The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1936, Page 6

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D, and Silbarvd se Gob pritattioe at Biemerce nrprenya mail] matter, George D. Mann ¥ President and Publisher e Archie O, Johnson Kenneth W. Simons “ @leeretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance state, per year ...... outside of North Dakota, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the dispatches credited to {t or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. al tights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Good Rules for Citizenship One of the easiest things for a federal judge to do is to ignore the conditions around him and keep his mouth shut, It is true that federal judgeships are plums of political pref- erment,.but the moment a judge ascends the bench he is free from the possibility of pressure since he holds office for life pending good behavior, is not required to go before the elector- ate at regular intervals. Because of this fact the speech which Federal Judge Gun- nnar Nordbye made Tuesday at the good government luncheon of the Kiwanis club in Minneapolis is all the more striking. We find this distinguished jurist getting down from the bench to speak his mind on conditions around him. His words are worth listening to. 3 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1936 sonal Appearances of John L, Lewis. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Feb. 26.—In the new farm bill, the administration had to choose between the farmer and the consumer and its decision was purely Political. Farmers are well organized and consumers are not. Hence, although both the White House and Secretary Wallace really are sympathetic to- ward the latter group and abhor the principle of scarcity production as well as its eventual political dangers, they just don’t dare urge the Wagner amendment which would have in- sured city families against food- shortages under the new crop con- trol-soil conservation m. It’s a mistake to blame the admin- istration for anything more than failure to insist on the rights of one group as well as those of the other. The strange popular delusion that Secretary Wallace and Undersecre- tary Tugwell, rather than the farm) leaders themselves, were the master minds behind the AAA program shouldn't be allowed to persist, now that there’s a new am, Every insider here knows that the most important fellow in the secret councils on new farm legislation is always President Ed O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation. AAA Administrator Chester Davis is more powerful in the farm adminis- tration than Wallace (Tugwell is al- Reiterating the old doctrine that the citizen must do his own work and clean up his own messes, Judge Nordbye com- mented on the situation in Minneapolis in the following words: “We can never expect a healthy condition in our communities as Jong as those who are sworn to uphcld the law permit mobs to violate Jaws with impunity.” Referring to the Liggett murder case, his comment was: “My confidence is unshaken as to the ability of our people to curb sporadic outbursts of violence and mob rule. At least we do have the ballot box and it may be our citizens will be awakened now as never before. Surely we feel the urge to rectify conditions that permit men to be shot down on our streets, the guilty to go undetected and, if de- tected, to escape retribution of the law... . “We even have the dominant party in our state proclaim that capitalism has failed, that production for use must be substituted for production for profit and that all America has builded these 150 years is for naught; that Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison and other skilled Americans who were geniuses of the art of govern- ment prepared the foundations for a democracy that must give way to a new structure to be constructed by the Sinclairs, the Olsons, the ‘Huey Long followers, the Coughlins, the Townsends and others, many of whom could not make a success in conducting their own business. “We haven't reached the acme of perfection in our experiments in democracy, but we do prefer to retain our nation under the Con- stitution, which affords ample ways to accomplish such changes in an American way and not by some Fascist experiment or Communistic vagary. “Capital can’t ignore the right of labor to a decent wage, but la- bor, on the other hand, has responsibilities too. The laws of our land cannot be violated with impunity. Mob rule cannot be substituted for rule of the Constitution because of a real or assumed grievance.” Taken by and large, that is a pretty fair presentation of the rules for good citizenship. The American system has not failed. It has been abused here and there and occasionally distorted, but the people carry in their minds and hearts a realization of what it was intended to be and what it ought to be and they can bring that condition into being if they will only think and act in accord with the dictates of their own inner being and in the light of our na- tional experience. Tax Revision in Sight Optimistic estimates on the amount of sales tax revenue bhould point the way to a major revision of North Dakota’s tax aystem at the next session of the legislature. Without knowledge of what a sales tax would yield and faced with the necessity of financing our school system, the last legislature grew a little panicky in its effort to make sure of enough revenue, The result is that our schools are better sup- ported now than has been the case for many years, In addition to the sales tax revenue, there was transferred b from the surplus in the hail insurance fund a million dollars and |‘ the income taxes were upped until the claim now is made that they are the highest in the United States. Meantime, real estate taxes have been continued at about the former level. The fact that the sales tax was levied for only a two-year period will bring the issue up again next year but that it bids fair to become a permanent part of the state’s taxing policy is unquestioned. With better times clearly in view, it would seem the part of good government to review the entire fiscal situation and put the state’s finances on a normal basis as compared with the emergency measures now in effect. Clearly it will,be possible to reduce real estate taxes without hampering the functions of government. This should be done. If it is possible to work out provision for a tax exemption on homesteads this also should be done. The state’s income should be reallocated, for the tendency at the last session was to put all of the revenue eggs in a few baskets. The real taxation question is the same now as it has always been. That is to keep the government from taking too much of the people’s income and to spend what it does take in such a manner as to give the greatest good to the greatest number, A Shock to Bismarck Few things have so shocked the residents of Bismarck as the sudden death of Dr. R. S. Towne. He was such a vigorous, sturdy, and well-knit figure that the thought of him being felled is hard for those who knew him to comprehend. He was not the kind of man to whom accidents happen. Those who feel that owe special providence protects them might well bear that in mi ; In his passing many Bismarck residents lose a warm friend and the community loses a man of the type which it can Ml sfford to spare. Conscientious and warm-hearted, but withal & clear thinker, Dr. Towne was more noted for his willingness to do than for any tendency to suggest what someone else might do. i Ifan end was to be achieved it was his habit to see where he could be useful, then pitch in and do his share of the work in ‘@ creditable manner. His was never the slogan of “let George do it.” For that reason, if for no other, he was an unusual man. most completely out of the picture), and that is because Davis closely with O’Neal and has O'Neal's support. * se 4% Play for Farm Favor When administration leaders ob- tained consent of O'Neal and other farm organization leaders to the soil program as a means of farm aid, they decided not to ask for anything else, fearing an agrarian revolt in favor of the export debenture or some other plan. Some of the so-called farm leaders are linked with middlemen and other special interests to which they have brought farmer support. But this is a campaign year and poli- dare not ant them. Hence, when O'Neal strode from Roosevelt's office, demanded imme- diate senate action on the bill, and expressed opposition to consumer- protection amendments, Wagner's amendment seemed a gone goose. It was defeated, 51 to 25. ‘Wagner promptly turned against the bill. His proposal would have prohibited the secretary from “dis- couraging” the bringing of farm output below 1920-29 consumption levels. It was pointed. out on ithe floor, and not challenged, that even in 1929 50 per cent of Americans were living on less than the “Hare necessities of life.” # Attempt will be made in the House to insert a similar amend- ment. But similar factors will oper- ate and the amount of the national food supply probably will be left to administrative discretion in a new act which will cover all types of food in- stead of but a peli under AAA. * Clamor for Lewis ‘The militant position taken by John L. Lewis at the United Mine Workers’ convention has brought a flood of re- quests for his personal appearance be- fore groups of workers over the coun- Organizers of industrial unions, be- set by attempted inroads of crafts unions seeking their members, are especially eager for him. The United Rubber Workers claim to have added 4,000 members since Lewis addressed y é pFe fe z & E 5 Q a8 aise Hu] a ag i gg°te $2, be put into the ind now. Much will preme court's deci coal act, which which is a bulwark { ie § aioe E 98 Bae ES a K 2 Hi bers for November and December, sessments usually cause dissension and probably never before had a labor leader had the nerve to levy one in the two months before s union’s an- nual convention. The fact that there wasn’t a yip about it demonstrated the firmness of the Lewis grip on the miners’ union. The impression grows here that Lewis won't walk out of the A. F. of L. and that the A. F. of L. can't and won't oust the miners. Service, Inc.) F (Copyright, 1936, NEA BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN “Won't you just say you'll be mine?” he pleaded. “Here I am groveling in the dust at your feet.” “I don’t want a husband who is so | particuler,” she re- Plied coldly. “I'll have you know I swept and dusted this room myself only this morning.” Brown—Sometimes she uses strong- er language than that about them. Mabel—Do you think it is right to kiss a boy friend 1b? Marie—It is if there isn’t any other way to get rid of him. Nick—My car has @ 100 mulepower motor in it. George—You mean 100 horsepower, don’t you? Nick. The Fascist Sugirrel Cage The — Country Doctor A Novelization of the Twentieth BEGIN HERE TODAY DR. JOHN LUKE, country doc- ASA WYATT, father of seven, comes with an urgent call for Dr. Luke. ‘NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER III Tt was a boy at the Asa Wyatts’. The editor of the North Bay Weekly Tribune was less than astonished at news of the birth of another Wyatt heir when Ass called to have a notice inserted in the paper. It was the seventh autumn in a row that Wyatt had made just such a call. Then winter closed in on Moose- town, and there set in the quiet, uneventful routine of the frozen days following one another. But there was always plenty for the country doctor to do. He called regularly at Mike Scanian’s board- ing house, where Mike fretted as the Century-Fox Film, Starring the Dionne Quintuplets With Jea® Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson, June Lang; Michacl Whalen end ‘Slim Suirinerville : oe “When did you come in here?” the doctor asked, iron in his voice. “Just this morning,” Mary admitted. “I wanted to do what I could.” gested that the little, bare, church of Moosetown be converted temporarily into an isolation hospital. There, where bright chromos of the saints looked down from above the tin lamps that marked the Sta- tions of the Cross along the sides of the barren room, the children tossed and fretted under the visita- tion they could not understand. | Some of the wooden pews had been shoved together to make beds. Wooden cots, as many as could be hastily gathered, stood in rows. Sev- eral mattresses lay on the bare floor. | the It had not even been possible to get enough beds. The whole church from chancel rail to door was piti- fully crowded with the impromptu beds. As cases began to appear in the .| town itself, Constable Jim Ogden’s little daughter, Laura, was one of the first to show signs of the dis- ease. Leaving hurried instructions | a8 to the care of the other children, with it before the doctor’s pre- tions could have effect, but then he learned with horror that the La Croix children had attended a church supper to.which half the children of the community had come. The par- ents had thought it was just croup, and neglected to call the doctor until it was too late. Three of the La Croix children died, and the other two barely pulled through. But now from many isolated cabins, and from the fringes of Moosetown itself came red-faced, frantic men In his own sleigh if roads permit- ted, or on the dog-sledges of the farmers or Dr. Luke went wearily for 18, 20 hours a day to) the cabins. Always he found there the same terrible story. A young child, or sev- eral of them, gasping on a tousled bed, lips blue, the little body shak- en by agonizing coughs. The simple parents of the backwoods stood dumbly waiting for the doctor to come, helpless in the face of what they did not understand. Often the doctor would find a child in the last stages of diphtheria in the same bed mia 3 not-yet affected brothers and His supply of antitoxin used un- paringly, grew smaller. Without the help of Father Bonel, Dr. Luke could —No. I don't. It slways balks} never have stood the strain. It was just when I’m in the biggest hurry. Father Bonel, parish priest, who sug- Pr, Luke himself took Laura to the hospital. Outside the door of the church in the snow stood @ knot of anxious women whose children lay within. All too often, Nurse Kennedy would have to come out and whisper to one of them tidings of which some in- stinct had forewarned her. Entering the hospital with little Ta the other little girls there...” ee Tt was Mary MacKenzie. As he knelt to administer treatment to the fering youngster, Dr. Luke asked, in matter-of-fact tone but with iron in his voice: “When did you come in here?” Mary was a little overawed by the stern voice, “Just this‘morning,” she admitted. “Nurse—nurse said she needed a@ little help. I thought I would do what I could.” “Did you ask your father?” pur- sued the doctor relentlessly, never looking at her as he adjusted the needle, “Yes,” breathed Mary, a little de- fiantly. The doctor rose abruptly, and made a sign to Father Bonel, who & understood only too well. He set down the armload of stovewood he was carrying, and began to don his vestments. Mary, seeing the movement, knew what it meant. She began to cry softly. Dr. Luke made his way doggedly among the improvised beds, stopping to stroke a brow here, pat a hand, or give a word of reassurance. Sudden- ly, at sight of a familiar figure beck- oning from the church vestibule, he quickened his pace and stepped into vestibule, closing the door after him. It was Jerry, the Moosetown telegraph operator. “Well, Jerry?” he asked anxiously. “The wires ain’t just broke, Doc. they’re down, both the telephone lines and the telegraph! I don't know how far, probably miles! The blizzard’s been gettin worse!” “When .. .?” There was no need for further question. Worry clouded the doctor's face, “I ain't goin’ to lie to you, Doc. I don’t know when. Mebbe days, mebbe weeks. You kin guess as well as I kin. I can’t even phone North Bay!” ‘The doctor, his face drawn, was thinking aloud. “Even if we got word out, nobody could get in here for _a week, anyway, I guess.” FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: A museum's the place to bone up on strange subjects, Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer to health but dtscnss or dlagnoais. Write letters briefly and i ink, Address Be Brady in care of The Tribune. All queries must be ed, self-addressed envelope. uestions pertain! ts at all kinda like the feeling. But if you only ed little I the ills called rheumatism I’m sure you'd wonder I get away Well, I'll tell you how to do it. I just dip into medical tomes, ancient modern, here and there, and give the high spots in current medical literature a few moments of my precious time. Then, too, I conduct considerable ex- perimental research on volunteer subjects on file and institute the research work in the order in which applicants buttonhole me. In thyroid extract. Believe it or not, the bed-ridden or chair-fast arthritis patient does not hop up and go into his dance immediately after the second or thrird injection, but after a few days of this treatment does experi- ence a sense of increased well being, and begins to notice increasing facility of movement in some of the stiff joints, greater flexibility of the muscles, less spasmodic contraction, less soreness and Such effects favor increased activity, no matter how slight, and increased activity is always beneficial for patients so tied down by mechanical impedi- ments; it is nature’s own way to improve general metabolism. Well and good. Now the doctor’s part in this treatment is by no means limited to dropping in to give the patient the daily “shot.” If that is the idea, it is scarcely worthwhile. The doctor should keep watch on the patients progress under treatment, and take advantage of every opportunity to encourage or even to command greater effort, greater activity by the patient himself, in Galy gains made under the influence of the parethyrold. "7 daily gains made under the juence treatment is coefficient with underwater treatment of chronic arthritis and with other physicial therapy which may be suitable or available in the particular case. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Infection Carriers Could such articles as hand embroidered table cloths and napkins carry germs of oriental diseases? If so, how can they be disinfected? (Miss ESS.) Answer—The chance is very remote. However, ordinary laundering would disinfect the linen in any circumstance. It is doubtful whether any disease is ever conveyed by inanimate objects such as clothing, books, letters, Contact Glasses Can you tell me anything about the effectiveness, established success and invisibility of contact glasses? ... (GS.) Answer—Not from personal observation. They are used with satisfaction by some actors. Perhaps some of our readers who have personal experience with them will give us their mee itus Please suggest something to relieve intolerable ‘teed of various parts . T. H. of the body which prevents sleep ... Answer—Send stamped envelope (Mrs. . L.) your address, and ask for bearing monograph on Pruritus (itching without apparent cause). (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) Brightening @ bit he turned to Jerry with, “All right. Thank you. If any- thing at all turns up, let me know right away.” “I know, Doc. I will!” Jerry, and braced himself to return into the flying snow. ‘The door had scarcely slammed behind him when a white-faced Nurse Kennedy, frayed by sleepless days and nights, appeared in the vestibule. “Wasn't that the tel legraph oper- ator?” she demanded. “What did he say?” se * Dr. Luke took a quick grip on him- self. “Looks better,” he lied bravely. “Ought to be able to get a message through in a day or two, maybe to- morrow.” “Oh, I hope so! I hope so!” cried the nurse. Her voice was a prayer. “You know we have less than half a box of serum left?” The doctor nod- ded very slowly. Suddenly the nurse’s iron control began to waver. Half a step toward the doctor she took, and then: “Why can’t they have a hospital up here?” she cried wildly. “Why won't they listen to you? All these terrible accidents to the lumber- jacks—I can stand that! But these children—I can’t stand it! I can’t stand their eyes! They keep looking at me, and their eyes say, ‘Can’t you help me? Can’t you do something?’ I can’t do anything! I can’t stop the pain! I can’t help them to breathe! ‘We have nothing to work with...” ‘The doctor's quick voice was angry and icy all at once. “Katherine!” He glared coldly at the nurse, Her struggle to regain control of herself was visible. “Go back to the children!” said Dr. Luke sharply. Nurse Kennedy turned obediently and went back into the church, her shoulders squaring as she advanced. Beside the bed that was now empty sat Mary MacKenzie, weeping softly. Nurse Kennedy approached, and looked down at her with some of the doctor’s own steely coldness. “Stop that bawling!” she snapped. “If you can’t control yourself, what good can you do these children?” ‘The ghost of a grim smile flickered over the doctor’s face as he observed this little tableau. Then, wrapping a muffler and the fur coat collar about his throat, he too stepped out into his waiting sleigh. It was a short trip, but a bitterly cold battle against the drifts to get to Mike Scanlan’s boarding-house. house and rushed to the room where Mike sat by a table, his legs still in casts. Mike was leaning forward sternly, earphones over his ears, to- ward a table where lay a jumble of radio parts and instruments. “Any luck, Mike?” snapped the doctor, not even stopping to remove fur coat and scarf as he entered the room. Mike shook his head. “If I only knew more about this thing,” he complained desperately. “I only got it all together this morning. I don't even know if it’s all here...” “You've GOT to get somebody, Mike!” breathed the doctor. “You've GOT to!” pecially Montreal—come in, An emergency! CQ, CQ, CQ,—calling any amateur...” Mike’s voice droned. Five minutes went by. Ten. Mike looked appealingly at Dr. Luke. . “Go on! Keep it up! You've got to get somebody!” Dr. Luke's voice was insistent. “Those children, up there at the church...” 1 So They Say j e- In my mind I have a hazy idea about the things I want to do.—Mrs, Huey P. Long, U. 8. senator, Louisi- ana. Tuis Curious Wortp Vee” | FLAP THEIR WINGS ONLY 9 TIMES A