The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1935, Page 6

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Navy Day In view of the unsettled condition of world affairs, Navy Day takes on new importance for America this year, for we would be crim- inally negligent if we were to permit our first line of defense to become obsolete and inade- quate. | The one thing we can be sure of is that no! one can be certain of what is going to happen | in the next few years and we must be prepared , for all eventualities. Protestations of a desire! for peace will not keep invaders from our shores| if the world becomes involved in another Armageddon. | That our navy will be able to meet whatever obligations may be imposed upon it is indicated by recent developments. The last congress and | the one before that, taken together, have made} great strides in the effort to build our navy to H the strength assigned us under the treaties now about to expire. Taking it for granted that American skill and efficiency are equal to those of other na-| tions, it would appear that our navy, while not} prepared to support invasion of any strong power, is or soon will be adequate to fend off attack by any one other nation. With a new proposal for a naval conference under consideration in the chancelleries of the world, it might be well for us to take stock of; the situation as it now exists. Although our nation is assigned by treaty a navy equal to that of Great Britain, our sea} 4 defenses are definitely inferior to those of Eng-| ; ' land. At the same time, they are somewhat 2 superior to those of Japan, the third naval i power, and far ahead of France, Italy and Ger- many, the other leading maritime nations. England has 15 capital ships, six aircraft carriers, 52 cruisers, 165 destroyers and 56 sub-/ marines. | The United States has 15 capital ships, four) aircraft carriers, 26 cruisers, 211 destroyers | | and 84 submarines. \ Japan has nine capital ships, four aircraft carriers, 34 cruisers, 102 destroyers and 57 sub-| marines. | j | | Brat BAe eine submarines. Italy has four capital ships, 27 cruisers, 83 | destroyers and 69 submarines, while Germany! a: has eight capital ships, eight cruisers,.32 de- : stroyers and one submarine. Neither Italy nor! Germany has an aircraft carrier. This showing, however, is not. quite what it| seems on the basis of present effectiveness for the United States has many “over-age” ships whose effectiveness is impaired by age and obsolescence, On the basis of “under-age” craft the list- ing is as follows: Great Britain, 980,238 tons; the United States, 731,510; Japan, 648,415; France, 367,229; Italy, 294,806; Germany, 60,- 100. With more ships being built and authorized it would seem that we are in good position to maintain our place in the naval sun and to pro- tect the nation, particularly in view of the fact that there are no indications that we will be called upon to wage a war in foreign waters. a ¢ a BRQRESTES SESS Another Warning Fifteen square miles of land near Steele are burned over by North Dakota’s first important prairie fire of the present season. Happily no one was injured and the property dam- ‘sige was relatively small. Generally speaking, no harm was done. France also has nine capital ships, one air-| ehind the Scenes | | in Washington | By RODNEY DUTCHER | fo} i si What to Do With Surpluses of Food Remains Vexing Question . . . Much Still to Be Bought for Relief... Odd Problems Bob Up in Potato Program. eee Washington, Oct. 28.—The old question whether it’s @ good idea to dump, destroy, or suppress “surpluses” of food while millions of people are on the edge of starvation is again an issue in New Deal councils. There has been some compromise in Roosevelt's prev- ious firm determination to abolish the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, which has bought tens of thousands of tons of foodstuffs in the last two years for distribution to families on relief. The FSRC will be transferred from Harry Hopkins’ soon-to-vanish FERA to the AAA and federal purchases for the needy won’t be abandoned—at least not entirely. The president, however, still has the theory that wages of the work-relief program and the turning of direct relief back to the states virtually end the necessity or desirabil- ity of free food for the unemployed. And that is vio- lently disputed within both the agricultural and relief organizations. It is contended that WPA wages usually won't provide adequate diets for families, especially in face of rising | prices, that the program of ending direct federal relief is only crawling, and that there will still be plenty of sur- pluses which should be bought from farmers to maintain prices. eee TO DUMP OR NOT TO DUMP? The issue comes to a head through an amendment in which Congress recently appropriated 30 per cent of customs revenues to aid in effectuating the AAA program. More than half that amount seems destined for pay- ing the subsidy guarantee to cotton growers. That would leave perhaps $45,000,000 to be spent for disposition of surpluses—through export or diversion to relief channels. The big argument now is as to whether most or all of that sum will be spent to finance dumping foodstuffs abroad or whether most or all will be used for relief purchases. Present tendency in AAA is to feed the surplus food to Americans rather than foreigners, but many congress- men and some farm groups would prefer to see it dumped. Privately, officials admit that the amount of surplus foodstuffs to be distributed for relief this winter will de- pend on the extent to which the unemployed shout for it and the pressure which farm groups exert for purchases, once a no-dumping policy is announced. KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS “I've got a good story for you,” officials occa- sionally tell a correspondent, “but please say it happened in some other government agency—not ours!” For instance, here’s a tale that comes by that route: A female executive in one administration sent out for a copy of a certain official speech and a subordinate soon returned with it. ere’s the text of that speech,” he announced. “I don’t want that,” she snapped. “I want the whole thing!” SPUDS VEXING PROBLEM Tons ‘of potatoes presumably will be bought by FSRC. (Its most recent acquisitions are five million pounds of butter and ten million pounds of dried skim milk.) There are some funny things about the potato pro- gram, which has been such a great source of grief here, which the AAA isn’t telling anybody. Believe it or not, the forthcoming “reduction” pro- gram for spuds is likely to result in lower prices for pota- toes than would the absence of any program at all. AAA economists have advised confidentially that the effort to penalize overproduction probably will result in more pro- duction than they anticipated. The reason: For a long time potato production has been running in two-year cycles. After two years of big production and low prices—such as the last two years— potato growers ordinarily cut acreage drastically, where- upon potatoes become fewer and higher in price for a couple of years, whereupon potato growers start planting big crops again and so on. Next year’s crop had been expected to be small, but. the AAA program's promise of better prices is expected to cause more planting than the cycle would have inspired. So the experts figure the price won’t rise much more than 15 cents a bushel. One reason the AAA doesn’t explain this is that no- body would believe it. Another is politics. Such elector- ally important states as New York, Pennsylvania, Michi- gan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Minnesota—to say nothing of Maine and Idaho—grow a lot of potatoes. (Copyright. 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) ° With Other DI TORS agree with them. es — —=8 Why Try Another? (Chicago Tribune) Although pessimism is the prevailing tone in the preliminaries to any naval conferenge which may be at- tempted, the signers of the Washington treaty are going ahead with half-hearted preparations for the renewal of the agreement. They know the prospects are all dis- | couraging. The ratio of limitations fixed upon at Wash- Reprinted to show what they say. | We may or | may not | craft carrier, 18 cruisers, 80 destroyers and 97/| ington was made possible because the United States did ; an unbelievable thing in giving up ships which would | have made its fleet the most powerful in the world. Japan soon recovered from the conciliatory mood promoted by the act of the American Don Quixote. The fact that Tokio submitted to a technical inferiority has been used unceasingly by Japanese chauvinists as an illustration of occidental insolence and an offense to Japanese national pride. So in the end the Washington conference made a new difficulty for every one it at- tempted to dissipate. Recent events have raised British fears for the se- curity of the empire and its sea routes, and the disturb- ing signs come from quarters which were not seriously regarded when the size of navies was considered. The various agreements signed at Washington, along with the navy limitation, such as the treaty for the protection of China, have not held water, and during the life of these pledges the ground has shifted under the feet of the negotiators. In a changing world this could have been expected, Experience has thrown its weight against altruistic treaties. They do not restrain an aggressive nation when it gets started in its stride. Nations which, for the time being, are content with what they have usually find only embarrassment in trying to deal with the other fellow upon the terms he has so indifferently signed. It would cause no real lover of peace a particle of anxiety if every pretense of holding another international conference to renew, the expiring naval agreements were abandoned. An attempt to get another understanding is likely to raise more misunderstandings than it will settle. So far as the United States is concerned it would be much better off if it did not undertake to determine what other peoples should have but kept close to its own busi- ness of deciding what was best for its own purposes, As @ free agent it will not be half as much suspected of intrigue as it will be if it engages in international con- troversy regarding the size of other countries’ naval power, Indiana man, 90, divorces wife, 70, on grounds she married him for his Civil War pension. Even the 19th century, it seems, had its gold-diggers. Braddock says, “I like tough punchers like Louis; I know what they're going to do.” But in his fight with Louis, he'll probably find out from friends. ‘We're still trying to figure out whether Ariel’s trans- continental Lagi of Caliban was publicity for that jure, . , “Livermore, Calif., honors Max Baer as a leading citi- zen.” The title undoubtedly originated from his habit of leading with the chin. | those terms played an important |part in the submergence of the Re- {publican party—Alderman L. W. | Fairchild, New York. | ee & | Human life cannot go on unless we | forget a great deal. It is so with na- hehe ial in- | tions. Is it useful to rake up past America certainly will be drawn in. history to rouse antagot that to war if we continue the present, . nism # 4 = . |Should not exist?—The Rev. Dr. G. W. policy of trading with warring na- | Butterworth, New York. tions—Admiral William 8. Sims. EEO OEEnY pone * * * I hape to see the time when our! Musically and on its own merits, speakers will never again refer to our |“The Star-Spangled Banner” would country as a democracy or speak of |never be put on a high school pro- democratic principles. The use of gram.—Dr. John L. Tidsley, assistant, CHAPTER Il | superintendent, New York City high schools. ** * I personally think that Geneva should discuss the necessity of col- onies being given to over-populated countries. The world simply must recognize the problem and do some- thing about it—Italo Balbo, governor general of Libya. “ke * There are signs that our western civilization, after all its ingenious ef- forts to drive godliness and gain in double harness, has come to a fork in the road—Dr. W. P. Merrill, New York. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ertaining to health but net ats~ or diagnosis. Write lette ortetly and in ink. Address Dr. rady in care of The Tribu: ‘All queries must be accompanied by & stamped, self-addressed envelope. Dr. Brady will answer questio UNIQUE CAUSE OF ANGINA PECTORIS Article on angina pectoris which appeared in your column about eighty months ago undoubtedly saved my father’s life, writes B. H.C. And this is the story: My father is the head of a large corporation and was, at the time of his first attack, chairman of the board of directors Of........++++++ University, among other responsibilities. Worry brought on the dis- ease. His doctor recommended amyl nitrite pearls and men- tioned the fact that nitroglycerin tablets might aid in warding off the attacks. However, the doctor did not impress the latter fact upon father as being of any but very doubtful value, and until the time when your article appeared the attacks were becoming increasingly frequent. My father had become somewhat despondent and we thought that we were him. Since the clear explanation in your article of the use of nitro- glycerin tablets he has had no more attacks, and for the past few months has not needed to use the tablets. I wish that you could know how much this has meant to our family and to my father’s friends, and I congratulate myself on the small part I had in discovering article and showing it to him. (B. H.C.) Well, if father were to send me his unused stock of cigars league boots or any other little token which he can no longer use himself, Td have a faint conception how much it has meant to his family ‘We don’t know the nature or cause of angina pectoris. When it comes to the art of diagnosing angina pectoris, I can’t tell whether the man has it or whether he is just a Republican by birth. I do get the impression, in my browsing and listening in on the discussions of real doctors, that maybe a number of conditions may give rise to the “attacks” called breast E E i will bring an end to the trouble if the nerve degeneration has not advanced too far. ‘What, vitamins for heart disease? That’s what I said. Partial vitamin deficiency is now recognized as @ factor in many instances of loss of compensa- tion or breakdown in heart disease. ‘As for the nitroglycerin tablets—I repeat that it is safe for any adult with anything akin to angina pectoris to take such a tablet, containing, say, 1/200th of a grain, whenever he wishes, or perhaps regular every hour or two for some weeks. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Calcium Lactate Following your suggestions I tried calcium lactate and I wish to repor' it brought relief to giant hives with which I had suffered for years. physician first had a blood test and found my blood calcium was below normal. But he also gave me both thyroid and parathyroid with it, and he switched to calcium gluconate which certainly agrees better... . (E. B. R.) Answer—Thank you. Perhaps the gluconate is easier for some persons to take—only it is more expensive. Raisin Wine Daughter and I drink every evening for supper a glass of raisin wine. We make it ourself from raisins, lemons, sugar and water. Is it harmful? (Mrs. W.) ‘Answer—For the elderly or feeble sometimes wine sparingly used makes life easier. For a young person it is not advisable. Bedtime Bath Small brother, aged 12, has to take a bath every night before retiring. Friends think it is not healthful. (I. K.) Answer—No objection to it if the bath is just tepid or cool. Young skins can stand plenty of soap and water. Old skins, it is not 80 good. Fifteen Per Cent Off ‘Thank you for your “Design for Dwindling.” 1 followed your instruc- tions implicitly for 10 weeks and lost 28 pounds. In the past three months have not varied more than a pound or two from my normal weight, 150 pounds. I am 67 inches tall, 48 years old. Feel years younger and 100% better since I got rid of the excess weight. (E. J. McD.) (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) by Robert Bruce © 1935 NEA Service, Ine, couldn't see"him.. .. (Continued from Page One) “Listen, Jean, I mean it,” he said. “You don't want to slave in a qty office all your life. Wouldn't it be more fun—I mean, even if we didn't | have such an awful lot, just at first | —aw, Jean, honey, say you'll marry me!” He leaned toward her, and his hon- | est, snub-nosed face was very earn- est. Jean put the good-looking stranger out of her head and reach- ed across to pat Bobby's hand. “Bobby, I like you a lot,” she said. “You're just a peach. But can’t you see my side of it? We're both of us so young. ‘There’s so much to do, and so much to see, before we get respect- able and settle down. I'm spoiled, I guess, but I don’t want to be just a housewife just yet. I want—oh, Bob- by, I want to play. I've only been away from home for six months. I like being on my own. I like being) independent. Don’t you see I want te enjoy it a while?” Bobby sighed. “You were in college for four years,” he protested. Yes, and if you call that being! independent, you're crazy,” she re- torted. “I mean being out on my own, earning my ‘own living and all. Don’t you see?” “But we could get the neatest little apartment,” said Bobby, as if that! answered her objections. “Regular parlor-bedroom-and-bath arrange- ment, and you wouldn't be tied down. Why, you'd be more independent than you are now. You'd be more your own boss. You wouldn't have to trot down to an old office every morning. And pretty soon we could buy one of those new sport roadsters, and go—” * * * “Pretty soon!” said Jean. “Bobby, dear, I don’t want to hurt your feel- ings, but I’m just not one of, these nice home bodies that can start out on a@ Shoestring. It’s not as if’— she paused, trying to pick her words tactfully—“Bobby, if you were on a! regular salary it might be different. But you know yourself that selling autos is awfully, awfully irregular. One month we'd be flush and the next one we'd be living on salmon and crackers. The strain’d be too much . .. I guess I’m pretty selfish,” she finished apologetically. j “No, no,” said Bobby hastily. Then he said, “You mean—if ‘—suppose if I had a nest egg laid away—say a couple thousand dollars—would you look at things differently?” She smiled at him, and Bobby re- flected irritably that no girl with long droopy eyelashes ought to smile at a be kissed. “You make me sound like a cheap little gold-digger, Bobby,” she said. “But would you?” he persisted. “Bobby,” she said, “I like you bet- ter than any man I know or ever have known I'd marry you tomor- row, only I'm not ready to marry any- body yet. And then—please don't be hurt, Bobby—I do think that if we did get married, we ought to be bet- ter prepared financially.” “Then,” pursued Bobby, “if I can lay away two thousand dollars, will you marry me?” She smiled at him with the fond- ness of a friendship that extended back to childhood; and she reflected Instead of $12 relief check, New Jersey coal dealer, in error, federal check for $250,000. Surprisingly, he wasn't told to-keep the change. Crowds storm New York planetarium. Many of them, ‘having learned there were stars inside, undoubtedly were ‘sutograph hunters, - that it would take Bobby, the newly launched auto salesman, a very long time to lay away any part of two thousand dollars. “You do it, and then come and see me,” she said, laughing. “Listen, the music’s starting again, Let's dance.” man in that way unless she wants to: AS Bobby pushed his chair back, they realized that two men had come up to their table. One of them was Art Lanning, the pro prietor of the Golden Feather night club. He wore a dinner jacket, had dazzlingly sleek black hair brushed back from a pale forehead, and he seemed just a little bit too affable and suave to be entirely reliable; but then, Jean told her- self, he must be all right, for hadn't her own boss introduced him to her? Lanning’s companion, she real- ized with a little, startled thrill, was the good-looking young man who had been so noticeably watch: ing her from his table on the other side of the room. He was tall, and broad-shouldered, and although he wore his tuxedo as if he were used to it, he seemed to have an out doors air about him, as if be be longed on the western plains some where instead of in this stuffy, overcrowded night club. Perhaps it was his hair that did it. It was sandy, and it refused to lie down in the well-trained manner of Lan- ning’s; instead, a long forelock drooped down over his forehead, making him look like a cowboy who had got used to the city but who, nevertheless, intended to go back to the range some day. Lanning was smiling his stereo typed smile—the smile of a man who is everybody's friend but who watches all the angles, just the same. He put his hands on the table and leaned his big bulk ov them. “You don’t mind ff I Introduce) an old friend of mine, do you?” be said. “This is Sandy Harkins— Sandy from the. hair and Harkins from the family. Sandy, this charming young lady is Miss Jean Dunn, and the lucky man with her 4s Bobby Wallace.” Bobby got up and stuck out bis hand. Harkins extended a large, well-manicured hand and gave him a firm grip and a friendly emile. Then he turned back to Jean, to whom he had bowed while Bobby was getting out of his chair, and said, “We're not butting in, are we?” ‘They murmured polite denials. “Well,” said Sandy, “you know how it is. Here I am, a stranger {n this town, sitting here wishing 1 could just have one dance before I leave, and not knowing ® sou! to dance with. And then my friend Art comes up, and I see him say hello to you folks as he passes your table, and so I get up my nerve and I think, ‘Now maybe if Art takes me over and introduces me to those people, I could get that one dance—just one dance.’” He grinned disarmingly, as if to say, “Shucks, I’m just a friendly guy from the country, and nobody gets mad at me.” Then he turned to Bobby and said, “Would you object if iked your young lady for just one little dance?” His voice sounded vaguely south- ern, or western, or something, Jean thought. It was lazy and pleasant, and it made you like him. Even Bobby seemed to be taken with him, “Not at all,” said Bobby, grin- ning back at him. Sandy Harkins turned to her again. “Lady, 1 need a dance awful bad,” be said. “I'll bring you back “Well, look who's out seeing the sights,” said a man’s voice. Star. tled, she looked up. Bobby had sprung to his feet, and was eagerly shaking hands with a quiet-looking, dark-haired man in & neat gray lounge suit; and as the man turned to her she recognized him and said, “Why, Larry Glenn—where’d you come from?” eee ARRY GLENN shook hands with her and helped himself to s vacant chair at an adjoining tab! which he drew up between her and Bobby. He sat down, leaned hie elbows on the table, and smiled first at her and then at Bobby. “I guess I'm getting old,” he said “The children seem to be growing up.” Seeing him was almost like going baek home. She had not seen him since she and Bobby had been in high school. At one time he had been the unwitting object of her first schoolgirl crush; she had been a high school freshman then, and he had been a person of glamour and romance—the college football star, back in the home town to coach the high school football team. He had been a friend of her I, earlier, staring at you sage and sound to your boy friend as soon as the music stops.” “Then,” said Jean, “we'd better start, because this number's going to be over in another minute.” i oeiutkecd : music finally stopped. ‘HE got up, slipped into his arm, and they glided away as smoothly as was possible, consider- ing the crowded state of the dance floor. He was a good dancer, she discovered, moving with the effort- less grace of the born athlete; for & moment he was silent, as he back to the table. maneuvered her through the crowd. Presently he looked down and grinned, “I didn’t bother you, did I, ear- hang up on me? lier, staring at you?” he asked. her own name. But what was the “Were you staring? I didn’t |harm? A telephone call, after all notice.” —and besides, he was nice-looking, “No? Baby, don’t tell papa lies. Anyhow, I didn’t mean to bother you, and I hoped you wouldn't be mad. But how could I help. look- ing at the prettiest girl in the place?” This was pretty obvious, thought jJean; still, she admitted, it was rather pleasant. She made flippant reply, and he went on talk- iog in an easy, lazy drawl. She learned that he was in this city | H lof Dover tentporarily, that he had no {dea how soon he would leat that he was in some sort of bust ness—she wasn’t quite clear just lwhat—that kept bim traveling about a great deal,.and that he had no hesitation whatever ip de claring that she, Jean Dunn, was tops. She grew gay and Aippant “Try and see.” he?” he asked. Bobby with real ten Sandy was a good dancer. He asked, “I ant bother you, did in response to his mood, and before long she discovered that she was enjoying this dance very much in- deed; so much so that she felt a genuine pang of regret when the “Would you just faint and fall in it if I should call you up some day?” he asked, as they started “No,” she said slowly, “but you don’t know my phone number.” “Don’t worry about that, baby. What it takes to find out phone numbers grows on me. Would you She ought to tell him not to call; she knew that as well as she knew and he had an amusing way of talking. She found herself saying, They got back to the table, and Harkins and Lanning left them, after a few moments of inconse- quential talk, Bobby followed them with his eyes as they walked away. “Seems like a nice chap, doesn’t Good old Bobby! thought Jean. probably jealous as can be, inside, but he’s too nice to show it. And she had a sudden revulsion of feeling, in which she looked on told herself that she would marry him as soon as—well. as soon as well, some day; and meanwhile, it Mr. Harkins did cal) her up she father’s, and he had often dined in their home—and had looked down on her with an amused and friend- ly toleranca Then he had- gone east, somewhere, and she had that he had become a lawyer, and later had heard that he had some obscure but interesting kind of job with the government. And here was again, older and soberer with friendly eyes and a firm and an older-brother air that somehow / i z 3 E Se 3 cities? Hy : 5 E i S i as “She's a bug on earning her own living now, but some day she’s go- ing to marry me,” said Bobby, ig- noring the face she made at him, Larry Glenn looked from one to the other. “Well,” he said, “I heard a couple she checked herself and said, “Well not just now, anyhow.” “They're drifting that way,” sald Bobby, “but not fast enough.” “There's lots of time,” said Larry. He looked at them fondly in silence, then turned to Seas. “I got a letter from your dad tell ing me you were up here,” he said. “I promised I'd look you up. No” —hastily—“not to try to keep an eye on you. Just to say hello, and maybe take you out to dinner once in a great while, if Bobby doesn’t ~ object too much.” “I don’t object at all, to you,” sald Bobby. “It’s handsome stran: gers like this Harkins guy that get me worried.” “That.” sighed Glenn, “seems to indicate that I’m hopelessly un- romantic and aged. ‘would just tell him that she (To Be Continued) And whe is"? this Harkins guy, anyway?” :