The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1934, Page 4

The 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 (@8 second class mail matter. t GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher 1 _—$—$ £@ —£$ —___— | Subscription Rates Payable in Advance We Daily by carrier, per year.......' Daily Wy mail, per year (in Bis- Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck) ........ & Daily by mail outside of Dakota bensscecoees seee 600 Weekly by mail in state, per year 1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three years . Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year Weekly by mail in Canada, 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. a Tuna Fish and Sugar Tuna fish and sugar would hardly make a delectable food combination, yet both serve to illustrate the con- test which often develops between the producer and the consumer from the standpoint of national policy. North Dakota produces no tuna fish but is a consumer of the prod- and reaps benefits he does not de- serve and never was intended to have. Under Smith's proposal, bureaus would be set up here and at Fargo and Minot, with forwarding centers at Devils Lake, Jamestown, Grand Forks and Williston. In return for food, clothing and shelter, the men will be required to work on civic bet- terments. They will be given a small cash consideration in addition to their keep. The worthwhile man, unable to get work elsewhere and perhaps “on the Toad” in these last few years, will 10 welcome this condition, even though 00| he strives to get away from it as quickly as possible. But the Weary Willie of the past will feel that a dirty trick has been played on him. The old order will have vanished and the days when he 50] could panhandle in peace will have ended. ‘This will be all the more true when railroads keep their pledge to bar transients from free rides on trains and motorists are induced to co- operate to the extent of giving no free lifts, ° Same Old Question Recent announcement that the state of South Dakota is going to abandon the coal mining business by offering its property at Haynes, N.D., for sale, has revived the argument over the advisability of state-owned industries in our sister common- wealth, That the South Dakota industries have lost money consistently is un- disputed but advocates claim they have tended to keep down the cost of competing articles and have there- El éyted sail “HEL ree F g 8 y HE ga iéeb a z tle over restoration of veteran bene- fits and federal salaries? His political think he did—and they've been waiting for him to stub. For two days individual senators piled amendments on the indepen- B 35 Z rae es He Hy ‘The one thing which will insure the necessary “revolution” under Roose< velt is that the public shall insist om it. Today the public is doing no such thing—Bruce Bliven, editor of the New dent office appropriations bill until additional Republic. 1 expense amounted to about| (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Ino) uct. We could get along without it/ fore benefited the public. completely but, since it is a common article of diet, we have some interest in the protest raised by California tuna fishermen as a result of the importation of Japanese fish. A heavy tariff has been imposed on the foreign product but still it continues to come in and to crowd American tuna off the market. While ‘we eat Japanese tuna, many boats Me idle in Southern California ports and their owners ask for higher du- ties, Our natural tendency is to support American trade, but when it cannot ‘compete on any except a very uneco- ‘The dispute pits fact against theory and the government of South Dakota chose to side with the cold figures, Governor Berry pointing out that the mine always lost money before he was. elected and had continued to lose money since. It is interesting to note that this is the last of the South Dakota en- terprises to be “folded up,” even though they were started about the same time that North Dakota en- tered the industrial field. The state land loan business was diagnosis, or treatment, will be ans’ self-addressed envelope is enclosed. halted in 1925 after a scandal which shook the state and with losses run- nomical basis what are we to do?) ning high into the millions. Liquida- Should the fish-eaters of the entire tation be penalized for a mere hand- ful of citizens? There was a time when the Call- fornia fishermen could compete with ny others, anywhere. The fishing Grounds were just off the coast, the cost of production was small and trade was brisk. The quality was the best in the world. ‘Then occurred one of those queer freaks of nature which may handi- cap any industry. The fish began to move south. Now they are near the Galapagos islands, some 2,000 miles away. The California fisher- men must now have @ boat capable of making such a journey on the high seas. It must be equipped with refrigerating machinery to keep the fish until they can be delivered to the packer, Some tuna are found nearer home but these are not, generally, of the best quality. On the other hand, the Japanese have experienced no such piscatorial migration. Their natural source of supply is unaffected. Patriotism would seem to say “pa- tronize home industry.” The facts are that this industry is uneconomi- cal and maintaining it would throw an unfair burden on the consumers of the nation, as well as generally re- duce the quality of his tuna fish salad. ‘The same situation applies to sugar, of which North Dakota produces a little. The American beet sugar in- dustry has grown up behind a tariff wall, but it is not an economical in- dustry. To provide about $60,000,000 @ year for the American beet grower, the nation is estimated to be paying some $300,000,000 a year more for its sugar. The reason is that Cuban cane can be grown and milled for much less than sugar beets, ‘The labor factors involved are more {mportant than is the case with tuna fish but these are offset, in part, by the fact that much of the labor used in the beet fields is imported for the season from Mexico. We have in our state prison a number of these indi- ty i i ae Hit l if yeni He tion of the hail insurance and bond- ing departments began last summer, these, too, having failed. Admittedly, North Dakota’s expe- rience has been better than that, but it is doubtful if this would be the case had the management of these enterprises been entrusted to men with less skill and honesty. The most successful of them have been under the management of one man since their inception and millions of dol- lars have been handled without a major scandal. These are the state! insurance departments. Our state mill and elevator has| been a political football from start to finish and, as such, has not bee! permitted to develop whatever po-| tentialities for benefit its founders hoped for it. The manner in which) it can be mulcted by politicians was/ only recently illustrated. The theory on which South Dako- tans seem to be operating is that the; people do well to limit the funds) they turn over to political office-| holders. By and large, it is a sound! theory. | Editorial Comment |’ Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editcrs, || They are published without regard || to whether they agree or disagrve with The Tribune's policies, Bail Business (New York World Telegram) ‘The average professional bail bonds- | man today would be astonished to| hear that bail originally put upon the} surety a heavy personal responsibility | for producing the defendant at the Proper time before the court. Bonding companies have gradually converted bail into an impersonal in- surance risk. If a defendant jumps his bail the forfeiture may have to be balanced to “profit and loss,” or it may not. If he turns up within a year; or if the District Attorney certifies | that the state suffered no loss by de- | fendant’s failure to appear at the ap-| pointed time the bonding company gets its refund. eth Campbell showed, in a recent ar- ticle, that out of $1,618,091.67 forfeit- ed bail in this city between January 1, 1929, and January 1, 1934, all but $57,506.49 was returned to the sure- ties, though most of the defendants involved found it convenient to stay ‘way more than a year. As to the direct obligation of the surety to keep track of and produce |training camps. You see, they ex- World-Telegram staff writer Ken-| WHEN IS OBESITY AND WHAT ISN'T? ‘There is no sharp dividing line be- tween normal, ideal or perfect nutri- tion, megabolism, health and obesity, but arbitrarily regard accumulation of fat amounting more than 15 per cent of; the average for the age and height, that is, more than 15 pounds excess for every hun- dred pounds body weight, as obesity. At once we must acknowledge that this is a rough and by no means in- fallible index. It fails to allow for individual, familial, racial, constitu- tional differences in body structure or type. Every one knows there are “large boned” and “small ipned” types of build; types with long trunk and shorter limbs, types with short trunk and longer linibs; types with |full round chest, and types with flat |broad chest; types with slender, frail waist, and types with sturdy waist. A |10 to 15 per cent variation from the “average” weight for a given age and height is quite an ordinary and nor- mal occurrence. Then, too, the cut and dried tables of “correct weight” for persons of | given age and height and sex ignore the factor of specific gravity or dis- placement. Fat has greater specific gravity, bulk, displacement than muscle or other tissue. This was im- pressed upon thousands of young men who left white collar jobs to undergo’ military training for the World War. They got rid of flabby slacker flesh, became more slender if not gaunt, yet gained an average of 10 or 11 pounds weight in a few months in the changed superfluous fat for new muscle. Still another condition commonly regarded as obesity or superfluous flesh and often so treated with griev- ous consequences is simply a reten- tion of a greater amount of water in the tissues than the body should retain. More than half of the weight of the body of a healthy adult is water. Certain unhygienic habits may lead to retention of too much water. For instance, the consumption of too much salt, and an excessive proportion of carbohydrate food (any item containing muth sugar or starch.) This excessive retention of water in the tissues is not edema or dropsy. It is merely the additional water in the blood to hold the salt and sugar in sufficiently dilute solution. (All starches or sugars, carbohydrates, are converted into dextrose, a form of sugar, by digestion). Obviously the remedy in cases of excessive water retention is not re- striction of diet or any other reduc- tion treatment, but regulation of the salt and sugar metabolism. As a rule @n actual increase in the amount of Protein in the diet is advisable, and often an increase in the amount of fat, but @ decrease in the starches PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. wered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, Letters should be brief and written free” food, except under the atten- dance of a physician. All that is nec- essary is to refrain from adding salt to the food—milk, cheese, eggs, meats, fish contain salt enough, naturally. Even in conditions of partial star- vation and under-nutrition this re- tention of too much water in the blood and tissues is commonly ob- |served. Remember, then, that here |is one rather common form of over- weight where an increase in the amount of protein and fat in the diet, is the essential remedy, and a de- crease in the amount of starches and sugars is of secondary importance. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS . Calcium Lactate N. G. I promised to report on my experi- ence with calcium lactate for hay fever. I took it exactly as you ad- vised, but as far as I could see there was no change for the better in my condition last fall. (Mrs. J. A. H.) Answer—Thank you. It has seemed to bring considerable relief in many cases. If more of our readers would report their experience with it we) might learn something to the advan- tage of hay fever sufferers. But so few ever bother to tell the doctor— unless they happen to want some- thing else from him. Todin for Everybody Would you advise iodin for stiff knees and other stiff joints? If so Please tell me how to take it (C. H.) Answer—No. Many persons of ma- ture age do find relief from such stiffness after they begin taking an jodin ration. Particulars in the book- let “Regeneration Regimen,” sent on Tequest, if you inclose 10 cents (coin) | and a stamped envelope bearing your address. (Copyright, 1934, John F. Dille Co.) coast of France, says @ scientist, the head of a manatee, the neck sea lion, and the body of a dugong—also, he forgot, the an Ananias. xe A 10-year-old turtle in San Francisco was killed at the re-_ quest of its owner, who died. Poor thing, and just in its prime! eke There's a “silver shirt” organiza- tion in the United States, whose lead- er claims he died, went to heaven, and returned to earth. And he wasn't in heaven long, before the angels dis- 2 Who is the actress in the picture? 12Genus of ever- [S green shrubs. plant. 18 Game played 19 Rhode Talend K JEM (abbr). MOI MEO 20 Deer. 21 Bumpkin.’ 22 Deity. coe material. 26 Mother. piesa 27 Magistrate in 45 Intention. 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