The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1934, Page 4

‘ The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ie (Established 1873) fane Company, » N. D., ant entered at the postoffice at Bismarck @s second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN t President and Publisher mail, outside of Bismarck) Daily by mail outside o' ine by Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per 4 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 Employment Spiral Washington advices to the effect that direct loans to industry without strings or red tape are expected to speed up recovery emphasize the complexity of the problem and the meed for continued adjustment over @ long period of years. Most of these loans will be used for plant repairs and rehabilitation, to) increase the efficiency of manufac- turing plants and industries. Old and obsolete machinery will be re- placed with new labor-saving equip- ment which will turn out more and that distant colonists had rights of their own, and that whether they should remain colonies or become in- dependent states must depend, in the long run, on their own wishes, was one which the rulers of the world resisted stoutly. But it made progress, nevertheless, Today Uncle Sam stands committed to set the Philippines free in the near future. Proud England offers | @ new measure of self-government to lIndia, And now it is hinted that | Puerto Rico may follow the Filipinos ‘out from under the American flag, if her people wish it. 2 And whether this latest prediction be substantiated or not, it at least is a significant highlight of a new mental attitude. The right of any people to com- plete freedom, in other words, is now taken for granted. And since the tide has set so strongly in that direction, can the freedom-denying dictators of Europe be anything but temporary vexations? In the long run, will not the spirit of the times be too much for them? Catch Cancer Early One of the most dangerous things about cancer ig that people have been too thoroughly persuaded that it is utterly incurable, Feeling that way about it, and fearing the malady so greatly, many people fail to seek medical attention in time—and their fear of an incurable disease is trans- lated into fact. Dr. Ira I. Kaplan, director of the New York City Cancer Institute, re- marked recently that fully 40 per cent of the cancer cases now being cared for as hopeless would not be in that state if patients were edu- cated to seek aid from the proper better work with fewer labor hours. The movement is being stimulated by the leading firms in so-called heavy industry, one nation-wide or- Banization advertising as follows: “Avoiding capital investments by operating obsolete equipment often wastes more capital than is needed to purchase modern, im- proved equipment. Obsolete ma- chinery adds to losses indefinite- ly. The right kind of moderniza- tion pays for itself and then adds to earnings.” ‘ Results obtained by a flour mill are Offered in illustration. Before mod- ernization the mill used two electric motors with s total horsepower of 800, After being modernized it did the same work with one 450 horse- Dower motor at reduced costs. No one can doubt that such things ere beneficial. Under the competi- tive system the consumer gets at least a part of the benefits from such savings. Who can doubt that cheap Boods are a benefit to humanity? But the other side of the picture is that every such installation tends to teduce employment if it does not di- teetly throw men out of occupations in which they previously were en- waged. ‘The result is clear. As men are put to work in heavy industry making new and better machinery, the result is to reduce employment in the so- called consumer industries, that is, those which make goods for consump- tion, ‘This process has been going on for © long time but has slackened no- ticeably during the last five years because of capital’s retrenchment and fefusal to invest in modern equip- ment. If, with government aid, the march is resumed, it is rather ob- vious that something should be done adjust the situation which thus be intensified. The problem of to put purchasing power into hands of every eligible bread- will remain. If some system could be set up to » (Gompensate for these improvements which benefit society as a whole, in- Gividuals in that society would profit immensely by the increased efficiency, because of wider distribution of goods and a higher standard of living. The Problem is one which should com- mand the attention of capital and Asbor as well as the so-called brain trust which is attempting, not always ‘with success, to cure our economic fills, Nations Have Come to Accept A Colony’s Right to Freedom Senator Artonio R. Barcelo of Puerto Rico retums to’ San Juan from. a meeting with President Roose- welb and announces that Washing- ton intends to treat the Puerto Ricans just as it has treated the Pilipinos—make them ready for self- Support and self-government and then, if the islanders wish it, give them independence. No announcement to this effect thas yet come from Washington, and {t is, of course, possible that the sena- tor misinterpreted the president's re- marks. But the mere fact that he could make such a statement without creating s perfect furore at Washing- sources in time. In order to provide that education, New York health authorities des- ignated the past month as “Cancer Month.” Health authorities are con- vinced that if both public and doctors can be educated to recognize the first danger signals of cancer, and if the public can be safeguarded from quacks, the cancer death rate can be reduced. 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 Tribu: policies. A Hotel Horror (Valley City Times-Record) ‘The terrible event in Michigan in which a hotel fire wiped out the lives of @ great number of people, including those of several members, of the legislature, has stirred the feelings of the remaining members to such an extent that now there is likely to be some adequate legisla- tion put through to safeguard lives of people who find it necessary to stay col ese overnight. It seems an aw! to pay for get legislation which most er cheerfully admits is needed but which is delayed for many years on one pretext or another. It took the Ir- quois theatre fire in Chicago, with the loss of 576 lives, to get asbestos curtains in all the theatres of the country. It took a terrible school fire in Cleveland to draw attention to the fact that more adequate pro- tection for school children can be had. The steamships Eastland, Ves- tris, and Morro Castle are other ex- amples of the severe teachings of ex- Perlence, whose lessons are painful but effective. Among the things resented by citi- ens is the slowness with which legis- lators often move to take up ur- gent speagporete Of public welfare. An evil may continue to drag its weary and harmful existence over long years and no amount of agtivity on the Part of its opponents can serve to bring the matter up to the consid- eration of the legislature. A case in Point is the slowness with which North Dakota has dealt with the matter of auto fatalities. We are killing citizens at the rate of over 115 per year but the legislature hasn't heard about it. If in a single auto accident six members of the legisla- ture were to be killed something would be done in @ hurry; but the death of hundreds of citizens in the course of two years seems to make little impression. ‘The same may be said about the Condition of the state hospital for the insane at Jamestown. We visited that institution some little time ago and we have never since been able to get out of our mind the picture of what will happen there some day if fire breaks out. That the man- @gement has been able to prevent such a happening is a tribute to their unceasing watchfulness; but the leg- lslature cannot be and should not be forgiven if it puts off until too late taking steps to correct a condition which is charged with the possibili- ties of @ horror comparable to the loss of life in any major disaster the country has suffered at any time in the past. The time to prevent it ig at this coming session of the lege ay Japan must be prepared to face with firm determinetion any an rr 40 ill advised as to expand its navy iy distegard of Japan's fair offers of conceivably any volce in the matter. was ace matter of course that the the American colonists in arms for a decent & disarmament agreement.—Admiral Mineo Osumi, Japanese minister of the navy. se * If war occurs between Japan and Russia, Japan will certainly. be de- feated, and that will be the end of Japan.—Dr. Sherwood Eddy, secre- ‘tary in Asis for the Y. M. C. A. * * * Only S08. 280; bend the Fascist THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934 In the Year of Our Lord, 1934 | PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal 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. SODIUM PERBORATE MOUTH- WASH Here is news hot fromthe front. First a flash at the type of doctor ‘who gives us the news. He writes: “I am 64% years old. I play tennis several times a week and I play hard. Saturday I shall play a ey semi-finals in the lub.” An alert, promising youngster, evi- dently. Maybe when he’s grown up he'll make & bowler who can be safe- ly allowed on the green. Now, Doctors and . Folks, quiet Please, while we make the announce- ment. Dentors will kindly gnash their teeth in the corridors outside. They | times may have a meeting by themselves to decide what to do about it. “There is one thing I wish you ‘would write more about and that the tissues 10 minutes or more. “when prescribing this for my patients I always prescribe a pound of sodium perborate which costs the patient not more than a dollar here. That makes a lot Never mind your friends, the den- tors; they have no more love than the brass specialists have for you anyway. May 17, ‘27, the following was printed in this column: Among the remedies which have been found beneficial for trench mouth (Vincent's angina) are methylene blue, mercuro- chrome, arsphenamine (injec- tions) and sodium perborate. Sodium perborate is highly praised by Dr. (Joseph C.) Blood- good. From experience in his clinic he suggests that all den- tists, even when a sore mouth is not evident, give a treatment with sodium perborate before and after dental treatment. For the treatment of trench mouth, make a thick paste of sodium perborate with water and spread this paste over all the teeth and gums with the clean finger. Spread it also over any HORIZONTAL see ie ADT ESE ETE AN hi et tired bere. 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NV TNS ONT PW Wl _— 4 name ee eee Ne eee Pt NPT TNE TTT in ee e \«@ EEE A Lonely Fighter Wins—and Goes on to New Triumphs ... Crooning Your Way Into Congress... Of a Certain Acidity in Miss Perkins. ’ (By RODNEY DUTCHER) (Tribune Washington Correspodent) Washington, Dec. 14. — The more you hear about what happened in Nebraska this fall, the more signifi- ‘And the more prestige it gives to Senator George W. Norris, a inde- non-partisan one-house legislature. A LONELY FIGHT or candidstes for the jegislature op- posed it violently. ‘Most newspapers objected. Yet Norris, with an unfamiliar is- sue, picked up so much support that the one-house ture won by about 3 to 2, with a majority of 93,000, At the age of 73, paying his own expenses, Norris flivvered around the state and made eet one to ita speeches a day. Rapidly, voters ab- sorbed the idea that legislative con- ference committees were inimical to popular government and easily mani- pulated by agents of special privilege. THE CHECKS AND THE BALANCE The senator’s old enemies banded against him, hoping to discredit him in defeat and perhaps establish Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss and Washington lobbyist, as boss of the state. They pleaded earnestly for the sacred constitution and its system of ‘checks and balances.” Karl was-a great favorite with folks, He had never taken any part Politics or public affairs and ‘he sti to that policy right through the cam-} paign. Howard tried desperately get him to discuss issues, but sweet-voiced Steffen was too tis replied, “if the politicians have the checks and the special interests have the bal- ance. Most types of hypocrisy and’ skull- ted radical point of view than Miss ‘Asked to comment on a NLRB 2 Norris began the fight for his pro- posal alone. Both the Republican and jebraska, ry- to} that of Mr. Karl Steffen, who de- bbying successfully in the existing two-house legislature threw their full strength against him. None of the major candidates for office supported the reform and nearly all members of in the form of a statute, giving clusive jurisdiction over 7-A to Board. feated the veteran Democratic Con- Gressman Edgar Howard. This one may be significant, too, for Steffen won on the caressing ap- said it, either. peal of his radio voice. For years| (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc| ARTHUR SHUMWAY {If loving him meant not; Spike and hurt him or to lose him |He ran his hand over his ar 8 lH [i OT i : Ne i a. i 3 Hi ai ~- Ha il Hs : ff ir rf 5 5; Ht Fi i i z f Le i Ey Bel if » halle, Pete sald coomally.. “Delag to get 6 Hittle oun, T’m just about to it more perplexing: She found asia’ Att } coald at least try,” 0} erpesiang Morse Ss mind wits Pete as & mere a plan of R jt Halt F: ; : ty as ie cy 7 Ek F 3 8 j A nee 125 : i : E i i ie F f i 5 z i E 3 ule i Pe | i agg pHa o Speensa pepe wauecon