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weewaTw mom EE OTTER MM The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D. and @ntered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Stella 1. Mann Vice President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Secretary and Treasurer Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Datly by mail 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 mai) outside of North Dakota, per y Weekly by mail in Canada, per year ............6 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thie Newspaper and al: e@ local news of spontaneous origin published herein. AW elghts of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Indication of a Trend Activities of the two major parties at Wednesday’s county conventions were interesting but inconclusive. They served to indicate the direction of the wind but neither its volume or velocity. That will be determined only when the people go to the polls in June and decide the issues which party leaders, from the precincts to the state organizations, have been unable to determine for themselves. But there is no denying the significance of this event or its importance in shaping the outcome of the state’s political affairs, particularly with regard to the battle in the Republican ranks, Few even among his staunchest supporters expected such an outpouring of sentiment in favor of Governor Welford. His attributes are such that they usually take time to win public appreciation but the fact that he is careful, forward-looking and eminently honest seems to be fully understood by the lead- ers of the party in the state. Hence their support for him. Leaders of the Welford faction will do well, however, not to put too much faith in this single indication or relax their efforts toward informing the electorate of the issues involved and the virtues of their candidate. No election ever held in June was won beyond dispute in early May and much water will Behind the Scenes Washington One Point Won in Fight for Safety on Sea and in Air—U. 8. Inspectors Go Under Civil Service . . . Even Painting the Grand Canyon is ©. K., if Democrats Do It... Home State Honors Bryan... “First Name Habit” Spreads to Ga. 0. P. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, May 8—Some heed finally has been paid to frequent complaints that it has become rela- tively unsafe to go to sea or up in the air under the administration of shipping and aviation by Secretary of Commerce Dan Roper. Legislation providing for 17 new supervising inspectors and traveling inspectors for the Bureau of Naviga- tion and Steamship Inspection has been so revamped that these officials will be under civil service. They will have to pass examinations to. show that they're qualified. The commerce department had in- sisted that the jobs be exempted from civil service. The only appar- ent reason for that was that the sal- aries involved ran up to $5,000 and $6,000, which comes into the class of desirable political patronage. Without the protection of civil service, it would have been easy later to fire any of the 17 officials in case they became “too severe” in enforcing safety regulations. * * * Senate Gets Credit Credit for covering the 17 jobs under civil service goes to the senate, which ordinarily is eager to reserve such plums for political uses. And also, it is reported, to the White House, which is said to have decided the men should be appointed on a merit basis for the benefit of the sea- going public. This slight change for the better, however, probably will do little to- ward cleaning up the mess for which Roper's critics hold him largely responsible. The delegation of 75 seamen which Tecently waited on Roper after his attempt to have sailors who went on SKILL 3 BALLS FOR A FEW MILLION LIBRE With strike in port prosecuted for mutiny merely added to a high pile of testi- go over the political dam—to say nothing of the outpouring of | ™0"v. oratory—before the decisive votes are counted, They may properly take new hope and enthusiasm but the results of the county conventions and of the state convention— now a foregone conclusion—are merely evidences of a trend which must be emphasized and cemented by them if their plans are to reach fruition. What Price Dignity? Proposal by the committee in charge of the Pioneer Days celebration to require all male citizens to give evidence of their support by wearing some article of “western” regalia isn’t very dignified but, if the town enters into the spirit of the occa- sion, it will be a lot of fun. The proposal to require whiskers generated considerable heat and it may be just as well that it was defeated in the pop- ular vote, but all the new rule requires is that the average citizen be willing to shed a portion of his dignity. That should not be a difficult feat and, on the whole, will be a good thing for all concerned. Since Bismarck is going to a jot of trouble to entertain its anticipated guests it is entitled to as much fun as it can get out of the process and the pro- posal now presented to the people should prepare us to give them a truly warm greeting. And besides, this requirement may enable many a man to fulfill a long-cherished, if suppressed, ambition without risk- ing the jibes of his contemporaries. The exhibition of color, if the public takes to the sugges- tion in a kindly mood, will be interesting to see and may even be uplifting to the spirit. It is little enough to give in the serv- ice of a city such as Bismarck has grown to be and may help to make Bismarck still better. And it might be worse. Suppose we had a baby derby or the other antics which served to put Seattle on the front pages &@ year ago at the time same that they brought considerable amusement to its citizens? Dignity and decorum are undoubtedly virtues but a little fun now and then helps to keep men young. Two More Scalps Two more scalps dangle at the belts of the G-men as Wil- liam Mahan and Harry Campbell view the world through iron bars. There still is plenty of work for them to do and there will be more but the record to date proves pretty definitely that anyone who gets the federal secret service on his trail is going to have serious trouble. These arrests, the recent capture of Alvin Karpis and the breaking of up other gangs prove that the G-men actually are getting their men in the way which tradition and the thriller novel ascribes to Canada’s northwest mounties. b The trend is one which pleases the law-abiding citizen for - the more dangerous this country becomes for the cold-blooded and repacious criminal the safer it becomes for the citizen whose normal thoughts are far removed from violence and the spoils of criminal operations. ‘Conservation’ in Fact Secretary Ickes has renewed his appeal to congress to change the name of his department from that of “interior” to .“conservation.” The secretary, an ardent conservationist, argues that it is time to reverse the intimation of “exploita- tion” heretofore associated with his office. After all these years, it is doubtful if congress will break tradition to change the title of the cabinet post, and that doesn’t ‘seem to be important, so long as the department remains on the right track. Mr. Ickes is directing a vast personnel toward protection of resources. If that duty is performed well, the de- of the interior can lay claim to a great contribution. mame of the department doesn’t mean much—ihe vital is the “spirit of conservation” that prevails there. > After Italians do their first @unday driving in the rains, there ‘ ly will be # campaign to force the country back on ‘Belasste, eee America’s poor were consuming dog food, Some of its members described life- boats with holes in them; fire and Mfeboat drills held for the benefit of inspectors, with members of the “shore gang” participating instead of the crew which would take the ship to sea; departing ships so under- manned that there weren’t enough able-bodied seamen to handle all life- boats in case of disasters; and opera- tion of ships by alien and inexperi- enced crews. This was part of their answer to Roper's attempt to have them prose- cuted because, he said, he was con- cerned with “safety of passengers at sea”—which is under his supervision. * ee Bryan to Be Honored William Jennings Bryan, whose prestige has increased considerably since the senate munitions committee | revealed through hitherto secret pre- war records how valiantly he fought against policies which drew us into the World war, will stand in Statuary Hall, commonly known as the “Hall | of Fame.” Every state is entitled to contribute two statues of celebrated sons to the collection. Nebraska has chosen Bryan and J. Sterling Morton, secre- tary of agriculture under Cleveland and founder of Arbor day. The statues, to be done by Rudolph | Evans of New York, will be ready about a year from now. J. P. O'Furey, a Nebraska publisher, was here the other day to see about arrangements. He recalled that 40) years ago he worked hard for Bryan's | election and at 4 o'clock in the morn- ing after McKinley's victory, leaned PARTY’S ALWAYS RIGHT One of the latest New Deal stories, passed around during the recent meeting of the U. 8. Cham- ber of Commerce, was about a young fellow who was ribbing his father, a dyed-in-the-wool Demo- crat, “Have you heard the way those fools in Washington have decided to spend money now?” he asked. “They're going to paint the Grand Canyon!” Fervently came the reply: “By gawd, it needs it!” against a -telegraph pole and wept bitterly. O'Furey is now chairman of the Nebraska Memorial commission and is seeing to it that his boyhood hero is properly enshrined, + # # Even Big Shots Thaw Frank Roosevelt, who calls every- body by his first name—often even on meeting a person for the first time—and has set the style in that respect for the whole administration, seems to have influenced even the Republicans. Formal letters in official and po- litical life always used to begin “My dear . ——.” Especially those to be issued for publication. But when General counsel John Hamilton of the Republican National Committee recently asked Chairman Henry P. Fletcher to relieve him of duties as to delegate contests at the G. O. P. convention because of his activities for Governor Landon, he addressed his chief: “My dear Henry:—” And Henry replied— “Dear John:—” (Copyright 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) Nobody tells the truth about what @ funeral costs. The American dis- positon is to exaggerate and brag about such things——Thomas Quinlan, Cincinnati, at Memphis convention of funeral directors, Take the money out of this New Deal thing and 90 per cent of the converts to it will become good Amer- ieans overnight.—U. 8. Senator Lester J. Dickinson, Iowa. Dimwit — Don't you think women DIFFERENTIATION (New York Times) Every now and then Mr. George H. Moses, sometimes a senator in con- If so, he should make his recanta- tion public; put it in the form of an affidavit and go before a notary. Oth- erwise he must be classified as a reac- gress from New Hampshire, wistfully | tionary whose advocacy must hurt revisits Washington. The voice heard | Colonel Knox, already sunk low in the no more in the senate chamber is not | estimation of Mr. Borah. A reaction- denied to reporters. New Hampshire | ary is of necessity a tool of monopoly. Republicans are committed, perhaps|He is in the trenches with the bat- not too firmly, to the candidacy of|talion of greed. To be sure, the dis- Colonel Knox. In Washington Mr.|tinction between the righteous and Moses turns to mathematics. He repre-|the unrighteous is sometimes rather hends the accountants who give the|subtle. A rich man who subscribes to colonel too few and other aspirants | funds for the benefit of the New Deal too many delegates. According to the|is a benefactor of great wealth. If Mossaic reckoning, the colonel’s score is 169; no more, no less. As well-wish-| mind, as more eminent personages ers, So long as the weather is balmy,|have done more frequently, he be- to Colonel Knox, all candidates and; comes a malefactor of great wealth. non-candidates and not the least to} Thus Mr. Mellon is the most caprine Mr. Moses, we ask the latter if he has | ot goats, while Senator Couzens is the had a change of heart. Is he liberal| most ovine of sheep. Mr. Borah is a and progressive? Does he repent of | cruel manhandler of monopoly. Yet in his fling at sons of the wild jackass? | his campaign for virtue in Ohio he is into money, but usually they don’t in- clude the horses you bet on. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Millionaire—And if I don’t pay you this hush money, will you be an- noyed? Chorine—I'll tell the world! Millionaire — Then here’s your money. “Your mother is sore at me again.” “Oh, she'll come around.” “That's just the trouble. She comes | | “I don’t know which are worse, my wife's male relatives or her female rela- tives.” Is it six of one and half a dozen of the other?” “No, I wish it were. It's 39 of one and 67 of the other.” around every day.” “The ranch-owner I’m engaged to is in a bad way. He's been losing ground steadily.” “Does that mean death?” “No, taxes.” “I'm writing a mystery novel.” “Who's going to publish it?” “That's the mystery.” “I bet you told Joe something “Do you work here?” j when he tried to kiss you.” “No, ma’am, I'm the boss.” |. “Yes, I told him to turn out the There are lots of things that run! lights.” | Large Mammal « 16 It ts a large —— beast. 19 Defames. Answer to Pilevious Puzzle ICILJAIGILIEIN] [moloiR] HORIZONTAL t What animal ts pictured here? (pl.) 7 {t lives on the —. 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Pei 10 Instrument. 57 It fe used as 13 Plural of this. a beast of ——.14 Paradise. are best qualified to pick the best candidates: 2 Bimbo—They certainly don't shor it, Look what-some of them marry. . Knox harm. between '32 and '36 he changed his ° glad to have the ald of the owner of a chain of newspapers. Evil and good are easily transformed into their op- Posites. Truth is relative, though no relative of politics. Unless Mr. Moses has seen the light, he is doing Colonel If he wanted to help Knox he should have shouted for Lan- don. Indeed, it is surprising that a statesman once so famed for irony shouldn’t have plumped for Mr. Bor ee You can defend a vote, but you can’t defend a word spoken in pas- sion, ... I can do far more good talk- ing personally to my friends on the FOLLY od FAREWELL LINDA BOURNE, 20 years elé, fs left almost a. PETER G: i : i Hf i ETE had his answer from when he looked into her lowered before his steady but not before he had seen ? get}? E . i F z t é BE her heart. Linda hed given hi her affection, but not even a measure of the love that he for her. He drove her to the station and the train take her away, and few words to say to Linda wanted to tell that she found -herself too inar- ticulate to put into words, Pete knew what she wanted hb ‘ah. So They Say j Disarmament conferences are fail- ures, Economic conferences are only hope.—Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, Jap- anese Christian leader. i ze 8 i gE g E Z A i Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answ juestions pertainin; health but got uf ai ters briefl; ress ged wr verona ster leas eft ad ak Anarene, Be Stamped. self-addressed envelope. DOCTO! HOW CALLOUS SOME ARK is : z F 5 j 5 g 3 this odd trait; surely it can’t depend wholly on popular envy and jealousy of the doctor’s education. Nowadays plenty of people at least as well edu- cated as the doctor harbor obsessions as absurd as those ‘A notion common among the laity is that physicians and surgeons become cold-blooded and callous about human or animal . Un- his best for the patient he must surmount his personal feelings. If the circumstances render it impossible for him to do so his fitness to serve the patient professionally is seriously impaired. Ordinarily I am not greatly upset by circumstances surrounding an emergency or @ grave situation, which are more or less a! to the lay observer. I.can keep fairly cool and render what aid a doctor should render. But when the victim happens to be a friend I can scarcely do 50, and I am sure I am as hard-boiled as the majority of doctors are. And this is the reason why physicians seldom attempt to treat members of their own families if any serious illness is involved. They recognize that their Personal sympathies tend to warp or impair their professional judgment. And so they defer to the cooler judgment of their colleagues. Queer neurotic folk who find diversion in baiting regular physicians for the alleged “torture” of rats, mice, guinea pigs, etc., seem blind to the fact that physicians as a class are rather famous for their kindness to animals. Among the lovers of dogs, cats, birds, horses you know, it is safe to say, are several doctors. A doctor, after all, is rarely indifferent to suffering; sometimes he has to disregard it for the patient's sake. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Bisulphate of Quinine I have used quinine bisulphate as suggested by you as a means of reliev- ing anxiety and inducing easiness when preparing to speak in public. The results have been very successful. Could any harm come from making frequent use of quinine in this way? Answer—No. Hernia I note you specify from 6 to 15 treatments for hernia. The doctor told me I should have about 12 for the right side and perhaps 20 for the left. Is this O. K.2... (R. M. T.) Answer—It is for all I know. I merely tried to arrive at an average. Some hernias are cured with only four or five injections. Breathe Easy Recently you referred to abdominal breathing as an essential for relaxa- tion. But I think you have often insisted that it is wrong to pay too mich attention to automatic function such as breathing... . (A. W.) Answer—Right. Too much attention 'to the WRONG way of breathing has given many badly educated folk the chesty complex. Natural breathing is the kind I advise, and I don’t call it “abdominal,” but belly breathing. Pull instructions in booklet “The Art of Easy Breathing,” copy for 10 cents and stamped envelope bearing your address, (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) Republican side than if I got up and made a speech—U. 8. Representative J. W. Boehne, oS Ind. * Italy can hold Ethiopia permanent- ly, though it may end in Ethiopia holding Italy. In empires, the tail sometimes grows big enough to wag the mel eag —— Shay should be in the form of a strong air fleet.—Col. Eddie V. Rickenbacker, World War air ace. eee Railing at law and lawmakers has become one of our favorite outdoor and indoor sports.—Rev. Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, president of Brown Uni- versity. xe & = The United States should have an} Democracy in Austria is high trea- insurance policy against being drawn |son.—Prince Ernest von Starhemberg, into a future war, and that policy/vice chancellor of Austria. We & career in a place where any- thing could happen, and she must be free and leave him free for what might come. She had a moment of longing for Newtown, the dusty, ink-sweet smell of the Blede office, rising from its shadows, when she ar- dignified speech of introduction rehearsing itself automatically on her dry lips. But she didn’t get a chance to try her speech that day. She heard of. Linda did that, and found her- self in a small office on the Com< monwealth lot with a telep! a Persian carpet, a desk she could have slept on but didn’t, even though she had little else to do. Apparently Commonwealth forgot why they had brought her to Hol- i Hollywood is, and I'll send you| PARTS 18 POET STOP READIN tors home to Pete, Wilds. wd ev pe letters.” ." LIFE OF KEATS| other friends, and read alt, anc She put her arms around him,|MAKE SWELL MOVIB STOP|old scriptg she pould Jay her and pressed her head to his shoul-| CAN'T 2 LOVING YOU NO| hands on. der, “Goodby, Pete, don't ever | STOP : PETE."| ‘Then cimé the day Of & writers’ forget me. I'll always think of] Harper's, Newtown's Gnly flor-| conference. All the writers on you, and I'll write you the minute ist, had the frst spring violets! |the lot were called. Linda wel- I arrive.” Last year Pete had brought them|comed the change from her lone- Forget her? Pete asked him-| wet, dark, fragrant—to Linda, | ly, useless routine. She loved the self if it was possible when, that/and told her they were like her|shouting, the excitement, the Bight and many other nights, try-jeyes. And Connolly, the Biade's| arguments, Not that she had avy ing to forget ber, he sat and la-| irresponsible night-watchman, had/| ides what it was all about untit bored over the play he was to call|been fired. But he hod won 8/ Pytak, the Russian director, tore “Remembrance.” Swospstakes fund. How sweet of/ his hair and shouted in her face And Linda, Pete to tell her that. A long let-/ghaking @ fist at them all: thought of Pete and missed him|ter couldn’t have been more like “Not one ting duss he doo! Dis and knew that she was going to|him. She smiled at the telegram | venell he dreamsss! De box offies miss him, as though it had been Pete bim-/ig not goot!, And blame eee self, and she didn’t know bow! Pystt Gitme. sot INCE betore Linda had faced) tender ‘her smile was. Or how)" 's aac” qian pang, something that was binding « bond thet is born of]. TiGE Gant Miow why ihe to her, and put it Behind for all| tenderness, Tenderness is « ten-| Deut > E found herself on time, There had been Dix, and| dril that twists around the heart now there was Pete. She had not|and grows there as part of it,| “But Coopet Venelt im't w been fair to him, Selfishly she| clinging, shaped to the contour of |snsster type. He's a poet! had taken his love because she| !t forever, even when its core of | There's @ new life of Keats that ‘needed it and because she had|pession has flamed and burned | Was just written for him. It's by cared for him, but never the way | its center out. James Myron. Venell, tn spite of that he deserved. Dressing in her simple knitted | Ris size, has the face of a dreamey Thinking of him with her eyes| frock the next morning, she|™ Poetry. Can't you seo itt* closed, she thought how many slipped the telegram into her|, nds was aghast st her ows women would give Pete the kind| handbag. “Moral support, as| temerity. The others were also of love he offered, and she felt a| usual,” she snapping its|*sbsst, but not for the same res. Uttle sorry for herself that she| clasp. son, It suddenly occurred to them couldn't feel that way. Well, it! ‘There was only one way to gut | bs? Venell was a mtscast. was ended now. She had been|out to Commonwealth City, the| If Hollywood was incredible to | selfish too long. She would not/hills over which the Common-|Linds, Linds was incredible to try to hold him any longer with | wealth Century studios and sets| Hollywood. From that moment, | Vague promises of the future, She, splashed. Linds rode in Important Person! _ Unde Bourne. was on her way Ej an