The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1935, Page 6

I | A CORN mea onee 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 Kenneth W. Simons Editor Archie O. Johnson Secretary and Treasurer Subscription Rates Payable in Advance by carrier, per year ........ seeeee by mail, per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck) . E Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . 6.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state. per year ...... . 1.00 ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year. ‘ 1.50 ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year z Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of al) news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Rowapaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights ot reprblication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Trapped by the Public England’s statesmen seem to have trapped themselves. With a furore being raised in their own country and by the smaller members of the League of Nations because of their current offer to assist Italy in partitioning Ethiopia, they are threatened with the backwash of an idealistic sentiment which they stirred up to achieve their own ends. All of which proves that people may take too literally what their leaders say. The English government’s devotion, of course, is not to the League but to England. But in order to maintain their status with the people and stir them to support of the government’s program, it was necessary to espouse the same kind of idealism which stirred the American people in 1917. It worked, as such movements often do, and the British people became interested in the abstract proposal of saving Ethiopia. But the various moves and counter-moves did not work as expected. Mussolini had gone too far to back down and it be- came necessary to offer him a proposition which would save his face and that of England, France and the League at the same time. This, from a cold-blooded standpoint, is desirable. It certainly will do England no good to get into another war and the job is to maintain British prestige and understanding, not to save Ethiopia. Downing Street understands that, full well. But the people do not. They have swallowed the bunk which has been handed them and when the government obvious- ly fails to deliver they become indignant. The simple fact is that they seem to have been oversold. Which is very embarrass- ing. The position of the smaller nations in the League is just as easily understood. They look upon the organization as a means of collective action whereby big nations can be kept from work- ing injustices upon little ones. They know that England and France have looked upon it as an instrument of national diplomacy rather than one for enforcing the principles of ab- stract justice, but they were hopeful that in this instance the League would be able to make a showing. Hence they are bitterly disappointed when the leading powers in the League calmly offer Italy half a loaf when the small nations feel she should have no bread at all. In the fore- front of their collective minds is the thought that tomorrow they may be similarly dismembered upon the altar of European diplomacy. Naturally, they do not like it. Incidentally, the whole business is something of an object lesson for America, It should teach our politicians not to be too brash in making promises and our people not to be too soft- headed in taking public statements at face value. A Dowager Rebels The sturdy independence of the American farmer has been a legend ever since the fight at the bridge at Concord. It ap- pears now that this trait still flourishes undiminished; for is not Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons, the former Elsie French Vanderbilt, going to plant potatoes in unlimited quantities on her estate at Newport, R. I., and defy the AAA to put her in jail for it? She is. She says so herself. She is inviting her friends to visit her in jail next summer. The AAA will not lead America to Socialism if a Newport dowager can help it. It makes a stimulating picture. One can see the great lawn at Newport, with the baronial mansion rising for a background. Out comes the lady of the manor, in picture hat and Paris frock; trailing her, the head gardener bearing potatoes, flanked by the first, second, and third assistant gardeners, The expensive soil is turned, in go the spuds—and far off there is weeping in the Kremlin, no doubt. It ought to be a great day in the life of Mrs. Fitz Simons. Example to Children | A new public school building in Long Beach, Calif., was| named after Robert E. Lee, some months ago; and the Long Beach board of education got a flareback recently when vari-|. ous private citizens protested against this means of honoring the memory of a “rebel.” Half a century ago such protests would have been loud and lusty, and the board of education undoubtedly would have heed- ed them; but today they are little more than curiosities, The reason is that as the bitterness of fratricidal war has died down, northerners have been able to see more and more clearly that the character and knightly manhood of Lee con- stitute one of the country’s most precious possessions, Lee didn’t start the war. That was done by hotheads andj politicians, north and south. He fought for the right as he saw it, aceepted defeat like a man, and left a shining example of the nobility human nature is capable of. Not a bad figure for school children to contemplate, is it? Mussolini has supplied the United States with a valuable idea for financ- ing future wars, Consider the wedding ring potentialities of Hollywood and Reno, eee Tyr fated to treat @ Texas man who, had been talking in- Gays. Still, when his wife's on vatation, a man has to that his Santa Claus whister business is startling Just figure the federal bureau trade eee kane catch up. the best to aie fan’t years Behind Scenes | Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Corresponden) Washington, Dec. 17.—Unarranged snatches from notes on AAA before the supreme court: Importantest case since Dred Scott? +.» . Where are the farmers? (Same place slaves were when Dred was up) . Courtroom packed. Scores standing in rear—Neéw Deal lawyers, private lawyers, lobbyists, friends, wives, Scores in line outside—no drag. Behind big tables: Distinguished, iron-grayhaired George Wharton Pepper, ex-Pennsylvania G. O, P. senator—chief counsel for Hoosac Mills trustees fighting process tax, with associate counsel who didn’t, want him, but were compelled by heavy Hoosac creditor, Armour & Co. (Note packer interest in this cotton case) . Solicitor-General Stan- ley Reed, pincenezzed and pompous in aspect, but not in manner, huddled with Attorney General Cummings, who acts as if he understood case. Flanked by youths, Alger Hiss of Justice and Prew Savoy of AAA, who wrote AAA’s vital brief in many all- day, all-night conferences. Hiss, just out of bed from 10 days’ bronchial pneumonia which hit him on brief’s completion. Savoy, just out of bed and limping on cane—strained leg ligament playing handball. (He said to friends the night before: “This case is like Tutankhamen’s curse. What'll you bet something doesn’t happen to Stanley Reed?”) * & & Who else: William M. Butler, ex- G. O, P. chairman, Hoosac trustee who started all this, next to Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith, South Carolina. John W. (“Wedding Cake”) Davis, in on all these anti-New Deal cases. Newt Baker, small, brown, spectacled. Senator Costigan, Colo., who got sug- ar beet growers to file pro-AAA brief, and Senator Murray, Mont. “The Honorable the Supreme Court of the United States— Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! (pronounced O yea as in “Yea, bol”) . . . All persons now having business with this court—” : eee Cardozo, white-haired, crouched, reads opinions . Hughes leans on his beard sae Brandeis resembles a benign Egyp- tian pharaoh . . . frail Sutherland, urbane, sleekly pathetic . . . Butler, like a country hardware storekeeper + « » McReynolds—a bald eagle. Newspapermen try to guess what Van Devanter, who always looks about to die of grief, keeps chewing all the time . . . Roberts, in clear, vigor- ous voice, reads a decision which bars a local widow from her hus- band’s workmen’s compensation. Hughes reads decisions and says further court orders will be found on printed list. (One turns out later to be the turndown of Hauptmann. Death in two lines: First, “5 Hauptmann vs. State of New Jersey’ in a long list of appeals and at the end, “The petitions for writs of cer- tiorari in these cases are severally denied.”) Big round gold clock suspended over Hughes’ head says 2 p. m., and it’s recess to 2:30 for lunch. * * * At 2:30 p. m., Hughes calls for U. 8. versus Hoosac Mills. Up rises Reed, colorless, no flowery or showy stuff, no gestures, competent, mono- tone defending the act . . . Mc- Reynolds asks how secretary of agri- culeure computes tax. Others ask like questions, Reed stumbles a bit—he can’t quite put his finger on the necessary pages of record. Associates do it for him. Brandeis tries to help him and Reed seems to think it’s a trap . . . Reed closes, reserving time. * e Handsome Pepper, with husky, tre- mulous whispers and fervent ges- tures, attacks power of congress to Pass such an act. You'd think he was grandpa telling kids “goblins will getcha if yo don’t watch out”—and believing every word of it. Next day his aides present scho- larly, drab analyses of the “delega- tion of power” issue. (What the h— do the farmers care?) . . . Pep- Per rises again, more fervent than ever. Tries to make it appear pure logic is trying to overcome pentup emotion. In that hoarse, quivering voice: “I am pleading the cause for the America I love, and I pray Almighty God that not in my time will the land of the regimented be substituted for the land of the free!” . . . Look at that twinkle in Hughes’ eyes! ee * Reed rises, Says he’s just as emo- tional as Pepper—and shows: it. Emo- tional, he says, about unfair disad- vantage to 30,000,000 “farm men, women, and children.” His arms wave. “General Welfare + . This is no regimentation!” Government lawyers, some previously critical of Reed for lack of force and preparation and comparing him un- favorably with Pepper, are delighted. It’s later the same day, arguing shaggy, WE MIGHT BE AGLE TO PUT INA FEW OFFICES UP THERE NEAR THE TOP Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS (Texas Weekly) Freedom of the press was upheld again in Texas this week when the state’s motion for a rehearing in a case in which the court of criminal appeals previously sustained the right of newspapers to publish testimony at @ public trial despite a prohibitory or- der of the trial judge, was overruled, It will be recalled that some months ago, a district judge in Brazoria county ordered reports of a criminal trial suppressed temporarily for fear it would impede the selection of a jury in a companion case. For dis- obeying the order six Houston news- . | papermen were adjudged in contempt, but when the case was appealed to the court of criminal appeals they were upheld in their right to publish the news as it occurred. And the high court has now reaffirmed its decision that the injunction was an unwar- ranted limitation of freedom of the press. Superficially, this decision may seem to be of primary importance only to newspapermen, but actually it has a far-reaching significance to all Texans who have an abiding love of the tenets of freedom and who realize that the principle cf a free | 4, press is one of the most important things assured to the people of the United States by the federal consti- tution, Thoughful persons recognize that a free press and a free people are inseparable and that the loss of freedom by a people is always pre- ceded by the loss of freedom by the press. This is a truth so well-ground- ed that it may be said to be entirely without exception—Booth Mooney. A CHALLENGE TO MINNEAPOLIS (Minneapolis Tribune) The reply which Attorney General Cummings made to an appeal for fed- eral aid in apprehending the mur- derer of Walter Liggett, no less than the murder itself, is a challenge to Minneapolis. “Manifestly the activities of the de- partment of justice,” says the attor- ney general, “are limited by the jur- isdiction conferred by acts of con- gress. While the resources of our technical laboratories and identifica- tion records are available to all local authorities, we cannot assume an in- vestigative jurisdiction which does not belong to us.” That puts the case of the federal government's relation to law enforce- ment in Minneapolis fairly and squarely. Quite obviously the federal government is without jurisdiction in prosecuting the Liggett case or any OUT OUR WAY I SAY, ANYBODV WHO WON'T HEP . PACK HOME A LITTLE ICE FER \CE CREAM, HAINT ENTITLE! similar to it. The responsibility is first and foremost that of Minneap- olis and, unless it wants to admit that its agencies of law enforcement are bankrupt, it should not dodge that responsibility, ‘We frequently hear it said that the federal government is encroaching too much upon the administration of purely local affairs, Much pious talk is devoted to championing local rights and state rights, and the trend to- ward the centralization of more and more power in Washington awakens an ever-widening resentment. Yet unless state and local governments show that they are capable of accom- plishing those things which the vast majority of the people want to see ac- complished, local government can ex- pect to find itself pushed further into the background. : This is no less true in the sphere of law enforcement than it is in the field of economics. Everyone wants to see those who were responsible for the death of Walter Liggett brought to justice. A more cruel, cold-blooded and calcu- lated murder has sledom been com- mitted in Minneapolis and that fact alone has been enough to arouse pub- lic opinion to demand that the chal- lenge of this crime be answered. The implications which the murder has raised and the accusations that are being made about the quality of local government, only serve to make it all the more imperative that the roots of this crime be uncovered. The best answer that Minneapolis can make to the crime and to the ac- cusations that have been brought against its government is to do a thorough job in dealing with the Liggett case. Appeals to the federal government will not help, and they are not necessary if local government will make use of its own resources, If the murder of Walter Liggett is to be solved, and if its perpetrators are to be brought to book, Minneap- olis should do the job. If Minneap- olis wants its name vindicated before the nation, it must first vindicate it- self. It cannot do these things by carrying its troubles to Washington. > | So They Say | If we are going into a fight on the lines where the battle swings, let’s fight for free enterprise, free economic system, free America, free from mon- ‘opoly control, free from bureaucratic control.—Senator Boren a * The church is spending too much effort reaching the nice little boys |4. instead of the hell-raisers—Rev. Dr. Samuel Walter, White Plains, N. Y. xe * Man no longer is the brother of the ox. He has become the brother of the beaten cur dog.—Edwin Markham, poet. * *e * Men take their jobs seriously, and do so without losing their capacity: to play. Women forget they sharpen |to puppies, but he certainly can learn the things he needs to learn.—Prof. E. R. Hilgard, Stanford University. ee * It is true, of course, that a war has already been fought “to end wars,” ‘but the other conflict was not barren. There's a league now.—The Most Rev. William Temple, lord archbishop of York. if City and County i Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Robidou, 221 Sweet Ave. W, are the parents of a girl born at 2:10 a. m., Monday at St, Alexius hospital. S. J. Doyle of Fargo, United States marshal, was discharged from a local hospital Sunday after a two-week’s illness. - Adam Lefor, state bank examiner, their wits by playing with people asjleft Sunday for Washington to at- well as working with them—Cor- inne V. Loomis, ace woman insurance broker, * * * Public thinking has changed great- ly since the hysterical days of 1933 when every professor was riding his hobby horse vigorously into uncharted governmental wilds——R, L. Lund, manufacturer. * * * Perhaps an old dog is slow to learn foolish and artificial tricks we teach THEY'LL EAT \T, ONLY OVER MY DEAD BODV- tend a conference Thursday of the legislative committee of the National dent Roosevelt. Out-of-town callers at the county court house Saturday included E. J. Banttari, Arthur Deckert and Jessle Braden, Wing; M. F. Miller, Driscoll; M. C. Stanton, Sterling; Mr. and Mrs, J. N. Laschkewitsch, Regan; Ethel I. Brenden and Lucille Milman, Arena; C. A. Anderson, Moffit; A. E. Slovarp, By Williams for the Bankhead cotton act, that Reed collapses. McReynolds and other conservatives rag him on a technical issue. The strain of it all—especially the AAA—makes Reed lose his grasp of the questions and his argument, A fainting spell overcomes him. (Re- member that line about Tut’s curse?) And it’s demonstrated that no one man should be made to take on de- fense of all the vast complicated maze of New Deal legislation before the supreme court. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) | BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN + First Chorine — 1 was introduced to lionaire party ‘last night, dearie. “GLOW—MEN—AT—WORK.” sons # 9 raising spuds to. the Federal Potato Act are warned Dit bee of dtag than reany a pone id signs oo ae RT a Bs aes Second Chorine — ‘Well, what does that make “The seats that buys show remind me of a Ada “what Supervisors’ assocjation with Presi- nance ANE T! $$ oor Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. 5 ertaining to health but not iuters: briefly and in ink. adores ‘All queries must be accompanied by Dr. Brady will answer disease or diagnosis. Write Brady in care of The Tribune. stamped, self-addressed envelope. ION MED! TRADIT! Mehta) dard bes edition sand enjoyed A medical textbook which has gone tHrough many sicians is Bell’s Pathology. wide Pete 1980 edition ef this work (there was an edition issued last year I believe) appears the following quaint bit of medical hocus-pocus: ‘1 Colds. Many colds are communicable diseases that develop merely from contact with an infected person; but others originate following exposure to cold. A sudden cooling of the body such as occurs if one sits in a draft to cool, causes anemia of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract and a subsequent inflammation i's the grand old medical tradition—for which neither Dr. Bell nor any ouner soegieal authority. can cite any scientific evidence or even any con- vineing clinical evidence. It is fairly well established by scientific observa- tion that a kind of blanching of the lining of the nose occurs as @ reflex response to sudden cooling of the surface of the body, by draft, cold water or otherwise. But the “subsequent inflammation” which this 4 author so nonchalantly contributes to the theory is wholly hypol ant all the dignified old gentlemen who devote their leisure to writing gen books cannot put the idea nai by gE ‘sralgged ‘That of Medicine is past. Unfortunat a . ee In the conventional manner medical textbook author Bell proceeds with his fi etiology: % a Bevere chilling of the body tba dtd Derr to infection, and often seems to be the direct cause of pneumo! Vaile Here the eminent authority {s all wet. He would make a pathetic figure if he should perpetrate anything like that on the witness stand and the opposing attorney knew his algebra. Apart from the well established and demonstrable state of immunity, which essentially involves infection as @ premise, no one has scientifically proved or even obtained evidence of any weight to support the traditional fancy that cold in any way affects nied 'B susceptibility to disease—and I mean cold in pre the sense that Dr. Bell implies. That is, ordinary every day drafts, wet feet, temporary chill- or prolonged exposure to cold. ee Finally this amazing medical authority winds up the argument with the statement that “The maximum frequency of colds is in the spring and autumn and not in the coldest months.” Reason out for yourself how come. If you can’t reconcile this fact with the grand old medical tradition, ask almost any senior practitioner and he’ll make it as clear as mud to you. Why, even Dr. Osler, 30 years ago, said, in the “Doctors’ Bible”: “The frequent occurrence of an initial chill has been one reason for the wide- spread belief that cold is an important etiological factor” of pneumonia. ‘The old timers scarcely understood that the chill of onset is a symptom of pneumonia, not @ cause or an “etiological factor,” but when a medical writer today indulges in ambiguous allusions to the chill, he is merély wor- shiping tradition. iiniciisilaicipetimceion QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What Was the Medicine? Some time ago you wrote an article about chronic bronchitis and recom- mended a medicine, but said it should be taken by one not under fifty years of age. Please tell me what it was te cd it can’t be taken by one under . My brother wants to it. (M. BH.) OEY eer cannot See Hiv suggested such a remedy, Perhaps some other reader will know what you Sele I ar you misunderstood the article, Is a bottle of Certified Milk marked “To be used Monday” good on the following day? conne only a pint a day, so usually I get it only every second day. (Miss L. W.! Answer—I should prefer it to any other grade of milk kept cold that long. A large Certified Milk dairy in California has shipped Certified Milk as far as London, England, of course in cold storage (temperature a degree or two above freezing) and the consumer in London found it apparently as satisfactory as the food had been when she had visited California. Take a Roll Instead of a Pill In my youth I acquired the pill habit and until I reached the age of 54 I took a pill or physic of some sort every day in my life... then I got interested in your teachings and gradually found myself coming over... do my good three dozen rolls daily and have used no physic whatever for nearly a year... (Q. R. O.). ". Answer—Better late than never. Other slaves of the habit may get full by sending ten cents coin and stamped addressed envelope for booklet “The Constipation Habit.” Possible Carrier ‘We hear of “carriers” of typhoid fever, diphtheria or infantile paralysis. I know a man who appears well himself, but three of his wives have suc- cumbed to tuberculosis and a daughter by the first wife also died of the disease. Might he be a tuberculosis “carrier”? (Mrs. O. H.) Answer—While I have never known of such a state, it is not unlikely. A “carrier” is a person who, though not himself ill of or susceptible to the disease, nevertheless harbors the specific germs and may infect other per- sons with the disease. (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) mond Wire of St. Paul, special agent in charge of the federal division of investigation, and Werner Hanni, spe- cial agent in charge of the federal bureau at Aberdeen, S. D, “adjutant General Frayne Baker left for Washington Monday to con- fer with officials there on North Dae kota National Guard matters, McKenzie; Carol Milman, Almont; Clara Mauk, Luella Tollefson and Louise Gardner, Menoken, and Ma- linda Lehmann, Wilton, Judge R. G. McFarland and court reporter, Eugene Bothne, returned to Jamestown Saturday after hearing several cases in Burleigh county dis- trict court. He plans to return here again Wednesday. District Judge Fred Jansonius and Clifford Jansonius returned Saturday from Jamestown where the judge has been presiding at a regular December term of the Stutsman county court. In ancient days, migrating birds crossed the Mediterranean in such numbers that they sank sailing vese sels by settling on them to rest their Two officials of the federal divi. 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