The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 1, 1935, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Baxtablished 1873) Btate, City and County Official Newspaper by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- fmarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck fs second class maj] matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance k) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state, per year ..... Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ul news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited tn this newspaper and the local news of sponta: is origin published he: All rights of republication ef all other matter herein also reserved. Inspiration for Today I said of laughter, it is mad; and of mirth, Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.—Addison, | what doeth it?—Eeclesiastes 2:2. | | The Instinct of Service One line in the story of Thursday’s new earthquake horror at Helena, Mont., tells us a lot about people and indicates the value of training to meet emergencies. The hospitals, we learn, wére thronged with people and “harassed attendants rushed from floor to floor and from room to room extend- ing first aid AND CONSOLATION to the in- jured and alarmed.” The point is that hospital attendants might well have been alarmed themselves. Who wouldn’t be? But when persons needing help came to them they quelled their own fears and gave them ‘solace. The instinct of service, which keeps many people going in times of stress, came to the surface, They were too busy to give way to their own qualms. The situation was a challenge which hospital at- tendants at Helena felt they had to meet. That, by the way, is one of the fine things about the average human being and about having work to do. Many a man and woman has pulled through a pad situation because they were too busy doing something about it to let a bad prospect get them down, ‘Tell "Em About It s Further expressing confidence in its new system of store-door delivery by independent agents, the state mill and elevator has launched a house news sheet under the title of the “State Mill and Elevator News.” Distributed to its agents everywhere in the state, to grocers and other dealers handling its flour and to in- terested persons, the publication has taken on the job of unifying the sales effort of the big state enterprise. A good idea developed by one man is relayed to others ‘who may be able to use it. Facts pertaining to the busi- ness are revealed and additional stimulus given the ef- fort to make both dealers and housewives conscious of the superior value of North Dakota made grain products. It still is too early to tell definitely how the new system of flour distribution will work out. New brooms s7eep clean and this one may have defects which do not appear at first glance. There is no denying, however, that the initial exper- fence has been good and the outlook is promising. To a large extent the new system has taken the mill out of politics. When sales agents work on commission only they are likely to have less time for political by-play than when they are working on a salary. A quotation from A. ©. Scott, distributor at Rugby, proves the point. His observation was “I soon found that as a distributor many calls had to be made and every one had to count, ‘because when the mill quit paying my expenses I knew that selling flour and selling a lot of it was necessary to keep me a going concern.” ‘Thus a change in the fundamental organization ac- complishes a result, at least in part, which long has had the endorsement of every political faction in the state. At the same time it increases the sales of flour and puts the mill in better position than ever before to realize a profit on its operations, something it has never been able ‘to do consistently. Butter But No Cheese As is natural in an agricultural state, the processing of dairy products is one of our major industries. As opportunities for profit presented themselves, individuals ‘and cooperative groups have organized creameries and their production again is expanding as the bad effects of the drouth are diminished by time. There is every reason to believe that, within the next few years, North Dakota will produce more milk than ever before in its history. Only the best milk cows and bulls were left behind ‘when the exodus of cattle because of the drouth was completed and this improvement in breeding stock will have a marked effect on the flow of milk produced on our prairies. Now, however, Governor Welford and Theodore Mar- tell, commissioner of agriculture, point to a fundamental ‘weakness in our dairy industri] organization by endors+ inz cheese week, originated by Wisconsin farmers and made a nationel affair by cooperation in other states. For North Dakota hes many butter fectories but few making cheese, Whatever quantities of this delicious and nutritious food ere consumed in this state come largely trom otller areas. . Governor Welford and Cotnmissioner Martell, in Joint statement, point both to this fact and to the value ‘of cheese as an article of diet, They urge North Dalio- ~ tams to eat more cheese in the belief that it will benefit the dairy industry as a whole and perhaps because they ehind the Scenes in Washington Gy ROPNEY DUTCHER Mullen's Fat Fee Claim Is Tipoff on Rich Plums That Lobbyists Have Hatvetted ... Nebraskan Has Prof- ited by Influence . . . But Norris Is on His Trail + + + Chalk Up & Bobble for Mr. Hull. . * Washington, Nov..1—That $165,000 fee which Mr. Arthur Mullen seeks for his efforts with ‘d to cer- tain PWA projects in Nebraska indicates what the big- time lobbyista have been getting away with since the New Deal began simultaneously to pour out billions for recovery and to try to reform the business structure, No one knows how many millions the “salesmen of Lad have collected since Mach, 1933. No one ever Most men close to the inside agree that the most spectacular cleanups were made in the first year of the administration, before Roosevelt recognized danger in the situation and told Mullen and others they couldn't func- tion both as lobbyists and Democratic national com- mitteemen. But the lobbying business still flourishes. Mullen, a Nebraska political boss and-one of Roose- yelt’s floor managers at the 1932 Democratic convention, has been reputed to have large influence both at the White House and with Secretary Ickes. No investigation will ever determine just how much influence he has been able to exert at either place. His influence unquestionably has been exaggeratd—but such exaggerations in Washington mean more clients and big- ger fees, It isn’t on record that any official in Washington ever refused to see Mr. Mullen, who contributes large sums regularly to the Democratic party. eee RATED AS ICKES’ “ANGEL” Ickes frequently has been hard-boiled toward Mul- len and his demands. But favor-seekers, looking around for influential advocates, are impressed by stories that Mullen financed Ickes’ independent progressive commit- tee for Roosevelt in 1932 and that he came to the sup-, port of Ickes for secretary of the interior at a critical moment. (Friends of Ickes have denied those stories, but they're rather commonly believed in PWA and the In- terlor Department.) More obscure lawyers frequently come to Mullen and others of his ilk, promising fee splits in return for help. Recently Mullen was raging because in at least two in- stances Ickes had refused to approve payments to him from Indian tribal funds for alleged services. But the relations of Mullen with government of- ficials are kept a deep, dark secret—just as was his an- nual $25,000 retainer from Cities Service until the recent lobby investigation. ‘The lobby racket here will never be curbed or exposed until officials are compelled to make public their con- tacts with lobbyists. eee NORRIS ON THE TRAIL In the case of the $165,00 fees, Mullen has on his trail the redoubtable Senator George W. Norris of Ne- braska, which is never any fun for anybody. The fees are billed for services to two water con- servation and power projects and have been submitted to Ickes for approval. Those projects were approved early in the PWA game,’while Norris fought for two years for his Tri-County irrigation-power project against opposi- tion frem Mullen, representing the first two. Norris wants to know whether PWA is being asked to ee use of its funds for fighting another PWA Project, d PWA lawyers suspect that perhaps Mullen expected to be sealed down to about $100,000. They guess that eventually he may receive between $25,000 and $50,000, eee A BOBBLE FOR HULL Secretary of State Cordell Hull is our first-ranking diplomat. But he made a faux pas as a welcoming dele- gation gathered to meet President Roosevelt on his re- turn to Washington. Mrs. Roosevelt, like many others that cold morning, had the sniffies. She was raising her handkerchief to her face as Hull extended his hand to greet her. ‘With @ quick movement she stuck her handkerchief somewhere or other and managed to shake hands, wait- ing to complete the operation later. Obscure persons who noticed the incident enjoyed it very much, (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) E With Other DITORS Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may What Do the Old Dealers Offer? (Railway Age) What have the Old Dealers of politics or business to Offer in place of the New Deal? This magazine has been & consistent critic of the New Deal for more than two years but it realizes that it was under the Old Deal that. the depression began and becéme most severe and that the worst New Deal policies have been derived from some important Old Deal policies, “The collapse of political morality in government began,” says David Lawrence, an able journalist who has been an observer of developments in Washington for many years, in his recent book, ‘Stumbling Into Social- ism’, “when the thoughtless citizens in the local cham- bers of commerce sent their delegates to Washington to beg for appropriations to build unneeded bridges and dams or to deepen harbors or waterways long since aban- doned as contributing to a national transportation sys- tem.” The New Dealers found the Old Dealers in swim- ming and stole their clothes. Owing to the condition of the railways those directly and indirectly dependent upon them for business and employment are suffering more severely than any other industries and their employes. Meantime, spokesmen of the Old Dealers offer no solution of the railroad problem. The New Dealers at least do favor abolishing the unequal Tegulation of competing classes of carriers established undermining way earning power, to bring about government owner- ship, than its frank advocacy. ‘We wonder whether the capitalistic Deal government and business ee lepression was caused princi maldistribution of ineome. The principal mhaldistribution was between farm and non-farm famili¢s. In 1929 the average income of 5,800,000 farm families was only $1,240, as compared with $3,226 for 21,674,000 non-farm families. The economics of capitalism assume free competition by all naturally non-monopolistic industries, and that it ‘will cause redugtions of poo. costs the benefits of o J. dpetitting. industrial wanes abd grofte incsegged “The inereage method of disseminating the behefits of Iecbnoogeal progres” sas the, Brookings Togtition, “would not to more than 40 of the popu- Jation.” The maldistribution of me prevented a suf- incretse of buying by the 60 per cent of the popu- not by wage advances, economic philosophy of the New Deal. dent highly, of the effect ization. To that extent, at least, the clarifying. Two NATION'S CAPITOL | OLITICS By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) procession has at- tained a pace which not only bewild- ers the layman but has some of the hardened politicians breathless. jpeeches, statements, ana alibis are thicker than a London fog. The best the political commen- tators can do is to examine individual aspects of a situation of general con- fusion, like war correspondents who are able to see at one time only & comparatively small sector of a hun- dred-mile front. polls, claims Many of these individual aspects of developing battle are highly ot We fe even though it is impos- sible at this stage to say how they will fit eventually nga the campaign. * * Johnson An Enigms Gen. Hugh Johnson, who had much to do with Mr. Roosevelt's strategy in 1932, famous, is becoming more and more of an, eingma to his erstwhile col- leagues in Washington. and who later made NRA In speeches and magazine articles the General now reaffirms his loyalty to the New Deal, praises the Presi- nd then proceeds to Jambast governmental policy in sev- eral important directions. Questioned by Democratic leaders about his behavior, Johnson has re- plied that he merely is trying to change the trend of an administra- tion he dearly loves and warmly sup- ‘Yet the point of it all remains ob- scure to the Roosevelt generals; for Mr, Roosevelt is so firmly committed to such policies as the AAA program, large relief expenditures and currency teadjustments (to all of which John- son takes exception) that it is hard to find anyone who sees the slightest possibility that he will pronounce it all a mistake, and turn in the other. direction. + # * Landon’s Boom No recent development in Repub- lican ranks has caused more specu- lation than the sudden blossoming = out of the boom for Governor Landon of Kansas for the presidential nomi- nation next year. Presented by his friends as “a Kan- sas Coolidge,” the governor evidently plans to do only such speech-making . as he is compelled to do. His admir- ers say he will spend his time being too busy with his present job to talk about national politics. That is conceded on every hand to| be good strategy—provided it can be executed. But can he, sitting in the midst of the farm belt, keep silent on the farm question? Some of his advisers say he cannot afford to be it AAA on account west. Others say he cannot afford not to be against AAA on account of the effect in the east. And all of the time, the ques- tion of AAA is being pushed toward the center of political dispute. Just keeping silent sometimes is the hardest of-all political tasks, as many @ candidate and near candidate has learned in the past. * * Third Party Talk Dies One of the notable features of the present situation is the almost com- plete absence of talk about a third party ticket in 1936. When the Townsenders met recent- ly in Chicago, they discussed a legis- lative program, not candidates for President. A year ago’ everyone thought this group might form the backbone of a really important inde- pendént party in the next campaign. The continues to situa- tion seems to be par- ties remain, even though the internal of both is in turmoil, organisation and the line of demarkation between them sometimes is hard to define. we have never been Unfortunately P able to find @ substitute for war, something to provide excitement’ for x ° So They Say 1 HERB TODAY SEAN DUNN, oretty, Stezent-ale v7, and BOBBY WALLACE. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER V1 ONALD MONTAGUB signed the last of the sheaf of letters thrt tay on his desk, shoved the little Pile aside, and said. “There—that’s done.” He looked up at Jean and said, “Well, if you'll get these off. Miss Dunn, you might as well call it a day.” own desk. Glancing at her wrist watch as she did 80, she exclaimed. “But Mr. Montague—it’s only half. past eleven.” “What of it?” he asked with an air of paternal amusement. “It’s Saturday, tsn't it? @ tunch- eon engagement and not com- ing back this afternoon. You can use the extra hour, can't you?” “Ob—of course—and thanks,” she said, slightly confused. She with- drew, prepared the letters for mail- ing, and five minutes later was on her way out. Born and reared in a small town, she knew moments when the great city was almost unbearably oppres- sive and confining; and she sudden: ly realized that this afternoon she Must manage somehow to get out into the open country, away from the crowds and the noisés and the bustle and confusion of Dover. ‘Ta like to take a long hike across the fields,” she mused, “Let’s see—who could I get to go with me?” She thought of Bobby; but she knew he would be working all day, and she also knew that an efter. noon in the country would revive bis romantic instincts and cause him ‘to speak pleadingly of mar riage and a little apartment. Today she didn't want to be proposed to. - + « Hastily she mentally scanned ber list of girl triends. One or an- other of them, surely, could be in- duced to join the expedition. “I'll hurry home, and change, and then start telephoning,” she thought. She walked to the corner and caught her street car. When she had reached ber apart- ment, bathed and changed her frock for s rough’ tweed skirt. woolen stockings, low-heeled shoes and 8 sweater, she discovered that she was ravenously bungry. “The telephoning can wait,” she told her- self, and che went to the little bitehenette to prepare a junch. Just as she was plugging in the Percolator, the telephone rang. She scampered into the other foom and adswered it. “Miss Duon?” said a man's voice. “Well, aow isn’t that luck for you? didn’t think I'd be able to raise you on a nice Sfternoon lke thier” which support Naziism, Fascism, and Communism.—I, M. Ornburn, union irene rastaiecaitcnataidal aig executive. When Americans buy imported 5 European products, they are helping} An original thought is dynamite. . .. Hitler, Mussolini, er Stalin. By |If you advance one, it would blow the |. sending American dollars abroad, our | Whole system of education to hell— citizens are enriching the nations |Frank Lloyd Wright, famed architect. © 1905 HEA * * * Remember? My name's Harkins— Sandy Harkins.” “Oh,” said Jean. “Oh, yes. Mr. Harkins.” “Well, listen here, good-looking. I'll bet down where you come from you like to go horseback riding on your afternoon off, don’t you?” “Horseback riding? Why, yes. But—” “I thought so,” said Sandy. “You looked like a girl that knew how to ride. Listen, how'd it be if I came around’ and took you out to a riding academy and we got a couple of nags and went for a little ride—huh, how about it?” I To ride a horse again—some thing she had not done since she left Maplehurst. She suddenly dis- covered that that was what she wanted to do this afternoon more than anything else; and before she knew that she had made up her mind she heard. herself saying, “Oh, I'd love to.” “Kayo, baby,” said the breezy Mr. Harkins, “I'll be at your front gate in half an hour.” In precisely half an bour her bell rang: Sandy met her in the little lobby on the first floor and they were in his rosdster—it was s flashy yellow thing which looked only a little shorter and less pow: erful. than one of the navy’s newest ectroxera'—slecme afore she knew t. - e2 & HA’ an hour’s drive got. them 8 graveled country road for a few miles, and at last came to a buge, white-washed barn, so big that it completely overshadowed the little cottage in front of it. Along the [#2 voice was vaguely familiar but 00 more. She frowned and said, “Who is this?” A taugh came over. the wire. “You wouldn't break my heart tell me you've forgotten me al: teady?” said the votce,.teasingly ‘Vm the tong. lanky guy, that mao eged to get a code you st side of the barn there was a big sign, ‘The West Park Riding Acad: emy.” Sandy drove in, and a few min: utes later. a groom had brought their horses and they were riding side by side down a leafy lane which ted them, at last, to the top ‘of # rounded bill, from. which they aight. !could, look down... long, grass He looked one reduce? 4 osis. Write Brady in in of The Tribune. tamped, Mechanics, handle chemicals, dyes, inks, Such irritation, itching, Dr. Brady will answer — 101 f-addressed envelope. MECHANIC, iP sist nickle platers gine oils, grease, a ine lke, vents, paints, cleaning fluids, insecticides, disinfectants an i more or less from eruptions on hands and arms. rawness, soreness, but not ais- to health bus in at be socompal pertatnin briefly an ‘All queries mu |ANDS a reat many other workers who alkalis, petroleum, tte eczema, as you ermattis or . oe ical irritant to will, may be due mainly to, the injurious effect of the erg to be due which the worker is constantly exposed. mainly to wrong habits of cleaning up proper care of the skin. But it is just as after the trick of methods to cleanse In the first place, workers often resort to hurry- a or the use of rite of cleahing up after the trick of duty should be thorough! employer's time, not-on the worker's time. that means inadequate cleal incomplete drying. The irritants or incomp! iy done, on the Fnough time should be given for this, since it is to the employer’s advantage to save the hands of his em- Instead of using harsh grit or sand cleansers, for the quic« cleansing of hands occasionally soiled mechanic which may be convenient with such substances, the work- machinist whose hands are in contact with irritants every 2 ing day should ‘use only a mild hand cleanser, preferably one having a vege: table fibre base. Such cleansers have proved quite as e! sand or’ grit soaps. hands leanser First the and arms should be gently scrubbed with such a cl and warm water, not too hot., Then this should be rinsed off bis bt ial finally cool water: Then the skin should be thoroughly dried, preferably blotting with warm dry towel or absorbent paper. When-the skin is quite dry, and olive oil, to replace the natural apply a mixture of equal parts of lanolin skin oil or sebum which has been dis- solved out. and removed by the chemicals and by the soap used for cleaning. See that the olive oil and lanilin ‘Also see that your supply of it is yours alone, not a common sup) may-be contaminated by others dipping their fingers into it. Do not try to wipe all this oil away after applying it. enough to prevent the skin from being unpleasantly greasy. fresh, not old and ranced. mixture is fr Se nel Wipe off only ‘When you-wash up before retiring at night, go thru the same ritual, and put on the lanolin-oil again. Repeat. the rite, at-least apply some ieisctaetolt Ltt you begin work in the morning ‘and again before you begin work after lunch. If ait workers “expe to industrial dermatitis would take such care of their skin there would be far less suffering and disability from secondary infections. 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They came nearer and nearer to the little stream; at this point it was uo more than a brook, not siz feet wide, with firm banks. Jean boldly spurred directly toward it and took her horse across it in one gracefal leap. Then she reined in, and came to a halt at the edge of the woods. Sandy was beside her, looking at “Say,” he said, “you can ride, all right.” “Race you She was breathless, laughing, with little wisps of hair escaping from under the scart. “I used'to ride almost every day, down home,” she said. “Good girl” sald Sandy. “You did. that jump like @ champion.” followed a shaded Jane through the out of the City. They followed | trees, It was cool under the trees, and the horses’ hoofs made \no‘sound on the black spongy earth. Sandy Tose with eff B ease, his long body relaxed loosely in the saddle. «+ + “You must hai yourself,” said Jeai “I was brought upon a horse,” he said. “Not here. Out west.” “Cowboy?” aus ” “My. folks owned a ranch.” They rod@ on farther:in silence. Presently Jean asked~bim; “What do you do, anyway?” by Robert Bruce © 1935 NEA Service, fn e i They were in Sandy's roadster almost before Jean knew it, moment, and then grinned. ee he said, “I just sort ot ean nrc, from here to there “Lucky,” said Jean. “It m ice, not to—not to be tied dees “It is,” sald Sandy. sey ¢ame out of the woods inte an unpaved country road. It led them in a gently undulating course past the woodland, along the edge of a Drosperous-looking fer anh ond, & bend to an an- lent wooden bridge ens ge over a small ‘They talked lazily as th Sandy seemed a strange cotta tion of frankness and reticence, He spoke of life on the western Dlains, of going hunting in the Osage hills, of nights under the stars in far-off ‘camps; but he seemed to be reluc- tant to say much about the pres ent, or about his reasons for leay. ing that open western country, “You must want to there,” said Jean. He iooked 4 her soberly, and when he agri at last, there was something wist ful in his eyes. “Yeah, I guess maybe I do,” he said. “Reckon 1 will, too, some day.” . They left the river and. ‘in @ broad pasture lot, Korpeed gasoline, sol- duty and to im-? {ficient as the harsher | r address, and ask for in-.« ¥ a wholesome food, rich in vitamin ©. If gt a CRS. RR ai ee ee ~ EPOdgs SPowd>y aomses