The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 15, 1934, Page 4

esagsemagoi 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. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher ~~ Bubscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ......$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bis- marck) eeeesessccescees seeeeee F Dakota, per year Weekly by mail year ... . 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. We Should Not Grow Blind In the People’s Forum column of this edition of The Tribune, which also might properly be labeled edi- torials by the people, there appears a communication which is worth the study of every farmer and every indi- vidual dependent upon farming, either directly or indirectly, for his support. Study is justified, not only for the sound common sense which much of the letter contains but because it presents in new language the falla- cious belief that the reduction of the surplus of grain is largely due to the acreage reduction program of the government. Also, it develops the idea that this reduction in the sur- Plus is, in itself, a bad thing. To take this attitude without res- ervation is to display a short mem- ory. It is only a year since the cry in agricultural America was against the surpluses which weighed down the market until prices were ruinous. If we could only get rid of the sur- plus, we were told and most of us believed, agriculture would have op- portunity to stage a come-back. Now the surplus is vanishing, not 0 much because of acreage agree- ments as because of the drouth. In much of Burleigh county, for exam- ple, it would have made little differ- ence if the curtailment were 80 per cent instead of the required 20, or if none had been made at all. We should have harvested as much wheat one way as the other. In view of the crop failure, the acreage benefit payment was merely a form of crop insurance. It had little to do with reducing the surplus. Old Mother Nature took care of that. We could have doubled our acreage in the Mis- souri Slope country this year, had it| been possible to do so, without ma- terially increasing the surplus. If acres produce nothing it makes no difference how many of them are planted. It is true that acreage reduction in some sections contributed to the re- duction, The Red River Valley, for example, would have yielded more had the acreage been larger because there they have a crop worth cut- ting, advices from Traill county plac- ing the average yield in that section at between 10 and 20 bushels per acre. Optimistic, perhaps, but no- ticeably cheering. The complaint that farmers this winter will be forced to pay high Prices for wheat which they sold at low prices is justified but inevitable under our economy. The farmer who this year has nothing to harvest can- not be blamed for seeing red when he pays high prices for flour, yet this does not solve the problem of what to do about it. Pries+fixing without some sort of control at the source, was tried and failed, as witness the Hoover experi- ment of 1930. On a normal basis we were planting too many acres and harvesting too much wheat. It may be true that the distribution system is and was out of kilter, but that did not prevent the ruinous effects of low prices from being visited upon agricultural America. Meanwhile, even though the out- look for the western North Dakota Producer is not bright, it still is much too early to get excited about a pos- sible food shortage. There still is plenty of grain and meat in the country to feed everyoné and, while we could wish that it still was in the hands of farmers in order that they pond might get the benefit of the price, it is something to know that it is avail- able. A cynic has remarked that this is it may, in many cases, be justified. It is particularily hard upon young folks as A Parmer suggests, but here, too, we ere confronted with the problem of what to do about it. To point out the trouble is not always to suggest © remedy and we all must recognise that there is = bottom to the federal) tecnsury from which wo have received our full share. The ideal, of course, is to make this country self-supporting. Good crops at fair prices will do it. There is no other remedy. ‘Until that combination arrives there is nothing to do but hang on as best we can. President Roosevelt has assured us that no one will go cold or hungry. The entire powers of the federal government are being di- rected toward the job of seeing that everyone gets through the coming winter. It is not easy for us but 20 neither is it easy for the government which even now is having trouble in raising money. It is probable that we shall need acreage control of some kind for years to come, else the follies of the last 10 years will be repeated and with the same consequences. If the govern- ment is not the sponsor, it will have to be some other agency, for the cut- throat competition of farmer with farmer brought trouble for us all. We should keep in mind that the real cause of much of our trouble was low prices, accompanied by a gradually decreasing production in this area. We should not let the ef- fects of such a condition blind us as to the cause. Slums and Crime Some striking facts as showing how slums breed criminals are contained in a report giving the results of a survey made in New York by the New York tenement house commis- stoner, Langdon W. Post. The figures leave no doubt that slums offer one of the most promis- ing openings for an attack on crime. Abolition of slums means drying up the breeding grounds of crime and of criminals. This is a conclusion that can not be escaped from a reading of the report by Commissioner Post. In conducting the survey, the year 1930 was selected for study. Nine slum areas in New York and five in Brooklyn furnished the material. The records of 112,163 persons arrested, 56,345 persons convicted and 3,743 Juveniles adjulged to be delinquent were examined. In @ section of the city along the Harlem river, regarded as the worst slum district in New York, it was found that 72.31 persons out of every thousand were arrested for a crime, 1.66 persons out of every thousand were convicted of a felony and 18.39 children out of every thousand were delinquent. What was regarded by the experts as the most striking fact in the whole survey was a comparison of the effect of slum areas on the whole area sur- veyed between Brooklyn and Man- hattan. The latter borough, with a total population of 1,700,000 divided between slum and non-slum areas about half, showed an arrest rate of 28.12 per thousand for the non-slum area while Brooklyn, more populous by 800,000 persons but with fewer slum areas, showed an arrest rate of 16.67 per thousand. The remedy for these conditions, of course, is in the abolition of slums. This has been long known, but our If an infectious deadly disease were Prevalent in a section of New York— or any other city—and no steps were munity soon would be up in arms. Yet crime, which can be compared with a deadly disease, is allowed to breed and spread almost unmolested, as far as dealing with the source is concerned. Society shows little active concern in the matter. This condition must be changed if progress in checking crime is to be made, Slum-clearance projects have been put under way in some cities in the last few years, which may indi- cate that the public is awakening to the dangers that reside in slums. A wife is a person who thinks it is before company if she adds the word “honey.” Editorial Comment A Merited Tribute (Grand Forks Herald) It was entirely fitting that the president of the nation should pause for an hour on his homeward journey across the continent to participate in the tribute to Drs. Charles and Wil- and that he should express, in words of eloquence and sincerity, the na- tion’s appreciation of these two men who have contributed so much to the E 5 & : 5 rv i wEeeee ihe freest E taken to wipe it out, the entire com-|™ all right to bawl out her husband | heeded. NG om (lid ‘i Wy) 4 Ola A PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to 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. Useless to try to explain your |oubt about that in your mind, giv from two or six miles of your Aunt Henrietta was very stout ee med and so was your Cousin Jo, unless your obesity is the comparatively rare type, a ductless gland deficiency. Such ductless gland trouble does run in families. But your expansive peri- meter, big boy, is quite obviously a nutritional disorder. In short you're fat because you eat too much or laze too much or both, and that’s all there is to say about it. In a talk back forninst we compared your plight with that of the drinker, if you can remember, and informed the world that the drinker deliberately cultivates his craving for liquor but you came by your craving for pure carbohydrate quite without your will or knowledge. You had to accept the food offered you or none, and the food offered was pretty badly treated before it came to your table. Without explaining to you what from your exercise but enjoying it. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Heat Ruins Hair Girl, 14, want permanent wave, dad. Creator endowed you with a craving or demand for certain food elements or accessories that most refined foods lack, namely the minerals and the tamins, If we lived natural lives and ate natural food obesity like yours, Fal- staff, would be a rare phenomena. But we get most of our food without having to find it; it is prepared in various ways to make eating easier;/eq him. {t 4s flavored with all sorts of condi-| “(copyright 1934, John F. Dille Co.) ments and sauces to encourage us to eat it even when we have no stomach for it and are not really hungry; and|only $3000. it comes in forms calculated to slide cown without any trouble at all, you Con’t even have to chew the stuff. The wonder is that a few people escape obesity for years. For years physicians and health euthorities have preached the impor- tence of vitamins and minerals in| food. Not many laymen have listened, or if they have heard they have not People who suffer impairment in health from deficiencies in their sta- ple food—and we must now regard Obesity as one such deficiency disease —seldom bother to do anything about it until they are pretty far gone. FCCC NT I FPPeCCN FO TTT PT A STOMACH TO STOMACH TALK |cise of some kind, nothing better than | Austrian Naz! leader. WITH OUR OVERSIZE FRIENDS |e daily walk. As long as there is a etait e Dempsey, ity, Fatty, by that yourself the benefit of the doubt by daughter. gen on the hoof every day, and you'll} «,, rmany soon find you are getting out of the! 19:4 the ruler of the world.— vicious circle and not only benefiting etn, hee toy Pind ‘Walliam in the mountains overlooking Valley, I saw not a roach in The fleet of Columbus was worth an Ht ‘This is the eighth of a series of articles on the more important new governmental agencies cre- ated under the New Deal, their aims, and activities. atl Be ie drouth relief program and much of money is being used to buy up unhappy cattle on parched ranges. ‘Thus the drouth is accomplishing the purpose and AAA expects be- tween 4,000,000 and 7,000,000 head will set to permit domestic 1,600,000 tons of beet 000,000 tons of cane. Our struggle is a struggle of the German-Austrian people against for. eign domination, against Italian mas- ters. — Konstantine Kammerhofer, anyone we can find ‘we'll have the ** *& Hurrah! I love little girls—Jack came to i- e ri = pees ow nearly you being poi Pepin A “So you can’t take it?” Mark said. ae He laughed gayly. “If it doesn’t is aspiring today as in Rey if fe fa at Birdwood. —Magistrate York. tiatts ca name 4 practically nil. Sime Rev. Dr. Charles C. Peale,| canny fellow, even though he a Ht rh L i E was carried | to see his sister and were taken away to an 31 Feebleminded on the stage. © VERTICAL 32 You. Takia slowly, that] “His widow?" I erled. “Why, his! where someone else sees ome S0Third note. y night before, 33 To rouse. Gktvert had bess there when are ite died tve years age, , Get the vitamins they n 7 poe . 51 Type standard. 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She turned to Meck, sory dis- a cateates his plan for cumstances being normal, 39 Rivalet. 59 This story was § Assault. 49 Pitcher oe ee 7” he asked told crerybedy rege bak 00 an id the ii abarely. said. “He asked me hong 3 you know, Mark 44 Perched. 60 She was a —11 Inlet. 56 Senior te eee ee mies oot ta aratiet: lasted ete: ; 47Side remarks of novels (pl.).12 This character 58 Like. day, and I said I shouldn't be ue Hg dang 2 papeegey PE RP A, | itactpecrsiet eto eure q : 7 RAR eer of his fe We went BEeEN\weee sare be dant cy tol ou, Me. Ne 2 x 1 He th hasty mockery in Nel i SSN add \N ° Ps utes. Then Mark said slowly, | made me feel uncomfortable. PN wearily. very easily have told a| asked myselt te thas tan NT | eer eet tee TN I | Sug, f eaid io ber soarply butt thn be would < be x “You shouldn't have ‘anyone! | women. more I Pi TL NG | You knew we didn't want anybody | Seifert Vail, the loss I hn “eS to know. Why, Mark might have| was carrying the i ad NW cepted oe a u.Shs bowed her bead and when 1 he ‘wanted aw chert aA Jd, “I'm going to ask him if be fold Sef “Don't word to him,” Mark said, “I don't want this nna “Why Mark?” I asked. person who did this, murderer. Someone iEREERS HI i y £ E ag Hd i & = ake had “Why,” I to remem- |“Give me the tabloid.” ber, ps ‘ou always le opened it to shake out a little on the back of your gostip column and sa band si ver read this? gece | a) HG Hs a SF a he Hl ; ? ; HH i 4 le: Hb 3 it mustache and weren't Is eymbolic of bine cling, mustache and a ie Bae Tooked beware, — (a). Sa a 15 The auth “Pil never jeer at bits of] “Of course I did,” wes an — tne neret ett 287 oats dalemaniy. | “inn Grant passed (pl.). “Td to know where the ar-| wasn’t to be printed 19 To lease. eenie came from,” Mark said. ‘when Bob would be Not any spon Sead die. Melee aie 24The Bear tsi ening, Te arsenda bad bomn “Of course not. (constellation) stolen drug-room—e sur- Shp sea 78 rand 25 Eggs of fishe, later to be confirmed, | And ie cpeerans 26 Explored. John Calvert had free access Bnet 28 Wing. rocWe should be able to find out if ba d fH ate | a} Hite us iid dl if eit 3 ut jis ae Te i é | i > eHiy ie He ? he told anyone who would lis- it it ee Wis wife' death? He told you that Yen'she onl othe dance,” Mark continued, “was held on the night of A it , Vail’s sister fifth, Last Thureday, Vail’s a in presence, told his on August twenty: fifth, newspapers gave ‘The Tflthe ‘came date. The newspapers make mistakes, but if I'm any judge of charecter, Aue Vail isan acct werd about time, and then I remem- bere tat all alld foe Burne ts sent beck maul her death from if i § i i oEe an E38 iE tr Ht 8 z oF gets ell Be te Hast - 2ee8 gE tH pgeedd eg Fy et Serbs Ly iis ae ii dzon F HG i ij é E eounted on it to soften Vail, to make him remember the en fie wits. Bither way. irvorks He smiled at us benignantly and then, remembering the premature report of Vail’s wealth, he groaned “And all oM nen 7 Soe reasening’s ie Ere Sot bn le a train New York at 9.18, and is only 8.40 now. You could get to New York by Mr. Fowler.” Mark's face “That ae a trying, be Ri Bob! ‘Don't stop to pack Ger in ear and the train! Anne Pathe cédrees te ott ad ta 9 Apartment 8-C. If ‘woman comes there, find out who Hurry, oF you'll miss the if i 5 i pi iat gre pee itl: | bell at the railroad crossing was and the were down drove up to the sta- tien. train was just ‘around a curve a quarter of a » I turned off the road, ‘was bo tine t bane across the single track a min- inte batore the enuite vulled ‘as I ran down the cinder slat- 3 *e