The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1936, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JANUARY smarck Tribune The Bi i An Independent Newspaper | THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER it (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and @ntered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mai) matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher | W. Simons ditor Archie O. Johnson Kenneth Secretary and Treasurer [os 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 of Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state. per year .. 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There is no defending some of these past practices, yet the fact remains that American shipping must have some sort of subsidy if our flag is to remain on the seas. Two major conditions point to this necessity. One is the higher operating costs imposed upon American shipping by some of our laws. American wage scales are higher, living standards for ships’ crews are better. Other fac- tors also make it difficult for American ships to compete with those of foreign registry. This would be true if no nation granted a subsidy to its merchant marine. But the fact is that our shipping faces subsidized compe- tition. For example, England granted the Cunard line $15,000.-| 000 for the completion of the giant Queen Mary, $25,000,000 | for a sister ship and $7,500,000 for working capital. In addi- | tion its laws grant certain preferences to English shipping that Brittania may cotinue to rule the waves, France grants the French line, which owns the great Nor- | mandie, $10,000,000 a year. It loaned the line the money to | build this great vessel and is carrying its own insurance on it. Japan, Germany, Holland, Italy and other maritime nations are pursuing the same policy, making it evident that our ship- ping lines will need help if they are to remain in business. That maintenance of the American merchant marine is desirable is beyond question. It is necessary both as an auxil- iary to the navy in time of war and to prevent American shippers from being gouged for high rates by the owners of foreign bottoms. But it should not be supported by subterfuge and indirection. There should be no more pretense about it on our part than there is on the part of other maritime nations. Not Unmixed Blessings If it wished to do so, America soon could be independent of the rubber growers of Africa, South America and the East Indies. Artificial rubber now being made in this country is almost as good for any purpose as the natural product and for| most purposes it is much better. | Artificial rubber still is much higher in price than natural rubber but the cost is being gradually reduced and there is more than a possibility that American automobiles may some day be running on the product of a limestone quarry, plus some coal tar and other chemicals, instead of upon imported rubber. Limestone is one of the chief ingredients of the synthetic article. That condition, if and when it comes, will mean a crisis for . the rubber-growing sections of the world. It will reduce the amount of work which the world needs to do in order to live but unless something is done to offset the effects of such a devel- opment it might do the world as a whole more harm than good. There is more than a possibility that American farmers may be in for the same sort of thing. Discovery by two women scientists of the origin of cellulose may be the forerunner of developments whereby perfectly satisfactory suits of clothes, stockings and other items of wearing apparel or articles for general use may be made from sources other than those which now supply them. This would be an ultimate boon, but only provided the world learns how to adjust its affairs to accept such a blessing. Carried on long enough the present trend might bring us to the point where nearly every want could be satisfied by the mere pressing of a button. But the question then would be much the same as it is now. What about those folks who couldn't afford a magic button? How can the fruits of our genius be distributed so that everyone will benefit by them? Indicting the Judiciary It is an indictment of the American judiciary that the . action of Judge Jacob Panken should be news, The jurist, be it recalled, made the front pages in his home town of New York and fairly good mention elsewhere by the simple expedient of applying psychology to his treatment of a juvenile offender. The lad, accused of killing a playmate, came up for sentence last June and the judge didn’t know what to do with him. To . get an idea of the boy’s attitude and capacities he sentenced the lad to read four books and to write a review of each. They were good books, the list including Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia,” | Charles Reade’s “It’s Never Too Late to Learn” and others of | the same kind. When the boy had completed his work and the judge had been given an opportunity to “size him up” he let the lad go free, convinced that he was sound at heart and had the men- tality to make good. A The thing which attracted attention was the judge's will- ingnesd to spend a little time in finding out what he should do with this offender. If all judges would do the same thing and would use a little imagination in dealing with the cases brought before them, particularly those involving first offenders, our prisons might | ‘be less densely populated than they are. Scenes ||| Behind the By RODNEY DUTCHER | (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 2.—Chances are that the Townsendite third vartv ticket of 1936 will be headed by Dr. F. E. Townsend himself. The modest father of Old Age Re- jvolving Pensions has said, in announc- ing the forthcoming creation of such party for the presidential and state elections, that he would not be a can- didate, But some of those who have seen him lately and are accustomed to analysis of the gleam in a man’s eye are convinced that he would not re- fuse to answer the call, were it urged upon him with sufficient force. Dr. Townsend is the logical candi- date of the Townsend party and he is as much of @ symbol to the be- lievers in his plan as Huey Long was to the Share the Wealth movement and as Father Coughlin has been to his followers, Percipient observers who have kept in close touch with the movement are insisting: 1, That the Townsendites will de- mand that the doctor run for the presidency. 2. That Dr. Townsend, though he may “thrice refuse a kingly crown,” will in the end not turn them down. 4 8 Which Way to Jump? Meanwhile, the announcement of this third party has created much the same effect among politicians as re- sults when you gently deposit a wild- cat in the middle of a bridge table. Try it some time. The wildcat becomes an uncertain quantity. The players all wonder which way it is going to jump—if at all, which it probably is. Should you say “Nice kitty!” and offer it a drink and try to stroke its neck? Or should you try to grab the chair from under you and brain it, hoping to live to tell the tale? Or should you make a dive through the window? Of course what you are all really wondering is just who is going to be clawed up the most and hoping it won't be you. In any event, the nature of the game changes completely until the problem is solved. Whether you Any Old Trinkets? With Other EDITORS Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. We would not let these great prt- vate institutions run wild, but the BIG BUSINESS OR wall street | public enemy of the hour is not tne (The Magazine of Wall Street) Like many other thoughtful per- think the Townsend $200-a-month- for-the-aged plan is: screwy or the best idea anybody ever had, it’s cer- tain that the political situation itself has become screwy. * KO “Spreads Like Wildfire” Politicians of both parties are try- ing to think the problem out on both national and state lines. It is al- together probable that the electoral vote in several western states may be changed one way or the other by the entry of a third party into the field. Whether most strength is likely to be drawn from the Democratic or the Republican ticket -becomes a question of importance, especially because the Townsend strength is spreading ra- pidly through the middlewest and into the east. (The cabinet, for in- stance, was recently told that it was “spreading like wildfire” in Chicago.) Senators and representatives who a year ago wouldn’t have dreamed of identifying themselves with the plan are now endorsing it outright or ex- pressing great sympathy. Even Con- gressman Chester Bolton. chairman of the Republican congressional cam- paign committee, has said “we're all sympathetic with the philosophy of it and must give it the most careful consideration.” xe OK Ticklish for Both Parties Although Democratic politicians here feel the movement is more dan- gerous to them than to the Repub- licans, the G, O. P. itself is in a tick- lish spot. Accepting the support of conserva- tive business men and the millions which they are ready to contribute to effect Roosevelt's defeat, it is faced with the prospect that scores of its candidates for high office will be flirting with the Townsendites or openly espousing their cause. Pledged to budget-balancing, they wonder how you balance a budget with a scheme which would cost at Teast $1,500,000,000 a month. There is, of course, the chance that the momentum of the Townsend movement may cease to accelerate at its present rate. Politicians are none too hopeful. Each day brings news of its further progress and of the caving-in before it of additional con- gressmen. ee € They'd Like to Find Racket The primary fact for the moment jis the general confusion as to just | what effects the unknown quantity— the “wildcat”—will have. One thing you may be sure of. There will be some thorough sub rosa investigations to determine whether the movement can’t be blasted as a “racket.” Meanwhile, a Townsend club is be- ing organized across the river in Alex- andria, Va. Dr. Townsend told it the other night that the age limit for the $200 a month would soon be lowered from 65 to 50 and perhaps even 40. And members of congress are be- ginning to hear from enthusiastic Townsendites, who say the pension must be $500 instead of $200, “so that every aged couple will receive $1,000 8 month.” (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) —<——$$—= | ! BIT OF HUMOR A NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Robert — That young brother of yours saw me kiss you just now. What should I give him to keep him quiet? Mary (absently) — He usually gets @ quarter. Ruth—How is your bachelor friend? John—When I saw him last he was mending slowly. Ruth—Why, I didn’t know he had been sick, John—He hasn't been. He was sew- ing buttons on his clothes. Ast Campaign Worker—T’ll bet Con- gressman Bunkum will be defeated for re-election. 2nd Campaign Worker — Why do you say that? 1st Ditto—Why, in his first impor- j tant speech in the campaign he got | sons, Senator Borah is sorely troubled great corporation, but the autocratic state. There is the enemy, Senator Borah, there is the true field in whicn control and reform are most sorely needed. by the increasing submergence of the individual in the mass. He 15} forever harking back to the idyllic days of the young republic when there were more bears than men, and @ wild barony for anyone who wished to help himself to land. In those days of human scarcity men were men. Every individual was an important asset to the sparsely settled commun- ities and all strong men, and many small, had a dignifying consciousness of individual social value that has alt but disappeared in these days of swarming populations, Borah, the blood of the pioneers in his veins, still sees America as the land of the stalwart individual who hews out a career all by himself, goes his own way, lives his own life as a sovereign among sovereigns. The goon senator would maintain the ways and customs of a_ primitive community in the heart of the mod- ern Ascalon. The free hunter and trapper, the woodsman and the cow- boy, and their way of life, remain in the senator’s romantic conception of society as it is or should be. Conceding, perhaps, to reality that the modern career builder must fol low the trail and make his trek through a populous land, clogged with unimportant persons and occu- pied by the social and economic fab- rics that have succeeded to the wil- derness, Senator Borah still contends that life may be regulated by econ- omic hunting laws so that there shall be no priority in opportunity for pos- session. The trouble with the times, the senator says, is the prevalence of | bigness and actual or near monopoly in the world of business. Indeed 1t has become the issue of the hour, he finds, rising again from the trust bust- ing ashes of thirty and forty years ago. But to our way of thinking how- ever, the real adversary of these times is not the magnitude of corporations or other business enterprises, but the! menace of the all-powerful, all-per- | vading state. i The great business institutions are |* really the necessary and proper mant- festations of free enterprise operating in the modern scene of huge econ- omic functioning. They are indispen- sable and inevitable, they are tne only alternative to the totalitarian state which already enslaves most or! Europe. They are founded on the| democracy of efficiency; 90 per cent of their “rulers” achieve power and wealth after starting at the bottom. These automatically chosen leaders are at once the elect and the elected. ;Many of the “trusts” are “natural” monopolies, that is, operating in fields wherein free and unlimited competition would be chaos and fu- tility—as in the case of mass trans- port and transit and the telephone and telegraph. There the only choice is between the big corporation (pub- licly supervised) and public ownership, between an institution in which every private carries a marshal’s baton in his knapsack and the deadly rigidity of bureaucracy. Always confronted by the sovereignty of the democratic State, the gigantic industrial enter- prises must serve democracy to sur. vive. Great fields of enterprise may be; closed to new institutions, but within! them the way of individual en-| terprise is as open to individuals asi free land once was. But subject as; they are to the law of the survival! of the fittest, mammoths of business; endlessly succumb to smaller entities, | which in their turn grow great and| die of senility. Indeed, new men and new companies find new opportunitics opened to them by the mammoths— opportunities which could not exist but for them. With REGIN HERE TODAT Love o ‘ hor NOW GO ON wt CHAPTER VIL brought the message. you, Miss Vana. spec it’s somethin’ upsettin’. eye.” Nancy glanced up. @ good one,” she commented. pecially since she wants you come to her room.” bammock, Dane sitting nearby. make?” Dana asked curtously. flowed. onto them. room behind her. realities of life are shut out. Wait and see!” “Ridiculous.” Dana knocked hesitantly, Nancy had evoked in her mind. in.” admitted her, Dai of Nancy’s description. vors. “Sit down, please, she said. ANA took the same design feeling, “The dresses have coe,” Cameron eaid slowly “Ell 1 drove to town for them.” “Ob,” Dana began tmpulst “thats why! excited and shouted: “May the best. man win!” And a lot of people will! | certainly take him at his word. Liza —vhe nerve of dat lady, offerin’ | She stoped Ip embarrassment. | me $8 a week to do her wash! | | Her husband—-What does she think | yo’ all is, a college graduate? been carried out. “Why are all the politicians raising 80 much fuss about the new Canadian | tariff?” “I suppose it is because it’s a duty.” | them home.” SARAH, ber leathery black face wearing a doubtful expression. “Your grandmother wants to eee {o her room. Dunno what OF Miss wants, but t (kin mos’ gen‘ally tell by de look in her “It wouldo’t surprise me if Sarah's bunch tsn't “Es: Both girls were on the porch. Nancy swinging lazily in the worn “What difference does the room “It's an aweinspiring place— that room,” Nancy informed her “Wait until you see tt Furnished with antiques that took a prize at an exposition once fn the old days when the family treasury over Grandmother has hung I've an tdea she feels like a queen restored to her throne when she closes the door of that All the drab It's an audience you're being. granted. thought, making ber way up the stairs. She the picture When her grandmother's “Come stood for @ moment startled by the accuracy Seated in a bigh-backed straight chair, her head raised imperiously. Grandmother Cameron did give the impression of royalty conferring fa- Dana,” seat, glancing about the large bedroom, filled with evidences of past magniticence. The massive bed was elaborately inlaid. and canopied in faded bine damask. The dresser and wardrobe were of Yes, truly the aged woman could achieve here the tady-of the house forgetting the ehabbiness 80 apparent to other parts of ‘er home, the petty problems and econ omies that must be so distasteful Nancy and | were Wondering why they didn’t come.” “I never nave believed tn eccept: tog things from tradespeopie an tess | am sure my instructions have But the dresses are as they should be go we brought Mana did not reply wondering at ler own constraint. She wished to with happiness. she could be natural with her grandmother. “I was gratified, Dana,” Mrs. Cameron went on, “when you asked Ronald Moore to receive with you. Nancy seems to dislike bim because his father happened to have the ability to make and keep a fortune. The older | grow. the more | believe money ts eszen- tial as an armor of protection against the trritations of life.” Vana was thinking. “She wants Nancy and me to marry rich men Well, why doesn’t she come right out fn the open and say go!” { “It’s absurd to think a person can't be fine and worth-while be cause they have money,” Mre. Cam eron said, ber eyes fixed appraising: ly op her granddaughter. “Don't you agree witb me?” “Of course.” Wava answered. “Lots of times people who bave money are nicer, because they've been given the chance to cuitivate their minds and improve their per sonalities.” She espressed this con: viction simp!: i M al. “I have always said it was Just as easy to love a rich map a8 a8 pvor one. And how diferent your life will be if you choose a rich one.” “I shouldn't think money would make as much difference as some other things, though,” Dana de MI Ny. , Dana pinned the orchids to her shoulder. Her eyes were bright 28. CAMERON nodded approv. | : Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. qu tions to health but not dise: ‘3 bri Sin Ad queri is ink, Adéress Dr. Stamped self-addressed envelope. EARLY SMOKER’S EXPECTATION OF GANGRENE A type of arterial disease occurring in young men and in many cases necessitating amputation is called thromboanglitis obliterans. Sometimes the name Buerger’s disease is given it, because Dr. Leo Buerger of New York gave us the clearest descriptions of the disease. This painful and grave disease has been observed mainly in Hebrew men, but it is not confined to Hebrews, for many cases have been reported from Korea, Siam and othsr countries, Among twelve cases of gangrene from this cause reported by Dr. Saul 8. Samuels of New York in 1934, all in men ranging in age from 28 to 50 years, nine were Jewish men who smoked cigarets excessively; one was American of German extraction, age 34, had smoked 20 cigarets a day since boyhood—he was fortunate for he lost only a toe; one was American, 31, German descent but not Jewish, and had already had a leg amputated below the knee, had continued smoking, and now was developing gangrene in the remaining foot; and one was American, 49, Scotch descent, not Jew- ish, whose smoking habit was not mentioned, but he had only a gangrenous ulcer on the right toe, from which he recovered without amputation, when his self-managed “salt-free” diet was discontinued and proper medical treatment applied. Back in 1908, Dr. E, Michels, 2 German writer, called attention to the importance of smoking as an aggravating factor in thrombo-angilt’s ob- literans, and he named the disease “nikotin-arteritis.” Wrap that around your cigaret and smoke it. Amputation of toes, foot or leg has been required in about 14 per cent of all cases of thromboangiitis obliterans recorded in medical literature since the disease was first clearly recognized by Buerger. Here it is fair to say that we are not yet certain whether it is nicotine, pyridine, carbon monoxide or other component of tobacco smoke that pro- duces the toxic effects. Also thrombo-anglitis has occurred in a person who never smoked at all, so excessive smoking is not the whole story. How- ever, all physicians with experience in dealing with the disease agree that the victim must absolutely eschew tobacco, and should indeed avoid inhaling even second hand smoke (as in a room where the air is laden with smoke from the cigarets, cigars or pipes of others.) Samuels insists that simple medical treatment will effect healing with- out amputation in most cases. The treatment consists of rest in bed, ab- solute prohibition of smoking, aseptic surgical cleanliness of ulcerated or gangrenous areas, and intravenous injection of hypertonic saline solution. ‘This management hds proved adequate in 300 cases, with amputation in less than 1 per cent. Cyanosis (blueness), swelling and pain in foot or leg are among the early symptoms of thromboangiitis obliterans. That Scotchman in the series mentioned, who was evidently so cagey about his private life, would naturally smoke a pipe, I should think. Just a notion of mine, but I believe a pipe smoker is less likely to smoke to excess. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Food Standing in Opened Can Friend opened can of strawberries. Then called away for 15 minutes. When we returned, she insisted in throwing out the berries, as she said any- thing that stands in a can for even a few minutes after opening becomes poisonous ... C. E. G.) Answer—Nonsense. That is merely an ancient fable, which is some- times revived by canners of inferior or questionable food as an alibi for themselves, Of course any food, fresh or canned, may spoil or become con- taminated or infected if left long exposed to warmth and the air. But there is no reason why any food fit to eat when it is canned should not be kept in the opened can as long as it would keep in any other container. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) by Mary Reymond Copyright NEA 1935 Nancy bounded from the swing. “Why, bow could they? I've been bere all morning. ob, | see, Grand- mother bad them. Are they all eight?” “L suppose 80,” Vana said slowly. “i haven't tried mine on yet.” Nancy emiled 9 “Wasn't | right? The queen tp her sitting room, counting the empty places in her money bos and dealing out favors for a orice!” ttle ruefully. ifineness seemed to ba burned out of Grandmother Cam- eron with only bitterness anda pride lteft. Yet, eomehow. there was jsomething tragic and pathetic about ber. NANCY had put on the new dress. | Downstairs she could near \sounds of preparation for the party |which added to her excitement Her jdark eyes glowed and her bande jtrembled as she lifted the delicate jcloud of white over her head There. it was on—slipping down jover her slender young body like a sheath, flaring out in stiff and smart lines falling to the floor. Warm color eplashed Nancy's cheeks as she stared at herself in the mirror. She thought happily, “Well. I'm improved! Nobody could posstbiy jdeny that. If 1 could only wear clothes like this all the time. f might have a chance--” she broke off, unwilling to complete the thought. Tonight Ronnie would see her in something beside a makeshift tennis outfit or that old rag of an organdy she'd been wearing for- ever and anon “I'm just a goose,” Nancy told ber image ip the glass. “It’s a case of arrested mental develop ment, | suppose. | might be only 16. the way | feel.” “Here's your flowers, honey.” Sarah's voice came trom the hall. Nancy opened the door. “My goodness, you looks atce!” Sarah's admiration w: uncon: cealed. “My. my, ain't that a beau- tiful dress! And when you puts dem flowers on—" “Hush the chatter, Sarah, and help me with this string,” Nancy said. Her voice showed that she was pleased. fe would have been dreadful if Ted Stansbury had forgotten flow. ers, but be had not. Here they were! The top of the box came off and oe. tissue paper parted. “Roses.” lancy said slowly. Of course roses were nice. But this dress seemed to require eome particular gor- geousness. Nancy lifted the pink buds and secured them to her shoulder, Ridiculous to be disap Pointed. “Miss Dana got some flowers, murred. “Poppycock! Blood, fine stock and heritage are very well, Dana. But they count less these days, and count for nothing if you haven't the money to back them up. 1 hope you will make a wise choice when you decide to marry, child. tt would break my heart {f you didn't.” Dana taughed. make @ poor poor-man's wift said. "m pretty: helpless. Any: ; Way, maybe oo one will ever ask ey |me to marry them. If nobody does, |'-” Sarab announced. “Uhmn,” said Nancy, studying I'l go to work. There must be; some talent | cao use.” the effect of the shoulder bonanet fo the mirror. She gathered up “Your talent ts your beauty.” Her the lovely lengths of her new frock grandmother's voice was calm and and went down the ball to Dana's assured. “It's the greatest talent room. Atom cap have if she uses it | Coarcely waiting for ber xaock Dana's face flushed unhappily. tt ee ag ia Neer Sune ee piety gD the way D8 lore @ tong mirror. Her slender er said that Cold |soung arms were iifled es she blooded and material. Like selling pinned @ bouquet of vivid orchids yourself for money. to her shoulder. Clouds of white Sirs. Cameron went to the ward /ewiried about her siender figure. robe and too’ out @ large box. | Her eyes were bright with happi- Here ts your dress,” she said. “I | ness. A emile parted her lips hope It wilt be becoming.” The smile that bad curved Thank you, Grandmother.” Dana Nancy's own mouth a moment be took the big box, wondering why |fore was gone She stood in 'be she did hot fee} happier. doorway, surveying her sister. She She carried the dress to ner thought bitterly, “What's the nse room and placed it on the bed | o¢ having a cew dress? Dana's Then she went back to the porch. |heantiful, t've never seen anyone |, Our dresses have come,” she jas beautiful vefore.” told Nancy, (Zo te Continued)