The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1934, Page 4

(The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspa) THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) | > published by ‘The Bumarck ‘irib- won t ine Company, Bismarck, N. D. and) N. at ‘Weekly by mail outside of North FEAT oo ccsseeeseee 150 Canada, Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively Ring in the New Ring out the old, ring in the new. ‘New Year's has always been a time for rejoicing, probably because the hhuman epirit naturally looks forward yather than backward. For many of ‘us it 1s more pleasant to do so, The brightness of a new day brings new encouragement and things will al- ‘ways be better tomorrow. This atti- ‘tude gives the human race that spir- itwal resiliency which it needs to overcome the obstacles which Father ‘Time and its own ignorance always are placing before us, On New Year's, then, it is always’ in order to both assay the past and Jook into the future, In many ways 1934 was not good to us. It brought us the worst drouth in history when farmers, sick at heart, watched a blazing sun destroy their crops and with them their hopes. of prosperity and even of com- fort. This was-calamity and, stand- ing alone, no other face can be put ‘upon it. In its wake, however, came many worthwhile things. We saw @ regen- eration of the spirit which brought about the settlement of this country. ‘The bonds of mutual distress brought neighbor closer to neighbor. There developed in North Dakota a knowl- edge that we must all pull together if we were to contribute to our own salvation. This has been evidenced in a thousand ways, a few of them big, most of them small but significant. If the year ending was not as bright as it might have been, neither: was it as dark. We have weathered the storms of 1934 with a minimum of suffering. Our battles have more or less immunized us to petty prob- Jems. We have cast them aside to confront squarely the major issues and in getting down to the rock-bot- tom of social, economic and political problems we can expect future results which will bring more than merely temporary relief. Drouth, political controversy and depleted finances are realities which have affected one and all. Our ad- versities have sobered us but also have made us a more thoughtful community, We face the new year with a new wisdom built upon trial and error. Looking back, it is easy to discern our mistakes. It would be too much to expect that others will not be made in the future. But it is good to know that there will be no repetition of them. Such of our Saults as,have been brought to light, therefore, represent to a marked de- gree the progress we have made or can be expected to make. Bringing mistakes affecting the Public welfare to the attention of its yeaders is one of the tasks, not al- ways pleasant, of a newspaper. Mis- takes are always events and events ard of living; and @ planned course between the two extremes. ‘That a country as large as this can berately agree upon any one of 1 three is obviously impossible, but the sentiment of the nation has clearly driven the government toward , @spousal of the nationalistic plan, ‘We have, for example, taken our only have been cast into the discard. ‘Without very much being said about it, we have embarked upon a program which soon will place the United States behind an economic wall sim- ilar to those which have been built up around other countries. Those few farm leaders, for exam- ple, who rail against crop control and talk glibly about resuming our export trade, seem wholly unaware of the fact that both France and Italy, once great importers of wheat, now] are on an export basis, due to na- tionalistic programs of their own. They seem blissfully ignorant of the fact that Germany has a 100 per cent tariff on nearly all agricultural im- ports and that England, the only really big importing nation, grants preferences to her colonies which virtually bar us from that market. In view of these facts, it would seem that nationalism was our only feasible course. The choice was not ours. It was thrust upon us. All of this is rather forcibly brought home by the report of the Mississippi Valley committee, in which North Dakota is particularly interested. There we find this statement: “Given the existing markets, agriculture has been much over- expanded, even though not much more than one-third of the till- able soil which would be avail- able under such extreme pressure of population as exists in China is now devoted to harvested crops. Fewer farmers and farm laborers are at work than was the case @ generation ago, but this dimin- ished number produce more than can be domestically consumed or exported. These generalizations, true of the whole country, are especially pertinent for the Mis- sissippi valley—the nation’s gra- nary. Therein is presented one of the real problems for agriculture. It hints at the cut-throat competition between farmers which has driven the entire class into bankruptcy or at least to the verge of it. More than a hint that, in addition to our price situation, we must find &@ way to keep our rural population employed, probably by arranging to distribute available employment more equitably, is contained in it. For even after fair prices and good crops return we shall have agricul- tural unemployment as a result of the reduced output. If we are not to have the spectacle of plenty living side by side with want, even in good times, we shall have to complete the course which has been forced upon us, devise some means of meeting this situation, i 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 « stamped, enclosed. Letters should be brief and written to instructions, “nervousness” this his muscles, liver or lungs have. In the piece “Do Some- thing” printed the other day I eluci- dated the nature of “nervousness.” Briefly it is thus: Emotion induces] eaicium increased adrenin secretion, which|it brought relief liberates more glycogen (animal/ which I had starch, blood sugar) from the muscles| physician and liver and promotes increased oxi-| found my dation combustion of this fuel which| normal, Provides the immediate extra energy | thyroid the emotion warns the body must use |ne —for fighting or running away, as the |which occasion may require. Then if in-|(g BR.) reces aa thera niely and ether yet Person just , gluconate is easier for like a truly cultured person, why, his|®) tere “oly it it as machinery is bound to rack itself like Raisin an engine racing or running wild with the belt off the flywheel. Keep Crime from Politics The American public never got sounder advice on its crime problem than it did when J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Department of Justice investigators, told the National Crime Conference that the crook’s: political allies must be obliterated. “Until political pressure is doomed, and until there arrives a continual state of co-operation among all arms of law enforcement,” says Mr. Hoo- ver, “we must regard eradication of Gangs like those of Dillinger and others as transitory phases of a con- dition which can change overnight.” ‘This sort of thing has been said before, of course, but it cannot be repeated too often. The really dan- gerous underworld gangs invariably “have an in” in politics somewhere or other. Until we rearrange our politics so that such alliances are impossible, we shall continue to have our Ca- pones and our Dutch Schultzes, 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 Tribune's policies. et om doings mack had just given the Naiss a vire tual immunity bath in a public as- surance that the German government had adopted a new policy of non-in- in America. Publicity for Paroles (Minneapolis Tribune) The move to give fuller publicity to the circumstances under which paroles are granted is reported to be gaining headway in many states as & result of the stand taken recently by Joseph B. Keenan, aid to Attorney- General , before the na- tional crime conference. At that time Mr. Keenan urged cep s a was charged to a paroled youth who had, as one of his sponsors, @ person 52 To pull along. 54 Recent. 56 Christmas carol. 58 Flaxen fabric. 60 To make verses. a arrow poison. 7 Ingenious. 8 Spain. 51 Fowl. 9 Orient. S2 Note in scale, 5 10 To apportion. 53 You and I. 62 He was born 11 He challenged 55 Humor. in —— in 1712 the divine ——57 Whirlwind. 45 Snaky fish, ¢3Hegainedlast- of kings. 58 Musical note. 46 Form of “me.” ing fame as 14 His “——” was59 Northwest. 47 Also, ._—_—. aschoolmas- 61Myself, eT Sept Sst a aa @@RRKX or you well balanced, There is nothing active play or phys eve the fatigue, 4 re. 5. 36 Baseball’ team. 49 Fairy. agencies which were instrumental in convicting them. ‘That some secrecy in the granting of paroles is desirable may perhaps be granted, and undoubtedly a hard- and-fast publicity rule would not be without its disadvantages. But in the final analysis, the interests of society must be made paramount in any con- sideration of the parole question, If present methods, in many states, are encouraging the release of convicts who are s potential menace to s0- clety, then those methods deserve to be closely scrutinized with a view to Few advocate the wiping out of the perole system, but the need for ad- ministering it with more intelligence, and with the welfare of the general of a hard day at the called “brain fag”—tho of no more work in Meter and others testify eloquently to the urgency of reform within the system. Fuller publicity for parole sponsors will not, of course, accom- . 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