The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1935, Page 4

\ i Whe Bloearck Tribune|@= cous oe mee vm tes co] An Independent Newspaper from the ranks. THE ‘TE'S OLDEST Tt is very hard to think of a worth- NEWOPAPES while objection to this plan. It is (Established 1873) pretty nonsensical, after all, to main- Gate, City and County Official News- |‘#!m this great department as a happy ‘andrea of hunting ground for political spoils- Published by The Bumarck Trib. |e". In the interests of good govern- Sp Company, Biemarch, K_D- and} ment, ict ws hope that the senator at the postoffice at Bismarck | succeds in his aim. @8 second class mail matter. ‘The need for it can be demonstrated Sees nce Poti by @ glance at the records in almost. ——_.———___- |any city in the land. Several years ~roeiveen! 7 inguand be back, for example, a number of local Daity carrier, per seeeees$7-20/men, including several experienced Daily v mail, er year cia “ar postoffice employes, took the exam- marck) «e+ 720] ination for postmaster. Not one of the experienced men was among the “three high” on the civil service list, A queer thing about it is that they appeared, to the unprejudiced ob- 50 | Szver, to have mental abilities on a par with those whose names were placed at the top of the list. England Takes a Hand ‘The sensations incident to the sen- ate’s munitions investigation seem to ion have had their effect on the far side of all news dispatches credited to it|°f the Atlantic. England is prepar- or not otherwise credited in this/ing to name a royal commission to matter herein are also reserved. It is noteworthy that this step was forced upon a reluctant government We Are Getting Old by public opinion. wean aa outstanding -|can investigation started to ce Poel ‘America cirridagathrll ohne headlines, British officialdom inti- effort that people are making to un- | mated that such scandalous methods derstand the society in which they are | Were all very well for Yankees, but living. that England could get along quite Because the last few years taught|icely without copying them. Ws so forcibly that the present is the Before long, however, the subject child of the past, we are also begin- was raised in the house of commons, ning to discover that the future will/®nd the debate there indicated that be the child of today. We make cer-|the masses of people in England had tain decisions and adopt certain|the same sort of healthy curiosity social habits now—and a decade |Sbout the arms traffic as the masses hence, or two decades, these decisions |f Americans had. and habits will have consequences et| So now England, like America, ts which we hardly so much as guess, |8°ing to look into the doings of the Dr. O. E. Baker, senior economist | merchants of death. If the investi- ef the department of agriculture, gation is half as fruitful as the one pointed out recently that we are about/!2 Washington, the world will be a * te undergo very profound changes in|800d deal wiser when it is finished. ee or ays, _ Motto for Good Soldiers ‘we will live in a kind of national] m the early days of American his- middle age; then our population will tory, nearly every regular army and begin to decline, the decline will be|mulitia regiment had its motto, which progressive—and we shall suddenly| #5 proudly emblazoned on its regi- find ourselves an old nation, facing|™ental colors and which served as all the problems which old age brings| the basis for innumerable toasts, pub- to any living organism. Ue speeches and what-not. Now all this seems to be mixed up, ‘The custom has fallen into disuse, in @ very peculiar fashion, with our in recent years. Now, however, it is habits of life. For some reason, the} >eing revived again; and it is some- birth rate in the cities is lower than|how pleasing to note that the 150th the birth rate in rural areas, On the|!nfantry of the West Virginia Na- farms and in the small towns, there | tional Guard has adopted as its slogan are more than enough births to main- | the succinct motto, “We can take it.” tain the population level; in the cities,] Here, indeed, is something for a however, the reverse is true, and in| hard-boiled infantry outfit to live up our larger cities the births even now|t0! No fine Greek or Latin phrases lack 30 per cent of being sufficient to |here, as in the old days; just a snappy maintain the population permanently. |®nd expressive Americanism, ideally) ‘The implication, as Dr. Baker points | ®dapted to military usage. out, is that a civilization based pri-| This West Virginia regiment seems | ix marily on an industrial and commer-|t© have set a standard, in the matter cial system in which the individual|0f mottos, for other military orzani- | is the econoinic unit is very likely to|2ations to live up to. develop a declining population. ARTE Mag EM Aoi permanent, it must be basea| New Start for Agriculture on agriculture, or on some other sys-| ‘The farmer is a good deal better tem in which the family is the eco-|0ff economically than he was a year domic unit. ago. Agriculture department figures ‘This is very puzzling, and we prob-| Show that farm income last year rose ably shall need to know a great deal| by fully $1,000,000,000, with farm pur- more than we know now about the | chasing power rising to 80 per cent of Jaws of heredity, and of human fer-|the pre-war level, as compared with tility generally, before we can fully|52 per cent in 1933. understand it. Benefit payments by the AAA ran But it is @ hint that our primary|to & little more than $370,000,000 for concern, in the long run, must be not | the year. simply to devise a smoothly working} ‘This indicates that the cumbersome economic system, but to fashion a way | 8nd occasionally irritating AAA fuller life to the masses of people. some of us expected. In fact, it leads ‘When we crowd ourselves into cities | One to suspect that this program has ‘and compel millions of people to live|@one about all that it can do, and cramped and narrow lives, we invite|that further advances for the farmer nature to take her revenge—and na-|must come from a revival of ihdus- ture accepts the invitation. We don’t | trial activity. live by bread alone, after all. ‘Those Uttle tables of population $ °, growth are a silent warning that, un-|| Editorial Comment Jess we make our society less arti-|/ Editorials printed below show the ficial and bring t back to closer eon-|| S824 of, Wnuent by giver, eatars tact with the old realities of the living || to whether they agree or disagree earth, we shall pay a very bitter pen- ik eter alty a generation or two later. et Can U. S. Be Taxed? ge f ‘An interesting little problem seems |, Popular slogan of paint manufsc- to have arisen in Colorado, where the| neatly expresses the fact that if the federal government has taken over| wood or metal is protected from wind the same principle ‘Moffat railroad to protect some $10,- tok litles in f, but {590,000 in loans. with espectal force to youth, lawsuits will be filed to test the|five years have faced a staggering statutes which provide tax exemption| S787 of Problems. A society that Sor government property. tion and spent money freely on it, now to i i | i! il fil an Fill | j Z | ie le E i i g Fi i a Hf Pad HA itet be t Ff i ge PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. i JUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Barns, Bites, Sores, Santyrn ions cxeelient results I | i Hu fl Hl) i z ie¢ ty i § I _ , i | : i : " zh F ie il al 3 h i i : i ge | i i i i! 4 i i i i i I B u: + Hh : Ft i ul ity Pa EE i | should advise circumel- ! i i H i i i eit H i it te it if you would kindly little argument on fried potatoes, bacon, Med ! I i | i i i i | ' i | 3 yi Hl PELL. ! 8 F g i] ef H if | i . i | i H fi i ze always how do you like it. oy 1935, John F. Dille Co.) | i i F = exchange of compliments between the| ture generations two men was # highlight of the “bug- Johnson's line about “the anta of conscience in his pants” was the most-quoted one of the month and even Richberg laughed hard at it and told his friends he thought it was darned remember them? THE NEW DEAL IN [ASHINGTO! —BY RODNEY DUTCHE! Gertrude Stein Does Her Bit to Clear |Fichbers’s study at home, where & Fog in Capital . . . Richberg Is Really a Pal to Johnson Thieves Do a Monumental Job .. . Only 700 Tickets; 5,000 Want ’Em. iff gli i Taek i Photograph of Johnson, presented not '80 long ago, bears the inscription from “To Don—without whom NRA never ‘would have meant a thing.” Washington, Jan, 9. — The timing | HEIGHT OF STEALING and placing of Miss Gertrude Stein's visit to Washington probably was the most appropriate occurrence in the history of the New Deal. F x i i i z F j ; £ Fi Zz i i 3 1 8 H f. i i j Be Lt as i i i i H : [ I i “i a? i e i] i f g E t i i BF, ] E : ! I ‘ i Lf E 3 & 5 d i ¥ i ‘ i i 4 K} It turned out at the last moment that Roosevelt hadn’t been any too sure just what he was going to pro- bose to the new Congress. 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