The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1933, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune Ang Independent Newspaper ' THE STATE'S OLDEST Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. 1 GEORGE D. MANN { President and Publisher. j ———— Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year........$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- Marck) ...........5 seeeeee 7.20 Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ............ Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ..........0.005 seeeeeee 6.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, three years ..... . ‘Weekly by mai Dakota, per year .. ‘Weexly by mail in Member of Audit Bureau of Cireulation a | 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. | Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) | CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON They Have the Knowledge No legislature in the history of North Dakota has been better equip- ped to deal with a specific problem; than is the case with the present group of lawmakers and the state farm loan issue. This is because no group has better understanding of the effects of this system than have the men who live on the farm—and the bulk of our 1933 legislators are farmers. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TU hanging of another woman so that she first may give birth to a child. And the average American goes blithely on with the impression that} he lives in a civilized nation, among! cultured and highly civilized people. | In this state the argument for and: against capital punishment has been | decided in the negative, apparently | permanently. Those who believe in the literal interpretation of “an cyc| for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,”| may not like it, but it !s the law. We do not have the spectacle of the death march from the cell to the execution chamber and the death} wagon lumbering out of the prison gates at sunrise to deposit a dead | body at the railroad station or in the potter's field. i Only the highly morbid can look} forward to an execution with any de-' gree of complacency. Even the hardest boiled does not like to think of a human life being snuffed out by fiat of law. But when the victim of this legal abnormality is a woman it creates more thought and, there- fore, goes more strongly “against the grain.” Men live in a harder mental world than do women. Accident and sud- den death are more frequently their lot and they are satisfied that wo- men should be spared the hazards to which men frequently are sub- jected. The mental trait of chivalry is not yet dead. And so it seems more horrible to execute a woman than to exact the supreme penalty from a man. Those who feel most strongly on the question of capital punishment frequently use the term “legal mur- der.” It may be unfair and too strong. But how many, viewing these cases, will contend that it is not archaic and more than a little silly? New Farm Leadership Reports from Washington indi- The Man With the Hod PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE win’s “Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,” same publisher (I think). tainable from any library. ISDAY, JANUARY All these books are ob- (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) 3, 19383 mathematics is now getting set to out-calculate the income tax collec- ee % { The unreasonably cold weather Californians have been having this; year has been a source of real joy— Floridians. to (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) Gilbert Swan SUCCESS SHRUG New York, Jan. 3.—The careless shoulder shrug which has become identified with the torch singing of Ethel Merman is just as closely as- sociated with her off-stage manner- isms, Miss Merman is one performer who literally shrugged her way to the heights. And at this moment Miss Merman is being classed as the greatest of the scorchy singers. Yet she is one individual who did not have to struggle to “get there.” Nor does she make the slightest pre- tense at being one of the many whose careers were achieved with hard la- bor and innumerable ups and downs. Just a few years ago she was; pounding a typewriter in Astoria,! Long Island, and way points. Even then she had the voice and technique for putting over the rough, red-hot ballads. One evening she attended & party at which were several guests/ from the theatrical belt. She was called upon for a song and sang.| A few weeks later she was being summoned from the desk to a Broad- way Office. She shrugged and closed: up her typewriter desk—and never; went back. A few nights later she! was attracting attention in the town’s night club floor shows. H A year or so thereafter, a music| show producer called for her. Miss) Merman shrugged her shoulders and answered the call. She was an over- night hit. Today her “Eadie Was & Lady” is one of the town’s classics. * # # TWO A DAY Notes on this and that: Fred As- taire, since the marriage and depar- ture of his dancing sister, Adele, lives with his mother and does little gad- ding about with the playful boys and gals of Broadway . . . Walter C. Kelley, “the Virginia judge,” refers to himself as “one of those magnifi-| cent antiques” .. . George M. Cohan always springs original stunts at re- hearsals . . . It was formerly his pol-| icy to write one act of a play at a time, and put each act into rehearsal, writing additional scenes and dia- logues as the try-outs went on... In his newest effort he limited rehear- sals to some eight or nine days, in- stead of the usual long work-out period .. . And, as usual, he opens in his home town, Providence, R. I.) where he actually was born on July 4... The vaudeville situation has been so tough that troupers now re- fer to two week engagements as “a big business” and Richy Craig pens Socialist Wounded | ? 4 omaccidentally with @ target pis- tol at his suburban home near In- dianapolis, Powers Hapgood (above) that “two a day isn’t a variety pol- icy; it's the salary you get!” HOPPER INSPIRED That ruction over Roxy's tossing | three nude statues out of his new; Music Hall theater is said to have been ilspired by the veteran De Wolf, Hopper. Hopver has been married} six times. As he walked through the! lobbies he stopped to look at the! statues and is quoted as saying: “Yes,! I've had a number of wives and: viewed a number of women—but I! never have seen any that looked like; that”... i From the Actors’ Unemployment Relief Committee comes a note that an effort will be made to turn over} empty theaters to the cold and job-: less players who now haunt the side-! walks. These theaters have been gathering dust for many months andj would at least provide a warm sy for the unfortunate ones. Also there's; a movement to take over a number of old-fashioned actors’ boarding, houses, which have been abandoned; | furnish them cheaply and give a! roof for the thousands out of work. | was seriously injured. Hapgood te {the Indiana Socialist leader who was ia candidate for governor in the last election. WHAT WAS THE FAMILY NAME The question is presented perti-|cate the Roosevelt administration is By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, nently by the state governmental survey commission, if It comes up in no other way, with the recommenda- tion that the state rural credits sys- tem be abolished and liquidated or that further increase in the bonded indebtexiness of the state be forbid- den by\ constitutional amendment. This {farmer-dominated legislature is best equipped to deal with the matter because, if the system has had evil effects, they have been felt most keenly on the farm. Every farmer knows, or can make M_accurate guess at, the effect on his own taxes of land foreclosures by the Bank of North Dakota and the state land department. It is not an extreme view to state that this system, designed to help the farmer, now is making it increasingly diffi- cult for men who still own their land to keep it. Every time a piece of land is placed foreclosure there is that much to pay state taxes. The bank fails. to receive the anticipated reve- nue and a tax levy is necessary to make up the deficit. This year the sum levied was $1,600,000 and if the entire project had been put in good condition the amount would have been three times that figure. Farmers who still own their land might be able to stand this pressure, heavy as it is, because city property has to pay a part of this burden. But that is only a part—and the least important pert—of the dire results. ‘Where the shoe pinches hardest ‘s at home, in the townships and school districts. “ AS land goes to foreclosure the! Bank of North Dakota tries to make | it pay out by renting it, and quite properly. But the land no longer Pays township or school taxes and the renter is lable to have fully as many children as the farm owner. In other words, foreclosure of that land does not reduce the burden which the district must carry, it merely places that burden upon fewer farms. In one Burleigh county township,| 160.6 pounds of flour a year; 4.5 according to a man who lives in it, at least six sections are under fore- closure by state agencies. The school \expenses have not decreased but the cdsk_bas been automatically redis- tributed. As @ result, men still on thejr own land find it increasingly difficult to stay there. There may je several answers to this question. One is to have the Bank of North Dakota pay taxes on Jand which it has taken on fore- closure. It may be hard on the bank but that is Jess of an evil than to | create an impossible situation for the | farmer, or to permit present condi- dssues @ long jump from the! Mfe imprisonment while in h Caroling the state delays | trying something entirely new in its approach to the agricultural problem. In the past we have had the spec- tacle of various farm organizations and spokesmen contending for differ- ent things. They have done the talk- ing, not always in the same direc- tion, and the politicians have done the listening. Roosevelt, or at least his aides, is said to have reversed the process. Present in Washington are Henry Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of agri- culture for New York, and Professors Meyers of Cornell and Tugwell of Columbia. They rate as the major trio in Roosevelt's battery of agri- cultural advisors. When they met with the farm leaders, so the story goes, they did not ask for suggestions or advice. Instead they said “We would like to have you favor this or that,” a new approach by political men to farm chieftains, Among the items for which in- dorsement is said to have been ask- ed were the allotment plan, abolition of the farm board, consolidation of all farm credit agencies, reorganiza- tion of the department of agriculture and farm mortgage relief. It is a big order but it may work. Agriculture needs leadership in its battle for a better national position and it will be a pleasant surprise for the farmers to have it come from the White House. And besides, the ideas suggested seem sensible. Roosevelt may do what many have pretended they wanted to do in recent years. The Greatest Sexton The man who digs the most graves in America, medical authorities tell us, is the average citizen. The claim often is made and rarely denied that most of us dig our own graves with cur teeth; that we eat too much and thereby shorten our days. It is a burning indictment but one te which many will make no answer. You may tell a man that he is eating pounds of cheese; 17.92 pounds of butter; 223 dozens of eggs; 169 pounds of potatoes and so on, all without creating the slightest inter- est. Those who are married to good cooks can hardly be blamed for that. There is something to the philosophy of “As we journey through life let us live by the way” and besides, there always remains the patriotic duty to eat as much as possible in order to reduce the surplus. Shortening our days may not be quite so bad if those we have are happy ones. 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, William the Conqueror in South Dakota (Chicago Tribune) lands of an acreage esti- mated as high as 7,000,000 acres ure Offered in sheriffs’ sales for delin- quent taxes in South Dakota. nt. The sales will will be few if any counties and levies. has suc- neighbor. He might as well be a captain under William the Con- queror. The taxes have hit the state with sword and fire. self-addressed envelope is enclosed. in ink. No reply can be made to tions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. Letters should be brief and written queries not conforming to instruc- A BOIL IS GREAT FUN COM-! PARED WITH A CARBUNCLE A pimple or pustule is a trial size; suppuration produced when hair fol- | licles or sebaceous glands are in-/ fected with the common pus-produc- ing germs. A boil or furuncle is a household size suppuration produced when the same types of germs penetrate through the hair follicles, sebaceous or sweat glands and invade the sub- cutaneous tissues. . A carblncle is a hospital size sup- ; puration produced when the same pesky microbes destroy enough tissue to cut off the local blood supply or nutrition, so that gangrene or death of the tissue occurs, with sloughing. Pimple, boil or carbuncle, it is an abscess. The old-timers held that there was a lot of humor in a boil and still more in a carbuncle. Even today the peas- ants commonly regard any abscess, j from trial size to hospital size, as a throwing off, breaking out or getting rid of bad humor of some kind. Char- latans who appeal to the peasant in- tellect have a more snappy term for jit; they tell their dumb customers ! that the body is trying to throw off “toxins” or “poisons.” It is not the size or extent of the {Swelling or inflammation that de- |termines whether the abscess is a pustule or a boil. If it has a core it's a boil; no core, no boil, no matter how large and juicy and ripe the pimple or papule gets before it rup- tures and drains spontaneously or is opened and drained surgically. | Some bona fide boils seem to get ambitious as they come to a head, or a neck, and branch out, so to speak, giving a good imitation of a car- buncle. For that matter, the only difference between a boil and a car- buncle is that the gangrene or death of tissue is confined to one area in the boil—the gangrenous tissue is {the core of the boil, whereas in the carbuncle the gangrene is not lim- ited—and that is precisely why car- buncle is more dangerous than boil. The common pus-producing germs responsible for all these forms. of abscess, as well as whitlow, run- around, felon, and inflammation of any cut, scratch or wound, may be present on any soiled or unwashed skin, but it is probable that the source of such infection is contact with the pus from some similar in- fection, or contact with a medium that has been contaminated within a few moments. Such infection, at least to my mind, explains why minor scratches, cuts or abrasions “always fester” or heal pocrly in certain in- dividuals. In their work or play or social activities they come into con- tact with the pus-producing germs from slight infections of other per- sons. We know this is the explana- tion for the. pimples, pustules and inevitable scratch infections of ma- chinists, for example, whose hands, arms and body are necessarily ex- posed to infection from the circulat- ing oil or cutting mixture, which inevitably becomes contaminated if any man is permitted to work while having such pustules or even a slight scratch infection, | |I say you printed a suggestion that QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Old Sink Argument A friend and I have an argument. dumping the coffee grounds down the sink tends to keep the sink drain cleared out. My friend says she doesn’t believe it—(N. I. G.) | Answer—Many correspondents have | told me they have found the Prac- | tice does prevent the drain clogging. | Some plumbers say so, too, while others say they sometimes find coffee grounds clogging a sink drain. Per-| haps it depends on the amount of flushing with hot water and on keep- ing grease out of the sink drain. We Can’t Agree | I have been a Brady fan for years | and never before have I questioned anything you said, but now I must | disagree with your assertion that | massage can’t reduce locally. I have reduced five inches around my hips by taking treatments in this ma- chine described in the folder .. (Mrs. C. B. N.) Answer—Scores of others have; failed to reduce, or have actually in- creased in size under such treatment. | Actual exercise and intelligent re- striction of diet account for any re- duction obtained while such mechan- ical massage, rolling, pounding or passive manipulation is being used. Books to Read Please suggest names of some good | books, not too technical for the lay reader, on physiology, biology, health and disease. —(F. C. H.) ! Answe r—Mottram’s “Physiology,” | published by Norton, New York. Hag- | gard’s “What You Should Know About Health and Disease,” published by Harper's, New York. Fisher & Fisk’s “How to Live,” published by Punk & Wagnalls, New York. Can- non’s “Effects of Fear, Pain and | With the British and Americans and | Tow, Chicago attorney and agnostic. * *e * rey Chaperons cannot take the place of character.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roo- sevelt, wife of the president-elect. * 4 % If 3.2 beer is non-intoxicating, the wets will not care for it, and if it is intoxicating the drys will not stand for it—F. Scott McBride, general su- perintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. * * * We .(France and the Anglo-Saxon nations) had violent disputes, but from my experience one can dispute afterwards be all the better friends. —Edouard Herriot, former premier of France. * * * | Preachers are talking about moral questions without knowing what the word moral means.—Clarence Dar- Socialists have been saying pretty | much the same thing as “technoc- racy” for two generations.—Upton Sinclair, novelist. f Barbs ——+ oe One of the doubts always assailing mankind at this time of year is whether to send New Year's cards to the folks whose Christmas greetings took you by surprise. * % # The farmer who needs relief the most is the one who moved to town. x * * Going fishing with secret service | men may deprive the president of} Solitude but it does prevent smallj boys from strolling by with whop- pers on their stringers. Hunger on Animals and Man,” pub- lished by Appleton’s, New York. 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Two women were seen seav-|He opened a door in the rear of ing the doctor's office carrying |the room and led in a good-looking bottles similar to those found near | young man, slender and serious. the grave. Mrs. Morgan, a neigh-| Mr. rtd ae the doctor's Statement that he wi: criminologists for Illinois. Mr. daughter, Doris, the di 4 Leonard flew here in one of their appearance. Maskell claims there | departmental airplanes, at my per- was a strange woman outside his|sonal request, just so that we office when he returned. Other|could go through with this test. suspects are Harry Armstrong,|Vollmer recommended Mr. Leon- Geraldine’s tiance, and her brother,| ard to me as an expert who could get the best results out of the ma- Bruce, who will receive her in- heritance. Bruce is an adopted son|chine. It does have a special tech- nique of its own.” i whose fathe: murderer, Dr. |__Forgivable Skepticism rr wa Maskell reports to Police Commis. i “I think it’s childish,” said sioner Thatcher Colt that Ger- aldine phoned him on January 5, ten days after her disappearance, Dougherty frankly. The yow expert frem Chicago only imiled and nodded his head as if he fully requesting that he meet her, but peed eth See ad stars eee ney shows she was on December | understood the District " }, and he: preserved by the | skepticism. Thatcher Colt’ od a knob on the edge of the chair which registered its signal in some acid to appear that death occurred within 48 hours. Maskell, distant part of the house. By th time Colt had relighted his epee accused, sticks to his story. His ope no astee aley, George jatalie Maskell call to see|the door was opened and ti i- him, but are turned away. One of | formed men ied in Doctor Maskell the women whom Maskell visited| With the wraith of his familiar smile playing over hi. sh haggard face, egy “Well, you'll have to show mc. on Christmas Eve informs Colt that 2 woman phoned that day leaving the following message for “Please come at once Doctor Maskell Mor- par} reveals that Maskell left her tioner’s while he delivered gifts. Ti issioner plans to exam- instrument. CHAPTER XXIX. D ble contempt. “Whoever got up such a shaking his head heavily. “It is the invention of one of ol y “I've heard mention ‘of him somewhere,” conceded Dougherty. one of the foremost criminologists in the country. He was the Police his chauffeur at a confec- ine Maskell with a lie-detector JUGHERTY sniffed in audi- fool machine as that?” he asked, oy Baa Captain August “No doubt. Captain Vollmer is piveey expert on President ‘s Nothing But Truth =| r Colt lifted a set of ted plates on a chain and Dougherty studied them at- lanced at the table on which the lie detector lay exposed. tongirely. “Do you know what that ma- pects’ chine is?” asked Thatcher Colt. missioner. Doctor Maskell’s face expressed lead | manifest contempt. “Fake scientific apparatus,” he tric writing are attached.|jeered. “I’ve heard all about it. Then you question the suspect. His|{t is just about as scientific as the reactions Abrams blood detector machine. to your- questions, that ion and blood pres- Nar guess what it is by the looks of it.” This makes a| ,. AS ain the blonde young man “It is not recognized in the New York tt," ened Thatcher Colt frankly. “So you do not have to submit to its use. by any conclusions we may arrive pect’s emotional “Dougherty ms Seri conde m comieal face. “T n't” these new-fangled It’s not new-fangled,” answered Colt t by its use. But it break Mache ie datector was first used your story and give us clues by for scar porposes moe rn veo inish our case than twen! ago. But that ‘was only the beat—the bl. Y certainly,” acquiesced pressure record is more pet h e Doctor Maskell, with ‘icen' “And you actually think this Indittecenes. Se the tee contraption will help us in break- the tale of Doctor Maskell?” it will us the truth,” in- sisted ‘ “I have no hesitation in saying that I consider this little box and the other inven- tion which we may have to use to- it on the doctor, the two great- steps forward in criminological work since the adoption of the Bertillon system and the finger- print identification.” ’ y’ icions, Dr. Maskell, in his epinien, like many another criminal, imself as a superman, such an egoist fident that he could beat the ma- chine. It took very little time to ad- just the apparatus to his chest and at he felt con-| dered hi FEATURES SYNDICA, bared arm, as he sat in his shirt sleeves. Then Thatcher Colt be- gan asking again the same ques- tions with which Maskell had been battered for so long. They came, one after another, in a rattling fusillade, giving the suspect only time to answer before the next question was fired. For the first little while—certainly, for the first hour—the results would not be regarded as important. The unusual circumstances, the er of Maskell’s position, it easily make him nervous produce a jumpy chart, hoy ever innocent he might be. Thatcher Colt knew that this of preliminary fear would away. The subject of detector is soon lulled into of false security. As soonf he thinks he is giving a fine unt, of himself he becomes m the master of his emotions. ‘hen, and not until then, the reciilis on the card become importag™y indi- cations. For an hour Colltalked to Maskell ily about ji ney—the same old story out the Christmas pi its, Fre- turning, and meeting th¢ mysteri- ous woman at his office door. But after that first hour, thé tone, the pace, the very accent 0% the ques- voice of d|tions changed. Thatcher ‘Colt beclne brittle, wd The door was opened and two uniformed men led in Dr. Maskell. harsh, commanding, with an un- der-threat of malice it tones. He stood, towering Reet pos grasp e tn’ f the electric s ve} nine of gue electric char, The “What are you most afrai in lite, Doctor Maskell?” ns ° “I am afraid of nothing.” « it are You most ashamed of in your life?” Commissioner and the District At- torney waited wii and Prt a dail (To Be Continued Tomorrow.)