The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1935, Page 6

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All cights ot repebiication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Is There a Santa Claus? The only intelligent answer to this question is “Yes.” He lives and has his being in the love and affection of parent for child, of child for parent and of man for man. The storybook version is that he lives at or near the North Pole, making annual visits to the realm of common folk between sunset and sunrise once each year. His conveyance is a sled, drawn by magic reindeer. He sees all and knows all, including which little children have been good and which ones have been bad. Thus is materialized for the childish mind a thing which is as real as though it had substance which could be weighed and measured, But the adult mind needs no fairy tale to induce under- standing. It knows that Santa Claus is at work constantly and that he is a very real force in the affairs of men. He sits on the shoulder of every man and woman seen hurrying along the street with packages in his arm at this season of the year. He finds a home in the hearts of those who feel the obliga- tion to themselves and to their neighbors which considerations of humanity dictate. Every time a helping hand is extended to a family in want or to a hungry and shivering child, Santa Claus is at work. For nothing is more real than the things we cannot see. No force is more powerful than that which inspires men andj women to rise above the considerations of every-day life, takes.) them out of themselves. Few things are as important as those inner impulses which make us do what we do. Thus Santa Claus lives and has his being. He finds ex- pression in the gentle and generous things which people do. No! one need mi. share in this spirit because he has little, forthe | Kindly word and the friendly smile are, in themselves, expres- sions of that good will for which Santa Claus is only another | name. Those who can do so can find a medium of expression in the annual Open Your Heart campaign now under way. In this | effort the entire community assumes the task usually assigned to the mythical old gentleman. Each contributor adds some- thing to the total which, when it is computed, means happiness for both donor and recipient, for it still is much better to give than to receive. | And just as it is easy to determine where Santa Claus lives, | 80 is it easy to ascertain his origin. Santa Claus was born on the plains of Judea 1900 years ago when the angelic host, appearing to the shepherds to announce | the coming of a savior, first sang glad tidings of ‘on earth peace to men of good will.” on Reaching Outward | The universe, scientists tell us, is expanding at an unbe- | lievable rate. Stars which may, at some time in the remote past, | have been a part of the same body of matter, are traversing | their separate ways into outer space at terrific speeds. \ This the astronomers have pretty well established by | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935 War Over Holding Company Act Means Fat Pickings for Legal Lights .. . Utilities to Flood Courts With Suits... SEC Strikes Back at Foes of Law... Roesevelt and Morgan in Gigantic Struggle. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washifgton, Dec. 12.—It’s @ fine thing for lawyers and their bankrolls, but the current fight of the “power trust” companies against the holding ARE YOU GOING TO COME ALONG QUIETLY OR PO YOU WANT TO STALL AROUND AND GET TRAMPLED ON? | the Electric Bond & Share offices. company act is costing security hold- ers, consumers, and taxpayers mil- lions of dollars. Through the spring and summer of the year the administration's battle for the act stood out as its major en- gagement with combinations of cap- ital and economic power which it felt should be curbed. That was a battle of legislators and lobbyists. The issue has lost none of its sig- nificance nor any of the bitterness which has characterized it from the first. But today it’s a battle of law- yers and judges. That it will become ® political campaign issue now seems certain as a result of defiance of the law by the holding companies, but in the meantime—thanks to that defi- ance—it is becoming the outstanding New Deal struggle in the courts. ee & Legal Aces Get Gravy Promising a hundred injunction suits against the law, the utilities have hired most of the available fa- mous and high-priced legal - talent. It takes @ lot of money and a lot of lawyers to fight a hundred injunction | Suits through the courts. Expenses will be paid by the investors. - Similarly, the taxpayers are paying the government's expenses. Just as the utilities are lining up a legal Phalanx against the act, the govern- ment is building up a sizeable legal staff inside the Securities and Ex- change Commission to meet the at- tack. The best brains that can be drafted jare being borrowed from other gov- ernment agencies. Assistant General Counsel Robert H. Jackson of the Treasury, borrowed tc head this staff, is one of the most brilliant trial lawyers ever to appear in the government ranks. And al- ways in the background, working at all hours when they're not asleep, are those two indefatigable brain trusters, Ben Cohen and Tom Corcoran, who drafted the act and have since been tngaged in plotting its defense. * Oe * Suits Coming Fast SEC's sudden suit against Electric Bond & Share, to compel that $3,344, 000,000 holding company and five sub- sidiaries to register as required by law, was @ strategic. move principally designed to head off further injunc- | tion suits by the utilities........ Those suits were comi parently timed at.the. rate. of. a big one a day, with accompanying | publicity barrages,. and .SEC - became. convinced that utility strategy was to} wear the government down and give | it more litigation than it could handle. After actually hearing from Chair- man C. E. Groesbeck of Electric Bond | é& Share that the concern wouldn't! register, the government legal bat-/ talion sat up through the night pre- |paring its case and next day popped | the suit in a federal court in the Wall! Street area a block or so away from) That suit will get to the supreme; ccurt as soon as any of those bought by the utilities. Bond & Share, the court will be told, operates in 35 states and serves 2,765,000 families in| 5,000 towns and cities, ee | Put Ban on ‘Writeups’ | You get some idea of its interest in| beating the holding company act when you recall that the Federal Trade Commission had found “write- ups” in its system of $263,751,238. The holding company act is poison for such writeups. Bond & Share is allied closely with the Morgans’ United Corporation, mathematical calculation and other means too mysterious for | W2ch 1s an even bigger holding com- pany than Bond & Share. The Unit- the layman to understand. But out beyond the universe as We ed Gas Improvement Co. of Phila- know it to exist, they say, there are other universes and perhaps still others until the immensity of the space which is filled with rushing astral bodies, beside most of which the earth is a mere grain of sand on the seashore, exceeds even the most fertile imagination. \delphia, which brought the first big |injunetion suit against SEC, is an- jother Morgan company — dominated | by the same Mr. Morgan who paid no income tax in early depression years, but who recently returned from Eng- land with the ‘complaint ‘that Amer- ican taxes were just about killing It is in the hope of learning what exists “out beyond” that | him, man has begun the construction of a new telescope, twice as large as any now in existence. Once before a 200-inch plate was poured and found imperfect. This time, the experts say, the work was successful and within a few years the gigantic instru- | ment will be put to use. That it will have any practical value is doubtful. We get no food, clothing or material comforts from a knowledge of the heavenly bodies which we know only as stars in the velvet black of a winter’s night. But all knowledge has some value. If it does nothing else, the discoveries made by this new instrument may emphasize anew the fraility of man and his relative unimportance in the universe. It may serve to put us a little more in tune with the infinite, bring us to a little better appreciation of the Divine plan which guides the stars in their courses, still takes note of the needs of mankind. Another Exposition America’s business comeback seems to have been generated by a wave of expositions. Chicago started out of the doldrums with her world fairs in 1933 and 1934 and the trend was continued in 1935 at San Diego, one of the finest if not the largest of the group. Now comes Texas, politically a republic within a republic, | with a great exposition at Dallas in 1936. Millions will be spent on grounds and buildings and the Lone Star state will put on its best bib and tucker to welcome the rest of America. It should be worth seeing, for Texas has a way of doing things as well as a glamour all her own. She is of both the west and south. Not the. west which Atlantic coast residents see in Chicago, but the zeal west of sweeping prairies, gorgeous sunsets and the tradition of the cattle trail. Not the “Old ath” of Mississippi and Georgia, nor yet the Spanish South I Mexico and California, but a new south with as much ai as. any part of the north. Attendance: at ‘this fair should be an education to millions Americans; for it will:acquaint them with a land of vast pos- ities and ed which ie Ueely to play, @ more important part national economy a6 time rolls on. | What this means, of. course, is that Mr. Morgan and Mr. Roosevelt are engaged in a titanic struggle and it | will be surprising if’ many ‘politicians | don't delineate that conflict carefully in the forthcoming campaign. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR ! NOW AND THEN i IS BELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN “In my _ business dealings with you customers, I find that every knock is a boost.” “Shouldn't it be just the opposite?” “No, you forget I'm_ a_ spiritualistic medium.” | “There are no lights on in Tony's |bootblack shop.” “Does he shine in the dark?” “Well, Rosie Miglione says he does.” “What's your horse named?” ‘He’s named Regulator.” . . Q “All the other horses go by him.” ‘White—Why is it that you have be- come so quiet since you got married? Black—You see I have to be careful what I say these days. My wife thinks I'm the smartest man in the ‘country truth. She—Sometimes you seem 60 man- inate. Why is it? from a party at. five a. m. this morn: “T suppose cuses?” | dust excuses for good Hquor.” -/That lonely building perched on a| ‘\faith in the future of our prairie 7 So They Say |, | Herbert Hoover. and I don’t want her to find out the ly and cther times absurdly effem- He—Heredity, You see half my en- cestors were men and the other half | “My wife is wild. I got home| ‘you’ were full of ex- “Bure, the drinks they served err FAITH IN THE FUTURE (Adams County Record) Nearly a thousand people from all sections of the Missouri Slope trav- eled to Col. Paul 8. Bliss’ Scoria Lily ranch 12 miles east of Hettinger Sun- day for the “open house” at the new Tammed earth garage. 246,000, as it is in 1935, Adams coun- ty will be worth $20,000,000. “We are going to raise things and we are going to sell them,” Bliss re-| marked and added that “farming is about the oldest business in the world; and it is the best business.” In concluding his remarks Colonel ‘The rammed earth building, Col-| Biss said, “It’s been pretty tough in . the last few years, but if you will Sot ene detlated te nrevide euitebie| say by it a little while Jonger you living quarters for man and beast at | Wig inAuik JOur lucky stave you did” eee! man. Many of us have been con- But it is more than an experiment. |tronted by trying if not heartbreak- ing experiences during these past few years. We have seen many of our neighbors, scarred by the battles, succumb to the lure of “greener fields beyond.” Many of them have re- turned in worse condition than when they left; others have remained in different fields but with no increase in worldly goods. Those who have clung steadfastly to that, faith which has builded an empire on these prairies will, we bleak hillside represents one man’s lands, which to many of us, especially after these years of drouth and de- pression, begin to appear foreboding. As Colonel Bliss so aptly pointed out in his talk on “The Future of North Dakota,” the values in Adams county and in this entire Slope area are going to increase. Instead of Adams county being worth only $7,- | replace it with common sense and real public service.—M. C. Eaton, New | York G. O. P. State chairman. ee The parole system has been over- worked. Hardened criminals use it too much. The parole was meant for xe * the first offender as a method of re- Progress out of the depression has! Habilitation—Courtney Ryley Cooper, been retarded since the policy of cut-| ®uthor. an ce ting production of wealth was put into effect and today this country is be- hind all European countries except those now on the gold standard.— Prof, Irving Fisher, Yale. ee * A Republican Lochinvar will come out of the west ... sweep the tinsel and pageantry out of Washington and > In a world struggling against the forces of disruption, we have a high duty to keep America American.— rors, the struggle for fair play in business . . . will go on, regardless of any vicious thrusts at a prostrate law, and loud lament about “government eral co-ordinator for industrial co- operation. Modern Actor ————————— es Regardless of past trials and er-| bureaucracy.”—George L. 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(i et aad tt PET NT pt S “carry on.” BEGIN HERE fODAl JEAN DUNN éelays her anewer whee BOBBY WALLACE asks her te marry tim at The Golden Feather eight club che meets GANDY GARKINS wheee besteces Connection ts vague. Sandy intre- duces Gebby and Jean to a MR. “ane MRS. LEWIS. Gobby celle some bends for Lewis. whe tuye a car. LARRY GLENN, federal agent. rg which ber father ts tt Tovbea, ane Larry starto'e seared fer the robbers. Now GO ON WITH THE stoRY CHAPTER XL WHey Larry Glenn arrived in Portsmouth he went at once to Police headquarters. where he found Detective Sergeant Mike Hagan talking with 2s broad-shouldered. swarthy chap whom he {ntroduced as Sergeant Doyle. of the Ports. mouth force. “Tell us the story again.” said Mike. So Larry outlined the situation in detafl, telling how the Jackson gangsters had been traced to the Engle farm, outside of Midlothian, and bow mysterious telephone call had announced that they were going to French Pete's. “Have you any kind of a notion where or what French Pete's might be?” asked Larry. Doyle slowly shook bis head. “I wouldn't say 1 never heard the name.” he said. “It sounds sort of familiar, somehow. . . . But I'll be hanged if 1 can place it.” “There's just a chance.” said Larry, “that we might get a iead from Washington. Before we left Dover I called the Division of In- vestigation and asked them to see if they had anything on it. They're to call me here. tonight. if they bave. But ft’s a slim chance— awfully slim.” They fell silent for a time; then the plain-clothes men who had been sent-to the bus station from which the call had been made came in to report that a careful check, there had failed tq disclose any in: formation whatever bout the fugitives. “I didn’t expect it would,” said Larry glumly. The desk telephone bugzer sounded. and Doyle answered. He held the receiver up to Larry with new ideas at once. The injection fast as competent men can learn the technic. By William Dr. Brady disease or diagnosis. Write Brady in care of The Tribune. stamped self-addressed envelope. two eggs. An egg yields 75 to 80 calories, no nearly au naturel you take it. If you | coddlea, that’s the way you should hat beaten raw or hard boiled and grated or sliced, digestible for you. visits Theoretically it may be that a ferment substance en or white tends to interfere with complete digestion of the white in the {human stomach, and hence raw egg is not so readily able as cooked egg. ‘But practically it is a question this determines both digestibility and nutritive value, where any such ques- tion arises. =~ tually germ-proof egg-shell. Your Personal Health will answer questions pertaining to health but not id in Teter iatiy and be accompanied by a prefer, I may say here, however, that it extravagance to use eggs on the scalp or a whole skin cannot absorb any egg applied externally. Brady, M. D. ink, Ad@ress Dr. matter lke ve e 2 ‘em, If you egg album- or completely assimil- of individual taste, and ' There is no essential nutritional difference between just eggs and eggs graded as to size and color of shell.’ Unfortunately for the wiseacres eggs which on oxidation is converted into sulphuric acid; this makes eggs acid- forming, that is, egg metabolized in the body leaves acid ash—but let the wiseacres worry about that; it need not concern you and me. contain considerable sulphur, Eggs laid in clean nests and carefully handled may be kept fresh for commercial trated solution should weeks or months by immersing in a solution of one part of the silicate (water glass) in 10 parts of water first be washed or scrubbed with plain (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) guy—listen, Larry, ‘aidybe there's a ‘|lead in this, after all. Back about 1925 he was pulled in for murder ing @ village marshall who stopped bis truck tm some tittle town be} tween here and Dover. And Don Montague, of Dover, was his taw. yer.” Doyle’s face lit up with eager ness. “Sure, 1 remember, too,” he said, He paused, frowning in his effort to remember. “1 got it.” be said at last. “This fellow French Pete—his real name was Rubidoux. He ased to have s sort of resort on a little lake. over in Lycoming county. before he got into the boose-running racket. Any- how, be'd telé onto it. and the talk was that Montague made him sign {t over to him as part. of bis fee.” a “Where is (tt asked Larry quickly, - “I never knew, exactly.” eaid Doyle. “1 bet old Tom Thornton would know, though. He’s been on the force for 26 years, and be never forgot anything tn bis life.” He opened a door tuto another room and bawled. “Hey. Thornton —come-in here e:second, will you?” A gray-haired. mild-looking de tective came in and faced them in- quiringly. ©: °° oe “Remember that bird Rubidoux. who used to have some sort of a resort on a little lake over in Ly- coming?” asked Doyle. Thornton nodded. “Where was it, exactly?” asked Larry. “Well,” sald Thornton, “it used to. be the country home of some rich man from Dover. Later tt was a sort of country club. Then Rubidouz got it. Anyhow, it's tucked ‘way off in the woods, about two-three miles north of the main highway — U. 8. 120— around 10 miles east of here, or such a matter.” “Could you take us to it?” asked Larry. Thornton pondered, then nodded. “I think 1 could,” he said. Larry got up.’ “Then tet’s go,” he eaid. “It may be a bum but {t's all the steer we’ Take me ip and fet m¢ your chief, will you?” ete ‘O Larry went in to talk with the Portsmouth chiet of police, while Tony LaRocco, at bis instruction, hurried to telephone the Lycoming county sheriff; and both of these offictals promised ful! co-operation. to the extent of their ability. An hour tater three police cars drew to s halt at the concrete the remark. “For you-Washing- ton.” Larry took the phone and held a monosyllabic conversation. At last ‘ he hung up and turned to Doyle end Hegan. : “Well, for what it's worth— which isn't much —bere’s all the Washington files have got.” be said. “They've checked their list of gang: ater. aliases and they have one French Pote listed. He was s booze Packeteer. back in prohibition days. Used to run whisky from Wetroit ‘dows through the middle-west, Both Portsmouth and Wover were . » 91 bis route. apparently, “But be was shot to death by vival gangsters back in 1928. So that’s that.” , bridge that marked the county line. Io them were Larry Glenn. three other Cederal agents, Mike Hagan, and the Portsmouth chief of police with half @ dozen of bis test men all beavily armed. Beyond the bridge waited another car. with the Lycoming county sheriff and four. deputies carryiog riot guns. The care stopped end Larry and the Portsmouth chief held a brief consultation with the sheriff; then they all started off again. Twice they made wrong turn ings, -As Thornton sald. some ot the roads in this part of thie county had been re-located in recent years; once they followed ap execrable road that petered out. at last. in \somebody's farm yard, aud @ tiue at last Thornton held up his But hand as a signa) at a crossroads and confidently told the driver to turn to the left. They proceeded along the dirt road in the direction the detective ad indicated. {t was dark, now, and their lamps cast long beame of light down the peaceful roadway ahead of them; and the glare sud- denly reminded Larry that there was no sense in making their ar- Tival too conspicuous. At bis direction, therefore, they drove past the place where the lane branched off, and parked their cars out of sight around a bend in ‘he road. Then, grouped about the leading car, Larry laid ou: a plan of attack with the sheriff and the Portsmouth chief. eee A’ ® result, Tony LaRocco, Thornton and Doyle crept off through the woods; and five mip- utes later one of the Lycoming caunty deputies got one of the cars, turned it around, and drove slowly for the mouth of the lane that led to French Pete's place. Reaching the fork, he turned down the lane, with bis lights on. and slowly fol- lowed it. The rest of the party celomes on foot, 50 yards behind 1m, The car had gone perhaps a quar- ter of a mile from the road when @ man suddenly appeared in the light of its lamps. He stood in the middle of the road. an automatic shotgun tu his hands. The deputy slowed to a halt. “Where you goin’, buddy?” asked the man with the gup. The deputy Dut bis head out of the window and said, innocently, “Why—isn't this the road to Middleville?” The man with the gun looked at him scornfully, ‘ “You ought to know it ain't.” he said. “This’s private grounds. You'll have to go back to the main road.” The deputy, instructed to stall for time. began to make some pro test, and the guard came up to ward him, gripping his gun menac- ingly; them. out of the darkness of the woods, came s curt. “Put ‘em up. buddy—you're covered!” The man with the guu faitered back a step. and into the light of the auto's lamps came LaRocco, Thornton and Doyle, tevelling re volvers at him. He cursed softly, and besitantly elevated his bands, still holding the shotgun. LaRocco stepped forward and took it away from him. The man was quickly frisked and relieved of a 32 auto matic and a blackjack. Then he was dumped into the rear of the sedan and bandcuffed with his arms about one of the rear window stanchions. The rest of the party came up, and Larry and the sheriff’ tired questions at the captive. He cursed and refused to answer; so they left him there, with two deputies to Guard bim—and with the sedan Darked in such a way as to pre vent any other car from passing along the lave. Then the officers started on dow the lane again, on foot, “They're here, all right,” sai@ Larry softly, “We'l) just go op down and surround the place, end then invite ‘em to come on out. Re ready for some shooting, all of you” (Po Be Continued)