The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 3, 1935, Page 4

| : } _ure, hamstrung by commercial greediness and _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- fmarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck f@s second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W. Simons Editor Archie O. Johnson Secretary and Treasurer Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily carrier, Daily ty mail, per year (in Bismarck). Datly by mail, per year (in state outsic Bismarck’ Daily Weekly by mail in state, per year Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per i @ e | im Washington | By RODNEY DUTCHER | Go. = aD Democrats Give Up on New England .*.. Swing to G. O. P. Largely Due to Textile Situation ... Imports from Japan Another Source of Soreness ... Fav- oritism for South Is Intimated. ee Washington, Pet ¥.—More than a year before elec- tion, the a tion has counted up thé 41 electoral votes of the six New England states and virtually kissed them goodby, Everyone here admits New England is sore and the general idea is that hardly anything can be done about it. Optimists hope that business will improve to the point that Roosevelt can hold Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which he captured in 1932 while Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut were reasserting their traditional Republicanism, Traveling recently in that northeast corner of the nation, your correspondent undertook to learn more about this state of affairs. There were many hangovers | . | Brbind the Scenes Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts 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 spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Inspiration for Today For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.—Psalms 73:3. The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.—Roche- foucauld. The Paths of Glory Two nations today are in a frenzy. Over the deserts, jungles and mountains of} Ethiopia the war drums boom, arousing the passions of a primitive people to defense of their country. | From the top of Italy’s boot to its heel the} impassioned words of the world’s greatest dic- tator have fanned the flames of national pride and the desire for aggrandizement. In Geneva representatives of the nations of| the world sit helplessly, tacitly admitting that} organized efforts for peace have proved a fail-| unwillingness to yield one iota of economic ad- vantage. Proof of the latter statement will soon be forthcoming in the failure of the League of Na- tions to bring cooperative action on sanctions because there are nations that sit around the peace table which would prefer to profit by traffic in the sinews of war. From our government leaders at Washing- ton, however, come words that give hope that America will remain neutral. Twenty years ago, quiet orders went out to the ministry, to political subdivision leaders and other mouth- pieces of a nation that the gospel of preserva- tion must be preached, and it was’ preached with the result that the United States soon was embroiled in a war that was not of its own mak- ing. Today the secretary of state has appealed to these same leaders to preach peace, neutral- ity and the wisdom of remaining unentangled in the quarrels of others. “Present dangers are a challenge to the church to engage in what should be nothing less than a flaming crusade,” Mr. Hull declares, In other words, America should arm itself with the cross rather than the bayonet. And from other official quarters come warnings to a public to remember the lessons of 1914, to recall the danger of speculation in commodities, stocks, bonds and those other articles of commerce that go into the knapsack | of a nation at war. { The pitfalls that trapped America in 1917 are as present today as they were then. Whether America marches around them or falls into them is a responsibility that rests with all the people. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse must not rampage over this nation again for the quicksands on the path of war glory lead but to economic, political and national graves. A Wail from Alcatraz Once more we are informed that Alcatraz prison, the island hoosegow which Uncle Sam maintains for his toughest prisoners, is a place of brutality and oppres- sion. The information comes this time in a letter from @ convict smuggled to the outer world. Warden James A. Johnson's reply to the charge is worth hearing. “The cry of brutality is a convict’s time-worn means of ‘turning on the heat’ on a prison,” he says. “It is to be expected from Alcatraz prisoners, who, under the very purpose of the prison, are under the strictest dis- cipline of any American penitentiary.” Alcatraz, you might recall, is not filled with ordi- nary convicts. It is reserved for the ultra-dangerous men—criminals, many of them, so tough that the ordi- nary prison will hardly hold them, They aren’t men to be handled with kid gloves. Charges of undue brutality in this prison will need to be very detailed, circumstantial, and fully substantiated before they will worry the average citizen very much. : Wi to Motorists ‘Texas courts have held that a motorist who is blind- ‘at night, end who hits something while so blinded, is guilty of negligence. s!of that brand of Republicanism commonly called “re- actionary” and no area is more horrified by “the spend- ing program.” Introduction to the New Deal has come largely through such folks as the not-so-popular Jimmy Roose- velt and Gov. Jim Curley of Massachusetts. These fac- tors are to some degree offset by Roosevelt's appeal to the “common man.” But the big boil on the New England neck is the state of its textile industry and Roosevelt is generally blamed for failure to reduce the size and pain. eee THREE SORE SPOTS The New England viewpoint was ably outlined to me Leh Basil Brewer, publisher of the New Bedford Standard- imes. Brewer was one of many New Englanders who felt the cards were stackéd against the northern cotton- textile industry when Roosevelt appointed to investi- gate conditions and problems a committee consisting of Secretary Hull, a low tariff man; Secretary Wallace, high priest of the processing tax; Secretary Roper, whose background and interests are southern; and Secretary of Labor Perkins. The committee's report, Brewer says, was a “washout.” The south’s low wages and abundant cheap labor supply, the AAA cotton processing tax, and Japanese textile imports are the chief sore spots and the first fac- tor is primary in the tendency of northern mills to move south. . see e BLAME LOSSES ON TAX Recently the big Pepperell Manufacturing Co. re- ported a last-year business of about $29,000,000 and a loss of about half a million. The concern paid some $4,000,000 in processing tax and New England feels that jf there had been no processing tax such a company would have had something between an even break and $3,500,000 profit. The AAA replies that the tax is uniform among all mills and that losses would have been the same without it, because’ cotton textiles is such a fiercely competitive industry. ‘The Pepperell company recently estimated it could pay 10 per cent above southern wages and operate prof- itably. But the average textile wage differential between north and south is placed at from 15 to 17 per cent. soe CHEAP LABOR HURTS With NRA and its code-fixed differential out and an apparent strong New England prejudice against “tinkering with the Constitution,” conservative business men feel organized labor could solve the problem by a hard organization campaign in the south—with fewer strikes in the northern high wage area, where its ranks are strong. Here arises another complication, because cotton farmers averaged only $400 cash income last year (it was $242 two or three years ago), indicating a large cheap labor reservoir which would threaten a higher wage structure. Japanese imports have hit some textile constructions hard and generally tend to depress prices. New Eng- land wants Japan put on a quota basis. see SOUTH GAINS, NORTH LOSES _ | It’s said in Washington there are now 38,000,000) American cotton spindles in place, which at 80 hours a week would consume about nine million bales a year. Last year’s consumption was only 5.2 million bales. Large overcapacity is indicated. But New England's spindles dropped from 18 mil- lion in 1921 to 85 million in 1933, while the cotton- producing states, operating longer hours with lower wages, increased theirs from 16 to 18.5 millions. And New England, though far from as conserva- tive as she used to be, probably—barring a dimmution of its present anti-Roosevelt attitude—will vote for a conservative Republican candidate next year. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other _LDITORS The Effects of Deflation (Minneapolis Tribune) What five years of depression did to the book values of America’s farms is clearly set forth in a report based on the current agricultural census which was ‘given out on Saturday. According to this report the value of America’s farm land has declined 31 per cent since 1930. Expressed in dollars, this means a decline of more than $14,995,000.000 from 1930 to 1935. ‘This decrease in total value was apparently unaf- fected by the fact that the census had also,shown an increase in the number of farms, as well as an expansion in the total acres under cultivation. Despite the fact that there were half a million more farms in 1935 than in 1930, and that there had been an increase of 68,000,- 000 in the number of acres under cultivation, values of farm lands in the aggregate, showed a marked decline. This deflation in book value should make it easier for some persons who did not appreciate its seriousness in the past, to understand just what was the basis for the farm mortgage troubles which the country has ex- perienced in the last few years. Unquestionably the distressed selling brought about through mortgage fore- closures played an important part in depressing land values during this particular five-year period. With the assets on which these mortgages were based declining so rapidly, it should not be difficult to understand why mortgage moratoria and refinancing “plans came to be matters of first importance in agriculture sections, Fortunately, however, the present importance of the facts revealed by this gericultural census are largely historical. The most serious aspects of the farm mort- gage crisis are over and the last few months have brought reports of rising land values and a steadily growing de- mand for good farm lands. Likewise, land values are strongly influenced by farm income and with farm in- come recovering, the value of the land itself is recoup- ing some of the losses suffered in the last few years. Farm income reached its low in 1932, but it has been Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them, {| Which Is It? : (Chicago Tribune) According to a United.Press report of speeches before the Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting in New Orleans, Gen. Smedley Butler, who now seems to be posing as 8 case which produced this ruling arose after a ead driver had failed to exercise proper the court upheld, and its ruling is river, it held, must anticipate the im his path. If a headlight blinds to slow down or stop until he re- F , and hits some- all motorists, reformed man of blood, told the gathering that “I was Genial American republics, using my marines 10 calc Central ” not from Washington,,but from IT MIGHT PAY You BOYS TO WATCH THIS GUY A UTTLE WHILE LONGER ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935 The Old Maestro OLITICS | NATION'S CAPITOL By HERBERT PLUMMER Washington—The late Huey Long’s filibuster in the closing hours of the last session of congress has cramped the style of those charged with ad- ministering the far-reaching social security legislation, but the driving force is there despite the lack of funds. : It's being supplied by the youthful chairman of the social security board —John Gilbert Winant, former gov- ernor of New Hampshire, soldier, teacher and pioneer in the field of labor relations and welfare work. Despite the shortage of funds, plans for future procedure are being carefully mapped out by the board. ‘The 44-year-old “New Englander by adoption,” with black unruly hair, studious demeanor, and retiring dis- position may well be considered at- tuned to the vicissitudes of the epoch which produced the New Deal's so- cial security program. ee * FORMER GOVERNOR Born in New York, at the age of 14 his family moved to Concord, N. H. Young Winant was placed in the | exclusive academic surroundings of St. Paul’s School and from there went | to Princeton. His interest in labor | and welfare activities dates from his graduation, He was elected to the New. Hamp- shire legislature in 1917, but hardly had taken his seat before the world war broke out. He enlisted in Paris as a private, jumped into aviation and soon was commissioned lieutenant and the captain, commanding the Eighth Observation Squadron on the French front. After the armistice, Winant slipped back into private life as teacher of history and second vice rector of his again, however, and by 1921 he was back at the state capital as a senator. Came 1925 and his 36th birthday and he was elected governor, the youngest chief executive of a state of his time. He was reelected, the first governor of New Hampshire to serve two terms since 1879. Then he was elected for a third term. xe * ‘LIBERAL REPUBLICAN’ As governor he pushed through the “New Hampshire plan” which was lat- er to become the “share-the-work” movement under the Hoover adminis- tration. The New Deal pressed him into service when the textile industry was having labor troubles and as chair- man of the board of inquiry the tex- tile workers went back to work on the basis of his report. Next came an assignment to Geneva as assistant director of the International Labor office of the League of Nations and then the chairmanship of the social security board. tance in the political field, some of his party leaders with their eyes on future presidential timber with a li- beral grain have mentioned his name prominently, Many wouldn’t be sur- prised to see him make a strong bid for the G. O. P, nomination in 1940. Someone may think that I, as an old soldier, believe that “march” talk is all glory, flags, and bugles. Like hell! I say that literally. All I can think of is blood and guts, rotting, stinking bodies—mud.—Rep- resentative Maury Maverick, Texas, * * * Blueprints prepared in the last 10 years for the next war... call for moving 3,000,000 of our young men across the sea to engage in a war old school, St. Pauls. Politics called somewhere else. 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And it must meet the new day in success- ful competition with every other form of government on earth. — John V. Brennan, prominent Detroit jurist. ! xk ® Much nonsense is being talked of the need of certain nations to ex- pand. Both Italy and Germany could support their present popula- tions in comfort under a sane eco- nomic system.—Lord Strabolgi, war- time British naval leader. Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ‘ Dr. Brady will answer qq Your to health but not dis- to atniny ee ters briefly and in ink. Ad Brag yin eat eat The Tribune, ‘All queries must be accompanied by a atdmped, self-addressed envelope, GIVE A MAN MILK HE CAN. DRINK : Bovine tuberculosis, typhold fever, scarlet fever, septic sore throw it, un dulant fever, and in rare instances possibly diphtheria may in milk, before ‘The: agitation to make compulsory the par-boiling of all milk it is sold,-pasteuriaing, as it is called, is based ostensibly on that fact. a is well to remember, however, that the process of par-boiling or Letts! ne ising (which consists in heating the milk up to 140 to 155 degrees lau from five to 20 minutes, depending on the degree of heat, and then y it cool off) not only retards the growth or multiplication of any Lge in the milk but also retards the growth and multiplication of the lactic bacilli which are naturally present in milk and serve a healthful pur: pose in the alimentary tract of man. Such par-boiled milk does not sour fresh raw milk does. Some people misinterpret this ig that it is better milk and that ad sh re Ke He a ee beyond @ fresh ition, Personally, althoug! uty rg next best, I'd prefer water to Leia ized milk that is over two days old, bao ad i Lea or autumn. can’t cite authority for this. Just a notion of mine. Somehow at @ snooty dinner I always manage to take off using the » implement the hostess indicates is trump, but as we clear away the bad mains of the fish I grow careless and at the finish I find I have only butter knife left to attack the pie with. Likewise I’d travel all day any day for the joy of standing by while the cow js being milked and then quaffing a & deep dipperful of the warm milk, with the aroma and all... that's how fe I feel about milk, While that is necessarily a rare treat, I do want my milk raw, at least, and the fresher the better. Oh, I'l not spurn the par-boiled article-if there is no pure raw milk to be had. But no one can tell‘me that pasteurized milk compares at all favorably with pure raw milk \s in taste. I think, too, that few connoisseurs who know the flavor of Grade ’ A Raw milk and especially Certified milk will be disposed to differ about this. Incidentally, there are many undernourished young persons who should have at least a quart of good pure milk daily but do not get it be- cause they imagine they don’t like milk—they base this notion on their dislike for pasteurized milk. They scarcely know what pure raw milk tastes like. One reason why I can’t feel enthusiastic about the attempt to make pasteurization compulsory is that the Montreal typhoid epidemic a few years ago was traced to what purported to be “Pasteurized” milk—which proves you can’t rely on the human factor and milk officially marked Be ” is not always so “safe” as some politicians would have the public think. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS No More Dentors © Looks as though Ol’. Doc Brady’s idea is right. The first half of the y course in the School of Dentistry, University of Buffalo, is taken by stu- dents along with students in the School of Medicine. As this is recognized as one of the best medico-dental schools, you should derive considerable satisfaction from such confirmation of your teaching. (T. 8. G.) Answer—Good. My teaching had nothing to do with it, probably. I just saw it coming. Won't be long now. Every dentist should be a doc- “¢ Y tor first. Poisoning Rats and Mice If ———————— {s used on buttered bread to kill mice will the mics die in the walls of the house or will they come out where they can be disposed of? (Mrs. W. K.) + Answer—Usually they come out in search of water and die in the open. Details in booklet “Unbidden Guests’—send ten cents coin and stamped addressed envelope for copy. . Bad Food What to do if one gets sick from eating canned food, like lobster or chicken? (K. P.) Answer—If the illness occurs within an hour or two after eating, it is probably not a serious illness, or it is not due to the food just eaten, In cases of botulism the symptoms come on many hours after the food con- taining the toxin was taken, and are usually not of the “indigestion” type. The ee sensible course in such sickness is to have medical advice ime 5 (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) hk BLUE DOOR - © 1935 NEA Service, Inc loor jousekeeper, BERTHA BS, whom she later leases ¢0 Johm ts uneasy about the girl being alone im the house with the queer old woman bet Ruth as- sures him she is not afraid. Si rying about me. but I like it” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIII N immense stone building, across whose windows iron bars kept guard perpetually. This was the thing the man at the flower-beds hated with a consum- ing hatred—his home. Along the graveled walks a party of visitors was being con- ducted by a guard—men and women carrying open notebooks and ever-poised fountain pens or pencils, They asked questions and wrote down the guard’s answers avidly, consulting each other as they wrote, chattering, alertly around, sometimes laugh- ing. Laughing! The man who bent over the flower-bed gritted his teeth in hatred of all the laughter on earth, They called him Mr. Smith. He was a trusty, and he was espe- cially good with flowers. They said he had been a botanist in his day. Sometimes John Smith's hatred hung suspended and im- potent: in the dark chambers of his heart while he contemplated an opening flower, a budding Plant, a struggling seed, but it never went away entirely. He kent it there, ready to use against lite and the people who had mis- used him. A plan was forming in Mr.| sh, Smith’s head. As he worked the soil around # purple chrysanthe- mum he thought the thing out. He would leave with the vis- itors when they went away. In an hour, perhaps two hours —he could not be sure because of the tumult in his mind—! heard them coming. The same guard was with them, a man whom he did not now by name or sight. A man who perhaps did not know him. On this thread hung bis first hope. As they circled the grounds, following the graveled driveway and observing the “Keep Off the Grass” signs, they passed quite near the flower-bed , . iB. ee bejsadad passed Mr. Smith without @ glance, for there was noth- ing aboutchis neat, thin body and quiet, shuttered face to attract attertion, As the last of them went by he straightened himself and joined them. im his hands) your imagination too far—” As he held a notebook and fountain| hi smile faded he was recalling pen. He was taking notes. the feel of his hands on a certain They were approaching a high| hated throat... . He wanted to stone wall where the driveway led| sit quietly and think. Not of that, to an iron gate. Guards with guns/ but of the thing he must do next. paced the broad top of the wall.| Of his way of escape when he Cite suarus Joye et gee te should leave this car. ir, Smi movi into the Ick- But the earnest little sch est ote crowd and continued) teacher who was taking a aaa with his notes. course in psychology would not When the gate presently clanged | let him think. She asked, “Did behind them his knees felt sud-| you get all that lecture on the denly weak, and the breath of his] routine of the inmates? He talked body too light to support him. | so fast I couldn't take it down." A few cars were parked out-} “I didn’t take it down either, side, but most of the crowd—| but I think I remember it,” said there were perhaps 50 in all— moved toward a street car which was waiting on a switch, The car bore the sign: “CHARTERED. NORMAL SCHOOL.” Mr. Smith, still midway of the crowd, boarded the street car. He sat down in a vacant seat be- the obliging Mr. Smith. And he Bave her a fairly accurate account eee tne es of those who dwelt . In ie walls he ee had just Mr. Smith noticed that every- one was getting ready to get off looking | 7°UF side 8 woman who looked a little tired and vague. Presently the motorman eclanged his bell and they moved off. Mr. Smith looked over his notes... . The vague woman him in a troubled way. “Did you get much out of it?” “Yes and no,” Smith guardedly. The woman said, “I feel that way, too. I suppose a lot of these people feel as if they know all there is to know about the crim- finally insane, just from this one trip through the institution.” Mr. Smith frowned. “That ts utter conceit,” he answered. “No replied Mr. one understands the eriminally. oot insane. Not even the The greatest fools on earth are of fools!* “Would you care Pd write that down?” asked the ‘little woman earnestly.’ “Not at all,” Mr. Smith as- the car which had stopped bet. ee puitatlon, this ay without walls or guards. It w: mal School, ane Mr. Smith got off with th crowd, paying his dime as he aid so. His hand touched a billfold in his pocket gratefully. There would not be the dearth of money that Most fugitives had to face. +++ “Good old Bertha Gibbs!” h ‘BH could not remember, only knew the money a safe in his pocket and had been, there for a long time. His -body changing, his car. He r, moved “CHARTERED, NORMAL, sured her, and watched with sat-| “CROSS TOWN, Hert tte’ isfaction as she did it. She said then, “I'd type is most to be feared because he's often an intelligent person with & screw loose. He has a delusion. He nurses it-and weaves bis life who teaches the young time to study psychology. could @ man like you be a poten- tial murderer?” Mr. Smith smiled with econ- straint. “Well,” he replied, “per- haps not myself. That i OF LINE” WN, NORTH. END Bot on. He rode John Smith » but he to the end of the line, ‘hat oie? cat to be remembered, He sot off at @ brisk shopping com- munity, where there were numer- ous small stores and many People would tax] "(le Re Continued)