The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1932, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932 Whe Bismarck Tribune fs An it Newspaper Independen: THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER tablished 1873) “Published by The Bismarck Tribune F pany, Bismarck, N. D., and en- at the postoffice at Bismarck as class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. 00 | $20,000 annually. by mail in state, per yea by mafl in state, thre y ota, per year ‘Weekly by mail ‘The Associated Press is exclusively fentitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it/ €or not otherwise credited in this * newspaper and also the local news 1 of spontaneous origin published here- 14n. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Ne ) Foreign Repre: , SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS ! & BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON A New Postmaster Bismarck soon is to have the pleas- jure of greeting a new postmaster and few appointments will win such uni- * versal acclamation in this city as the “ designation of Walter Sather for the post. That the old order changeth was mever more aptly illustrated in polit- fical things than by the appointment (of Sather to a position which many * sought but for which only one could be chosen. Less than 40 years of age, never overly active in politics although an _ interested supporter of his particu- - lar group, it was something of a sur- » prise when the Burleigh county cen- + tral committee recommended Sather ' for the position over applicants who * had, perhaps, more claim to political 1 ®ecognition. ‘The law requires the postmaster to refrain from participation in politics, even though the statute is more often honored in the breach than in the observance. Nevertheless, it is a recognized fact that postmasterships, generally, are awarded on the basis of political service and as political recognition. Perhaps it was a combination of| the man and the times which enabled | Sather to win this plum. He repre- sents the new and rising generation which is beginning to clamor for rec- ognition, if not for power. He is rep- resentative of the ability, now approaching its prime, which is begin- | ning to supply a good deal of the leadership for American business and industry. Now, more than ever be-/} fore, it is a young man’s world, or at! least a world with plenty of oppor- tunity for young men with ability and ideas. This can be illustrated in the appointment of postmasters as well) @s in private affairs. Among a wide circle the appoint- ment was hailed with real pleasure, for Bismarck has few men with more ‘of real friendliness in their makeup than the new postmaster. As & commander of the local post of the American Legion and as ex- alted ruler of the local lodge of Elks, Sather has demonstrated executive ability and—even more than that—|!_ has proved his ability to work with others and to get others to work with him. ‘This latter trait is a valuable asset in public life. It gives one cause to look forward to Bismarck’s postal . Sdministration during the next four years with real confidence. The New Revenue Bill It is not humanly possible to de- vise any tax bill which will please everyone, but it must be self-evi- dent to thinking men that at all costs the national budget must be bal- enced and that the revenue to do this must come from federal taxa- tion. If this is not done business con- Gitions will become worse rather than better. It is part of the general +|scheme of economic reconstruction ||that the federal budget be balanced i} and that the strictest economy be | | practiced in appropriations. ‘The revenue measure now under igcussion in congress designs to raisc $1,006,000,000 additions! during the fiscal year which begins next July. this falls short of balancing | the budget it is hoped that by re- 4 i |has taken rapid strides toward a cer- erally will cuss and discuss it within the next few weeks. The basic feature of the bill is the general tax of 2% per cent on the sales price of all manufactured arti- cles, with but few exemptions. This tax is fashioned somewhat after the Canadian system and has been urged most vigorously by the Hearst papers, who are grooming Speaker Garner for the Democratic presidential nom- ination. ‘This sales tax will be administered as in Canada by a licensing system which will apply to all manufactur- ers doing a business of more than It is not denied anywhere but that this tax affecting most articles of merchandise—will be passed on to the ultimate consumer. That it will increase the cost of living to some extent is not denied. The sad news which is carried to all is that the government must tap the reservoirs which can bring ‘in immediate revenue to pay pressing obligations. Incomes of the wealthy, too, are to feel the increase in taxes. Within certain limits surtaxes will be doubled. | There will be a restoration of the| so-called nuisance taxes, gift and estate taxes, fees for stock transfers, taxes om gasoline and oils, excise taxes on malt and grape concentra- tes, hitting at the cellar bootleggers, and so on ad infinitum. Probably the measure is as fair a one as can be devised. It comes from a house dominated by the Democra- tic party and is not exactly what the treasury department wants, but it is the best tax bill that can be written in the present political crisis. This bill is to have the hearty support of the treasury department. The Trend Toward Socialism Proposal has been made in congress to put a tax of a penny a shell on; ammunition for shotguns and provid- ing that the revenue be used in enfore- ing the federal game laws and propa- gating additional birds and animals for the hunter to shoot. In effect it is a proposal whereby those interested in field sports will make one hand wash the other, but it also serves as illustration of the manner in which America has been drifting toward So- cialism. Every time the people place addi- tional powers and functions in the hands of the government, they take @ step toward state control. The ques- tions of whether such steps are advis- able or necessary are not at issue here. Nevertheless, the fact remains that to increase the duties and re- sponsibilities of the government is to effect state control in greater and greater degree. And state control is what socialism means, no matter what arguments may be made for it or against it. If we ever reach the time when the government controls, di- rectly or indirectly, every activity of the people, we shall have socialistic rule of our country, no matter what name may be applied to the process: A tax of a penny a shell may lead to socialized shooting grounds. This might be a good thing and of benefit to the sportsman, but he might as well recognize the proposed system for what it is. We gain nothing by giving things! pretty names and ignoring them for what they actually are. Neither can we escape the fact that the country tain kind of socialism during the last decade under auspices which have been declared to be conservative, 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 Tribune's policies. No Rest for the Farm Board (New York Times) For the Federal Farm Board life is one long series of complications. As if it did not have sufficient troubles of its own, Congress threatens to add to its misfortunes. A resolution adopted by the House, and approved by the Senate in somewhat different form, authorizes the free distribution of 40,000,000 bushels of government- owned wheat for relief of distress, but makes no provision for repayment. This would compel the board to ac- Cept a loss of about $30,000,000, since it purchased its grain at prices ap- proximately 40 per cent above the Present level, and Chairman Stone vigorously complains that it is “unfair to take the wheat away without pay- ing for it.” Meantime, a new difficulty has ap- peared in still another quarter. Moved by @ desire to reduce expendi- tures, and thereby to help balance the Federal budget, committees of con- gress have been pruning the various appropiration bills submitted by the administration. They have cut deep- ly into the funds allotted to the Farm Board. In the House a reduc- | Gilbert Swan Only One Topic New York, March 15.—Small use combing the New York sidewalks for copy while the Lindbergh baby is missing! You leave the subway at 42nd street and walk into @ mob that occupies the attention of cops afoot and mounted. It’s the theater hour, but crowds are not following the usual sheep trails. deep on the Broadway side and on the Seventh Avenue side. They're banked away back to the nightly breadline in Longacre Square. Their eyes are tilted, to a man, toward a ribbon of light. The ribbon races around the triangle that forms the Times Building. The ribbon spells out blazing words, each chasing the last— “N-O - - W-O-R-D - - R-E-C-E- I-V-E-D...” ‘Women mutter to men and men mutter back to women. They stand and shiver, but they do not move. No attraction on Broadway could dis- tract their taut attention. They wait more tensely than any gal and gal- lant comfortably seated in the New York. theaters. x * * From the cheap theater zone in 42nd Street barkers desert their posts to run to the corner, take a glimple and run back ... Their chant goes on just the same . . . “Big burlesque en- tertainment going on just inside...” Three six-foot ballyhoo men from near-by movie houses forget their, stentorian lines. Why should they go on barking? No one gives heed. * Oe * Air Circus Ignored | Oddly enough, several fliers hap- pen to be giving a spectacular free show just over the midtown belt. Some aviation thriller is playing in a movie house. The air stunts are for advertising. Ordinarily this would catch all eyes. STICKERS usual theatrical and press agent and there. ‘They're standing four | bars. gape—they feel! cry Yiddish papers carrying black states the most tragic little face in Nagin: PAD tion from $1,800,000 to $1,000,000 has been made in the board's appropria- tion for administrative purposes, and in the Senate a bill has been report- ed favorably, marking down the sal- Wi & Ber So : THIS CURIOUS WORLD Now it merely serves to remind the throngs of a certain Lone Eagle with hurt wings. “Poor Lindy .. . Wonder what he's doing now? What he’s thinking about”... That's all the air circus means to the crowd... * KOK Stars Ignored Se you go to the Astor lobby and wander to Sardi’s for dinner. The movie and newspaper crowds are But the stars aren’t getting a tum- ble. A couple of reporters who have been to the New Jersey scene have hapened in. What they have to say passes from table to table. It travels down the street and up the street and into the speakeasy The intellectuals around the Algonquin round table. stop talking about the latest novel and play. They turn detective and advance theories. Famed fellows who were “newspaper- men once themselves” sigh and wish they were “back in the game again.” * * OK Babies of Their Own So you trek across town to Sec- ond Avenue. Second Avenue and the Bronx are the baby belts of New York. Babies are part of the scen- ery, part of the street. There have been pretty kidnaping scares in such sections on sevefal occasions. The sidewalk folk don't merely stop and ‘They feel because their babies are on the sidewalks at the moment. They | jabber in different tongues. Newsboys scareheads. From the front pages all the nation. Women buy and jab- FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: Many a girl with a slick line winds up with a clothes-line ber. Italian newsboys and Russian, Greek and Americano... This is an international tragedy, shared by Broadway, the Bronx, Second Avenue and the tiniest hamlet on the map. aout use, then, combing the walks. ... roy There would be no cotton problem if men and women patriotically turned to the nightgown for sleeping pur- Alabama a poses.—Edward A. O'Neal, farm leader. xe Oe Depression is the result of fear and hysteria—Alan Macauley, president, Automobile Cham et Commerce, Til never go to trial. Get me?— Smiling Joe Filkowski, Cleveland gangster CESS rates murder, buil Speaker Garner is not a candidate | Missouri river are all existing condi- MOLLY ITER, her elder sister, MYRA, and her brother, MIKE. STEVEN BARCLAY, of owner of Barciay’s, ane love er Elisabeth returns from Europe he sends a note tell- ing Ellen he cannot eco her for e. roken, Ellen tries te e's legs. Ellen tells Barclay she wants to marry him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORE CHAPTER XXVIII , <abeeage fell back a step in sur- prise. “Do you mean this? Are you serious?” Ellen’s eyes answered him. She paused to brush back from her forehead a lock of curling hair. “I would be safe if I married you,” she went on. “I would have peace. Just now I very much want peace and safety.” “I've never heard that marriage ‘was particularly safe,” he told her. Ellen pondered. “But I—” she had begun when he interrupted. “Ellen, my dear, I’m afraid you have conceived some mad idea of marrying me to show your grati- tude, I can’t let you do that.” “It’s not that at all,” Ellen put in, her cheeks flushing. “But you don’t love me.” “I don’t know what love means,” she said wearily, not denying his statement. “I know that I think you are the kindest man in the world. I know that I trust and admire you. Isn't that endugh?” Editor, Tribune: Dakota Bismarck, that site having been se- lected after due deliberation by those who had the matter in hand. It was People’s Forum te—The Tribune wel- Panse “tetters on subjects of in- Sinise offend good taste and’ f Play will ed to th wil return 1° writers All peter MUST be signed. 1 spect, 8 ch requests. We reserve the right to delete such parts of letters as mi be necessary conform to this policy. MEANT EVERY .WORD Devils Lake, N. D., March 13, 1932. Editor Tribune: I notice that Mr. P. M. Hansen of Jamestown has taken exception to some of the things I called him in my letter of March 3rd. After thinking it over I have come to the conclusion that I did not call him half of what I should. He is every- thing I called him and he is a lot more I didn’t call him that I have thought of since. Yours truly, M. R. LANGDON. Wilton, N. D., March 12, 1932. Concerning the removal of capital from Bismarck to Jamestown. The seat of government of North was established originally at suitable and perfectly reaspnable choice of site, being near the center of the state east.and west and rather re- from Canada. Since then the deposits of this state, the immense area, of grazing country only partially developed, the expense of the Memor- ial bridge and Bank of North Dakota ding, also the location right at for By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association Stop and rest when you are tired! office worker and business man can get. The athlete and the hardened laborer may continue unusual exer- tion for long periods without ill ef- fects, but for the average “white col- lar” man such exertion is not only painful to him but dangerous to his health. His system is not attuned to its quently we see most business office workers almost breathless after even @ short sprint. ‘Unused to such effort, his lungs are ‘The average man breathes from 15 to 20 times a minute, and his runs from 60 to 80. When he plays tennis, shovels a ton or so of coal, runs rapidly or tries any other such exer- cise, his breathing rate rapidly rises to from 30 to 54 times a minute and seat of government. Our neighboring city of Jamestown has the advantage of being nearer the business centers of Minnesota, its cities and highways. The eastern part of this state has Grand Forks with its university, May- ville and Valley City with each a teachers’ college, Fargo with the agri- cultural college, Devils Lake, Carring- ton, Lisbon and many other larger and smaller towns with the State Mill, Health N THAT TIRED FEELING! -Exertion Great Danger of Sport and Exercise Over eae average “White Collar” Worker ‘That is the best advice the average | comple maximum capabilities and. conse-| ercise, his pulse may reach as high as 170 yourself into condition to play two or even three rounds. Too much tennis or other really strenuous exercise may result not only in the wearing down of the resistance of the body, but also in serious in- jury. Many persons have suffered with heart trouble for years because they, went beyond their normal en- durance in some contest or sport. tions favorable to the location of a)River valley wheat region, well de- veloped and numerously peopled, Why should the western area of this state be abandoned and its future develop- ment and industries overlooked. You voters of the east and west see this thing right and vote NO on the cap- ital removal. Bismarck is the best political and economic location for the seat of government and the balance lof social, industrial and political de- some packing plants and other indus- tries and the territory of the rich Red velopment and growth of the state. CONTRIBUTED. / PLAN NEW DISTANCE FLIGHT ‘Associated Photo Nate C. Browne (léft), former army pilot, and his companion, Edward Muldowney, again are planning a non-stop flight from Old j Orchard, Me., to Buenos Alres. Their first attempt ended in Boston when they were forced down by motor trouble. her. There was no exultation in his face. He only stood looking down on her. “I don’t understand,” she. began Tuefully. “Just the other day—” He turned to walk the scant length of the kitchen, past the piled up sink with its unwashed dishes, past the stove and porcelain table to stare through the open window into the hot night. Wheeling sud- denly he came back to her and forced himself to say the words so hard to speak, “Just the other day you did not feel under obligations to me. Now T’m afraid you do.” “There’s no use pretending I’m not grateful to you,” Ellen ad- mitted. “No use pretending I wouldn’t like to do everything I can to make you as happy as you've made me, But that isn’t a fault, is it?” (THE she trom the single un- ¥ shaded bulb aureoled her tawny hair and gilded her bare arms, re- vealed Uy the thin blue frock. She stood there so fresh and confident, 80 young and desirable, that Bar clay felt his resolution weaken. “But how about—how about the other man?” he asked, clearing his throat. “I hope you'll understand, Steven, when I tell you that he brought me nothing but misery and grief and heartache. I thought I'd go mad with restlessness and pain when I knew him, It was that kind of love, en. The love it’s best to forget.” She. paused, then added, “But that’s all done now. I can even say I’m glad it’s done.” “At your age I'm {neliged to|n think not.” “Help me, help me, Steven!” thé girl whispered, “So there {s—~was— someone else?” He was watching and saw the gallant smile that did mot reach her eyes, She did not answer the question but put another instead. “Would you marry me, Steven, knowing that I once thought I loved someone else very much even thotigh I knew that love woulde’t work out, could never work out?” He la mi » “Tm afraid I would. I'd think, you see, that I loved you so much that io rime you would come to love me, Still he made no move toward happy. - The four of them went down the stairs. Mrs, Clancy was at her usual post and waved a greeting. On sudden impulse Ellen stopped to announce the news and to in- troduce Steven as her fiance. She knew from Steven’s boyish laugh that he was pleased. “Whe it to be?” Mrs, Clancy. Ellen hesitated. There had been no talk of dates, “Probably not for some time,” Steven answered for her, “I’m com- Pelled to sail for Europe Saturday and the wedding will take place after my return.” Mrs, Clancy's smiling, significant eyes followed them until they were lost to sight by the stairway turn. Myra and Bert were already out- side. It was as they were going down the last flight of stairs that Ellen spoke. “Would you like to make it soon- er, Steven?” she asked. “Son enough so that if Mike's well enough I can go to Europe with ou?” “Ellen!” demanded HE caught her in his arms so roughly that for a moment she was frightened. His hoarse, low voice was murmuring in her ear, So she did love him! She did want to make it soon! Something in El- Jen's heart turned over with shame and dismay. She understood all at once, as she trembled in his arms, that the reason she had wanted to make it soon was to protect her- self from another meeting with Larry Harrowgate. . Her heart contracted with re luctance and an odd pain. Steven should never guess why she wanted her promise to be irrevocable. She stroked his hair back from his of love in this world, Ellen thought. Steven should never suspect that je had given away for good and fe e8: 2 .g5e8- i one seemed to know that something unusual was happening at the Ros- siters. . “Wasn't mother pleased!” Myra observed as they climbed the stairs, “And didn’t Steven blush when she kissed him! I don’t believe I’ve seen mother so excited for years.” “I know,” Ellen agreed absently. “What are you thinking about, honey?” ; Ellen roused herself. “Oh, noth- ing.” ‘They reached the apartment. “What'd you think of Dr. Sten- galt” Myra asked, flinging hersel to a chair and yawning hugely, “He's all right, I guess.” “You are thinking of something,” Myra said accusingly. “I can see it in your eyes.” “You can see that aren’t there,” Ellen told her uncomfortably. She moved about the room, emptying ash trays and ie things to rights for the many things ht “Isn't it great to have every: thing so easy for a change?” Myra said dreamily. “Did I tell you Steven spoke to me again about Bert and said he was going to ar Tange immediately for Bert to got that job at the store—in the book department? You know how Bert loves books!” eee ELLEN was aroused from her reverle. Her enthusiasm. was spontaneous and real. “I can’t tell you how glad I am,” she said. “That will just suit Bert. All he's neeged has been a break.” “A break was what we all needed,” Myra assented. “This makes all the difference in the world to Bert and me. With this new job there’s no reason for us to wait any longer, Bert is jumping out of his skin with joy.” ¢ “Oh, Myra, I am glad.” * “Stop fussing with the house and let's go to bed and talk,” \Myra said. “Let's let everything go and get up early in the morning.” On sudden thought M: ed, Ellen laughed. “I should say I'm not,” she sald. “You know Steven. He'd throw six fits. One of the first things he said was that Iwas Aj igh with work for good and “Imagine!” breathed Myra, “No mee rushing off in the morning and coming home worn to a fraszlé. Heavens, you're lucky!” “I am lucky,” Ellen agreed so- A lttle later she telephoned to Salomoz to say she was giving up her job at Dreamland. He was so Tegret{ul Ellen was touched. “If you ever want the job back it’s yours,” he declared. “What am I to do with the money I owe you? There's about $10 waiting for you.” “Credit it to Tony,” Bllen re spentet, “And tell her goodby for As she returned to the apartment © she did not try to analyze the sen- sation which swept over her with the realisation that she would go zo more to Dreamland. Neverthe . Jess the sensation persisted and lin- gered on in her troubled dreams, ~, $M (To Be Continued) « . 4! “wy pe ~_