The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1932, Page 4

wOradtt spOotTAsY - The Bi Independent Newspa) THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSP. APER (Established 1873) ismarck Tribune Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as 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 Bis- marck) 7. Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dako! ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three FORTS coc csssvscscsconssscecess Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ......... ese Weekly by mail in Canada, per YOAr ..secsseeeee se eeeeeeeeeeee 2.00 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 In All Fairness ‘These are trying times for public officials. Naturally a people bur- dened with high taxes turn to them for relief. In the process these offi- cials are often blamed for a condition brought abou: by the people them- selves. editorial to relieve any public official of the pressing obligation placed upon his shoulders now of easing tax bur- dens where possible, but rather to| bravery. n|look ahead and plan as best we can, point out that the present situatiot is in part due to demands of the pub- lic for governmental services beyond the taxpayer's ability to pay. In the past bond issues have been endorsed at elections with resound- ing majorities. Service clubs, in white |Slves during recent years, and this! presence on the Pulitzer award list. heat of enthusiasm, have endorsed this or that public project and de- manded that county, school and city boards whip into line and make the levy. Now that pay day has arrived not all the blame can be shifted to public officials. To do so is unfair. Citi- zens generally, if they will study the tax situation in all its phases, will be slow to denounce public officials or to make them the goats of the pre- dicaments all governments now find they are in because people cannot meet the taxes which their past fol- lies have imposed. It is better tactics to cooperate with public officials in facing squarely the situation. Ranting against them or seeking to dig politcal graves strictly on the issue of tax reduction is not playing the game exactly according to fair rules. True, officials have been too pliant in the face of public demands for in- creased governmental services and our legislatures have been devoted to cre- ating pork barrel concessions to build up political machines, Times now call for constructive action, not destructive criticism. No good end is served by carping, censorious statements of what everyone knows to be the bitter truth. The candidate with a specific and definite program to correct the situa- tion is worthy of a hearing. Going into mouldy political graveyards and pawing over dead issues is so much Jost motion. Let the dead past bury its dead. There is no way out of the Present situation but to face it in a spirit of fair play and correct the ills if possible which have placed upon the shoulders of taxpayers and of everyone in fact, stupendous burdens. Cost of state, county and city gov- ernment can almost be halved with- out reducing necessary operations to; maintain the peace, health and safety of North Dakota. Politicians know that this can be done, but they won't face the music, for it means cutting | from the payrolls members of a great | and efficient machine who perform | No service except to political bosses. ‘The present state administration is an arch offender in this respect, as every- one knows. , Candidates who will go on the hust- ings and pledge reduction of govern- electrical industry shortly before his fatal illness, Edison said something like this: “Be courageous. Have confidence. I have lived a long time and have seen many periods of ad- versity but the nation always has risen from them stronger than be- fore.” These messages are intended for the man in the street, it is true, but they should be given special attention by the so-called men at the top. Our industrial, financial and political leaders should heed them, for it is they, rather than the average citizen, who needs to absorb the lesson. Bankers who cry out against hoard- 00 | ing when their own vaults are jammed with money; manufacturers who dream of the halcyon days when Profits rolled in and who have been loath to adjust their minds and their businesses to changed conditions; Politicians who have become so un- certain of the will of the people that they are afraid of it. eee And for an example of courage all of us might pattern after B. J. Bjerum of Brookings, S. D., a blind man. Wednesday, according to press dis- Patches, he saved the lives of his wife and three children by leading them from their burning home. With the aid of his wife he carried a little daughter to safety, then returned to get his two sons, eight and ten years old. Cut off from retreat by the door, he led them‘to the roof where one slid to safety on a sheet while Bjerum and the other leaped to the ground. There is a lesson for all of us in that leap in the dark. It was cour- age of the finest order. It was the willingness to sacrifice and the will to dare the unknown which he had learned through the bitter years a It is not the intent of this] blind man must experience. * # % In these times it is necessary that all of us copy after this sort of It is the part of wisdom to but there comes time when wisdom fails us; when the only thing left to us is the determination to hang on and fight the battle through. We have been too certain of our- applies particularly to our leadership. Many so-called big men got into the habit of applying certain formulae to certain problems and the results were ferent now. New conditions have created new problems, New solutions are needed. The old methods have not produced the desired results. We must look for other measures. In doing so our leaders should be careful not to depart from really sound principles, remembering, also, that there are times when a leap in the dark is not only an imperative necessity but good judgment. The Right Answer The particular brand of Republican- ism which Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota espouses may be a lit- tle obscure, but whatever it may be, the statesman from our neighboring state appears to be sound when he reduces the agricultural question to a choice of two courses. He said: “Farmers must reduce their production costs and standard of living and continue to sell in world markets at world prices or we must create an American price to maintain our higher level of living standards.” It is as simple as that. The ques- tion is which policy will the nation pursue and, if it chooses the latter, how can it go about the job to obtain real results? 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. =! Mr. Townley and His Cipher! (Minneapolis Tribune) It must be confessed that Mr. Townley’s idea of running $15,000,- 000,000 in five dollar bills off the gov- ernment printing presses is exceed- ingly attractive, so much, in fact, that it seems a pity he couldn't have per- mitted his imagination to run in that direction in a really worth while way. So far as we know, there is no law against adding an indefinite number of ciphers to a hypothetical sum of money, and the fact that Mr. Town- ley didn’t simply goes to show that he has no adequate conception what- soever of the tremendous potentiali- ties of the scheme that he has seized upon. mental costs, regardless of political | The country. of course, is never go- machinery, will get an audience and support at the polls this year. Those candidates, however, who justify pres- ent expenditures because of precedent and political necessity are due for a tude. awakening. Real Courage Every day, as we look about us, we can find splendid examples of the particular kind of courage which made this nation great; the will to win when everything seems black, the ing to get anywhere in the depres- sion if the tight-fisted and parsimo- nius Mr. Townley persists in hoarding his ciphers in ths manner. As mat- ters stand, that gentleman's mental printing presses are only running off about $125 for every man, woman and child in the United States and if he expects to return prosperity by such a niggardly experiment, we fear that he is doomed to disappointment. The fiat money idea, quite plainly, de- serves @ boldness, vision and breadth Irony, on Stage and Off New York, May 14.—Something of the irony and travesty that went into Morrie Ryskind’s dialogue in “Of Thee I sing’ may be found in his Morrie, aided by the ubiquitous George Kaufman, was studying the more ridiculous aspects of censorship in preparation for his next satiric rib-tickler when half a dozen Snoop- in advance, baby.” that he was “a prize ex # No wonder Morrie smiled! He had sneezed at censorship at the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia... He had been expelled for writing an editorial that met with official disap- proval . . . The editorial had cast barbs at war and at political follies... Years later he wrote “Strike Up the Band,” which kidded military mat- ters ... Then he collaborated on “Of Thee I Sing,” which kidded affairs of state and international involvements ... And was in the midst of a similar razzing of censorship... When the same Pulitzer brigade that had once handed him his hat handed him a medal! xe # Great, Together or Not A Funny, too: last year it was Mare Connelly, with “The Pastures,” and this year it's George Kaufman. Just a few years ago Broadway was betting that neither could write a play without the other. Ex-newspa- permen, graduated from the same of- fice, they had begun as collaborators. As such they had turned out “Beggar on Horseback” and other plays that attracted much attention. Divided they seemed to fall. Their split was a friendly one; merely a matter of author's disagreement. In solo roles, their output went flat for a time. Then each appeared bigger and better than ever. * * # Kaufman is tall, loose, wiry, dry humored . . . He has a “schnozzle” that gets almost as much columnistic STICKERS PBDEIIATDPTB Using the above 12 letters, see if you can make out four three-letter words that spell the same backward and for- ward, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1982 The Dog in the Manger! oy space as Jimmy Durante’s ... Has never outgrown his old newspaper haunts .. . Likes to sit around late at night in the Broadway sandwich shops swapping yarns with newspa- permen... Once got himself a hand- some workshop and study and then found it was too tony and quiet to work in... So a few hours later he was pounding a vintage typewriter in| @ newspaper city room where he was once drama editor . . . Doesn’t like to write in daytimes and gets most of his work done in the wee hours... Among actors is known as the quiet- est and kindest of directors ... He whispers stage directions between cig- arets, rather than shouting them out . +. Detests bunk and affectation and plays poker with the Algonquin crowd. ee ¥ Oh, yes—and Pearl Buck, whose “The Good Earth” was medaled for its sweep of scope and its grand style, satisfactory. But the situation is dif-]and-peeps tipped him off, some daysjrated almost minus in college Eng- lish . . . When this prize novel ap- pears in drama form, Nazimova will play O-Lan .. . Her husband, John L. Buck, also writes .. . Bui on such subjects as “Farm Economy”. .. AS head of the farm department in the University of Pekin, he gave her much valuable aid work. xe # % Another figure crashing into the news is Gigli, who found the Metro- politan’s depression not a bit too low for his voice . . . Insisting that, his singing is worth its weight in gold standard, Gigli recalls his years of struggle. A shoemaker'’s son in the Italian village of Recanti, he worked as helper to get his fare to Rome. There he became a butler, a clerk, and eventually a singer. ‘When fortune finally came his way, he built an elegant villa just outside FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: GiADYS “Parmer jowca As some girls sew, so shall they rip. ra — THIS CURIOUS WORLD NATURALISTS BELIEVED. tS Two FOR YEARS ‘THIS SHELISFISH USED £16 AGANCT HE | 4 A SPBBD OE FLAT ARMS AS SAILS 2 THEY MERELY HELD THE DETACHABLE SHELL ON. GET IN THERE AND Ear! I= 3 By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ‘Typhoid fever .is in many ways an index to the health of a community. ‘The control of typhoid depends on pure water, pure milk, pure food, Proper disposal of sewage, and the isolation of typhoid carriers. For 20 years, The Journal of the American Medical association has been publishing the typhoid fever mortality rates of our cities of over 100,000 population. During this time the rates have fallen so that today there is every indication that most large cities in this country have ade- quate control of sanitation. LOY did not have a single death from ty- Phoid in 1931, and Boston had only Five of 14 large New England cities it ‘ Daily Health News COMPLETE TYPHOID VICTORY FORECAST BY PROGRESS MADE fever in 1931. This is the second time that Utica has had this record. Buf- falo had less than one death for every 100,000 people. New York had a slight increase in deaths from typhoid fever in 1931, because of three small out- breaks whcih were traced to food handlers who were typhoid fever car- riers. The cities in the East North Cen- tral group led all others in their ty- phold averages, notwithstanding the fact that there were 31 deaths in Cleveland during the year; 20 of these were due to one outbreak in the state hospital for the insane. South Bend, Ind, has had two con- secutive years without a death, and seems reasonable to believe from dent death rate. There would have been 60,000 cases of disease with 6,000 deaths in alone during 1931 if the rates of 1890 still prevailed, the world will have some idea of what a tremendous ac- complishment this has been for sci- ence and for public health. All the rest of the country com- pares favorably with the cities that have been mentioned, except that New Orleans suffers with a high non-resi- were 65 deaths from typhoid in 1931 in New Orleans, but 48 of these cases were brought into the city from surround- ing territory. In Texas, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth had excellent rates, and are superior in this field to Dallas and El Paso. Ss On Zz the town of his fathers. It has 60 rooms and the only electric refrigera- tor in those parts. Townfolk make pilgrimages to this shrine of the home town boy who made good. gt TODAY VERSAR NEW SHIPS COMPLETED On May 14, 1918, it was announced that the first million tons of ships had been completed and delivered to the United States government under|- supervision of the shipping board. The number of ships delivered totaled about 160, more than half of which had been constructed since the first of that year. An agreement was made between allies and the United States provid- ing that all U. S. imports should first receive sanction of the war trade ‘board. Austrian troops renewed attacks on Monte Carno and advanced on the Italian lines at Dosso Casina. As if in retaliation, the Italian naval force loed and sank an Austrian dreadnaught in Pola harbor. > | Barbs | ° The Japanese government lost $20,- BEGIN HERE TODAY SUSAN CAREY, pretty falls in alvin with another rod an affair FLANNERY, CHAPTER XXXII days of late January. BY b fi secre with BOB DUN- Hi DE- NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY T was one of those sharp bitter Snow had fallen the day before and over night had changed into sleet. The Pavements were an icy menace along which taxicabs cautiously slid. At five o'clock Susan looked out and shivered, dreading the walk to the street car. For the past half hour she had noticed Mr. Heath fussing about in ais own office. There did not seem to be any particular reason for his lin- gering. She was putting on her hat when he appeared in the door- way. “Miss Carey, I have the car and it’s a wretched night. Let me drop you at’your home.” Surprise showed in the gffl's face. “Oh, that’s awfully kind of you but isn’t it out of your way?” “Not at all. 1 should be very happy to do it. Just one moment and I'll be with you.” They rode down in the elevator together, the girl, as always, more than a little shy with this maa. Simon, waiting in the sleet, sprang down to open the door for them. He tucked a thick, soft rug around Susan's knees. “Are you qiite comfortable? Susan said she was. She felt as warm as toast. “Good.” Her employer's voice was brisk and businesslike as ever, “I wanted especially to talk to you,” he went on, still in that quiet, impersonal way, The girl waited silently. She loved the luxury of this car, the rich robe under her fingers, She was quite unprepared for what was to follow. Abruptly the man blurted out, “You knew, didn't you, that Mre. one death for every 100,000 people. The typhoid fever death rates for New England states as a whole were the lowest ever recorded, except for the year 1928, Reading, Pa., and Utica, N. Y., did not have a single death from typhoid 000,000 on a single sale in its efforts to stabilize the price of silk, thereby proving that the nation is now 100 per cent westernized. x # Hoover told the governors that they must cut down expenses. Now it's their turn. * * # An American delegate has informed the disarmament conference that the United States doesn’t consider a bat- tleship an offensive weapon. Again proving that it depends on whose foot the shoe is. * * # Perhaps the stock market slump could be explained by stating that New York had such a mild winter the bears never were driven to cover. xe Another historian comes forward with the assertion that Columbus did not land at San Salvador. If the de- pression keeps up, we might decide the whole discovery was a mistake. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Women do not usually know a lot about national politics. But when women see men hungry everywhere . . then they know something is wrong.—Nellie Tayloe Ross, ex-gov- ernor of Wyoming. : xe * However regrettable it may be, the fact is that in mankind there is a well-established instinct to settle na- tional discord by force—Brigadier General Carlos E. Black, adjutant general, —_, * Roosevelt has betrayed a willingness to play upon the irritations, suspi- cions and bitterness of these trou- bled and unhappy times.—Thomas L. Chadbourne, self-styled progressive Democrat, New York. * e * Most women who have jobs arc forced to keep them to assist in sup- porting their families—Mary Eliza- beth Pidgeon, research chief, ee ment of Labor. 2In what region in Kentucky, are her famous thoroughbreds * raised? 11 Extraordinar- ily large man. 12 Regions, 14 One. 16 Flattish-topped [R hilt, 18 Mineral indus- try of Ken- tucky. 20 Particle. 21 Revoked. 47 To sin. '23 Article. 49 Slumberer: 24 Southwest. 52 Scarlet 25 Pronoun. 53 Gazelle. 26 Sorrowful. 28 Preposition. 29 Child. 30 Ancient. 32 Encountered, 56 Ratite bird. 35 Deadly 36 Proportion. of Kentucky /37 Onager 62"A.” 39 Your 63 Too. 40 To recede. 64 To simmer 41 Behold. 65 Hour 43 Aurora. 45 Inlet, Pt | ‘MABEL. McELLIOTT Heath's term of residence in Reno things will be over next week?” “No, 1 didn't know that.” Susan looked at him innocently. “Yes, That’s the way it is, I shall be free then.” “Yes, of course.” Susan didn't know what else to say. “I'm afraid I'm doing all this very badly,” Heath continued. He stared down at her, his thin, aristo- cratic features curiously illumined. “I want to ask you something im- portant.” ee grsan felt a surge of excitement. She sat quite still, waiting for him to go on. “QWould you think me quite mad it f asked you to be my wife when all this is over?” Now that the question lay be tween them Susan felt numb with astonishment. “I know I shouldn't have done it this way,” the man blundered on, “but I have been so distressed about the whole affair, so anxious to keep you out of ft, that the necessary preamble to a proposal of marriage had to be forgone. You don’t under- stand, do you?” “I'm afraid I don’t,” Susan ad- mitted. “What I mean is this, A young girl can and does expect the pre- liminaries of courtship. My position made them impossible but :an’t you won't you overlook them all and consider the matter in a reasonable light?” Was there ever, Susan wondered, so strange a proposal? The man’s manner was as quiet and business like as his phrases, He might have been discussing a raise in salary, She began to speak, but he stopped her. “Don't answer me now. You must have time to think about {t, natur- ally. I bave been thinking that ‘The Olympian’ sails on a Mediter- ranean cruise February 15. 1 could get reservations and arrange every- thing, aad we could be myrried in New York just before sailing. Your aunt—it is you. aunt, isn't itr— could come to New York with you. It would be all perfectly simple and we would avoid unpleasant pub- Ueity.” Susan felt a tightening in her throat, What an incredible pro- posalf “We—we scarcely know each other,” she stammered. Ernest Heath smiled. “I know enough about you,” he murmured, cursing himself for an inarticulate fellow, Why couldn't he tell this girl, as he longed to, that she rep- resented glamorous youtb to bim, @ chance to recapture bis own dreams? Why couldn't he say those ? : “I have grown very fond of you,” he told her instead. “The night I first realized it was the one when you called for my help. I am a lonely man. All this may mean nothing to you but as my wife you would naturally have an easy, agreeable existence. You have great beauty. In the proper set- ting you would be exquisite.” eee susan shivered, wishing he had not reminded her of that autumn night when, frantic with Jealousy and anger, she had run away from Bob. She would never be able to forget Bob—never! Then she caught her breath, thinking that perhaps the solution to her problem lay before her, Marriage with Ernest Heath would widen ther horizon. She would travel, meet new people, wear beautiful clothes. In all of this would there not, perhaps, be an anodyne for the fever which possessed her? “I feel greatly honored,” she murmured, “but I don’t know what to say.” “I didn’t expect you to give me an answer tonight,” he said. “I Meet hd think it over. I am al we been about it.” The look rie 2 she had become used to in the past few weeks clouded his face. Susan hastened to reassure him. “It's I who am clu id. stupid, too,” she ‘amended. She had the satisfaction of seeing that Fare smile lighten his features. Heath was thinking, “The girl has tact and, what is more, gra- clousness.” He had considered him- self a completely disillusioned man but there was something in Susan's freshness which delighted him and gave him hope for the future. What could be not do with this girl Hg Leg liked to think of in soft fine fabrics with pearls her throat, He would build her new home somewhere in the try where low hills lay. She should have a French house with fine, delf- cate furniture and velvet textured aRee “Let me think about it,” the girl was saying, her fine, soft eyes lum!- Tous. What color were they, Heath wondered? Gray or black or were they s lambent hazel? Some day, berbaps, he would really know, The car jolted around @ corner. In spite of Simon's careful driving the going was rough. The motion flung Susan almost into Heath's arms, and the fragrance of the bur- |den momentarily intoxicated hin, Kentucky Questions HORIZONTAL ” Answer to Previous Puzzle 46 Second note. 55 Land measures. ¢ peated, 57 Famous cave in Kentucky, now a national park. 34 One who frosts, 59 Important agri- 8 Southeast, cultural crop VERTICAL . 1 Principal city 19 Exclamation. dtu See an 21To soak flax. 22 Obstruction. 25 For what in- mous? 27 What day an- nually brings thousands of AIRIAY reir Clio tucky? eS 29 Beverage. 30 Grain. 31 Monday 33 Small flap. in Kentucky 38 Call for help. 2 Morsel. 40 Lug. 3 Minor note. 42 Largest wind 4 Below. instrument. 5 English college. 44 Laths. 45 To stupefy 7 Accented syl- lables of metri- cal feet. something. 48 Gypsy ma: 50 Repetition of sound. 51 House cats. 52 Bird. 54 Wine vessel, 56 Stomach. 57 Mother, 58 Oil (suffix). 60 To exist. 61 Either. 9 Bag. 10 Ignorant. 11 Cotton ma- chine. 13 Drunkard. 15 Forthwith. 17 Richer 8 . She righted herself, laughing, but & bright apricot stain colored the pure oval of her face and the man fell silent. He had not realized before how his heart was set on’ this marriage. een ‘TH took up the “You must have the man said again after pause, “It is nothing to day or temorrow. Only. me waiting too long! very patient man.” He turned to smile at her. slim fngers, lying curled on on Sor found themselves held fast, b pat ‘usually, Ernest Heath repeated. “But I ae ae TI can wait for my, ri.” g 3 g z ri lgt Eis gat ane E ie explain, Luck was with her. nes bidders hand at ipping aside her heavy giove he turned the palm upwards grave ly, deliberately kissed rae ‘ou darling,” night Ai dustry is Ken- tucky world-fa- visitors to Kene 46 To strain after MEA StAVICE HC. /