The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1935, Page 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 @s second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher ©. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Becretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year . $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Daily by mail, per year (in state oul Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year .... Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associaied Press is exclusively entitled to the} use for republication of ull news dispatches credited to | it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous crigin published herein, s of republication of all other matter herein are rved. ehind the Scenes in Washington fashington, Oct. 30.—The administration thinks it is still doing a rather spectacular job in driving down electricity rates over the country. The other day it learned that a town in Texas had obtained a reduction of 67 per cent in the price of its domestic electricity and 55 per cent on commercial power, That's a record to date. It happened in Wharton, Tex., where the city fathers had decided to build a $200,- 000 municipal plant and had asked PWA for a loan- grant. The project was approved only to the extent of put- ting it on PWA's “B list,” which meant it would get the money only if it could be substituted for a project on the “A list” which was withdrawn. \ But that was enough to cause the private power company serving Wharton to offer to make that drastic rate cut if the city would withdraw its PWA applica- tion, Wharton has withdrawn. eee OTHERS GET RATE CUTS Similar recent withdrawals of applications for ap- proved power plant projects have been received from __ | Jamestown, N. D. Inspiration for Today Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is |/ truth.—St. John 17:17, || eee i Truth is established by investigation and delay; | falsehood prospers by precipitancy.—Tacitus, Halloween Observance | Organization of the Boy Scouts of Bismarck | to aid in policing the city during Halloween re- | flects a laudable enlightenment in dealing with the problems of youth. In the old days adults were content with saying “thou shalt not” and made no effort to substitute constructive activity. As a result their orders frequently were ignored and much | lt PWA has approved loan-grant allotments of about $32,000,000 for some 46 municipal plants and about 60 | Projects for additions to public plants or power plants for institutions. The work is under its power section, headed by Dr. Clark Foreman, who wouldn't be surprised at quite a few more rate cuts and resultant withdrawals. aoe CROPPERS TO GET BREAK After two years of criticism of the AAA program as it affected cotton sharecroppers of the south, something is going to be done about it. The sharecroppers will be given a break under the next cotton reduction program, now being worked out in secret. To the extent that croppers are permitted to share in cotton benefit payments, the new program will be a victory both for them and for a determined group of AAA officials who have consistently argued for them here. Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel and other economists figured out that the sharecroppers, who usually cultivate crops in return for half the cotton they raise, had been receiving from 11 to 12 per cent of benefit payments, which aver- age about $7 an acre, Seneca, Kan., where the rate was cut 26.4 per cent, and) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1935 Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. te Ith but not dis- Pgs | . ve th Or Dr. Brady will answer question poe 4 We " Merves aust be accompanied by ease or diagnosis, letter Brad: reo! e Tribune, e taped, velt-addressed en’ the heating plant and no pollution of the cause, the effect of sealing up the place ther for members of the dampness or hum! I don’t know winter in vitiated air, 6 absence of something ence of open air, sunshine, skysh! : may be some deficiency in actor is accountable for the effects of a the bad effects on health. It may be the the ultra-violet or vitamin-producing influ- e, daylight, on the sterols in the body. Or corpuscular or hemoglobin manufacture in the blood. Or it may be impairment of metabolism from decreased absorption of oxygen. Whatever the essential cause, it is certain that the old Yankee custom of sewing things up tight for the winter leaves its vic- tims in # low state in the spring. ‘The first step the correspondent should take is an economy which would appeal to everybody if everybody felt morally obligated to pay his doctor bills ‘as he does his rent, coal or grocery bills. A furnace man should be employed to clean out the furnace, clean out the pipe and flue, and replace any leaking stovepipe or repair any leak in the flue. Money invested for this will cer- tainly save money which would otherwise be squandered on nostrums of one kind or another. If any wee bit of carbon monoxide escapes into the air of the house from defective or leaky smoke pipe or flue or from broken fire pot or faulty damper or draft, it is sure to tear down the blood of every occupant, es- pecially the semi-invalid who seldom gets outdoors in the winter time. By the time spring and fresh air rolls around, heaven only knows what iliness may have developed. Immunity is at a low ebb, Anemia is present. Ap- petite and digestion are poor. In short, the poor ignorant souls cooped up in the igloo are actually as close to spirtuality as they look in the spring. bela galas log ANSWERS jam Please tell me what chewing gum is made from. Is it harmful in any to recoup its losses and keep within|ing taxes when they obtained Lanes to have the habit of chewing 2 (LAD) its budget estimates. Individual in-| porary injunctions. The obligation ‘Answer—Chief ingredient is chicle, a gum obtained from the latex Cully Cobb, chief of AAA’s cotton section, and others |i | | dustries, however, in many instances|of paying back taxes nrobably wena of the sapodilla tree in Yucatan and Central America. It is comparatively | foolishness, with some actual damage to PYOP-| of the “planters” EGG" hele have TIWaye setralerd erty, resulted. This year at least a part of our juvenile population will be given an affirmative task, || OLITICS a face possible ruin in this event. Aj|bankrupt some of the small indus- = atthe - great number ceased paying oe | NO LUCK FOR “OLD PAL” Into the housing section of PWA walked a ae ai ee ha plist os) that of maintaining order, and at least some- thing in the way of reward, plans having been made to serve the junior patrolmen lunch dur- ing the evening to break the monotony of their task. The system worked very well last year) and is at least a step in the right direction. / It will not have reached perfection, how-} ever, until EVERY BOY AND GIRL is given| an interest which will detract attention from! any destructive effort. Another year we might profitaly consider} the advisability of giving a series of neighbor- | hood parties, in school buildings or elsewhere, to serve as a substitute for the old tradition of | depradation and destruction. Experience shows that children respond readily to such interest and treatment. The effort might well be worth all it would cost—and more. | The tradition of Halloween is based on an ancient belief that at this season spirits are lib- erated to prowl through the world, doing such harm to the unwary as opportunity may offer. In countries where this superstition persists, | the harm is believed to be largely of a spiritual | natrue, But in this country, with its natural robus- tiousness, it took a somewhat different tack. The inner fire must have outward manifesta. tion and so there grew up the tradition that the; way to observe Halloween was to tip over out-' houses, detach gates from their hinges, take! away yehicles and whatever other pranks juve- nile ingenuity could devise. The fact is that we are asking the new gen- eration to have a great deal more common sense than their elders had, or exercised. Viewed in| that light it becomes incumbent upon us to make it easy for them to do so. Shylock Racket Few things so clearly reveal the evils which can grow ‘up in an industrial society as does that news story from New York telling of the effort to clean up the “six for five” boys who have been mulcting the public for as! much as 1040 per cent interest on small loans. | The custom, it is revealed, is to collect “six for five” | on loans made for a week. Failure to pay results in in- | (creasing the amount of the debt and sometimes in bodily | harm. For this racket operates like any other, by inspir- ing the victims with fear and trembling. . New York, of course, has laws against usury—they | may be made the basis for prosecution of the men al- feady arrested—but it is rather obvious that they have hot been enforced. In North Dakota we have heard much about interest rates. Hardly a legislative session has passed in recent years but they have been the subject for discussion. The cry of “usury” is not unknown on these prairies, But never, even in the days when money was scarcest, did this state ever know anything like the situation which frequently preyails in metropolitan areas. Our people, even when they were paying 12 per cent plus a premium, never knew interest rates totaling 1040 per cent. The reason is rather obvious. In small communities, no matter how hard-hearted a lender may have been, there was always some consideration for neighborly feel- | deep and bitter anguish in the hearts of many who are | man looking for a job. “It will be easy to put me through,” he an- nounced. “I'm an old friend of Ikes. Used to to school with Ikes and played with him as a boy. Because Secretary-Administrator Harold Ickes has been known since birth as Ickes (in two sylla- | bles as if it rhymed with “hickeys”) the story didn’t | quite click. ton growers wouldn't sign adjustment contracts if much attempt were made to see that croppers received more. see SLATED FOR LARGER SHARE Although the fight over the issue within AAA is still going on, insiders predict that from 25 to 30 per cent of benefit payments will be designated as for sharecroppers, A method is being sought to make sure the croppers get the money and the government is likely to take re- sponsibility for that, as its agents have found many scuthern landlords unwilling to make anything like a fair division with tenants. It has been proposed to send AAA checks direct to sharecroppers and there's so much AAA sentiment for such a course—despite its administrative difficulties— that it’s likely to be adopted. Present cotton contracts require landlords to keep the same number of tenants and not to re-classify crop- pers as day laborers. It is planned to tighten up en- forcement of those provisions, The sharecropper problem will be far from solved, Officials feel. One of the big difficulties is the tendency of tenants to get in debt to landlords, who often have withheld all benefit check proceeds as a result. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other DITORS Reprinted to show what they say. | We may or not agree with thein, We Wish It Might Be (Valley City Times-Record) | 9 NATION'S CAPITOL | aad = a By HERBERT PLUMMER Washington — Surface explanations offered as to why AAA is so eager to have the supreme court decide as quickly as possible on the constitu- tionality of the processing tax are that everyone from Chester Davis, administrator, to the corn-hog farmer is wandering around in a maze of un- certainty. AAA officials in Washington are hesitant to proceed with their future programs until the nine justices have spoken, Farmers are wary of enter- ing into further contracts until valid- ity of their action is determined. Political insiders, however, have an explanation of their own for the government's desire for haste. And they advance it as the reason why Stanley Reed, solicitor general of the United States, has asked the court to set a hearing in the case for No- vember 20 instead of December 9 as urged by counsel for receivers of the New England textile mills who also are testing the act. x * * The Fi That explanation, briefly stated, is that the lack of revenue from proc- essing taxes now coming into the treasury alarms those responsible for the nation’s budget. Since July 1 of this year $49,034,- 696 has been paid into the treasury in processing taxes. During the same period of last year collections were $168,987,552 — a difference of some- thing like 120 millions of dollars. Narrowed down even further, treasury books show that for the first 21 days of October, 1935, processing Senator J. P. Cain has suggested a very much to be desired change in the form of the machinery we use to handle state affairs. Nothing less than the abolishment of the present cumbersome and over-grown’ machinery of state government and the establishment of a five- man board of elected and appointed officials, in whose hands the management of the state would be put. Un- der this scheme there would be a great reduction in the number of senators and representatives in the state leg- islature; the doing away with all bureaus, departments, and commissions as now constituted; civil service for all state employes, with no removal except for cause. It would greatly simplify the operation of state machinery, and doubtless would be much less expensive. Probably there would also be a much higher degree of efficiency; and the responsibility for mistakes would be much easier placed where it belongs, But that the suggestion has any chance of getting itself adopted is unlikely. The cry of concentration of power will quickly be raised against it. It would cause now attached to the public payroll. With the vast in- crease of late years in the number of state employes, they and their good friends who would vote for their side make up a very large and vigorous percentage of the population. And the plan will seem to many an honest voter as a scheme to take away the hard-won power of the people to have a voice in the management of their own governmental devices. There is, however, a growing number of people who are getting heartily sick of the waste and extravagance of the present system; and also of the futility of the elected representatives of the people when they are un- der the sway of political passion. The record of the North Dakota legislature in passing what Artemus Ward used to label “damphool” laws is an impressive one; quite often the working out of these laws has been directly contrary to the best interests of the very men who whooped them through. Out of every 100 men sent to Bismarck as senators and representatives probably not over 20 have had any very real idea of what ought to be done and of the right way to get it done. Nebraska has put into 8 simplified plan, doing away with the two-house legislature and other- wise sim the machinery. We think Senator Cain’s plan is an excellent one. It ought to be adopted. But the number of ordinary people who will fight it to the last gasp is very large. It is, however, 2 good thing to have it suggested, for the suggestion may lead to something worth while, At last reports, Jimmy Walker was wondering whether, in wel him, New Yorkers would go to the trouble of shredding telephone books into confetti. “New, Speedy Auto Will Nudge 100.” An improve- ment over the taxes collected amounted to $10,019,- 182. For that period last year, $44,- 724,613 was derived from the same source. In other words, October, 1934, collections alone were almost as large as the total during the three and one-half months in this fiscal year. Meanwhile AAA must continue paying benefits to farmers for crop; reduction. Since July 1, 1935, AAA expenditures have totaled $211,000,- 009 with only $49,000,000 in process- ing taxes to pay them. * eK Decision Vital ‘This marked decrease in the mount of processing taxes is due to the temporary injunctions issued! against their collection until the su- preme court determines their validity. It isn’t difficult, therefore, to see just how much hinges on what the supreme court decides in Hoosac Mills vs, The United States America. . Should the decision go against the government, revenue in the form of Processing taxes would be dried up, thus jeopardizing budget estimates and, according to a previous an- nouncement of President Roosevelt, necessitating the finding of other taxes to take their places, On the other hand, should the court uphold the constitutionality of AAA, the government would be able FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: of | harmless. er. Robby Larry seen them Inte 9 cah NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER 1V Wien Larry Glenn re-entered the Golden Feather night club, he walked aver to the corner table where he had been seated before he apied Jean and Bobby He sat down there, and drew an envelope from 4 coat pocket. From the envelnne he took half a dozen postcard-size photographe of a girl. Three of them were close-ups °f her face; they showed a dark- hatred, laughing girl whose eyes neld just a faint suggestion of hard worldly-wise sophistication. The other photos showed her in theatri cal costume. fulllength; and the costume. in each case. was exceed ingly skimpy, revealing a great deal of shapely leg aud torso. He studied these thoughtfully. looking closely at each one in turn Then he put them back in the en- velope. returned the envelope to his pocket. and began a slow. un- obtrusive and methodical survey of the room, scanning closely the face of every woman he could eee. A waiter came up and hovered at hit elbow, suggestively: Larry looked up blankly. then smiled and or- dered a drink. When it had been brought to him he practically tg: nored it, taking only an abstemious sip now and then as he continued to look about the roam. His reverie was broken by the approach of a man; a heavy-set map in a tweed suit whose loose lines could got conceal the outlines of a muscular and supple body. ‘This man removed his hat, reveal ing a shock of rebellious hair that was more red than brown, and sanntered up to lay a band on Larry's shoulder, x “I thought I'd find you here,” he eaid. Larry looked up, startled. A sud- den grin of recognition came over bis face, and he sprang to his feet and seized the man’s hand enthusi- asticatly. “Mike Hagan, by all that’s holy!” he saYd. “And just the man wanted to see! You old loafer, you! And what made you think you'd find me bere?” Hagan pumped Larry’s hand vig. orously. tossed bis hat on an empty chair, and sat down with him. “Oh. 1 ran into one of the boys over at the federa! building the other day, and he said you'd been “transferred here.” he said, answer: ing the last question first. “Aud { figured you'd he bound to hit this joint sooner or later. How you been, anyhow?” “Bwell. And you?” “Can't kick. What're you doing bere? Just killing time, or after something?” “After something,” sald ‘Larry. “Ll bet you can help me. Look at these.” He took out the en velope and spread out the photos before Hagan. “Ever see her be fore?” eee HAGAN looked at them carefully, while be applied a watch to his r At last he grunted. Ub.” he said, “} think | have. | wouldn't be dead sure, byt she ci: Larry spread out the photographs. looks like a dame that plays this place more or less regularly.” He puffed at his cigar. “What'd you want of her?” he asked. , It was a rather long story that Larry told in reply, and it ex- plained not only his interest in this unidentified girl but his own pres- ence in the Golden Feather night club. It began this particular evening, in the National Bank of Neola, a small town some 300 miles to the west of Dover. ... The morning was hot and quiet. A farmer stood at the giass-topped counter along the wall, making out an entry for his savings account 1| With gnarled, work-roughened fin- gers, The gray-haired cashier atood behind one barred window, busy at whatever it is that bank cashiers busy themselves with on dull morn ings, his eyes abstracted with that far-away, other-worldly look pecu- liar to bankers. At the other wicket there was a youthful teller. fn the ratled-off space by the front window, which served the prest- dent as an office, a slim girl in ja white sports dress clicked away at a typewriter. In the dusty street outside a big sedan swung noiselessly to the curb, Three men got out, leaving a fourth seated behind the steering wheel. Had anyone been passing by at the moment, he might have noticed that the driver did not shut off the motor, And if that bad drawn his attention to the men, he most cer: tainly would have stared, pop-eyed, at them. For one of them. bronght ‘a victous-looking sub-machine gun out of the back of the car. held it horizontally at his waist, mounted the steps of the fittle bank. aud {urued to lvok ‘down the several weeks before | Ever see her before?” he asked. street. The other two men walked swiftly into.the bank. proceeded to shatter its Sabbath: like calm, They: held ugly auto- imatic pistols in their bands, and they swung their muzsles back and forth in slow, menacing arcs; and one of them barked sharply, “Put ’em up, everybody! Reach for the icefling if you want to live!” eee HE cashier, the teller, the ste nographer, and the farmer stared at them in unbelieving be wilderment for a moment, and then slowly, uncertainly, put their hands into the air. “Come on—up! Up!” cried the bandit who had spoken “And no funny business!” He remained in the center of the lobby, glaring at his victims with @ gaze which seemed capable of looking at all four of them simul- taneously. His companion walked quickly to the railing behind which the stenographer sat and stepped over it, He smirked at the terror stricken girl. “Take it easy, sister, nobody's going to hurt you,” he jeered. ‘Then lhe opened the wirenetting door that gave access to the cashier's and teller’s cages, and walked in. From beneath his coat he took 8 widemouthed canvas sack. and into it he-quickly swept ali the cur: rency that the shelves and cash drawers contained. Then, holding the sack with one hand, he thrus) the muzzle of bis revolver into the ribs of the cashier. “Now, grandpa,” he said jocosely. “guppose you open that safe over youder—and do {t dam’ quick, too.” The cashier gulped, tooked about jhelplegsty, felt the bard gua-muzzle jagajust bis thin ebest, aud obeyed Pushing him ahead of bim, the by Robert Bruce © 1938 NEA Service, Inc. bandit entered. More cast went Into the sack, and a fat sheaf of bonds. Then, stil! preceded by the trem- bling cashier. the bandit came out. tHe shepherded the cashier into the front office, gave him a parting tab with the gun, tucked bis now filled sack under his coat, and rejoined his companion in the lobby With a parting threat, the two men bur tied outside, and—joined by the map with the machine gun— trotted over to their auto. Tum- bling fuside, they cried. “Step on her!” to the driver. The driver ewnng the car out trom the curb just as the town’s one policeman, hastily summoned by a merchant who had witnessed things from his store window across the street, @ around the corner. Helplessly lant, he ran toward the car. revolver in land, shouting. The snout of the machine sun protruded from a side window of the car, which was gathering speed. There was a swift, dry sput- ter of metallic sound. a dozen stab bing spurts of fame—and the po {iceman, who had planned to get home early that evening to freeze fee cream for his sma!) daughter's birthday party. fell down on the sidewalk and died. oe HB big sedan sped down the road and was out of sight he fore anyone had got to the police man’s side. After a time the confusion less- ened enough, and the aging cashier tecovered enough, so that he and the teller aud the bank’s president, who had been summoned by tele- phone, could begin to reckon up the total of the loss, About the time they had finished—they found that some $10,000 in cash and bonds worth $30,000 had been taken—an- other big car came whirling to a ‘stop in front of the bank; and out of this one sprang half a dozen Policemen from the city, eager to Entering the little lobby they | Dick up the trail of the departed gunmen. The policemen questioned the People ip the bank. The sheriff and his deputies arrived and asked some questions.. The entire popu: lace of the little towu—459, by the last census—seemed to be congre- gated just outside the hank. eager to ask still more ques'f ns on Its own hook. At last the police cap- tain from the city, after telephon- ing @ genera! alarm to be hroadcact throughout the state. and confer- ring briefly with the sheriff, turned to the president. “Look,” he said, “those birds are probably a bundred miles away by now, end getting farther away every minute. You're a national bank, so this robbery is 2 federal offense. Your best stunt is to notify the regional office of the Depert- ment of Justice. They'll bave a man out here right away. and they can go after these birds better than we can hope to do, because they can chase ‘em al! over the United States, ff necessary—and it'll be ‘necessary, too, if 1 know anything ebout this sort of thing. ... So why don't you do that? Want me to make the call?” The oresident agreed, and the Policeman got on the phone and talked to @ map in an office 60 miles away. And that was bow it was thet late that sfterroon Lerct Glenn got ont of @ email coupe anh walked briskly into the bank and Bresented himself to the president with the words, “I'm Glenn, re gional director of the Uivision of Investigation of the Vepartment of Justice. Now about this robhery—” Mike Hagan listened while Larry brought the story this far. “Okay.” be said. “But about this girl you're: louking for. How dove she draw cards tn all of this?” (Tu: Me’ Ooatinued)