The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1935, Page 4

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Inspiration for Today I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.—Daniel 4:5. oe Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls. —Shakespeare. Competing With Relief Wages Complaints filed by a South Dakota com- munity as mentioned in Thursday’s Tribune, that it is difficult to get harvest hands because farmers cannot afford to pay wages as high as the government relief set-up, poses a problem with which North Dakota soon will have to deal. As harvesting begins our farmers will need help in quantities unknown in recent years. They will be able, in so far as the return from the crop goes, to pay fair wages but it is doubtful if they will be able to either match or exceed the rates of 50 cents an hour paid by the relief administration in the city of Bismarck and 35 cents in the rural districts. If not, we may have the spectacle mentioned in the South Dakota story of men sticking to the relief rolls at higher rates but shorter hours while women and children of farm fam- Mlies toil in the harvest fields. This is certainly not a thing to be desired. No one likes to see men working at starva- tion wages. It will not be necessary to so scrimp the standard that we will have to pay them on that basis. There will be money enough in the current crop to justify a fair rate of pay. But, on the other hand, no one can justify a situation wherein the taxpayers’ money is used to pay the lazy while the taxpayer has to work overtime to raise the money. Unless a fair and adequate adjustment between the relief set-ap and the farmer is reached before the de- mand for workers becomes acute, the North Dakota farmer may find himself hoist on his own petard. This condition offers an opportunity for collaboration and cooperation between the vari- fous government agencies and individual em- ployers which can be very effective. The presumption is that the federal employ- ment service will be of value in getting men into contact with farmers who can employ them. It has proved its uses already, but in no other in- Btance can it benefit the farm country to the same extent as at harvest time. This agency lists all who apply for work. Whe relief organization enrolls those who need help. Quite frequently the names are the same. As a result, a little cross-checking between these two federal organizations would go far foward weeding out the shiftless and the lazy. ‘Adoption of the principle that those who will fot work are not entitled to help will be of bene- fit to all concerned. : If this is not done, if the relief organiza- tion functions in ‘such a manner as to handi- cap the farmer in getting help at fair wages, there will be a roar such as this state has rare- fy heard in the past. And it will be justified. Many a farmer can remember when loafers in the Northern Pacific park turned down of- fers of jobs at $5 a day. He was incensed then but there was nothing he could do about it. If Buch a condition occurs this year he will be just gn angry as he was then. And in addition he will have something upon which to vent his spleen. Not Surprising ‘Victory for the administration in the house fight bn the TVA was not surprising. Very few congressmen care to really “get in bad” with Mr. Roosevelt just now, and besides the program is one to which the government already is almost irretrievably committed. It would take its. &@ good desl stronger than those advanced Justify scrapping the investment already made and don the project altogether. As to the amendments to which the president ob- and which were scrapped by congress, they were interest to most of the electrical industry which “death clause” in the utilities bill so vigor- i 4 g very little of the works fund already The Bismarck Tribune Washington, July 12.—This is a story of how a big joke was played on the New Dealers, of the way & con- gressman can most effectively guarantee himself a mis- erable future in Washington, and of the explosion of the theory that there is any such Republican congressman from the q of the “power trust.” Brewster is now celebrated as the man who precipi- Corcoran: of RFC had threatened stoppage of Maine's vote for the administration’s proposal to dissolve the big- gest public utility holding companies, The story of how Brewster reached his present po- sition is remarkable and instructive. It demonstrates the way things happened to congress- men in the history-making struggle between the admin- istration and the “power trust” lobby over the holding company bill, in which the New Dealers and the con- gressional progressives had taken Brewster to their ‘bosoms. FOUGHT INSULL RULE Some years ago Samuel Insull went to Maine with the intent of adding it to his empire. His agents ob- tained passage of a legislative bill permitting export of electric power from the state. Brewster, as governor, vetoed the bill. Thereafter, Brewster ran for the senate, and was de- feated by the power and other interests. But last year he was elected to the house over a Democrat described as a “100 per cent power trust man.” ‘Working closely with Brewster in his campaigns was Ernest H. Gruening, once crusading editor of the pro- gressive Portland (Me.) Evening News. When Brewster came to Washington, Gruening, now director of the division of territories and insular pos- sessions, introduced him to other liberals and soon the congressman became a popular figure at gatherings of New Dealers, who welcomed the strange spectacle of an eastern Republian congressman who professed to agree with their progressive views. He became the associate of independent congress- men, joining in their secret councils which discussed strategy on the holding company bill. eee WELCOMED AS LIBERAL Brewster was recommended to Roosevelt as a pro- gressive who merited support in the next campaign and could 3e counted on as a New Dealer in current congres- sional fights. Brewster seemed pleased, especially so when he was allowed to work with Corcoran, co-author of the hold- ing company bill and one of the most active and effective brain trusters behind the scene on legal aspects of the Passamaquaddy power project, the administration’s big work-relief award to Maine. Progressives first began to worry about Brewster a few days ago, when the Bland-Copeland merchant ma- rine bill was up. They opposed it, labeling it a steal for the ship operators and shipbuilders. Brewster, a member of the merchant marine commit- tee, signed # minority report excoriating the Dill, but merely voted present on the vote to report it out. Ata time when Moran of Maine and Wearin of Iowa, lead- ers in the fight, expected him to be introducing amend- ments to the bill, they found Brewster was out of town. TURNS ON PROGRESSIVES Votes on the holding company bill followed almost immediately. Again Brewster was missing. A friend, advised by administration agents, found him and escort- ed him to the capitol. That friend and many others in the galleries gasped in amazement as the famous foe of the “power trust” marched up the aisle with Republicans and conservative Democrats. in a vote against substitution of the senste ‘bill dissolving big holding companies. Reaction against Brewster among his friends of the last few months set in immediately. These progressives say Corcoran had merely told Brewster that if he wouldn’t support the administration against the “power trust” he couldn’t be trusted to participate in plans for the Passamaquoddy project. eee NOW FOR THE FUN So now a su ly impartial investigation of ad- ministration and utility lobbying is supposed to be staged ‘by @ rules committee which voted almost unanimously against the holding company “death sentence.” An anti-administration Tammany Irishman named O'Connor, chairman of the committee, is pitted against a brilliant young Irishman named Corcoran and it will be ‘&@ grand fight. And of course, Brewster's turnabout is a joke on the New Dealers. But the bitter hatred of progressives for Brewster indicates small future happiness here for Mr. Joke. and grave doubt whether he will enjoy the Reprinted to ne. what With Other DITORS Long-Range Fears (New York Times) ttre ery of alarm about next Year's presidential cue utters & cry of it next year’s presidential cam- Paign. He has heard rumors—as have others, for that matter—that a justice of the supreme court of the United States may be nominated for the presidency in 1936. Two names, the senator writes without identifying them, are already under serious consideration, A guess at these personalities could hardly go wrong. If either of them 4s made @ candidate next year it will be because his opinions as a judge have been satisfactory to the politi- cal party proposing to nominate him, and are likely to fit ® platform calling for the and of the supreme court itself. maintains that such @ course as very damaging to the prestige and integrity of the court, and would be a demoralizing thing in our He does not refer to the fact that Mr. from the supreme court in Wilson; nor does he argue now dreads followed that event at haps, was content to let the reader infer i ee er Ne Sane OPE OF eR” ‘That it will ever be tried is strongly im- Plenty men supreme court able to lead that fight. Should there ® turn in popular sentiment leading pesca Mpg and to grog to for trained ut ee must call tt stunt flying becduse it’s apt to bao eee Nowadays, a man involved in sn accident worries more sbout how much, rather than when, he will re- eee We might as well enjoy the fine weather while we <i. Weather experts will soon be beck trom thelr vabe- hot even larger. a alas Ne cleric pu Mem ei ie of te or | ete fr mine outa fhe profit? All those lemons for one! ‘ |e Sopot Pad 3 Matanuske Valley “colonists” plead for magazines. It must be on highways that angels fear to tread; | The dentist's office ety is not od, sil that's how they got that way. | probably are wall stoeed ac lad eee John D. has reached the age of 96. Mow about « Doctors are born Milwaukee js Phare-the-longevity movement? You cad tol ther ty toe ey gy beep Mending oxt bills ehind the Scenes ||! TAKE SOME thing as a progressive east. The hero of it all is Congressman Ralph O. Brewster of Maine. A former governor with « reputation as a foe tated a house investigation by charging that Thomas G. famous Passamaquoddy project in case Brewster didn’t The Great Game of Politics By FRANK &. KENT Copyright, 1985, by The Baltimore Sun AND THIS FROM A FRIEND No impartial person can review the brief history of this administration adventure, entitled ‘Works-Relief, and escape the conclusion that the job undertaken is miles too big for the men undertaking it, that confusion is its chief characteristic, that the waste will be terrific and the results insig- nificant. * # & While three months have passed since the bill was enacted, the ma- chine is not yet fully functioning and it may be said it is not fair as yet to pass judgment. However, it is fair to quote the recent words of Gen. Hugh Johnson, personally drafted by Mr. Roosevelt for the job of Works- Relief director in New York city. After a week at work, General John- son declared himself not only be- wildered by his job, but added that he positively hated it. “I hate this thing,” he said. “It isn’t helping anybody anywhere. When the source of money is cut off we will be right back where we started. It is pretty disheartening to sit here knowing that when the funds are gone, the jobs will be gone, too.” * * # That comes from a friend of the administration, not foe. It comes from a man inside the organization, not from a critical outsider. Yet it would be hard to imagine a more de- vastating indictment or a more with- ering forecast of failure. Things be- come even more baffling when the attitude of the general toward the prevatiing wage scale demanded by organized labor is considered. The New York papers state that after a conference with labor leaders the general favorably inclines toward the prevailing wage scale, believes unless the demands are met, at least for skilled labor, a lot of “headaches” will ensue. It was on this point the real fight on the works-relief bill occurred in the senate. So strongly did the president feel that the pre- vailing wage scale on works-relief would be ruinous that it was openly stated he would veto the bill if the , | McCarran amendment carried. ee * Beaten by a small margin, his friends rejoiced. Acceptance of the prevailing scale, it was contended, had wrecked the PWA and would be an insuperable bar to industrial re- covery if established in the expendi- ture of the four billions asked by the president to take men off the dole and put them to work. When the tremendous furore made over this issue is recalled, it is amazing to read that the general leans toward the prevailing wage and has put the de- cision up to Mr. Hopkins, who is con- sidering it. The fact is the whole course of the works-relief effort has ACTION TO STOP THE DISHONEST every effort to be realistic about Mr. Roosevelt by bleating “What would you do?” it is pointed out that the National Economy League—and oth- ers—urged an alternative program upon him—to wit, this—first, stick to the straight dole at a cost of one bil- lion, which would have cared for all genuinely in distress; second, cut down expenses in every direction, balance the budget with new taxes designed to raise a billion dollars; third, encourage business by remov- ing restrictions and refraining from attack. This program never got ser- jous consideration. Instead, Mr. Roosevelt went in exactly the opposite direction. And now it is obviously a wrong direction. His own friends say so. It is a pretty bad situation but it 1s made worse, not better, by gloss- ing it over or being deterred from stating the facts through fear of de- nunciation as a “destructive critic.” 4 Music hath charms even for the savage, but not for the ill-mannered. —Mayor LaGuardia, to booing radi- cals at symphony concert. *" * Education must streamline itself for better performance.—Agnes Sam- uelson, of Des Moines, new National Education Association president. ee & Good golf is not a male monopoly. ‘My own case proves it. Two years ago I took up golf for the first time. Now I find myself shooting consist- ently in the 70's—Mildred (Babe) drikson. Di + % % Ladies are like dodo birds—almost extinct, We should stuff a few for ‘museum pieces before they disappear. |—Elsa, Maxwell, New York writer. a* * America has never really been written about. There is so much for American writers yet to do. Honestly, in the next 20 years we are going to turn out some grand books.—Thomas Wolfe, American author. The earthworm lends itself to grafting experiments so readily that many freakish individuals have been concocted in the laboratory. Even when the tails of two worms are united, they will grow into a head- less worm, which may live for months despite the fact that it cannot feed. Recognizing the progress made by Canadian dairymen, farmers and offi- cials in eradicating tuberculosis of cattle, the United States after 1 will admit cattle from modified credited areas in Canada without further tuberculin testing. The ventilating system on the liner Normandie includes 160 independent ventilators operating with motors and fans. they tablet or salt is added. There is a FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: popular theory that aspirin or salt will lengthen the life of cut flow- ers. Construction work has begun on Garner State park, 25 miles north of Uvalde, Tex., home of Vice President Garner. Forty-two per cent of the more than 2,000 students at Texas Tech- nological college earn about $25,000 @ month at part-time jobs. By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer Hons ee to health but not dis- ease or diagnosis, Write letters bi ly and in ink. Address Dr. Brady in care of The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by @ stamped, self-addressed envelope. HER TONGUE WAS SORE, NOT LAME A reader writes: In the first place, your iron and ammonium citrate recipe het 4 done wonders for me. I had @ terribly sore tongue, nails so thiM 4.4 / they were always broken to the quick, and oh, so tired that some- ; times it was difficult to carry on ... My doctor said I was very anemic, and he told me some foods that would help me... but when I took the iron it seemed remarkable the change that took place in a few weeks ... (Mrs, H. H. W.) Another reader becomes inhuman: - If you were my family doctor I would have cheerfully paid you a whacking fee for relieving my sore and ulcerated tongue .. . your iron recipe ... (Mrs. J. R. M.) u Mrs. J. R. M. meant merely that she might have been willing to pey the doctor’s bill when there was nothing else pressing. Nobody ever pays 8 doc- tor’s fees cheerfully. That isn’t human. In twenty years of general prac: tice in country, city and hospital, I recall but one fee which was paid to@) me cheerfully, and the episode wouldn’t do for this column. Physicians’ fees are always paid grudgingly if at all, and I don’t blame people for feeling: that way, the doctors are so diffident, and the economists are so sympa- thetic in their efforts to get control of medicine. Probably both of these readers had hypochromic anemia. This type of anemia is called “h: rome” because there is a more marked diminu- tion in the hemoglobin or iron coloring matter than in the number of cor- puscles in the blood. This is the reverse of the characteristics of the blood in primary pernicious anemia which presents a more marked diminution of corpuscles. The cause of hypochromic anemia is not clearly understood. It ts to be confused with ordinary secondary anemia, that is, the anemia or i. ening of the blood seen in various diseases. Hypochromic anemia, seems to be a primary condition, and it seems to have succeeded the primary anemia j enone as chlorosis or the green sickness which was much more common fifty years ago, especially in young women. Hypochromic anemia occurs more frequently in women of thirty or older, while chlorosis was usually found in girls in their ‘teens. Red sore tongue, which the victim is likely to ascribe to “acid fruits,” is common complaint in cases of hypochromic anemia. These women some- times find it diffiult to take certain foods. particularily solid meat because it is hard to swallow. Their hair is dry and brittle. Their nails are likely to be thin and spooned or brittle. The skin becomes wrinkled, especiaily about the mouth. Ali these signs suggest a possible vitamin deficlency—to my mind, but remember this is just Ol’ Doc Brady, and I don’t know whet vitamin might be concerned unless it is vitamin G, of which there is a large amount in liver, eggs, kidney, yeast, beet greens, spinach, lettuce, water- cress, died peas, lean beef, cabbage, fresh milk. ad The recipe for the home made medicine for anemia is given in the book- let “Blood and Health” (send ten cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address, for copy) along with other advice for anemia. Readers should beware of trick druggists who make a difficulty about selling one ouncy or four ounces of Iron and Ammonium Citrate, U. 8. P. Ay QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Disinfection { Please tell me how to disinfect bed clothes, pillows, etc., after s = tagious disease. Also how to disinfect the room... (F. F. 8.) ea Answer—Ordinary laundering or dry cleaning is the best way. Soap and water scrubbing of woodwork and floor, repapering or painting walls grossly soiled. It is unnecessary and extravagant to use chemical disinfectants or fumigants, and besides such archaic rites are rather less effective disinfec- tion than soap and water cleaning. Cider Is it harmful to drink cider either sweet or hard? A doctor told me that hard cider would eat the lining out of the stomach. ... (Mrs. ©, A.C.) Answer—Fresh, sweet cider is a wholesome beverage. Sour or hard cider is a crude alcoholic beverage and it does worse things to your heslth than eating the lining out of your stomach. (Copyright 1935, John F, Dille Co.) Summ BEGIN HERE TODAY KATHARINE sTRYKHURST. 20 and beautiful, allows her emo- toms te rule when che marries - MICHAEL HEATHEROE. young feding tnstructor who comes tate Katharine’s vieb and her stepmother a title and fortune. ftath ts snobbieh. Michael, hurt tn a traffle acel- dent, loses his memory and Kath- ex Sweethearts She saw a faraway speck in the {sure they would be in time, #f they sky and whirled, her heart in her mouth, thinking ft might be s plane and that she might signal it. But it was only a great bird—there were other birds in its wake— wheeling and circling. Buszards! Horror—horror! It tore at her throat. The sense of it, closing in on her, made her shivver as with arine, guaware of this, thinks he has regretteé bis bargain. She woes to New Mexico to forget ané on @ trip to the desert becomes lost. Michael, meantime, has re- 4 Katharine ané explain. his memory and cet out Back home Katharine’s friend. ZOE PARKER, learns of drope it. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY XLIIt A BRASSY sun wheeled across molten sky. Here and there e mare vinge of Katharize ané Michael when a servant shows her the certificate. DR. JOHN KAYE, im love with Kathurine, anwittingly picks up the certificate when Zoe hurt her ankle cruelly. sprain, perhaps, but nearly so. She stumbled on... There was no pity in the sky, no living thing in all | world to pity her. Only the and heat and silence, and the birds wheeling and q i Hf ; 5 iF were clumps of mesquite and sage- brush. But there was not one sin- gle living thing in sight save the tall, slim girl in riding things who stumbled across that dreary desert. 3t seemed to Katharine she had been walking for hours. The wrist watch strapped to her slender wrist told her it was half-past 11. Any moment now, she told herself gallantly, she might see the car and the tent and the little group of civilized human beings she had | and Jef€ behind. Any moment . . meantime she must keep on going. To stop meant madness. If she only had a single drink of water! Just half a glass .. quarter of a glass to quench the thirst that. already tortured her. She thought of the mountain stream in which she had carelessly bathed yesterday morning, think- Ing nothing of the largesse flowing over the golden rocks. She thought |region. Come of mounds of sherbet, pale green, lemon yellow served at dinner par- ties. She thought of ice, tinkling in a tall glass. . - Your head whirled, dwelling op these things. Better to think something else. She sang songs, lightly, until her cracked throat rebelled. She was deadly tired now but still she stum- bled on, the harsh sand drifting above the tops of her jodphur boots. Once she tore at the top button of her pongee shirt and re- leased it as if better to breathe. Frank Millard would find her; Dirk. They both knew this coun- try like 8 book. They would laugh at this adventure later on. Or the little rise. ‘The pilot was « tubby little man with a mustache. Clem Wilbur F H i i j i} i i [ i it i (| it 4 [ | i geet F z E i E 1 i f E ¥. 2 e § 5 of % | if ee age yet—you never knew! By the time she’d got the motor ki iE Eee z= Hf By i i B i : or i a would they? She remembered read- ‘Ing the story of a man and woman lost in the desert. They had been middle-aged lovers. The man bad left his beart medicine at home as not to appear handicapped his bride; the woman had not worn ping low, and Michael eyes until they ached. saw something white fluttering 80 to her spectacles for the same reason. And so both had perished, one cause of his seizure, the other cause she could not see to lead them out of their trouble. Ah, .but Katharine was young and strong! She shuddered, membering the story. That could Death was something far away and unreal, not not happen to her. to be faced just now. be be scarf, caught on a jagged root. The little ship circled and swooped. “She's here—some place,” Michael said. “We can’t help but find her.” “Ob, sure, certainly,” the fat man jh said politely. But he was not te