The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1935, Page 6

The Bismarck Tribunel pening An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and Published by entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Secretary and Treasurer Kenneth W Simons Eattor Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republica- news dispatches credited to !t or not otherwise credited in this and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. 2 Ot Fepublication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Pardons—and Death If the wages of sin are death, so, apparently is death the result of letting hardened criminals out of our prisons. Charles Marratto, accused of murdering Peter Stewart, Fargo grocer, stands innocent until convicted, but his prison record and the evidence against him give credibility to the thought that it was a sorry day for Stewart when he was released from a Canadian prison. His criminal record begins at 16. He still is a young man, yet a large part of his life has been spent in prisons. His record shows service in no less than three such institutions. It may be, as the reformers tell us, that Marratto never had a chance. Perhaps he didn’t, but that fact will not bring Peter Stewart back to life or assuage the grief of those who ‘mourn him. Prevention is clearly better than cure, and this holds true in handling hardened criminals as well as it does with anything else. If prisons were harder for certain types of criminals to get out of, that fact would prevent a good many of the offenses which mar our record as a nation today. In some states the habitual criminal act, whereby an incor- rigible can be incarcerated for life, has been held unconstitu- tional but that is no excuse for turning professional robbers and murderers loose upon the public after nominal sentences. To release the first offender after a short lesson or on pro- bation is clearly within the province of a judge interested in the improvement of society, but to give a hardened offender a light sentence is inexcusable. The deaths of men who have been slain by persons with prison records cry out for vengeance, And the judges and the pardon boards of America should hear them. All cigi A Force for Recovery Banks of the nation, according to a report of the last call, just issued by the comptroller of the currency now have deposits totalling $27,430,730,000 an increase of $1,369,665,000 over the report of last June and of $2,619,340,000 over the comparable period a year ago. At the same time loans and discounts were lower than at any other time during the last year. This fall they totaled $7,301,871,000 as compared with $7,365,226,000 last June and $7,683,924,000 a year ago. z Thus, as deposits have climbed loans have dropped and there is much in that fact to interest those Americans who ordinarily pay no attention to banking statistics, One consideration is that there is a tremendous volume of capital ready for investment in the United States now. An- other is that interest rates probably will continue to be low. And a third is that the banks are not going to make much money on their purely banking operations as long as they have to collect enough interest from loans totalling seven billion to pay interest to depositors on a sum nearly four times that amount. This tremendous bulk of money in our banks exerts trem- endous pressures. It may, as some fear, stimulate an orgy of stock market speculation with all the economic evils that attend inflation, or it may result in increased investment for produc- tion with a substantial boom in business activity and general prosperity. If the bankers are unable to pay interest on it, the owners of that money soon will attempt to put it some place where it will net a return. A Fine Kind of Bonus An item which appeared in the newspapers the other day seemed to harbinger the return of better business times more clearly than all of the statistics which have pointed in that direction, It told how a number of American business firms, some large and some small, have revived the good old custom of pay- ing Christmas bonuses to their employes. A little extra in the pay envelope as grateful recognition of services rendered, the extra check which is the accolade of service, indicate as do few other things a return of confidence and a spreading feeling of good will. It speaks well for American business, too, that it has resumed this praiseworthy habit. In some cases it was a ques- tion of paying the workers a bonus or giving the stockholders an extra dividend. Those cases where the bonus won consti- tute a better defense for the innate fairness of American busi- ness leadership than a wagonload ‘of speeches on that subject. i It is a pretty safe bet that such firms will continue to make ‘money because of the faithfulness of their employes and that they. will have no labor troubles. Proof of Sincerity : One of the big features of the evangelistic campaigns of the late Billy Sunday was always the taking of the collection. Mr. 's hearers used to shower down generously, and there . were not unkind and cynical people to say that Mr. » Banday was making a pretty good thing out of his evangelism. + Probating of the evangelist’s will in Chicago, however, proves: that he did not enrich himself nearly as much as some critics:supposed. He left an estate of $50,000—which, while it % comfortable sum, is a long way from being a vast fortune. Fa Fa #7 sawdust trail as a road to riches, did because sincere Sunday did put aside a competence; he obviously did not | ‘he SCENES | Washington Babson Blast Is New Deal Boost From Foes’ Camp... Obey the Law, He Warns Utilities ... Big Busi- ness Driving Voters His Way, F. R. Believes .. . Plenty of Ammunition Ready to Fire at Plutocratic Enemies, By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 21—Those hund- reds of New Deal press agents have been as useful as so many postholes during the recent Big Buiness boom- boom, led by the public utilities against the administration. With hardly a peep from the gov- ernment except the soft words of Chairman Jim Landis of Securities Exchange Commission, the “power trust” holding companies were issu- ing daily defiances, refusing to regis- ter with SEC as required by law, and filing shoals of injunction suits with accompanying publicity blasts. Suddenly there came a slashing damaging counter-attack—but not from the New Deal. It came from the famous Mr, Roger W. Babson, finan- cial analyst, oracle, and adviser of Big Business, a director of and a very large stockholder in holding and other utility companies, In short, the attack was an upris- ing in the enemy camp. “Let us not make the fatal mis- take of defying the law and order upon which our very existence de- pends,” wrote Babson to officials and directors of holding companies adding that until a supreme court decision was rendered, “surely it is up to us directors of public utility holding companies to obey the law.” **k * Warns of Lawlessness “In this crisis,” Babson warned, “a lapse by us into lawlessness would do more to degrade and damage the util- ities than any attack by hostile critics. . +. It would be hailed as proof that some of the severest charges made against this industry are perhaps true. “We public utility directors would be playing right into the hands of Communists, Socialists, and Fascists by flouting the law at this critical time. How can we expect radical groups to abide by democratic prin- ciples if we ourselves are to defy the law whenever it suits our conven- jence? “In spite of these taxes, restrictions, and handicaps, all of us are better off than if we lived in any other country on the face of the globe. We ought to be thankful we are not inhabitants of Germany, Italy, Russia, Mexico, or any other nation, including England. + +» We should be grateful that we are living in the United States and hance should obey its laws.” * * * Playing F, R.’s Game Coming from Babson, such senti- ments had far more force than if uttered by any New Dealer. But the question arises why the once irre- pressible New Dealers didn’t beat him to it. One answer is that although many of the boys are raring to take off their shirts and return brick for brick, Roosevelt—whom you may still cata- log as a very slick politician—has been repressing them, on the theory that the industrial and financial lords who hate him are driving the liberal, independent vote and the “common people” right “home to papa.” There will be plenty of time later to return the fire. Meanwhile, Roose- velt figures, the enemy will be piling up ammunition for him. Temporarily, the administration will take an occasional pot shot just to re- mind people of what it considers the issue, such as the president’s Warm Springs crack at “gentlemen in well- warmed, well-stocked clubs and the suffering they’re going through be- cause government is spending mone} for work-relief,” or the Ickes Detroit speech about “multi-millionaires who insist the Constitution was written for exclusive preservation of large ag- gregations of property, however ac- quired.” 5 xe # Sloan’s “Suffering” Bared Ickes will have to wait for his long- sought chance to cut loose at William Randolph Hearst, whose enmity to the New Deal he regards as a prime administration asset which should be capitalized. But Roosevelt is cherishing and may yet make use of proposals such as that of Broker E. F. Hutton (accused by a senate committee of pool-pro- moting methods “which cannot be too strongly condemned”) that Big Busi- ness and Big Finance “gang up” against the New Deal. Probably it wasn’t by accident that 24 hours before President Alfred Sloan of General Motors blasted the New Deal before 1500 business lead- ers in New York, SEC revealed that the suffering Mr. Sloan had made $201,000 in wages last year. And the blasts of President C. L. Bardo of the National Manfuacturers’ Association reminded administration- ists of evidence in the Shearer, muni- tions, and ship subsidy lobby investi- gations which contain piles of ripe fruit handy to throw at Mr. Bardo. ek O* Vision G. O. P. Split Roosevelt's advisers rejoiced when Republican Chairman Henry Fletcher chose a fund-raising committee of 18 outstanding “plutocrats”—including men on the Morgan preferred stock TALE OF TWO CITIES Less than two years ago Minne- apolis, St. Paul and Kansas City were held up by the United States de- partment of justice as the “poison spots” of national crime. Of St. Paul that can no longer be said. The people of St. Paul did not try to hide the stigma thus fastened on the city, but faced the facts and through political processes acted to close this city as a haven for gang- sters and racketeers, with such good results in terms of major crime.that the city’s police system is now praised on the very scores on which it was condemned by the federal authorities less than two years ago. St. Paul may not yet have solved its crime and police problems completely, but at least this city may justifiably point to its earnest efforts to get rid of gangsterism and all its works. Over in Minneapolis the record runs to the contrary. There the peo- ple have been persuaded to put their city in the hands of political dema- gogues who have tolerated and ac- Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not. agree with them. cepted support from an underworld of lawlessness, rackets and gangs. The price has been paid, on the one side, in bloody riot and illegal hi- jacking of legitimate industry; on the other, in the increasing. domina- tion of the city by the racketeers, gangsters and gunmen. Murder of Walter Liggett is the culminating outrage. The arrogance of the crime makes it all the more shocking. Because he started a news- paper to write against these men, they shot him down. A more im- pudent challenge to law could scarce- ly be imagined. It is as though the underworld of Minneapolis were to come forward and in so many words say that any who speak their minds contrary to its interests will be answered with murder. The Pioneer Press would be among the last to endorse either Mr. Lig- gett’s journalistic methods or his pol- icies. His newspaper, however, is not to be classed with the ordinary so-called “scandal sheet.” His jour- nalistic stock in trade were accusa- tions of ploitical corruption chiefly in relation to commercialized rackets. Whether or not the violence of his campaigning was justified, his right to free speech and free press could not be questioned. No attempt was made to silence him by the answer- ing of his accusations on their merits. Underhanded and indirect pressure of the most reprehensible kind was brought against him. He was even taken into court on trumped-up charges, thereby being presented with more effective proof of his ac- cusations of a corrupt alliance be- tween the underworld and the law enforcing agencies than he himself had ever been able to muster. All else having failed, finally he was mur- dered. This is a challenge that calls for an answer. There is only one course for the city, county and state offi- cials whom Liggett had under fire. ‘That is to bring about the punish- ment of his murderers and clean up Minneapolis. After that it is up .to the people of the city to determine what kind of government they went for the future. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN A man who was cut off relief and didn’t get a WPA job was telling his hard luck fate to a friend who had a good- paying job. “My friend,” said the latter, “I feel very much in my heart for you.” “What about feeling in your pocket for me?” asked the unfortunate one. “Judy quarreled with her boy friend because he visited a nudist camp.” “But she has no objection to nudity.” “Do you believe in capital punish- ment?” “Can't say. You know I don’t fol- low these labor problems.” Visitor—I suppose, Joany, that you are expecting Santa Glaus to fill your stockings with all sorts of nice pres- ents? 2 Joany (aged six)—Assuredly not! I threw the Santa Claus myth into dis- card years ago. I have no sympathy with those, either young or old, who are obsessed by such an antiquated and obsolete complex. “What did your wife say when you came home last night?” “The darling never said @ word. And I was going to have those two front teeth pulled out anyhow.” “Two men sought my hand last night.” “They proposed to you?” “No, I sat between them at the movies.” “Thish match won’t light.” “Washa madda with it?” “I dunno—it lit all right a minute ago.” “Do you mean to say that your elderly husband is always thinking of your happiness?” “Yes, that’s why he hired a detec- tive to check up on it.” “Gentlemen of the jury,” shouted the anti-New Deal lewyer, in a suit concerning processing taxes on hogs, “there were over six million hogs: Slaughtered; please remember that fact—6,000,000 hogs—just exactly 500,- 000 times as many as there.are in the jury box.” Needless to say, he didn’t win his. case. OUT OUR WAY NO USE GATTIN' IN lists, men who are red rags to organ- ized labor, and others whose records people.” They noted an instant revolt among certain influential Republicans and predicted a nasty battle between lib- eral and reactionary Republicans which would benefit F. D. To sum up: The Roosevelt crowd thinks the enemy 1s being disastrously dumb and is alienating masses of vot- ers. Perhaps the New Dealers are themselves dumb in thinking so. Let's watch and see. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) Gob—So qou're putting me in brig because I was careless about my are vulnerable to any appeal to “the| ” "NO~THER'S WE ONLY GOT ¢ A FEW BLOCKS} \ PAST YOUR OH, PECK! | CMON, HOP ! ON~WE’RE GOIN’ RIGHT 4 We are perhaps the only great na- tion in the world that accepts un- critically its literary standards from a country (England) thousands of miles away.—Prof. Howard M. Jones, Uni- versity of Michigan, "Oe 8 Racial nationalism and __ patriotic jingoism are the very opposite of patriotism, because patriotism is an aid to making a great nation, while jingoism makes a nation blind and therefore feeble—Count Carlo Sforza, former Italian foreign minister. * % * ‘Three thousand Washington teach- ters must take monthly oaths not to mention or advert to the philosophy ot Communism. Thus the Constitu- tion is to be preserved by violating the spirit if not the letter of its first amendment.—Dr. D, R. Fox, presi- dent, Union college. * * We don’t believe the government should enter into competition with private industry. The only time we have entered into private industry is when private industry has come beg- By Williams Your Personal Health | r. Brady will ans: ‘By William Brady, M. D. etal a tie! health but not af rs lefly and ink, Address Dr. Bra ry e, All queries must be accompanied by a stamped. self-addressed envelope. EE EAT A HANDFUL OF WHEAT EVERY DAY High degrees of heat destroy vitamins, For instance ordinary boiling or par-boiling (as in the pasteurizing of milk) destroys most of the vitamin C and still higher heating, as in baking bread, destroys some of the vitamin B, tho in ordinary baking it is found by actual measurement that the tem- perture inside the loaf scarcely goes above boiling temperature (100 C., or 212 F.) and only in the crust does the temperature rise high enough to destroy vitamin B, Piain wheat as it comes from the thresher !s by far the richest natural source of vitamins B and E of all known foods for man. Wheat also con- tains a large amount of vitamin G and a fair amount of vitamin A, In various processes of refinement for making flour and other manufactured wheat products; these vitamins are largely removed or destroyed. Along with the vitamins, the: greater part of the phosphorus, calcium, iron and other essential nutritive elements are removed. The fine white flour which remains as the finished product contains little vitamin B, only a trace of - vitamin G and none of the vitamin A or vitamin E which grew in the wheat. It cantains less than one-fifth of the iron, less than one-fourth of the phos- phorus and less than half of the calcium of the original wheat. These es- sential nutritive factors are contained chiefly in the bran and the germ removed by milling. ‘Why remove the germ, which constitutes about 5 per cent of the wheat kernel? The fat or oil in the germ does not keep long, and flour contain- ing the germ cannot be transported long distances, and stored for months before it is used. There seems to be no other reason for removing the germ. ‘Why remove the bran? Flour containing the bran is not so fine or so white, and besides there is a popular tradition, shared by some physicians, that wheat bran is not digestible in the human alimentary tract. Too much bran may not be well digested by certain invalids, but there is not foundation for the notion that normal persons cannot digest bran, Physiologists who have investigated the question, notably Hindhede, have found that the bran of wheat is weil digested and assimilated by normal persons. Indeed, actual tests indicate that normal persons thrive well on a diet of whole wheat bread, oleo and tomatoes, for instance, whereas if white bread is substituted for the whole wheat bread the same persons soon feel weaker and suffer with various symptoms of faulty nutrition, So it would seem that the as- sumption that bran is not digestble is a gratuitous one. The error of this morbid notion has been shown by careful physiological investigation. It is none the less absurd to cling to such wrong notions long after they have been proved false and discarded, even if here and there some fine old med- ical gentleman of literary or social eminence still harbors the delusion too. In medicine we can still get away with a good deal of: weird hocus-pocus by pronouncing things so, but we carry the joke too far when we put the seal of approval on a defective staff of life, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Odor From Oil Heater Had our coal burning hot air furnace converted to oil burning. It gives off an unpleasant odor which causes me to have a headache . . . (Mrs. W.) Answer—Preperly constructed and used oil burners give off no odor and are perfectly healthful. Perhaps the ventilation is faulty or perhaps there is some leakage from pipe or flue which requires repair. No doubt the firm or man who installed the new equipment will be glad to advise you. 2 Raw Food Please express your view of the practice of eating ray food, which some health experts recommend . . . (R.8.C.) Answer—Ray fruits, raw vegetables, chewing raw oats or wheat, drink- ing pure raw milk if you can get it, eating raw nuts, raw lettuce, cabbage, onions, celery, carrots, oysters if you like ’em that way, eggs if you prefer them raw, fine. But I do not think it is healthful, safe or advisable to eat meat, game, fish raw or underdone, mainly because of the risk of trich- inosis, tapeworm infestation, and from raw fish the flathead tapeworm in- fection. An Old Pharmaceutical Custom Is tincture of iodine poison? I put a drop on a kind of pimple or canker in my mouth, and then noticed the label says poison. How much would have to be absorbed . . .? (Mrs. K. R.) Answer—No. That’s just an old custom, Ordinary dose of tincture of iodin internally is five or ten drops, when it is given medicinally, (Copyright 1935, John F. Dille Co.) ging to.be relieved of the incubus of bankruptcy. — Representative Fred J. Sisson, New Yerk. t * * * = You can’t can religion in your youth and expect to use it for the rest of your life. — The Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, New York. ee * I am convinced that Frank Knox would be a good president, but I am equally convinced that as president he would do things utterly abhorrent to him now, and perforce leave un- done practically all the things he now advocates—H, V. O’Brien, columnist- employe of Publisher Knox, ze 8 No wolf pack ever exhibited greater thirst for blood than the liquor and brewing interests are now exhibiting in their purpose to enslave the masses in habits of drink and then deliver them like cattle to politicians for their purpose—Bishop W. N, Ains- worth, Macon, Ga. ee * To the enrichment of life, through donation of cash and great master- FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS:, vil The apple of a young man’s eya is apt to be a pippin, 24 Set-up & golf ball. 25Genus of 4To regret, 42 Bay horse., ims. 52 Male sheep, 5 Grain. 44 Destiny. 53 Plant. 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