The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1935, Page 6

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .. Daily by mail, per year (in Bi ‘ Daily by mail, per year (in state outside o! Daily by mail] outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state, per year .... Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, pe! 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The reason for this is simple. It lies in the fact that the} times when every person in this country able to work has had a; job have been few and far between. The last such period was during the war when some laborers were known to work an| eight-hour shift in one factory, then go to another and work an| eight-hour shift there. | Behind he SCENES | Washington Literary Digest Poll Gives New Dealers Food for Some Serious Thought . . . There’s a Difference in Voting on Policies and Men... Along Come More AAA “Atrocities” . . . And Somebody Comes Near Being Called a Liar. : By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent} Washington, Dec. 13.—No one here is trying to laugh off the current re- sults of the Literary Digest’s current New Deal popularity poll. On the contrary, it is being discussed earn- estly in the highest quarters. The effect created falls consider- ably short of a panic, becavie there is no New Dealer who cannot talk himself into believing that a 55 to 45 per cent vote on a general question comes far from meaning that all will he lost when Mr. Roosevelt campaigns next fall against a Republican candi- date as yet unnamed. Nevertheless, all of us are entitled to use our own judgments and if the prevalent swing against Roosevelt policies as shown by the poll con- {unues, we will have to answer these questions: 1, Does a request for approval or disapropval of “acts and policies of the Roosevelt New Deal” bring the same pro or con reaction as a de- mand for choice between the election of Roosevelt and of Hoover—or Lan- don or Knox or Borah? 2. Is the present question equiv- alent in the minds of poll voters with that of the 1934 poll which asked whether voters favored Roose- velt policies “on the whole”? 3. How much of the anti-New Deal vote is a protest vote from lib- erals and left-wingers who feel Roosevelt hasn't gone far or fast enough, but who wouldn't vote for a Republican? 4. Is the Digest poll representative of all groups on the economic scale? see It was not so in 1929, for in that year, according to the! best available estimates, some 4,000,000 employable persons | were out of jobs continuously. i They weren’t noticed much, then, because things appeared | to be on the upswing; people were moving from job to job with} great rapidity and 80 or 90 permanent jobs, worked at by 100} persons, were sufficient to create the illusion that the entire! 100 were gainfully employed continuously. In recent years, however, when the labor turnover has been{ practically nil, this method of absorbing unemployment has not operated. Men with jobs have nursed them carefully. Men} who got out on the unemployment limb were forced to remain! there. | Viewed in the light of these cold facts, recovery is much} more complete than a glance at the unemployment statistics | would indicate. The steel industry, for example, has reabsorbed | 226,000 employes in comparison with the low point of the de- pression, when employment decreased to 210,000. Wages are higher than ever before in history and the hours | of work each week are lengthening out, 36.8 per week in Octo-, ber as compared with 25.5 a year ago. Thet means prosperity—and other industries are similar reports. | Still, the latest figures report some 9.000,000 persons out} of work. | The answer lies in the fact that our population is steadily increasing, that better health standards are enabling persons to work until farther along in years, along with the fact that} making} the turnover of jobs is greatly reduced. | In one way, jobs are like money. A little will do a lot if! they are passed from hand to hand with sufficient speed. | Tf, on the other hand, the apparent spirit of caution con- tinues, it will be a long time before the unemployment experts | will be able to report that all is clear. | New Day Ends Something over a year ago Postmaster General Farley astonished the nation by proudly announcing that the postoffice | department was on a self-supporting basis. Various economies | and an increased income had balanced the budget. A new day | had dawned for what is probably the greatest business enter- | prise in America. i But the sun did not long remain at its zenith. Its setting is! red with the ink which spatters the department ledgers. Al new deficit engulfs it and all that remains is the memory of the} bright and fleeting day. | The result is that the letter rate will remain at three cents. | Cheap postage seems to have gone forever. American business | is to be denied the relief which an efficient postal service would | give it. i The tons and tons of mail, borne on nothing more sub-; stantial than a government frank, have weighted down the ship which sailed forth so gaily. The failure will be noted by | business more than the individual. Few write enough personal | letters to bewail the cost. % | » The obvious answer to the situation, which is to improve | the efficiency of the postal service and make it something | besides a political grab-bag, is all too obvious. Such a step | would do nothing to alleviate the trials of a postoffice depart- ment which often is forced to think in terms of political patron- | age rather than the common good, for the job-hunters are much | more importunate than the people generally. | The spectacle is a sad one but not unexpected. Similar! bright hopes have been born and died ere Mr. Farley’s day. The only break in the routine is that no other postmaster general ever had the opportunity—or the temerity, depending | on the point of view—to assert that the postoffice department | is self-supporting. The Greatest Mother In its advertising matter the Red Cross long has labeled itself “The Greatest Mother” but it is doubtful if it can rightly claim this title when compared with Old Dame Necessity, tradi- tionally reputed to be the mother of invention. An example is offered by the aviation industry which not only has created a device to keep ice from forming on the wings of planes but one to prevent it from hampering the effectiveness of propellers. i Styled a “slinger ring,” it feeds anti-freeze sol'ition onto the propeller blades, thus removing any ice which may have formed and preventing the deposit of new ice. Thus is eliminated one of the greatest hazards of flying. himself fop the freezing-alive experiment is to probebly coincide with his first boner at bridge. ‘badly in | Southern woman named Mrs. Dry- ‘fast as they can hand them out. 1936 Poll Important One Regardless of how you may answer those questions now, the poll which the Digest presumably will take next | fall as between the two major party candidates will be followed with in- finitely more interest by all poli- ticlans and political prophets than the present one, The poll as to policies shows clear- ly that the New Deal has slipped popular esteem, but still leaves interrogation points. On the other hand, the Digest presidential polls—especially the one in 1932—have been so indicative of the result that very few of us will be inclined to doubt its accuracy next October. eee Ha! More “Atrocities” Wanted: A poor old widow in Maine who killed two of her own hogs for her family’s use, who was promptly pounced upon by federal agenets and penalized $18 “from her scant store.” A very serious effort is being made to locate this poor old widow and almost any official in AAA is willing | to dig down to contribute for a re-| ward to the successful sleuth. She appeared first in the Atlantic} Monthly in an article by John W. Owens, who ascribed the tale to a nice old retired clergyman of his acquaintance who had heard it while on a visit to his old home town in Maine. AAA is also looking for a wealthy den, who is reported to have received $1000 from the government despite the fact she had no contract to re- duce cotton acreage and who, on seeking to return it, was told to keep it because its return would mean “too much red tape.” It would also like to find the AAA agents reported to be distributing $100 bills through rural districts as All the Same Guy? It is officially suspected that these people are closely related to one an- other. And to the farmer who had never made more than $400 from his hogs, but was paid $1000 by AAA for not raising them—he was at different | times a resident of Iowa, New Hamp- shire, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Min- nesota, and Wisconsin and was claimed as a “friend” by Senator Dickinson of Iowa. Not to mention the three acquaint- ances of James Truslow Adams upon whom the AAA tried to force checks for not growing tobacco, cotton, and potatoes which they had never raised in the first place. (Administrator Chester Davis publicly called Adams a purveyor of “100 per cent untruths” for that contribution.) Probably in consciousness of its other sins as well as the fact that it's vicious, damaging propaganda, AAA always gets steamed up over these fake stories and makes a great show of virtue in proving them untrue, Knowing that only 10 Maine hog raisers are on the AAA books, that none of them is a woman and that there'd be no way to penalize such a woman even if there were one. Sec- retary Wallace is answering letters about the Maine woman with the as- sertion that federal agents were grafting, impostors were operating, or that the whole story is a big lie. He expresses belief in the third story. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) A BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN “The way I see it every girl is usually all wet!” “So that’s the kind of a cynic you are.” “No, that’s the kind of a plumber I am.” Joany—I'd certainly like to he a mermaid, wouldn’t you, Janey? Janey—No. What would you hang up for Christmas? Naomi -Did Jamphier give the bride away last night? Jimmie--No. He’s going to let the groom find out for hisself. “One more step and there'll be i? a step in the riot direction to me.” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1985 MURDER IN POLITICS (Chicago Tribune) On Sept. 6, 1934, Howard Guilford, publisher of a weekly, The Saturday Press, was murdered in Minneapolis. The murderers have not been dis- closed or apprehended. In the con- ditions of local politics and govern- ment existing in Minneapolis it -is pretty safe to predict they never will be punished. A natural sequel is the murder of another editor, Walter Liggett, whose exposure of vice and corruption had earned him the deadly enmity of the underworld bosses and politicians. There is little reason to expect the second crime will have any other outcome than the first. The situation these murders under- line in blood is wider and deeper than the crimes. Assassination has been a rare resort even in recent American history but the soil for it has been prepared in the reckless demagogy that has prevailed in Minnesota, in- flaming mob violence, making mock of law, spreading class hate, covering corrupt purposes and profits under pretense of social justice, until this American commonwealth has lost its American character and is an obp ject of amazement and concern to all Americans who cherish the institu- tions and Democratic ideals of their country, The foundations of this destroying force are in the profits of vice and organized violence, resources of cor- rupt politics, which cannot endure the light. Essential to its existence is a cowed, misguided, or complacent press. The Minnesota gag law, passed by a Minnesota legislature and upheld by the Minnesota court of last resort, was warning enough of the character of the powers in con- trol of politics and government in that state. Yet there was no rebel- lion of its citizenship against it, and the law, which destroyed the right of the people of Minnesota to knowledge ot their own public affairs, would be | today the law of the state if it had not been challenged from without | and set aside by the supreme court of the United States. The process of Suppression has now taken to other methods. The guns of the under- world have been substituted for the pretense of law. The system which employs them has not been brought to the bar of public conscience. With its roots in the poisonous undersoil of vice and violence it thrives on its pre- tenses of reform, and the pretense, fed by the rancor and folly of class war, has not been pierced. Perhaps the blood of two victims will wash the eyes of Minnesota cit- izenship. Both victims were charged with evil character and motives, The common sense of the people of Min- neapolis and Minnesota will tell them these men were not killed by gun- men because their character or mo- tives were not above reproach, if they were not. They were charged with pubishing slander and untruth, Com- killed for that. face the truth that they were mur- dered because they were a threat toa system which cannot afford to have the light turned on. This editorial is an authorita- tive analysis of the Minnesota situation by a newspaper not pub- lished in that state. It was Col. Robert R. McCormick of the Chi- cago Tribune and the American Newspaper Publisher's Associa- tion, who fought and finally up- set the famous Minnesota “gag law” in the U. S. Supreme court, _—— | So They Say | SS ee American industry is not selfish. It would be far more just to say it has been preoccupied—preoccupied in pro- ducing.—Alfred P. 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In connection with that case and the subsequent death of Howard Guilford, The Tribune made an investigation of conditions in the Twin Cities. It is the informa- tion obtained at that time which forms the basis for the above ed- torial. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. DE eraty, with anatr 1s Intng to health but not i) POR ASSES Sits in Ink, Address Dr. sunt be accompanied by @ ; atamni addressed envelope, 4¥ ONLY HE THAT READS WOULD THINK Whenever I venture to suggest painting a bruise or swelling with todin or applying Haiment for relief of ache or pain I am pretty certain to receive a little shower or sarcastic comments from readers who have not yet learned to think, Have I changed my mind, or have I made a slight slip? If nothing is absorbed through the unbroken skin etc., etc. ‘There are two Khids of reading, both beneficial. One reading for entertainment, For this purpose I prefer a good murder mystery—and I don't mean detective story, I estimate that for every six dozen dectective | stories there is one good murder mystery. It’s hard hunting, too, Some people have strange tastes and go in for poetry, history, biography, travel, science or what have you, a other kind of reading is for self-improve~ ment. I'd classify history, biography, travel, science in this category. He who runs may read for entertainment. He who reads for self-improve- ment must. think, and he should do a ggod deal more thinking than just. what the book says. He should debate and question anything and every- thing the book says, if it is ca ein, oe Otherwise he is only ing through the motions and not getting anywhere. ig ‘That's the trouble with many of these readers who hasten to call my jattention to such inconsistencies in my column, They don’t think—or rather they seem to think I don’t think. But my stars, you have no idea how much I think. Sometimes I get to thinking so far away that people around me think I’m nutty. People always do think a person who thinks lis a bit crazy. A young medical colleague, I mean a real doctor, who gives me some of the best suggestions I pass along to you dumb laymen, now offers a ‘| prescription for a crackerjack liniment for backache, lumbago, pleurisy, muscle strains, joint pains, sprains, bronchitis, and divers aches and pains where the cause !s not known. Then he adds one more indication which disheartens me but now that I've gone so far I'll have to mention it— acute chest colds, This youngster tells me he play$ tennis five days a week in the season, bowls all winter, rides horseback, and so on, and he is now 65 years old. I hope when he grows up he'll learn that there is no such illness as “cold.” But never mind that now. Here’s the liniment: For Adults: Oleum Sinapis (Oil of Mustard) Oleoresina Capsici (Cayenne pepper) . Adeps Lanae Hydrosus (hydrous wool fat) ....One ounce Directions: Apply a small amount, with moderate rubbing twice daily, followed by heat. ‘When using such hot liniment be careful to wash your hands immedi- ately afterward before they unconsciously touch your eyes. I should not advise such strong liniment for children. Camphor lini- ment (camphorated oil) is better for them. Dissolve one ounce of coarse powdered camphor in four ounces of warmed cotton seed oil or olive oil. Apply it over chest and bridge of nose for acute coryza, acute bronchitis, acute sore throat. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Operation for Angina According to doctor’s opinion and electro-cardiograph I have angina pectoris, the coronary artery being somewhat thickened and occluded. I am sixty years old. Advised to undergo operation to cut off blood supply to the thyroid gland. (T. J. B.) Answer—That method of treating certain heart diseases is as yet in the experimental stage. I do not belicve it is advisable in such a condition as you describe. Millions i I never saw a cockroach in my life until we moved into our new house | last November, and it seemed there were a million there to receive us, and in the two months more millions have joined them... (F. T. D.) Answer—Send ten cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address, and ask for booklet “Unbidden Guests,” which deals with roaches, bed-bugs, cooties, ants, worms, moths, fleas, etc. (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) DEN:-FEA © 1935 NEA Senvce, Inc, BEGIN HERE TODAY JEAN DUNN delays her answer a WALLACE asks Ber BOBBY 7 Gol me bonds for Lewin. who bu: car. LARRY GLENN, federal a goes to see Sand: nm injured. Lewises are stayin; house. Meanwhile Larry hi Jean tn wi robbers. his men the house the gang t= staying. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLI WHEN the guard brought Jean Dunn back to the house, she felt as if some queer paralysis of the spirit had descended on her, | worst thing about it; that she had making it impossible for her either | jet herself in for all of it by giv- to think or to feel any longer. She knew the worst, now. was no possible chance that sh could ever get away. es She stumbled along, until at last|same, You'll al with they came out of the woods into Pegs eS per ercy se) old house }too, You just got loomed up, a dark, insanely-de- | ys, that’s all.” signed shadow against the star- flecked sky, the few lights in its rooms gleaming dimly through the night. Beyond it the sattace of the lake was a black pool, lit here |"" and there by a touch of reflected | “Ob, yes, you can,” he said. A breeze was rising,| tell you this, sister. When you and there was a gentle rustling of |!1 with him, you put in with all leaves in the trees, a silky wash of |US- And puttin’ in’s lot the clearing. The star-shine, wavelets on the beach. The man conducted her straight to the house and marched her w the steps and into the hall. toward them. He looked at the guard coldly. “What're you doin’ in here?” he “I thought you were sup posed to be a lookout, up the road. |F ‘What’s the {dea coming in here?” | OF kick the daylights out of The man hastily gestured toward asked. Jean. “Honest, chief, I had to come in,” he said. and I figured—” “Oh, you -figured,” sald. Jackso1 “If I can ever get some of you pin- heads to ‘remember that I’m sup- asked. around here’. . ‘. well, let it go. Go on/it’s any use reminding you how back there now, lunkhead, and the | you've led to me and deceived me mext time you find anybody wan-|and—" dering around loose give us a call posed to do the figuring —don’t come in yourself.” The guard Separeen. our goals. te | wanted you—bad. And—" Neved to get away with no worse rebuke than this, Jean was left |could get me,” she said bitterly. |the splintering America’s Number alone, facing “One public enemy. He eyed her coldly, his washed-|way you can get it, in this world,”} And then, seeming more lifeless than | he said. out ever in the dim lamplight, “Just where was you going?” rf MR. Bobby sells 78 She |for Sandy Harkins, She had dis- was in the hands of the Red Jack-|carded the honest and loyal affeo gon gang—the most notorious, dan-|tion of a youth like Bobby Wallace gerous and vicious gang of man-|to cast her fortunes with an out- killers on the continent—she, Jean |law! Dunn, who had thought it a wick- edly-exciting lark to poke her nose | ably, inside The Golden Feather night club! She was in their power, and the man she had promised to marry was one of the gang, and there He stood there with her, his gun under | Self came into the hall. He his arm, and waited. A door opened |from Jean to Jackson im unspoken somewhere, and Red Jackson came | inquiry. “She was takin’ it|qark woodwork, its old-fashioned | ably, no on the fam up through the woods, | chandelier and its dim light. Sandy asked her. “Back—to town,” she said. “Back to town? What town?” |shoulder. “Oh—" again she moved one|* “This is coming along fine,” he hand in a meaningless gesture.|/said. “In a day or so I'll be as “Any town. I don’t know. I just|good as ever. Then we'll see if wanted to get away.” you don’t feel like you used to.” He looked at her silently for a} He slid his hands covetously moment, “Why?” along her arms. Her cheeks flamed, j aan know what I'd got}and she jerked away from him. nto,” she “) "4 “Oh. And now you do know, you aie sia Ser a don't like it, Te that it?” focithatatalrersg loxpactiag 4¢ tue ° e - GHE nodded. Standing under his] ierune hor duck to nine: ee inhuman stare, she felt that she only stayed there, laughing at her. knew just how a bird felt when it} «py touch you plenty,” . looked, helpless, into the hypnotiz-|«non forget, baby—you're in the ing eye of a snake, mob as much “What's the matter with us, any-|You might as well sinke the test how?” said Jackson. “Why don’t you like us? We're nice people.” aa ia perio ite—mel" His voice was edged with clumsy sarcasm. She made no reply. S82 Tan upstairs and fled to the “You like that boy friend of L yours first rate, don’t you?” he con-| her. Once inside, she tinued. “You went for him plenty,|the door; then I understand, before this.” Her heart sank, as she realized | her that this, indeed, was the very He grinned, unexpectedly, and put one hand to his bandaged z E E egee al Sas z Bae i it irl is fF - J | a t ing way to a senseless infatuation z § F : i it Hi i | i EB u Hy 2 8 E ie tf She found herself nodding miser- 8 5 id i B as° “Well, what’s the matter, then?” “He's just as nice now as he was before. Still his hair the same way and the same kind of clothes, just the same and talks il ts E FH i E : Hy tH 8. i j | | i i : I ll E 3 i i | j i i g | ? she whispered. He looked h from head to foot with slow, ious deliberation. i | itil if F rf than pullin’ out again. stickin’, now —for always. don’t forget it.” A door opened, and Sandy i i ii i E | i Raf gs £ ID E HE :! 3 : of fi “Your girl friend,” said Jackson, “thinks she wants to go home. You talk her out of it. You're kind of gifted, that way.” He turned to go, and added in a rasping voice, ie i Hi ' i | 3 F i ft a 48 if that’s easier. I don’t care.” eee He went away and left her in the cavernous old hallway, with its | voice, i ag "F i it aT ‘There came over and put a hand on her | somew! mn. | shoulder. “What's the matter, kid?” he 5 i i é i i R E lit if “I don’t suppose,” she said, “that j i i ig Fe Fer H iF ee H at | ite “Not a bit,” sald Sandy blithely. “Not a bit of use, You see, I i EE H F j HL i i é Fa & Ts i “And that Ey ras the only way you i Sandy was unabashed. “You got |jangling to.take what you want in the only |dows— : i ii i i de & & nerve floor in a faint, (To Be Continued) “Oh, And-you wanted—me.” he] “Yep. 4nd got you." erat eee a