The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1934, Page 4

3 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1934 ‘ The Bismarck Tribune| An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST PAPER. (Established 1873) ‘une Company, Biamarcl |. D., entered at the postoffice at Bismarck @8 second class mail matter. fusiaet D. MANN mt_and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in ing $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bis- ‘Daily by mail, per year outside of Bismarck) Daily by mail outside Dakota ‘Weekly by ear 1. ‘Weekly by mail outaide of North ‘Weekly by mail in Ci 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 rese: We Should All Share and Progress Alike Arthur E. Morgan, who is chair- man of the Tennessee Valley Au- thority and—in his spare time, so to speak—president of Antioch college, tells his students at the opening of the fall term that America must be- gin to build character “on the plane of social responsibility.” Now, it is the peculiar privilege of college presidents to mouth charm- ing phrases before a wide-eyed con- ‘vocation of newly arrived freshmen. But Dr. Morgan's suggestion hits a new note, and it might be worth a second look. “Each individual,” he says, “must Getermine to follow for himself the isciplined good life, regardless of the pressure of the mass.” Does this mean a reversion to the Joose talk about an “aristocracy of brains” that we heard so much about @ few years ago? Not necessarily; for Dr. Morgan goes on to add: “There must grow a willingness to share the common lot and progress only as the common lot can progress. ‘To a large extent, that means a change of personal aims and desires.” ‘And it is precisely in this direction that the present trend in American life must swing if the high hopes of the last 18 months are not to be dashed. It does no harm to recall that it ‘was some such notion as this which helped, in the early years of the re- Public, to build that great American dream which has always dazsied our eyes just beyond the horizon. Men came to believe, in those fresh new days, that human life could be lived on a basis different from any- thing previously tried; that the rights of the humblest man could be made as sacred as the rights of the might- fest, and that progress should mean nothing at all unless it means a bet- ter life and a truer freedom for the fellow at the bottom of the heap. It was, and is, a noble dream. Like all dreams, it has been stained and frayed in its passage down through the years. But it remains our finest heritage; and if the confusion of this era is to mean anything at all, it must mean a revival of that dream and @ new effort to attain it. And, as Dr. Morgan suggests, be- fore we can attain it we must find a new mental attitude. We must, some- how, get this “willingness to share the common lot and progress only as ‘the common lot progresses.” Vertical or Horizontal? In declaring for vertical unions in industry, Gen. Hugh Johnson would seem to have tossed himself blithely into the most difficult part of our ‘Whole difficult labor situation. American labor organization has not, in most instances, proceeded along vertical lines. The overwhelm- ing majority of our unions are craft unions. They extend horizontally, ‘not vertically. One union, that is to say, may have focals in automobile plants and in boiler factories, in small machine shops and in shipyards; and the Stronger it is, the more militant its Jeadership, the harder it is apt to be to change it. Plenty of people have remarked that under the NRA the vertical union presents @ much more logical ‘way of approach to the task of union- ization. But union leaders them- selves are exceedingly reluctant to admit this point, and by espousing it publicly General Johnson has let him- self in for a great deal of very warm argument. What, No Succotash? American travelers who return from Europe are fond of telling the great number of ways in which the chief trouble with Europe is that ‘| mits in 215 leading American cities. tasteless. And, he adds, Europea! tomatoes are small, pinkish, and gen- erally worthless, Here, surely, is a point for patriots to remember. A land that cannot provide good sliced tomatoes and sweet corn must, by that very fact, be @ pretty second-rate sort of place. Hopeful Figures One comforting bit of business news is to be found in the Dun and Bradstreet tabulation of building per- This tabulation shows a slight but definite upward trend in the build- ing industry. A total of $34,000,000 worth of building was initiated in A Message of Greater Secu August, for instance. This figure rep- resents a small increase over the fig- ures for July—a rise of 1% per cent, to be exact; and that very small in- crease is significant when one recalls that there is usually a decline from July to August of about 9 per cent. Purthermore, the figures for August are 6.3 per cent above the figures for the seme month in 1933. One seems justified, then, in con- cluding that the building industry is beginning to revive. Unfortunately, the revival has a dismayingly long way to go. This figure for August, 1934, is less than a quarter of the figure for August, 1930. Even a small rise is something to be thankful for, but it will have to get a lot higher to do us very much good. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they ag or disagree with The Tribune's policies, Debt-Scaling Laws (New York Times) ‘The Frazier-Lemke bill was rushed through the last congress by Senator Long in the final hours of the ses- sion. It provides that if any farmer “feels aggrieved” by a settlement he might otherwise obtain of his debts, he can ask to be adjudged a bank- Tupt; that thereupon his property shall be appraised “at its fair and reasonable value not necessarily the market value,” and that he can buy back his farm from his creditors at this valuation over a period of six years by paying only 2%4 per cent of the principal within the first two years, and 15 per cent within five years, with interest at only 1 per cent on the unpaid principal. If a credi- tor objects to this, the farmer may retain possession of his premises un- der a “reasonable” rental for five years, during which all Proceedings are to be stayed. Judge Chesnut of the federal dis- trict court of Baltimore has declared this amendment to the National Bankruptcy Act to be unconstitution- al on two grounds: first, that it de- prives @ creditor of the protection which the laws of the state provide for him, while it doubles the protec- tion given to a farmer debtor; sec- ondly, that it tends to supersede the right retained by each state in the operation of its courts and tends to abrogate legal contracts. ‘The result is obviously a “par- tial cancellation of the debt,” and necessarily the impairment of the integrity and terms of the mortgage indebtedness. * * * The substantial effect is to transfer the property of one person to an- other by requiring the mortgagee to sell his interest in the prop- erty to the mortgagor at a price which the former has no part or influence in fixing. - In asking whether the suprem court will sustain this decision if it comes before it, two of its own pre- vious decisions are of special inter- est. One is that of Jan. 8 of this year upholding the validity of the Min- nesota moratorium law, by a five-to- four vote, in which Chief Justice oe aad writing for the majority, temporary relict from, the ‘one mporary rel en- forcement of contracts in the Presence of disasters due to phys- ical causes such as fige, flood or earthquake, that power cannot be said to be een dene urgent pul need such relief is produced by other and economic causes. On May 28, however, the supreme court declared unconstitutional an Arkansas law which granted a mora- torlum on liens on life insurance pol- icles. This decision was unanimous. ‘The court drew the distinction that the Minnesota law was “temporary and conditional,” while this could not be said of the Arkansas measure. “Such an exemption applied in the case of debts owing before the exemp- tion was created by this legislation constitutes an unwarrantabel inter- ference with the obligation of con- tracts in violation of the constitu- tional provision.” While the Frazier- Lemke bill is to apply “only to debts existing at the time this act becomes effective,” it has no other limiting condition. The president, in signing it, de- clared it to be “loosely worded,” and expressed the belief that it would “require amendment at the next ses- sion of congress.” Apart from the question of its constitutionality, the measure is of doubtful utility even to the farmer in the long run. If the principle of scaling down debt at the initiative of the individual debtor should become legally established, it is not difficult to guess what its ef- fect would be on those who in the ae were invited to become credi- ‘icone Samay Football season is coming. So sena- tors should get all their investigating ittees going strong now while can still get ont page publicity. An Illinois candidate for con- can’t buy decent tomatoes or cob there. Austria and Hungary, PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE rity —_——— wife says I'm going mushy... . (6. M. #H.) Answer—That’s bad, when a man’s Signed letters pertaining diagnosis, or tredtment, will self-addressed en' is By William Brady, M. D. to personal health be answered SMOKING AND GASTRIC ULCER—II Dr. R. Friederich, in Archiv fur klinische Chirurgie, Berlin, compares the effect of smoking with the effect of sham feeding; the resultant flow of gastric juice is harmful even to the healthy cells. Smoking on an empty stomach is therefore particularly dam- aging. Of 153 men operated on for gastric ulcer, nearly 80 per cent were exces- sive smokers, averaging from 20 to 30 cigarettes a day. In addition to the effect of the nico- tine (or pyridine or carbon monoxide or whatever the poisonous factor in tobacco smoke may be) swallowed with the saliva and absorbed from the lin- ing of the mouth and the lining of the respiratory passages, the reflex effect already mentioned must be taken into conisderation. Dr. Irving Gray of Brooklyn re- ported in an American medical journal several years ago the great frequency of smoking as a cause of heartburn and pylorospasm. Heartburn is not due to excessive acidity, but rather to the l irritation of the sensitive lining of the esophagus by normally acid gastric juice regurgitated or backed up where gastric juice has no business to be. The tobacco hog isn’t doing himself or (I regret to say) herself any good by taking alkalis to relieve heartburn or acidity. The alkali may give tem- porary ease to the distress by neutral- izing the normal acid, but that does not promote digestion. Having called names I had better explain what a tobacco hog is. In my opinion any one who smokes on an empty stomach, that is before a meal or before the meal is finished, is a hog, and furthermore I regard as a wishy-washy character the individual who has to smoke while at work. The py! cited with eructations of gas and with hunger pain at night. In fact the tobacco smoker's gastric or duo- denal ulcer complex is difficult to dis- tinguish from actual ulcer. Rather characteristic is the com- plaint of the victim of this tobacco poisoning. Distress—food—comfort— pain again—food—relief. One girl aged 21 who had smoked fifteen cigarettes a day for two years bad the pain — food — comfort — pain complex for seven months; another aged 23, who had smoked about the same amount, had the complex for a year. The amount of tobacco used bears no constant relation to the occurrence of heartburn or pain and the other symptoms of ulcer, However, the symptoms are com- Pletely relieved within two or three victim resumes q Abject slaves of the habit who in- days after the victim stops smoking. The symptoms recur promptly if the smoking. Gulge in a smoke before breakfast may count confidently on shooting the stomach acidity and secretion of gas- a ee ee ee mal, Of 35 patients who suffered with “pipe-smoking happened to get mixed up with such a bevy of sissies? ~ QESTIONS AND ANSWERS Going to Call 2 Convention? Please be so kind as to give me the names and addresses of all the doctor: purchase of a pound of tea I suppose; you'll want the names of all good gro- | jeers in New York, Chicago, St. Louis | and Kansas City. But it takes only | jone doctor to extirpate tonsils with | diathermy. Let me know what city you expect to visit for the treatment | ‘and T'll be glad to & doc- | tor for you. Wet Feet | Se be Cees seeedy onioaeaei:| ing feet? They scald and have a bad odor. (W. M. T.) Answer—Send 2 stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for monograph on care of the feet and sweating. What, Gone Mushy? Collar job, and now at 52 I realize I am pretty soft and flabby. In fact my x -flower. i 12 English title. iia Al le 16 Piece of timber 178he was born in —— 20 Carbonated ios iy an em. 23 Pinttorms in a 41 Type standard. ‘i lecture Mell. 42 Secured. pe of a 26 Ratiroad 43 Merriment. 50 To distinguish, Finger 2676 instet ut in —and upon. a, ee medicine. 58 She was the first woman —— In her denomination. FOS Gee Answer — If you contemplate the, « : Famous, Suffragist HORIZONTAL Aaswer to Previous Pussie NINANC IEIGIARNIE CIEIAISIe HIAINNA IE TTI TIE eas) ae we 52 Landed estate. - Street. ‘57. She graduated 10 Side bone. 11 Acidity. 13 Smallest. 15 Queerer. 16 She was & ~~ 56 Neuter wife comes right out frankly like that, But you can still show her. Send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, and inclose two dimes for the booklets “The Regeneration Regimen” and “The Last Brady Symphony.” After = few months you can tell the little woman powerful arm: “Hop on kid, and le’ me know when you're on.” you hold out your (Copyright, 1934, John F. Dille Co.) Even a two-faced girl needs only one make-up. —s 18 Frost bite. 19 Insect's egg. IE IAIVIEY 22 mite WIE IN VERTICAL 2 Inert gaseous element. 3To scold. area. 6 Sinks. 7 Sesame. 8 Eons. 43 To run away. 44 Throe. 45 To scatter. ‘7 Tree. : Golf teacher, «2 To hew branches. for the suffra: _ pronoun. sists (pl). 66 Nay. By WILLIS THORNTON (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Sept. 26.—When is an American citisen not an American citizen? When he's an Hawalian, and espe- clally when he’s an Hawaiian sugar- Producer, says the latter. And that’s the crux of the sugar- Producers’ case which is going to be taken to a District of Columbia court soon in an effort to get the Jones- Costigan sugar equalization act de- clared unconstitutional, That's the act by which the last set the amount of sugar to be grown and refined in this country, and gave the AAA power to set quotas for Hawaii and Puerto Rico, The Hawalians are sore—they say they are Americans on precisely the same basis as if the Territory of Ha- wall were on the North American continent, that the sugar act and AAA regulations under if have denied and impaired Hawaiian rights in a way not applying to other citizens of the United States, and that Hawaii has been treated like a foreign country in al her quota of sugar to be sent to the United States. They con- ‘tend the AAA's apportionment was not bel unfair and unkind, but un- - Thus, the sugar question, which produces more and bitterer lobbying Per pound of sugar produced than al- most any other of the perennial trade questions that bedevil Congress, now brings up the whole question of the Political relationship between the Ha- walian Islands and the United States, AAA and the New Deal in general. ! The attorney general’s office and the AAA ate collaborating in an elaborate and careful defense of the whole proposition, for the decision may af- fect far more important things than sugar quotas, p NEW DEAL JUSTI Speaking of judicial decisions on the New Deal, a situation is arising in Washington which is almost, comic. Some of the ultra-conservative law- yers of the capital are shivering in their boots at the thought of forth- coming supreme court decisions this winter, They consider that the court shows every sign of actually having tew years, and they expect a surpris- ney ieee in its Lope e such lawyer, discussing a pend- ing case with @ colleague, and said, “I know, and you know, that we have the law on our side—but I don’t feel sure any more which side the supreme court ison!” SAME OLD PROBLEM ‘The perennial clash of interests be- tween city workman and farmer is be- ing heightened by the present tariff negotiations. While Secretary Wal- jace is “letting the farmers vote” on crop reduction, and selling them on lowering tariffs so as to permit a bil- ion dollars’ worth of manufactured imports to balance outgoing farm products, the American Federation of Labor is putting in an almost daily kick against any such thing. cs Matthew Woll, A. F. of L. vice presi- dent, is making frequent Ss against letting down the tariff bars to “foreign products of child and sweated labor.” Woll’s America’s ‘Wage Earners’ Protective Conference, high-tariff organization of union lead- ers, is campaigning actively against any and all proposals to increase im- Ports at the expense of the American workingman. This organization is the labor end of the “Buy-American” movement which brought out a pro- test from Secretary Hull recently. STILL THEY COME Though the magnificent new lime- stone-and-marble public buildings of the new Washington rise on every hand, the need for more space for the expanding personnel is shown by the fact that dozens of the old temporary buildings, slapped up during the war- as well as a primary legal test of the time to | Come and ask you to marry at Mine thought thet peri ae had been mistaken in i 5 z rep Tee fi i t what to suffer. e emergency 16 years ago and him’ and I don’t like him and : di 5 LE funny to me. He Fy i was as crude as his Then she saw that his face white, his lips stiff with pain. couldn’t appreciate fully what ,| was saying. She forgave him. “If only I could make ind,” she “It was didn’t come with him. ribly unreasonable then he only married Gwe cause he thought he could happy. If ae say any a ivi him [' sbink you ae le class ja jices, haven't seemed to be that ki Person at all.” “What does 8 ezé Path at i Had ha Hf of aren’t. But this isn’t an ordi sordid triangle, Malcolm, “Howard filel And iy he ieee a de admire in a man he is etill the man Llove. I can't believe be could im | me like this if he were se) if he were as worthless 7” Malcolm said mis- ink is ‘wanted, It isn't caught at the name. ‘ mean Howard worth!” he repeated. “Caroline, Duns- “Yes. I was engaged to him, Malcolm, when father lost his money. We quarreled over our fu- ture Sod dy a : ; i i H 2: i i 3 ‘ | t rf i age in ag Ri i :j i i i E i Ff zy F F ~ ii oi i HG EEE eS: 449 eR s iis polices brlertr SEPRETERTPL 275 te 3 &° 2 2 ft Let gee Ze Ei i 3 read the newspapers during the last| ing never intended to be permanent, are jstill in use. . . . The overwhelming Archives Building rising on Pennsyl- vaina Avenue is being enlarged 3% million dollars’ worth even before it’s finished... A recent compilation by the United States News showed that the government is now using 14,000,000 square feet of office space in Wash- ington alone — enough to make 615 Empire State buildings... . And at that, it’s renting 2,000,000 square feet. «+ « The Treasury is sending oni warnings of a counterfeit $100 bill. Better look closely at that last $100 bill you received. ... Advertising men, who shuddered when Rex Tu deprecated the advertising game dur- di of his proposed Food and Drug bill last year, may take heart from Donald Richberg. He re- cently told a group of advertising men that “at its worst, it (advertising) helps to energize human beings into action, and activates production and exchange, whereby workers are em- Ployed and property is used.” (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) a Give us some bread and meat and we'll get out into the country to get some beans.—E. L. Sandefur, treasurer nae strike relief committee at Gas- ry xe * We oppose Russia's entry because Russian communism seeks to take Toot everywhere and because its am- bition is a world revolution—Gisueppe Motta, League of Nations representa- tive from the Netherlands. eee The functions of a citizen and sol- ie are inseparable—Benito Musso. ek * 5 Women are just suckers for your money, and I don’t think I'll ever have anything to do with them. — Jackie Cooper, film star. eee The government would view the ex- port of military planes from this country to Germany with grave dis- a of State Cordell UTH DEWEY | ‘GROVES to her. 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