The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1935, Page 6

se { An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ee nm (Eatablished 1873) Gtate, City and County Official News- GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher ‘ SS ; Subscription Rates Payable in Advance marck) . Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck) 5. per year lated Press ts exclusively the use for republication dispatches credited to it 2 Otherwise credited in this _r REwspaper and also the local news of J” @pontaneous origin published herein. al its of republication of all other herein ¢ reserved. Standard of Living One of the points at issue in any @iscussion of our return to prosperity a that famous old American stand- ard of living. ‘The men and women who came to { this country from Europe, in all the 4 years since Plymouth and Jamestown ‘were settled, came with the wistful + | Motion that life over here could be | ~ easier and richer than it was back are also higher than anyone else's has always been one of our most cherished con- ‘vietions. And in the main, averaging one period with another, that convic- tion has had a lot to support it. But it has also led us to kid our- @elves pretty extensively. Because such conveniences as au- tomobiles, bathtubs and central heat- ing are more common in the United States than elsewhere, we have as- eumed that practically everybody had them, and that those who went with- out were either too shiftless or too ignorant to get them. By doing so ‘we have simply blinded ourselves to 4% the obvious facts. Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, brain truster Of the agricultural department, made this very clear in @ recent speech at ‘Washington. An American family that is to have a moderately full life, he estimates, must have an income of at least $2500 a year. That is about the minimum price of a family life which measures up to our “American standard”—a decently modern home, electric lights and appliances, central heating, up-to-date plumbing, an auta and 50 on. | But in 1929, when everything was| booming, fully 71 per cent of Ameri- can families had incomes below the | $2500 mark, says Dr. Ezekiel. In other words, between two-thirds and three-quarters of us aren't able to get that American standard of liv-| ing even in the most prosperous | thmes It is doubtless a recognition of this fact which leads some people to insist that reform must go hand in hand a with recovery. Such people are simply | j saying that it is not enough for us to| get back to pre-depression conditions, | but that we must go a long way be-| yond that point before we can feel that we are doing justice to ourselves. ‘The trick ought not to be quite as difficult as it seems to be. When you| think of the marvelous productive capacity of this country, of the intel- ligence of-its people, the energy and optimism with which the most baf-| fling tasks are tackled, it does seem} as if it should be fairly easy to find | some way of introducing more than @ third of us to that standard of living which we like to think of as typical of the whole country. It Seems Conclusive Despite statements to the contrary, | the report of the army engineers that Missouri river diversion into Devils) 2 Lake is economically unfeasible seems | to have written finis to dreams of that gigantic project. North Dakota hopes received a se- vere blow when the Fort Peck dam| ‘was given priority a year ago and now comes the report that the bene- fits of diversion would not be com- mensurate with the cost. That, after all, is the keynote of the whole mat- ter. That the dam could be built may be taken for granted. Engineers can Temptation now, of course, is to try to keep the issue alive. Those ‘who have been fighting for it most actively will be lost without it, and consigning a cherished hope to the limbo of impossible things is* not task is and will continue ‘be that of developing a sound The Bismarck Tribune| 120|0f prosecution and defense and in 00\ the state's attorneys seem to have home. Because of that, the belief/ that our standard of living must be} ™emory, the citizens generally were ; annually. The Lindbergh Case Soon the newspapers will be full of the trial at Flemington, N. J., in which Bruno Richard Hauptmann faces charges of kidnaping and mur- dering the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. It will be a dramatic and perhaps the last chapter in what has come to be recognized as the crime of the century, for clearly no other episode has stirred the American people as this one has. Already we have been given a glimpse into the opposing contentions this connection it is noteworthy that taken a commonsense view of the ‘ situation. | When the federal and state police were muddling up the case, as they jdid, all sorts of theories were’ ad- vanced as to the reason for the crime. Numerous ill-advised and obviously unjustified statements were made by them in the course of their specula- tions. The prosecutors, however, will con- tend that Hauptmann committed the |crime in connection with an extortion |plot. They may admit that he did not originally contemplate murder but that it grew out of the other crime, either by accident or as a re- |sult of a train of circumstances con- [nected with the abduction. If Hauptmann committed the crime —and this remains to be proved to the satisfaction of a jury—the theory now advanced is a logical one. Flying Hazards World-Wide When the United States army un- dertook to fly the air mail, during | that emergency period of unpleasant THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1985 SS Ss profoundly shocked at the number of deaths that ensued. Not only was this loss of fine young men a tragic thing; it seemed to hint that our air force was imperfectly trained and inadequately equipped. However, it is evident that by com- parison with other nations’ air forces the American army flyers take care of themselves pretty well. When a bombing plane of the Royal Air Force crashed near Birmingham, England recently, killing three men, it brought the Royal Air Force's cas- ualty list for the year to 32, Such a total may not be scandal- ously high, but it does indicate that military aviation is an affair of ab- normal risks under even the best of circumstances, and that our army flying corps may have a better record, comparatively, than we supposed. Many a man hopes to get by St. Peter at the Golden Gate on the re- ligion of his wife. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors Th gard to wi ee w ublished without ether they agree or di th The Tribune's polici Serving Notice to the Veterans (Minneapolis Tribune) The letter addressed by Mr. Roose- velt to the commander of an Ameri- can Legion post in Texas sums up the case against immediate payment of the bonus in thoroughgoing fash- ion. It requires no searching through the painfully polite paragraphs of this letter to understand that the President for all his velvet phrases, 4s serving fair varning to the vet- erans that he will not accede to their demands. One fails to find even the vaguest hint that he is ready to con- sider compromise, but there are jsigns in abundance to indicate that he is ready to do battle, on this par- ticular issue, to the last ditch. The president is against immediate Payment of the adjusted service cer- tificates for a number of reasons, but | primarily he is against it because he feels that the veterans are demand- ing something to which they are not | entitled by the spirit of the letter of the bonus contract. This contract calls for payment in 1945 of the basic or original bonus voted by congress plus 25 per cent added for deferred payment and in- terest at 4 per cent compounded Had cash been paid the veterans in 1925, they would have re- ceived $1,409,000,000; but by deferring the payment 20 years, this total in- creases to $3,500,000,000. Mr. Roose- velt sets the present value of the cer- tificates at $2,100,000,000, and the Point is made in an accompanying memorandum that the veterans who demand immediate payment are ask- for interest that will not have been earned until 1945. If the interest of $220,000,000 now charged to veterans’ accounts were cancelled or remit- ted, as is being sought, Mr. Roose- velt points out that the entire cost would be $1,620,000,000 over the pres- ent value of the certificates, and $2,- 320,000,000 above the amount which Congress fixed as the original basic adjustment. The president, quite plainly, can see no fairness in that. The veteran, he Points out, shares with all other citizens in the direct distribution of relief and has a very definite and distinct preference. in employment: why then, he asks in effect, should the bonus contract be broken as a Special favor to him? Mr. Roosevelt scouts the theory that immediate paymegt would stim- ulate business und promote recovery. When the loan value of the certifi- cates was increased to 50 per cent, he reminds us, approximately a bil- lion dollars was distributed to the veterans, and with no such happy re- sults. That money, he is corivinced, program for North Particularly for the We all of it the was used lareely to clear indebted- ness rather than to create new busi- ness, and he believes that the “same results: would obtain if the balance were now paid.” Lastly the president calls attention ¢ the fact that 5 per cent of the veterans who die leave no other asset to their family then| jover 1934, as is considered permissible |some such time, but it was really © 1938 NEA The NewDeal Washington Year One of Mad Speed in Washing- ton—Without Going So Far ... Many Things That Scemed Im- portant Turn Out Not So Impor- tant ... There'll Be More of the Same in 1935. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 3.—Looking back at this season, one is struck by cer- tain inescapable conclusicns which might never occur to anybody who didn’t take that look. The lessons to be drawn from 1934 as it was lived in Washington are: 1. So many things happened so ra- Pidly that one tends to date them way off back in some other year. The acceleration of events is con- stant. That's why, though you may now boast a memory which goes back two or three weeks, you may soon be able to remember only the most re- cent two or three days. 2.No end of things happened which seemed tremendously impor- tant and significant at the time, but now don’t seem to have made the least bit of difference. 3. That second point, fortunately, doesn’t seem to apply to everything. Other lessons might be cited, but to do so would only start arguments. DOLLAR JUGGLING FUTILE To most of us here, the devalua- tion of the dollar to 59 cents seems to have happened back in 1927 or only last January. That was either going to bring us back to prosperity or plunge us over the brink of chaos, but Roosevelt is still sore at Profes- sor Warren because-so few of us were evr able to notice any effects. Russia sent us an ambassador and Roosevelt obtained tariff t:eaty pow- ers, both of which events meant a great expansion of foreign trade—for which we're still scanning the hori- zon. The year began with the adminis- tration on the spot in the Weirton collective bargaining case and ap- parently forced to become hard-boil- ed about Section 7-A. The year end- ed with the administration on the Same spot. Threatened steel and automobile strikes were settled and in the next two or three months they'll have to be settled again. TUGWELL STILL IN THERE Dr. Tugwell made lengthy trips to Puerto Rico, the far west, and Europe and on each occasion his enemies spread the word around that he was being eased out of the New Deal. Dr. Tugwell is in more solidly with the White House than ever and plans future trips, which will be the oc- casion for similar rumors. Several crises arose wherein Roo- sevelt stood at the ¢rossroads and was compelled to decide once and for all whether he would turn “right” or “left.” There's another such crisis on at the moment and they'll probably oc- cur about once a month through 1935, along with recurrent internal Arma- geddons in AAA, NRA, and other agencies—so common in 1934, Other disappointments or fiascoes included the housing act, which was going to put 5,000,000 men and bil- Hons of dollars at work; the $440,- 000,000 Joans to industry measure, which still leaves small industrial- ists howling for credit; the Dr. Wirt Red scare; the airmail mess, and na- tionalization of silver. FARMERS GET MONEY Came the greatest drouth in his- tory, but where is it now? You're feeling the effects in some food prices, the government appropriated $525,000,000, and farm income leaped about a billion dollars for the year. Hopping to the seemingly most significant events of 1934, you're like- ly to conclude that the administra- tion and the nation itself zig-zagged markedly toward the left. The bankers threw up a white flag to the White House in hope of avoid- ing central banking legislation. The “power trust” was spanked an aver- age of once a week, with actual dam- age to profits. PULMOTOR FOR NRA General Jchnson and Miss Robin- son left the NRA, whereupon o pul- motor squad undertook to rescue it from the strangle-hold of greedy in- | ‘A Meeting Has Been Arranged’ PERS dustries and the patient is given some chance to survive as an agency for supervising business, The racketeers of Wall Street, judging from the terrific battle they made against the stock market bill, must have taken a hard blow when the measure passed, Roosevelt started work on a social security program such as never had @ chance in any previous adminis- tration. The cotton and tobacco farmers demanded and obtained com- pulsory crop control programs and ne = so well that they'll be con- ued, ‘RADICAL’ IS BANK CHIEF Roosevelt appointed a “radical,” Marriner 8. Eccles, as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and fed- eral control over the banks was quiet- ly expanded. Came November's elec- tions which heartily endorsed Roose- velt’ while repudiating more conser- vative forces, gave Upton Sinclair a Democratic nomination and 850,000 votes, and won for such assorted “ra- dicals” as Olson, La Follette, Cutting, Bilbo, and Huey Long almost as often as they contested against conserva- tive Democratic opponents. It’s too bad there isn’t more space here to tell you all the things thet are going to happen in 1935. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) It is pretty certain that any egg profits gained from a flock of laying hens above the cost of feed will be directly influenced by the rate of winter egg production. The greater |the number of eggs produced between |Nov. 1 and Feb. 1, the greater the chances for egg profits above feed cost and usually the greater the an- nual egg income. | Foreign Aviatrix HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle 8 Company. 1,5 Pilot passen- 9 Diocese. ger in the 11 This flight was London-to- made ina —- Melbourne \ airplane. air race. KINUUTIS) 15 Energy. 10 Metric foot. TE IASIE TL 16 Royal treasury 12 To low as a IN 18 Soft mud. cow. 1 INGRAM 19 Local position. 13 Garment. SIT aia 20 To value. 14 To unclose. INIG 21 Sand hill. 16 Musical note. 22 Impetuous. 17 Measure af 23 Work of skill. area. 24 Within. 18 Foretoken, 25 Flock. 19 Male courtesy 26 Ten cents. 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No reply Address Dr. William Brady, A GOOD DOCTOR MUST BE A GOOD GUESSER Six weeks ago... Oh-oh—we had better warn the reader that this is something to read to yourself first—then if you wish, read it to the family. Six weeks ago, remarks a good physician who, without purporting to bea » has become famous for his skill in ambulant treatment, @ lady came to the office stating that for about a month she had had some bleeding from the rectum. She proved to have a large inoperable cancer. I think this growth could have been detected by examination at least two years ago, when it would have been possible to operate suc- cessfully. The patient had been giv- en a periodic examination by her physician at frequent intervals, as she wished to keep fit. On each examination she was pronounced to be in perfect health, So what? Just what should a periodic phy- sical examination or health inven- tory include? T have no definite idea about this. In practice the periodic physical ex- amination is largely a gesture. It is an excellent way for the patient to get acquainted with the doctor and for the doctor to get acquainted with the patient. For that alone a yearly It is worth something to you to know your doctor knows you. That is, if you have brains enough to select a doctor as your regular medical ad- viser. If you just shop around as you might for a basket of vege- tables, or if you get it free with a can of baking powder or a life in- surance policy, you can’t expect much more than you pay for, can you? My notion is that your own phy- sician, especially if he knows you and you know him, can get a better line on the state of your health in a 15-minute confab with you than any wage slave in a great “institute,” " om CHAPTER XX Spike Winch was there, though. “Hear about , it?” he speaki side of his mouth. “About what, Spike?” “Nearly got Earl last night.” pugnacious face. “What—” she began. inen. came aboard the ine thit of the night before. ins. mother she would have to tow that tomorrow mornii see her on her way to North Caro- lina. Her mind was working rap- idly. She decided to postpone the issue. having brought it up. Her mother said, “I h "re id, Peierls cars came not planni on where tonight? Binner'’s almost you won’t have any time to pack now. I thought you intend- ed getting hor this after- a0on' “I had intended to.” me early ote gi bi 3 i ie z Hi H i i E : rf i 35 ad | aie E i i i | 3 £ § 3 | i EH = E i F i i i ist i ti a E i Fy i 275 isk ie a 3 s 5? EE s ; i i ONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. answered by Dr. Brady, if a stamped, can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. EACH BEAUTY When Kay went abroad she found Harrow had gone out somewhere. | she asked, confidehtially, from the Kay stared at Spike’s solemn, But she didn’t finish the sentence. Spike’s eyebrow rose in warning. ing down, she saw Harrow coming, up the dock, trim in fresh white li Harrow was smiling when he Commander ‘III ve no indication of mention- incident, whatever it a Kay had to face now was the problem of the trip to the moun- tai If she were to obey her 1 him | Comi would if EEL 2 Pas | zise 225.358 itis i “a Ae Sin taes E F i PEE é il i M ii eh a health and hygiene, not to disease Letters should be brief and written in care of this newspaper. “clinic,” “association” or “company” can by any amount of machinery or laboratory monkeyshines. Your doctor can make or cause to be made such special tests or examinations as he advisable. ‘ Our colleague implies ‘that the pe- tiodic examination should include @ rectal examination. I do not think 80, I believe your own physician should decide whether that is advis- able or not, after he has heard your ts and perhaps questioned you specifically about one thing and another you omit from your history or anamnesis, Insurance companies that give with each can of—each policy some sort of free health or near-medical service in violation of the principle that the Practice of medicine is an individual service, gamble @ good deal on the mere opinion of a doctor that an ap- plicant looks well. Most of the pe- Tiodic physical examinations of school children are in fact nothing more than the opinion of the doctor that the child is well. A lot of hokum in the fool questions and answers in the funny examination blanks, of course. ' People never like to see the doctor earn his fee too easily. ‘When you are well acquainted with your doctor you do not hesitate to! consult him about any apparently | minor functional disturbance, and that is much better than procrastina- | tion. Nor do you mind confiding in him about a major worry or difficulty. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Answer to the Layman’s Prayer ‘My experience confirms your teach- | ing that cri is not caused by get-| ting one’s feet wet or sitting in a draft ... you mentioned some re- | search work ... (J. M. P.) | Answer—A book by D. and R. ‘Thomson, “The Common Cold,” pub- lished 1933 by Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, giving conclusions reached from reports of more than 2,000 re- searchers as well as the researches of the authors. Some 700 pages— good wading, brother! If you learn anything please let me know. Nivisection! ist I was ex: As an anti-vivisectioni - tremely interested in your remarks about vaccination, Vaccination should never be compulsory. Other precau- tions should be taken against disease —cleanliness, for instance ... (Miss KD : ‘kanes agree it should never be compulsory. Let every one who be- Teves vaccination is efficacious s0- cure the protection for himself. Then he should worry about the safety of people who don’t believe in it. quarrel about it? Miss K’s naive notion that “cleanliness” prevents disease indicts civilization, for infec- tious diseases prevail among aristocra- tie, cultivated, refined, intelligent and, heaven knows, our most washed peoples. (Copyright, 1934, John F, Dille Co.) ‘Treating seed grain for disease will improve the quality and yield of the crop produced. Seed properly treat- ed germinates better and is not so subject to seedling blights. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Stories to read in bed should be couched in pleasant words. to find him back at the boat. She told of the story, as much as it he should know, and “ son stayi 1 on as long as Mr. Harrow’s seit here and then I'm going to have to find a job. It’s probably all for the best. I can manage the house after you've all ee on south and I’ll have responsi- lity. It it to be good for me. Of course, I know very well moth- er'll write and keep urging me to join them, and I always can, but meanwhile, I’m staying on.” Spike squinted at her quizzically. “You're a t kid,” he said, chuckling. He shook his head slow- ly as if amused by some secret that only his shrewd eyes could see. “Mr. Harrow’s not here?” Kay “Gone over town.” ca gehen we el ipike said, “some m' tailed Earl and tried to jump him ie way back from your Bouse. ‘ing along by the river, where it was nice and dark, one car came side street and got in the yeab. fc fi chose tre le el two fa were working’ and were working an he didn’t even try to stop. He just jumped the curb and went up onto the lawn, then tere around like holy arg F te TEER SE : iF = E ty Hd cf rf 33 fa BF =: 3 e in i : 3 | & 2 HY 3 F 2 F s. ! 7 E i i i F FFa Flach i ae i te He F H i J s 2 3 wer ar i Bs 3 Eg. H i i ie i E : i ore dames I could and my job would ‘ann T’m still not on your black “Not yet,” Spike said, cheer- bes . “But I may be?” : nf ih Hy gS > 4y |SHUMWAY all anfastea tre, The long brown ' a head that was Hl TH ‘ff B. f i E ARTHUR Spike merely grinned. “When does Mr. Harrow intend to leave, then?” Kay asked. “As soon as he can get the boat in shape. He’s funny like that. I told him what he ought to do is let the boat stay here and have the crew drag it back up later and he could take a duck and fly over to Havana or wherever he wants to go till he unjittered enough to back to New York and pitch Bto the grind, but he’s a stubborn i he’s. first intending to do and nobody’s going to stop him.” that Harrow. He says ixnay, ing to do just what he was “But who could it be?” Kay said, half tosherself. Spike Winch chuckled and slapped her shoulder familiarly. “Don’t let it worry you, sister.” Kay saw very little of Harrow that day. He came and went twice, stopping once to dictate a long telegram to California about the movie rights of a show, and a cable to an agent in London. Kay en- joyed as always the thrill of pre- aring messages that might in- way like it stalled. And about that uence the destinies of theaters, ac- Kelly — ments of the life the. yearted to 3 of ie life she yearne All afternoon she kept ning}. and Wagner? Who are|! it. Finally, she went home without The men—’ live. More than ever this afternoon, facing the prospect of Harrow’s de- parture, her manenty to th manently is man as his secre- tary. Acting could wait. This job was interesting, it fi and it was congenial, Remit, Rclida than business? Why plans. formless, she id attach herself per- itable— had to nest? Before she left for home that eve- she stopped Copia ia Johnson would be ready. cana tain, a tal lan- ‘seandinaving with « ‘ace, pale blue eyes and ld and white as shrugged and said: “Be ready now, Miss Kay, bat he won't go yet.’ Ye th with the boat?™ T+ note wrong “I don’t say that. I zor, ba be ont ex Wek couple rts get along without them HF A 5 f Hl E s z, Bi | . § 3 F s f t & i iF F, an8f 3 couldn’t be 7 245 3 3 gE | \