The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1936, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Sound Cooperative Effort With ample moisture in sight to start a crop, North Da- kota farmers and businessmen are wise in making an effort now to see that good sced is available for planting this spring. Not in years has the prospect been more encouraging at this season, but the high hopes now in prospect may be dimmed ff we are forced to plant poor seed. The interest of businessmen is indicated by agreement of the railroads to haul good seed into this part of the country at half the regular freight rates, a proposal now before the inter- state commerce commission. There is nothing eleemosynary about this. The railroads {want the farmer to have a crop, just as the businessman wants him to have a crop. If he doesn’t there will not be much busi- hess for anyone. Meanwhile, as every farmer makes provision for obtain- fng the best seed he can get, it is interesting to note the contri- bution which the state agricultural college is making toward a solution. Its experts have been working diligently to ascer-|Deal. tain what to do and how to do it. Their advice is disinterested and presumably sound. The Fact that some of it is routine, such as the recommendation that the seed bed be well prepared, makes it all the more necessary that the facts be driven home. For this year, at least, it is obvious that we shall have to stick by the old varieties, such as Marquis and Ceres for hard wheat and Mindum and Kubanka among the durums. Thatcher is recommended, largely for the eastern one-fourth or one-third of the state, but there is not enough of this seed to go around. Even if subsequent years give it the same value as the experi- ence of 1935, it will be several years before its use can become general. Perhaps the best advice given by the experts, however, is that the farmer supplement their fundamental findings by his own observations. On so important a matter as the rate of seeding, for example, they have no suggestion to make except to comment that the “regular rate of seeding probably ‘will most generally be followed.” And this despite the fact that the num- ber of kernels in a bushel runs from 1,000,000 for 60-pound wheat to 1,800,000 in 40-pound wheat. We are fortunate in having a fairly large quantity of seed wheat, now in the hands of the government, made available to us at prices which appear to be below what the same wheat would bring if it were offered on the open market. The Little Rivers Transmitting to congress the report of the national re- Bources committee on “Little Waters,” President Roosevelt suggested that America must have a plan for combatting ero- sion which will reach into every farm, every pasture, every woodlot, every acre of the public domain. That such a development would benefit this generation and those which come after it is true. It may also be true that the ‘way to approach the matter is through cooperation of the fed- eral, state and local governments. Yet this is only part of the answer at best. The real inter- est must and does lie with the men who own and operate the land. Every acre which is washed away or on which the fer- tility is diminished means that the farmer faces a reduction in opportunity for himself and his family. That it also may mean ® question of serious food shortage for succeeding generations is a much less pressing factor. Any treatment of the erosion problem may begin with gov- ernment, federal, state or local, but it must end and its success qnust rest with the individual on the land. The simple fact is that competition among farmers has forced thousands off the land or into bankruptcy. Most farm- ers have been too hard-pressed providing for today to give thought to tomorrow. If wheat prices were low, the only avail- able answer was to raise more wheat and thus maintain his income. That wheat prices dropped faster than the farmer could increase his output seemed a factor over which he had no control. And so our farmers have, for the last 10 years or more, been driven into mining their land. The problem was not one of sound policy but of survival. The need to pay taxes and to clothe, feed and educate his family has been too imminent. If the movement to protect our land is to reach every farm, woodlot and pasture, as the president suggests, it must be the farmer who does the protecting. Government, at best, can only offer encouragement. Give the right-thinking farmer a chance to do so, encourage him with tax rebates or other measures, and he will protect what is not only his own heritage but that of the nation, She Ought to Go Straight : Evelyn Frechette, the late John Dillinger’s favorite girl friend, left prison the other day vowing that she intends to go straight. It should not be too difficult for her to keep that promise. If ever anyone had definite proof that virtue is its own reward it is this French and Indian girl who lived with Dillinger dur- ing the most sensational episodes of his career, The men who impressed her as brave enough and smart enough to thwart the law are all dead or in prison. She her- _self knows what the world looks-like from the “inside.” 7 be easy for her to forget them. The year 1936 may be a break for the girls, but to the pedestrian it is She has paid her debt to society but the marks of her career are indelibly imprinted on her mind and soul. It should not Scenes Washington the By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) | Washington, Feb. 5.— Washington lives from one U. 8, supreme court [decision to the next. ‘The court and the constitution are on every mind and every tongue. Much of the talking is done in whis- pers. Most persons here sense a dull, lethargic atmosphere which doubtless comes from the general belief that the eourt will go right on killing leg- islation until there’s next to nothing left of the New Deal. Anti-New Dealers are tensély alert for every possible political advantage. Old men mumble to their wives at night. Government employes go around asking one another, “Are you unconstitutional yet?” The whole tempo of the capital has slowed down. “ke Little Hope Remains In the White House, Roosevelt dis- cusses the court and the constitution with his advisers and many visitors, again and again. He has little hope that much but fragments will be left of the New Deal. His congressional leaders have told him that any immediate attempt to pass legislation curbing the courts would be too great a risk. He just waits, while many of his supporters take occasional cracks at the court and strain their ears for the popular reaction. Everybody agrees that popular rev- erence for the court tradition of in- fallibility will die hard, if ever. ee 8 New Deal Again if F. R. Wins Out of all the huddling and buzaing and plotting come certain fundamen- tal implications which are now thor- oughly appreciated by both sides, but which thus far have been little pub- licized. If Roosevelt is re-elected, the na- tion is likely to see a “second New In other words, as some of the New Dealers already are predicting, the legislation killed by the court— or laws of the same type—may be enacted all over again in Roosevelt's second term, with the likelihood that nearly all of them would be validated by the court, Of course the idea is that Roose- velt might get the opportunity of ap- pointing two new justices of liberal trend, Because the average age of justices is 71, and for other reasons, it is generally believed F. D. R. will have such a chance to “re-make” the court if he stays in the White House. Conservative Justice Van Devan- ter's health is none too good and it is rumored that he—as well as Conserv- ative Justice McReynolds — would have retired ere this if he could have been sure of being replaced by a con- servative. Whether either would try to stick another four years after inauguration in January, 1937, is questionable. ze e It Isn't ‘Packing’ Certain Liberty League orators al- teady have warned the voters that Roosevelt will “pack” the court if he gets back in. Any such choice of words is also questionable. Presidents have the constitutional Prerogative of appointing supreme court justices. If the voters are afraid of the type of jurists Roosevelt will name if he gets the chance, they can head him off next November. Roosevelt probably will appoint lib- erals of the Brandeis-Stone-Cardozo type if he can and the Liberty League might as well prepare to pipe down in case it can’t beat him this year. The quaint aspect of it all is that the New Deal, if the voters endorse it, may have to start all over again. Meanwhile, as Al Smith said, “Here we are!” (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN ig RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN _ Sudge—Didn't I tell you the last time you were here that I didn’t want to see you here again? Prisoner—Yes, Your Honor; that’s what I told these police- men but they wouldn’t believe it. Mistress—Mary, did I hear you kiss someone in the kitchen? Cook—Well, ma’am, the junk man said he came for a little oven. Jimmy — So Elsie told you I was witty, did she? Toni— Well, she didn’t express it exactly that way. She said she had to laugh every time you opened your mouth, Mrs, Gabber—I've had such a cold I was unable to speak for three whole days, Mrs. Blabber—Why you poor dear. How you must have suffered. Insurance Agent — What did your grandparents die of? Ezra Hoskins—I don’t rightly recol- lect; but twarn’t nothin’ serious. Sunday School Teacher — Why do you suppose Nébuchadnezzar ate grass? Bright Pupil—Maybe they had an ee and a corn-hog program then, Loo, “I see you've got @ pretty blonde selling tickets fer your movie house,” Peay 8 a bitin 2a to the man- ager. which Manager boasted, “Yes, she’s my latest box-office sen- sation!” “I don’t see where we can put up this lecturer for the night.” “Don’t worry—he always brings his own bunk,” “Lucille says her husband has given ve saad to kiss the cook and the “What struck him?” “A rolling pin and a vacuum clean- er.” “I'd like to give that gay, young millionaire a kiss such as he never had before.” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, Side, West Side, All Around the Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. “THE POWER TO PRESERVE” (Williams County Farmers Press) Probably one of the most valuable and least employed avenues of insight into current public questions, is the vast body of decisions handed down by the supreme court of the United States and the high courts of the 48 states. ‘With the exception of those men who have chosen the law as @ profes- sion, it is a rare man who takes the time to find that these decisions are as interesting and exciting as any current novel of adventure or ro- mance, Between the lines of these famous opinions the import of the struggle out of which the case developed is revealed in all its tense glamour. In them is reflected the mighty struggle of a nation’s people plodding grimly through the years to realize the goal lof self government and self improye- ment. ‘3 Greed, hypocrisy, misunderstanding, special privilege, hate and wonder march before the bar of justice in a glittering pageant of historical faci. In them is the never-ending film of our national life, a moving picture of The voters might as well know that | tory: govern- ment, in the English language and in human nature iteelf. ‘We have in mind as an illustration the famous case ef M’Cullogh vs. Maryland, known to America largely as the origin of the phrase “the power to tax includes the power to destroy.” Yet the opinion filed by Chief Justice Marshall and his associates on that historic contains a greater question thought, by far, than the words which HORIZONTAL 1The flag of pic tured here. 6 Male sheep. Olt is in —— America. 13 aca. ciel tt 1b see TIN BRATE dialect. ATTISTL IE 1770 make a —_JNIEP| ... Infstake. SIL, JO1P | 18 Light brown. 19 W: Vit EID} AIRIG aC 21 Note in scale. 23 Benefactions. 26 Father. 27 Night before, 29To liberate. 43 Large brooch. 48 Tone B. 49 Lawyer's charge. 50 Since. 61 To tear stitches. 83 Unoccupied person. 55 Boy. tree. 33 Leather strip. 365 Starch. 36 Instrument. 37To make amends. 66 Species of 39 Act of aiding. fishes. 40 Negative word. 58 Railway. “Yes, a nuptial kiss.” Reading that opinfon a farmer may well be induced to consider what John Marshall would have said about the AAA. In passing it may be in point to mention that the federal govern- ment did as much to create western agriculture as any agency for it opened up these lands and gave them free to homesteaders who would brave the perils of the Great Plains and build an empire in a wilderness of prairie. True, the government did not establish agriculture in the west, ‘but it did induce its spread and in Part at least, helped to create it. It should not be amiss to think that the government should, in part, aid in preserving that which it in part created. Quoting from Marshall’s opinion: “We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are lim- ited and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think a sound construction of the constitution must allow the national legislature that dis- cretion, with respect to the means by Answer to Previous Puzale BIEIAITIRITICIEl fh] Sn Bg IDIETAID| |AISTEIS IE NIDIEIMIT Ic} iia NESQ038 HIOIRIDIE} IRIE MELIY/EMERIAIZIE} rath, ITIOIRIOINITION TAICITIRIEIS!S] 30 To corrode which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it in a manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited but consist with the letter and spirit of the con- stitution, are constitutional.” Certainly a farm program for the purpose of achieving a parity price for agricultural products is a legiti- mate end. Agriculture is a nation-wide pur- suit and to say that a program for its aid established by the federal gov- ernment, constitutes an invasion of state’s rights is merely a hair-split- National Banner 10 Rowing tools. 11 Rubber tree. 12 Musical note. 16 This country’s president. 20 This country’s - chief port. 22'Flyer. 10} 24 Northeast. 25 Bone. 26 Second-rate race horses. ,28 Fungus disease. 15] oIAIsIT| me iE It | TIAISITIE! IS] PIT INIT] 32 Electrified particle. 34 Three. 38 Out-patient of @ hospital. 39 Unwilling. 43 To observe. 44Steeped grain. 45 Seaweed. 46 Musical measures. 47 Inlet. 49 To soar. 52 Golf teacher, 54 Doctor. 57 To depart. 60 Hawalian bird. VERTICAL 2 Laughter sound. 3 Frozen water. 4 Deity. 5 Mistakes. 6 Assessment amount. 7To diminish, 8 Frenzy. 9 Backbones. Ns a XN Pe} ttt = ting proposition. However, the re- cent decision declaring the AAA un- constitutional is no longer practically important. The thing is done. Yet the history of the supreme court itself lends comfort to the farmer, for it provides insight to the fact that some workable, constitu- tional farm program can be estab- lished. Some day, America will put ie work John Marshall’s forgotten wis- iom: “A power to create implies the power to preserve.” “She suffered in silence.” “I'll bet she suffered.” With G od ar other, aristocratic WILLIARD ‘CAMERON, WESTBROOK marries DR. eee straggling young phy- clan. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXVI ‘T was Nancy who broke the news to Dana. “Well, Scott's done iti” she eaid. “Landed right at the top—high, wide and handsome.” Dana’s hand went to her heart. Why didn’t Nancy go on? Why was she standing there, smiling so queerly? “Scott’s been taken into part- nership by Dr. Osborne,” Nancy continued. “He'll be doctoring all the richest patients in town. Now I guess you'll write that note and say you're sorry!” Dana did not answer for a mo- ment. So Nancy believed that was why she had left Scott and that now she would beg him to * take her back. “When has all this happened?” Dana asked. “Just today. It's just been an- nounced. They say Dr. Osborne has had his eyes on Scott for = long while and Scott cinched matters when he performed an operation Dr. Osborne said few surgeons could have done eo well.” “Tell me about it,” asked. “There's not much to tell. Dr. Osborne sprained his arm and be couldn't operate, so he turned the job over to Scott. Dr. Osborne watched him and—well it seems Scott's a sort of wizard in the operating room. That’s all there is to the story, I guess.” Nancy stopped. She was sud- denly sorry for Dans who looked frightfully cut up, as though she might faint. It must be pretty bad, at that, to realise you had given up ap attractive husband because be didn’t have any money, and then have hint dip into the professional pie and draw out a plum as big as this. Nancy was sorry for Dana, but she was glad for Scott. He de- served something extra nice after the way he had been treated. “aren't you: glad, Dana?” Nancy asked curiously. “Why, of course.” Dana‘s wide gaze met her half sister's How could Nancy doubt that she was glad for Scott? nee Dana . ANA sal down and stared, up seeing, at the magasine she Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr, Brady will answer if Write iby: b beets Pertaining. to health diagnosis. jet in tok, of The Tri itters briefly and . ‘hdgrens queries must be accompanied by a DOCTOR WINKS AT MURDER One correspondent asks whether it is all right for the family physician, for the family’s sake, to give # certificate of accidental death from a fall, when a man has been murdered by a blow on the head? Another correspondent presents a hypothetical case: Suppose he, act- ing under ® sudden impulse of annoyance, gave his wife a push and she fell, striking her head on a stone sill and suffering a fatal fracture of the skull. Would I, as family physician and friend, insist on . . . In either case the physician is morally and I think legally bound to re- port the circumstances to the coroner. In fact the law specifically pro- vides, in most states, that the attending physician shall not give a certificate of death without the consent of the coroner, where illness or injury: brings death within twenty-four hours after the physician is called, As family physician I would of course be a friend. If anybody doubts that his family physician is his friend he ought to discharge the physician and engage one who can inspire friendship. In any circumstance a family physician naturally desires to give the patient's interest first consideration and the family’s interest next consideration, and will give them the benefit of any doubt so far as his conscience permits. Ethically, morally and legally a physician is bound to keep inviolate whatever he learns in his professional capacity, if it {s something which ought not to be divulged. This section of the Hippocratic oath, in my opinion, makes null and void any special statute which would make it a misdemeanor for a physician to fail to report to the police any one who seeks his service for gun shot wound. Even the fugitive from justice or the presumptive criminal is still entitled to this sanctuary. Physicians in gen- eral are divided about this; some share my view; others hold that the fun- an law and the Hippocratic oath should be violated and the statute ved. Regarding ordinary secrets, remember that a reputable physician is concerned only about your physical and mental health, and as a physician he or she is not at all concerned about your morals, your spiritual troubles or your legal affairs. He leaves these aspects to your spirtual or legal ad- visers. Only so far as your moral or legal problem reacts upon your physical or mental health is the physician interested in it. . Patients with carking secrets frequently find great relief in merely making the family doctor a confessor, Perhaps he can give advice or assurance which will lift a heavy load from the mind and restore the patient to normalcy. Unfortunately not every one has a family doctor in these days of brass specialism. Still, the late depression knocked some of the foolishness out of the heads of the hoi polloi, restored the general practitioner to something like his proper Place, and people are beginning to see thru the specialist racket, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Wheat to Eat For many years I used your flaxseed recipe with much satisfaction? But about a year ago I began eating bread made of whole wheat flour in place of ordinary bread and since then I have never required any laxative afd of anykind ... .(E.H.8.) Answer—Any feader may have monograph “Wheat to Eat,” on request, if he incloses 3-cent-stamped envelope bearing his address. If the booklet ‘The Constipation Habit” is wanted, inclose ten cents coin. I believe it is the vitamins in whole wheat, plain wheat you buy as such and grind in your own coffee mill, that give the results so many experience when they restore this staff of life to the daily diet. Refined flours are robbed of the vitamins, minerals naturally present in wheat. Viosterol es ee ‘Why is it better than cod liver oil? . . . . (Mrs, Answer—Viosterol is sterol which has been exposed to ultraviolet rays, which impart vitamin D influence, and make the substance preventive or curative against rickets, Irradiated sterol is called viosterol, It is not better than cod liver oil. ena Irregular Is 28 years too old to think of having irregular teeth straightened? How long will it take? Is it very expensive, and if so are there clinics where one can have it done free? ... (Mra. K. L. D.) Answer—A dentist skilled in such work can improve the condition, of course, tho the best cosmetic results are always obtained when treatment be- gins in early childhood. If you are unable to pay, your dentist can arrange for free treatment or a nominal expense. Little can be accomplished in any such case in less than @ year. (Copyright 1986, John F. Dille Co.) UI Love ee Copyright NEA 1998 held im her hand. She was glad —oh, so glad! It was strange how you could be glad and. yet completely hopeless because of tho same plece of news. “I heard, too,” Nancy went on, “that Scott has given up the apartment and moved back into his house. He told somebody that the people who bad been living there had almost wrecked, ay never, never have left Scott if he hadn’t driven me to it! I could never think of him eas an old coat—” her voice broke. the place and he’s having it done over. Everybody thinks it’s queer that he'd bother anless some woman was coming there to live. There's talk that tt means you and he are planning to go back together.” “No.” Dana said. “It doesn't mean that.” Mrs Cameron had come from the dining room, and stood, un- observed by the sisters, in the “Let’s bear no more of such ig a56E, 25 rei recleere HEHE § st is fier 5 So her to marry him. Dana must be free. She must get a divorce soon. eee “por I couldn't,” Dana whis- pered passionately, “I couldn’t divorce Scott. Let him do the divorcing if that’s what he wants.” “He's pretty sure to be want- ing one soon, if be hasn’t thought of it yet. You girls are a queer lot, £ must say. You want your cake and want to eat it, too. You treat Scott like an old coat you wouldn't wear, but think too mucb of to give away.” Dana bdlased out: “1 would, and she hesn’t had a word from Scott.” Mrs, Cameron thought that possibly the letter she had writ- ten Scott might have had some- thing to do with it, though she doubted ft, Scott was the sort who did his own thinking. feels about the situation. Scott's in a difficult position, you know. Embarrassing. When people ask me ‘What is Dana going to do?” all I can say is ‘I don’t know.’ What are you going to do?” “I don't know,” was forcing me to leave him.” She would tell her grandmother