The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1936, Page 6

“riage ritual will make little real difference. 8 The Bismarck Tribune An independent Newspaper » THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER x (Established 1873) State, City and County Officiai Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D. and entered at the postoffice 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) .. Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck)... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ... Weekly by mail in state, per year Weekly by mai) outside of North Dakota, per year . ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press hie [at the states’ rights shibboleth which . |the G. O. P. has now taken unto it- Old Issues Raised Again The Republicans having sounded off manfully against monopoly and monopolists, President Roosevelt speaks to Tex- ans in the same key; and it all sounds like a breath from the past—from 1912, say, when Woodrow Wilson and another Roosevelt were rousing the people to realize that democracy has economic as well as political implications. You do not have to be so very old to remember the great anti-monopoly campaign of the pre-war years, nor do you have to be so very observant to discover that the campaign fell on evil times when the World war began. A nation which cast nearly 10,500,000 votes for anti- monopolists Roosevelt and Wilson in 1912 was willing in 1920 to elect an administration to which monopoly was part of the natural order of things. Andrew Mellon became secretary of the treasury and held the job longer than any other man before or since. Great oil combines got our pretroleum reserves, and the country became indignant not because the combines got them, but because they paid bribes for them. Only the fact that George Norris was a great two-handed fighter kept Henry Ford from getting Muscle Shoals. The Democratic party was able, with a straight face, to nominate a Morgan lawyer for the presidency in 1924. LaFol- lette crusaded as an anti-monopolist that year, sounded old- fashioned, and took a great beating. When Al Smith sought the presidency in 1928, his moderate efforts to curb monopoly were hailed as sure signs of Socialism. Those things were symptoms. We had got tired of the old crusade. The public generally was indifferent to the old battle cries. Business was good and seemed to be getting better. Nobody wanted to bite the hand that was feeding him. And then, in 1929, somebody pulled the plug. In the hard years that followed we began to learn things. We learned, for instance—what Wilson and T. R. had told us two decades before—that political freedom is less than half a loaf, unless it be accompanied by a decent measure of eco- nomic freedom. If a man’s right to earn a living is at the mercy of remote forces which he can neither control nor properly identify, he is up against a thing which, as the Republican plat- form remarks, “will utterly destroy constitutional government and the liberty of the citizen.” So now we are back where we were 24 years ago; or, to be more exact, we are back in that frame of mind, but with a new knowledge and a new determination. Both candidates are pledged to carry on the fight of pre-war years. It is not with- out significance that Roosevelt is an old Wilsonian and Landon an old Bull Mooser. The New Internationalism The farmers’ wives of the world are doing their best to break down the isolationist policies of nations. They’re doing it through their new organization, the Associated Country Women, which just had a turnout of 7,500 delegates, represent- ing 27 nations, in Washington. These women proceed on the theory that problems of farm wives are identical the world over, that home-making is uni- versal and that peace is indispensable to humanity. Accordingly, they are going about cementing the world friendships through their own channels—by exchange of farm handicraft, compilation of an international cookbook, and other such projects. This movement at least promises to get at the heart of world amity where it begins—in the home. In a small way, it is starting a program that may have big results. For Better Citizens Leading educators of New York have been looking into the state’s public schools and have reached the conclusion that they might be a great deal better. The New Yorkers found that, while “ample time is devoted to Latin, mathematics, English, and other subjects, civics re- main the neglected orphan of the state’s educational system.” Accordingly, it is proposed that more time should be given to the teaching of civics, that students should be given direct contacts with government and politics, that adequately pre- pared civics teachers be sought, and, finally, that the public must be aroused to require the schools to turn out public- minded students. In these days of the ever-increasing importance of govern- ment, the New York program is one that might be emulated in all other parts of the United States. Brides Will Like This The bride’s promise to “obey” her husband is under fire once more. The National Council of Congregational and Chris- tian Churches will take up the proposal to omit the word in the near future on the strength of pleas from clergymen every- where, Recommendations to the council label “obey” a “needless and irritating word,” and one must agree that covers the case. For theterm had its origin a long time ago, when “obey” meant just that to a wife. The modern view of marriage, on the other hand, sees it as a cooperative institution. The word doubtless is repeated these days as mere formality, anyhow, so dropping it from the mar- It will merely bring the ritual up to date. ——e Behind i} the Scenes ||! Washington Roosevelt WiN Dictate His Party’s Platform . . . Switch on State's Rights Stand Possible... G. O. P. Relief Plan Viewed as Faulty... F. D. R. May Make Change in Old- | Age Program. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) |" Washington, June 18.—The Repub- licans turned out a somewhat dreary platform at Cleveland and it’s ques- tionable whether the Democrats will produce a more inspiring document at Philadelphia. Roosevelt, however, will dictate his own party's platform. He is a suf- ficiently shrewd politician to use a few planks to shoot holes in any gen- eralities and inconsistencies in the opposition platform, taking full ad- vantage of the fact that the Repub- licans did their shooting first. The president may decide to crack self, despite the fact that it was for many decades Democratic property, while the party of Lincoln and Mc- Kinley leaned more toward a Ham- iltonian doctrine of strong central- ized authority. He would have to tread softly, be- cause there is still great popular be- lief in such shibboleths, as the Re- publicans will realize. But there is also plenty of evidence concerning situations where it has been shown difficult or impossible, regardless of constitutional and su- preme court limitations, to get states to pass desirable social, humanitarian, or labor legislation because it would put them or certain of their citizens at a competitive disadvantage with | states which did not so legislate. , e* *8 % States Shirk Job Unemployed insurance, for instance, lagged when left to the, states, be- cause opponents could always say that the necessary payroll tax would drive industries elsewhere. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936 The Ideal Graduation Gift The Republican platform proposes to encourage adoption by the states of honest and practical measures for meeting the problems of unemploy- ment insirance. Support for the adoption of state Looking at Washington | Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will w disease or diagnosis, Bredy tn care of The Tr’ stamped. self-addressed en re fly in Y All queries must be accompanied by & e. i THE MOTHER’S BLOOD IS THE BABY’S In the human embryo, which cannot be distinguished from that of otuer animals in the first month, the heart appears by the fourth week and has four distinct cavities and is covered by its pericardium. The heart be- comes functionally active by the third week of embryonic life. The mother’s bluod, of course, supplies all of the nutriment and the oxygen required by the growing child and carries away for excretion all of the carbon dioxide and other waste matter formed by the process of growth. 8o from conception to birth the blood of the mother is the baby’s blood and the quality or character of the mother’s blood affects the child’s health a8 much as it does her own health. If the mother takes a little drink, or indulges in tobacco, so does her baby. It is pretty well known that tobacco and alcohol are dangerous to young children in any dose. Some doctors permit expectant mothers to smoke and drink in moderation if they are accustomed to indulging. I believe it is invariably harmful to the unborn child. A- woman's capacity to nurse her baby is certainly impaired by even moderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages. It would seem then that the expectant infant should have the benefit of the doubt. There should be no restrictions in the diet, no avoidance of this or that item which the woman ordinarily enjoys, except by direction of the physi- cian. As a rule the daily menu should include from a pint to a quart of milk, eggs, two or more fresh vegetables, a salad or green leafy relish, and whatever fresh fruit may be available. The woman’s own inclination may determine how much meat, bread, sweets she shall eat. The items men- tioned are particularly important because they furnish elements which are required in greater abundance by the preghant woman, namely, calcium arid phosphorus, iron, vitamins. In most instances a prophylactic iodin ration should be taken throughout pregnancy; the use of iodized salt in place of plain salt may suffice, though I believe the pregnant woman may well take @ drop of tincture of iodin in a little water once a week, whether she uses iodized salt or not. The foods mentioned furnish some vitamins, but probably not enough for the requirements of mother and child. It is the general practice of phy- siclans to prescribe for the prospective.mother a daily dose of vitamin D concentrate—the same as is universally done now for the infant in the first year—to prevent rickets, and to favor development of sound teeth, and to protect the mother’s bones and teeth from being robbed of calcium by the baby. Formerly fish-liver oil was the vitamin D carrier used for this pur- pose. Now there are a number of synthetic vitamin D concentrates avail- able, which have the advantage of smaller dose (a few drops compared with spoonfuls) and better taste; but most of them have the disadvantage of Greater expense, though one or two may be had at reasonable cost. ‘The expectant mother requires four or five times as large a daily ration of vitamin B as the woman does, If she doesn’t get it, her infant 4s more likely to suffer with pyloric stenosis, hemorrhage disease and weak- ness of the digestive function. Wheat germ and brewer's yeast are the richest sources of vitamin B. The diet should include some of one or both daily. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Digestion of Egg io ald contains the most nutriment, boiled, fried, or raw eggs? . . ” Answer—Cooking does not change the nutritive value of egg. Perhaps egg cooked as you prefer is more readily digested than raw egg. Part of the albumen (white) of raw egg passes through the digestive tract un- changed, undigested. Stone in Bladder jaws and interstate compacts to “ David Lawrence it abolish sweatships and child labor and protect women and children witn | (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) respect to maximum hours, minimum] wWashingtcn, June 18. — Surveying wages, and working conditions, aS |the aftermath of the Cleveland con- promised by the Cleveland platform, |vention, the political strategists of is another case in point. 5 the New Deal party privately are re- The sweatshop operator's habit of |joicing over what they believe was a crossing state lines to areas where |tactical error on the part of the Re- state-imposed labor standards are low |publicans in robbing themselves of |the Republicans written and adopted jan unequivocally worded platform, |they might have introduced a novelty in political warfare. So it appears |doubtful, according to the view of many strategists here, whether the argument on platform-breaking is going to amount to very much after any other way than by operation? . Answer—It may be crushed and by cystoscope. Plished within the constitution —a Position directly refuted by such emi- nent constitutional lawyers as Sen- ator Borah—the Democrats feel bet- ter about their own position. They will argue that fundamentally the Republican attitude is the same as of biology is impoftant? ... (F. N.) Can @ good sized gravel be removed from the bladder by dissolving or in -. GM) removed through the natural channel Biology Do you know of other fields of work besides hospitals where the subject Answer—Agriculture experiment stations, laboratories of pharmaceutical manufacturers, nutrition laboratories, zoological gardens, humane society theirs, shelters, state fish hatcheries, national park preserves, physiological and is notorious. An employer would be better off under a federal minimum wage law than if operating under a State wage law while his competitor two paramount issues. |all, and, if this is the case, it is the The Democrats have winced, for Republican platform committee at example, under the charge that they \Cleveland which brought that situae had abandoned their 1932 platform. tion about. pathological research laboratories. It would not be si on the ot (ie saree (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) other hand, if the Republicans veered away from the constitutional issue as such altogether and transferred the 50 miles away paid as low wages as he liked. Interstate compacts designed to put The Republicans now declare that the carrying out of the 1936 platform all employers on an even basis sound lef error ined anne nice. Their formation is cumber-|contract. Yet it is contended on the some and the more states you try t0|qtner hand now that the Republican Bet into one, the more the task tends) j1attorm contains enough contradic- Shoka ee et tions within itself to make it diffl- santa cult for Governor Landon, if elected Landon Sees Need president, to carry out some of the Landon, to his credit, recognized |Principal planks. these facts when he telegraphed the| These contradictions will, of course, convention that in case minimum |form the basis of the whole cam- wage laws were impossible through |paign of opposition on the part of means suggested by the platform, he |the New Deal to the new Republican would be for a constitutional amend-|approach. Thus, the tariff plank has ment. He did not suggest confining power cause he recognized the need of at federal participation. Handing relief back to the states is another matter, although it has some of the same aspects, because it has been demonstrated that some states are unable or unwilling to pro- vide adequate relief for citizens. Most important is the fact that the American political system hardly per- mits turning over responsibility for administration to “local non-political bodies,” as the G. O. P. platform urges. Politics in relief already is bad enough, but experts believe surrender of responsibility to a chain of state bosses, county chairmen, city machine politicians, and ward heelers would increase costs about 25 per cent, be- cause of graft and waste. ee % Faults in Old Age Plan Experts on social security, on the other hand, compliment Republican platform recognition of serious weak- ness in the New Deal old age pro- gram. These experts sometimes say that the principles of the Townsend plan are sounder than the contribu- tory old age insurance law, with its estimated future reserve fund of 50 billion dollars. “Pay-as-you-go” policy, with pro- ceeds from a direct tax, as asked by the Republicans, seems more sen- sible to them. Roosevelt may take the tip and acknowledge a mistake. The Democrats presumably will call for a balanced budget “as soon as possible,” and for currency stabiliza- tion in some paraphrase of the Re- publican words, “as soon as we can do so with due regard for our na- tional interests.” No better place exists for new ideas, however, than in plans which will parallel such Republican generalities as those on re-employment. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Mrs, Simms—My dear, never marry anyone connected with the editorial of- fice of a magazine Mrs. Simms —1I e and every night he brings of papers from inconsistencies, the monetary plank is likely to cause Governor Landon dif- even attempts to follow his own wise, there is vulnerable language in the farm plank. All this is undesirable to politicians, whether they be Republicans or Demo- crats. For, in the minds of platform makers, there is never any real in- tention to let a platform plank inter- fere with the enactment of legislation that deviates from it. The usual cry is that “circumstances have arisen” which made a change necessary. Had The other issue on which the Dem- ocrats were apprehensive was the constitutional issue and the supreme court. The platform committee at {Cleveland endeavored to make it clear that the supreme court was all right but that the New York state statute was not properly drawn or that the issue was not clearly presented and that eventually, by rehearing or | otherwise, the constitutional question could be decided. But Governor | Landon, by his telegram to the con- vention, argued that, while he hoped the convention committee was right about it, nevertheless he wanted to be free to advocate a constitutional ‘amendment. In a sense, the Kansas governor for this legislation to the states, be- ficulties if he follows it literally or' was saying that the present frame- work of the constitution is not ade- least some provision for effective |amendment of it by telegram. Like-| quate to take care of the minimum | wage problem and that a change in the constitution was necessary. The Democrats have all along contended that the constitution was not ade- quate and that the supreme court was interpreting existing statutes too nar- nowly, thus forcing constitutional | change. Now that the Republican nominee concedes thé broad ground that the ireforms needed cannot be accom- [Building in Washington | places. laid the —— 40 Street. stone. HORIZONTAL ___ Answer to Previous Puzzle‘ drama. 1 What U.S. A. (GOIVIALIETTIGIHITIETEINIT[H] 14 Rodent. building is IAIRBESIOIRIE] 16—— meets in pictured here? [6] ra in bed building. 7 The statue a of —— tops INE IC! NV] 18 Grafted. its dome. 20 Its —— (pl.) 12 Finch. is almost 100 13 English coin, feet in diam- 15 To percolate. eter. 16 To heal. 22 Paralysis. 17 Conscious. 1} 23 Sofa. 19 To ogle. 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In other words, the Republicans will probably take “dictatorship” as a better issue than constitutionalism, since the con- solidation of executive and legislative power in the last three years has been ‘The people generally are much more familiar with the dangers of “dicta- torship” than they are with the intri- cacies of constitutionalism, The New Dealers insist that the Democratic platform to be adopted next week will fight shy of making any specific proposal to change the broad character of the constitution, | 80 as not to give the Republicans any issue on that point. Much, no doubt, will be said about it in keynote speeches but aside from a possible suggestion about an amendment to take care of minimum wages, it is unlikely that revision or alteration will be touched upon. It is also high- ly improbable that the idea of cutting down state powers and giving the federal government authority over ag riculture, labor and industry will be put forward in the party platform, te Gramornous ADVENTUD “You're sure about that—quite sure?” asked Derek. The night before he had seen Gail and Dick together. He writhed as he re- BEGIN HERE TODAY GAIL EVERETT, ambitions to | become a designer, comes to New York and—due to a stroke of luck =is hired by MADAME LIZ! ‘an exclusive shop. jo gd a 3 ‘temperamental |membered how her sunny head fe ete had almost touched the other Derek had called Madame EREK man’ artist, is interested in Gai lers her friendly advice. Fre- tly ‘she sees DICK SEARLES, sister, ROSEMARY, was her room: et ‘fing hands of the Travers Mark BEX MAUL, i zou, is representing the Travers com- “Yes, Derek,” Lucille went on ‘Mark confides in his friend, o1¢ | softly. “I hate to say it, but I ae BOTRESE Grbac “ie |e Hts tue” Be ee Nee S{amion writer praise Gaits |(4LES HARDING'S. in a rage of jentonas, stepped quietly into her em- ror Madame Lisette discharge yeran |Dloyer's office. “Here's a 66) 2 = & 2 2 am » " = 2 cy st a if i Ff : i Ez [ gE ifr i g : f he h gs ; Fa z ! i a : Ss : i : i eRe : i a ee es 2 7 § 2 t i i : i i } z REEGEF : z ae A call him. Loving Gail, he could not doubt her, and yet— The telephone tinkled. Was it Derek, she wondered, as she lifted the receiver. “A gentleman to see you,” announced the operator. It must be Derek. Gail glanced in the mirror, smoothing her sunny hair, and adding a delicate touch of lipstick, But when she reached the foyer Derek was nowhere in sight. She walked to the desk. “You called me a moment ago and said some- one wished to see me.” “Yes, that gentleman over the window.” ii It was not Derek! Gail’s spirits pank: Had something ha to “You wish to see me—Gail Everett?” “Yes,” replied the gentleman, special | rising. “I'm happy to meet you again, Miss Everett, though I don’t Suppose you remember me. 1 was a friend of your father’s and at- tended to business affairs for him when you were at Miss Cranston’s, " = ES 3 s. Eg i HET, rallier t i Eok z He ”