The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1929, Page 4

Pee Ded ds coed PAM LOC UNDD LEDERER TELL, eSNG SE IR AE AA a Ta rere eeR 4 g SPO SASL ANN EAS Chee TIS LE MELE PLL ATE EAI LOD LT EE “mine peewee te A ARN ET LAAT TET m it Newspaper : THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER , « 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marek, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Dally per $7.20 Daily 1.20 Daily dp Daily Weekly by mail, in state, per year .. 1.00 ‘Weekly by mail, in state, three years for 2.50 ‘Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited~in this newspaper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives G, DOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORE .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE Governor Shafer’s first. message to the legislative as- sembly does not go far afield for him who would seek in governor most is the extension of the limit of $32,500,000 authorization of farm loans. He would authorize an ad- dition of $5,000,000 to this limit. If that is the remedy that the bank requires, it is-a simple proposal and ought to be susceptible of easy demonstration by an authority on finance, nfter which the function of faith could be invoked to get it enacted. In the matter of farm relief, the governor also is for simplifying remedies closely approaching the injection of the state irr further business ventures. That, however. is the very thing, he says, his remedy is designed to avoid. He believes in encouraging the establishment of all nonpolitical cooperative marketing associations owned by farmers themselves and in farm storage of grain, 50 devised by state law that funds might be advanced upon stored supplies, thus enabling the producers to pay their threshing and other pressing obligations before market- ing. He points to the experiences ef the state of Iowa, which has had this system in operation three years and is continuing the plan, as the chief example of its work- ability, and he believes some such device would be help- ful in this state, permitting farmers to market their grain by easy stages, instead of being compelled, by need of cash, to dump their crop on the mar ets early after harvesting, thus depressing prices by the sudden glut. In the situation in which agriculture finds itself, plans for its relief deserve attention but not necessarily adoption. Agriculture has too often been made a blind- alley cat by remedies that lacked the virtue of being, in accord with economic law or financial principles. Any law that has really worked relief to the farmer after a period of sufficient test can hardly be made the target for objection. The legislators will do well, therefore, to study the governor's proposal. If it has the merit he as- serts for it, well and good. They ought to know what to}. do about it in that event. it novelties and experiments to gratify the American propensity for coining new and strange ideas into law. It deals with the administrative necessities of the state and the burdens already developed for taxpayer and legislator and it finds in these, apparently, a sufficient assignment to tax the best thought and energies of the lawmakers. He tosses these into the legislative arena, largely in the form of a recital of certain situations in which the state finds its affairs, such as the state mill and elevator, the Bank of North Dakota, the looming deadlock between highway construction and mainte- nance, hail insurance, taxation and the.need of some form of farm relief that will aid in orderly marketing of grain and avoid depression of prices by the early sea- son glut of shipments. Each situation is presented with some recommendation more or less pronounced as to what might or ought to be done to remedy the conditions he sets forth and as he sets them forth. With that pre- sentation of conditions and the prescription for treat- ment, he leaves it to the lawmakers to thresh matters out. ‘The tone of the message is conservative, there is ap- parently no design to challenge violent controversy, though conceivably there are parts of it and its recom- mendations that will excite disagreement, but such dis- agreement as need not develop into intemperate differ- enices of opinion. Many of the matters on which the governor calls for adjustment are capable of arithmetical analysis. They deal with taxation and appropriations, with income and expenditure and deficit, with revenue margihs that will have to be considered in their relation to the future economic administration of the state, with the high cost of government, with interest payments and the increas- ing needsof state departments dealirz with activities of public welfare. At the outset of the message the governor begins to elaborate on this financial aspect of state conditions and it golors the entire course of the document. Orthodox- ically, he leads off with the recommendation that, under no circumstance, should the legislature permit the allow- ance of appropriations in excess of the present income of the state, lest this necessitate new sources of revenue with consequent increase of taxation upon property. He admits that no reductions of taxes can be made. So he feels it would be wisest for the lawmakers to keep their appropriations within the limit of the budget as pared down by the budget board. ‘The governor reinforces this warning by a review of the state and municipal debts. Owing to the large total of interest required on this total—in excess of $60,000,000 —0f which $25,000,000 is in bonded state obligations—he feels that the time has come to repeal from the statutes Provisions designed to authorize the issuance of state bonds for any purpose other than rural credits. Eventually, he argues, the people of the state are en- titled to be delivered from the burden of heavy taxes, but he admits the problem is not an easy one to solve nor an inviting one to approach, and that its proper so- ution calls on the part of the legislators and adminis- trators for the exercise of care and deliberation and a high degree of courage in dealing with it. ‘The governor rather cuts the ground out from under the feet of those who may have had any bond issue Plans in view asa means out of the dilemma that is clos- ing in on the state highway department, with mainte- nance costs progressing to that stage where there will be no money left for permanent construction in the present state highway program. He says he is opposed to any is- sue of bonds for highway construction. The increased tax on gasoline—which others have had in mind as a pos- sible means to meeting the annual charges which a bond issue to be devoted solely to finishing the 7,500-mile sys- tem would entail—and an increase in motor vehicle li- cense fees are proposed by him as a means for additional Tevenue to keep the road construction on a pay-as-you-go ‘The agitation for additional revenue for highway con- struction has had in mind solely the construction of the big ‘cross-state system now under way. The governor, county and marketing road systems, ‘thus countering again to the views of the main stem advocates. With the veto power in his hands, there does not seem at this time any prospect that bond issue advocates can realize their method of completing the great main arteries of the road ‘system when increasing maintenance costs have deadlocked their operations. ‘The Bank of North Dakota and the state mill and ele- vator are subjects that have in them the elements of controversy as well as difficulties of solution. In the conflicting political complexions of the two houses lies not mendation for placing the mill under the administra- ‘Whatever course the lawmakers take with regard to the storage plan, they should act in complete: enlighten- ment. The farmer.’ ills are mainly in marketing. They produce a bumper crop and that very good fortune con- tains in it at the same time ill fortune, for it depresses the price they can obtain, as with last summer’s wheat crop. Then the early rush to market gluts the grain cen- ters and tends still further to depress the price. If the farmer could sell at adjusted periods throughout the year, it is believed that a part of his problem would be solved. Grain prices might be to some extent stabil- ized, it would seem. The governor seems to feel that ‘way and he puts the matter of a storage plan up to the legislators with his suggestion, reserving, however, his op- position to any form of the plan that would involve state ownership. He wants nothing enacted tending in its nature to increase the state debt, by putting the state into more business. On the whole the governor has chosen the natural topics for an opening message to the lawmakers. He deals with the obvious affairs of state that require at- tention. He ‘presents them in tactful language. He is not so positive in his stand as to exclude the idea of rea- soning together, unless it be in his opposition to any road bond plan. What will crystallize out of his recommenda- tions the next 60 days will determine. Many bills bear- ing on his suggestions may be offered, but not until the legislature gets down to real action will the fate of his ideas of what the state needs be decided. For the pres- ent the message offers the lawmakers a chart to set out with. FEWER LYNCHINGS Five of the forty-eight states were disgraced by their own people in 1928 through the criminal and savage “in- sitution” of lynch law. The only satisfaction the American people can derive from that fact is that a few years ago lynchings were common in a dozen or more states. Last year eight negroes and one Mexican were slain by mobs, compared with a total of sixteen lynchings in 1927, thirty in 1926, seventeen in 1925 and 16 in 1924. The lynch law record for last year is given added significance when it is known that the authorities in the South pre- vented the lynching of fourteen white men, one white woman and twenty-five negroes, and that stern punish- ment was meted out to a number of persons convicted of taking part in these murderous mob uprisings. A few years ago it would have been suicide—political if not Physical—for a public official to thwart a lynching party cr prosecute the members of such a party. s Lynchings put new blots on: the escutcheons of Mis- sissippi, Missouri, Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas in 1928, Georgia and Alabama are among the states which during those twelve months lived up to claims to civiliz- ation, and where the people had enough respect for law and moral sense to let the law run its course. If one form of lawlessness is decreasing in the United States, it is lynch-lawlessness. For that a crime-troubled nation is thankful. | Editorial Comment ELINOR WYLIE, LITERARY ARTIST (Philadelphia Bulletin) Few literary artists have gained critical praise for ex- quisite work in both prose and poetry equal to that which, tariff a work of the highest authority in the middle ’80s last century. Students of heredity may find a,provoking puzzle in the special gift of the granddaughter for surprising im- in poetry, as distinctive as any in our generation, that successfully challenged analysis WHO'S LOONY NOW? Pitt a = Post-Gazette) An inmate of a California asylum for the . Showing up at another hospital to pursue his work, he appears to have been greeted by the mental experts there as a long lost brother. In addition to being given the freedom of the institution, he was feted by the staff. Eventually he bethought to cash a check for $350. ‘That was the last the entertaining hospital saw of either the distinguished guest—or 2 only the’ prospect of @ challenge to the governor’s recom. | feeble-minded. YOUR CHILDREN ’y Olve Roberts Barton ©1928 by NEA Service,Inc. “Come here, Mary.” “Just a minute,, Mother.” “Mary, when I say come, Don’t put me off that way.” “all right, I'm coming.” Mary came into the living room dropping crumbs from her piece of bread and butter and jelly. “Don't bring that in here. You'll ruin the rug. Those greasy crumbs make spots.” “Mayn't I finish my bread? I'm awfully hungry,” “Yes—go back to the kitchen and finish it, but hurry. I want you to do an errand. eee “Come here, Mary!” “Yes, Mother—just a minute.” “Mary! Come here. I won't wait another instant. I’m getting tired of your just-a-minuting me.” “I just had two more, words in spelling. to finish.” q “I don’t care.. You must learn to come the minute I call you.” ~ Mary handed in her paper next day with the two missing words. She had forgotten all about them. She had to stay in and write each word 25 times after school. . come. “Mary.” all over the wall-paper until it looked like a July sunset. “Mary! Iary! Come here! See what you've done, you careless girl! You left your paints out and Buddy your room.” be quickly, it ‘is true, he t to come how often, if you were called, could you drop what you are doing without delay? Not often. It does not do to be too arbitrary. | Our Yesterdays FORTY YEARS AGO At a meeting of the stockholders of the First National Bank, the follow- ing directors were elected: G. W. Fairchild, who was also appointed president, H. R. Porter, Dan Eisen- berg, O. H. Whitaker and T. M. Jos- lin. P. F. McClure of Bismarck has been appointed by the treasurery de- partment at Washington to furnish statistics regarding the territory. A. P. Forrest, Valley City, has ar- rived in the city and will represent Barnes county in the legislature. All members were present when the council was called to order today by Chief Clerk Kingsbury. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO amaeaeett sere me eA AATED DE om Both Mr. and Mrs. Chester P. Mills submitted plans for effective en- forcement of the prohibition amend- ment. His won the $25,000 prize of- fered by W. C. Durant. Hers won second. A nice question is whether he influenced hers or hers influenced his; whether one or the other wrote borrowing the respective both, Mrs. E. F. Hogbee has gone to Min- | really. neapolis for a visit with friends. Orley Couch has returned to New Rockford after spending the holidays here. Dr. Strauss has been appointed one’ of the county physicians of Morton county. night of asthma. TEN YEARS AGO Secretary Thomas Allen Box of the state council of defense reports that season, to the state of $1,000,000. The passing of Col. > Roosevelt, whose funeral is being J ganized the wives of Noipart! the capitol. : examiner, is in Beach on official iness. Mrs. Wilson J. Brown of Stewarts- dale died suddenly at her home last | teach Major James R. Waters, state bank bus- fers the teacher little more comfort in the way of room and board than it did the old-fashioned teacher who “boarded around,”. going to each fam- ily-at butchering time, or when some Special crop me just in. *. NOT DOMESTIC I have often observed the lack of tT OUR BOARDING HOUSE AHEM,» MARTHA M'DEAR (Ss MY GREAT PLEASURE 2 INTRODUCE “To You MY DISTINGUISHED OLD FRIEND, SIR ANTHONY WAAL CARTWRIG' OF LONDON J. SIR WILL HoMoR OUR HJMBLE _HuT For A FEW OUR GUEST /— EGAD,.. MDEAR, w~ SIR ANTHONY FAWACY, DANS AS DUST IsisteD THAT WHEN. we -Vistr i Birra on N MAKE OUR. STAY: iN. EITHER His “Tow HAVING “THE WisH I Am ot Dr RCISES. AND ELECTRICAL EUREATMENTS FOR PROLAPSUS ‘Do not waste your time taking ex- ercisés ‘while standing, as this kind of exercise has no appreciable effect on the abdominal muscles. The best exercises are those taken while lying on your back on the floor. Practice these exercises slowly at first and gradually increase the time until you are able to do them vigorously for at least fifteen minutes a day. JEALTH DIET ADVICE "at Key 0 Molle IN REGARD TO HEALTH € DIET WILL BE ANSWERED PED ADDRESSED EAVELOPE FOR REPLY 4 ing proper exercises to take for the development of the cles. I will be mus~ Very glad to ‘mail them Dr. McCoy will gladly answer persona! questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped eddressed envelope for reply. eee ee ee a ee ee without charge to any who will writé "your abdomen becomes, din peie yor degree of health and|to me in care of this newspaper and strength. You will lose that feeling}enclose 2 large, self-addressed, of heaviness and there a be an|stamped envelope. yancy to your walk. —inme rol wal ae the best results if QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS your exercises for strengthening the Growing Age abdominal muscles are taken while lying on your back on & slanting: board, with your feet placed at the upper end of the board, which is ele- vated two. or three feet above the floor. When you are in this posi- tion, the organs sag away from the lower abdomen and, while exercising, it is often possible to break loose the adhesions which have been binding the organs down out of their normal | position. It may take months of perseverance, but the good to be ac- complished is well worth the effort necessary. ‘When the internal muscles in the walls of the intestines have become chronically weakened, it is sometimes necessary to employ a sinusoidal elec- | trical machine for strengthening them, since these muscles are not un: | der the control of the will and cannot be intentionally exercised and de- veloped as can the external abdom- inal muscles. In my own practice, I find that the machine most satisfac- tory for this treatment gives an al- ternating contracting and relaxing movement to the internal muscles, in other words, puts them through a| kind of gymnastic treatment. When the current is on, the muscles con- tract, and when the current is less- ened, the muscles relax. Some of the slow sinusoidal machines must be operated by hand but the more satis- factory and those which work auto- matically. Many doctors are using this type of machine and they will all agree with me that it is invaluable for correcting kinks in the intestines, massaging the prostate, lifting sag- increasing tone ging organs, and throughout the entire intestinal tract. ‘The best results from the electrical treatments are Obtained if the ad- hesions are first loosened and the prolapsus raised with the hand man- ipulations of which I spoke in my last article. Your doctor can determ- ine the position of the prolapsus or adhesions with the x-ray and govern his treatment accordingly. I have prepared a special series of articles with illustrated charts show-| Question: W. L. R. writes: “I am a boy of sixteen. Am five feet three inches tall and weigh 125. I think I am a little short, and fear that my growing age has stopped. Has it, and is there Te good way for in- creas: eight?” pork You should continue to grow for about 20 years longer es- pecially if you eat the right kind of food and take vigorous physical cul- ture exercises. Spine stretching ex- ercises will make you grow taller, and you should also take some kind a@ spinal treatments regularly. These treatments stimulate the circulation between the vertebrae, and increase the size of the .bones of the spinal column. Acid in Prunes Question: Mrs. H. D,. asks: prunes contain acid?” Answer: Dried prunes do contain a small amount of acid, but not as “Do |mueh as the fresh prune plum. ‘Warts on Scalp Question: C. J. C. writes: “Will you publish a way to cure warts on the scalp with acid, and what kind to use?” Answer: ‘Treat each wart with a drop of acetic acid, or ask your drug- gist for granules of acetic acid which are the acetic acid. crystals or trich- loracetic acid. Place one of these small crystals on the wart and let dissolve. . This is a harmless method for removing warts, if you do not know of a good beauty specialist who can take off the warts with an elec- tric needle. . Tuberculosis Infection Question: Miss 'W. asks: “Please tell me if there‘ is any danger in marrying a man who lost his wife of tuberculosis six months ago.” Answer: I am sure there is no need for you to worry about tuberculosis infection if your prospective husband has not been in contact with tuberu- losis for six months; and does not have the disease, himself. | (Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) brated two either in, about to get in, or just leaving Miss Florence's sport. racer. Young John doesn't have a car; he doesn’t earn enough yet, -but, ‘his financee is a govetnor’s daughter, and the car, along with other things, is just taken for granted. Not that we haven't been assured again and again that the governor's daughter is an eminently sensible young lady who can cook and all that and who is perfectly willing to St, B 8 REFUSING TO Mans sit NECESSARY, SACRIFICE DF A UMP i 1 E guage ae g should be entered in order to finesse Jack of spades, Seeger = 4 of ‘|diamonds towards Queen of spades and Ace of clubs and King of clubs,