The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1935, Page 4

4 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- marck, N. D, and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck 8 second.class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year $7.20 Daily by mail,-per year (in Bismarck) 720 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck) ...........0sssessseeeee Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year ...... 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In St. Louis, some 70,000 people gathered to help the American Legion make a joyous, | ®° noisy festival out of its national convention. In Cleveland, close to 100,000 people gath- ered for the seventh National Eucharistic Con- ehind the Scenes in Washington By WILLIS THORNTON Rum Row Rapidly Becoming Memory . . . tion Is the Answer . . Energetic, Lean, Tanned Harold Graves . . . “Foxed the Foxes” in Halting Smuggling . . | Soon Will be Only ‘s Legend. soe may be a thing of the past. of illegal liquor has, for practical purposes, been cut to nothing at all. Something like a year ago, when treasury agencies, such as the coast guard, alcohol tax division, customs men, secret service, internal revenue agents, and nar- cotic agents, were placed under cq-ordination of Graves, liquor estimated at 2,000,000 gallons a year was being smuggled into the country from abroad. Now the flood of illegal liquor is believed to be not more than a fifth of that, perhaps less, and certainly a trickle that is robbing the country of less than a million dollars a year in revenue and affecting the liquor market not at all. Co-ordination of treasury agencies under Graves in- to a “Treasury Police” force numbering nearly 13,000 men is certainly responsible for a great deal of this curbing of smuggling. Agreements reached with smugglers’ bases such as St. Pierre Miquelon, Belize, St. Johns, and Cuba, to pro- hibit exports obviously destined for smugglers’ trade, has done the rest. The “romance” of Rum Row is pretty much a thing of the past. eee PLAN GOES OVER—BIG! Point of the co-ordination of treasury agencies, in which Secretary Morgenthau has taken an active part and interest, is this: liquor smugglers are almost always mixed up in dope smuggling, immigrant smuggling, and domestic distribution of both. Hence, to have the heads of the various forces con- cerned with those things meet weekly under the eye and direction of the co-ordinator was a logical step that made them all more effective. It has worked—in a great big way. Graves, the lean, tanned, energetic man who sits in @ plain office across the street from the White House, so close that you could toss peanuts over to the squirrels on oh Presidential lawn, doesn’t put out much on the de- tails. But here's the kind of co-ordination, outlined by other treasury officials, which has brought grief to Rum Ws Radio technicians of the alcohol tax unit of the treasury were intercepting messages from an unlicensed land station to what turned out to be a British rum smuggler. The decoded messages showed that the ship was some 60 miles off shore and the station was some- where north of Boston. So the radio men moved into gress of the Roman Catholic church; and 43,000 of them assembled in a great open-air meeting addressed by ex-Gov. Alfred E. Smith. In New York, slightly fewer than 90,000 people packed the Yankee Stadium to watch the Louis-Baer prize fight. Now it would be hard to imagine three more sharply contrasting events than these; and the fact that they were all held on the same night, drawing people from all parts of the country, is more than a little significant. A war veterans’ convention, a great re- ligious conference and a prize fight, each pull- ing its thousands of citizens from distant cities and towns—what a testimonial to the essential unworriedness (if that clumsy word: is per- missible) of the American people! For it must be remembered that these are not ordinary times. We are just coming out (or we hope we are, at any rate) of the worst depression in our his- tory. Our social institutions have been put under a strain such as they were never before called on to face. Great nations overseas have given way under such strains. Dictatorships, the tramp of regimented thousands, the tense preoccupa- tion with vital matters affecting the lives of millions—these are the signs of the times abroad. And at home, too, there are ominous signs aplenty, what with labor difficulties, farm un- rest, continuing unemployment and a dark hori- zon in the world of finance; so that thoughtful men now and then wonder darkly if our coun- try, too, may not be on the verge of giving way to one of these expressions of mass dissatisfac- tion which change the course of a nation’s his- tory. These three events, at St. Louis, Cleveland and New York—somehow they have a reassur- ing sound to them. They reflect a general con- fidence, a nationwide faith that the traditional ‘American scheme of things need not be changed beyond recognition. A country that can hold three events of this. kind on one day, each so utterly different from the other two, each one drawing its thousands of people from all sections of the land . . . well, such a country must be getting along pretty well, after all. Veterans for Peace It is an encouraging thing to see the men who did the fighting in the last war providing a forum for anti- war speakers. The annual encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at New Orleans, was addressed by a number of speakers who demanded that America stay out of the next war. Chief among them was that old frrepressible, Smedley Butler. “Every war,” said General Butler, “from the time of the landing of the Pilgrims, has been fought because somebody wanted to make something out of it—and somebody always did.” No one should have more interest in a statement of that kind than men who have actually gohe to war. ‘The Veterans of Foreign Wars do all of us a service by reminding us that it is possible to have a sturdy patriot- is poo f POI CORPS that vicinity and intercepted come more messages. see ‘ “FOX” THE SMUGGLERS ‘They obtained co-operation of the coast guard and local highway police. They ran down the unlicensed station in a private house in a little Maine town. Then officers raided the station just as the operator was sending a message to the rum ship. One of the government men simply sat down at the key and continued to send messages to the rum ship, using the same code, which had previously been de- ciphered. They told the ship to be at a certain place at a certain time Tt was. A coast guard cutter was waiting for it. Result: Eight of crew arrested, 6000 gallons of illegal (and untaxed) alcohol seized, and a clear trail uncovered to @ big Boston smuggling syndicate. Six radio trucks, capable of running up and down the coast to any needed point, have opened to govern- ment ears practically all the radio conversation between rum ships and their land contacts. Messages can be relayed to decoding points and back again so fast that you (and the rum runners) would be surprised. SYSTEM HARD TO BEAT | Further, the treasury’s contacts with ports of ship- ment of illegal liquor have been perfected to the point where it is little exaggeration to say that Graves knows to the gallon where every bit of liquor is that evidently is destined for the smuggling trade. And when 10,000 coast guardsmen, 250 narcotic agents, 1300 men of the alcohol tax unit, 150 customs agents, 650 border patrolmen, 180 secret service men, and some 200 men of the intelligence unitof the Internal Revenue Bureau are all turned loose as needed from a central direction, it is usually just too bad for the smugglers. And that is why Rum Row, the picturesque creature of prohibition days, is practically a legend today. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) Reprinted to show what they say. We may or With Other Eprrors The Sales Tax in New Jersey (Minneapolis Tribune) Because sales taxes are a lively political issue in sev- eral states just now, the result of the primary election in New Jersey last week, in which that state’s sales tax was an issue, has attracted wide interest. Forced to take the tax to the people, Governor Hoffman lost the de- cision. A sufficiently large number of the members in the state assembly were nominated to virtually insure the Tepeal of the sales tax in 1936. In the course of the cam} those who defended the sales tax argued that the state was forced to find revenue somewhere to meet the costs of relief and that no better method for raising funds was to be found than the sales tax. Just how the state is going to solve this dilemma next year remains to be seen and it is not at all unlikely that the search for a levy to replace the one on sales may prove an insurmountable task. It is not difficult to appreciate why the opposition to this tax in New Jersey proved so powerful in the primar- fes. As ® general rule people do not like to be taxed, re- Saniiess of the purpose of the levy or the manner in which it is to be imposed. As a consequence any poli- tictan who is able to make a convincing promise that he will do away with an unpopular tax is likely to find the Co-Ordina- . Brains of the Cleanup Is He . So lt Washington, Sept. 28—There is genuine prospect that “Rum Row” as it was known in prohibition days The various treasury agencies co-ordinated under direction of Harold Graves, assistant to the secretary, have “turned on the heat” to such extent that smuggling a rs = aoe | Blessings on Thee, Little Man, Barefoot Boy With Cheeks of Tan THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SA'TURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1985 Your Personal Health . By William Brady, M. D. to health but not aise 7 letters briefly and in inl ress Dr. PA hn eee ot ene Tribune, all ‘queries must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. NUTRITIONAL Al_ERIA Atrophy of the lingual papillae accounts for the shiny, red tongue, which is; smaller than normal end without the normal coat. Phy refer to this as “bald” tongue. It is a common feature of hypochromis anemia, It is likewise a common feature of vitamin B and vitamin G de- ficiency. Bald tongue is readily pronounced in animals by withholding vita- min’B and vitamin G, and within a fortnight after these vitamins are re- stored to the diet the tongue becomes normal. Brittleness and ridging of the nails, which become fiat and in some cases concave or spooned, is another common feature of hypochromic anemia, and likewise of vitamin deficiency. The led, inelasti¢, prematurely wrinkled skin of the young woman ; with hypochromic anemia 1s @ familiar sign of pertial vitamin B and G de- ficiencies. In hypochromic anemia as well as pernicious anemia variably absence of hydrochloric acid and pepsin in the gastric juice and generally insufficient gastric juice secreted, but an increased amount of mucus. Similar impairment of appetite, gastric secretion and motor func- tion is a feature of deficiency of vitamins B and G. Discussing hypochromic anemia in the American Journal of the Med- see Sees cdion'ih pritary hypochromle anemia tnight scoounte for G6 drochloric tion in y lor de- fective digestion of iron-containing ‘focd, thus resulting in an iron deficiency in the body. i In that observation, Dr. Dameshek leaves the cause of this type anemia in the air. He assents to the thesis I am trying to set forth here. Hy) anemia is not idiopathic, but a disease resulting from faulty nutrition. In other words it isa nutritional disease, and the cause is short- age of vitamins in the diet. This is merely my notion about it. I dare say it won’t be long now until the profession at large adopts some such view ‘as this. Primary achromic anemia is nutritional anemia, and the fundamental cause is shortage of vitamins. If this is true, as I think it is, then the cure of h; anemia demands that the patient receive an optimal ration of vitamins, not just B and G, but all of the vitamins, whether iron is given in old-fashioned forms and doses or in the modern way. Indeed, if my thesis is sound, adequate vitamins alone should effect the cure, without any iron medication at all. Within @ year, I hope, I may be able to announce this as a fact established in actual practice. That is the only way such a problem can be settled. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Home Dropsy Medicine I know of several persons apparently cured of dropsy by the daily drinking of about a pint of tea made by steeping in a pint of water a teaspoonful of burdock, a teaspoonful of prickly a8h and four teaspoonfuls of juniper berries for two hours and cooling. Drink the pint daily and make a new supply each morning. (R. G. W.) Answer—It is harmless, at any rate. @105 NES OLITICS NATION'S CAPITOL By HERBERT PLUMMER Washington—The futility of a state dictatorship such as that of the late Huey Long in Louisiana is one of the principal topics of conversation among politicians and political ob- servers around Washington. And the conclusion usually arrived ‘at in such discussions is the familiar, “I told you so.” The death of the Louisiana “king- fish” at the hands of an assassin came in the near peak of his state dictatorial career and his one-man rule left his lieutenants in confusion as to which, if any individual, could carry on. Tight-bound as Long’s organization was, built up solidly from the ground over a period of some seven years, he ruled it single-handed, for the most part controlling it by “favor or fear.” He made all decisions, distrusting the Thitiative of his subordinates. Because of the structure of his po- litical machine, the aftermath of his death was expected by observers to find his lieutenants divided faction- ally in an effort to gain control. * * * Prophecy Withdrawn Such has happened. “After all is said and done,” one; of Long's closest friends said when the end came. “I believe every man {or the assassin’s bullet didn’t bring him the thought of death but curi- Lad to know why the man had shot im. The first words thé “kingfish” ut- tered as he was carried from the scene of the assassination were: “I wonder why he shot me.” tri ed States. This was the largest num- ber of people to move from one coun- try to another in a single year. more fruit than do Englishmen, 4 Suggestions in your booklet have helped me to reduce from 196 to 175 pounds without inconvenience. Two other effects have been decrease of profuse nose and throat secretions and complete indifference to alcohol, which I had used immoderately for years. (S. B,C.) ‘ _Answer—From the correspondent’s letter I am not sure whether the booklet “Regeneration Regimen” or the booklet “Design for Dwindling” showed him the way back. Copy of either on request, if you inclose ten cents coin and a stamped envelope bearing your address. (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) In 1907, 338,452 inhabitants of Aus- ‘ia~Hungary emigrated to the Unit- Americans consume a great deal Grandfather baile the in the Long organization will put his love and devotion to Long above per- sonal ambition and that the organ- ization will show a united front in support of candidates endorsed by the organization.” Hardly having finished this state- ment, he saw a front page newspaper: account of Long’s lieutenants wrang- ling for control. He put the paper down with the laconic observation: aad mind my statement. Forget It was through state political fac- tionalism that Long was enabled to climb to his dictatorship, Shortly after he took office as governor in 1928, he began to build his organiza- ee by playing faction against fac- on, Gradually he merged with his group of submerged major political factions, hie final victory coming in New Or- Jeans where he split wide open dur- ing the past. year the “old regular” orgenization which had dominated the politics of Louisiana’s principal city for years, | ** * | Foes ‘Decreased’ In his early years as governor he kept a black-covered book listing the Political register of the state. In it NOW GO ON WITH THE sTORY CHAPTER 1X AYtsR @ bath in the big, old fashioned bathroom that opened off her bedroom, Ruth’ dressed her self with great care. She put on the white linen blouse she had bought en route and set her nat- urally curly, short bair with the aid of a comb and a few hairpins. * Even though her future was as obscure and unpromising es a young woman's future can very well be, Ruth was happy in the midst of this strange and piquant adventure which had befallen her. For a few fleeting hours a! playing the role—and playing it convincingly—of a girl who has everything. “No matter how drab and com. monplace life is for me after to was classified friend and foe. As the years passed the list of foes decreased to a group that was determined never to deal with him or his organization. His first state legislature, which impeached him, was a marked poli- voters exceedingly ready to listen to him. This is par- ticularly true in the case of the sales tax, since it reaches so large a part of the voting population. Under almost any circumstance the levy on sales is unpopular and every reminds the voter of its existence. Yet the sheer force of necessity is bringing this tax into ever wider use. It is not surprising, therefore, that in = political test on an issue of this kind the apologists for the sales tax should find themselves at a disadvantage. The situa- tion in New Jersey was also aggravated by the fact that its sales tax did not exempt food. This sition to the levy a ready-made Liga be effectively e1 i : ii Chicago housewives ask president whether “breath- ing spell” applies to food. Still, they aren't really com- pelled to buy lmburger. “Whisky drinkers declining,” says news headline. We thought very few of them did. tical contrast to his last which, with hardly a voice of opposition, enacted ali legislation he dictated. Ever foremost in his interest was his political empire. Even the pain FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Te ton’t beastly weather untt! it’s raining cate and dogs. _ day.” she reminded herself, “I'l! ys have this funny little inter. to remembe! Yet even as she hummed a tune and anticipated John McNeill’s ar tival, her thoughts were beginning to grapple with the problem of to morrow. .. . She would leave at dawn, walking out the wide, tree shaded etreet that led to Cleve land, She'd manage to get q ride In that direction, “Other girls do it,” she told ‘her. eelf, “and no harm done, All: you ueed Berve and a level head T'll develop both after I've knocked around s while.” John McNeill was arriving! Downstairs she heard bis cheer fal volee greeting Penny. He bad evidently come in the back way from his home next door. Ruth was lu assailed with curiosity concerning |: John’s house and she went to the window which afforded the best view of it Only a tall althea hedge separated the two big lawns, The MeNeil) house was not oearly so large as this, its neighbor, and was of red brick instead of stone, but it was more homelike. {0 gpite of its old-fashioned contours ‘(it ac tually wore a little turret op its roof!) {f still bad an air of today. The lawn Was perfectly kept, and Ruth could see comfortable, pillow. _ filled chairs on the tong veranda. “Miss Elaine!” called Penny urgently, and Ruth turned and rdo down the OHN McNBLLL greeted her tole the ball, taking both her hands tm both of his, “We're doing bet “Te BLUE DOOR irs, all care laid aside, Rachel AR iade @ 1939 NEA Semvice, toc, herself disliking Elaine Chalmers as the symbol of all those selfish, pampered children who have more of this world’s plums than they ‘]meed, Then she recalled that to night she was Blaine herself and must remain in character. “But you were just old enough to be scornful,” she bantered. “I kissed you once,” he remarked, as if it had become suddenly im- portant. “I suppose 1 did it just to tease you. Have you forgotten?” Ruth said, “A girl never forgets her first kiss.” Again she felt thrust of dislike for the girl she was supposed to be. “Let’s go help Penny,” she suggested. Penny gave them aprons and let them do as they liked. Ruth set the table while John and Penny argued about the steak. The silver and china which the old woman had given her to use were cheap and ordinary. “1 guess they’ve taken away all the fine old Chalmers things,” she thought. Then she paused in her tracks to figure something out. This was not ‘a Chalmers house, for that name belonged to Elaine's father, and {t was her mother who had lived here. Her mother was th ughter of the old raflroad: king who had owned, and perhaps built, these walls. Not to know th family name gave Ruth a sudde feeling of insecurity. There was & way to find out— HE slipped from the room, clos ing the door behind her. She crossed the hal) to the big dark Ubrary which. was k of the drawing room. There she took trom @ shelf a book and carried it into the connecting drawing room, into the circle of firelight. She opened to the fly-leaf and found something which she had hoped was there, an old book plate bearing the Latin words, “ex Libris.” Underneath, in a strong, clear masculine hand, @ made the test with several . John said, “I called you and you didn’t answer. 1 had the feel- ing you might have left as suddenly as you came.” ter,” he. said, smiling down into;to girls’ camps, you now.” her dark eyes. “We've developed | seemed a safe answer. @ double handshake! Well, what] “Ag I recall you,” said Joha Mo have you been doing with your |Neiil, “you weren't a very useful self?” child. Ornamental, though. When “Exploring the house,” Ruth an-|you’d come back for one of your swered, and tl added shame |little ‘summer visits all the kids lessly, “There's so much I'd for-jin town would hang around to see gotten. The drawing room for tn-jwhat you were up to.” stance.” fi ,| “And what was I up to, gener John said, “There used to be a/ally?” Ruth questioned. gold clock..om the-:mantel. And| «pPienty,” he assured her, “Show: Some was flowers at each end. Are|ing off for the little natives. Invit It EERE they still there” $s ing them to parties and bossing “Yes,” replied Ruth. “Come and|them. Dashing around town in that Tl show you.” She took him into|chauffeured car with « foreign the big room at. the. left of the|name—the typical little rich girl wide entrance hall. A fire blased coming back to her mother’s home town.’ ie i & 8 T a conceited young idfot 1 must bave been in those days,” Ruth remarked, enjoying berself thoroughly. “Can. you re call anything at all nice dbout me?” “Yes,” nodded John, McNeill. “You were always-as game as the devil, They say you were never known to take.a dare, You could outride and outswim any kid’ in town.” Z ~ “The advantages of wealth!” Ruth pointed-out. “Swimming and horseback riding come easy to chil- dren who've been provided with beaches and horses and bridle athe.” She realized that she was peaking a little bitterly. Back in her own dreary. childhood there'd 6 “Well” John’s ition held surprise. ‘foe yen Penny to shine up -the and start 2 fre?” — “1 did {¢ myself,” Ruth told him. bottle of furniture pol rtain brush.’ { used effect’s very nice, 1 potated: with pardon- lable pride to the burgundy velvet jeurtains et the tong windows and to the carved mahogany furniture which she had brightened. “Gosh, yes!" agreed’ Jobo, took- {ng around. Then: be: tooked: at the irl. bereelf. “But imagine Blaine ever get old room “Ob!” eafd Ruth. “What have 1 Gone to deserve all this?” . “Tust_ being yourself,” he said Gently as he tield her chai Ruth felt she would always be that he had not said, “Just aloe. Ly hits would be sweeter to remember—tomorrow, *