The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1936, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 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 @ntered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mai] 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 .. Tia Daily by mail per year (in Bi k) . Daily by mail per year (in state outside Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year .. Weekly by mail outside of North Dako Weekly by mail in Canada, 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 news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Rewspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. The Cause of Crime America’s crime bill runs into the BILLIONS OF DOL- LARS each year. How much law violations cost us can only be guessed at but even the sleepiest citizen realizes that it is @ pretty penny. Yet little of a constructive nature has been done about it. Progress is slow and painful and the tide of crime is sweeping back the forces for good instead of the reverse being true. Poor Richard had a cure which applies to this as well as to many other ills, both public and private. Its essence is con- tained in that old homily that “a stitch in time saves nine.” We are not giving enough attention to the sources of crime and their elimination. That is why the crime bill mounts and the penitentiary gates open daily to take in new residents. Attorney General Homer W. Cummings, who has done much to put the federal government on the firing line against crime, lays the burden squarely at the feet of the private citi- zen when he says: “The roots of crime REACH OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY, whether it be city or hamlet, in which the criminal FIRST EM- BARKS ON HIS CAREER. It is here, therefore, that the initial opportunity lies for prevention. The betterment of schools, the elim- ination of slums, the improvement of working conditions and of HOMES—these and other social advances all help to remove crime- breeding environments and thus reduce the number of recruits for the crime army of tomorrow.” Force is lent to these observations by the tragedy which gaw three persons killed and three others, one a Bismarck girl, wounded in an attempted delivery from the South Dakota state prison. Who really was to blame for that affair? Should all the guilt be laid on the 18-year-old instigator who recited boast- fully that he had been “on the road” since he was 12 years old, making his way against an unfriendly and indifferent world? Or should it be laid on his parents, who permitted him to take to the road, or to the general social condition which takes no note of either indifferent parenthood or the hungry hopeless- ness of childhood until it is too late? Are such things due to children alone or can they be traced to a situation which makes a criminal career a logical development and for which all of us are, directly or indirectly, to blame. It may be a harsh thing to say, but parents who weep at Penitentiary gates are not always entitled to sympathy. Per- haps, if they had done their jobs better, their sons and daugh- ters would never have gotten into trouble. Neither is a smug and sanctimonius attitude justified when &@ young offender is brought into court. The fact that he is there is likely to be as severe an indictment against society as society can bring against him. Farm Competition Every farmer has appreciated the changes in the agricul- tural picture made by improved machinery but has generally assumed that the new technology ended its effect on him there. He has understood full well the extent to which new devices have replaced men in industry but has not imagined such a thing happening to him to a greater extent than is already yisible. As a matter of fact the process is making inroads on our farmers quite as persistently as on city folks. Such things as shifts in dietary habits, for example, in- @rease or reduce the demand for farm products and cause at- fendant changes in prices, New mechanical and chemical processes may make what Was a profitable crop last year an unprofitable one this year. Of special interest to the northwest in this respect is the extent to which such products as perilla, hempseed and china- wood oils are replacing flaxseed oil, reducing the demand for flaxseed and dealing a blow to the farmer. Time was when good paint could not be made without lin- Beed oil but those days have gone forever. Substitutes now Press the native product for supremacy. In many cases they re cheaper. The obvious remedy is one which flaxseed growers are at- tempting to apply, the imposition of a tariff on the competing products, Unless this is done acres previously devoted to flax will be sown to barley, wheat, rye and other crops with an attendant increase in competition and further unsettlement of the price structure. All of these things can happen as the result of a chemist’s discovery in his laboratory. They probably will happen unless forces are brought into play to stop them. Sleep Baby Sleep Advocating a general sales tax as a means of reducing the government debt, an Ohio man recently asserted that a reduc- tion in outstanding government bonds is necessary to a revival of business activity. His contention is that government bonds are a cradle in which tremendous sums of money go comfortably to sleep. Owners of the money do not have to seek private enterprises fo put it to work. There is something to this theory, The government debt mow is somewhere in the neighborhood of $30,000,000,000. pee what would happen if the government were to pay off it money and force the owners of those bonds to either spend §t or seek other investment. Under such pressure some strange things would happen to this country. Not all of them would be good—but neither would all of them be bad. *s* @ leader, who says most of our birds are monoga- up on some of those birds in Hollywood, . _ The Japanese Christian fous, perhaps ought to read | Behind S cenes the Washington Guess Who's Getting a Big Reputa- tion as Balancer of Budgets—Mr. Roosevelt ... Cardozo Enjoys Read- ing “Deductions” of Supreme Court’s Secret Parleys ... High Salaries to Cummings Turn New Dealers’ Ire on Jesse Jones. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, March 12.—Mr. Roose- velt—of all people, as some might say —is building himself a reputation as @ champion of budget balancing. Politically speaking, it is very good medicine for him to be found insist- ing on living up to his budget prom- ises for the fiscal year 1936-37 while congress balks and squirms at his de- mand for the necessary taxation. Presidents customarily have gained popular strength in their battles with congress and in the present case Roo- sevelt has a popular one—budget balancing—with which to work. Of course the budget isn’t going to be balanced right away. What the president insists is that the deficit be kept below that of 1935-36, now. esti- mated at $3,234,000,000. About $1,- 100,000,000 of anticipated unexpended balances may already be charged up against next year's deficit and to that must be added an amount—currently guessed at about $2,000,000,000—for relief. To avoid adding to those last two figures, Roosevelt demands that con- gress raise $120,000,000 annually for nine years to cover the cost of pre- payment of bonus, $500,000,000 for the new farm plan next year, and $500,- 000,000 to replace processing taxes eliminated from government receipts this year by the supreme court— which he thinks can be had mostly from processors and others who stood to save it under the court’s decision. Congressional leaders who were “shocked” and “surprised” to hear that Roosevelt wanted them to raise more than a billion dollars needn’t have been. And the Republicans and other budget-balancers now complain- ing that he won’t tell them how to raise the money are in a funny posi- tion, because they have so often com- plained of executive dictation to con- gress. **e * Cardozo Enjoys “Hunches” Supreme Court Justice Cardozo de- rives amusement from reading jour- nalistic deductions as to the court’s secret discussions and maneuverings. He was reminding a friend the other day how dopesters had report- ed that Chief Justice Hughes had delayed reading the majority opinion on the hot oil case until after lunch, marking time with transaction of minor business meafwhile, in order not to cause commotion in the stock market. Hughes simply has a great aver- sion, when in the middle of an opin- ion, to calling time out for lunch at the traditional hour of 2. So if he sees he can’t finish before lunch, he waits until afterward to start. see Peeved at Jesse Jones New Dealers who have zealously striven to discourage exorbitant cor- poration salaries are sorer than ever at Chairman Jesse Jones of RFC now that it’s revealed that he made Walter J. Cummings, treasurer of the Demo- cratic national committee, chairman of the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. and a trustee of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee é& St. Paul railroad at combined salaries of $90,000 a year. Cummings is a director of other companies. Independent bondholders of the St. Paul complained that he would be too busy handling intricate problems of a $750,000,000 bank to give the railroad adequate attention if appointed trustee. They also objected to another trus- tee recommended by Jones, Henry A. Scandrett, former St. Paul president and a director of Continental Trust. If you check the files of the Inter- state Commerce commission, which said it considered the objections, you will find one of the most curious phases of the incident in the report of Commissioners Meyer, Porter, and Mahaffie, which, after mentioning the contention that Cummings wouldn't have time for the job of “independent trustee” of St. Paul continued: “...and it is further suggested that his alleged friendliness with Scan- drett, through their banking associa- tion, will tend to prevent his investi- gating Scandrett’s management of the road. The latter consideration is, in our opinion, without merit. “As to the other, it is reasonable to assume that a man of Cummings’ standing and experience would not undertake the important office in question unless he were prepared to give it proper attention.” (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN “How did you ever come to propose to poor little me?” asked the widow Pepper, coyly. “I didn't come to Propose to you,” re- plied Mr. Meeks, dazedly. “I merely came over to spend the evening with you but I guess I must have got com- fused.” Sonny — Father, what is an opti mist? Dad—An optimist, my boy, is a per- so who doesn’t give a hang what hap- pens as long as it doesn’t happen to him, Cadger—Do you believe that old su- perstition that it is bad luck to lend money on Friday? Tyte — That depends largely on whether you want to borrow some. Neer—See that good looking woman over there? She's been divorced three times. 2 Farr—Had bad luck with her mar- riges, did she? Neer—Not at all. She was as poor ‘as a church mouse when she was sin- gle but she has oodles of money now. ‘Phe day had been very trying for both the would-be traveler and the ticket agent. “Can I get on the New York train before it starts?” she asked. “Yes, madam,” replied the official, wearily. “In fact, you will have to if you want to get on at all.” ‘The Wind Blows Wild and Free’ J With Other EDITORS Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. EVENTUALLY, WHY NOT NOW? (Valley City Times-Record) That North Dakota farmer whose friends have been trying to persuade him not to take his $25,000 out of the bank and run down to New Orleans with it in order to safisfy some gamblers he really has the money is getting a lot of publicity. There are several angles to the story which are interesting, if true. In the first place the fact that any North Dakota farmer has money in the bank in any such quantities ex- cites comment. Formerly many of them were credited with good fat bank balances, but the supposition for some years has been that the breed is extinct. Bank troubles and crop fail- ures and such are thought to have brought all of them to a condition of hand-to-mouth existence; but evi- dently here is one who has survived all the bad luck which his fellow farm- ers have suffered. And the question naturally arises, are there any others? And again the variation in the oft- repeated story of the countryman in the hands of the confidence gang is remarkable. Always before it has been the custom of the victim to draw out his money quickly and have it ready to flash on the aston- ished gaze of the slick gamblers. But in this case the money is still safe in the bank when the story breaks, thus spoiling the effect from the gangster’s viewpoint, and giving the victim a chance to save his wad. There would appear to be something phoney about the transaction, some slip not us- ually noted in such cases. Perhaps this particular farmer knows his way around better than some others have seemed to know it, and possibly he is making sport of the gamblers in the game of matching wits with them. If so, he is lucky to get out of it without loss. Almost always the cunning of the confidence man is entirely too much for the inexperienced fellow with o fat roll of money. As for the farmer or any other man with surplus money and an itch to try. out the devious ways of the con man there is little in the way of pro- tection. Eventually he will lose his money if he listens to the eloquence of the gamblers. No amount of ar- gument or watchfulness on the part of his friends is likely to save him, The common judgment is that if he 1s so unwise as to venture on such Schemes he should be allowed to learn by sad experience, and have done with it. Eventually he will lose, so why not now? NEW FARM RELIEF GOAL (St. Paul Dispatch) The farm legislation which now is in the final stages of enactment in- troduces a new definition of what con- stitutes a fair deal for agriculture, as well as new methods of farm relief. The general principle of the legisla- tion, of course, is the payment of subsidies to farmers for the retire- ment of land from the surplus crops and its planting or management for soil conserving, erosion preventing purposes. At first these subsidies are to be paid directly by the government; later it will be done through the states. In this way control over pro- duction is expected to be achieved without running up against the le- gal objections raised in the AAA de- cision. Omission of any effective safeguard against use of this land for large increase of dairy and beef pro- duction naturally has aroused the fears of those branches of the indus- try. Heretofore, justice for agriculture has been defined as a price level on! farm stuffs bearing the same relation; to the general price level as existed in the base period 1909 to 1914. This method of figuring “parity” was open to criticism on the score that it did not take into account changing vol- ume of production, sales, cost of pro- duction and the iumber of persons on farms. These objections were partly met by turning to a formula to measure the purchasing power of the agricultural net income. But this method also errs, because it does not take into ac- count improvement in the general standard of living. Thus it could be shown that the farmers per capita had a purchasing power in 1922-1929 equal to that of the pre-war years; but meanwhile the standard of living of the rest of the country had im- proved 25 per cent. The farmers were still living on a pre-war standard while others had moved far forward. Relatively to the rest of the country, agriculture had gone backwards. More perfect is the formula that give it a purchasing power or stand- ard of living that keeps pace with the improved standard of the average for the whole country. The Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomics calculates that the money in- come of agriculture available for farm-home living costs in 1935 was per person 94 per cent of what it was in the pre-war period. But in the meantime, farm-living costs have in- creased 24 per cent. Consequently last year agriculture had only 76 per cent of the purchasing power neces- sary to give farmers the standard of living they are entitled to have as a matter of equality with other groups of the population. If benefit pay- ments of the AAA, already paid or to be paid, are included, the percentage is raised to 83. It is consequently estimated that to bring the total net income to a level that would give the farmer a just standard of living would require an improvement of 32 per cent or about $1,670,000,000 to the gross income of agriculture of last year, or reduction in equal amount of production ex- Penditures like taxes and interest. This may be said to be the goal of farm relief and it does not seem un- attainable. Ae SS Writing songs is a great thrill, but great songs are not written on an empty stomach.—Rudy Vallee. ee * It doesn’t matter what you print. ‘The people love me, no matter what you say I say.—George Bernard Shaw. *# # So They Say | If you live every day the same way, don’t write a diary. Use an adding machine—Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian leader. ee ® If we won't give @ square deal to labor, we'll have Fascism and after that revolution—Zara du Pont, kins- woman of munitions manufacturers. * * ok When you think that for eons and eons your ancestors got along without a Giet, is it not strange that all of a sudden we seem to get the idea that WHERE TO GET SAY, GORGEOUS, MLL TELL YOU If you are this girl or if you know her Be sure to read the new serial, "GORGEOUS” _ Beginning Monday, March 16, in THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE has now been written into the farm bill. This proceeds on the theory that the net income of agriculture should ‘@lwe have to have certain foods, “or By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer diseass or diagnosis. Writ Brady tn care of The Tribu: stamped, sel lions pertaining to healt not * briefly and in ink. AGdrevs Dr. queries must be accompanied by a addressed env = SOME SIMPLE REMEDIES FOR ASTHMA In California and Western Medicine last year three physicians of a noted medical family published a paper they had presented before the State Medical association earlier in the summer. Can't name the doctors because it is unethical, in my judgment. You see, they have a racket. Thev don’t call it a racket. No, indeed. None of the big shots who work this he and figuratively thumb their noses at the quaint Code of Medical 1 Your Personal Health | Ethics (no longer a Code, by A.M.A. edict, but just a set of Principles), cares to acknowledge frankly that it is an advertising racket. But I say it is nothing else but. Free advertising without let or hindrance by the comical old Code of Medical Ethics or even an audible st-st-st from the plodding practitioners in the profession, is the only apparent reason for the private pay “clinic.” Bear in mind, the term “clinic” originally signified precisely what Webster says: “Instruction of @ class of medical students by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the (ouch, this is embarrassing, coming from the meticulous lexicologists) pupils.” Any- way they were students at first. Subject of the paper was asthma. Interesting observation the authors made was that there is a lowering of the level of sodium in blood and tis- sues, and an increase in the proportion of potassium in blood and tissues in asthma. They infer that this change of metabolism is due to deficiency of the adrenal gland secretion. They note that not only the feeding of adrenal gland (fresh raw gland from beef, or adrenal extract, or injections of adrenalin or similar preparations from the gland) brings marked relief to the asthmatic sufferer, but similar relief comes if the sufferer from asthma takes considerably more than the ition of salt in one form or another, everything as salty as ile. However, it is not certain that more sodium (salt will be assimilated or utilized in the body just 5 ‘The nameless authors advance the idea that the adrenal gland cortex sec- retes into the blood something which regulates sodium metabolism, as thyroid gland secretion regulates idoin metabolism and parathyroid gland secretion regulates calcium metabolism. On this basis, a heavy salt intake should enhance the effect of adrenalin or adrenal gland treatment in asthma. A heavy salt intake is desirable in any case, whether the patient receives adrenal treatment or not. Aside from fortifying the effect of adrenal gland medication a large intake of salt improves the feeling of well being, improves the bowel function, lessens the frequency of the asthmatic at- tacks. If preferred, the increased salt intake may be in the form of a solu- tion of a teaspoonful of salt in half a pint of water (glassful) one-half hour before meals, instead of salting ‘foods heavily, If the morning dose proves too laxative, it may be given after breakfast. I've never had asthma. I’ve ntver had a half pint of salt water. dunno which I'd druther. Which would you? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What Is Excess? You said arbitrarily that if a wife does not like her husband’s drink- ing, of course it is excess. Conversely, if the husband does not approve of his wife’s drinking, smoking, familiarity with other men and scant and immodest dress, is that not excess? (G. 8. G.) Answer—I should say it is. Breath Odor Please tell me the strength of the chloramine solution you recommend for thorough rinsing of mouth to correct foul breath ... (M. K.) Answer—For mouth wash, use a 1% solution, or say one chloramine tablet dissolved in a wineglassful of water, The same strength solution is used for cleansing wounds. Arteries I think you once mentioned a treatise on arteries which you have? If I am right I'd like to get a copy of it. Please tell me what it is and how to get it.... (W. W. O.) Answer—One booklet in the Ways of Health series, titled “Building Vitality” deals with arteriosclerosis and other questions that trouble folks who are on the toboggan. Another, “Regeneration Regimen” interests those who are perhaps prematurely old, a bit stale and in need of renova- tion or rejuvenation. A third “Design for Dwindling” is for poor geeks who have permitted themselves to accumulate superfluous slacker flesh. No. 17, “Chronic Nervous Imposition” strives to disabuse the dumb lay mind of the nerve nonsense. No. 6 little lesson is “Last Brady Symphony,” out- lining and _ illustrating exercises which help you keep fit.. Any or all of these should be helpful to one in the incipient stage of hardening of the arteries or cardiovascular degeneration. T the Air : Please explain the air bath. Does it take the place of tub bathing’ ++. AP) Answer—Tub bathing? Ah, fond memories of Saturday night, behind the clothesbars. The great drawback was carrying the water out to water the tomato patch afterward. Now an air bath is my notion of a nice, clean, comfortable and hygienic bath. Ben Franklin took one in his room every morning, for half an hour or more. The longer you can spend at your air bath daily the better for health. Ganglion T really have no doctor. About a year ago I strained my wrist driving steel posts on my farm. The arm became numb for the time. Later a lump came on the wrist below the thumb, size of a hazelnut. It is painful at times. Local doctor calls it ruptured tendon. He advised operation, then told me to paint it with iodine... . (B,C. C.) Answer—So, now you have no doctor, eh? The advice sounds good to me. The ganglion or “weeping sinew” may disappear without operation, but often it is necessary to remove the sac, through a small incision made under local anesthetic. In any case you should really have a doctor even I ° if you think he doesn’t know as much as you think you do. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) I think that most scientists would lelse”?—Dr. Thomas R. Brown, Johns /|say that the important thing is not Hopkins University. to make life easier for men, but to ee * make man more fit for life—The What I feel the last year has done | Rev. Dr. Edgar F. Romig, New York. for us is this—we have attained a **% ¥ greater individual self-confidence—j| Nowadays wars are not declared. Mrs. Franklin D. 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VERTICAL 1 Young goat. 2 Smells. 3 Coal pit. 4 Skillet. 5 Preposition. 6 Scent bags. 7 Exists. Poem. 49 Bay horse. 8 Mineral 50 Force, 61 Fodder vat. 53 Deer. §5 Fabulous bird, 57 Sound of inquiry. 89 Pronoun,