The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 22, 1935, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1935 : The Bismarc 1 An Independent Newspaper { THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER L (Established 1873) ‘ State; City and County Official Newspaper Secretary and Treasurer Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .........00+ Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) : Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck ...... so eeeeeeeeces seeveses 6 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state, per year Weekly by mail outside of Ni per year ....... Weekly by mail in Ci Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation ( Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Presi use for republication of all news di hes 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. Inspiration for Today Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep ‘His commandments, as at this day.—Kings 8:61. eee ‘The essence of true holiness consists in con- formity to the nature and will of God.—Lucas. . eae New Inspiration for the Press If the press of America needs new inspira- @ion that it may continue in practice of the high fdeals which have marked it at its best, the editors of America need only read the will of the late Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, Ochs, who made a fortune out of giving {Times readers “all the news that’s fit to print,” without fear, favor or bias, took the trouble, fn writing his will, to re-emphasize the princi- ples upon which that newspaper's success had been built. Leaving The Times to the management of trustees who will manage it for his wife and daughter, he urged them to so exercise their powers as to “perpetuate the New York Times as an institution charged with a high public duty and to carry out my endeavor to maintain the New York Times as an independent news- paper, entirely fearless, free of ulterior influ- ences and unselfishly devoted to the public wel- fare without regard to individual advantage or ambition, the claims of party politics or the voice of religious or personal prejudice or predilection. “I trust its editorial pages may continue to reflect the best informed thought of the coun- try, honest in every line, more than fair and courteous to those who may sincerely differ with its views. “I trust its news columns may continue to present, without recognizing friend or foe, the news of the day—‘all the news that’s fit to print’—and to present it impartially, reflecting all shades of opinion.” The newspaper profession has had many splendid examples. Probably it can muster more practical applications of true American idealism than any other profession, but none surpasses this expression by a man who was entitled to speak in such a manner because he had made his ideal come true. Adolph Ochs was the son of an immigrant but no scion of the Mayflower can lay better He was a credit to the land of his father’s adop- tion and to the profession upon which he re- flected so much glory. His words are particularly valuable in these @ays when the trend of a great many news- papers is away from the truth and toward pandering to this or that clique—political, busi- ness, religious or racial—and toward the espousal of causes which, while they may be good business are hardly good Americanism. Adolph Ochs caught the spirit of the foun- ders in a manner which is given to few men. He really believed that if the nation knew the truth the truth would make it free. He had faith in the honesty and integrity of the Amer- ican people and their genius for handling their own affairs, Other newspapermen would do their coun- try—and possibly themselves—-a favor if they would take to heart the creed set forth in Och's Jast word to his colleagues and adopt the Biblical slogan of “go thou and do likewise.” NRA and the Beet Farmer Farmers who, only & year ago, were demanding an “NRA for agriculture” will have the opportunity to see an agricultural code in action this year. In the law providing for the adjustment of sugar beet acreage and other matters pertaining to that industry, Provision was made for fixing s minimum wage for labor. The reason for this was obvious. Beet growers * been importing cheap Mexican labor—it comes in out immigration restriction—and low wages paid in the beet fields had a bad effect on both industry and culture. That the new rule is s social advance without saying, for these Mexican immigrants are t TF existence. But how the beet grower will Jook upon this appli- cation of NRA principles to his farm remains to be seen. In the district comprising Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming k Tribune exclusively entitled to the claim to typifying the real spirit of this nation. |ing | and Montana, the minimum wage for best field workers t thas been fixed at $21.50 an acre, which is something of ehind the Scenes in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER “aaa a ant Fer bk wh auton ae biel Bis-| @ ? 5 en al ice at Bismarck uel aoe — Postott Theft of Work-Reliet Funds Will Be Only Misdemeanor, second class mail matter. Unies Congress Acts... Unearths » Crasy George D. Mann Problem .. . Effect of NRA Decision Stirs Animated President and Publisher Legal Debate. Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Washington, April 22.—If you steal any of the four- billion dollar work-relief fund, it won't be a felony. ‘That's true, at least, if you can judge by the act it- self, which says it’s merely a “misdemeanor.” Section 9 says: Any person who makes false state- ments as to a project or relief aid with intent to defraud the government or who diverts or tries to divert money improperly shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not more than $2000, not more than a year’s imprisonment, or both. ‘The section has added to the worries of certain offi- cials who feared inroads by grafters and unscru- pulous politicians. They figure a misdemeanor is a police court affair and have visions of somebody stealing ten | million dollars and then @*piating with 30 days in jail. TEETH MAY BE ADDED Last year, to protect PWA funds, Secretary Ickes got through congress an amendment to the penal code which placed fraudulent written instruments in the felony class with top penalties of 10 years and $10,000, plus loss of citizenship rights. This was aimed at collusive bidding, false statements of financial condition, false affidavits as to land values, and similar tricks. Although similar provisions weren't put in the work- relief bill, don't start laying your plans too soon. As on many other phases of the act, New Deal lawyers don't agree yet whether grafters can be threatened with addi- tional prosecution. And if they finally conclude Section 9 of the work-relief act is their only protection, you can expect an attempt in the senate for an amendment to insert more teeth. ve DEBATE NRA DECISION If all lawyers agreed with one another, they prob- ably would have to go out of business, which doubtless would be pretty terrible. Backstage argument as to whether the Belcher NRA test case should have been dropped is still bitter and violent. And the best way to start fur flying when three or four government attorneys get together is to bring up the Schechter poultry code case, which NRA and the justice department are now speeding toward the first big NRA decision by the highest bench. The New York circuit court of appeals, second most important federal court, sustained convictions of a poul- try corporation on 17 counts alleging code violation, but decided against the government on the two wages and hours counts, insisting that handling of poultry after it entered New York state was a matter of intrastate com- merce and hence not subject to regulation under NRA, *** & SEE ANOTHER DEFEAT Many lawyers here who regard wages and hours as the vital factor in NRA believe the supreme court can SOUNDS CRAZY, AND IS ‘Undersecretary Rexford G. Tugwell: “During the hot spell of last summer the local manager of a large New England corporation lost two draft horses on account of heat-prostration and at the same time two of his best workmen were killed by sunstroke. Possibly the heat troubled the manager ‘as well, for he had a peculiar puzzle to solve. He said, ‘The horses will cost the company a couple of hundred dollars to replace, but the workmen, who gave value far above the horses, can be re- placed without costing a cent. This sort of thing seems crazy to me. What does it mean?’” hardly fail to follow the reasoning of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the lower court adverse opinion. They point out that Hand is a liberal jurist who has great pres- tige here. But Donald Richberg, justice and NRA lawyers are enehanted by the clean bill of health the lower court gave NIRA and its codes in all other respects. ‘They half-expect to lose the case on wages and hours before the supreme court but believe a supporting deci- sion there would strengthen NRA in that respect as well as in all others by a clear definition of the extent to which wage-hour regulation can go. Admitting a psychological danger to NRA, they would quickly rush up another test case designed to de-limit more definitely the valid area of wage-hour regulation. , (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other DITORS MacArthur on Future Warfare (Chicago Tribune) Ceres Dose pobre edge chief of staff of the army, made about the first intelligent suggestion from high authority since the outbreak of the world war. It is a truism that generalship is usually think- in terms of the last war, or even, as one military critic has. insisted, in terms of the war before last. General MacArthur is one of the few military thinkers whose minds and imaginations are not dominated by sacred formulas and who are thus incapable of draw- ing from experience the lessons it teaches in failure. The unnecessary sacrifices imposed by Bourbonism make a dreadful chapter in the every war, including the late war, which found in high commond on both sides military pundits who not or would not face intelligently the radical in the conditions of warfare which the swift develop- ments of science had brought about. Kitchener, for example, and his military bureaucrats of the British war department refused for months to heed the appeals from commander in the field for Reprinted to show what in open warfare, where shrapnel was effective. He had his story and he intended to stick to it. It was only after months of sacrifices for the fighting men and when the Pressure of the highest civilian authority, with the weight of terrible facts, was applied that he modified his re- sistance. In due time he was unostentatiously side- tracked and his influence tragically quenched forever in the North sea. Even then he was superseded by gen- erals no less stubborn and opinionated. This experience of military Bourbonism was not con- fined to the British army and readers of the war records will be glad to find that there are forward looking {men in the American army. General MacArthur's views of future warfare envis- age a radical change of means and method, of equip- ment, and the tactics and strategy which it permits or imposes. He foresees a far greater mobility and the use of a relatively smaller Mechanization E 8 tid i fH iF | & i 44 rat | i i i Es &F ES. é i i eg : i | Fl a ey i é a cH ef i z | i H : 2e i ‘it : Li FN Sa SET SE TE Explaining Some of the Cheers From the Ball Park | THIS IS ONE THING THATS STILL PLAYED ACCORDING TO RULES WE CAN F hope ss iste” Tew er a seGielie <5 LITICS = at the - NATION'S CAPITOL By HERBERT PLUMMER Byrns’ “lec-j there's ture” to the house on the slowness with which administration bills are being enacted was intended more as & reminder of what is to be expected of them in the future than as a re- Prior to President Roosevelt's re- from his Florida leaders possible, There was a noticeable change of mind, however, after they had conferred with Mr. Roosevelt up- ‘on his return. ‘The White House let it be known it had no such intentions. Full speed ahead was the command which went » The president was represented ‘With marching orders in his pocket, Byrns felt it necessary to remind the iPLID Ip (4L\) 110} pictured here? VAITIEIS MATT ION DIRIBIAITIE ID] 4 CIE IDIE IDI SJGIAISIVIR IE Al cme LTE IMT RS Te Linias LAID LE IG Al 41 Musical note. 60 And recently 42 Grain. put down a & pr —— (ph). pou! VER’ Sea. tare 5 ver in 54 Part of a plant Germany. 55 Baseball nine. 67 Tiny. 58 5 26 To exist. 27 Preposition. 29 Southeast. Is sick. state oc This cuples the southern insula —_— - Tee ety Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer Gpeetl sip: f to health but not dis- ‘Write tters briefly and in ink, Address Dr. Brady inoue of The Tribune, All queries must be accompanied by @ stamped, self-addressed envelope. y, fs of lead poisoning is simple as it might seem, s oo because it happens that every normal civilized: individual absorbs ex- oT etal : cretes daily a wee bit of lead and as individual sensitiveness to the poison probably varies considerably we do not know just where to draw the line the daily lead elimination and an excessive amount of worn earlier ar tioned of the more frequent signs or earlier articles we ment some symptoms which should suspicion of chronic lead poisoning, but the symptoms are notoriously deceptive and may mimic almost any func- tional or organic nerve disorder. Pallor, increased blood pressure, prema- ture or unaccountable weakening of this or that may be loss of appetite, loss of weight, general weakness are common symptoms. ‘That is enough to indicate how exceedingly puzzling the effects of chronic lead poisoning may be when we are not aware of the patient’s exposure. which patients have absorbed the lead. biting or chewing weighted thread, making ar- tificial flowers, making artificial jewels, various kinds of electrical work, ead (modern foil is said to be free from stood over night in a short section of lead pipe for the union), drinking to contain lead, taking lead acetate (sugar of lead) without knowledge of the formula of the pills, using complexion beautifier, using hair dyes or darkeners which contain lead acetate, prolonged application of the antiquated “lead water and laudanum” wash to abraded or raw surfaces, chewing of painted furniture, woodwork or toys by infants or young children (today the better ee ture for children are not painted with lead paint, but wood- may be). X-ray pictures of the long bones will gradually tell the expert whether the infant has lead poisoning. The lines of lead deposited in the bones The chief clinical signs on which diagnosis of lead poisoning is made are a lead line on the gums, stippling or a spotted appearance of red cor- puscles under the microscopic, muscle palsies, wrist drop, secondary anemia, albumin and casts, perhaps with coarse or fine tremors, belly cramps or colic, loss of appetite, obstinate constipation, weakness. and pain in the Tn « doubtful case it is well to try s course of treatment for chronic lead i QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS In Yankeeland In what instance does the government encourage self-medication and quackery? (H. R.) Answre—For one way, by licensing a great medium of communication and permitting vendors of drugs to cry their wares into every home, and even to give the false assurance that the dope is harmless. ‘Time to Dry Up My son, seven years old, wets the bed. This started three years ago after scarlet fever... (Mrs. A. M.) Answer—Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for instructions. Many children get into the habit during some such illness. (Copyright, 1035, John F. Dille Co.) % DARK BLOND BEGIN HERD TODAY MILLICENT GRA’ eceretary te GEORGE BaimGouts Sass her bie office mail and, when Millicent had seated)“so that if you want to make your herself in a chair, perched himself| escape, you can take this gun and cugteper ta on the edge of her bed. get out.” Beimosta’ ona Sages, Stesrtg's |aakea’ "™ “wt “Mt SMT” Be sccvalsbih Coots sounded imperative Sway, resisters ‘ate tech esse | “You.” Ky on the door. 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