The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1933, Page 4

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Wheat ‘Chiselers’ Former Governor Maddock’s com- ment that it is the “chiselers” who fare holding up receipt of the wheat ‘allotment money in North Dakota is ‘worth more than passing attention {because it emphasizes anew the neces- gity for intelligent cooperation among (hose living on the farm if agricul- ture is to get out of the doldrums. Maddock presumably knows where- of he speaks, though it is doubtful if the would be so frank if he were a po- tical ofifce-holder. The tradition requires that such men speak of the farmer as incapable of doing a wrong or mean thing, whereas no one knows better than the farmers that they are Gust average human beings. In an editorial printed in this hewspaper shortly after the allotment plan was adopted, it was emphasized that, if the proposal were to succeed, the farmers would have to accept the task of keeping each other straight with regard to it. To date a fine job has been done fm this respect. The district and county committees have worked long end faithfully and have, generally speaking, Handled their tasks with outstanding competence. In most cases, apparently, they have dealt suc- cessfully with those who would make the well-worn term “honest farmer” @ mere mockery. Hope of getting the wheat checks by Christmas has gone glimmering as a result of the condition Governor Maddock mentions, but other states are getting theirs and we will get ours a8 soon as our internal difficul- ties are adjusted. A recent announce- ment by the agricultural adjustment administration says that the money already has been paid to farmers in 359 of the 1,450 counties which will come under the plan. The volume of payments is only about six per cent of the estimated $70,000,000, however, ‘because most of the counties which have completed their work are in @reas which raise little wheat. The more important grain-growing dis- tricts are having troubles similar to urs. Another, though legal, form of chiseling came to light Wednesday ‘with announcement by the govern- ment that winter wheat sown this’ year totals 41,002,000 acres or 96 per| cent of the acreage seeded in 1932.! ‘This, presumably, was done by those, who preferred to ignore the allot- gnent plan and attempt to profit by the fact that their neighbors were seducing production. In other words, they chose to compete on a purely, @elfish basis rather than cooperate for the good of the country and the Sarming industry as a whole. This may temporary mean failure fn the effort to reduce the surplus and it may demand further and more drastic action to bring these people {nto line than any which has yet been attempted. Of Lasting Significance ‘Those who keep the record books Houbtless will mark up a number of “firsts” for the Lindbergh flight just completed, most of them for Mrs. Lindbergh. She probably is the first ‘woman to fly the Atlantic ocean both east and west and it is doubtful if THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933 part and the log of this flight proves that any fears which might have been entertained were groundless. Although he is known as as daring and intrepid flier, the Colonel's out- standing characteristic is his com- Petence and attention to detail. He leaves nothing to chance and thus it }was that the trip was completed ‘without injury and with only minor repairs to his plane. Tf the flight were undertaken with the deliberate intent of proving how ™much advancement has been made in the field of aviation since Lindbergh flew to Paris it could not have been More successful in this respect. Lind- bergh is affiliated with several com- mercial aviation companies, but even his commercial rivals will rise up and call him blessed. He is the greatest advocate for a rapidly growing in- dustry. New York Gets ‘Brains’ Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor-elect of New York, seems to be another of those people who cherish the odd notion that an official position can be given properly to a man who is distinguished by his possesson of brains rather than by his services in carrying this or that district for the party. By appointing Prof. A. A. Berle to ‘an important city office, the mayor- elect indicates that a “brains trust” can function in municipal politics as well as at Washington. Similarly, he puts his public welfare department in the hands of a trained social worker, and takes a leader in the Seabury investigation into his of- ficial legal staff. A New York used to :Tammany methods in its city government well can find something very startling in these appointments. Apparently the nation’s largest city is in for some- thing pretty sweeping in the way of a new deal. Mellon Shrewdness | Say what you please about the Mel- lons of Pittsburgh, they at least seem to be men who know how to keep their properties from disintegrating in hard times. | The late Richard B, Mellon leaves | an estate estimated at approximately | $200,000,000—and this after four years of the worst depression the country ever has known! Many a once-proud fortune has shrunk to a fraction of its former size| in the last few years. Many a man who used to be rated as a multi-mil- lonaire has come down to the “com- fortably well off” class. Many a leader in finance or in-| dustry has seen his holdings shrink to a point where he actually was, pressed for cash. | But not, apparently, the Mellons. | This remarkable family knows how to keep what it gets, in bad times ‘as well as good. 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 polic Those Subsistence Homesteads| (Minneapolis Tribune) In his annual report, Secretary Ickes calls attention to the subsis- tence homestead experiment being carried on by the federal government among the coal miners of West Vir- ginia. He points out that the net rift of population has been away | from the cities for several years, and| expresses the belief that this move- ment will increase in the future, with & consequent development of “part- time gardening or farming in subur- ban areas as @ means of eking out, family incomes.” The West Virginia /| miners, he says, are “potential” farm- ers and will become real ones under the government homestead program, which plans to make them self-sup- porting in @ rural community. They are to be taught to farm for home consumption and to engage, in addi- tion, in some subsidiary craft or trade. | Just how far the government in- tends to go in its scheme to convert hard-pressed urbanites into real) farmers the report does not indicate, but an initial sum of $25,000,000 has/ been set aside for that purpose. While the homestead plan has a cer- tain idyllic appeal to it, there can be no denying the difficulties inherent in the job of conversion, and no over- looking the fact one result of the subsistence farm program will be to put more agricultural acreas into Pro- | youth in another light, in my capacity | duction at a time when acreage re- las health adviser. These wild-talking | duction is a crying need. Farming. even subsistence tarming—requires an aptitude and experience which even the federal government cannot create offhand for its homestead proteges. | It is @ mistake to assume that any- one whom the federal government beckons back to the soil will auto- matically take root there, and farm flight for it was & business journey which eventually may vitally affect the intercourse of nations and the lives of many people. The object of this trip was to make an serial survey for pérmanent com- successfully on his subsistence acres. Furthermore, unless the homesteads are rigidly kept on a subsistence basis, we must face the possibility of a sur- plus production which would hardly help prevailing markets; and even with production limited to the in- dividual’s needs, there is on sumer to be counted on in Ha aEfe i L i i Ege rll jatmosphere and suspense and not too (mystery of life and either hold aloof | The Next Step } oy nae ee self-addressed envelope is enclosed. THE MYSTERY OF LIFE Give me a good mystery yarn and —oh, a few simple adjuncts, and I'm happy. The general run of fiction, both classical and woodpulp, never: troubles me much. I did follow through a yarn of Knut Hamsun’s— Growth of the Soil—for the charm of the writer's style, and I dipped into} one of Arnold Bennett's tales of the Five Towns or was it Three Towns, held for a few chapters by the au- thor’ intimate knowledge of the tech- nical side of divers professions. But for real entertainment and forgetful- ness of worries and troubles give me @ mystery story—none of your smart detective tales, but a mystery with many errors in spelling and syntax. dish, and not mixed in with regular rations. ‘When I was a boy 17 or 18 years old, in my first year in college, I wor- ried a great deal about what I learn- ed only a year or two later was a) normal condition. I used to read with | Great interest the booklets and the newspaper ads of the many quacks/| who boldly cried their wares in those | days, and all that ever kept me out} of the clutches of some such vulture | was the fact that I didn’t have the Price. That is just one of many rea- sons why I am glad I was always) hard up, heavily in debt, when I was | @ youth. It is one reason why I feel! sorry for the boy who begins his fast life driving his own car in his college days and even in his high school days. He doesn’t get a fair deal. Acne was another more or less nor- mal condition that gave me many un- happy moments, It makes thousands | of boys and girls needlessly unhappy. I wonder why it is that parents then and now prefer to keep up the or actually frown on efforts to teach the children the truth about things from the beginning. I suppose it is only natural for us old folk to look upon the flaming youth of the day as frightfully soph- isticated and all that. Well, I see youth in the same light, as a plain citizen. But let me tell you I see boys and girls today are just acting, trying to be nonchalant. When it comes right down to the heart or soul they are just as dumb as ever. Their sophistication is merely an affectation which they get from the movies and the woodpulp magazines. I have a general letter of instruc- jtion and advice which I composed originally for boys 16 years or older, but I am glad to send this letter to any boy of any age who asks for it and encloses a stamped envelope bearing his address. And if the boy writing for this advice and instruction Pertaining question he would like answered pri- T insist on is sincerity, and no im- or hypothetical questions. 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, in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. I like my mystery served as a side| to sex has a particular vately, he may ask the question. All personal Sorry I can’t offer similar service Letters should be brief and written Some one had told her cutting them would make them grow long. I cry every time I look at her. Can you tell me anything that will make them grow? (Mrs. M. H.) Answer—They'll grow to their nor- mal length in a few weeks. The su- Perstitution is just as sound as the companion superstition that clipping or cutting hair makes the hatr grow better. Cod Liver O8 Please advise the dose and the pre- paration of cod liver oil to take for} chronic sinus trouble. (E. M. R.) Answer—For adults a tablespoonful daily, for children a teaspoonful daily, of plain crude cod liver oil which | good druggists sell in bulk. I be- lieve such cod liver oil is preferable to any fancy brand. (Copyright, 1933, John F. Dille Oo.) The NewDeal eiaiee Washington Roosevelt Will Bear Down on U. S. Grain Exchanges ... No Consum- ers at Hearing on-Dog Food . Artists to Be Rated as Human... NRA Chief Out of Step... Swap Insull for Wine Trade? BY RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 21—The admin- istration is moving toward more dras- tic regulation of grain exchanges. This is in line with Roosevelt's strong feeling, well known to his in- timates, that size of farmer incomes should not be subject to manipula- tions of speculators in Chicago. The “brain trust” crowd at AAA, working on the code presented by exchanges, is set to give Secretary Wallace all the regulatory powers which exchange rulers now possess over their own operations. That in- cludes the right to limit daily fluc- tuations and the amount of grain futures contracts. The administration's reformers think two things most need correc- tion: 1. Ability of large operators to influete price movements, bearing or bulling; 2. “Squeezes” by operators who buy up futures and plaster pre- miums on grain sellers prevented from deliveries as per contract by congestion or other factors. They propose specifically to limit future speculation to 2,000,000 bushels and to permit the secretary to lib- eralize delivery rules when advisable. ‘This plan was worked out by Byron QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS When the Diabetic Travels diabetes and must weigh take While I to girls. Tried it out some years ago and the vote from mothers, perhaps a my do! P. Parry, grain expert attached to The grain trade balks, though told such federal powers would be used only in emergencies, NO DAY FOR DOGS Hi zeit ! | | j ARTISTS MADE HUMAN Heavy-bearded Sculptor: Jo David- son, here to do a bust of Roosevelt, applauds the plan to employ poor artists at decorating public build- ings as the “most wonderful thing that ever happened to the American irtist. al He ‘anticipates an outbreak of |mural painting, stimulated by private enterprise, in an effort to make busi- ness surroundings more attractive. Much of the government-sponsored art will be good and will “last,” he predicts. “The program takes the artist off his pedestal as an eccentric charac- ter and makes him part of the living organism of society,” he explains. OUT OF STEP Stephen M. De Brul, the General 2 Who is the man in the picture? 12 Preposition, 44 Sudden inva- sion by police. 15 Christmas carol. 16 To accomplish. 17 He is a fa- mous —— player. 19 Rogue. 21 Flower heads of boneset. 22 To deprive. 28 Some. 24 Twitching. 25 Exists. 26 Variant of 27 Nay. | { 44 Thump. 47 Northeast. 48He is a 30 Large. 50 Part of an 31 Aperture. 33 Because. 34 To tear stitches. 36 To stat 39 Spigot 41 Sloth. Ww \ cards. 54 Chief. —— in his sport. MAL THE NITY IP} IN] .29 South America. native of —— arch, 52 Apportions, as 55 He was a —— Se td B\SERR best in a set-to with the Central Sta- tistical Board, in which he objected to compilation of long-range plan- templat TRADE INSULL FOR WINE? ‘There's no great demand for Greek wines in this country, but there's a large yen for Sam Insull. The Greeks are eager to ship lots of wine, how- ever, and when they found their ex- Ports here would be limited to 25,000 gallons in a four-month period, they remembered how snooty they had been about delivering Insull. It was hinted to them that this might be a case of cause and effect. That was why the Greek government told Insull he could not stay in Grgece after Jan. 31. (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) I don’t put any more faith in some bankers than I do in dentists. Both use gold and neither knows much about it—Frank A. Vanderlip, fi- nancier. * ke * T never really liked the theater— Maxine Elliott. * * * One reason I admire my stomach so much is because it has never failed to talk back if I abused it.—Daniel Frohman. x * * Human nature has many sides which cannot be touched by money or by the lack of it—John Erskine, novelist. * * * A lot of people come into court be- lieving they want a separation, when what they want is to be shown the way to bear and forbear.—Joseph Sabath, famous Chicago divorce — Barbs | Movie couple got married again on their first wedding anniversary. After ® whole year together, they had to this, U 0 2 B able 2 decipher it, (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) ST. LOUIS pean 2 QUITS head football coach for the last four years, has resigned, and indications Thursday were that Joe Maxwell, line coach under Walsh, would succeed him. BAILEY HAS EVEN CHANCE Boston, Dec. 21.—(#}—Irvin (Ace) Bailey Thursday ete even chance Maple Leafs-Boston Bruins game, at- tending physicians expressed hopes for his recovery. CONNIE WILL MAKE FLIGHT Philadelphia, Dec. 21.—(4)—Always adventurous in baseball, Connie Mack, veteran pilot of the Philadelphia Ath- letics, plans his first airplane flight as part of his celebration of his 71st birthday Saturday. RUDOLPH VS. PONZI Chicago, Dec, 21.—(P)—Erwin Ru- dolph of Cleveland and Andrew Ponzi of Philadelphia, meet Thursday night The average distance coveyed by an airmail letter is 1,400 miles. m a 125-point game to decide the world billiard championship, Some high-toned girls need to eoft-pedal their aecomplishments FORBIDDEN VALLEY $y Wiliam Byron M SYNOPSIS: Curt Tenn: and Paul 8t. Clair are trailing Igor Karakhan, miltonatre crook, (ato the wilde of the Lilluar, T! have foined partice with Bon; and piu eee Load and Ralph claim to be entomologists on a act- entific expedition, and to be broth. er and sister. Curt, who te much interested in Sonya, finde they are neither scientists nor relat Bone ya is bound on a secret m is and will not explain it to Curt, who nevertheless promises to tect her aa best he can against the dan- jerous Klosohee Indions, whose territory they are entering. Chapter 21 THE BATTLE A’ THE month of the pass the go through some such ceremony, or get @ divorce, * ek * Seoretary of Agriculture Wal- lace reports a billion dollar gain in income of U. S. farmers. Don’t forget to report your share in your next income tax return! ee * Samuel Insull has been asked to leave Greece. If he knew what's good for him, he will return to the United States and enjoy perfect freedom while his attorneys keep him out of Jail. * * Man can exist on earth alone, says a scientist. And with con- siderable effort, at that. * oe ‘The practice of initialing names of ‘New Deal organizations may become #0 general that F U C NE thing like | Sports Star | HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle 13 Years between 12 and 20. ¥11} JOM! 16 Borotra was ABBOT IS} his partner tn PIE | LLIN} TE aY fa | 28 Rowing tool. IG] 30 Lad. 32 Cavity 33 Handsome. 35 To breathe laboriously 36 Steel vault. 37 Not wide- spread. 38 Bulb flower. 40 Nobieman. 42 Heavy blow. 43 Pinochle score. 46 To hurt, 46 Halt. 3 Sea eagles. 4 Securing. 5 To ascend. 6 Structural anit. 7 Upon. 8 Heart. 9 Audition. 10 Otherwise. 53 South Caro- lina. 54 Father. NN NS next morning, Curt stood up in {his canoe for a last look ahead. To jget his party through that narrows |Wwas a job that he would gladly have (handed to someone else, He had the juneasy feeling that eyes were watch- \ing his three canoes and dusky \hands were toying with fluted ar WS. Tho pass was more than a mile ‘long, with a strong current to buck ‘and no midstream islets to take (refuge on. He and Paul had scouted it out that morning while the others ‘were still asleep, and had discovered ‘only one favorable circumstance. Sometime that spring a lightning ‘fire had swept down the east shore, {eutting a swath half a mile wide, ‘and burning to the very water edge. Along that whole east shore there ‘was hardly a place where a rabbit could have made its form. If the Klosohees were watching the pass, they had to be on the west side, By hugging the east landwash with his party, he could make them shoot all the way across the river. No bows that he had ever seen could do effective work at that distance. Before sitting down, he gave his final orders: “Paul and I'll lead, Sonya and Francois’ll come next, Ralph and Jocku last. We'll keep strung out in single file so dt'll be harder to hit us. One other thing— nobody shoots at those men unless T say shoot. Jocku, that’s meant for you and Francois.” They skirled into the narrows, In spite of the stiff current they put the rods behind them, hoping to slide through unmolested. A quarter way through, i hap Dened—the thing Curt had expected. Twenty yards ahead of his canoe! something plunked into the water. Watching the opposite shore closely, be saw a second object, so swift that it seemed a mere flash, come whiss- ing out of a rocky ravine and sail across the river in a low graceful arch. It too fell ahead. Another and another followed, not’ aimed at the three craft but delib- erately placed in front, as a warning to turn back. They came faster and faster till perhaps fifty arrows had Deen shot. Then they suddenly atopped. ‘The range of those horn bows daunted Curt. They could do dam- age at that distance. They could do deadly work. He stopped and let Sonyals craft glide up alongside. “You ie down, girl, flat in your canoe, Don’t expose yourself; you'll ‘be taking chances on your life if you do.” He pulled her blanket roll beside her and laid his own sleeping Poke on top of it for extra protec tion. “Francois, you and Jocku dip those dling valiantly. Tenderfoot though be was, in those hectic moments that Drought out man’s real nature he Wer paddle and was help- ing Francois, “Get down!” Curt ordered her, “Don't you know you're lable to be killed?” Sonya shook her head as though saying, “Well, aren’t the rest of you?” An instant later vicious ar. Tow whizzed over her, so low that she dodged and gasped. Another: splintered the thwart she was sitting, against, A third hit the sleeping poke which Curt had placed at her! side, If the poke had not been there,’ that third arrow would have shot her through the breast. i Francois shipped peddle and) grabbed for his rifle. i “Drop that!" Curt snapped at him.| “You can’t touch ‘em. They're in} Cover, we're on open water. That! paddle will get you out of danger: quicker than a gun!” ' Bent low, they clipped on up! stream, trusting tc sheer luck, { Slowly the arrows tailed off, began! falling behind, and finally stopped! altogether as the range became too! great. Curt let the other two cances catch! Up and looked them over. Nineteen arrows in the three craft!—it was a miracle that none of his party had’ been killed or weunded. Ralph flicked the sweat from his face and stared across at the forbidding woods, with fright in his eyes. Francois and Jocku were ready to turn in their tracks and whip back south. Sonya was the coolest of the lot He picked the arrow out of the! sleeping poke ana examined it curi- ously. A superb piece of workman- ship, its obsidian head was pointed to needle sharpness and its shaft! was neatly feathered with split hawk-quills. Paul touched his arm and pointed to the rocky ravine across the river. ‘RB leaving the ravine.) Watch. There by the four birches| goes one now!” Curt glimpsed a shadowy figure! slipping into a buck-brush thicket, Another and another followed. Hight, of them. To be only eight, they cer. tainly had let loose a flock of arrows! He knew why they were hurrying| up stream. Their first ambush had failed but they still had time to lay; another one before his party could! get through the pass. No use to race; them; they were loping along a game) trail while his canoes were fighting) & ten-mile current. There was noth-| ing to do but go ahead, keep a sharp| lookout, and try to get by them: again. ' He gave the word, and his party, ‘went on. Near the upper end of the narrows, & long granite rock jutted out into the river, extendin; fully a third of the way across; and at its tip a pile of break-up débris had | quite sufficient to hide eight men. Curt looked at it sharply as the canoes approached. If the Klosohees were hiding there, it was suicide to try to get past. al On above it lay a big river-widen-! ing, the end of the pass. It tempted! him, that broad sun-glistening water.' In ten minutes his party could be! skimming out upon it. { He reached his binoculars, drew the granite rock up close, studied! the pile of débris, but saw nothing} suspicious. He had almost made up his mind to take the risk, when a magpie with a stolen egg in its bill! came flapping down stream. Direct- ly above the rock it suddenly’ breasted up high, nearly tumbled’ over itself in the air, dropped’ the! egg, and veered abruptly out across! the river. Curt and Paul looked knowingly! Sonya spoke up. “I know how you ean do it! We're not stopped! We can’t pass them on the river, but why: can’t we portage around them? Just: as we would at a rapids or falls!” | ‘The move was so simple and bys evident that Curt felt ashamed for! (Copyright, 1988, William B. Mowery) Temorrow, Ours feces death.