The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1936, Page 6

5 ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936 | | ‘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 @ntered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Stella |, Mann Vice President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Editor ; 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 Paily 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 it or not otherwise credited in this hewspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, ‘Loading’ the Statistics In the old days economists fixed their attention upon steel as the best indicator of the trend of American trade. They still pay considerable attention to it because it enters into so many things that its consumption is a good indication of whether or not goods are moving, but it no longer is the dominant factor in estimating the industrial scene. That place now is taken by the goods themselves, as wit- ness the fact that freight carloadings are given a rating of 10 in “loading” the statistics which ascertain the condition of the business pulse. Steel is rated at 8, electric power production and automobile output each at 6, building contracts at 4, com- mercial loans at 3, bank debits outside of New York at 2 and domestic cotton deliveries at 1. The reason for this rating of importance is easy to under- stand. When goods are moving in large quantities it means that people are buying or building or both. When steel mills are busy it means that men are at work making use of it. Domestic cotton rates higher industrially than the cereal trade because sales of this commodity indicate the speed at which spindles in knitting mills are turning. Just as wheat is of more importance to us than rye, so Some items are more important than others in determining the business outlook. It is the only fair way of indicating the trend, yet it shows how much faith we must have in statis- ticians to accept their figures. A change in the weight factor would make a lot of difference. More enlightening still is the fact that all of the items listed are showing steady upward progress from week to week. This is true even of commercial loans, long the weakest factor in the business equation. Even the bankers are taking heart, as witness a rise from a level of 57.9 during the week of April 11 to 58.2 for the week of April 18. How far the bankers have recovered from their jitters is indicated by statistics showing the trend of bank debits out- side of New York City. For some reason February has been the low point for each of the last three years but the low point 1936 was at 4.3 billion dollars whereas that for 1935 was 3.76 billion and that for 1934 was 3.4 billion. Fear Over the Southland To make life easier by producing things more easily and cheaply has long been the common aim of the human race, yet the os end is beset with terrors and humankind approaches its utopif in fear and trembling. A gbod example is the trepidation now evident in the cot- ton-growing states at thought of a machine which would replace hand labor in picking cotton. If it were not for the cost of picking, the cost of growing cotton would be materially lowered, for labor costs would be sharply reduced. And that is just what is worrying the South, for production of cotton with less labor would mean a decrease in its employ- ment. The cotton-picking machine isn’t yet practical but it may become so any day. And when it does it will mean calamity for a large part of the nation unless a way to cure the atten- dant social problems is found. Much of the South doesn’t want such a blessing because it will force them into new ways of thinking and into new experiments. Cheaper cotton would be a blessing for the world, just as | cheaper electricity, cheaper transportation and a wider variety of foods have been, yet the South wonders if it could afford guch a development. y Congratulations to St. Paul Until two years ago St. Paul was one of the worst hotbeds of crime in the nation. Some of America’s most vicious gangs flourished there in a fairly open alliance with the city’s police department. The situation became so bad that it attracted na- ional attention and, as a result, the citizens got sick of it. They elected a new mayor who promptly proceeded to clean ‘up the situation. He was fought at every turn by the combined forces of crime and politics but in the end he won out. Gang- ' sterism no longer flourishes there. St. Paul is a clean city— | or at least it is much cleaner than it was. : t Now the usual reward for such activity is that the reform- ‘is bounced out by the electorate at the first opportunity. A i-up such as St. Paul has had steps on a lot of toes, cuts down a lot of profits. : But the city by the big river is different. Its citizens went the polls Tuesday and re-elected the mayor who was respon- sible for these reforms. a Those citizens deserve congratulations and thanks from he reat of America. © Incidentally, their example might be called to the attention the residents of St. Paul’s sister city, Minneapolis, It still truggling with the very same evils which Mayor Gehan d when he took office in St. Paul two years ago. St. Paul has pointed the way to a remedy. The question will the better citizens of Minneapolis some day find the and the unity to make use of it. ag Grets Garbo refused to send her footwear for display at a New York hibit, Perhaps there was difficulty about who should pay the freight ’ Gooee nocce Behind the Scenes Washington c | Tax Bill in Safe Hands of Congress | Conservatives . . . The Record Squares Minton on His “Swine” Reference . .. More Trouble Sim- mers Over WPA Directors .. + Jones of Pennsylvania Is Target. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, May 1.—Regardless of | what the House does to the tax bill on the floor, of what the senate fi- nance committee or the senate itself does to it thereafter, and of how the | measure finally works out, it should be noted that the measure will be handled by conservative-minded members of congress. Shrieking congressmen who attri- bute the original plan for tapping cor- poration surpluses to Dr. Tugwell are squirting so much eyewash. The measure came from the treasury, which is practically the most conser- vative place in town, Even if it hadn’t come from there, no one could say with any accuracy that radicals had any hand in numetous subse- quent changes. The house ways and means com- mittee under Chairman Bob Dough- ton has long been notorious as a graveyard for liberal bills. Two mem- bers of the committee, Sam Hill of Washington and Fred Vinson of Ken- tucky, had most to do with producing the tax bill from its chambers. They inflated numerous “cushions” for the new scheme and did only part of the job, promising that the rest of the tax money asked by Roosevelt. could be provided for in a tax bill next year. The senate finance committee is likely to tear the bill to pieces and may ruin it completely. Nervous business men, if any, may well note that the committee is dominated by conservative Democrats. Bailey of North Carolina, King of Utah, Gerry of Rhode Island, Walsh of Massachusetts, Byrd of Virginia, George of Georgia. and Gore of Ok- lahoma are said to be ready to unite with Republican members against the principle of a graduated tax on un- divided surpluses. * ke * Squaring Mr. Minton Senator Sherman Minton of In- diana has been more or less embar- rassed because it appeared in reports of one of his speeches that he ad- mitted by inference that senators were “swine.” Minton was talking about William Randolph Hearst and quoted a Hearst editorial which said senate leaders had “led the Gadarene swine down the slope of constitutional sur- render into the abyss.” Minton was reported as asserting that “we are a better breed of swine than, etc.,” whereas the record shows his words as: “The Scripture does not enlighten us much as to this breed of swine; but I venture the assertion they are a better breed of swine than Mr. Hearst and his pusillanimous pen-pusher who wrote that editorial.” xe OK More WPA Grief in Air Harry Hopkins probably will dis- miss two or three more state WPA directors before election day. It all depends on the amount of pressure for such action, and the extent to which administrators appear to be political liabilities. Speculation as to the tenure of Edward Noel Jones, state adminis- trator in Pennsylvania, is uppermost now. Jones is an ardent Democrat, @ protege of Senator Joe Guffey. Requests received in Washington for his dismissal have contained charges that he used WPA money, Power, employes, and the franking privilege to attack political oppon- ents, that wage rates have been boosted in Reublican areas to wean votes, and that WPA employes have been consistently propagandized to vote for local and national candi- dates. xk *® Clashes With League The charge attracting the most at- tention is that Jones illegally used ‘WPA pay envelopes, under federal frank, for a political attack on Ste- phen Raushenbush, former chief in- vestigator for the senate munitions committee and the chairman of the Pennsylvania Security League. The League is a non-partisan or- ganization formed to promote social legislation, and in alliance with la- bor unions and social worker groups successfully fought appointment of Jones as state relief administrator in addition to his present post. It has protested Jones’ alleged tac- tics against WPA unions and strik- ers, especially since the arrest of 10 WPA workers for picketing. On the other hand, Jones appears to be giving a competent WPA ad- ministration and there have been no charges of graft or collections of campaign contributions from WPA workers in Pennsylvania. Administration politicians have great hope of carrying Pennsylvania for Roosevelt this year. Unless Jones shows up as a political handicap, Hopkins is likely to be content with telling him to stop sticking his neck out. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) —————————E i So They Say | Crime and gangster films are an important factor in to the American people the facts that crime is an organized business, that a gang- ster is a rodent that must be elimin- ated from American life—Charles C. Pettijohn, counsel for movie produc- ers. *e 4 I’m not a-makin’ any money up here in Washington. It costs all you make. If I wasn’t a pretty fair poker player, I couldn’t stay here—P. L. Galloway, U. 8, representative, Okla- homa. x * & * * contribution to that contest calling for 500 words or less on “How gen Onn Stay Ov of War” ight ruggest confining diplomats to ib or +e j “se bit easly yet to decide whether the Boston Bees are workers or I find nothing in the press to en- courage crime—but plenty to warn you and me that the savage elements of American society must be de- stroyed.—H. B. Le Quatte, president, Advertising Ciub Of ae, York. * ‘What our husbands earn is still, in most cases, “ours”: what we earn is “mine,”—Mrs. Carrick Castle, author, criticising working wives. a | At Last! Something Approaching a Painless Tax | “TRY READING IT. =(T'S PRACTICALLY AN ANESTHETIC? or our Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Beaty. a answer westtons ining te health but pot ain ink, Al The args.) ots auer eo aust be accompanied be a dressed envelope. CRIPPLED BY A HUMFBACKES Oe ie 2 Since a child of twelve, writes a woman of twenty-six, trouble with my feet, called hammer toe. At times my feet fully. Recently I have learned that condition, but operation rarely proves Naturally, if I have a chance, i i: Mu : i z£ wEEE +o» (Mrs. C, C.) Answer—Yes. The effect of such With Other NOT SO SILLY (St. Paul Dispatch) The. dog food issue raised by Sena- tor Dickinson sounded silly to Sena- tor Byrnes, but the sarcasm of his reply misses the point. It is only someone's guess that 20 million pounds of canned dog food are eaten by humans every year, but Senator Dickinson at least brought out the fact that some of it finds its way into human consumption, When there are people who drink “canned heat” and denatured alco- hol, it is believable that there are people who will eat canned dog food, and not necessarily because they are driven to it by absolute necessity, al though there may be cases of thi kind, too, despite the general avail- ability of adequate relief for those in need. What Senator Dickinson is really A BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN A lone passenger waited an hour for the daily train to show up at Mud Junction. It finally arrived, but breezed right on by without halting. “What kind of a railroad is this?” roared the would-be passenger. “Why didn’t that train stop?” “*Taint no fault of the road, mis- ter,” replied the station-agent. “The danged engineer 4s mad at me be- cause I wouldn't give him a chaw of terbaccer last week.” Boneset—Do you believe the auto is the ruin of young men? Trippe—No; but I know most young fellows don't do an auto any good. | Owens—Do not the budding leaves, the song of the birds and warm days of returning spring fill your heart with joy? Martin—I should say they do. You see, I own a summer hotel. Wiggom—I see where a professor has discovered a hundred-foot worm. What do you think of that? Slugg—I think the early bird get- ting that one would be calling for help instead of bragging. News Correspondent—General, how many troops do you have in the Rhineland now? German Officer—Do you mean for scaring the French or for paying off? Dentist—There’s no hope. I must kill that nerve, Patient—Please, not that! It would ruin me—I’m a book-agent. FLAPPER, FAN YY SAYS: EDITORS attacking is negligence of the Food and Drug administration, perhaps on the grounds that careful inspection and correct labeling are not import- ant where dog food is concerned. Senator Copeland’s reply was more to the point, when he said that con- gress does not give the food adminis- tration sufficient funds to do a com- plete job; but probably now that this criticism has been made, funds will be found to correct this oversight. The government cannot stop people from eating dog food if they want to, Reprinted what they but it can make the label read right if it is wrong. Much as they profess to welcome constructive criticism, there are few Persons in authority and power who really relish having shortcomings ex- posed or failures pointed out. Hence the importance of a political opposi-|" tion and freedom of speech and the Last year you had a number of interesting articles on the regeneration press, for good government. It is} regimen. Have you any copies available now? ... (A. D. R.) human to resent criticism and for Answer—Send ten cents coin and a stamped envelope bearing your that very reason even the most| address, for the booklet “The Regeneration Regimen,” which gives the gist benevolent of dictatorships can not} of it. (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) FOLLY ond FAREWEL BEGIN HERE TODAY .. LINDA BOURNE, 20 yea pretty and socially promt: the Mttle town ef Newtown, ts left almost penniless after the eudéen death of her father. She becomes friendly with PETER GARDINER, political re- porter, and shows him a scena she has written, Linda breaks date with Peter after DIX CAR- TER, with whem she is in love, telephones. Dix comes to see her Dut atays briefly. Later Linda Bees to Peter's home and is wel- comed by his mother. Peter tells her that his mews- paper meeds a society reporter. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER V For five hours Linda actually dic not think of Dix for one min ute, She was having a good time She ate chicken hash and fluffy bir cuits and home-made relish an: heaps of strawberry shortcake an felt like an over-stuffed child a Thanksgiving. She looked at pic tures of Pete when he was a littl boy (much to his disgust). Sh: Ustened to stories of what a goo boy he had been until he had tc cestrain his mother from saying more. | Linda talked—or rather ques | tioned Pete—about newspaper) work, and begged him to reassure ter about the job on the Blade. “It’s a cinch you'll get it. You're just the girl. Barrett's been de pending on publicity to fill that so- elety column, but I pointed out to him that you could fill it with a few telephone calls.” “ot fig T could,” Linda said ly. “The pay won't be much. Ask tor $20; you'll probably get $18.” “Why, that’s loads of money! Do you ae Tl be worth it?” Linda asked \* “There's lots of money to be made fm néwspaper work, my dear,” said Mrs. Gardiner sagely, albeit she knew nothing about it. “Are you always going to be a 7” Linda asked with ber whole story—the story of her mother and her father and her own loneliness —and into he: sympa thetic ears she poured the story of her love for Dix Carter. Mrs. Gardiner was atill when Linda had finished and something like fear came into her quiet eyes as she thought of her son and this i irl. Pete had not spoken to his mother of the things she knew he must be feeling, but she guessed and did not want him to be hurt. ‘This wise woman saw the lack of emotional balance in Linda where others saw only the calm, poised and sensible things for which sho stood. Mary Gardiner knew that Linda was made to be hurt and to hurt others. No one else in Linda's Ife ever perceived that. So no one could ever help her when she needed help, as she did many times in the years that followed. eee ND Pete was her good friend. Pete who wangled tickets for , Dix said, “It will only be a year, Linda. Will you wait... will you still remember me?” it will make a fine moving picture.” Linda was embarrassed; he had jt! read it to his mother! “You're just being kind”—and, turning to Pete—‘Please may I take it along with me?” She didn’t want any- one else to read it. Pete took a long time to stamp out the ashes before he answered. He cleared his throat and looked |“ away. i accept the invitations that came to her as before, and she was giad to have an excuse not to attend. E ; it f e tit H 3 ree the financial rescuing children from fires, bring- ing in scoops. She was the girl reporter. But it wasn't like that. Barrett hired her, gave her a 7 ner desk, told her to fill a colt . bg 8 ae FE ses and went scoops for her, no po on the telephone at i #t is apr Ht