The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1933, Page 4

mA ren aoe Mann as Rwenesor aI THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, The | Bismarck Tribune|'®? "™ sate which marked the Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER wreck of the Shenandoah, the Graf: Proved perfectly airworthy. Many times, it seems reasonable, she has ___jcome safely through disturbances ‘Trib-|such as that which accounted for th Company, B entered at the postoffice &s second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN Preaident and Publisher “~‘Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per Daily by mail per year (in Daily by mail per year (in state jismarck) outside B: se eneseece Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ND. and) iy. i. . ak i | Ui-fated Akron. Those great ships have written, pages of tragic history. The Graf, a smaller craft, still sails bravely on. The answer to it may be not “big- ger and better” but “better and bet- year ......97.20/ ter.” Bis- A Sensible View Representatives of those five mid- 6.00] Western states which met at Des ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year 1.00/ Moines took a sensible view of an ap- Weekly by mail in state, three rears yt . Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year . Weekly by mail in Cana year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Darkest Before Dawn One need not be Pollyannaish to remark, of the current agricultural situation, that it is always darkest just before the dawn. It may be 80 in our case, Take, for example, the current ef- forts which are being made to raise agricultural prices. They may not be immediately effective, may even fail in the long run, yet they have ac- complished definite and worthwhile results and bid fair to accomplish more. The first evidence of this comes in the slightly improved prices for cer- tain farm products. They are not what they were in July, it is true, but, the inflation bug was active then. It is more wary now. The second evidence, important to this area, will come soon with dis- tribution of the wheat allotment checks. They will be potent remind- ers that the government has not for- gotten the farmer. Even the most cynical will see in them concrete evi- dence of interest. There will be oth- ers, for this region will share, if only to a small extent, in the benefits of the corn-hog control program and the compensating tax on beef cattle, the most hard pressed major industry in this region. But the big benefits, if the thing works out according to schedule, are yet to come. When production is scaled down to consumption we will have opportunity to see in action that magic economic law about which spouters long have gone into spasms. We may yet see the time when the farmer will get more for 50 bushels of wheat than he used to get for 100 and when—which is more to the Point—every farmer will have 50/ bushels of wheat to sell. H But the whole thing takes time. The situation which we now face is the accumulation of years. It has come upon us slowly and, conversely, we can expect to climb out only slowly. The primary reason for this lack’ of speed lies in the very nature of farming operations. With the ex- ception of alfalfa, the farmer raises only one crop on a given piece of land during a year. In the language of business, his turnover is slow. This is not true of most manufac- turers, for example the makers of shoes. Their output may be adjusted much more easily. From raw leather to the wearer's foot may be only a matter of weeks. For this reason the National Re- covery Act has operated to help la- bor much more directly and more rapidly than the Agricultural Ad- justment Act has helped the farmer. That is the basis for the present com- plaint. There is no question that it 1s. justified, although the atmos- phere probably will be more cheerful after those allotment checks have come in. The only course suggested by pres- ent critics of the government's activi- ties is direct inflation, a doubtful remedy. It has never worked well for the farmer in the nations where it has been tried and this country would hardly prove an exception. At any rate, it does not seem now that we are going to have it. The presi- dent's gold manipulations have taken the edge off the currency inflation demand since it is, in a way, a direct means of inflation and satisfies many powerful interests demanding more money in circulation and a raising of the price level. ‘What is there left for the farmer, to do? He may join the strike move- ment, a3 some are doing, or he may join others who prefer to string along with the government. Of the wo courses, the latter would sesm to, be it is bigger. Take boils, ste r proaching problem when they rec- ommended that state liquor taxes be seseecsee 1.50] kept down to prevent bootlegging. Their wisdom lies in appreciating the fact that illicit sales of alcoholic beverages may be promoted by high cost as well as by prohibition. It is one thing to permit the coun- try to become swamped by cheap li- quor, It is quite another to make Mquor cheap enough for all to buy but to surround it with safeguards against abuse. With cheap liquor, under strict control, there will be little room for the bootlegger. The competition of legitimate spirits will drive him out of business by stealing his market. Those few who, by reason of their abuse, may be barred from the pur- chase of legal liquor, will be too few and too far apart to offer much of a field for exploitation. No Time for Temper General Hugh Johnson, that en- ergetic man, makes something of an ass of himself in his current quarrel with the Ford Motor company. One need not go into the merits of the dispute to prove the point. He need only scan General Johnson's conduct in the matter and his ex- Pressions on the subject. In statements Friday, the general made it clear enough that he is out “to get” the Ford company. They have not danced to his music and so he would adopt the time-honored ex- pedient of shooting at their feet to make them jump. not acted very temperately. He has indulged himself in a fit of temper in a matter too important to be handled by injudicious methods. As the Ford company declares, in ironic rejoinder, his “vocabulary has cut him down again.” * Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other edito They are published without regal to whether they agree or disagr With The Tribune's policies. The Retail Code (N, ¥. World-Telegram) None of the parties in the long and bitter dispute over the NRA retail code is entirely pleased with the code as finally signed by the president. But it was impossible for the admin- istration to satisfy the conflicting in- terests. Those conflicts are real—as between the large merchant and small, the chain store and the inde- Pendent, the merchant and the man- ufacturer, the city and the rural com- munities, tne seller and the buyer. Inevitably the resulting code is a compromise. On the surface it ap- pears to be about as far a compro- mise as could have been worked out If not, time will demonstrate its un- fairness. It is put forward as a tem- Porary expedient for three months. On or before February 1 a representa- tive and responsible committee will report on its operation and submit recommendations for changes. Had the president accepted the original code provision banning sales for less than cost plus ten per cent, it would have put a heavy load on consumers before their purchasing Power was fully restored and it might also have destroyed just competition. On the other hand, if the president had subjected rural stozes to the same code provisions as the larger estab lishments it doubtless would have killed many small businesses almost overnight. Such practical considerations ex- plain in large part the code com- Promise, which now merely prohibits retail sale at less than invoice cost Plus @ portion of wages paid by the retailer, except in the case of bona- fide clearances, perishable merchan- Gise, damaged goods and discogtinued lines. Likewise it explains the ex- emption from the code of stores em- Ploying fewer than five persons in towns of 2,500 population and less. Clearly the NRA could have pro- duced @ better code if its sole task had been to wipe out maladjustments and inefficiencies in our wasteful distributing system, thus protecting the consumer by encouraging only the most efficient form of retailing. But the immediate practical prob- lem was not so simple. To have bankrupted thousands of stores and to have thrown their employes on the sare would ae aed the Tee and ine creased purchasing power. This retail code and its paradoxes are typical in greater or lesser de- ‘Anyhow, Human Nature Doesn’t Seem to Fluctuateé | ‘ PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, 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 instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. To say the least, the general has|}7HIS WISTFUL LOOKING BACK- ‘WARD Youth is a blunder; manhood & struggle; old age a regret, said Dis- raeli in one mood, and in another the same famous maker observed that al- most everything that is great has been done by youth. Another noted writer of Disraeli’s time who told the world the pen is mightier than the sword bade blundering youth and struggling manhood cheer up, for in the lexicon of youth there is no such word as “fail.” I pstieng wonder ri my own pet poet Bope didn’ get off a neat one on the subject, but what's the use? The way one looks at youth depends mainly on the state of one’s arteries, and no amount of Poetizing or metaphor making can remove the question from the field of Physiology. Rejuvenation is the bunk so far as any magic nostrum, gland hocus-po- cus or mail-order surgery is concern- ed. But jf one can free one's mind from the poetry, romance and mystery inspired by the miracle merchants there are some things which one should know and do and some things one should avoid in order to stay young. I refey to sound principles of physiology and hygiene, and not to any silly twaddle about smiling when you're in no condition to smile or be Pleased with yourself. A symbol which has become popu- lar tho it is incorrect is TB which really means tubercle bacilli but to the laity means tuberculosis. In med- ical parlance there is another sym- bol, CVD which means cardiovascu- lar disease or degeneration—that, is, Brady, M. D. contrasted with the building up or upgrade change of youth and adult life. Regeneration is a reversal of the downgrade changes, such as I believe still possible for those who have gone stale. In @ talk to follow we'll con- sider this in more detail. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Regeneration Regimen Quite a while ago you gave a diet Gov. Alfalfa Bill Murray of Okla- homa has dropped cod liver oil from the diet of state patients. And now), all the children of Oklahoma will vote for. him. * * * If the prohibitionists want to do any good at all, they should organ- ize a campaign against beer for breakfast. * ek * Hollywood is supposed to have lost over $150,000 in one day’s football bets. Now do you see why the sal- aries mustn't be cut? * * ® Scientists say human beings lived in Virginia 2000 years ago. The first families will now have to revise their family trees. for persons prei old and breaking down ... (B.H.C.) | Answer—Ask for booklet “The “Re-' generation Regimen.” Inclose a dime and a stamped envelope bearing your address. No stamped addressed en-! velope no booklet. Tomatoes Are Healthful Kindly advise whether tomatoes are | bad for one with neuritis, and also} whether it is harmful to work around them. (Mrs. T. A.) a Answer—Tomatoes are good for! every one, especially for folks with rheumatiz. Hindhede reported that! an exclusive diet of 11 pounds of to- matoes, 1% pounds of Graham bread and about 4 ounces of margarin daily produced a urine having a high sol- vent power over uric acid. (But that} was in the old days when some doc- tors still imagined uric acid was a cause of some ailments). Keep Feet Warm and Sleep Well If the lady who has cramps in the! legs at night will put extra covers! over her legs she may escape. I for- merly suffered in that manner until I learned to keep my feet and legs warm in bed. (8. L. C.) | me you. It is a good heart and artery disease. This in- cludes many cases of slow heart fail- (Bright's disease). now terminates more lives than does tuberculosis itself. People are learn- ing how to avoid or prevent tubercu- losis—learning in spite of our popular education system. People are not learning how to avoid CVD, for this is more a question of personal health, individual knowledge and habits. Most individuajs take neither interest in nor any steps to combat premature old age or “breakdown” until they are pretty far gone. Now I believe sincerely that a man or woman who is just “a bit stale” can come back, but I do not mean to suggest that there is any hope for habitual of- fenders who repent and cry for suc- cold gradations of decay. Symptom hunters who prick up their ears and pay close attention here may as well turn to the funny We have a lot of youngish readers whom we want to keep young, and for their sake we are quite finical about mentioning symptoms. Besides, there are no particular symptoms which spell staleness or premature be age or beeing ee Sam ms are properly comp! the pa- tlent makes to his doctor, not sug- Hyer aiid doctor gives to the pa- ent. : Degeneration is a word that rather alarms the layman because his inter- pretation is different from the inter- gree of virtually all of the problems inherent in administration of the New Deal, whether represented in a ‘single code or in the general effort to keep wage increases and price Stated another way, it is the inev- itable conflict between the needs This is 2 policy and not an expedi- ent.—President Roosevelt, on the over NRA. ‘ fe ’ cor when they are overtaken by the) pictures. | * lea. (Copyright 1933, John F. Dille Co.) Ex-President’s Wife © HORIZONTAL 2Who is the pictured lady? 12 Corpse. 14 Hodgepodge. 15 Rodents 16 Exclamation of surprisé 17To regret 19 Freckle. 21 Silkworm. 22 Foamy 24 Aurora. 25To apportion. 27.Irish tribal society 28 Domesticated. 29Sea goddess. 32 Exclamation of disgugt. | $3 Person having leprosy. 35 Lariat. 37 Eon. 38 Orb. 39 Suffix form: ing nouns. 41 Halt em. 42 Northe: 48 Postscript. HH To undermine. S2Form of “be.” iC] BIE} IMAI 53 Period 55 To fish 56 To observe 57 Frozen desserts 59 English money 60 Minute skin opening. 61 What was her husband's first name? 62 What was her VERTICAL 1She accompay fed her hus. Answer to Previous Puzzle IVITICTTIORIETE JIS Ie fe NTF VICTOR JE AmaE ER HERBERT JE IIe NA! INAIUG IIT Y MIA “6 Neck scart. (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) Be Lib Soe wha . War 13 Inclined. 16 Smells. 18 She traveled in —— with i the president LJ on his peace Bil} mission. 3) 20 Toward. 21To slip away 33 Myself. 26 Lieutenant (abbr ) 30 Stigma. 31To merge 34 Before. 36 Yes. 40 Wireless. 43To primp. , 45. A little (music) 47 And. 48 Bow of a boat 49 Paddle. 50 Medical sponge. 51 Deity 52 Pertaining to air E feel 1] [MIA IRIC) band to the —— Peace Conference. 3 To accomplish. 4 Badly. 6 Fine whet- stone. 7 Colored part of the eye. 8To loiter 9 Portico. 10 Bone maiden ‘name? 41 She was host- 64 To scatter ess atthe U 56 Sun. ~ 8. —— during 58 Senior (abbr.) the World 60 Place (abbr) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1933 The New Deal Washington When Labor Board Says “Agree,” It Means “Agree” . . . Litvinov Will Accept No Wooden Nickels . . . What's Cost of Producing Wheat? ‘Washington, Oct. 28.—Although it Pagina small skiff bt igh Ty the cargo tonnage of a huge freighter, the National Labor Board proceeds steadily as an instrument for the unionization of labor. Its small staff operates in a mad- house reminiscent of NRA itself in earlier days. Senator Robert Wagner, the chairman, is fagged badly. ‘To deal with the epidemic of strikes, & score or more regional boards are being appointed rapidly—a national network of mediatory machinery to have primary jurisdiction over labor disputes. Each board is being organ- ized like the NLB, witti six to 10 mem- bers equally representing industry and labor, plus an impartial chairman. In practice, the NLB has been an enforcement agency fer the collec- tive bargaining and employe repre- sentation clauses of the recovery act. When disputes over union recogni- tion -arise, it asks for free employee elections. In only a very few small mills have workers voted nonunion. The inside story of the settlement of the Westinghouse strike in western Massachusetts illustrates Wagner's determination to enforce the law. At 11:15 a. m. Wagner gave the com- Pany’s president and attorney a 45- minute ultimatum to reach an agree- ment, the alternative being @ flat rul- the board. rahe) the eater boned Probably could an with employes and asked three Soh more. By 4:90 they had consented to reinstatment of strikers, a collective bargaining nt, and subsequent NLB arbitration. This was the enter- ing wedge for organization of the other; Westinghouse plants. LITVINOV IS CANNY ‘They tell this story to illustrate the cautious training instincts of the forthright Maxim Litvinov, who soon will be here to discuss Russian recog- nition with President Roosevelt: ‘At Riga in 1921 He was negotiating entry of an American relief expedi- tion to Russia. The Soviet, still sus- Picious and fearful of interventions, said American representatives must bring no weapons. Litvinov was told they would bring only food. “Vell,” he exclaimed, “but food ees This conference will be held under more pleasant auspices. WHAT COST WHEAT? The chief trouble about guarantee- ing farmers their cost of production is the difficulty of ascertaining costs, which is partly due to the great varia- bility on different farms. ‘The Department of Agriculture ex- perts have figured that the average cost of producing a bushel of wheat last year was 72 cents, a bushel of corn about 34 cents, and a pound of cotton around nine cents. | President John Simpson. of the Farmers’ Union says the cost of pro- ducing a bushel of wheat is $1.50 and the Farm Holiday association de- mands put it at $1.35, with other costs varying in All those ignore differences in efficiency and other factors. The farmer with 100 acres, for instance, can raise cheaper wheat per bushel than the farmer with 10 acres. Averages don’t mean much. If the average cost were used in guarantee ers ca Pkg receive less than their product cost. ‘Worst of all, adcording to officials, farmers demanding production cost ‘are unwilling to tie the scheme with any plan for trol. (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) pees Me rani Just a suggestion, but our unem. ‘ployed could be put to work mowing /\that grass which is supposed to be growing in out streets by this time. Literary men cannot write plays, Shakespeare was first of all an actor and 8 dramatist, His beautifn! language was just something throw, in for good measure—Daniel Fro. ‘man, theatrical producer. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYs: Plan, hundreds of thousands of farm- Many an artist's model ts bete ter than she’s painted. “STOLEN LOVE’ by HAZEL LIVINGSTON COPYRIGHT BY KIN® FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC. WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR. Joan Hastings and her sweet- heart, Bill Martin, are her stern aunt, learns of the romance and off the train goes Bills had left town. Unable to return to her aunt’s hom San_ Francisco. interest oan. Bill is befriended ‘ollo 8, wealthy y wihose father ives Bill « position so it towards him. sh when Bill comes NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XXIxX The door bell rang. course, sho’s forgotten 1 What a shame, to come all the way back, with terrible high heels, and her hurting so.... H 8 Maisie’s china blue eyes were round ble, in the d pith. terror. Is there ai there?” She shook ber head. “No. No one re making it forme me E i i i Fi E § 3 i E : : P ETE Ee! i ry i. 2 iF H 2 H ts a i | wiv .|_, The last of him to go?_ “PI ” ghe said quite "t. I never] tragically Her eyes were closed, her lips sed together. Her it. It's so far behind| breath came in rasping sobs. With “TAabeurd! Joan, you're. putting joan, you're me off again. You're Tat vio me a chance to talk. Every time T’ve seen you’ve done [oe the hi me— home only to learn that he t to you—’ it was all a mistake, le mistake, and I won’t rest till I make it right, or as right, I’m going to make you She laughed shakily. “E: if I don’t want to. ‘Even it T want uu to go! Even if I'd rather not at you—” nd a year ago—less feng a ir fue, Joun—Jou promised” her self-control was ’s absurd you're coming] the littl strength that was left in her she kept her face averted, shed him away with her clenched ands, His mind whirled in dark circles, dark circles of deep water, whirl- pools suckin; «2+ “T’'ve lost He did not hear Mai: turn in the lock, but Joan did. me go!” she whimpered, frozen with terror and shame. Her eyes were fixed on the door, waiting, waiting for Maisie to come in, find them— Maisie’s china blue eyes were round with terror. She stood tee- tering in the doorway, on her high, high heels, her mouth open, the key 7 ‘ling foolishly in her hand. laisie!” Joan cried. “Maisie!” slipping. He held her two hands’ Somehow she freed herself from soon after loving her and is in- Months tesiag Bil wate eth, fs iF HE l : in i f i Hi E dé q H = tr E a} ae g: Te i i HEE She stood teetering grasp, ran, wildl herself ‘in Masion spas SQ: er 4 ni When Joan look her tears she grid y production con) Peo ee ee ia ate ay ‘eal ak me: