The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1935, Page 6

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 T: Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .. Daily by mail. per year (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state. per year .. Weekly by mail outside of North Dal Weekly by mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Memher of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of el) news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper so the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All cights ot repyblication of all other matter herein are also reserved, No Disagreement Here If President Roosevelt and ex-President Hoover could have| a heart-to-heart talk on the relief question, discarding the! words and maneuvers designed to make an impression on the public, they probably would find themselves very much in agreement. It is, has been and will continue to be a distressing problem and the best thing that can be said about it is that it is bad. Because there was need for action—and possibly for po- litical effect—President Roosevelt strode forth to slay the dragon which had grown to such threatening proportions during | the last year of Mr. Hoover’s regime. \ But the dragon refused to be intimidated. In fact, he even refused to run away. Instead, he gave the Roosevelt adminis- tration such rude treatment that it is sick of him. It is hand- ing him over to the state and local governments to see what they can do with him. The illusion that the federal government can/ deal effectively with relief has,been dissipated, ‘ It is probable, however, that Hoover suffers from illusion when he talks about turning the issue over to the “voluntary | services of American men and women.” | It sounds good and makes a fine spot for applause in aj speech, but it hardly bears impartial analysis in such a manner as to reflect credit on the Great Engineer. There are and always have been in every community men and women willing to donate their services. Let us hope there always will be. But they are far too few in number to cope with a problem which is as extensive as relief has been and still is. Even the most enthusiastic refuse to devote their full time to it. It would seem that the most intelligent thing to do with it is to put it as close to the people as possible officially so that they will be| continuously aware of it and unable to ignore it. The cost of relief should’ be placed in the governmental budget closest to the taxpayers so they will know exactly what it costs. By so doing they will be encouraged to keep an eye on where it is going and how the fund is administered. | The cause of democracy is best served by this action be- cause, while it may be less painful to have relief costs paid tem- porarily by government bond issues, it has the effect of forcing interest in one of the vital problems of government and there-| fore in government itself. As for Mr. Hoover's demand that relief be turned back to} local folk, one wonders where Mr. Hoover has been these last | few weeks. In his gadding about the country he may have been too busy to read the newspapers. Had he taken the trouble to read as he ran he would know that President Roosevelt already has signified whole-hearted agreement with this idea. He began the process of handing the job back to the local conimu- nities some time ago. | | i | | The Speed-Up in Russia The speed-up is an old and dreaded enemy of the American | workman. The workman resents it, and blames it on the| cupidity of his boss. Sometimes, if he is feeling especially rowelled by the practice, he blames it on capitalism as an insti- tution. So there is something rather odd in the news that this same speed-up has made its appearance in—of all places— Soviet Russia. Some of the Russians don’t seem to like it any better than their confreres in capitalistic lands, either. At any rate, a recent dispatch from Moscow tells how the government is hav- ing two men shot for objecting to the speed-up, and is sending a good many more to prison, It all started, as far as Russia was concerned, when an| ambitious Russian miner discovered that by swinging his pick) properly, making every move count, and taking less time out to chew sunflower seeds, he could increase his production by some- thing like 1400 per cent—which makes one suspect, offhand, that his original production couldn’t have been anything to brag about. ' Anyhow, he made his discovery and acted on it, and the'|| government was duly impressed. Now everyone is doing it, ‘willy-nilly, from mine to factory to cooperative farm. This is boosting production, causing the setting of many new records, creating a buying boom in the Moscow department stores—and, last but not least, causing some old-fashioned capitalistic discontent in the breasts of the sturdy souls who have to swing the picks. And the Russians, who have a way all their own of dealing with discontent, have handed out two death sentences and a number of prison terms to encourage the lazy. Model Milwaukee Municipal Judge Max W. Nohl of Milwaukee suggested the other day that New York and Chicago send experts to Mil- waukee to find out how a city can handle the crime problem; and judging by the statistics he quoted, it might be a very sound idea. The judge pointed out that during the last three months, you? New York has had 108 homicides, Chicago 65, and Milwaukee— one, In the same period, other crimes occurred as follows: ‘obbery. New York. 283; Chicago, 2221; Milwaukee, 6. Burg- tary, New York, 650; Chicago, 4212; Milwaukee, 173. Somehow, this Wisconsin metropolis seems to have discov- ered the secret of keeping the lawless in check. There are more _ tities than New York and Chicago which could profitably take ‘time off to find just how Milwaukee manages to do it. pwr revelation may help deter the “hot-enough-for-you?” ah : Scenes hington | Behind the : Was ay MOONY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 18. If it hadn’t jbeen for George Wharton Pepper, Justice Owen Josephus Roberts prob- ably wouldn’t be on the U. 8, supreme court, Roberts is the “odd man” on the court and if he votes consistently with its four recognized conserva- tives, the New Deal will be licked on much of its most important legisla- tion. Pepper represented the Hoosac Mills trustees and made an impas- sioned appeal against processing taxes in the big AAA test case before the supreme court. In 1924, as a senator from Penn- sylvania, he urged upon President Coolidge the appointment of Roberts, a fellow Philadelphia Republican, as special counsel with Atlee Pomerene in the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil cases, After the senate had refused to stomach Coolidge’s first choice—Silas Strawn of Chicago—Coolidge named Roberts at Pepper's behest. HA! BRITISH BORING IN Correspondents at the state de- partment are constantly being im- pressed by the extent of the Brit- | ish influence there of late. As early as his Thursday press conference, Secretary Hull—who had no news—wished them a “pleasant week-end.” Correspondents, familiar with the length of a “British week-end,” “pounced on that at once. “Ah, ha!” said they. “One more proof!” Roberts acquitted himself brilliant- ly, recovered the government's oil wells, and achieved such fame as to make him a logical choice by Hoover in 1930 for the highest bench (after the senate had refused to stand for Judge John J. Parker), The Roberts-Pepper connection has no significance, of course, except as it may indicate another example of | the reasons guiding large corporations in their selection of counsel to appear in the courts. Pepper had previously been retained by eastern packers in hog processing tax suits against AAA. He is sup- posed to have been retained in the Hoosac case through influence of Armour & Co. and co-trustee in Hoosac with ex-Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts, * * x LANDON’S STOCK ON RISE Gov. Alf Landon’s stock in the Re- publican nomination contest has been booming here lately. One reason is that the country and the politicians seem to be showing considerably more enthusiesm for Landon, the budget-balancer, than for Col. Frank Knox, the Chicago pub- lisher, Another is a growing belief that Senator Arthur Vandenberg, regarded as a third strong possibility, doesn’t want the 1936 G. O, P. nomination unless he is sure it’s worth having. From sources not very far from the senator come reports that he is in- clined to believe Roosevelt's chances of re-election are rather good. Van- denberg is exceptionally canny and probably realizes that it doesn’t do a 1940 candidate any good to be badly beaten in 1936. On the other hand, a Republican candidate who came near beating Roosevelt next year would be a strong contender for renomination four years later. Vandenberg’s attitude toward the 1936 nomination is likely to be determined by the degree to which Roosevelt seems to grow weak- er or stronger in the next four or five months. * Oe FRANK TO QUIT BRAIN TRUST Jerome Frank, once one of the most conspicuous of the brain-trust- ers and still an active figure behind the scenes, will quit the New Deal staff in January. Nationally known as a brilliant lawyer, Frank left a $30,000 or $40,000 @ year practice in New York to be- come general counsel for AAA in its early days, He quickly became one of the out- Standing administration liberals and so vigorously did he champion the in- terests of farmers and consumers that he was eventually forced out by Ad- ministrator Chester Davis. He was then appointed to RFC, where he worked on important rail- road cases, helped write the work-re- lief act, aided in planning AAA's su- preme court defense, and helped pre- bare defense of cases brought by pow- er companies. He resigns chiefly for financial Teasons, (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN i Angry Caller—Mis- ter Editor, I want you to take pack what you said about me in your old rag. You said I was a re- formed drunkard. You've got to apolo- gize or I'll sue for fer slander. Editor—Very well. statement cheerfully, haven't reformed. Til retract the Til say you (New York Times) Secretary Wallace’s annual reports are by no means the dry-as-dust documents that issue from most Washington offices at this season of the year. Into them he puts a good deal of hard thinking and a refresh- ing amount of candor. His report for 1935, which is published this morning, conforms in this respect to the pattern of its predecessors. It is primarily an explanation and a de- fense of the farm policies of the ad- ministration; but it is also a fair statement of the problems and the choices with which American agricul- ture is confronted. Mr. Wallace is no blind partisan of policies already set in motion. He is ready to admit errors of judgment, to agree that as an aid to the farmer AAA has its limitations, and to examine with more open-mindedness than the ordinary government official can muster va- rious alternatives to the present pro- gram. Among these alternatives he is least favorably impressed by. two once- familiar plans which some of the farm groups, and some of the western sen- ators, are now bringing forward as a substitute for crop curtailment. They are the equalization fee and the ex- port debenture—twin panaceas of the Nineteen Twenties. Mr. Wallace’s ob- jection to them is his belief that they would overestimate production and force world prices down, &ind that the “dumping” abroad of American wheat and cotton would lead to retaliatory action on the part of other govern- ments. His own preference is for continu- ation of crop-curtailment, until such time as foreign markets for the American farm surplus can be re- covered through some better and more permanent plan than “dumping.” The best approach to the problem, he believes, is the one he has often rinted to show t they say, We or may not with them, Rept wh: may agree recommended in the past: lowering our tariffs in order to enable other nations to sell more of their prodicts in the American market and by this means obtain purchasing power for goods which the United States is best fitted to produce. He has lost none of his faith in crop-curtailment as an emergency device for tiding Ameri- can agriculture over a period of emergency and a stalemate in the in- ternational tariff war. But he agrees that to keep millions of acres of good American farmland out of production |indefinitely is a policy of “defeatism.” The question is, can a tariff-minded public be persuaded that lowering our duties on foreign goods “will not simply rob Peter to pay Paul; that it is sound national economics, and will benefit indirectly even the interests that seem the first to suffer”? ‘A re- vival of foreign trade, coupled with a better distribution of domestic pur- chasing power, is Mr. Wallace's long- term alternative to AAA. magistrate thundered: “Have you ever earned an honest dollar in all your life?” “Oh, yes, Your Honor,” the accused answered meekly, “I voted for you in the last election.” Miss Gardner—I can’t marry him, mother. He’s an atheist and doesn’t believe in hell. Mother—Marry him, my dear, and between us we'll convince him that he is wrong. on the dangers which he encountered while “over there” on the war front) —And that, my son, is what I did to- ward winning the World war. Son—But, daddy, why did they need so many men besides you? Question Asker—Do you drink? Man—No. Asker—Why don’t you drink? Man—My boss forbids it, my cus- tomers won't allow it and it goes against my conscience. _ Asker—Those are surely good rea- sons. What business are you in? Man—I'm a bartender. First Inventor—I’m going to invent an auto brake that will bring a car going 40 miles an hour to a dead stop in 20 feet. Second Ditto—That’s fine. Then I'll invent a gadget to keep the driver from going through the windshield when he does, Daddy (after eloquently enlarging | Wy Bargain prices for food in 1932 were little consolation to people with no income whatsoever.—President Roose- velt. x * * If there is another general flareup,’ as in 1914, Britain, win or lose, is! jgoing to pieces.—Sir Norman Angell, Nobel Peace prize winner. * eK The last six months have displayed clearly that the League of Nations is primarily a political and not peace instrument.—Senator Arthur Vanden- berg, Michigan. * * * The bottom of a saucer may show @ curve, but that wouldn’t make it a globe.—Wilbur Glenn Voliva, com- mention on stratosphere pictures said to reveal earth’s curvature. * * * One feels that in his heart of hearts President Roosevelt still applauds the slogan he took from the late Huey Long, “Soak the Rich.”—H, Gordon Selfridge, American-born London merchant. * %& * Get away from the silly methods of having a boy risk his life for 100,000 howling spectators just for dear old [alma mater. Why shouldn’t the poor boy share some of the enormous profits of the game?—Prof. George; Owen, Sr., Massachusetts Tech. * * # |. Genius, like the God who created it, says to the peoples of earth, “All that is mine is thine.”—The Rev. | Theodore Cuyler, New York, * * * | __Not in my time may the land of the jregimented be submitted for the land ‘of the free—Senator George Wharton j Pepper. eo: ® This is no time for us to seek a re- turn to Hoover and Coolidge pros- berity. They who would restore those days are endeavoring to reconstruct a |fool’s paradise which will prove a bed |}of Communism.—The Rev. Fr. Charles j=. Coughlin. * * * | Fascism in this country will not aaa Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. juestions pertaining to health but not rite letters bi ly and in ink, Address Dr, must be accompanied by a DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN B Even the physician with a very large practice will see only a few case @ year in which he will suspect, opines Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, that the symyp- toms are due to too great a narrowing of a diet. In other words Dr. Alvarer thinks the public is being stamped in regard to vitamins, How can even a physician with a very large practice suspect a con- dition of which he knows practically nothing? The knowledge in regard to vitamins and their role in nutrition, health and disease has come chiefly from sources outside of the medical profession. What the average practitioner doesn’t know about this subject is scattered thru scientific liter- ature the world over. Five or ten years hence it will get into the medical textbooks, and then even the doctor with a very large practice will be in a position to suspect, if he does not frankly diagnose vitamin deficiencies in a considerable share of patients he now guesses about, in the traditional fashion, to be sure, but still it is guessing. When too large a proportion of the needed calories are taken in the form of artificially refined foods there is danger of a deficiency of vitamin B, according to Prof. H. C. Sherman, an authority on nutrition. Since arti- ficially refined foods are so commonly and abundantly used by people of al) economic conditions, it would’ seem that there is likely to be a deficiency of vitamin B in the diet of many who do not know or do not care whether they get an adequate vitamin ration. i Scientific experimental evidence as well as clinical evidence is accumu- lating that the digestive weakness or inefficiency so commonly manifesting itself as “dyspepsia,” “indigestion” and “constipation,” not to mention more specific complaints, is due to deficiency of vitamin B. . As a rule, where a diet is deficient in one vitamin it is deficient also in other vitamins, tho the clinical evidence of an associated partial defi- ciency of vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin G may not be so apparent or our knowledge of the effects of moderate deficiencies of these other vitamins may not be clear enough as yet. White bread, cakes, pastries, sweets, refined sugar, crackers, syrups, cornstarch and refined cereals or “breakfast foods’ contribute most of the calories in the diet of people of all economic conditions who are not informed or interested in the role of vitamins in nutrition. These excellent fuel foods are not the “corrective” or “protective” foods which nutrition authorities urge as essential in the diet. Still, the more intelligent portion of the population is listening to the advice of nutrition authorities, and un- questionably such advice has a salutary effect, for in thousands of homes now more or less thought is-given to providing the “corrective” or “protec- tive” foods, that is, the vitamin rich foods, as well as the fuel foods in the daily menu. No thanks to physicians with very large practices (the clinic racket is a great racket) who of course dislike to acknowledge that antiquated miedical theories were wrong. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - Rheumatiz Kindly advise whether inflammatory rheumatism is caused by the ab- sorption of poison waste from the teeth, sinuses etc., or by overwork or long hours of work with exposure to cold and wet. Mrs. L.E.8.) - Answez—One of the ills called rheumatism, chronic arthritis, is due to focal infection—not absorption of waste—and the source of the infection -is sometimes a neglected septic focus or depot of the germs in infected sinus, tonsil, tooth. There is no reason to imagine any disease of disabling char- acter is ever caused by long hours of work or by exposure to cold or damp- ness. Send ten cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address, for copy of booklet “The Ills Called Rheumatism.” Safeguard Children We are going to have our two sons, 4 and 7, vaccinated. Would it be ad- visable to have them immunized against diphtheria at the same time? (J. D. M.) \ ; Answer—I should advise the diphtheria immunizing first—rather the Schick test and the toxin-antitoxin treatment if either reacts. Then the vaccination, The danger to the unprotected child is far greater from diphtheria. Every child should be immunized against diphtheria before. he enters school. Honey Does honey contain vitamin? What is its food value? (Mrs. V. P.) Answer—Only an insignificant amount of vitamins if any in honey. It is a wholesome mixture of sugars for anyone who likes the flavor. It yields 1529 calories to the pound, compared with maple sugar which yields 1540 or molasses which Yields 1290, or cornstarch which yields 1675 calories, or brown sugar which yields 1785 calories, or refined white suger which yields 1860 calories to the pound. (Copyright 1935, John F. Dille Co.) missioner. 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