The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 11, 1936, Page 4

i = = The ising An independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Batablished 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, @@hered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher Archie 0. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Kenneth W. Simons Sec'y-Treas. and Editor ubscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the die hes credited to it or not otherwise cr 4 im thie Bews ir local news of spontaneous origin pub! herein. ed. so the All rights ublication of all other matter herein are also Beautifying the World If, as well might be the case, a bit of lipstick makes all women kin, America’s cosmeticians may just now be launching a campaign which will do much to bring universal peace and understanding to the world. The American woman has more beauty aids than all other women in the world combined, this situation being due to the ingenuity and progressive spirit of those in the beauty trades, and a movement now is being started to spread these boons to other lands. Thus a leading cosmetician told the American Beauty In- stitute at a recent convention that the domestic market for face powder has just about reached the saturation point and mar- kets outside of the United States will be necessary if the indus- try is to continue its remarkable growth. On the basis of the best available figures 86.7 per cent of American women use lipstick, 76.9 per cent use rouge, 59.4 per cent use perfume and 42.5 per cent use talcum powder as part of their regular beauty routine. This would seem to leave plenty of room for old fashioned girls—but then again the women not represented by these figures may no longer be girls. As for feminine color schemes, the same analysts show that if a gentleman prefers a blond he has 11 out of 100 to choose from—or at least to pursue—for that was the percentage at the last reading. Red heads are even scarcer, the number being only 7 per cent. The balance of the female population is about evenly divided between brunettes and those who are called, for want of a better term, “medium.” These figures may have been true at the time they were compiled but one is inclined to doubt their accuracy now. It would take no struggle for any one to recall girls who used to be “mediums” who lately have turned out to be blondes and “titians” as the beauty experts prefer to call the girls with hair on the reddish order. Airport Investment Hope that the airplane industry would do for the nation in the present decade what the automobile industry did for it from 1920 to 1980 have pretty well vanished but the fact that it is helping is definitely proved not only by the employment figures of airplane factories but by the number of airports now in use. On July 1, according to the Bureau of Air Commerce, there were 2,402 airports and landing fields in the nation of which 701 were either fully or partially lighted for night use. Those fields, as every Bismarck resident should know, represent a heavy in- vestment of both time and labor. Their improvement has meant employment of a kind which would not have been available 10 years ago and their maintenance and repair also is an item. In North Dakota, with 47 fields registered, 20 are spon- sored by municipalities. This includes all of the big ones, the two leading fields being those here and at Fargo. Three are commercial fields, five are intermediate and 18 are auxiliary in their nature. As a result of their construction the airplane pilot may fly into almost any part of the state and be sure of finding a place where he can “sit down.” Other fields will be constructed as the number of planes increases. There seems no likelihood now that airplanes ever will be as numerous as automobiles but the gradual increase in their use is certain to bring economic changes—and most of them will be for the better. Merely a Gesture Reports by “observers” that Postmaster General Farley will take 2 leave of absence from his duties during the political ; campaign may satisfy sticklers for political purity but the fact i is the move means nothing. No matter whether Farley or another man is at the helm, the postoffice department will continue to be a major football for politics, just as it always has been. To say that one political party or another has abused the is to mean anything. of which is fit only for the waste basket. the prospect is that none.ever will. 2. midget by sitting on her lap. Bismarck Tribune N. D, and postal system for political purposes is to tell the truth, for one| ‘CPsTsht, 1936, has been about as bad as another. But it is also true that any reform must go much deeper than anything now proposed if it It is too much to expect, but it is still true that the nation would benefit greatly if the postal department could be entirely divorced from politics. Under the present system postmasters get too much money for what they do, since in many cases there are few duties to the office. Postoffice buildings cost too much ; because they are ornamental as well as business structures. spomnel | And the government carries a great volume of free mail, most |in ‘the hearts The opportunities for economies are tremendous but no political party has ever chosen to take advantage of them and P. Morgan on Drastic Diet.” He may yet be able to Behind the Scenes Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) 1 Washington, July 11—The drouth’s potentialities as a major disaster in a campaign year naturally enough have speculation here as to the possible political effect. Hardly any- one, however, seems to have any clear idea as to what that effect might be or even to be sure that there will be any. It may be worth remembering that the great drouth in the summer and fall of 1934 was followed by a Demo- cratic landslide in the November con- gressional elections. Yet it would be hard to demonstrate that the fact means anything in 1936—or that the big drouth relief effort of the admin- istration two years ago had anything to do with the results of the polls. If the present drouth assumes 1934 proportions, the price of meat almost surely will soar. Rising meat prices make urban voters sore. se * Food Prices Climbing Drouth causes livestock raisers to ship cattle, hogs, and sheep to mar- ket as fast as they can get them there. As supplies pile up at the packing centers, meat prices tend to go down in proportion to the size of the glut. ‘Thus, stakes and pork chops are Nely to be cheaper between now and election if the drouth intensifies. Flour and bread prices on the other hand, may go up very soon unless the drouth is broken. The spring wheat crop has been hit, and spring wheat is what goes into bread. There has been little administra- tion ballyhoo about it, but the general level of retail food prices lately has been higher than at any previous time in the Roosevelt administration. * * * Spuds to Blame Instead of going down in June, as it usually does the index went up. You can blame that on potatoes, which became so expensive that they forced up the general level. ‘This has nothing todo with the ex- cessively cockeyed potato control act of last year, which never became effec- tive and was knocked out by the AAA decision, Early frosts last fall cut down potato bushelage that should have been available this.year and bad spring weather has likewise hit this Year's crop. Potatoes are like that. They usu- ally have two bad years running, boosting prices, then two good years, sending prices down. Probably potato prices will be go- ing down again soon, easing off the general food price level for a while. ‘The meat price rise, if this drouth equals that of 1934, will be no fun at all when it comes. The cattle and pig populations are low as it is, thanks to the previous drouth, and another! record scarcity of meat. ee % Try This on Your Figurelos If you want to do some tricks with figures, just take Secretary Morgen- thau’s radio announcement that the national debt has reached $33,750,- 000,000. The increase since Roosevelt took Office has been just about $13,000,000,- 000, according to the balance sheets. But if you are a Republican, you must tell your neighbor that the real cost of the New Deal to date has been about $17,700,000,000. You get that by adding the bonds guaranteed by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, the Farm Credit Administration, and other agencies, which don’t appear in Morgenthan's statement. Other items sometimes also are added, but that ought to hold almost anyone for a while. *% 4% Here’s Democratic Side On the other hand, if you're @ Democrat, it’s the simplest thing in the world to whittle down the cost of the New Deal, to less than $7,000,000,- 000. You begin by asserting that the guaranteed bonds are adequately cov- ered by security and hence are no li- ability. You then point out that the treasury’s cash balance is $2,200,000,- | 000 larger than when Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mills checked out of Washington, and subtract from $13,000,000,000, which leaves $10,800,000,000. Then deduct that $2,000,000,000 “profit” from gold devaluation which is now in the currency stabilization fund, leaving $8,800,000,000. Then a couple of billions more in loans by RFC, PWA, and other fed- eral agencies which are supposed to be recoverable. By this time you're down to $6,800,000,000 and there are plenty of officials here who can think of more deductions if you want them. But the difference between $17,- 700,000,000 and $6,800,000,000 would seem to be enough difference to ac- commodate plenty of campaign charges and alibis. NEA Service, Inc.) perplexity the average man may ha’ in attempting to discover the fine points of distinction that lie hidden|some day employ more people. Since in the ambiguous phrases of other|the Republicans are to some extent planks in the two party platforms this|the party of business, large and year, there is no difficulty at all in|small, and since business men claim noting the differences between the/they cannot expand unless there is New Deal and the Republican plat-|opportunity and unless government|The New Deal has managed to pre- forms on the subject of restoring em-/compétition is removed, then the on- ployment and handling relief. unhesitatingly claims credit. Looking at Washington (Copyright, 1936, By David Lawrence); In brief, the riphibere gi rita hingt 1, — Whatever|argues that experimenta: and “re- balers ndtenlar de ve|form” have been carried to extremes, while the New Deal platform merely states thet it hopes industry looker is asked to choose between the there any promise as to when the/for the stalemate between govern- Something That Grows on Barren Soil | “ David Lawrence that graft and political corruption may be eliminated and local respon- sibility of the neighbors em) will/the number of those who have been on relief and who really are not try- ing to become self-supporting but prefer to remain on the dole. As for politics in relief, this has been in- halt evitable under the present system. vent disclosures by congressional in- vestigation, but after the election it The New Deal offers no explanation | viewpoint of the men who have been;may be taken for granted that, in icf the presence of sfietioe! bd ise a mee! tor coadtied pence the inerest of a revised relief sys- similar: on the relief re nearly | an men who 58! scourge now would create & hauls On Of cmecovery” for which it) funds will be provided for “useful|then welcome, the truth will-be forced Nor isjprojects,” while the unemployed waitjout and public opinion will demand tem, which the New Deal itself might Cree erenre: Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. swer questi pertaining te posits bat gr jefly and in tak. A , Pees Be enve! phasized, This, it is assumed, would cut down @ change in method of idle are to get jobs. ment,and business to be solved. by the |the problem. : It is significant that the New Deallvoters themselves. — trampled upon by all aorts of Jimeon—Do you believe there is s platform states that the first object-| The Republicans, incidentally, in-|, Little Johnny — We've got s new and never poten ? ive in relieving unemployment is to/sist that there be a “prompt determ- find jobs “in private industry” and|ination of the facts concerning relief where business fails to provide such|and unemployment” which, of course, employment, the government ‘should |means taking @ census of the unem- provide work on “useful public proj-|ployed, something the New Deal hay ects.” heretofore hesitated to do. The Re- Nowhere in the New Deal platform|publicans are advocates of public is there any program for encourage-| works “only on their merits and sep- ment of private business nor any word arate from the administration of re- concerning the universal complaints | lief.” of business men that the New Deal) 80 it comes down to this point: reform program is actually retarding|The Republicans want to see private recovery and preventing reemploy-| industry unhampered in its efforts to ment. The Republican platform has|absorb the unemployed and the New Aman recently to drouth belt. “We are going drouth in history,” he frud people generally Es a #2 ah 5 8 £ baby at our house. wouldn’ Little Mabel — That's nothing.’ kum and rubbish been foisted upon! lieve it. I'm the only member of my ‘We've got = brand new papa at ours.| man with such vigor as at the present! family. RUNAWAY BRIDE BEGIN HERE TODAY “We asked for the negatives, a|Camilla had Phil, who UNI GaIKa Reng her ‘annee nice exchange of names took place | thing a girl could want! Phil who marry her. plenty to say about this, for it advo-|Dealers want to use horrowed funds hurt and bewildered, | negatives and two sets of pictures|down. Still, if Camilla looked at cates specifically: create employment while waiting Save beens hesettincas' Gane |which we tore into 7000 pieces.|Rob with such affection in her “() Removal of restrictions on|for business to grow through means ship she meets FHILLIP KIRK- Then he yelled for help—atter all, |tireq eyes—they were tired, Mar- production. not explained or even hinted at in Paris to ask CAMILLA HOWE, to |We Were rifling his home—and) 9°40 “(2) Abandonment of all New!the platform. help came. That was where the tted—Camilla might not . Deal policies that raise production] When it comes to administration of fun began. I held the gigolo and|care for a shack on a hill. costs, increase the cost of living, and relief, there is hardly a word in the ‘Bob knocked out a couple of peo-| Phil looked puzzled. When he - thereby restrict buying, reduce vol-|New Deal platform. But the Repub- ple and tore the pictures and then | smiled at her, Marcia thought his ume and prevent reemployment. licans are outspoken about their helped me get clear of the guy grin half-weary and half-wisttul “(3) Encouragement instead of/plan for handling relief, which is named Pierre—we left him with a hindrance to legitimate business. this: bump on his head.” “Whom will you rescue tomore “(4) Withdrawal of government/ ‘The return of responsibility for te ad tow?” she asked finally to bréak from competition with private pay-|reiief administration to nonpolitical Bob came, with a band-/a long silence. “You were out in rolls. local agents familiar with community aged eye, it was decided to/a very good cause today. What 5) Mimisation. of unneceaenty:| pecans. re go somewhere and celebrate. do you want for rewards?” and hampering regulations. “Federal grants-in-aid to the states “Oh, we're “Adoption of such other policies as|and territories while the need exists, In the end, they chose Rheims.) | ot) wets eenerous members will furnish chance for individual|upon compliance with these condi- “1 want to see the cathedral by|f Po gr gg ante enterprise, industrial expansion and| tions: night,” Marcia said. “Maybe Tl help in several the restoration ‘of Jobs.” “(a) A fair proportion of the total |. “Up to it, Phil?” Bob asked,|*urnaments next week. I'm go- Specifically the foregoing means| relief burden to be provided from the ‘After the way you trounced three ing to take a bicycle trip through the revision of existing laws so that|revenues of states and local govern- people I should think you would| te south of France. business can know by particular men-| ments, be tired. I carried away the) When did you make up your tion and Msting of offenses what it] “(b) All engaged in relief sdmin- spoils on my face and Phil did|™ind?” Camilla asked. can and cannot do in competition| istration to be selected on the basis the work.” ‘Just now. I'm getting reste and the removal from gdvernment|of merit and fitness, Marcia’s eyes met Phil's, Phil| Jess. I'll be gone a week or two.” bureaus of the power to make, by] “(c) Adequate provision to be had tried to make Bob a hero| . No one spoke very much on the means of “regulations,” a set of rules|made for the encouragement of those for her! Then he must want|tide home and when Phil said that ought to be drawn up by the‘persons who are trying to become her to be pleased! Or he] 00d night at the elevator he congress itself. if it is to have the | self-supporting.” didn't care what she of | ®dded goodby to the phrase. force of law. The theory back of this plank is him, anyway, and that was why| “Goodby?” Marcia repeated. Business contends that continual |that citizen. committees of a non- he gave the credit to another. “T'll be off in the morning be- uncertainty, the introduction by gov-|partisan character, wholly detached Camilla’s eyes, too, sought| fore you are up. I want to. get a ernment of artificial factors which |from local governments and local Phil’s. For a different reason. If|S00d start. Don’t let anything raise costs and tend to produce buy- | politics, be appointed from such or- he cared enough for Marcia's hap- happen to you.” ers’ strikes is a factor that is pre-|ganizations as the community chest piness to give credit to a man eee venting # growth of employment. and the local welfare groups in order who mattered in her life, he must| JN her room, Marcia sat by the care for her. window for a while. “Don't Marcia sat in front of her mir-|let anything happen to you.” He ror a little later, watching the| might not come back to Paris from tones of her make-up. Thinking. | this trip. He could catch a boat at She had loved Bob for a long|Havre and escape Paris. Or he time—she had been hurt when he| might come back and she would had danced too often, smiled too} be gone. She must go home some often, at somebody else. She/ time. could not understand why he had| Phil was in love with a and rob of conaed_ to (be leeper ine nee ta: | whoes be bad Sellowse fust as the worst 4 by swung him around until a cut on|so long he had the pivot of/had followed her, she reasoned. drouths, plagues of grasshoppers, eras| wind and flood can be checked. his cheek was in plain sight. every plan. She had almost mar-|She, Marcia Cunningham, had of “tight money” when the very rich-| Such simple modern devices as good “The chap was wearing a dia-|*!¢d him! made a mess of everything and ness of his acres seemed to the farmer |roads and electrical appliances can “If love can be turned off just/now she ought to get some sleep. to be an added curse, times when the |turn the northwestern farmer's iso-| mond ring and it scratched. Noth- |11e pressing a button and putting|But she couldn't. She put her the eastern bankers/lation into a blessing, instead of ing much.” out a lamp, or wiggling a spigot| wrap on, instead, and went seemed to hold all the land in anjcrime. “You're sure Bob will be all|and making the hot water stop—| to the lobby. ‘There wes eo rutee unbreakable grip. . These things can be done, with the sight?” Marcia was saying. if that is love, then what's the use| rant ecross the street where she But somehow none of this ever |help of Washington, and the region of it?” she asked her refiection.| could get some hot milk. She brought discouragement or surrender.|now stricken by drouth can be re- eee | pparing the exit when wee ‘Tie neces ug 36.808 sired on Set: Getsoert Sor the depanes of Sie plooptes, ([ARCIA came down to the’ lob- voloe caught her attention ey lowing dream ways | if people themselves are sturdy meet others, b Romered. gree Se momar poems | 4a i ieee ee tae Ane oe ee ae | out on us sgaint” e dream a which human went Rheims wy Fa as its borders were wide, where people | bad dry spell, a discouraged eastern had rented somewhere. Hel “You could work out s new way of life that | functionary remarked that the whole ‘and Camilla sat with him.|go along? BB iis sd May ? would bring them appreciably nearer | region ought to be sbandoned. given ihe tea Marcia | been looking up to the millennium that man hes al-|up a6 s land too tough for human Tear seat, Marcia |routes to the souiis’ ways foreknown. settlement . . . and the northwest was Nereus oe ee ‘They stepped out of the hotel ‘And it ts just this trait which ts|stood up with @ grow! of rage and that sh8 glimpeed door into a ‘soft, warm the drouth belt's encouragement to- | almost bit his head off! to speak to the girl ME] where & yellow moon swung iniorne fat at tat pas | Ty a equals snhitg tha eh ee rece sean |e "Es 47, tga, dete. of the country must beck to peairie|be demanded of then ‘And, because ‘Marcia became aware, diuring| ential. | took the cue and tress and the buffalo, they are, they can face the future the simple dinner in the Rheims} laughéd at trif_es. At thd door of Zhe Deeps ace, Set Dasa. pie | Wiee: Sab. semiaaatee: j that Cazhilla was at] the reste she pa aa *Garaperative samme others tor sa | these tempatticens: panes oat ses te given ; hy Na