The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1934, Page 4

The Bismarck An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S NEWSP: er OLDEST *APER, (Established 1873) Daily by mail, per year (in Bis- matck) ....... seeccceesccesees Me Dally by mail, per year (in state Garalds of Bismarck) .. Daily by mail outside of Dakota . Dakota, per year ie | ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per 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 mewspaper and also the local news of Spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other ‘gnatter herein are also reserved, The Faith That Is Life’s Mystery A . Tribune @ profit; and there is no reason doubt that, in many, many cases, this is the exact truth, , What, then, is the alternative— bearing in mind the all-important fact that care for the unemployed @|has been accepted as 8 government duty? The alternative, clearly, is for the government to go on making jobs for the jobless. If private industry can’t: do it, the government must, The enormously expensive CWA must be continued, even expanded. Morewmil- lions must be pumped into public works, And the money for this must come from taxes—which, in large part, must be collected from industry. These are the choices that face us today. They present about as tough & problem as industry and goverment 50} possibly could be asked to solve; and they arise, ultimately, because of our new belief that unemployment is a direct concern of the government. Livermore, Again! Jesse Livermore, once famous as “the boy plunger” of Wall Street, is busted again. His petition in bank- Tuptcy discloses that he has liabilities of more than $2,250,000 and assets of approximately $184,000. Livermore has been broke before, and has come back to make a mil- onaire of himself. No one familiar with the career of this canny trader ‘The old, old mystery of life and ®eath—how we hunt for an answer, 4n books and in poetry and in long, secret communings with our own hearts! And how often do we run into in- Significant human incidents which gleam brightly—if we have eyes to will doubt that he will do the same thing again. He knows the Wall Street game as few men know it. He may go broke, but a man of his kind never stays broke, But the career of this famous spec- Bee them—like beacon lights briefly displayed in the limitless darkness, Here, if you care to listen, is one Buch incident. It is a thing hardly worth talking about, perhaps; yet it does not take either a poet or @ visionary to read into it a hint and ® promise touching on this oldest and Geepest of riddles. «A man lay dying the other night; ‘@ man in his 60's, who had been a hard-working printer all his life, who had set some miles of type and lived one of those useful and unsung lives, ‘and who now was leaving the world, in a white hospital cot. He had pneumonia, and an oxygen tent had been put over him. The ‘watchers at his bedside saw his hands moving fitfully, and lifted a flap to look in and see if he wanted enything. He did not; he was delirious, and he thought he was back on the job— and he was setting type! Deftly his hands moved about in the empty air, tapping invisible keys. Then, a mo- ment later, he died, and went to find out whatever it is that a human soul may learn about this first and last of mysteries. Now, there is no logical reason why this homely little happening should be so moving. And yet it is. That tired veteran, clinging to his jobeven in his last seconds on earth, going out into the infinite with his hands still working at the task to which he had given himself—there’s something ebout the picture that makes all our ‘wisdom seem futile and of no ac- count, For he stands, somehow, for the ‘whole race of undistinguished and faithful men; those who work hard nd steadily from youth to the grave, never knowing precisely why they are @oing it, never reaping much of any- thing in the way of a reward, being faithful and patient simply because Zaith and patience are put into the human heart—and going out, at last, ‘with their hands still moving on the old job. It means nothing, Perhaps it means everything. Per- haps faith and patience weren't put into human hearts for nothing. Perhaps there is, for long fidelity nd toil, a reward we know nothing of—a place in the great scheme of things bigger than we ever have dreamed for the world’s eternal workers. Employment Remains Our Major Duty A lot of far-reaching consequences perhaps—and ulator seems to stand as a kind of symbol of the whole stock market arena; a steady cycle of boom and depression, periods of great affluence followed by periods of extreme fi- nancial stringency, And what, in the long run, does it all amount to? Just who, in the end —if anyone—is the gainer by this kind of operation? Surely not society as a whole. To the Devil, His Due Roger Touhy, the big bad man from Chicago who broke down and blub- bered like a school boy when he fin- ally went to prison, really is a pretty smart sort of lad. So, at any rate, say the psychiat- rists who examined the gangster and his henchmen when they were re- ceived at the Illinois state peniten- tary to begin serving their sentences. Touhy, they reported, is of high adult intelligence—although his com- Panions, Gus Schaefer and Albert Kator, were more of the dumb-bell type. This report on Touhy is rather en- lightening. It helps to explode the old notion that criminals are men of inferior mentality. They aren't—not all of them, at any rate. They be- come criminals, usually, because of an emotional twist, not because their minds are cracked. Realizing this fact will help us to evolve an efficient program for meet- ing our crime problem. A City Speaks Up One of the interesting side issues in connection with the case of the no- torious Dillinger gang is that a com- munity at last has found a way of expressing its dissatisfaction with lawyers who stand between crooks and punishment. Harry Pierpont, one of the gang- sters, was convicted at Lima, O., on a charge of murder. He retained as his counsel an attorney who also hap- pened to be city solicitor of Lima. And what did the city council of Lima |do but demand that this lawyer sep- arate himself at once from the city Payroll, as a penalty for defending Pierpont! Now this, probably, was an unjust and impolite thing to do. Every ac- cused man has the right to retain counsel; every lawyer has a right to take a case that is offered him. And yet, considering one thing with another, it is at least easy to under- stand why the Lima city council did what it did, an grow out of an innocent-looking little declaration of policy. If you dig back far enough, you will find that most of today's turmoil about the proper functions of the NRA hinges on our new assumption that the na- tional government has a direct and Snescapable duty in regard to its un- employed citizens. This assumption grew up during the depression. It's worth remem-|F. bering that it is a comparatively new thing in American life. By the old tradition, the government was sup- Photographer Barry renting Herald) | eH Editorial Comment Editorlals printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagrve with The Tribune's policies. One of the most interesting person- alities in the Northwest was David MRS. YAN KEE ENLIGHTENS THE MEDICAL PROFESSION She has followed my amusing column for years, she says, and has noticed that I have done considerable sidetracking when answering inquiries pertaining to diet. One question in particular I have handled in a way which betrays my utter incompetence. That is the question of waterless cook- ing of vegetables. My teaching that there is no significant nutritive loss when vegetables are cooked in water and the water is thrown away is far from correct, Mrs. Yan Kee informs me. T admit that the cooking water dis- solves out some of the mineral salts from foods cooked in that way, and that the cooking water is good’to use making soup or gravy. Well, then, why throw away the mineral salts, when by cooking in waterless cookers they can be retainetl in the food? If the doctors of this country would tell people more about how to pre- pare food properly and how to eat it properly instead of temporarily remedying ailments, we would all be so much better off, avers Mrs. Yan. Then the lady gets off her chest some general views about doctors. The average doctor who hands out pills is only a guesser, she screams. If he guesses right he is a good doc- tor. If he doesn’t he tries something else, and this trying something else at expense of the patient is cost- ly, but why should the doctor worry? He gets his money for each office visit guessing contest and the patient gets the pills. Here I polished my specs and drew my whiskers to one side and scrutin- ized Mrs. Yan Kee'’s contribution closely. No, it is pills, not bills as I thought the patient gets from the doctor. If the good woman would divulge where in the world doctors get their money for each office visit these days I know a lot of fine doctors who would move there right away if some one would stake them for the expense moving. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Save Time, Pain, Risk I understand Dr. —-—— charges (a reasonable fee). I'd like to have the treatment but isn’t there some one who will do it at a reasonable price? +o ®L DD Answer—' i married? 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 in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr, William Brady, in care of this newspaper. tion does, if that is his fee. If the fee is the main factor, you had better be content with the old standard surgical operation. I recommend the diathermy method of extirpating ton- sils and the ambulant or injection method for hernia because of the sav- ing in time, pain and risk. I believe these modern methods cost about the same as the old fashioned methods, in fees. In my judgment greater skill is required for either of these meth- ods of treatment than is required for the standard surgical operation. Therefore the modern method should command the larger fee. Premasital Care Do you consider it advisable for a woman aged 32 years to have @ gyne- cological examination before getting Except for being under pay her general health is good. (8. R,) and I have had no trouble since... (Mrs. B. O. J.) Answer—It is quite likely your cure doctor used just before you happened to apply the salve. However, the salve (Whitfield’s formula) is effec- tive in many cases of foot itch. Glad to send the booklet to correspondents who ask for it and inclose a dime and @ stamped addressed envelope. (Copyright, 1934, John F. Dille Co.) blocks to emulate the great Dillinger and carve their future out of jail. Answer—Not unless’ there is reason Unbidden Guests to believe there may be some abnor- mality or disease which affects fitness to marry. But she should have me- dical advice and perhaps treatment to build up her weight, irrespective of marriage. How grateful I am for your advice | Circulation of Blood. | HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzslo” A Discoverer of Ff I? blood circu. PUNIGIOK lation. 12 Mexican dollar 13 Experiment, 14 Region. 16 Meat. % Wayside hotel. 24 South America 25 To mention. 26 Tiny. ea 28 Portrait 49Cfy for help, 3 Behold. $5 Misehlorvee. statue. 51 Rowing tool, 4Neuter a are ‘ 80 Therefore. 52 Theater at- pronoun. He 32Shore. tendant. & Measure. of . ial 34 Hatred. 54 Indian. ares. 35 To annoy. 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Ds desk |mect every week oF two. ‘ while both sides stood for days with Administr: yea ths bated breath. ‘Waite, touring the country, bool ee * unusual official when he arrived on. ‘That night, as honor guest irs basaaet, the found the man bill- ed as speaker. And he had to list- en to strong diatribe at PWA poll- - |cles in Washington. - #8 e TUGWELL STILL IN GOOD Some people who dont know av better are construing Assistant Secre- tary Rex Tugwell’s trip to Puerto Rico as a sort of ee soar his gradual jppearance chet Roosevelt adviser. The fact is, experimental Mr. Tugwell is intense- ly interested in economic rehabilita- tion of such places Ang Puerto Rico Virgin Islant staan, mniatre laboratories for him as he envisions rehabilitation and land retirement on a huge scale in tinental America. “te also can be revealed that, what ‘with all the recent ice and snow here, Tugwell thought it would be & swell ‘trip. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) Don’t go into the forest or meadow to pick mushrooms. Only an ex- ‘pert can determine the difference be- eween the mushroom and the so- called toadstool—Prof. L. J. Much- more, biologist of Los Angeles Museum of History, paren oe Art. France is the prey ofa band of criminals who stop at nothing to carry out their evil acts—Henri Se eae * é chiseling advisory} No matter how fat a woman is, 2 holding daily|there’s a man for her some place— group de-} meetings, with the seeming idea of|Mrs. Ethel Greer, circus fat woman. by Al — de Hi We it! thing they can’t have. There’s no beginning to it—no end—and still we go on—" She was not looking at Valerie now. 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