The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1934, Page 6

THE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1984 _- The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Batablished 1873) sil Published by The Bismarck Trib-| GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Bureau of tion Member of The Associated Press | ‘The Associated Press is exclusively | entitled to the use for republication) Of all news dispatches credited to 1t) 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. Vicious Circle | That there is need for further ex-| Pperimentation in government, par-! ticularly for such moves as will instill business confidence, is apparent to anyone who surveys the national scene. They may be ghosting each other, but even if this is true, the fact that) many business leaders are jittery is) @ handicap to further recovery. 1t| our business leaders are to be, like) ttle children, afraid of goblins, the) government should do what it can to slay the worst of these in order not to impede progress. Business leaders, on the other hand, | would do well to take stock of them- selves, as they are attempting to do with government. They might ex- amine their own consciences with profit to themselves as well as the rest of us. ‘This is emphasized by a writer in the current issue of the Magazine of Wall Street, which certainly cannot be considered a New Deal institution. Says this gentleman: “We will get nowhere if capital refuses to play ball ‘unless granted such impossibilities as an instant return to the gold stand- ard; an instantly balanced budget; ® withdrawal of government inter- vention in all forms.” ‘This, by the way, is exactly what the more vocal of capitalism's spokes- men are saying should be done, even though there is no proof that they speak for the business body of Amer- ica as a whole. Turning to the other side of the government-business controversy, the writer observes: “At the same time the New Deal has seemed to forget or ignore the fact that as long as capital is the driving force of private initiative, as Mr. Roosevelt says it is, then capital must be offered terms it will accept.” This poses the question of business Tecovery nicely. In this emergency it is not so much a question of who is completely right or wholly wrong, | but of getting things started so our People can return to work and the} government will have a real oppor- tunity to retire from business, The! backwardness of business leadership! 4s only driving government further and further into new fields. Failure of government to give business suffi- client encouragement of the kind it wants, and its failure to lay business ghosts, is making business still more backward. It is a vicious circle which | should be ended as quickly as possible. The Contractors’ Complaint Meeting next week at Chicago, members of the Associated General Contractors of America will review what one of their leaders terms “the appalling waste of the taxpayers’ money by governmental agencies” in building enterprises, It probably will suggest that all government work be turned over to contractors in order that efficiency may be improved, not to mention improving the position of the con- tractors, which admittedly is bad. That inefficiency is the rule is true almost without exception. But that it is inevitable and not as wasteful as might be implied also is true. If the object. is merely to build new structures in the most efficient pos- sible manner there would be no ques- tion about it. The way to do it is to employ contractors who are them- selves efficient and who, because they thust, will employ efficient help to}: do the work. But the very object of these proj- employed even in good times. ‘The result is rather obvious. \ | do for the poets. 9) 9 for Pe -|earth; and eventually it will get so T time can hardly come in this area until we get a crop which we can sell at fair prices. When that time comes contractors will have little cause for complaint, for the need for new structures, com- mercial as well as residence, will have means of expressing itself and no competent man will be unemployed. Nature the True Poet The poets of some thousands of years hence ought to have a pretty fine time of it. For Sir James Jeans, famous British scientist, predicts that in the future we shall have | moonlight all night long, every night ;in the year—and no one who reads peetry needs to be told what this will Our moon, says Sir James, is going to draw nearer and nearer to the close that it will break up and give us an earth-circling fringe of moon- fragments. ‘This, of course, will rob us of our moon—but these myriads of frag- ments will reflect the sun’s light down to us at night, and every night will be made bright by moonlight. These scientific gentlemen can draw some strange pictures for us, when they begin looking into the fu- ture. Surely none is more pleasantly fantastic than this forecast of a time of perpetual moonlight. What an era for poets—and for lovers! Facts Needed on Waterway Washington dispatches say that President Roosevelt will resubmit to the senate this winter the St. Law- rence waterway treaty, which failed to receive the necessary two-thirds majority at the last session. Slight modifications will be made to meet some of the objections raised, but in the main the pact will be sub- stantially the same as the one al- ready defeated. This raises again an issue on which there is a sharp division of opinion, and on which a full campaign of pub- lic debate is greatly needed. The canal itself would be ® vast public work of lasting value. Yet proponents of the treaty cannot over- look the fact that certain sections of the country fear tlle effect which seaway traffic might have on their own fortunes. ‘We need a detailed, accurate, and unbiased study of the whole subject, drawn up to give information and not to plead a cause. If these sec- tional fears are to be quieted, they must be quicted by sober facts, Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without rej to whether they agree or disag! with The Tribune's policies. Value of Tourist Traffic (Fargo Forum) The Greater North Dakota Asso- ciation is urging an awakened public interest in tourist traffic in and through the state. It is sound busi- ness sense to keep the possible bene- fits that would accrue from increas- ing this traffic before our people. A chief magnet for such traffic, nat- urally, is to keep our roads in the best possible shape. We must not overlook the fact that neighboring states are bending every effort to pull traffic in their direction. North Da- kota must keep pace. Few people perhaps recognize what tourist traffic means to a state from an economic standpoint. In an in- jterview in The Fargo Forum, Mr. Fred A. Irish, treasurer of the Great- er North Dakota Association, makes answer. Says he: “The annual rev- enue from non-resident motorists, which even in 1934 exceeded 10 mil- lion dollars, is a matter of the gravest import to the state.” ‘That 10 million dollars for 1934 has been a sizeable sum to come into North Daketa. It makes for direct and indirect benefits. Take it out of our yearly receipts and it would make quite a hole. As Mr. Irish Points out, too, every time a non- resident motorist buys gasoline im the state, which all of them must, they highways. Tourist traffic in the United States has been constantly increasing year by year. This state is fortunately situated to attract much of this traf- fic if it will. It not only has historic sites and beauty spots of its own to offer the tourist, but our highways are direct routes to many of the Points which tourists like to visit far- ther west. It is difficult for the public to always catch the vision of what it means to the state to have this traf- fic, because the money dribbles in. But the figures which Mr. Irish gives | Should cause a little better apprecia- tion of the economic value to North Dakota, The promotion of it should be given a more prominent place on | the program of all of our civic bodies. Barbs ° Calling the Southern California football team “Hollywoéd struck” is unfair, Those boys have been struck not so much by Hollywood as by their rival teams. * * % Princeton reinstated the two students accused of drinking beer against college rules, before any of the German universities could get to them. ** * —— Add to this the conditions laid down by the government because the object of all FERA works is primar- ily to provide employment, and ef- 4s still further reduced. roads, here in Bur- as well as throughout » hand labor is preferred to labor, Any contractor could twice as much highway for the ‘any relief road has cost would employ fewer men can get beck to determines employment, We shall all be better off: But that It's easy enough for a Roosevelt to wear an Al Smith derby, as young Franklin D. did, but Al doesn’t think anyone could mt into his shoes, *** An Omaha mail carrier charges his wife beat him with a whip, @ hoe, a washbeard, and a bat, She mustn’t have done any bak- ing. -_* 8 Uncle Sam's attorneys in Chicago have been trying to prove that Sam- uel Insull juggled figures for his util- ities. And he preferring symphonies to circuses! (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) China has no national anthem; it are contributing to the upkeep of our ing [ he thtiani | ajesty Wish for Anything Else CG LNA ., pee = | MUM MMOLE, > - Feeble Gains of A. F. nln ...G Rise of Independent Groups Fore- cast. Under Unions By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Oct. 18—The many friends of organized labor in this administration are groaning rather dismally while foes don a supercilious grin. Figures on A. F. of L. membership, showing an increase in the first full year under NIRA and its encourage- ment to organize, have arrived with a dull thud. = They offer little or no help to an administration which is trying to educate employers as to the rights of eens having a tough time it. The A. F. of L. Executive Council has reported a gain of 388,000 dues- paying members over 1933 and a total membership of 2,643,000. Disregarding President Bill Green's rosy last-year vision of a member- ship of 25,000,000, it is the breakdown of the figures—which has had ‘little or no publicity—that is causing labor students to despair. About 83,000 of the increase was due to the entrance of Sidney Hill- man’s Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers into the federation. Another 125,000 new members were reported by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers. Other unions showed geins, few of them significant, and there were @ number of actual decreases, MEMBERSHIP DROPS The United Textile Workers, who had been claiming a paid-up mem- bership of 300,000, prior to the re- cent strike, turned up with a vot- strength of 38,700 members, as against 15,000 last year. And the Amalgamated Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, who were threaten- ing boldly to strike not so long ago, reported only 5,500 members as com- pared with 4,600 last year. Although President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers had been credited hereabouts with a prodigi- ous organization campaign, netting hundreds of thousands of new mem- bers, he showed up with but 300,000, which was no more than his claim a year ago and 100,000 less than he re- Ported in 1931. It seems that John, like other labor leaders, has been excusing a lot of the boys from paying dues, Most astonishing of all, the A. F. of L.’s Federal labor unions, design- ed to catch workers in previously un- organized industries such as auto- mobiles, showed—their figures being combined with those for directly af- fillated local unions—a drop from 71,000 to 51,000. a This despite the Executive Council's cheerful report of a “virtual upris- is the only nation in the world with- out one. ing of workers for union member- ship.” SPIRIT IS STRONGER Obviously, though the federation still shows a decline of nearly 350,- 000 from its 1931 membership, the labor movement and the militancy of workers are much stronger than the figures indicate. The textile strike showed that. Hundreds of thousands have signed up for union membership, but don’t show on the official count because they aren’t paying dues. But critics of the A. F. of L. cite the record to bolster their contention that the A. F. of L. shows complete lack of capacity for organization work, is largely in charge of members whose chief ambition is to hang onto their » 48 operated on oratory and lers clutching to the adminis- tration’s coat-tails to standing on its own feet. Union labor organization is a tacit factor in New Deal policy—at least as Jong as employers are encouraged to organize. But the administration finds no easy answer: to assertions by industrialists that the A. F. of L. represents small minorities and that workers don't want to organize under its banner, Officials have tried to make this plain to labor leaders. Can anyone, they ask, exvect to scare the power- ful steel incustrv with a union mem- bership of 5,500? INDEPENDENT UNIONS RISE Impatience with the A. F. of L. is in some quarters with satis- faction that its weakness, rather than its strength, creates‘a problem. But it is freely predicted that many new unions ‘independent of the A. F. of L. will be heard from in the next year. There's much sentiment in the ad- ministration for the industrial rather, than the craft type of union, which has tied up too many PWA projects by jurisdictional disputes. While the headlines proclaimed an internal A. F. of L. row at the San Francisco convention involving the Building Trades department, it was In Emerald Isle HORIZONTAL 1,9 What na- tion’s flag is sketched he 14 Tablet over a shop front. 15 Conjunction. 18 Tatter. 19 Inspired rev- erential fear. 21 Apportions, 24 Self. 27 Incomplete paralysis. lodge. 29 Tough tree. 46 A handle. 31 Retired nooks. 49 Ocean, 33 Tubular 50 Gem. sheath on a 54 Strong plant. vegetable. 85 In order. 36 Foretoken. 37 Erased. 89 Derision. 40 To worship. 41 Trunk of th human body. 42 Document VERTICAL creating a 1 Provided. hd al ata 56 Pertaining to the cheek. 58 Capital of that country. 59 The country’ president. WT Answer to Previous Puzzle 55 Nominal value 8 Brinks. | recalled here that Secretary Frances Perkins had expected to move her outfit into the swell new Department of Labor Building last spring. She would have been in there long since if the iron workers’ union hadn't got to fighting with the car- penters and the cement-finishers with the marble setters and held up the job. Job. ‘These jurisdictional squabbles last- ed eight months. (The Labor De- | partment now plans to move in Nov- ember.) A. F. OF L. SNUBBED The spirit of sweet love and affec- tion commonly supposed to exist be- tween the administration and the federation probably will seem eyen less visible unless the A. F. of L. wakes up. The tendency is to exag- gerate it even now. You _may recall that both Hoover and Roosevelt cheerfully affronted the A. F. of L’s dignity by disregard- ing its leadership when they chose secretaries of labor.- The labor man it chose for the new National Indus- trial Recovery Board was Hillman, who built his strong union outside the A. F. of L. and is still remote from its hierarchy. Donald Richberg, now top dog in this admin‘stration next to Roose- velt, won his fame as a labor law- yer—with the independent railroad unions. When the administration turns to labor leadership for man power and |. counsel, in fact, the A. F. of L. gets the crumbs. : (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) I think that the doctrine of self- sufficiency implants within any na- tion that adopts it the seeds of re- volution and aggression.—James P. Warburg, New York financier. The day that we can get the Amer- ican people to sit down at the table and take their beer “gemuetlich,” the better it will be for your industry. —Mayor La Guardia of New York, talking to brewers. 21 Mother. 22 Note in the scale, 23 River in that country. 25 Pierced with horns. 2 Knock. 3 Frozen water. 4To subside.- 5 Derby. 6 Less common. 7 Growing out. 39 Tissue support ing an organ. 43 Venomous snake. 44 To peruse. 45 Net weight of & container. 9 Mineral spring 46 God of the sky 10 Marbles used 47 Point of a pen. as shooters. 48 Sun. 11 Devoured. 51 Chum. 12To tter. 52 Beer. 13 Half'an em. 53 Gibbon. 20 Pertaining to 54 Natural power. ten. ‘67 Sun god. in i ae wae NX NS S PT NTT Ne Lt tT GEL TNT TT ———_—————+ PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William SOME BEER OR WINE FOR GRANDMA There are many medicines I'd rather take than beer, wine or liquor, for the flavor. But I’m not prej- udiced against alcoholic beverages. I believe, though, that they should be restricted in use. It is a deplorable thing that the present alcoholic pro- paganda makes these harmful bever- ages available to children everywhere. I can understand how unmarried per- sons or even married persons who don’t believe in having children to interfere with their pleasures are in- different about this, but I can’t un- derstand how parents, especially par- ents of young children, can regard the degeneration of public morals with equanimity. I voted many times as a prohibi- tionist. But I voted most cordially for repeal of prohibition. Of the two evils I prefer drunkenness. Nothing is so revlusive as righteous graft and chicanery. Especially when it is en- gineered and nurtured from the sanc- tuary of the church. Properly used, all alcoholic bev- erages, of whatever strength or type, should be dispensed only on prescrip- tion of a physician. And any phy- sician who so far forgot his Hip- pokratic oath and the honor of his Profession as to sell booze prescrip- tions or‘give them in bad faith should be punished by long imprisonment at hard labor, for his offence is heinous. An individual can utilize, oxidize, convert into heat or energy only a limited quantity of alcohol in a day. It is impossible to say precisely how much, but probably little over 1% or 1% ounces, and in many cases not over 4 ounce. When an individual takes more alcohol than his metabo- lism can utilize or burn to produce heat or energy, the excess is promptly eliminated largely through the lungs, as aldehyde or alcohol. So when you can detect the characteristic odor of| aldehyde or alcohol on the breath, that is positive proof that the indi- vidual has taken more alcohol than’ Brady, M. D. Alcoholic beverages have their proper place in scientific therapeu- tics. Throughout the years I have practiced as an advocate of temper- ance, a personal teetotaler and a vot- er for prohibition at every oppor- tunity, I have prescribed alcoholic liquor and wine and I believe it has done much good. You laymen wouldn't understand about this if I were to try to tell you, and anyway I don’t want any lousy beer or wine interest to quote me in support of the alcoho- lic propaganda. = A daily ration of beer or wine or liquor is sometimes a most benefic- ent thing in the home where an elderly, enfeebled and hence some- what cantankerous person must live and be lived with. When Dr. Osler prescribed such a ration for his elderly mother the good woman was at first reluctant to start taking wine. “You know, Willie,” she said, “I don’t want to get the habit.” But that’s just what I recommend— that these elderly crochety folk should get.the habit and have their beer, wine or liquor with or follow- ing food two or three times a day. By elderly I mean over 65 years of | (; age. I still insist there is no good excuse for younger folk indulging in such beverages. ~ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Blood Flow Like to know the amount of blood that passes through the heart per minute. (L. McM.) Answer—From 2% to 31% ounces of blood pumped at each beat, and if we multiply that by the number of beats per minute, we find that from 10 to 15 pounds or pints of blood pass through the heart each minute. Varicose Veins Mother, sister and I all have vari- cose veins, though mother alone real- ly suffers ... tion treatment which you recom- mend ... (H. E.) Answer—It requires only one phy- he can burn, and of course the ex- cess is intoxicating. SYNOPSIS Susan Broderick and her aunt, Lutie, who had ‘seen more pros- ipl times, order a pillow al lart’s department store where the family had a charge ount for years. They are summoned to the Office of the manager, Mr. Dillon, who informs them the account has been discontinued as it had not been paid for five months. Susie and Lutie leave in embarrassment. Lutie goes home by trolley but Su-| san prefers to walk. En route the oes aes her fiance, egy ee teffen, ris banker. Susan nd: Wallace are distinctly differ- t_types; he is the Itered, eticulous type while she is the ind who loves to walk in the rain and go without gloves in the win- ter, Susan re that, while her future life with Wallace will not be thrilling, it will be com- fortable. Tender-hearted Susan shows little enthusiasm when Wal- lace plans to inspect a house which the present owners are forced to sell because of financial reverses. CHAPTER IV ‘ He kissed her again as he helped her out of the car at her own door, told her he would see her at eight o'clock, and stood in the snow with his hat in his hand, watching her go up the long walle to the house. It was an odd thing, thought Su- san as she left him, that two people cae fan utterly alike ae oe and were, and sf love with each other They felt dif- ferently about almost eve! ‘ing, including the buying of the Country Club house and the wearing of loves. Wallace liked a warm car fi winter and he couldn’t under- stand why Susan to tramp miles through sho’ wind-swept streets. He did his only walking on @ golf course, Susan thought that the dullest of exercise. He en- joyed contract bridge which Susan, in her secret soul, she would never really understand. “Tt must be the law of opposites that makes us attractive to each other.” she decided, goirig up the front steps of the Ronee: eo 8 ‘The Brodericks’ house stood in a on Center Surect, and it wat ihe en house in Hugo Broderick, that time it had beer a show place and Center Street actually had been the fashionable.center of the town. But since then the town had grown by leaps and bounds, and its ress had been toward the Center Weg was. only 48 “ thoroughfare on Peay Side now, and late glass wi dows Broderick looked out at a beats § pho a cone: vastshwoent on the other side of Years before the hoo, with ie i ER oi = A 5 3 ‘i iS & B 3 3 ith it far re excit- morni or the thus news- re eee aa He sician to give the treatment. Send stamped envelope bearing your ad- Tonight when Susan came run- ning up the steps the paper, folded in a square, was lying on the stone, floor of oa it was an un- spoken law of the house that Uncle forthy Broderick, who paid for it, should see it before anyone else in family, and so Susan, who usu- it it in, had fallen into/had the habit of glancing at the head. lines on her way to Uncle Wo! with it. i sia! But tonight, as she let herself into the vestibule, he was coming out of the room at the end of the hall, the room that he called his office. Behind him she could see the roll ager where he kept the tax receipts and rent books for the Broderick Arms, the rather run- down apartment family owned. He had acted as amet of the estate ever since indfathe: ral 1900. Home becomes a real hangout at cleaning time. dress and 7'll give you the na: pod cae, y me of @ pores bare Teeth years, have very irregular teeth. My dentist advises straighten- ing, but some friends I know had it eS lost several good teeth ... ) Answer—If your dentist does the work, go to it. It is late, but still he may improve the appearance and. the functional efficiency of the teeth, Generally such treatment should be carried on in childhood to get the best results. (Copyright, 1934, John F. Dille Co.) 14 Subjectively Americans may think they are reconstructing society, but objectively the present basis of s0- ** & We're erenene brains for names.—I it, author, making his own film, IIRL IN THE FAMILY” $ BY BEATRICE BURTON * to be. ee 80! is. P voice. He seemed to be reading something aloud to Aunt Edna who been i beside the parlor fire all day making Christmas pres- ents, Aunt Edna had grown too stout to enjoy house, and she 3) time in the par! Man of Cape H house that the|ha ¢ Broderick’s death in| chai As he came through the hall his the hand eee craeeieue per. nk you, Susan,’ i @ voice that was surprisingly strong and deep for so small a man as he was, and he took it from her. Then, instead of back into his office with it as eet oon aie: ny gan quickly . throug] pages asif vA were looking for some particular thing in it. His hands, busy with the printed sheets, were short and broad just as he was. The thick fingers were square at the end, and the knuckles were large like the knuckles of a man who earns his living his hands. But the skin was soft and the nails were well cared for. He ier than er the ‘long to it lon, Srelemeoal men—gentlemen—for ‘tions. All of us have read for the law since wy grandfather's time!” Susan ‘ten wondered whether he gave his occupation as “gent in the city directory. She wondered too, sometimes, what he did with all of the time that was on his every day. Cer- tainly the and ma: of The Broderick Arms, which was practically all that was left of the tate, could not, sour | bobbe Led edge of azEgRE etre Fae ated 8 ‘was always mysterious adout his simplest dolngs—“full of Big Business,” as John Broderick, Susan's . expressed it. Without falling Boe what it was that he had writ turned sud- lown the hall to 5 denly and marched d the closed door of the back parlor, e said | Fee oetiy did, ne | and, and in th the hall table ‘and if le and fresh and dainty. realising it, Susan loved and al ¥ 8 3 3 FF 4 i ? i I & hotographed fr Fide view of his face was exception- hing about him seemed to she reflected, blue flan- Her feeling of warm friendship and affection for him was utterly different, somehow, from what she had been led to love ina affair. Like most Sy, she jicked up a good 7 knowl- OP eae Nae a was very sure she felt for Wallace tone of the desperate passion that Jane Eyre had felt for Mr. Rochester or that Ann Veronica had for Capes when she ran away to Switzerland with him. . Oh, well, it was all settled now, and she was e1 to him, on Susan’s face, as she sat before her dressing table she dusted every life and that she had come to test with all her soul. 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