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| AE RENTS ONSEN THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, c JANUAR 10, 1936 An Independent Newspaper } THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER i (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 mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W Simons Secretary and Treasurer Ealtor | | By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 10. — Neutrality legislation is certain to bring on a dog fight almost as soon as the new congress convenes. The present neutrality law, admit- tedly a stop-gap, is going to get a very thorough combing-over at. the Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Datly by mail. per year (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Daily by mai) outside of North Dakvta Weekly by mail in state. per year ... Weekly by mail outside of North Dak Weekly by mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press te exclusively entitled to the use for republica- | ton ef at ‘* dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Rewepaver and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All cight# ot repvbitcation of all other matter herein are also reserved. Long and Short Haul Perhaps it IS about time to review the legislation which has been imposed on American railroads because they were the bad boys of the financial and economic world. The railroads think so and their view is apparently shared by a large number Of individuals who feel that their own con- tinued prosperity depends upon the welfare and efficiency of our great carrier organizations. Evidence of this is found in the support being given throughout the midwest to the railroad proposal to eliminate the long and short haul clause from the interstate commerce act. This clause, be it remembered, provides that the railroads may not charge more for a short haul of freight than for a longer haul. It was written into the law because of numerous abuses by the railroads of the rate-making privilege and the complaints of shippers in small towns that they were being discriminated against in favor of shippers in the big cities. Freight rates, by the way, have had much to do with the creation of metropolitan centers or the failure of seemingly well- located cities to prosper. But now it does seem as though the railroads are being penalized too heavily for their past sins and that many interior towns are being penalized with them. Because of the “long and short haul” clause they are unable to compete with ships The Bismarck Tribune| Behixe SCENES Washington | Sizzling Scrap Is Certain Over Neu- trality Law in Congress ... U. 5S. Policy .. Worries for A. F. of L. Bone, Vandenberg, and Borah. This debate will be complicated. The only way to keep it at all straight is to remember two principles: 1, The league principle is to find the aggressor in. any war, and to punish that. aggressor by sanctions, that is, by refusing to sell certain war materials to him. 2. The American principle, in the present law, provides no attempt to determine which party to war is to blame. It simply provides that the United States will trade in certain articles with neither. The aim here is not to punish either side, but sim- ply to withdraw from dangerous wae ters. ee # Not Guided by League ‘Thus in'the present American plan, it is entirely a matter of chance whether American action supple- ments league action in punishing an aggressor. In the case of Italy, because cutting off war materials from Ethiopia means nothing, the American course in cutting them off from Italy did correspond roughly with the league action. But there is no reason to think it might in another case. Suppose Italy pounced tomorrow on the British fleet, and war was on. ‘The American law leaves no discre- tion. We would have to cut off all trade with both Britain and Italy in war materials immediately, quite re- gardless of what our sympathies or beliefs might be. If neutrality legislation along the present line is extended to include many kinds of near-war material, such as oil, copper, trucks, tractors, scrap iron, and the like, participation of Britain in a war would take a big using the Panama canal on coast-to-coast business. The result is to take business from the railroads and give it to the ships. This means fewer trains running on the railroads, less employ- ment of railroad workers, lower consumption of the goods which railroads consume in moving freight. The railroads are asking abrogation of the clause so that they may make competitive rates from coast to coast without reducing their revenues from intermediate points where water competition does not exist. For example, if the water rate on potatoes from Seattle to New York is 60 cents a hundred and the freight rate on potatoes from North Dakota to New York is 70 cents a hundred, the railroads want permission to quote a rate of 60 cents from Seattle to New York but to maintain the 70 cent rate from North Dakota to New York. On the face of it this seems absurd. Certainly it would cost more to move freight from the west to the east coast than to either coast from a point in mid-continental territory. But the physical cost of moving the freight is only a small part of the cost of doing business. Tracks must be maintained, whether they are used much or. little. Office crews and dis- patching staffs could handle the additional business without trouble. The cost of superintendence would be no higher. Thus at least a part of the additional revenue would be “velvet.” And it would be reflected in higher payrolls and increased business for interior points served by the railroads. At the same time their rates would be no higher than they are now. Eventually, if enough trains were got to moving, it might even mean lowered freight costs for the interior points which, at first blush, are being discriminated against. The issue will be raised in congress at this session and merits careful consideration. Certainly it should be examined without regard to the prejudices to which the railroads long have been subject, even though it would be easier to feel sorry for the railroads had not their smug selfishness been responsi- dle for that prejudice in the beginning. Persistence of the Meek Nothing is so devastating as the persistence of the meek e—and one result of this odd axiom may be a speeding of Ger- many’s next war. A tip-off on conditions in Germany -is contained in a re- port by Ralph W. Barnes to the New York Herald-Tribune that the younger element in Germany's Protestant churches have thrown down the gauntlet of defiance to the Nazi church au- thorities, They called for a “return to the catacombs” rather Bhan submit to violation of their religious tenets. Meanwhile, desperately striving to retain and solidify his ontrol, Hitler has ordered all children between 10 and 18 or- ganized into a “state youth” movement. He is not yet up to Mussolini who grabs them at eight, but he is approaching it. But the persistence of the meek, in this case the recalci- +, trant churchmen, constitutes a real challenge. History’s pages fun red with the accounts of men who have died for religious conviction. It also shows that every martyr frequently pro- duces a thousand converts, Theologians assert that “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” Economic conditions are not good in Germany. Too much of her resource is going into war preparation. Now there are signs of a major challenge to the Nazis within the nation’s borders. One result may be to send the German powers that be to war quicker than otherwise would be the case. In the stress of mational emergency and opposition to external enemies the stresses and strains of peace are forgotten. If the dictator adopts such a plan it will not be the first time such a device has been used to deceive a people. . The eastern “victim” of a fake kidnaping who tied and bound himself “tight have offered the alibi that this. was all the farther he'd gotten in Houdini, : * es Be outst it the puttlo would care tor a rostral of the Louls-Daer affair if the latter's comeback featured “The New Baer.” se ‘Ory of “professional” was stilled at the Wisconsin lars’ contest when it shown the contestants included no politicians or golfers. *“* © ‘While 1936 may be » Wreak for the girls, it’s just another leap year for slice out of foreign trade. xe * Binds President’s Hands The thing that is worrying senators is: what do we want to accomplish? President Roosevelt, when the present. law was passed, inclined toward let- ting the president have some discre- tion. But congress did not permit this, nor is it likely it will this winter. ‘That means only one thing: the working of the neutrality law may a us in direct opposition to "the league instead of roughly its efforts, as now. It is all a question of whether we want to try to keep out of war re- gardless, or of whether we want to aid such efforts as are being made to prevent and stop wars. As Secre- tary Wallace used to say, “America must choose.” *** & A. F. of L, Faces “Revolt” There is considerable new worry at American Federation of Labor head- quarters over the “revolt” of the Ra- dio Workers and Allied Trades Union, This new industrial union in the radio and electric refrigerator in- dustry has built up some 55,000 mem- bers under the aggressive leadership of James B. Carey, a young man who jumped into a field in which the old- line electrical craft unions had large- ly failed. Now Carey, with a large and going organization, demands an interna- tional charter as an industrial union. The Radio and Allied Trade is now merely @ federal union under direct A. F. of L. supervision. If the international charter is granted, it will mean that this new union in a growing field will be in- ‘dependent, The story of the auto unions in Detroit and the rubber unions in Akron is being told all over again. x * * . Can't Laugh This Off But with the aggressive Lewis push- ing for industrial organization, it is harder to laugh off demands like Carey's, and harder to delay. The rub is, as usual, the fact that the standard electrical unions claim jurisdiction over many of the em- ployes in the Radio and Allied Trades, though they themselves had failed to organize any large percentage pf radio and refrigerator employes. These are now pretty much mass- production and assembly-line workers rather than skilled craftsmen. Carey, firm in the saddle after a recent convention of his organization in Pittsburgh, waits for action. He hasn’t yet said “— or else!” But, it’s always in the background. Which is just another reason why the meeting of the Federation’s exe- cutive council in Miami next month is going to be one of the hottest that it has held for many a long year. . The whole Lewis move for indus- trialization must be considered, with the booming voice of Lewis con- spicuously absent. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN Is RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN as far as it used to? Simms—Oh, never get back, daughter. you could get her to pay me back. Wifey (reading paper) — Darling, them warm. depend on something besides t! [les feb thes warm in ie cold weather. May Be Ranged Against League in » New Radio Union Stirs hands of such men as Senators Nye, | and they aren't giving it up, even4 Bimms — Do you think a dollar goes much farther. In fact mine all go so far they Father—Young man, I understand you have made advances to my Young Man—Yes, sir. I wasn’t go- ing to say anything about it, but since you have mentioned it, I wish here's a scientist who says that wom- en should eat more than men. He says they need more food to keep Darling—They certainly 40 bate §8 to With Other ‘EDITORS VOIDING THE AGRICULTURAL ACT (New York Times) Mr. Justice Roberts, writing the opinion of the majority of the su- preme court, alluded to the “grave sense of responsibility” which judges must feel in setting aside an act of congress as unconstitutional. No doubt, the three dissenting justices felt the same responsibility. It was a 6-to-3 decision of the court, and most people will agree that a divided opinion in such a case was unfortu- nate. It was a unanimous court that held NRA to be invalid, and one could have wished that we had a similar unanimity in either voiding or up- holding AAA. However, the decision by @ majority is binding and final. It will be accepted as such by the country. The opinion read by Mr. Justice Roberts is long and closely reasoned. It apparently covers every aspect of the case as it was argued before the supreme court. But the fatal defects o—e | So They Say | The present recovery is like a new streamlined car. It has three .speeds forward, excess reserves, bank bor- rowings, and low interest rates. But no one knows whether it has a re- verse gear.—Leonard P. Ayres, econ- omist. sek Neither Hoover nor Borah can win the nomination, . . . I suggest, tht fore, the political lightweights of the minority party shake dice or shoot craps for it—James A. Farley, post- master general. _ % % # People in the world blame and con- demn Japan because she is inclined to militarism. But who taught milit- of the bill, in the judgment of the court, may be reduced to two. ' The processing tax was not a valid use of the taxing power of congress because it was not/for the general welfare, but for a class or classes. It was not a tax to produce revenue for the treas- ury, nor for the use of the country as 8 whole, but for local groups and re- gions. The second reason for holding the law unconstitutional is. that it invaded the reserved rights of the states, There can be no Federal con- trol of agriculture under the power of congress to regulate interestate commerce. The federal government has no power to enter a state and) coerce a farmer into cutting down his_ crops; and what could not be done, 'this is speculative. \thing is that the doubts about the {constitutionality of the agricultural the immediate effect of the action of the supreme court upon public senti- ment or farm prices, we must all hope that Professor Warren was right when he said a few days ago, speak- ing with his special authority, that the farmers might find themselves better off if the agricultural act were thrown out by the supreme court. He thought that, after a time, the ex- tinction of AAA would be no- more mourned than was that of NRA. All ‘The one certain ‘act, freely expressed at the time of its ibeing made law, have been sustained directly cannot be done under OM Ett) iS guise of a voluntary agreement in re- turn for cash payments by the gov- ernment. It cannot be said that this decision of the court was unexpected. It had been foreshadowed in many ways. ‘The president himself has said that if the processing tax were upset the government would have to turn to some alternative recourse. Whatever | arism to Japan? It was a western na- tion—Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, famed Japanese Christian. ee * /Tt 4s only the money-changer and his industrialist servants who are cry- ing out against effective, beneficent regulation of business by a central and authoritative government.—Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit. ae ® It is not the economists job to! - |re-elect or defeat President Roosevelt. Neither is it his job to defend out- worn practices which operate to the harm of the general welfare—Henry A. Wallace, bre 4 of agriculture. * ® New Year's resolutions? I am going to try to resolve to have more time to think.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. HORIZONTAL 1 Who is the 23 Police forays. 4 Husband or | - American Actress Answer to Previous Puzzle d [HIAINIKIGIRIETEINIBIE IRIG] RHE LE OlA rts. 19 Note in scale, 20 Food. actress in the a IAIS} picture? lH} bad pe ting 11 To exist. 24 Door rug. 12To wander. 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With All y Love After tovely come attracted Mon Sa. “scott LI STAN! an elev ‘ine “te enterinz ber NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIV GRANDMOTERS Cameron haited Dana, “Going out again?” she asked. “Yes, Grandmother. I’m going to have dinner out.” Grandmother Cameron 1 moved on up the stairs. “Have a good time.” she said pleasantly. Dana assured her, “I shall” Then she was gone. é Upstairs Mrs. Cameron made her - way to her sister's @oom. “What ever is the matter with that child?” she demanded. “Rushing down the stairs ke a whirlwind! What's it all about?" She waited for con- firmation of her own hopes. “In my day.” Aunt Ellen said primly, “when girls got excited and lost their poise people said they were in love.” “Humph! So you think Dana’s in love?” “1 didn’t say that,” Aunt Ellen demurred cautiously. “I haven't noticed anything strange about her. Dana seems self-possessed and sensible when you compare her with most of these flighty girls.” “So she does. . Just the same, she almost knocked me over. Running pellme!l down the stairs, and fair. ly singing out that she was having dinner out. What’s so exciting about that? Hasn’t she been out to dinner several times a week al- -most ever since she came here? Not counting the times I didn't know about.” It was the longest speech Grand- mother Cameron had made in a long while. Aunt Ellen stared. “That sounds very much as though the child might be falling in love.” Aunt Ellen conceded. “And why not? Why not? Isn't it natura! she should? You couldn't find a nicer young man than Ron- nie—not if you searched the world over.” She walked to the window. The next minute. she called shaftply, “Ellen, come. here!” Aunt Even answered the peremp tory summons. - “I haven't my glasses,” Grand mother Cameron said. “But is that Rannie's car down there?” “No,” eald her sister. “It doesn't look like it.” “Speak your mind! You know very well it isn't. Well, whose car is ft then?” HERE was 2 brief silence. Then | voi her sister said, slowly, “The | Your Personal Health : By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer questi rtaining to health but not disease or Titers briefly and in ink, Address Dr. iy in All queries must be accompanied by a WHEN THE DOCTOR IS A BIT BAFFLED When I was young and in my prime I used to study all the time. But now I am @ wiser gink and so I study less, I think. Once I had a patient. I can prove it by the necropsy record. I was young and credulous-and believed whatever my seniors or teachers told me. There were ponderous medical tomes, by authors whose names were famous, on that great American diagnostic fallacy, neurasthenia. Moreover my patient came ready-ticketed as a ineurasthenic; he had been under care of several prominent physicians and a specialist or two; he presented all the and Class B Neurotics who find it the easiest way to live. booklet “Chronic Nervous Imposition,” but unfortunately the booklet sets you back ten cents coin and a three-cent-stamped envelope bearing your Le Ce ee ee class you are now). © It is fair to assume that eaee ‘patients who have such disabilities as arteriosclerosis, ‘Who advises remedies or treatment if he elects him in hygiene? LCA or handicaps which interfere with health conservation’ The answer to these ritetorical questions is: aivsa aca eure @ regular physician. And whose fault is that? Nothing rhetorical about this question. It is partly the old time Veber ae for he attempted to draw a definite line between “organic” “functional trouble,” and he still does make light of cocipeaines fond ‘which he can find no clearcut “organic” basis. And it is partly the layman's fault, for he willfully persists in his ignorance of physiology, hygiene and the science of health—acquiescing, if not actively participating, in the efforts of the quackery and nostrum in- terests to keep these subjects out of the common and high school curricu- lum, or to make the “health courses” taught in the public schools as in- effectual as possible. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Drinking Water Is there such @ thing as drinking too much water and so overworking the kidneys? Where the drinking water is hard, what should one use as a j Softener? (Dr. L. B. M.) Answer—Except invalids who should be advised by their own physicians, no one is likely to drink too much water, and many do not take enough. Water with meals, if one is at all thirsty, improves digestion and aids and increases general metabolism. Any water that has a satisfactory taste is not too hard for drinking. Someone Is Wrong You stated that it is nonsense to imagine fifty per cent of the nutritive value of vegetables is lost when they are cooked in water . jut Dr. and also Dr. both stated in ——— magazine that from 75% to 90% of the mineral salts are lost when vegetables are boiled in water.... Now are these authorities wrong? (Mrs. G. V.) Answer—Which authorities? Let’s concede that half or more than half of the mineral salts are dissolved out of the vegetables by the water. The vegetables still retain practically all of their nutritive value. Then let us suppose we use the cooking water, as we should, for gravy or in soup. That gives us all the mineral salts. If we don’t like gravy or soup, or if we are too lazy and inapt to make these things, then we must get our mineral salts by eating Lacie tte of greens and such vegetables as may be eaten raw —celery, carr onions, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, and a fair ration of one or another kind of cheese daily. More cheese, and less trick physiology, would be a good thing for public health and public welfare. (Copyright, 1986, John F, Dille Co.) by Mary Reymond Copyright NEA 1933 young man is @ stranger to me.”| Aunt Ellen had warned -her sis “But not to me!” Mrs. Cameron said. “It’s that young scamp, Scott Stanley. Think of his au dacity in coming here! Further. mose, I've been hearing things about him. He's @ regular rogue among women, stealing their hearts and making sure he keeps his own Ut haven't had my ears open for nothing. Well, I'll soon break thie up!” Her voice trembled from anger and disappointment, I[t was a mood that boded no good to any. one, her sister knew. Aunt Ellen’s heart went out to Dana. d Agatha ant = Ellen The.years had chani im some respects, thought. but the indomitable will. the fighting fire were etill there. “Sit down.” Aunt Ellen urged. “Don't get 20 excited. Why should ‘you worry just “because she goss out with him? And why isn’t he with Paula Long, who's been wait: ing for him ever since he finished high school? Paula’s money would start him im his medical practice ‘What does he mean. dirt poor and Just starting out. hanging around Dana who's as poor as 8 church mouse, too?” Unanswerable logic. Ellen Ca Tewe sat miserably. contemplat- ing her sister's words. Why hadn't Scott (she thought of the oame gently) done the sensible thing end turnéd to his wealthy Paula? [f he could look into the past. he would know there was more than one reason why he wouldn't be wel- come fn this home. And then he probably would muddle things for Dana. Dana was beautiful and poised. well-fitted to rule gracious ly over a splendid home. “I'm growing mercenary, too,” thought gentle Aunt Ellen unhap ily. [t was almost impossible to live in a house with her sister and not be infected by the posses sion-virus. eee Mes. CAMERON endured it as "2 tong as she could—seeing the shabby gray roadster parked in front of her home. replacing Ron- nfe’s large and expensive one. The gray car was an affront. “A defiance. A challenge. Mrs. Cant eron accepted that challenge one afternoon. She “took the bull ty the horns.” (in her own language) and drove her shaft home so del!- cately, eo diplomatically that Dana did not at first feel the full force of the blow. “A very nice young man,”, Mrs. Cameron said as Dana came into the house and Scott's car moved away. Dana’s eyes brightened. “He fs nice.” she sald. “It's a pity.” Mrs. Cameron mused aloud, “that he hasn't 8 pen- ny. Hasn't anything but plans and ambitions.” Dana did not reply, meeting her Srandmother’s eyes steadily. “Sit down. please. Qana.” The girl sat down. was otill sitting there when Nancy passed through the hall half an hour later. and for a tong while afterward Nancy heard her Faster? ce droning pill, b gon res ‘strangely quiet, tolerant out to dinner with him?” way was to stop seeing him. A “Why does she want to be going poor man, marrying a gir) with- ter, “Don't drive or threaten Dana. 1 don’t believe she would stand for it” Neither did Mrs. Cameron believe Dana would be moved by threats, She planned to use them only as a last effort. Threats, if necessary, but persuasion frst. It was sot a pretty picture—the picture of poverty her grandmother drew for Dana. And there were elements of truth in the portrayal that startled even such a coura- geous girl. td “1 know you're not in love with Scott Stanley.” Mrs. Cameron said vigorously. “You're too sensible. But there's danger in seeing too much of him.” cee was easy, she went on, to fall in lov ith an attractive man. were not eligible. the safest It out money, was es much to be pitied as a poor girl who was fool enough to marry a man who was not established. “Scott Stanley hasn't a chance to succeed as a doctor if he ties him- self up with a wife who can’t help him.” Mrs. Cameron stated firmly. “But can't a gir) help a man in some other way—if she hasn't money?” Dana ventured. She was feeling very, sober. very un happy. “Kind words never helped a poor doctor yet,” Mrs. Cameron de clared. “What that young man needs fs a number of paying .a- tients. If he married Paula Long, he could stop worrying.” “Why?” asked Dana. “Paula is independent,” Mrs, Cameron answered. “Besides. she has wealthy relatives who are clan- nish, ke most of us in this city. Just seeing that all the babies in that family arrive in proper order and taking care of their bumps and bruises—fiot to mention the nervous breakdowns rich people can afford to have—would keep a young doctor in funds for. the rest of his life.” Dana protested, but there was ttle heart in her words, “Doctors are supposed to win their clientele, not inherit {t.” “Hat Much you know about such things, my child. There's rately such a thing as a triumph of sheer ability these days!” Nancy heard Dana go in her Toom a little later and shut the , door, “Gran’s made it unpleasant for her, seeing Scott so much,” Nancy mused. “And that tsn't all. She has some more tricks up her sleeve to use {f necessary.” Elsewhere Ronnie was receiving the silent congratulations of scores of mothers who were taking hear: again, now that the young mili aire was once more heart-free. “Ronnie was a little too smart for old Mra. Cameron.” they said “Guess he saw which way the wind was blowing and got out before she had him tied up tight with « wedding rope.” Mrs. Cameron. eitting on her porch the nest afternoon, looked up and eaw Scott’s car stopping. 2 | fer brows drew together ominous (Te Be Continued)