The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1936, Page 4

e Bismarck Tribune 4 An inéependent Newspaper . THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Bstablished 1673) j State, City and County Official Newspaper Published The Bismarck Tribune 5 N. Bntered at the pastotfles at Bismarck as ‘asco eal fall sation, Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher we, Arehie ©. Johnson Vice Pres, and Gen'l.. Manager . D, and Kenneth W. Simons Beo'y-Treas. and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press exclusively entitled to t! redited to it or not othe the local news of spo eous or! biication of all other matter herein are se for republica- jae credited in this published herein. also reserved. Poor Time for Political Alarums If the rival politicians of this land are as wise as they are supposed to be, they will call off all forensic fencing for a month or so and take in a few of the assorted expositions, fairs, and exhibits with which the native sons are beguiling the heat of the summer. They will do that because such things, rather than political fights, seem to be what are chiefly intéresting the American people just now. The politician who tries to save the nation when the Amer- fican people are thinking about something else is likely to be greeted with nothing but a large dose of public apathy. The exposition business is doing right well this summer. Texas has a big, double-barreled affair that apparently offers a great deal of entertainment for the money and seems to be drawing customers from everywhere. San Diego has another one, and Cleveland a third, and they are doing all right, too. That these things should come to flower in the summer of 1936 is a neat little symptom which politicians and others could profitably examine. They would seem to mean that the people of America have +—for the moment, at least—given up their perennial worry about whether their country is going to pot and have set out to get a little recreation for themselves. And if they are doing that, it is a pretty fair sign that a few years of life are left to them, after all. This exposition business does not flourish when things are going downhill. People don’t pick up and trundle off to look at automotive exhibits, fan dancers, Bavarian villages, and horti- cultural displays when they are worried about the state of the union, the flatness of their pocketbooks or the amount of red ink on the ledgers down at the office. And when they are not worrying about such things, they do not have a great deal of time for the politician who arises to . beat his breast, thump the tub, and announce that he has come down from the mountains to save them from a fate worse than death. 3 The people of this country have been keyed up for three or four years. In those years they have examined their past and studied the future; they have listened to innumerable harangues about the state of the nation, the precepts of the founding fathers, the perils of the present, and the condition of their im- mortal and collective soul. Right now, they seem to be in a mood to relax and stop worrying. That is going to make it pretty tough for the campaigners. {The earth-shaking crisis which they are eternally discovering just over the next hill may be as real as next Saturday night’s bath; but how are you going to make the voters view it with the proper amount of alarm when they are thinking what a swell country this has turned out to be, after all? The Navy as Insurance One of the odd things about a navy is the fact that the less it is actually used, the more valuable it is to its possessor. This fact is worth the attention of a nation which, like the United States, is spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to put its fleet in shape. It was touched on briefly in a recent address in Washington by Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations. “If through the existence of the navy,” remarked the admiral, “we are spared the ordeal of war, and for generations the navy never fires a gun in anger or is engaged in battle—I say to you that no matter what it costs us, it is cheap at the price. Any amount of fire insurance premium is cheaper than @ fire.” And it must be said that even if one does not go all the way with Admiral Standley in his conception of a navy as a war-pre- ventive, there still is a great deal in what he says. A navy’s chief value is as a threat rather than as an actual weapon. If the other fellow knows you have one, and knows that it can take care of any fuss that may develop in its own waters, he is not apt to come around and pick a quarrel. And because of the inescapable geographical fact that any nation which plans to invade, oppress, or otherwise bedevil the | United States has to come by water, the American navy does in _ fact represent the kind of fire insurance that Admiral Stand- ley mentions. For our navy does not merely insure us against invasion; it makes it as certain as anything can be certain in this chancy world that no invasion of our shores will even be attempted. That is why those great gray ships of ours, so expensive, so cleverly devised for grim combat, serve their purpose best of all when there is no enemy on the horizon. Now it is perfectly possible, of course, for us to misuse the power that they represent. We could get ourselves into a war in Asia or in Europe, send our fleet far afield, and use it for purposes not strictly connected with defense of our own shores, But we needn’t, if we play our cards carefully. We never will, if we once learn the lesson that our navy is built for peace Behind Sceries Washington F. R’s Ringing Sentence Has Bor- rowed Sound. By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Staff Washington, July 15.—“This gener- ation has a rendezvous with destiny,” said President Roosevelt in one of the big lines of his Philadelphia speech. Did the president make that one up himself? Or did he crib it, in essence, from one of his most persistent critics? The only reason for raising the point is that David Cushman Coyle wrote in the final chapter of his book called “Brass Tacks”: “america, as Walter Lippmann said, has an appointment with Destiny.” And in a new simplified version of the earlier book, entitled “Uncommon Sense,” Coyle paraphrases to say: “This generation, as Walter Lipp- mann once said, has an appointment with destiny.” Lippmann is a newspaper columnist who again and again has taken the president and the New Deal to task for various policies. x * * Favorite of Roosevelt Coyle is one of Roosevelt's favorite authors. His friends say the presi- dent has been considerably influenced by his writings and that the philoso- Phy or his acceptance speech was Closely akin to Coyle's. For instance, Coyle writes: “For 50 years the American people have been fighting against trusts and monopo- lies. The people have been defeated again and again, while the masters of high finance have extended their power.” Democrats may be expected to push ciculation of Coyle’s newest book much in the same way as Republicans have promoted James P. Warburg's “Hell Bent for Election” and “Still Hell Bent.” * 8 *% Norris Undecided on Race Senator George W. Norris of Ne- braska will decide whether to stand for re-election or persist in his refusal to run, in accordance with relative success of a current drive by his friends to gather petitions to put him on the ballot as an independent. If he concludes that there's a large, sincere demand for his candidacy, he will get into the fight. Otherwise not. Reports in Washington indicate that if the senator does decide to run he will face one of the hardest con- tests of his long career. The Demo- cratic candidate, Terry Carpenter, is an accomplished rabble-rouser and the’choice of the Townsendites. The Republican candidate, Bob Simmons, will have the support of most conserv- atives. Although the state Democratic or- Banization, headed by Arthur Mullen and Senator Burke, has repudiated Carpenter and endorsed Norris, prog- ressive friends of the veteran inde- pendent senator doubt whether that group wants Norris to win or can be ded on for effective aid. Tf Norris runs, however, he will have the full support of Roosevelt. ** * Economists—and Buttons Charlie Michelson, the Democratic party's boss press agent, recently hired a prominent economist to help his publicity staff during the cam- paign. “Now what do you want me to do?” the economist asked. “If I knew what I wanted you to do, I'd do it myself,” Michelson replied. “You see this button on my coat- sleeve? It's useless. It doesn’t button anything. But you look funny if you don’t have a button there. “That's the way with an economist. He doesn’t button anything. But peo- ple think it’s funny if you don’t have one.” (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Mrs, Turnsod— Hiram, here's a let- ter from some city folks answerin’ our advertisement. They want ter know if there's a bath in the house. What’ll I tell ‘em? Turnsod—Tell ‘em the truth—that Prof. Tugwell hasn’t got ‘round to makin’ our county over yit and if they need a bath they'd better take it be- fore they leave. Mrs. O'Pinch— I keep my boarders longer than you do. Mrs. O'Jawish—You keep them so thin they just look that way. Pete—I want some hinges for the back wall of my garage. Haas—That is a strange place to put them. Pete—I know, but my wife doesn’t always stop the car when she gels inside the garage. Mr. Kickbush—So you want to mar- ry my daughter. Can you give ner everything she desires? Young Rollo—I think so; she says she wants only me. dust A | So They Say | --———_—_""* Youth wants a God who can ac- company us to the picture show, in- stead of being confined to the four walls of a church.—Miss Willie A. ocoe poe Face-Saving Device for Dip! lomats acme Looking at Washington with Topeka, Kan., July 15.—Governor Landon has had so many people com- ing out to size him up that I wonder- ed, as I visited Topeka over the week- end, whether I should find the same modest man I met more than a year ago or a presidential candidate self- conscious and. impressed with his own importance. I have known a dozen presidential nominees. Something usually happens to them when they win a presidential nomination. Involuntarily, sometimes, they acquire an unnatural manner. Somehow Governor Landon 1s differ- ent. I am convinced that if he is elected president he will be the same even-tempered, mild-mannered, nat- ural person that he is today. This is because the most important quality in Governor Landon’s whole make-up is common sense. I have ofter tried in my quarter of a century of observation of men and affairs in Washington to pick out just what single quality of a human being is most essential to the making of a good president of the United States. I would say common sense. I would put it over and above experience in governmental affairs or technical knowledge of national problems. For every president of the United States gets an abundance of technical advice, good, bad and indifferent. He can get all the knowledge and data that a great governmental mechanism can furnish. But can he tell good advice from bad advice, the good ef- fects of a pi policy and the harmful effects? if he has common sense, he can tellin advance what the repercussion of a given policy will be on the average man. Common sense will tell him the average American's reaction, if he is a good average Amer- ican himself with no delusions or il- lusions of grandeur or with any super- human complex. One has to talk with Governor Lan- don only a little while to realize that he is “just one of the folks.” He is one of those middle-class Americans who make up the backbone of the na- tion, He has that sort of objectivity which the man of the prairies posseas- es. Far from the crowds of modern cities, far from the turmoil of con- gestion that has bred friction and dis- out in the open spaces all of the people seem so much better balanced in their politics, so much less partisan and less fanatical. I found as I talked with the gover- nor that he has a lively appreciation of what President Roosevelt has at- tempted but I found also a keen and penetrating understanding of why Mr. Roosevelt has failed to mesh the var- ious elements in our economic sys- tem so as to get jobs for the 10,000,000 persons now on relief or on the dole. Not long ago Mr. Roosevelt in a public letter said it was essential nowadays in government to have a man with his “heart in the right place,” and that mistakes of the heart were readily forgvien. But the true public servant is the man with his head as well as his heart in the right place because, when the people's money is wasted or when govern- mental power arbitrarily exercised works grave injustice, the ill-effects are such that the voters think only of the wreckage and not of the intent: I found as we motored along—we rode from Topeka to Kansas City— that Governor Landon believes the time has come for one of those pains- taking, plodding, follow-through jobs to be done in the White House that come after a period of panic and de- pression. He is a different type from President Roosevelt. Many a business with a good idea has been started by & person of the promoter type. The promoter has the original idea. He Pioneers but he does not have the capacity to follow through and do the organizing tasks necessary to fi- nancial and administrative success. Governor Landon has no flair for publicity nor any flair for ballyhoo. Nor does he criticize those who have it. On the contrary he strikes me as the kind of a man who believes in ap- proaching problems, however big and however challenging, by the simple rules of common sense and natural- ness. For 8 man with common sense is fundamentally honest and sincere. He is above all honest with himself. In gcvernment, and especially in politics as we see it nowadays in Washington, hypocrisy and deception are the rule Tather than the exception so that sension in the populous centers, here the observer is rightly tempted to grow SIDE GLANCES - By George Clark Lawson, Arkansas youth leader. aah le at work are always interest- ing. That's the only time most of are in rather than for war. : The-longer our navy exists in the piping times of peace, the better is it proving that it is worth what it costs. geing around farm he an Iowan found over $200,000. Pee ies ae way might have taken years < oe “ * 22 dias ; Ml in Alabama to sprinkle salt on railroéd tracks, which seems| them . aren’t when they’re at play—most of them do it’so poorly—Sinclair Lewis. The restraint lacie by fear sup- ita the joy of free inquiry. Com- David Lawrence cynical about public policies, seeing cften in them a bid for votes or & Play to the galleries. Some of Governor Landon’s friends would make him over to fit the pat- tern of the modern political person- ality. But the Kansas governor will not be made over. He remains what he was before the nomination, a plain Person, an able person, ® man from a “typical prairie state” where the rugged Americanism which won its way in covered wagon days is just as virile, just as fair, just as honorable when applied to these streamline days. As a man, as a possible chief exec- utive of the nation, I like Governor Landon’s manner and poise. Like others who must preserve an inde- pendent attitude, I am looking forward to reading his speeches to learn just would retain in the New Deal and to manage the enormous public debt what his solutions are to be, what he | forthcoming acceptance speech. what he would scrap, how he intends| Materialism makes for sensational- Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ‘ vee Brady will netics Vetiere, Seitz and tat tan aserare, Be” the amount of heat you will have to dis- pose of. During ® hot spell one should consume a good deal more water than in ordinary weather. Either as water, or in fresh fruit juice beverages, soups, tea or coffee or the popular fountain beverages, carbonated or plain, as you prefer. Of course increased intake of water or fluid will cause increased sweating. Now don’t argue with me about this. I’m teaching you physi- ology. Sweating is the only way you can keep fairly cool when the atmo- spheric temperature approaches that of the blood and the humidity is high. When the air is not so hot considerable body heat is dissipated di- rectly to the air—that is, if you're not wrapped up like an Eskimo. But when the air is very warm there is little heat lost in that way, and then if you are not prepared to sweat you're out of luck. For the evaporation of sweat is the chief body-cooling provision. During the heat wave drink lote of water, and take a good pinch of salt with each drink of water. That's the way to keep smiling. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS . Nutritive Values What is caloric value of a cupful of cider vinegar! Of a tablespoonful of chopped green or red pepper? Of a tablespoon of pimento? What is & sweet tablet! .. (H. A.) ‘ Answer—Vinegar has practically no caloric value—but don’t draw the silly inference that it “reduces.” Green or red pepper and pimento each yields approximately 3 calories per thsi. Probably a sweet tablet means a saccharin tablet-—eaccharin is a chemical which is used as a substitute for sugar, imparting a sweetish flavor without caloric value. Exercise in Wheel Chair Confined to wheel chair because of spinal trouble. Can you suggest any exercise to strengthen my legs and feet and possibly my back? (8. M. .J) Answer—With your physician’s approval, try carrying marbles one by ‘one, grasped by toes, from one side of a large hamper over a partition and to precisely the right place on the floor of the other side. Later try grasp- ing pencil or crayon and drawing or writing with either foot. Such exer- cises must be faithfully and regularly done, three times daily. Another good one is juggling a small automobile tire casing with the feet. Causes of tis Please tell us about the causes of appendicitis ... (H. H.)- Answer—My own notion is that the important causes or contributing factors are physic, excessive refinement of food, shortage of vitamins, in- sufficient natural “roughage” or bulky residue, and repression of the belly. Infection is the ultimate factor, but the primary question is, why does in- (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) fection occur? that has accumulated and above all|tude. It makes life stale and flat and what sort of leadership he will exert| unprofitable. But the right kind of in the vast operations of our federal government. On these things there education, education that holds to the will doubtless be a disclosure in his| Spiritual conception of life and that has room for God in it, calls us away ism, for jazz, for the “fed-up” atti- CHAPTER XII ly was Sunday. knew that she was leaving. RUNAWAY BRIDE TH! day following Phil’s request that Marcia leave immediate- Because it was, there was no train with proper accommodations until late in the morning. Marcia decided that she would slip away without goodby to anyone except Marion who Marion, though, interfered with this arrangement. “By the way, we all meet in the dining room and get our own breakfasts on she slipped out of the room, ran HEN she was gone before Mar- across the veranda, climbed into| cia could explain that she hadn’t meant that at all—that she ‘because |Was surprised—she couldn't very well admit that she was delighted —that it wasn’t Phil. But Phil's luggage was going somewhere— Marcia hurried to the desk. “Mr. Kirkby—when did he check out?” é Two hours ago. His bags are him to Cherbourg. He's Sunday, wien) wo hare iota of] Fame geen pe people at the house,” she said. The morning of the third day Marcia silently eliminated|the clerk told her that Camilla breakfast from her schedule. She bic pena oe mor That was sitting in her room, the blue| must mean that Phil had come, hat on, her face pale and her eyes| too, and he would see that she had BR oe lg ie et tinged with vi waiting for the | not left. prepare my bills, please. I'm station wagon, when Marion came| “Both young gentlemen are with | (1 ying out immediately.” into the room. her,” the clerk added. “There is Hats, on pom “Maria fade gene Aang peer with cate tin oe ten cee like the last of the ten plagues] CmPSNY af neon, you pic grb gp Nien oad ; “ a stockings, shoes, handker- “Yes, yes, of course,” she an-| chiets—they were packed in a few swered, and went out to wall iD! minutes and éhe bags were closed, the rain that was just beginning.|7ne porter put them in a cab and She decided that she would take/ Marcia gave hurried directions. her luggage and go at once to)" wre boat train to Cherbourg.” Cherbourg and stay there until the} the rain was falling in a steady boat sailed the next afternoon at 6. downpour when she reached the It was dusk when she came back | tender that would carry her to the to the hotel. She stepped aside! big ship. ‘The last-minute confu- to watch a porter carrying out! sion of sailing was progressing a some luggage. “C. M.” She read/iittle wearily. Marcia felt let the initials on the bags. Camilla|down. Phil had not been on the Howe. The wedding was Over.itrain and she had not found him She saw more bags in the armsion the tender. But he must be of another porter. -“P. B.” Solon the boat. Yet she had not seen there had been a wedding! Not|nim when the engines began to a we until then did she realize that/groan and the gangplank was . aus 3 somewhere, in the far corners Of/taken up. The night grew darker. her mind, she had been hoping] She climbed the narrow iron steps HER own waffles were ready|that it might be Bob whom Ca-|to the upper deck and sat down = and she put them on a plate./ milla was marrying. She KNeWlin » lifeboat, When the confu- would Uke some bacon and cov-|to the elevator, he could feel the|" ‘Then she saw him. He was EAS Wie aloes 50-Eaw ED BOs. Water oozing in her slippers and/ standing near a smokestack, hands © cofles cup in one hand. [the car ay Marck waited for toe |tching Soaring. “Phil, you haven’t eaten?” she| passengers to leave. Glancing up,| “Phil!” She called softly. some_more.” eo ee ak ie eles ae a a poor engineer!” He looked at it/ there!” fg ee Panes sind teak Seady tov tm | cakineit PRR be srt heee: to SA. Diced bas aes eoeeses ! ‘Camilla. I know will. ; or three wus and T'm pledged |e darling—" She wondered at the|her face. “What are you doing clearness of her own beret” e i ; i York, Marcia. It's bound for South America. You mean knew—" Her heart stirred ruddeay ans ithe that the wat eyes. ss 3 2 il