The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1936, Page 6

_ The Bismarck Tribune ‘ An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1673) ‘State, City and County Officiai Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and qutered at the Dostoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Stella I. Mann Vice President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Beeretary and Treasurer Editor ‘Subscription Rates Payable in Advance by carrier, per year ... mail per year (in Bismarck) . per year (in state outside of Bismarck). ‘outside of North Dakota mail in state, per year mail outside of Nosth Dakota, per year . mail in Cenads, per year ........ Hoey -Member of Audit Bureay of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the yse for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In thi wewepe jer and also the iocal news of spontaneous origin published here All rights of republication of all other matter berein are also reserved. No Competition One of: the troubles besetting the federal government in its administration of public works is the apparent collusion be- tween bidders who supply materials for construction. A great uproar was heard less than a year ago when some steel for an eastern bridge was purchased in Germany. There ‘was much talk about the employment which the steel order would have created inthis country but Secretary ‘Ickes’ reply that all of the steel bids were exactly the same and that the manufacturers evidently had an agreement to hold up the gov- ernment was lost in the welter of talk which surrounded the whole proposition. But the secretary evidently learned his lesson because, only the other day, he let a contract for electrical equipment on a western dam with the explanation that he had given it to the firm farthest from the scene because all the bids were the same Behité Scenes Washington Labor Struggle of Greater Intensity Looms., .. Evidence of Strong Re- Flood of Charges. by. Unions, By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washingtén Correspondent) Washington, April 20.—Sevetgi de- velopments. the labor front point to intensification of the lorg strug- gle ‘between employers and employes in industry. ay ‘These intlude: unprevedented’ po- litical gctivity’:,by labor groups, evi- dence of repressive tactics of a sen- sational’ nature, the rise of labor or- ganizations to demand a voice in new fields, and’ likelihood of a senate in- vestigation of industriel practices ini- mical to labor organization. The ' old-fashioned conception of the employer as a benevolent’ per- sonage with the welfare ‘of his work- ers at heart, though it still must ap- ply in many cases, has taken a severe jolt with the revelation reported to have been made in'a senate probe major industries were secretly buying stores of machine guns, tear gas, revolvers, and ammunition, in anticipation of labor strikes. The evidence was ‘found by the senate munjtians committee in the files of Federal Laboratories, Inc., of Pittsburgh, dealers in tear and nauseating gas, who handle pistols and machine-guns on the side. Correspondence was reported to show that purchases had been made by employers with . great secrecy. Among Federal’s customers, the com- mittee evidence is said to, reveal, have been the Weirton Steel Co., ‘These revelations are being used as @ talking point by President John L. and by so doing he could at least create a little work for railroad employes. Even more recent is the case of the cement bid on the Ham- ilton dam in the Colorado river, involving 30,000 barrels and 840,000 -sacks of cement of various types. Four bids were were received and all of them placed the delivered cost at $885,159. The apparent fact is that there was collusion in this bid- ding. That these bids were identical was not an accident. With- out knowing when nor where it is apparent that the cement men got together and decided what the cost tp the government should be, That sort of thing is dangerous for both the government and the manufacturers. There is no reason to assume, that the price was unfair but it is easy to understand that jt COULD be because, if it is possible to fix a price at one level it is possible to fix it at another. To all intents and purposes the government might as well be dealing with a trust. The effect is exactly the same as if there were sio.competition whatever. ¢ “\ Ig. will not take-much of this sort of thing to create a de- mand for public ownership. In fact it would seem that bidders on government contracts are asking for it. One curious phase of this condition is that the government, despite its. vast powers and the fact that the people look to it to do almost everything, apparently can do nothing to help itself. Another implication is more serious. If makers of various products can hold up the government by collusion what is to pre- vent them from holding up the general public? The probability is that these firms feel. they are doing a good stroke of business but the possibility is that they are sow- ing the'seeds of their own destruction. In an economy such as ours where competition is supposed to be the life of trade such practices cannot go on for long without something being done about it. * The Professors Win With the adyent.of the “brain trust” under the New Deal and the consequent ridicule-and criticism that followed, the dig- nity of the college professor suffered a severe drubbing. Bat. now the picture has ‘chgnged appreciably—so much, in feet, that the Republican opposition has hired a brain trust of . its own. The best minds of many colleges now are being en- ligted by the G. O. P. to get on the trail of government problems, with a view to finding just how the machine runs and how it can be improved. Now, whether you.ascribe this latest triumph of the pro- fessors to politics or just sheer force of knowledge, it at least ought to stop the jokes about brain trusters. And, after all, isn’t it logical to assume that these college heads can fill useful public roles? . Each has devoted years to the study of taxation, economics, seeial: sejences, and political economy. It. is significant that beth parties now are asking their aid. Protect U. S. Wild Life Arthur Newton Pack, president of the American Nature apsocijation, made an intelligent comment the other day in Lewis of the United Mine Workers, head of the new industrial union movement, and will be followed up by the LaFoljette subcommittee in its preliminary hearings which : will be used to base a request for full invest- igation of violations of civil rights. The national labor relations board has a vast store of evidence as to industrial espionage which is be- d ing placed before the subcommittee)BARGAINING AMERICANS MAY pire which has a direct Paaueeaiee ‘SAVE RAILROADS enforcement of the Wagner labor (Bemidji, Minn., Sentinel) Reet Teed ta a ee cat -C°Ri"| Some time during the next few weeks iomithernl country to-/we shall probably find out whether Gay. the great eastern. railroads are go- With Other Tt has been common practice, this ian perage Jeol pigeons ‘to employ “si ns” join labor unions, make reports on the union’s affairs and memberships, and to obstruct or nullify their work from the inside. Activities of labor pee eae ero investiga- 5 4 It is also proposed that the com- mittee cover the whole field of civil liberties violations. : see Move Will Aid F. D. R. Obviously, the exposure and de- nunciation of these alleged: tactics— with recommendation for legislation in some cases—would aid’ militant labor organizérs. It would also ac- crue to the benefit. of the Roosevelt administration, which will have the Support of organized labor and pose as its champion while its opposition has the support of the American Lib- erty League, chiefly representative of anti-union employers. m of Labor's Nonparti- san League by George Berry of the Pressmen, Lewis of the miners, and Sidney Hillman of the clothing work- ers is important because it will be difficult for the other A. F. of L. leaders to-avoid playing along with ‘With Berry at its head, the move- | bes ment can't be branded-by. Bill Green and conservative legders as a mere offshoot of the Lewis-Hillman com- mittee for industrial tion. ‘The league's support of Roosevelt means that 160,000 miners.and 40,000 Garment workers in’ Pennsylvania, ‘and 236,000 trades workers in New York, a will be delivered the national Demogratic ticket in lovember. : Washington, when he declared that the wild life of the country | organize, belongs to all the people and not solely to the minority that hunts. all wild ‘life—~mammale, birds, and fishee—a “natural re- source,” protection of ‘which is vital to the nation. "He goes further to advocate direct subsidies to states for|*® wild life protection, pointing out that only such funds as come in from hunting taxes are readily available for conservation. There is a great deal in what he says. The hunter is not the only citizen who has a direct interest in our bird and animal life. The conservation of that life is a national problem, on which every class of cjtizen is entitled to be heard. ‘When snd {f the Townsend Plan becomes eft ; people want begin Chersine ther paresia fer bourd--Pillndelphls Bveting Suede . Pee gO ER things done. Florida planned by Frente they are moving (Ohio) cang] was ‘dirt “‘already—Deyton .* 2 pendent ot iy "Burren! "The Ravelition te peld for Ane : PE ee 2 Living wes cheap in the old days. required a penny Pack wants congress to enact legislation which will make Referge (after ‘propor arsmyete thei sovenist you two boys some . Firs Pus OF, is a Sk of Moore’ etead of gqscling —D the daagsen- st Louis Barina, Over here it takes of course, his neighbors didn’t unior’s It Free ae * ing to go to court to keep the Inter- state Commerce. Commission from in- creasing their passenger business for them, ‘The commission has ruled that rail- toad fares must come down from 3.6 cents a mile to 2 cents. The railroad presidents are detecting in their order the miasmic vapor of the bankruptcy courts. Before very long they must make up their minds whether they are going to call.in the lawyers or let na- ture take jts course. If the railroad men don’t like the order, however, it would be foolish for them to blame the I. C. C. The real villain of the piece is one one but the average American citizen, with his unquenchable fondness for bargains. This American citizen used to travel by railroad whenever he went any- where, for the very good reason that there was no other way of getting there. In the fullness of. time, how- ever, automobiles and busses were placed at his disposal, and then he made an interesting discovery. He found that if he used one or the other of these conveyances he could get where he was going for less money than he would have to pay the rail- roads to carry him. And in that mo- ment the troubles of the railroads jan, Passenger trains that used to run regularly in two and three sections started running in, one. Local trains died: pitifylly among ‘the rolling hills and grass-grown plains of the rural eyed from looking at cars in which! more or less inevitable. The I. C. C.’s | they had only three or four cash cus- tomers. And the railroads’ income from passenger trains dropped and dropped as if the bottom of all things had been removed. A few years ago certain western and southern roads began to medi- tate on the American’s fondness for bargains, and decided that if cheap travel was what the citizen wanted, cheap travel was what he would have. So they cut fares and waited to see what would happen. What happened was enlightening. ‘Travel by train began to increase again. With it, in spite of lower rates, rose passenger train incomes.. The supposedly moribund passenger busi- ness began to sit up in bed and ask for solid foods. After that, extension of the new rate scale to the entire country was = ____—__§——+ { SoThey Say | ¢ If you want to see something worth seeing, see the way John D. Rocke- feller spends his surplus wealth. It’s a great show. But let the U. 8. gov- ernment try to do the same thing and it’s a different story—Harry L. Hop- kins, WPA Administrator. * * * Mr. Landon has read a book. I don’t mean a detective story, but some kind of a real book ... he had better keep quiet, though, or he will not get the Republican nomination.—Norman Thomas. * e# * I wish that our players would fight rival players instead of each other.— Frankie Frisch, manager, &t. Louis districts. Pullman porters grew wall- Cardinals. | - European Nobleman | HORIZONTAL 1 Dethroned ruler. THe was the —— king. 13 Principal. 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[Lj] 38 To swallow up 39 Heavenly RIE IN| DIE INO RI VERTICAL 1 Diverts, 2 Tardy. 3 Sound of disgust. 4 Upon. 5 Prepared lettuce. 6 Death notice. 7 Street. 8 Foot lever. 9 Northeast. 10 Wayside hotel 11 Portico, 12 Herdsman, 16 Preposition. body. 41 Sheepskin cap. 43 Sound of surprise. 45 Hodgepodge. 47 Pertaining to air. 49 Organ of ‘hearing. 51 Because. 52 Poem. 53 Corded cloth, 54 Nothing. 56 Ream. 58 Pound. Reprinted to show what the: may or agree with recent order was to be expected; and it will be very hard to convince the ordinary citizen that it was not a wise and just order. Business goes-to the man who sells Your Personal . Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer disease or diagnosis. Write Brady in care of The Tribune. stamped. gelf-addressed envelope, juestions pertaining to otters briefly and in tn! ets tet et queries must be ress accompanied by & THE MANAGEMENT OF VERRUCA The removal of non-cancerous moles and warts from the face calls for the finest skill of the surgeon. Individuals of limited intelligence may be willing to submit to the miracle workers of the market place, the barbers, beauty “doctors” and self-commended plastic surgery institutes, but those who value their personal appearance, comfort and safety invariably select a physician or surgeon of repute to treat any such blemish. ‘To me, & wart on my own skin would be mildly interesting, but a wart on the skin of a potential patient has always been irritating. I’d better explain this, so you won't be puzzled about it. It is simply that I never learned the proper management of warts. Nine times out of ten my ad- vice, if sought at all, was curbstoned out of me. Caught between my office and my buggy by the casual passerby—it was extraordinary how many of them just happened to be strolling by—and confronted with a trifling wart, what could I do? Mutter about the danger of cancer, blood-poisoning, lockjaw? The blighter would recoil in righteous horror and start a whisper- ing questioning my mental state or hinting that I was hitting the dope. A medical practitioner has only to brush the fur of such a cat the wrong way to fan into flame the ever smouldering suspicion that he uses dope. I learned, too late, the key to the wart problem, I offer it here to young doctors who, I suppose, are still more or less subject to the curbstone .evil, though such customers are in danger of being picked up as pan-handlers in these days of fast cruising. This is the secret: No such thing as a wart. The lesion is always verruca. “My dear man, take my advice and have that verrucca removed immediately. Come to the office tomorrow.” There you have him. He can’t grumble. You've really gone out of your way to do him a favor, giving him a kindly warning against trifling with a potentially dangerous lesion. There's a fair chance he may decide to see it through, even if it costs him a fee. Whereas, under the old custom, who-ever heard of a doctor demanding a fee for just telling a person what to put onto a wart? That's why warts irritate me so. They’re like weak ankles in that re- ori Took me many years to learn that weak ankles are in fact pronated feet. : Physicians who have enjoyed success in dealing with such cosmetic blemishes as moles and warts report the most satisfactory results from the use of trichloracetic acid (a caustic far too dangerous for the layman to trifle with) followed after a minute or two by electro-dessication (dias thermy)—the escharotic action of the trichloracetic acid having a sufficient anesthetic effect to make the whole treatment tolerable without any other local anesthetic. For removing a wart along the edge of the eyelid, where the ascharoti would be unsafe, the favored method is to inject under the skin of the id's elesiern cent butyn solution, and then dessication with the endothermy or ermy. Not only moles and warts, but other small lesions are successfully treated with these methods, notably small “corns,” scars, vascula: “birthmarks,” fibromas and horny nodules, pits 2 pam AND ANSWERS Ww Please tell me if raw eggs are beneficial to a person in a run - dition. If they are, how many should be taken a day? wee B OED ji Answer—Not unless you prefer them raw. Cooked egg, cooked as you prefer, is more palatable, appetizing, digestable and healthful than raw egg. The popular notion of the value of raw egg is probably based on the observa- tion that physicians prescribed raw egg sometimes when patients were too Hnceadied eat bine ee A kind of ferment in raw egg albumen prevents comp! digestion o} ie white. Cooking destroys the ferment an the egg more completely digestible. —— Nuff Sed ‘Your suggestion that nail biters have their nails manicured by an expert every two weeks makes it apparent that you know nothing about nail biting. Imagine sending any one to the manicurist with their nails almost com- pletely bitten off. I wonder if any medical doctors really know anything at . « « (Mrs. R. T.) the most for the least. This holds good | #12 for railroads just as it does for other lines of business. GOUTGtous BEGIN HERE TODAY TOBY RYAN, 19, to 2 mode’ ‘Sea res an apartment with another model, CLYDE SABIN, whom Toby distrusts. Wealthy TIM JAMIESON show- ‘Teby with attentions fer a NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER Bu crossed the room and flung up a window. Toby felt the choking fumes in her throat. She groped for the electric switch, found it. The room was just as it bad been, but there was no sign of Harriet. — “Where is shet” Toby cried. “Oh, Bill, where is she?” The kitchenette of the apart- ment was little more than a cup- board. In fact, it had been one once. Bill pulled the door back and. disappeared inside. The sting of the gas was sharper with the door open. Toby cried, “Bill—!” and ran forward. There be was, with Harriet in his arms. “Raise the other win- dows,” he directed. “Do you know where to get a doctor?” He put Harriet on the daven- port and they did everything they could think of to revive her, but she was still unconscious when the doctor arrived. He made ar- res sought the doctor’s, question her lips did the doctor pro! “But, Doctor—!” “No time to waste now,” he said brusquely. “The sooner we get, her to the hospital, the bet- ter. ‘That's all I can tell you.” Later Bill sat with Toby in the dreary hospital waiting room. Her eyes were red-rimmed, the handkerchief she twisted in her hand a limp, moist ball “What time is it now?” Toby asked. He told ber. > “Surely it can't be much longer! They ought to know by this time. Why doesn’t someone come and tell us, Bill? Do you think they've forgotten—?” “They'll tell us, Toby, as soon es they know. I don't think it will’ be long now.” “But it’s been « long time al- ready. Ob, Bill, it’s all my fault! I shouldn't have left her alone to- night. I knew how she felt. If I'd stayed with her, as I should have, it wouldn’t have happened.” “You mustn't say that, Toby.” eee was another 2@ minutes. be- fore a nurse came and told them, “Miss Holm ia rcating quiet- yy now.™ Answer—Excuse it, please. I thought it might help. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) “Can I see her?” Toby asked. The nurse shook her head. “Not tonight. She's very weak and the doctor doesn’t want her to be disturbed. 1 imagine that you'll be able to see her tomor- row morning.” Toby was there next morning. She found a pale and wan-faced Harriet lying back against the pillows of the hospital bed. Har- ret said, “! sorry, Toby. I guess I’ve m: everybody a lot of trouble—” “Darling, it’s all right now. You had us horribly frightened last night, but now everything's all right. The doctor says you'll be yourself in just a few days.” “Yes, I know.” The few words seemed to have exhausted Harriet. Toby lingered a few moments, and then a nurse said that it was time for her to leave. From then on, her daily rou- tine included as much time at the hospital as she could spend there. Bill eame with her once, and an- other evening she arrived to find Marty Hiatt sitting beside Har- riet’s bed. There were flowers in baskets and vases about the room —so many that some ef them were on the floor. Barriet’s illness had been re- all were solicitous about her re- covery. « “Why, the place looks me ry Harriet it? It’s lovely of people to send them, but I feel selfish with so many flowers when some of the patients haven't any at all. I've asked the nurse to take part of mine to some of the other rooms.” Harriet. Marty nodded toward “She looks fine, doesn’t she? All she needs fs to get some color in her cheeks.” She did look better, although she was still weak. The doctor had ordered that she should re- main at the hospital a few days longer. eee BY was cheerful at the hos- Pital,* but. privately she was worried. Since the day Harriet was why she had done this dread- ful thing, of course. There couldn’t be any other reason. - If Harriet would only talk about it! But she didn't. She was sweetly appreciative of every- thing that was done for her. She Only one person besides Toby knew the truth about the “acci- dent” of the estaped gas—Bill. home. Everybody knows she was to be married. It will be awfully hard for her to go beck to work.” “She ought to go away some GY LAURA tou BROOK © Pah WEA Senta, tan, He understood what she meant before the words were out. “Not @ chance,” he said. “Don't you know, Toby, that once anyone has come as close to the finish as Harriet did, they never make a second try? They realize, I guess, just how much life means.” “I hope you're right.” “Of course Iam. I can show you figures to prove it.” It was Marty Hiatt, eventually, with the far-away expression on her face, still silent about her plans for the future. eee M242" dropped in one evening after work. “I've got an idea,” he announced. “You can’t go back to work for a while, Har riet. At least, you shouldn't. The country’s what you need. I have an aunt who lives in a little town up farther in the state. She's the finest cook im the world and ie ERE # bs rat