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

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JANUARY not ‘and also the local news of ipentateoe origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. The CCC Record Leaving out of consideration the fact that it may contain some propa- ganda, there is some significance in ‘the estimate of statisticians that op- @ration of the CCC during the last year increased the national wealth ‘by $291,000,000, ‘This is far more than the enterprise cost and, even if the estimate is 50 per cent high, it iscloses one of the reasons why the CCC has been the only New Deal en- terprise which has failed to draw major criticism. The other, and probably the biggest tone, is the fact that it has offered mew hope for hundreds of thousands of young men. It has taken them off the streets and away from bad sur- froundings and put them out in the pen with a chance to develop them- selves physically and adjust them- selves mentally. Many persons be- Weve, and with good reason, that. the venture would be worth all it cost ‘even though there were no material geturns to balance the money spent. ‘That there are constructive achieve- ments to offset the expenditure, how- ever, is indicated by data taken from the reports of camp superintendents which disclose that 40,000 miles of truck trails have been built through forests as a@ fire prevention move; 25,000 miles of telephone line have been built for the same purpose; 1,000,000 acres of forest land have been been improved and millions of other acres protected from destruc- tive attacks by fires, insects and tree diseases; scores of recreational proj- ects, valued at millions of dollars, have been developed and 700,000 small dams constructed to reduce the flood hhazagd and protect land from erosion, In addition, more than 200,000,000 trees were planted and thousands of man hours spent in nursery work growing seedlings for future plant- ings. Scotching the Alimony Racket A Chicago judge has handed down ® sapient ruling that a woman who earns more money than her husband is,not entitled to alimony when she divorces him; and the common sense of such a ruling is so obvious that the case would never have been men- tioned in the newspapers at all, if it were not for the fact that alimony decisions are so often distinguished by a complete absence of common sense, A man who marries undertakes cer- tain definite responsibilities regard- ing the woman of his choice. If they have children, he certainly cannot escape the responsibility of providing for them. But where there are no children; where the woman has no dependents and is quite capable of supporting herself, given an ordinary break in the luck, just as she did before she was married—where, in the name of sanity, is the sense in giving her a perpetual claim on her ex-husband’s earnings? It isn't often that the claim for alimony is quite as unjustified as it was in this Chicago case. It is re- freshing to see that at least one judge is ready to keep the alimony racket within some sort of reasonable bounds, No Comic Opera in War Wars in Latin America are popu- larly supposed to be comic opera affairs, The memoirs of soldiers of fortune, and innumerable romantic- adventure novels, have sold us on the idea that such campaigns are usually very picturesque, enlivened by the presence of one gold-braided general for every three barefoot privates, but not very bloody, Recent summaries of the fighting between Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaco region show that in this case, at least, the popular idea is all wrong. Latest figures show that fully 40,000 soldiers have been killed in that war; 25,000 Bolivians and 15,000 Paraguay- ans. When casualties are recorded on that scale—for the populations of the two countries are not large—it is no comic opera war that is being fought. It is the real thing; as grim, tragic and bloody, on a small scale, as any wars that have ever been fought any- where. Bright Outlook for a Day ‘The perennial and thorny subject of crime news, and what a newspaper editor should do about it, has been given a distinctive approach by J. H. Wolpers, publisher of the Poplar Bluff (Mo.) American Republican. On the day before Christmas, this newspaper made it a point to keep all “unsavory and unpleasant news” off the front page. This is in line with a Christmas policy which Mr. Wolpers adopted five years ago, and it seems to be an exceedingly sensi- ble idea. No newspaper can ignore “unsavory and unpleasant news” all the time. It would be false to its trust if it did. Such news is part of the great record of human activities, and the editor The figures on automobile accidents for 1934, just released, make horrifying reading. To learn that our automobiles killed nearly as many Americans as Ger- man guns killed during the World war is to realize that our motor traffic situation has become one of our ‘We'll Have to Hurry to Get There on Time’ AN EDITORIAL BY BRUCE CATTON most pressing major problems, And yet, terrible as the figures are, we don't really get horrified by them; we don’t really realize that the problem is great. ‘The situation doesn’t come home to us, somehow; it is someone else who gets killed, someone else who gets injured, someone else who passes through a needless tragedy. We ourselves—well, we're the lucky ones, It won’t happen to us, So we accept these traffic fatality figures with the most amazing complacence—and calmly go along Tolling up a death and injury list which future gen- erations will probably find the hardest single feature of our civilization to understand. Suppose we start adding up the figures, to see what result Slightly more than million people were killed or injured in auto accidents in 1934. There are ap- proximately 25,000,000 autos in use in the United States. Figure it out for yourself. The chances are about one in 25 that you will be killed or injured in ‘we get. an auto accident this year. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. If some epidemic were sweeping the country at that rate, causing a millich cases of illness and 36,000 deaths in 12 months, and you knew thet you had one chance in 25 of catching it, wouldn’t you demand that your health department take the most drasti@® kind of measures to get it under control? Why, then, be so complacent about auto acci- dents? eee - Luckily, the traffic problem isn’t altogether in- soluble. Although the death list for the country as a whole increased by 16 per cent last year, there were a few states which actually reduced their fatality lists. It is worth noticing that most of these states have strict financial responsibility laws—such laws as forbid persons who have been involved in serious accidents to drive until they pay any judgments against them and prove their ability to compensate for any future damages they may cause. ‘They are also, in the main, states which have” adequate highway ‘patrol forees. and strict, drivers’ license laws. By attacking vigorously along such lines, we may hape to reduce our traffic death list. There can be no excuse for failure to take such action. The present situation is absolutely intolerable. A drastic and far-reaching program of preventive 4 ‘The devel ent of industrial self- government" Bas been lop-sided— Lewis L. Lorwin, <. * Even cruelest of the Russian tears ace, entitled to rehabilitation in comparison with the Red tsars now ruling Russia in the name of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin—Premier Benito Mussolini. at > boneee time ‘You can't have two in of war—Col. Charles T. Harris, direc- tor of War Planning Division, U. 8. ‘War Department. eee Contract is really game, and I am sure that if you found time to take it up you would Whistles are attached by the Chi- nese to the tail feathers of pigeons ‘The core of the earth is estimated | while they are young. These whistles to be 1800 miles below its surface. are tuned to harmonize. When a party never left the table, others ined the swim- TETA°GE Ne men at the table, asked Kay to dance lized her for two num- kept her st with greeee. eiehe te od FI dancers, returned to the table, Harrow and Ida Campbell were went th dlinCappoce. Kay i e elFs i bred i Feet H if Bete! i flock of pigeons goes aloft, an aerial concert results, One hundred persons of the 1,000 population in Detling, Kent, England, bear the surname of Brown. Russia. has opened a factory to manufacture vitamin pills, * with the Commander III were get- to be too much for her. in hour or so after breakf: Har-| she rode her bicycle to the beach a: Harvey ‘street appronce. Ling larvey 8 app: f there alone, watching the Sunday bathers and motorists from out of town, she could see the tall life- ard tower. A couple of weeks guard A le of ago Pete Ryan had sat up there and now he was in Guatemala. When life began to play its tricks it didn’t seem to know when to stop. Kay a that, if the Commander 't docked at Daytona Beach because of a northeaster, Pete ‘This is constructive work which @ugurs well for the future of America. Sf it develops in the owners of private forests = recognition of the fact that @ound forest management will not ‘only increase their profits but be of fmestimable benefit to the country, it fwill be worth many times its cost, face than it really possesses—that is’ something else again. To Make the Farm Attractive David E. Lilienthal, power director| About the only thing an investigat- Pf TVA, believes that the “big city |!Ns committee does !s to separate the [itters,” which drew men and wealth |*heep from the goats. 2S oe ¢ and he suggests that one of |*D¢ Politicians never complain about fhe best ways of Killing it for good is being misquoted. fo go ahead with a broad-gauge pro- gram for electrification of farms, Bven today, he points out, fewer farms 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. who refused to recognize its existence would not last long. But to submerge such news on one day out of the year—to fall in line with the Christmas spirit by giving the world, for the moment, a brighter Hoe id 3B Hite 3 TIMERS SHOULD REVISE THEIR cana ii ABOUT ET 3 i : competent physician is to keep the tuberculosis patient in nutritive equilibrium, a diet which keeps him it his ideal weight. This always fav- ors recovery. Perhaps in no other respect has practice changed more than in f i: 4 i t EF F : E F & E. s ‘When I was an interne we had a ood deal of typhoid fever, and the conventional diet in such 3 4 i ist our] more vitamin D the! by using irradiated ree i i ee f ; H . L HL Lee i a if ‘Gloomy Dean’ tne HE fi i it H? i i [ i Z i £ A weak heart never won a fair lady but a fair lady is not the best thing for a weak heart. Ege i i! i # if ¢ j iy i z HH cb ae ie: i ts Fri ne i E 8 Bee a z F; ee =e i: tH FE ; fe fad is i 5 ii 52 : i ae Fa ia 2 or something TI got out into practice for my: ha aor ie eee We scra} 5 cook- a. t, eRe g ci Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without regard to whether they a ai with The Tribu iseye” we id 3 srr Hl ma i uni g 3 z & ‘Liberal and (New York Times) Fj f ? i it i tg 2 i f £ Pf gore i CEs et 1 E i é 3 z RE s v i t Ne a ir Hl i ri ii ol was “difficult to digest,” less infant on the bottle along 5 Li e i fi E i H i & z gE, “progressive” is beautt , Senator Capper leaves cae ays the meaning of “liberal.” iH ad & oF 8 4 £ i til Hf te i i il | ! if bir ES €' i a8 aE E fii i 2 ul ~ E i : 8 i i : : 3 § 55 E z i r Hi ER rt 8338 Sethe Piety Lie | . L H i if ei | “il |