The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1931, Page 4

‘gepartment and other agencies of government did avert THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 332% ,.2%,drmn¢ 2 t08, posure coe An Independent Newspaper i ‘THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ‘88 second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ..........++ Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail per year (in state, outside Bismarck) ....... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year ...... Weekly by mail in state, three years . ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dak per year ....... ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year . 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Such views are as accurate as‘the belief that we can exorcise a Caribbean hurricane by statutory law.” He praises the American Federation of Labor for opposing the dole system as a panacea for unemployment and denounces that form of insurance. President Hoover ably analyzes the reasons why the federal government cannot promote all sorts of paternal- istic schemes. He drew a very excellent distinction be- tween the American and the European system, The great majority of the American people do not want to “regiment the population into a bureaucracy to serve the state.” It is necessary, as President Hoover says, to “go on with our Americar system which holds that the major purpose of a state is to protect the people and to give them equality of opportunit; All in all, it is a rather inspiring speech and Presi- dent Hoover strikes a different key due, doubtless, to the approaching campaign. If meant for a key note, il com- pares well to other such utterances, Position of Railroads High overhead costs have militated against rail earn- ings and thousands of owners of railway company com- mon and preferred stocks find dividends reduced or passed entirely. Investors have seen the value of their stocks going down and wonder when they will hit bottom. Two avenues of escape face the railroads. One is an increase in freight rates; another is a reduction of wages. The common carriers have taken one horn of the Is It Hoover's Keynote? | Monday evening President Hoover addressed the In-j wage scales by an increase in rates, diana Republican Editors’ association. His speech had| the ring of a campaign keynote. Its pitch was optimistic. | pers and public against an increase in freight rates. The He spoke with rather dangerous finality when in the N-| North Dakota railroad commission quite properly op- troduction of his address he said: | “We have come out of each previous depression into a} period of prosperity greater than ever before. We shall! do so this time.” President Hoover's guess is probably a little better than} most men’s as his position makes available economic | data denied the rest of us. But the president has been a poor prophet on economic recovery and on several oc-| casions has told the nation that prosperity was just around the corner. He lifts the onus of the economic slump from his} administration by declaring that “the long continuance of this depression came not from within but from out- side the United States.” | President Hoover declares that had wild speculation,! stock promotion, loose business methods and drought) been the only factors of business depression, economic! convalescence would have been complete months ago, “Malign inheritances in Europe of the Great War,” is; the door at which President Hoover and leaders of the Republican party place depression and without these/ inheritances President Hoover declares: “We would have no such depression.” depression is an international complication. But the Republicans undoubtedly will not be able to ascribe the situation wholly to international conditions or explain it away as an aftermath of the World war. ‘There is siill to be explained the operation of the ‘Hawley-Smoot tariff. Confronting the Republican party federal farm board, recently curtailed, After premising his address with a statement upon blight of which “stretches from all quarters of the globe to every business place and every cottage door in our by saying that the United States, economically speaking, | is more self-contained than any other great nation and} that “with the passing of temporary dislocations and shocks we can and will make a large measure of recov- ery irrespective of the rest of the world.” He points to the recovery in 1921 to substantiate his prediction. Reduction of foreign trade, he attributes to world dis- ruption rather than to the tariff. He declares its shrink- age amounts to only 2 or 3 per cent of our total produc- tivity. After citing that the depression has come from with-) out and not from within the United States, there is the; rather inconsistent reference to an internal shrinkage of production amounting to ten or twelve billions, but he explains this as the reflex result of foreign effects “upon prices of commodities and securities” and, “repeated | shocks from political disturbance and revolution in for-/ eign countries.” eee ‘Then he strikes at his political opponents in this: “These fears and apprehensions are unnecessarily in-/ creased by that minority of people who would make po-| litical capital out of the depression through magnifying; our unemployment and losses.” ‘This is rather an unhappy statement. There has been an understatement in the press and from the platform! both on general economic conditions and unemployment. ‘The chief offenders have been the federal bureaus whose| figures upon unemployment and general business condi-| tions have been challenged in many quarters as being politically optimistic. Both Republicans and Democrats have always seized) upon hard times to garner votes and to make political capital. President Hoover has been treated much more kindly than was President Cleveland. In fairness to him, it must be said the Republican party cannot be blamed for all the depression. The depression will be used as a Dolitical issue to attract support and, justly or not, the Republican party will be abused and maybe defeated if the bread line does not shorten before November of next year. The Republican party is largely to blame for this assumption because for years its leadership has pic- tured their party and the full dinner pail as being synony- mous. It is refreshing to hear economic conditions dis- cussed upon another basis. eos President Hoover presents the other and more valu- ‘able side of the economic picture when he declares that 5 per cent “of our families have either an income or g@ breadwinner employed.” His emphasis upon the various steps taken toward economic recovery are timely and should prove helpful. He says: “Our people are working harder and are resolutely engaged, individually and col- Jectively in overhauling and improving their methods and services.” He brings too the hopeful message that “the underlying forces of recovery are asserting themselves.” There is a decided bid for votes in this: “We have steadily urged the maintenance of wages and salaries, the American standards of living, not alone for its contribution to the consumption of goods but with the far greater purpose of maintaining social goodwill through avoiding industrial conflict.” Contributions toward alleviating the depression are Qouched upon in detail. There is no doubt but that action by the federal reserve system, treasury @ panic and “its hurrciane of bankruptcy.” In this res- pect President Hoover doubtless has done as good a job ‘as was possible under conditions which no administration has eyer before faced. It is the first time, in history as says, that the federal government has taken an “ex- ive and positive part in mitigating the effects of de- on and expediting recovery. ‘Phere is 2 timely warning in this: “Some timid peo- ; holders who represent practically every walk in iife. dilemma. They seek to increase revenues; to maintain Naturally there is a storm of protest from the ship- poses any increase of freight rates at this time. But where does it leave the railroads? They are faced by bus, motor or truck, pipeline and air competition, The aeroplane and bus have decreased their passenger and mail revenue. The truck and pipe- line have raised havoc with freight earnings. In the midst of this sharp reduction in revenue, taxes and labor costs have advanced. The railroad management cannot be censored for seeking an increase in freight rates. No one can study their problem without sympathizing with the predicament they are in as well as the stock- Present costs of operation can only be maintained by increased revenues. If rates are to be left as they are or lowered, the whole wage structure of the railroads must undergo a sharp revision. ‘The railroads of the nation are in a tough spot right: now. They face a serious problem of financing which calls for the cooperation of a public for which the car- riers supply a very vital service. New York, June 16—In “Shubert. Alley” they stood five deep waiting to 80, one-by-one, through the narrow stage door. At either end of the alley two po- licemen kept order. The lean canyon If bus, motor truck and other forms of competition continue, some burden of the railroad taxes will have Thus Hoover takes hard times out of 1932 national is-/ (9 be shifted to these new competitive agents if a proper sues,and decrees, for Republican ends at least, that the! economic balance is to be maintained. Interest charges also are putting a heavy toll on railroad revenues. These, with the wage structure, are factors the public probably does not take into consideration in the opera- tion of a railroad but they are responsible for the monthly and quarterly railroad balance sheets which for some- time now have given rail executives and stockholders too, are the ineffective and expensive operations of the! real cause for anxiety. Adjustment can come only through two or three ways: reduced taxes and wages or increased rates. The public should realize the necessity of this despite their opposi- world conditions and charging to them depression, the! tion to increased freight rates. Old customs dic hard, and you still hear public office land,” the president qualifies his contentions somewhat referred to as “the gift of the people.” When Uncle Andy Mellon said there would be a whale of a deficit he wasn't telling a fish story. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The une's policies. The New Public Domain between a bus line depot and the theater was almost airless as sum- mer's first humidity wave swept over the mid-town belt, leaving the Broad- ian. throngs clammy and uncomfort- able. A strange sight—700 girls, each Praying to be one of two dozen chosen for a chorus! Within half an hour, the huge stage swarms and buzzes with girls ... . short girls, tall girls, lovely girls, less lovely girls, well- dressed girls and super-smart girls ++. blonds, brunets, red-heads ... models and girls from other shows ++. professionals and amateurs ... girls from the Bronx, the East Side and points west to San Francisco... girls who have never been on the stage and girls who have gone through the dreary business of “cast- ing,” time and again. * * * George Clarke, who draws those swell, “Side Glances,” sits beside me in a half-ht theater. It's cool in there. A couple of weeks ago Flo Ziegfeld was casting. Now it's Earl Carroll. But now there is a record-breaking crowd out, for Carroll has posted no- tice with the Equity that his mini- mum salary will be $100, depression or no depression. There will be, how- ever, a couple of extra matinees to play. A hundred berries a week for a chorine! .... it brings out the beauties and the never-will-be beau- ribe J with dispair, have lost faith in our American | true reason for pitying the president (New York World-Telegram) Upward of 100,000,000 acres of former virgin forest and farm land in the United States have come limping back into public ownership in the last few years as the result! of tax delinquencies due to deforestation, poor farm practices and agricultural depression. Toward this rather tragic situation the states generally are apathetic. An exception is New York, where Gov- ernor Roosevelt has begun an intelligent program to put) the idle lands to work and halt the progesses of mak- ing more acres idle. But eyeft New York's “ten-year plan” is now well under way. It contemplates, first, a survey of every acre of farm jand in the state to determine its best economic utility; next, the planting to forests of idle and sub-marginal “farms”; and, finally, creation of a new class of New. Yorkers who are neither rural nor urban, but both. This is to be brought about by encouraging small fac- tories to locate in the country to give winter work to farmers’ families and country life to factory workers. The forestation program starts this fall with a §$20,- 000,000 bond issue to replant 1,000,000 acres by 1944, Gov- ernor Roosevelt says the costs of the program, to be borne partly by the counties, will be returned in savings| from road, school and utility services and in values added by changing profitless farms into profitable forests. New York's example should be an inspiration to other to show up? Strange thing, woman's vanity! ties. Yes, it's a strange sight! Where do they all come from? And what are more than half of them do- ing there? At least 400 out of 600 couldn't make a burlesque chorus. But the other 200—or even 100—or even 50! his selections? How can the director ever make Oh well, he knows his business. hate to have the job. What * eX It’s the funny looking ones wonder about. There's one who must weigh 200— you red, curly hair, funny figure, funny everything! Who could have told mae is ‘You can tell the girls who have been around before—they all have brought bathing suits and they trot out front for inspection, wearing ’em. ‘They want what they’ve got to be seen. And those girls in old-fashioned states to tackle their own problems of land-utilization before neglect, erosion and other demoralizing factors, make it too late. It should spur also the federal gov- ernment, whose national reforestation “program” calls for spending less than $5,000,000 by 1944, or one-fourth that of the Empire State. Federal leadership in this vital American movement has been strangely lacking. Pitying the President (New York Times) Secretary Hyde has shown himself during his political career in Missouri to be a master of indiscretion. - But even that former record he broke yesterday when at- tempting to fire, or melt, the hearts of the young Repub- licans getting behind the great Hoover drive at Washing- ton, This man, said Mr. Hyde, struggling to control his sobs, has been “subjected to malice organized to the nth degree.” Yet the heroic and stoical president has “never raised his voice in complaint.” So the secretary has to do the complaining in lieu of his chief. It is not the most exhilarating way of starting a boom for reelection. Peo- ple can hardly be expected to rise in enthusiasm for @ candidate in whose behalf this kind of plea ad misericor- diam is ostentatiously made. Mr. Hoover, his sensible fellow-countrymen will be glad to note, has never made it for himself. He has asked for cooperation but never for commiseration. He knows that there is nothing exceptional in what has befallen him, except perhaps the unusual number of public misfortunes. It has been the lot of all presi- dents of the United States to be objects of misrepresent- ation and abuse. From George Washington down they have suffered this kind of attack, and almost all of them have felt it to be the wiser course to bear it in silence. ‘What they may have said or written privately about the injustice of it does not go into the public record. Sec- retary Hyde, indeeds, seems to wonder why Mr. Hoover has made no loud and bitter complaints, They would only make the matter worse. If Mr. Hoover is to be pitied for anything, it is for having men about him like) cannot openly rebuke them for the foolish things say, but he has to endure them. Some time ago he wrote a letter in which he spoke somewhat resentfully of those amusement or disgust, it One on the Horse! THERE NOW— HORSEBACK. RIDING WiLL | Repuce You: OWNER ORDERED TO STOP FROGS’ CROAKS AT NIGHT Moundsville, W. Va., June 15— Chief of Police Kidder has ordered Mrs. William Martin Riggs, owner of a bird bath and fish pond in the city, to stop croaking of frogs o’ nights. Residents of the section have com- plained that the frogs croak so lustily and so hoarsely in the pond sleeping is almost impossible. * * * SURE SCOTS WERE “TIGHT”, BUT WHO BOUGHT THE TREAT? London, June 15.—That English- men still believe that Scotsmen are tighter than a postage stamp on an envelope was proved when two men named: McPherson and McDonald when arraigned in police court on By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association. As Raymond Pearl points out in a recent discussion, there has been a common observation that length of days tends to run in families. Pro- fessor Pearl refers, for example, to the statement by Oliver Wendell Holmes as to how to live long. The eminent humorist said: “The first thing to be done is, some years before birth, to advertise for @ couple of parents both belonging to long-lived families. Especially let the mother come of a race in which oc- togenarians and nonagenarians are very common phenomena. There are practical difficulties in following out this suggestion, but possibly the fore- thought of your progenitors, or that concurrence of circumstances which we call accident, may have arranged this for you.” The laboratory of the department of biology of the school of hygiene and public health in Johns Hopkins uni- versity has,recently made some ex- tensive studies of collections of gen- ealogic material that bear on the | matter. director will pick ‘em out as nice old- fashioned girls? On the other hand, those very beautiful girls—with chic, Fifth Ave- nue and Park Avenue clothes—that blond with the aristocratic profile, for instance—beautifully spaced eyes, fine forehcad and well modeled head. What is she doing here? Why haven't the movies found her? “Oh some girl from a good family on a lark,” suggests the press agent. “If she's taken, she'll go through with it, and we'll find afterward that she's from a swanky family and I'll have a good story.” And the girl seated in front—a per- fect magazine cover type—with hu- morous eyes—reminds you of the lovely co-eds of your youth. And those middle-aged women— those twins in the funny suits—the dozens of badly shaped legs—what are they doing here? No one can tell you. Carroll gocs patiently through group after group—he has them count to catch their talking reactions—at his elbow is the inevitable green bot- tle of vichy water—cameras click and reporters scurry around. And 1700 girls stand dreaming of the “big chance” that only a few will get. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) Two churches in the Panhandle of Texas are growing cotton to pay off indebtedness, members contrib- dresses. Do they think the casting Daily Health Service Find Long Life Is Inherited Experts’ Study of 100,000 People Shows Ancestry Is Main Factor A careful analysis of the family records of 100,000 people living near Baltimore was a part of this study. The results indicate that the expecta- tion of life of the parents of children dying at 60 years of age or over is at all ages, from 20 years on, greater than the expectation of life of the parents of children dying under 50 years of age. The tables indicate also that the expectation of life of the sons of fathers dying at 80 years of age or over, or with fathers still liv- ing at 80 years of age, is greater at all ages from birth on than the ex- pectation of life of sons of fathers who have died at ages between 50 and 79. It is also much greater than the expectation of life of the sons of fathers who died under 50 years of age, In other words, all of the scientific data available and the careful study of such data by trained experts in in- terpreting figures indicate that Oliver Wendell Holmes was right and that the way to live long is to select fathers, mothers, grandparents and Sreat-grandparents and indeed all ancestors who have lived long. TODAY/IS .THEZ ANNIERSARS ZEPPELIN ATTACK On June 16, 1917, at about 2 a. m., two zeppelins made an attack on the east coast of England. ‘The official report said that one of the airships crossed the Kentish coast and dropped bombs on a coast town, killing two persons, injuring 16 and wrecking @ large number of houses. The second airship attacked a coast town of East Anglia, but did no dam- age before it was engaged by the Royal Flying Corps, brought down in flames and destroyed, Thousands witnessed the end of this zeppelin, The attack by anti- aircraft guns on the dirigible lasted fully an hour, and people ran from. their houses half dressed to watch the fight. When the zeppelin was seen to burst into flames the spectators cheered tumultuously. first winged by @ land gun, and was then finished by an airplane, which the zeppelin fought to the last with her guns. The dirigible dropped into a field of corn, far from any habitation, and was destroyed. All of the crew were killed and their bodies badly charred. Some of the men appeared to have jumped. uting labor instead of money. H THIS. CURIOUS WORLD HE, IE VE KOCHE, P A GOSTON POLICEMAN, DIRECTS } CORNER, “TRAFFIC AT A BUSY & AND USES ONLY THE WHISTLE < . \NATURE GAVE HIM wm | BARBS There's lots of poetry in business, syas Charles Schwab, You might say now that business is going from bad to verse. * * * Modern business credo: If you would not be submerged—merge. * * cd One debt most folks are not anx- fous to collect is from people who say, “We owe oe @ visit.” * * ‘You can’t learn astronomy, says the office sage, by studying heavenly bodies from an orchestra seat at a musical comedy. * * % ‘ Scores of artists wept, it is reported, when a collection of paintings burned in Munich. Had this happened a few months later it might have inspired another painting SBevkernber Mourn.” ‘The Soviets are said to have pur- chased the stone crusher, but they won't admit they're putting bus- iness on the rocks. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) charges of being drunk and raising @ disturbance in a “pub.” The judge looked over his glasses and asked the Prosecutor, ‘Where's the other fel- Associated Press Phote Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther, 23, faces death in the electric chair. A Jefferson, Ohio, jury found her Quilty of the murder of Mrs. Clara Smith. Tilby Smith, the husband who helped her plan the slaying, also faces execution. ———______—__» | Rock Hill: | o————__—_—_———-q. By RUTH LITTLE Mr. and Mrs. Fred Demchuck and family were Sunday guests at the S, W. Nemitz home. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jorgenson were Jow?” He just naturally believed someone else had done the treating. x kk THIS AUTO ENGINE HAS RIGHT £0 BE SQUEAKY San Francisco, June 15.—Have you been noticing squaks in your auto en- gine of late? Maybe there is a little mouse in it. Anyway, that’s what was wrong with Mrs. Marie H. Kelly's Saturday evening guests at the Mar- tin Fueling home. Mrs, J. F. Little, Ruth, Phyllis and Clayton were Sunday guests at the W. H, Kolb home. Chas. Hettick called at the Mrs, K, Kolb home Friday morning. Roy McCullough called at the J. R. Fitzgerald home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Algot Ryberg called at the Chas. Hettick home Monday. ©. K. Turned mouse loose.” * * * SHADES OF MOTHER GOOSE! THIS GANDER’S 36 YEARS OLD Sonora, Calif., June 15.—Check up @ new record of longevity in the poultry world. E. W. Morris living near here has a gander which‘ has just attained its 36th year, and is yet TM GRANDAD OF'EM ALLE quite able to make itself feared by all the feathered creatures on the ranch. A year ago, the gander’s leg was broken by a kick from a cow, but Morris put splints on the bird’s leg and the bone healed. Quotations | White spats, tea-drinkers and cookie-pushers should be eliminated from the diplomatic corps. —Hugh 8. Gibson. * * * only thing that try. Wages are the should be high in this country. —Henry Ford. * * * ‘The male of the species must- go to wars and tiger hunts to be greatly stirred by life; the female can stay at home and get a larger meed of excitement out of @ race for a man. —Elsie McCormick. ke * Experience is a fine thing, but only when we profit by it. —Thomas W. Lamont. * * Oe ‘There is no worse way of mistreat- ing @ noun than by associating it with ‘| a disagreeable adjective. —Rev. Lynn Harold Hough, D.D. The North Carolina senate defeat- ed a sales iax bill that had been pass- ed by the house. Stickler Solution | J ®@ © @ Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Sherman and family and Oscar Magnuson called at the J. R. Fitzgerald home Monday evening. Mrs. Algot Ryberg called at the Marvin Alm home Monday to see Mrs. C. O. Kettleson and William Kettleson. i ‘The Canfield Ladies’ Aid will meet car when {t refused to start. A local] With Mrs. Ole Wold June 19. Paar py after checking the engine, the air intake, Peoping cme’ 3 | Jorgenson, Laurice, Elizabeth and from choking. Removed mouse. Car Thursday callers at the Fred Ehnes home were H. C. Rasche, Mrs. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Magnuson and family were Sunday guests at the Roy Farley -home. Dee Davis and Frank Johnson called at the Fred Demchuck home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCullough mo- tored to Regan Tuesday. Regan callers Saturday evening were Mr. and Mrs. Guss Graf and children, Willie, Victor, Martha and Leona, Mr. and Mrs. Ray McCul- lough, and Mr. and Mrs, Fred Ehnes, A school picnic was held at the schoolhouse Tuesday. A large crowd attended. A delicious picnic dinner with ice cream was served. Mrs. G. O. Lindsey and children spent Wednesday morning as guests of Mrs, J. F, Little. Fred Demchuck Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. August Krause called at the Guss Graf home Wednesday evening. Chris Waugeman and John Moser called at the Gottlice Doctor home Saturday. Mrs. Guss Westerman and Mrs. Allen Westerman were Thursday eve- ning guests at the J. F. Little home. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wheeler, Clar- ence, Lloyd and Ralph were Sunday guests at the Mrs, K. Kolb home. Monday guests at the Walter Scott home were Mrs. Emma Scott and daughter Phyllis and Nina Fisher, Mrs. P. E. Patton and children, Mary, Roselyn, Alice and Raymond, called at the Jorgenson home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rosendahl were Monday evening guests at the Algot Ryberg home. Arthur Landerholm was a Sunday and Monday guest at the Ernest Gor- don home. motored to Regan Melvin Borland of Hancock, Minn., visit his cousin, Stephen Monroe, Sunday. went en BeOuilough was an over- guest at the Joe Mi home Saturday. aa ee, ie pales ea an overnight at the Arthur McCoy i Tuesday, ee. eon Old hens, like gangsters, should be “taken for a ride,” the U. 8. Depart- ment of Agriculture reports, As tuberculosis principally affects fowls more than a year and a half old, hens over this age should be marketed, thus preventing pullets from picking up the disease and im flock all * proving the FLAPPER, FANNY SAYs: "4 >» a eae