The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 5, 1935, Page 4

4 THE BIS. The Bismarck Tribunelf 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 Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advan: Daily by carrier, per year ‘ Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) : Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of sie Bismarck) .... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota + 6.90 Weekly by mail in state, per year . 100 Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per 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 it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also lished herein, the local news of spontaneous origin oul All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Inspiration for Today Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.—Ne- hemiah 9:31. Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.—Charles Sprague. Encouraging News One of the arguments for the state sales tax was that the aged, the orphaned, the blind and other distressed persons would benefit from the increased finances. Report by Governor Welford that the in- come is exceeding expectations gives new hope to these persons and will do much to relieve the burdens of those who, because of family pride, still are bearing a heavy burden. The ties of blood still bind the average indi- vidual with the result that many a family is scrimping itself in order to keep dependent relatives in at least some sort of comfort. The agitation for old-age pensions does not dim the fact that such pensions always have been paid by the human race, either in cash or its equiva- lent. Unfortunately, one of the last official acts of the late Senator Long was to defeat, by a filibuster, the bill which would have made it possible for the government to share with North Dakota in this worthy movement to aid distressed persons. As it stands now, the gov- ernment is authorized to join with the states in paying such pensions but it hasn’t got the money. The result is to upset the state’s calcula- tions and present new complexities, but this fact should not prevent the speedy distribution of the state funds already available. If we wait until the government is able to bear its share, many aged persons will have died without get- ting any benefit and they will have died in grinding poverty if not in dire want. A few dollars in an emergency is better than a com- fortable sum after they are dead. The same thing holds true for mothers in heed of widows’ pensions, particularly in those counties where the public exchequer is unable to meet these charges. If it can be done legally, the time to make at least a partial distribution of these funds is now. No Inquest Dr. L. W. Larson, Burleigh county’s coroner, has Just about decided to abandon the ancient system of holding an inquest every time a citizen comes to an un- timely end. The reason is one which the taxpayer will appre- elate, for Dr. Larson estimates that it frequently costs $100 or more to hold an inquest and the money is nearly slways wasted. Three violent deaths have occurred in Burleigh county during the last week. In none of them, accord- 4ng to Dr. Larson, was an inquest necessary to determine ‘what happened. The testimony offered at an inquest would be substantially the same as that obtained by Police and newspapers in the ordinary course of their business. The only difference would be that the testi- mony would be given under oath and that the coroner, the coroner's jury and the witnesses would have to be paid. In addition to their per diem they would receive the usual legal mileage fee of 10 cents per mile. If an inquest were held into the death of the late red Keitzmann, for example, it would have been nec- essary to bring one witness from Fargo and the mileage charge alone would have been in excess of $40. Dr. Larson favors abandonment of the coroner sys- tem and institution in its place of the medical examiner eet-up. Under this system, already in use in the larger cities, no inquest is held unless the medical examiner re- ports that the cause of death was different from what it appeared to be or finds other strange circumstances surrounding it. He is an agent of the police department, interested im seeing that justice is done and the police department continually has the benefit of his experience ehind the Scenes in Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER Washington, Nov. 5.—Answers to Roosevelt's famous letter to clergymen have been coming in at the rate of several hundred a week and the majority of them are sympathetic or favorable toward the administration. t Just ie same, there’s no one in the administration who wouldn’t like to live life all over again, in so far as that letter is concerned. ‘i Most of the smarties here who make a business of figuring out public reactions believe the net effect of the stunt, for better or worse, to have been negligible. On the credit side, the White House believes it has Proved Roosevelt to have the support of a majority of ministers. Inside whispers there say more than 90 per cent of the thousands of replies either say nice things about the administration or are “sympathetically con- structive.” Although you're entitled to look upon such a report with suspicion, it comes from people who have never been caught lying in the past. BENEFIT IS WIPED OUT Sending out the letter, asking ministers for their ad- vice and aid—in effect giving them unpaid jobs in the New Deal—was a clever political move, even if you assume it was conceived in humility and sincerity. (Few Sa. A digest of the answers will be valuable to Roose- velt. But most if not all the winnings were wiped away when the letter was revealed to be a paraphrase—verba- tim in certain paragraphs—of a missive from Gov. Phil LaFollette to the ministers of Wisconsin. And that tended to make the White House look ridiculous, not to say insincere. Even if no great harm was done, the White House crowd has writhed in embarrassment, Some of the ablest secret-chiselers in town are still trying to chisel out the secret of how it happened. But there have been few tighter official secrets than this one. Phil LaFollette is commonly believed to have sold the idea to Roosevelt. But it may have been a pro-Roose- velt churchman or religious editor. Apparently neither the White House secretariat nor the Democratic na- tional committee folk knew anything about the letter until it was too late. eee AUTHOR’S NAME SHUSHED Certain wisps of information indicate that the job of preparing the letter and distributing it was given to a commercial organization which had a large mailing list of clergymen. But the name of the political nitwit who drafted the letter probably won't be known until Roose- velt is out of office. The White House is considering making public a digest of the answers, figuring that since all the publicity on the stunt to date has been unfavorable, the adminis- tration might as well have some favorable publicity if it can be had. eee { SMALL CONSOLATION A certain high state department official, traveling | far away, was awakened recently at 1 a. m. and informed by telegram that under a certain act of congress the president had approved his “resignation.” About dawn, after a night of frantic checking with the telegraph company, he found the word should have been “designation.” Meanwhile, however, he had been consoled by a telegraph operator, who commented: “You shouldn't worry about that. Only a really big shot is fired by the president.” MORE GRIEF FOR MR. DAVIS The mishaps of the eminent John W. Davis, in his attempt to test constitutionality of the public utilities holding company act for the Edison Electric Institute, seem to continue. Arguing ostensibly for his dentist “client” . before Federal Judge Coleman in Baltimore, Davis became especially sarcastic about the act's prohibition of house- to-house sales of holding company securities by employes of subsidiaries. “I suppose that provision is to protect the doorbells of the nation,” said Davis, proceeding to brand it as be- yond the commerce power, violative of the due process amendment, and “an unwarranted invasion of personal liberty.” The government's brief just filed in reply points out that the “doorbell” section wasn’t in the act as proposed, but was inserted at the formal suggestion of top executives of companies prominent among members of Davis’ client, Edison Electric Institute. Father of the provision actually was President Wen- dell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern—controlled by J. P. Morgan, whose counsel Davis also is. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) Reprinted to E With Other | Sr" | DITORS | 2s" a That Naval Parley (Bruce Catton in N.E.A. Service) There is going to be a handsome new naval disarma- ment conference in London on Dec. 1, and the statesmen. | of the world are pu¥ing back their cuffs so a8 to be ready for another round #f the grand old game of dealing ‘Uncle Sam three small ones off the bottom of the deck. A disarmament conference right now would seem to be a prodigious waste of time, since there is not a govern- ment on earth that has the remotest intention of reduc- MARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, NUVEMBER 5, 1935 Fill’er Up! NATION'S CAPITOL By HERBERT PLUMMER Washington—Political insiders sense a neat bit of strategy in the move of AAA officials offering four- year production contracts to farmers before the supreme court rules on the legality of the processing tax. Refusal of the court to hear argu- ments on the Hoosac Mills case until December 9 makes it highly improb- able that a decision will be had on the present method of collecting processing taxes until in January, 1936, at the earliest. Meanwhile four-year contracts, subject to certain rights of termina- tion, are being offered wheat and rye farmers. Tobacco farmers have been or will be offered similar contracts. Like proposals will be submitted to cotton and corn-hog farmers under present plans. In all, AAA officials would like to see some 3,000,000 individual farm- ers sign on the dotted line as quick- ly as possible, agreeing to gauge their production of various crops to the control program. * * OK A Powerful Weapon The reason, say those on the inside, is that AAA officials figure with this many signed contracts in hand they will have a powerful weapon with which to deal with congress in the event the supreme court decides the processing taxes are unconstitutional. The administration has insisted all along that should the court rule against the government in the Hoo- sac Mills case, congress would have to find new taxes to replace the com- mitments already made by the gov- ernment to the cotton, corn-hog, wheat, rye, tobacco, peanut, and su- gar farmers. The huge favorable majority rolled up by corn-hog farmers for extension ing its armament. But back of the scenes some inter- esting things are due to happen, and if the American dele- gates aren't careful they are likely to come home wear. ing barrels in place of pants. Great Britain, the world’s pre-eminent naval power for some two centuries, is all set to make enormous addi- tions to her fleet. The coming elections are expected to result in victory for the Conservative party, and this party is all for great naval building program. It is reported that fully a billion dollars will be spent on Brit- ish warships and airplanes in the immediate future. Japan, likewise, is all for building. The Japanese insist on parity—in simpler words, they are going to have a fleet as big as America’s no matter who says no—and between Tokio and London the American delegation is apt to have some uncomfortable and interesting mo- ments, For London and Tokio are likely to work together. The British want the world’s greatest fleet. For selfish purposes? Bless you, not at all—for the sake of world peace, international justice, and the rights of small nations. The British will point out that neither America nor Japan is a member of the League of Nations. ‘The League may need naval power to carry out its program—as, for instance, in the case of Italy. It will be up to Britain to supply the ships. Therefore, Britain must have the greatest of all fleets, and it will be sheer selfishness for America to want one equally large. ‘Tokio can be expected to support that argument— for the Japanese are interested in parity with the United States, not with England. In the British can’ support the Japanese position. And the American dele- gation will have to play a.lone hand if it tries to argue for continuance of the existing fleet ratios. i However the cards fall, he is due circumstances, it is a little hard to of contracts has encouraged AAA of- ficials to push forward with their plans. * * * Budget Preparations Refusal of the supreme court to grant the request of the government for hearing arguments on the Hoosac Mills case on November 20 promises to make the job of preparing the budget for the coming fiscal year one of considerable doubt and uncer- tainty. It is customary for the president to submit his budget message to con- gress immediately after he delivers his message on the state of the union. In all probability, this budget mes- sage will be in the hands of congress before the supreme court acts on the processing taxes. President Roosevelt, in declaring that he was relying on the continua- tion of the processing levies, esti- mated there would be a $670,000,000 increase in revenues during the cur- rent fiscal year. An adverse ruling by the court not only would upset his Prediction, but necessitate drastic re- visions in the budget itself. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYs: bother to go to London at all. different races have different standards of per- fection. An interesting thing about the whole business would be to know just where Rosemary would get the $5,000 square yards, American importations of Japanese| Prince of Wales now collecting textiles amounted to 30,300 square| planes, instead of ponies. It will re-| water-log, flabby, dumpy state, In a week on salt-poor diet—avolding highly yards in January, 1934, In January,|quire a bit of patience to substitute 1935, this had increased to 12,000,000|the three-point for the shoulder-| will be reduced too. | blade landing. Health Your P —— Hea | health but not dise ‘ ink, Address Dr, ode fons pertaining Tan queries must be accompanied De. Dr. Brady will answer que or diagnosis, Write Brady etal The Tribi COG! FECTION F CONVERSATIONAL SPRAY IN! inthe Sable meat Reports issued weekly by the U. 8. public heAlih ie vice, U. 8. treasury department, Washington, D. C., Ley Bet gh nee 2 ti niet ed ts 1 committee of the tee omprehensive report embodies commu . Getiaitions of terms, lists of notifiable diseases, communicable diseases not -infectious diseases which are preventible, and so Sve nere ia, the report summarizes the essential information sbout each i : therefore constitutes an be health offices ce payetian or a ee By on sin Loa) to Soa Anyo! rocure & COPY ports n fr ae: 9, ibe6, by sending the price, 5 cents, to Sup. of Documents; Wash- . n, D. C., and asking for it. i f 4 iseases for which no I find in Supplementary List B (Communicable di tification to the health authorities is not everywhere required) such fae maladies as pediculosis (skip it if you haven't got it), pela tng , cariasis (round worm infestation), impetigo contagiosa, Vincen’ bs easi (trench mouth) and eke the “common cold.” And here, at last, is an in- transigent definition of the alleged entity: “1, Recognit f the disease. d An pert ‘Cotarrtal affection of the upper respiratory tract, usu- ally scoompanied by a slight rise of temperature on the first day and ‘sensations with coryza, and general indisposition- and lassitude ped 2 Phin iit, Hy Source of infection. Discharges from nose and mouth of infected person. i 5 transmission. Usually directly by coughing, sneezing, ant weit manner of speech by which droplets are cast out into the air from the infected person to be inhaled by, or impinged on the face of, susceptible persons within short range of three feet or 80; ‘also by hand to face transfer of discharges, and indirectly by hand- kerchiefs, eating utensils, or other articles freshly soiled by discharges congratulate the Américan Public Health association on this achieve- stat. Tie tx waauenionstly the first authoritative recognition of conver- spray infection. R ee regrettable, however, that while they were at it they didn’t take range for the conversational spray. Three feet or so is @ great con- cession and I am duly elated with it, but just between ourselves I wish to tell you laymen that I am quite sure the conversational spray range is up to four or five féet, especially with “explosive manner of speech.” Govern your- selves accordingly. It may be fairly safe to sit or stand within four feet from the basoo of one with an alleged “common cold” if he or she is quietly conversing—but you had better leap back # couple of feet if the blighter lets out # sudden vehement exclamation or shouts toward you. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Salt and Flabbiness I. M, Told too much salt will cause high blood pressure... . (T. M.) ‘Answer—Too much salt causes retention of too much water in tissues— salty items and adding no salt in cooking or at table—you may reduce from rnd to eight pounds (dumping of water). If blood pressure is too high, it (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) BEGIN HERD TODAY SEAN DUNN, pretty, 31; 9 sec- retary to DONALD Ineree, “eb bnt antec eee tomeblio calesman, the regwentts an arty tlm. bot deas jeden Weather night meets SANDY GAR: eho cays he ts Ip Dever oo GLENN federal acne Jean and Bob wading “much. time tm ae ‘The Uelden ther. ie ying to'tral WINGY LEW! ik robber. ‘Jean wees horseback ridion with ae again MR. ani 7 Go to the Lew! ment. Lewis tells B NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER [X LAN said, trying to clear her brain of the sleep which the ringing telephone had interrupted. “But, Bobby, what makes you think you can sell anything to Mr. Montague? And bow cap | introduce you to him, anyhow? After all, I'm only bis stenogra- pher, and—" : “You leave all that to me,” sald Bobby confidently. So the next day Bobby did eal! Jean. Only the fact that Mr. Mon- tague always seemed to take 8 kindly, rather fatherly tgterest in her nerved her to try to make the engagement for him; but-after § good deal of tumbling around she managed to persuade bim to set an hour when Bobby could try his salesmanship on him. d She thanked him and, when she got a chance, called Bobby gave him the news, ‘Wish me luck?” asked Bobby. ‘Why, of course.” ‘Thanks. And say, honey, how do you want the living room papered, anyhow? Personaljy, [ always liked a dark, plain paper, but if you wi light, figured after Mr. these bonds off me.” “Bobby, listen... ['m not— don’t rush mé off my feet this way. 1 told you 1 wasn’t ready yet, and—" ‘Ob, all right. But if 1 ever get that money in my bands, the rush ts going to be something terrible.” . 7HEN she bung up she stared ’ at ber typewriter end won- dered what bad made ber say that. Only the day before she had insisted to Sandy that she wes “practically engaged” to Bol today, when Bobby mentioned matter, she had reminded bim that perhaps the engagement wasn't so very definite after all. Why did she seem to have an im- pulse to head Bobby off e spoke of marriage? “I'm still too ‘young to get mar- fled,” she told herself doubtfully, |, Far down somewhere she heard her conscience jeering at her. The next afternoon Bobby eented himself at the office promptly at 2. Mr. Montague was busy, at the moment, and Bobby had to wait some 15 mini be foro he could get in: and the door to Mr. Montague’s private office had hardly closed him be- fore Mr. Montag opesed it slightly, stuck bis bead out, aod ‘said, “Ob, by the way, Miss Du: I've nothing m for you this why dop't.. you 0 Jean stared at her Dpenrite Pleased to have most of the afternoon off, she hastened to leave; and it not until she had got down to the lobby that she realised that Bobby would undoubtedly be anzious to see her as soon as he came out. “T'll just kill a little time in the shops, ahd then wait for him in the lobby,” she thought. So she strolled out to the sidewalk—and found Sandy standing there, @ straw hat tipped jauntily over one ear, smoking a cigaret. “Well, now isn't this nice?” he said, “And me just hoping some body like ycu would come wander- ing out of there.” He grinned, and stopped. discovered that he had ‘led the door of his roadster. “Hop in,” he said. “1 can’t,” she said. “I've—I’ve got to walt for somebody.” “Oh, we'll just ride around for 10 or 15 minutes and then come back. Come on.” She found herself obeying, and before she could find another word to say the car bad moved away from the curb and Sandy was guld- ing it through trafic. “This isn't really a date, you know,” he said. “Isn't it?” “My, no! 1 can’t be having dates with a woman that’s practically en- gaged. Anyhow, it looks like | can't, Say, sister, when are you going to forget about that gag, any- how?” She HE looked at him for @ moment, and then instead of replying, pre- |looked away. ‘They were out of the downtown district already, heading east along one of the through bou- levarde, She looked at her wrist watch and turned again to Sandy with a little frown. * “Sandy, take me back now. | told you 1 had to meet semeone.” “What time's your date for?” “Well, it tan’t exactly @ date--" “Ob—you mean you dido’t bave an agreement ‘te meet anyhody? You were just going to meet ‘em ‘on your own hook?” - «and by of whenever condeed why she seemed to have the impulse to head he spoke of marriage. She nodded. thought seemed not to enter his “Well, in that case,” he said ju-|head, and he remained where he bilantly, “I’m afraid you're not go ing to get there. We're going places.” An expression of mild alarm came on her face. was, looking down at her, idly smoking, and talking in his custom- ‘ary half-mocking drawl, At last, when the tree's shadows had lengthened to touch the oppo site bank, Sandy sat up, pulled the ye to. t to get back |Paddle up, swished the biade cod oes vivre we ttfough the water to wash off the mtown. . . ne dark stains, and started back to the going?” boathouse. And when they got “Oh, just out to a little place I know by the river, where we can hire a canoe and go paddling up among the water lilles and such- like, and then eat some supper when we get hungry.” “Sandy, please take me back to )downtown?” He looked at her; perhaps he saw, in her eyes, that she would not be so very angry if he refused. At any rate he shook his head with & mocking smile and said, “Not-a chance.” * So they kept on driving, and half an hour later they were out of the city, following a highway that led to a little suburban town which lay in the valley of the mis: named Grand river. The river was small.end not in the least grand. but it was picturesque, winding « ‘lazy way between green fields, with ments Jean was reciining tuzuri- ously in @ canoe, which Sandy, seated in the stern facing her, was sending upstream with practiced, seomingly etortions strokes, TH went up the river for nearly a mile, and then Sandy paddied Into a quiet backwater be neath an overhanging willow tree, let the bow swing slowly down. stream, and then kept the canoe trom drifting by jabbing the pad: dle into the mud of the river bot tom and hooking one elbow around it. Jean had a moment's fear that be might want to share her vlace ip the bottom of the cange; but the there Jean discovered that she was hungry, so they ate dinner ip the unpretentious little restaurant, at a table on a rickety veranda over- looking the water, By the time they had finished it was nearly dark. Sandy led the way out to the car; and when they had got in he paused, with one hand on the ignition switch, to looks up at her and say, “Well, what 0 you eay about a long ride, now, and come home by moonlight?” She hesitated, then shook her “Please not, Sandy,” she ‘said. “I've got to be home tonight.” To her surprise he did not in. sist. He started the car and drove her to her apartment with all due On the way be had iit. tle to gay; but when he drove to the curb st her door he grinned at her and sald, “Now, there was no hal was there, by our hav. dat ie peceieer” and smiled. ‘ell, then—how about another, some time, soon?” ahd, you're the most tnsist- e'll see.” ine Movtd you been? you.” he said, excit. edly, “Listen, iene Mon jaodngad to buy those bonds ug to make t - sand dollars on the dal!” spate (79 Ba Qontinnes) t been