The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1936, Page 4

4 ‘ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936 Behind the The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Scenes Washington State. City and County Officiai Newspaper Pan American Peace Parley Is Aimed at Counferacting Japanese Influ- ence . . . One Joke That Didn't Click With a Congressman . . . WPA Hunts Answer to Why Staff Has Autos... Beck Springs Some New Gems. Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and ‘entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Stella 1. Mann Vice President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, April 17.—That Pan American peace conference we are ‘going to have late next summer in Buenos Aires is no empty gesture. f To be quite frank about it—as no- body else is being—the main idea is to imbue the Latin American re- publics with a pro-United States psy- chology and to dissuade any of them from getting too chummy with Japan. The administration hopes that a non-aggressional treaty, if not a mu- tual assistance pact, with provision for economic sanctions against ag- gressor nations will be one result. In other words, it wants the good old Monroe doctrine to flourish more healthily than ever on a co- operative basis. * The Japanese have been making commercial advances in South America, notably in Chile, Peru, and Ecuador. They have been playing up to the politicians of those three republics in a manner which long ago lifted state department eye- brows at least half an inch. The nitrates and copper of Chile appear to possess an especial appeal for Nippon and “realpolitik” suggests to our statesmen that we should be in position to have influence on that business should certain eventualities arise. HE WAS SAFE ANDO I THINK WE NEED A SENATE Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . Datly 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 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. ‘All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Those Agricultural Imports One of the questions harassing both the politician and the farmer is that of farm imports. In normal times agriculture furnishes more than half of our exports but as things stand now our exports are decreasing and imports of agricultural products are increasing. In 1935, the value of such imports was $1,105,761,000 while the value of exports was $747,724,000, an excess of imports over exports of $358,037,000. Our total exports for the year were $2,241,996,000 and on this basis agriculture has slipped tremendously. Much has been made of this fact by politicians and more will be heard of it, but the plain truth is that this condition de- mands more than prejudiced or wishful thinking. It calls for a cool and impartial appraisal of the facts if justice is to be done * * *® Like “Good Neighbor” Idea The “good neighbor policy” of Roosevelt, which seems to have charmed Latin America. is regarded by insiders here as shrewd from sev- The 1936 Season Gets Started HE WAS OUT AND (M WILLING TO TAKE (T UP TO THE — court | Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer’ questions pertaining to health but not disease or diagnosis. Write ters briefly and in ink. Address Dr. Brady in care of The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by & Gtamped, self-addressed envelope. LET'S TAKE A STRAW VOTE IN THE BLEACHERS SCRATCH A DOCTOR AND WHAT DO YOU FIND? Nearly every mail brings a letter printed or embossed like this: Dr. Oscar Zilch THE UMPIRE 338 bebe ty hast « ROSBE Ourville ane 1 eanaee The doctor either gets off some choice sarcasm about some of my teach- ings or informs me something has been brought to his attention and he WE OUGHT TO will be pleased to receive the formula for the medicine or the technique of APPLY the treatment. Something about the letter makes me look up Dr. Zilch in SANCTIONS? the medical directory. No one of that name listed in Ourville. Well, maybe the doctor has moved from some other place to Ourville since the Jast directory was compiled. But no, the name does not appear in the alphabeti- cal list of physicians of the United States, Canada and insular ons. Dear Doctor Squilch, I am constrained to reply, if the gentleman has inclosed a properly stamped envelope bearing his address, just what are you a doctor of, philosophy, divinity or horse? — or words to that effect. 3 I have him there. No getting around the fact that a professional letterhead or card should make known the degree, if any, and as a general rule persons who have a degree are intelligent enough to remember this when they use printed professional stationery. The ducks who call them- aed “Doctor” without divulging the token are quite likely to be ignorant ers. Every school child knows it is incorrect or impolite and betrays ignor. ance to address # person who has a doctor’s degree, whether M.D., D.D., Ph. D., DDS., D.O., LL.D., as Mr., Mrs. or Miss, Every child should know that it is equally. improper to address one who h&s no such degree as “Doc- tor.” Too many “Doctors” on the fringes of the medical profession came by their titles as “Colonels” do in Kentucky. Fortunately for these humbugs the morons of America know no better than to take a trick “Doctor” seri- ously—they harbor a childish notion that the government would not let an ‘unqualified person call himself “Doctor.” The government doesn’t care a whoop what a citizen calls himself so long as he doesn’t make any tactless cracks about the silly business of swearing allegiance to the constitution or the flag. Propaganda against One such “Dottor” circulates e use of aluminum ware. With an aggregation of quacks whose opinions he cites he seeks to frighten simple-minded folk from the use of aluminum ware in the kitchen. Many of his dupes have asked me about this. I assure them aluminum ware has been used in my own home for thirty years and it is still going strong, and so are we. I remind them, too, that the “Doctor” is not a physician at all, but an obscure dentist. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Drying Up the Blood Would the contents of the whose label I inclose dry up the bag hee ag What effect is it supposed to have... (O. L.) wer—No, e eral angles. Not only trade, but aiso militdry-naval strategy, are involved. The way it works is seen in the case of the new Panama treaty. After wrangling for years over the issue of Panamanian sovereignty, this government has negotiated a treaty which recognizes Panama as an equal and makes protection of the farmer. Three years ago there were no agricultural imports to speak of. America had huge surpluses and could find no mafket for them. Prices were ruinous to the American farmer and he called for relief. Measures to grant such relief were applied with the result that prices rose. ‘ But as prices rose imports began to come in. Foreign producers could pay the tariff and shipping charges and still make money in American markets. And this despite the fact that AMERICAN FARMERS WERE NOT RECEIVING PARITY PRICES FOR THEIR PRODUCTS. WHAT THE SIT- UATION WOULD BE IF ALL FARM PRODUCTS WERE AT PARITY CAN ONLY BE IMAGINED BUT IT IS SAFE TO ASSUME THAT IF SUCH WERE THE CASE THE VOLUME OF IMPORTS WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH LARGER. Thus, with tariffs at the present point, farmers in other countries find it possible to sell to us at a profit, even though our farmers are by no means prosperous on the present basis. . a matter of joint defense. YOUTH On paper this country has given up (Minneapolis Tribune) its right to intervene in Panama at| Among the “panacea planks” which its discretion, although actually any|President Roosevelt scoffed at in his intelligent person knows it will inter- | Baltimore address was this one: vene in case of emergency. “Put federal finances in order.” He ‘The Panamanians are as pleased |had just declared that “flaming youth as Punch. The U. S. generals and|has become a flaming question,” and admirals balked with more or less|/he resented the cold statistical ap- customary stupidity, Hull beat them off. From the stand-|that question. So he asked his young point of defense of the canal it |audience: seems much better to have the Pan-| “... is there even a recognition in amanians pleased than aggrieved. that type of panacea of the fact that —|the youth of America has any prob- lems at, all?” The president thought not and yet, THAT’S NOT SO FUNNY Congressman Rich of Pennsyl- but Secretary |proach of the budget balancers to| The obvious answer of “raise the tariff to block out foreign imports” is too easy. Like many. another political panacea it takes no note of the painful facts of the situation. Such action might not meet with favor on the part of the consumers. Al- ready the latter have protested here and there at the high cost of living. Action to sfill further increase living prices would meet active resistance and in any contest between the farmer and the consumer the former is bound to lose. The consumer is the greatest single voting force in the country. It must be remembered, too, that while politicians are sing- ing their siren song here in the farm country, other politicians are telling the folks in the urban centers that this thing of coddling the farmer has gone far enough. All the city man has to do is elect them and they will bring down the prices of bread, bacon and beans. The dilemma is not quite as bad as it looks from this analy- sis. There still is a way out, even though the answer is only a partial one. That is to INCREASE the production of farm products in this country until it satisfies the home market. That would return most of the money now being spent on farm imports tto the pockets of the American farmer. The only other answer is to put the entire nation on a basis where it can compete with foreign products. The farmer could do that as well as the manufacturer, but the latter would have to be willing to face the music along with his agriculural | ™ brother. This, of course, is unthinkable because it would re- verse a major policy which has been espoused by all political parties for more than half a century. : vania: “Who-made-out this bude get?” : Congressman Parks of Arkansas: “The powers that be, of course; the people who brought back pros- Perity made it out.” Corgressman Rich: “If there is prosperity, I would like to know just exactly where it is.” Congressman Parks: “In the gentleman's manufacturing con- cern, The statement was made under the gentleman’s own -letter- head that ‘We have had the best year in many, many years.’” Congressman Rich (general manager and treasurer of the Woolrich Woolen Mills): “There is no use getting funny about this.” attributed more potency to that par- ticular panacea than he. Mr. Roose- velt may speak contemptuously of putting federal finances in order to- day, but if the memory of his youth- ful listeners runs back to the cam- paign of 1932, they will recall that this was once his flaming answer to their problems. . Does young America want perman- ent economic recovery? Mr. Rooseyelt believes that it does but he did not say at Baltimore, as he once did at Pittsburgh, that “a complete and hon- est balance of the federal budget” is the one sound foundation of such recovery. Is youth interested in poll- cies which will promote the welfare of business to which it looks for jobs? WPA Hunts an Answer One of the questions which prob- ably will come up at the senate’s in- vestigation of. WPA will be why each of several assistant WPA administra- tors has a private government-owned automobile and chauffeur at his dis- Posal. WPA has a strong statistical staff, however, one of whose jobs will be to demonstrate that this is a lot cheaper — The president did not tell the Young Democratic club of Maryland that a reduction in federal expenditures is “the most direct and effective contri- bution that government can make to business.” Is the young voter curious to know how excessive taxes aggra- vate the.economic problems of youth? Mr, Roosevelt never once adverted to the fact that they are “reflected in rt than hiring taxicabs. phia ex-congressman, who now car- his wing and keeps clucking over it, made a speech the other night to the Rhode Island Bar association, from which New Dealers are mimeograph- ing excerpts, * ke * Beck Springs New Ones James Montgomery Beck, Philadel- les the constitution around under s HORIZONTAL. 1, 7 A versatile figure in the theatrical world. 11 Fence bars. CIUIBIAS QOS nl Beck ventured the startling opinion that the spirit of the supreme court’s decision in the TVA case was due to “enlightened expediency.” The court, he said, “cannot be ignorant of the fact that there is a rising storm in Congress” to curb its powers, Mr. Beck himself had declared TVA un- constitutional, The admission by Mr. Beck that the court was susceptible to outside Pressure is considered astonishing. Anti-Beck lawyers have felt that a The best policy, then would be to insure the home market ‘to the farmer without bringing him into major conflict with the consumers who pay the fiddler and call the tune. Quest of Motherhood Americans are so given.to sentimentalism that they may be tempted to shed tears at the effort of Mrs. Llewellyn Bar- tholomew, English mother, to claim custody of her movie-star 80n, Freddie. 12 Source of indigo. 13 Guardian. 14 To become exhausted. 16 To exist. *26 Preface. 48 Poet. $170 instigate. Fo Land right. 330 make an 53 Cease. A court fight looms in California where the lad is staying | ™2/°Tity, of the justices were sus- oration. 54 Hodgepodge. with his aunt and the newspapers probably will be full of iL . Het pig ina ; eae - a Corals. Hs ee The nation should not get excited. Neither need it exer-| economic prejudices, but they never| * prema: ae 57 Crippled, cise its natural tendency to side with the mother in such cases, |to'be susveptitie to seh recat | 31 Decayed. «SB He 1s 8 pop- for the simple fact seems to be that financial interest rather | ®4y other. ae Neve, 59 Lap ee than affection is at the bottom of the whole business. Had the| yim, 2ec wie, hitherto has said} “200000 of songs. that the constitution was a “beacon” and a “Gothic cathedral” and a “floating dock,” but not a “rock” or a “sandy beach,” and that the supreme court was a “balance wheel,” declared -in his Rhode Island speech that the court is not an “anchor” or a “rud- VERTICAL mother begun a fight for her son before he was making $1,500 2 Epoch. a week in the movies the situation might be different. As it is, this tardy expression of the mother instinct lays her open to suspicion. “Where was she when'Freddie needed a:mother's love fully as much as he needs it now and was NOT niaking a hand-| ger,” but a “lighthouse.” some salary? : (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) As things stand, the women of the country will be much PE SAE aS EA more interested than the men, for in the judgment of the male| | ‘So They Say | sex Freddie isn’t anywhere near a $1,500 performer. They pre-|®——__* fer a kid who can get into fights, acquire a dirty face and other- wise deport himself in line with the American tradition. Provably no man living ever sees the Bartholomew boy and says to himself “now that is the kind of a kid I was at heart.” To womenfolk he is a “sweet” lad but to the men he is a little too sweet to be real, Nevertheless, he is getting that fat salary and the fight ffor him is on. The case is no more deserving of sentimental regard than would be a lawsuit over possession of a yacht or an interest in any revenue-producing froperty. Nothing in this world is:more real than mother love—but if it requires a $1,500-a-week salary to bring it into expression I PaPOUE hg Teal arbicie. ‘ getieae ky 42 Plant. 46 Arrives. The novel and the poem may be- come extinct in 200 years, 100 years, or in much less time. There always will be books, but perhaps the only books in the future will be reference, selentific and research books.—Booth Tarkington, novelist. * * * I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing. No one has ever done it in the movies, ‘and I want to.—Sonja Henie, Norway, figure-skating champion of the world. * * In the face of another general war, neutrality is not something that can be obtained just by wishful thinking. Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Wis- curiously. enough, no man has ever |burdensome taxation. jwhy not? Mr, ing the streets and seeking jobs in vain.” The president, in short, seemed to feel that youth did not have an in- timate interest in such matters. But Roosevelt, strangely enough, did not say. He did not ex- plain why youth, which should be greatly concerned with a sound econ- omic recovery, should consider the ordering of federal finances, as simply another “panacea plank.” Nor did he remind his audience that every Am- erican citizen, young and old, has a very definite stake in a balanced bud- get, in the reduction of federal ex- penditures, and in the avoidance of : Instead, Mr. ‘Roosevelt adverted vaguely to th desirability of keeping children of school age in. school ant of giving elderly persons the oppor- tunity to “retire in security.” He stirred the ashes of the dead NRA, which had been tried and found wanting, and talked of “reasonable reductions” in working hours, and the need for establishing adequate minimum wages. The world which the president would create for youth was simple customer, Surely it is injurious to take salts every or Hi but it doesn’t “dry up the “blood.” rae % Charm Why is it that when I touch a radiator or a safe or anything made of those materials I get a slight shock in my fingertips? I have been told it comes from scraping my feet along the floor... (Miss F. R. M.) Answer—Right. When the atmosphere is dry and clear the friction of your feet on the floor develops a charge of static electricity in your body, Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. the canal and its zone theoretically}MR. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS TO hence in hordes of the hungry tramp-| the circumstances, the young Demo-! and when you touch the radiator or other surface a discharge occurs. No crats of Maryland may properly spec-| significance other than clear and dry. ulate as to the reasons why and re- (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) echo the president's good advice. ROT PRL PR “I say to you ‘do something’; and | not work. Prodigal government spend-|“something else” that needs doing is when you have done that something, | ing was something that did not work.|the literal fulfillment of Mr. if it works, do it some more; and if| Today millions are still unemployed, |velt’s solemn pledge, which he it does not work, do something else.” | and relief is the same old urgent|regards so lightly, to put the The NRA was something that did | problem. ‘Who knows but that the/|ment’s fiscal house in order? BEGIN HERE TODAY people, staring at her curiously, beyond criticism. It guaranteed to each the chance to make an honest living and to all it gave assurance against want and suffering. We feel certain that the young men and women of Maryland agreed with Mr. Roosevelt that such a world is emin- ently worth striving for. But the president, unfortunately, only painted the picture; he did not chart the course to the objective. On the contrary,"he scorned the idea of putting the government's fiscal house in order as the formula of cold and unfeeling panaceists. Yet that was MIE [N MBAIGIE INT mV Ole] fe A] IPIEIRMMOIRIB) coar IRIAISIE[SMMEIAISIE] on ARMs) R(O|PIEIR MEAN T MEL | Ele iti INiGiSMaT |i iT {HIE} : PIETER MESIT IE IN| PIE IAISIE MEL IAIVIE} AomuA originally Mr. Roosevelt’s own for- mula for recovery and it is about idle factories, tax-sold farms, and/the only one he has not tried. Under panicles Aiea ik Sg! I ea dave ld nt In the Theater 19 Entrance. 20 Tissue. 22 Hops kiln. 23 To border on. 24.Nothing more than. 26 Skunks. oF 27 Railroad. CUBA | 28 Grain. 29 And. 30 Embryonic tissue. 36 Within. 38 Upon. 40 Formed le IT] {AP |e |S} IHIAIVIAINIAI 3Rowing toot. __ fabric. 4%o tree. 5 Soil. 42 Divan. oe pamneetie 43 Forming af : ode. 7 Prank. 44 To endure. 8 Unit. 45 Singing voice. 9To strike, 47 Grape refuse. 10 Beer. : 48 Knife. 49 Exclamation of sorrow. 50 Verse. 51 Agent. . 13 He is a —— of plays. 15 Slept. talking excitedly. ee A POLICEMAN: pushed his way into the crowd. “Here!” he mae said. “What's goiny on?” meen Late | “Watch out!” Marty Hiatt sald. Lg ee Sarr < CLYOE SABIN, ie may have a payout ‘Wealth: nae. je stranger, however, was Toby’ with ‘attentions fora [suddenly docile. He rubbed his forget |chin, whimpering, as the police- man searched his pockets. “No gun,” the officer an- nounced. “Now then, what's it all about?” Toby felt a hand om her shoul- der and turned. Harriet was be- side her. “Oh,” Toby breathed. “I’m glad you're here, Harriet.” “I've been here for five min- utes,” Harriet said, “but it took me this long to get to you.” She slipped an arm around the other girl. “What in the world hap- pened, Toby? Who is that ter- rible person?” “I don't know.” Tears of re- Nef shone in Toby’s eyes. She tried to wipe them away. “I don’t know anything about him, except that he must be crazy—" It was more than an hour af- terward that the girls heard the full stery. They had been allowed to ite —— NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIX OBY drew back. “But you're mistaken!” she said. “You must think I’m someone else—' “I'm not mistaken.” The mai eyes gleamed dangerou “You're my Dream Girl. I've been looking everywhere for you and now that I've found you, you're not going to get away. We're go- ing to be married. Now. This afternoon!” Toby knew now where she had seén him, It was the man who had followed her that afternoon s few weeks before. She had slipped into a store and evaded him. But she could not do that now. As though reading her thoughts, to go home in a cab when Hiatt and the stranger set eff for the Police station with the officer. Toby tried to tell Harriet what had happened. “I looked for you,” she said, “and you weren't in sight. Then I stopped to look at the store window—” anything to you?” “Does it?” They told him about the letter Toby hed received, signed “Jonas Huckleberry.” “Have you got it eround still?" Hiatt asked. “If you have, Ill turn it over. to the police.” But the letter written on pink notepaper had disappeared. Toby said, “was from @ crasy man.” “Don’t worry. You'll get plenty more.” iF iit we te a the man caught her arm. “Come| “They had some new square-/ Jonas rx wag areigeeed on!” “he said. “You're going}toed pumps at Vandenmeyer’s,”|ausier than ever with her chop with me—!” ‘ Harriet explained. “I went in to! ping, counting the days until Toby tried to free her arm./try them om, and then I came out| Clyde would be back. She and This was insane. a nightmare! jand ran inte Marty. Toby both were to take part ims She was on one of the busiest streets in New York in the mid- dle of the afternoon. There must be dozens of people about— she looked the right and to the left. There had been dozens ef people about a, moment before. Now, suddenly, there was no one. “But you can’t—!" she began. “He ran ahead of me. It looked as though the fellow was trying “I should think you would have | ous. He looked: as though he “Oh, yes, I can. Dream Girl, I love you. Don’t you under- stand? You're the one I've been searching for. We're going to go away together.” A madman, that was what he was! And he might be danger- same fellow you saw that other time, the one who followed you?” Toby nodded. “I'm sure of it. Ob, Harriet, if tt hadn't been for Marty—!” ” Harriet said conf- would be dangerous. Toby raised “I don’t suppose the mas frightened eyes, “Please!” she said. “You're hurting my arm—”|certainly understand why you! maid costume, turned suddenly. She tried again to draw away,/ were frightened.’ “Harriet,” she said. “you're but the man chuckled knowingly. Re eke: the loveliest bride I've ever seen.” “Oh, no!” he leered. “You're not yr4tt telephoned and presently| Harriet smiled. “It’s a beauti- going to get away from me this time. Come oti—we've got to hurry.” . He took a step forward, pulling at her arm roughly. Pantc-stricken, Toby forgot cau- tion. She forgot everything ex- cept that somehow she must get away from this insane man. “No!” she cried. “No—!" And then #-figure buried itself between. her and the stranger. A + voice snapped, “Take your hands off that. girl!” It was Marty Hiatt! Toby had no time to wonder where he had come from, Marty was there, be- her. She cried, “Oh, Marty, him go eway! Make bim “It is, and the way you look, wearing it, you'd certainly tempt any man into matrimony.” “But I don’t want any man. 1 you to worry about,” Hiatt as- sured Toby. “They've got him|, locked up safely and he’s going right back to the place where they sent him before. He won't ut again. By the way, bis name is Jonse Huekleberry. What do you think of that?” But the man with the gleam- ing eyes refused to move. Instead he said_to Hiagt menacingly, “Look out!” A land moved to- ward his pocket. Hiatt, quicker. shot a fist toward the man’s jaw. She came up te Harrict, ‘and stopped abraptly. “Harriet!® There was a scream, the sound of “Jonas Huckleberry!” Both|she exclaimed. “Harriet,- what's gomevne running end suddenly | giris spoke in chorus. ~ Rappened?” 3 “Why, yes.” Hiatt looked sur- (To Be Continued) Toby found Serself surrounded by