The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1934, Page 6

“Dally by mail, per year Bismarc! : The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Eatablished 1873) by The Bismarck Trib- in state - 6. outside of kk) of all news dispatches credited to it or not ain an Mie aes teed ce a newspaper and al e local news o! spontaneous published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. The Democratic Ideal Must Be Maintained Several prominent Englishmen re- cently united to make a public pro- test against the rising wave of dis- content with democratic institutions. All across Europe—from Germany, from Russia, from Italy, from Austria and from lesser countries—comes a steadily growing chorus of derision for parliamentary government. Democracy, it is said, is a worn out thing, and liberty ts an empty word; only by an iron-clad dictatorship can @ people hope to meet the problems of the modern world. All this, naturally, is beginning to stir echoes in the British Isles; and these Englishmen, therefore, have called on their countrymen to rally in defense of the democratic ideal and to reaffirm their conviction of the supreme importance of human lib- erty. Something very similar might be done profitably on this side of the water. Europe is a long way off, but this attack on the old, Anglo-Saxon concept of freedom is a menacing and contagious thing, chiefly, perhaps, because we have grown so used to the blessings of liberty that we take them for granted. ‘We pick up our daily paper, for instance, knowing that it will give us full and impartial story of the news of the day, and that the editor will speak his mind freely about current issues. We go to 8 political meeting perfectly confident that the speaker will say precisely what he pleases. If we don’t like the actions of our mayor, our congressman, our gover- nor, or our president, we wait our chance to vote against him at the next election—and, meanwhile, ex- Press ourselves as bitterly as we choose 40 anyone who will listen. ‘We read such books as we wish to Tead, attend whatever church we please, educate our children in the way that seems best to us, ‘We don't look on these things as privileges. They are pert of our daily life. We hardly ean conceive of liv- ing under circumstances where such things do not exist. ‘Yet we need te remember con- stantly that these are the very bless- ings of democracy which now are under attack. People fought and died that we might have these privi- leges, and did it so effectively that ‘we no longer look on them as privi- leges. ‘We imbibe freedom with the very air that we breathe, but a price was paid for it, and it is our task to de- fend it everlastingly. ‘Under Fascism, under Communism, ‘ander any kind of dictatorship, we ‘would lose it, Labor Must Clean House Some sort of showdown in the field of labor relations seems just ahead. ‘The National Recovery Administra- tion prepares to tackle the company union issue, congress debates the ‘Wagner labor board bill, and indus- trialists flock to Washington to pro- test both measures. And the whole business puts upon erganized labor the heaviest respon- sibility it has had in years. Organized labor, unless all signs fail, is about to he given more power than it ever has hed before. Its aspirations of his fellow workers; he also occupies an exceedingly tmpor- tant position in the industrial setup of the country as a whole, and this position evidently is going to be more important in the future than in the past. The intelligent and honorable la- bor leader—and there are many such —can do a great work in the years just ahead of us. But the labor movement no longer can afford to carry the racketeer, the self-seeker, the chiseler, the man who plays both ends against the mid- dle for the sake of his own bank ac- 99 | count. It's up to labor to clean house. If the unions are to get new rights, they must recognize the responsibili- ties that go with them. Press or Press Agent? Bankers’ representatives continue to assail the pending stock market bill. One of their latest complaints is that it menaces the freedom of the press by its penalties for the dissem- ination of false and misleading in-| formation about corporate securities. Offhand, one might suggest that | this provision menaces not so much the freedom of the press as the free- dom of the press agent. Do you know how the press agent works, when a powerful pool seeks to boost the price of a certain stock beyond its true worth, so that its members can unload at a profit? He circulates phony bits of news about it. He lets it be known that the company in question has landed a big foreign contract, or bought im- portant patent rights, or entered in- |to a profitable merger arrangement. It all makes the stock sound valu- able, the suckers rush to buy, the in- siders unload—and, when the smoke clears away, the stock price drops to where it ought to be, while the in- Siders congratulate the press agent and bank their profits. That's the sort of “freedom” that this bill endangers. The Longer Life Dr. G. W. Crile, noted Cleveland surgeon, tells a Los Angeles audience that, with proper attention to health, there is no reason why a man should not extend his active career to the age of 80 or beyond. Frequent physical examinations, he says, would reveal failing capacities of vital organs and would make it taken. encouraging; but it is just one more instance in which our scientific social sense. to keep working to the age of 80 if industry and business decide that the man over 50 is too old for a job? that a man’s usefulness ends with middle age, there is small use in ex- tending his active life span. ‘Benefits’ of Liquor The world sometimes seems to have | turned pretty completely topsy-turvy, these days. Some of the little by- products of repeal are tilustrations. Remember the old days of the anti- saloon campaigns, when the liquor | trade was held up as the great foe| jof the public school? Well, it has} been disclosed that the Michigan| |Uquor control commission just has} turned $500,000 over to the state to| heip pay the salaries of school teach-| ers. This money comes from the com- mission's profits on sales in the state's liquor stores. Under the law,!| all but @ small fraction of the profits | must go to the school emergency | fund; and the liquor commission points out-that it still has around $1,000,000 to distribute. If we have reached a point where John Barleycorn is supporting the schools, the world indeed is upsic down. Editorial Comment || Editorials printed below show the || trend of thought by other editcrs. | They are published without regard || to,whether they agree or disagree | with The Tribune's policies. | Should Get Together (Duluth Herald) While President Roosevelt and General Johnson of the NRA are de- NRA program by reducing the wages Of all postoffice carriers and clerks Ing several more payless fur- loughs to their schedules and wit! rai all for the em- be |to i ei i gee i238 z | i A z : | E i E aft A ie E i iF iy : 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. child with such a congenital defect if parents or others are obsessed CONGENITAL DISLOCATION OF THE RIP by Congenital is another of our trick the “bone-setter” complex and have! Possible for remedial steps to be) medical words, It means existing at|N0 intelligent conception of the na- birth—anything the child is born|ture of the trouble. All of which, of course, is highly|With. If the proofreader assumes I've made an obvious error in spelling and changes the congenital to congenial. as happened once, the reader will} How about Mr. So-and-so's belief knowledge seems to have outrun our| please excuse it. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Acid Intoxication that citrus fruits are alkalinizing Nobody knows the cause, but in this | while medical men foster the belief What is the use of enabling a man|condition, six times as frequent in that they cause too much acid in the girls as in boys, the socket or cup, (acetababulum) of the hip bone re- mains shallow and so the ball or head of the thigh bone (femur) readily out of place or dislocated. In a young infant there is normal- ly a slight crease or two on the inside of the thigh. If the hip is congen- tially dislocated these creases are deeper and more marked on the af- fected side Another test: Place the baby on firm table, lying on the back with the knees flexed and the feet resting evenly on the table. In this position if one hip is at all dislocated the knee on the affected side will appear on a lower level—due to shortening of |that leg. The infant or young child with con- everts or turns out the affected leg. If you notice that one leg or foot rolls out more than the other as the baby lies on the back, you should call the matter to the attention of your phy- sician. A normal infant or child has con- siderable flexibility of movement at the hip. As the baby lies on the back you can easily draw one leg out 60 that the foot goes through nearly a quarter of a circle. But if there ts congenital dislocation of the hip the foot will go through no more than half of that before resistance is met. Often the diagnosis of congenital ip dislocation is not made until the hild is old enough to walk. By more intelligent observation and earlier ex- amination by the physician the diag- nosis should be made before the child is 6 months of age.. Treatment ap- |Plied at this earlier age gives more satisfactory results. The “bloodless” method of Lorenz was all right in the past era, but after all the hocus-pocus of the manipu- lation of that method for “reducing” genital dislocation of one hip always|* system while eaten freely? (P. H.) Answer—I know of no medical men who foster that belief. Citrus fruits are not “alkalnizing.” They tend to Unless we revise the idiotic notion |slips out of the socket and remains}preserve acidosis. Acidosis means lowering of the normal alkali reserve in the blood and tissues. But in cer- tain cases citrus fruits may produce overacidity of the stomach, which has nothing to do with the reaction of| blood and tissues. Oh-Oh, This Is Embarrassing High blood pressure, albuminuria. gives me some diuretic (kid- ney stimulant), an alkali to reduce body acidity, and a cathartic at freq- uent intervals. He lays stress on “pro- per elimination” and the harmful ef- fects of “absorption of poisons” through the walls of the intestine (RL. A) Answer—Oh, well, if some of the old timers did not serve patients that way, suave cult healers and nostrum vendors would. The wiseacre public demands a certain amount of such quackery. (Copyright, 1934, John F. -Dille Co.) SY SX AY MW An average of 60,000,000 persons at- tended the movies in the United States each week, last year. There's eu hope for half the population, at least. * * * A meat dealer in Germany was can depend on Germany's ba- loney? ** * A retired engineer of Worcester, Mass., has donated $50,000 to Harvard for a survey of stars up to a distance of 600 quintillion miles. He's bound to make his money go a long way. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) : Greatest HORIZONTAL 1Greatest pyra- mid, named after its builder —. 6He was an —— king. 13 To perceive sound. 14 Weird. 16 Bulging jar. (7 Work of skill. | 18 Fable. 20 To drink dog- fashion. 21 Second note. the dislocation, was mainly for show purposes and not for the benefit of the patient. 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