The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1933, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune Ant Newspaper P THE STATE'S OLDEST f NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Trib- une Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher Weekly by mail in state, three | 250 years . ‘Weekly hy mail outside of North Dake':, per year 1.50 ‘Weekly by mail in ats The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise ecient in Lee} newspaper and also the local news o! ipectancous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. “Not Finished, But Begun” In connection with the golden an- hhiversary of the William Moore school, historians of that ancient and honorable edifice reached into the archives of the past and came up with a class poem, titled “Not Fin- ished But Begun” and presented as the effort of Lynn Sperry, ’94. It is a long time since Lynn Sperry and his classmates stood on the plat- form to receive their diplomas on that far-away June day. For the author many things were to inter- vene before the time when a searcher after antiques was to restore that six-stanza poem to the light of critical comment. Two wars were to come and go, with Sper- ry going half way eround the earth to participate in one of them. ‘We were to get prohibition—and see fit collapse. Greats and near-greats were to strut their little day in the sun and then disappear. And now the poem reappears, per- haps to amuse the man who wrote it, perhaps to bring memories of faces that have gone, never more to return. ‘With all respect to Lynn Sperry’s ‘muse, not all of the poem is worth reprinting. There are points in it where one pictures the schoolboy biting at his pencil and searching in agonized thought for a word to rhyme with one which had gone before it, or the correct turn of a phrase to preserve the meter. There are a lot of homely truths in the poetic effort, of course, for Lynn Sperry’s generation was nur- tured on them, even though it has had to learn, by bitter experience, how to apply them and to ascertain for itself that some of them are hardly ever applied at all. Take, for example, the opening couplets of the third stanza which reads: “Our public schools were not designed “For loafing or for fun; “and — who've borne in mind this “Have always fought and won. “Boys and girls who, while in school, “To lessons pay no heed, “Will have to struggle very hard “If ever they succeed.” One wonders a little how that stir- ring prophecy worked out or if, per- chance, the class of ‘94 boasted of some school sluggard who afterward found opportunity to dabble in the stock market and made a fortune. Such untoward things have happened. ‘The fifth stanza contains sage ad- {vice which, now as then, is of such merit as to deserve careful consid- eration by all who read. Here it is: “In feasting on the learned fruits “Remember number two, “Which is, ‘Don’t take too large a bite “For one small mouth to chew.’ The world could do much worse than refuse to bite off more than it can chew or to confine itself to the ‘matters in hand without worrying too much about the future. If all of us ‘would learn to fight our battles as they come we might improve the current standard. The need for giv- ing. thought to tomorrow should not prevent us from doing our best with today. For when the class of “Bismarck, 94”, along with all the other classes of all other schools, has trod its way into the mists of the future, the prin- ciples for real success and right liv- ing will remain the same. They have love life, even for the most enthusi- jastic actentist, yet it appears that the grasshoppers have been doing for themselves what husbandmen have been trying to do with beef and dairy cattle and other farm animals, Of their own volition and without urg-! ing they have gone about the process! of creating bigger and stronger grass-| hoppers. They will be with us in the crop! season of 1934 and that fact will be| our sorrow unless definite steps are| taken to combat the menace. In view of the government’s will- ingness to assist in other matters per- taining to the welfare of farmers. there is every reason to believe we! may receive assistance in this fight,| even though the amount granted for| the purpose may not reach the sum of $2,500,000 which is being asked. A recent statement by B. E. Groom of the Greater North Dakota associa- tion shows how thoroughly these | Northwest states are infested with) grasshopper eggs and the amount of} money which is expected to be used in each area, ‘The number of counties infested in each state, the area affected and the| cost of poisoning follows: Minne-/| sota, 20 counties and 279,834 acres needing bait at a cost of $41,676; North Dakota, 53 counties and 5,377,- 520 acres, requiring $679,960; South Dakota, 68 counties and 2,567,396 acres, requiring $320,623; Montana, 48 counties and 3,587,316 acres, re- quiring $448,400. The total cost of poison bait would be $1,680,593 and the balance of the $2,500,000 will be needed for trans- Portation, distribution and labor costs, Not So Harmonious | Although the official declaration | after the recent Farmers Union na-| Here’s the Real Pro blem | before commit ze 8 ‘The white ant 4800 Still it does’ & day, says . worry about an code, at all. Moffit f By MRS. C. E. MOFFIT Mrs. John Lunde and children and Mavis visited with Mrs. Bu Johnson Thursday evening. The Christo Cerftre club met at the Kinzler home last Tuesday night. The tional convention was that every- thing was lovely and harmony ruled, there is no escaping the significance of the breach between A. W. Ricker, | editor of the Farmers Union Herald,| PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE. us to support the Grau regime if i¢|fit home. lasts. ‘The girls 4-H cooking club met at the home of Mrs. Burt Johnson Thurg- AN OLD SETTLER day evening. A lesson on preparing Clerks checking the 125,000 job |escalloped potatoes was given and for not having thought of that first, ting suicide. next meeting will be at the C. E. Mof-, and John A. Simpson, president of the organization. | For Ricker to be ruled out of the} convention, obviously because he was not in sympathy with the Simpson regime, and for the two men to en- Gage in a fight in a hotel lobby later, casts @ shadow upon the reports of fine feeling. In this respect it might be noted by the brethren in other states that the Farmers Union is as strong no- where else as in North Dakota. It has more members here than in any other state and carries more influ- ence with the people. Not everyone agrees with its policies, it is true, but there is no question about its stand- ing or the magnitude of the efforts it has made to improve the farming situation, Some observers express the opinion that North Dakota and its neighbors are the cream of the Farmers Union organization. Priv..‘2ly there was some resentment over the treatment of Ricker, a man respected in these| parts for his forthrightness and in- tegrity, a feeling that an attempt was. made at the convention to place the Northwest states in the background. If this is true the whole story is not yet told. The Farmers Union of North Dakota is a fighting organiza- tion and will battle to protect its own. If Ricker turns loose on Simpson, as his statements at the convention indicate he might, he will get a lot of support in this neck of the woods.’ 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. Liquor on the Trading Table (Minneapolis Tribune) ‘The administration's plan to barter Nquor import concessions for trade advantages abroad has yet to emerge in detail, but the general strategy of its contemplated swapping program is fairly clear. After December 5, there will be a market for foreign liquors in this country, and the scramble around for a share in it will be a frenzied one. This market, the administration apparently believes, can be put to good trading uses. If the nations which covet it want it badly enough, they can make some tariff concessions to this country in return for a favored place in the American liquor market. Edward G. Lowry, economic advisor to the treasury department, declared <n Wednesday that the government not only intends to control the vol- ume of liquor imports, but the origin of imports as well. It may even be r , he said, to control the price of imports to meet illicit competition and protect the consumer. With such a rigid control of imports the govern- ment, quite obviously, would be in a ssition to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements in which a share in the American liquor market would be of- fered to those nations willing to make By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health aha hygiene, not to diseane diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, | bodies we would all develop tuber- Address Dr. William Brady, THE MICROBES IN DUST Here is a 52-page pamphlet entitled “How to Conserve Public Health.” It is a report of an address of a mem- ber of the U. 8. senate who is a physi- cian, interspersed with bright com- ments by another medical member of the senate and some quaint interpola- tions by still a third physician senater. I quote from the pamphlet: “Not only are there microbes of ill omen but there are microbes of good omen. There are microbes of ill omen, such as the subercular bacilli, which we inhale daily upon the streets, in the homes, in public institutions, and were it not for the resistance we have built up in our culosis and sooner or later suc- cumb to the disease.” All of which is absurd, old-fogy pes- | simistic fancy. Any “microbe” that! causes disease is of “ill omen,” I sup- pose. But no one knows of a microbe, germ, bacterium or micro-organizm of “good omen”, unless one chooses to regard anything that does one no par- ticular harm in that light. The old fossil who got up the pamphlet betrays his lack of knowl- edge of medicine when he expresses the morbid fancy that we inhale “tubucular” bacilli, He might take an evening off some time and brush up on elementary English, too. He will learn that they are called tubercle bacilli, that tuberculous is jhe adjec- tive referring to the disease tuber- culosis, and tubucular does not neces- sarily refer to that disease. : There is no actual evidence that we inhale tubercle bacilli as this erudite senator would have us imagine. That is ancient almanac lore. Nor is there any reason to assume that we are infected with tuberculosis via germ-laden dust which we inhale. To the best of our present knowl- edge infection with tuberculosis oc- curs usually thru prolonged intimate personal contact with a CARELESS or IGNORANT individual who has the disease in active stage, and perhaps in a few instances thru the drinking of raw milk from tuberculous cows. It is a curious coincidence that one of the eminent senators featured in the pamphlet has permitted the use of his name in the promotion of the business bf & manufacturer being her- alded as authority for the morbid no- tion that household dust is a source of much illness. This particular gadget of course is no more sanitary than any other similar device, but probably ® lot of credulous housewives have taken the pamphlet seriously. self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written fm ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. in care of this newspaper. good intention but it is of no value, because she gives no information about her trouble or the treatment. (Copyright 1933, John F. Dille Co.) The NewDeal Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 2. — Fighting profiteering in the face of an official Policy of price-raising is a tough job. The hamstrung staff on the NRA Consumers’ Advisory Board is dis- couraged. It has wrecked some mo- nopolistic proposals in NRA codes, but failed to stop many others. Some members‘ think the staff should walk out in a body—in protest on behalf of the consumers, similar to that of Dr. Bill Ogburn and his as- sociates weeks ago. Another plan secretly discussed would «efy the official censorship imposed on the CAB by permitting nationally known figures to affiliate themselves and then express their sen- timents with loud roars. A mingled consolation and dis- couragement is the antagonistic at- titude of most NRA administrators and deputy administraors toward the CAB. The staff at least knows it has @ nuisance value, even though its de- mands are unheeded. Chairman Mary Rumsey and Prof. aul Douglas are working on a plan to establish consumers’ councils over the country to protect consumer in- terests locally. Mrs. Roosevelt was sounded and approved the general But inherent difficulties remain. One bad feature of the secret plans mvolves a tieup with leading Dem- verats in the separate communities, SETTER LUCK FOR AAA Dr. Fred Howe's Consumers’ Coun- sel staff of the Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration is having better ‘uck, thanks to symapthy from Secre- tary Wallace and Assistant Secretary Tugwell. Manufacturers dominate NRA, but not AAA, Howe's office has the support of other factions in a joint effort to aid Dust in one’s eyes, ears, nose or mouth is not pleasant, but I assure you there is no need to worry about microbes or germs that float in the air or fly about on dust. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Blarney Butters No Parsnips I read your articles nearly every day. (pages ‘of history and symptoms) ... @®. L. DD Answer—You do not understand what you read. I can form no opin- fon about an individual case on such i i enn ag aed 522 guide have exceeded the Department Ex Agriculture's capacity to them, HATES DICTASORSMIES in Cubs isn’t due to fail- ure of his hand-picked De Cespedes setup to stay on top. Welles, they insist, has applications filed with the Ten- nessee Valley Authority get an oc- casional laugh. For instance, an answer to the question, “Length of residence?” was, “Twenty-nine feet 11 inches.” —— “HUSH” EXPERT FOUND Quiet snooping reveals Stephen M. DeBrul as responsible for NRA’s failure to require full, frank statistics from codified industries. Secretary vf Labor Frances Perkins and gov- ernment statisticians have been wag- ing undercover battle on this issue. DeBrul, former sales manager for General Motors, replaced Dr. Alexan- der Sachs, a real economist, as chief of NRA’s division of planning and re- Sachs and the Central Statistical Board had agreed on a full, search- ing questionnaire form for industries to collect economic data. But DeBrul came in and it was ruled out. He objected to “meddling in business,” GARNER’S SMART “I stay out in the woods most of the time and therefore get very few pa- Dears and get very little news,” Vice President Jack Garner writes from ‘Texas. But perhaps Jack’s guess as to what's going on here is as good as anybody’s, (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) | Barbs | Canton, China, has banned short skirts because they distract auto drivers. Not to mention the drivers’ interest in what is in the skirts. * * * Frank J. Gould’s $5,000,000 gam- bling Casino at Nice has been burned | | demonstrated. The hostess and leati- er Mrs. Burt Johnson served a hot ‘supper. The next meeting will be with Miss Austie Porter. Prayer meeting was held at the Efia Porter je Wednesday evening. next meeting will be held at the ‘Bd Olson home. ‘The ladies aid will meet with Mes. Johnson Wednesday, Dec. 6. Everybody welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Fay Johnson visiied at the Burt Johnson home Sunday, Richard Olson of Bismarck was a caller at the C. E. Moffit home Monday t. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Enockson ‘nd down. Many a loser will kick himself A First name of TESTI ans man, 10 Internal decay in fruit. 11 Companion. 12 To secure a boat. z 14Kiln. IAT = BIASITILINi eodless revo- 33 He formed s ; lution in 1917 ——~ Sovern- * @l) aa 38 Plant shoot. 40'One who tones, 41 Laughter sound. 16 3.1416. 2 "Twenty-four 42 hours. 43 32 Antiseptic powder. 24Sixty minutes, 45 Unit. 26Toemploy. 46 Ruby spinel. 27 Unit of work: 47 Lubricants. 39 Doctrine, 48 To be 20Go on (music). 1 31 Plural (abbr.). 49 Microbe. Credit. 44 Legal rule. Answer to Previous Puzzle LTC Re INTE N O | J 11 Pair (abbr.). 13 Flower, 4 18 Nominal value. 20 Threefold. 21 Exeayated. 23 Palm of the hand. 25 Eaglish maonéy. 2t0 it with contempt. 29 Prongs. > neuaee 50 He represented ‘: the — class, 32 Toney that 1 Too, 2To permit. 4 Jackdaw. 5 a. genus 3 sttatio ot us. CInducing to —Cablen om ® a {30 Bow of » boat. 7 Water wheel. 41 Entrance 8Call for help. (abbr.). 36An adit. ... toom. ‘43 Automobile. 46 Cover. 10 What govern. 46 To subsist. ment followed +7 Natural his downfall? ‘power. E ahedtk S54 if i FORBI — ty Teron of a wenmins -K—gray, der his many cares, chan: mind. Curt ogress to’help him. Chapter Five ON THE WING 'URT swore to himself that when he got through with the Karak. han business he was through and done and would not allow himself to be entangled any deeper. ‘une his There are 30 for Persons every ‘square mile of land on the earth. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS:, cl lancers usually heve/ Bick coming. DDEN VALLEY. William Byron Mowou, While Smash pumped the pon- toons dry, Curt stripped the canvas hood from the radial and inspected. Shoving away, they climbed into the cabin, cranked the inertia starter and etood out into the lake. At'the controls, Curt skimmed north two miles to warm the motor, veered around into the light wind, and gave the plane the gun. Dancing down lake, he reached speed, rocked the stick and jumped the ship into the air. He circled once for altitude, passed over Edmonton, a mile above the still-sleeping city; and headed weet, toward the snowy Selkirks and the Pacific Coast, As he flew along, his eyes were on the horizon over the plane’s nose, “I'm not ‘still a Mounted,” he denied. “I'm taking this on to pay back a little fraction of what I owe you, A-K, and because—well, I guess Um part wolf-hound and can’t resist &@ good chase. if I run that fellow down it'll be worth half a dozen Consolidated jobs.” “There won't be any ‘if, Curt. You'll take him.” He tried to say it confidently, to hide his own doubts. At the best Curt had only an outside chance. The difficulties of the hunt were ap- palling. Yonder in that city of a but his thoughts went on beyond that horizon to the weeks and months ahead. He wondered where the Karakhan hunt would take him and what the veiled future held for him. p4st Calgary and the Blackfoot Selkirks, they dropped down on Okanagan for gas and oil, Smash took the stick then, and they flew on, through the heart of the Rockies. The trip was altogether different from monotonous flying across plains country. He circled once for altitude! aundred and thirty thousand acer-) At Yale they struck the Fraser, tain man had disappeared fast fall.| followed it on west, and reached He had stepped out into the fowing| Vancouver an hour before noon. streams of humanity and those] After registering at the airport, streams had closed over him, oblit-| Curt sent Stash to the Marlin home erating every trace. where A-K had invited them to stay while in the city. He himself went directly to the Mounted headquar- tere. Of his former associates on the Silent Squad the only two still there were Arnold Baldwin, now an inspec’ tor, and Duty-Sergeant Holden. “So the Old Man clapped you on this case, eh?” Baldwin remarked, in his precise Oxford. He resented it that an outsider had been brought in, and took no pains to hide what he felt. “Well, you're damned wel- come, Tennyson! I'm glad to give over and let someone else do the failing.” Curt paid no attention to the re- sentment. There was work to be done, not personalities to be in- dulged. Pacific yawned all the teeming ports of the Orient. shade better than any man ever sent after him. He had the power of money, the advantage of a cold trail, At a desk in Baldwin's office he went over the whole with the inspector and Holden. Fail: ing to trail Karakhan, they had planted inquiries in his old haunts abroad; but the Cossack had not gone back. They had tried to trace his swindle money to banks or de Positories, but he had turned it all into securities, as anonymous as cash. ‘They had sent tracers to the var- fous societies of Russian emigres, shadowed his Vancouver acquaint. ances and watched their mail, and had made ail the customary contacts with police agencies in the States, the empire and Europe. ‘When the conference ended, Bald- win tilted back in his chair and looked challengingly through his gs smoke at Curr, ‘Well Tennyson,” he demanded, “can you improve on our work?” : “I don't see how: you've done 2 real Job, Arn,” Curt eaid, rather ab- sently, He was studying a picture on the desk, the picture of a black. hatred girl of twenty-two, “This leson girl”—he indicated the bead Aad his cigarette holder— she very well acqu: t reali quainted with (Copyright, 1983, William B, Mowery) — renerrew Curt mi EABEX the next moraing Cart and Smash checked out at the hotel, ate breakfast, and taxied through “