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

be 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 ‘8 second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor Daily by mail, jismarck) Bi oe Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state, per year .... we A Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tne use for republication of all news dispatches credited to ft 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 _Blso reserved. Inspiration for Today 1 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth— Ecclesiastes 11:9, eee | The greatest part of mankind employ their | first years to make their last miserable —Bruyere. No Reason to Protest Farmers who did not sign the wheat allot- ment contracts may squirm a little at an- nouncement that those who did will receive a bounty of 35 cents a bushel, particularly since they may claim that a part of the money will come from processing taxes on wheat grown by them. If so, they will receive scant consideration in North: Dakota where more than 90 per cent of the farmers recently voted to support the allotment plan. And besides they haven’t much of an argument anyway. Granting that curtailment of acreage has a beneficial effect on the price, the non-signer gets the benefit of his competitor’s reduced production. Instead of playing the game one way, he has elected to play it another. He had his choice, just as the contract signer did. In- stead of deciding to COOPERATE with his fel- low farmers he has chosen to COMPETE with them. That is all there is to it. Incidentally, this situation brings out the fact that farmers are in competition with each other just as surely as are the makers of shoes, floor lamps or paving blocks. And the only alternative to competition is cooperation. News that North Dakota’s share of the wheat allotment in 1935 will be $17,053,000 is encouraging to both the farmers and the busi- ness people of the state. That is a lot of money and added to what will be received for this year’s crop it spells a fair measure of certain prosperity. Not the least important factor in the situa- tion as it now appears is the action of the millers in challenging the constitutionality of the processing tax. If their contentions are up- held it will have little effect on the payments now in prospect, for most of this money al- ready has been paid by the processors and con- gress has taken steps to keep them from get- ting it back, but it would affect future bene- Behind the Scenes ||! in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER o New Work-Relief Program Is Assuming CWA Appear- ance ... But That’s No Condemnation ... Record Shows There Has Been Some Real Achievement Under New Deal Plan, wee Washington, July 9.—News that the four billion dol- lar work-relief program is blossoming out as another CWA will surprise only those who have relied for in- formation on the mimeographed handouts from gov- ernment press agents, Aside from the resettlement experiments of Dr. Rex Tugwell, the rural electrification experiments of Morris Llewellyn Cooke, and some housing and a few PWA projects under Secretary Harold L. Ickes, the bulk of ballyhooed FERA work program, which continued after it and was still employing a couple of million men when the new program officially began. encourages the prevalent idea that CWA primarily means ® program of “leaf-raking,” “boon-doggling” and that sort of thing. But CWA itself and CWA incognito (following par- tial demobilization) contributed a great deal more than that. It’s up to the individual community to insist that its work-relief projects be of genuine value. The extent to which the new CWA is a success depends on the in- telligence and integrity of local and state officials, as supervision for available cheap man-power. eee REAL ACHIEVEMENT SHOWN Just to give you an idea, the records show that Harry Hopkns’ work-relief labor has accomplished the fotlow- ing since CWA was “demobilized”: HEALTH AND SANITATION—Bullt 2,259 miles of sewers, 1,600 miles of watermains, 553 hospitals and im- | well as willingness to contribute materials and expert ! ! o proved or extended 218; 529 reservoirs and improved or cleaned 218; 500 sewage disposal or garbage dis} plants, 245,121 sanitary privies and improved 24,000; installed 2,466 septic tanks and drained 3,275,000 acres of mosquito-breeding swamps through 28,363 miles of drainage ditches, PUBLIC RECREATION—Built 2,360 new playgrounds ‘and improved 4,433; 131 stadiums, improving 73; 316 swimming pools, improving 95; 532 community centers, improving 101; 3,301 parks, improving 2,447; 572 athletic fields, improving 242; and built or improved nearly 5,000 baseball diamonds, golf courses, tennis, basketball, and handball courts, zoos, and so on. PUBLIC BUTLDINGS—Constructed 8,602 and im- Proved 9,990 airport buildings, armories, auditoriums, abattoirs, bus and car shelters, city halls, courthouses, fairground buildings, fire halls, garages, jails, libraries, public markets, military posts, museums, police stations, Tanger posts, rest rooms, waterworks stalions, and other structures, SCHOOLS—Repaired and improved 30,188 school buildings and built 1,856 new ones and additions; re- paired 417 state college, state normal, and university buildings and built 36 new ones. There were many other miscellaneous jobs, notably conservation of soil, water, and livestock in 21 states. ‘Many of the Projects listed were begun under CWA. . PROJECT TYPE IMPROVES Although there probably will be more politics than ever in the new work-relief program, the administration has been so sensitive to criticism of CWA in other respects that the type of projects has continued to im- Prove on the average and probably will continue to do s0. As to the original CWA, it is worth noting that FERA claims 500,000 miles of highway were improved during the 1933-34 winter, hundreds of bridges and ‘housands of culverts were built, more than 4,000,000 rats were kili- ed in rodent control drives, and so on through a long Ust of things. White collar relief, an important part of the new Program, employed about 50,000 teachers to instruct more than 800,000 adults, kept 75,000 students in éollege, and helped keep 330,000 children in school. Its Public Works of Art Project at least profusely decorated the walls of every federal building through employment of needy artists, and then there were various historical surveys, organization of orchestras and other cultural activities, archeological projects, women’s proj- ects, and self-help cooperatives. Organization of the new program has been confused and messy. But now Hopkns has been given the ball and told to run as fast as he knows how. The record indicaies the program will be far from a dead loss, (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other DITORS Sales Election Nears Reprinted to show what | they say. We may or not fits and just at a time when North Dakota (Mandan Daily Pioneer) farmers have reached the conclusion that the allotment payments are about the only prac.| of which is to be decided by the voters on Monday, tticable means of obtaining unity of purpose 18th. There is nothing over which property owners get f #0 riled up as paying taxes, The gradual addition of a | creased radical sentiment and only among farmers. couple of dollars to the tax statement each year seems|man such as Mr. Roosevelt, _——_ ted as a matter of course. When the tax bill|showed sympathy with the radical Beware, Professor pr grr ie maging angio yp ga pre ody [pera pully aang ig Seale somewhere there crept in a expenditures could keep them in hand. Other- in @ recent Washington dispatch, telling of the aims! that have eaten up a lot of the taxpayers’ money, And|wise, they insisted, a revolt would pf Professor Tugwell and his ideas about farm rehabilit- | it is just too bad to relate that people have grown neg- | occur. ation, there occurred the announcement that, in addi-| lgent over keeping up their taxes. There are of course + + # bon to financing certain ventures, the government would | hundreds of cases where the returns for the year’s busi | | The recent defeat of the president Bive the farmers SUPERVISORY ASSISTANCE. epee peeps pe me pray ae cymes ig eee near ggg deeaey nay The k ‘ the tax bill and it has been allowed to lapse. It is equal- | this argument look extremely ridicu- le less of that Professor Tugwell hands out the! ly true that there are thousands of cases where property | lous. In the light of the facts it seems better the farmers in question will like it and the more Owners are able to pay who do not pay just because it’s | wholly disproved. What the vote show- likely the project is to succeed. By and large, the farm- | sy to make excuses, ed was what most thoughtful men have rs have had enough of supervisory asaistance if of The sales tax is akin to the “pay-as-you-enter” plan/| never doubted—to wit, that actually A on city street cars. It's a sure fire way of getting rev- | Mr. Roosevelt is, and has been from the hothing else. enue to meet the expenses of government. In some states | start of his administration, far more Not that farmers know everything. They don't. But|it has replaced real estate and personal property taxes | radical than congress, and that a who can blame them for getting just a little peeved| entirely. In other states it has replaced the greater por-| majority of house and senate would When ® political appointee, usually lacking in practical | 10M of such taxes. We in North Dakota are not collect- | prefer to follow him in a conservative experience, takes it upon it to tea ing real estate and personal property taxes better than | direction. Certainly, that is true of rs . himee! hand out sdvice.|they were in Iowa and Mississippi and Illinols. There |both house and senate leaders. Con- lo matter how highly trained a man may be (and the sales tax has revolutionized the whole tax problem. | gress as 2 whole is less radical than pee government experts have adequate technical v8 Ee Horth Dakote, eles tax anes 07 ee at ae the White House and the test on the wledge) it is a little ure wi we are now operat holding com; bill proves it, Practical experience to be teken fer tne nana adit | sales tax we hope to have, but it is a beginning, Tt is a ew fn the th replacement tax to the extent that if the revenue it 18| Here was a measure aimed against direction the experts think he should go. Partic- | hoped will be produced is not forthcoming a heavier levy &@ great industry which for more than ularly when his experience tells him that the ways of| will needs be made to meet certain expenditures. It is @ generation has been the target for fhe expert are not always applicable to the case in point,| impossible to more than roughly estimate what it will|every political demagogue in both « Parmiers doubt produce, but it will point the way and form s basis a8/ parties. It was right up the radical wut ess could use more information—es|to'whet may be done in the next legislative session | alley. The sins of certain pall of us could—but there ig no reason to assume that |toward making the sales tax replace some of our real | companies ae their average of efficiency is any lower than that of | estate taxes. and persons in other lines. Trace Are. visy_Son_mumcnaris, copoeel $e, the 20%, | Bee, even though they are made collectors at great an-|than In ash Any. Clepectionate estimate of the situation noyance to themselves. There should be just as Uttle | pressure Teads the conclusion that the farmer, if he is to do| opposition on the part of the public who contribute in| aq; ‘well, must have more variegated knowledge than is true| dimes, nickels and pennies to build up @ fund thet in| publicly of the average business or professional man. In addition,| the aggregate will mount up to two or three millions. | lobby Nie must have the ability to do. And if you are ® property owner and find that because |is conceded that G you have paid a painless tax your real estate tax in 8 | lobbied wi i jovernment help for the farmer will be welcome. year or two will have been cut in two, if not entirely | re; Information and advice are necessary. But Professor | wiped out, it won't make you feel bad. ‘Tugwell had better beware of becoming too liberal with a. ous ios ye peg Riri ges os yA his supervisory assistance, Human being as Pi an extra million or two your hold it ts, this Uttie professorial wrinkle. may become sure’|see that your legislators don’t go on » spending epres. ware aes a may some-| or that you don’t elect as your governor one who thinks | gressmen, thing of a fly‘in the ointment. the state money is a campaign fund to keep him and his | xr. followers in fat paying jobs, Be it sald to the credit of | through ,_ Five bandits raided Cleveland biscuit company seek-| Governor Welford, even though some of his sppoint- | rederal dng a $10,000 payroll. They didn't even get one of the} ments might not be pleasing to you or to me, that in| into pelly variety. this sales tax matter he has divided the state into! was eee eleven districts with eleven collectors or supervisors, |9 A man fs driving an automobile with s new type | and that the cost of collecting the tax is not expected to | vote—and Pees, es he coventry, Probably looking for a place | exceed more than three per cent. me ho park. Now it is up to the voters on July 15th to say whether | tn ; eee the present tax bill will be allowed to stand, to help/are Osteopaths discover that 60 per cent of the popula- | produce needed revenue, but most of all to give the state | den Be re ee ee longer than the other, All that pull-|and the tax survey commission valuable information as |, 4s bound to have some Buch effect. ary senator hit on the head with a pop bottle. “French fou just can't keep Americans from expréssing their re- entment over that debt. sei ares a Se ne 5 » You t semicoloniste, pas 4 8 5 a § i E tH i B ty H #8 to the countes and the school districts to relieve burdens now borne entirely by real and personal prop: erty taxes. You haven't much time to think it over. Talk with some substantial citizen in whom you have confidence if you have any doubts, You will find that | ¢ nine out of ten will advise you to give the sales tax a fair trial. the money will be used to employ men on inexpensive projects similar to those of the old CWA and the un- The administration's reluctance to admit as much The Great Game of Politics By FRANK &. KENT opyright, 1935, by The Baltimore Sun THE WILD MEN MYTH Washington, July 9.—One of the arguments most frequently used to allay the alarm felt by conservatives over Mr. Roosevelt's policies has been that the president was the “real bul- wark” between the business of the country and the “wild men” of con- gress. * * * But for him, it was contended, con- gress, seizing the bit in its teeth, would run away and upset everything., has been a favorite theme for some of his more devout journalistic inter- preters. With it his intimates have explained the sops to silver, his “share the wealth” messages, his friendship with the inflationists, the tremendous outpouring of federal funds—in fact, almost everything. He, it was urged, had to seem radical in order to keep the real radicals from going to ex- tremes. The gist of their song has To men who know the personnel of the senate and house, this has always utterly insincere argument. Congress, like the country, has always seemed {best elements of appeared a completely fallacious and |» the senate, though a good many Dem-| The fastest-growing tree known is ocrats voted with the president for personal reasons and against their better judgment, he won by one vote only, while in the house, where the presidential fight was even more frantic, he lost by a hundred. It does seem that after this we should hear no more of this “Roosevelt the bulwark against the wild men of con- {eress” argument. After this even his most ardent admirers should hesitate to suggest that he has saved us from “revolution” or kept congress from “running away with the country.” The real radicalism is in the White House, in 5 GY The most valuable of all capital in the world is people.—Josef Stalin. ee % I love children. That's why I de- cided to settle down and raise a fam- ily—Max Baer. ee h I follow issues, not men. My rec- ord shows no inconsistency of prin- ciple—Senator Borah of Idaho. * * Conditions today call for active participation in public affairs by the our people.—Sir * should look when they fifties—Olemence Dane, English au- thor, s* & ‘The proposition to levy a tax for the purpose of redistributing wealth ig open to every criticism which can be levied against the burglar or the highwayman. — Ex-Senator James Reed of Missouri. eee merely by what it says, but by what it does; not only by its creeds, but by ite deeds; not only in saving man, but saving the society in which he has to live—The Rev. Dr. John Mc- ‘Dowell of New York, * k * Legislative panaceas differ little in custom from age to age. They all de- rive from the conviction that when fortune ceases to smile on the spend- thrift, legislation should frown on the frugal—Harvey T. Harrison, Arkansas attorney, addressing Pennsylvania Bar Association. Wine makers of Bordeaux, France, are seeking a law which would make the drinking of wine compulsory with every restaurant meal. Your Personal Health ‘o By William Brady,M.D. | reaint: , \- Ds, Panay, cat Says Gutter heady aad te Mak” Ree Be ease or diagnosis. Brady in care of & stamped, self-addr ‘ribune. All queries must be accompanied by a envelope. AIN'T NO SECH ANIMAL Reader in a quandary says he had received two diathermy treatments for extirpation of tonsils when he met a wk. surgeon (arert they all? What do you suppose they join the ACS for?), who informed him that (a) it is impossible to burn the tonsils out completely, (b) the bungling charla- tans who employ that method can’t get around the pillars with the electric pcg (c) it leaves so much scar, and (d) the old Spanish method is the way. This is a specimen r,t. Dozens of similar reports come in daily. Sometimes it is diathermy of tonsils, sometimes chemical obiiterat’... of varicose veins, sometimes injection treatment of hemorrhoids, sometimes ambulant cure of hernia. If it were the unpretentious practitioners who refuse to acknowledge the giraffe it would not matter, for they recognize and accept any good thing the brass specialists who do most of ments which threaten their monopoly, as it were. In the past they got away with it simply because no one with standing and inside information ventured tO oppose or question any view theory the laity is not quite so cred » and now many thousands of persons who 5 g ; : z i ; Recently the loud speaker of the largest “clinic” in the country—largest and most important because the men running it know how to emitted a blast against the present popular craze for vitamins. physic! with a very large practice (three guesses as to his identity!) Sat Sone ae Cie Pee Sie oe te er ene, it which he suspect e symptoms are Great a narrowing id by “too great a narrowing in a diet,” of ot oe clinic meant a vitamin deficiency. : If the busy doctor has not yet learned to recognize the or partial deficiencies of the various vitamins it is because the individuals who suffer from comparatively minor health disturbances due to this cause thay Mae Ini ee ‘They prefer to experiment on the! ey assume their health or vitality is just naturally not very good do nothing about it. wait But I venture to prophesy that the more competent physicians this Rea e nutritional deficiency more and more study ant ase greater sl recognizing and correcting the many vague functional ail- ments which are certainly due to such deficiencies, bas The old timer could not and would hot diagnose or recognize vitamin C deficiency until the victim was gravely ill with scurvy, ria usw ete iD ails My InAs GEE ee ee the balsa. The seed is little larger than ® pinhead, yet the tree often| ng, sprouts to a height of 75 feet and|he diameter of 25 inches within five| hour till three years, [ ‘The moon consists chiefly of pum- ice, or some similar porous substance, according to noted astronomers, who base their theory on tests made with | D of fish liver oil su an instrument known as @ moon|Or thermometer, \ BEGIN HERE TODAY STRYKHURST, Roanne. Dirk had work to do be-|long time: A mood of wakefulness fore he left for the east. So the|was upon her and, for the life of big car was packed again; the women, in riding breeches and jer-}could see one great, unwinking seys with handkerchiefs knotted at|blue star through the tent flap. KATHARINE 20 time. LLY ‘MOON, who has snared Michael into a sort of engage- ware of his marriage to makes plans for a During a reh lof Hetton. winat he arrives ‘at the fan Katharine fs staying. W GO ON WITH THE STORY ee CHAPTER XL their throats, helped. Katharine wore a lemon-yellow and her old jodhphur breeches were shabby and stained. She sat on a rock, both russet boots stretched out before her, drinking coffee from am enameled cup. Her fair hair was ruffled; there was a deep apricot tinge on her rounded cheeks. “Fun! It's been marvelous,” she said simply to the biond gient at her feet. “I never in my life had such a glorious time.” “Honestly do you mean it?’ Frank Millard wanted to know. “I mean it’s swell if you do, because we do this all the time and you're Miss Vincent snored, and stirred uneasily in her sleep. .The music echoed in Katharine's brain. “Speak - to - me- of - love. . .” After a long time her eyes closed and she breathed easily and quiet- ly. There were tears on her No one was moving about when she awoke, Dressing hastily, run- ning her ivory comb through I her pAb tri eye yer eiarogey see that Frank and his brother THAR! hadn't wanted, (staying forever, aren't you?” |. leaprgeipeaeriapel tangas “Oh, 1 don't know about that!”| Just as far as that mesquite bush with the Millard’s, Dirk Millard | She was laughing, but some inner and his handsome, terror for an instant darkened her managing Hilda had been very in- | ©ves and chilled her smile. sistent, however. It was to be 8| It was sweet to be admired, to|De back at Silencia; the pleasant, twoday picnic in the mountains.|be the center of this~ agreeable |°s7 life would begin again, with Oh, but they often did it! And|group. Why couldn’t this be enough sun-drenched days filled with they were going east soon—Dirk |for her? Why should her thoughts | Sketching and music and bridge, was having a show on Fifth av-|go barking back to one man, out | #nd the books in the library of the enue, and this would be their Pars of all the world, who had flouted |®¢obe house. It was not a bad life, chance. Miss Strykhurst must come.. Evelyn Vincent, too.| rank drove on the homeward|* Was not everything. - Frank Millard, Dirk’s big, hand-|drive and the three insisted that aed glanced over her shoulder. some brother, a football player 8t|ghe sit beside him in the front Sete eo had better be turning Berkeley, was going along. Frank|seat, Hilda was heavily tactful a pov would waken and had “fallen for” Katharine, Hilds | about this: Katharine didn't mind. | 8 her, perhaps be alarmed. But said enthusiastically. party | They were nice Je and srcla alnbly be sovtied i Ketha'luken ter act eceea ne ene om nleh she had come rine did not come. slowed in the atmosphere of ad- pate mae eager More to please Evelyn than for | miration and easy laughter. Frank Her heart beating « li any other reason, the girl had con-| didn’t talk much—he wasn’t given | .), whirled, in sented. Frank Millard’s attentions | to idle chatter—but every now and |}, feet, in iccged were not unpleasant; indeed, she/then he gave her an eloquent look. found herself liking the big fellow| He had to give most of his atten- every step. Ob, but she’ with the rich, scalloped, golden | tion to the driving, however. There all in a minute. She would hair and the beautiful profile. were traitorous dips in this canon | pranks hearty laugh and smel! She went. road. Sometimes a sheer drop 8D | smoke of the breakfast fire ani ‘They had tents and Bending peared on their left without an in-| goo4q scent of boiling coffee rolls; they had a de luxe equipment of cups re plates and spoons and | Sure band on the wheel. Katharine forks, all neatly fitted into a great leather case pllhon on the side |e” in leisurely fashion. It was/and certainly she had walked of the big touring car. There was|‘© way, Hilda explained, they Or liked to travel. That night they space in the trunk at the back for their few bags. It was all very gay |°Amped on the edge of the desert | gopher that hopped out fro: and casual and Bohemian. under the stars, Frank had bush They had their sketching things | Sultar with him—he'd been and the days were full, what with |Cllege orchestra—and he trout fishing and chatter and bath- | (Parles mol @'amour™ with fng in crystal-cool rivers and play- of feeling. The stars and ing Dirk’s pet gramophone which |™usic and the campfire all . went with him wherever he went. |#% unforgettable scene, “He took it with him to Russia e208 ast year,” Hilda said. “Imagine, L™ would be so wey daar) Basal, arine argued with herself, if/girl in = print frock appeared, She talked incessantly, spreading | one could follow the line of least her hands, punctuating al! her sen-|resistance. She might, for ex-|ing at him with a flash of dazzling tences with gestures and lifted eye-|smple, marry Frank and brows and smiles. Almost, in this|bear him fine child: amusing company, Katharine for-| him quite uncritically and make ajgone . . .' got what the summer and the early |sort of picnic of existence. days of autumn had been like. She | she had muddled up her life enjoyed it and thought she wished |she met him. She liked him it could go on forever. —he was as likable as a big + Srank Millard worshiped her | foundiand or a friendly child. with bis eyes and his inarticulate | love? Well, she had knot words, The others smiled on them | once; {t hadn't been exactly benignly, as though they saw ro-|ant. It had been all dissy mance blossoming and were glad |and awful depths. She of it. to steer clear of it in the : eee All of this she thought H ld two days passed serenely |strummed the plaintive m enough. There had never been|the smoke of Dirk’s and Hilda's such dawns and sunsets. The food | cigarets curled toward the red glow Het felessit rglrtltie Edited cE rE ag ge ; 3 aH z i - : 3 ericiy lyf i H a d a 3 : : a i i figures appeared. Over the po ished floor the heels of Miss Daisy came tapping. “A friend of Miss Katharine's? Well, how very nice.” She beamed was marvelous, You slept eight|/Of the campfire, Svelyn Vincent long hours, wrapped in an army blanket, and woke to dash your face with cool mountain water and fall wolfishly on toast and cot eggs and bacon. But the Millards admitted re luctantly that they had to tura was asleep, propped rather uncom: fortably against the seat cushions of the car, . (yep ecrngnal at the young man, “They've gone to the mountains. A matter of sev- eral hundred miles, I believe. You Michael said, rather grimly; “It s