The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1936, Page 6

i e 6 ‘LHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25; 1986 : ie Scenes in 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 pimered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. ie George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor stete, per year .... . ‘mail outside of North Dakote, per year . mail in Canada, per year ........... ae Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press Associated Press ts exclusively entitied to the use for republiva- the news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited tn this 4 also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Fepublication of all other matter herein are also reserved. ‘The of Cure for Fascism The cure for the ills of Fascism, it would appear, is more Fascism. No other conclusion can be reached after reading the dis- patches from Rome telling how Mussolini has abolished the Chamber of Deputies and brought all the big private industries of Italy under the direct control of the state. It will be noted that he left out the smaller industries. Even an egotistic soul like Mussolini realizes. that one man cannot successfully direct all the business of a nation. ” Abolition of the Chamber of Deputies is a good thing. It has been a nonentity anyway and Mussolini’s action only wipes out the pretense, brings Italy face to face with the facts. Democracy died in Italy when Mussolini came to power. Since then representative government has been a fiction. It is better for everyone to be rid of the sham. His assertion that the big industries are being taken over because they will have to labor almost exclusively for the armed forces of the nation, is disconcerting to all lovers of peace. Yet they need not accept these words at their face value. War is imminently possible, yet it may be that Il Duce is merely beating his political tom tom again. The fact is that Mussolini is encountering more and more opposition in Italy and it has come largely from the leaders of big industry, They were powerful men in the nation and could make their opposition felt. By nationalizing Italian industry Mussolini has swept them out of office, eliminating their power end making them less potent. It is all very well for the Italian dictator to direct the eyes of Italy toward a possible outside enemy but that should deceive no one who has watched the rise and operation of dic- tatorships throughout the world. Dragging the red herring of a common enemy across the trail is a common method of diverting the attention of the peo- ple from their own ills. We Live and Learn Proof that even expert handling of a public event can be improved upon was offered by the state basketball tournament jast week. Bismarck has always acquitted itself creditably in the past but this year the tournament managers introduced one new wrinkle which proved very much worth while. That was the tournament dance, restricted to bona fide high school students. It not only gave the city another oppor- tunity to display its hospitable spirit but it very ably took care of the problem of how to. prevent excessive celebration on the part of students whose time otherwise would have been un- occupied. Some people were scandalized three years ago when officials in charge of the tournament frankly acknowledged the diffi- gulty of maintaining discipline and preventing excesses at these affairs. They thought it would have been better public policy to ignore whatever situation existed—and said so. Instead, however, it was decided to deal with it openly and frankly and to solicit the cooperation of the young visitors as ‘well as of local people. Since then a few students of the “smart-aleck” type have found themselves in jail because they possessed hip flasks and a few school principals have had to use disciplinary measures, But none of those things occurred this year. The situation in 1936 fas better than ever before. One of the reasons was the tournament dance. It put the young folks on their good behavior, set them down in an en- vironment where violation of the rules would hold them up to the ridicule and contempt of their fellows. Their conduct was exemplary and yet they had a good time. All of which was merely an adaptation of what already has een proved by the Boy Scout and Girl Scout movements. The way to keep a boy or girl out of trouble is to turn their energies into constructive or at least into harmless channels. + The tournament dance did that at the same time it popu- Jarised Bismarck with young visitors, Filling the Ice Houses Just in case it has been overlooked, the dams which have been built in North Dakota during the last few years have their ‘uses in winter as well as in summer. : In many localities they afforded skating facilities for chil- dren while in these and other cases they offered farmers a cheap supply of ice. Time was when there were so many sloughs in the country that a farmer could cut jce within a short distance of his home without trouble, but these have disappeared in later years and some farm ice houses have long been empty. It the meepbatien elevator sizike had gpg the usual apartment *no-dogs-allowed’ might have ceased to apply to St. Bei vith 3 rnards wit! Horses pee men. and elephants, who can sleep while stan , He can slumber while walking back and tein * Dayton physician, eat salt. He didn’t for every campaign statement should ® have nothing and holding a ard Hitler is keeping a stiff upper lip. * chair has cushions, the condemned then relax, soft soap, to determine if, through all this Behind the Washington When Six Congressmen Shared Home With Lobbyist, They Boosted Sen- ator Black’s Bill to Register All “Pluggers” . .. And Five Voted Against Utilities Death Sentence... Relief Problem Serious in Capital By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, March 25.—Perhaps the bright day is coming when a con- with a “power trust” lobbyist can be sure of knowing his companion’s real occupation, a It will be a lot harder for the house judiciary committee to keep Senator Hugo Black's lobbyist registration bill bottled up, now that Black has turned up six members of the house who were living with such a lobbyist last sum- mer, at a time when the battle over the public utilities holding company bill was in its warmest stage. In fact, that was just what Black had in min.! when, as chairman of the senate lobby committee, he brought to the witness stand a rela- tively small-time utility and railroad lobbyist named Robert E. Smith, who admitted sharing a Washington home last August with Congressman Pet- tengill of Indiana, Carey of Kentucky, Scrugham of Nevada, Clark of Idaho, Fiesinger of Ohio, and Sutphin of New Jersey. The house was the scene of enter- tainment for dozens of other repre- sentatives and at least three senators. Another thing the Black bill would do would be to keep lobbyists for spec- ial, concentrated interests from mas- querading as representatives of enor- mous groups of voters. Smith, for in- stance, was “chairman of the Nationai Conference of Investors.” That sounded-like big stuff until Senator Schwellenbach of Washington disclosed that contributions over u recent considerable period had con- sisted of $34,000 from power compan- fes and $4,000 from railroads. $e Brings 'Em Into the Open The Black bill would compel any person engaging for pay or other con- sideration to influence legislation or the action of any official to register with the clerk of the house and the secretary of the senate, giving his name, identity of his employers, and amount of his remunerations, Lobbyists must also file statements every three months of money re- ceived and spent. They would be sub- Ject to stiff penalties if they failed to comply or made false statements. This measure has passed the sen- ate. For some reason, Chairman Hat- ton W. Summers of the house ju- dicilary committee, a Texan, has kept the bill from the house floor. In view of the recent evidence, continuance of that policy may prove embarrassing to Summers. * ek x Five Voted Against Bill Although Smith was financed chiefly by power interests, which last summer were waging bitter warfare against the holding company bill, he and the six congressmen insisted they hadn't discussed that measure. The record shows, however, that all six congressmen with the exception of Scrugham voted against the adminis- tration’s “death sentence” clause, which was the crux of the fight. Pet- tengill played a leading part in the fight against the bill. * * * Relief Crisis in District The “hunger march” to Washington which groups of the unemployed are organizing is likely to pick up plenty of recruits after its arrival. The commissioners of the District of Columbia asked for $608,000 to carry the capital’s relief load until July 1, The budget bureau cut that to $250,000. This city has no source of relief funds except through con- gress. Officials assert there is no alterna- tive but to cut 20,000 off the District relief rolls after April 1, leaving about 10,000 “unemployables,” including de- pendents, still on, It's a fair guess that the White House will intervene to avoid a pos- sibly serious situation in Washington about the time the “hunger march- ers” arrive. *** * Radicals Are Pleased Whether they are aware of it or not, the budget-balancers intent on cutting down relief allowances are do- ing more than anyone else to foment ® radical third party. Anyway, that’s what the third party organizers think. Communists and other radicals hope to make the unemployed a nucleus of such a party, although they don’t ex- pect any formidable national move- ment of the sort before 1940, ‘Their chief difficulty has been that of taking those voters away from Roosevelt and the widespread lower- ing of relief standards is the best card they have in the effort. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN “That conceited movie star is always worrying about his part being just right.” “You mean the one he’s playing in this A husband quit reading in bed to save his eyes. His wife said she'd Punch ’em if he didn’t. ° “Aren't you ashamed to be smok- ing e cigarette, little boy?” “I sure am, mister, but what's a) man goin’ to do when he ain't got the price of a cigar?” “Yes, m'dears, the lace on this gown is forty years old.” “You don't say! Did you make it yourself?” First Chorine—Do you like domi- nating boyfriends? Second Chorine—You bet. I've had the time of my life dominating mine. “80 you're in the limberger cheese No one can deny that, |business, How're you makin’ out?” “Oh( still goin’ strong.” gressman who shares a double bed! EDIT THE NEW FARM RELIEF (St. Paul Dispatch) Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. 4 in the payments. They are to get one )be small compensation to offset the dollar an acre for their existing lands |injury they would receive if it turns ‘The practical difficulties involved/in grasses and legumes, against the |out that 30 million or more acres of in the administration of the fairly/$10 average to those who turn from |land are added to dairy and livestock simple principles of the new soil con-| soil depleting crops, But this would | production. servation program are reflected in the formidable complexities of the field instructions sent out last Friday by Secretary Wallace to place the terms before state, county, and local groups building payments which are to be made to farmers will not materially differ in the aggregate from the cash benefits of the AAA program. The benefit payments paid and due on the 1935 program amount to 480. million dollars. The new soil conserving and soil building payments are estimated to run from 470 to 500 millions a year. But the basis on which this fund is to be administered is very different, @ fact which is reflected in the quite substantial diminution of the payment which Minnesota is estimated to re- ceive. The total benefit payments to this state during the life of the AAA amounted to $32,800,000, of which about a half million represents the preliminary 1933 program. Against this average of about 16 millions for 1934 and 1935, it is estimated that; Minnesota is to receive from 8 to 10) millions a year under the new ar- rangement. The reason for this shift in the fi- nancial bearing of farm relief lies in its soil conservation principle. Min- nesote is already to a very great ex- tent practicing a type of agriculture which is soil conserving. The large dairy industry of this state already has a vast area under grasses and legumes and a proportionately small- er soil depleting base acreage from which to start. The soil conserving payments, like the. previous cash benefits, however, are only a secondary consideration. Thus last year cash benefits of less than half a billion for the entire coun- try compared to a total gross farm income of $8,110,000,000. The real test of the new program will be that of its results for the industry as a whole over a period of years. Of the long-run benefits not to agriculture alone but-to the nation in @ more scientifically based farm man- agement practice, through encourage- ment of soil improving, erosion pre- venting crops, there can be no doubt, The conservation of this fundamental national resource is of first moment. It is also contemplated, of course, that the shifting of about 30 million acres into those crops will contribute to surplus control, because the soil de- pleting crops are mainly those staples in which the greatest difficulty has been experienced in this respect. The dairy and livestock producers are alarmed lest the turning of this acre- age to grasses and legumes merely has the effect of producing new competi- tive production for them, the trans- forming of a wheat and cotton sur- plus into one of butter and meat. To be sure they have been brought with- t So They Say i ? © I expect to be much better in my profession as a result of this training. —Thomas D. Fletcher, 56-year-old freshman, University of Chattanooga. : * # * Vermonters are a reticent, slyly humorous lot and I doubt if any place in the world you'd find a citizenry which so strictly minds its own busi- ness.—Sinclair Lewis. * * * An automobile traveling 45 miles an hour is extremely dangerous. Anyone wishing to go faster should get into the air for safety’s sake—Amelia Ear-. hart. x * * T’ve sat on the doorstep of a county committeeman by the hour and wait- ed while he made believe he wasn't at home,—Mrs, Franklin D. Roose- velt. * * * Any modern ruler who imagines he can indefinitely control news is in- dulging in a medieval dream—Dean Carl W. Ackerman, Columbia Uni- versity of specallen I have to sell a piece of every two years to get to stay in con- gress, I am getting poorer and poorer all the time.—Congressman Thomas L, Blanton, Texas. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer questions pertaizing to health but not disease or diagnosis. Write Yetters briefly and in ink. Address Dr. Brady in care of The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. LONESOME BUSINESS ACKNOWLEDGING THE CORN Letter bearing a feminine signature: ’ “T am glad to see that you grow older, you grow milder, less sarcastic, and you acknowledge that you make a mistake once in a while, the same as the rest of us,” Can’t resist the impulse to deny the allegation. If I SEEM less sarcastic it must be because the editors keep closer watch over my stuff nowadays. “I see that you have lately acknowledged that some rupture cases can be cured by wearing a well fitted truss. I know by experience that.a good truss cured a bad case of rupture in a member of my own family. Now I am hoping that you will some time find out that olive oil rubbed on the skin can be absorbed.” i Tut, tut, Ma’am, that’s carrying the mellowing too far. I acknowledge that I was wrong in my belief that nothing but radical operation would cure rupture (hernia, breach). Not until I saw hernias cured by ambulant treatment—a series of weekly injections of medicine given by the physician in his office—could I change my opinion about that. In this column at least fifteen years ago I said a cure of some small recent hernias might be achieved by suitable exercises taken while the hernia is carefully supported with the hand. The wearing of a well fitted supporter or truss or belt to pre- vent protrusion of the hernia always tends to promote cure. The wearing of a truss alone seldom cures hernia, however. I do wish the editors would nod over this copy long enough to let me slip across a wee bit of sarcasm concerning the notion that olive oil, or any- thing else, is absorbed thru the skin. Sarcasm, by the way, connotes intent to wound the feelings. If that be true, and I have Webster's word for it, then I plead not guilty, for I never divulge the identity of the correspondent, no personal application can be drawn from what I say here, and anyway I'll stand a great deal rather than hurt anybody’s feelings. What some casual readers mistake for sarcasm is really scientific assurance. It is not sarcastic nor even irreverant for me to say that in the light of modern science many of these quaint notions are wrong. It would not matter, perhaps, if the wrong notion were harmless, but wher it seems to be an impediment to good health or hygiene, then I feel it is my duty to brand it in unequivocal terms. If this is painful to some of the old timers who still cherish the false theory or notion, please remem- ber that on the other hand it brings better health to a great many others who are capable of amending their beliefs, Offhand I estimate that readers who express enjoyment of the ridicule of false notions about health or hygiene outnumber five times those who de- plore it. Tell me, how do you like it? Mushy or crisp? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Transurethral Resection Can one who has had electro-coagulation of prostate have the prostate removed later by operation if necessary? ... (P. 8.) Answer—Yes. It is rarely necessary. Shrinkage Please send me abeut a dozen of your pamphlets on how to grow gradually. Heard aed they are distributed to people who need the adi +o (Mrs. M. J. A. Answer—Please do not use my stuff like that. If you wish to redu send stamped envelope bearing your address, and inclose ten cents in tor booklet, “Design for Dwindling.” (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) BEGIN HERE TODAY TOBY RYAN, 19, works behing jewelry counter of a NOW GO ON WITM THE STORY CHAPTER IX Bu BRANDT halted im the doorway, grinning at Toby. He did not speak, but one hand went up in a quick, gay salute. Toby smiled back. And all at once she torgot the heat and lights and her panic of a moment before. Toby was herself again, emiling and con- ‘fident. Hiatt’s gaze followed Toby’s to the door. He said, rather testily, “Well—” Bill came forward. “Are you Mr, Hiatt?” he asked. “I'm from Amberson & Blane’s office, Brandt's my name. Charlie Leslie asked me to bring this over to you.” He held out an envelope. Hiatt took the envelope, drew out some folded sheets and glanced at Bill smiled. “We're old friends.” “Ob, is that sot” Hiatt’s tone was neither friendly or unfriendly. He looked at Toby. She was still smiling. She said, “Bill—I couldn't believe it was you for a moment. I was never more surprised in my life—!” “I was surprised, too,” Bill told her. “What's this all about any- how? What ere you doing beret” ‘Toby had turned slightly. From the platform she looked down at Bill, her eyes shining and eager. Bill said, “Gosh, Toby, you look ike a million dollars—” ‘There was a sudden “click” and both Toby and Bill turned. “Oh!” Toby exclaimed, “did you take the pictuse?” yout’ He smiled, pleased with himeelf. “That's ell right. Like to take ‘om that way sometimes. Stay where you are—I want to make @ few more shote—” Bill tyterrupted. “Mr. Hiatt, do you mind if I stay for a while?” “Well, ordinarily 1 don't like strangers around the studio when Tm working. But, this ‘once, I Suess it’s all right.” “Thanks. I'll promise to stay out of your way.” Hiatt and his assistant began moving lights, changing the angle ita Bill moved iB caught Toby's, erm moder his own, “Se omy young friend SUAS Weesold of fone ond forune?® he sail’ "Tat cals is on the Id fora ion. story. I'll tell you all about it whea I'm through.” - The photographer swung around. “Don't move,” he told the girl. “I want you to: stand there, just as you'are. Going to seo if I can't get a little more light on your ” eee Arts that it was easy. Toby took the’ poses Hiatt directed. she knew when he was There were tulips and daffod! and pink and blue hyacinths in ‘There were to the middle-aged, spectacled man who came forward, “Gardenias for the young lady.” ‘The salesman nodded. “We have some very “nice ones,” he said. “Something at about a dollar each?” eee perataerey, Bill pointed to the corsage in the window. “No,” he said, “we want that one. It's for sale, isn't itt” “Why, yes—of course.” The salesman produced the eor- sage and Toby fastened it to her shoulder. Turning from the mir- ror she said, “Oh, Bill, theyre beautiful! They're the loveliest flowers in the world.” “They should be, Didn't I tefl you we were going to celebrate?” He handed the salesman a bill and a moment later received the change. Out in the night once more, Toby said. “Bill, I've never had such lovely flowers. Never! But I shouldn’t have let you spend all that money. We're going back to our old cafeteria—" Bill looked up from the nickels “Yes, I'm ready.” 2 Hiatt came up beside them. “You understand about the pictures, don't you, Miss Ryan? I'll send them over to Blake as soon as they're finished. He'll get in touch with you after he’s seen them.” “Yes, I understand,” Toby told him. “Oh, I hope they'll be good!” “So do. I,” Hiatt said, smiling. “Well, you two better be on your way and get something to eat. It's she | getting late.” Bill madé a telephone call and, came back to slump in a chair and ‘watch. When Toby disappeared to to another dress she came to find Bill and Marty Hiatt im a discussion of the merits hockey teams. She waited five minutes before Hiatt to natice her. once he was at the camera, tirelessly. Toby was the painstaking care even the simplest poses. bie i ‘At last Hiatt stepped back. “That's enough,” he said. “I think, from all these shots, we'll get something that will do.” “You mean we're through?” Toby asked. Pg nodded. “Through for to Toby got.down from the plat- form and went to the tal! windows. Outside. the sky was dark and Nghts gleamed in the neighboring buildings—the lights that make New York on a winter night a breathless fairyland. She hurried off to the dressing Toom then, and came back in her last year’s dress and coat and the gay little green hat. Toby said to Bill, waiting, “I fee! like Cinder- ella after the stroke of midnight.” “You don't look it,” he assured “And I notice you haven't pos and Bill said good night then and left the studio. As the door swung behind them Bill caught Toby’s arm under his own. ‘He looked down at her, grinning. “So,” he said, “my young friend is on the threshold of fame and fortune! Going to be a model. Going to have your picture on mag- azine covers and bill boards from Maine to California, Going to make a lot of money! That calls for a celebration, Toby. A regular, bang-up—” She stopped him. “Oh, but I'm ‘not, Bill. I mean this was just a sort of try-out. If the pictures are good, maybe I'll have a chance.” “The pictures,” he told her, “are going to be knock-outs. Didn't I see them being made? Yes, Miss Ryan, tonight we celebrate.” The elevator halted and they stepped inside. A moment later they were making their way through the lobby to the street. Bill went through the motions of ad- justing a monocle. He said, with an exaggerated accent, “Beastly nuisance, but, do you know, I neg- lected to bring the town car this afternoon. Silly whim of mine, walking—” ‘Toby grinned. “I have the same whim myself,” she said. “Come on.” set off down the street. Half way to the corner they passed a florist’s. shop, the brightly lighted window gay with spring flowers, Toby gave a little cry. “Oh—” she jsald, “aren't they jovelyf* and dimes in his hand. “What?” he said. “Go to that cheap, ordi- nary place on a night like this? Hardly!” Then he grinned. “I! tell you what, though,” he said, slipping her arm in his once more, “There's another one up the street that isn't so bad!” ‘They dined at the cafeteria up the street. Over the day’s “spe cial"—pot roast, cabbage saled, hot rolls and coffee for 65 cents—Toby told the whole story: Why she had left Bergman's; how she had gone hunting @ job and met Hiatt and how he had sent her to the Models’ League; how she had gone from there to Hiatt’s studio. Bill was indignant when he heard what had happened at the store. “But someone must have planned that,” he said. “They must have done it deliberately.” “I know. But what can I do about it?” “You ought to be able to do some thing. Believe me—!” “I can't, Bill. Evén if I knew who did it—knew for sure—I couldn't force them to take me back.” “No, 3 suppose not.” . She went on, telling him about the Models’ League and her talk with Ben Blake. Bill listened, smoking thoughtfully. She ex- plained how all her hopes of be coming s professional model de pended: on the pictures Hiatt had made that afternoon, and they die cussed this, too. - It was late when they left the cafeteria. Toby ruled out Bill's suggestion of a movie and they rode uptown on the subway. Bill's mood of gaiety had returned. It seemed to vanish, however, as they walked the blocks between Toby’s rooming house and the subway sta-