The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1932, Page 4

r THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1932 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) |__Published by The Bismarck Tribune arck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as ‘Company, Second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in { Advance jDaily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bis- MALICK) ....sccereseseeseeeces . Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ......... aoe 5.00 Daily by mail outside of Dakota North ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, Dakota, per year ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per att FEAT crcccccccesscscrcesscccore Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) —— Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER { (Incorporated) (CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON No Bootstrap Politics When Secretary Mills spoke to the ‘Associated Press recently and the New York Times commented that one of the major virtues of the address was that it contained nothing new, there was sounded for the politicians of this nation an admonition which ‘they will do well to heed. The Times comment was based on ‘the theory that, in times like these, it is unwise to adopt political nos- trums in an effort to bring better conditions and that to play fast and loose with federal finances is a grave error which may depress the depres- sion rather than improve it. It is a swarning which the Democrats of the country should particularly take to heart, since they still bear the onus of the Bryan campaign in 1896 when ‘the gold standard was the principal issue and it is a Democrat who is now urging the printing of paper money in order to loosen credit. Mills talked of the difficulty and the need of balancing the budget and presented the arguments with which all of us are familiar, viz. that busi- ness cannot prosper unless we have stability in government and that stability in government depends upon sound governmental finance. It is a view which many adopt un- willingly, if at all, for balancing the budget means the imposition of addi- tional taxes upon the people and the making of additional sacrifices. One hhas to look well ahead of his nose to see the benefit to come from this trial by fire as compared with the “easy money” proposals and the idea of ‘balancing the budget by putting more paper currency into circulation. But the benefits are there and they far outweigh those which may come from financing governmental needs through the adoption of less rigorous policies, Unstable government fi- mances means aggravation of the fear from which business now is trying to wecover, with a possible increase in unemployment and the ills which go ‘with it. We must get our people back to work but not on a basis which may prove unsound and which may result, all too soon, in a recurrence of the ills from which we now suffer. We want @ permanent and sound recov- ery rather than injection of economic dope which will mean only a tem- porary improvement and which, when the effects wear off, may leave the patient even sicker than before. It would seem, from the present ac- tions of congress, however, that the proposal of leaders in both parties to balance the budget by decreasing ex- penditures as weil as by increasing yevenue may go by the boards. It is difficult to understand why this - should be so, why congressmen should be willing to increase taxes but unwilling to cut expenses. Can it be that the influence of the tax-eaters 4s more effective than the demands which the people have made for an opportunity to work out their own salvation without the burden of gov- ernmental uncertainty, heavy ex- pense and bureaucratic domination from which the country long has suf- fered? It would seem 80. This makes it all the more refresh- ‘Mills when he preaches the old and truths; that it should de- ting Uncle Sam do the worrying. that in financial budget. far-sighted policy forthcoming Lausanne whatever amount ish budget. The Chancellor of the Ex- chequer has so stated. The Rubber-Tired Rail Car railway car that was tried out recent- ly on a railroad in the middlewest may eventually be the instrument with which the railroads will wage a successful fight against the bus. This car, devised in France and now being produced in the United States, is admirably designed to com- pete with the bus. It can carry 30 passengers, can attain a speed of 58 miles an hour and has an operating cost of only 15 cents a mile—as com- pared with 25 cents for the bus. Railroad officials who inspected it expressed keen interest. It is quite possible that a lot of the local pas- senger traffic lost to the motor bus in recent years might be regained with some such car as this. You are apt to hear a good deal more about it in the next few years. The Short Sellers The senate's investigation into the short-sellers of Wall Strect is bring- ing out some interesting facts, but it would be a mistake to put too much jemphasis on the disclosures. After all, it is perfectly obvious by this time that the depression was not caused by the malign influences of conscienceless stock market opera- tors who spread ruin by depressing stock prices below their normal levels. The causes go a whole lot \Geoper than that, and unfortunately there is no such simple remedy avail- able as a mere prohibition of short sales. In the main, declining stock prices have been a fairly accurate reflection of the state of industry’s general health. To try to blame the whole business on Wall Street schemers is {to delude one's self badly. 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. Secretary Mill’s Speech (New York Times) It may be objected that the ad- dress on our public finances which Secretary Mills made at the lunch- eon of The Associated Press yester- day contained nothing new. But this is really one of its high merits. It is not time for novelties or daring ex- periments in the handling of our great public deficit. The country does not need a “Napoleon of finance.” Poor Richard is the man for it just now. He would have heartily en- dorsed the two fundamental proposi- tions laid down by Secretary Mills. Our financial straits being what they are, we must retrench until it hurts, and pay new taxes until they hurt even more. Otherwise, as the secre- tary said, we should be facing a se- rious impairment of the credit of the government, along with an even deeper loss of confidence, and “in the end uncontrolled inflation and a sad day of reckoning.” These are homely truths, old as the to get away from them. that the secretary of the treasury utters them again, and it would be readiness to act upon them. It may things better in France, but they cer- tainly do in Great Britain. and heavier taxation has been cheer- tire kingdom. the American public. ¥ E darkest R35 ee troubled ge was likewise refusing to pay, thus let- But such is not the case. On what- ever grounds British policies may be subject to criticism, it cannot be said matters Great Britain has shown any disposition to escape her just obligations. The cur- rent budget was balanced in spite of {most distressing conditions, the Brit- {ism taxpayers assuming heavy bur- dens and doing it with a smile. Those who believe that Great Britain, by ig- noring debt payments in the forth- 20 |coming budget, is serving notice that {unless Germany continues to pay, the | British government will withhold fur- 09 | ther payments on her own debt, are The truth is just the contrary. Be- cause payments to Great Britain from 50}her debtors approximately balance her own payments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer does not need to in- clude these balancing items in the Omission of the figures was purposely done and is considered as a in view of the conference at which it is hoped the reparations question will be definitely settled. By this settlement should fail to provide receipts equal to her own payments to the Uni- ted States, by so much will a bal- ancing item be written into the Brit- ‘The rubber-tired, gasoline-powered hills, but there is no way for moderns It is well better still if congress showed greater not be the fact that they order these By an enormous effort, British governmen- tal expenditures have been cut down, fully borne, until the budget is bal- anced and a thrill not only of satis- faction, but of hope and impulse to enterprise, has run through the en- It is a similar goal which Secretary Mills places before Nor does he omit mention of the encouraging hours of the depression, never lost faith in the ability American nation to right it- financial waters, renewed assurance that ble to sail on stead- reckoning without the British peoples’ reputation for square dealing. It’sa Sad State of Affairs When W e Have to Catch Crooks This Way! | BAPFleD!!/ a\ CANT GETAWAY S\N Hii WITHOUT PAYING > a INCOME TAX ON — Gilbert Swan DRAMAS IN MINIATURE New York, May 2.—Almost each day of the year, an unusual little cere- monial and reception goes unnoticed at the docks and railway stations of New York, It happens so informally and quiet- ly that only the initiate could guess what was going on. A young woman steps from the ship or the train. She is met by an older woman, who greets her in friendly fashion. If you could listen in on the con- versation, as I have on one occasion or two, you would learn that after the first formalities of introduction, it went like this: “I'm sorry, dear, but you have made a mistake. It would be better that you went home. We do not believe you should marry that man. We have looked him up careful- ly. He is not a fit character.” There is the expected shock of dis- appointment, some tears secretly shed in a private room—and eventual resignation. On the other hand, there may be happier news and quick preparations follow for a wedding. What, you ask, is this all about? Well, some 300 young women from every section of the globe arrange to marry men they either do not know at all or have not seen in many years. Most of these are Europeans, who have been matched through agencies, relatives and friends, The Travelers’ Aid Society agents act for the pro- spective brides. They investigate the man in question. Last year they super- vised 267 such weddings. When the STICKERS Usinig the numbers from | to 25, can you place them in the above squares in such a way that every line of five squares, veteal horizontal and diagonal, will add to 65 LIKE AGES OF STaRO Can BE THEY GROW OLDER, RED IN YOUTH, “THEN YELLOW, THEN BLUE AND WHITE: STR SMALLER» VBE TOLD BY) <== THEIR COLOR, WHICH CHANGES AD | C= ea marriage proves inadvisable they ar- range to get the girl back to her home. xk Ox WANDERING BOYS Which reminds me that the great city is wakening suddenly to the problem of the boy alone in the big town. Every form of agency has func- tioned to look after girls who face Perils and pitfalls. But boys have been allowed to shift for themselves. It was figured that they could get along The gang era has changed this. Youths cast adrift now face dangers even greater than their sisters. Job- Jess and friendless, they are easily en- we're about to have “that Goombay tune,” otherwise known as “Bahama Mama.” And don’t ask me how you dance it. I can’t even rhumbal! * oe * DUNKING IN PUBLIC It remained for matzoth to make dunking official. Dunking has been one of the hearth-and-home luxuries. There the splash-as-splash-can rules might ob- tain. But in this season when unleavened bread becomes the historic and tra- ditional food of New York's Jewish listed by the scouts of the racketeer army. If they are good drivers, a job of chauffeur to beer trucks may come their way. After which they are further educated in the ways of rum running. The underworld always has jobs for the fellow willing to risk his liberty. And disheartened lads are among the best prospects. xe * HELLO GOOMBAY! Now it's the Goombay! And it may be good-bye rhumba, hello goombay! Blame the tourists! As many as could afford it took ex- cursion trips to the West Indies dur- | ing the winter months. They brought | back word of a fascinating rhythm to/ be heard in the islands off the Central American coast. Tin Pan Alley, with its ear to the ground for novelties, started a sleuth- ing excursion. They tracked down Charles Lofthouse, who had quite a bit to do with transplanting goobers for “The Peanut Vendor.” L. Wolfe Gilbert, song writer, hit out for the Carribean for a conference with Loft- house, who is a native of the islands, by the way. With the result that FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: be person doesn’t have to | gardener to spread the dirt. PND FINALLY BACK TO RED, Wi THE population, this notice appeared upon the menus of the Hotel New Yorker menus: “Matzoth toast specially pre- pared for dunking.” What I want now is coffee special- ly prepared for such emergencies as dunking is likely to create. 3 TODAY 8 AEE Yrvwe tt @ GERMANS LOSE GROUND | On May 2, 1918, French and British | troops on the Somme sector improved | their positions by a series of short attacks on ground recently taken from them by the Germans. German activity was confined prin- cipally to a heavy bombardment of BEGIN HERE TODAY SUSAN CAREY, pretty, an orphan, work: ERNEST HEATH, teet, She lives wit! who is exceedingly DUNBAR, he! itting his a . 7 her to marry him. but ske her to Dun! it Heath fret CHAPTER XXI ‘HE leaves turned and it was October again. In another month Susan would be 20. When she was busy she scarcely thought about the passage of time, but oc- casionally when she was tired or things had gone wrong she began to wonder whither she was drifting. It was all very well to be ambi- tious but where, after all, could she get with this particular job? She had no special flair for the work, She was faithful at routine but beyond that the business world, as Ray called it, disappointed her. Rose had the right idea, Susan would think as she passed down \dimira= JACK WARING, g takes Sasee for NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Child Labor Remains BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN (Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association) In 1904, the National Child Labor Committee was formed. It was found at that time thats 7,500 young boys were employed in glass works and that 60 per cent of these boys a | working at night every other week. Sixty thousand children under 14 years of age were employed in textile mills in the dusty atmosphere of the carding cotton and spinning rooms. Ten thousand boys under 14 years of ‘age were working in coal mines, some of them underground, others in the breakers where clouds of coal dust were breathed into their lungs. Recent figures indicate that almost. 1,000,000 children from 10 to 15 years of age were taken out of labor be- tween 1910 and 1920, but the end of ithe situation is not yet in sight. The present economic situation causes employers in some states to seek young people who can be hired at lower wages than are given to adults. Because of pressure at home, children are found on the streets selling candy and trinkets, and many of them are begging. In a recent address, Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania quoted cases in which adult workers were dis- charged and boys and girls put to work at from $4 to $7 per week. In the Bethune area, but the expected attack was not delivered. Allied observers declared that the German position was not nearly so favorable as at the time of the begin- ning of their first offensive in March. Forty-four Americans were killed when the liner Tyler was torpedoed off the coast of France. Es-Salt, in Asia Minor, was occu- pied by advancing English troops, fol- lowing another victory over the The Democratic party will win the next election only if it nominates the strongest, most outspoken and fearless leader who has the best economic mind to restore prosperity throughout the United States—Dudley Field Malone, attorney. % * * We are facing a crisis and we must meet it bravely. The government should do what men are doing in their private affairs, scale down salaries and all other expenses and do it without partisanship.—Congressman John McDuffie of Alabama, chairman, House economy committee. * ¥ # I entertain not the slightest doubt that a decade hence we will be stronger, as I hope we may also be wiser, than during the period preced- ing 1929, when we were living in a fool's paradise.—Dr. Abraham Flexner, director, Institute for Advanced Study. * * % | The Japanese are living under a| military machine which may bring much trouble upon them.—Professor Cyrus Peake of Columiba University. | Your Child’s Health Great Health Menace To Future Citizens Economic Pressure Forces Many Children Into “Dangerous” Occupations New York City, the Butcher Workers’ ‘Union reports that 1,000 boys are em- ployed in butcher shops not only de- livering orders but plucking fowls, Preparing meats and doing porter work. long hours and low pay. In this matter we are concerned There are, of ‘course, hundreds of thousands of children working on farms, many of them hired and kept under conditions of bad housing, ‘Already the number of AAS for mentally defective and hai : ped people is growing out of all me portion to the well population. 4 employment of hundreds of thou: sands of children placed under oak ditions which will stunt their growth nd thwart their mental develop: ment will mean a still further Lam den in the erection and serait ot gore ination once ot Governor 5 New York, emphasized in Tees sentence the dangers of Cr Li ployment in industry. He said, td know that the industrial openings young people ‘between 14 and 16 are in most cases blind alleys, Heat shops, demoralizing rather ae iB stimulating to children employe not so much with the economic situa- |them.” tion as with the effects on the health of these children of long hours of work, insufficient sleep, and exposure to cold, heat and above all danger- If the economic condi- tions of today force children into oc- cupations that are hazardous to their health, the country will pay 20 years from now for the evils that could ous dusts. have been prevented today. Puzzler HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle e aims of the Children’s tater ee ‘the ‘White House ls ence on Child Health and Lista is concerned particularly with Pe e question of child labor and says, “For every child—protection against labor that stunts growth, either physical or mental, that limits education, that deprives children of the right of comradeship and of play. on Canada 6 Signal system, 8 Boxes. 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That's that!” said De- nise. “Shopping is a horrid bore, isn’t-it?” She did not seem to re- quire an answer but chattered on in that high imperious voice. “I suppose you're in a bit of a rush. Do you mind if we stop right here? The tearoom’s not bad, really.” Not bad! Susan thought it the height of quiet luxury. She slipped into a chair at the candlelighted table feeling uncommonly shabby beside this other girl. Denise threw a silver fox scarf carelessly aside and took her vanity kit from a mammoth snake skin bag. “I look a wreck,” she pouted, ex- amining herself in the mirror, Su- san seized this opportunity to frankly estimate her rival. It was as her rival she always thought of Denise. Tho other girl's skin had a clear, gardenia-white texture. It was almost translucent. Her fine brows were delicately arched and her whole face wore customarily an expression of careless disdain. All her belongings, the fur, the bag, her wadded little gloves, breathed a@ scent that was elusive and piquant. Susan thought it was mi- mosa but wasn’t sure, eee SH felt tongue-tied and won- dered why she had come. Why the aisles of a big department store. Rose had chosen to work in a wom- an’s world. When she reached this stage in her reflections Susan was sometimes conscious of a sense of panic, She must succeed at work because there was nothing else for her! She must repay Aunt Jessie for all she had done. It was only fair. It was well enough for other girls to chat idly of marriage, but that was not for her. Since al could not have the one she wanted, she would not content herself with second best, Susan was passing the glove counter fn a State street shop one day at noon hour when she heard someone call her name. The girl on the low stool held out one per- fectly manicured hand and said, “Sorry it's the left but you see the other one is busy.” Susan saw. The saleswoman was fitting a faultless, fawn-colored glove. Denise Ackroyd regarded her shrewdly and as if on an im- pulse added, “Do have lunch with me. Won't you?” Susan was too surprised to think ot an excuse, The other girl or- hadn't she thought of an excuse? What did this girl want of her? Determinedly she brought her at- tention back to what Denise was saying. “So sorry to have broken up the party that day you and Bobby were lunching,” she said. Susan pre- tended not to remember. “Ob, well, then, {t doesn't mat- ter!” Denise said sweetly. “I thought there was a chance you might be taking him seriously and that would be bad.” “Would it? Why?” Susan's voice was grave. Denise laughed a silvery, little trickle of amusement. “Why? She asks me that.” She raised her eyes in mock amaze ment. “Surely you know bis repu- tation.” Susan dipped her spoon into the clear soup and fixed her candid gaze on the other girl, “I know very little about him,” quietly, “except that h and friendly.” “Oh, my dear, fs that all?” There was the faintest edge in Denise's tone now. “He's charming, that man. He's a lamb but you haye to know him through and through as I do to—well, to appreciate him. Dieasant the MOAN HUNTERS BY MABEL McELLIOTT We've practically been raised to-) gether,” she went on, “and his father, well, he’s an old darling, a) pet. His father has always ex- pected us to step off some day.” Susan did not reply. By some miracle she managed to keep her fingers steady. If this were only over, sho thought, wildly! If there were only some quiet, friendly cave into which she might creep and hide herself, safe forever from the sound of that clear, arrogant, tor- menting voice. But she was not to be let off so easily. Denise rippled on, “It's not settled, of course, ac- tually,” she said. “That is, we haven't named a date or anything like that, but—well, I don’t know. I think perhaps I'm too young to decide just now.” Susan managed a stiff-lipped smile. “I’m just 18 you know,” Denise pouted. “Of course I know most girls marry during their first sea- son but I can’t make up my mind.” Susan murmured something con- ©/932 BY NEA SERVICE INC. siven °* to her when she was g! uated from high school. At the time it had seemed perfect and de- irable. Now Susan thought it ypified all that was poor and mean ae hy. in her existence. She looked at the inoffensiv. poked ‘e watch and Denise misinterpreted her frown and said, “It’s all right it you have to rush. It must be poisonous to have to live on schedule but I sup- Dose you ~"* used to it.” Susan murmured, “Thanks for lunch. It’s been nice seeing you,” Denise stopped her. “Just one minute. I wanted to ask you if you'd come out next week-end.” eee gusan frankly stared. “The Strinskys are coming and that boy who's such a whiz at the iano, Your young man, I believe.” “Do you mean Ben? mine,” said Susan, for disclaiming him. “Ob, really? I thought that just one of those things, Well, it He's not hating herself ventional. Afterward she could not have told what her part in the con- versation had been. She longed only to escape from this bright, warm room and from her torturer. “Of course there is no question about Bobby's ideas on the subject,” said Denise, preening herself as naturally as a young peacock. She interrvpted herself for a moment to bow prettily to several elderly women in black, proceeding in state- ly fashion toward a corner table. “Dreadful old hens,” Denise mur- mured. “What was I saying?” eee Susan prompted her, automaton- like, “You said there was no question about Mr, Dunbar’s feel- ings.” . Denise smiled, diverted. “Do you honestly call him that? How fun- ny!” she trilled. “I thought—that is, I got the impression the other night you knew each other rather well.” Susan’s heart unaccountably Ughtened. So Robert had been speaking of her! This was balm. “He thinks,” continued Denise spitefully, “that you're smart, ‘That's what be said. At least that's all I remember, I don’t know how you happened to come into the con- said|versation, We were driving snd talking— just babbling on—you know how {t is—and he said that.” ‘Well, it~ :n’t much but it was something, glanced at the watch she wore bound to her wrist by a plain, leather strap. It was a clumsy, sturdy timepiece. Aunt Jessie had Susan decided. She} sy, doesn’t matter, He's com|; . Ing, any- as Soul. you manage ine 8 rom North me Sonar western Station Susan hesitated. fight she reviewed In one wild thing was ne marge Possible, course, There was no sense n tt i ‘Mummy's away,” Denise bab- led on, “or I wouldn't dare ask Sonia and Arnold, She calls them ty 200, but I do think they're fun.” ne seamed candid and innocent, ieee Suspicions were not “I'm afraid 1 ¥ the replied, wee ia ; Denise cut in Smoothly, aut ie say that Bobby » Of course,” sh ones thoughts veered. the fy naps was enormous. Just to nd m again, to touch his hand : hear his voice would be eaven. She wavered, ‘Do come,”. Denise (end you a time table, gO “Oh, 1 will be mit. “Tn fe'll prob- on to the club to bidhges fogies aren't Pedi h ie © as usual.” Susan considered. 2 lightning flash she decided, Tt might be her last chance ta ee Robert before ne led this hes , Srrogant, little beauty, Does Beg rsty man refuse water? Susan by, Tela and starved for a sight aa y+ She smiled at the other “I should lo ‘What Deni, : 9 suse she sald, ‘otives might be Eivepaade Rit guess, They didn't ed anyhow. The main thing “i she would see Bob Dun. (To Be Continued) Ny f 2