The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1932, Page 4

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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 here- “in, All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County i Newspaper) ‘,” Foreign Representatives “4 SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Defeat for Sales Tax Public opposition to the sales tax ‘was too strong and this form of tax ited States as a means of raising taxes | ito meet the present emergency would} ‘he a departure. True forms of sales) taxes are familiar to the pen *peonle, but the nature of the bill de-} Mfeated was so revolutionary as to be @ distinct innovation. Now will come agitation to reduce! ‘public expenditures, eliminate useless | bureaus and governmental frills. ‘That is going to be an arduous task. | In the department of agriculture ‘there are departments spending mi lions upon useless scientific surv In times of plenty, millions were giv- en certain bureaus and a great po- itical machine of henchmen has been created. It will take almost ‘superhuman power to knock the pins from under such an organization. But right there is the answer to low- ‘er taxes. ‘The powers at Washington got off on the wrong foot when they Sought to inflate taxes and continue government appropriations pretty much at the old levels. The fact remains, however, that the ‘budget must be balanced and the pill of taxation, sugar-coated or other- wise, must be taken. It remains to be) seen down whose throat it will ea pushed by the lawmakers at Wash- ington. | Leaders are so far apart on the is-) sue of governmental economies, it is doubtful that useless appropriations can be eliminated or expenses cur- tailed enough to be of benefit in bal-| fncing this budget. Many depart- ments of government have made| their commitments and incurred | liabilities which they must meet. In some quarters the demand was fto legalize 4 per cent beer and raise| revenue from a sales tax on the bey-| erage. A senate subcommittee has; reported favorably the Bingham bill; which legalizes such action. This bill} has been approved by the senate feaders on that committee on the general theory that beer is being manufactured now and generally / consumed and the federal govern- gent is getting no revenue. It ts hardly likely that the present | Congress will take this way of bring- fing revenue into the exchequer. The ) drys reply “‘No Beer.” To date they have been strong enough to prevent any letting down of the Volsteadian | bars, as witness their defeat of a beer tax Friday. No one can tell what revenue a " beer tax would create, but as a first | aid to a depleted treasury and a par-| tial relief to the terrible unemploy- ment problem no one can logically deny it would be at least partially effective. But even such considerations are not sufficient to break down the dry resistance. One economist has figured out that lone earned dollar out of every five! Boes to the support of government. and that persons on the public pay-| roll, with their dependents, number | twenty million. Until people can be; Schooled to the fact that tax reduc-! tion means the elimination of many Sovernmental activities, there will be } no tax reduction. In the past peo- | ple have voted for every bond issue, t they have heralded every “frill” or Bismarck Tribune of bullfrogs, the idiosyncrasies of oy- Published by The Bismarck Tribune THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 238, 1982 sters and as to the operation of the lowly fly-trap.” These are only a few things. The offices of the de- partment of commerce are full of lame ducks seeking to run the na- tion’s business. But politics won't apply the tax pruning knife where it will do the most good. The only weapon that remains to the voter is the ballot. Will he use it? Prophet | The essential law does not depend ‘upon traditions and precedents. It is a living fact and force, needing constantly to be applied anew to the needs of men. A great jurist may be called a prophet because the ancient ~|which is to determine the truth and (Incorporated) 1 shas been decisively defeated. Accept-!sesses also in high degree. nce of the sales tax by the Uni-jhisreply tothe congratulations of the ‘|Opportunity this year of witnessing} verities of right and justice are dis- covered in his decisions and judg- ments, applied to present problems and written or spoken in the living language of today. So when Solicitor General Thacher spoke of former Justice Oliver Wen- dell Holmes of the United States su- preme court, he was not merely pay- ing a pretty compliment to an old man, who had rendered long and courageous public service. It was an accurate description. Looking upon the great liberal jus- tice as a prophet also recognizes the supreme function of the law, embody it for the service of civiliza- Htion, The ancient prophets were masters of phrase and sentence, able to turn the abstract truth into glowing and immortal words. This attribute of the prophets Justice Holmes pos- Examine bar association in the occasion of his 91st birthday anniversary: “Life seems to me like a Japanese picture, which our imagination docs not allow to end with the margin. We aim at the infinite, and when our arrow falls to carth, it is in flames.” Are not those the thoughts of a prophet? Eclipse The United States will be given the that most spectacular and awe-in- spiring of astral phenomena, the total eclipse of the sun. It will oc-| cur on August 31 and will be the last visible in the United States for 90 years. Astronomers have followed total eclipses of the sun into far countries and will continue to do so, but one close at hand inspires them to special efforts for observing and recording phenomena. The path of the eclipse will cross the northeastern part of the United States and Canada. At Conway, N. to take large-scale photographs of the sun's corona. There will also be smaller cameras and motion picture outfits to record the spectacle and aid astronomers in their studies. The coelostat, an arrangement of clock- driven mirrors, will be part of the elaborate recording and observing equipment in use at Conway. These solar eclipses have taken on a quite different aspect since the day of the oracles, astrologers and uni- versal astronomical ignorance. Ex- cept among a few savage tribes they no longer spell the end of the world or strike fear into the hearts of men. The least lettered of Americans will be calm, scientifically interested Spectators or will look upon it merely as nature's headliner. 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, North Dakota’s Opportunity (Commercial West) It now appears that Senator Nye urgently advised the Nonpartisan League convention in North Dakota against the rash proposal for a Statewide system of branch banks radiating from the state-owned bank of North Dakota. But the conven- tion would not be diverted and it is now up to the voters at the polls to prevent the state from being com- promised by the most radical pro- Position that has come from the League since the palmy days of A. C. Townley. From whatever viewpoint this pro- posal is regarded it is equally menac-| ing to the future welfare of the state. | If these branches conduct a credit business—that is, loan out of the deposits—how can politics be avoided in the making of the loans; and if money is loaned for reasons of po- litics, how long will it be before credit of the state itself will be seriously impaired? If, on the other hand, the branches are operated simply as de- Positories, they will serve only to de- fate the credit resources of the state. The federal government is striving to turn the tide of depression by as- sisting our private credit system to function during a crisis. The league Program would counteract in North igi the benefits of the federal efforts. H,, will be erected an 85-foot camera}... Teacher’s Pet! my Slim Days, Waistlines New York, March 28.—Notes from a ringside seat at the big town show —Encountered the almost sylph-like Paul Whiteman strolling the New York trails and could not but think that the Broadway to which he has returned seems on a diet more severe than that which shrunk the famous Whiteman waistline... Just a few years ago, night spots were fighting to get his band and bidding stiff prices. He even had his own place ... Today there's not a cabaret, club or late resort in Man- hattan that could afford so expensive | an attraction ... And so Paul ap- Pears at the Palace theatre... Odd that Chicago can produce the $3,000 weekly that Whiteman gets for dance music! He gets $5,000 to $6,000 for stage appearance .. . He explain- ed the reason ... in Chicago he ap- pears at the Edgewater Beach hotel the dance hall holds a couple of thousand or more in summer sea- son. ee 8 Naughty—But Nice! It seems that Chicago, with all its advertised gangs and vices, is most Particular about the prohibition law in its “nice” places ... The spot where Whiteman has been playing tosses the lads out if a flask or bot- tle is observed or if anything on the table suggests a highball ... only @ year or more ago were women al- lowed to smoke ... Yet a few min- utes away from this resort, you can hire a first-rate murder for a small sum... x ee Useful, Yes, Sir! Al Zugsmith, who is Paul's pub- licity representative, told a yarn about, one of the biggest radio fig- ures in New York who paid a visit to the dance resort ... The visitor, who rates the title of president of a connection with his bands ... When, next summer, he returns to Chicago, he expects to have an entire chorus of girls selected from college stu- dents .. . Jane Vance, the girl artist who now appears with his act, was one of his college selections ... He has turned up a dozen other success- ful performers as the result of his radio and dance floor auditions ... “College boys and girls are the best bets in America today for orchestras and bands,” says Whiteman. “I'm going after them more than ever and am going to use more of them as en- tertainers.” He Broadway on the Bum But Whiteman isn't likely to be seen or heard outside of the big show houses for some time ... The key dance orchestras of New York con- tinue to be Lopez, at the St. Regis; George Olsen in his own club; the Saunders and a couple more. For Broadway is fast becoming a two-bit street, where lobster and champagne palaces once flourished, lunch counters and cafes now slash prices to get the trade. For a lone dollar, a young man can set forth, get a meal and see a movie. For a few dollars he can show his best gal a big time. It's this nickel and dime business that has been fast turning the main stem into a Coney Island, with scores of catch-penny resorts springing up each week. Meals, from three to sev- en courses, can be had from 25 cents to 75 cents. | Meanwhile, Reuben still gets more | FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: certain concern, took a goodly sup- Ply of post-war brew along for a party of friends ... Despite his status, the New Yorker was all but thrown out... * * Whiteman, by the way, has deter- ee STICKERS BEeey Ble A Ble OF BleeER BAeeER, quick The same letter is missing eight from the above sentence. See how 29) If the people of North Dakote feel that some form of branch banking ¥ Titi t, gc gesee 2 the mating habits | 4s needed it should be by branches of soundly capitalized and well-man- aged private banks—national or state. North Dakota has many fine banks, group and independent, which have demonstrated their strength during the past two years. If the state or lederal banking acts were to be amended it would be up to these ivately owned banks to undertake task of providing banking facil- les by the establishment of branch- in the scores of communities’ Sre now without banks of any ee E Editor's -Note—The Nonparti- san League platform makes no mention of branch banks. The resolutions, however, point out that branch banking is possible under present laws. This has been true since the state indus- trial commission was organized. IS CURIOUS WORLD — A person with a sharp tongue usually makes cutting remarks. mined to use more college talent. in| for a sandwich than most places do for an cight-course dinner! ee * Returning to la Whiteman, he says that his loss of 100 pounds or more has increased his capacity for work; he needs less sleep and can work harder. 5 at TODAY ani eAay FOCH MADE, COMMANDER On March 28, 1918, General Ferdi- nand Foch was made commander-in- chief of the Allied armies in France. General Pershing assured Foch of complete cooperation of American Lombardos at the Roosevelt; Coon-} forces, The announcement of Foch’s ap- pointment was a cheering note after the German official bulletins an- nounced the storming of Albert in the great battle raging in Picardy. German news sources claimed an- BEGIN HERE TODAY ELLEN ROSSITER, beastifal ‘20-year-old, f1 im Jove with ARRY HA 7 les maged to ELIZABETH BOWES, itentiona to debutante, but pay: allen until bis @ancee retarne from Eu = Larry Ellen ngrees to mi BARCLAY. a MYRA, ¢ feeee ier. jo mat ‘EAD, ike been married and ndal Symes hasbeen ti Barclay all day. He the papers proving Barclay’s di- Yeorce from Leda Grayson ha‘ been stolen, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXIX S*MEs looked at the white-faced girl, He cleared his throat. “It’s not so bad as all that,” he said awkwardly, “It's as bad as ft can possibly be,” Ellen declared passionately. “That I—that ¥ should drag Steven’s name through such a scan- dal—” “Now you're being foolish, my dear,” the lawyer protested, “Steven ‘Was one of my closest friends, you know that. But you and I must think now of your position, That is what Steven would want us to do.” He frowned, considering the Practical aspects of the matter, and war office announced lore than 75,000 prisoners and heavy guns had been taken in the We cannot: defeat gangdom as long as we have the eighteenth amend- ment and the Volstead act.—Colonel Robert I. Randolph, president, Chi- cago Chamber of Commerce. * It's almost like being in a convent: I don’t have time for social engage- ments or recreation.—Judith Ander- son, heroine of “Mourning Becomes Electra,” the six-hour play. * # * bigotry and illiberalism which might have been pardoned in dark ages, but which passes understanding today — Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the American Jewish committee. ee * The fine spirit of patriotic non- Partisanship (in congress) is, I know, appreciated by the whole country.— President Herbert Hoover. + # * Mr. Raskob is in a position to speak much more accurately of the amount of money he and his associates have spent slandering and misrepresenting the president than he is on the presi- dent's views of the eighteenth amendment.—Patrick J. Hurley, sec- retary of war, ol | Barbs i > A congressman says nearly every- body is in favor of the sales tax, Maybe he means everybody but the consumer. * ee The Japanese who named Man- churia the Iand of peace must have had it confused with two * * % Two dozen hacksaw blades, but no sawed bars, were found in the Mis- souri penitentiary. Perhaps the con- victs were waiting for business to-find that corner! *# Many jails are falling to pieces a prison commission says. But the chairs are still strong enough to hold all the deputies. | ee # A doctor says motorcyclists are not so apt to have pneumonia as other people. Well, it's more com- fortable to die in bed, anyway. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service. Inc.) Tribune Want Ads Daily Health News Increase in Parrot Fever Demands Radical Measures Six Deaths from Malady Reported in California the tient may develop deliriura. Bince’ the condition begins like in- nosis most frequently ite ioe suddenly reveals its special character. Death occurs in from one week to 14 days in the fatal cases and those patients who recover must undergo long convalescence because of the weakening character of the ise ase. Most of the parrots responsible for the outbreak in the eastern part of the United States in 1929 came from The parrots respon- ‘sible for the present epidemic may have come in the first place from the Orient. However, there is now reason to be- eve that domestic birds developed in California have become infected and that they are being shipped from California to other places. For instance there were three cases of psittacosis in New York City with ‘one death dt October and Novem- BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN (Editor, Journal of the American ‘The recent increase in parrot fever, or psittacosis, in California and other Western states constitutes such a menace to human health that pore tly |South America. pu parrakeets, most of them bought from itinerant bird vendors, In nearly every instance, according to the report of the director of the California state department of health, at least dne of the birds be- came ill and died before the onset of the symptoms in the human case. In ‘one case the person who was infected with psittacosis had not been in con- tact with a parrakeet but had nursed luring & patient who was suffering from the/ber, 1931, and all of the birds in- volved had come to New York from ‘The symptoms of the disease as it/San Francisco. In January, 1932, Occurred in California were the same|there was a case in Oregon brought ‘a8 those in psittacosis elsewhere. on by birds sent from San Francisco. The person suddenly becomes ill] The California board of public with severe headache, fever and|health has adopted regulations con- chills, then the whole body begins to ache, coughing begins and then there parrot 4s consolidation in the lung similar hibiting importation and exportation to pneumonia. of such birds from California for six As the disease becomes more severe|months. SOCIAL REGISTER TO SCREEN tion of love birds and ts, Pro- Betty Gillette, 19, of New York Is off for Hollywood where she has a contract with a film company. She has had no professional train- Bring Results ing but she is listed in the Social Register, is a blonde and likes to swim trolling the importation and exporta- — and play tennis. ing a chill. Her tortured eyes did not leave the lawyer's face, “I'm imagining all this—it’s not true— Till wake up soon,” she tried to tell herself. Then she would become conscious again of Symes’ troubled face. Sho sat véry still while the bit- ter thoughts thronged upon her. The marriage witb Steven had been no marriage at all. The world would believe either that Steven had deceived an innocent girl with @ mock marriage or that she, Ellen Rossiter, in her eagerness to cap- ture a rich man, had been reckless of the fact that the man was the husband of another woman, It only Steven were alive—but Steven was dead! And because a cruel, grasping woman, had crept to Mexico and bribed a court, his name was to be dishonored and with it the name of the girl he loved, “But the divorce was announced in all the newspapers nearly two years ago,” Ellen sald in a voice that was without life, without hope. “I know it,” Symes agreed with a short laugh, “But you underest!- mate Miss Grayson’s ingenuity. Steven announced the divorce, All the proceedings, if you remember, were kept secret. Miss Grayson was abroad atthe time, had gone even before Steven went to Mex- {co, She's been dancing there ever since, She admits there'd been a Separation—a sort of ‘trial’ she calls it. But ‘she's back in New York now to tell the world she ever consented to a divorce, “Sho oven has an explanation for her long allence,” be continued. “Saya she knéw nothing of the di- Vorce until a few weeks ago, and then sailed at once to have it set aside, A barefaced Me—but we can’t prove it, I’m afraid.” eee Eu said nothing at all, There then spoke again, “Unfortunately appearances count for s great deal in law,” he began reluctantly, “Appearances are against you. Steven, in his anz- fety to spare you disagreeable pub licity, made the tharriage sppear— Well, rather unusual, He went to Steat pains to keep the marriage secret. The license that was not to be filed, the friends who weren't informed, the newspapers teft in ignorance of his intended martiage. ‘You can see how it looks.” “I can see,” said the girl. There was silence, Ellen's body trembled as though she were hav- was nothing at all to be said. “If only Steven hadn’t been such a tich man-” she heard Symes’ voice trom @ long way off, : “Can't we do anything?” she asked pitifully. “We can seve you from report- ers for a while,” he said, frown- ing. “We'll keep mum until the whole thing comes up in court. “Why do we have to go to court?” Ellen cried. “Leda Grayson will fight to the last ditch and be delighted at the chance.” “Fight for what? Steven lov me. She can’t take that away!” The girl's voice was courageous and steady now. “Sho won't take the money, either,” Symes responded grimly. “We have plenty of witnesses to his wishes. No matter how you come out in the fight to be recognized as his wife, you'll get the money. I have those settlements all drawn up. God, if I'd only let him sign them when he wanted to! “We can prove any way,” he continued, “that you had no sus- Picion that the marriage was biga- mos. Your mother was there, your sister—" “Stop! Stop this instant!” El- len broke in with shock and pain. “I don’t want the money! I've told you again and again. It's not the money that’s driving me frantic.” “My dear child, that money be longs to you,” he protested, star- tled. “Steven wanted you to have it. That was almost the last thing be was thinking of—your future. You can’t throw away a fortune.” “I can't!” Bllen repeated hys- terically. “Why can’t I? Is that what you were thinking of? Is that what you meant by court? Steven gave me everything and now—now that he's dead you think T'd fight for more, drag his name through the newspapers, have peo- Ple thinking that he thonght so Uttle of my honor—?” eee S*MEs was genuinely amazed by the girl's earnestness. Patlent- ly he pointed out that the money was hers, that only a court battle stood between her and possession. Patiently he pointed out that with the money she could go anywhere, seek new scenes, new people, new interests, But Ellen stopped him. She looked up to bim and asked, “But if it weren’t for the money you and I could do for Steven this thing that—he can’t do for bim- self?” . “Keep the marriage with you a secret,” he answered thoughtfully. “I suppose it could be managed. Yes, I’m certain it could be man- aged but it’s a mad idea. Are you sure of what you're doing?” “Quite sure,” she sald steadily, “I don't believe I've ever met 80 quixotic 8 young woman.” “It’s not only Steven I’m think- fog of.” Ellen admitted in ao shamed, honest voice. “I’m think ing of myself. I don't think 1 could bear the publicity. I want to get away—I want to go back to being the girl I used to be.” Small and dazed, in a crumpled white linen dress that was no whiter than her exhausted face, El- Jen sat looking at the lawyer and pleaded that this part of her life should be blotted out as though it had never been, “Certainly you can,” he said sruffy, untruthfully. eee gz knew that he had lied but ‘was grateful for the falsehood. “In the first place I'll arrange to get the license for you,” Symes went on practically, “I saw the Rev. Mr. Southey yesterday and I know he'll be only too ready to forget his part in the ceremony. He was considerably upset when I spoke to him. But about the license —how long was the filing of it to be held up? Do you know?” “Until after we'd sailed,” Elien sald on a half sob, “Steady—steady,” Symes warned her, but she was silent again and composed. “How many people know of the marriage besides your immediate family?” “Why, no one,” Elien began and then stopped. “Mrs, Clancy, neighbor of ours knows,” she amended. “Mrs. Clancy and Lo- Tene Elcott.” “Can you trust them?” “I'm sure I can.” “You understand that a situation of this sort is extremely difficult to keep hidden,” Symes said. “You understand that any newspaper would be eager to buy such @ sen- sation. Can you trust Mra. Clancy?” Ellen nodded. “I can answer for myself, for the nurse, and for the physicians, Dr. Wescott doesn’t think any way—” “I know,” Ellen interrupted. “1 know that he didn’t think I was married to Steven. I could tell trom the first.” “Physicians see such strange things,” Symes put in uncomfort- ably. “How about Fergus?” she whis- ered. “I'd forgotten him. But he hard- ly counts. He'd never seen you before, had he? Doesn't know your name, or where you live?” “I gave him Mrs. Clancy’s phone number and asked him to say that Ellen wanted her mother but— that’s all.” Even as Ellen spoke Fergus en- tered quietly, softly. Seeing him frightened the girl vaguely. Fer gus seemed to menace her frail se- curity, She felt be distrusted and disliked her as much as che dis liked and distrusted bim. “What is it?” Symes asked. “Dr. Wesctott is just leaving, sir,” Fergus said. “He's going to report Mr. Barclay's death’ and wanted to see you first.” “All right. I'll see him,” Symes answered, rising. “By the way,” he continued, “do you know if Mr, Barclay’s sister is-in town or not. She should be notified.” “Mra. Harrowgate returned from Europe several weeks ago.” Fer. gus replied, noticing as Symes did not that the girl on the divan seemed to grow white as he spoke the words, * “Well, get in touch with her son and notify him of his uncle’s death, His number's not listed but I ha it here.” It was Larry Harrowgate's tele Phone number that Symes re Deated, + (To BeContinued) Abe * » en 4 r ‘ »~ Bo “ N