The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1936, Page 4

THE The Bismarck Tribune An independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Behind the Scenes Washington 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 Daily by mati 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 Dakota, per year Weekly by mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press {s exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tton ‘of the more als 8 credited to {t or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the loca) news of spontaneous origin published herein. ‘All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. New Tax Idea The reaction of business to President Roosevelt’s new tax program is not wholly indicated by the sharp rise in the stock market. That there will be other and less desirable repercus- sions goes without saying. At first glance it seems as though the proposal were merely to tax excess fat in the corporate system and that there could be no valid objection to the proposal. But there are some, just as there are arguments for it. Opponents of the plan will argue, and quite rightly, that surpluses are a necessity to business. In a very real sense the term means working capital, since there is no real way of dif- ferentiating between money lying idle in a corporation treasury and that which will be needed to meet next week’s payroll. By taxing such surpluses so heavily that corporations will be forced to pare their cash assets to the bone, there is created the risk of pushing many of them into bankruptcy in times of adversity. Until the last year or two many great organizations were enabled to keep going only because of their cash reserves held in the form of undistributed profits. Seen in this light the surplus is a cushion to economic shock, a bulwark against adversity, both for the corporation and the business world generally. It is the savings account of business, available for a rainy day. To attack it is to handicap business just as much as a levy on private savings accounts would hamper the individual. From that standpoint the tax is clearly not desirable, may lead to trouble in the end. The origin of the idea, however, is easy to understand. Some business enterprises have made great profits in recent years and, to avoid the payment of income taxes, have put a part of them into surplus. Stockholders have not been given the full amounts earned by their investments; something has been held back. To this extent the system has not been wholly desirable from an in- vestor’s standpoint. In some cases it has been overdone. There have been times, too, when this great weight of idle money has had disastrous consequences, In 1929 the financial balloon which took the country so high and dropped it so far was inflated not so much by the banks as by private loans from idle corporation funds. These loans, totalling millions of dollars, were made to stock speculators with the stocks as security because they were “liquid,” and the cor- porations could get their money out quickly. As a result of this condition the banking situation got out of control of the federal reserve board and the bankers gen- erally, One result of the bill, if it is enacted into law, will be to keep corporate surpluses down, distribute their earnings to stock- holders more rapidly when business is good. But when business is bad the shareholders will get nothing at all when they need it most and employment curves will de- scend more sharply. Proof Of The Pudding When Donald M. Johnson, advertising manager for the Federal Land bank at St. Paul, told his colleagues Tuesday that the best means of finding purchasers for farms was to insert want ads in the daily newspapers he was merely citing a truth which every good businessman already knows. The problem, in any sale, is to get the seller and purchaser together. If the prospective customer likes the goods and has the money he will buy. By advertising in the want ad column the land bank got one inquiry from every 16 cents spent, whereas an attempt to obtain purchasers by mailing direct to a: selected list cost from $2 to $7 per inquiry, depending upon the time and other conditions. The answer lies in the fact that the desires of people are so varied it is impossible to select your customers. An attempt to do so will merely result in overlooking someone who already feels need of the goods, 4 The want ads are circuated to and read by nearly everyone. They could not be expected to create in anyone’s mind the desire to buy a farm, but if the man next door wants to buy a farm, or a house or a second-hand refrigerator, the wants ads will tell him WHERE to buy one, In this respect the wants ads—and the same is true of other advertising—are the arteries of business. They assist in get- ting money, the blood of business, from one place to another with the greatest dispatch and the least possible bother to both buyer and seller. Congressman O'Connor asks, “Is the senate?” No, but he can find it locate a cop in a hurry. there some invisible force working in by asking anybody who has tried to ee oe if, after that Nazi ban on the film, “Modern Times,” Hitler ever should howd soother job, he needn’t think he can crash Hollywood as a Chaplin eek was banned by Hays censorship office. Still, public would be interested in the career of an “She Married a Million” it’s @ moot point whether the actress. -* # if Big Bill Thompson, making a political comeback, wants to get back in shape for socking kings, he might start out in a small way with erines: ** & California preacher named deputy marriage license clerk. Just to save that extra lost motion, he might a0 aban permission to grant divorces. i A brotherhood that signs oaths in blood is believed responsible for the @apanese revolt, but it seems a rather extreme method of getting ink. ee & A correspondent points out that assassinating politicians is not an ‘American custom. We can vent od spleen simply by kicking the radio, *_* Buyers arrive from Portugal with orders for machinery to use in making tabinets. We could understand it if they were from France, oe & ‘The next time a panhandler pours out his sad tale, he might be advised to go stand on the other side of the Rapahannock. i By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, March 6.—The new' farm program in its first year will be @ crude makeshift insofar as its ad- ministration and operation are con- cerned. It would be absurd to expect any- thing else. The administration will be politically silly if it pretends to do more than that. Transforming farm relief into a soil conservation plan is a gigantically complicated administrative job. Farm experts believe they could work out a good sound system within a year which would achieve their goals, They are doing the best they can in a few weeks and there is more con- fusion and difference of opinion than progress, The individual farmer, planning his crops for the year, wonders what he must do to qualify for the program and its payments. He won't know for weeks, perhaps months, whether, as- suming he has a 300-acre farm, he wili be expected to plant 50, 100, or 150 acres in soil-building or soil-conserv- ing crops or both. Cotton planting already has begun in part of the south. The corn belt begins planting oats late in March. Congress passed a law giving Secre- tary Wallace and Administrator Chester Davis enormous power and left them with a correspondingly en- ormous job of planning and adminis- tration. kk * What Must Be Determined Six million farmers theoretically are eligible to receive money for par- ticipation in the program. Fewer than 3,000,000 received AAA benefits. Now must be determined: 1, Standards of performance on each farm which will make the pro- ducer eligible for payments. 2. Amounts of grains for which each farmer will be eligible if he par- ticipates. 3. Mechanism for checking up on his compliance with the standards which he agrees to maintain for this year. Net effects of the standards are supposed to be prevention of soil ero- sion and the building up of soil by planting of crops which draw nitro- gen (plant food) from the air into the soil. “Cover crops” to be planted in- clude grass, beans, soya beans, clover, alfalfa, cow peas, field peas, and les- pedeza (bush clover). 4 BISMARCK The Country Doctor “But it ain't possible!” feebly some more bricks!” Dr. Luke HERE’S THE SUMMARY OF PRECEDING 10 CHAPTERS protested Wyatt. told Wyatt As Asa Wyatt fluttered uncertain- TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1986 A Novelization of the Twentieth Century-Fox Film, Starring the Di intuplets With Hersh Dorothy Peterson, June Lang: Michael Whaten ond ne gitialet lieve “You can’t have that many—all at one time!” Heat “Then get something else, and ‘Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. i er questions pertaining to health but not dtsenss or ienoale. Write jetters br! and in ink. Adarese, Dec Brady tn care of The Tribune, All queries must be accompanied by & stamped, self-addressed envelope. WHAT MAKES A SKINNY FRAIL? Many young women have reduced not only to normal weight for age and eight byt enough more to fit the slender caricature which fashion set up as the ideal figure a few years back. Some of the young women were saved by the change of mode. Others went to the tuberculosis sanatorium. feeding experiments (references to physicians who desire them) that @ marked deficiency of vitamins favors the development or of latent or smouldering tuberculosis foci in the body; control ani- the same feed, supplemented with vitamins, remained more or less to tuberculosis even when the bacilli were injected. Progressive | now believe that deficiency or absence of the essential vitamins’ to increase the destructive power of tubercle bacilli. When the young eagerly if not wisely went on freak regimens such as the “Hollywood” the “eighteen day” diet and the like, they were unknowingly @ vitamin-poor ration to a vitamin-free ration, and hence their latent, lighted into activity. ‘There are thin folk who are not only perfectly healthy but full of vigor and vitality. There are thin folk who are distinctly below par in every way. To the former class we say nothing. Anyway, they seldom need or want ad- vice about gaining, except when circumstances make a certain increase in poundage desirable to pass some test, and then it is the deuce of a job put- ting the additional poundage on ‘em, and it goes again as soon as the test thy beds on Aes ‘are just skinny, and they should and generally do make The latter class, people who are underweight and also low in vitality, atrength, pep, ambition, capacity to enjoy life, and as a rule not so easy to iding on their bones, includes, first, who are underweight purely from nutritional deficiency; and third, those who are physically weak by reason of pathological conditions, diseases or ex- cesses which sap vitality. If you are thin but healthy, you probably don’t want to do anything about it. There are advantages in being slender which balance the advant- ages of being well nourished. a If you are thin and frail you should do something about it. The first thing to do is consult a physician. You need a complete physical examina- tests as your physician may deem necessary to deter- treatment, change of habit or whatever remedy your condition calls for. Some underweight persons have poor appetite. Some eat more than their friends who are normal or stout. In any case the assimilation or utiliza- tion (metabolism) of food is improved by an optimal vitamin ration taken as ®@ supplement to the regular diet. This improved metabolism manifests it- self in the noticeable increase in vitality or sense of well being even before the scales register a definite gain in weight. The optimal vitamin ration must be taken a few weeks regularly before its effects can be expected. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Old Fashioned Molasses ’ DR. JOHN LUKE, country doc- tor in the little north woods set- tlement of Moosetown, goes to Montreal to appeal to company officials to give Moosetown a hos- pital. His nephew, TONY, who flew to Moosetown with antitoxin during a diphtheria epidemic, remains there, much interested in MARY MacKENZIE, daughter of the Administrative technique—reaching the long arm of the national plan down to individual farms—will be similar to AAA's. Theoretically at least, local committees will have to visit each farm and appraise its desir- abilities from the standpoint of con- servation and sound farming methods in relation to general standards handed down to them and to the rate of payments-per acre-per commodity as decided in Washington. *e ® Face Monumental Task The local groups, to be charged with laying down uniform and equit- able standards, will have a terrific job. A farm-by-farm appraisal might take until mid-summer and probably is impracticable now. The farm ad- ministration may lay down temporary Production formulae based on aver- ages for individual counties. After the farmer is told what he must do to qualify, he will have to decide for himself whether the stand- ards are more profitable than his own differing judgment, if any. The completely voluntary nature of the program and the fact that it ex- tends to all crops—instead of a few basic commodities, as under AAA— seems to leave a huge element of guesswork in plans here. The in- numerable types of farming te be found in individual areas and states add to the problem. -* # How Program Might Work Here's a typical example, highly theoretical, of the way the program might work out for an individual farmer, Assume he has 100 acres— 70 in cotton, 10 in sorghum, 10 in corn, and 10 in soil-improving or soil-con- serving crops. The committee might decide he should have 30, 40, or 50 acres in soil crops—depending on factors of na- tional standards, soil conditions, and good farm management. ° If the soil-crop acreage were to be 50, he might be told to keep five in corn and five in sorghums for his own needs and remove 30 acres from the 70 in cotton production to make up the total. He would be paid so much per cotton acre retired, so much per retired sorghum acre, so much per retired corn acre and perhaps a small sum per acre for reseeding of land al- ready in soil crops. Presumably he would be told what he might sell and might not sell, as some soil crops must be plowed un- der if the soil is to be improved. ee * How Payment Is Based Another possibility is that of a farmer with 100 acres—60 in good farm land, 20 in second growth tim- ber, 20 in marginal hills, gullied, and eroded land. The local group would have to decide whether his pasture land were being used in a soil-deple- ing way or not and the extent to which his good land was being worn out. If he were found to be operating on 100 per cent conservation and farm management, he might or might not be rewarded in cash—that’s to be de- cided, The soil conservation act now says payments are to be made on annual basis of: 1, Total acreage of crop land. 2. Acreage of soil crops. 3. Changes in use of land, such as letting land lie fallow or planting new types of crop. 4, Percentage of farmer's crop which corresponds to percentage of national crop in the same commod- ity which is consumed domestically. * *# * Erosion Perils Huge Area Wallace and Davis start with the National Resources Board’s survey, which says 25,000,000 to 35,000,000 acres have been ruined for farm pur- Poses by erosion, about 100,000,000 acres are moving rapidly in that di- rection, more than 100,000,000 are be- ginning to erode badly, and most of the remaining 300,000,000 tend to de- cline in productivity. Obviously impossible is the task in |the first year of moving to save the lumber company manager. The two admit their love for each oth- er but MacKENZIE, determined to end the romance, forces Tony into a fight, later obliges him to leave Moosetown. In Montreal Dr. Luke's appeal is refused. He returns to Moose- town, learns young DR. WILSON has been sent to replace him. It is discovered that Dr. Luke has never received a license to prac- tice and he is threatened with ar- rest. There seems nothing to do but leave. Dr. Luke goes to the boat, about to depart, when ASA WY- ATT appears, begging the doctor to come to his home. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XI Dr. Luke strode off briskly with Asa Wyatt, leaving the others staring af- ter him. Nurse Kennedy made one last effort. “But Doctor, the boat—” “The boat can go to—Montreall!” he returned. Then Constable Ogden made his bid. “You can’t do it, Doc! It’s—it’s ITIMATE—when you haven't got a license!” The doctor turned short. “It is, eh?” he shot back. “Well, don’t forget this! You've got seven children yourself— and I didn’t have @ license for THEM either!” Jim Odgen gulped. Nurse Kennedy, with a resigned shrug, started to fol- low the doctor and Wyatt. The three started in the doctor's car on the Iong, rough road that led to the Wyatts’ unpainted and isolated house. No man was ever more distraught and perplexed than Jim Ogden. He turned to Authority, in the only form in which he knew it—that is, he drove to MacKenzie’s house. There in the MacKenzie living room with ‘Mary listening intently, Ogden laid bare his predicament. “Don’t you my friend?” he 4 ', pleaded. “Why, brung all my children into the world.” With a gesture toward ‘and your own girl, too, don’t forget!” MacKenzie listened coldly, and without a flicker of expression as Mary added her plea: “Daddy, you CAN’T let him arrest the doctor!” “Is Dr. Luke above the law?” asked MacKenzie, ignoring Mary. “No, I reckon not, but—” “Are you?” “No-0-0.” “Then what more is there to say? As constable, you will proceed to do your duty.” Jim Ogden looked help- lessly at MacKenzie for a moment, and then shuffled silently out of the xk * the eldest Wyatt boy. “Ma's gone to bed,” he announced. The party filed silently into the Wy- att house, which was little more than @ single room with rough board floor. An alcove was closed off by none too clean. Dr. Luke went imme: giaey ie this alcove. As Ken: Ys business, began for eventualities. aaa “All right, Father Goose,” she snapped at Asa. “Let's get busy. Get that fire built up. And get those kids the 1936-37 fiscal year. The administration ht $2.50 an acre to take ae S00 300. A current semi-official guess is that money will be paid out on 38 or 390 million acres affected by the program this year. ‘ (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) ly, fetching an armful of wood, shoo-| quick,” snapped the nurse’s voice. ing children out from under foot, Dr.| “We can’t send ’em back, you know!” Luke emerged abruptly from the cur- x % & tained alcove. He nodded briefly to} Again the curtains parted, Nurse Kennedy and began to roll up|again Dr. Luke came catapulting his sleeves to wash his hands at ajthrough the swinging curtains. washstand in the corner. “Gosh!” he muttered, “triplets!” “All right, Asa, get ’em out,” said | Looking neither to right nor left, he Nurse Kennedy crisply. deftly deposited the third baby in the Asa obediently began herding his| basket. i six youngsters together. He had got-| ‘Heat more bricks,” he told Wyatt ten the flock as far as the gate, on|crisply. “Got any more cotton?” the way to the Jessups’, just over the| “Nurse got it all,” quavered Wyatt. tise on the same road, when another] “Any sheep's wool, clean?” car drove up to his front gate and| “Yes, I think—on the porch!” Constable Ogden piled out. “Get it. Warm it on the bricks “Y’ ain’t after me, are yuh, Jim?” |and wrap it around ‘em. Be awful asked Asa apprehensively. “I ain’t | careful.” done nothin’.” “No?” queried the morose Ogden, | the like of which neither of the two with a meaning glance toward the | waiting men had ever seen. Immedi- lighted window. “Well, I hear dif-|ately he ducked back into the bed- ferent.” And he strode on toward|room. Asa could be heard stumping the house, leaving Asa agape. about on the wooden porch in the * * * darkness. Constable Ogden walked into the Wyatt house and into the very midst of hurried preparations for the ex- pected event. With some vague idea of protecting his friend, he began a Protest. “Listen, Doc—” he said plaintively. “Got no time to argue with you now,” snapped the doctor. “I’ve got @ very sick woman in there. Be more to the point if you’d grab an armful of wood out there and bring it in.” “But, Doc,” protested the constable weakly. “Don’t you realize that if you go on with this it'll be a crime? I'll have to arrest you!” “All right, Jim,” said the doctor, shortly. “Got to give me time to com- mit the crime first, though, don’t you?” And the doctor disappeared once more behind the curtains of the alcove. Asa Wyatt came back in with an armful of wood, stokec the stove, and sat down heavily. He and the con- stable looked at one another across the wooden table. Both were acutely miserable. Asa, despite his extensive experience in fatherhood, was more apprehensive than most. And Jim felt guiltily that he was somehow and very new baby. “Warm a blanket, quick!” snapped Nurse Kennedy, poking her head sud- denly through the curtains. Wyatt moved to obey, and as the constable waited in uncertainty, Dr. Luke step- ped briskly through the curtains with an infant bundled in his hands. “Another daughter, Asa,” he said to ‘Wyatt, who was arranging the warm- ed blanket in a market basket beside the stove, “and just about the tiniest I believe I've ever seen.” The constable bethought himself of the jug, and poured another liberal drink. Hearing Nurse Kennedy's voice again, he poured down the fiery drink hastily, as one caught in some discreditable act. “Asa outside?” the nurse was saying, as she peered through the curtains. “Then shuck loft that coat, Jim, and quick! Warm it on the stove!” Like a jack-in-the- box, her head again be- hind the curtains. But in a moment or two the doctor was out again. “The coat, Jim,” quick,” he said, grabbing it from where Jim was holding it dumbly against the stove. “And get out of the way!” feverishly implored the doctor, bedding a fourth tiny infant in the basket with the others. Hastily wiping sweat from his forehead, the doctor dashed back into the bedroom. Wyatt returned then with an arm- ful of wool, which he began warming at the stove. Jim was reaching to pour another drink when Asa’s eyes strayed to the basket, where four tiny creatures lay on the warm blankets and Jim’s coat, mewing and crying faintly. “Look—” he stammered incoher. ently. “Four. Where'd he get—Look. Four!” “Yeah! I know!” sympathized the constable, tilting the jug for another drink. “I stopped countin’ ‘em— STORIES IN STAMPS Kindly tell me where I can purchase unsulphured molasses. ... (Mrs. R. M) Answer—Good grocers everywhere supply old fashioned molasses. and | stamped envelope bearing your address and I will tell where one good ™ a may be obtained. Molasses without the sulphur dioxide which is in the; § ern produce, makes a palatable and excellent table syrup and should be free. . < | ly used, especially for children. 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Dille Co.) afraid maybe I'd go completely batty.” “But it ain't possible!” feebly pro- tested Wyatt. “You can’t have four —all at one time!” “Mebbe you can’t,” said Constable Jim, with just @ note of hysteria in his voice. “But I been here all the time, and there ain't been any brought in from outside. Lordy. I always used to believe all I see, but after this...” From the bedroom came & gasp, an awed “Gosh!” that evidently was the in the charge of dictators, and there is more loot in London than in Addis Ababa.—George Lambert, former Civ- il Lord of seg eee Admiralty. * I think that to require a unani- mous vote by the supreme court country.—U, S. Senator William Mc- » Adoo. * *# # If international trade is to hold a “How’s—how'’s Mama? asked Wyatt tremulously. “Mama's fine,” reassured Dr. Luke, giving Asa a pat on the back as he dived back into the curtained room. ‘Wyatt and the constable hovered over the market basket, inspecting the mite of barely-breathing human- ity that lay on the blanket in its mae logical sertes, fying along the rainbow, of which she is goddess. Iris, in Greek. signifies rainbow. People of ancient times regarded the rainbow as a messenger of peace. and so Iris became the mes- senger of the gods. especially Hera and Zeus. in Greek lore. She it was who cut the thread of life which held back the souls of dy- ing persons: and she. according to tradition, conducted the female shades to Hades. while Hermes led in those of the men. ‘The great Greek poet. Homer. represents Iris as a virgin goddess. daughter of. Thaumas, the Won- derer. 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