The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 25, 1935, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Inspiration for Today Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.—I Corinthians 1:25. see Let each man think himself an act of God; his mind a thought, his life a breath of God— Bailey. Braddock’s Field And now Max Baer can hibernate for the winter in the New York dens he likes so well. It just wasn’t in the cards that the Cali- fornia Comet, even with the old Manassa Mauler in his corner, could come out on top in a collision with that midnight choo-choo from Alabam’. Two years of studying sinners along the great white way left him in no condition to! meet the freshness of the man who has learned about sinners from his favorite book—the Bible. One hundred thousand ringside fans, their spines tingling, and perhaps 50,000,000 more whose hearts drummed somewhere in the vi- cinity of their Adam’s apples as they sat by tthe fireside, saw and heard Tuesday night what they haven't thrilled to since that Sep- tember night in 1927 when Jack Dempsey failed to regain his lost championship. Only once in a generation does a champion, a real champion, come along. Grandpa had his John L, Sullivan and James J. Corbett. Pa had his. Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson. Today’s generation has had its Jess Willard, Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. To- morrow has its Joe Louis. For there seems little doubt in the mind of 99 fans out of 100 that the bronze-skinned muscle machine from Michigan will be the next world’s champion. Stars fell on Alabama truly when Louis was born to a humble cotton picker there some 21 years ago. Not until Tuesday night, however, did that poverty-stricken family and its gleam- ing satellite perhaps realize that there were great things in store for their personal uni- verse. The methodical determination, the adamant courage, the native ability and innate promise shown by the now-outstanding challenger for the world’s heavyweight crown was clear to even those who perhaps never had seen or heard! a fight before. Standing between Louis and the title today is only James J. Braddock of Jersey City, N. J. And if the American people can see prize- fighting as much of an index of economic affairs as are carloadings, steel production, bank clearings and unemployment statistics, then the expected Louis-Braddock champion- ship encounter may well mark the end of hard times. When millions of persons from coast to coast can get “worked up” over a prizefight to the extent that they forget the material trou- bles they have had for six years, it is an indi- cation that the psychology of pessimistic public opinion is dissipating. And as the Braddock’s field of the French and Indian wars of the pre-revolutionary war era marked the high point of French coloniza- tion in North America, so may the Braddock’s THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1935 Yehind the Scenes in Washington By WILLIS THORNTON Step to Enroll Millions of Public Workers Is Taken by or Evil Possible ,.. utes on 75th Birthday. soe Washington, Sept. 25.—In a rather quiet way, some- thing happened the other night which may have far- jTeacning effects. The American Federation of Government Employes slid an amendment into its constitution. This empowers the AFGE to organize all city, county, and state em- ployes throughout the country. This has never been tried before. Since there are estimated to be prehaps 4,000,000 such emplyoes, you can see that the possibilities are without limit, If success- ful, this move might well create an organization 80 reed as to have a definite influence on government itself. Since 1932, when the AFGE was established, there have been two union organizations competing for the 717,712 employes now on the federal payroll. The National Federation of Federal Employes is the older, founded in 1918. It claims 44,000 members. The AFGE, started in 1932 with American Federa- tion of Labor backing, has something more than 20,000 members. Between the two, with some 65,000 members, they have succeeded in organizing fewer than 10 per cent of the federal government workers. There is growing bit- terness between the two organizations, and recent pro- posals to merge them were turned down with fierce de- cision. Showered With Trib- eee TURNS TO BROAD FIELD ri But now the AFGE turns from the purely federal field to all employes of all governments, local as well as national. If it succeeds in building a broad national organization among them all, it would be by long odds the greatest “white collar” labor organization, and would command great influence. ‘That influence could be for good or evil, according to the leadership. It could, for instance, be a strong influence against the spoils system and local corruption. And it could also build up the “vested interest” of government employes in their jobs to the point where reductions and econo- mies in government payrolls would be forever impossible. Nobody knows which result would follow, or whether such organization can be built. The point is, that for the first time the road is open. eee GREETINGS TO PERSHING You read about the impressive tributes to General Pershing in Europe on the occasion of his 75th birthday recently. But you didn’t see the informal greetings that came flooding into his office at the war department, Yes, the general still keeps an office there, a big, old- fashioned room with a sign above the door which says, “The General of the Armies.” Some of those greetings were really touching, cheap little penny postcards with a spot of blue ribbon, like one “From a mother*who has a son in the service in the Philippines.” Or, the letter: “Ten years ago you had your picture taken at Bahia, Blanco, Argentine, holding a@ baby in your arms. Since my birthday falls on the same day as yours, I want to send you best wishes. ...I am very proud of that picture and also of the one of you which you autographed... .” All such are gathered together by Capt. George E. Adamson, QMC, who has served as the general's secre- tary since Mexican border days of 1916. He acknowledges them as best he can, and forwards them to Pershing. More than 400 of them came this year. eee VETERANS ASK HIS AID ‘The general gets a continual stream of letters from former soldiers who think he ought to remember them because they were “the third from the right in the front rank that time you reviewed the Umpty-Umpth division at Brest.” The general really likes to get letters of that kind, but is a little depressed sometimes because so many of them ask for jobs or help of one kind or another. Of course there isn’t much he can do in most cases. Many of the general's correspondents send him yel- lowing clippings about the war which they’ve been treas- uring for 17 years. They go into the 10 feet of scrap- books which Captain Adamson still posts up for the gen- eral. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other DITORS The Nation’s Delay (Grand Forks Herald) Readers of Dickens will remember the famous case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce in which claims upon a great estate were carried in case after case through court after court until the legal fraternity was convulsed with laughter over the announcement that the entire estate had been exhausted in litigation, therefore there re- mained no issue which the courts could consider. That was set forth as an example of the law's delay. The nation itself sometimes delays. Between 1878 and 1882 the employes in ten American navy yards and naval stations agreed to work, and did work, ten hours & day instead of the customary eight hours in considera- tion of the definite agreement made by representatives of the government that they would be paid for the extra two hours per day. One of the last acts of congress at the close of its recent session was to pass a bill for the appropriation of $332,342.72, or as much thereof as may, be necessary, to satisfy the claims of the 1,400 employed who worked under that agreement more than fifty years ago. The bill was signed by President Roosevelt, and the money will be paid. It will not be paid, however, to those who worked the additional two hours a day, for they are all dead, but the heirs of those who left heirs, will benefit from the settlement. Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. approved many years ago by the court of claims, and bills for the appropriation of the necessary money have been passed five times by one or other of the houses of congress, but not by both, during the last 25 years, until final action was taken just a few weeks ago. More than a quarter of a century ago George Hiram Mann, a New York attorney, took notice of the facts in this case and became interested. As a side-line of his regular practice he has hammered away at congress all these years, and has employed all sorts of novel methods to arouse intefest in the cause of the navy workers. One field of the 1980s mark the high tide of what we have known as the depression. The AAA as an Issue | It becomes clearer as the days roll along toward the | presidential election of 1936 that the agricultural adjust- ment act will be no issue for the Republicans to nail into their platform. The farmers of America who have benefited through this farm relief agency, whether or no it is constitutional, and whether or not they are Republicans, Democrats, Socialists or what have you, will not readily relinquish what has proved to be the only real boon they ever have snatched from the national government. In Iowa Tuesday more than 600 farmers turned homeward from a conference determined to fight for retention of the AAA unless some better substitute can * be found and bent on fighting industrial tariffs should their pet measure be found invalid. News dispatches did not tell what the political com- plexion of those farmers were. But remembering that they came from states nominally Republican, it would tot be wrong to guess that 75 per cent call themselves ‘Then from other sections of the country we have had statements from Republican leaders. who are pow- ers in their own hinterlands if they are not regarded as chiefs in the nations! party. Senator Capper of Kansas. - Senator Norris of Nebraska and Senator Nye of North Dakota, all warn their party to ether drop talk of ‘ditching the AAA or find a substitute progtam that will ppear reasonable of passage if presented to congress. It ip reasonable to assume that the 600 farmers and <4 of his novel methods was that of advertising in city pa- pers, demanding justice for the workers, some of whom i | had’ engaged him as counsel, while he worked for the i entire group regardless of retainer. For a time he used j large advertisements, but as the case dragged on for years he cut down space until often he would use only two lines. He estimated that in one way and another he has spent $15,000 to $20,000 in attempts to arouse sen- timent for the appropriation of funds. What would be thought of a private employer who refused for half a century to pay the just claims of 1,400 employes? deserts. It is possible the Geneva statesmen misinjer- preted the phrase, “just desserts.” Vermont writer locks himself up on his farm to write & book. If it’s poetry, we'd suggest he also post an armed lookout. ‘There is a widely shared belief among Italian people ih the existence of a war chest. If the one in question “Culinary cruelty” is basis of Worcester, Mass., di- vorce suit. Maybe the bride should be given a cook book and another chance. | “Ttalians Iraq oil.” Another remedy would be ts Ee mt cobkent hentia eee. = the three senators represent a good cross-section of the agricultural midwest. They know that the AAA still is popular with the average run of farmer. , Bven the industry-dissecting dollar-a-month maga- aine Fortune finds by a survey that the AAA is popular economically in the farm belt despite its political un- popularity. ‘The claim of those employes of the government was baa! Tl Duce rages at League's peace offer of two African) is that of Il Duee, it has been thrown out. Federat Employes’ Union . . . Great Force for Good Pershing are. tes *s Going to Be the Issue ~ | - If That | | DOLITICS It _) eno rests By HERBERT PLUMMER Washington—Although the nomin- ating conventions of the two major Political parties still are more than nine months away, speculation as to their location is receiving serious con- sideration among politicians. Republicans generally are agreed the west. the real battleground for the "36 cam- paign, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis and Kansas City will be among the cities bidding for the G. O. P. convention. At pres- ent Kansas City appears to have the inside track. A new air-conditioned auditorium with a seating capacity of 20,000 plus @ strategic location is responsible. The best guess now is that the Democratic convention will be held in the east. Certain signs that the New Deal is slipping in the east have made the Democrats dubious about going west again for their big show. Either Atlantic City or Philadelphia may get the call. * oe x G. O. P. Hopes Republican lecders are making ho extravagant claims, but privately they ‘have high hopes of making deep in- roads into the preponderant Demo- cratic majority in congress in the elec- tions of 1936. Party strategists have looked over the records for 1934 and noted that in @ score or more districts Demo- cratic candidates were successful by ® margin of 3,000 votes or less. In one district a Democrat squeezed through with only 258 votes to spare. ‘They are keeping in mind that in the recent congressional election in Rhode Island, the Republican candi- date reversed a majority ef more than 10,000 votes for the Democrat in 1934. The G. O. P. high command hopes to accomplish the same thing in many districts that went Democratic by scant majorities last year. _* * ‘End of Liberalism’ ,The more astute politicians gave more than passing notice to the observation made by spokesmen for the third party movement to Presi- dent Roosevelt's “breathing spell” let- An organization is in the field for the purpose of creating sentiment for ® third party and is making itself felt. It is called the American Com- monwealth Political Federation. The youthful Representative T. R. Amlie, member of the Wisconsin progressive party in congress, is its chairman. Amlie declares the president's let- ter “marks the end of New Deal liber- alism.” . Cracked porcelain on the spark plug permits compression leakage, and Plugs thus damaged should be re- placed immediately. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: NATION'S CAPITOL that their convention city will be in| With the west regarded as} lon, nephew of Andrew W. Mellon. * ee community for the purpose of pro- {moting their individyal welfare and their community interests... are in many respects no more important If it weren't for Adolf Hitler, Ger- many would have been taken over by the Communists.——Matthew Mel- Relationships among people in a| | than Propér international relation- ships.—Secretary Hull. * * x Eligible bachelors are hard to find. If they're very eligible, they don’t !stay bachelors—Mae West. \ ek * It’s better to have a little bit of something than a great deal of |nothing—Senator B. C. Clark, Mis- souri, referring to neutrality bill. xk - Our formula should be to see what j48 going on in the world, to think about what we see, and then to do something about our thinking.—C. H. Lake, Cleveland, O., school head. Your Personal Health ~ By William Brady, M. D. jeations pertaining to health but not dis- tters briefly and in ink. Address Dr. The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by addressed envelope, EATING YOUR WAY TO DIABETES Ninety per cent of all adults with diabetes have been overweight for a period before they have become diabetic, it was found by Dr. . noted student and authority in this field. the smooth, the delectable, the sophisticated carbohy- carbohydrates, If it bores you, don’t close call myself. ‘They had me. Spite of iodih ration, + + gradually sinking into a kind of coma le). What stopped me, I soft, didn’t care to fight, . The whole busin as a sign of super- degeneration. Dick . But clothes and me- and labor-saving devices and all the little false dignity and sedentary habit conspire to deceive him and jolly him along until he is brought up rious organic breakdown. Dick this I am trying to give. That foolish an expression of his opinion of doctors and their nutty ttle use for the medicos, and further along in the story when few dalists they can’t do much for him. ity, diabetes and cardiovascular degeneration are all hygiene and preventive medicine. One great difficulty in the way of good hygiene and preventive medicine in this field is the lack of a definite dividing line between overweight and Obesity. Tell a patient he is overweight and he is mildly interested if at all; tell him he has obesity and he is alarmed. But who shall say where overweight leaves off and obesity begins? Some obese individuals never become diabetic, but it is certain that overweight imposes a strain on the islands of Langerhans in the pancreas, those groups of specialized cells which secrete insulin, and so it is that Smiling Dick’s becoming new panniculus makes him more liable to develop diabetes. .In practice it seems to be as difficult to catch diabetes in time this is due to dumbness of the laity or incompetence of the medical pro- fession or both. | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Younger Generation Will not the younger generation suffer with rheumatism in years to come, from the scanty clothing they wear? (Miss I. W.) Answer—I believe the scanty clothing they wear will build better health for them in years to come. Typists Have Cracked Fingers During many years of work as a typist I suffered much from cracked fingers. I found that by painting the ends of my fingers with newskin, {which quickly hardens, I protected my fingers and relieved the pain and soreness, and the cracks healed readily. I have suggested this to many friends in the same work and they find it satisfactory. (Miss C. M. P.) Answer—Thank you. Newskin is flexible collodion. Be sure the crack- 'ed skin is perfectly clean, dry and free from oil or salve before you apply \the quid. : Pore If there are no pores in the skin where does the sweat come from? Why rub liniment on unbroken skin to relieve sprain or bruise? (F. W. J.) Answer—The sweat comes from the sweat glands under the skin, and is excreted thru the sweat ducts along with sebum or oil from sebace- ous glands. No one has ever shown that anything can be taken in thru these ducts—you can’t reverse the direction of the flow. Liniment relieves by counterirritation. (Copyright 1935, John F. Dille Co.) , BLUE DOOR hy, Rachel ALS © 1935 NEA Service, Inc, BEGIN HEME TODAY RUTH wWoovsoN, fant an She wakens te herself im bed tm a strange room. Before ker at old woman and a handsome young man, wamed JOHN MeNEILL. ‘The ol woman asks, “Are you feeling ‘stronger now, Miss Elatnet” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VI FUAsHicuts reached through the darkness, picking out s @agstone path that wound between autumn-tinted shrubbery. In the low-thrown, flickering light there shimmered the trailing skirts of evening gowns and satin-shod feminine feet. Fe Five young ladies of Graycastle College were assembling for a se cret meeting forbidden by dean and faculty. « “Elaine!” came a complaining whisper, directed at the gigl in front. “Elaine Chalmers, look where you're going! This path doesn’t lead to. the Dell!” “You're telling me?” replied the tall girl in the lead. She looked back and blinked against the glare At @ flashlight that covered her lovely face. Her eyes were as dark as the night itself, her hair was a burnished gold, shading into brown. Her skin was flawless, her lips “made.” Like the other girls, she wore an evening wrap carelessly thrown over her dinner.dress, yet the yellow velvet of her wrap and the paler yellow ‘of her dress seemed to dpminate all those other pastel shades which surrounded her. “I meant to tell you, Hor- tense,” she said, “we're not going. to the Dell. Emerson's on the took. out. We're going to the birch Grove.” , There was an excited murmur from the four girls who followed. Hortense asked, “Can the new girla find us there?” “T’ve attended to that, naturally,” answered Elaine, Her voice was beautifully placed and very inso- lent, All her personality and her egotism vibrated through it. The tratl seemed never-ending. The flagstones ceased and five pairs of daintily shod feet skirted an 18- hole golf course and tollowsd designated it seven years ago, ‘a cult for the conquest of the male.’ It fs fitting, too, that you should know something about this founder, so I shall tell you what I know, omitting only her name.” Hortense whispered in her ear, “Get on with it, Elaine! My feet are killing me—” “Well,” said Elaine, “The Terri- ble Ten was founded by the most beautiful girl who ever attended Graycastle. “ Though she was ter- ribly popular she made the mistake of actually falling in love, The man was some years her senior and he jilted her to marry a mere nobody—a woman almost as old.as himself who had nothing but brains to recommend her. After that our heroine formed this secret circle by asking nine congenial girls to join her. Their object was the glorifica- tion of feminine charm and the an- nexation of male admirers.” She paused to sweep her flash. light from face to face and saw that she new girls were properly Elaine, in the lead, looked back. “I meant to tell you,” she said, “Emerson's on the lookout.” mile of bridle-patt before the birch grove was reached. Here they found five other figures awaiting them, and Blaine turned her flash- light full thto each face for a re- lentiess inspection, Each was a girl io her late teens. Each was breathless with excitement. Each was a beauty in her own right. “O. K.,” said Elaine’s clear voice Driefly. “Lay down your lights and join hands.” ec? HEY obeyed, and the circle of 10 was broken only by the fact that Elaine's right hand retained her light. “We are here,” she said impressively, “to add five lower classmen to.onr circle, This is cus tomary. Last year five of us were taken in by the senior five who were graduating. In this way the circle of The Terrible Ten remains unbroken. It fs fitting that you newcomers—Pamela, Kathryn, Bar- bara, Laura and Janice — should know something about the order you are entering. ‘It’s not an ordi- nary sorority. It, has no lofty or qalted sims. Ut te, 96, ite founder | impressed. This was the very cen- ter of her little kingdom and she meant to rule it. “And now.” she said, “the older five will repeat our which the incoming members will say after us.” “I was made beautiful,” chanted five soft voices, “for the conquest of the male!” Like an echo the five new girls repeated the words, speaking them with a sort of hes!- tant awe. eee ‘THEN came another amazing as- sertion, chanted by Elaine and Hortense and their three assocl- ates: “It is my privilege as s beat tiful woman to win as many dec! rations of love and as many pro Posals of marriage as possible!” This was repeated with even greater intensity by the new girls, “Very good.” said Elaine “Now for our oath: We swear to pursue fe our careers of coquetry and mascu- line conquest to life's end! Amen.” In the silence that followed the taking of the oath there came a sound like a footfall in the dark- ness, but when Blaine swept the place with her flashlight sothing ‘discovered. in Boston who is offering to divorce his wife for her. And I,” she concluded without undue mod- challenged Elaine's attention. “Does any one here doubt this state ment?” she asked coldly. “If she does, she will find evidence on file in my desk and is welcome to in- spect it. As you know, these tangi- ble things count most as proof—” She ticked them off on her fingers, “Written proposals, cards accom panying flowers and gifts, tele grams, fraternity jewelry and en- gagement rings.” ' oe (THE meeting was ending when Hortense drawled arrestingly, “But you haven't. mentfoned your failure, Ela! IT rather think it's time for a showdown on that lit- tle matter—” “It’s getting late,” minded them. “Listen, girls.” Hortense ad- dressed the interested circle, “Elaine's come & cropper and shi keeping still about it. The three old members. will back me on this. We each had a chore to do during the summer and we all succeeded except Elaine. The stunt was to win a declaration of love trom our first sweethearts—or, rather, from the male we first adored. The five srads succeeded, and so did four of us here. But Elaine Chalmers flunked it. She didn’t even try. For this reason I move she resign from the presidency.” Elaine’s face was white as the flashlight played on it. “Hortense, you cat!” she said. “You know T've accomplished enough to make up for it, This Annapolis senior was my second love. Why split a hair?” Hortense’s long green eyes nar- rowed as they rested on her rival. “We all kept to the letter of the contract. All but you, Blaine! Con- nie Ogdon had to vamp the Spanish wator man in her aunt’s Park avenue apartment, because that Elaine re happened to be her first crush—” “Oh,” spoke up one of the new girls, “how sweet! How utterly priceless! It’s like Hilda Conk- lin’s poem, ‘I’m in love with the Janitor’s boy, and the janitor’s boy loves me!’” But Hortense was not to be di- ‘verted. For several years she had been playing second fiddle to this ‘Chalmers girl who was a little bet- ter looking, a little richer and a lit- tle more dashing than herself. The time had arrived to even the score. “I happen to know that Elaine first fell in love when she was 12 years old. It was with a boy named John McNeil! out in Ohio, next door to her mother’s old home. She knows I know it, or have Tung in a substitute on us—" Blaine said, “Hortense, you're 3 devil and a pig. You know I couldn’t waste part of my precious vacation tn that foul little town!” “Then resign,” said Hortense three serious voices almost in con- cert., The darkness held a long m ment of silence before Elal voice said defiantly, “No, [’ll not go to Worthville for living im Grandfather's house but an old caretaker, and she's slightly »|cuckoo. But I'll go: Furthermore,” it- |ahe stated crisply, “I'll get my man. : : (Zo Be Continued)