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1 an 4 Independent Newspaper THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER per year (in state ismarck) ......... 5. Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ...... seeeee 6.00 Weekly by mail in state, per year 1.00 ‘Weekly by mail outside of North os Dakota, per year ............+ Weekly by mail in Canada, per yeat 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. Many Are Bound Down by a Vicious System One of the hardest things to do, in trying to assess the rights and wrongs of a tangled social order, is to ap- portion the blame properly between individuals and the system under which they live, It is hard to stay indignant at an abstraction. We like to personalize our antagonisms. A human target is the first thing our anger requires. If things are going badly, it is much easier to take it out on John Jones or Bill Smith than it is to center our ‘wrath on society as a whole. You get an illustration of this {n a paragraph in a recent issue of “Advance,” the national weekly of the Congregational and Christian churches. In this magazine a correspondent Suggests that the church too often fails to make its criticism of current ills specific. Why, he asks, should not the church put aside its fine state- ments of general principles and come out, for instance, in open denuncia- tion of a vestryman who hires girls in his factory for $10 a week? And the editor of the magazine Suggests that this question is not Quite as simple as it looks. “There are circumstances,” he re- marks, “where the employer and the manufacturer are the victims of a competitive system quite as much as the worker. “It is one thing to demand that Mr. X, a vestryman, should pay his employes a living wage. It is an- other thing to enable him to do so e@gainst the competition of unscrupu- Jous employers who have no ideals, either decently pagan or Christian, in their business enterprises.” Now this point, it seems to us, is worth emphasizing. It is too easy to forget that under any competitive system all players ‘re bound by the general rules of the game. These rules, the pressure of competition being what it is, fre- quently lead to bad conditions, Our respected vestryman may in- Geed pay his employes less than a living wage, but all too often his sole alternative is to go out of business altogether, in which case his em- Ployes would get no wages what- ever, In such case it is worse than use- Jess to get vexed at Mr. X. If we are going to insist that even the humblest, worker is entitled to a living wage, Our proper point of attack is the sys- tem which makes low wages neces- eary—not the individual through ‘whom the system must operate. Money Gone Begging One of the oddest bits of news to come out of Washington in a long time is the revelation that matured government securities to the vaule of at least $20,000,000 are being held by various forgetful citisens, who seem to have overlooked completely the fact that Uncle Sam owes them money. Some of these bonds date back to the first government security issue, ‘which came out before 1800 and matured more than a century ago. Others represent unredeemed Liberty Zoan bonds and war savings certi- ficates. Their holders are entitled to ash them, and the money is waiting for them—but somehow they don't seem to do it. You would doubtless get some in- teresting stories, if you ran down a handful of these unredeemed bonds. Certainly the whole thing is an un- usual sidelight on the absent-minded- ness of @ sizable number of Amer- deans. In Line of Duty The news that 137 doctors, nurses, and laboratory workers in Los Ang- eles were stricken with infantile Paralysis, during their fight against 8n outbreak of the disease, is a grim reminder of the fact that these peo- ple very often undergo risks which the layman does not dream of, in Shel effort to save the lives of others. tn some epidemics the doctor and furse can be protected by serums or Waceines, In others, however, there fs no certain protection. Doctor and urse must take their chances with everybody else—and, of course, by going into sickrooms daily, and un- ermining their resistance through overwork, they simply increase the Ganger to themselves. -%. 8-8 thing worth remembering. Bismarck Tribune unassuming heroism that members .00 | 000,000 in relief money to their fam- of the medical and nursing profes- sions are constantly displaying, day after day, in the performance of their duties. A Year of Accomplishment The civilian conservation corps has been in existence now for nearly a year and a half, and a glance at its record is instructive. A report from Director Fechner $443,000,000. It has given jobs to 850,000 young men, has given $113,- ilies, and has brought $256,000,000 to industry in the purchase of service and supplies. In the national forests, fires have been held at a minimum. More than 34,000 miles of trails and 23,000 miles of timber breaks have been built. Harmful rodents have been fought ‘on 7,000,000 acres of ground, and in- sect pests on 1,000,000 acres. More than 600,000 dams have been built for erosion control. A million forest acres have been cleared of. brush; 150,000,000 trees have been planted in denuded areas. It is a striking record. Offhand, one might say that it looks as if this CCC outfit had been well worth what it has cost. Duck Stamps Sale of duck stamps, required by the federal government this year for the first time, has caused some grumbling in various parts of the country but not much. The reason is that it was asked by sportsmen’s groups themselves and the majority of sportsmen still favor the principle involved. In North Dakota whatever argument there might be on the sub- ject will not grow hot this year be- cause few duck stamps are being sold and some of these are being taken as a matter of cooperation by per- sons who do not expect to hunt ducks, The reason, of course, is the drying up of our lakes and sloughs and the scarcity of ducks. If the hunting outlook is better an- other year, however, we may hear more about it and sportsmen’s organ- izations may find difficulty in con- vincing non-members that the idea is a good one. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without reg: to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. Price-Fixing Again (New York Times) Judge Anderson of the Federal court at Memphis has handed down @ decision permitting the manufac- turers of hardwoods to sell at prices below the minimum fixed by the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute under the Lumber NRA Code. This is based not on the ground that any part of the NRA is unconstitutional, but that the law itself does not au- thorize the fixing of prices. Judge Anderson remarks: There is no mention in the act. itself of price-fixing or price- Protection. The act itself au- thorizes the various industries to compile codes of “fair competi- tion,” which become law on the approval of the National Recov- ery -. The words “fair competition” by a fong series of Judicial decisions have been fully defined. These definitions do not include price-fixing. Competi- tion has three elements: first, Price; second, quality, and third, service. Price regulation is the antithesis of competition, fair or otherwise. There can now be little argument regarding the economic soundness of the decision, particularly as applied to the Lumber Code. For even among the price-fixing provisions in hun- Code have been particularly aston- ishing. They permit the Code Au- thority to fix minimum prices to “protect” costs of production. The cost of production to be protected is not that of an individual firm, but the “weighted average cost” of all the firms in a division or subdivision of the industry. These costs are to be determined by uniform accounting Practices and are to include: (1) wages, (2) materials and supplies, (3) erates and administration, includ- inch tenance, (7) insurance, including (8) taxes, including taxes on timber, (9) interest on indebtedness, not only on mills actually operating but on those “capable of operating,” (10) Giscounts, claims paid and losses on trade accounts, (11) even on idle mills, (12) raw material, including standing timber carried on capital account, and (13) conserva- tion and reforestation. A minimum price calculated, to “protect” average costs so generously determined could hardly be vi moderate. It would be difficult to argue that such @ price was essential for the preservation of the industry, or that it was ultimately in the inter- ests of the great body of consumers, or that it did anything but tend to. throttle price competition. Many in the lumber industry itself are becom- ing increasingly doubtful regarding the long-run value of such provisions ery|cians by the customs and the THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, i934 England Starts Over the Top PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady,M.D... Signed letters pertaining to personal diagnosis, or treatment, will be self-addressed envelope is enclosed. in thk. No reply can be made to quer‘es not Address . William Brady, SO YOU'RE GOING TO BE A DOCTOR? As I am considering the medical profession as @ career, writes a young correspondent, I have consulted Dr.’ of and he urged me to ask you for references to books! that tell advant thing standing of various schools. I know of no book that tells the advantages or disadvantages of Medi- cine. The prospective medical stu- standing of various medical schools, however, and I believe the American Medical associaton, Chicago, publish- es ® pamphlet about that, which sets you back two bits, if I recollect. The air of this young man’s letter, perhaps unconsciously, is quite mod- ern. He seems to announce that he is presently to be available for a vs Hd erican ucratic schemes as it more difficult type an though state medicine to ‘distinguish 5 A boy ought to study medicine girl either. No reason should ‘Women work in field of field. Any against long of and loading, (5) ‘selling, (6) main- | % -40, bition. compensation and employe insurance, to depreciation, | (2 ’s footsteps. " ‘There are plenty of onerous diffi- culties imposed upon regular bag (st Ww from the standpoint of the health of the industry itself. Such provisions surely do not encourage the housing Program. They are among the kind of the new Recovery Board must want to get rid of. Coalinite, a produc: of lignitic brown coal, may supplant the world- famous bakelite industry, according tw experiments at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research. It is claimed that the new product is iGeally suitable for making battery boxes and electric switch plates. The world's oldest buok, still ine tact, is said to be a volume discovered in China recently. It.is composed of 78 wooden leaves fixed together with 3% fe too ety to overlook the quiet, string, and dates back to 100 B. C. permanent price-fixing provisions that | answered by Dr. Brady serge fool belied neem & stamped, Letters should be brief and written conforming instructions. i. care of this newspaper. nowadays, for the special privilege of Sel then tae ae a ea 4s a profession to which you can joy- fully devote your life. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - ly are big-hearted about other 8 affairs, eee ee * ‘ and taught ‘em zs * Scobey, Mont., reports the birth tof a turkey with two necks, but what every youngster wants to see is one ke fase. Siremeeties, f ** General Smedley Butler was Su fe. SAO 1 Se smite nt ‘a broadcasting speech, or just betore be would have burned out the tubes, s* & A California man invented a piano that ‘sounds lke chimes, byt what Parent will want his child to Jearn its music on that instrument, when it reminds the elder so much of church? (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Ino.) FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: U. 8. PAT. OFF. By WILLIS THORNTON (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Oct. 12.—All your life you've probably heard about govern- ment.red tape. Did you ever see red tape unwinding? Well, I did. sion Office the dusty document files that record the cases of soldiers of low the street, the records lay. The folded documents, those relat- ing to each case tied neatly age, a cascade of table-tops, for the tin tray files were open at the top and not dust-proof. Three hundred and sixty thousand of these packets have been unwrap- ped and transferred to 2,500 filing cases, the 200 miles of red tape go- ing into the wastebaskets. FILES TO FLOWER POTS Of course, that’s only the cases ac- tively drawing benefits, Thousands of tin-tray files of inactive cases re- main, with their red tape about them, because it’s figured that it’s hardly worth the ‘time to unwrap and re- file them. 4 One result of all this is that inany Washington housewives will have new window, boxes. Refiling made the/|tha ancient tin cases useless. But though narrower than the usual window box, they're really excellent for flower pots, and the bureau sold them for | Get Ready for Vegetables Magnificent displays of home-grown vegetables at. club: flower shows and fairs this fall have given new interest ‘and impetus to: the home vegetable garden, It is an. institution that should not be abandoned if space pos- sibly can be found for it. No matter how cheaply vegetables can be pur- chased in the market, the absolute top-notch of ‘quality cannot be bought at a store. It must be grown. The ‘soil’ for the vegetable garden May be put in shape for spring to ex- cellent. advan' this. fall H Ebest just that, thus getting some small by-product return on the job. Don’t get the idea that these mil- lions of files in the cavernous depths beneath the Veterans’ Bureau are all the soldier files, The bureau has 18,-|is 000 feet of widows’ records in one detached warehouse and 50,000 feet of similar bureau records in another. To say nothing of the Revolutionary and War of 1812 records, which are at the Navy Department. Many of these documents have al- ready been flat-filed, because their condition demanded it—there are commissions on which “His Majesty George III” etc. is crossed out and “The Commonwealth of Massachu- setts” scratched in with a pen—that’s the vintage of those records. Some of them may be transferred to the om building when that's fin- MORE EFFICIENCY Speaking of red tape, ‘the Indian Bureau just unraveled some itself. For 50 years Indian agencies have been making out a complete new roll etna Indians bed year. Thus an indian 50 years old has been reported 50 times. Just this year somebody had the happy thought that, if the merely reported the births and deaths | Washington Evening Star said Friday each year, these could quickly be checked against a permanent list at stenographer working seven hours « day for 853 years. NEW DEAL CHIEF JUSTICE the radio the other night from the oval room in the coctateaianr tsp proumataaaceeen: After all, it isn’t fair to ask even ther | such ® man as mine to pitch every day.—Mrs. Jerome (Dissy) Dean, se ek | Founder of Methodism VERTICAL 1 He opened a —-= tw édu- PN riitsS ool ae 29Short teuter 34 Not strong. 36 Flat-bottomed 44 Otherwise. 46 Grand. 10 He founded an 4g ner basa, fi 47.God of war. 12 Masculine 4% Parrot thas pronoan. kills sheep. 44 Existed 51 Unit of work. ae \ae ee Kansas City Union Station massacre had uncovered if BEES ‘more Bg a che fitee fadstec! yee ip E SEE Ae a y 5 a Political, Gangster Combine Uncovered |; Washington, Oct. 12— ?) —The that federal agents investigating the |0f the ‘trigger men’ in the stat . On «@ visit to Portland, © Strangler Ed Lewis, the wrestler, 7 vealed that in the last 15 years fingerwave, $3.50. story added: fornia Wave Nook, 102-3rd “The two men were slain by gang-| Phone 762. EVERY GIRI must answer this vital question .. “WHICH COMES FIRST Pr 7 And everyone will want to read how lovely Susan Broderick an- swered it in one of the most provocative, thrilling love stories of the year— (ji! in the Hamily by BEATRICE BURTON Susan stood. at that crossroad so many girls have faced—should she marry the man she really loves—or remain loyal to her impoverished family by marrying the wealthy man of their choice? Don's miss this brilliant, buman wove Begins Monday, Oct 15 ‘The Bismarck ‘Tribune

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