The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1933, Page 4

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Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Ten Suggestions Petitioning the legislature is an old The | Bismarck Tribune 7.20 2.50 1 the average mortgage debt per mortgaged farm in Minnesota, which according to the U. S. cen- sus of 1930 was $4,734. Figuring interest at 5% per cent, the an- nual interest payment on this average debt per farm is $260. On the basis of the average farm price of wheat in Minnesota in 1919, it required only 116 bush- els of wheat to pay this interest; in 1925 it required 173 bushels and at the present farm price of 35 cents a bushel, 743 bushels are necessary. Similarly, in terms of hogs, to pay the $260 in 1919 the farmer had to sell only seven 250-pound hogs; in 1925 it re- quired about 10 head, and at the present price of $3 per hundred- weight the farmer must sell 33 hogs. The farmer selling butter- fat could pay this interest with 433 pounds in 1919; with 591 pounds in 1925; but at, the price of 22 cents that has prevailed recently, it required 1,182 pounds or the total production of about six average cows. Generally speaking, the economic troubles of the farmers come under {four general heads: Commodity prices, mortgage indebtedness, inter- est and taxes. Farm leaders are urging inflation or cancellation of some of the rural obligations to bring things back into balance. The situation calls for des- |Perate remedies, but none has been safely worked out as yet. Grave dan- ger often lies in accepting a cure which may be worse than the present ‘economic ills. In times such as these, panaceas, theories and solutions flood lthe nation, finding expression through the press or in legislative lobbies. | practice in this and other states and | good one, but it is too often confined | to a plea for a specific piece of legis-! Jation in which the personal interest | | There is hope that the present dis- cussion before many state and fed- eral legislative committees will evolve : is obvious. This commentary, however, cannot be levelled at the fine petition pre- sented Monday by Senator Nels Mag- nuson on behalf of his constituents in Bottineau county. The petition contains some items about which there may be honest dif- ferences of opinion. Some of them may be dictated by purely local con- siderations and inapplicable to the state as a whole. But one thing is beyond argument, this is the fact that the petitioners have surveyed the State situation, according to their own light, and have formed definite ideas vegarding what to do about it. They have taken the position that ‘the state and its institutions can be justified only by the results of its operations upon the people. It may be @ radical view but it is one which ‘must be considered if we are to have ‘progress. No one doubts that the Frazier bill, toward greater stable prices. constitutional limitations, possible to impair contracts. There upward. For most of the ills a solu- tion must necessarily lie with Wash- ington. There are ways, however, in which a state can be helpful and that is in curtailing the functions of govern- ment and easing the tax load. For years government has spread out into many doubtful experiments which have been costly and futile in so far as they have aided agriculture. Few States have escaped this situation. It has all been an unwholesome trend. These are vital issues for the law- makers. Other minor issues can be ignored until the great problems have been tackled. or something like it, is badly needed. It offers a way to get out from under the tremendous burden of debt which is handicapping everyone. Proposed adjustment of license fees on motor cars and trucks appears to be in line with the popular will; ex- tepsion of time for giving tax deeds also is pertinent. Some method of collecting taxes on land foreclosed by state agencies is an imperative need to many school districts. The moratorium, of course, has been definitely disposed of by the people themselves and it probably would do little good to bring it before the leg- islature. ® But whether one agrees with all of the ideas suggested is not the import- ant thing. The nub of the whole mat- 4 ter is that these petitioners from Bot- | @ tineau county—and nearly everyone @ else in the state—is taking a deeper © anterest in state affairs. They are/ considering ways in which the press- ing exigencies may be met. Their ‘@iwoice is worth hearing. | | { Speedy Action 1 North Dakota was among the 13/ » Btates which indicated its dissatisfac- ® tion with prohibition last fall and for ‘that reason, if for no other, citizens of this state will welcome the speedy manner in which the judiciary com- mittee of the national senate disposed gf the constitutional amendment. But out here in the farming area ‘there is also another reason for wish- ng the prohibition issue definitely out of the way. More than anything else, ‘we need definite action looking toward amelioration of the country’s economic Food, clothing, opportunity for education and a score of other things ‘@re more important right now than i Whether or not we are to have legal peer. . | To be sure, the matter must be dis- posed of, definitely and as quickly 4, possible, but the people of North PPakota will hardly agree that it is the jmnost important issue before the na- «. On the other hand, the pressure for : ot on the prohibition amendment the legalization of beer is tremen- in the east. There it has been up with the tax issue more than here and the people ap- tly feel that a stein on the table be a cheering influence under t conditions. the reason, it is evident consideration of the related questions will have it consideration until the issue is out of the way. Wor that reason, if for no other, it is Geometry. By way of showing that he has the courage Now that the committees have been appointed, the two branches of our State legislature can begin their work in earnest. 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. Murphy Would Restore Agriculture Dr. Albert Shaw's Editorial in January issue of “Review of Re- views and World's Work.” Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democratic leaders are fully aware that they must do something to help farm conditions if they are not to be overwhelmed by the bitter disappoint- ment of the agricultural interests not alone of the West and South, but of Mr. Roosevelt's own state of New York. Conservative economists have been in- clined to think that agriculture must find its own adjustments. But behind the pressure that resulted in the agri- cultural tariff rates following Mr. Hoover's election, and in the bold pol- icles of the Farm Board, there was a sense of conditions so unusual and so safe remedy to start business volume and more In handling the situation from the standpoint of the state, there are It is im- is no legal machinery to force prices THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1938 self-addressed envelope is enclosed. in ink. No reply can be made to ANALY OF THE BIRD SEED JOKE. The wiseacre public still likes to be{ humbugged and the wiseacres like | their humbug gilded and costly. i A “well known Doctor of Divinity,” | the wiseacre prospects are assured by | the vendor of imported bird seed, tested the bird seed and even exam- ined sampies of it under the micro- scope, and reported that his tests “proved conclusively” the superiority of the brand over other brands of seed offered to the public, “in rapidity of reaction and amount of gelatin de- veloped.” The minister with the mi- croscope is so “well known” that his identity is not even divulged by the concern marketing the bird seed. The reverend gentleman's innate modesty probably recoiled at the thought of being caught using a microscope. Prying, that is, and moreover it im- Plies that one is willing to believe only what one can see for oneself. A Doctor of Philosophy, now, or even a Doctor of Laws might have con- ducted such an investigation of con- stipation remedies, but dear me! Another vendor of imported bird- seed stakes his sales psychology on the assertion that positively no other Physic, laxative, cathartic, purgative or intestinal regulator is permitted or given patients in a certain well ad- | vertized sanitarium (which he names in verbal sales talks if not in print) but his brand of seed. This catches a lot of smart lawyers, school teachers and business executives; I know be- cause they write to me to check on it before they send on the money for @ trial or household size package of the birdseed. Must make the boys who run the sanitarium pretty mad, too, for a large factor in their business is the pushing of a number of new- fangled and of course quite expensive Physics. The only purpose of the daily eat- ing of such seeds is to provide bulk and lubrication. The bulk depends in the swelling of the substance when it absorbs water; the lubrication de- extreme that remedies must be in- | Vented in defiance of economic ortho- doxy. If we are to do something about agriculture, it would be well to con- Sider afresh the main facts that lie at the base of the farm problem. There were ample markets at good Prices for our farm products a dozen years ago. What has happened to change the picture so rapidly? Nowhere have we seen an answer to this question that it so convincing in its array of contrasting facts as that which is presented by Mr. Frederick E. Murphy in his article on agriculture that we are glad to print in this num- ber. Mr, Murphy is the publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, interested on his own account in practical farming, and familiar with all our economic Problems, especially as related to the states of the Northwest. habit of mind to think things through; and his views about agricul- It is his pends on the freeing of the mucus- like substance by the action of mois- ture on the seeds. Ordinary flaxseeds serve both pur- poses incomparably better than any imported wild plantago or plantain seeds can. Don’t take my word for it. Steep a teaspoonful of flaxseeds in a pint of water, and compare the result with any of these high priced substi- tutes for flaxseeds that come in fancy packages all wrapped with hokum. In fact common flaxseeds (unground flaxseeds, not the meal) are at least four times as efficient as the best of the extravagant imitations, You may prove this, too, by taking one- fourth the regular dose of flaxseeds daily. Remember now, I am not recom- mending flaxseed as a physic, nor do T say it will cure anything. But I do say plain flaxseed, which you can buy in any drugstore, seedstore or ag|ture in relation to the depression—|grocery. at a few cents a pound, is that has continued through loss of | more efficient for the purpose than is Purchasing powe! Tespect and influence. We shall not try in these comments to summarize Mr. Murphy's facts or conclusions, all of which he states lucidly and with due brevity. He Points out the amazing rapidity with which new methods have increased our production aggregates, within a very few years. New methods of me- chanical production as applied to agri- culture have changes, as Mr. He is the more impressive, because when he tells us that the “situation clearly enough calls for desperate Temedies” he is as little excited as if he were demonstrating @ problem in full of his convictions, he Points out seven modes of approach to those who would adopt a remedial We think. his fourth and r—have commanded | any brand of imported bird seed. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Individual, Private and Personal. I would like your advice on what to do for a bad case of ... (Mrs. 8. C.) Send to the inclosed address your cure for... (R. W.) How does a person act when they are in the first stage ot... (F.C. E.) Answer—I am glad to send instruc- tions and advige to any correspondent PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE 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, tions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. ‘tters should be brief and written ries not conforming to instruc- | | who tells me he or she has acne (blackheads and pimples). I have no cures to send in any cir- cumstances. This being a health col- umn it is not the place to suggest symptoms. Readers will derive the greatest benefit from this column if they re- member that it is a HEALTH service, not a long-distance clinic or quack business, and that it is a PERSONAL service. Any information, advice or in- struction I send by mail is for YOU, the correspondent, and unless I am satisfied you are the individual who seeks the advice, I don’t send any. A Happy Christmas: ‘We would like to adopt a baby about @ year old, preferably a girl. With whom should we communicate about it? (L. M. C.) Answer—Your family physician will know where babies are available and he will advise you whether the one you select is free from disease. We Medical Humorists. The doctors have told me I have acute tachycardia but they do not ex- Plain just what it is... (G. J. W.) Answer—It spoils the joke to ex- plain it. Tachycardia means rapid heartbeat. Perhaps it was a curb- stone consultation; if so, you got your money's worth, -~ (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) Foy A wise selection of prose and poetry read and discussed in our English classrooms would be a potent instru- S. Center, New York, president, Na- tional Council of Teachers of English, Of all the sentimental slush that is peddled about mothers and mother- hood—it'’s just too sickening!—Lady Nancy Astor, mother of five and first woman member of British Parliament, I am afraid that my new duties as chief justice will interfere with my football career.—Carl V. Weygandt, chief justice-elect, Ohio Supreme Court, veteran football referee. standard.” We are so conceited that we judge by ourselves and cannot see that many tiny creatures are as won- derfully constructed as we are—Dr. William Beebe, deep sea explorer, 1 I wish we had a Farley (Democratic National Chairman James A, Farley) in the Republican party.—C. Bascom Slemp, former secretary to ex-Presi- dent Coolidge and G. O. P. campaign | Strategist. I know hundreds of boys who ought to be making pies and hundreds of girls who would do well in manual training —Amelia Earhart Putnam, first woman to fly the Atlantic alone. i If we have another war, men will walk out tu sea to fight—J. E. Wil- | liamson, undersea explorer. | The average girl of today faces the Problem of learning very young how much she can drink of such things as whisky and gin and sticking to the Proper quantity—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the president-elect. From the successful marriage stand- | Point, it is desirable that a husband ; Should have had at least one love | affair before he buys the marriage ‘license—but six or seven would be | better—Prof. Erdman Harris of Un- ion Theological Seminary, New York City. i | It is impossible for an educated | Woman to respect a man who writes | Such bad books as my husband.—Frau Boda, wife of Dr. Adolf Boda, German ment for hastening the day of peace | author of the untranslatable ‘Gemuth- on earth to men of good will.—Stella lichkeit.” | 1To impel. 5 Capital of Indian Empire. 10 Paper mulberry. 14 Part of a ladder. 15 Genus of slugs. 16 Burden. 17 Poisonous Ptomaine. 19 Who controls India? 21 Silkworm, HORIZONTAL iClUIM| EINE} ONS AGT ISI 22 E..glish coin. 48 Pastry. 23 Female host. 49Set of 27 Little oak drawers. trees, 31 Calamitics. 57 Last word of 32 Hidden a prayer, treasur 58 Name of a 34 Coin slit. book. 35 Born. . 60A real. 36 Cover. 61 To value, 37 Unit. 62 Craftier. 38To ns ; 63 Slender. sparingly. o 40Grows Ww VERTICAL 42 Gait 1 Pitcher. 43 Not 2To regret 45 Brooks. exceedingly. ' 47 Male. 3 African ante- fs eI ae NS Answer to Previous Puzzle 53 To conciliate. — aia Pt RNG PT Questions on India 18 Wrath. 20To annoy. 23 What people are the ma- jority in India? 24 Liquid part of fat. 25 To slumber. 26 Compact, 27 Public quiet. 28To run away. 29 Pertaining to tone. 30 Lets it stand. OF} CAH HACIAS| rie! IREESIT IA RIOITIUIL IAN LV IC ITE IRI IC} AIVIET IRIAIRIE| 33 Atmosphere. lope. 39 Worsted cloth, 4 Various 40 Dogmas. herons. ; 41 Evening meal. of | 42 Scoff 44 Mot truck. 46 Frost bite, 7Chinese meas- 49 Vehicle. ure, 50 Eucharist ves- SQuoit target. sel. 9 Tavasion, 51 Wager. 10 Sums. 52 Sesame. 11 Blackbird of 53 Beer. the cuckoo- 54 To be ill. family. 85 Capuchin mo 2 Matter froma __ key. sore. 56 Tree, genus * 13 Tree having Ulmus. tough wood. 59Seventh note. S NSS a oa We ought to abandon the “s-foot | SHADES OF BELASCO New York, Jan. 10.—I’m not quite sure just how the late David Belasco would take to the notion that a woman is not only at the helm of the theater which bears his name, but also is just about the most talked about producer in Manhattan. One thing is certain, if M. Belasco turns over in his grave the incident will be accompanied by certain unre- corded temblors under the earth and the glow worms will turn on their tiny kleigs Just above the surface of the earth. Mr. Belasco did not doubt for a moment that women were artists— emotional superiors of male perform- ers and all the rest—but he did like to run the show a Ia Belasco! Mut it oo happe ut So happens that the name of Katherine Cornell has been grow- ing in stature, for she is both pro- ducer and fine actress. Her husband, Guthrie McClintic, is not such a bad stage director himself. Yet he may live to find himself referred to as Katherine Cornell’s husband.” Which isn’t so bad! POPULAR CHOICE Yet it wasn’t so many years ago that Miss Cornell was loitering about the old Greenwich Village show shops, which had the Provincetown Theater a8 & capital, looking for a career. But when she appeared in Chicago | with her “Barrets of Wimpole Street,” more than 10,000 persons were stand- ing in line. Less than half an hour after the amazed ticket man lifted the lid of his coop, a house seating 5000 persons had been sold out and{ buyers were worrying about a spot on the aisle a week later. CAN’T FORGET HER If you care to go behind the scenes for a moment—the answer is that Miss Cornell became her own pro-|j ducer because producers for whom A State of mirid which every a seeks to reach, SECLUDED ESTATE One day, I recall, she told me that she began with a “walk-on” part. The si Producers wovldn’t trust her with lines. She went to the stock com- Pany of the late Jessie Bonstelle in Buffalo, There she met ‘McClintic, who also was breaking into the show business. They married some arn years ago—and still think vy’ . Yet when the scene was lucky. . pe ey actual wheels were used to Whereas many performers turn to he colonies or groups when seeking » aub- | ive the characters thelr proper hand urban residence, the McClintics took The 26 acres of glass roofing in to themselves an ancint manor in the Crystal Palace, London's famous * Wants Beer Jury’ | place of amusement, contain more > | than 100,000 panes. [FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: five characters. No properties are used. They seem to be spinning out of thin that strength to An untidy dresser generally is a she worked wouldn’t turn out on the drink, and watch their reaction. jbost and found bureau. | OF NY}ABB Copyrtonr BY COvICI, FRIEDE, INC, — DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC. CHAPTER XXXvV. R @ moment Colt drew thoughtfully on his pipe, “But Dougherty has muddied the waters and made them turbid,” he complained. “There is still the mystery about that crime was committed There is still the question of who that mysterious wi with an axe. woman was at the doctor's door.” “Do you believe in her?” I asked. “I do. I know Dr, Maskell has been lying, but not about that. Ah, Tony, what mysteries are here. hen was the girl’s body buried? I wish I knew that. Why did they bother to bury it at all? I have found a witness, a sing mo- torist, who remembers at night the strange burial was per- formed.” He glanced around him with the lane ig eye of some predatory urd. “We have two means of attack,” he continued. “One is to elimi- nate the suspects.” “Let me name them,” I said. self.” . “Yes,” And after him Bruce, and then Armstrong—who still can’t ac- count for his movements—and even the father had a motive, as you once pointed ou! ‘a “Who else?” asked Thatcher Colt, with a tantali smile. I seratched my vainly. 1 Innocent. | “Ah, Tony,” said my chief, “you have left out some of “ie mest in rtant 8 ut no r, Phether a named them or not, shay ta wo ipnocent.” “Every last one of them—as in- nocent as if Geraldine Foster were “How can li wut ifn insisted, for it did seem to me now that there was ce in the manner of Thatcher Colt. “How?” he repeated, with a chuckle. Well, ‘ony, i will tell you | itatingly he paused to light his pipe, and. then Tite his eyes, he stared at me sombrely the “ “I have umes of violet vapor. ecause,”” he disclosed, been certain from the first that not only was another woman in- 2” uu know that?” I As if chill that dis That mel his terrible suspicion, r Colt gazed at me with “The ly eyes. clue” he said, “lies in this.” - From a drawer in his desk he removed and spread before him the embroidered pillow case which we had found over the head of Ger- aldine Foster. ‘i i “I believe 2 woman did this érime,” repeated Thatcher Colt. “You and I and the guilty crea- ture herself are the only persons living who know that, Tony. And I have to find that woman by means of this pillow case.” “Didn't I gather there was no “a as Salk nedied. is “It never been to a laun —it was new, but T shall find the owner without the laundry mark.” I looked at him incredulously, That seemed an utterly impossible it. jg with me,” he said, and the way, he marched into where there were Too! about thirty detectives assembled. | seemed On a table lay a large pair of shears. As the detectives saluted, ‘Thatcher Colt speed, out the pillow case which he had earried in with him, cut it into thirty segments and gave one piece to each man, Then in a brief speech to stolid detectives, he recalled to them another famous case in which a new on had led CA ihe ae lution of an apparently bafflin; murder mystery is In some detail he told them of the seeit lights on the hill on the night ‘of 3—that probably was the “There is first the doctor him- the | more aes you know about work done by | yi Th F t in of Ate Aum, shane tote pat head at her Each night the thirty men reported to Thatcher Colt KS Police Head- quarters in deep dejection. was never found, but But my chie’ fused to be dis- murderer died for his erime,|couraged. tracked solely by a pillow case. % “If we don’t find some Jobber in recogni is pil- ! Repeated Crimes. low’ case,” he decared, “we'll vit criminals mill in the country before from the past” Twill quit.” Each manufacturer or agent when shown a sample shook his head and declared that it was not in his line. In this, which the oth- ers found so __ discouraging, itcher Colt found comfort. peat tn are able ere m4 ively, and at once, that it is not theirs, that makes our work all the easier,” he declared. “It would really look hopeless if they said they were not sure.” At the beginnis Colt was an ignoramus about pillow cases, but before he through he knew a great deal about them. His te- nacity, in view of repeated fail- ures, seems all the more remark- able to me as I look back on it. It was Detective Sergeant Gerns- back, a stolid, reliable fellow, who finally came proudly to the Com. Colt, “why not our detectives?” athe Geraldt ober mayors ane ie Gel ine the pillow case was unusual and expensive. The slip was of fine texture and should have come from a shop that. dealt in the finest quality of linens. Yet the pillow case, for all its fine quality, was & gaudy affair with rosebuds em- broidered on it. Thatcher Colt then told his thir- ty detectives what he wished them to do. He was talking to men distinguished not for their it to ination, their education, or their intelligence. Instead, they were known, like bull-dogs, for getting their teeth into something and re- fusing to let go. This job to which he assigned them was a hewing- “Ah, yes,” he told the detective, “I remember it very well.” of-wood task, a drawing-of-water| missigner’s office wi . duty, but such work is ital, and|Gernzback had taken te Piece of it of supreme consequence to|the pillow into the office of a the police detection of crime, as the results in this case showed. Not one of the detectives was told that y were working on the Geral- dine Foster case. Each of them was assigned by Thatcher to a section of the city in which were located the lofts and rooms Rhown to deal in bedding and tad snown to in linen. Off they went, each with his +> sample. é y long, day in and day out, for next three days, these de- tectives travelled from building to building, office, anesrentng tributor manufacturers’ agent who tly identified it as of hisown ei ead tae cause to. It cost me a lot of money.” i E z power, ne cea I ju 5 coul proved, Even if they did locate the whole, saler from which it came? But That Colt has a pigtetna re- gard for facts. He feels that the ses even its) ESEEIE elie ne ta BR i i i Nearer you ate recs to the truth about it, On this principle, he continued his pce cha most ringer chase, ressi ecause vi elded Bot the steak. result. astE ary a 4