Grove, Neb. — (Special)
— A golden eagle was shot by Dean
Neely, high school boy. It was only
crippled by the shot and put up a
desperate fight before it was taken
captive. It weighed 10 pounds and
measured six fet from tip to tip
of wings.
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PREVENTING ROOF FIRES
A piece of screen wire tacked over
the chimney outlet will prevent
sparks from flying and setting file
I to the roof.
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Tonics, Pep Panaceas Incapable of
Overcoming Body Fatigue
MAN’S ENDURANCE IS GOVERNED BY OXYGEN INTAKL
BY DR. MORIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal of the American
Medical Association, and of
Hygcia, the Health Magazine
Physiologists who have stud
ied the problem of fatigue have
made a significant contribution to
the means of overcoming it. What
the worker wants to do is to get<as
much done in a given time as possi
ble, and at the same time to get It
done with the least expenditure of
energy. The using up of energy
leads to fatigue, and continued fa
tigue, as has been pointed out,
means ill health, inefficiency and
discontent.
All sorts of panaceas for pep,
punch and vitality have been of
fered with the claim that they
overcome fatigue or prevent its de
velopment. Actually there is little
or nothing that can be taken out
of a bottle that will prevent fa
tigue.
Alcohol gives an impression of
well-being that may cause the
worker to put on more effort, but
that is merely whipping up a tired
horse. The same is true of coffee
which contains the drug caffein
that has the power to speed up the
brain.
During the World War, reports
were circulated regarding the pro
motion of muscular activity and the
prevention of fatigue in both man
and animals through the giving of
sodium phosphate. Patent medi
cines based on this substance have
appeared both in Germany and In
this country. The investigations
made by the United States Public
Health Service showed that the
only beneficial effect was the feeling
of well-being that resulted from
stimulation of the intestinal tract
and the elimination of body wastes.
The endurance of a man is gov
erned by two things: The greater
the income of oxygen during exer
cise, the longer a man can go cm,
and the more severe exercise he
can undertake. The greater the
exygen debt he can carry, toe
longer he will be able to keep up a
certain effort.
The amount of oxygen that a man
can take in depends naturally on
the size of the man, on the capacity
of his lungs, and on the rate at
which his heart can force the blood
around. Apparently the limit of in
take that the heart can handle is
about four quarts of oxygen per
minute. A man who can take in
four quarts of oxygen a minute
when breathing air can take In six
quarts of oxygen when he breathes
a mixture that is one-half oxygen.
Hill asserts that a man who <;ould
run a mile In 4 minutes and 15
seconds breathing air could do it
under 4 minutes breathing oxygen.
This assertedly is figured mathe
matically from a knowledge of the
average capacity of human lungs
! and from the ability of a normal
; heart to circulate blood purified
! with oxygen. The figures have
j never been verified by actual ex
periment because the necessary
oxygen would cost $500 and a spe
cial tunnel to contain it would have
! to be built for the runner.
How Russia Gets Real Money )
V._/
From Time Magazine.
current prices in ttussia:
Bottle of champagne.$ 1.75
Pound of best caviar. 10.00
Lip stick .25
Pair men’s or women’s shoes 4.00
Pair silk stockings . 1.00
Pah- lisle stockings.50
Fur-collared men's overcoat .. 35.00
Fur-collared women's overcoat 37.50
Pound of tea . 1.80
Pound of coffee.80
Pound of butter. .55
Pound of sugar.10
Pound of kitchen soap.25
Smart Comrade Michael Sklar
manages the chain of Torgsin stores
throughout Russia in which above
prices prevail. Last week the soviet
government gave Sklar’s stores a
mighty boost. The government de
creed that no more packages con
taining food may enter Russia des
tined lor private persons. Hereafter
the tens of thousands of Russian
emigres who have been mailing food
to relatives and friends left behind
iu Russia will have just one re
course. They can pay a sum of
money to a representative of Torg
in. They can mail to anyone in
Russia a receipt for their money
called a “purchase order.” In ex
change for this order any Torgsin
tore in Russia will deliver food or
goods at above prices.
Torgsin stores (state-owned) were
established two years ago, have
mown phenomenally in numbers.
They sell better goods than other
Russian stores at lower prices—but
there is a catch. Torgsin sells only
for “valuta,” a pre-war Russian
» word meaning “foreign money.
Thus no Riwsian can buy at Torg
sin except by offering dollars,
francs, marks, pounds, yen, etc.,
etc. Also no Russian is permitted
to exchange rubles into valu’a (ex
cept by special government permit,
rarely given'. In effect Torgsin
stores are baited traps to catch the
valuta of tourists, foreigners em
ployed in Russia and emigres. The
state desperately needs valuta to
purchase abroad machinery for ilie
five-year plan. ^
In Moscow last week Torgsm s
smart Sklar scored yet another
World’* Largest Magnet
Will Be Ready Soon
Berkeley — (UP) — The largest
electro-magnet ever devoted to re
search, and one of the four llargcst
of any description in the world, will
De in operation on the University
of California campus soon.
This was announced today by
Robert G. Sproul, president, fol
lowing the return of Prof. E. O.
Lawrence of the department of
physics, from New York, where he
obtained financial assistance for
the project from the Federal Tele
iuup. me oiaie oaiiK naa arrr
wondering what to do about Law
yer Charles Recht who recently ar
rived in Russia representing New
York Life Insurance company. Law
yer Recht had come about the 21,
000 pre-war Russian policy holders
to whom his company owes some
$3,000,000. He wanted to pay the
money at once in dollars.
This would never do, the State
bank told him. Hoarding of foreign
money is a crime in Russia. The
sums he wished to pay to individual
policy holders would have consti
tuted “hoards.” At the State bank
perplexed Russians kept telling Mr.
Recht to “come again tomorrow'
until he grew sorely vexeu.
An insuperable difficulty, rtrgucd
the Red bankers, was presented by
the fact that 21.000 policy holders
would have to be hunted out and
informed of their rights. To an
nounce in the Soviet Press that a
capitalist firm was ready to pay
$3,000,000 of its own volition to
soviet citizens was flatly out of the
question.
Entered at this point Torgsins
alert Sklar. His chain stores, he
said, would be glad to hunt dis
creetly for the 21.000 policy holders.
Moreover no dollars would have to
be paid to any policy holder. Torg
sin would take the $3,000,000 from
New York Life Insurance company.
Torgsin would present the policy
holders with Torg'in “purchase or
ders” equivalent to the sums due
them. Without touching or hoaro
ing a forbidden dollar, ponev hold
ers would get their due in Torgeln
goods.
Officials of the State bank were
delighted with Comrade Sklar’.1
idea. Lawyer Recht saw it as hi?
only chance to get rid of $3,000,000,
agreed to the plan. Said he:
“The New York Life Insurance
company made known their posi
tion to the soviet authorities last
August, setting February 1. 1932, as
the last date for receiving policy
holders’ claims. The way things me
going, I doubt if even half the pol
icy holders will be found before
that date.”
graph company. General Electric
company, Chemical Foundation
and Research corporation.
With it Professor Lawrence hopes
to be able to study the nature cl
matter by transmuting one element
into another.
WANTS BABY GIRLS
Delhi — After years of destroy;
female offsprings at birth because
| of their supposed worthlessness.
Kashmir is alarmed at the decrtas>
| in the number of remale children.
Accordingly, the Maharajah of
j Kashmir is o fering an acre of lane
j to every father of a new-born baby
! girl.