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

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Published by The Bismarck Trib- une irck, N. D., and Company, Bisma: entered at the postoffice at Bismarck a8 second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher A nblarseibentelidicatess staan Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year.......$7.20 Daily by mail, per year ee is Daily by mail outside of North Dakota 6.00 Weekly by mail in state, per year 1.00 three 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. The Battleship Faces a Test If you know what the future of) the battleship is going to be, the ex-; perts of the 1935 naval conference ‘will probably give you a job. Battleships have been ignored by naval conferences ever since the his- toric Washington conference of 1921. ‘With two or three exceptions, no bat- tleships have been launched since then. The naval competition of the past decade has been in cruisers and auxiliary craft. Next year, however, there is to be &® new conference, and the battleship will cut a big figure. A strong move to cut down battleship sizes has be- gun. Japan, it is said, would lmit such craft to 25,000 tons, England would cut them to 22,000 tons, some small powers would reduce them to 10,000. Only the United States would keep the figure where it is now—at 35,000 tons. Back of all this difference of opin- fon are certain strategic considerations, of course; but the chief factor is the| inability of naval experts to agree on| ‘what role the battleship will play inj future naval warfare. The evolution of these gigantic fighting ships is interesting. Originally the battleship was sim- ply a grown-up cruiser. The old- time “line of battle ship” of sailing days had three gun decks where the frigate, or cruiser, had but one. She presented her battery in three tiers; otherwise, she was just like the small- er craft. i The evolution of the revolving tur- ret, begun with Ericsson's Monitor, led to a new kind of battleship, one which had a strong secondary bat- tery arranged in a broadside, and a big gun battery of four guns, mount- ed in pairs in turrets. Then came the dreadnaught type, in which four or six turrets were mounted on a line amidships, capable of being fired on either broadside, nd the secondary battery was re- duced to unimportance. It was then that the battleship Yeally began to grow. Hulls were made larger and larger, armor plate ‘was made heavier and heavier, the ig guns were made more and more powerful; and now we seem to have reached the limit of useful size, so that some experts doubt if the huge battleship is really worth what it costs. ‘The argument probably will not be Settled until a large-scale naval war fis fought and the relative value of the different types of fighting ship fs decided in actual combat. And we can only hope that the United States fleet isn’t one of those ‘with which the test is made. Law Alone Can’t Cure Our Liquor Evils Back about 15 years ago the people pf the United States got fed up with the insolent greed of the liquor traf- fic and decided to fix things by pass- (ng a law—the 18th amendment. In the succeeding decade they fearned, to their pained surprise, that passing a law was not, in itself, quite enough. Now, just as if they hadn't learned the lesson once, they seem to be studying it all over again, Just as they got fed up with the in an honest and energetic manner, we have no right to be surprised by the abuses which have developed un- der repeal. We ought to know by this time that passing a law is only a first step in any reform. Fatal Efficiency The destruction of the Nantucket lightship by the White Star liner Olympic is a queer, back-handed tes- timonial to the perfect efficiency of modern mechanical means of aiding navigation. At the time of the accident the Olympic was following a radio beam sent out from the lightship—a tre- mendous aid to navigation in foggy weather. And in this case the beam worked all too well. The Olympic followed it with hair- |line accuracy—and, finally, ran it down to its source and crushed the lightship from which it was originat- ing. An accident of this type could never have occurred in the old days. It is a striking, if painful, bit of evi- dence about the accuracy of our new machinery for keeping ocean-going ships on their course. Fascists’ Folly There seems, fortunately, to be a curse on those people who would like to inflict Fascism on the United States. Something makes them show themselves up before they have a chance to take hold of things. Consider, for instance, the case of Art J. Smith, About a year ago Smith was waxing big as the head of the “Khaki Shirts” of America; he was a general, no less, and he talked of leading 7,000,000 followers to Washington to set up a Fascist dictatorship. ‘The other day Smith was sentenced to prison in New York as a perjurer. His army had scattered, and he stood convicted of having tried to le an innocent man into prison as a mur- derer. And the brand of Fascism he rep- resented, instead of growing into a public danger, dissolved into a ludi- crous footnote to history. 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 policies, ‘Evolution With an R.’ (Minneapolis Tribune) Ogden L. Mills is one of the ablest critics of the administration. An avowed foe of regimentation and bureaucracy, he has delivered some telling thrusts at the new deal. Mr. Mills may have his deep partisan biases, and his background of wealth may be unfortunate, but there is no doubt that he presents whatever case there is against the Roosevelt pro- gram effectively and well. In his speech at White Plains on Saturday, Mr. Mills sought to show that the new deal’s so-called emer- gency measures were designed from the very first, to be permanent. The administration, he suspects, is working only incidentally for recovery; what it ts really seeking is a planned and controlled economy which shall regu- lute to the last detail “prices, wages, production and the flow of capital.” Dr. Tugwell has declared for such an economy, and Mr. Mills protests that the “particular theories of this par- ticular professor have actually been written onto the statute books of the United States.” President Roosevelt may call this evolution, but Mr. Mills sees it as an arbitrary attempt, made in the shadow of a great emergency, to set up an entirely new order. It is. he says, “evolution with an R.” Mr. Mills scouts the notion that the administration is planning to retreat from its present policies of regimenta- tion and control when ve are well on the road to recovery. Here, of course, is what many regard as the crux of the whole matter: the question of per- manency. Under the NRA, the govern- ment in effect controls prices and wages, and indirectly production. Under the AAA, it seeks at least a partial regimentation of our agricul- tural life. Through the securities act and the administration's stock ex- change bill, it would place the flow ot capital under government control. Mr. Mills suspects that the plot is to tighten, rather than relax, this system of regimentation as time goes on. Does not the Bankhead law project us into the field of compulsory crop control? Does not the stock exchange bill put the control and allocation of credit still farther into the hands of government? Why prosecute a New Jersey pants presser for charging a nickel less than the cod? stipulates if the administration is not interested in putting the clamps on small busi- nesses as well as large? Mr. Mills asks all these questions and more and comes to the conclu- sion that the administration, under the guise of an emergency, is at- tempting to establish a permanent lege) liquor traffic before 1920, they g% fed up with the illegal one be- fore 1933. So they tried the same old vemedy; they passed a law. Oddly enough, they’re finding out exactly what they found out once system of economic planning “accom. panied by control of industry and 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. LET WASHINGTON’S BONES |the public or the health authorities ALONE think it all came of getting the neck, Whenever I visit the national shrine ae or hair wet. at Mt. Vernon I go into @ trance in lane wees eee icieenteboriirehd which I work out in complete detail /ria from some of his slaves on one of the plans for a clandestine necropsy |his rounds and that this brought about ‘on the remains of the first president. his death in two or three days. His But back home again or far from the |own reluctance to pay any attention spot, broaching my scheme to col- |to his illness, his resolve to “let it go leagues whom I should desire as ac-'as it came,” his assurance that he complices, the idea seems almost @S never took anything for a cold, would foolish as most of my colleagues think be quite in keeping with the early it is. Still, you never can tell much stage of diphtheria. In that stage the without an autopsy, and that applies patient doesn’t feel very ill. with particular emphasis to the last| Other doctors opine it was pneu- illness of George Washington. |Monia, some form of angina (chok- On the other hand, I wonder how ing), edema (dropsical swelling) of long any discernible’trace of organic larynx or lungs to chronic nephritis. tissue (discernible, that is, to the)It doesn't matter to me. I’m going to skilled pathologist) would be preserv-|let George Washington's bones alone. ed in such soil as Washington was buried in and in the manner of such burial. As I sit there and listen for the muffled oars of the rowboat in which the four of us would arrive for the night’s work, I tentatively turn over a bit of the soil with the toe of my shoe, and wonder whether it is of the character that favors mummifica- tion. These armchair pathologists who make no doubt at all that Washington took cold from getting the neck and shoulder of his coat wet with snow while he was out riding the afternoon of Dec. 12, 79 and then sitting down to dinner without troubling to change to dry things when he returned from his ride insult the quality and char- acter of the man, it seems to me. Washington was no mollycoddle. He was always accustomed to the most 198 Calories a Bottle Please tell me whether beer is fat- tening and how many calories does it contain, (P. T. L.) Answer—The report of the analysis given by the brewer of the best beer says it contains 0.4 per cent protein, | no fat, 5.0 per cent carbohydrate, 4) Per cent alcohol by weight, and this would give 71 calories from the carbo- hydrate, 6 calories from the protein,| and 101 calories from the alcohol (as- suming one can oxidise or burn all the alcohol), or @ total of 178 calories in the bottle of beer. A pint of milk yields 325 calories. | ‘What, No Physician? ‘Will it be harmful for me to take the calcium lactate for sick headaches if I have a goitre? (Mrs. R. C. D.) Answer—Certainly you should take Skilled Dentist Can Match Teeth One of the finest dentists in the city put @ porcelain jacket crown on my tooth. He promised it would look exactly like my own teeth. But it does not match my teeth at all and looks very bad . . . (L. A.) Answer—If your complaint is justi- fied and the dentist is a reputable one, of course he can remedy that. Any good dentist can match the patient's teeth. (Copyright 1934, John F. Dille Co.) Washington Johnson and Richberg See NRA as Permanent Plan . . . Prosecuted Tailor Is Won Over to Code .. Hud- dies Are Feature of Ocean Mail Quiz... Bruce May Oppose Bruce for Senate Seat. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) ‘Washington, May 22.—Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson and Don Richberg are al- most as confused about the future of NRA as are all the rest of us. They do think it’s going to be a per- manent part of the American scheme. They think they’re drawing out of the experimental stage into a routine phase where consistent policies can be maintained and that they now have a fair idea as to what things can be en- trusted to code authorites with rea- sonable assurance that they will not take advantage of labor and the con- sumers. But in virtually every attempt to achieve a more workable, fairer set- up, they encounter terrific pressures— vigorous outdoor exercise. It is sim- Ply impossible to think of him as timidly avoiding exposure while his soldiers were enduring the terrible winter at Valley Forge. The latest to account for the last illness and death of Washington in this stultifying manner is a Wash- ington ear, nose and throat specialist, who goes into a trance and imagines Washington consulting him. “You must remember, Mr. Washington,” this droll little specialist admonishes the 200 pound man who stands 6 feet 3 inches in height, “that you are not as young as you once were and cer- tainly not as strong . our ad- vice that you go toa mild warm southern climate for the winter. If you elect to remain in your Virginia home on the Potomac, be especially careful to avoid undue exposure in cold, wet weather . . .” And much more along the same line. This com- mentator deduces from the authentic records that Washington died of suf- focation brought on by edematous swelling of the larynx from a strep- tococcus infection. His guess, of course, is as good as any other. But if the specialist, when he is not in a trance, ever diagnoses streptococcus infection in an actual case, he had nothing your physician does not pre- HORIZONTAL 1Imaginary belt in the heavens, GA great astronomer, 12 Heavy string. 13 Beret. 14 Ego. 15-Skin infection. [Q) 16 Ticks. : 18 Barbed spear. 20 Carpet. 21 Dark-com- plexioned. 23 Beverage. 24 Decree of a sultan. 26 Dyeing appa- ratuses, 28 Corpse. 29 Half an em. 30 Negative, 31 Street. 32To scatter. 42 Paroxysm. 47 Eighth of an ounce. 48 Distinctive theory. 49 Roofs ‘of mouths, 51 Since, regimentation of the American ple.” While his fears do not seem to be generally shared, one point that he taises is at least entitled to consid- eration. The Roosevelt program was accepted, by and large, as an emer- pie i : releteeatin better not try to make the patient, FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: 33 Pussy. $5 To contend. 36 To redact. 38 Carried. 39 Elevates. water. 54 Tiny particle. 86 Neuter Pronoun, Among the Stars 11 Proffers. 13 Sesame. SIC} 15 First sign in Answer to Previous Puzzle 52 North America 4 Wrath. 53 Large body of 5 Paid publicity. and often those pressures come from LIEIEIVIES SOHO} the picture, the Ram. a] 16 Myself. 17 Note in scale, 19Goes hungry. 21 Repaired. 22 Fourth sign, the Crab. 25 To increase iv depth, 27 Pricked. 32 Clan synibol. 58 Libra, seventh 34 Hair ornament sign in the 35 Small fox. picture. 37 Mournful. VERTICAL 38 Third sign, Gemini. 2 Happens. 40 Struck, 3Deep river 42 Monkey. channel. 43 Prayer. 44 Lava. 45 To wound with a dagger. 46 Boundary. 49 Chum. 6 Shark. 7 Last word of @ prayer. 8 Exists, 41.Small singing 67 Marginal anno 9 Limb. tations. a ae me oa ie TEN = FT Nan e\ane0 10 Exultant. aie MiNi orig! Confonted with the fact that has employed no more than a of the unemployed army of a ago, the NRA leaders are fearful putting further stresses and on industry at this time by pressure for shorter hours. The cotton textile industry, for in- spell in which it can check what it has done to date. In that period, Johnson and Rich- berg would like to weed out code pro- visions allowing price fixing and monopolistic practices, getting gs near as possible to provisions which merely Prevent below-cost selling and other practices which result in insolvency or the ruination of competitors. But the shrieks of industries when their special favors are threat- ened indicate plainly the job NRA faces—even if it can focus attention on that phase alone. CONVERTED TO CODE SYNOPSIS Inthe little vil re they ibered it a it that sine that odes a visiting. Later, Ann mario Todd who was killed by a revenue fficer. Fi his death, Ann o seas Se oi ing that she is bei: Ann Haskel. 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