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a The Bismarck Tribune | | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935 | Bertin the Scenes | in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER On the Horns of a Dilemma : Your Personal Health An Independent Newspaper fi THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) By William Brady, M. D. tate, . er questions pertaining to health but not dis- ‘ Smatiaiern ee a oaeee ene ease or dingnosie, Write letters bflefly and in ink. Address Dr. Brady in cate of The Tribune, All queries must be accompanied by &@ stamped, self-addressed envelope. Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- , N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor There’s Valid Reason to Say Congress Isn't Competent to Legislate . . . “We're Dubs,” Admits Huddleston and Then Comes Close to Proving It... House Pays Cohen a Shining Tribute by Distrusting Him. THE TONE OF THE ALIMENTARY MUSCLE When the third edition of Webster's New International is published it will, I am confident, contain correct definitions for somersault, belly aud cri, I mention this not as a warning or threat but simply as a word to tne wise—three words, to be precise. On request of the Editorial Board I shall be happy to elucidate and demonstrate all three terms so as to clear up the Washington, Aug. 12.—There is » theory, more popu- lar on Capitol Hill than elsewhere, that congress is com- petent to legislate. The fact is that no congressman actually has the time—and very few have the capacity—to understand any really big-scale problem. The exceptions to that are confusion that mars the present edition. Today’s lesson, children, has nothing to do with the belly proper, but I you think and here is the place to correct your ideas of Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year . Daily by mail, per year (in men who take years to study a particular issue—as Cor- anatomy and physiology. The belly proper is the front wall of the abdo- Daily By mail, per year (in state oul See studied the tariff or George Norris the power oon arg is a cavity Sane the ncratee Cheer a vay, is eet = problem. mt le, at least-mine is; many people fat. muscle is Sulie Ga mani ibis of Nosh Dakota. : I remember that Congressman George Huddleston of voluntary muscle, and therefore it is more or less responsive to the will, ‘We et ifs mail in state, per year .... .. 100 || Alabama said to me several years ago: tho it also reacts to emotions and sympathetic impulses automatically or Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per “Most of us are dubs. Most of us are controlled by autonomically, as do the muscles of expression and the other muscles of ae. » Pir 1.60 || certain interests or certain persons back home.” Yet it was Mr. Huddleston who introduced a resolu- tion, passed by a narrow majority of “dubs” who had year weekly by mail in Canada, per year The Sarit te muscle is wholly involuntary muscle, distributed as a layer or coat in wall of the entire alimentary tract or canal, and it is r been exposed to the most expensive lobby ever known in controlled by the sympathetic or autonomic nervous system and connot be Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Washington, which ordered him and other house con- influenced by the consciousness, The strength, vigor or resiliency has practically nothing to do with the tone and functioning of the alimentary muscle. The perfectly developed athlete in the pink of physical condition may have weak, poorly functioning alimen- tary muscle just as he may have an impairment or degeneration of the heart muscle. It all depends on nutrition. And we know things about nutrition today which we scarcely dreamed of ten years ago. If the diet happens to be poor in certain vitamins, particularly B and G, as many an otherwise excellent diet is, there is sure to be more or less con- stipation due to lowered tone of the gastro-intestinal muscle, the alimentary muscle. If the vitamin exists over a considerable period, as it does . where the diet is too refined or where the individual follows whims or pre- Judices in selecting food, there is a tendency toward chronic dilation of the alimentary tube at various portions of its length. This is attended with re- tarded peristalsis, slower rate of propulsion of the digesting residue and all the familiar symptoms of “indigestion” which we need not mention here. These are scientific data learned from animal experimentation. The facts frees on the public utility bili to insist on barring , from the house-senate conference Mt. Ben Cohen, who Member of The Associated Press drafted the original bill and is counsel for the national The Assoctated Press is exclusively entitled to the| power policy committee. use for republication of all newa dispatches credited to eee tholioeal news of spontaneous origin published. herein, SLAP IN SENATE'S FACE All rights of republication of all other matter herein are The vote was a spectacular event because it was also reserved. without precedent and because it reasserted that some- what battered theoryethat congress is competent to leg- islate without outside aid. It also merits special attention because it was a slap in the face for the senate, whose con- ferees insisted on Cohen’s presence as their tech- nical adviser while they sought to compromise the house &nd senate bills with the house con- ferees, Congress long ago hired a legislative drafting service Inspiration for Today Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth—Isaiah 24:17. so sea ane ADSENSE Life is thick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.—Voltaire. Eventually But Not Now Despite the action of a senate committee in extending the range of the proposed income tax bill to include the “little fellow,” it is improb- able that the movement will win general ap- proval in congress. The outlook might aptly be expressed by {the adaptation of a famous advertising slogan jto read “eventually, but not now.” Reasons for this are plain enough. The gov- ernment, if it is to escape wholesale inflation end its attendant evils, will need more revenue. Even if operating expenses are reduced we shall need more money to pay the interest on the na- tional debt—and plenty of it. Therefore a gen- eral increase in taxes is inevitable unless the Bdministration can find a practicable substitute. In view of the fact that it has never been done before in the history of civilization that seems unlikely. More taxes, then, are the only answer. But powerful influences may delay the time at which such imposts will be levied. First and most important of them is the fact that the president most certainly would like to be re- elected. To date he has had all the advantages of a political Santa Claus and it is improbable that he will be willing to change that psychol- ogy before the vote in 1936. “Soak the rich” is a popular slogan, but married men with incomes of $2,500 and single men earning only $800 a year do not put them- selves in that category. If their taxes are raised they will feel the administration has made a tragic mistake—and vote accordingly. We may count on it, then, that the admin- fstration will block the drastic tax bill adopted by the senate committee, work to effect changes in it. The full and bitter truth will not be brought home to the small taxpayer in that manner this year. But what happens after the 1936 election will be a different matter. Then it will be “not eventually but now.” Comparison of Sciences During the first six months of 1935, according to a reat insurance company, health conditions in the United Btates and Canada were the best on record and the death rate of 9.10 per 1,000 persons was just under the previous low mark of 9.11 for 1932. Among the leading causes of death, diphtheria and ftuberculosis seem likely to end the year with all-time flows. Other ailments also are on the retreat with the exception of diabetes, in which an increase is shown. All in all, there is ample evidence that the brain of man is recording steady progress in making the race Jonger lived if not happier. In common with the other exact sciences, tremendous gains are being recorded. | It is in the inexact sciences that America is falter- fing. The job of living with our neighbors is no better handled now than it has been in the past—if it is done ps well. We have learned how to make more things than were dreamed of half a century ago, but the prob- flem of how to make them available to all deserving citi- Bens still baffles us. The science of government, which thas probably received more attention than any other sim- War subject in history, is in a pitiful condition. The fact 1s that we have been able to learn those things which can be absorbed by rote but have been un- ‘willing to bear whatever strains attend independent, con- structive thinking on our own part. As a people we still gre prone to mouth catch phrases, let others tell us what to think. The answer, of course, is that our manner of living and of governing ourselves is a part of our basic culture end that changes slowly and only under extreme pres- sure. Masses of people, even those as intelligent as our own, arrive at conclusions only after the issues have been boiled down to a focal point. With diphtheria, for exam- ple, we can agree on the value of preventive serum, but in solving our economic illnesses we have too many doc- tors to permit of unanimity. We have no focal point about which to rally. That is why the so-called inexact sciences’ have a hard time of it. Their trouble is that everyone is an authority, yet no one isan authority. One man’s guess is as good as another's. It takes a long time for new idéas to win general adoption: It’ is inevit- | able that progress in these branches should fall behind fthat in the medical, mechanical, chemical and other elds. eee ‘Mussolini’s bite may be no worse than his bark, but he certainly has the League of Nations up a tree. : oe A Michigan doctor has found a way to lower blood by surgical operation. A slip of the scalpel and pressure can be lowered to zero. eee A Re; elected in Rhode Island! Good thing. owe ht have forgotten what a Republican really was. Boe Fe whose seven employes are now swamped with dumb bills which congressmen insist on introducing. The obvious need of technical experts in framing tax and tariff legislation has long been recognized and it has been customary to call in government sharks to aid mem- bers trying to work out bills in conference. Cohen sat with house conferees on the securities and stock market acts. AAA Attorneys Prew Savoy and Tel Taylor have been constantly with the conferees on the AAA amendments, and so on. If this were not customary, congressmen would just get all gummed up and find themselves inserting seem- ingly innocent jokers contributed by private interests outside. eee COHEN KNEW .HIS SUBJECT The house had revised the senate holding company bill so that the securities exchange commission, charged with administering the act, insisted controversial sec- tions 11 (substitute for the “death sentence”) and 13 were ufhworkable. Giving SEC discretion to dissolve some holding com- panies and preserve others sounded like an unconstitu- tional delegation of power which would throw the act! into years of litigation as well as bring on possibly irre- sistible pressure against SEC. Cohen, the New Deal’s outstanding legislative draftsman, had spent months of days and nights studying a subject so complex that some hold- ing companies can’t even explain their own structures, He knew so much more about the bill than anyone | else that senators relied on him to help them devise a workable bill in conference and to spot any jokers sug- gested by hostile house conferees, who included Huddle- ston of Alamaba and two Republicans who had voted against the bill. eae CHECKMATED WALL STREET But Cohen is celebrated here for drafting a securities act which was virtually the first big act which Wall Street lawyers, even for fees of hundreds of thousands of | dollars, couldn't get around. It used to be a congressional custom to pass regu-| latory, tax, and other laws through which the giants of industry and finance galloped like a herd of stampeding elephants. But here was Ben Cohen again, a govern- | ment employe making less than $10,000 a year, i pitted against lawyers and lawyer-lobbyists to whom holding companies had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, with another measure | which—before the house operated on it—had also seemed bulletproof. The house, by and large, distrusts “brain trusters” because it distrusts brains. So Huddleston was able to capitalize on that prejudice ‘to the extent of persuading the house to smack the senate and repudiate previous procedure and brains in the government service at the same time. All in all, the house demonstrated a fear of Mr. Cohen which was the finest tribute paid here to a “brain truster” in many long months. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) Lo} CpIToRrs We may or not me The Middleman’s Profits (Grand Forks Herald) The profits and usefulness of the middleman are an essential part of the American standard of life. Indeed their profits are modest and they form a necessary link in that great distributing chain which maintains the high standard of convenience demanded by Americans, writes Millard Rice in the August Nation’s Business, In defending the middleman and his position in American business, Mr. Rice takes the potato as an ex- ample of the commodity handled by middlemen and traces its progress from hill to home. In Rice’s investigations he takes the shipper as the first middleman, He points out that the gross profit on @ 36,000 pound carload of potatoes is $36, but the net profit to shipper after costs are deducted is about $7. In return for this profit, he renders a service to both pro- ducer and consumer which no one has yet been able to render more cheaply or efficiently. Middleman number two is the broker. In return for his $15 gross fee per car of potatocs, he finds wholesale buyers. Without a broker the wholesaler would spend more than $15 in making contacts. The broker's net Profit is not more than one cent per hundred pounds. Transportation for the short haul involved in Rice’s investigation amounts to 60 per cent per hundred pounds, but these rates are set by the I. C. C. and everybody knows the plight of the railroads. 1 Middieman number three is the wholesaler. Accord- ing to Rice, the average wholesaler nets a profit on po- tatoes of about 3‘ cents per hundred pounds. The retailer, says Rice, makes a profit of one-sev- enth of a cent a pound or 6.74 per cent on his sales. Our American standard of life is what it is—not as to its cause, that is, but as to its quality—largely because of services rendered by so-called middlemen, declares Rice in defending the middleman. But we have been for so long accustomd to a high and constantly rising stand- ard of living that we have completely forgotten that such a standard is expensive. We expect and demand products from the far corners of the world; complete stocks, attractively displayed; lux- | urious stores conveniently located, without regard to the high rentals that entails; prompt service; selected goods; the right to buy in small quantities, prompt delivery of the smallest purchases; monthly credit in many instances; and so forth, “Having made these demands—demands which find no equal, except among the very wealthy, in any other ; country in the world—we complain at what seems to be a high price for the goods delivered to our doors. Are we such poor sports that, having demanded the latest dance i tunes, we are unwilling to pay the large orchestra which alone can play them to our liking? may agrees with them, ] Former Secretary of War Patrick Hurley says he has no influence with a single congressman. Not that he would mind having the good old days back again! ‘ooo 8 , $341 a year. Now to locate the 100 per cent American. 1 ary Until that missing public utilities executive turns up. every man with a bald head and a smile will be under | suspicior 4 iS | Department of commerce reports that the typical American family lives in a wooden house renting for OLITICS | * NATION'S CAPITOL | Washington.—Perhaps the most un- usual and interesting document in Wasington, but one which few people have seen and the general public may never see, is the personal diary of his experiences in the senate kept by Henry Fountain Ashhurst, a senator from Arizona since the state was ad- mitted to the union. Since he first took his seat back in 1912, the big, genial, one-time cow- boy—famed among his colleagues for his diction and ability as a phrase- maker—from day to day during ses- sions of the senate has set down his reactions to the many stirring scenes he has witnessed and in which he has taken part. He allots a separate page for each daily session of the senate. The pages then are deposited in a strong box under lock and key. Those whom the senator permits to examine the contents of his strong box usually are pledged to secrecy. Occasionally, however, he will ease up a bit and allow the use of a story or so. * ek * Adams Now First One of the most interesting con- cerns his experiences as the first name of the alphabetical list of sen- ators and hence the first man to vote on all roll calls. Prior to the last congress, with the exception of a few months at the be- ginning of the Hoover administration, Ashurst’s name has headed the alpha- betical list of senators since he first became a member of that body. At the present, Senator Adams of Col- orado, is at the top of the heap. “I have never become accustomed to hearing Adams’ name first,” he records in his diary. “Being first on the alphabetical list is more difficult than one would imagine, especially tice never to let his name pass inten- tionally and vote later. Often this necessitates his making up his mind during a split second. Many times he determined how he would vote in the interval when he heard his name called and his answer. A senate roll call often comes with- out warning. Frequently much de- | pends on how the first man votes. xk Oe ‘Aye!’ Ashurst relates the story of the prolonged filibuster in the senate in 1915 on the ship purchase bill. Dem- ocratic senators in charge of the bill hoped to break the filibuster by secur- ing @ roll call. Under the rules of the senate when one senator answers | to his name on a roll call further de- { bate automatically is ended. Ashurst’ name was first. He sat) on the floor of the senate continuous- | ly for 54 hours and 10 minutes wait- ing for his name to be called. He was i one of the most important figures in ; that celebrated parliamentary battle. | At night he slept on a sofa in the | senate chamber and during the day | he sat in his seat. As it so happened | his name never was called. | “As evidence of how I was keyed! up,” he wrote in his diary, “near the | end of the filibuster, while I lay sleeping on my sofa in the rear of the | chamber, I dreamed that the clerk | had called my name. And they tell me that I yelled out then and there: “Aye!” a My idea of a party is just to get some interesting people together.— Mrs. Homer S. 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Her aeant cut March's er takes a dtetike BABS MONTGO! to the gtr ERY. « cehoo! ecquatntance wi te featous of Je's sopaterity comes to the ine. PETER FRA- GONET. Gim acter. ané ule wife fragenet comes te eee Je teves her. jcene and acense ef encouraging Fragonet’s etten- munt cend Je away. fuses. eecures Fragenet’s promise wi NOW GO UN WITH THE STORY . CHAPTER XIX HB shock of that afternoon set back Jo’s recovery days, and she developed a cold which made Mise doubly cautious. But the nurse found it unnecessary to recall Doo tor Seavers to Crest Lake. “and it’s really a shame, too,” she told ner patient jokingly. “Doctor Seavers liked the piace so much!” Jo’s smile was slow and weak. Despite Miss Conley’s cheery pres- ence and the bright sunlight of ner room, Jo was miserable. She could only guess what bad trane- pired after the Fragonets snd Mrs. Marsb had left ber rooms at the inn, Suppose the Frago-| mets bad separated, planned @ divorce, and Edna Fragonet car-! ried out her threat to name Jo as corespondent? And that was only a part of Jo’s worries, for she could aot be sure that Douglas Marsb didn’t intend to take bis moth advice and let ber go. If that bappened, trouble was indeed attead. Once she bac paid Doctor Seaver’s bil) and returned to town, jobless, she would be worse off than before. And ff there were antavorable publicity im connection with the Fragonets, a job would be more difficult to find. The astute Miss Conley saw that Jo was troubled, and knew that her worries were doing her patient no good. One morning, as she brought in Jo's breakfast tray, sbe drew a chair close to the bed and sat down. “Mise Darien... why don’t you just tet go and talk? It would do you s world of good —and perba| know more about what's worrying you then you suspec Jo set down her coffee cup and met the ourse's friendly gaze. “You know how 1 happened to be out there in the ball that day?” o ee ISS CONLEY nodded. “I've put two and two together, Nurses are good at {t, you know.” “Well, wouldn't you be worrted if you were in my shoes?” are amply confirmed by the reports of numerous patients (not my patients) who have experienced marked improvement in their alimentary functions while taking a balanced ration of vitamins as a supplement to the ordinary diet for a variety of common ailments. If the partial but constant vitamin deficiencies of the orginary refined diet were corrected, either by return supplementing the ordinary refined to natural or undenatured foods or by food with a regular ration of vitamins, at least two of the familiar manifestations of faulty nutrition would be as rare in man as they are in animals—namely obesity and constipation. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What, a Good Doctor Book? Kindly ailment. W. R. W.) recommend a good medical book, modern, which will give me information on first aid and medical care in sudden and common Answer—Like the great American novel, that book has not yet ap- peared. There are excellent books dealing with particular phases, but I have seen none that would meet your requirement. Hay Fever Club From Duluth, haven for hay fever victims, comes word that the Hay Fever Club of has members from fifteen states. In Duluth they can sit on the shores of Lake Superior and be sure of a cool lake breeze of No ragweed around Duluth, That’s something not to be sneezed at. Other resorts where sufferers find relief are Mobile Bay in Alabama, Santa Bar- bara in California, Silver Plume in Colorado, New London in Connecticut, Bald Mountain in Georgia, the northern part of Michigan, Albuquerque in New Mexico, the Adirondacks in New York, Two Rivers in Wisconsin, Banff in Canada. (Copyright 1935, SUN-T John F. Dille Co.) you could bave seen bis face when really, Tubby. You're going to be brought you tp here day|stay a while, aren't you?” "t say that. Amd you Tm going to stay until my heard ots voice when 1 wasn't to let anyone order me eway from attending you. He may not know it yet himself, but he’s tm love with you.” Jo managed @ taugh. “I'm afraid you're incurably romantic, Miss Conley.” “Not after what I've seen of men, I'm not,” the nurse insisted. “And as for this trouble with Mrs. Fragonet. | wouldnt wo! about that, either. Probably si found oim ip the arme of half @ dozen different women, end Taised @ row every time.” “You don’t think it was my fault, do you?” “Hardly,” sniffed Mise Contey. “My advice to you 1s, get well as soon ae you can. about your bust! though nothing nad happened.” “When do you think I can get “In two or three more days if you don’t fret yourself into a re- lapse, and—" Miss Conley paused &@ moment, smiling, “if I can keep the male visitors out of your room.” “Was Fragonet here again?” Jo asked, startled. “No Miss Conley said. “It "t Fragonet. “Douglas Marsh?” The auree shook ber head. “Mr. Barston wanted to see you.” “Oh!" Quickly Jo busied ber self with ber breakfast, for she was afraid ehe badn’t kept the disappointment out of ber tone when Miss Conley said it was Barston, and not Marsh, who had called. it seemer eer = that since he had ordered Miss Conley |back to the room. Surely— ee Sea 2 (ad thoughts were interrupted i by the ring of the telephone. | Miss Conley answered, then turned to the bed. “A Mise Davis is downstairs,” she said. Jo's eyes flew wide. “Tubby! money runs out.” Tubby assured ber. “You don’t snow how ex- clueive this place ts. & practically had to present references.” do gave @ relieved sigh. “I'm awfully glad you're going to be here a while, Tubby. And 1 can tell you all about it @ little tater.” “Sure,” eaid ber former room- mate, “the thing tor you to do now ts get out of this bed.” “The nuree says | can be up in two or three days.” “I'll bet Bret will be giad to see you again.” Tubby said. “Bret? Why, what do you mean, Tubby?” “I mean Bret. Want me to spell it? & said I'd bet he would be glad to see you up and around again.” “But 1 plan to stay bere at Crest Lake, Tubby. That 1s, tf Mr. Marsh tsn‘t—isn’t too dis- gusted with my aw! . was Tubby’s turn to look astonished. “Do you mean to - tell me you didn’t know Bret Pau) was here?” For @ moment Jo could not speak. Then with an effort she asked slowly, Is Bret really here, Tubby?” The other nodded. “I met him not 10 minutes ago down near the lake, and § supposed ne’d been bere most of the summer. He must have come while you were laid up—but it’s certainly strange he didn’t send word to you.” Suddenly Tubby’s face fell. “He probably planned to surprise you and now I've let the cat out of the vag.” Jo was silent, staring dully trom the window, and Tubby added, “You don’t seem very glad | about 1t.”” “We quarreled, Tubby, just be- fore 1 came down here. He didn’t want me to come, and he said if 1 did come were all through. You were right. Babs Montgom- ery had let him know that | went dancing that night with Marsh.” “8be would,” said Tubby teel- Tell ber to come up right away.” | ingly. Miss looked doubtful. “Babs ts here, too, with her Conley “Aare you sure tt will be good for] Darents. yout” “Good for me?” exclaimed Jo. “Tubby’s the best tonic in the world!” And it was true that when the big, good-natured Tubby bounced into the room Jo’s spirits rose in- stantly. Nurse Conley smiled her approval, and left. “What's this i bear about you trying to commit suicide in a sail bogt?” eskea Tubby, perching on the edge of the bed enti) the springs sagged g “Tubby, you're the grandest sight I've seen ip days!” cried Jo, “But—how’d you hear about the accident?” “Say, when Peter MFragonet goes out fp a eailboat with s girl, and gets run into by another sir) im @ speedboat — that’s news!” At ‘Jo's startied took, Tubby taughed and added, “Don't worry. The paper dida’t cay who the girl was. 1 dido’t know anti) 1 got bere that it was you. But when they told me downstairs that you'd been injured im a saik “1 would not,” said Mise Con-| boat accident 1 multiplied tour by ley. the day of the month, eubtracted “But I'm sure Mr, Marsb wili| the age of my little brother—and fire me after what's happened.” do tole ber. The turee shook ner bead. got Jo Darten! tell.me all j about it How did t happen?” “I'd rather not tare ebous t, “Well, doesn’t that make every- thing lovely!” Tubby stood up and her eyes blazed with tierce loyaity. “I suppose she’s been making tt as unpleasant as she could.” Jo smiled. “She hasn't been awfully cordial, but then 1 don’t mind that. It was Babs who told Mareb that Bret and | were very much in love. She told him he'd be doing a nice thing if he gave Bret a job es life guard down here for the summer.” “I begin to get it,” said Tubby, nodding wisely. “She was afraid maybe you were going to cop off this millionaire, and that would burn her plenty.” The chubby Davis girl looked down at Jo. “1! can see I got here just in time, old girl.” “Now, Tubby,” Jo taughea, “you're always looking for 8 good row!” But ber taughter stopped as quickly as it bad begen, gaa she dropped her gaze soberly to the coverlet. “Tubby ... 1 wish Bret hadn’t come. Averytbin all mized up, and—ana 1 a know which way to turn.” “Tarp to me,” Tubby said. “) have @ banch you haven't told m everything that’s happened down