The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1936, Page 6

The Bismarck Tribune An independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Officiai Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Stella I. Mann Vice President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary apd Treasurer Kdltor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year DaiJy by mall per year (in Bismarck) . Daily 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 Dak ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein, Ai tients of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, Opening Gun Taken together, President Roosevelt’s speeches at Balti- more and New York indicate the line of campaign which the Democrats will.adopt in this election year. They promise no retreat from the attitude which has marked the administration of the nation’s affairs during the last three years: but rather an extension of the general prin- ciples which have guided the Roosevelt course. Without being specific, the president made a real effort to translate the nation’s consciousness of its social problems into political capital. Whether or not he was successful remains to be seen. But on the whole he did his usual good job of it. He has a genius for that sort of thing. Impartial observers, if there are any such, must admit that the administration has scored both successes and failures. If it has been inconsistent and disorganized in some directions (which. it has been) it has also done some things which have won acclaim. But these speeches indicate that the president, while ap- parently willing to defend his record, does not propose to give much time to that element of the campaign. Instead he chooses to tell the story of sweetness and light. His battle cry is onward and upward. His effort is to direct the attention of the people to the things which might be rather than to the things which are. His answer to crities of free government spending is that this is more than matched by an increase in the national in- come and his answer to the fact that a debt for future pay- ment is being imposed on the people is that failure to do the things which have caused this debt would be unfair to the future generation. The campaign thus outlined is one which will challenge Republican ingenuity to meet, for the trend of thought in this nation always has been to ignore the past and look to the future. With the average American, tomorrow always is go- ing to be a better day. Thus the president stands before the electorate as a pro- phet. His may be a siren song but it is one pleasing to the American ear and one dear to American hearts. It may not be wholly.in accord with the facts as the aver- age man sees them for him to dismiss rather lightly some of the administration’s failures but his ability to do so is doubt- less a political asset. These two speeches deserve careful study by the Repub- licans as well as by the electorate for they commit him to a rather definite course. So far as he is concerned, it is clear, the issue is going to be whether the people of the United States want more of what they have been getting. As.a result, the Republicans also are thrust into the field of prophecy. Their job will be to prove to the electorate that whatever program they adopt will be of more benefit to the people than the course which Roosevelt has pursued. But that, afterall, is nothing new in American Politics. It is always the issue. : The Itching Foot If there is anything which is entirely typical of the aver- age American it is his desire to travel. No other nation makes @ practice of going so far from home so often, With a good many a trip is in the nature of a spree. It gets to be a habit quite as marked as any of the other things which we do ag a matter of course. And traveling often is marked by the same carefree attitude toward life. A man who ™may count every nickel at home may become rather a free spender—or at least a freer spender—when on the road. Thus it is significant that more Americans will travel this year than ever before, according to indications available to the str American Automobile association. In recent years lack of funds has caused a great many persons to stay closer to home than they like. With improvement in business this bar to the ing the itching foot is removed. America is about to go places. Some will-go abroad. Already this year 40 per cent more aytomobiles‘were shipped to Europe for touring purposes than were sent there during the same period in 1985, But most of them will follow the call of the open road and see America first. | Many of the latter will pass through North Dakota, both see what we have to offer and to visit other scenic areas in the northwest. Preparation now is being made by the Greater North Dakota association and a coalition of similar agencies in this part of the country to bring them here. They will be welcome, both for their own sakes and for the business they will bring, for the stranger offers both a psychological experience and a commercial opportunity. Those hi benefit y % wee pte ae peyments suggest a new mexim, “As ye not * * & Detgoit, home of Joe Louis and the Tigers, has won hock he 5 bor gl ee ail around simply to award victories to cuenpetiens ton vee It's 8 lesson to citizens who think themselves abo’ Clevelanders dosed with liquor to test a new “drunk detector” * Thoge: want to know how Jong this moarigr-tonpetenice business has been going on. a Mussolini defi may «set the law that the , * Now that rubber glass has been invented, fonocles bouncing on the floor of parliament, * says the doctor who blew himself v1 a and Haapole sitters: Please oe Ti he “Chaslle'Chaplin sage he will make talkie.” On his Far East tour, Char- eee “Los Angeles womgn id 16 for publicity. - h is pus 1 up by nine words: the, )| _ Pometto—Don't . it it. ® critics] speech by the ite No one will Know the ailtepeoves 1 sounds almost ‘as new.. | Behind the 1! Washington bist Bopha Publicity on AAA Payments Reveals Freezing Out of Sharecroppers . . Prominent Role Taken by Oscar Ichnston in Cotton Program... Strange Sight Is New Clubbiness of Communists and Socialists. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, April 28—The fuss over big AAA benefit payments has served to bring out angles of the farm program which, although they won't be made into campaign issues, seem to reflect more seriously on the record than the mere fact that big payments were made to big producers in accord- ance with law. Displacement of sharecroppers and tenant farmers, notably in the south, is ground for one of the chief com- plaints, The news that Thomas D, Camp- bell had received about $50,000 for not rasing wheat was not considered as significant, except by politicians, in that Campbell as a “sharecropper” could pocket 85 per cent of the benefit payments while Indian owners of land which he rented pocketed 15 per cent at a time when cotton share-, croppers theoretically were averag- ing about 15 per cent of benefit pay- ments and cofton land owners about 85 per cent. ee # Grave Injustice Charged The R. E. Lee Wilson plantation in Arkansas received the largest cot- ton payments—$199,700 in 1933 and 1934. Interest in that sum is accenu- ated by charges of the Southern Ten- ant Farmers’ Union that the firm changed from a sharecropping sys- tem in order not to have to share benefits, threw hundreds on relief, and re-hired workers: at 75 cents for @ 12 to 14-hour day. This practice has been widespread, it is said, necessitating large relief and Resettlement expenditures in addition to AAA benefit money. Many croppers and tenants are alleged’ to have been phenagled out of all share in benefits and the AAA here has been powerless to correct that, because its local representatives usually are plantation owners. Under the new AAA soil program, owners are supposed to give share- croppers about 25 per cent of federal payments and no one here is’ pre- Pared to say how many evictions or evasions may be expected. There has been constant conflict within AAA ranks as to what should be done to protect croppers and ten-| ants, the plantation owners’ side be- ing upheld by Cully Cobb, chief of the AAA cotton section. Croppers actually have been receiving 11 to 12 per cent of benefit payments, officials 58 A Meanwhile, the threat’ of the Rust brothers’ cotton picker hangs heavy over the whole situation. Also into the picture comes Mr. Oscar G. Johnston, manager’ of the federal cotton pool and manager: of the British-controlled Delta and Pine Land Co., which received the third largest cotton payment. Johnston has in time past been virtual boss of the cotton program. It was he who jammed through the government’s cotton loan policy and especially the 12-cent loan rate over the original objection of Secretary Wallace and many others. The loan policy loaded the govern- ment with 5,000,000 bales of cotton and, according to experts, caused a large decrease in cotton consumption —especially in foreign markets, since cotton owners who. could get 12 cents @ pound from the government natur- ally didn’t care to export at. lower Prices. A Brookings Institution report on AAA cotton control asserts that .by the fall of 1935 the AAA was financing the holding of nearly twice as much cotton as the much-abused old Fed- eral Farm Board, in spite of ‘marked reductions in the amount of’ ‘cotton Produced, zee Radicals Find Unity . ‘The convention and parades.of the Workers’. Alliance in Washington in- dicated a strengthening of the :Com- munist movement, despite the party's continued jnsignificance as a national force. Although. the - Communists have grown in numbers—chiefly by to avoid any tactics which ‘might lead to disorder, : al- though pame of the Communists ap- pe ' regret, that they : cout Pick fights with cops. pie se h Led. by ex-Hooverite David Lasser, president of the /al- ance, turned out to. be. an The spectacle of a: Communist sub- ordinating himself to 9 ‘Bocisiist was an example of the new Communist “united front” technique as dictated from Moscow. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Seryice, Inc.) Pach ac MPa aE ss A < from whom 4 owed oe BIT OF HUMOR NOW T : THE BEST OF MEN to the boy who unwrapped it éxposing @ gold watch. “Now,, said the: ma- Bician, “I shall change it back again.” “Oh, no,” replied the youngster as he placed the watch ‘in his pocket. “I like it better as it is.” dred years old. as good 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1986: Scenes||| «Here It Comet Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. tions pertataton to health but not brieft: d in ink. Adéress Dr. ri ‘queries must be accompanied by a Dr. Brady will answer disease or diagnosis. te Brady tn care of The Tribune. stamped. celf-addressed envelope. THE SHORT FAT CHILD Certain children are apparently normal in every way except that they do not grow normally in height. They are not cretinoid in appearance, that is, they show none of the signs which are characteristic of cretinism, con- genital deficiency of thyroid gland function. Some of these children are not only short but much too fat, although they present few or none of the evidences of hypothryoidism or functional deficiency of the thyroid gland which are so common in adults who are too fat. . Yet thyroid treatment of these short fat children is remarkably effective. It is always a serious matter, too, to give thyroid treatment to an adult, and whenever such treatment is used the patient must be under medical observation constantly. Any one who ventures to Me he ee ee . Fortunately, these short fat chil hypothroid adults, Such a child, normal in perhaps above the normal in intelligence, will fairly sprout up under thyroid therapy. Besides thyroid therapy, in some cases treatment with pituitary and with thymus gland hormones may give excellent results. A boy aged 14 years with stunted years on thymus treatment. A girl aged 11 normal in weight after six months of dwarfed in height, gained eight inches treatment. In certain cases where there is failure to underweight. A child 3% years of age was 4% inches shorter than normal and weighed only 20% pounds, scarcely as much as a old should weigh. This child grew three inches and doubled hi six months on pituitary treatment. I mention these instances in the hope e parents who are anxious about children with such deficie: you any more about it, and I certainly advise you such remedies without. medical supervision. But I am any physician, that is, any Doctor of Medicine who is the profession, whatever information, data or references request. E ! E i QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - Hypochromic Anemia Please give full instructions for preparing your home remedy for hypochromic anemia... . (Mrs. B. A. C.). With Other ‘WHY NOT EVERY DAY (Bruce Catton in N. E. A. Service) Mother’s day is going to be upon us one these Sundays, and if the past is any guide to the future the occa- sion will be marked by @ great deal of useless gush. It seems to be a habit of ours to work ourselves up to a perfect lather of sentimentality about something one day in the year, and then to ig- nore it for the other 364 days. Not that the sentiment isn’t very i pleasant and touching. There is EDITORS something heart-warming about the custom of setting aside one day to let Mother know that she is loved and appreciated. The flowers, the little gifts, the extra attentions that appear on Mother’s day come from the heart, and it’s good for us to give them. But why, or why, must we try to pack it all into one day? Why can’t we carry over a little of this senti- ment for use the rest of the year? In the first place, Mother isn’t just the gray-haired old lady of the hat they may or agree with Mother’s day pictures. She's a lot of people, some of them old and some of them young, some of them rich and some of them poor. She's the girl at the spindle in the textile mill and the woman back of the department store counter, the dining-room waitress and the tele- phone girl, the farmer's wife and the woman on relief. Being all these people, and more besides, she has a few common wants that are in evidence every day in the year. She wants a decent measure! Answer—Send ten cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, for booklet “Blood and Health” which contains the instructions, (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) SS of economic security and a chance to/slum clearance since our nation was look forward to old age without un-| rounded ° due fear, She wants things for her children| We find hundreds of millions for —a comfortable home, good school- |Our army and cut down on the school ing, a chance to grow through a hap-/and playground budget. We let chil- and/|dren waste and die from disease that our science could prevent, and we do next to nothing to abolish war from the world. And—if you don’t mind hard- boiled provide those things forgher? of them through We ignore the old-age pension! pidity, we kick Mother right in the movement so scandalously that it . falls into the hands of brainless and| Mother's day is a fine institution. ible cranks and quacks. We|We could approach it with » clearer put into one squadron of cruisers} conscience if we did just a little more more money than we have spent on| for Mother on the other 364 days, FOLLY ond FAREWELL. (Continued from Page 1) molding of her bones and the strength in her slender hands as she sat at his thoroughbred, and Pete thoroughbreds. He was one himself. The desk phone rang. Pete reach- ed for it languidly. “Hello, Corbin” (it was the Blade's police reporter). “Cal Bourne shot himself in his office an hour ago. Tell Barrett I'm on the story, will you?” Pete reached for his crumbled cig- aret package, and thrust it back. Moved: by an impulse he didn’t stop to analyze, he took the stairs, three at a time. Somebody would have to tell that poor kid her old man had bumped himself off. Gently! ee & It was Linda, cool, dry-eyed, and white, who opened the door to him. She had forgotten him, but suddenly their meeting that afternoon in ‘the Blade office came back to’her.: - “I'm afraid you'll have to excuse us, Mr. Gardiner. And I must ask you not to presume on our meeting this afterngon.. A statement will be given to the newspapers.” - She spoke before Pete had a chance to sty-ahything,’and for the second time within: an hour she left -him. " Louis was Getting back to St. : just like going home. ... I guess I know every cat and in. town, and ‘it * * % Opposi ing itself. Catholics, veterans and ing its inevitable fruit. People speaking who have not spoken before. ~+Dr. Daniel A. Poling, editor, The Christian, se % Doleini—This violin is over a hun- Wisecracking, even if only in the recesses of your mind, will interfere quite definitely with your reasoning Powers.—Sir Edward Beatty, chancel- lor, McGill university, night when I can do with a bit of i cold air.” But, whether he intended to or not, Pete Gardiner went to call on Linda Bourne and found her sobbing, her head pillowed on the new grass. He gave her his handkerchief and offered his shoulder. She only knew that it was more comfortable than the grass and wiped her eyes on his handkerchief. CHAPTER Il For fully 10 minutes Linda rested | | her head on Pete's shoulder, and then she remembered who she was. With the, tight little wet ball of her own handkerchief, she wiped the last of her tears away, smoothed her rumpled frock, tucked her hair up and drew away. “Don’t mind me,” Pete said. “And “N-no, thank you,” Linda started to say, then reached with a band that still trembled childishly. “Thanks,” she said, as steadily as her close-to-tears voice would strove.for poise. Then, ing, she lost what little she could assume, Her composure crumbled and she buried her face in her arms, E “Say, look here—that won't do himeelf, for once, with pity lending a sturdy brake to the flow of his fippent talk. What did e fellow say to comfort a weeping girl? “I'm all: rright. Don't mmind me. I'll stop ian minnie,” ante brought. out. between so! 5 0 Safin ewe. toes: kart? DIR did not exist for her. that did. “I’m glad you told me,” she sald gravely. “Why did you do that? Why did you come to tell met” “No,” she answered to bis sur- prise. “Please may I have your handkerchief again?” : “What is there about me that appeais to ladies in distress?” he asked foolishly when the silence thréatened to become. permanent, “I’m sure I don’t know anything about your ladies in distress,” Linda said at last. “But 1 of don't want.to be alone.” “Alone? How about the family?” G a ieby ate i i : i B E aE Hi | ag ' le “ & é os z & | E Fy 1 be l Pete Gardiner looked at Linda and knew that he and his kind her.” « would you in with me? haven't had supper and I thought maybe, if you'd keep me company, I might have some.” Linds was much less like the. president of the Junior League than a small, F Ege rk i atl i Hh el He Ht ipl Hi: } PERE F fi Fh 2 x i : i ay i e 3 ‘ a ! : & te i ing her in the Blade office, checked his uncomfortable i it belnyitita ilgftir ae ; Sat le s J | ee ee ia g é 3 Es As iy +e E i H 3 i i D | LE HY ii i i iH af AL | i f k i : i i i { i i Ft Hy : | iE i EEE it Be BF jell Mind Hl Hit it 4 tf E