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

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1982 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) 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. 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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEWYORK BOSTON Faces an Angry West | President Hoover will come to Des Moines in a few days to defend his farm and tariff policies. Unless he begs the issue, he must discuss both. To neglect one would be to give but half an accounting of his steward- ship. He will face an angry west, stirred to revolt over economic con- ditions. How he proposes to change public sentiment will be awaited with more than passing interest. Another president, William Howard Taft, made a memorable trip west in 1940 to appease the farmers who were off the Republican reservation be- cause of certain features of the Payne- Aldrich tariff. He came, it will be recalled, to the aid of James Tawney, cobgressman from the first Minnesota the 1910 by-elections, the Republicans ace in the house organization, watch- dog of the treasury, Republican whip and a big party leader. He supported Taft's policies then none too popular in the middle west. Tawney had stood by the organization in forcing through the Payne-Aldrich tariff measure, | some schedules of which were being bitterly attacked. He was in a bad way politically and went down to de- feat in the 1910 elections. President Taft selected Winona, Minn., home of Mr. Tawney, to make his. famous speech which at once be- came a target for the Democrats, In the 1910, by elections, the Republicans Jost control of the house and Champ Clark became speaker. In 1930 Hoo- ver policies, combined with certain economic conditions, lost the Repub- licans control of the lower branch of | congress and elevated John Garner to} &@ commanding position in the leader- ship of his party. Will President Hoover's Des Moines speech be as disastrous as Taft's Wi- nona utterances? There is some} analogy between the position of Taft in 1910 and Hoover in 1932. Will po- litical history repeat itself? Where Will They Turn? Under what party label will the so- called Progressives ultimately work out their salvation? That is an in- teresting political development now in} Progress. i Until the Republican party is purged | of discordant elements. it cannot function as a conservative force in} the handling of public issues. This Party grew out of the issues of slavery and the handling of the tariff. It stood for strongly centralized federal government as against the state rights and free trade convictions of the Democratic party. Great economic changes have been | Wrought over the face of our land! since these parties came into being. | Both of them have discarded many{ original fundamental principles which Were once considered paramount is-! sues in every campaign. Today, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is asking the voters to discard party lines and support him in a great movement to revamp governmental Policies along more liberal lines. Sen- ator Norris of Nebraska, who opposes Hoover, is writing articles trying to Prove that he is a better Republican than President Hoover. Others, Re- publican in name at least, are sup- Porting Roosevelt openly. Senator} Hiram Johnson, implacable foe of Hoover, is doing what he can to bring about defeat of the administration whose party label he bears. Here in this state William Lemke, Republican | campaigner, is telling the voters that Hoover is smaller than the Republican Party and Roosevelt greater than his Party, so he is for Roosevelt. Instances such as these can be mul- tiplied which show that the voters of the United States are gravitating into |Gangerous doctrine. great groups, Liberals and Conserva- tives. As has been pointed out in these columns, the Wisconsin election was lost to the LaFollette machine on two well-defined counts. First upon the issue of tax reduction and second be- cause many Liberals to whom the jlabel Republican has become an- athema decided to move over into the Democratic column. Ostensible alle- giance only to the Republican party given by the LaFollette machine has proved to be one element in its un- .20 | doing. ! Voters evidently are becoming more discriminating. The situation in the Republican party is as a house di- vided against itself. Politically the condition has become illogical if not preposterous. Also it is getting the voters nowhere. They are now mov- ing away from candidates who have nothing more to offer than did the LaFollette machine. So it is a ques- tion now where these Liberals will go. Many of them, of course, will enroll under Democratic standards. The extremists, if logical, will support Nor- man Thomas who is honestly for abolition of the capitalistic regime and the creation of a pure Socialistic form of government. In an address Sunday in the Wis- jconsin state university field house, Mr. Thomas, Socialist candidate for | President, issued an appeal for the Liberal forces in both the Republican and Democratic party to come over |into the Soclalistic ranks where they would be happy as well as consistent. Socialists expect to roll up a heavy vote in this presidential election. But they may be disappointed, because po- litical extremists in both Democratic and Republican parties have been able to put into force many Socialistic principles of government under their own party labels. Under President Hoover, the federal government was never more in busi- ness. It runs steamship lines, rail- roads, truck lines, grocery stores, res- taurants, barber shops, and even the navy has dairy farms to supply milk to the department. One speaker, de- nouncing the trend of government in business, declared that some day an enterprising admiral will add a few hogs to the naval dairy farms and we will have @ federal sausage factory. That is not an extreme statement at all. The Republican party, despite its great boast of opposition to gov- ernment ownership, has plunged more deeply into competition with private industry than any other in the his- tory of the republic. Thus there are political inconsist- encies and incongruities which stu- dents declare will change the party alignments radically as a result of the 1932 elections. Party fealty has all but gone by the boards. 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. Roosevelt on Utilities (New York World-Telegram) Roosevelt as a campaigner is pick- ing up. He is getting away from easy generalizations and the usual hokum and is becoming specific in his pledges. After his vague addresses on tariff and farm relief he got down to a defi- nite program in his splendid railroad speech. Now he has followed that with an expert and effective discus- sion at Portland of vitally needed re- forms in the power industry. Few single economic issues are more important than this. And Governor Roosevelt, in line with his record in Albany, comes out on the liberal side, in sharp contrast to the reactionary Hoover policy, In brief, the Roosevelt program calls for:— Full publicity for utility financing and interlocking relations; substitu- tion of the prudent investment basis for rate valuation in place of the re- production cost theory, and regula- tion of security issues on this new basis; regulation of holding companies by the federal power commission, and the use of public ownership, produc- | tion and transmission as a yardstick | and a club over competing private in- dustry—such federal clubs to include the St. Lawrence, Muscle Shoals, Boulder Dam and Columbia river project:. H In their studied attempt to brand | Governor Roosevelt as a radical, doubtless the Republican campaign managers will hit upon his speech as Of course it is nothing of the kind. It is not radical. It does not propose general govern- ment ownership and operation. It asks only enough government regula- tion and operation to prevent private industry from committing hari-kari. In that sense it is intelligent conserv- atism. For, unless the Roosevelt type of Program can be put into action very Soon, it is apparent that the utility industry, in its greed and blindness, will kill itself. The Insull monstrosity which wrecked so many small investors, the organized effort of the power industry to poison public opinian through the schools and the press, the industry's effort to block representative govern- ment and to control politics, the in- dustry’s evasion of effective state regulation and defiance of federal regulation and the attempt to stick the public with the highest rates the traffic will bear on the basis of wa- tered stock, inflated values, disguised Profits and the holding company Private industry in its present hands can be depended upon to force whole- sale government operation, strained by some such plan as nor Roosevelt offers. ‘When Governor Roosevelt says:—"I favor giving the people this right (of government operation) where and when it is essential to protect them inefficient service or exorbi- Gover- racket—all these indicate that this |p! The Healing Properties of Oil RUSSJAP By William hone, envelope is enclosed. Let UR OWN INFERIORITY COMPLEX Since the politicians and their car- toonists began representing the pro- Posals or policies of the other party as “nostrums” not so many old cus- tomers continue to take Doctor Fuss- budget’s Lung, Liver and Nerve Tonic. The politicians and cartoonists are only partly responsible for this chang- ing custom. The diet charlatans, self- styled food specialists, have contrib- uted toward the change. One of these modern sharps has only to lay down a menu and assure the customers that it is good for high blood pressure, acidosis, indigestion, nervous exhaus- tion, bad tecth and flat feet; if he is careful to be quite arbitrary about excluding or allowing certain items, customers are convinced he is a wizard. If he has the gall to call himself “Doctor” it never occurs to the gullible public to inquire where or how he got the title. For several years I have been sorely afflicted with an inferiority complex. I believe a great many plodding prac- titioners are similarly afflicted, but I speak now only for myself. I said in- feriority—not superiority, as some of our readers would think more in char- acter. This inferiority complex has cramped my efforts to enlighten the public. The acidosis concept has kept me much at sea. Repeatedly I have sailed in with the intention of smash- ing the acidosis bogey to smithereens, but always at the critical moment up bobs the old inferiority complex to soften my blow, and I retire in a fluster, leaving the bogey still palpi- tating. Acidosis was invented not more than 15 or 20 years ago. At the time it was introduced as a working hy- pothesis I was so blamed busy trying to play the dual role of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde (Jekyl in practice, Hyde in press) that I failed to grasp all the fine points of the new idea. Oh, we had recognized what was formerly called “acid intoxication” as a fea- ture of various maladies long years before the term “acidosis” was in- vented. But the thing that eluded me was that the new acidosis seemed as common as bad teeth and exotic healers were discerning more or less acidosis at the bottom of nearly all complaints, real or imaginary, and what was more, these aggressive bunk merchants were ascribing acidosis to all diets but their own. Besides, one heard vaguely of prominent quacks ithin the ranks of regular medicine who were plying a good trade in anti- acidosis diet lists, All this contributed to my self-accusation. How come, I asked myself, that all these near-doc- tors know so much about this acidosis business, while I can’t find out any- thing about it to speak of? I began @ painstaking research of the medical literature, and even made excursions far outside of the ordinary bounds of scientific publications, but with little luck, Finally I had to gather the out- put of the charlatans who were ex- ploiting acidosis and analyze it, and then I discovered it was the bunk, and | the inferiority complex no longer im- Peded me. Now I wish to give this positive as- surance to everybody: Acidosis never happens when the choice of food is not unnaturally restricted—say by famine, imprisonment or ill-advised “dieting.” So we well folk should for- get all about acidosis and leave it to the doctor to worry about when it develops in the course of some grave illness. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS So Was David Copperfield Friend's baby wes born with a veil, according to the nurse .. .—(Mrs. R. 8.) Answer—All the myths associated with the happening are just myths. Can't give a clear explanation of it here, but if you will send a stamped = 7 | 3% TORay AN To; an BRITISH AIR DEEDS On Sept. 28, 1918, it was revealed that British war pilots had shot down 383 German airplanes on the western front during the first 27 days of the month. German troops, in a determined counter-attack, were repulsed by American forces north of Dannevoux. French forces were successful in tak- ing Fort Malmaison, southeast of | ® Laon, and ad) in Champagne. ivancing Belgian and British troops, welded | . into a compact unit, attacked on a 10-mile front in Flanders, and ad- vanced more than three and a half miles from Dixmude to a point north of Ypres. ro If you ever hear me say I am going to give up my agnosticism, you can consider me a fit subject for the psy- chopathic hospital.—Clarence Darrow, famed Chicago attorney and agnostic. es *# & The only thing to which a racket can be compared accurately is that equally revolting and deadly thing— @ cancer. It is eating its way into the tissues of our industrial and com- mercial lfe—Gordon L. Hofstetter, director, Employers’ Association of Chicago. * * * Judging from the orders, the out- look for the richest world series in bright, even in this year of depression.| Fillmore and Theodore Roosevelt— —Edward Grant Barrow, business manager of the New York Yankees. P ee I think we have been as successful, without an independent party, as the labor movement in England has been with its own party.—William Green, eo American Federation of La- * oe * Faced with new economic condi- tions, the American farmer must turn his attention to reduction of produc- tion costs for, after all, his profits are to be found in the margin between Production cost and selling price— Horace Bowker, president, American | PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, wiil be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. i Brady, M. D. tters should be brief and written in dently leave the decision entirely to the doctor's judgment. Canned Shell Fish | Do you consider canned crab meat | and canned lobster safe to eat, after) it has been stored in a lakeside camp all winter and probably been frozen? —(E. H. R.) Answer—Yes. Freezing makes no difference, so long as the food looks, smells and tastes all right. | (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) 1 | | WHY IT’S ‘FOLLYWOOD’ | New York, Sept. 28.—Small wonder | the pen name of John Riddell. film appears afterward under the title: “Hot Pepper” or “Paprika Love” or something of the sort. For an entire winter, crowds went to “Cynara” because word has gone round that it was a good play. They were much the same people as attend the movies. And if they didn't know what the title referred to when they went in, they had a pretty good no- tion by the time they exited. ee One of the current prize items con- cerns Corey Ford, writer of comic and satiric copy. For years he has used The tale goes that shortly after he arrived in Hollywood came notice that a cer- tain concern was interested in “John Riddell” and wanted to sign him. * * Oe FILMING FOOTBALL Then there are mumblings about the possible fate of “Rackety Rax.” This was a short story written in a key of high satire, burlesque and slap- stick. Joel Sayre, the author, had mixed up in his plot travesties on commercialism in college athletics and racketeering. A famed booze-run- ning gang type is pictured as getting control of a college football team. A rival steps in. The big scene comes off in the most farcical fashion, with tough underworld eggs fighting it out, and finally machine guns sniping from the grandstands. Yet, comes the information, a movie concern has hired two squads of all- star football players and a couple of that they often refer to the film capi- tal as Follywood. Almost daily some new and odd; yarn drifts back to Broadway con- cerning the odd and inexplicable be- | havior of the movie moguls. Take, for | instance, the case of the stage hit, “Cynara.” Title and drama were pur- | chased for a huge price by one of the} cinema outfits. Now comes a note that a new title will be attached, The | alibi is that theater-goers will not/ know what “Cynara” means and may think it refers to the second cousin to | the prince of Abyssinia, or something. | It isn’t unlikely that a couple of the | Hollywood domos were equally per- | plexed. * * * | Why, one is inclined to ask, do the movie concerns pay large prices for | title they never use? They purchase | prize plays and best sellers and a| celebrated coaches for this picture. One asks: What for? Obviously, if the story is followed, the players should be almost Keystone comedy types and there should not be a seri- ous moment in the burlesque. I may be wrong—but it wouldn't be surprising if this gay and funny tale were completely twisted about. ee ® Which raises the question again— why do they buy the story in the first place? Why don’t they have a good re-write man sit dewn and turn out what they want? What, for instance, has the cinema done to “Strange Interlude”? Why was the title “The Way of All Flesh” taken from a classic at a record price only to be slapped on a box-office bet? Why are the best and most famed writers and playmakers hired at fabulous salaries only to be kept under the cinema thumbs or given nothing to do? HORIZONTAL Edge ofs ERICA] 4 Paul von — eVUNICEL is president IRIE IP ID of Germany? (MAISIS] 3 Wasted away 20 To peruse. 21 Cookery nouns. formulas. 41 Dangers. 23Halfanem. 43 The heart is 24 Capital of a— pump? 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VERTICAL 41 Father. 42 Fence stairs (ph). 44 Bone. 45To show amusement. 46 Trap. 48 Cuckoopint. 50 Pretty. 52 Japanese fish, 53 Sty. 56 Mountain. _ 57 Right. 1 Bees’ homes, 2 Makes into a law. 3 To interpose. 5 Same as 55 horizontal. 6 Neither. 7 Desiccates. 8 English school. 9 Insect's ege. the history of the event is more than The Agricultural Chemical compeny. ————$___—_—_—_—_—+ | Barbs | —_———« The ghostly spfrits of @ California Indian tribe are known as “ikxare- yavs” and kitaxrihars.” It sounds a teed bit like a Notre Dame back- fiel ek Ok In view of Gandhi's hunger strike, it might almost be said that the man is a fast worker. * * Don’t worry if your name is not in the new “Who's Who.” Neither is Babe Ruth's, ne If your altha mater loses an impor- tant football game this year, you will at least have no trouble finding an excuse. It probably will be the federal farm board's fault. sem People who have become tired of cutting grass all summer can enjoy a little variation now by raking leaves. * Oe OK We do not remember the name of the man who discovered the elephant, but the cartoonists seem to have copyrighted the animal. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) Three presidents of the United States— Martin Van Buren, Millard) STICKERS A patty consisted of 1 grandfather, 1 andmother, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 Saker, 3 grandchildren, 1 brother, 2 sisters, 2 sons, 2 daughters, | father-in- law and | mother-inlaw. There were only seven persons present. Can you figure how this was possible? | Lena, Let’s take all the megaphones away from the crooners and give them to the cheer leaders. —_— COPYRISHT 1951,BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE (2, INC. om’ DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC. SYNOPSIS Bob Harkness, a respected ranch- er in the Mexican border town of Verdi, is “El Coyote,” the masked bandit and bitter enemy of Paco Morales, self-appointed ruler of the border country. “El Coyote’s” iden- tity is known only to Ann Reed, an entertainer at a notorious resort. She is in love with him and acts as his spy. “El Coyote” wreaks venge- ance on Morales for his unjust treet- ment of the ranchers. There is a high price on “El Coyote’s” head, but all search has proved futile. Bob’s foreman and friend, Ted Rad- cliffe, in in love with Adela, the Spaniard’s beautiful niece. Jito, Mo- rales’ ward, is jealous of Ted. Major Blount of the U. S. Cavalry sum- mons Bob and Ted to his headquar- ters to hear one of “El Coyote's” lieutenants reveal his identity. Bob goes outside. Two shots ring out. Bob returns and, shortly after, the informer is carried in, mortally wounded. He dies without a word. On the way home, Bob collapses from a wound in his side. Ted real- izes the truth. Bob sends for Ann. Against Bob's wishes, Ted calls in Dr. Price and swears him to secrecy. ‘Under Ann's and Ted’s care, Bob recovers. He tells Ted that he be- came “El Coyote” years ago when Morales tried to ruin him. Morales calls on Ann and asks her who the bandit is. CHAPTER XLI “Is it true, then, as I have heard, that El Coyote might even destroy this power and wealth of yours?” “It is conceivable. Why should I deny it?) Meanwhile, he hampers me. He annoys me. He has killed some of my young men.” “And you think I know who he i “I know nothing. I merely ask. At best I trust you may find out. You see, sefiorita, men come here who know many things. And these things men will tell when wine runs through their blood, and a pretty woman smiles in a certain manner and at a certain time. We know that members of the killer's band come here, Perhaps he too comes. Bueno. You are quite beautiful, you know the game of life, and if I myself, who have lived many years, am not in- sensible to your charm, ought it be difficult to get these desert rats to talk—if you choose?” She seemed to consider. At last, “It might be done. Meanwhile, tell me what you know and what you suspect. Tell me everything that may help me. First, is he a Mexican, this Coyote?” “I doubt it. I have fair reason to doubt it.” “Do you suspect who he is?” “If I do, sefiorita, those suspi- cions could not help you greatly.” “Where is he most likely to be found?” The Spaniard shrugged. “He may live out in the foothills and never come into Verdi. He may live in Verdi itself. He may"—and here a shadowy smile crept over the man’s face—“he may, let us say, be @ rancher living somewhere near Ver- di.” It was as if a cold hand clutched her heart. “And if he is an Ameri- can, what will you do?” “I shall have him shot. His na- tionality—what difference? Certainly I shall never trust him to your slow, unpredictable Yankee justice, where’ anything might happen.” Paco Mo- rales rose and walked the length of “the room, “There is one thing more,” he added, “and in this, too I shall have need of you. With your beauty it should be an easy thing. “There is a man staying with the rancher they call Don Bob. Hardly more than a boy he is, but very strong and very big, and, I regret to say, very attractive to your undis- criminating sex. His name is Sefior Radcliffe. My niece, who knows lit- tle of men, is, I think, about to love) this American. Only the good God knows the way vf women, A» for me, I should rather see her dead.” “Why?” “When you are ready I might even let my niece see with her own eyes what kind of a man she cares for,” said Morales. world, He is not my choice. I could not die in peace knowing that all my fathers have built up should fall to his ‘gringo hands.” His hands twitched as he lighted a cigarette. For a time the girl’s eyes seemed to ponder what he had said. She frowned, “When one is 80 powerful as Paco Morales, what need is there to ask a woman to rid him of a lone man?” Morales nodded. “Si, I, too, had thought of that. At any time within a day I could say the word that would cause Sefior Radcliffe to dise appear. But that would not kill my niece's love, and it is her love of him I hate—not this miserable boy. I want that she will turn again to the ald Spanish ways and to me. I would have her hate him.” “And you want him entangled— with me.” Her low voice had grown languid. “Seforita, you are direct and, as I say, intelligent. I leave you to set the stage. When you are ready I might even let my niece see with her own eyes what kind of man she cares for. It is not a new trap—but ef- fective, no? And so much more subtle than killing.” Again he smiled, “Have I not said I, too, am an artist?” “In the meantime”—he reached for his wallet and drew out five one- hundred-dollar bills — “this may make fast our alliance. And remem- ber, this is nothing.” He rose and his voice tightened with intensity, “Today an opportu- nity comes to you, sefiorita. Perhaps it comes but once. You have Paco Morales’s word that I shall give you twenty times this, and I shall say the word that will open doors to'a career you may never have dreamed about. Here on the border I am well served, but at the present mo- ment I have need of you. Do what I ask and you will never regret. They tell me you know the value of silence. It is a golden knowledge.” He stood over her, watching the slanting sunlight that poured in through the window and touched her ivory shoulder and blue-black hair, Then, as before, his eyes brightened. For a moment they were the eyes of an artist, looking at some rarely beautiful handiwork. He bene down and ‘his straight lips pressed the skin of her shoulder. “Yes, you are very lovely.” His hand for a fugitive second rested on her hair. “Serve me and I may have still fuurther gifts to offer you, for world. Perhaps—who knows—you may be my last masterpiece, just as, in their way, my niece and Jito are my masterpieces. But you are wiser, I think, than either of these.” At the door he bowed, “When you want me, send word, and I shall come. And one thing more—intelli- gent people do not Paco Morales, Adi For a time, for a long time after his footsteps had died down the long hall, she sat in silent contemplation. The morning sun was burnishing the velvet blackness of her hair. Lightly she shrugged the jade kimono back from one white shoulder, She smiled into the half-closed eyes mirrored before her. “Men are such fools,” she told those calm, incurious eyes. Verdi, hearing of Don Bob's strained back, had expressed polite regret, and went on busily with more important things. Meanwhile, after a fretful week, Don Bob limped out to the porch and spent his time rolling cigarettes and gazing over the desert. Twice at sunset Manuel rode up and the two talked in undertones for an hour. And always after these half-whis- pered conversations, Don Bob re- mained silent and preoccupied. So it was Adela and Aunt Clara found him toward the end of a suhny afternoon. “Men,” said Aunt Clara, singling out the most comfortable chair, “make such interesting invalids. They become really helplessly hu- man at that time.” “Don’t let your maternal instincts ‘overcome you,” Bob cautioned. “I’m well enough now to think about rid- ing out to the range tomorrow, Ted's been carrying on the ranch single- handed, How’s the major?” “Very wrathy, but still playing the faithful bloodhound on El Coyote’s trail, Always sniffing out impossible clues. Yesterday he brought in a lone sheep herder. Good Lord, even an army officer should have knows the fellow couldn't have been a ban- dit chief, They frightened him out of eleven years’ living, got no infor- mation, and finally realized they were up the wrong tree. When I sug- gested that they round up the waiters over at Mendoza’s or stop the Pull- man porters on their way through, the major got abusive. Told me he believed . didn’t want the Coyote caught, ana I admitted in my light- hearted fashion that I certainly didn't After *hat, deep silence gath- I should like to sce that lovely body | ered about our family hearth. Today richly clad, and 1 should like to\see'he has indigestion” “Why? secause he is not of my!;ou triumphant in this difficult (Teo Be Con.'3u0d) ery ne aye a