The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1935, Page 6

THE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE, '‘I'HURSDAY, MAY 9, 1985 Sal 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- |. ‘garck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck * ‘se second class mail matter. ; George D. Mann ae President and Publisher i Archie O, Johnson Kenneth W. Simons ) @ecretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ...........+ = 87.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . «. 720 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck : + 5.00 6.00 100 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year ...... o. 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An Important Plebiscite Few votes more important to this section sof the country have been held in North Dakota in that scheduled for May 25 when farmers twill express their desires on the question of thether to abandon or go ahead with the heat control program. ; _ It is important because the farmers them- elves, as distinguished from dealers and pro- jors, are the only ones who have the right vote. Thus the problem will be considered, least in this election, wholly from the pro- \yducers’ standpoint. Since the program is inevitably bound up ith the political fortunes of the present na- tional administration it is inevitable that there hou have been some propagandizing intend- ed to encourage farmers to vote for a continu- e @f the adjustment program. | Some facts, however, are above the charge ‘that they are inspired by this motive. Honest ‘figures cannot be changed by political desire. Among those pertinent to the wheat situa- ition is the fact that our domestic consumption ‘for all purposes averages about 625,000,000 bushels and that this amount can be produced, -in normal years, by planting about 50,000,000 pacres. oy ‘Our recent experience makes it plain that we cannot hope to export more than 100,000,000 bushels, which would require 8,000,000 acres ‘more. Thus the limit of planting, if we are to thold production to a point where the farmer | will get a fair price, is about 58,000,000 acres. At the time our surpluses were piling up we {were planting about 66,000,000 acres and the surplus grew burdensome despite the low prices then prevailing, which were an encouragement to export. The ideal situation would be one. in which ‘we could export all wheat produced above the ‘amount needed for home consumption but quota restrictions and high foreign tariffs make that an impossibility. Those are conditions which ‘we cannot change. Thus, the only kind of ad- §justment which the American farmer can con- trol is that brought about by his own action. This is an important consideration and one | which farmers will doubtless consider carefully before they cast their ballots. King Cotton’s Troubles ‘The last stronghold of internationalism in the United || Mtates seems to be the “cotton south” where many citi- | sens have taken issue with application of the crop ad- fustment program to their greatest staple. _-__ The opposition is, in part, the same as that expressed $0 the wheat program in this section, ranging from the- objections on the basis of “regimentation” to the protests of railroads and others who are denied the Peivilege of handling or processing a higher volume of ereftic. . Most powerful, however, is the fact that the adjust- ment program has had a bad effect on the share-cropper. not owning the land on which adjustment benefits ‘are paid, is left out in the cold and is presentipg a social | @roblem of increasing importance. _ Why cotton is in much worse shape than wheat is Aindicated by the fact that a much larger percentage of | eotton is exported in normal times than is true with ‘Wheat. The American market cannot absorb the total Production, no matter how drastically curtailed, and thigher American prices make it impossible to sell home- | grown cotton abroad. North Dakotans can get a pretty good idea of the of the cotton farmer by imagining what their situ- ehind the Scenes in Washington | WITH RODNEY DUTCHER H s—— i] Big Business Proves It Has Regained Its Morale by Thundering Protests at Roosevelt Policies ... Fears Threats Agaii Unlimited Profits ... Thinks It’s Time to Lay Off Reform. eee Washington, May 9.—Economic recovery has *been only partial. But the American big business man’s recov- ery of his morale appears to be complete, Hanging around the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce convention, a curious correspondent had no trouble learn- ing the frame of mind which lay behind the fusillades directed against the Roosevelt administration by speaker after speaker for this great lobby of industry and com- merce, which broke definitely with the administration. Most of these men believe the New Deal contains some threat to the free right to make unrestricted profits. Anticipating business recovery on a rapidly rising scale, they want no interference with their pivilege of making whatever money they can. The average member of the chamber reacts with especial violence against the administration’s moves against the “power trust.” It makes no difference to him that a public utility is a publicly granted monopoly, as distinguished from a competitive private enterprise. oe TVA IS BOGEY He sees the great TVA project as the spearhead— the camel’s nose under the tent—for the government's entry into other lines of business, And he sees Roosevelt’s proposed elimination of elec- tric utility holding companies as the beginning of an effort to bust up other huge combinations of corporate power and wealth. He resists government regulation because that, too, threatens profits—as in the case of hours and wages. He resents what he considers the administration’s en- couragement of labor to organize and present demands. He is divided to continuance of NRA and AAA and as to Roosevelt's social security program, but he is insistent that relief appropriations be cut, because taxes eat into profits. He is against the Roosevelt banking bill because that means more government regulation. eee FEW BACK PRESIDENT Usually, he believes New Deal policies have hindered business recovery more than they have helped. But a few members feel that Roosevelt has done more good than harm, though it is now time to “lay off reform” and let businessmen run business without annoyance from Washington. A small group feels further government regulation is essential and inevitable. It sees the financial-indus- trial structure headed toward another and bigger crash, after a possible boom of unguessable duration, unless Washington is in a position to put on the brakes, But this group is a tiny, almost inarticulate, minority of the chamber. er . HOWL NO LONGER MUFFLED For the first time, the average big business man feels able to yell blue murder about all the things he doesn’t like among the Roosevelt policies. Two years, and even one year, ago, there was a feeling in his heart that his crowd had made an awful mess of things and that it might be necessary partially to reverse the time-honored custom of letting big busi- ness tell the government what to do. But now much of the confidence he had in pre- depression days is restored. Business is better—whether Roosevelt had anything to do with that or not—and good times lie ahead. Mr. Roosevelt is no longer considered a miracle worker or a “strong man.” The more he has comprom- ised with powerful interests represented by the chamber, the more those interests have kicked his program around as their lobbies here regained their old-time influence. owe LOSE FEAR OF VOTE HOLD What conservative business men most feared was Roosevelt’s remarkable hold on the voters, based to some undeterminable degree on a blind faith that he would rescue them from the big bankers and industrialists with whom they associated the depression. For the present, at least, that’s not a major factor of worry. On the eve of the chamber convention, Roosevelt delivered one of his “fireside talks.” Many of his friends agree that it was the most ineffective, least inspired, of the several he has made. It was not a “fighting” speech. The only logical reason for it was its possible stim- ulation of popular pressure on congress for passage of the boggled Roosevelt program. A check on Capitol Hill shows, at this writing, that has not arrived, i ‘With these thoughts in mind as it shouted its def- jance at the White House, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States stepped bravely toward the burst of prosperity which it believes is just around the corner. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) ’ Reprinted to show what With Other DITORS ro = Libel on Human Nature (Bruce Catton in NEA Service) In John T. Flynn’s recent discussion of the plan to control the profite of munitions makers in war time, there was an extremely significant little story. Mr. Flynn contrasted the war service, and the mone- tary rewards, of two Americans—Eugene G. Grace and Beno T. Wirth. Mr. Grace, as head of the Bethlehem Steel Corpora- tion, made ships and steel for Uncle Sam’s fighting forces. In the year 1918 he was paid a bonus of slightly more than $1,300,000. Mr. Wirth was a metallurgist in the Philadelphia mint. The government needed to learn how to make a platinum gauze, essential in the manufacture of up- to-date shells, and this was a German secret which our munitions makers could not discover. So the problem was handed to Mr. Wirth, and the proceeded to solve it—thereby rendering to both govern- ment and industry a service of incalculable value. For this service he received a pay of $60 a week, without bonuses, Furthermore, he worked so hard that he undermined his health and died, and the government did not even pay a death benefit to his family. The story points its own moral, as far as the rewards to which munitions makers are entitled are concerned. It points it so clearly that nothing further needs to be said. But it also has a peace-time application. It is a sim- 3 3 would be if they reduced acreage 50 per cent and | still found themselves with a staggering surplus. As was true in the Hoover administration, the price- effort by means of government loans, adopted congress over the objection of the agricultural adjust- pt administration, has definitely failed. Prices now below the loan figure and the government faces an situation in its efforts to hold up the market. ‘As a result, the south is the one remaining bulwark the sweep of nationalism which is dominating country. It knows it must retain its foreign markets ve perish. It would seem that the allotment program has failed cotton because it is not suited to that crop. The alternative, according to m&ny observers, is the adop- pn of @ sort of export bonus plan, similar to that pro- | Wided in the original McNary-Haugen bill, which would the cotton grower to get relatively high prices for part of his product consumed at home and still him to compete in the world market where quota- ‘tions are much lower, * | __ If decentralizing cities has anything to do with those | girls who give us wrong phone numbers, we're for if, ‘The taxpayers are finding it expensive to support Ravy in the maneuvers to which it’s accustomed. ple and obvious refutation of one of the hoariest lies in human annals—the assertion that self-interest is the only thing that will make a talented man exercise his abilities to the fullest. There are a good many things that can make a man give every ounce of his energy and ability to the job at hand, but the most compelling motive of all is one we usually forget about—the simple fact that he does it because he likes to. To possess some special ability in any form of hu- man activity is not merely to enjoy a privilege; it is to feel the urge of duty, also—the blind but inescapable duty to exercise that ability to its fullest. There is a queer quirk in human nature which keeps ®@ man from being contented unless he is kept busy at the kind of thing he can do best. That is true in all fields of activity. Musicians and baseball players, steel plant executives and novelists, ehip captains and farmers—they find their chief reward in the doing of the job and not in the pay check. To pretend that you cannot get a man of talents to exercise those talents unless you give him more moncy than he can possibly spend is to libel human nature. One line that has made a profitable showing in Quincy, Mass., 1s the cemetery department. But that’s hardly a sign of recovery. OLITICS | - at the - NATION'S CAPITOL | i =a By HERBERT PLUMMER ‘Washington—One could have fore- told days ahead with a reasonable degree of accuracy what would hap- pen—and did happen—in the senate when the Costigan-Wagner anti- lynching bill made its formal ap- Pearance before that body. The setting was almost identical with that of 1922 when the Dyer bill, the counterpart of the Costigan- ‘Wagner measure, was up for consider- ation. The only difference concern- ed the principal actors. In 1922 it was the late Oscar Un- derwood of Alabama who arose in the senate and served notice that not @ lick of work would be done until the objectionable bill was withdrawn. For days he had the clerk read back issues of the senate journal until he had forced his point. In this instance it was the trio of Smith of South Carolina, Connolly of Texas and Bailey of North Caro- Mna—particularly the latter —aided and abetted by the silent co-operation of a half-dozen or more southern senators, which performed the task of wrecking. * * * Bailey Is Lang Talker ‘The staid, serious Bailey of North Carolina proved himself a filibusterer of the first rank in this struggle. The son and grandson of ministers and himself for 14 years editor of the Bi- blical Recorder, the North Carolina senator hammered away tirelessly for hours in opposition to the bill. Most of the time he reminded those who heard him of his forebears. At times he would thunder, “This bill is We will fight it out on this line, as General Grant said, if it takes all summer.” Again he would, with deadly sever- ity, remind senators that he had the/hands of others.—Hirosi Saito, Jap- “honor to represent a commonwealth | anese ambassador to U. 8. ze which was in existence before the Republic of the United States was created.” Democratic leaders made a mental note of the North Carolinian’s abil- ity to keep talking. They'll be calling on him for duty when the ‘necessity arises for sustained vocal effort. * * * A ‘Strategic Move’ ‘There was more back of the effort by senate Republicans to force a vote on the Costigan-Wagner bill than ap- peared on the surface.| Observers sensed @ deep political strategic move. Republican politicians, they con- tend, believed that by forcing a vote on the controversial bill they could put the Democrats “on the spot” in many northern states where the negro vote carries the balance of power, Prior to 1932, the negro vote in these states was almost solidly Re- publican. In that year much of it swung to the Democratic side. a4 I shouldn't think women would want to resemble men, for the more we look at men, the less we want to look like them.—Lady Astor. se & In the days of ticker prosperity we in Congress tried to call attentic\ to the inevitable crash—Mayor is- Guardia. x *e xk The New Deal has attempted much that is good, but it has tried to do too much in too short a time.—Henry I. Harriman, president U. 8. Chamber of Commerce. ee & War between the United States and Japan would utterly ruin both coun- tries. It could only play into the Rebus Puzzle | 9 To lade. TETMIO PIPE] 10 Row writer of ani- D PP AIVIAL IL} WILUE 11 Gaelic. mal tales. 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OS txee oe 68 Pasha of Tunis. 39 Mogul sui. 21 Bay. 42 Valuable 59 His stories 40 To commence 28 Arid. property. point a—. 43 To court. 24 Affray. # ae and fe VERTICAL < Ree: ae: 2 ‘o mangle. . ju : 38 North America. 48 Blemish. oe merit. 48 Eye tumor. 30 To trail. 50 Musical note. 3 Period of 49 Limb. $8 To attempt. 52 Collection of illness. 50 Inlet. 35 Fire shield. facts. 4 Postscript. 51 Measure of 36 Rodent. 54To cut deeper, 5 Victuals. cloth. 38 Trees. 56 Lubricant. 6 Flagrant. 53 Lava. 39 Backs of necks.57 His stories are 7 Roentgen ray 55 Northeast. 41 Silkworm’s 8 French. 56 Either. Ni ot tS B\aan ee * The one thing necessary is to keep your sense of humor and always see the funny side of life, the funny side “oH Lee eaoe: Franklin D. Roose- ee * We cannot demand too much brains of our police if we are to beat the skilled and brainy men of the underworld.—August Vollmer, expert in crime detection. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr, Brady will answer questions pertainin ease or diagnosis, Write letters briefly an Brady in care of The Tribune. a stamped, self-addressed envelope. in ink, a SAGA OF THE ROVING GRISTLE ‘The narrator is a registered nurse: In 1930 I fell in ..........hospital and hurt my knee. I will inclose to health but not dis- Address Dr. All queries must be accompanied by x-ray report, but it is not as bad as the report says it is. I can walk miles, no swelling or difficulty, but to go to a movie or ride in or drive s car the pain is very severe if I have to keep the leg bent in the ordinary sitting Position. One doctor gave me ten sulphur injections. It might as well have been water. Another said he would not give me anything, but that I would have to reduce and put me on thyroid. I tried taking thyroid two years ago, but had taken only a few doses when it affected my heart and the doctor stopped it. I have paid out (plenty, for nurse) for treatment.and no relief. There is little work at present, but Ido hope to be fit to work when the rare calls metabolism come. My is 10 minus, P.P. around 120-130. Dr..... have a disordered endocrine condition but he doesn’t know which is at fault. (Miss........ let us say—Guided Woman). ooeee SAYS J endocrine With the narrative is the report by the roentgenologist to the physician: ‘The salient features noted are: No evidence of fracture or dislocation. Definite chronic hypertrophi articular surface of the patella, about the medical Minute fragment of bony density measuring ap} proximately in width and 4 mm. in length lying apparently within the joint on the anterior and medial aspects; this appears to be a loose body. ic osteoarthritic changes about the condyle and about the lateral condyle of the femur. (Lowgrade rheumatiz to you). That lets the cat out of the bag, of course. But I may say that, as is my hardboiled custom. I never would have read the x-ray report at all, had my curiosity not been aroused by Miss Guided Woman's description of her dis- ability. I surmised it was all due to a bit of roving gristle, a dislocated cart- ilage, a loose body, joint mouse, or what have you, and s0..... . I wrote in reply: No treatment can have any effect if this is the correct diagnosis, as seem entirely reasonable. That is, no such treatment as you have received. The only remedy and the sénsible remedy is removal of the loose body or if it iz 8 dislocated cartilage its anchoring in proper place. This operation is com- paratively simple and safe, and it would seem strange that a nurse, of al) people, should elect to remain crippled rather than undergo such curative treatment. Yours with @ p. on the b. or a k. in the p. as indicated, Ol’ Doc Brady. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Habit Has Him Age 55, height 69% inches, weight 128 pounds. Not strong. Heart weak. No organic trouble. Habit lately of drinking two or three beers a day and sometimes couple of whiskeys. Seems to give me appetite. Occasi lonally take a@ wormwood in whiskey.. Out of work, unable to find work. Nervous temperament. -Seems to be getting a habit and would like to know if it is harmful to me. (A. W.) Answer—The habit has had you for some time, I should say. Certainly it is harmful. Booze in any form is pretty poor stuff to try to build strength or vitality with. If you are not inebriated beyond recovery, better cut out all that drinking, and try a suitable vitamin ration for a while. Send 10 cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address for booklet “Building Vitality.” High School Athletics Is participation in track events liable to injure the heart of a high schoo) senior aged 15 years? He is almost 6 feet tall, rather slim, but muscular. ‘Would running be liable to aggravate weak arches? (H. K.) Answer—The short sprints are all right, but not the endurance reces Running rather tends to strengthen the arches. (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) (% DARK BLOND BEGIN HERE TODAY MILLICENT GRAVES, secretary te GEORGE DRIMGOLD, finds her e im his office dead. C japp’s home Millicent sees erious woman in whom she believes bas some connection with Drimgold’s th. and Norman tearm the by the woman tn er- ry her. ey send the liquer store clerk to call om Phyllis Faniconer to cece if she fs the one whe bought the whisky found tm the dead chautf- feur’s rooms. met. Norman éecides to pay Phyllis Fauleoner a visit. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XL NNosuan said, “I’m not going to expose you to the danger of going to the apartment, Millicent. It makes no difference what you may say, this is once I’m going to keep you out of danger.” “Please,” she told him, placing her hand on his arm, “please, Nor man! Let me go with you. if there’s danger, let's face it to gether.” “Nog” he said. “You've had more than your share.” He signaled a cab and gave the address of the apartment house. Millicent pleaded with him, to no avail, He remained firm in his decision. When they had arrived at the apartment house he gave the cab driver $2, told him to drive Mill!- cent around the corner, park the cab and wait. “But, Norman,” she said, “please let me go with you. I'll feel ever eo much safer.” “No, you're going to stay here. That's settled.” “Then promise me you won't take any chances. Don’t go in the apart- ment. Stay in the hallway.” reassuringly. “There's just @ lone woman there,” he pointed out, “and 1 want to ask i i E t Eg “Please, Norman!” tested. He pinched her arm and said, “Don't be a goose, Millicent. You've been in 10 times as much danger as I could possibly encounter in Going to this apartment.” “But there might be someone else there.” : “If there is,” he told her, “it will be Bob Caise or Dick Gentry, and if either of those birds tries to get rough with me 1 wouldn't want anything better than to give them ® punch in the jaw.” “But, Norman, they may be + armed. If they’re mized in this thing they're desperate, and . . .” “Oh, bosh!” he told ber. “I can take care of myself. Don’t worry about that. What's bothering me fs the tdea of leaving you here alone’ she pro HE cab driver turned and re| He started the motor and the garded them curiously. Norman] meter, and Millicent, feeling as glance, | though she had lost her last friend, flashed her s warning turned abruptly from the cab and] fought against walked to the apartment house en-| surged up within her. trance. She watched him with eyes|she bad visioned Norman going that were filled with anxiety, saw | down the corridor—big, dependable, him press several of the buttons | aggressive and formidable. She had opposite different names, and noted | pictured him knocking at the door with some measure of relief that|of the apartment, dominat he had not given Phyllis Faulconer | situation. Now her mind warning of his visit by ringing her | her with mental visions of Norman bell. That would give him the ad-|in danger, being invited into the vant of taking her by surprise,| apartment by some woman whose and Millicent was grateful that he|smiling eyes masked a sinister had thought to take this precaution.| purpose. She pictured men con She saw him press against the|cealed behind chairs and door with his right hand, heard a| weapons clasped in their faint buss and saw the door open.| She resolutely determined He turned to give her a reassuring |ish such things from her wave of his hand and then entered the apartment house. corner and| Deeded time to force the Hana ho. from this woman’s lips. “This okay, Miss?” asked the driver. “I would prefer you to wait at cab driver tnquired. she told him. “But these were my instructions and a driver doesn’t argue with in- structions that are backed up with $2 in good hard money.” He hesitated a moment, then|the corner and drew her up in pulled down the flag tn the meter| front of the apartment house, and said, “I'm going to give your boy friend a break. It’d probably be a while before I got another | in.” fare anyway, so I'm not going to| ~ au charge him waiting time if he isn’t over 10 minutes. After that I'll have to make a charge.” “He won't be over 10 minutes,”| of the tenants, a name which Millicent asserted. She glanced at her wrist watch and visioned Norman's progress in mind. there were no of persons in the| the door open, crossed the lobby apartment? ¥3 of the apartment house with quick. The cab driver settled down be-| Rervous steps, hind the wheel, his manner that of] She pressed the button which one who must, of necessity, spend; summoned the automatic elevator & great deal of his time waiting./ and waited impatiently while it A matter of 10 minutes meant rattled down the long shaft. She tually nothing to him. entered it, jabbed the button for the minute hand of her wrist watch} She had no definite pian im mind. crawling slowly eround the dial.| She knew, of course, that if She had schooled herself to believe| man had encountered danger, that Norman would return within | too, would doubtless encounter said, “Well, I guess your friend wil) be out pretty quick, eh?” ber surprise the door was Yes,” she said. leashed, the spring lock being “Think he’s going to be in a|justed so that the knob hurry?” freely and unlatched the door. “He may be.” Without thinking of any possibl: “Well, I'll have the motor run- ning and be ready to go,” the driver told ber. “I'll have to start my er going on waiting time ” El After all, worrying would not any, and Norman might have The cab slid smoothly into mo-| Placed in such s position that be? “Suppose we should run back the apartment house, Miss?” Es the front of the apartment house,” Ant pares jess Pylon s F i i B H ? E |