The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1935, Page 4

An independent Newspaper ‘ ) THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER i (Established 1873) i State, City and County Official Newspaper ___ SERS eae Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- Marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck @s second class mail matter. George D. Mann Led President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons @ecretary and Treasurer Editor B Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ..........-.- Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). oes k Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of ; Bismarck) .............eseeseeeeeees Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state, per year Weekly by mail outside of North 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 4t 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 I will therefore chastise him, and release him. —St. Luke 23:16. eee The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime—Tryon Ed- wards, Court Dispels Doubt The decision handed down by the New Jer- Bey court of errors and appeals in the case of Bruno Hauptmann is worth a little study. Hauptmann was convicted of a murder which, for the depth of public horror and anger which it aroused, was probably the most shocking ever committed in America. His trial was inevitably the center of nation-wide inter- est. The verdict was received with nation- wide satisfaction. But because the conviction was based en- tirely on circumstantial evidence—which a pop- ular misunderstanding somehow conceives to be of less value than direct evidence—and be- eause he has had vocal defenders who have in- sisted that he was a victim of prejudice, there has grown up here and there a feeling that the cumbersome processes of the law managed to jay hold of the wrong man. | Anyone who has such a feeling should} glance briefly at the appellate court's findings. i “Our conclusion,” says the court, “is that! the verdict is not only not contrary to the weight of the evidence, but one to which the) evidence inescapably led.” | Why? Because, first and foremost, Haupt- mann was caught with the goods. He had the] ransom money in his possession; and the court points out that Hauptmann’s own story of how he got the cash is simply unbelievable, adding that his method of handling it “makes clear his guilty connection with the enterprise.” Secondly, it was proved to the hilt that the ransom notes were all written by Hauptmann. |® They were in his handwriting and they used peculiarities of spelling and language which he habitually used. It is an inescapable inference, says the! court, that the man who wrote these notes en- tered the Lindbergh nursery and took the child.! Lastly, there is the fact that some of the| wood used to make the ladder by which the) kidnaper entered the house was traced to Hauptmann’s own home, and that on a board in his home there was written, by his hand, Dr. Condon’s telephone number. Adding these facts together, the court con- fludes that this “was a circumstantial case ‘with the evidence pointing to guilt from so} i many directions as to leave no room for a rea-| Bonable doubt.” | H All this is worth keeping in mind. No crim- : » final trial in our generation has held American i s4tention as did Hauptmann’s. ; * Those who have the notion that Haupt- } ‘mann, after all, might have been guilty of a monstrous miscarriage of justice should reflect | on the points raised by the appellate court. i These points ought to satisfy them that : {there are few cases in which a prisoner’s guilt fis so firmly established as in the case of Bruno Hauptmann. ; Crude Press-Agentry if Moving picture press-agentry never was distinguished 4 by its lofty good taste. But an all-time low seems to ae have been set with the propagation in Hollywood of a ‘ story to the effect that Shirley Temple is having a love ) affair with a 10-year-old boy. Someone put over a picture of these two children, ‘with a caption stating that they are principals in Holly- ‘ ‘wood’s latest “romance.” Shirley, we are assured, “fell hard” for the curly hair and dark eyes of the lad. Nothing more disgusting than this has ever come out of Hollywood. We expect bad taste in the press- agentry of adult sters. After all, they are presumably old and intelligent enough to stand it. But that any- one, even in Hollywood, should be so abysmally crude and stupid as to think that an obviously faked tale either please the general public or make life decenter pleasanter for the children themselves—that, even & land used to the imbecilities of movieland, is hard believe. g se -|vating or rejiggering something or other) must be checked eral civil employes in March, 1933, and August, 1935, gbout = “romance” between two 10-year-olds would ‘og ehind the Scenes in Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER Roosevelt to Start Nickel Nursing . . . Deep Slash in Payrolls on Way . . . Ax to Bite Deep Into NRA. . . Big Cut to Come by Nov. 15. Washington, Oct. 18—Faced with rising clamor against big federal spending, the Roosevelt administra- tion is planning to pull in its horns and nurse the nickels. Drastic cuts in personnel, budgets, and various proj- ects may be expected this winter. Radiograms from the U. 8. 8. Houston, bearing gen- eral orders from F. D. himself to heads of virtually all departments and emergency agencies, forecast this defla- tion of the New Deal machine. Cabinet members and administrators have been asked to prepare studies and data showing how government personnel can be cut to reasonable or normal size, with indication that the cutting process will be carried out in December, January and February. All federal projects (every bureau is building, reno- as to their status, commitments made, and possibilities of curtailment. Budget studies are to be made accordingly. Some high officials believe the results will be spec- tacular, and hazard guesses that the reduction in federal personnel may affect anywhere from 15,000 to 50,000 fed- eral workers. First effect is sure to be a general checking of po- litical endorsements of employes. Those with weak po- litical backing will be the chief sufferers. eee GOOD FOR A LAUGH All week long, at matinees in a local vaude- ville, house, a comedian would crack, when a few customers were arising to leave: “I hope all the NRA employes won't go home now.” It always drew a big laugh. eee DEEP SLASH ON THE WAY No one here at this time seems to be privy to Roose- velt’s plans, but certain previously known facts encour- age the deduction from the radioed orders that a cut-to- the-bone drive is in prospect. The recent shift of Republican attack to expendi- tures and the topheavy administrative machine will be answered by the economy effort, although it cannot be considered to have caused it. The big fact is that Roosevelt is compelled to ask the next session of Congress for much less than the eight- billion dollar budget which he demanded last January. Not long ago he was hoping to enter the campaign year with the promise of an actually balanced budget. Per- haps he still does, Thanks to the relief problem, the only way it seems possible to achieve even a technically bal- anced budget would be to save and store up money here and there in the present fiscal year. Budget estimates for the 1936-37 fiscal year could be made on a very low basis with the realization that the Congress convening in January, 1937, could vote further emergency appropriations if necessary. There's reason to suspect that F. D. may have some such ideas in the back of his head, though the degree of success in taking the government out of relief, the career of the WPA program, and business conditions are all pertinent factors. eee NRA TO FEEL AX Increase in the federal payroll seems scandalous to many, even here in Washington. There were 566,986 fed- showed 770,128. There's plenty of deadwood in that, but the ironic fact is that most of it is political lumber which will be left intact. NRA, whose 2760 employes and $7,000,000 payroll have stirred up caustic Republican attack, will be first to feel the big ax. As a result of White House orders, at least 550 NRA employes will be dismissed by Nov. 15 and others probably will follow rapidly. . . . Ickes’ relatively ef- ficient PWA organization likely will be cut to pieces. ; - - Housing and other FWA programs have been decim- ated. . . . Tugwell has already begun demobilizing a large part of his Resettlement outfit. . . . With army engineers virtually in charge of WPA projects, marked economies may also be expected in the Hopkins organiz- ation. . . . And that, you may be fairly sure, is far from the half of it. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may agree With Other DITORS America Collects Some Territory (New York Times) The annexation of new territory is unquestionably the fashionable international sport at the moment, but one in which we had scarcely expected to find the United States participating. Fortunately, the newly announced “occupation” of Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands— microscopic bits of coral lost in the enormous reaches of the equatorial Pacific—has been achieved without the use of tanks or poison gas or the air bombing of the local population. There appears to be no local popula- tion, though one authority rashly assigns thirty inhabi- tants to Jarvis. Nor is the next world war likely to revolve about our claim, There seems, indeed, to be some doubt as to whether we do not own the islands anyway. All three have been formally claimed as “appertaining” to the United States under the act relating to the “guano islands”—Jarvis and Baker in 1856 and Howland in 1858. One well known American atlas still shows Howland and Baker tagged “U.S.” The British “Statesman’s Year Book,” on the other hand, includes all three under a rather vague aegis of British imperial protection; the standard British atlases usually assign them to Great Britain when they do not leave them unmarked. In the wanderings of geographers, whalemen, guano merchants and storm-driven mariners through those seas there are no doubt grounds for shadowy claims by other powers; it can hardly make much difference, as they are worth- less in themselves and there is no reason why any nation should object to our utilizing them as seaplane harbors. They are far away from Japan and from the routes to the Far East or even to the outlying Japanese man- date islands. Jarvis lies very close to the straight-line course from Hawaii to American Samoa and New Zea- land; Baker and Howland are farther to the west, but could also be useful only on a route to New Zealand or Australia. They might, it is true, provide a long way around into the Philippines if the new Pan-American Airways line through Wake Island and Guam should be interrupted, but it would be a very long way around and would involve the utilization of British territory. One recalls the slightly comic diplomatic maneuverings over the ownership of Wrangell Island in the Arctic, or of Admiral Byrd’s frozen empire, and doubts whether these claims will lead to any more serious issues, But what is really interesting is the fact that there still are such bits of territory at large in the world— mites of land uncertain of their latitude and longitude, shadowy as to jurisdiction, appearing casually on some maps and ignored by others and figuratively thumbing their coral noses at the precise regimentation of cartog- raphers and statesmen. Apparently, air transport is now to rope them in, pin them down exactly on the charts, give them a flag and assimilate them with a time sched- to the burdens of civilization. Ethiopians will learn what war is really like if the apres, Siva ot thee span: Allan SONA pte ne at a le. Cotton industry at a loss to explain a sudden demand for sheets. Unless of course, the Prince of Wales has The Best for Centuries _ Whenever publishers sit down to make up lists of “best sellers,” they never have Myles Coverdale, an Snglishman, ‘cout a complete text of the Bible in 1535—the ‘full English text to be printed, although Wyclift given way as fashion arbiter to Gandhi. New York Chamber of Commerce executive says “Machines don’t grow on trees.” On a busy highway, eae trees iseet 3) ras ee Bae ot tee eral 5 circulated a translation in manuscript form a cen- and a half earlier, and Tyndale had printed the 526. occasion is one of the most noteworthy in ell the his- | tory of the English-speaking peoples, Enjoyed by Both Parties Over Here YEAH — THEYRE THROWING OUT THE CONSERVATIVES Too! — —=Gi|quarters is evidenced by the prom- [ DOLITICS inence given it by Mr. Hoover in the keynote address he recently delivered - at the - at Oakland, NATION'S CAPITOL After suggesting that the Demo- crats would have polled far fewer votes three years ago if they had jdisclosed their intent to increase ex- |Penditures, maintain a deficit and in- a. crease the number of government em- |ployes, the former president contin- (Chief of Bureau, the Associated | ag: By BYRON PRICE i} ploring the relief expenditures, he gives no hint of any project, plan, or even an idea of a substitute program to keep the unemployed from hunger and hardship until such time as in- dustry can and will put them back to work.” The statement may or may not have been intended as an all-inclu- sive answer to Mr. Hoover but, for whatever reason, it did not review in detail his charge of lack of frank- Press, Washington) | ines. Your Personal Health | By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but not ie, ‘ ie, Write letters briefly and in ink. Address, Dr. Bialay"in care of ‘The Tribune, All ‘queries must be accompanied by & stamped, self-addressed envelope. REVERIES ON FURUNCULOSIS Puruncle, children, is a five dollar word for boil. Furunculosis, then, amounts to about $37.50 worth of boils, either wholesale or retail. When some of the papers ran six inches of blank space under the heading “Will Rogers Says” recently I thought it was as good as Will ever wrote 50 far as touching the heart is concerned. Now in response to numerous requests for an article on boils I find I can spell and define furunculosis, and it seems to come natural to me to do so at the outset. Odd how we doctors almost instinctively conceal our ignorance that way. Well, here I am with # long, long way to go and nothing to go on. Let me see — oh, yes, come to think of it, I have an informative little mono- graph, replete with scientific facts and not without practical suggestions, which the staff of my furuncular department will be happy to mail to spy reader who has « boil or boils. Please inclose with your request (first time T’ve said please in this connection) a stamped envelope bearing your address. Oh, of course I can’t help picking up odd bits of knowledge about boils in the course of my , and besides in my eighteen years of honest but unremunefative practice I was tough on boils, felons, wens and weeping sinews, as many ® grandfather who lived around Penn Yan in those gory days can tell the young ‘uns. Here are some of the data on boils: 1, Never squeeze a boil. That is strictly the doctor’s prerogative. 2, Never poultice a boil. Can’t go into the reasons here. They are given in the monograph already mentioned. Oh, I think flaxsed is a fine rem- edy for some troubles, but not for bolls. _ 3. To poultice a boil on the face, upper lip, nose or cheek, or to apply a poultice to the cheek for “gum boil” or “ulcerated tooth” or any similar swelling, is a tragic error, for such maltreatment leads to ugly perfora- tions and hideous scars. 4. It is foolhardy for any one to monkey with home treatment of any sort for boils or similar swellings on the face or neck. The only sensible course is to have proper medical treatment immediately, and the submit to surgical treatment if the doctor deems it advisable. 5. The ‘core” of the boil is the gangreneous or dead tissue which separates from the living tissue as a consequence of the invasion of the tissues by the pus-producing germs. It is NOT the cause of the boil, and it is dangerous to permit any amateur surgeon to attempt to “get” the core. 6. A carbuncle is not just a large or hospital size boil. It is an unopposed invasion of the tissues under the skin by pus-producing germs—unop- posed because the victim’s vitality is low and his natural defensive func- tions are weak. Carbuncle is a life and death problem for the surgeon. Furuncle (boil) is merely a little abscess around a sebaceous (skin oil) gland or a hair follicle. 7. And so we get down to the common or domestic pimple, which is a baby boil; a little round elevation of skin, a papule, that becomes irritated and angry. Another time, children, we'll consider what makes the innocent little Papule angry. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS U. 8. P, and B. P. Several customers asking for iodin inquired whether it is marked US.P., saying you had advised in your column not to buy it unless it is so labelled. In view of the present law lodin must be the U.S.P. preparation or else bear ® qualifying statement explaining how it varies. (R. 5. 8.) Answer—I still advise people to look for the letters US.P. (in Canada B.P) on the label. If the medicine bears that mark, you may be sure it is standard strength. (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) omissions, it would seem that the dis- |promses, ‘The Democrats reply: “How pute develops in this fashion: could it have been helped, and what The Republicans say the Democra- | Would you have done?” 6 \that the most vital features of the committee in the form of a ; votes had they informed us that they Putting aside individual issues, the| would abandon the gold standard; Republican indictment against the/that they would revalue the dollar “New Deal” may be summed up, 8S’ py 41 per cent; that they would re- it stands today, in a few brief speci-| pudiate government obligations; that fications: |they would seek to circumvent the That it is unsound economically.| constitution; that they would at- ‘That it is not working in practice.' tempt to socialize and regiment Amer- ‘That it ts contrary to the constitu- jeans.” ea tion, ‘That it violates the Democratic! “Mr. Hoover takes the negative as- promises of 1932. pects of the case. He charges lack The first three of these charges of frankness, rather than actual af-! have peen discussed widely, and Mr./tirmative deception. Other Repub- Roosevelt's supporters have replied jicans, however, have gone further, to them at some length. mo It has been argued on the admin-| form promises to reduce government istration side that new economic mea- | expenditures by one-fourth, maintain sures were necessary if the country/, sound" currency, and enforce was to be rescued from the depres-| strictly the anti-trust laws. sion; that the beneficial results are| gome even have pointed out it was apparent in improved economic con-| the Socialist platform, not the Dem- ditions; and that “New Deal” poll-| ocratic, which proposed such things cies do not actually violate the con-jac » $5,000,000,000 relief appropria- stitution, but merely apply constitu-j tion, » $5,000,000,000 public works ap- tional principles in the light of the propriation, and old-age pensions. greatly changed necessities of the ae Present day. £ ‘There remains the final charge of| ROBINSON'S REPLY bad faith. Republican spokesmen are; A reply to Mr. Hoover's speech was declaring with increasing frequency jissued by the Democratic national state- Democratic platform on which Mr.|ment by Senator Robinson, the party’s Roosevelt was elected have been jleader in the senate. scrapped; and thus far most. Demo- | ‘This statement took exception to cratic leaders have ignored the ac-/the former president’s figures on ex- cusation, or at least have undertaken |penditures, disputed his thesis that no complete reply to it. |e present industrial upturn dated | x ek * from the supreme court decision hold- ing NRA unconstitutional, and con- HOOVER'S INDICTMENT | cluded: The weight attached to this part) “Like every: other Republican of the indictment in Republican!speaker of the present era, while de- Prima Donna HORIZONTAL Answer w Previous Puzzle 20 Chest bore. 1 American WIT CICT INGO ON) JEAIRIL) 23 Hail: prima donna. |9/N/I |O[N] RITMBFIAICII A} 25 To dine. {4 Outside. 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PENNY. mistakes ELAINE CH NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXV1 Upstairs. in the room which had been here for eight days, Ruth Woodson was getting ready to leave, She wae debating a question of ethice with herself. Could she conscientiously take away with her the clothes Penny had turned over to her? “No, { can’t,” was her first de- cision. Then common sense overrode ethics. “I need them to keep me warm and decent. To save myself from pneumonia and belp me to get a job. Lf St Stephen’s Guild had them to sell they’a turo around and use the money to belp some ‘needy and worthy girl’ ex- So why all the fuss? ... ¥ UU take a few of them. Not the evening clothes, of course. Not the navy olue satin, though I'd give my bead for that one. Just the knit dresses and the suit and a couple of telt hats. ['l) take ap extra pair of shoes, too, besides the oxfords on my t. Those are the things | need. The thin sunshine of the early morning had disappeared and the day promised to be damp and ex- ceedingly raw. Thankful for the warmtb of the fur-trimmed sport suit, Ruth put ft on. She pulled a felt hat jauntily over her left oy ‘Now | think I'll carry a couple of books, so ['ll look like a col- lege girl beating a ride.” As she oad no suitcase, Ruth actly neld the extra clothes, She tied tt with @ stout string. And then there was nothing left to do but gather up oer box. her purse, and the two books which she had selected ppropriate. Duncan Aunter's he thought, “for She knew, that he was stil) sleeping. “My strang- est adventure of all,” she decided, thinking of tast night. But there was yet another ad- venture tp store for Ruth Wooa- sop odeéfore sbe should pass througb the. olue dooy into the je descended world again. As the last step of the stood cautiously Penny’s heavy footfall tn the kitchen, a girl came through the dining room door and confronted ber. The stranger was as grace- ful as a tiger and wore a brown tweed suit, a loose fur at her neck and a small brown hat. je bad gold-brown hair and dark eyes. Her features were breath-takingly perfect. eee UTH noticed all this. She also noticed that the girl had been eating her breakfast. She carried @ toasted roll ip her hand. It must be Elaine Chalmers, of course. Ruth said, “Good morn- ing!” Elaine said, “Oh. Leaving us so soon?” Ruth thought, tn panic, “Why did this have to happen to me!” She looked at Elaine Chalmers pleadingly. She thought. “If only she'll let me go and not badger me!” It was too much se ask, of course. Fate never had let her off easily. Elaine said, “You've been using my name, [ hear. Like ite” Ruth forced a smile. “It’s a pretty name and it’s helped me out a lot. Thank you for the use of it.” “You're not welcome,” Elaine replied coldly. She taid the roll down on the hal) table and daintily wiped ber fingers on brown and white sport handker- chief. Blaine said, “It seems foolisn of you to leave when our friend John McNeil} ts 10 Washington.” She watched Ruth's face closely, hoping to discover how deep the other girl’s interest lay. At break- fast Penny -had said, tn response to a question trom Elaine, “Mr. John and ois mother went to Washington sudden-like Monday evenin’. { don't know what for.” Perkaps this girl knew more. Ruth answered calmly, “His going to Washington has nothing to do with my going away. | had decided to go today, whatever happened.” pene felt ap unwilling flare of admiration for this known person whom she was heckling. She thought, “She's better-looking than | expected. She knows how to handle herself. I've got her in a corner, but she hasn't &huckled under. Maybe John’s really fallen for her.” Ruth murmured, “I'd like to go now, please.” Blaine retorted, eyebrows raised, “In my suit?” Ruth’s cheeks famed. She had forgotten that she was wearing this girl's clothes from head to feet. She wished that the earth might open and swallow her. Since that could not happen, she desired nothing eo much as to burst into tears and cry ner heart out. Yet, even as the tears stung her eyelids, she: fought them back. She would not bow down ip defeat before this golden, stinging creature who was tor. menting her. Ruth" said, “They were clothes once. All of them. ad you gave them to St. Stephen's Guild. I'm indebted to the church, 1 believe. One doesn’t mind that Uvec by cheating and tying?” Ruth answered, “You can say those things to me, of course. There’s nobody to stop you.” “Perhaps John McNeill would it he were here?” “No.” replied Ruth with a shake of her head. “I think he'd agree with you.” “So he’s found you out!” Elaine remarked thoughtfully. {[t was something she’d been wanting to know. “And he’s the sort of man to be disgusted by a crooked play.” “Yes,” admitted Ruth. “Dis- gusted. Not that it matters now.” “No?” Elaine retorted. “You mean you've lost interest?” “Dll never tose interest in him.” Rutb said clearly, “I'll never forget him. And | don’t think he'll ever forget me.” eee LAINE’S face flushed. “Do you think @ man remembers all his episodes with girls and wom- en? With your sort of girls, 1 mean?” Ruth looked at her, wide-eyed. “So you believe I’ve had an affair with him! { suppose when a girl's as rich and fashionable as you are it’s smart to be evil-minded.” Elaine said, ignoring the thrust, “How did you come to this town and how do you expect to leave— providing I decide to let you leave without turning you over to the police?” “I came by bus,” Ruth told her. “Tl leave by hitch-hiking.” “One more question: who are you?” Ruth said, “My name doesn’t matter. {’'m just a girl without a jot and without a dollar to my name. My mother was a tady and my father was a bra ;—an officer who died tn France fit the battle of the arg 3 Elaine's eyes flashed. jarefus there! You've borrowed my name. Don’t try to borrow my parents, too!” Rutb answered, with tips trem- bling with rage, “What | said is true. You—you wasp!” “You tramp,” Elaine retorted. “Now get out!” “Not until I've left these clothes behind,” Ruth said coldly and steadily, “I don’t want any- thing that bas ever béen yours 2 ee ae evan She turned Upstairs, ca: the box with her. ides Ten minutes tater she came down again, dressed in a wrinkled blue suit and matching hat, both of which seemed shrunken trom & hard rain. Besides her purse and the two books, she carried a Parcel wrapped in paper—the meager extras she had brought with her to this house. Blaine had her vack turnea, Dowdering her nose at the long mirror. She suddenly felt pasts stricken and regretful. 8 reached for her purse which w: lyin, on the table, opetiea it Quickly and extended a $20 bill. “You'd better take this,” she said briskly, © Ruth brushed it away as if it bad been an annoying insect. Without took: @t Elaine Chal- bei ALG out of the vlue own the steps, her eyes Still clear of the tears that longed to cloud them atteriy. so much.” Blaine remarked, “You're ter- ribl, clever, aren't you? Or should we be (rank and say sou're! Uerribly (ricky? Have seu always! She was not striving tor an effective exit. She only wanted to Bet away before broke, . oie Gaatinnet) Te BLUE DOOR Rachel “Mack