The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1935, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1935 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- ‘narck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck Xe second class mail matter. | George D. Mann Archie O. Johnson Secretary and Treasurer Kenneth W. Simons Editor Daily bg mail, per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, i ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year .. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press |... ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled ise for republication of news dispatches t or not otherwise credited in this newsp: he local news of spontaneous origin pub! All rights of republication of all other mat! Pa iso reserved. to the dited to nd also ed herein. herein are Inspiration for Today And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity—I Cor- inthians 13:13. eee We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through what we refuse and keep.— Madame Swetchine. We Hope So | Statement in Washington by W. J. Flanni- { gan, now state highway commissioner, that he pr ad “satisfactorily settled” all of the differ- 2nces between the state highway department | Paseee and the Federal Bureau of public roads is fz cheering news to North Dakota. One only it hopes that the confidence proves to be justified Li PY experience and that the statement is born hi bf fact rather than mere optimism. i, | For North Dakota’s situation is such that the bureau of public roads rather than the state highway department controls our high- | way destinies, at least for the next few years. nting that the hand which holds the purse ings also can wield the whip, IT IS AB- SOLUTELY NECESSARY THAT THE HIGH- rf WAY DEPARTMENT GET ALONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY IF WE ARE by; TO HAVE ANY ROAD-BUILDING PRO- GRAM THIS YEAR AT ALL. It was recog- , dition of this fact which sent Mr. Flannigan to Washington to talk with Thomas H. Mc- Donald, the federal roads chief. : For the last three years, North Dakota has b, nvested little or nothing in new highway con- ,, struction. It has spent approximately $1,000,- :, 200 a year on highway maintenance and $100,- iy a year on the employment of an organiza- ‘tion. Beyond that the money, to the tune of t/ millions, has come from the federal govern- ment, It is safe to say that not a mile of new | jpoad would have been constructed in North Da- a during the last few years had the state been required to finance the work. One wonders, in the absence of more de- ‘inite information, just what kind of arrange- ment Mr. Flannigan made with the govern- nent with regard to maintenance of roads LREADY BUILT. As pointed out in this jewspaper at the time of the Olson removal ac- jon, no highway commissioner, no matter what his genius, can keep the state’s roads in e condition required by government regula- | tions with the money now available. It has been obvious all along that, if North akota were to avoid the weight of punitive jions of the federal road law, it would need Special consideration. If Mr. Flannigan has ar- to get that special consideration he can credited with a good job. If he hasn’t we look for road troubles of a kind which will e the question out of the purely POLITICAL ‘ield and make it a very live ECONOMIC issue. Ill-Founded Faith On forms which contain the printed words “Hoye, Charity” Bismarck people are beginning to re- eeive messages from the Prosperity Club which has 80 othered federal mail officials at Denver and in other } | ‘The idea, as explained in the form, is to bring pros- | perity by taking part in a “chain” system. \ On each form is six names. To begin his quest for ithe pot of gold at the rainwbow’s end, the sucker need send 10 cents to the person whose name is at the top and add his own name at the bottom. Then he mi five copies of the letter (in this case he wouid thave to have them printed with space for the names to typewritten) and sénds them to his friends “to whom the wishes prosperity to come.” "In due time, if the thing works, the participant will peceive 15,625 letters each containing a dime or $1,562.50. |, Reports from Denver indicate that a flood of mail ed introduction of the idea there. Postal officials d to stop it but could not. Neither could they find who started the queer idea. To date, however, North ans seem to be smarter than Coloradoans, There been no rush to get aboard this particular pie n. Perhaps they just refuse to play the other fel- game. Faith—A lot of it will be used up before the sucker that $1,562.50. ‘Hope—A good many folks will find {t blasted. There bly aren't that: many suckers in an unbroken chain. Charity—How does anyone know that the name at . “Have the faith your friend had and this chain ili not be broken” admonishes the printed form—which from'a perfect stranger. ‘The North Dakots FERA will plant 1,500 acres in! n this year but only four acres to spinach. We why. Our sand tastes as good as that from any ehind the Scenes in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER A Hefty Roosevelt Swing at Lobby Locusts Is in Order «+ Davis Exposes Foes of New Deal Legislation ... Liberty League Chisel Has Billions Back of It. ‘Washington May 3.—Don’t be surprised if President Roosevelt stands up on his hind legs some day soon and publicly takes a hefty swing at the locust swarm of lobby- ists which infests Washington. The lobbyists and the interests they represent are responsible for the tie-up of the New Deal program in this session of congress. The people last November gave Roosevelt the largest party majorities in history, but the special privilege group has had almost equally astonish- ing success in its attempts to stymie the president. Some White House advisers would have Roosevelt slash out at the lobbies and the motives and forces be- hind them. They point to the reply of AAA Adminis- trator Chester Davis to the American Liberty League's attack on the proposed AAA amendments. The Davis statement was especially illuminating and important because the league has issued pamphlets attacking virtually every important progressive measure Proposed this session. For some time Davis has been accused of bowing to the lobbies of the food processors and distributors and to many equally selfish farm organization lobbyists, eee DAVIS EXPOSES FOE But Davis said: “If @ more powerful organization of special interests has ever been massed against any legislation in the his- tory of this country, I have never heard of it. “The American Liberty League's executive committee and advisory council includes executives or representa- tives of meat packers, power companies, textile mills, munitions makers, large bankers, public utilities corpora- tion law firms, food processing and distributing corpo- rations, steel companies, railroads and other large cor- porate enterprises. “An article in the Chicago Journal of Com- merce on Jan. 10 stated that the Liberty League is ‘ander control of a group representing indus- trial and financial organizations possessing assets of more than 37 billion dollars.’” Something of tne same sort from the president might go a long way toward furtherance of his pet measures. eee LOBBIES BLOCK PROGRAM Nobody has been surprised to see @ large pressure organization such as the American assure the of some bonus legislation this session, though it’s still a toss-up whether the A. F. of L. can push through such an advantageous measure as the Wagner labor dis- putes bill. But conservative lobbies helped hold up the work- relief bill for months and, to a minor extent, at least, modified the executive’s program. A series of lobbies is fighting over conflicting pro- grams for the renewed NRA. “Power Trust” lobbyists have sold the idea almost generally that the holding company bill, a Roosevit pet, will be drastically modified before it becomes a law. oe SNAGS IN EVERY DIRECTION The AAA amendments afe regarded by Davis and Secretary Wallace as vital to AAA's continuance, but lobbyists for food industries and farmers have made a football of them. Transportation legislation is doubtful, thanks to fights put up—one way or another—by railroads, truck- ing companies and air lines. Lobby tactics include not only attempts to defeat bills by direct vote, but more often to delay and to load down measures with confusing or hamstringing amend- ments, on the general theory that important measures are frequently lost in a last-minute jam. Extent to which this maneuver has been suc- cessful is indicated by the dwindling size of the Roosevelt “must” list. Roosevelt made a definite attempt to line up public opinion behind four bills in his most recent “fireside radio message,” but anybody's guess is as good as anybody else's as to what part of the administration’s program will actually go through in this session. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other DITORS . Honest Merchandisi: (Valley City Times-! ) Anyone who reads the publications of the Consumers’ Research organization will soon come to the conclusion Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. used by American buyers. Perhaps most buyers have had some experience which causes them to credit the stories being circulated about merchandise which has no just basis for the extravagant claims made for it. But: the most of us are persuaded that poor quality of mer- chandise will sooner or later be found out by the very fact that it is poor and will thus be penalized for pre- tending to be what it is not. Personally we have for a long time refused to buy an artcile simply because it was nationally and gorgeous- ly advertised, preferring rather the “cut and try” method and sticking to those brands which seemed in our expe- rience to fill the bill. It is probable that there are many who are not moved to buy a certain kind of merchandise just because of highly colored appeals. But the returns to the firms who do advertise on a nation-wide scale must be great or else they would not continue to spend the vast sums of money thus used. Thinking of honest merchandising one comes qi to the question of the dealer from whom he buys. dealers will take pains to know something about the of merchandise they are offering just because they = not afford to have dissatisfied customers. We accustomed to using articles about whose preparation will probably never be able to know very mi Process of getting these articles into salable form either carless or the opposite, but as we never Place where the processing goes on we it is done. We take it for granted knows something about this and that seriously deficient will long escape having its acter revealed. And in most cases competition offering of inferior articles dangerous. There are some instances in which the field of man- deg? secgus tele high prices are charged far the product; and there are other instances in which the product itself is of such a nature that inferiority is not easily found out. In such cases the analysis of the product alone can reveal the dishonesty. But in every case the surest dependence is on some dealer whom you know and who has proved himself reliable. Honest merchandising is brought about and maintained by this personal relationship between buyer afd seller and is hard to gumrantee any other way. Snobbish Amateurs (Bruce Catton in NEA Service) Dr. Francis D. Tyson of the University of Pittsburgh tells the convention of the American Education association that amateurism in sports is a plece of snob- bery out of place ina a 3 Amateurism, he says, is a hangover from the British aristocratic tradition. When we try to make a fetish of it we simply get confused. There is a lot of good sense in Dr. Tyson's remark. At bottom, the only reason for making a distinction be. Europeans who frown on the growing tendency Bus bare on thrones might adopt the reverse of Huey’ motto, eee In Des Moines, Senator Long told his followers, “I could take Iowa like a whirlwind.” Good thing he didn’t say “dust storm.” the lessons of experience. OLITICS NATION'S CAPITOL By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Talk of a right-wing third party, in which old-time Democrats could battle against what they regard as the dangerous policies of the Roose- velt administration, makes almost no impression in Washington. When Governor Talmadge of Geor- gin denounced Mr. Roosevelt as anj there presumably conservative ticket in the field of most experienced politicians merely smiled. They could not picture Mr. Roose- velt’s chief critics within his own party, such as Senator Carter Glass, Al Smith and John W. Davis, either supporting to any sort of coalition with Repub- licans. Republicans or going in- It just doesn’t fit in at all with eee Few Leaders Bolt To suppose that dissatisfied ele- ments of a party easily can be per- suaded to bolt is one of the greatest fallacies in politics. It is quite true that party allegi- ance is not what is used to be; still it remains the rule, not the exception. An examination of the election re- turns of any year will demonstrate that only a minor percentage of the whole body of voters shifts from one side to the other, even in times of Political upheaval. The percentage among leaders is even smaller. - Only a handful of first. rate political figures can be named who have left their party during the that there is a good bit of phoney merchandise being ey changes of the past 20 ek * Party Loyalty The Doorstep Comes The case of Senator Glass is very much in point. He probably has used stronger language than any other senator in condemnation of various of the key measures proposed in con- gress by Mr. Roosevelt. Yet no one who really knows him expects him to leave the party. He is of that school which believes that the Democratic party at its worst is better than the Republican party or any independent movement at its best. He is of the same spiritual lineage as that other conservative Democrat who recently was asked how he could support the presidefit for re-election. “Why shouldn't I?” he responded. “The fact that I don’t approve of his temporary leadership has nothing to do with my devotion to the party. I’m just a better Democrat than he is, that’s all.” * * * Looks to the Left It is not from the right but from the left, where political anchorages always are less stable, that the ad- ministration is expecting whatever third-party troubles 1936 may develop. For an entirely different reason, however, the recent rise of a Demo- cratic right-wing bloc in the senate does hold special interest for the Roosevelt strategists. The White House is not wondering how many of these senators will bolt next year, but it is wondering how powerful they may become in reshap- ing the “New Deal” legislative pro- Pposals this year. Upon that point there is serious speculation, for most of the dissent- era occupy strong positions of leader- ship—so long as they stay in the A man fed properly will always be at peace because his stomach is at peace. — George C. Williams, Ohio prison food supervisor. ese & The country doesn’t need a major operation. It needs a new suit. For Indian Mausoleum HORIZONTAL Answer _to Previous Puzzle 8Sixth note in 1.4 Finest piece. [FIO|HIAININ BIA the scale, of Mogul CIAO JOHANN Bae 9 Wastrel, architecture. MIE ITIAILISI BDA 10 Hangs 9 This mauso- [opaimppme] BACH [yer] loosely. Jeum is in 0 IR] aos 11 Frozen water. Agra, —_ PBIOIC TT ETERMATETAICIE Bia 22 Devoted 13 Native metal. OM OIL ID IMBENIAIT| 19 Possessed. 14Green jewel. (0 oft |b IRtu 21 Secured. 18 To perform. PIAT II] 22 Ram. 16 Aye. 1S|P [AME] 23 Skitlet. 17 Born. ICJO|OMMOIR [O|E IR] 25 Sheltered AS Definite AINA BRD [ATI IL] place. article. BI AIBII DIE | S|S} 26 Odor. 20 Ovum. CIRIEISITIST ICIOMIPIOISIE IR] 30 To meditate. 22 Blade of grass. 31 Fence rails. 24 Biscuits. 47 Blemish. Saracenic 33 Cherry color. 27 Opposite of 48 Banexrit architecture. 34 Pure real soft. jalect. number. %8To abound. 49 Blood-sucking VERTICAL 55 c ninity, 29 Being. “insects, 1 Plaything 36 To appease. 32 To observe. 51 Seaweed. 2¥Form of 38 Warning of 33 Slashes. 53 The rainbow. “be.” danger, %5 Yellowish 54 Stove. 3Court fools. 39 Bulb flower. brown, 55 Fold of 4 Rhythm. 41,To unclose. 37 Meads. thread. 5Part of verb 43 Lively dance. 10Sound of a 56 It was built by “‘be.” «© 44Crude tartar, dove. —— Shab 6 Masculine 48 Pastry. 42 Royal. Jahan. @ Pronoun. 49 Away. 45 To entice. 57 It is one of the 7 Measure of 50 Gender. 46 Ready. best ——s of area, 52 Monkey. “GN al PTT PNW aie A “Se be PT NST to the Wolf Most people have things they live through. Life doesn’t stop just be- cause of these things. We don’t just drop off a cliff. Human beings, after all, are very like ants. They are on @ larger scale—but not much larger. — Mrs. Aloha Wanderwell Baker, woman adventurer. Dr. Brady will answer qu or diagnosis. Write | a Brady in care of The Tribun: ‘THE ATMOSPHERE TN THE KITCREY Altho I am a bear on temperature in living rooms, offices, stores and conveyances I like comfort as well as the next old geezer does. Only I’m fussy about it. I want mine pure and unadulterated. There is a great deal in habit in the matter of regulating the temperature when artificial heating is in use. Most persons may accustom themselves to Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. . ons pertaining to health but not dis- || © "3 briefly and in ink. Address Dr. LJ All queries must be accompanied by @ stamped, self-addressed envelope. & hygienic temperature—say 65 degrees F.—if they will, so that such a tem- perature will be quite comfortable. On the other hand a great many coddle ,| themselves or submit without resistance to coddling and this in time renders them abnormally sensitive to cold, and when I say cold I don’t mean illness. The atmosphere or environment must inevitably have an influence upon metabolism. Unbiased investigators know from experience that it is better to keep cool and well than it is to keep good and warm. From the hygienic viewpoint electricity is ideal for cooking, because where there is no combustion there is no chance of pollution of the air with harmful combustion products. In my opinion coal or wood stoves or ranges come next, because they are always fitted with stovepipe to carry the combustion products up the chimney or out of the house, Still disregarding the factors of cost, convenience and efficiency, I place gas, oll and gasoline stoves, ranges or hot plates lowest in the list because there is usually considerable pollution of the air of the kitchen by combustion products where these fuels are used. Kitchens, even in modern houses, are too often poorly planned and poorly equipped, from the hygienic viewpoint, even when they are elaborately fitted with my! example, take the Constitution. It was excellent when we had only 1 000,000 people. antiquated instrument in these mod. ern times. — Frederick H. Price, fi- nancier. But it’s an archaic, sek x CAISE: MRS. DUCHENE, Mre. Happ’s maid. ‘That night a note under her door informe Millicent UY bee key rattled im the lock op the other side of the door. Mil- Ucent waited, expecting momen- tarily that the door would open; that Bob Caise would enter the Toom and a deadly combat would ensue between him and Norman Happ. But the door didn't open. After a few moments the key was withdrawn, and then, after an interval, another key inserted. Once more a key rattled about in the lock and Norman Happ turned to Millicent and whispered, “It's someone who's trying to pick the lock with a skeleton key.” They stood perfectly still, lis- tening to the noises made by suc- cessive keys as they were fitted. one by one, into the lock and the man on the other side of the door tried to open it. Norman Happ, leaning close to Millicent so that his lips were al- most against her hair, whispered, “We've simply got to find out who that is. Stand perfectly still and don’t make a move when ! open the door.” “You're not going to open the door!” she protested. He placed his finger against his lips in a mute command for silence, then leased forward so that bis ear was againet the panel of the door. A few moments later the noise made by the key in the lock ceased. Norman reached for the door knob. Millicent flung her weight against bis arm, pulling his hand away from the knob. “Don’t be foolish,” he told her. “We've simply got to know who's at the door.” “I won't let you do it, He'll shoot.” “No, be won't, It isn’t Bob. Bob has a key. I’ve got to find out who it is.” “I'll tell you,” she said, “what you can do. Wait until he gets in the elevator and then run down the stairs, You can get to the lobby almost as quickly as he does. Then he won't be suspicious. Wait until you hear the elevator door clang end then you cap start.” eee HB words were no sooner spoken than they heard the sound of the elevator door mov- ing on ite track. “Now,” she exclaimed, “go ahead. I'l) wait. Come back here Just as soon as you find out.” He ferked the door open paused while he peered down the Pretty gadgets. The lighting is generally good but the ventilation—oh, Even if no deadly carbon monoxide escapes into the kitchen from leaky gas fittings or from faulty stove pipe or flue, the poisan may be generated where an accumulation of soot becomes red hot or where a flame strikes a cold metal surface or any surface such as the bottom of a pot or pan or tea- kettle where the flame is too high. This unburned monoxide escapes into the air and a mere trace of it in the air breathed for a considerable time is in- jurious to health. Every cookstove should have a hood over it and a vent at the peak of the hood thru which dangerous or injurious combustion products may escape as well as the odors of cooking. If the vent at the peak of the hood has to carry far or if it does not pass straight up thru the roof, it should be fitted with an exhaust fan to maintain the outward draft. * Housewives working in kitchens not provided with these essentials should insist on keeping a window and a door or two windows or two doors open whenever fuel is burning, for the protection of their own health. If wind, rain, snow, excessive cold, dust or insects are to be excluded, the window or windows may be fitted with full sash screens of unbleached muslin. Much of the anemia, headache, stomach trouble and general impoverished health of women who do much cooking is due to the atmosphere in the kitchen, and if the cook is not too dumb she can keep the atmosphere there at least tolerable. QUESTIONS AND ANSWEES Food and Acidosis Please let me know what foods might cause acidosis. I have had three attacks and am unable to tell what it could be. (P.W.) Answer—I can assure you acidosis is never caused by food. It is always due to disease. Foods in which base-forming (alkaline) elements predominate are beans, apples, bananas, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, beets, olives, ruta- bagas, lettuce, carrots, oranges, lemons, parsnips, celery, chard, peas, sweet Potatoes, radishes, canteloupe, peaches, dates. pears, Foods in which acid-forming elements predominate: Lean meat, oysters, Send ten cents and stamped env eggs, oatmeal, rice, white bread, entire wheat. your for booklet “Guide to Right Eating.” You will find sound practical information in it, but no bunk about “acidosis” from food. (Copyright 1935, John F. Dille Co.) &% DARK BLOND opened it and looked occupant of the apartment. There was some note some stamps, a rent recelj blotter, some pens, ink, and broken stub of a pencil in desk, but nothing that gave a clew to that which she Millicent turned back toward the closet. suddenly mrembering that she bad only at the coat hangers ments. She had not look: the darker corners at the the closet. She opened the door and to the right. She thought she ea: & bulky object and stooped, ing f her right band exploring finger-tips She touched something solid and smooth. Her fingers ran around it until she realised that it was a suitcase. She groped for the handle, found ft and lifted. The suitcase was heavy. She dragged it out to the light and gave an exclamation of de lighted surprise. It was the suit- case Jarvis Happ had given her— the suitcase containing the books of account covering the business dealings of Happ and Gentry. ee gt forgot her surroundings in the thrill of her discovery. She dragged the suitcase well out into the center of the apartment, dropped to her knees, opened the clasp, unfastened the straps and stared at the assortment of books revealed as the suitcase swung open. She glanced through the books hastily and realized that beyond doubt they were the ones which dealt with the affairs of Happ and Gentry. Millicent’s mind raced with a quick succession of startling thoughts, There was now no ques- tion but that the occupant of the apartment was directly concerned with the affairs of the Happ house hold and must also be implicated {a some way in the Drimgold mur. der, But what possible connection could there be between Drimgold and the Happs? Then there was Bob Caise to be considered. Undoubtedly he knew more than he cared or dared to tell about the woman in the black ermine coat. Bob Caise had a key to the apartment. Yet he had Knocked at the door before he had tried that key—a peculiar serie: of code knocks. If he had a kes why had he bothered to knock: And why the code? Millicent had thought et frst igsee H tontsttzes™ ifs SEEP . i gees F r Bs j circumstance had upset Norman's Millicent realized that she dared not wait longer for him. He bad undoubtedly encountered some- thing which had prevented him from returning. they had been able to uncover, every bit of evidence which would show the sinister activities of the man in the ermine coat, or link seiRE} fe grtatrt Hale bseEEs deaese clea! The corridor was empty. Millicent closed the door behind her, neard the spring lock click into place, turned toward the ele- vator and then decided that she dared not risk descending in the elevator, She turned down the corridor toward the stairs, the heavy suitcase causing her to exert all of her strength in order to carry it. She reached the bend in the corridor, turned toward the stairs and heard the clang of the ele- vator door. Her heart gave a leap as she realized that this might be Nor- man Happ. She dropped the suit- case to the floor and turned back toward the corner of the corridor, ready to cry out Norman Happ’s name as she saw him come down the corridor. She swung around the cors.s and suddenly came to a dead stop in consternation, & man was walking directly toward ber, a man who walked with the quick, purposeful strides of someone proceeding toward a very definite objective. There was something 1p the set of bis shoul- ders, something in the poise of bis head which reminded her of a wild beast bunting down some small, defenseless animal. (To Be Continued) he ae] e - 4 D ais