The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1934, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THB STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Trib- une Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck os 6.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year 1.00 Dakota ......... seeeeceeeees ‘Weekly by mail in state, three 2.00 Dakota, per year .........0. +. 150 Weekly by mail in Canada, pei year ......... See eeeeeseeeecees 2.00 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 Farmer Gets a Break Announcement that the agricul- tural adjustment administration Plans abandonment of its crop-re- duction activities in 1935 is natural and inevitable. It is a response to conditions which have changed rap- idly, due to the drouth and to the fact that America’s carryover of grains will be reduced to normal at the end of this year. In short, the need for reduction has passed, at least temporarily, and the adjustment effort will be abandoned act is, is indicated by the reason given for the abandonment of plans called into use during the last year. ‘The responsible spokesmen for the farmers fear that further curtailment might produce a real shortage of food and they do not want that. If the adjustment act or any other measure operates to bring hardship upon the consumer it will be repealed very quickly and the possibility of getting further governmental help for the farmer will vanish for years to come, for the preponderance of voting power now lies in the city and no class, not even one so extensive and powerful as the farmers, can afford to prejudice that public opinion. As a result of the new policy, farmers will get adjustment payments on 1935 crops and probably will not have to conform to any rules of the AAA in order to get them. Thus they get a break in the way of some- thing for nothing, a condition so un- usual as to be classed with the mir- aculous. There is no assurance, however, that further curtailment will not be necessary at some future time, for surpluses of grain mount rapidly. ‘What we need is just what the name of the act implies, adjustment to meet changing conditions. With wise administration we will get it. Meanwhile, farmers should not let the drouth prevent them from recog- nizing the merit of this plece of leg- islation. It is not perfect and prob- ably never will be, but it has been the only means of uniting agricul- tural America in @ joint enterprise to solve @ common problem. It may be, as some claim, that individuality no longer can exist under it, but this is not true. The man who prefers to be an individualist can continue to be one if he cares to forego the bene- fits which follow cooperative action. ‘There is no compulsion yet on the ‘wheat and corn grower such as has been applied to the cotton planters of the south. Under the old system individuality ‘was not such # boon, anyhow. It merely emphasized the competition of one farmer against another, with re- sultant overproduction and low prices. ‘They were its children and on that score we are glad to be rid of it or at least to have some of its effects curtailed. If we have another year like this, the surpluses will all be gone. In that event we may need an upward adjustment, with bonuses for in- what unfair. In North Dakota the shooting season is limited by the weather. Were we to adopt the 15- week proposal, it would run into cold weather when all of the birds had gone south. The three-day-a-week plan might be feasible, but it is doubtful if it would protect the birds, In these parts much of the hunting is done during the week-ends and destruction of game might be as ex- tensive under the split-week pian as would be probable under a longer season of consecutive days. If the idea is to protect the birds— and this seems necessary — they should be protected and not subject- @d to a device which seems to do one thing and actually may do another. Mr. Yellowtail’s New Job Robert Yellowtail, an educated In- dian living on the Crow reservation in Montana, has a new job and there- by gains a unique distinction. His appointment was opposed by certain interests which contended that he would not be popular with the Indians on the reservation and the federal Indian bureau decided to test this out. They held up the ap- pointment, pending the result of a Teferendum on Mr. Yellowtail’s sta- tus, taken by secret ballot. The can- didate got 588 of the 689 votes cast and subsequently was appointed. Whether or not the Indians on the Crow reservation will like his admin- istration remains to be seen. Wheth- er he will prove competent from the standpoint of his white sponsors still is in question. But at least the idea has been established that the Indian should have some voice in his own affairs. From any standpoint it is an advance. If the half million or more Indians who still are wards of the government are not to remain dependents indefinitely, they must be encouraged to stand upon their own feet. One of the best methods is letting them try it. 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. Our ‘Surplus’ Economy (New York Times) In the last few years prophets of a new economics have arisen every- where to say unto us that the days of “the economics of scarcity” have gone forever, and that now we face the problems instead of an Economy of Abundance. Precise definitions of terms and meanings are hardly to be expected of these eloquent geoman- cers, but many of them obviously be- Meve that the economic problem of today is solely one of distribution, and that, so far as production is con- cerned, we are already capable of turning out, and unfortunately have already been turning out, far more goods than we need or can use. Such a belief has undoubtedly given sup- port to many of the measures of the New Deal—the plowing under of crops, the slaughtering of swine, the compulsory reduction of hours for both labor and machinery, the dis- couragement of new plant capacity. Mr. Robert R. Doane, writing in the current New Outlook, subjects this idea to a few statistical tests, and it fares very badly under them. He be- gins with the first human necessity, food, and takes as his measure the yearly requirements, as outlined by the United States department of ag- riculture, for an adequate rounded diet for our whole population. Un- der this test he finds that in the 1929 peak production there was indeed an excess of 16 billion pounds of flour and cereals, and also a much smaller excess of potatoes, beans, peas, nuts and fats, but he finds a deficiency of 13 billion quarts of milk, of 1 1-3 billion pounds of tomatoes and citrus fruits, of 12 billion pounds of fruits and green vegetables, of 2 billion pounds of meats, 13 billion eggs and 2% billion pounds of sugar. These deficiencies in terms of hu- man needs and comfortable living standards run as well through our supplies of housing and clothing; Bey. exist, as Mr. Doane points out, ter, gas and sewage systems, hospi-| minerals talization, educational buildings, and throughout our economic structure. In clothing, for example, he finds that in the prosperity year 1929 the male population was supplied per capita with only one-third of a gar- | A Couple of Chiefs Abandon Their Isolation Posts L4G Cyn, diagnosis, or self-addressed en: Nope is enclosed. in ink. No reply Address THE UNCONSID! IN FOOD For years physi authorities have Portance of vit and of mineral components in food. Few laymen have listened, or if |they have heard they have not led. People who suffer health im nt from deficiencies in their 'diet—and obesity is one such effect of deficiency—sel- dom trouble to do anything about it until they are pretty far gone. Soon after the medical authorities began their campaign of education of the public about these essentials, food manipulators began adding a dash of this or that vitamin to their devital- ized products and aming to the public about it. What little the aver- age layman knows about food acces- sories he has gleaned from the bally- hoo of food jugglers. In referring to obesity as an effect of deficiency in food I mean that be- ‘cause the ordinary dietary is poor in vitamins and minerals there is an in- stinctive desire to take more food than the body can readily handle, and the excess accumulates) as fat. I do not! mean to imply that some particular vitamin prevents ‘obesity. If the Greater part of our food were natural, and not manufactured or modified by Processing, ® more moderate intake would satisfy hunger, and there would be less surplus to store as fat. Vitamins naturally present in foods as they are grown are impaired or destroyed by numérous processes to which the food is subjected in the re- ESSENTIALS and health) hed the im- PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE y William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease oon will be answered by Dr. Brady if be made to queries not conforming to instructions. , William Brady, in Too Cold a alteal 5 : i [ Pid [ i i ate i i vy 7 Minit ALC eR i i F | é “6 i it Gi ‘ YY Pt FE, Sete” = cacti = rl E i z i 3 E | la tei Eg i i aa8,25 589 agtk Gocas without sufficient collateral or pros- pects. ‘The open secret of the credit situa- i 288 just nerves what should the patient rl This is my problem. (Mrs. E. 0. P.) Answer—It means he belongs to & bette ee brass specialists Sa ee to ¢ @ noise as nearly “Where has she been?” the Royal College of Surgeons as they ‘ “In New Y some can. The good men in that clique them friends.” bide bie! pose she walked past the ‘usually omit the trick initials. The little steal ein) them. The right door oes to pene Dench got a lift answer brass specialist in such some town where could {fully to Mark's didn't she}" Mark asked." room. Sue was hit “Hello, Sue,” I said. “Hi y ” he Good 't she bye, : Is arte [amet ® stat what she did.” Finn (Copyright, 1934, John F. Dille Co.) ‘said, “What ww did she come back?” African natives carry fire in the i aes Cacia aes rae gh ae rai yu grass and tinder, which is ignited before the 2 sca ends are tied up. When a fire 8 answered, “That's her story, and stood | she's sticking to it” stamped, Letters should be brief and written care of this newspaper. demanded. I nodded, Mark clutched wildly at his disordered hair. “Then -didn't find out what he eee about? to there knew deniny paetonine: retanyl — was e was prowling arou! outside the cottage just fio) es the storm.” “That's bably what killed him,” Sue exid. ” Answer—Even a doctor is most friendly when he doesn’t know any- thing about the malady his friend has. I am opposed to the vicious prac- tice of broadcasting morbid lore. Fussy What can be used to disinfect the mouthpiece of a telephone? One per- son using it has a severe cough and I want to guard against infection. (M, E.) Answer—There is no such danger unless you touch your mouth to the telephone. I should prefer ordinary soap and water washing for disinfec- tion of any guch object. Facsimile What do the initials F. A. C. 8. after a doctor’s name mean? When such a doctor tells his patient it is G man,” Sue said. “It’s his illness.” “He's been full of melancholy forebodings since Vail was kil Mark . “I woul live in found case te cote : out 1e “Why speculate™ Tas aus ogy opr something more Figvotwte a Mark sat He reached for the telephone. at’s news for Finn,” “a coe it already, le Eiecaeine Stet at belor lene 4 poco pd sep! im fore “Gosh, I wish he'd give me a chance at her,” Mark “odie almagat got away af al a derson told her to ther HORIZONTAL 11 His system of ment of new outerwear a year, and | trained even the female population with barely one-half an outer garment per capita. Mr. Doane’s survey is unfortunately marred by a few obvious errors. He ling remarks that our present building capacity will not permit the struction of more than 200,000 dwell- ing units a year; whereas in the ten- of and cotton.” It is true that in 1933, ~|though negro children in the poorer quarters of cities are commonly vic- tims of rickets and bad teeth. From the sugar cane the child derives con- siderable calcium and phosphorus, for example, we imported $32,000,000 of manufactured cotton, but we ex- FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: 1 Note in scale. ethics de- 3 Who was itne lone into ancient philos- —_. opher dn the a gt am ae! 18 Exclamation 10 Either. of delight, 12 Coalition. as Notas. 1s ayee avin 22 Devilish, Sous ee 23 To breathe. 15 To wait upon. oe ST Goante- 28 To contam- 18 Pertaining to ory ag 30 Caarck inch, 20 Implement. 39 Right. 0The birth of 39 pate, 21 Age. 41 Sea eagle. this —was 37 Impudent. 22 Not as tall. 43 Undergarment. 551 B.C. 4) To omen 35 second 49 Shoemaker’s = VERTICAL 41 Narrative is Mother sui fest 1He believed in poem. 27 And. 5LRemunerated, a “_— man.” 42 Unless. 29Giant king 53Concerning. = 2 To habituate. 44 Possessed. of Bashan, —_5¢ Melody. 3 Mining shaft 45 Half an em. 30 House canary. 55 Put into cir- hut. 46 Bill of fare, 31 Serrated tool. culation. 4 Upon. 47 Within. $3 Music drama, 57To acquiesce. 5 Card game. 48 Male deer. 34Musical in- 58He was the 6 Consumer. 49 Region. strument. most influen- 7To prattle. 50 Tardy. 35 To be vic- tial philos- 8 You and me. 52 Payment torious. opher of ——. 9To harden. demand. 36 Wayside hotel.59 His family 10 Convex 54 Onager. 38 Seventh note. mamewas—— molding. , 56 Each, E S ! f & ee Ea me ri Pi | AW’ TS nee ae f =i fH i f Z ze & ? i i E Be ‘f df ARE Leg 4 at 4 i = & & q f i i Fey 358 EB Hi elt Er ite | e i it FF : pits i ! 5.5 E 4 Hi SN F 4 zi [ i fi aE un ae tp a é E be 38 Be ? Eg is E q 5 R a i from. sig f = ES ’s permission. luce excessive salaries tions should to stockholders while the government. Also, a demands enough col- arantee the government nobody can ever get a nickel. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) He was ‘was another was Felipa eet added i ir fright. her own looked sullen and frightened ‘Buenas dias, Felipa,” Mark said. He smiled at her nied! something in 's dark-circled eyes ‘Women have twice as strong a sense and @ better sense of hear- “Why did she say she ran away?”)violence. 1 don't think an autopsy “She said ‘was *'Flan| will be necessary.” ane go Sif knock. This and the deput kindly, and nish. Fe- at some of athe rapidly in . Mark answered She her and then turned to heriff. “I've told her that it is impossible the wh be frank.” id her story is that her|for you to believe that she is telli: jole truth. I said that we al hidin’| want to help her, but that she must peeks Boor. im if eed! i geen ee i H é A A ane ¥ i