The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1936, Page 4

| ] ‘4 The Bismarck Tribune | asina ean An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper nc Scenes Washingto eecccccccococs. — Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and|If You Like Humor, Shy Away From entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mai) matter. Mrs, Stella 1. Mann | President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres, and Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas. and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . + Daily by mail per year ‘in state outside of Bismarck) Datly by mail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year ... Weekly by mail outside of North Dakoti Weekly by mail in Canada, per year . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Asso: 4 Press te exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of th jspatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newapaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All tights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. The Guffey Bill Substitute Operators of lignite coal mines were unanimous in praising the supreme court decision which invalidated the Guffey act and now are asking their senators, and congressmen to either vote against the proposed substitute of else delay its passage long enough to give the consumer a chance to study it. In this stand they undoubtedly are fighting in the public interest, yet the case also serves to show one of the major dangers of attempting to control everything from Washington. That state regulation has failed in many instances goes without saying. Certain firms have found it possible to evade any effective regulation by preventing or delaying federal ac- tion. The government cannot legally cope with certain evils and the states are likewise barred because they cannot inter- fere with interstate commerce. The result has been a para- dise for financial highbinders and inability on the part of both the states and the federal government to make the public will effective. That is the basic argument for granting wider power to the federal government. But the Guffey act emphasizes, in a manner which is peculiarly clear to North Dakota, the dangers of submitting to federal regulation. To begin with it should be understood that lignite is in- ferior to most bituminous coals. It has a heating value of say 7,000 units whereas the average of other bituminous coals is about 13,000 units. Yet the North Dakota lignite operator has had to comply with the Guffey bill—and will have to comply with any substi- tute—even though conditions here are drastically different from those in the eastern states where the bill sought to im- prove conditions. The Guffey bill added certain items to the cost of mining coal and it added just as many to the cost of mining lignite, a} low-value and low-priced product, as it did to the cost of other bituminous coals. As a result lignite operators had to raise their prices out of all proportion to the value of the product and thereby subject themselves to increased competition because the PERCENT-| AGE of increase for the better coals was so much less than for North Dakota’s “young” coal. This is a big country and the plight of the lignite industry | clearly demonstrates how difficult it is to legislative fairly for all of it. It also proves that in dealing with such matters the best governmental policy is to make haste slowly. The Black Legion Few things have so startled the American public as the dis- closure in Detroit of the “Black Legion” and its nefarious ac- tivities. It seems hardly possible that such an organization could exist in this land which is dedicated to the individual and * his rights, but the evidence shows that at least one man was the victim of informal trial by it and that others may have suffered the same fate. The organization presumably told its members that it was intended to clean up conditions with which its members felt the law could not cope successfully—and in doing so they also violated the law. The basic principles of the Black Legion, no matter what its members say about it, seem to have been intolerance and a love for power. Little men, unable to rise to the positions sought because they lack ability, sometimes are given to such subterfuges. To take an innocent man out in the black of night and either flog him or murder him inflates their ego. By this process thrills enter otherwise humdrum lives. The thought is a horrible one but there is no mistaking the psychology. Intolerance and fanaticism often form the backdrop for such queer mental manifestations. Weak-minded men are led to hate those of another race, or perhaps a religious sect, and brutal excesses follow. The constitution and the laws grant to every citizen certain inalienable rights which this secret organization apparently has tried to take away. For this reason such organizations strike at the very roots of American society. The authorities in Michi- gan—and any other states where this evil thing has taken root —are to be commended for their efforts to stamp it out. May their work be well and speedily done. Cupid’s Comeback i An exhaustive survey of national recovery, just completed by William F. Ogburn, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, reveals that marriages deferred during the lean “years now are being solemnized. Already, says the professor, the increased marriage rate * is beginning to show in various ramifications of our national life. There is an increased birth rate, for one thing. And, in- - -cidentally, there are definite commercial benefits accruing from the increased needs of young couples. Even waving aside its commercial aspects, the trend is “Most encouraging. The repeated postponement of marriages in the last five years constituted one of the great silent trag- of the depression. ‘The return to normalcy, so to speak, is very welcome. _A New York society of gourmets requires absolute silence throughout its ers, instead of for only the minute or so when the waiter holds out the * * explorer in Tibet Rot been. to-find. 3 mountain he’s been for. tvs probably iying on its back: if iv'e the Casners. Alp. Yeason why drivers go gray if that woman just ahead is @ turn, or just has a new diamond. the Congressional Record ... The Jokes Are Terrible ... Only Snappy Contributions Are Made by Maury Maverick . . . For Instance, His 14- Point Warning on That Awful “Red Menace.” | sine: | By RODNEY DUTCHER | (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, May 26.—Most consci- entious Washington correpondents try to skim through the Congressional Record every day and it is the unani- mous opinion of this group that never have the contents of that journal been drearier or less amusing than in the last few months. The Record averages about a dozen attempted wisecracks and jokes per diem and practically all are very feeble or at least as familiar as the celebrated query about the lady and the retort “that wasn’t no lady; that was my wife.” Consequently, it becomes in order every now and then to make a deep bow of appreciation to the Hon. Maury Maverick, congressman from San Antonio, Tex., who is responsible for most of such humor as occasional- ly does creep in. Maury probably is the most voluble and fastest-talking of any of the in- telligent members of congress and by all odds, when he wants to be, the funniest. Frequently obsessed by serious pur- poses, he nevertheless usually seems to be getting more enjoyment out of life than practically anyone else. If you don't like his humor, please at least remember that it’s the best grade available here. 2% % Nemesis of ‘Red Menace’ | One of the Hon. Mr. Maverick’s aims in life is to explode the “Red Menace” bogey and prove it a red herring, so charlatans who use it to! block occasionally threatened steps of human progress may be made to pipe down. Consider, for a moment, his defense of a pamphlet on Americanism issued by the New York County American Legion, which has been bitterly at- tacked because it espoused the causes of free speech, free press, liberty of conscience, and freedom of religion. Maverick, a member of the Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, discussed the pamphlet at some length and finally tossed the follow- ing into the Record under the title, “The 14 points of the Red Menace”: “Since red in itself is a sin, a logi- cal dissertation on the effects is in} order. «: “1, Congressman Sirovich of New York cannot wear his red carnation in the lapel of his coat. He will sim- ply die. Florists will protest. “2. New Yorkers going hunting up- state cannot wear red flannels. Many will catch pneumonia, flu, and colds. Will help doctors and undertakers, but hurt general welfare of citizens. Out With Red Wine . Red wine prohibited. Dis- criminating as to white wines. No use going to Italian restaurants. Grape growers will protest. People will get drunk anyway. “4: Seeing ‘red’ will also be abol- ished. In this many red-baiters will | suffer serious inhibitions and mental} maladjustments. i} “5, Lure of red-headed girls, hand- someness of red-headed bi to be; eradicated by federal laws. Will) cause importation of nonfading Ger- | man dyes to make color of hair dif-| ferent. This will hurt ‘Buy Amer- ican’ campaign; besides, in this case, the importation will be a metamor- phosis from Communism to Fas- cism. “6. Red herrings cannot be drawn} across issues. This would also be a} blow to red-baiters. Old pals of Al Smith at Fulton Fish Market will pro- test. “1. Music, Red Sails in the Sunset, popular hit, no doubt, subversive, Communistic, athestic, anarchist, and other things worse; must not be al- lowed. And No Red Stick Candy! “8. Children, the little dears, must be free of red stick candy. This sounds innocent, but one cannot real- ize how sinister candy can be. It is understood they eat red candy in Red Russia; therefore, we must stop it here. “9. Red traffic lights abolished; substitute color not determined; will give work to scientists. Accidents. “10. Children, in getting diplomas, must not be allowed red ribbons. “11, Red tape must be made blue; | however, the change of colors will not affect red tape psychology or human nature. “12, The high curtains in the su- preme court building, which are red, or near red, must be replaced at once. This would shock even the Liberty Leaguers, the National Manufactur- ers’ Association, and also the United States Chamber of Commerce, meet- ing in solemn conclave in this, our natonal capital today. “13, Red ink will be abolished; and this is really good, for then there would be no depression. With only black ink, the profit system would be assured ad infinitum. “14, Bulls will not get mad any more. This may cause serious diffi- culties in certain Latin-American re- lations.” (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR OW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN A “It's getting late,” remarked the first fisherman, “and we haven't caught a single i “Well,” replied his companion, “let's let two more big ones get away and then| Panhandler—Lady, do you have a pipe organ I could tune for you? Lady of the House—We do not have @ pipe organ. Panhandler—Seeing as I haven't a chance to earn anything, how about giving me a bite to eat? “My husband won a thousands dol- lars at poker the other night and he split with me,” . “ ve you half?” “No, he took his vest” TNLi-\ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1936 ‘Here, Frank—Whittle on This a While’ weeccceo. . ‘Looking at Washington Washington, May 26.—As the time and more talk is being heard about making the Cleveland gathering a truly Republican-Demccratic coali- tion. To do it, these steps are being sug- gested: First, the adoption of a resolution pledging the candidate to carry out those planks of the Democratic plat- form of 1932 which have been repudi- ated by the New Deal party. Such a resolution would be apart from the adoption of a new platform of affirm- ative pledges with respect to problems that have arisen since 1932. Second, the selection of a Democrat for the vice-presidency. Third, a resolution pledging the Parties’ candidate for the presidency to appoint a coalition cabinet con-! sisting of Democrats as well as Re-| publicans. If the Republican leaders are truly | interested in gathering into their Deal Democrats, so many of whom) as such, then a program for coali- ed. If the Republican command, on the other hand, thinks the party can win without the Democrats, the con- vention will probably repeat the empty gesture made by the Republi- can committee last winter about in- viting Democrats to vote the ticket and let it go at that. But there are many Republicans who think a crisis faces the party, in fact that it is on trial and that a severe defeat in the forthcoming for the conventions approaches, more| “ David Lawrence (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) ‘election may mean the fate of the!tor. He inherits the fighting quall- | ticket, |old Whig party which died in 1860. As & matter of fact, there is a curi- ‘ous historic parallel in the mention ‘of the Civil war situation, and oddly {enough it concerns Henry Breckin- ridge, who recently made a gallant fight in the primaries of four states |and who now is being mentioned as possibility for the vice presidential ‘nomination at the Cleveland conven- | Henry Breckinridge’s grandfather, |Robert J. Breckinridge, was the leader jof the union cause in Kentucky. Though a Democrat, he was chosen chairman of the convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln in 1864. |He was insistent that the convention not be called a Republican conven- ition because it might not attract Democrats and Whigs and the rec- ords will show that Abraham Lincoln was nominated by what was called the union or national union conven- tion. Also, on demand of Robert Breckinridge and border state Whigs and Democrats, Andrew Johnson, a camp the large number of anti-New)| Tennessee Democrat, was nominated for the vice presidency as the run- dislike to vote the Republican ticket! ning mate of Abraham Lincoln. It would be a curious turn of his- tion would seem likely to be consider-'tory if the same thing happened this year .with respect to the grandson of Robert Breckinridge, namely, if the Cleveland convention styled itself a coalition convention and named a Democrat for the vice presidency. If Governor Landon is the nominee and makes only a. front porch cam- paign, it may be even more important from his standpoint to have a man of the Breckinridge type for his run- ning mate. Breckinridge is a splen- did campaigner and remarkable ora- HORIZONTAL 1 Arthur H. —— of Michigan, U.S. A. 10 Heath. t1Sins. - 14 Lacerated. 16 To eject. 17 Sun god. 19 Plant part. iia CIEIRIE|S! O Seid 86 Bell sounds. 88 Deposited. 40 Garden tool. 43 Filmy. 43 Police foray. 45 To soak flax. 46 Court. 48To mend. 60To harvest. $2South America 63 Bird's claw. 65 Precept. 67 Wren. 69 Naked. 10 He is a . us. —. 71 He is —— to the New Deal. | Member of Congress - | Answer to Previous Puzzle IATSIE RATIO] OlWIE [0 MARL JE TAY E IMT TT OTR AIWIN MINOT IE | aa) Tie |AMMEBIAISIEISMNSIL! wei 61Grandparental. ¢ 70 exist. 15 Midday. 18 On the lee. 20 Implement. 23 Unable to hear. 25 Costly. 28 Glided. 30 Prevaricator. 32 Measure. 33 Nominal value. 34 Pieces out a oy |! 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He has been interested also in jthe aviation business and has been the personal attorney for Colonel Lindbergh, who doubtless would not hesitate to campaign for Breckin- ridge if the latter were nominated-for Resse c cere c cc ceeo cc coc css ooosoorcccoocoococcocccces Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Gineane oF dizenoal fe Tettere richiy and in ini, Addrese, Dr. Brady in care o! Tr! All queries must be accompanied by 8 celf-addressed envelope. NUTRITIONAL ANEMIA In the great majority of instances weakness of the blood, “blood turn- ing to water,” anemia, the condition is merely symptomatic or secondary, that, is, it is incidental to some underlying disease such as incipient tuber- culosis or nephritis or syphilis; or an effect of some prolonged or frequent slight bleeding as in some cases of duodenal ulcer, internal hemorrhoids, menorr! or due to chronic poisoning with such drugs as acetanilide (the “kick” in many nostrums) or salts, calomel or castor oil. (Castor oll usually causes blood corpuscles to appear in the evacuations, showing that it produces minute internal hemorrhages). ‘The treatment of everyday anemia is positively NOT a matter of taking iron, To take iron for such anemia is as sensible as it would be to carry water in a sieve. The specific cause of the loss or destruction of blood must be found and remedied. That anemia is attributable to lack of iron is more debatable today than ever before. That certain types of anemia, notably hypochromic anemia (prevalent today) and chlorosis (the green sickness, prevalent fifty years ago but practically unknown today) are due to some fault in the assimila- tion of iron or its absorption from stomach or intestine, seems more and more probable. An infant or invalid restricted to milk diet may get insufficient iron for the body’s requirements. A prisoner kept on monotonous fare for months and years may get insufficient iron. But you and I would find it rather dif- ficult to choose a diet which does not furnish plenty of iron—that is, pro- vided we are not faddists or cultists or followers of some queer theory. In any case of anemia, whether of the incidental secondary type or the essential primary type, it is futile, in my opinion, to give iron in any form in the quantity formerly deemed correct dose. That is, a few grains of fron, organic or inorganic, in powder, tablet, pill, liquid or hypodermic in- jection, can have no remedial effect. I believe the iron naturally present in numerous foods is most readily assimilated into the blood, and we must not forget that the daily requirements of the body are met by approximately one-fourth of a grain of iron. The prompt benefit from comparatively huge doses of iron—perhaps the equivalent of a teaspoonful of iron daily —in cases of hypochromic anemia is consistently explained on the older assumption that the iron combines with and neutralizes sulphur compounds in the alimentary canal which interfere with absorption of the food iron. It is even more consistently explained, I think, on the newer assumption that the patient's taste or appetite or desire for natural foods is increased or her care to select such foods is greater under medical advice, and conse- quently the patient’s vitamin intake is increased. (Hypochromic anemia is at least ten times as frequent in women as in men—I have no idea why). In short I believe the chief cause of primary hypochromic or nutri- tional anemia is prolonged moderate vitamin deficiency, particularly vitamins B, G, C and D, and hence that an optimal vitamin ration to supplement the diet is essential for successful treatment, whether iron is given or nof. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Derangement of Knee Iam 18. After several falls while skating my knee became badly swollen on the inside. It feels rubbery when pressed. Suppose it is water on the knee. Ben Told knee will become stiff if water not drained. ... (A. J.) Answer—There may be a loose cartledge. You should have medical care and pay no attention to your friend Ben. How Many Pillows How many pillows should a person sleep on? I have heard that too many will cause round shoulders. (L. V. ). Answer—Use as many or as few, as thick or as thin as you like. none at all if you wish. It has nothing to do with round shoulders. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) or the vice presidency on a coalition Lindbergh's support undoubtedly would be pointed because he made the first protest against that sudden cancellation of the airmail contracts which resuled in the death of several President Buchanan in 1860 and later}army pilots in an abortive attempt to substitute an untrained personnel Colonel Breckinridge is a graduate | for airmail men in the middle of win- ter—a blunder that has not been for- gotten and will be recalled in the campaign this year, especially since it looks as if Postmaster General Far- In 1918 Colonel Breckinridge |ley is going to be an object of some controversy, politically speaking. There is also some talk of nomi- nating Lewis Douglas for the vice presidency. He, too, is a Democrat who has repudiated’ the New Deal. Mr. Douglas was a member of con- gress from Arizona before he became director of the budget. The friends of Breckinridge are pointing out that he has tested fire in the primaries in four states and that his vigor as a campaigner ought to make him first choice on that account. But matters such as these are de- cided by a group of Republican chief- tains who have their own ideas about the vice presidency, and there are, of course, many Republicans with eyes on the place. It could happen that a Democrat would be selected for the vice presidential nomination but the chances are very much against it be- cause the Cleveland convention is composed of regular Republicans who care qmore about party habits than they do about extraordinary situa- tions. But if they really need a prece- dent they will find that Lincoln did it in 1864 in the very first years of the Republican party's long period of national supremacy. Watch this s pa new serial and 5s pring for rkling youth romance. Begins Wednesday, May 27, in The Bismarck Tribune a »