The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 8, 1936, Page 7

Seerccte os See SOOM ns BETO em AA AR SIE RR ARAN Gb ET SNR RARNRA States mint at Philadelphia, in inviting visitors to the Demo- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 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 @ptered at the pustoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. ‘ Mrs. Stella I. 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) . . Datly by mail per year ‘in state outside of Bismarck). Daily by mai) 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 {2 exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this aper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. jehts of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. States Are Confined by Own Sovereignty Apparently the states of this union are to be saved from the encroachments of federal power whether they like it or not. The supreme court decision throwing out the municipal bankruptcy act enshrines the sovereignty of the states in a higher sphere of untouchability than the states themselves are likely to want. This fact, it is worth remembering, did not involve any radical new conception of the function of government, as did such measures as the NRA and the AAA. It was not part of an attempt to erect a new philosophy of government. It was simply a means by which local units were to be rescued from an intolerable financial situation. At the beginning of 1934, slightly more than 2000 cities, counties, and other political subdivisions were in default on their bonds. The face value of the bonds in default ran to approximately a billion dollars; the governmental units involved were scattered across 41 states. Something had to be done. The debtors could raise no more money, and the creditors could collect no more. A creditor could, indeed, go to court and get a mandamus writ ordering the debtor to tax, but where the tax values were exhausted—as was often the case—this was a meaningless gesture. The state legislatures could give no help. Under the con- stitution they can pass no laws impairing the obligation of existing contracts. A state insolvency act, therefore, could do nothing to obligations already incurred. Unless the federal government could help, no one could. So congress passed the municipal bankruptcy act. This provided that a local unit of government which was in default could readjust its debt to its capacity to pay, under very defi- nite limitations. It had to have the consent of two-thirds of its creditors; it had to have the approval of a federal judge; and it had to have the consent of the state in which it was situated. This is the law which the supreme court nullified on the ground that it is an infringement on state sovereignty. Behold, now, the odd tangle in which the ruling leaves us. Here was a case in which the states, under the constitu- tion, were specifically prevented from acting. The action pro- vided for in the law could be taken only with the specific con- sent of the states involved. And yet the law is thrown out on the ground that it impairs state sovereignty. Chief Justice Hughes has remarked that the constitution is what the judges say it is. The judges have spoken, in this case, to the effect that state sovereignty is a higher and holier thing than the states themselves had supposed or desired; a thing which, in this ‘ase, looks remarkably like a strait-jacket. Working Wives It isn’t only the politicians seeking issues upon which they can get elected who object to working wives, according to a recent survey by a nationally-known insurance company. Because the family is the basis of the need for insurance, men in this business are interested in American domesticity and one of their worries is the tendency toward instability upon the part of the American home. : In an effort to increase their knowledge and, if possible, find a remedy they quizzed pastors of 166 churches in American cities and one of the questions asked had to do with the desira- bility of wives working after they are married. For whatever it is worth, it is notable that two out of three pastors felt that married happiness and stability are doubtful where the wife also works as a breadwinner. The pastors said the man’s self-respect inevitably suffers, children must be postponed or live like orphans, the arrival of a baby often is a calamity rather than a blessing. The one exception generally noted has to do with a bride continuing to work until jp couple can establish a home. Still graver in import, however, according to these observ- ers of American life and morals, is the forced postponement of marriage. Many declare it to be the cause of a “moral break- down on a large scale” since a great many persons “unable to ffinance marriage on a satisfactory level, have rationalized them- selves into living together without marriage.” Where this doesn’t occur, the same pastors observe, the tendency is to embitter young people and make them cynical. The same group noted an American adaptation of the European dowry system, parents often contributing financial help until a young couple can get their feet on the ground. These developments have been noted by persons other than ministers and are of vast importance. They point the necessity of restoring economic opportunity for the young as well as for the old lest the nation face a breakdown of the American home much more severe than any already noted. Question and Answer Mr. Edwin H. Dressel, superintendent of the United eratic national convention to call there and see how money is qmade, wonders what the nation does with its pennies. The coppers are turned out by the truckload every day. Qooeoe. Behind a. Scenes Washington No Borah Support for Landon Is the Way the Situation Shapes Up Just Now . Britons Have Troubles Just jo New Dealers . . . Mor- genthau May Lose Appointment Fee in Fighting Tax Cases. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, June 6.—Senator Bor- ah has decided that he won’t cam- paign for.Governor Landon if the |latter is nominated for the prest- dency. Something may happen to change Borah’s mind. But it will have to be something more than the recent overtures from Landon representa- tives who have invited the Idaho senator to help write the Republican platform. Hoover roped in Borah in 1928 by giving him virtually a free hand with the platform. Planks covering dry law enforcement, corruption, and publicity for campaign expenditures were inserted as the senator desired them. The farm plank finally adopted in- corporated enough of Borah’s ideas to cause him to support it on the con- vention floor. The one plank pre- pared by Borah which wasn't ac- cepted was the one condemning the Ceolidge administration's Latin American policy. But Borah now feels platform planks aren’t very nourishing. He became the chief G. O. P. campaign orator in 1928, but after four years of Hoover he was so disappointed that he took no part in the 1932 fight. * ek * Won't Endorse F. R. He now is said to regard Landon as a candidate backed by the du Ponts, Hearst and reactionary east- ern bosses. He expects to “take a walk” and keep out of the presi- dential campaign. He has no thought of endorsing Roosevelt, whom he regards as an enemy of the Constitution. The senator isn’t committing him- self publicly, however. And the Lan- don forces haven't given up their efforts to conciliate him. A conversation with Landon him- self might change his attitude and some effort to get the two men to- gether is virtually certain. ee *% Morgenthau May Lose Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau is opposing the proposed ap- pointment of Max Truitt of St. Louis, Solicitor for the RFC, as general counsel for the bureau of internal revenue, He may have to cave in, however, as Truitt is a son-in-law of Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, key- noter at this year’s Democratic con- vention. Truitt’s present boss, Chairman Jesse Jones of RFC, probably would offer no objections, as Truitt hasn’t always shared Jesse's friendly feel- GRIEF FOR BRITONS, TOO Rifts in the Roosevelt official family have been frequent and sometimes violent. But the New Deal apparently has no monopoly on internal disputes. The author of a confidential weekly letter from London re- ports: “In these days when a member of the British calinet pats an- other on the back, no one knows whether it’s a friendly gesture or whether he is just feeling for a place to put a knife.” ings toward certain Wall Street bankers and railroad executives. He has failed to join the ranks of the “yes-men.” Morgenthau generally takes his guidance from Dr. Herman Oliphant, the treasury’s general counsel. The Morgenthau-Oliphant admin- istration has successively fathered Professor Warren's gold scheme; the silver program; the Roosevelt inher- itance tax proposal of last year, which became so balled up that it had to be abandoned; and the corporation surplus tax plan of this year, which as had such rough riding in con- gress because it seemed so full of holes. What! ‘Pauperize’ Lawyers? In secret conferences preceding in- troduction of the administration tax bill, certain New Deal attorneys sought to insert a provision limiting fees of lawyers appearing in cases against the government to a maxi- mum of $5,000. Fees in some such cases are re- Ported to have gone as high as §$1,- 000,000—perhaps higher. So this move was rather radical and also optimistic, considering the fact that congress is made up largely ‘of law- yers, many of whom will be lobbying or practicing law here sooner or later. But the government is at a con- stant disadvantage because its op- ponents in legal cases often include the best talent money can buy. Oliphant knocked that propesal out of the tax bill on the ground that it would overload the measure and make it harder to pass. Some progressive senators are ex- pected to offer the proposal as an amendment. But its chances of eventual passage seem slight. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 1S RELISHED BY Fight .. . Limit Urged on Lawyer’s| 1936 Model Political Platform Looking at Washington : 8—Amateur and|the tariff task, within limits, to an bree tie rete pas ‘are! executive department is the fact that poe i |foreign countries take advantage of busily engaged in exchanging drafts’ the United States because of this very oo cred oo tne yas prorise e iment Ble 2 - | proval. reign government = lican national convention at Cleve-| ing of congressional hesitancy to re- oe ot the drafts bear tae ear eae Lrdatlepries ere toes inst TOE | rolling, an snowing 2 marks of considcvable work on the! congress is not in session many tial in the Republican party. When) claim a new tariff duty and the eanrened: Teer oe ee esd) an ata Saree fave to make wu: eir minds 1s e | pre is required. seems incr strategy of the! platform, whether it| that ae Republicans ‘would be so will be. a set of principes or a set) far out of step with the world situa- aaa phrase: it pon ao saved on sackesyeae ae jome ol ie proposed platforms are; of reciprocity agreements when al a curious hodge-pudge of invective|the other governments of the world and gone Hee aaah pv aaa siiained ery onae aan fome good ideas but the professionals | egation of the tariff making and rat wil. have to rewrie them into “pla‘-| adjusting power to an executive “" David Lawrence (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) | Republican precedent for delegating]ways and means committee of the part of advisers more or less inf:uen-| months of the year, suddenly pro-| negotiated puts the industries or bus- the resolutions committee is finally | American government is powerless toitrade relationships with that country house and only the special interests that maintained good “pipelines” to the committees knew in advance and could prepare their lobbies for par- ticular rates, whereas the producers who could not afford to do so were usually left out in the cold. The new method whereby the department of state announces that a trade agree- ment with a certain country is to be inesses affected on notice that all are up for consideration and that briefs will be received. ‘Under the system in vogue at the tariff commission during Republican administrations, the matter ended when hearings were closed. As mat- ters stand now in the negotiation of reciprocity agreements, the interested producers may send in information and keep in touch with the depart- form English.” agency instead of the legislative. There are aspects of these proposed} There are, of course, many Repub- platforms which touch fundamentals. | licans who quarrel with the method Hidden away in a phrase here and) by which the trade agreements have there is a whole campaign issue.) been negotiated by the department’ Thus, one of the drafts which is said) of state. Criticism is heard, for in- to be favorably considered by the Re-| stance, on the ground that producers publican high command insists that| are not notified in advance and that reciprocity treaties shall be made|they get their information more only with “legislative approval.” quickly through foreign government This means a return to log-rolling| channels than they do through their and old-fashioned Republican tariff) own government here. Whatever there is to this argument, and un- methods. Actually, the Republicans) who are insisting on legislative ap-'doubtedly any system of negotiation proval are reversing the position tak-|is unfair when one party leaks, the en under the Coolidge and Hoover ad-| fact remains that improvements in ministrations, when, through the|the method of negotiation are desir- | flexible tariff provisions, the execu-| able if they do not defeat the purpose tive was authorized to proclaim tar-| and undesirable if they mean an op- iff rates with foreign countries with-| portunity for special interests to de- out getting further approval from) feat the trade agreement through log- rolling on Capitol Hill. the legislative body. The old method was secrecy in the | More important, however, than the Tennis Player TE, | HORIZONTAL __‘Answer to Previous Pursle 20 Less'common,’ eBryan— (EIMON) OE] VARTA) 23 Fire damage. jan eee [TIOMNT || AIRIAMMAIBIAT | 3) 4° carry: tennis star. [DTi INIEMELINISIE|T MmSIOIL IL) 27And. 1 ter 11 Poetry muse. 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And yet none of them “ever are returned. Literally billions of pennies have been manu- ‘Wactured and all, presumably are still in circulation. “Where,” sks “do they go?” ~ inswer, probably, is “junior’s bank and the coffers of ceasity of Being Punctual.” are you so late? You were to meet me here at four o'clock and now it is nearly six. Mrs. Peebles—Now don’t scold, dear. I stopped by the Wom- en’s club to hear Mrs. Chatterby’s lecture on “The Ne- Joe—I hear that Spillman has gone to Alaska to settle. is that he has Jake—No; the truth of the matter that gone there to keep] ment of state's interdepartmental | Your Personal Health } By William Brady, M. D. rtaining to health but y and in ink. Add 8 Must be accompani br. or diagnosis. by 8 care of The f-addr WE LOOK ASKANCE AT MOTHERHOOD Our inordinate national fondness for luxury and keeping up with the Joneses postpones the payment of an adequate pension to men and women as retiring age. In the past two or three years there has been a marked increase in the number of requests for “birth control” information in my daily mail; and the usual plea is “we can’t afford it.” In the first place, the use of the term “birth control” when you mean prevention of conception irks me nearly as much as does the use of the term “feminine hygiene” in the same fashion. In the next place, I believe that anyone who is well enough, strong enough and financially able to marry ie well enough, strong enough and financially able to have children. Finally, it is @ violation of the Hippocratic oath if not a statutory crime to give such advice or information. Old age pensions would be a fine thing for the country, no doubt, but before any attempt to establish such a system is made the country should provide @ suitable endowment for every mother, in the form of a benefit payable upon the birth of her baby and as much again payable in ten month- ly installments, to insure the necessities or comforts to which mother and in- fant are entitled. From years of rural, urban and hospital practice I know something of the cruel penalties of motherhood under the pinch of poverty. As a family practitioner I have seen the sad side of destitution in old age. I still say we should rescue motherhood first and let old age wait. Certain medical service schemes recently launched offer not only medi- cal care but also hospitalization and obstetric care—after the prospective mother has paid in ten monthly premiums. That, in my judgment, is the meanest kind of exploitation of poverty, crass paternalism which should not be tolerated. The expectant mother is aware of her approaching confine- ment at least five months before her time. If she can pay ten monthly premiums to a paternal corporation she can pay five monthly installments to her own private physician, and obtain the great advantage of proper pre- natal advice and care, and besides keep her good self-respect. For self-re- specting patients private physicians always have provided and always will provide. Every expectant mother should be examined by her physician in advance of the expected date of confinement, besides urine analyses or other tests at such intervals as the physician suggests, especially if she experiences any unusual digestive disturbance or headache in the later months. Unless otherwise instructed by her physician she should take a reasonable amount of outdoor exercise every day up to the final week, such as walking from half an hour to an hour, besides doing whatever housework she may be accustomed to do. She should wear rather low heels, and no corsets or other supports unless these are prescribed for a particular purpose. She should have any dentistry done that may be necessary, consulting her physician if anesthesia is required; she should not postpone or neglect regular dental inspection, prophylaxis or filling of recent cavities. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Oh, Come, Now Much interested in the report of your correspondent, of the apparent cure of cataract by raw carrot poultice. A lady some friends of ours knows had a cancer in the throat. It was not operable. Some one urged her to go on ® raw carrot juice diet. Strangely, when she did so, the cancer healed and she got well! (Mrs. A. N.) Answer—It would do no harm for any victim of cancer to try it. Frank- ly, I do not believe the story is true. But it does get around. If a hundred cancer patients try drinking a quart of raw carrot juice daily, and perhaps eating raw carrot in one form or another, for a few weeks, it will soon be- come clear whether the remedy has any effect on cancer. I know no more about it and can therefore give no further information or advice. Be Your Age T am 52 and I passed the menopause four years ago. So far I have felt no illeffect . . . . (Mrs. A. E.) Answer—Why expect any? The menopause (change of life) is a norma! occurrence, Send stamped, (3c) addressed envelope for free monograph on subject. (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) committee up to the last stages of the coe ‘seems probable that a cut-and- f agreement. ried restatement of Republican doc- sie drs be a|ttine is not going to attract independ- ‘The tariff plank is going to be 8) 044. oy anti-New Deal Democrats in difficult one to write if the unrecon-|the electorate. Judging by some of ciled isolationists have their way.|the platforms, such as that offered There are Republicans who march |by the group of New York Republican up the hill every year with the same | clubs, there is a recognition this year song and forget that there are any | that things are to be different. It re- other groups or sections of the coun- | mains to be seen, however, how much try who could be enlisted under the | influence these progressive and realis- party banner. tic forces inside the Republican party The Republican national convention | are going to have on the final plat- is going to have a lot of discussion form that emerges from the Cleve- on platform and debate on the floor |land convention. | 1 BEGIN HERE TODAY GAIL EVERETT, winner of a rise for costam offered 7 large silk manufacturing York to EREK HARGREAVES, iat, im interested REX HALL, Madame Lisette’s som, is representing the Travers “*Gall Roes_to spend the week= end at the Seartes’ home. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XII (THERE was a note of pride in Dick’s voice. “That's ‘Heart’s Delight’,” he said, pointing out the low, white clapboard house with its gray weathered roof, cresting a Jow hill. Gail’s eyes glowed as she turned to him. She had never known a real home. Ever since her moth- er’s death, when Gail was little more than a babe, she and her father had wandered from place to place—here for a few months, there for a year, but never long enough anywhere to make a home. The staccato note of an auto- mobile horn brought them swiftly back from the land of romance. Dick glanced in the mirror. “‘That’s the veterinarian,” he said. “One of the horses is sick. Es 3: gle EE FF LAMOROUS ADVENTURE guest room. “What a gorgeous view!” she exclaimed, looking at the Sound. “I thought you'd like it, my dear.” Mrs. Searles drew the flut- tering net curtains still further aside. “We're not very formal here. Take your time. There’s only the family here tonight. Dick told me he didn’t want any other guests.” Mrs. Searles smiled significantly as she left the room. Gail’s cheeks grew rosy. She’ knew Mrs. Searles approved of her friendship with Dick. That it would ripen into a warmer at- tachment was the wish of every member of the family. Hadn’t Rosemary urged her to marry her brother? Suddenly, as Gail slipped an antique bracelet on her slender wrist, she recalled a pair of twin- j kling blue eyes and a lock of dark hair that fell carelessly across a wide forehead. Had she lost her heart to Derek Hargreaves—an artist who could probably never offer his wife anything more than a studio apartment, who'd never know from month to month what his income might be? 3E H E in some enchanted spot. Doesn’t the moonlight make everything look different!” Dick drew her close to him, but, quickly slipping from his arms, she stooped down and pressed her lips against the velvety petals of a huge, sweet-scented pansy. “I never knew flowers could smell so sweet,” she murmured. ‘ “I never pay much attention to flowers. Mother is the gardener in our family, and I guess she keeps old Geddes busy getting all stg varieties she hears about; Honey, you were speaking about the moonlight. It hasn’t you. Don’t you love me, sweet—just a little?” He caught her hands in his. “Of course I do, Dick. I love all your family. I think your dad’s adorable and your mother’s too sweet—” just “Gail, Gail! That’s not what I iy Ea iH tr ; [ L zie f : i : A E i Ph i eu § "e : : k F a if iB i ef? 2 ; F 3 H e B i [ i 33 E f é i i L Ba 48 a u if e i il ee : t ef af tis r [ i I 5 iy t i , & 5458 F 3 SEE aii- citi steel Be. 2g i BE fz