The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1936, Page 4

4 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. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Sec'y-Treas. and Editor q Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance mat] outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year ... Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year Weekly by mat! 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 republ tion of the news dispatches credited to it of not otherwise cred! sae alag and also the local news of spontaneous origin published hei All rlghts of republication of al) other matter herein are also reserve: Encouraging Trend Farmers and industry are never going to agree on all na- tional policies without reservation but it is encouraging to note that the tendency is to pull together where they can reasonably do so and to adopt a tolerant attitude when they disagree. This represents a change from the past when both agricul- ture and industry were prone to ignore the mutual aim of a bet- ter America and a better-balanced national economy. Things were taken for granted and the average man was not expected to take a broad view of national problems. Things adjusted themselves and neither business, industry nor govern- ment were under severe pressure to make radical changes. But the boom and the depression changed that and there now is evident a disposition on the part of leaders in all fields to look at the other fellow’s problems as well as his own. Business, for example, had long regarded farming as a customer who would always be there to buy the major share of industry’s goods. When the farm market disappeared because of ruinously low prices, both business and industry felt the shock and neither has completely recovered. Recognition of the necessity for solving the farm problem is contained in a resolution adopted by the National Association of Manufacturers when it appointed a committee to “study the various proposals of the farm organizations and the farm leaders and to disseminate to its members from time to time analyses of such proposals as may be of interest and importance to the national welfare and to industry’s understanding of the problems of agriculture.” That idea is far removed from the traditional attitude of the manufacturing industry and is based on knowledge of the vital part agriculture plays in the business affairs of the nation. Further recognition of the need for farm prosperity is con- tained in a recent address by Fred W. Sargent, president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway company. And he, curi- ously enough, exposes the opposition which the manufacturers have had to overcome in awakening business and industry to the importance of doing something about agriculture. Almost at the outset of his speech, Mr. Sargent said: “I _ have recently received communications from very fine and able |) men making suggestions with relation to what I should say on this occasion on the subject of agriculture. One of these con- tained a detailed study which it was said had the approval of leading economists, attempting to prove that the American farmers have been and are receiving, all things considered, a very handsome return on their investment. It only illustrates to me that economics is not a very exact science and that mathe- matical computations reduced to percentages can be made to prove a fact that does not exist.” The only thing about that which is hard to understand is why anyone should WANT to deceive himself as to the condi- tion of agriculture and why his sense of self-interest should not cause him to examine the facts more carefully. If they did not realize it before the depression, the farmers now know that industry must have purchasing power if farm prices are to reach fair levels. No one with sense now denies that. But the thing works both ways and it is encouraging to see the manufacturers’ association recognize a condition which is So vital to them. In that they have been far behind the farmers in an understanding of the economics which underlie our Amer- ican system. Invisible Taxes If the North Dakota motorist, buying gasoline, thinks he is paying a tax of only three cents per gallon on his motor fuel he is fooling himself very seriously. If the housewife buying a frying pan or a kitchen range thinks she pays only the small sales tax she is fooling herself fn the same manner. This is definitely proved by analyses of the taxes paid by the oil and steel industries recently completed. During the last six years the taxes paid by the steel mak- ers have been 65.2 per cent of their total gross income. Thus the tax payments are a major item in the cost of doing busi- mess and in the purchase price of articles manufactured from steel. The oil industry paid a tax bill of $1,127,259,232, accord- fing to the American Petroleum Industries committee. This is more than the value of the crude oil produced in the United States. The figures are illuminating. They show the manner in which the‘cost of government affects prices about as well as anything could. Also, they warn the consumer that one way of raising the prices of everything he buys is to permit the tax dil) to mount up and up and UP, seemingly without end. How Germany Trades de At a time when the United States is seeking to augment its trade with Latin America, it is significant to observe the success of Nazi Germany in. the same field. Se pensation marks.” These are German marks discounted for foreign trade by as much as 40 per cent. The effect is that a in Brazil, for instance, gets his material at a bargain. Germany has flooded Brasil with her compensation marks and, since these marks are good only for purchases in Germany, pressure in Brazil to dispose of them has reciprocally. in- "greased the Nazi trade from 12 per cent in 1934 to 18 per cent for 1935. As a result, Germany's Brasilian trade will come close this year to equaling that of the United States, which _Bpproximates 23 per cent of Brasil’s total exports. Whether Germany is: gaining anything by this unusual ns of expanding her foreign trade is something that only future will reveal. ‘TH BINMAKUK ee LkONDAY, MAY 18, 1936 $oeee ee meee coc ccooooooce Behind Scenes Washington Puerto Rican Problem Full of Dyna- mite . . . Tydings Bill for Inde- pendence Arouses Wave of Wrath «. + Cause of Liberty Leader Gains Islanders Are Blamed for Own Plight. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, May 18.—The admin- istration’s attempt to solve its Puerto Rican problem appears to have mis- fired both barrels. The Tydings independence bill has merely stirred up a revolutionary spirit which is likely to cause many New Deal headaches. An adminis- tration effort to amend the measure may be expected. There's reason to believe that the terms of the bill, which Puerto Ricans say sentences them to rapid starva- “|tton if they vote for independence, were conceived here with a certain amount of bitterness—or out of plain stupidity. The tactics adopted quick- ly bore fruit in kind. What started the Puerto Ricans’ protest was the bill's provisions that if they voted for independence there would be a four-year transition period in which Puerto Rico wouldn’t have the sovereignty she would need to or- ganize her affairs; that loans and grants from this country under the $35,000,000 Puerto Rican Reconstruc- tion administration would stop at once; and that a tariff would be placed on Puerto Rican products tm- mediately. - * Viewed as Threat This administration proposal fol- ie lowed by some weeks the assassina- tion of Col. E. Francis Riggs, Ameri- can police chief on the island, by followers of Albizu Campos, leader of the radical nationalist independence party. Officials here had been sore because not a single public man in Puerto Rico was willing to make a formal statement as to the Riggs murder— not even one regret. The explanation of some Puerto Rican leaders was that such @ state- ment would c@use them to lose in- fluence with the independence fac- tion, Terms of the Tydings bill caused many Puerto Ricans to regard it as @ shotgun threat, an effort to make them choose between a continued colonial status and starvation. A consequently swept over the island, it is said, and so many who had previously opposed independence swung over that it came to be pre- dicted that even freedom as pro- vided by the Tydings bill would win by 10 to 1 in a plebiscite. eee Helps Island Leader Strangely enough, it is said in Washington that the administration figured the independence offer would have a good effect on the Latin American republics in advance of the Pan-American conference. Propaganda glorifying Albizu Cam- pos has been spread in Central and South America and the independence offer would have been an excellent antidote had it been well handled. But, here again, the effect has been the opposite of that intended and Albizu, who led but a tiny group of actual followers, is reported to have been considerably strengthened. Matters are likely to go from bad to worse unless at least one house of congress passes a Puerto Rican inde- pendence bill radically amended. Chances are that this administration will go to great lengths—at least in gesture—to avoid further violence on the island en ear * * Islanders Are Blamed Officials impatient with the Puerto Ricans, however, point out that the degeneration of the island under American rule—often attributed solely to exploitation by American sugar cor- porations, which have skimmed $400,- 000,000 away from it—is largely at- tributable to Puerto Ricans them- selves. Puerto Ricans, they contend, should have seen to the enforcement of the congressional act of 1900 which lim- ited ownership of land to 500 acres, instead of allowing the corporations to buy up most of the good land and thus creating a major island problem. The other big problem is the big, ris- ing birth rate—and the same officials say that’s the fault of Puerto Ricans, who won't keep the birth rate down. On the surface, it appears that Americans and Puerto Ricans have collaborated in getting the island into such shape that independence with- out a great deal of attendant wet- nursing would mean chaos. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) “Gopytaht, 186, NEA Bevie, te [So They Say | -—_______ +» To be attractive a woman must have mystery. This 1936 swimming ap] 1 leaves no room for mystery.— » Movie style designer. * 4% # Roosevelt has changed the national motto from a chicken in every dinner pail to a rabbit in every hat.—J. Ken- neth Bradiey, » Young Re- Publican Hanogel Peeeaiion. From woman's standpoint, a col- lege education doesn’t pay. Women live on emotion, and when that’s taken from them by too much intro- The German system is unique in that it is based on “com- | YerProd Looking at Washington (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) Washington, May 18.—Politics in relief has become such a common- place charge hereabouts that Repub- licans assert it repeatedly, but Demo- great surge of independence feeling|crats scoff at it. Generalities have made little impression thus far. So it is interesting to note the widespread interest in congress which has been caused by the publication of a series of three articles by Mrs. Eugene Meyer, wife of the publisher of the “Washington Post,” who for 13 years has been chairman of the Westchester County Recreation commission. vestigation of the relationship of pol- itics and relief in Westchester county, which for the benefit of those who York, it should be remarked, is the county where New York City ends on the north and continues northward and westward and embraces a large population, including many who com- mute to New York City daily. Members of congress have been con- fronted with such statements as these in Mrs. Meyer’s articles: “It is alarming to see congress supinely voting the president another billion and a half for the continu- ance of the most ruthless political ma- chine that has ever existed in our country. “We have witnessed extreme politi- cal corruption before, but it was con- department, or even a state. Never before have we had a national organ- igation reaching out into the high- ways and byways and debauching the people as a whole. ficials in Westchester county, N. Y., if not in other communities, is to buy Mrs. Meyer made a personal in-/ Criticism of the League | THE LEAGUE IS TOO STRONG! WE DONT WANT TO JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT MIGHT CALL ON US TO SEND OUR GOYS OVER THERE AGAIN Ye, i, ‘ Yj dd THE League ts A FLOP! USED FORCE IN DEALING WITH GERMANY ANID ITALY AND JAPAN — I(T WAS TOO WEAK! (tv “ David Lawrence tion, to intimidate as far as possible those whose vote cannot be bought, and only lastly, to spend on relief cases such sums as are left when the previous objectives have been ob- tained.” Mrs. Meyer then proceeds to give details, incidents and facts concern- ing the handling of WPA in West- chester county and charges that John Buckley Bryan, regional director of WPA for the county, has made the following statement to one of her friends on three separate occasions: “Franklin D, Roosevelt is the man who gave us this money and I would be the dirtiest kind of a dog-traitor are 100 per cent for him receive first do not live in the vicinity of New | consideration.” Now the usual course when charges lof this kind are made is for an offi- lcial inquiry to be instituted. Data lare sought as a rule by congressional jcommittees by inviting witnesses to ‘appear and tell their story. All ef- iforts to have the WPA investigated {have been squelched by the Demo- {crats in congress at the behest of the {administration. Just why the WPA {should fight against an investigation of a matter as important as the dis- bursement of public funds is diffi- jeult to understand except that the | presence of a big Democratic majority |just makes it easy to ignore attacks fined to & municipality, a government |because the votes to defeat resolu- | |tions of inquiry are available. | So instead of a congressional in- | jquiry, the public will have to get its \facts and revelations in another way. I shall endeavor |That’s why Mrs. Meyer's articles are} to prove in these articles that the|an important contribution to the prime object of some of the WPA of-|eause of better publicity of what's going on in the use of public funds! Doubtless her allegiance to the national administra- example will be followed by public- \this campaign year. 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IST WBIEJAIUITIy) 2 Door russ. 33 To expect. 84 Film roll. 36 Steelwork tower. 37 Ai. 38 Queen of heaven. 39 Forming an ode 4 Silver coin. 5 Dance step. 6 Measure of area. ‘7 Jogs. 8 Roof edge. 9 Indian. 10 Musical note. 41 Tribunal. 11 He devised the 44 You and l. Process to 45 Afternoon. purify ——. 46 Sloth. 13 He discovered 47 You and ma the treatment 48 Street. tor ——. if I didn’t see to it that people who SHQULD HAVE {spirited citizens in the other coun- ties of the United States where po- litical corruption prevails so that the citizens may get at the truth. The point of view of the New Deal is not very much different from that which is reported to have been ex- pressed by the WPA director in Westchester county. The theory is that it is Mr. Roosevelt's own fund that is being disbursed and that acknowledgements of a political char- acter are due him. Thus Postmaster General Farley, who is chairman of the Democratic national committee and also chairman of the Democratic state committee of New York state, and who is touring the country in the interest of the political fortunes of the Democratic party, said in an ad- dress delivered to the Democratic State convention of Vermont: “The people of Vermont can think for themselves and they know that the (eee rococo cocoocs Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. taining to health but not Rfiy and in ink, Address Dr. W eeccoccoccc coro coccccs. ly in Tribune, All stamped. self-addressed envelope. GIVE THE BABY A BREAK The prophecy made by the best medical autnorities twelve years 60, that there should be no more rickets by 1930 has not come to pass, tho the condition is far less common in babies than it was ten years ago. ‘The prevention and cure of rickets is a certainty within our control, but we still have a considerable amount of rickets among infants and young children, and so we shall have more or less of it among older children and young adults, or at least the physical defects left by the active disease in early life. There are several reasons for this. First, failure of physicians to see that every baby, shall get an adequate daily ration of vitamin D and whatever sunshine the poverty or ignorance of parents will allow the infant to have. If the baby is nourished entirely at the breast, it is necessary for the mother to take the daily ration of vi- tamin D to supply her own needs and the baby’s. If the baby is fed partly or wholly on the bottle, the daily ration of vitamin D must be mixed in the milk. Second, failure of parents or others having the care of the baby to recognize signs of rickets when these appear: unduly thick wrists or ankles, flaring ribs, funnel chest or chicken breast (chest narrow but deeper from ‘| front to back), large square head, beaded ribs—“rachitic rosary”—swellings or nodules on ribs appearing when baby is four to six months old, not in younger infant; profuse sweating about the head during sleep; restlessness during sleep, kicking off clothes, tossing about in crib; soft spots with parchment-like crackling sensation when pressed with the finger, in the skull other than the fontanel on top of head which remains soft normally till the baby is 18 to 20 months old. Seldom is any of these signs seen be- fore the fourth month of age; altho rickets manifests iteelf between the 6th and 18th months of age, preventive measures must. start with the birth of the baby or better about a year before the baby’s birth. A third hindrance to efficient preventive treatment is the reluctance of physicians to give large enough doses of vitamin D to insure prophylaxis or cure. For one thing, doctors are somewhat timid about imaginary over- dosage with potent vitamin D concentrates. This fear has been pretty thoroly shown to be groundless, For another thing, the cost of suitable vitamin D concentrates has been too great for many parents to stand. This objection is now being met with a vitamin D concentrate which cuts the bill one-half—and that is a considerable saving; that is, the vitamin D costs half as much per unit or thousand units as parents have had to pay for it these past ten years. The availability of less expensive vitamin D will contribute much toward the stamping out of rickets, for of course it is the babies of the poor or indigent that most need vitamin D. As I have tried to show, exposure of naked skin to direct sunlight pro- duces vitamin D in the body. Therefore every infant, and every growing child, should have a place in the sun and ideally nothing much more than @ pair of suspenders or @ G string on to insulate the body from the health, strength and growth-promoting sunshine. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Frostbite : Having read and enjoyed your column for years, I feel that you don’t know any more than you need to about frostbite. I have seen the temper- ature as low as 65 degrees below zero in Minnesota. I know what I’m talking about. The pain of drawing out frostbite slowly with snow is exquisite torture, and if you try to thaw it out quickly with warm water I hope you will be merciful enough to give the poor sufferer an anesthetic. (Mrs, K. H.) : Answer—Anesthetic or no anesthetic, I'll have mine treated with warmth. There is no sense, just a queer tradition, in the application of more ice, snow or cold to a part of the body already frozen. Buttermilk Please tell me how to make good buttermilk. (R. M. G.) . Answer—Churn the cream till butter comes, remove the butter, and there you are. Or let pure fresh raw milk stand till cream rises, carefully siphon off cream, and then let the skim milk stand another day or two till it is as sour as you like. (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) ernment during the depression turned the economic tide. It has been con- servatively estimated that more than $62,000,000 has been allotted, loaned, expended or disbursed in the Green mountain section since March, 1933.” ‘When a member of the president’s cabinet and the, chief of the Demo- cratic national organization uses language as plain as that to a Demo- cratic state convention it is not sur- prising that federal employes will a cept it as the gospel of the New De: Time was when the Republicans used to boast of what they did in the way funds sent here by the federal gov-}of special favors for the people. But that was the old deal and somehow many people have been persuaded to believe that what the Republicans did by way of political sin would never be repeated or imitated by the virtuous exponents of the new idealism. But whether such an assumption is right or wrong, the congress isn’t ready to allow the white light of investigating committees to direct public attention to the facts. Hence the alternative is .| to record the charges and let the peo- ple judge by their own observations whether the $4,000,000,000 fund is be- ing properly or improperly disbursed. BEGIN HERE TODAY LINDA BOURNE, 20 yenrs old, lett almost penniless by of her tath m 2 HONEY HARMQN, film atar, comes to Newtown, mal “personal appearance” tour, She buys a scenario written i CHAPTER XIX GOMETIMES at night, with the| broke her usual date to have her din of carpenters’ hammers still ringing in her ears, the incessant repetition of orchestral rehearsals, the plercing darts of light from the brilliant studio lights still hurting her eyes, Linda lay in the cool fragrance of her bed and wished herself back in Newtown. was @ business all by itself. to her work. Dix’s heurs at the studio. he got a job! for them to marry. She must see Thorne could think of. afternoon. She couldn’t get away from hear from him again. eee home on time, Rememberin; FOLLY end FAREWELL to his home, she didn’t want to permit such a thing to happen again. She tried tactfully to sug- gest that he dine with her, re- minding him of the arts of her cook. With tact that equalled hers, Thorne reminded her that she had completely forgiven him for his lapse on that first occasion, and that this was her opportunity to prove her forgiveness was sincere. “By the way,” he sald at that point, “I’m going to use that young friend of yours—Carter. I’m tak- ing him largely on your sugges- tion.” After that there was only one pect you.” There are times when a lady has no choice. Linda had none; she went back to her work. It was nearly 7 when she realized the time. There was a pile of notes on her desk. She ran through them quickly; extracting the motor rpute to the scene of location in the San Jacinto moun- tains southeast of San Bernar- dino, She stuffed it in her bag and ran for her car. “I'm not wearing the dinner dress,” she told her maid. “I'll wear a crepe and want a warm coat. Pack a bag to last a week. I’m driving out to location to- poled teas reread She aC) ight and won’t be back in that ‘Thorne telephoned Monday| ‘me. sd a : When a girl was engaged to be married back ‘there, being engaged Linda’s engagement was an en- tirely different thing. She had days and nights that had to be devoted There were stran- gers without number and no inti- mates to share her all-important joy. When her wedding day came, | “' it would have to be sandwiched in somewhere between her job and ‘When There again Thorne came into | the picture. He had told Diz he | would —or might possibly —give him a chance to play in the re-takes of his last picture. If only he would, Linda felt assured that Dix would have his great chance and then the way would be made easy again. She had been putting him off—pleading fatigue, over-work, anything she But now she must see him, hurry him into a decision, On Thursday he asked her to have a cocktail with him the next accepted quickly and gratefully, and ‘then had to break the engagement because she Common- wealth City. She hated having to break it, and feared she would not gr need not have worried. Thorne also was in the picture industry. And he was persistent. He telephoned on Saturday, and asked her to dine with him at bis Linda had to think quiskly this ig her last visit'et $ and arrive by 1. morning to remind her that she was dining with him that night. As though she needed that re- minder! Linda selected a frock that was not too attractive and INDA took a taxi to Basil Thorne’s home in Brentwood. She found him in dinner clothes, suave and charming, a hair done. She knew that she would look weary by 8. The com- pany was hoping to finish shoot- ing the last of a city sequence in the picture they were working on. In another week they would be/ Dinner was one of those falsely out on location, but she would| bright things, When it was over, have that week between if they finished the picture that day. they sat before the hearth fre and at she might have expected was dis- solved by her sudden haste and anxiety over their coming trip. ‘ HE was deep in her manu- scripts at noon when her seo- retary, putting aside the tele- phone, said, “Miss Bourne, Mr. Forman’s office is calling.” “Take the message, Sylvia,” Linda answered, without looking iD. “Company will be finished by 2 and leaving immediately for the mountains. Mr. Forman says you must be on location early tomor-| row morning, and wants to know if you'll drive over with him,” this was the night she was to) dine with Basil Thorne. She'd have to break her engagement again! Would Thorne understand this time? Linda chewed her pen- cil pensively. “Tell him I'll call him back.” When she was alone Linda telephoned Basil Thorne. it is; we're in a terrific rush to finish the Laurel story—you know I've been doing the script—and the company has got to report at the San Jacinto location tomor- row morning, I had expected— and wanted—to dine with you, but how can I do it and get there on time?” Linda had counted on his un- derstandmg and once more post- poning their engagement. “I'm crushed,” he answered, “but not thwarted. We will dine and I'll drive you down in the Mercedes. It shouldn't take more than four hours, We can dine vl ex- answered t { i] A 14