The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1935, Page 4

4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1873) Biate, City and County Ofticial News- Paper. une , Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck @s second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN —__President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year.......' $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bis- marck) .. Daily by mail, per year ( outside of Bismarck) Daily by mail outside o} Dakota ........ Weekly by mailin Weekly by mail outside Dakota, per year ... Weekly by mail in Canada, per Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts 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. A Charge Collapses Now that the political opponents of ‘Thomas Moodie have grudgingly ad- mitted that he is a citizen, it is inter- esting to note the facts regarding his record which a hearing on this sub- Ject would have disclosed. It would have been revealed, for example, that his mother home- steaded in South Dakota more than 50 years ago upon her remarriage following the death of Moodie’s father while he was little more than an infant. That fact alone made him @ citizen, since the citizenship of a child follows that of its parents or surviving parent. It would have been disclosed, too, that Moodie enlisted in North Dakota in 1898 for service in the Spanish- American war and the Philippine in- Burrection. The only reason he didn't bear arms for his country was that the North Dakota National Guard regiment at that time had no place for two militia companies which were raised for such service. The muster rolls of Company E, or- ganized at Langdon but not accepted for service in the war, would show the name of Thomas H. Moodie, He had heard that a militia company was being organized there and went to Langdon for the specific purpose of enlistment. It would have been disclosed that) he was enrolled for possible service in the World War, having registered for the draft in that conflict. B he was married, however, he was placed in class 4 and never called. The obvious fact is that, as soon fs Moodie was fhominated, some of the “boodle” accumulated by the late and unlamented Langer administra- tion was spent in the task of tracing down the history of this man who threatened their grasp upon the gov- ernment and the people of North Dakota. They learned that he was born in Canada and, failing to find record of his naturalization, jumped at the conclusion that he was not a citizen, Upon such flimsy deduction ‘was based the charge that he was an alien, That it was a shameful thing is Weside the point. The true signifi- cance of the charge is that it was the act of the politically damned seeking to avoid retribution for their crimes $n office; attempting, by fair means or foul, to perpetuate a hold upon tthe people of the state which had fbeen broken only by the greatest pub- ic uprising in the history of North Dakota. It is not always easy for a man to prove his exact status when called ‘upon to do so. Much is being made of this fact in the current effort of the state health department to reg- Aster all babies born in this state. "That Moodie would have been able ‘to do so, however, had he been called ‘upon to answer this ridiculous charge, 4s now admitted by the people who have attempted to persecute him. This charge and withdrawal are not surprising. They are only additional evidence of the frame of mind in which his enemies find themselves. Zt may be a harsh comparison, yet their actions are strikingly similar to those of a cornered rat which is fight- fing for its existence. Now that half of the attack upon ‘Moodie has collapsed miserably, it can confidently be anticipated that the other half also will be withdrawn or ‘will fail when put to the test of court scrutiny. Then, perhaps, we shall hhave an end to this harassment of a Public officer who comes to office with the support of a majority of the voters and with a clean record behind Even Tom Moodie’s enemies must —j the state. to whe | with The Ti Masquerade How little attaches to a name was evidenced here last week when the North Dakota Labor association met! |in pretended convention and pre-| jsumed to speak for the laborers of One would suppose, from this name, | and the nature of the resolutions adopted, that the group had some | connection with the arduous business of earning a living by the sweat of their brows. Perhaps some of them did, but it is a fact that most if not all of the Burleigh county members would be more accurately described if they were labeled as “anti-labor,” not 50 much because they are opposed to the general idea of labor as because they do not like it for themselves. Some of them, for example, have flatly refused to work and have lived off the bounty of the federal govern- jment which they criticized. | It is significant, too, that the or- ganization is neither recognized nor encouraged by the North Dakota Fed- jeration of Labor, a sound and re- | spectable organization which has been |a force for good in state affairs. | There was more than a little intima- tion that members of the state fed- eration resented connection of the met here. It all goes to show that words with \@ generally accepted meaning offer |some wolves a splendid opportunity word labor to the organization which |. |to don sheep's clothing. New Problem in Education Our school system will be one of the first institutions to feel the effect jof our declining birth rate, according |to Dr. Ellen C. Potter of the New Jersey department of institutions and agencies. Dr. Potter told the Pennsylvania jemergency child health committee the jother day that in 1940 there will be |1,000,000 fewer children in American |schools than there are now. As early jas next fall the decline will be felt, she predicted, in fewer first grade | registrations, This will bring our schools a bracd |new problem, different from any they have faced before. The average school jboard has had to meet a steadily ex- panding population. It has had the specter of over-crowding always on its horizon, If, in the future, it must adjust its jpolicies to a slow, steady decline in |numbers, it will find that its whole program may need overhauling. || Editorial Comment | Socialized Distribution Ni York Herald-Tribune) s' program of tra stat en of suppor es and localities ig the “unemploy- ‘on the relief roils will in the! nount to little more than a ' K transaction, since in most ies S ind local con- trib eneral relief sys- |tem are adequate to cover this part jof the total load. The idea, however, jot ting the unemployables from the rest of the relief burden rep- jresents a growing understanding of what relief has come to mean, while the estimate of their numbers has a rather ominous interest. F. E. R. A. believes that no fewer than 20 per cent of the cases now on relief, in- volving some 4,990,000 souls in all, are without employable breadwinners. If so, they can never be directed re- absorbed by a reviving industry while it is impossible to convert them into permanent federal pensioners, There is logic in dividing them now from the remainder of those on re- lief and returning them to the direct charge of the states and localities, which have always been responsible for the relief of destitution of this sort. If the federal government can then make work for the others its re- lief problem will be over. Assuming that the work relief project succeeds (which is a pretty large assumption), this may be well enough for the fed- eral government. Unfortunately, the states will be left with a heavy relief burden of their own, considerably ag- gravated by the history of the last four years. They will not only have the “normal” load of incapacity, old age and indigence always present in good times and bad; they will also be supporting great numbers who were formerly carried by relatives and friends and by means of all sorts of desperate personal expedients, but who have now relapsed into the arms of government. To meet this situation, as well as to fill the inevitable gaps in the fed- eral government's efforts to re-em- ploy the employable, the states are to be urged into old-age pensions and unemployment insurance and perhaps health insurance as well. But what all this will really mean is not the passing of a temporary relief “emer- gency”; it will mean the “socializing” of a considerable part of our system of distribution, as the British have done through the elaborate “social security” schemes which they have developed. Recent figures show that in 1932 the British people spent (in national and local taxes and con- tributions to the insurance schemes) nearly $2,000,000,000 in all on their social services, the equivalent for the larger population of the United States of about $6,000,000,000, This cannot be regarded as an out-of-pocket “cost,” since much of it represents the spending through the social se- curity schemes of money that would have been spent individually. But the magnitude of the figure does sug- gest the far-reaching scope of the whole social security idea and the ex- tent to which it alters the national economy. The New Deal’s attack on the relief problem is not ending re- Uef; rather it is tending to perpetuate under another name the new kind of economic adjustment which is im- plied by the relief idea. It is tend- ing to confirm a great extension of socialized distribution, which is itself bound materially to affect the and character of industrial revival. Approximately miles, or two-fifths of South Ameri- ca, is drained by the Amazon river. oie bit 1 jab! | © | all is fit to bear children. PERSONAL. HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal heaith and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady, if a stamped, 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. SOME CITIZEN SHOULD FORBID THIS MARRIAGE A school teacher writes that she is 41 years old and is engaged to marry a man four years younger. She feels that she is too old to bear children, so if I will be good enough to give her some of my excellent advice about birth control... It will be a pleasure, Ma’am. What is needed in such a case is not birth control but marriage con- In justice to the world, to the fool who proposes to marry this id to the thousands of true arise and forbid the marriage of this woman to this man. Any woman who is fit to marry at If she has some deficiency, some taint or some disability by reason of which child- birth might be inadvisable for her, then it is a crime against the state and against posterity to permit her to unite in marriage with a man who should carry on the race. It is vicious and selfish for such a half-woman or near-woman to seek to bind a real man to her for life and thus not only rob him of the joy and honor of fatherhood but also rob some normal, eligible woman of the chance to rear a family. There is something appallingly rot- ten in the institution of marriage in this country. As it seems to me, it is not primarily a question of morals or religion, but rather a question of com- mon sense and evolution. The divorce evil has its roots in the laxity and indifference which govern the au- thorities in giving license to marry and in performing the marriage quite regardless of the intents or purposes of the contracting parties. It is not difficult to understand the breakup of a union from which the most sacred privilege of life is excluded. In any situation, there is nothing quite like a baby or two around the house to keep a mother or a father out of mis- chief. And how many good women and good men have been saved from the results of folly by the timely ap- peal or support of a loyal child. Once more I warn the public never to elect me to any office which would give me any arbitrary or dictatorial power, for I'd soon clean up the mar- riage mess, I tell you. I'd set up a trial marriage that would have teeth in it. If any couple lived in wedlock more than three years after marriage without issue I'd require them to show cause why the union should not be declared null and voild—or else to adopt and raise their quota of chil- dren. If it were possible to determine which partner were the barren one (as it is in about half of the barren marriages) I'd have that one forever barred from further marriages, but the normal partner would be free to marry again and the state would wish him or her better luck next time. School teachers are generally no- toriously ignorant—of physiology and hygiene. This one’s superstition that a woman of 41 is too old to bear chil- dren reflects a false notion which pre- jvails among fishwives in general. A {healthy woman of that age should be at her acme physically. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Stomach Rush What causes stomach to empty its contents into the intestine premature- Is Does smoking have anything to’ lo with this? (Mrs. M. P, T) Answer—Drinking ice water, smok- acidity. A glass or two {of agreeably cold water (or hot if you prefer) at meal time or just before eating is a natural stimulus to secre- tion of gastric juice and hence aids jdigestion. The water remains in stomach only 10 or 15 minutes. Tce water remains only a few minutes, and tends to chill the delicate duo- denum, which is right where you live, where the important part of dig- estion is carried on. No ice in your drink is a good health rule. Headaches ++. also suffer from terrible sick headaches, and see where you have helped many ... (E. T.) Answer—Send 3 cent stamped en- velope bearing your correct address (not “Local” or “City”) for mono- graph on the subject. Describe brief- ly the type of headaches you have. Killing Vitamins What food value is lost in boiling Peaches, apples, etc.? (R. T.) Answer—Boiling destroys vitamin C, which is essential to prevent scurvy. Perhaps the water also dis- solves some of the sugar and some of the mineral salts. (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) % HORIZONTAL 1 Prophet who founded a re- ligion with a sword. 9 Some. 10 Engine-room greasers, 12 Measure of cloth. 14 To retain. 15 Weaves as a sweater. 17 To handle. 18 Flowerheads of boneset. 20 He was an — by birth, _ tion. of this faith he 46 Gross, 48 Starch-like | feces the substance 50To te, 0 Poshy gal 51 Cuckoopints. stowing. 53 To relieve. 31 For fear that. 55 Religion of 32 Sprite. the Moham- 34 Elm. medans. 35 Lengthens. 40 Derby. 43 Having 20 56 Mineral I d x il aaa FCCC PEL SOUSA y L 25 By the formula44 Unprofessional. 1 Male adult. pring. . 57 The scriptures 13 definite direc- of this religion. PrTrr) See By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) ‘Washington, Jan. 2—New Deal test cases have begun to pile up in the supreme court, Four are there now. Others are not far off and may also be decided before the end of the first session of the Seventy-fourth Congress, Cases now before the court involve legality of: 1. The gold clause legis- lation. 2. Production control of pet- roleum under NIRA. 3. Regulation of prices under NRA codes. 4. The railroad pension act. The court doesn’t mind co-operat- ing with New Dealers who would like to know where they stand on consti- tutional issues. Although it has va- rious avenues through which it can duck the responsibilities of decisions, it hasn't been doing that. In granting the plea of the Jus- tice Department to review an adverse lower court decision on the pension act, it disregarded the fact that the case hadn't been argued before an appellate court. It waived formal procedure in the price-fixing case, involving used car prices under the retail automobile code, by accepting a typewritten lower court record instead of the formally printed brief it usually re- quires. z This apparent desire to speed New Deal tests encourages government lawyers, who hope the court will ap- prove measures on emergency grounds. DODGES LABOR TEST ‘The administration apparently Religious Leader 15 Cognizance. 16 Coin slit. 18 Label. 19 Barracudas. 20 Past of this creed, “There is no God but 21 Eggs of fishes. 22 Onager. 23 Morsel. 24 Within. * 26 Feminine ‘pronoun. 27.Very email. 29 Seaweed. 32 Comes in. 33 His only - daughter. 36 ate Tasman! 37 Bones. <3 t, ae 38 Baking dishes. bas 39 Small shield, 4Molting birds. 41 War fiyers. 5 Third note, 42 Sound of a bell ‘44 Falsifier. 45 Handle. 47 Wing. 49 Lion, 50 Musical note. 52 Above. 54 Half an em. Ui] 2 Upon. To speak imperfectly. oe i Nai \ doesn’t want a final test of its col- lective bargaining cases—such as the Houde and Weirton suits—before con- gress further labor legislation. A decision might be too great a vic- tory for capital or labor and Roose- velt wants to retain his position as an umpire in major labor disputes, handling them by varying and flexible methods which won't weight the — Be either industry or the A. test his powers under NIRA to @ code on an industry. He has notice of intention to impose the telegraph business—and sue may soon be before the BORAH WOULD OUST HOLT If a man 20 years of age elected to the senate, why not a old next June, what is to prevent a younger man being elected and wait- ing years for admission. Borah of Idaho thinks Holt should be admitted and then removed from the senate. Some dainty constitutional questions are involved when Republicans insist that Holt shouldn't be admitted at all, even in June. The good old Con- stitution says “no person shall be a senator who shall not have attained GH CHAPTER XIX Behe ert rr his lips on hers. ft him, his dark moved close own, and she felt His kiss was long, She now it was too late. Gradual and she It was we her hand. he said. Kay made no answer. “But you dont hate me?” be **tNo,” she mumbled. “No, I don’t EACH BEAUTY qj had been A ei it shocktd her some! om She hess and idea what she should have done sna | firmly, she began to push him away, tke refused to let her own lips relax. She held them thin and tight. who eased the sit- uation. He released her and stepped “You see? to do with @ man in disregard of the is thing else ingen Senator George Norris, who ns Joined by most other for seating Holt im- him into outer dark- ‘West Virginia’s Governor appoint Clem Shaver, the Far- ereupon, of course, Holt would be 30 years old and it long to elect the voters ROPER tary of Commerce Dan left off any more important tion committees, the omis- sion will begin to become rather con- » People might even begin t that Dan was just an old- ioned politician and out of joint New Deal show. and Planning Council, idea and is fre- but would get rs had their way. Ae, the secretary was & member of the National Resources cant though several keen-minded mem| had no trouble keeping him unad' as to just what they were up to. nd But when the president nami Don Richberg's powerful Industrial ( Emergency Committee — appointing Hopkins, Ickes, Perkins, igen ministrator Davis, and NRA A man Clay Williams—he forgot al about Roper, despite the fact thal it’s @ committee working primar: } with NRA, which deals entirely wil jerce. Then there was the take-the-profit- out-of-war committee, to which toatl ly everybody was appointed except Uncle Dan, whose department has been mentioned in the munitions in-| vestigation and is supposed to ‘keep | track of the munitions business. Uncle Dan was rather irritate? when the boys asked him about not being on that last committee. He insisted he was a busy person. | Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, ———— ‘The new Institute of Agriculture ‘Annex library in Rome is second only to the U. 8. Department of Agricul: ture library in number of volumes Or agricultural subjects. —— ‘The South Sea Island palm cock: atoo blushes when excited; its nor mally pink face becomes a bright red Inc) ‘The population of Rhode Islan¢ averages 644 persons to the squany mile, while Nevada's averages only 0.83 to the square mile. ARTHUR by |SHUMWAY Harrow shrogged again, very slightly, and smiled. “As you wish,” he said. “Sorry.” But his eyes were still on her and lor some reason she did not move. Suddenly his arms were around her he was kissing her. Breathless, ee in an embrace; she didn’t try le. Wher he raised his head again and looked into her eyes, he said, “This time—I’m not sorry.” Kay got out of the car. She hardly knew what to say. “You're—” she stammered, then “I mean—it’s all so sort had a perfectly splendid time ind T’ll see you brit ‘and early at the beat, Goodnig. \t.”” " “Goodnight, Kay.” hate i That's enough, then. And that’s all. I'll not annoy i bec: rae his lips. “If it could be “Tage said, |. “Well . And you've at least I've been doesn’t chai our that maybe be gone aytona Beach.’ The thought of his leaving ought @ apr bi to Ka: Ne lly, she "s throat. ied to tell no use; the knot was “ asked. cs ina tight grip. | bine It was early in the mornit the Commander III retu: docks in Daytona Beach. was clear now with th ‘Shall we go back and dance?” he ‘Let’s,” she said, taking his arm when to the . The it soft moonlight and there was a peace upon the tiver and the ci Ida Campbell home, but Harrow doing so himself. “I don’t Winch remarked cai “I do,” Harrow ore i shrugged. ike si be Ida's disappointment reall pleased Kay. For once the wasn’t having her own the man she determined to And, furthermore, Kay hear more from Harrow. laration had done strange her emotional Harrow ‘and took hi Korea to take Kay know, Earl,” Spike utiously. said, voice i yy about to His dec- things to her in the little car seat beside her. Dri bridge, he was silent jim to speak. As left the she looked pebbteed cae eee oe daloee ing them. She cau; and would have spol it her breath Harrow it had not put his hand gently on her “That's all right.” and passed next light Kay it a glimpse of divers Bie recogaised him aa aboard the boat. For some yan increased bodygus an pees wasn’t enna she supposed, whatever it was, was really erable, for Spike was 8 pi midable watch bered how he had his matic that day on the fishi and she hard. “Never mind about that,” he said. ‘When th behind them turned e car ‘oe the of the two hi men who had come and|made up; Pain trial. He leaned over to kiss her, trow back, F stopped. qe I don’t know. But/s: trust her alone, but it’s better hav- ing Harry ee gave anyibing stould happen." it’s all settled and you're all rend) te Fe his afternoon, And you'd better tell Mr. Harrow when kay Bad been afraid of this. She id,| paused, angling for the tactful reply. TB, mother,” she said, “it does seem unnecessary, spending the ex- tra money to take me along. And it'll make it crowded for you. It’s a all cottage, isn’t it?” ‘No trouble at all, and I wouldn’t think of leaving you behind. The expense doesn’t matter a bit.” hatever fragmentary dreams atin) i ti had been forming in Kay's mi luring the last two days now eae in danger of oblivion. The girk thought rapidly. There must be some way out of it; she had to stay in Daytona as long as Earl Harrow remained; she had to and it was no- y's business why. He would be leaving ie eden days, but even so stay. “I don't know, mother,” she sai “Mr. Harrow is'gang (3 then little while longer and i've my still. Tt seems a shame to throw it up before the work is finished. Thon” look,” she said, a new idea striking her, “what, good would 1 be ite mountains? Wouldn't it be better if I-remained right here lo in, for some really petmanent job?" T think you'd better tell Mr. Hare row when you go back this after. eed Gils id. “And I'll be our thit Tack my ema together when ler mother’s manner still, but very firm, and Kay eee the ‘time had com struggle of loyalties ie peed irs. Owen simply had her mind there would be Ro argu. ing. “All right,” Ka: greed, “but don’t bother to pack my things, PI] want to look them over first, Ne sense in taking much, Tet " care of it—though I still silly.” “a t me thea to come home early, a wil said, Kay? ri ding - the house Not only leaving her Tr own life ie ed ana wel mountains would be (To Be Conti, Wot ee ontinued) f, ee i 1