The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 24, 1935, Page 4

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- mmarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck - as second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O, Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance a3 5.00 6.00 Weekly by mail in state, per year ..... . Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per PE ss eigineivssenncerssd stuns: we. 150 Weekly by mail in Canada, per year. . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneoue origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Inspiration for Today He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire— Psalms 46:9. Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth—Matthew Henry. Frank E. Shepard Some men earn respect by the heroic deeds ithey accomplish. Others win admiration by homely, useful toil. For 49 of his 67 years, Frank E. Shepard was a banker. From the time he left Wooster jacademy to go to work as a clerk in the First National Bank of Concord, N. H., until death called him Sunday here in Bismarck, he punc- jtiliously attended to his labors. He sought not the adulation of his fellow bankers. Nor did he cast his eyes enviously toward political or civic glory. He far pre- ferred to be known as a trusted workman, a true friend, a good citizen. There was no ostentation about Frank She- yard. He was a kindly, gentle man with a smile for everyone, a cheerful greeting and a knack of conveying confidence that lifted many a mental burden from troubled souls. Although a New Englander by birth and up-bringing, possessing the pride in his native country that only a New Englander can pos- sess, he loved the west and Bismarck. His in- terest in the growth of his adopted city never flagged. Last Saturday he called his lifelong friend and colleague, Col. C. B. Little, to accompany him on an inspection of Bismarck’s new high school. He found it to his liking. In his daily orbit, the bank and the home were predominant. He discharged his business duties meticulously. Homely hospitality greet- ed all who sat with him. To paraphrase Thomas Gray : Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, His sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life He kept the noiseless tenor of his way. The Coal Strike Four hundred thousand miners with 1,200,000 de- pendents have laid down their shovels and picks, their fuses and powder, called to strike after months of hag- gling between their leaders and the mine operators. One obstacle, unsettled in conference, prevents the wheels of this gigantic industry from turning. Unable to agree on tonnage wage rates after having settled a multitude of other differences, both operators and worker leaders hoped for some outside agency’s settlement. Strikes of the magnitude of this one represent a terrific economic loss for they not only affect the ope- gators and miners but they extend far into the business structure which must use coal. It is estimated that if a prolonged strike develops, that the business world will not feel the immediate ef- fects until some 50 days are past. But then the reper- cussions would be stupendous. Hundreds of industries gmight not be able to function. Hundreds of men would be thrown out of work, Let us consider what might happen in North Dakota §f miners in this state walked out in sympathy with their fellow unionized workers. It is estimated there are some 2,000 miners in North Pakota with more than 10,000 dependents. There prob- bly are 10,000 more persons who derive a livelihood from pusinesses closely allied to coal. A prolonged strike on the part of North Dakota miners would see the majority pf these 20,000 persons thrown onto the relief rolls. Coupled with the human element is the commercial Joss. On a tonnage basis, lignite coal is 90 per cent of all rail traffic which has origin and destination in North Yehind the Scenes in Washington Now We Hear the Reversed Squawk—Truckmen Com- plain ef Railroad Rate Cuts . . Eastman Faces Big Task in Meter Carrier Act . . were | Library . . . Seribes Have African War Pool. Washington, Sept. 24—When the trucking industry begins to holler that railroads are undercutting it with newly lowered rates, that’s news. For years the - Toads have been hollering that trucks were undercut them. Now the American Trucking Association is before the Interstate Commerce Commission with an appeal against certain reduced railway rates just put in effect between California and Oregon. It charges that the new rail rates are “not a bona fide proposal to’ meet competition, but a device to destroy the trucking indus- try.” ‘ Which is exactly, word for word, the wail that has been going up from the railroads for years against truck competition. On Oct. 1 begins the first organized effort to iron out fair relationships between trains and trucks. The Motor Carrier act goes in effect on that day, and the owners of 725,000 trucks expected to be affected are scurrying around to determine their position under the act. Joseph B. Eastman, federal coordinator of transpor- tation and chairman of Division 7, Motor Carriers, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is doing some little scurrying, too. Even to find the 325,000 common and contract-for-hire trucks, and the 400,000 private units affected, is something of a job. During debate on the bill, it was freely predicted that the trucking act will be harder to enforce than the 18th amendment. HERCULEAN TASK FACED Regulation of railroads is a snap beside regulating trucks. You can always at least find a railroad. The private trucking units come under safety regu- lation only, but interstate trucking for hire is now to be subject to regulation comparable to that of the rail- roads, including very specific authority to regulate hours and conditions of work. That means something to you if you ever drive your car on a through highway used as a truck route. For the National Safety Council found that it is not unusual for truck drivers to be on the road for 30 hours at a stretch, and there have been too many accidents due to such drivers falling asleep at the wheel. : eae MENACE TO SAFETY It is quite true that the accident record of trucks handled by professional and trained drivers is better than that of private cars, but the hours of truck drivers have in many cases constituted a real menace to road safety. It is not for nothing that roadside lunchrooms have been doing a land-office business in caffein pills, which help sleepy, exhausted drivers to keep awake as they plunge on through the night in their 20-ton road-freight- cars at 40 miles an hour. “It is perfectly plain,” Eastman said, “that the en- ace of this act will be a very arduous undertak- He is now trying to build up a staff of men with real trucking experience to direct the 650 employes who will launch this first effort to regulate trucking and make it a recognized part of the country’s transport system. eee LABOR BUILDS LIBRARY The Labor Department is rapidly building up one of the best libraries on labor and child welfare topics in the world. Installed in modern surroundings in the new Labor Building, it now has almost 200,000 books and bound pamphlets and reports, available to lawmakers, departmental people, and students of labor subjects. This library receives 2000 periodicals from 57 coun- tries, and is coming to be moré and more useful to alphabetical agencies such as FERA, PWA, and TVA, which run into knotty labor problems. START POOL ON WAR Twenty-four correspondents who regularly cover the State Department have started a pool on the Italo- Ethiopian war. Each man has guessed when he thinks the war will begin; the one coming nearest gets the Pool. Only three of the 25 guessed “no war.” (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may agree them. A Promising Autumn (Duluth Herald) ; Business indexes for the first two weeks of fall are encouraging, though few would go so far as to call them anything more than that. There have been too many false starts and mistakenly optimistic forecasts for any- one to be anything but wary. This very wariness is a virtue at this time, for such reports, in spite of it, can only mean that there is a growing vitality in business that promises well for the future. A real “breathing spell” for business might see ie plas improvement than most prophets would dare t. Tax reform is one of the most serious needs of the moment. Business has become accustomed and more or less reconciled to the idea of high taxes for a long pine se come, but the uncertainty is the worst deterrent of al If the federal government would taper off spending and settle on a permanent taxing program that faced the unpleasant facts; if states, Minnesota among them, would bring their tax systems up to date; if local com- munities would continue their economies—if these things could be done recovery would be advanced immeasurably. ‘With business advancing even under present uncer- tainties, what would it do with a definite, permanent, equitable taxation system? Co-ordinating Conservation (New York Herald-Tribune) Rarely has a better picture been given of the in- adequacy of government than in Jay Darling’s two ar- ticles just published—one in “The Saturday Evening Post” for September 21 and one in “The Country Gen- tleman” for October—in which he describes what has and has not been done in the interest of conservation. In fairness to him and to the present administration, it must be pointed out that many of the conditions of which he complains existed under previous administra- tions. The multiplication of New Deal agencies work- ing at cross-purposes has, however, greatly added to Dakota. Here we would have the spectacle of scores of yailway men being laid off. Then, too, the truckers prob- gbly would have difficulty. As local observers commented here Monday, the strike in other sections of the nation might be a boon to North Dakota's coal industry. Depletion of supplies at the heads of the lakes, a tie-up in the Montena and Wyoming coal fields might see lignite coal selling at running for re-election becomes the real issue of the campaign. If the present trend continues, that prom- ises to be true in a very high de- gree indeed of President Roosevelt in 1936. NATION'S CAPITOL By BYRON PRICE Press, Washington) issues. Day by day the debate over the personal competency and even the sincerity of Mr. Roosevelt grows in volume. Day. by day the fog of words surrounding the accliamed central issue—the constitutional issue — be- comes thicker and more confusing. “One of the bitterest campaigns in history” now is commonly pre- dicted for next year by politicians. When they say that, most of them do not refer to the developing dis- pute about the constitution. They know how difficult it is going to be to define that issue in terms which the ordinary voter will understand. They refer to personalities. To some degree, every president ee A Radical Change Development of the personal attack on the president is all the more in- teresting in view of his long immun- ity from that sort of criticism. For many months after he took of- fice, it was a matter of general re- mark that those who disagreed with administration policies seldom aimed their artillery at the White House. They attacked, not: Mr. Roosevelt, but Mr. Farley, Mr. Hop- kins, Mr. Ickes, Dr. Tugwell, or the “brain trust,” or some other indi- vidual or group. That was unusual. The change has been a radical one. Recently various of Mr. Roose- velt’s political enemies have referred to him as a faithless public servant, @ breaker of promises, a deceiver, an opportunist. When he announced a “breathing spell” for business, the burden of many opposition replies was that the promise should not be taken seriously —in other words, that the promise could not be-trusted. Such a reply goes to the heart of the president’s sincerity. That also is unusual. In recent years it has been coustomary for op- dential candidates, but concede their sincerity. It may be different in 1936. * # # Mr. Dooley’s Question So far as the constitutional issue is concerned, a whole flood of oratory leaves much to be said. Both sides declare they are for the confusion. the constitution. Neither side has ‘The situation, in brief, is this: the American people have woefully wasted the natural resources of a con- tinent by overcutting, overgrazing, overplanting without FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: @ thought for the future, and by poisoning sources of water in the name of industry and efficiency. As a result soil, forests, wild life and waters have been ruined and parts of the country made into a desert. Beginning 30 years ago, efforts to save the forests were fe manana? proved tice. Fourteen different government bureaus with conservation. The need, as Mr. Darling .“French boxers used to kiss instead of shaking hands.” To some current U. 8. heavyweights, that must have seemed rather undemonstrative. After swallowing a stlver dollar, a Montana man under :| reportedly is Observation. ‘Another act that ieecks of hoarding, and they'll have fm, @ murder case hinging on circustan- Listen to’ all the hypothetical questions and the technical answers of the expert witnesses, and then itself two questions: First, does defendant look as if he had Killed the victim? Second, did the victim look as if she deserved to -be. 1? 'said it’ would favor an amendment, or would oppose an amendment. The OLITICS issue would seem to be oe of degree —a question exactly how far the fed- eral government should go in regu- lating local activities. It remains for some one to draw \that line in words of one syllable. It is hard to see how the rank and file ever will gather a clear under-| killed‘ standing from the abstract argu- (Chief of Bureau, the Associated |ments of lawyers or the circuitous utterances of those — on both sides —who do not themselves appear cer- Two aspecis of the current political !tain just what they will favor. discussion are noteworthy for what they seem to portend for 1936. One/the issue ever will be translated into is the tendency toward extreme per-jpiain English. Perhaps the elec- sonal bitterness. The other is the| failure to agree on clear-cut public|predicted years ago that a certein court jury would do in a celebrated A mobile spare wheel, recently in- vented, helps motorists park their cars in cramped spaces. After nosing the car slowly to the curb, the wheel is iby and the rear end swung into Perhaps it is too much to suppose torate will have to do as Mr. Dooley} The average American motor ve- hicle is propelled approximately 10 miles on one galloh of gasoline. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. seas, eiiraces ipo Meron pcaesens bea ils Brad, in care of The Tribune, Ail queries must be accompanied by Ded, selfeaddressed envelope. ly ® stam @ harmless peculiarity. ‘The popular explanation for such aberrant taste is that the individual lacks something, perhaps minerals or more particularly lime (calcium), and the queer craving is nature’s cry for the element which is lacking. I don’t know whether there is any foundation for this fancy. ‘We might arrive at a better understanding of the matter if we could study tnd « hundred prospective mothers with pronounoed eravings for odd things and a hundred ve cra’ for More than ever before I incline to the belief that nutritional deficiency has much to do with aberrant appetite. This because we know now that there is a lack of mineral elements, notably calcium and phosphorus, as well as a lack of vitamins, in a great many diets which we formerly con- well 5 they i ing larvae in the clay they eat. But the usual mode of entrance for hook- worms is via toe itch, or dew itch, the larvae setting up a dermatitis of the feet, particularly between the toes, and penetrating the skin, entering the circulation, being carried thru the veins to the lungs, thence working up into the throat, so that they are swallowed and finally lodge in the duoden- um. Another plausible explanation for the anemia of clay eaters is from the notorious vitamin deficiency (particularly G) of the corn meal, tea, "lasses and salt pork fare of many poor people in the south. Failure of appetite from diminished or absent gastric secretion is a common fea- ture of pellagra. One harmless, indeed beneficial remedy I would suggest for any one with such perverted taste: Chew and swallow a handful of plain wheat every day. 4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Tonsil Removal Is a person more likely to develop cancer of the throat from the scar left by surgical removal of the tonsils? (L. C.) Answer—No. If the tonsils are infected or troublesome, removal by any good method would rather decrease the chance of developing cancer of the throat. In my opinion diathermy extirpation of the tonsils is per- ferable to-old-fashioned snare and guillotine “surgery.” Eat Then Sleep Have always had my 45 kindergarten children rest or nap before lunch, as I thought it bad for one to sleep immediately after eating . . . . (Miss H.W. R.) Answer—Young persons should eat, then sleep. Feeble or elderly per- sons had better not sleep right after eating. _A child digests best and grows most while asleep. Exercise for Asthma What exercise did you recommend for asthmatic sufferers? (J. D. M.) Answer—Natural breathing exercise. Send stamped envelope bearing ‘your address, inclose a dime, and ask for booklet “The Art of Easy Breath- ,” which tells all about it. ‘ Books We are buying up children’s books to distribute . . . Please tell us how to disinfect used books so they will be safe... (Mrs. H. D. M.) ‘Answer—Books not visibly filthy or grossly soiled require no disinfece tion. They are perfectly safe, no matter who has handled them. If a book, magazine or paper is grossly soiled it had better be destroyed. (Copyright 1935, John F. Dille Co.) BEGIN HERE TODAY RUTH woonpson, gh girl a a al out-going bus. Her seat-mate, advises her te ge to “The Girls’ Industrial Pittsburgh. cally amused at her plight. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | UTH ceased laughing as sud- denly as she had begun. She opened her pocketbook and counted She had exactly $1.11. She counted it several times over, looking at the pennies and hoping they might be dimes, hoping the nickels might be quarters mas “A dollar and eleven cents,” she said softly, “any way you slice it.” A native, leaning against the doorpost with his thumb thrust in his. suspenders, eyed her lasily. “Hadn't you better buy yer ticket?” Ruth’s face colored. “No,” she answered, “I hadn't.” | She did not know how far she was from Cleveland or what the fare would be, but common sense told her it would be more than she had in her pocketbook. She'd been @ fool to get into this plight, she thought. She had twice let herself be thrown off her course by that good-natured, irresponsible nit-wit of a Mrs. Cogly. She figured ruefully, “There's no Rath had ly « dollar and ol cous Re it Ee EF i 5 F # ae Ts 4 k t rye, EE ede fai onF ZEEE 25g See 3 ge Ha I [ 3%. i SEE: ict ee 5 H 835 trek fa 3 = Hib ponents to question the wisdom and capability of presidents and presi- BE ie f § the gusts of wind and the sudden flares of lightning. Within the bus ‘was security. But on the town’s edge the bus halted. A man was standing, wait- ing to get on. The driver said.to Ruth Woodson, “Well, here we are! Pull yourself together, kid, and hop off.” He seemed regretful. Ruth got off, and the passenger got on. She held her head high as the bus drove away. She even raised her hand in jaunty salute to lightning rent the air with terrific brightness. The crashing thunder that followed seemed to open the floodgates for the rain.. It began pour in wind-driven sheets. gPREEE eRetptit jegige-iee’: etl is BH tint 'B F255 i i ki ef aig a Fy sare ire “All right.” tired shoulders, more gets on, off you go!” car began to move. Again Ruth relaxed. A storm comy and secure as it passed through the streets of the self-cen- tered little city. Out there people z