The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1936, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune Ap 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 mai! metter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Bec'y-Treas. and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance by mai! in state, per year by mail outside of North Da! ‘Weekly by mai] tn Canada, per year . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press entitled to the use for republice- edited in tl The Associated Press is eealeea te é ry tion of the news dispatches cred to it or not otherw: ne Lead and also the local ne: of All eights of republication of all other Better Than the Platform Senator Borah’s declaration that “the candidate is the platform” would seem to be happily justified by the declara- tion of Candidate Alfred M. Landon on the money and labor phases of the Republican position, read to the Cleveland con- vention before his nomination. Governor Landon was much more forthright than the plat- form makers and for that reason, if for no other, he deserves the friendly consideration of the American people. Whatever his political assets and liabilities, it is apparent at the outset that he is prepared to make his position clear and to give the American people a clear understanding of what he proposes to do if elected. Analysis of the platform reveals that the differences be- tween the two major parties are not as extensive as some ob- servers might wish. The Republicans pledge almost the same objectives as the New Dealers and the chief difference between what they propose and what the Democrats have done is largely one of method. Landon calls it separating the wheat from the New Deal chaff and to that extent concedes the many points on which there is no fundamental disagreement. His assertion that he interprets the money plank as meaning a return to the gold standard serves to clarify the atmosphere. Whether or not it will be popular with the people remains to be seen, but it at least serves to make the line of demarcation clearer, His stand in favor of a constitutional amendment if heces- sary to give the states the right to deal with minimum wages and child labor is proof of his social consciousness. If anyone thinks that Landon would favor sweatshops as president he is clearly mistaken. He is much too good an American for that. The American people are entitled to a clear and honest: presentation of the differing principles of government as re- vealed by the declarations and actions.of the two parties. It is necessary if they are to give a clean-cut decision on national policies and to keep the campaign from being fought on a basis of invective and accusation. Good Americans may take it for granted that the candi- dates of both parties MEAN well. It is for them to determine whether, on the one hand, the Roosevelt policies have worked well and whether they think the Republican proposals would work better. The farm plank adopted at Cleveland needs clarification and expansion. In essence it endorses the conservation policy already espoused by the Democrats. The farmers of America are entitled to know what the differences in administration will be, if any. On the basis of his forthright stand on money and labor, it is to be expected that Landon will give his interpretation of this plank at the proper time and place. This declaration will be awaited with interest in the west and might easily be the turning point of the coming campaign. The issues, of course, will not be fully joined until after the Democrats have spoken but the line of cleavage already is indicated. The initial reaction of much of America may well be that the Republican candidate is somewhat superior to the Repub- lican platform. —~ sponta gia publis! matter jn Gre also reser: Important News If news dispatches mean what they say, the most impor- tant bit of information contained in Friday’s newspapers was not that a candidate was nominated to run for the presidency of the United States but the declaration that Soviet Russia is preparing to adopt a constitution this fall. Under the plan as revealed in a story from Moscow, freedom of speech, the press, religion and employment would be guaran- teed to the Russian people and safeguarded in much the same way that these personal rights are safeguarded in America. In short, it means the abandonment of the fundamental principles of Communism and their replacement by tite funda- mentals of democracy as we know them. For none of these rights exist in Russia now. The 165,000,- 000 people of Sovietland have been regimented and directed by the Russian government and the government has been con- trolled by the 2,000,000 members of the Communist party. What Russia has done has been to confess that the system “in use there since the Bolshevik revolution has either failed entirely or has served its purpose. It means a basic change in the lives and manner of living of an important part of the world’s population. It means the spread of the American idea and the decline of the Russian idea, That is, it means these things if the news dispatch telling of the new constitution can be taken at face value. But America had better wait to see it before we believe it, Poco croce. Behind a. Scenes At The Convention ‘Preposterous’ Would Seem to Be a Good Theme Song for a Conven- tion... 1vs8 a Place Where Goofi- ness Reaches the Zenith ... Take a Look at What Has Been Going On for Your Proof. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Cleveland, June 13.—As a freeborn sucker with the proper reverence for all institutions created by profession- al politicians, it is perhaps your duty to take political conventions and their works quite seriously. Yet, if you stand off and look at this Republican convention with any pre- tense of dispassionate objectivity, you are likely to conclude that the Repub- licans should adopt for their Cleve- land theme song that once famous chant of the late Bert Williams called “Preposterous!” Conventions often are like that. In aimost no time you will find the Democrats going through the motions . | Of @ convention which will be so cut- and dried that no delegate could be persuaded to spend train fare for it except for the promise of festive do- ings, plenty of food and drink, parades, song and dancing in the streets. * * *% Democrats Can't Tie This It is not in the nature of things, however, for the Democratic conven- tion this year to be as screwy as the Republican. The fight here over the constitu- tional amendment issue has been enough to prove that. Until the con- vention eve it was axiomatic in poli- tics that the G. O. P. had a foolproof issue in its grim stand for preserva- tion of the constitution and the power of the U. S. supreme court from New Deal tampering. Every orator in the party beat his breast and declaimed that his life blood must be taken before anyone could cast snoots at those great in- stitutions and get away with it. And this issue seemed a popular one. Overnight the Republicans them- selves changed all that. Talk of con- stitutional amendment buzzed through Cleveland hotels and bars. Republicans everywhere were making sour comments on the court, erstwhile sacred idol, because of the New York minimum wage law decision. Landon’s platform builders were found working on an amendment Plank. Even conservative Herbert ment of a sort. Borah, whose chest bears huge cal- louses from long years of public de- fense of the court, publicly asserted @ belief that its majorlty members had been wrong. He and others took the stand that alteration of the court's complexion was necessary. ese 8 Moré and More Hooey In short, it developed that what the Republicans thought about the con- stitution and the court wasn’t what they thought at all. If it also seems fantastic, consider further the spectacle of a great polit- ical party about to nominate a presi- dential candidate who had failed to take any position on the outstanding, vital issues of the day. And then proceed to analyze the Teal underlying facts behind the enor- mous ballyhoo, telegraphed out of Cleveland in millions of words, about id so-called “fight” over the nomina- tion. ‘The only other candidate who could be logically nominated was Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, who went on a long European trip just as the other candidates began to set bait and who made no secret of the fact that he believed the Republi- can nomination worthless until 1940. Landon became the only possible answer if the party were to avoid a flagrant exhibition of boss rule. If you believe that much to be true, you will have a hard time figuring out any good excuse for most of the local fuss. * * 8 Borah Pulls the Classic Any medals offered for the quin- tessence of the grotesque, however, seem to be the property of Borah, the statesman. On the night of May 28, as politi- clans waited with breath held, Borah told the world that he was not in- terested in party platforms, but in candidates. On June 8, as his arrival in Cleve- land marked one of the high spots of the convention and everyone again held breath, Borah solemnly assured the same world that he was not in- terested in candidates, but in the party platform. Further food for thought, perhaps, is added by the innumerable Kansans here who have fought Landon for years. Only six years ago enough of them to bring about his defeat thought he wasn’t the man for pre- cinct committeeman. Those who licked him now sing “Susanna!” and proclaim the gifts which fit him to Tule over us all as president. It is easy for a newspaperman to cover @ convention and interview the politicians. But sometimes it’s all a bit difficult to understand. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) ————__—____ a So They Say ] Every woman needs three husbands, one to earn a living for her, one for social purposes and one to play the role of screen lover—Dr. E. J. G. Beardsley, Jefferson Medical college, iphia. * * % In America . . . we believe the state is made for man, and not man for the state. Government is our instru- for the Russian government has been much longer on promises than on performance. It may be that Russia is merely making a gesture intended to win sympathy in the United States in anticipation of the fust- nearing day when it may find itself embroiled in war with Imperialist Japan. uires if people become blue from gas tion, . of getting s refund on her coal bill, Now that the supreme court canceled Guffey’s. se 8 _ Henry Ford predicts that auto materials will be grown on a ferm in the ee In fact, from the highway, even now, parts can be seen lying in ment; we may use it for good or for ill. But use it we must, or it will use us.—Joseph K. Folsom, professor of sociology, Vassar college, Poughkeep- a) Too many people want to thumb their way through life, riding at some- efactor.—Rev. Dr. Edgar Dewitt Jones, Detroit. ‘THE BISMARCK 'TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1986 Looking at the js, Convention (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) | Cleveland, Ohio, June 13. — The Hoover joined the cry for an amend-|story of the Republican national think, incidentally, that in Governor Landon Not Conservative If the conservatives of the East David Lawrence convention is not told in the words of| Landon they have nominated a con- the platform or in the roll calls that |servative, they are mistaken. He is a nominated Governor Landon and/Theodore Roosevelt Republican and Frank Knox. It is the story of a/ before the campaign is over the coun- struggle for mastery of a party, ajtry will know it. He will take what struggle that by no means ended he finds good in the New Deal and when the last gavel fell. |reject what he believes to be bad. The For what happened here in Cleve-/ platform itself approves some of the land will long be remembered as the | New Deal objectives on labor and ag- beginning of a fight that has its | riculture, though it urges that they be parallel only in the famous Bull accomplished through a different Moose rebellion of 1912 against stand- legislative formula. pat Republicanism. | Speaking of the platform, the farm The principal difference between) plank is not at all palatable to the 1912 and 1936 is that, the descendants/ eastern conservatives nor are the of the Bull Moose movement have) statements on social security and won the presidential nomination this! minimum wages. But it should not be week and are in a position to do in-/ assumed that this means the east- side the party what Theodore Roose-|ern business interests so much as it velt failed to do outside the party. = | does mean the Republican politicians Knox Was Anti-Climax from the East who appear at this | made his refusal to run absolute and Governor Landon found himself up) against political manipulatiors when) he tried to get a straightforward plank on the monetary queston. And he found himself up against a stone wall when he sought to prevent a dis- pute over the vice presidential nomi-| naton. As it was, the convention) wound up in a-kind of anti-climax, with the Landon men deeply disap- pointed that they did not get Senator Vandenberg for running mate. | On the surface, the story is that) the Michigan senator refused to ac-) cept. Most of the men in the press! stand believed this to be the fact. But the story being told by various well-informed sources is that the Michigan senator was really too prog- ressive to suit the ultra-conservative elements in certain state delegations and that they would have carried on @ fight against him. Under the cir- cumstances, Mr. Vandenberg declined to allow his name to be considered. | Had he been drafted by a unanimous vote of the convention, the Michigan | senator would have accepted. He} could not have disregarded a solmen' call to service. Close Friend of Knox It was arranged that, if Senator Vandenberg did allow his name to be considered, Frank Knox would with- draw. These two men are such close friends that they would not have fought against each other. Then the effort to block Vandenberg, according to the anti-Vandenberg spokesmen here, would have turned to some other candidate as the means of pre- venting the Michigan senator's nomi- nation. While this narrative of events is directly contrary to the general im- pression, it is nevertheless supported circumstantially by the fact that John Hamilton, the Landon spokesman, re- vealed that they were in no position to force the issue and told the conven- tion he preferred to have Kansas take no part in the controversy. This meant a wide-open contest and in that contingency Senator Vandenberg unequivocal. Antis Were Belligerent It might be asked how it happens that a presidential nominee cannot influence the selection of a running mate. It might be asked why the | Several months and he has the con- convention to have been less concili- atory with their western brethren than the external developments would seem to indicate. ‘Organization’ Liked Knox From a purely political appraisal, Vandenberg would have been a stronger second man on the ticket than Frank Knox, but the latter has been campaigning aggressively for fidence of many regular organization men in the party whose wholehearted support has always been assured but whose active participation in the campaign might not have been won, it is claimed, without the rejection of the proposal to put Vandenberg on as vice presidential nominee. There will be disappointment among Democrats that a Democrat was not chosen for vice president. But the Republican convention was s0 ob- sessed with the notion that it could win anyhow that scant consideration was given to the coalition idea. Mr. Tengen may emphasize it in his cam- paign. Refused to Pussyfoot Refusing to pussyfoot and insist- ing that he would let the convention know his views on the platform be- fore and not after the nomination, the Kansas governor thrilled the crowd with his franknes and sincer- ity. He got off to a good start. But Br. Landon’s battle with the politicians, the standpatters, the man- ipulators, and the political tricksters has just begun. A new power has arisen inside the Republican party— a Kansas Bull Mooser—and he will have the friendship of the standpat- ters so long as the fight is against @ common opponent—the New Deal administration—but, if elected, he will find the reactionary elements in the party as bitterly opposed to him as they were to his efforts at this con- vention to express his principles in the platform itself. oe ei Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. but not Dr. Brady will auswer ions pert ing to health br. fi in ink, Address srady' vcare et The qribun eters seit and be accompanied by & addressed envelope. in atamped. cy HOW TO KEEP YOUR ARTERIES RESILIENT Reader who says he has learned many things of value by aeatet a certain column in this paper asks why I don’t present in condensed form the essential rules for keeping young. ; 6 Aw, I’m tired of telling you over and over, and besides, it’s time hurry over to the bowling . 80 if you don’t mind I'll just quote from a book what I think gives the gist of it in the simplest form. The book is entitled “Building Vitality.” It is by Wm. Brady, M-D., DPM, F.AMA., Professor Prophylaxis, Everybody's School of Hygiene, and here are the ales all complete: ay ‘Liberal a of milk, not less than a quart a day, butter, eggs and cheese (any kind) in the diet. Two fresh vegetables and at least one raw or green leafy salad vegetable or relish daily. Fruit in season for breakfast, raw or cooked as dinner dessert. Some fresh meat, fowl or fish once # day. 2. Eschew condiments and use salt sparingly. 3. Teetotalism. 4. Tobacco temperately if at all. Never during adolescence (before the _ age of 23 years). $. Sufficient exercise daily ‘an Povigh) hve energy freed by emotion. Walking is the finest of exercises. 6. Iodin' ration. (Send stamped (3c) envelope bearing your address, for instructions). 7. Optimal vitamin ration. (Explained in book above mentioned. Book Seep 90 ity sient sins jtandard limits. ; 8. Keep your wel at . 9 ‘Absorb all the sunshine the season, climate, your pocketbook and the law allows. Practice belly breathing, and roll yourself a couple dozen somersaults every day. (Instructions for both on request, if you inclose stamped (3c) addressed envelope). 11, If you have cultivated the constipation or physic habit, break it. It is a silly habit. Choose your doctor, stick to him and have @ health inventory each birthday anniversary, so that the doctor may compare your condi- tion year by year with your previous record. Speaking of optimal vitamin ration, that means you must endeavor to get. more of the essential vitamins daily than is absolutely necessary to pre- vent deficiency diseases. The booklet tells all about it. Sorry we haven't space to give all the information here. No reason why every one should net get an optimal vitamin ration. daily if the food is intelligently selected. Speaking of the constipation habit, I have another booklet about that, but shucks, you really don’t need. any booklet. All I tell in the booklet is that the habit is a silly one, and any victim may break the habit by simply swearing off from physic, and staying off. The only difficulty about this is that laymen are such wiseacres and know so much better than a mere doctor does what the bowels need. So I must tell you over and over the same thing, and eventually a certain proportion of them begin to wonder whether what I say may not be so. Hence the book, to con- vince wiseacres of the physiological truth of this positive assertion. Besides, anyone who gets plenty of vitamin B and vitamin G will not readily succumb to the morbid notion that he needs dope to “regulate” the bowels. Nature does that if you give her a chance. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS History of a Wart About sixty years ago I noticed a wart on my forehead ... met man on train who told me to go to a fireman in city department . . . I visited the fireman. He passed the palm of his hand over the wart, said Hokus, Hokus, Hokus. Now forget this and go ahead and attend to your business. I did, and a few days later, brushing my hair, I recalled—lo and behold, the wart was gone... (H. G. B.) = Answer—The real hocus pocus, eh? Warts haven’t changed much these past sixty years. They come and go just like that today. f° The Baby Must Have Vitamins Is it all right to give the baby his daily dose of fish liver oil in his daily dose of tomato juice? Or would it be better to give them separately? ++. (Mrs, A. C.) Answer—Give them together if you like. Vitamin D, however, is ten times more efficacious when given incorporated in milk. Ten drops of condol will mix well with milk. S Multiple Sclerosis Have suffered several years with multiple disseminated sclerosis. A friend says you had an article telling how the disease has been checked by a high vitamin A diet.... (Rev. F. A.) Answer—Mellanby, noted English nutritionist, reported some favorable results from such a diet—including a quart or more of fresh milk daily, butter, eggs, raw carrots, spinach, beet or other greens, cheese, nescarole (chicory greens, endives), liver, kidney, sweet potato, peppers, string beans, Taw or canned tomatoes or tomato juice, prunes, butter, raw or slightly cooked peas or canned peas, Romaine lettuce, and about a tablespoonful of cod liver oil daily. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) BEGIN HERE TODAY GAIL EVERETT, ambitious to become a Fe to New York a to a stroke luck—is hired by ‘MADAME Li- saree proprietor of an exelu- sive ai preves tem- ork, ramental and di! It to we What happened in the platform committee shows how much the presi- dential nominee has to do to make clear his detachment from the politi- cal manipulators of Republicanism. Gov. Landon was twice voted down when, through his representatives on the committee, he tried to get a plank that would indicate an eventual re- turn to the gold standard. He was told it was bad politics at the moment by men who were just as much in favor of a gold standard as he was. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN is BELISHED BY THE BUST OF MEN Judge Soakum— It is the sentence of this court that the prisoner be confined in prison for the re- mainder of his nat- ural life. Culprit—You Hon- or, this a rank in- justice— Landon men were so glum when the mame of Frank Knox was being cheered by the delegates. The answer Judge — Silence! Ten more years for contempt of court. is to be found in the closely knit or- Borah and so on. Whatever their reasons, the facts are that Mr. Van- Old Lady—Young man, are you sure this is an ice cream soda? It looks from | like arsnic to me. Druggist—Sure it’s a soda. If you don’t believe it taste it and see for yourself, “Don’t you find my article orig- inal?” inquired the ambitious young would-be authoress, “Very,” replied the editor, “especial- ly the spelling. Rita— Mamma, may I have Celia come in and play with me? Mamma—No; you make too much Virnstein—I wonder why the In- qe GramMorous ADVENT Two hours later Jed exclaimed, “Well, I guess you think I’ve been pretty dumb, falling into the Travers’ plans like I did instead of making some investigations. Here’s the address of that fellow I told you about. 1 ain’t got it written down, for I always keep things like that in my head—” He repeated the address of Giles Har- ding’s New York law office. “That's fine,” said Mark. “I'm afraid the pen’s a bit rusty. I don’t use it very often.” “I guess it will do,” Mark Chap- man answered. He wrote slowly, for he wanted to make it clear to this man who RE I need you here.” With a snort, he slammed the receiver in its cradle and left the office. see 6¢)\PADAME has just telephoned. She’s coming down for a couple of hours this afternoon, so be on your good behavior,” an- nounced Clytie, looking into the designing room. “Take that to yourself,” said Selma. “We never have any fusses here.” Half an hour later Clytie put her head in at the door once again. “She's here, and she’s raising Cain about everything. Whew-w!” Gail felt suddenly a) was a friend of his brother-in-| she had done a great deal of work law, Peter Everett, that he was! while Madame had been away, making no claim to the property. | but would she approve of it? He himself was well enough fixed) “Again the door opened and Lita for an old fellow, but he urged! called, “You're wanted in the Harding to find Everett's daughter | showroom, Miss Everett.” i —if she was still alive—as quickly Laying her work aside, Gait ravers company. as possible because he was su8-| hurried away. This was the sume Now #0 S) MIEN Tan STORY | picious of the next step the Trav-| mons she's expected. ge xv the |" company might take. “Oh, Gail!” cried bench outside Jed Hoskeer’s| As the aroma of an expensive|inim ss | wnat luck to find you shack, ae fe Pong Pe gical cigar watted along the} « ” Gail gasped with oa a NOW. | corridors of the magnificent New bodings Going to town tomorrow. Any-| York offices of the Travers Mining Bic ag tiger ge thing you want? and Development wonderful job here. Do tell “Reckon not,” Jed answered. é “asd “How about you, Mark?” “I wouldn’t mind if you’d bring He handed Draffen a dollar. “Thanks, old me some tobacco.” man.” “Oh, that’s all right. Always do anything for a neigh- for his dog, Draf- Rancho fen took the path to the Draffen,” Jed remarked. “Yes, but has it ever you—” Mark paused, “Obliging sort of chap—Dan “What's that?” asked Jed. Then fH I 5 oe | g Zz E ? gEggFeE ggg | & 5 tis Bul te aEEES i H i i gure VF g® z : : f iy: a F : 3 ge . ij 8 betes