The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1932, Page 4

, @ An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSP. APER (Established 1873) ———_———$—$—$ Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D. and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subseription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year........37.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ............ 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On the contrary, public attention is invariably centered on the pro- nouncements of those just coming into office, which usually represent hopes and aspirations rather than expressions of hard fact. Illustration of the fact is to be had in the relative amounts of at- tention given the final report of an outgoing governor and the inaugural address of his successor, but the thing which brings the principle to mind now is the publication in book form of the biennial report of Attor- ney General James Morris. After four years in an important State office Morris recommends first of all that the state create no new crimes, asserting that the statutes already list more crimes than can be Properly enforced. Few of us think of crimes as things ‘which may be created by law, yet the fact remains that many things which ‘were not crimes a few years ago are such today, possibly because general statutes were enacted to cover isolat- ed abuses. He urges abolition of the state licensing department, returning the administration of the items coming under its jurisdiction to local author- ities on the theory that the attor- ney general should not be made either a police officer or a tax col- lector. Recommendation that pardon board meetings be held in March and August is based on the need for giving the out-going prisoner the best possible opportunity to establish himself. If released in December or June, as at present, the paroled man finds it difficult to get work and has trouble getting along, Morris says. The observation seems sound. If there is any choice as to the time Of releasing a prisoner it should be ‘that period at which he has the best opportunity to make good. Simplification of the law govern- ing indictments and informations ‘would, Morris believes, create no dan- ger to the security of innocent per- sons and prevent many guilty per- sons from going free because of technical defects in the indictment or information under which they ‘were charged. He takes the view that justice should be administered as quickly and cheaply as possible and that a man’s guilt or innocence should be the controlling facto? in determining whether he should be punished for crime. The point of the whole business is that these suggestions are based on such drastic treatment. They just don't know any better. Nothing can be more aggravating or conducive to heat under the col- lay than a stinging slap across the eyes or cheek by the tail of a re- calcitrant cow, bent on proving the theory that the devil actually does inhabit animal bodies as the ancients believed. Under such circumstances a cow- tail holder is a boon, indeed, no mat- ter how big a laugh it gives those folks whose whole experience with milk is based on the theory that it comes from a bottle. (he Bismarck Tribune|¥ the kind of critters which need | The Church at Valley Forge America’s churches are now facing @ Valley Forge of their own, accord- ing to the National Council of the Churches of Christ in America, rep- resenting a majority of the Protest- ant denominations. In annual convention at Indian- polis, the council’s commission on evangelism asserts that this is no; time for the churches to rest “in the chill of winter amid dire dread of | what the future may bring.” Purther it declares that “It is time the evangelistic emphasis should be at the front as the guide and dynam- ic of all social and economic move- | ments. “The night of the world is the day} of the church and the darker the night of the world the brighter the day of | the church.” | There can be no question about the need for economic and social evangel- lism and few will dispute the theory that the church should be in the fore- front of all such advancements. Its primary mission may be to lead souls to salvation but there are some secu- lar jobs in which it clearly has a part. The problem, however, is to make effective church participation in non- ecclesiastical affairs. No one doubts that application of the doctrines preached would improve the general situation. The difficlilty is in getting them put into practice. The way of the transgressor may be hard, but from a worldly standpoint it is no more difficult than the lot of many evangels whose calls for better things are lost in a wilderness of cynicism, selfishness, unbelief or in- difference. If that wilderness is to be elimin- ated, faith, hope, justice and confi- dence must be reared as standards to which all may adhere. Presumably the aim of the church is to lead the way toward that condition. Realiza- tion is, to say the least, a man-sized Job. 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 polictes, Farm Income The department of agriculture esti- $5,240,000,000. This compares with $11,950,000,000 so recently as 1929. In three years farm income has fallen 56 per cent. No further evidence is tions confronting American agricul- ture, or to suggest the difficulties in the way of industrial recovery when the purchasing power of one-fourth of the country’s population has been reduced by nearly seven billion dol- lars. Two measures have been employ-| ed since 1929 in an attempt to check! the swift decline. tariff, the farmer has been given a market. Simultaneously, an attempt! has been made by the federal gov- ernment to “peg” the prices of farm products. This effort has been dis- continued recently, but not before | several hundred million dollars was| spent to take surplus wheat and cot- ton off the market. As the depart- ment of agriculture’s figures show, neither this “stabilization” program nor the protection afforded by the Hawley-Smoot tariff has averted a, catastrophic decline in profits. This} is because prices of most farm staples | are established in world markets and world stocks have been steadily ac- cumulating. A report published re- cently by the Economic Intelligence Service of the League of Nations in- dicates that between 1925 and 1931 stocks of cotton increased by 90 per experience. If they are ignored, as they usually are, the new officeholder Tepeats the experience over a period of time and probably, at such time as he may leave office, renews the recommendations of his predecessor. In the case of those state officials cent and those of wheat by 114 per cent. In the face of enormous sur- pluses in world markets the fed-| eral farm board attempted to lift) prices by absorbing a comparatively small domestic surplus, and Repub- lican statesmen continued hopefully to insist that a high protective tariff is “the very basis of safety” for the American farmer. : Experience suggests that a more Promising solution of the problem would be provided by reversing the method of approach. American ag- riculture needs foreign outlets for its surplus, in countries which are not driven by force of circumstances either to curtail their imports from us in order to avoid purchasing ex- change at @ heavy cost, or to stimu- late domestic production of farm products by means of subsidies and bounties in order to liberate them- selves from dependence on our out- put. To obtain such outlets requires reconsideration of American policy Tegarding both tariffs and intergov- and favorite sport of thieves, is soon to become very unpopular. A device has been invented that grabs the THIS mates that American farmers will! things around the leg or around the receive in 1932 a gross income of| Waist. needed to indicate the serious ques-| Stockings, not cotton. tions. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease Wiagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming: to instruc- Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. IS THE SEASON OF COLD FEET é In young persons cold clammy feet often indicate hypothyroidism or in- sufficient Whether or not there is a suggestion of goiter or of physical and mental torpor or lassitude, such young per-| sons need a suitable iodin ration. I am glad to instruct any reader who wishes to take an iodin ration; inclose | stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress and ask for instructions for tak- ing Iodin Ration. thyroid gland activity. Where the trouble is due to exces- sive sweating of the feet, the sweating may be controlled by occasional ap- plication to the stocking feet or to the lining of the shoes of a solution of one ounce of standard Formaldehyde in three or four ounces of water. Let stockings or shoes so treated dry for a day or two before you wear them. A treatment once or twice a month is usually enough. Another remedy is dusting the insides of shoes or stock- ings daily with powdered alum, for three or four days in succession. Avoid washing the feet, especially with (New York Times) % not water. = eneee Avoid wearing elastics or other tight Of course narrow or tight shoes pre- vent proper circulation and natural warming of the feet. Wear wool or wool and silk or silk The underwear should be of similar material and weight. In general a medium of light-weight wool or silk and wool material of knitted loose texture is the most comfortable and hygienic for the people who are in and out. Speaking now of people who find keeping warm a problem, - Healthy | around all day with the mouth open.” youngsters who are quite comfortable Are they not under a misapprehen- As nearly as it|With the flimsiest underwear or none i can be done by a high protective|at all should enjoy dressing ad Ubi- tum and eke the old fogies’ concern virtual monopoly of the domestic) @bout future rheumatiz, If your feet feel like chunks of ice as you crawl into a cold bed in the wee sma’ hours, that’s because you have been sitting reading. Don't do it. Either take a run around the block or do some general calisthenic exercises before you turn-in. And equip yourself with some sleeping socks or boots of soft wool, which you can kick off after your feet are warm. This is preferable to using a hot wa- ter bottle or other artificial warmth. Artificial foot warmers should be left to the old folks, The practice of belly breathing is an effective way to warm up your feet and help you to go to sleep. Dignified parties who can't run around the block or do any calisthe- nies before retiring, may find a few somersaults at badtime a help. HIAZHO ‘Trade Mark Reg. U.S. Pat. Of. Can .You Make This J ‘With These Pieces? — thief’s arm as he sticks the window after the loot. ‘The device is invisible from the out- ‘but the instant passes the glass two - Epa fu Co wee next thing the thief knows *his arm is held in a grip of steel. EARTH'S CURVATURE ‘The U. 8. Naval Observatory re- ports that the measure of the curv- ature of the earth is said to be ap- proximately eight inches per mile. os ie ae HI-HO PUZZLE NO. $—Here’s 9 sprinter to give your wits a race for HI-HO honors! After cutting out the seven pieces in the rectangle, see how quickly you can rei them to form the silhouetted figure of. the sprinter. And remember, all seyen Pieces must be used, f ve sn nance PSNI ahaha When your age gets up about where your temperature should be, it is nice to have your attendant give the sheets an ironing just before you hit the cornhusks, or to slip an electric warm- ing pad in about your feet. Hot wa- ter bottles or jugs are all very well, but what will the nurse think if the cork comes out in the night? In any case of cold feet it is futile to attempt to correct the trouble by heating the room up above the hy- gienic temperature. The hygienic temperature for a living room is from 64 degrees F. to 68, and for a sleeping room the air temperature should be little if any above the outdoor temper- ature, except in certain cases of ill- Ress, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Oil To Prevent Skin Irritation (Mrs. L. H.) the. If you must bathe, then don’t use soap or hot wa- ter. After the bath restore the oil you have washed out of the skin. This skin oil is excellent: Heat over a water bath (double boiler) four ounces of sesame oil with 20 grains of powdered benzoin, for two or three hours. Then add 12 drops of absolute alcohol and filter. This is a good oil for the scalp and hair, too. The preparation of the skin oil is a task for the pharmacist. Belly Breathing Is you belly breathing, which I have practiced with excellent results, as in- structed by you, the same as what is commonly called diaphragmatic breathing? Several people have said “Dr. Brady's belly breathing is all right, only one would not want to go sion? (T. H. 8.) Answer—Swimmers breathe through the mouth, yet no one imagines swim- mers must go around all day with the mouth opén. Sprinters and other athletes breathe through the mouth when in @ race. The belly breathing might be called diaphragmatic breath- ing, but why do so? Most people who glibly refer to the diaphragm have no sound notion what the diaphragm is or what it does. Not So Stale Now I started taking your iodin ration jin February, and before the month was up I noticed I felt much less tired. I took it during May and again during August, and I want to tell you I am feeling fine. I guess I had gone Stale, all right... (C. H.) Answer—Glad to send instructions to mature adults who feel stale, no ambition, tired out. Inclose stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for Iodin Ration. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) THE DE MILLES New York, Dec. 7.—For amusing | close-ups on the off-stage life of thé | Cecil De Milles, you have to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Cecil De Mille. She has hair as white as the be- wigged ballerinas of the minuets; she suggests a bit of the aristocrat, a bit of the theater and a twinkling sense of humor. She has carved pleasant, whimsical lines at the corners of the eyes; an upper lip has become accus- tomed to drawing itself up into a nu-| morous curve at the left side. appears to have a lot of fun. Mrs. De Mille is in New York with her husband, whose bald spot now is sun tanned to leather brown. They have come to attend the opening of De Mille's most spectacular picture, | “The Sign of the Cross.” i * * * WHAT, NO SPLENDOR? Guests at the De Mille house, it appears, ask at once to see the bed- room and bath. They invariably ex- Press disappointment at finding no Roman pools and Moorish tiling in She a | ©, HORIZONTAL “Answer to Previous Puzzle 13 Observes. 1 Farm product 15 Disturbance, selling at 16 To detest. ENIINICIE| RIE PIU TIE 0) lowest price in over 300. years. 6To dismay (variant). 11 Merited. 13 Silk not yet twisted. 14 Horse that draws a sled. 16To encourage. 17 Male.cat. 18 Capuchin monkey. mst 19 Bronze. famoys? 20 Native metal. 25 To grate, 21 To perch, 36 Ointment. 23 Expenses, 37 Anything 25 Morsel. steeped. 26Plain skull 39 To drudge. cap. 40 Strife. 28 Dower 41 Collection of property, 29 Peg. 30 Electrified particle. 31 Cluster of fibers in wool staple. 32 For what stone is Ireland facts, 43 Relative pronoun. 45 Opalescent. 47 Wood of a Mexican tree. 49 Woolly. 50To cause to cohere. 51 Nibbles. Rie |p) LILINE!S) 22 Small candle. 24 Part of a stable, 25 Ossa, [D} 27 Part of mouth? 28 To put on, 30 Pacific. 31 Disease of live stock, 32 Nude. 33 Grandparental, 34 Howled. 35 Yosuko Matsuoka, League of Nations ISIE] 1 ICIE IEINIRIAIGIE IO} p INE] [SIPTETEIOIEIO 52 Walks through water, VERTICAL delegate 1 Point from ——? opposite east.” 36 Mentally 2 Nimbuses, sound. 3 Pertaining to 38 Element of deserts. speech. 4 Conjunction, 39 People in 5 Scatters. general, 6Exclamation. 40 Mental 7 By. faculty. § Dialect. 42 Afresh. 9To prevent. 44Grains. 10 Smooth. 46 Race track 12 Church circuit. officer. 483 Wine vessel. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1932 It’s a Good Trick If He Does It! : che the bathroom. It is tiled, but simply. There are no lavish curtains, hang- ings or exotic adornments in the bed- room. All of which is a let-down to strangers brought up on a diet of De Mille bedroom splendor. * # * GETS A KICK FROM KICKS De Mille is vastly amused by the comments his super-lavish sets have brought from critics, He has kept a large scrap book of unfavorable writ- ings. Frequently he takes this out and gets many a chuckle. But Mrs. De Mille has a notion that those far- famed De Mille sets may have been a secret “wish fulfillment,” as the psy- chologists put it. De Mille, she thinks, has a definite slant for the Oriental. * e * FREE ADVICE He is a collector of swords, guns, tapestries, shields, coats of arms and other antiquities. The house is clut- tered with them. They never eel found enough room for his books. These are all over the floor. ‘They have four children, three of them adopted. None has shown any feverish symptoms to go on the stage, or to work in pictures. Their own daughter hinted at it as a youngster, but grew up, married and has a child of her own. Her chief interest is horses and no films. One of the adopted daughters, Mrs. De Mille says, is a great beauty and may possibly appear in pictures. Mrs. De Mille, 2 handsome woman, has threatened twice to face the cam- era herself. But never in her hus- band’s company. He rarely discusses any of his film problems with her. He often talks about pictures in gen- eral, but he does not solicit advice. Often she gives it, willy nilly. He does let her wander around the lots on which he happens to be work- | © ing and she often does. She does not intrude on his scenes or work, how- ever. During the making of the latest picture, she became well acquainted with the lions used in one sequence. They were so accustomed to being caged that they hated to leave. x % NOW, SOME OTHER BOTTLE— Speaking of movie folk, reminds me of an amusing tale of the ways of the modern New York lassies. When Sue Carol, the film actress, had selected @ baby recently for a friend who pean “peace army” reminds us of the man who puts his finger in a mouse: trap to see if it will work. JAPAN”—News story. Well, a lot ot | American taxpayers know exactly how | the poor child had to go on until Miss Carol returned. in the room could properly put a nip- ple on the bottle! acy The “forgotten man” gives no trou- ble. He does all the work and carries all the burdens of society—Rev. John Haynes Holmes, New York city. xe % ‘The peace of the far east must be based on an entente consisting of Manchukuo, Japan, the Soviet Union and China. Because of this we are greatly disappointed with the Lytton report, because we fear that China will be mislai@ by it into troubling the Japanese-Manchukuo entente. The situation in China may do great harm to the.peace of the orient—Hsieh Chieh-shih, foreign minister of Man- chukuo. xe # Our goal is not armament to the standard of our neighbors, but dis- armament throughout Europe andthe world, equal right and equal security. —Chancellor Franz von Papen of Ger-| many. H @ «x * How did I get here in the first Place? Well, it was robbery—a little | careless drinking, you know. A strong | body and a weak mind.—‘“Jumbo” Morano, star halfback on the Sing| { i Sing prison football team. o SS | Barbs | ——_—_——+ France’s plan to organize a Euro- * % & i Soviet Russia has started a | i from realizing his peril. i “AMERICAN FLEET IRRITATES | wanted to adopt a child, the mother and Miss Carol left for a moment and only a group of newspaper women, Press agents and such were left. The baby began to cry. A bottle was pro- duced. It had no nipple. the Japanese feel, too, janitors has been opened in Kansas City. And so ours if he'll try to learn something * * * i A new school for apartment house | i We'll gladly pay the tuition of only the stout can’t cat her cake and have “it.” x eK ‘Those states in the east that are girl who Geraldine Foster, pretty young clerk in the office of Dr. Humphrey Maskell disappeared on Saturday. Three days later her roommate, Betty Canfield, notifies Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt. She states that Geraldine phoned her prior to her disappearance, saying she wished she was dead. Harty Armstrong, the missing girl's fiance, had not heard from her since Friday. Dr. Maskell says he returned to his office Saturday afternoon to find Geraldine gone. At the Foster apartment Colt learns from Betty that Geraldine had quarreled with the doctor. The Commissioners finds an old- fashioned key in the pocket of Geraldine’s coat, and part of a blackmail note, presumably in her handwriting, in the desk. Differ- ent ink than that in the apartment was used. ‘It is learned that Betty quarreled with Geraldine, and that she was once engaged to Ger- by ANTHONY A Copyrrentr BY COVICI, FRIEDE, INC., —4 DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. INC the rear room. I followed him, with Doctor Maskell marching at my heels. The sombre, brown eyes of Thatcher Colt were turn- ing from one object to another in the clutter of stored material in that last room of the suite. Bend- ing down, he fingered bottles and packages that lay loosely around and I noticed that over one large bottle he lingered. Stolidly the doctor watched as the Commis- sioner removed the stout cork, and sniffed at the neck of the bottle. Then, still without a word, Thatch- er Colt left the bottle and went on prowling into the consultation room. He halted suddenly before a closed door. “What is that?” |__ The Closet’s Contents| “A clothes closet,” answered Doctor Maskell. Thatcher Colt opened it and aldine’s brother, Bruce. Entering Dr. Maskell’s home, Colt meets Maskell’s chauffeur, muttering “Get me to talk? Never. But Geraldine was good to me.” The doctor says there was a strunge woman waiting outside his door when he returned Saturday. CHAPTER VIII. ser waere no lights on in my office and I called out to Geraldine. No answer. Then, to my astonishment the strange woman pushed past me without asking my premission, and walked straight through this reception room,, yonder. Of course I follow- ed her, but before I reached her side, she had gone on farther and opened the rear door and looked into the little room at the back. That, too was empty.. I then asked her, rather peremptor- ily, what she was art for, aoe she buried her chin in the collar sed her eyes Aa eR ie ie late. Then she burst into tears. led to detain her, but she rushed past me, out into the hallway. I followed her, quite startled at her extra- ordinary behavior, and then I no- ticed there was a ‘taxicab before my door, She got into it and > wou didn’t notice the license number on oe fs I suppose?” ed Thatcher Col se poctor Maskell had not. said berly, “is rs it I was rather in- At first bs Thad — rec she has no’ en sa self; ieee about Raving 4 u bled 18 bee vor koow what ‘to SM 1 Identity Unknown | “You have no idea who the woman was?” “No,” “Was she young or old?” “I had the impression | jo-' wee cold not have been Ger- aldine herself?” “Good tor 4 take a look through geet enablshent. Mind?” asked Colt, “Do you think Geraldine is still| ou page ‘asked the doctor, opening it es. oe Without. answering, the Police Commissioner. rose and strode through the two rooms to the door at the back and through that into ’ that she| did “May I ask,” “what you hope to find in there, Mr. Commissioner?” Backing out of the closet, Thatcher Colt showed a brown fur coat_in his hand. “Did this belong to Geraldine Foster?” he asked, parsing samara the doctor and staring at profound melancholy. thrust his hand inside. inquired Maskell, “Yes, certainly. I cannot a ine what fr is doing fm there i id not know it was there. The closet has not been opened by me since Sat y."” ae Ab cent ahs, ware, to ef, work on Christmas “I am certain that it was. I saw her-with it on when she went| had out to lunch.” ‘Thatcher Colt closed his as he stood there with as the Olt, ined the purse, checking up on the Sompect, lipetich, a book compact, Goatees, ‘a roll of bills and » <3 ful of silver. bag into my hands sioner turned again to Doctor certainly,” Maskell, opening wide his door and bowing. But at the threshold, Thatcher Colt paused. _ “Doctor,” he to observe, on de; have not been frank with me.” “What do you mean?” returned Maskell sharply. . “You failed to tell me that and Geraldine quarreled you left on your errand of good cheer. You had a beastly quarrel, but you have kept quiet about it.” Doctor Maskell looked startled, with| “That the girl’s| with the “3 Putting the coat and the Commis- ell, “Do you sel de the mysterious woman who acco: back the coat and purse? Did you notice if she carried anything?” “Why—why—no, answered the physician. makes you think about that?” “I am sorry if I have inconven- ienced you,” replied Thatcher Colt gioomily. “And I that I soun again. night.” “Yes, ited you brought did not,” “What am sorry to say may have to trouble you For the present, good- said Doctor “I am sorry ting, that you ore weeping | about keeping us warm in winter and Not @ girl/cool in summer.