The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 4

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(Official City, State and Coun‘y Newspaper) TRIFLING WITH FARM RELIEF ‘The action of the senate in voting the debenture plan of farm relief was palpably that much political play. Some there are among the wearers of the toga who be- lieve in it, but in view of the stand taken against the plan by President Hoover, the majority of those who supported the idea knew that they were backing a plan doomed to veto were it to go through. Besides, the house had refused to consider it. ‘This afforded an excellent situation to make a political gesture. So the senate went back to its old methods of % playing the game and put through a plan vetoed in ad- vance and which, if persisted in, means that there will be no start on farm relief. What was intended to be an attempt at a great constructive policy toward the basic industry of the country is threatened with sacrifice at the outset, because senators have discovered they can trifle with the biggest economic interest of the nation to delude gulls. As the situation was forming it would seem to have been the wiser course to formulate a farm relief accept- able to the president, who made himself answerable to the people for such a policy in his campaign pledges. Such a policy, embodied in the house bill, would have the chance of becoming law. Thus a start would be made. So far as the Hoover plan, once in operation, might reveal defects and inoperative details, it could be modified from time to time and thus be made effective as far as its merits would permit. It is not probable that the house will yield to the sen- ate and accept the debenture plan. However, its pres- ence in the senate measure provides leverage for trad- ing concessions in the conference committee of the two houses. This forms the second line trenches of the sen- ate politicians to discredit the president and gold-brick the favor-of the grange interests backing the debenture plan, . ‘Though the senate sugar-coated its debenture scheme with the proviso that its operation should be optional with the farm board to be created in the same measure, it is not conceivable that President Hoover would trifle with his conception of the plan so far as reluctantly to accept it. In his recent broadside against the proposal, he charged that the export debentures would provide a $200,000,000 a year “direct subsidy;” would be a “gigantic gift” to speculators, without a cent return to the farmer; would cause overproduction; would be resorted to by the farm board because the “tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority;’” would produce ~ “manipuiation” in the export market; would necessitate further tariff revision; would~invite foreign retaliation; ‘wou.d put U. 8. livestock men at a disadvantage by rais- ing U. 8. feed prices; would increase federal taxes. The purposes of the debenture plan are obvious at- tempt to encourage agricultural exporting, thus reducing the domestic surplus; and to equalize the benefits of the tariff. Under the senate plan, commodity exporters would be given a bounty equal to one-half the tariff on the commodity, not in cash, which would be an irre- subsidy, but in script certificates usable only in payment of U. 8. duties on imports. The exporter then, if he was not himself an importer, would have to sell his debentures to an importer who could use them. At the present wheat tariff rate, a wheat exporter would get 21 cents bounty per bushel. Tariff revenues would be reduced in proportion as these certificates were presented im payment of tariff duties on any and all kinds of merchandise imports. DESTINY IN OUR HANDS ‘The three men who plunged to their death in Cali- fornia when their airplane went out of control got, at the very least, a highly spectacular departure from this life. ‘With an inexperienced pilot, unlicensed to fly, at the controls of the plane, the trio sailed along through the air in high spirits. Even when their craft had nosed down and was beginning the dizzy spin that was to end in fatality, the passengers were undisturbed. Indeed, they made a lark of it—they waved their hands, laughed, and indulged in wild, inexplicable glee. ‘Then, 8 moment afterward, the plane hit the earth and the three carefree flyers, who tried to go adventuring in -| @ machine they could not handle, were dead. But an “> echo of the laughter of that last plunge lingers, weird and ‘ puszling after them. The airplane is a magnificent instrument for conquer- ing space and gaining release from the old bonds that tle men to the ground. There is this about it, however: you have to know how to handle it. If you don't, it be- » come; @ magnificent instrument for suicide. = Thus, in a way, the mad disaster that befell the three : Californians is symbolic of the whole scheme of things in modern America. ‘We hae here a civilization which science and industry have mad: unlike anything that has gone before. It has enormous possibilities for good. The old bar- gagta® & 8 ) a But in order to do that we have to know how to handle this new machinery. ‘Otherwise, like the hapless flyers in the west, we shall YOUTH AT THE HELM American universities do not subscribe to the theory of Henry Ford that executives are not made from young men. Robert Maynard Hutchins resigns as dean of the Yale law school to become president of the University of Chicago at the age of 30 years. William Rainey Harper was but 35 years old when he was made president of that same university. Clarence Cook Little was president of the University of Maine at 34 and of the University of Michigan at 37. When Dr. Glenn Frank was made pres- ident of the University of Wisconsin a few years ago he was 38 years old. All of these men early proved their exceptional execu- tive ability. Such has been their success as to leave in the mind of no one the thought that an older man would have accomplished more. And the young men will cite these successes as proof of the superiority of youth and as signs of the coming of a new era for youth. It may not take the same calibre of a man to succeed in a college presidency as in big business, but that argu- ment cannot be advanced by Henry Ford and other “old men” with a condescending attitude toward masculinity under 40. The automobile industry long ago discovered that young men make first-rate executives, and the man- ufacturers of motor cars have been making the most of that discovery. This recognition of the capabilities of young men may deprive a few older men of executive positions, but it will more than compensate for that unfortunate situa- tion by firing many young men with new ambition, new hopes and new vision, to the betterment of society. WILD YOUTH AND THE PARENTS After a Chicago schoolgirl of 14 admitted having been on wild parties where liquor was served, the perplexed city authorities hit upon the expedient of putting her mother on trial, accusing her of cantributing to the girl's delinquency. Here is something new in jurisprudence, indeed. And, while the ins and outs of this particular case may not be quite clear, it does seem &s if this method of treat- ment has a good deal to recommend it. Despite all our talk about “wild youth,” “the tempta- tions of this modern age,” and the like, the plain fact remains that parents who are on to their job can still keep their youngsters in a normal, healthy environment at home. When a gir! of 14 goes to roadhouses and drinks liquor freely, it's a pretty safe bet that her parents aren't doing their part right. THE PROBLEM OF THE CRIMINAL Parole Commissioner Arthur D. Woods, of Michigan, said some things in his recently issued biennial report that are worth while reprinting. Read them, especially if you think you know how criminals should be treated after they are arrested: “Practically all prisoners are victims of three human urges—to live, to love, to learn—enmeshed through ex- cessive gratification of some appetite, propensity or de- sire. “They are not a cross-section of the entire population; about 90 per cent are poor, 10 per cent are well to do, and less than two per cent belong to the wealthy class.” That doesn't solve the¢problem of what to do with the crook, of course. But it does remind us that it’s a prob- lem that will take a lot of study. And that, in this day THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Mother’s Day—Twenty-Four Hours Long! | Dr. McCoy's menus suggested for the week beginning Sunday, May lath; Sunday Breakfast: French omelet, melba toast, dish of berries (canned or . Lunch: Vegetable soup made of tomato, spinach, celery (the desired amount of cream to be added just be- fore serving), avocado salad. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929 Dinner: Roast chicken, string | beans, oyster plant, celery and ripe Olives, jello or jell-well. Monday Breakfast: Wholewheat mush with milk or cream (no sugar), stewed raisins. Lunch: Eight-ounce glass of or- ange juice. Dinner: Celery soup, stuffed and Coe ye nie Os ANEW EES + rolled round steak, McCoy saled) Question: Mrs. H. W.C. writes: “I mate am 60 years old, very stout, and look Brean: Sneed coe, tose | aly out ath ae bre pn a Nona ash, spinach, | fet from a very bitter taste in my ranlinghi,, Cooked squash, spinach | mouth which makes me sick at my Dinner: Roast pork, buttered veg- — Please advise me what to etables (carrots, beets, turnips), salad | of chopped cabbage, applesauce. isk ray aig euataeer ek oaaree ‘Wednesday recently wrote e na ah im egg on melba Long it you wil send so Se aes , stew 5. Lunch: Pint of buttermilk and a | $59 cddress will be gia io tend it dozen dates. in pamphlet form and it is now avail- Dinner: Vegetable soup, Salisbury | apie to any subscriber of this paper, steak, string beans, ege plant, salad | who writes, sending a self-addressed of sliced tomatoes, minced prunes in| stamped envelope. Just ask for the gelatin. Cleansing Diet Course. Breakfast: wv oottaae cheese, re- = fast: » Te= . : ; teased shredded wheat Dict, eaape'my'kneee'o creak ad grind AND SO ON AD INFINITUM So IT SEEMS Cooke as bl Lunch: Cooked carrots and peas,| ary: What treatment would << stuffed celery. suggest for this?” Dinner: Broiled mutton chops, : ‘The creaking and grind- “When Mr. Coltins married he not | : baked parsnips, tomato-spinach-88-| ing of the knees simply the Che only had no money but he had no one Talks paragus salad, baked pears. lack of synovial fluid, and this con- to whom he could appeal for assist- Friday dition can usually be ance. If he was to gain a competence, Breakfast: French omelet, melba| through the use of the proper diet & position in the world, he had to toast, small dish of ra: and exercise. work to get it. And he did work; he Parents ( De Heart ‘Trouble ¢ ‘was industrious, able, and disciplined. J : Lunch: Eight-ounce glass of] Question: Mary J. writes: “I have The result is that he now thinks it Brapejuice, \__ | been in bed four months with heart ALLENE SUMNER, | Was having nothing which made him : Baked halibut, baked/ trouble. My meals seem to make s0. > {industrious and disciplined. Ergo, THE SWING ground beets, salad of tomato and| much gas, which increases the heart’ there is a special virtue in the ne- (By Alice Judson Peale) Parsley, no dessert. Palpitation. Does diet affect the in ang aid Hentt of Part chat the | Sessty of getting money for yourself. yvearty every back yard in the coun- Saturday heart?” . To hear Mr. Colli v { a Oe 2 edd Pi damrseenresrith automatic a ; ore fica = Sein wrth pera Gy tas ne = uate caeaie openers : ‘Wholewheat biscuits, sumer ks Pi cause of most mi aay eae POenich the ‘European, mind {i06,cam» of, do, exercise, the virtues | cateq atfair—the sort you sit. in and Lunch: | Cooked mashed pumpkin, | gas pressing against the heart, | This cannot grasp, but which the Ameri- ** * propel in a ladylike, effortless fashion. | salad of molded — mre (string wHmpeen reli a a combina- can takes as a matter of course. Yet the very best kind of swing is a celery, cucum pars- Scotus tauren Liew Marriage to the European is very THE PIONEERS’ IDEA stil: tatak: IicenbNe “contrivance WiAh ep pecetabte susie ears ties ine ae repo nice if it includes love, but love isn’t | “This is a dogma favored of pio- | always has hung from the old apple) Dishet: sokenee see erent: | feotierae rine Se ar alied sev sig such essential. Marriage is one thing and | neers. Nor is it difficult to see why. | tree. spe en nih speraine poe p is Dpccinehrtan love another. For instance, if the) Since work on the frontier is hard| For the child of 3 or more the best | ad of grated riley cup custard. | cabbage, etc., which always produce dowry question can be amicably | and the conditions of life are trying, | possible swing consists of a board and — biscuits: a ues moter of flatulence. settled by the parents of Yvonne and | if not dangerous, naturally the fron- |a rope. In play with it he learns first whole egg. (Copyright, 1929, by the Bell Syndi- Henri, they may be permitted to|tier is unlikely to attract men who | of all to sit and push himself with his} 1 cupful of wholewheat flour. = of glib solutions for everything, is something. Editorial Comment | A FUTILE GAME (New York Times) It is natural that the insurgent or progressive senators, among whom Mr. Borah has resumed his natural place, should follow their habitual tactics of manifestation and obstruction. One could have hoped, however, that the majority of Democratic senators would remember the smart of their oft-burnt fingers. Instead, they seem con- tent to be gulled again. The sop to cotton was perhaps hardly necessary to win most of the southern senators, nor does it furnish a sufficient reason for an unreason- able course. It is a fair enough argument to compare an agricultural bounty with an industrial bounty; and if the debenture scheme be beaten, it is proposed to resuscitate it as an amendment to the tariff bill. But what is the object of delay and quibbling which can pa accomplish nothing in the end unless the debenturists are ready to go to the length of preventing any plan of farm relief? It is notorious that the president and the house will not accept the export debenture project. Be it good or not so good, the part of practical statesmen is to take what they can get. Nearly four-fifths of the Democrats of the house voted for the administration bill. ‘There were 121 Democratic ayes and only 32 Democratic noes. Are the debenture Democrats in the senate, ob- viously not trying to do anything possible for the farm- ers, doing anything for their party by running after this apple of discord so perfidiously thrown among them by the progressives? Under all this virtuous pretended zeal to help the farm- ers lies something far more precious to the august ones than the farmers and their woes and hopes. The house is showing an unruly corporate sense. It -attends to its business. More and more it commends itself to the coun- try, long disgusted with the spouting, dawdling mega- lomania of the senate. It has distinctly challenged the senate. The greater number of house Democrats joined with all the Republicans but two in supporting the ad- ministration, in preferring the substance to the shadow. Can this indignity be borne by the augustan majesty of the senate? : Must not the house, as well as the president, be dis- ciplined? So the progressive and most of the Democratic Conscript Fathers are again treating the country to a Conscript-Fathers’ day. So easy it is for momentous bodies to go down hill, once they are 5 IT’S HOOVER’S KIND OF A JOB One of President Hoover's purposes is the reorganiza- tion of the federal departments and the correlation and coordination of their activities. One of Walter Newton's new duties will be to help plan the overhauling, and to help execute the plan. The need for such reorganization has long been ap- Parent. One frequently cited examples of the confusion that has developed, is that each of the three American species of bears is within the jurisdiction of a different department. Another one, less striking but far more important, is the fact that the merchant marine has to take orders from four different departments, and- that occasionally a ship's master can obey the rules of one department only by violating the rules of another de partment. - A brand new sample comes to light in connection with the American Petroleum Institute's program for con- serving oil by curtailing production. The secretary of the interior already has called upon the attorney general for a ruling as to whether the plan violates federal anti- trust legislation. And the federal trade commission is reported sharpening its snickersnee. And yet the pro- Gram, according to officers of the institute, was “ marry in spite of the fact that they are in love—but because of it, never. But the red-blooded 100 per cent American shudders at the very idea of dowry and all it connotes. Our American legend demands that a young married couple shall begin empty-handed, no matter what their Parents or other relatives have ac- cumulated. So securely entrenched is this tra- dition that not only the man who “lives on his wife's money” is excor- iated, but a son who takes a financial lift from his own dad is labeled a weakling and no-good. x * * INTERESTING ATTACK Potshooting at myths and tradi- tions and convictions so strong that, | like an egg in water glass, they can stand alone, is always interesting, whether we agree or remain stand- ters. Which is only why an article by Emily Newell Blair in the May “Harper's,” entitled “Must Our Chil- dren Start Where We Did?” with the authoress answering the question with a firm and decided “No,” is exciting to say the least. She discusses a Mr. Collins and his newly married daugh- ter Elizabeth. feet, then to balance himself standing and to “pump” alone or with a part- ner. He learns how to twist and spin, are already successful or can find op- portunities elsewhere under easier, more pleasant conditions. Thus the majority of the pioneers were men who began with nothing. Many among them won wealth and success. ‘What more natural than for them to emphasize the fact that they had been able to begin with nothing and end with so much? “To discover how foolish is this dogma that there is a special virtue in starting at scratch, Mr. Collins has only to forget how he made his money, or how he started, and think | of his son-in-law’s situation. He ‘would then see that a son-in-law who desired to make a name and place for himself as an able lawyer would find it of distinct advantage if he could, perhaps, refuse to spend his time and thought on the collection of bills or the examination of abstracts in order to make every possible cent, and could devote himself to cases which would bring him to the attention of bar, court, and more important clients, cases which might not bring him money at all. Mr. Collins has cer- seen young lawyers of fine A AM BO GIO Y eed deh SZehegheohedobeded things, which seem so simple to us, represent to the child genuine achieve- ments in skill, poise and self-confi- dence. For the baby from 2 age a variation of this made. A board about should be used. There holes in each end. ropes should be passed, each end being bound together about 24 inches above the seat. At first the swing should be hung only a few inches about the ground. Later, as the child gains increasing skill, we may raise it a little so as to give him a chance for freer motion. This type of swing is quite steady and safe for the baby's early experiments and it will serve him well until he is ready to graduate into the use of the type first discussed. tainly Another swing which is enjoyed by talents and energy diverted into col- | the very young child is the old auto- lection agents by the necessity of pro- | mobile tire hung close to the ground. viding house, car, and allowance | The old tire may seem neither excit- ALLEN AT TICONDEROGA colonists in their struggle for free- illustrated by the Revolutionary war episode of which today is the anniversary—the capture stationed there knew that a war was 5 had been fought more than three weeks before. The strength of Allen’s attack lay in the fact that it was such a com- ‘Mrs. Collins would like to have papa | for a wife at the earliest possible mo- | ing nor esthetic to our eyes, but to the | tack. give Elizabeth and her new husband | ment.” child it is a highly satisfactory piece} The next day Allen sent a note to a house. Mr. Collins says that the of apparatus. the governor of Connecticut, young people must “make their own PLAN LESS POTATOES AIDS HOME BUILDERS way.” Mrs. Collins feels badly at} Eleven western potato-growing Prisoners he had taken: “I make you seeing Elizabeth snatched from the | states plan a smaller acreage of spuds | North Carolina State college at Ra-|@ present of a major, a captain and scheme of living which they could | this year, it 1s reported. Last year’s | leigh has made available to farm | two Meutenants in the regular estab- give her, nice clothes, travel, enter- | acreage was 493,000; the expected | home builders blueprints and plans lUshment of George the Third. I hope tainment, a car, all the taken-for-| acreage of 1929 is about 400,000; prepared by agricultural engineers at | they may serve as ransom for some granted things by the fairly well-to- | acres. * the college. There are 188 building | of our friends at Boston.” do middle class, and forced to scrimp ——_——_——_——_ and equipment plans available to and go without during the years when| The sting of a nettle in Java causes | farmers through the school of county oe she could most appreciate things. death. extension agents. Our Yesterdays | ‘ au : BuT Sposin? I Don'T ” “uD TH’ DoG,~~ THEN WoT Do L GET BESIDES corns; | has returned DAVID, I WANT You % 60 ater a wae with relatives ir oe ATWERSHIP Wr ME oN, re ryceuenty proposition / No Money ? Abe Goodkin arrived E REQUIRED, ww IT 1S SIMPLY AN? BUNIONS 2 ue = gt STARTING A COMPANY, wcNol OUGHT fo CHARGE Falls Helene, Bute ana otter Mon- ‘em SUMPIN" FoR ‘TH’ time SPENT Goil™. UP, ALLEYS AN” -WHISTLIN?: \F I cant FID “TH” ont SouND ie Jue CLARK IS GETTIN" g ME A JoB FoR TH” SUMMER - + PA Tin FIRE HYDRANTS hi so BE KNOWN AS “He "HOOPLE LoST PET ‘FINDING CORPORATION fu. IF SoMEOWE NLOSES A DOG, WE WILL ATYEMPY lo. ‘2 Fuld ry, AND IF. SUCCESSFUL, WE CHARGE “THE PARTY 5o¢ AN HouUR FoR “He TIME HUNTING trfu.e wit 1S A HEALTHY occUPATIoN, ~ In the Stutsman county district @ people’s convention nominated E. W. Camp, the well known attorney Andrew Blewett and F. B. Falconer for the convention. -FIVE YEARS AGO the government bureau of animal husbandry, are here to supervise the cattle dipping. The exhibit of buffalo bone and nts manufactured by Indians will be installed in progress, although the battle of | S’nwan visit at the T. J. Flemming ranch, near Bowman, » of the board % Bethlemen Steel Corporation. x ke “The public wants no more immi- Present sitting house of representa- tives were elected with the idea of more restriction of immigrat well as nearly all the senators elected at the last election.”—1 tive Johnson, Hoquiam, Wash, the United States represents the apex of hime associational movement accomplished so much in keeping this country relatively free from gov ernmental paternalism, so that the course of of business men themselves.”—Dr, Julius Klein, it secretary of commerce. ** * “Statements from practically 100 southern cotton-mill operators that the trouble is fon