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“$6049 1 2e8 “Sr NOREEN NS RR See THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1936 oa The Bismarck Tribune An in@ependent Newspaper @ THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ‘ a (Established 1873) jai State, City and County Officiai Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and @sivered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann L President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W Simons Vice Pres, and Gen'l. Manager Secy-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 mai) outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mai] in state, per year Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per y Weekly by mail in Canada, per year .. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation tothe ceinineaaninet Member of The Associated Press The Associated Pre: 19 exclusively entiied to the use for republica- tion of the news disp: c credited in this Dewepaper and aiso the local news of spontaneous origin publis! All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also res Balm of Gilead Despite the heat which marked the pre-primary campaign in North Dakota this year there is reason to believe that the results will do much to heal the wounds in both the Republican and Democratic ranks. Consider first the case of the Republicans. The big bone of contention in their ranks has been the per- sonality and ambitions of William Langer. He was eliminated by the Republican voters and this paves the way for the suc- cessful candidates to get together. There are now no substan- tial points of difference between them and self-preservation calls for a united campaign. It is obvious to all that if Welford and his two successful cohorts attack the five successful candidates who had the Langer endorsement, the result could easily be defeat for all. The same thing holds good for the candidates who had the Langer support. They cannot well attack Welford and his mates without giving support to the Democrats all along the line. The devotion to Langer on the part of some of these men was none too marked in the primary campaign and there is no reason to believe that it will be warmer now that the people have eliminated him. It is this circumstance which counts heavily against the possibility of Langer becoming an independent or third party candidate for the governorship. He took his chance and was beaten. In the same election the Republican electorate demon- strated that the best vote getters on the Langer ticket were John Gray, James D. Gronna and John N. Hagan, and of these Gray and Gronna are known to have allied themselves with Langer more or less reluctantly. As demonstrated by the re- sults, their influence with the electorate is considerable and there is reason to believe that it would be thrown against Langer if he attempted to run independently. The result is to give the various elements in the Nonpar- tisan League a chance to restore harmony and the history of this organization is that it seldom. fails to grasp a real oppor- tunity in this direction. It has had fights as bitter as that of 1936 before and usually has managed to get together, once the disturbing influence was out of the way. The same situation holds to only a lesser degree for the Democrats. The “regulars” won the gubernatorial nomination and most of the other offices but three of the “progressive” candidates were successful in their opposition to the “machine.” The effect should be to weld the two branches of the party together and thus we may expect to see the defeated candidates of the “progressive” wing campaigning for the entire ticket and the successful aspirants campaigning for each other. That the Democrats will poll many more votes in the fall than they did in the primary is accepted as a political axiom and this will have the effect of bringing the Republican candidates closer together, minimize the possibility of success by any can- didate running independently. It also will have the effect of reducing whatever chance William Lemke may have had of carrying this state for presi- dent on the Union ticket. The Republicans may be expected to support Lemke for congress on the Republican ticket but to discourage any attempt to herd the voters into the third party column. Lemke is a better name among Republicans than among Democrats. In consequence the Republican candidates may be counted upon to make a determined effort to keep the voters in the Republican column. Assumption that Langer might find a welcome as a candi- date for governor on the Union party ticket ignores the history of the personalities involved. Lemke and Langer are not bosom political pals and haven’t been since their classic bust-up in 1920. The fact that they appeared together on the same ticket in 1932 and in the primary of 1934 is merely further proof that politics make strange bedfellows. On this basis, Lemke may be expected to discourage any ambitions Langer may have to run for governor as a Union candidate. Another consideration is that such an event might:be harm- ful to his chance of re-election to congress, the office which Lemke really expects to win. It is impossible, of course, to predict the peregrinations of a peculiar mentality which has been whipped to a fury by un- satisfied ambition, but there is no discounting the factors which tend toward making the gubernatorial race in the fall a strictly two-man affair. erein. ‘ved, Hail, Water Babies! The most popular sport in the United States is neither baseball nor football, golf nor tennis. It is, on the contrary, the age-old sport of swimming. , This finding is reached by statisticians of the National Recreation association, who report that in 1935 no fewer than 46,500,000. people went to the public beaches and 18,000,000 to the outdoor swimming pools. Behind the Scenes Washington ROOSEVELT STAMPED ON EVERY PART OF PARTY’S PLATFORM— By RODNEY DUTCHER | (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, June 30.—The Demo- | cratic platform of 1936 has the im- print of Roosevelt all over it. It leaves out much and it pussy- foots painfully here and there. It omits all mention, as it proceeds with its proud boasts, of many mistakes, wastes, and abortive experiments. It tends to make more definite the cleavage between the New Deal Dem- ocratic party as a liberal party and the Republican party as a conserva- tive party—or, as its own George Moses insists, a “Tory” party. Roosevelt had a large advantage in dictating its terms, since he was able to study the Republican platform and the personal amendments of Governor Landon, which between them com- promiscd with much of the New Deal. Outstanding as it is, declaring war as it does against special privilege, and seeking as it does to promote the idea that the seat of government has been removed from Wall Street to the habitation of the people’s representa- tives in Washington—with the re- sult that governmeny benefits are now spread over the masses instead of handed out to just a few—the plat- form's brilliant verbiage should not; make you forget that parties seldom live up to their platforms. | ** * | Up to Voter to Judge You, as a mere voter, have the tre- mendous job of deciding whether the New Deal has achieved its glowing boasts and whether the platform's conspicuous omissions of unflattering facts tend to balance off the achieve- ments and the probable performance of promises. For the platform is an expression of Roosevelt, not only in his boldness and his steps forward, but also for the president in his timidity, his seeming desire to compromisc, and his frequent tendency to be all things to all men, It is an expression of the fact that the New Deal and its administrative ranks are loaded .with both progres- sives and conservatives—and even, with no great stretching of terms, with some radicals and reactionaries. ee *% Marvel of Adroitness Three planks stand out: Those on the constitution, on the consumer, and on housing. The constitutional plank is worded as adroitly as any three paragraphs you ever read in your life. Whereas Landon suggested that regulation of wages, hours, and child labor might possibly be handled only by state legislation, and a constitu- tional amendment, this platform de- clares definitely that federal as well as state legislation is necessity. It Promises, if necessary, to seek an amendment allowing both congress and the states to legislate within their respective jurisdictions. The platform is very silent as to where the lines of jurisdiction are to be drawn and, after all, who knows —excepi, mayhap, the supreme court? Roosevelt's hope of appointing new Supreme court justices until the court's majority is more liberal is merely in- ferred. The plank labeled “Consumer” is perhaps more astonishing than any other. It says: “We will act to secure the consumer fair value, honest sales, and a decreased spread between the price he pays and the price the pro- ducer receives.” ‘ If it meant what it said, this would be a grim threat against a wasteful distribution system, against the prof- iteering “middlemen,” against meat packers, millers, steel manufacturers, the aluminum “trust,” and other mon- opolistic or price-fixing corporations. * 8 % ‘Break’ for Consumer mation of the fight made against great odds by official consumer agen- cies in the AAA, NRA, and elsewhere against exploitation of the household- ers and housewives who pay the bills. Labor and the farmer have been mentioned from time immemorial in platforms, often hypocritically, but here is a document which gives all of us a chance to call a party to ac- count in our capacity of consumers. For consumers also are given a break in the paragraph which prom- ises to promote cheap electricity “by means of the yardstick method.” And the “consumer” is specifically men- tioned in the labor plank and again in the monopoly plank, and yet again in the agricultural plank. The housing plank, undoubtedly forced through by Senator Bob Wag- ner, is remarkable for its commitment to provide decent homes for those unable to afford decent quarters as priced by private industry. This means a genuine low cost housing program if Roosevelt is re- elected and can sell it to congress, although it would sound better if Roosevelt had got on the job early enough to force Wagner's housing bill through congress in the last session, instead of coming to its support only in the final hours, when it was lost, despite the delayed administration effort. e+e * Plank Is Disappointing The monopoly plank is little if any more constructive than the Republi- can, especially if you bear in mind This compares with a seasonal participation in baseball of 10,250,000 people and in golf slightly more than 6,500,000, Just what moral should be drawn from all this by a con- scientious commentator we do not quite know; unless, perhaps it be that swimming, the most informal of all sports, and the _ cheapest, is also the most enjoyable. Or did you, as one of the| acter in the last session. that already? For a | the defied the Irish Republicans, it to too ab though She'd get some ue Out ot i owe sweepsaien nope trl has asked police to locate her parents. Has she tried WHEN 1 TALK TO THIS FELLA IT FEEL THAT ('™ PRETTY MUCH A LIBERAL = Even RADICAL? Looking at Washington (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrénce) | {from starving to death or freezing in! Washington, June 30.—Teday is the the winter from cold. end of another fiscal year for the, “Mr. Byrd: Docs the senator think government of the United States. that more money will be needed in Judging by what one heard at the 1937 to keep them from starving and New Deal convention last week, the | freezing than is needed in 1936?” | American people are asked to believe! There was no answer on that point that recovery is here or well on its and the debate digressed somewhat, way, that President Roosevelt and his| after which Senator Byrd came back policies have brought recovery, in fact /{o the same point thus: have rescued the country from the | ¥Does the senator from Kentucky depths of despair in 1933. _, |favor spending $1,000,000,000 more in Yet, as the figures are made avail- the fiscal year 1987 than was spent} able, it now appears that the deficits -in the fiscal year 1935?” are bigger each year and the amount To which Senator Barkley replied: to be spent for relief in hee “I favor what I have voted for, and exceed what was spent in e | Y % dite whenicivleakun in Atmerloaiwas| ya “eto ue eee cmon Supposed to be nearing anend. | So the official records on this mat- The total debt since the depression | ter of increasing expenses in the fis- started is now in the neighborhood |cqj year 1937—which begins tomorrow of $18,000,000,000 of which about $4,-) “ore ynable to furnish a guide as to 000,000,000 was incurred during the the reasons which actuated the legis Hoover administration and about ative body and the executive in ask- $14,000,000,000 since March 4, 1933. | ing for more money for next year No official explanation has been than the preceding year. | given as to why relief expenditures) “When the fiscal year 1936 which | were in the fiscal year just ending ist olan bs ae Boos Nor has there been any lack of curi- SE Rote aR osity on the subject. Senator Byrd,|iN& Gefint each year mas not been Democrat, Virginia, tried to find out| iY Te ese ow the following on the last day congress was in ses-| ‘hose of June 26, show the following sion and he questioned Senator Bark-|COMParisons with last year at this; ley, Democrat, of Kentucky, who was; time, given in’ round numbers: | to be the keynote speaker at the} This Year Last Year Philadelphia convention. and hence, Expenses .$8,793,000,009 $7,258,000,000 might be presumed to speak with|Receipts .. 4,080,000,000 3,785,000,000 knowledge and authority. Here is anjDeficit ... 4. 737,973 3,472,347,804 rocroes: Some of Us Are Finding It Hard to Classify Li WHEN T TALK TO THIS FELLA 1 GUESS 1 MUST GE A HIDES GOUND CONSERVATIVE “ David Lawrence | | spending of all four years of the New ; Deal. At any rate, the plank is an affir- |"™ excerpt from the debate: “Senator Barkley: No senator on this floor who has demanded a re- duction of the expenditures of our, government has as yet pointed out | where that reduction ought to be) ade. “Mr. Barkley: Very well. | “Senator Byrd: I can point out to the deficiency appropriation to re- cent. That amendment was defeated. And now I want to ask the senator at this point whether he thinks the na- tional government should spend $1,- 000,000,000 more in the fiscal year 1937 than it will spend in the fiscal year 1936 in view of the improvement in conditions throughout the country. “Mr. Barkley: I say the government, ought to spend $1,000,000,000 or any other amount that is necessary to keep “Senator Byrd:: I can point out tration that much of the bonus money where the reduction can be made. ‘is included in this year’s expense, in duce the relief appropriation 20 per |still unanswered—why is it that in Pub. debt. 33,950,895,453 28,665,773,433 Thus it will be seen that expenses are more than $1,500,000,000 higher and the deficit is about $1,300,000,000 bigger than last year, notwithstanding the fact that receipts are higher too. It will be argued by the adminis- fact nearly all of it. Conceding this as having had a bearing on the deficit incurred, Senator Byrd's question 1s the fiscal year beginning tomorrow, July 1, 1936, and running to June 3v, |1937, the official estimate made by ithe director of the budget shows thay the government of the United States under the New Deal administration lintends, if it remains in power be- lyond January next, to spend for the ‘full fiscal year $8,272,554,370? Such an amount is in excess of every one of the three years of the BUT, GOSH= 0 | Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer pertall yy diagnosis. Write riefly an f The Tribune. All queries must dressed envelope. to healt! fot Atarene ie accompanied by 8 ARSENIC POISONING AND RAYNAUD'S DISEASE Seven patients with Raynaud's disease were cured or greatly improved by treatment for chronic arsenic poisoning, reported Dr. Arthur F. Kraetser of New York City in the N. Y. State Medical Journal, Nov. 15, '35. The treatment for chronic arsenic poisoning consists in intravenous in- Jections of 1 gram (about 15 grains) of sodium thiosulphate twice a week for several months, If you have Raynaud’s disease it is not necessary for me to tell you what the symptoms are. If you haven't it, I'll never tell you what the symptoms are. In spite of all the interests may say or do, this is still a health column. Almost any one may tell me what I may not say here, but I'll go back to the mines rather than let any one tell me what I must say here. Tt seems that most of us excrete a small amount of arsenic ftom the body daily. Whether this arsenic represents a normal nutritive element or chronic poisoning is difficult to conjecture. However, it is generally ac- cepted as a clinical working rule, that if an intravenous injection of sodium thiosulphate produces a marked increase in the amount of arsenic excreted through the kidneys, the patient is probably suffering from chronic arsenit Poisoning. The most prolific source of chronic arsenic poisoning is the rather reck- less use of enormous quantities of lead arsenic as sprays for fruits, vege- tables and plants, and the incidental exposure of many workers to the hazard of inhaling or ingesting the arsenic day by day over long periods; also the hazard of consumers of fruit or vegetables which retain some of the poison recently applied to the growing plants or trees. For instance, one of the patients with Raynaud’s disease excreted 0.018 milligrams of arsenic per 100 grams of dried material, a negligible amount. But 2¢ hours after an injection of a gram of sodium thiosulphate she was excreting 0.751 milligrams, an enormous amount. She received two injec- tions weekly of one-half gram of sodium thiosulphate. Within less than four weeks she experienced marked improvement and in the course of sev- eral months of desultory treatment she lost her dread of handling water as in washing dishes or washing clothes. Probably a good many individuals suffer from various manifestations of chronic arsenic poisoning without ever learning the actual cause of their trouble. Among the conditions which may depend on too much arsenic in the system are chronic eczema, garlic-like odor of the sweat, waxy pallor, red injected eyelids or irritation and itching of edges of lids, odd patches of tingling, numbness or loss of sensation in skin here and here, puzzling at- tacks of neuritis, inexplicable weakening or paresis of one or another muscle or group of muscles, severe attacks of herpes. Any reader who has one or more of these conditions is assured of my sympathy without writing me about it; in his place I'd report the matter to my doctor and leave it to his judgment what to do about it. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Heads Down At the hospital where our baby was born I noticed they keep all the __| newborn babies in cribs or bassinets tipped up so that the head is lower than 1937 (eliminating all bonus expenses) in fact is to be the biggest year of Nobody at the New Deal convention has explained the reason and nobody here in Washington since the conven- tion has offered any explanation. More will be heard of this in the campaign, for the New Deaiers can hardly contend that recovery isn't here and yet that more money has to be spent now than in the years when the nation was rescued, as the presi- dent phrases it, from disaster in 1933. The Republicans are wickedly sug- gesting that the explanation is to be found in the fact that there is an election being held in the year 1936 and that a political organization has to be maintained through current ex- penditure for public works projects and for “relief.” But such an ex- planation would only imply that, if the New Deal wins the prize, it will cut down expenses. This is not corro- borated by the plans and commit- ments made for the next five years which are to be of increased scope and magnitude in various fields in which the government has already embarked. The deficits keep grow- ing, tax revenues are inadequate to meet the expenses, and the trend of the public debt is higher and higher. That's the news on this, the end of the third fiscal year under the New Deal. 5 | So They Say | — ° As far as I'm concerned, the de- mure little girl is a pretty dull propo- sition —Clark Gable, movie actor. * * * Only suckers will stand still and wail at the future of this country. Col. T. Russ Hill, Toledo, O., indus- trialist. * % The 600 boxing experts sold Schmeling short and wound up where Madison Square Garden's 600 million- aires did in the stock market crash.— Mike Jacobs, fight peomer * * We have been talking for years about the underprivileged boy or girl as if they were in some other house- hold, some other city. I often won- der, if we look carefully, whether we may not find them at home.—Dr. Amos O. Squire, medical head of Sing American men, women and children Roosevelt.administration and the year Sing prison, OUT OUR WAY | ee ® & Sey ESS Ca 2nan moa ay Ome the feet. Why is that? (C.D) Answer—It is a good practice to keep all babies in that position for the first day or so of life, so that any fluid in the breathing passages will gravitate toward the nasopharynx and not down into windpipe or lungs. An Old Medical Notion Family physician tells my wife she has ingrowing goitre, and that iodine would aggravate the trouble; he says she will have to have an operation if she doesn’t get better after a complete rest . . . (H. K, 8.) Answer—If it is exophthalmic goitre, a rest cure, much like that usually prescribed for incipient tuberculosis, offers the best chance of arresting the trouble. The notion that iodin would aggravate the trouble is just an old medical notion, a theory. In actual practice careful administration of iodin is helpful in exophthalmic goitre. The term “ingrowing” has no significance —it is a layman’s way of saying there is no apparent enlargement of the neck. Aside from the suggestion of the universal use of an iodin ration to prevent goitre, I have no information or advice for readers who have goitre. ‘The diagnosis and treatment of goitre demands the personal attention of the physician.- Infantile Paralysis Many claim that infantile paralysis which leave the limbs partly paralyz- ed also affects the mind, and that such a person is not responsible for his actions or expressions and should not be allowed to hold public office . . « (A. 8.) Answer—Infantile paralysis has no effect on the mental capacity. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) A with his auto as we were crossing the bor hesh BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN x IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN ° Mrs. Barker—How does it happen, Mr. Schmitzer, that you sent me only 11 oranges when I ordered a dozen? Grocer Schmitzer — You see, Mrs. Barker, one of them was mad and I knew you wouldn’t want it so I threw it out. Helen—I know a woman who lived to the age of 40 without learning to read and write. Then she met @ man who made a scholar out of her in two years. Henry — That’s nothing! I know a man who was @ scholar at 40 but he met a woman; who made a fool of him in two days. Evalyn—Why did you take up Ger- man instead of French at college last year? Rosamond—Oh, the French profes- (sor wasn’t nearly so handsome as the one who teaches German. Gee, they have almost as many peo- Mrs. Peebles—How did you happen to make the acquaintance of your husband? Mrs, Getzum—Oh, it was very ro- mantic. I met him for the first time when he ran over my first husband By Williams 37 Within. ‘ 38 Related. 40 Railroad. 41 Certain. 4 ple here as they do at the ball game. | And that speechmaker there, why he gets almost as much applause as I do out in St. Louis. — Dizzy: Dean, St. jLouis Cardinal pitcher, witnessing Democratic: convention. 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