The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1934, Page 4

Whe Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) { Published by The Bismarck Trib- ‘une Company, Bismarck, N. D., and ‘entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ‘ps second class mail matter. t GEORGE D, MANN { President and Publisher | __- st oe Subscription Rates Payable in Advance “Daily by carrier, per year.......87.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bis- TMMAICK) ......seeeeceeeeee see Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck) ........ $.00| Here again we have unsupported; eee By mail outside of North «7 Claims arrayed against a background Ota wae waseeee/ ON | Weekly by mail in state, per year 1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three | Weekly by mail in Canada, year ... 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. We Beg to Disagree In le with its settled policy of @iving every reader opportunity to express his opinions through the col- ‘umns of this newspaper, The Tribune today prints a letter from Nonparti- san Club No. 468 of Parshall, which assumes to review the administration of Governor William Langer. Since it apparently is based on the ‘unsupported assertions and unverified claims of Langer partisans, The ‘Tribune feels itself in duty bound to present such facts as it has in its possession to the end that the good ladies of Parshall and the people gen- erally be not deceived. The first item advanced in Gover- nor Langer’s favor is that he vetoed @ bill which would have suspended highway construction in this state. ‘This fs only half true. The bill to ‘which the good women evidently refer ‘was one which would have suspended state financial aid to road building for a short period as ® measure of relief to the taxpayer. So far as practical effect goes, it might as well have been signed, for the state has spent nothing in road construction this year. The money for road-building which now is being spent in North Dakota comes almost entirely from the federal government. ‘To credit the Langer administration with the road-building program now under way is to take credit from those to whom it rightfully belongs and give it to those who did nothing to deserve it. It should be understood, too, that the governor had nothing whatever to do with obtaining expenditure of this money by the government. It is a part of the national recovery pro- gram and was allocated to all states on the basis of need and population. If they would study vetoes, the wo- men of Parshall might consider that of the bill to provide for honest live- stock grading and weighing at major markets in this state. It affects their pocketbooks more directly. The second cause for praise is that Governor Langer has placed the mill and elevator on a paying basis. Whether or not this is true has not been disclosed. The governor claims @ success at the mill and ele- vator, but the records have not been made public. The people might bet- ter withhold judgment on the meth- ods of operation and results obtained at the mill until the audit report of that institution is made public. This should be within the next few weeks. The third item selected for praise 4s “For his untiring efforts in secur- ing federal aid for the very necessary oor relief.” Here, again, we have allocation of credit on a wholly unjustified basis. In obtaining poor relief and CWA allotments for North Dakota, the gov- ernor’s actions have been a handicap rather than a help. Since his speech fast Nov. 18, in which he personally promised everyone a job, he has been ‘wholly divorced from the relief ad- ministration in North Dakota, His action at that time so embarrassed the relief administration that Judge A. M. Christianson found it neces- eary to tell relief workers, assembled in Bismarck to get the thing straight- ned out, that the governor had no more to do with it than if he lived fn ‘Canada. The judge seems to be a better authority on this than the gov- ernor. He has retained the confi- lence of the federal relief adminis- tration, whereas the governor has lost it and for all practical purposes has been kicked out in the cold. Fourth in the list of alleged po- litical assets is the claim that the governor has reduced the state budget “better than $5,000,000 per biennium.” Here, again, we have bold assertion as a substitute for fact. That the budget was materially reduced is true. That the governor can honestly take the credit is untrue. The substantial budget cuts were made by the legis- lature, but only as a technical matter. Actually they were made by the peo- ple. The same force which had caused the avérage township budget to drop 40 per cent and which had sharply slashed school, county, city and vil- lage budgets, operated to force a re- duction in the state budget. In all the ways open to them, the voters had indicated their demand. The re-| tire problem in a clearer and calmer | sult was inescapable. Any attemptiair. There are appeals to the courts | to apportion credit for this achieve-|that must be decided. Later it ought | ment should consider the facts in the |0 be easy for the Administration to ase, not partisan prejudice or po- litical desire. ‘The fifth article in the accolade pertains to the governor's embargoes admitted to have failed but are praised as a “step in the right direc- tion.” Those who have studied the mat- jter know they did more harm than good. The truest and most charitable thing that can be said about them is that they were gestures. They were like giving a stone to people who cry for bread, Sixth and last in the list is an en- dorsement of the moratorium on the ground that it “prevented the evic- tion of thousands from their homes.” of facts to the contrary. | No one has objected to the good ef-| fects which it was intended to! achieve through the moratorium. The! fact is, however, that it was a good deal like locking the barn door after the horse was stolen. Foreclosures had declined to practically nothing) when the moratorium was ordered. | They had been going forward at a tremendous rate for years and most of the dirty work had been done. Proof of this fact is found in the tre- mendous land holdings of the Bank of North Dakota, every acre of which ‘was obtained by foreclosure. The only effective work which has been done in connection with our forcelosure jand land problem has been that of] {the Federal Land Bank system. The people—and the good ladies of Non- partisan Club No. 468—should not confuse claims with facts. If they do, they are liable to find they have been sold a gold brick. Slick tongues have perpetrated many ® fraud. If salvation were to have! \been obtained by gestures, the story of Calvary would be different from) what it is. Modernism Gone Rampant This modern world seems to take a special delight in thrusting the ap- ‘purtenances of modernism on the last strongholds of the distant past. The| most recent step in this direction seems about to be taken in Asia, where a Chinese aviation corpora- tion plans to install regular airplane service between Shanghai and Lhasa, the forbidden capital city of Tibet. If there is anywhere on earth a spot which has escaped the influence of the modern world, it surely must be Lhasa. Both physically and spiritu- ally, life there still is keyed to the notes of the Middle Ages. To go there is to step from the twentieth century into the twelfth. And now a commercial airline is about to make Lhasa a regular port of call—an airline, incidentally, dom- inated by American capital. Could there be a more striking il-| lustration of the modern world’s re- |fusal to let its isolated backwaters go jundisturbed? A good-manners note says upper) class people never scratch in public. How can they with both hands in the air? Editorial Comment Editorlals 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. As the Case Now Stands (New York Times) Postmaster General Farley's polite | telegram to Colonel Lindbergh assured | him that by the cancellation of the| airmail contracts no injustice had} been or would be done. If he was speaking in a techincal or legal sense, | he was quite correct. The law which) jhe cited empowering the Postmaster General to annul a mail contract held that none should be given to any person who has “entered, or proposed to enter, into any combination to prevent the making of any bids for carrying the mail.” That, however.| Was a provision in the act of June 8, 1872. At that time no member of | Congress, unless he were a Tennyson in disguise, had even a prophetic view of mail being carried through the air. Moreover, the “combination” of air- mail contractors, which Mr. Farley se- | verely condemns, was one made up on the invitation of the then Postmaster General, Mr. Brown. There was noth- ing secret about it. The press carried accounts of the meeting in the Post- | office Department in 1930, when rep- resentatives of the various airlines met with the postal officials, in order to devise consolidation and extensions for the more efficient service of both | the postoffice and the public. The con- | tracts themselves, covering rates of Pay, were authorized by Congress, as was the money spent by the Govern- ment in the development of commer- cial aviation. Mr. Brown has been bombarding the Senate committee with requests to be allowed to go be- fore it and explain or defend every transaction of the kind in which he as an agent of the Government may |have been involved. It is now report- ed that he will have a hearing next week. It_is inevitable, therefore, that the whole inquiry must go on and be broadened. If any case of securing a contract by collusion or fraud, can be Proven, no one will object to having it canceled. It is probable, too, that Congress has passed air-mail legisla- tion which needs to be revised. Very likely the method and basis of pay for carrying the mail should be altered for the sake of simplicity and econ- omy as well as honesty. Officials of Democratic committee having jurisdiction in the army and navy planes temporarily as- signed to the duty of carrying the ‘After the explosion there will be time and opportunity to study the en- 3 show by @ new and reasonable policy | on wheat and beef cattle. They are! 1 \ / NW WW MA FARM PRODUCTION = L—_ ( GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURG LABO! starignce 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, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written BLAM GOES THE OLD BLUNDER- BUSS. YEAR AFTER YEAR Sometimes I wonder if the overedu- cated young doctors today are not as gullible as were the crudely trained practitioners of the nineteenth cen- tury. When I was a plodding coun- try doctor the large drug and chem- ical manufacturers sent their rep- resentatives out eevry spring to in- sential formula was the same year after year, a fearsome blunderbuss mixture, but some new wrinkle in the style of package or the color or flavor of the medicine invariably arrived in March. It was like the annual models in automobiles. Today I received a circular letter from a large drug manufacturer who supplies physicians. I am advised that. colds, coughs and other respiratory ills begin with the season of months that have “R” in their names. At that, wouldn't it be fine if respira- tory ills did not occur in the months | when oysters are out of season! The ;manufacturer’s plea to the incom- petents in the profession goes on to say that during the season for respira- tory diseases So-and-so5s Compound with This and That serves a double purpose, protective as well as cura- tive. “The products of cod liver oll, fresh liver, spleen, pancreas, predigest- ed and made easily assimilable, with hypophosphites and iron peptonates, tend to fortify the organism for self- defense against respiratory infections, while This and That act specifically on the digease itself.” There you have a typical specimen of the specious and utterly false rea- soning on which many physicians, presumably with scientific education, base their therapeutics or art of treat- ment. Theoretically cod liver oil, the crude fresh undoctored oil and not any “product” or derivative, may help a child or even an adult to develop @ normal degree of immunity against respiratory infections. This is @ theory only, and has by no means been tested out in experience. All the rest of the plausible argument this medicine vendor sets forth in behalf of his ridiculous blunderbuss nostrum for the quack doctor trade is sheer hokum. In this instance the manufacturer's appeal is perhaps @ trifle too out- spoken, especially where he describes is panacea as having “curative” roperties and acting “specifically” on the disease—what disease, goodness knows, the writer of the circular for- got to say. A minor point like that need not worry the quack who is will- ing to prescribe or dispense such me- dicine to his unwary customers. Give this circular to the right re- writer and the manufacturer of the nostrum could easily gain access to our most exclusive medical journal and gain the respect and confidence of some of our most exalted medical practitioners. Indeed the official or- gan of the medical profession of the country is full of just such specious and unwarranted assertions about the more expensive nostrums which the that it never intended to do a gross injustice to commercial aviation in the United States in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. troduce to the doctors the very latest) |fancy concoction for cough. The es- |more exclusive physicians prescribe, only the wording is just a little more | equivocal. Barnum may have been a great |showman but as a salesman he was the veriest piker. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS No Morbid Information not believe tablets are as dependable. (Copyright, 1934, John F. Dille Co.) i | Barbs Lindy, the Lone Eagle, refuses to have his wings clipped. * * * Americans, it is predicted, will drink 440,000,000 gallons of beer this year. That's encouraging for the pretzel business. * * * The recent eclipse of the sun, by crossing the international boundary line, ended the day before it began. ‘There's many a historical event that ought to experience that sort of eclipse. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) | ¢ “green sickness”... (V. B.) Answer—I do not think it would be kind to do so. Acquired Defect Not Heritable If @ man has an accident and con- sequently has a silver plate put in his skull, and later marries and has chil- dren, would the children be defective in any way? (W. L. G.) | Answer—Not so far as that injury or the plate in the skull is concerned. Cod Liver Oil against colds and sinusitis. However, I take only a teaspoonful once or twice a week. Is it necessary to take tablets as beneficial as the oil itself? (B. F.) 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[Signed to absorb portions of the 4,- a purchases in connection with the fed- is interested. a on @ public works * emphasis on highways and hi HOW’S THE OLD EYE? Substitute Is Sought for CWA ... Roosevelt to Take Up Target Shoot- tecular work-relief plan is bringing |® in @ large crop of new proposals, de- 000,000 CWA has been employing. Many private interests with axes to grind are exerting pressure. Some of them seem to think an administra- on that would adopt the civil works would try anything. Proposals range in merit all- the way down to that of the gent who wants Secretary Ickes ‘or Harry Hop- kins to put hundreds of thousands to work at selling his patent hair re- storer. One of the plans most seriously considered calls for a billion-dollar corporation to promote a general Program involving loans to home eral rehabilitation program. Rico. ipates. The corporation which will finance ® government-owned sugar plant with owners, home building, renovation, |Public works ‘funds soon will be or- and slum clearance. Local capital |8anized and the present plan calls would be attracted and used along for division of the profits 50-50 be- for poor relief and the factory work- ers and growers of suger cane. ‘The administration sugar bill al- lows importation of only 5,000 tons of Virgin Islands sugar, so most of the profits will come from rum. plan. Contractors, insurance companies, some home loan corporations and President Harriman of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce are behind it. Director Frank C. Walker of the Ni boss correlator of federal activities, A mammoth highway program of building, repair, and maintenance also is being considered. It’s likely that Roosevelt eventually will bet are ousing and some modification of the civil works plan. Assistant Secretaries Rex Tugwell and Oscar Chapman of Agriculture and Interior plan a trip to the islands Plane en route to or from Puerto nt himself expects to! The preside: visit the islands if ever he makes that | cruiser trip which he fondly antic-| with government funds, under this/tween an island welfare association’ under the rehabilitation program. CONSERVATIVES PERK UP Conservatives, who have had theis ups and downs of enthusiasm ever since Roosevelt came in, temporarily by evidences of con- servative tendencies at the Treasury. gressive senators barred from an of- ficial appointment. The outstanding ‘be | iberal at the Treasury now is Mar- OF ‘Atienctiom "ss Conservatives| Tenders how rusty his aim is. | |riner §. Eocles, fiscal expert, who Again Perk Up. Long ago the president was 8m (favors large-scale government spend- a enthusiastic duck hunter. That |ing and believes budget figures could BY RODNEY DUTCHER was before he succumbed to in- /go far higher without injuring gov- (Tribune Washington Correspondent) | {aztile paralysis. He hasn't done {ernment credit. pacha any shooting for years, (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Washington, Feb. 22.—Civil. works ae "hi Biwi Bake. may be doomed, but something else | VIRGIN ISLES ARE MAGNET will take its place. ‘The Virgin Islands are receiving; FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: Increasing evidence of Roosevelt's |More and more attention here, and determination to abolish that spec- |‘he islanders are going to be seeing eye-opening when a “bling-! date” bas the looks. 4y Allene Corl COPYRIGHT BY ALLENE CORLISS ¢ DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC. SYNOPSIS sudden change in the weather. The market speculation but a harder blew comes when her @ance, the broken-hearted, Stanley ecek aid from her wealthy friends. Desiring te make her ewn way, Stanley drops out of her exclusive; cirele and rente a cheap furnished room. After a week of loneliness a petulant sweetheart, tearing! away in a sudden fit of temper, leaving behind biting wind and slanting rain; then creeping back,| softly, penitently, to lay a last ardent, tremulous kiss on the face of the lover she was deserting. “Day-dreaming?” Stanley came down the steps, slim and holiday- looking in a yellow sweater and small béret. “Sort of,” he admitted, jumping to his feet. “I was composing an ode to this particular kind of a ‘Sunday morning. Isn't it swell?” “Exquisite. Did you order it spe- cial or anything?” "| “Not exactly. I think I just hoped jawfully hard!” Two hours later, having left the bus and walked a couple of miles toward the ocean, they found that the little tourist inn they had dis- covered early in the summer was| elosed for the season. The broad verandas were piled with boxes and and trying te adapt herself te her Poer surroundings, Stanley calls on Nigel Stern, one of her society friends, and asks his aid in secur- i searching i 4 Ht ge 4 i aie. ut ial cele i i TL fig BG iit t : | i Ey i elteti Es il F Eg fate E3 E i E bata ii : £. HF et 7 = emis zg H deli fe 2 g eately conceived as the very m summer slid into fall and the of the day itself. John Harmon lay on his side ge iss first week of October brought a/stared at Stanley's partly averted face and was at once terribly cold and rain that had swept over/afraid—and terribly exultant; the city during the last of Septem-| afraid because never before had he ber disappeared as if by magic andj realized just how fragile was the ultant because it was so fragile, so conceivably shattered. And yet for them, for Stanley and himself, he felt that this was ‘not true, that there was something between them that no magic hour of intimacy would ever shatter— and he looked away swiftly and with stricken eyes. If Stanley sensed anything dif- ferent in this day from other days they had shared together, she said nothing. But her eyes were soft with contentment and when she talked her voice lingered tenderly over careless words, She was per- haps happier than. she had been at any time since Drew had left her. “Let’s swim, John Harmon,” she suggested, sitting up abruptly, yawning frankly. “We're being much too lazy. Besides something tells me this is our last day out here this year. Come on, tousle- head, I'll race you to the inn!” She sprang up and was running swiftly up the beach. 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