The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1935, Page 4

1g me rl amar Ser ooR SIREN The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper ‘ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER : (Established 1873) : a ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUFSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1935 Behind Scenes 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 Mecretary and Treasurer Eattor | Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) hi ave 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck) . 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ....... 5 600 Weekly by mail in state. per year ................. 10 Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year. 150 Weekly by mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- and also the loca) news of spontaneous origin published herein. ot republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Merry Christmas At this season of the year, when the message of “peace on earth and good will to men” echoes again over the entire Chris- tian world, man gets fleeting proof of his universal brotherhood. Gone is much of the selfishness, the pettiness, the hard and calculating attitude which rules everyday life. Under the beneficent influence of Christmas there is a resurgence of that friendliness which the world could not well do without. It is as though an angel had spread his wings over a white and brooding world, making the dominant note one of cheer and helpfulness. Two ruling traits have governed the world and possibly al- ways will. One of them is love and the other is hate and each is susceptible to many unusual interpretations, Love of self, for example, is selfishness whereas hatred of evil results in good, but as a usual thing love is an ennobling and hate is a degrading influence. It is important, therefore, that this is the season when love finds its most general expression. The person who seeks to enjoy Christmas from a selfish attitude is doomed to dis- appointment, for the measure of contentment is not what one has or what he gets but what he gives. For we celebrate today not only the birth of a Child whom the Christian world regards as God made man, but the incep- tion of a philosophy. Had there been no Nativity there could have been no sermon on the Mount, no Christian teaching such as guides the world today . . . . if only in its better moments. And as it reviews the record, Bismarck can rest assured that this will be a happy Christmas for all within its borders insofar as helpful, ministering hands and kindly hearts can make it so. There has been no permanent alleviation of the sufferings, economic and physical, which beset many, but on this greatest day of days we have reasonable assurance that what the love of man for his neighbor can do has been done. As rarely before in its histo Bismarck has OPENED ITS HEART for the needy. Hearts have been eased and suf- fering assuaged. There has been general recognition of the truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. The en- tire city has been taken out of itself and put upon that high Christian plane which HE came to establish It is a metamorphosis which is as rare as it is real. It proves, as few things can, the terrible power of the meek, for no such celebration as this ever marked the anniversary of a worldly conqueror. And this manifestation inspires the thought that only the weakness of human nature keeps every day from being Christ- mas. Only rarely can man emerge from the chrysalis of sel- fishness, spread the wings of brotherly love to the beauty of God’s sunlight. But at the same time it proves that there is hope. It gives rise to the thought that the day may yet come when the human race will meet its problems with the spirit of true love. And when that time comes EVERY DAY WILL BE| CHRISTMAS. In full recognition of this fact and with gratitude for the friendships and kind deeds which have been given it, The Tribune wishes its friends everywhere A MERRY CHRISTMAS. Voice in the Wilderness Dr. Edgar V. Allen, asserting that the female is really stronger than the male, reiterates an old truth, but he and others who take the trouble to point this out are voices crying in a man-made wilderness, for the average man will not be- lieve it and the male sex, after all, dominates the thinking of the world. : The truth of Dr. Allen’s statement can be proved other than by mortality statistics. Women have long done some of the hardest work of the world, braved its most imminent perils, They have proved themselves more resistant to pain, more pa- tient under tribulation, more persevering in the face of ob- stacles. Made of a finer fiber, they are, nevertheless, stronger. But man, the weaker sex, continues to dominate for rea- sons which are just as obvious. One of these, and perhaps the most important, is the very thing which causes the mortality tables to expose his weakness, He is less afraid to take chances, more oblivious to the hazards of death. Nature’s provision which causes a rooster to grow brilliant tail feathers is merely another manifestation of the instinct which has caused man, from time immemorial, to take the lead in defending the fire- side and the nation. If he is weaker he also is prouder and less pliant. Woman has a fundamental philosophy. She bends with breezes of fortune. But man takes up arms against adversities and tries to end them. It is a good thing for the race that these differences exist, for the most valiant man needs the encouraging flash of a wom- an’s eye which greets his victory—and a woman's breast upon which to ease the bitterness of his defeat. The two natures are complementary, not antagonistic. And if man takes pride in his fundamental weakness there is no cause for disagreement, for the truth is that woman, per- haps because of her strength, encourages him to do so. New Jersey alcohol commissioner launches war on half-pint liquor con- ftainers. Still, it doesn’t seem fair to pass up entirely the big drunks, eee A Kansan, paralysed from the waist down, was arrested for posing as a ‘war veteran. And not, as might be imagined, s CWA worker. -. @ | ““Ohlo plans campaign against Japanese beetle.” China might wateh the results for = possible drive against the Japanese borer. ese af Italian plan of campaign may prove an insidious one. If co, after | "™* Dewr dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 24.—Soon congress will resume debate on neutrality leg- islation and you will notice that many are saying things about the cause of American entry into the World War which would have put them in prison had they uttered such opinions while the war was still on. { In fact, quite a few people did go to prison for saying the same sort of thing which you will hear many mem- bers of congress saying this winter ') without protest. | You can imagine what a peculiar feeling comes to Senator George W. Norris, who with a few others voted against the war and was pilloried for that, now that a vast number of Americans—judging from the strength of the neutrality movement—have come to believe our entry was all a} big mistake, Since congress adjourned after pass- ing a makeshift compromise neutral- ity law, there has been no end of dis- cussion of this matter in the public prints, which will echo in the winter | debate. , One thread of the argument in which men who were important at the time have participated centered on what Woodrow Wilson himself finally thought of it all. Since prob- ably only a small minority of readers have followed it, your correspondent undertakes to trace its outline, * * Protests for Morgan On Oct. 18, Thomas W. Lamont of Morgan & Co. writes the New York | Times protesting a book review by Robert L. Duffus, which suggested that the Morgan firm “helped” get the United States into war. Lamont admits “we were*pro-Ally by inheritance, by instinct, by opin- ion,” but denies any Morgan pro- Paganda or pressure for war, despite the heavy Morgan financial stake, and in effect says he still believes we en- tered “to make the world safe for democracy.” To You, and You, and You!’ William Floyd, director of Peace Patriots, shoots back, quoting the fa-/ mous telegram from Ambassador Page at London in March, 1917, to the ef- fect that this country would have a panic unless it hastened to support the Allies. He also quotes from Page's auto- | With Other EDITORS Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. biography as follows: ees util 6, 1917, Great Britain had overdrawn her account with J. P. Morgan to the (New York Times) extent of $400,000,000 and had no cash| Political committees of whatever available with which to meet this! party abound in a rhetoric that is a overdraft. i “The American government finally heppies peda det oti paid this overdraft out of proceeds|®" unfailing imaginative sweep, a of the First Liberty loan.” : swing and ring of its own. The re- Floyd then quotes Woodrow Wilson | Solution of the Republican national as saying: “This was an industrial | Committee, inviting all and then some and commercial war.” Americans to join ‘the rescue party * * * Mee ase aed liberty, re me | Lamont Hits Back most called the organ voice o | Lamont replies that the “overdrart”| America. Tt is an affecting appeal. was a demand loan secured by colla-| Perhaps its most affecting part is ad- teral. He refers to Page's “astonish- | ressed “specifically to the millions of ling suggestion that the way to pre- | Constitutional Jeffersonian Democrats serve American prosperity was to en-| for their aid.” Here may be not only gage in a world war,” says there's no|® Precious opportunity for reclama- evidence Page ever was given an an- | tion but a statesmantlike effort to re- swer, and declares that Floyd, “like | Wess the balance of desertions. {Senator Nye and other indiyiduals,”| 0 1932 “millions” of constitutional | misquoted + Wilson’s 1919 St. Louis apeecn and . .. ‘the equally idiotic assertion The context, Lamont says, clearly| that we went to war to make the | shows Wilson referred solely to Ger-/ world safe for democracy.’” j many’ aasons for making war S| (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) “If we are going to quote our de- oa == | ceased presidents, let us quote them correctly and justly,” says Lamont, BIT OF HUMOR and quotes what he calls the context NOW AND THEN from a 16-year-old St. Louis news- IS RELISHED BY paper, in brief: Wilson told how Ger- ||| THE BEST OF MEN | mans had removed Belgian factory |]! | machinery because they hated Bel- | gium for her superiority in textile and {iron industries. | % e & | Baker Has His Say | Next comes Newton D. Baker, Wil- | son's secretary of war, in a letter Nov. |13, saying he never heard Wilson or any cabinet member say we must go to war or that any commercial or fi- nancial interest would be promoted Jane—Foolish talk. by our going in. Toni—If I could only tell you how He says peer ares ignored and that | much I love you! that quotation from Wilson has been| Jane Think of something new. grossly misused by Nye and others. ‘Toni—Wwill you marry me? “None of us ever heard that we ever had the slightest concern about the| Jane—Well, now you're talking. foreign loans of bankers or the in- dustrial ambitions of munitions mak- ers,” says Baker. “We all did all we knew how to keep out of war.” Oswald Garrison Villard, Heywood Broun, and other columnists suggest that “we all” did a bum job at it and that it’s funny Baker never heard of the successful Lansing-McAdoo pr¢gs-| “Do you think the old corner saloon sure to reverse the Bryan neutrality | will ever return?” , Policy barring flotation of war loans| “Not a chance. The drugstores and A FAIR EXCHANGE Toni—tI never loved anyone but you. Jane—Nonsense! Toni—You are the light of my life. Jane—I've heard that before. Toni—I can’t live without your love. “If that crooner sings to you again, I'll make him pay the same way he sings.” 5 “How do you mean?” “Through the nose.” Hamiltonian Republicans broke out of the reservation and voted for Mr. Roosevelt. These were Republicans who had hitherto been “straight.” They are not to be confounded with Progressive Republicans, chronic op- ponents of Republican administra- tions, hardened strayers from the beaten path of regularity. The here- tical pravity of these is so inveterate that the missionaries of the national committee may be supposed to see the hopelessness of trying to touch their forward hearts. But among the old Hamiltonian “millions” are there not many who have repented and relapsed, finding themselves not at ease in the New Deal Zion? -Is there no fatted calf to celebrate the return of these prodigals? Are they counted as lost for good? Surely the committee forgot at this cold season filling stations won’t sell their loca- tions.” . a The girl who speaks volumes al- ways ends up on the shelf. “The man who kissed me in the garden isn’t the man I thought he was.” “How do you know?” “The man I thought he was just punched him in the nose.” “And, little man, when are the days long?” “When it’s summer.” “When are the nights long?” “When you're an old maid.” Another of life’s mysteties is why the girl with the least principle draws the most interest. “Listen, Don Juan, I didn’t like the way the groom was smiling during the wedding ceremony.” “Why, do you think the smile was forced?” “No, but I think the groom was.” Teacher—Eddie, are you the oldest in your family? Eddie—No, ma’am. Pa and ma are both older than me. : Jack—How's your insomnia, Bob? Bob—Worse and worse. I can't even sleep when it’s time to get up. here. OUT OUR WAY ‘Then certain New York and Wash- ington newspapers take up for Baker and 1 anast editorially, decrying “cruel aspersions cast on the memory Sj of Woodrow Wilson by the ignorant =i and ignoble,” the “intolerably insult- ing .. . unfounded allegations of the Nye committee . . .” and so on. ** * Linked Others in Blame Stephen Raushenbush, chief inves- tigator of the “munitions committee, is good and sore by this time and writes another letter to the Times, quoting from the authorized text of the St. Louis speech. He presents something Lamont left out: “The real reason that the war we have just finished took place was that Germany feared her commercial rivals were going to get, the better of her and the reason why some nations went into the war against Germany was that they thought Germanf would get the commercial advantage of them.” Hence, says Raushenbush, Wilson obviously didn’t refer only to Germany in that controversial remark. * Author Taken to Task Raushenbush wrote @ month ago and up to this time the Times hadn't published his letter. But one notes & book review by John Chamberlain of “American Neutrality,” by Prof. Charles Seymour of Yale (authority on Wilson and amanuensis of Colonel House), Seymour ignores recent revelations as to changes in American policy which helped bring on the war and Chamberlain takes him to task for SHOVEL —I refers to: i '... the idiotic assertion that ‘we went to war to eave the Morgan loans’ ._. BET YOU TWO Bis, YES—A DOLLAR~YES TWO to remind them that the latchstring is out and the home fires are burning. This seems a strange neglect. It has a taint of despair surprising in such a band of rosy-gilled optimists. Are we to conclude that the party of business is trying to do a bit of: busi- ness? This must be a transaction in exchange, Or is it phantom book- keeping? One seems to hear Mr. Fletcher's batch of accountants say- ing: “We lost so many ‘millions’ of Republicans in ’32. If we can get so many ‘millions’ of Democrats to trans- fer in '36, the American system of government will be safe. The party and the offices will come back.” O} course there can be no doubt that the “millions” of expected constitutional Jeffersonian guests will leap at the of- fer like spirits called from the vasty deep. FY In the United States I stoutly maintained that Britain could be trusted. I was wrong, and as an Eng- |lishman I feel a bitter sense of hu- miliation.—F. W. Hirst, British editor, referring to Franco-British African peace proposal. * * % T have come to the unanimous con- clusion that Ethiopia is not worth saving—Col. Hubert Julian, “Black Eagle of Harlem,” formerly with Selassie’s air force. \ * Oe * Activities of women’s pacific groups are a greater menace to national se- curity than dissemination of red | Propaganda, — Maj. Gen. Benjamin Foulois, . ese * Never before in the history of the world has there been so much power, and never before has man been 80 prepared to use it to destroy life— Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, in New York address. * * * Roosevelt was so completely sold by General Johnson on the NRA that the president had no interest in any other social or economic measures. TH' WALK UP AN' 1'0 BE THINKIN! YOU CAIN'T STAY IN TTH! PLL. GIT Too HOT—TH' FRICTION. Yo'RE AGAMBLER 1cKS A THINKIN’ EJ ALL RIGHT, BUT, HE AIN'T THINKIN! LIKE L WOULD. . HE'S THINKIN! ‘BOUT’ By Williams TD ANALYZE UT, —=S Oo OT {o} 4 THERE11CK GETS TH! SAME RESULT, BY ANALYZING Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D..- of Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by a -addressed envelope. IF YOU CAN'T FIGHT OR RUN AWAY The observation of Drs. H. dose of tobacco smoke causes a slight but temporary increase in the propor- tion. of sugar in the blood and a corresponding increase in the rate of sugar combustion, has been cited by some one as a justification for smoking. It should be remembered that at the same time the dose‘of tobacco smoke (we don’t know whether it is the nicotine, the carbon monoxide, the pyridine, or other substance in the smoke that protuces the effects) slows or retards per- ' ipheral or tissue circulation and lowers the surface temperature of the fingers and toes from 5 to 15 degrees F. This it of the circulation is impairment ' scar¢ely consistent with @ physiological increase in the blood sugar and in- creased combustion of sugar. Perhaps Drs. Haggard and Greenberg were in @ hurry to get into the papers, ¢ In the booklet “Building Vitality” (you may obtain a copy by sending 10 cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address) I say: Education, culture, good breeding make an individual keep at least the outward semblance of calm under circumstances which are likely to upset the more primitive of unrefined ... Now all. this make-believe and repression of normal impulses “takes it out” of anybody. Not nerve energy ... The harm done is rather in the , nature of racking the vital machinery by the release of excess energy (adrenin poured into the blood by the adrenal glands, and mobil- ization of blood sugar, the muscle and heart fuel for immediate use.) If the impulse to action were not restrained this suddenly released pugn would be absorbed or balanced by fighting, running away, Playing. ‘Twenty years before Haggard and Greenberg, Prof. Cannon and co- workers demonstrated that a dose of tobacco smoke (as by smoking a cigar- ette, part of @ cigar, a pipe) excites the adrenals to secrete more adrenin. Nervous exhaustion is a lot of baloney, and nervous strain and the “high tension” of big business is more baloney. These quaint conceptions do not jibe with our newer knowledge of physiology and pathology. It is time to discard them along with nervous breakdown and neurasthenia. The great American breakdown’ is physical, Too many wiseacre Yankees have tried to kid themselves about their “overwork” and the tremendous strain of their large responsibilities, Hooey. They wear out and break down because they have raced the engine too much idling. The’ cultured person who smiles when he or she ought to be fighting mad, or who pretends to be unconcerned when in fact he’s frightened and ought to be running away, or sits‘and applauds or jeers when he should be playing the game himself, is taxing his cardiovascular system, and eventual- ly the heart, arteries or kidneys will pay for it. He or she who resorts to a smoke in a moment of anxiety or emotional excitement of any sort, is abusing the cardiovascular system all the more. I suggest a short brisk walk around the block, and maybe a bite of candy or other food, instead of a smoke under such circumstances, Try it, and you'll find it works a great deal better. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Dirt in Wound If there is dirt in a wound should it be washed with soap and water before using iodin? (G. L. ©.) Answer—Yes, it is advisable to wash away any dirt or foreign matter in the wound if this can be done without undue handling or without in- serting anything in the wound. Soapy water is always antiseptic and may make @ good first aid dressing, that is when clean gauze, cheesecloth, or other absorbent dressing is applied and the dressing kept moist with soapy water until the physician can treat the wound, , Bye Bread I am very fond a kind of hardtack known as (a toasted rye bread) — and eat a good deal of it, Is this harmful or too fattening? MF. L.) Answer—No, it is quite wholesome and no more and no less fattening than wheat bread, e Abnormally Sensitive to Cold I am apparently a big, strong woman, maybe @ little too stout, and when the house feels comfortable to every one else it still feels chilly to me. Maybe my circulation .... (Mrs. F. E) Answer—Many who are unduly sensitive to cold have hypothyroidism. Iodin ration might help. Send three-cent-stamped addressed envelope for it. Many who demand excessive heating of the house suffer from excessive dry= ness of the heated air. They would find a lower household temperature com- fortable if some provision for evaporating 10 or 20 gallons of water a day were made, (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) And now Johnson is,going around the country denouncing Rooseevit.— John T. saadag ‘ay one a If girls are going to be sufficiently insane to starve themselves they are simply breaking the biological law, exactly as a criminal breaks the crim- inal law.—Prof. D. F. Fraser-Harris, British health authority. « eee Why shouldn’t a middlewestern ac- cent make a noise like a vacuum cleaner? It's a very serviceable in~| strument that cleans up dirt deposit- ed by other people—Thomas Mine- han, Minnesota educator, eee I believe that national prohibition will be back by 1945, and with a more thorough enforcement than America ever has had before.— Bishop James Cannon, Jr. ese 8 The only thing wrong with the American people is that they are im- provident. If they are making $500 a week, they spend $520.—Gov. 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