The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1935, Page 6

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W. Simons Editor Archie O. Johnson Secretary and Bus. Mgr. Subscription Rates Payable in Advan: Daily by carrier, per year ............ . od Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) *. Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck ......0esessessenssecens Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year Weekly by mail outside of Ni Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also local news of spontaneous origin published here! eof republication SF ail ether matter herein are Inspiration for Today ‘The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and > tongue that speaketh proud things.—Psalms, 12:3, Fiattery is a base coin which gains currency only from our vanity.—Rochefoucauld, Should Work Both Ways Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, returns from a trip to Europe—where, by the way, he tional munitions king—to remark that it would be a grave mistake for America to adopt legis- lation taking the profits out of war. “You can’t operate munitions plants without profits,” he says. “For in such business you have to allow private capital to invest money, and without profits you can’t induce people to invest.” This would be quite convincing if we did not read it against the background -f wartime con- scription of fighting men. If the country can take an ordinary, peace- loving citizen from his home and send him out to face mutilation or death for a dollar a day, it ought to be able to exercise equal power over the men who supply him with rifle and cart- ridges—and, as the say’ ves, to make ev-ry- body concerned like it, as well. Exar vle for Business Probably there are few Americans who will deny that ~e need a system of old age n2ns‘ons. There rrob- ably will be equal agreement that such a system must be operated by the federal rovernment. Nevertheless, it is well to remember “ * there are some far-sighted corporations which have been quietly conducting pension plans of their own on a@ truly remarkable scale. For instance; it was announced the other day that the Pennsylvania raliroad system is nov pving out no less than $600,000 a month in pensions. It established its pension system in 1900. Today it has 11,000 pension- ers on its rolls. ‘The security that such a plan gives to a large body of workers is someth'-~ beyond =~ice. If more corpora- tions did the same thing, the demand for a government pension system would not be nearly so pressing today. Uncle Sara a Real Uncle Manuel L. Quezon, president of the Philippine sen- ate, tells the house insular committee that no country in the world has ever treated » subject colony more gen- erously and kindly than the United States has treated the Filipinos. ‘This tribute is all the more worthy of notice in that {t comes from an islander who has been working for the independence of his people for more than 20 years; and it is a timely reminder that our government has, after all, made a pretty fair sort of record in its dealings with its Oriental colony. There is something unique about this whole Philip- Pine situation, when you stop to think “bout it; a body of people seeking their independence without any anger or bitterness, and a parent government awarding it to them without waiting for violence to jog its elbow. All an be rather proud. Short Skirts for Prosperity! Probably the least important bit of news of the day 4s the dispatch from Paris announcing that womens skirts are going to be shorter this summer. Yet a fanci- ful man could deduce from this announcement a har- bir- r of restored prosperity. Someone figured out @ very odd circumstance, not Jong ago; to, wit, that skirt lengths tend to increase in time of depression and to grow shorter as good times xeturn, ‘There are even in existence charts to show that ever since the war the distance between the ground and the hem of the average woman's skirt has been a pretty fair @auge of the general health of business. Why all this should be is something for the seers ‘and the soothsayers. Nevertheless, there it is—short Crisis, U. 8. Continues to Hold Aloof— anyway, it isn’t a bag. eee Dutch professors seeking absolute might fay cates taete wines oan sid eee Prizicess Barbara Hutton is @ third of her to have distrib- inheritance. She be way ‘|| farm program already has colla; ehind the Scenes in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. to health but not dis Dr. Brady will answer questions pertaining fo Mink, Address, DF. RiPqueries must be accompanied by lope. & Wallace Pins Hope for AAA on Rainfall . .. Cut in Tex- tile Production to Save High Cost Mills Farm Chiseling, oo. Fear Washington, April 8.—Secretary Wallace hopes a kind Providence loves him better than the politicians do. Otherwise, the AAA will be sunk. Drouth conditions paralleling those of last year would make good the assertions of those who insist the gE 7 ii ull 3 i] a E j i vpsed. Even the administration would be tempted to join those who insisted the 1934 drouth was for transgression of a divine law against crop reduction. Given a break by the weather, however, AAA prob- ably will continue with no great change. Current political attacks from cotton states and popular reaction against high food prices aren’t expected to grow strong enough to interfere. AAA and processing taxes are the best answer to the farm problem the administration has been able to think of and the other programs suggested are too radi- cal for its present mood. ae i i 5 i Hi : i f F E | i i i i i i ? iy HE i 4 F i | | i visited the famous Sir Basil Zaharoff, interna-| Wallace has a statistical hole ace which he thinks will help stall off the cotton state senators, though he isn't talking about it. Cotton exports, to the accom- Ppaniment of loud wails, have fallen to 60 per cent of the previous 10-year average. But foreign consumption of American cotton has dropped to but 80 per cent, which indicates foreign buy- ers purchased heavily when cotton was cheap and have been using up large stores. EXPORT RISE EXPECTED Exports, according to this theory, should be rising again by April or May. Industrial exports have been only 66 2/3 per cent of the 10-year average. Southern senators are seeking a high government loan vaiue on cotton, abolition of the processing tax, and an export bounty. Present indications are they won't get any of those things, though the politicians may be able to force a higher loan figure than Wallace would prefer. Pressure last year caused it to be set at 12 cents a pound instead of 10, as Wallace wanted. Other things being equal, the loan price will be set next August at about the market price as the marketing year begins, eee JAPANESE GOODS FLOOD IN The 25 per cent production cut for the cotton textile mills is a result of NRA’s insistence on preserving the existence of certain high cost mills which would be forced out of business if the government laid no restraints on competition. Contrary to what seems a widespread impression, it wasn't caused by a flood of Japanese imports. Nor is there any evidence that the processing tax on cotton has been an important contributory factor in the industry's Position, Increase in imports of Japanese goods has been start- ling enough. In fact, the National Industrial Recovery Board had the jitters the other day when it found that imports of Japanese bleached cotton cloth had leaped and bounded from 3,960 yards in January, 1934, to 2,633,- 000 in January, 1935, and 4,348,000 in February. But cotton cloth imports are still only about one- half of 1 per cent of domestic consumption. And Japan is the only country which has continued to buy its nor- mal quota of American raw cotton. FEAR FARM CHISELING Drouth in the corn belt where rainfall thus far has been normal, would be about the worst blow the AAA could think of now, when the western edge of the wheat belt is the chief prospective sufferer. a Another cut of a billion bushels in the corn crop would mean meat prices so high that the theory of crop reduction probably couldn’t stand the strain. Current higher prices have also led AAA to fear secretly that it will be harder in the future to keep farm- ers from “chiseling” on reduction contracts. Combined with a relatively unrestored city purchas- ing power, this might lead to a partial return of the surplus conditions existent when AAA started. Wheat farmers, now that crop restrictions have been abandoned and they are to receive benefit payments for reductions they don’t make, may insist that the arrange- ment be continued—though they're signed up for an anticipated reduction program next year. The reason AAA continued to pay them was that it had signed up with them for a three-year program. Meanwhile, Wallace and his men find some comfort in the belief that meat prices aren’t going much higher, if any. Housewives are finding substitutes for meat, many people can't buy it any more, and this is the sea- son of year when consumption is most likely to begin falling off in any case. The combination of factors tends to keep down prices, (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other | fer" | EDITORS they say. a We may or Germany and the Treaties (Grand Forks Herald) Germany's action in repudiating all obligations un- der the treaty of Versailles is of concern not only to the signatories of that treaty, but to the United States, which is not a party to the treaty. 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She heard someone moving about, heard the sound of a start- ing motor whirring into throbbing life. Then a car swept out in & streak of fast motion. Lights were still on in the ga- on discovery to find out who had taken out that car. it was running without lights. Millicent ran to the two remain- ing cars—a big. sedan : jit best Hh fee fists F i i i F: & BF : Hi g 2 if 8 5 : i E i al 83 s f i i f by jie : i : i He : rey ; i fj ! sively om the gasoline gauge. It showed that the tank was empty. ‘The car was barely moving now, and Millicent kicked out the clutch and piloted the car into the curb. The big sedan and the speeding cabriolet had swept on out of sight. : Millicent was so mad she could have cried with sheer anger. The idea of leaving a car in a garage with an empty gasoline tank—of | a a Fdectsay! ibe Bee uf i i ft ; Hi ie i f iY ® é H a Hey Fi Hf : : i i ! it Belt; ve ae a lt 25 ef i E F E 8 it | ment. . rie i E i i : when she heard the sliding doors of the garage roll shut. After that there was no sound save that of her own feet on the wet drive- way. She reached the garage and found the door was closed and locked. She looked up at the house. It was dark and somber, except for the dull brilliance of the hall windows in whitch the night lights were still burning. It was then that Millicent real- ized the full extent of her predica- She was locked out. It would be necessary to arouse someone in the household in order and to enter.the house. She tried the garage door once more, then walked wearily around the house, wet feet squishing moisture at every step. She tried would/a side door. It, too, was locked. She tried the front door with no more success, A wicker chair offered her ach- ing feet some respite, and she dropped wearily into it, surveying the gloomy darkness of the porch, Ustening to the steady drip, drip of the rain as it dropped down from the eaves of the porch. She sat there for several minutes and then realized that she was taking cold. Somehow she must effect an entrance to house. eee Sue had circled around one side of the house. She wondered whether, perhaps, there might be @ door on the other side. She was cold and cramped now, and fully appreciated the extent of her pre- dicament. She walked around the house. There was one door and she tried it, but it, too, was locked. She came to the back of the house and suddenly caught her breath with a throbbing in- tae et Quick hope. ere was @ separate building at the back, the lower floor of which was used as a storage place for the gardener’s tools, The up- per floor was occupied, and she inn bered poarin "7 pommane say ras where the chauffeur his quarters. id Lights glowed from the win- dows of this upper room, and Mil- cent suddenly remembered Nor. ‘man had told her Jarvis Happ had commissioned his chauffeur to procera ce women in the black coat when next came to ca house. sig try Felding, then, must ha been the one who drove that nai riolet. He had shadowed the wo- man in the black ermine coat, and doubtless knew where she lived. Perhaps Felding would give her the information. Perhaps he could let her into the house or fnd some place where she could spend the night—some place where she could divest herself of her wet She crossed th : @ strip of yard, climbed tho stairs which tcc) the upper room. Her knuckles knocked gently against the door, ny sae i al ma ———— al } ‘ : be y