The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1935, Page 4

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Inspiration for Today Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better.—Ecclesiastes 6:11. rar) Nothing is so credulous as vanity, or so ignorant. of what becomes itself.—Shakespeare. Two Excellent Examples When the going gets really tough and the tax collector stalks abroad in the land like an advance agent of the seven plagues, the honest American is apt to get his cronies off in a corner and remark, soulfully: “What this coun- try needs is a dictator.” Much of the willingness to say this, no doubt, comes from the fact that we have never yet had one. Certainly the things that have! been happening to those lands which do have dictators do not make the best of. testimonials. John T, Flynn, widely known economist and publicist, pointed out recently that the two European nations which are having the most trouble these days are the two which have gone farthest with this dictator idea. | There's Italy, for instance. Mussolini, as} everybody knows, made the trains run on time; but like so many other wonder-workers, he did it with borrowed money, and his present actions have a remarkable likeness to the antics of a man who is striving desperately to keep! one jump ahead of the sheriff. Italy’s war in Ethiopia is a war of despera- tion. The country’s economic position has been getting steadily worse for years. The budget) Ut” in the WPA program. is so far out of balance that it makes our own look like an exercise in frugal finance drawn up by an old-fashioned banker for the instruc- tion of the young. Win, lose, or draw, the Italian nation can! expect to get nothing out of its Ethiopian ven-; ture but more grief. In Germany the condition is little better.' Unemployment is still going up, retail prices! are painfully high, and only a spurt of orders} for war materials keeps the bottom from fall- ing away down @o the realm of the departed. | As in Italy, the desperation born of a tight-! ening economic crisis is leading people to look on war as the only hope of salvation—and| when a nation begins thinking that way {t is almost time to notify a few close friends and prepare for a simple but impressive service at the home. Now all this is worth thinking about twice. A dictatorship is the sort of thing that is resorted to as a last hope. It comes when peo- ple feel that their situation is so bad that it couldn’t possibly be any worse. And here we have the two leading exam- ples of dictatorship, proving that that idea is utterly cock-eyed—that the one sure way to make a bad situation worse is to hand every- thing over to one man and tell him to shoot the works. _ In bad times we may say that we need a dictator. It is not hard to imagine oppressed citizens of Italy and Germany getting off in a corner and saying, furtively: “What this coun- try needs is a republic.” Just Folks dominates our own seamen in similar demonstrations of heroism. Then consider the case of Mrs, Dorothea Henschel, @ resident of Milwaukee, six years from Germany and | The Bismarck Tribunel} lE . i Brbind the Scenes in Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER Bide! vets Find It’s lealisrn ... Job Holders to Di ‘ Brain T: ch to Be hia ig Down a Bit Hopkins Takes a Hand. * Washington, Nov. 19—Much of the New Deal's ideal- ism, sincere enough in its time, is wearing off in the face of gy yee realities. ‘one here can feel the federal machine bracin: itself for the election campaign, . Old-line civil nevis employes aren't so concerned, but those in the emergency agencies—many of whom never cared a whoop about pnd Popes . bg aad to take active interest as of fear for jobs, for an admini mn they admire, or both. scuba Federal employes will be asked, quietly enough, to dig down and contribute to campaign funds. With most wealthy men opposed to the New Deal, the Democratic Party will have relatively few “fat cats” this year. Someone must pay the bills. It’s all right to talk About the work-relief billions as a “campaign fund,” but you can’t divert any of that money to operation of cam- paign machinery which will take several millions—and there's a heavy party deficit right now. How much ea will be used to make jobholders kick in remains seen, : POLITICIANS GET BUSY Many officials with political background are spend- ing most or much of their time and thought on politics, making occasional trips back home and keeping in con- stant touch through correspondence, An increasing number of minor employes plan to join the Young Democrats and vote for the first time in their lives. The high command, meanwhile, will devote itself to “practical” smoothings of factional party rows in va- rious states which threaten the national ticket. Political groups which the New Deal—and especial- ly its “non-political” cabinet members and administra- tors—were once unable to stomach will be treated more benignly. Reconciliation with Tammany, for instance, seems fairly sure. It becomes increasingly uncertain whether Roose- velt can carry New York state next year without Tam- many’s aid. There are some states, however, where the administration has favored the “cleanest” political element with good political results, eee BRAIN TRUSTERS NO HELP But the big thing you notice here is the number of boys and girls who once considered themselves above and aloof from party politics and who are now willing to forget they were going to be “pure government servants” and jump into politics up to the neck. That goes for quite a few of the brain-trusters. However, insofar as any public activities go, they are more of a liability than an asset in any campaign. Many voters suspect them and few follow them. Several brain-trusters have stirred up “bad” political situations by their refusals to play politics and their sus- Picions of politicians. There isn't much they can do now except keep quiet while the political operators try to repair the damage. A couple of brain-trusters in administrative jobs recently have tried to play pro-Roosevelt politics in cer- tain states and only succeeded in making matters worse. cee HOPKINS TAKES HAND Brain-trusting for the next year will be largely con- fined to writing speeches, thinking up ingenious an- swers for high officials to hurl back at the enemy and— by the legal section of the Brain Trust—plotting defense of New Deal laws in the courts.“ Scat Another significant change is in the fact that "few jobs are being handed out these days on the basis of Personal friendship. The agencies once noted for their disregard of politics in hiring personnel have undergone a change of heart. , Harry Hopkins, who always has been closer to Jim Farley than outsiders supposed, shouldn't be taken too seriously in his vehement protestations that politics is Roosevelt won't suffer through the handling of that program if Harry can help it. The chief restraint is a| wholesome fear among Democratic politicians that it} isn't safe to monkey with relief too much, because of | Ukely popular reaction. On the other hand, politicians sometimes feel it’s compulsory to mix relief with politics—as when WPA in Missouri was put in the hands of the famous Pendergast machine, without whose help Roosevelt couldn't carry the state, (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.)- With Other DITORS Reptinted to | show what they say. We may or may not agree with them, Production Is King (New York Herald-Tribune) No one with a feeling for justice will dispute the fact that certain classes or elements of society receive less of their share of the social income than certain other classes and elements, A constant pressure toward readjustment of the distribution is a healthy sign. But there always is a point beyond which this pressure de- feats its own ends—the point,snamely, when the empha- sis on distribution exceeds that on production, The theorem is simple enough: Without production there can be no distribution; hence the production of wealth must always remain for every form of political organization the prime consideration, Russia’s experi- ence bears this out. Years of mistaken devotion to the principles of Marx have shown her rulers, if not her Time te Mix a Little Politics With Small Help in Campaign ... Tank and file, that her salvation lies not in division but in multiplication, There is no other explanation of Sta- lin’s insistence on piece-work wages, with their greater reward for the skilled over the unskilled worker, All of which is by way of recommending the very realistic remarks of Dr. Ralph C. Epstein, dean of the Buffalo School of Business. Only about 600,000 persons in the United States, according to Dr. Epstein’s calcula- tion based cn income tax returns, enjoy incomes of more than $5,000. Suppose, he said, that no one in this coun- try should be permitted to have an income over $5,000 and the surplus thus arrived at was dWided among the rest of the 40,000,000 income receivers, Each of the lat- ter, then, would receive just $100. One hundred dollars is not a sum te be sneezed at, but, stretched over. year it represents a small return per capita for the price of the redistribution. This would include a complete stagnation of industry, a consequent famine of the goods we live by and the one satisfaction of ® common poverty. “The plain, hard fact,” to quote Dr. Epstein, “is that not enough wealth is annually pro- duced even in this, the richest nation.” The New Deal to the contrary notwithstanding, he is right. How about a general invitation to a feast con- sisting of the wheat, hogs and potatoes our farmers tre being paid not to raise? Republicans quiz potential presidential candidate to find out how dry he is, All we have to do is turn the dial. oe Now that WPA is to develop the Rutgers athletic field, maybe the workers should be prodded occasionally ° wees won't think they're the ones who died for . 0, R, eee Reluctance of Pittsburgh barbers to talk of their ‘relations with racketeers was our first intimation that barbers were reluctant to talk of anything. é oe G. O. P. to utilize films in campaign . A snappy title for one of their talkies might be “The Taxes Boondog- glers, or Why Politicians Heave Loam.” . ars “ “‘Breathing Spell’ 8; Wall Street.” Any day Now we may expect a bi ing spell, oe “New Yorkers startled by sight of shooting star.” And in this era of G-men Pictures, too. ‘ Republicans frantically seeking a platform have to Nine new constitutions frahied in’ Brazil. Upon re- flection, however, isn't that where nuts come from? oe “Eastern safety organization considers placing gov- pide tein peerage Pde speed.” The idea ‘It’s Just a Short Trip—You Can Make It in No Time in a Car’ pil * THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1935 HER BLEC © 1935 NEA. OLITICS - at the - NATION'S CAPITOL anyone's guess. expenditures in the executive depart- ments, caused a flurry of speculation by addressing a letter to the heads of all government departments and in- dependent agencies asking for speci- fic suggestions for cutting expendi- ‘tures and promoting efficiency. A copy\of Cochran's letter also was sent to fifty or more members of ;congress as a “feeler.” Since the Cochran committee has nothing to do with determining the size of governmental appropriatibns, the only significance attached to it here is that the move possibly may presage the extent to which economy jin government will figure as a major topic of political discussion during the coming months. * * % Patronage Tightens Up Members of congress have shown some hesitancy in pressing too hard for Jobs for constituents. Heads of emer- There has been a noticeable ten- dency on the. part of both seekers 4 after and dispensers of patronage in i recent weeks to proceed cautiously. | Ve gency agencies likewise are making it more ficult to get jobs. . One of the larger agencies, for example, deliberately has set out to eliminate so-called “friendship pat- ronage”—to keep out persons whose only qualifications are strong political bagking. iw This agency, Professor Tugwell’s rural settlement administration, has Washington—Indications.at present point to a lot of talk about economy and retrenchment in government dur- ing the session of congress opening on January 3, but whether it will be productive of any tangible results is Representative Cochran of Missouri, chairman of the house committee on devised a system of examinations for|money during a war than a dozen prospective employes as stiff as the|or more best of them. first must pass an examination sup- Flied for the purpose by the civil serv- nesses.—Sir Stenographers, clerks and typists| admiral. general trading busi- Reginald Bacon, British _* & * | I feel that any with ice commission. Then they, are given | mussolini—even giving him 0 little as mental alertness tests. will mean a victory for him desert—' Next they are investigated. A for-| and will end, eventually, in his striking ants for work at RSA have come un- der his scrutiny, eee Other Agencies RSA, however, is not the only agency which has tightened ite per- sonnel machinery. Almost all of them have taken steps to prevent overload- NRA and AAA, for example, re- ‘cently have dropped about 800 em- ployes in Washington, It used to be that when one agency found it nec- lessary to'reduce personnel those dis- missed were absorbed elsewhere. Nearly 500 of these ousted recently, however, stand very little chance of getting other jobs. The stiff examinations are partly responsible. Also members. of con- gress are lukewarm toward re-endors- ing proteges. They figure that, hav- ‘ing made it possible for a person to get @ job for a year or so, others are entitled to a break. “Ethiopians are noted for their habit of putting things off.” From the way Italians are’ advancing, the na- tives eviderttly have failed to show up for war, * x * Oe It is an utter fallacy that armament firms want war. They neither want war nor do they make any more National Flag HORIZONTAL ¥° Answer to Previous: Puszie 12 Street. 1 What king” ROBIETRIT SOM [ETA] 15 Fence pickets. son's: anor AJWIE MME IRIOISIE] LAWSON [OIR) 20 This country's Hpewred— TCINMMFILIALCIMGINOERTSONIEIE] premier ¢ This country’s Eo ICIRIA! BHA 21 Covets. ruler, — V. —JPIRIAIVEBEIAITI tt 25 Mortal. CILIOIVEEPIOIRIE RE TIRIAICIK] '27 Roof point 43 To lay a street. iets OIOITMMRIOIA ID MME 14 To think, [ IL JOIOTTRERIOIAID MME! covering. UOppoite ot JAINIENT OLOIL MMAIUINITMNCIA] 28 middle. won. IGMRHIETAIRMMAIBIL IE MESIOIN) 29 Before. 17 Lair. R IBILIVIEMEHIEIR 32 Wash basin. 18 Hall! 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Y., dispatch about I principal shooting the banker. ee Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. tions pertaining to health but not Dr, Brady will answer, Jocters briefly and in, ink Aarons Dr. Ser ih Care: erorhe Tribune. All queries must bé accomp: ye Htamnded. self-addressed envelope. FIVE MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR ‘There is a naive notion prevalent among the laity beet tered on the staff of a hospital receive ocr eed ba aie Fogler) hd e ae - len. mables many fan evade ical ae murpleal treatment, ‘and the widespread practice of working this racket i's fecor of no smal Imporenes iyTe ln aan in ail irge me- their just 5 8 trop ay rrcaue, tls cadcing of medical and surgical treatment by the dis- honest well-to-do citizens, It is high time that some publicity were given to the abuse, and the rights of the taxpayers, who, of course, carry the bur- protected. den bt gt dt a et the unwise policy of turning public hospitals over indirect, of politicians, In politics, as the game is waved rary anty, isachinesy is indispensable, and the politician with fa job to hold or an aspiration to power, must RUA weaentaey his ma- nage is the fuel which runs & ke Sees ata of the ‘naga ‘staff in one large ‘metropolitan hospital per- sonally does more than 400 major operations in his six months of service each year. Two juniors working under him work all night every night in the year and do from 10 to 14 emergency operations every night. ‘The actual value of the surgical work done by this one doctor, estimating a fee of $250 for a major operation—and that is certainly conservative—is $100,000. Yet the doctor receives not one penny for his work, nor is he permitted by law to exact a fee for any work he does in the hospital, even tho the hospital discovers in some instances that the patient is well able to pay and collects board and care. ' Maer only ase ths ‘staff members not paid for their services, but they re- ceive precious little credit or acknowledgment of any kind in the official re- ports of the hospital. The doctors are looked upon as background merely, altho the primary purpose of 9 hospital is to care for the sick and injured and there would be no point in taking patients to 2 hospital if there were them there. eg ae ‘poapueal reterred to, there are on the staffs of all departments more than 100 doctors. They give five million dollars a year in the form of professional services to the patients in the hospital. Yet these doctors have to dig down and pay taxes to support the hospital where they carry OP ately ie Would be equitable to pay the fee of the steff physician or surgeon who attends a patient from whom the hospital collects for board and care. Likewise the staff physician or surgeon should not be compelled. to givé free service to a cadger who is in the hospital thru the shenanigan of e ked politician, the wile question of free hospitals and free clinics cries loudly for ublic investigation and reform. ue ce QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Baby's Exercise x Does a baby five months old need exercise? If so, how should he get it? (Mrs. W. A.) Answer—From the age of a month the baby should have half an hour of play every day, say when you undress him for his bath. Place him on a blanket on the floor and let him play or play with him. Write to Children’s Bureau, Labor Department, Washington, D. C., for free pamphlets on care of the baby and child care. Or write me, inclosing ten cents coin and stamp- ed envelope bearing your address ve ae Brady Baby Book. ine In what doés quinine act on the body? What is quinine made of? Is it harmful to take 10 grains at one time? (Mrs. L. O. T.) Answer—Quinine is an alkaloidal eubstance extracted from the bark of a tropical tree. I cannot give to the laity the physiological or pharma- ceutical action of the drug. Ten grains at one dose is often taken without untoward effect in the treatment of malaria. Some persons may suffer from buzzing in the ears and other bad effect from such a dose. Ultraviolet Branded behind the times because I still believe the health giving value of the sun’s rays is the same at all hours. My informant says from 9 to 12 is the beat time to take the baby out. -(H. P.) Answer—Proportion of ultraviolet rays in sunlight is greatest at mid- But sunshine is healthful from morning till night. (Copyright 1935, John F. Dille Co.) day. BEGIN MERE TODAY BK DUNN, lawyer. delnys te yourselves.” z eeanerd Saunas te DON- | Bobby’s protest being less than her answer wi hem Bobby Wallace. bile, salesman, ache Seas to marey ‘The Golden feather aighe club she meets SANDY HARKINS, jose «business connection Jean's ‘Wihes: parcecs, ite 7 Lewis. Lewin bought = car recently, and suspects it te armored. Federal men ge to Lewis betel, bat be and wite have disappeared. Now GO ON WITH THE STORY xxI EVEN & goverament detective on )@ manhunt has time for a little ; J f : l 3 g Es 5 = : f } ‘ #1 : lh Z i H f i & FA [8 i 3 E i 3 & i d 2 a3? FE z 33 32 eRe iB i i zt ; E i g ° 1 fy : = F z ‘| E E f 2 # Po i i urgent—but Larry insisted, wished Jean a happy vacation, and bowed himeelf out. Bobby immediately took a posi- tion on the couch beside Jean and slipped his arm about her shout- ders; but when he tried to draw her to him she quit when he finally got seeking, her lips did not return his Pressure. He released her and sat, looking at her glumly. “What's the matter, honey?” he asked. “Why, nothing,” she said inno- cently. “Well—” said Bobby doubtfully. “Well?” “Well, why don't—why don't you want me to kiss you?” As a matter of fact, Jean was wondering the game thing. Why didn’t she want him to? But she only said, “Oh, Bobby, let's—just talk.” Bobby stared at her, then made a humorous grimace, took his arm away, and said, “Okay. Let's talk. Go ahead.” She pouted prettily and sa! “Oh, Bobby, don’t be like that.” “Like what?” They logked at each other, and discovered that they were close to @ quarrel, and neither of them un- derstood quite why. — “What's the matter tonight? Want me to go home?” demanded Bobby. “Nothing’s the matter. want to go?” Do you 5 gE i i s z iE g i i i ; if ef i Hi fH & Fs eirets . ; E They protested—jwas answer enough. “Don’t fall for that bird,” he said, his tone more harsh than he had intended to make it. There was a glint of anger in the line of her mouth as she returned his gave. He ignored it, ignored caution as well, and plunged on: “For your own good, Jean! Not. because of me—for yourself. Why, you don’t know anything about him. You don’t know who he is or where he came from or what he does or anything. For all you know he may be a crook.” “Bobby!” There was real anger in her voice now. “Well, it's so. You don’t know. ‘You met him in a night club. Larry Glenn said you never know who you meet in @ place like that. He might be a gangster. He might—” ; “Stop!” she eried, her eyes blaz- ing. “Well, it’s true,” he said. She looked at him scornfully. “I didn’t think that of you, Bobby.” “Think what?” “That you'd be so jealous you'd —you'd blackguard a man behind his back, when he isn’t here to de fend himeelf.” “I'm not blackguarding him.” “Oh, no!” “Well, I'm not. I’m just—” “What do you call it, then? Tell- oS ing me he may be a crook or a . gangster! He's a clean-cut, decent boy. You're the one that doesn’t know anything about him. I do. T’'ve seen him a lot. I like him.” And then, to his complete amaze- ment, she began to hi shoulder. Poe As she sat im the Pullman car, the next afternoon, on her way to her home in Maplehurst, Jean tried in vain to think her way out It wasn't right of Bobby, she told erself indignantly, to try to pol- son her mind about Sandy. Sandy was as honest as—as anybody. It wasn’t his fault thet he'd had that Uttle mixup with the police; and anyway, that had been straightened out instantly, as econ as Jean went to the police station and explained that Sandy bad been with her that Fel HEL tH canceing; a week had saved ie lait Hi # i; i i i i i : & H i Row. It hada't been a Friday, after all. She had gone canoeing With Sandy on a Thursday. On the Friday when the robbery \occurred she hadn't seen him at all! (To Be Codtinued) | | :} le