The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1936, Page 6

“HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1936 ‘The Bismarck Tribune Behind bed An Independent Newspaper t ! THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D.. Dr. Brady will answer Scenes Washington juestions pertaining to health but not disease or nosis. Write letters briefly and in ink, Address Dr. Brady in care of The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by & stamped, self-addresred envelope. State, City and County Official Newspaper . By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) “Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and @ntered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mai] matter. GRAFT IN OUR SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS AND FRisOwW¢ Once I took a civil service examination to qualify for appointment as physician in a state institution. The officer in charge of the examination was an acquaintance. After the examination was over he told me he was sorry I had not informed him I meant to try the examination, for he had had the papers in his possession the night before! I failed to qualify for the particular job I wanted, but being on the list I was subsequently offered a place as physician in a state prison. That didn’t appeal to me, but on advice of politicians I visited the prison to look it over before turning down the offer. A new warden had just moved in, following a turn-over of state government. The warden informed me he didn’t know a blankety-blanked thing and didn’t care about the prison or the prisoners or anything else—he was there purely. for the sake of patron- age. He also informed me they had trumped up false charges against the doctor who had served faithfully for 18 years and forced him to resign. A trusty (a murderer) was serving as physician pending the arrival of a new one. An inspiring state of affairs. Well, I was rather glad to return to the dreary life of plodding door-to-door practitioner. The assistant superintendent of a state hospital for the insane de- scribes the political shenanegin which brought about his resignation and the appointment of a young doctor who had been out of medical school less than three years to fill his place. Even the state law requires that a physician must have had at least five years of experience in a state hospital to be eligible for such a position. But when politicians get control of things the laws are always flexible. One day a “big shot” from the great city came out to the state hospital and instructed the chief of a department to “get something” on his assistant so they’ could make a place there for a young doctor the “big shot” wished to take care of. The chief considered his assistant a thoroughly good man and hated to knife him in the back, but the superintendent of the hospital advised him he had better do as told. But before the matter had gone any further the “big shot” himself was caught at some game and ousted from his seat for selling jobs—graft. Why do we follow this filthy system of managing our prisons and other correctional institutions, our state hospitals and our public schools through the agency of political favoritism and patronage and graft? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Borax for Canker Sore Noting your suggestion of daily touching with tincture of iodin and glycerin, equal parts, as a remedy for canker sores in the mouth, I beg to report that I have found powdered borax efficacious for the same purpose. oe OS) 5 Answer—Thank you. It is harmless enough, at any rate. Our readers will soon determine whether it is more efficacious than the iodin and glycerin. The powdered borax is applied once a day, I presume. Sex Not One-Sided Seven years ago operated on for left tubal regnancy. Three years later bore girl baby, 1% years after that bore twin girls. Now expectant again. Friends say that owing to the removal of left tube and ovary I can’t possibly have a boy baby.... (Mrs. K. B.) Answer—There is no ground for the notion that boy babies originate in one ovary and girls in the other. In no circumstances can the sex of a child be predetermined. Washington, March 30.—I suppose this new program is a subterfuge,” remarked an AAA official privately. “But the nice thing about it is that it’s a subterfuge which deceives no- He might have added that the soil conservation program, as a _subter- fuge, probably won't work, It is an excellent device for transferring funds from taxpayers to farmers and its ultimate potentialities as a con- servation measure are very great. But the men in charge of it become increasingly doubtful whether it can be used to control agricultural pro- duction. In two or three years, insiders on the farm program now suspect, they will once more be confronted with the same old problem with which they started in 1933—huge surpluses of ag- ricultural crops which are bound to force down prices and farm incomes. And then, it is unofficially rea- soned, the federal government will again have to embark on a program for control of agricultural production. The agrarians in the administration seem to think that’s inevitable as long as the industrial system oper- ates on scarcity policies. The supreme court? Well, these predictions are more or less predi- cated on the idea that Roosevelt will be re-elected and have the chance within two or three years te appoint a couple of new justices. * ek Acreage Going Up George D. Mann President and Publisher NO NEED TO 66% IT WHEN °. Secretary end Treasurer Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Tae i tS RAiwine you CANT Fix ore per year (in state outside o! outside of North Dakota mei] in state, per year ..... mail outside of North Dakota, per year mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitied to the use for republica- tion of the patches 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. That German Election If the average American has trouble in understanding the reason for all the sound and fury in the current German elec- tion he might think a bit about the peculiar mechanics of gov- ernment which have been adopted under Hitler. In an election where there is no opposition—any political opponent would be led to jail and possibly executed as a traitor— Buehitiegs preamname, Sut! ase it seems silly to make so much fuss about a foregone conclusion. | cumulate so rapidly as they used to, is iti 2 since the soil program can be used In this country, for example, Habs opposition means lack of ae SWAPriaTasteEnent, “BULA aIEAY interest. Why fight a straw man? | is plain that the quick makeshift But it isn’t so in Germany. The success of the whole Nazi beetle Tae crheeiee ptt movement rests upon Hitler’s ability to keep the people stirred | curtailment. up, to keep their emotions rather than their brains dominant. Retard a ae eee ferscrhe ‘And every so often he needs a new excuse to launch a renewal {about 61,000,000 acres thine year as of his propaganda campaign. The old dodges get a little stale nines ebrtugi wis opuaierie hk and he must have new ones. their minds to a large degree, acre- Temporarily, at least, the reoccupation of the Rhineland ae Nvepuaveea urgent and the election impart new fervor to the cause, offer neW | cutting down. WitinoHbal weather, excuse for such regimentation as shutting down the theaters Moar NesBabr tls ee aeeies ee and operas so the populace can listen to speeches. We have had|¢ or 7 per cent and cotton adi a succession of these incidents and each one has played its part |here are guessing on a 15 per cent Injection I have a rupture (hernia) on one side and have heard it can be cured by injection. Is this true? Would you advise injection or operation? Explain how it works. . ; Answer—In competent hands injection treatment cures as large a per- centage as does radical operation. It works as does operation, by produc- ing adhesions, scar tissue, new fibrous tissue, which sufficiently supports the weak spot to prevent protrusion. Varicose Veins Please find inclosed stamped addressed envelope and an air mail stamp. U. S. PAYS THE PRICE FOR MISUSE OF LAND (Bruce Cotton, in NEA Service) It was the mournful fate of old Idisasters are to = very large extent man-made. Man didn’t cause the winds to blow or the snow and rain increase in that crop. (It’s against jto fall, but he did set the stage so in maintaining the Nazi government and moulding the German mind. The present agitation is not important. But one of these days Hitler may be put to his wits’ end to find a new theme for his show, new means to make his nationalistic evangelism effective. And when that time comes the world will have cause to worry, for if the situation gets desperate enough we may see him committing his rearmed nation to that greatest of all ad- ventures, embarkation on another war. Training in Demand Two recent bits of news should interest the thousands of young men and women in this country who wonder what the future holds. One is a little item from the Bottineau School of Forestry which mentions that every graduate of its course in greenhouse practice will have a job as soon as he gets out of school. The Bottineau school offers the only course in this work in the northwest and trained men are scarce. It is obvious, of course, that this industry could not absorb all of the unemployed, but the fact does point the moral that occupations are available other than those about which people normally think. The other news item concerns the unusual record of Amer- ica’s northernmost university at Fairbanks, Alaska. It was founded in 1922 and has grown from an enrollment of six stu- dents to 180. Its football and basketball teams would probably offer scant competition to our universities in lower latitudes, the law to collect figures on planting. intentions for cotton since the gov- ernment report for 1926 indicated a tremendous surplus and hit the mar- ket hard. Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith and some other senators pushed through a law forbidding the Bureau of Agricultural Economics from mak- ing any more cotton forecasts). xe * State Rule Seen as Botch The provision in the soil conserva- tion act which would turn adminis- tration of the program over to the states after a couple of years may never go into effect. State administration would make it still more difficult for the act to be used in a crop control program, and officials here tend to suspect that the efforts in some states to set up their own administrations will get so gummy that congress will elim- inate that plan. ee # G. O. P. Centers on House Republicans are planning an extra- special effort to regain lost strength in the house of representatives. They face the unpleasant and practically unprecedented possibility, in case they elect a president this year, of a Republican chief executive and a con- gress heavily Democratic in both houses. ‘The party must win 115 Democratic seats and hold those it now has to get a bare house majority. No party has ever made such a cleanup ard about the best the G. O. P. hopes for is to make a big dent in the opposition’s majority this year, with the idea of finishing the job in 1938. Whether or not a Republican pres- Belshazzar that his name went down in history as that of a man who couldn’t take a plain warning when it walked up and hit him in the face. Probably it was a bit disconcerting to have a ghostly hand come in and start scribbling on the wall just when the party was going good. But Bels- hazzar must have been pretty heed- less and self-satisfied for a long time before that; after all, the Persians had got clear to the city gate before he suspected that anything was wrong. It may seem silly to try to draw a parallel between Belshazzar and Uncle Sam—especially since there hasn’t been anything resembling @ Babylonian feast in this country for many a weary yar. But we have at least been getting our writing on the wall this spring, and if we don’t start reading it and doing something about it before long, Belshazzar did. Our warning is being provided by nature, in the form of dust storms and floods. The Southwest is getting its warn- ing in the shape of a pillar of cloud by day; a gritty wind that is blowing the top off fertile farms and giving us a perfect working model of the way deserts are made. In the North and the East the warning is taking the shape of floods. Peaceful rivers have gone on a destructive rampage; from Maine to Ohio, the swirling waters have brought death and. destruction, until city after city has been staggered by the blows. And the point of it all is that these we are apt to wind up right where | 4, that these natural forces could in- flict the maximum amount of dam- age. For, in this world, we reap just about what we sow. When we mis- use our greatest natural heritage, the land, we must expect to pay the price some day. We have just been pay- ing a sizable installment, in the shape of dust storms and floods; and the installments will get progressive- ly larger year by year unless we. mend our ways with great rapidity. Such things as erosion control, re- forestation, flood control, the scien. tific use of land in place of its ploitation—these are not dull -aca- |demic subjects, fit for other-worldly ‘brain trusters to wrangle over, but ;Zemoval from the sphere of every- ‘day life. They have a direct, dollars- sts eae a ee CE f So They Say | How's for knowing what's going on down there?—Mussolini (in English) to war correspondent. . ee 8 The league has been the most dis- cussed and, in some high quarters, the most “cussed,” organization in the recent history of America.—Jouett Shouse, president, American Libert; League. - * * * Before their crazy dream of “pros- perity from scarcity” will ever work, ithey (New Dealers) will have to in- vent some ointment to take the place of sweat—Gov. Eugene Talmadge, Georgia. beyond. human ly torments that I will appreciate anything you may send me on varicose veins and hemor- rhoids.... (Mrs. B. K. 8.) Answer—Hemorrhoids are essentially varicose veins. I am glad to mail you monographs on varicose veins (and varicose ulcer) and on hemorrhoids (piles). (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) i iT} | & é i is r i i ji ii i li {ieil il i i He Ad Ty F | Fr fi f Fn L Hf i g te uf = t ef il i i i ; ! f i [ it [ it tf if ak iF i bout i it x fn Ek Fy ! } vs but it is doubtful if any other school under the American flag | ident is elected, the special effort on _can truthfully say that every member of this year’s graduating theshouse will be good strategy. ‘class worked to help pay his way through school and that | ee mae fg Reud eee |; EVERY MEMBER OF THE CLASS HAS A POSITION peor 1d. DEtONNe, Senators. : ere AWAITING HIM UPON GRADUATION. See ey on | The reason for this last condition is not apparent but it|Democrats in 1930, 1932, and 1934. easily may lie in the fact that Alaska is a new country. Edu- SGopeTiaish 08 nea nerve 105) cation has not been on a high plane there and the only training eas iia: + has been that offered by experience. As a result the need for : men with additional education is acute. These two unrelated news items offer food for thought as America struggles back toward prosperity but with a serious ‘unemployment problem still on its hands. LH I Hy i i | | ebbille} i ze 7 Hi i 8 tf sj } i i -f j I HORIZONTAL, 1,3 Skating star. | TShe is a —— artist.” 11 Half an em. 12 Ringing bells. 13 Hodgepodge. 15 Behold. 16 To: graze. 17To affirm, 18 Bird. 19 To ascertain.. 20 Weight allow. ance. 21 Tense. 22 Seed covering. 23 Filmier, 24 Amidst. 25 Seasonin.. 26 Limb. 27 Horse's neck hair. 28 Upon. 29 Measure of area. 30 Finger ornament. Rink Star Answer to Previous Puzzle SPIT INI) (Atala fn Rioluis |e} H|O|UIAlI) Cielo nme Ala 1B. Eialajetelr| PHN [Sirieraie 24°F vermt a Aan is minal 16 Note in scae. BWODA OORCIN 18To declaim. PIRI Tels MMT EAMMD II [Rlole] 357° decieim. HIELIOMMR II ICILIsMMWwielalny 2752r0Ce RIALTRMPIYIRIAIMITOMMSIUIN] 25205 "séan me JETMINT [OLEMMT METIOIMIMINIAT 23 ong tooth, O OO wl) Way ¢ ete 34 Kanarese sects.47 She is now 35 Counterfeit. —— champion. 38 Retired nook. 4g She won the 39 Bishop's head- title in——, dress. 40 Guided. VERTICAL 41To diminish, 1To turn over, 42 Sailors, 2 Within, 43 Either. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Hi i ij nt i [ LH Hi ut ital I Mrs, Mudd—I want you to match this silk remnant at Cheatem & Soakum’s before you come home. Mr. Mudd—Did you get it at the coun- ter where the cute little blonde with blue eyes—— Mrs. Mudd — Never mind. I'll go match it myself. You'll be too tired to shop for me after you work all day. i f 28 BFE i Mankind Lags In the periodic heydays of our national prosperity, the nation as a whole gives little attention to its great social prob- | lems. They are put aside until the pangs of leaner years set in and we seek to discover what is wrong with the huge machine. The depression has been just such a time, and so far the solution to our social ills remains to be found. But perhaps ‘mo one has so sharply diagnosed the trouble as has Dr. Alexis Carrel, famous scientist. The trouble, he says, is that the march of science has left the human being by the wayside. This eminent thinker urges a new type of scientist whose exclusive function would be to study the great social problems; to turn his attention from development of a material science to development of the human being. Man seems to have grown more slowly than the institu- tions he has created. It is high time that he does something : about catching up! | 3 z x ie 33 Ballot choices. 34 Origin. 35 Dilatory. 36 Valiant man. 37 Publicity. 39 Face disguise. 41 Embryo flower, 42 Twitching, 44 Dye. 7Courtesy title. 45 To depart. S Italian river. 46 Deity. . ft TH tH ute Miss Blooblud—My ancestry dates back to before the days of Charle- magne. How old is your family? Count Nocount—I really can’t say. You see, all our family records were lost in the flood. . i ad fly 4 ti} had ii | i 5 gs 32 Antagonist: Snipp—Jones certainly is a mean ’ man. He never buys his wife any- thing unless he can see some advan- tage in it for himself. Piffle—He bought her a new car, didn’t he? Snipp—Yes; but he took out a $10.- 000 life insurance policy on her at the same time, i i i ¥ 3 i i iH é HH ig i t in iif ree HEE t i i i i Free Smiff—There are certainly a lot of fentriloquiats are even more popular in Italy than they are in the U.S.” " It must be @ rosr to watch Il Duce waggle a cabinet member's head. oe eee fear ae - * * Riffle—How do you know? of punches is said to be the sign of a poor fighter. But| Smiff—I've asked 17 of them al- then @ Joe Louls perponal appearance seems superfluous. ready. ** ted the water before drowning her kittens will be! Borat STRIP ec ene Himes 18 apts better. county's Sieae chalr now has cushions, | Second Ditto—Tajnt 0; they're gittin’ worse. Everywhere I asked fer a handout today they offered me nuthin’ but work. i f l | | ze i [ ri / roman Who glad to learn that ri 3k 4 f cety rial gre i et ett ry Hl ‘the taxpayers need a battle cry. At that, they an ordinary cry. * * * ; In ‘nine years, a Toledoan has cut the profiles of 1,200,000 Americans— | | hardly impreasi f i i a ai + An Oblo editorial suggests " imight feel the. better for just ! j E f | | 7 Chubb—Which of you broke off the engagement? Dubb—Neither. It dissolved auto- matically when she told me how much she spent for clothes and I told her ow much I made, | i 3 i J ve,‘compared with (ned some of an ordinary straight razor, ul i 5° i gi gF H : Bs 58 ‘were discovered in San Quentin, but to date no the warden’s office and announced a stickup. F i __Betsonera bave walked into