The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1936, Page 4

é ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1936 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) 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 Secretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year F 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 . Weekly by mail outside of North Dal Weekly by mail in Canada, per year .. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press exclusively entitied to the use for republica- ches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspap also the local news of spontaneous origin publ hi All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also Out of Balance It is possible that residents of Dickinson will look doubt- fully at the proposal of Theodore Martell, commissioner of agri- culture and labor, to change the state’s educational institution there from a teachers college to a state agricultural school. Yet there are thousands of young men and women in west- ern North Dakota who would be immensely benefited if this change were made. The school would be more popular than it is now and Dickinson undoubtedly would benefit in the end. As things stand now, we have seven institutions of higher learning turning out more teachers than the state can employ. Recognition of this fact has caused the addition of junior col- Jege courses at many of them. But the average youth in North Dakota comes from the soil and his best opportunity lies in a return to it, not in being shepherded into the white collar professions which already are pvercrowded. : The state now maintains agricultural experiment stations at Dickinson and Hettinger but these, while well managed, do not offer instruction to the young. They merely provide data for use at the agricultural college in Fargo. Revision of the educational set-up by changing the Dickin- gon teachers college into an agricultural school and by turning some of the others into trade schools or institutions of a more . practical nature would be a benefit to the state and its children. North Dakota doesn’t have too much education. It never will have. But its educationai system is out of balance. One Woman’s Marriage Chicago police, investigating the death of Machine Gun Jack McGurn, turned to his widow for information. : The young woman, who dabbed at her eyes carefully when she wept lest the mascara be disturbed, was of little help. “I don’t know what Jack’s business was,” she explained. “He never told me and I knew I shouldn’t ask him.” There is something pathetic in that, and something highly illustrative of the complete futility which marks the lives of criminals, both men and women. 5 For Mrs. McGurn probably had the instincts of every woman. It is reasonable to assume that she wanted peace and security and a home. Maybe children, too. But instead she has known only worry, insecurity and, finally, murder on her doorstep. That she went willingly into her present situation doesn’t lessen the heartache, though it does point the moral. Louise Rolfe was a gunman’s “moll.” She admitted it openly when McGurn, accused of the famous Valentine day slaying of seven members of another Chicago gang seven years #go, said he was with her at the time of the slaying. And, if the truth were known, she probably was envied by scores of Chicago girls. She had gems and enjoyed luxury un- known to most decent women. Her husband was a power, for did not his friend, Mr. Al Capone, hold and exercise the power of life and death in Chicago? That was seven years ago. Since then the trail had led downward to disaster. The Capone gang was broken. Her husband, who had never learned to work, led a life which was Jess and less secure. But she suffered in silence and in ignor- ance. She “knew she shouldn’t ask” how things were going vith him or what he was doing. ‘Now her husband has been slain by other gangsters. She fs left a shell of a woman with a lurid past and no future. She has been spoiled for work and it is improbable that the world has much to offer her. It was inevitable but that doesn’t keep it from being sad. Somehow this sordid story puts in a new light the usual marriage relationship in which the wife isn’t afraid to know about her husband’s business. It gives new lustre to the pros- pect of striving and working together to build up a home; emphasizes all over again that in marriage, as in everything Flse, there is no such thing as something for nothing. Loyalty to the Job So much has been said of North Dakota’s highway mainte- france men in the last few years—much of it of a derogatory nature—that it is only fitting to note the fine work which they have been doing this winter in keeping the roads open for traffic. The results have not been of the best, it is true, but that fs because man is but a pygmy when pitted against the forces of nature, not because he hasn’t tried. At all hours of the day and night the highway patrolmen have been on the job, battling the seemingly endless cold and snow, trying to keep the roads open so the rest of us may travel as we will. They have given unstintingly of their brain and energy that their job might be done. In spirit they rival the telephone linemen. who have braved dangers for the same reason, the city postmen, rural mail car- riers and scores of others who have risked injury from freezing and even death that they might do their part. In each case these men have been loyal to their jobs. There are few finer loyalties than that; few things more important than this typically American spirit which results in priceless performance in time of emergency. A OOC youth named Roosevelt Dollar is in a Lexington, Ky., hospital §uffering with mumps. At last Reports, he felt like 59 cents. .* ‘When s sentence of 10 days was passed on her for shooting her husband, ®, Detroit woman wept. Bet that jury felt pretty small, t) . Birth of the one-pound Oakland baby is significant. The new generation pay We sbrinking from the prospect of shouldering the U. 8. debt. In the Chicago underworld, it seems to be the custom, on Valentine day, ¥ Scenes | Behind the Representative Marcantonio’s La! Activities Tie Up With 1940 Third Party Moves ... It's ‘Objection Withdrawn’ in Hughes ‘Disturb- ance of Peace’ Incident . . . Hoover Is Practicing Own Preaching. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) ‘Washington, Feb. 24.—Whether or not it was so intended, Congressman Vito Marcantonio’s arrest in New York for trying to lead a parade of relief workers may be considered as something of a curtain-raiser on the New York mayoralty campaign of 1937, with implications as to the presidential campaign of 1940. There are pians for a labor or farmer-labor party ticket in the municipal campaign. Certain radical elements are grooming Marcantonio as the candidste for mayor, and Mar- In. | cantonio is establishing himself as a leader of militant labor and unem- Ployed groups. S These facts have national signifi- cance because they must be linked with a general movement among ra- dicals of varying degree toward a permanent third party which would present a presidential ticket in 1940 and lay foundations in the mean- time. The LaFolettes of Wisconsin, Gov. Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York, President John Lewis of the mine workers, Vice President Frank Gor- man of the textile workers, and many other leaders in politics and labor, in- cluding Socialists and Communists, are thinking in those terms. Objection Withdrawn Stately Mrs. Howell Moorhead, a director and leading spirit of the Foreign Policy association, re- turned home from a meeting one recent evening and found herself locked out of her house. She rang the bell and banged on the door in an effort to arouse her maid. No response came and eventually she was forced to make quite a racket. Suddenly a voice boomed from & second-floor window of the house across the street: “What do you mean, disturbing the peace of the neighborhood at this time of night?” Mrs. Moorhead turned and there, from the window, protruded the famous whiskers of her neighbor, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. She explained, politely enough, what had happened. The whisk- ers withdrew from the window without comment. Eventually she got in. There is as yet no general cohe- sion in the movement and there may never be, but the essential nucleus for such party is the American labor movement and it is believed that if Lewis obtains control of the A. F. of L,, @ labor party will be here,to stay. Probably there is more labor senti- ment for such party now than ever before, although most exponents of third party thought favor re-elec- tion of Roosevelt this year to avoid what th.y term a “restoration of re- actionary Republicanism.” : * *# # Planning for Future ‘The idea of running Marcantonio or another radical for mayor of New York next year isn’t accompanied by any hope of victory. But it's ambiti- ous enough. Those who harbor it— and it may or may not come off— feel that if a labor candidate could Poll, say, 350,000 votes, the psychol- ogical effect over the country would be sufficient to stimulate organiza- tion for 1938 elections. The New Y :k situation is cloudy, however (Marcantonio and LaGuar- dia, for instance, are at swords’ points, and no one knows how far the former can get), so it’s silly to pro- Phesy. Most third party plans may be con- sidered in the huddle, or hot air, stage, but it is quite likely that there will be labor party or similar tickets for state offices this year in states besides Wisconsin and Minnesota, where control already has been won by the peels and Farmer-Labor bility that Heywood run for’ governor of New @ labor party candidate, with the 50,000 votes Practicing His Preachings Herbert Hoover's recent recom- mendation that, because of the dan- gers of monetary inflation, institu- tions hedge their holdings in secur- ities payable in dollars by purchasing common stocks, real estate, and other non-money values, was not made for polteal effect. It came from the friends have reported that he prefers Property in relatively obscure places that no mob would be likely to reach. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN ELETYPE BRIEFS +2" New York—An electric eel, Chris- topher W. Coates has found out by experimenting with what he calls an eelmeter, can produce 300 volts of electricity—enough to kill a good sized horse. Washington—Police and Senator Norbeck of South Dakota joined Monday in a search for Mrs. Char- lotte Johnson Opheim, 35, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Julian Johnson of Pierre, 8. D., who wandered away from lodgings here Saturday after frightening her 9-year-old son, Charles, with threats of suicide. St. Paul—Carroll Mohr, 7-year-old girl, was in serious condition in a hospital Monday from breathing air made impure by a gas hot water heater accidentally left burning. Her 9-year-old brother was recovering at home. Officials said the heater burned for several hours in the tightly closed house, exhausting most of the oxygen, Washington—An attempt to project the neutrality issue into the presiden- tial campaign was planned Monday by the “strict neutrality bloc” in congress. Their objective is to create public sentiment to force neutrality pledges into the party platforms. St. Paul—Isadore (Kid Cann) Blum- enfeld, acquitted of the machine gun killing of Walter Liggett, militant newspaper publisher, Monday was granted an interview with Attorney General Harry H. Peterson. Addis Ababa—The Ethiopian gov- ernment announced Monday that its troops had killed 412 Italians, de- stroyed 15 bomb depots, and captured 30 tanks in an engagement in the re- gion of Aksum. Winter Park, Fla.—Owen D. Young, chairman of the advisory council of the National Broadcasting company, appealed Monday for the “choice word and the measured phrase” in the political campaign. ‘Washington—J. 8. Jones, secretary- treasurer of the Minnesota Farm Bu- reau federation, was recommended to President Roosevelt Monday for ap- pointment to the federal reserve board. Moothead, Minn.—Rodney Clyde Kuehl, 13, son ot Mr. and Mrs. Henry ‘W. Kuehl of Moorhead, died Sunday from scarlet fever. Devils Lake, N. D.—Two persons were injured, one seriously, when two cars collided on a highway near here Sunday. Plant Engineer Ira J. Nes- vold of the For! Totten Indian agency is in a serious condition. The other person injured is Vernon Homan, Devils Lake. Devils Lake, N. D.—Between $5,000 and $5,500 was the estimated loss from fire and water in the blaze at the plant of the Devils Lake World, weekly newspaper here, Saturday. Devils Lake, N. D.—Thirty dollars in cash was the total loss reported in robberies of two Devils Lake business was presented to a chattering audience ity and so lessons the risk of shock. jected from under the log, eyes roll- ing, faintly erenins, are A sudden angry shout from above caused the sweating, struggling log- gers to lift their eyes momentarily from the moaning Scanlan. “Lift it, you fools! You want to tear his head off?” ; It was MacKenzie, the lumber company’s manager in Moosetown, and therefore the town’s most pow- erful citizen. A hard, rough man, nobody ever accused MacKenzie of being afraid of anything. As the men looked upward, he leaped from the balcony, landing with a thump at their side. Shoving forward those who were struggling with the log, MacKenzie bent his bulk and strength to lift it at the end. The veins stood out in his forehead and the cords of his neck tightened as he heaved at the log. It rose slowly. “Get him out, quick!” panted Mac- Kenzie, his booted legs trembling as almost the whole weight of the log fell on his shoulders. Dragging at .arms and shoulders, two men pulled Mike clear. Mace Kenzie and the others dropped the log with a soft thud on the ground. MacKenzie straightened up, spread his broad shoulders back. He glanced down without any expression at all at the silent Mike, who lay uncon- scious, one man holding his head. “Carry him over to the bunkhouse and call the Doc!” directed Mac- further hesitation toward his office in the maven balldine- It happened often in the logging country. The broken, bleeding bod- FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: “There goes another married man,” said the girl at the candy counter. you “What makes think 50?” asked the next customer in line. “He used to buy candy once a week and now he buys &@ one-pound pox twice a year.” Customer: Gimme something for headache. Druggist: We don’t buy ‘em. Young Thing ingly)—I'd lik to buy a petticoat. (somewhat hesitat- Floor Walker -Antique department on third floor, Miss. She—Ajl men are fools. He—Yes dear. We were made fools sv you girls wouldn't all be old maids. “They say only a thin Partition sep from ” erates genius insanity. “Well, I always said that guy next door was goofey A string on the finger is a poor substitute for a good memory, Kenzie briefly, and strode without places early Sunday night. The Gam- ble store reported the theft while Grawers were ransacked and nothing taken at the office of the Nortz Lum- ber company. Minneapolis—Police seeking Carl F Figge, 50-year-old north Minneapolis candy wholesaler, were convinced Monday that foul play figured in his mysterious disappearance last week. Minneapolis — Strutwear Knitting company officials filed suit in Hen- nepin county district court Monday for $101,500 damages from Gov. Floyd B. Olson, Adjt. Gen. E. A. Walsh and Mayor Thomas E. Latimer an a result of labor difficulties which have kept their plant closed since Aug. 18, 1935. M4 Washington—Declarations that the farmer's financial status has shown “vast improvement” and that the na- tion is threatened with “billions of dollars” loss by soil erosion were placed before congress Monday by government agencies. Washington.— Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, said Monday sponsors of the $50,000,000 seed loan bill have agreed to reduce the appro- priations to $30,000,000 to conform to President Roosevelt's views. The Arkansas senator said the president had indicated he would disapprove the measure as it stands. Washington.—A $161,863,147 agri- culture department appropriation bill for the 1937 fiscal year was laid be- fore the house Monday. From the viewpoint of actual new money appro- priated, the.supply bill was $28,525,- 857 under budget estimates. Sioux Falls, 8. D.—A temporary in- junction restraining the state railroad commission from enforcing the South Dakota law governing discrimination in grain buying was on file in federal court here Monday as a result of a suit brought by the Cargill Elevators, People’s Forum (Editor's N comes letters on est. Letters dealing wit! versial religious subjects, attack Individuals which offend good pluy will be returned to ‘® MUST be signed. to use a pseudonym, lonym first and your th it, We reserve {f you w. sign the own name bei the right to delete such part letters as may be necessary to conform to this policy and to re- quire publication of a writer's fama where justice and fair play make {t advisable. All letters must be limited to not more than 600 words. of HIGHWAY FINANCES Richardton, N. D. Feb. 15, 1936 Editor, Tribune: I notice by the papers that our highway commissioner is much con- cerned over where the state is to get funds to match a million and a half or so dollars which is available from the federal government for road con- struction purposes if it can be matched by state funds. Well, Pat ought to know something about high financing as I believe he was a member of the legislature in '33 when the high financiers of one fac- tion went into collusion with the high politicians of the other faction and bulldozed a bill through the legisla- ture whereby the auto license fees, which are levied strictly for road pur- poses, were diverted to pay interest on state bonds and bring them back to par so the favored few could unload their bonds back on the state with a good profit to themselves. While this nefarious measure was being pushed through, the super poli- screen of invectives denouncing some | unnamed persons alluded to as THEY for not giving the farmers a fair deal, and admonishing the farmers not to pay taxes and not to pay debts until such time as those mythical persons; would give them a square deal. I don’t know how Pat voted on Inc., of Minneapolis. Elks Circus to Close Here Tuesday Night After having played to capacity ing to wind up its eight-day stay in Bismarck. The final performance of the circus, more popular than ever this year, will be given Tuesday night at the World War Memorial building. An added attraction which has scored @ success here has been the performance of “Peaches” Young, 9- year-old dancer and contortionist who amazes by a succession of graceful feats, including that of standing on two chairs and bending backward to pick a handkerchief off the floor with her teeth, something it is claimed no other white girl do. The Saturday afternoon matinee of 3,000 children while the Saturday night show drew a crowd of 2,500. Tuesday night’s performance will be marked by the giving away of $100 in cash, one of the big annual fea- tures of the circus and carnival which is the major amusement enterprise i here annually by the Elks The London Fire Brigade. is to have a change of headgear. The brass helmets are giving way to leather, which is a non-conductor of electric- ies of men were part of the price of “getting out timber.” Luigi, another lumberman. was al- ready off in search of the doctor. His frightened face told of a seri- ous accident as he stopped men in the street. rushed into stores, with @ breathless question, “Seen Dr. Luke? Dr. Luke been here today?” Yes, the Doc was home, one passer- by volunteered, but the flying Luigi was gone before there was any answer to the startled citizen's “Why?” The doctor's modest little house looked peaceful enough as Luigi, gasping for breath by now, panted through the wire gate and up the front walk. Beside the door was a simple gilded sign, “Dr. John Luke.” On the porch lay Tobey, the doctor’s dog. Luigi burst in the front door without knocking. He blundered his way down a nar- row hall to what he knew—and everyone in Moosetown knew—was the doctor's consultation room. And then, despite his fear and exhaus- tion, he stopped short at sight of a strange tableau. x * * Seated in a straight-backed chair, hand clutched to his jaw, sat Jim Ogden, the constable of Moosetown. Before him stool Dr. Luke, a short, solid man with twinkling eyes be- hind heavy-lensed spectacles, and gray hair standing shocked in pompadour. He was contemplating a pair of forceps, in the jaws of which was a newly-extracted tooth. “Biggest one this season, Jim!” Dr. Luke was saying as Luigi burst into the room. “Doc, Mike Scanlan’s got both legs smashed down at the mill! Can you come right down?” ’ “Sure,” replied Dr. Luke, laying down forceps and tooth. “Rinse your mouth out with this, Jim,” he said, Answer, instructions, and question blended in an even flow without em- finding their way to the doctor’s per- son. “They got him down in the bunk- edy" Wash it out!” The commands, issued in clipped tones to Luigi and Jim Ogden, re- spectively, came with equal force. And the doctor, black bag trailing behind him, popped out the door. that measure but take it for granted that he voted “aye” along with the other farmers. This Nonpartisan stuff is a wonderful thing for we poor farmers if we could only get on the inside, but it is sure getting tiresome being chore boys for the politicians crowds throughout last week, the an-| for almost 20 years and not a pay day De ean —: nual Elks circus Monday was prepar-| yet. It would look very good to us now if we had that money that was wrong- fully given to the bondholders, to match the federal funds arid get a few county roads fixed up a little. At the time this money was diverted there was much ado about keeping the state’s credit good. Now, to a man up a tree, it looks like the state would be much better off if we never had any credit. When those bonds were issued or sold there was very definite machinery created providing for the payments of interest and sinking fund, and usually the bond buyers examine this ma- chinery very carefully before investing in the bonds. Now when that machinery broke down through the inability of the farmers to pay their taxes and inter- est, the bondholders should have taken their loss or postponement of pay- ments just the same as the others. But the bondholders, being aided and abetted by influential forced the measure through a farm- ers’ legislature. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR. There are 650 firms in London more than 100 years old. The Country A Novelization of the Twentieth Century-Fox Film, Starring the Dionne Quintuplets With Jean Hersholt, ticians were sending out a smoke| ‘rit politicians, | ® Your Personal ‘Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer Gisenes or diagnosis. Write Brady tn ci f The Tribun stamped, « ed env ns pertaining to health but briefly and in ink, Adérese All queries must be accompanied by & pe. s THIS DECADE IN HERNIA TREATMENT In an article entitled “The Rupture Cure Game” I said in an article ten years ago: No adolescent or adult should consent to worry through life with a hernia if there is no absolute bar to operation. Just how late in life the radical operation should be resorted to is a question hard answer, though generally the operation is advisable at any age up to fifty. The operation is not a sure cure. Much depends on the healing process. If this is normal, with no infection or other complication, the cure is assured. Ordinarily a patient is kept at rest about three weeks for the hernia operation. . « « . Any truss, supporter, salve, plaster or treatment other than surgery which purports to cure rupture is a plain fraud. That was my candid view of the matter when the article was published, ,. Sunday, August 8, 1926. The radical operation was conservative treatment’ then, Today I believe the hernia patient of any age, even well past fifty, is best treated by injection, PROVIDED a reputable, skilled physician gives the treatments. The reactionary interests in medicine oppose and condemn every dée- parture from traditional practices and methods. This is fortunate for the laity, for the weight of such criticism is generally sufficient to crush and dispose of any new treatment or idea if it is not really effective. Recall the miracle fads of yesterday—turtle serum, Metchnikoff’s Bulgarian culture, the western railroad surgeon’s cancer cure, Voronoff’s rejuvenation, Abram’s electronic hocus-pocus, acidosis. all as passe as petticoats now. If the new idea is sound it will withstand all criticism. This is the his- tory of medicine. The diathermy method of extirpating tonsils has taken its place in the practice of every well equipped physician or throat specialist, though it was somewhat hastily and intemperately branded useless and dangerous by the old timers. Likewise ambulant treatment of everyday rectal troubles such as piles has become the method of choice and the radical surgical procedures have been relegated to @ secondary place in the past few years. The venom in the criticism the old guard uttered about these modern methods was in establishing the new method, but that, too, is fortunate for the laity. hernia, called ambulant treatment because occupation while under treatment, loses no to the conditions of the individual tment is perfectly safe, in the hands of a reputa- ble physician who is skilled in the technic, and it is no more troublesome than an equal number of treatments by a good dentist in the attempt to save @ tooth. It offers practically as good a chance of permanent cure as does radical surgery. AND ANSWERS Ms rinking Water What do you think of distilled water as a regular drinking water? ... (E. T. W.) Answer—I should take it only if natural drinking water were not ob- tainable. Generally tap water is the best — ee ee ae babes) infection. Minimum of discomfort and extirpation and this modern method gives every ad- vantage that surgical tonsilectomy can give. Heartburn I have persistent heartburn, especially after breakfast. three or four hours after other meals.... (P. 8.) lope your address for booklet “Guide to Right Eating.” For temporary relief ten grains of prepared chalk (calcium carbonate) may be taken whenever the heartburn (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) I have it $$ nnn @ you'll find — too conservative. — Dr. So They Say | Harry Woodburn Chase, chancellor, ee |New York University. Lee ee me Darenerame *_*# & compelled to apologite to any - licans—I Simeon This talk of Louis not wanting to ee: D. Foss, | sight me for the title doesn't get to * *# % first base with me... he's lucky if I Col students in this country are |fight him at all. — Heavyweight ¢ stguttee conservative a group as|Champion James J. Braddock. octor Dorothy Peterson, June Lang, Michael Whalen and Slim Summerville “Look here, Mike! ‘You trust me, don’t you?” Dr. Luke’s voice was a strange mixture of severity and after. “I got him in the mess hall, Doc,” volunteered one-legged Wal- ter, the camp handy-man. “Laid him out on @ table—give you more room. ...” The doctor brushed past him into the mess hall. On a table, the lower half of his body covered by a blanket, lay Mike Scanlan, » grime and sweat mingling on his contorted face. “What’ve you been doing to your- self, son?” queried the doctor, his practiced fingers already at work on the crushed legs. “Trying to get banged up so you'll have to stay here with me all winter?” * * # Mike writhed, and between set teeth came his words, “Doc ...I was grab- bin’ the boat tomorrow . . . goin’ south for the winter...” “An't goin’ to be no south for you. Tomorrow's the last boat out!” be- gentleness. said. “I get along all right withdeep breath.” one, but I can’t figger out how ayether cone near the agonized face guy’s Leigh at along without nojof Scanlan. aim we the suff tall, oS a feakly ering man tried to pier! cut in Dr.|/push it away, mumbling, “I don’t