The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1936, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936 _ The Bismarck Tribune’ An 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 entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs, Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W Simons Sec'y-Treas. and Editor fe Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres, and Gen'l. Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance by mall per year (in state outside by mail outside of North Dakota mai! in state, per year .. mail outside of North Dak Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- | on lspatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this 0 the ed herein. ol Tepublication of all other matter h Major Powell’s Prophecy In his address to the North Dakota constitutional conven- tion 47 years ago, reproduced on page one in this issue of The Tribune, Major Charles Francis Powell made the striking state- ment: “They will soon learn in the western portion (of North Dakota) to depend on irrigation and provide themselves with artificial agencies for fructifying the soil with water.” That is about the only error made by this scientist of the jast generation as he peered into the future and prophesied for the fathers of this state the events which the years would bring. Why we did not “soon learn” to irrigate, as Major Powell thought we would, is a fitting subject for inquiry. The first, and perhaps the most important, reason is that| 1: the semi-arid lands of western North Dakota border on lands} ann to the east which are suitable for agriculture under normal conditions and immigration came gradually and from the east. This immigration came about partly as a result of popu- Jation and economic pressure and partly because of promotion and propaganda by the railroads and others who had land to sell. To have sold this land with the understanding that it would | ; have to be irrigated would have been almost impossible. sean a situation would have required money, either on the part ot the settlers or those selling the land. One group didn’t have it and the other wouldn’t invest for that purpose. As a result, a the thought of irrigation was pushed into the background and|s all the powers of the promoters were centered on giving assur- ance that it was not necessary and never would be. Coincident with this was a peculiarity of the rainfall cycle. Settlement of farmers in western North Dakota did not get under way until the 90’s, and during that succession of years the western plains enjoyed the greatest amount of rainfall in|> their recorded history. In a recent radio discussion of this question, J. B. Kincer, chief of the division of climate and crop weather in the depart- ment of agriculture, discussed this phenomenon of great plains) » veather as follows: “During the last wet phase, some 25 years ago, there was a suc- cession of years when the Great Plains enjoyed an era of good rain- fall. For 11 years, from 1898 to 1908, Kansas as a sample, accumu- lated more than 26 inches of rainfall above the normal amount. These years of abundant rains attracted attention, and, in those ever popular discussions of weather, there was much speculation as to the cause. “It so happened that about this time the cultivated acreage in the plains was being greatly increased, and many people thought this must be the cause of the abundant rainfall. They coined a slogan, ‘Rainfall follows the plow.’ The weather bureau was bom- barded with letters from people pointing out that farming was definitely bringing about a change in climate, and that the plains were growing wetter. We did not subscribe to this theory. Later came the inevitable swing back to less and less rain, culminating in the recent severe drouths. And now man is being blamed for that just as he was given credit for the favorable condition. “The theory that man improved the climate by planting crops on the plains really produced a false optimism. It encouraged farm- ers to extend their planting into regions that do not have sufficient moisture to produce crops during these dry phases.” This, as well as could be done in a few words, discloses the psychology which kept Major Powell’s prediction that we| soon would learn from coming true. This psychology kept the| people of western North Dakota from viewing their problems impartially and with open eyes. It made western North Da- kota the greatest NEXT YEAR country in the world. There is no reason to assume that we soon will have a repetition of the drouths of 193’ and 1936. It will rain again on these prairies and they will grow grass but, except in the wettest years, there never has been enough rainfall to grow grain successfully. The agricultural economy set up in the wet years cannot Ka be maintained. It was a failure before the drouth of 1934 and|: u this year only emphasizes the fact. It has taken us a long time to realize the fact because we were looking in another direction, but the people of North Dakota now HAVE learned that the only stable agriculture possible in this region is that wherein the soil is fructified by | * the application of water. Reefing the Sails America took a reef in her financial sails recently when the federal reserve. board ordered member banks to raise their reserve requirements 50 per cent by Aug. 15. Reserves for demand deposits in New York and Chicago are to be lifted from 13 to 1914 per cent while banks in reserve cities must increase their liquid position from 10 to 15 per cent and those in “country” cities from 7 to 1014 per cent. At the same time reserves for time deposits must be increased from 3 to 41% per cent. The order probably is sound and the nation should devoutly pray that it will effect the result intended, namely, to diminish the urge toward inflation of credit. Bankers with excess reserves on their hands and depositors protesting at low interest rates, have been tempted to expand a little and take more chances. This is particularly true since the sounder elements of industry have, generally speaking, made few demands for loans. Under the: new ruling their reserves will not appear 80 exceasive, since the effect will be to take out of circulation about $8,000,000,000 which could have been pushed into the channels of trade and industry under the present order. - Another factor—and an important one—may be the desire of the government to maintain in the banks power to purchase its bonds, issued’to finance continued government spending. o> “Gets Federal Post ai ¢ E. M. HENDRICKS A former rate expert for the state railroad board and familiar with traffic affairs, E. M. Hen- dricks, Bismarck, has been ap- pointed state supervisor of motor vehicle carriers for the Interstate Commerce Commission. | Weather Report | w For Bis: showers p day; not so orth nt Unsettled, nd in w much ch, Moun- | " weath= rihwest. pre ‘orth. Dakota. | ally fair in all d throughout western e weather Is gen Mis: 24 hour, Sunrixe Sunset § mont! his month to da WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA figh- Low- ext Pet 72.00! 9 200 100 00 20 | ‘00 | 00 00) 00 | oo! 00 00 61 64 8 60 Devils Lake, clear peldy eldy. MINNES Wishek, Minneapolis Moorhead, eldy eldy. SOUTH DAKO" 00 00 Huron, cldy Rapid City, peld MONTANA P et. | 00 100, a Havre, eldy Miles City Helena, Amarillo, Te Boise, Idah 16 200 | 100 | too | 190, ‘00 “oo 00 200 00 ‘00, £00 100 100, ‘00 Winhipes, Man., peldy. 200 Fifty-nine per cent of the mileage of motor vehicle traffic today.is for business and commercial purposes. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: Government bonds have a preferred status in the banking business and may be substituted for cash reserves. Certainly the order will do nothing to discourage the banks from buying th Spree cs a8 ime adem al amet ‘A certain amount of polish helps. nail a man. || arid region, if you depend on artificial irrigation, you are in- i| people. Ses aie ee i So They Say ae |government which cannot keep itself | 00 | 00 | ‘00 | 00 oral PROPHECY AND FULFILLMENT (Continued from Page One) That is the history of all those who live on the border between the humid and the arid lands. Years will come of abundance and years will come of disaster, and between the two the peo- ple will be prosperous and unprosperous, and the thing to do is to look the question squarely in the face and provide for this and for all years. Man Cannot Change the Climate You hug to yourselves the delusion that the climate is changing. This question is 4000 years old. Nothing that man can do will change the climate. A long succession of years will give you the same amount of rainfall that any other succession of the same length will give you. The settlement of the country, the cultivation of trees, the building of rail- roads—all these matters will have no influence upon your climate. You may as well not hope for any improvement in this direction. There’s almost enough rainfall for your pur- poses, but one year with another you need a little more than you get. It is flowing past you in the rivers. Storms come and spread over the land and the water runs off into the rivers and is carried into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. There are waters rolling by you which are quite ample to redeem your land and you must save these waters. I say it from the standpoint of the history of all such lands. Civilization was born in arid lands. Taking the world at large, most of the agriculture of the world has depended on irrigation for more than 4,000 years. The largest populations have depended on irrigation, so it is an old problem. . And it has been solved time and again so that it may be said that there is nothing to learn. All you have to do is to learn the lessons already taught by history, and that is that in those lands you have to depend on placing the water on the soil, and when you have learned to do that you are in no unfavor- able condition. In the humid region the storms come and the fields receive the gentle shower, but frequently just be- fore the harvest comes a great storm devastates it all. In this dependent of storms. The waters that are brought on the lands by irrigation are sources of fertilization beyond all other sources. There are fields in the eastern world that have been cultivated for 4,000 years—where water was brought on the land to irrigate and all other fertilization is unnecessary. Now in all lands of high culture, where fields are irrigated, they are ceasing to use any other fertilizer. In France, where they are irrigating their lands, they have com- menced a system in every county and township—the same in Spain and Germany. They find that they must pour the waters of their streams on their lands. Protect and Conserve Your Streams As members of this Convention, that is what I have to say to you. Not being a public man, it may be considered a little presumptuous for me to say—in Dakota you are to depend hereafter in a great measure on the running streams—in a small part on your artesian wells, and in part on the storage ef the storm waters. The chief source will be the running streams. These waters are to be preserved and stored dur- ing the season of non-irrigation. There are, say, two months of the year when you need it to irrigate, and 10 months when you should store the water. All other wealth falls into in- significance compared with that which is to come from these lands from the pouring on them of the running streams of this country. Don’t let these streams get out of the possession of the people. If you fail in making a constitution in any other respect, fail not in this one. Take lessons from Cali- fornia and Colorado. Fix it in your constitution that no cor- poration—no body of men—no capital can get possession and right of your waters. Hold the waters in the hands of the Think of a condition of affairs in which your agri- culture—which you have to depend on largely—depending on irrigation, is at the mercy of 20 companies who own all the water. They would laugh at ownership of land when the value is in the water. You should provide in the constitution which you are making, that the water which falls from the heavens and rolls to the sea, down your great rivers—that water should be under the control of the people, subject al- ways to the will of the people; that property in water should be impossible for individuals to possess. You should forbid the right to acquire property in water. The property should be in the land, and the right to the water should inhere in the land and no company or individual should have property in the running streams. Such a provision will prevent your great agricultural sources falling into the hands of the few. anywhere when labor is divided.—Wil- liam Green, president American Fed- jeration of Labor. ee % | It is the established principle of the | |British policy, it is indeed the basic | jcondition of British life, that wher- piel Mall club wil) say the | aver and whenever our security is en- nine Sunday at 2:30 p. m. in the Bismarck ball park. |make such preparations as will re- {move the danger.—Sir Samuel Hoare. || * * % -¢| I will be bound by whatever the \convention does, but I don’t think the '? The white flag has been hoisted on | delegates have decided by any means | the bastions of world sanctionism.— | that they want a third party.—Dr. | Mussolini, | Francis E. Townsend. ee % ee * See everything, hear everything, say, No modern nation should be re- nothing.—Advice to bellboys by Y.! quired to borrow a single cent for the Douglas, Honolulu hotel bellhop. | Purpose of carrying on the functions * % | of government.—Dr. Francis E. Town- Can you get social security from a send. zk * I am happy to have the co-opera- tion of Senator Borah in this cam- * 8 * | paign.—Gov. Alfred M. Landon. American labor cannot function) ; With two contesting forces. It is tough jenough to function when junited; it is almost impossible to get exert a force of 3, solvent?—Mrs, George Wyeth, New) York. The University of Southern Califor- 00 pounds. | dangered it is our bounden duty to| labor is| nia has a giant hammer that can| | oclety Rev. and Mrs, Herbert Malcolm and son, John, of Moosejaw, Sask., visited here Thursday night with Rev. and Mrs. N. E, Elsworth, 514 Mandan St., whom they had known in Alberta. Rev. Malcolm, who is a Presbyterian minister, and his family are on their way to Kingston, Ont., where he will study for his master’s degree at Queen’s university during the coming year. eee Mr. and Mrs. Philip Edelman and | ‘ their daughter Marilyn Libby, of 421 Ninth 8t., have come home after @ three-week motor trip to Minneap- olis, Chicago and St. Louis. At Chi- cago they were guests of Mrs. Edel- man’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Sam Becker, and at St. Louis they spent some time with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs, Jack Weiken. * % H Here for a week's stay with her sis- |ters, Mrs, R. E. Anderson and Miss Bessie Matthews, both of 420 Thayer, west, is Mrs. John Jackovich of Be- midji, Minn. From here Mrs. Jacko- vich will return to Bemidji but she! will leave in a short time for Alaska to spend the winter there with ‘her husband, who has a federal position. ee % Ernest Elness, 410 Third St., G. R. | ‘Thompson, 314 Avenue A, west, and | Dr. D. B. Rawley, Mandan, have re- turned after attending the national | Shrine convention at Seattle, Wash. | They came through Glacier National |park and drove over the Columbia | highway route on their return trip. ese % Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Njaa left Man- ;dan Thursday for Missoula, Mont., where Mr. Njaa will be manager of a new branch for the Gamble Stores, |Inc. Mr. Njaa has been managing the Gamble store at Mandan for the | last six and a half years, * % Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Wynkoop and daughters, Mary and Barbara, of 920 Eighth 8t., are home after a two-week focecce Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will beady 1h Stipend tat a e L Met gh os diagnosis. rite jettere ly and ie on. Brady tn care Slarceaul tavews All queries m Stamved self-adér envelope. eecoocccocccccce atat, Bet ge mpasied't we HIDDEN CAUSES OF ANEMIA The symptoms produced by internal hemorrhoids are usually vagui when inflammation, prolapse or strangulation of the hemorrhoidal mass tee gate attention, is the trouble recognized. Occult bleeding from gastric or duodenal ulcer is a leas frequent cause of secondary Through the poorer rural regions in the south anemia secondary to hookworm infestation is still prevalent, Jess common than it was thirty years ago, thanks to the education and curative efforts of public health workers. - The habit of eee eee es nine "tid ie alba tae ae factor of secondary anemia, not because salts “thin the blood” but be- cause such foreign chemicals fichdlance tine pecolasts of asuitine: tion, digestion, absorption, metabolism in the body. We know that other harsh purgatives actually destroy blood corpuscles—for instance, after a dose of castor oil blood corpuscles are always found in the dejecta, though in the popular fancy castor oll, simply because it is oll, is “harmless” in any circumstance. A good deal of everyday secondary anemia occurs in women who are too much confined in the house the greater part of the year. It is difficult to say precisely which factor is most responsible—mild carbon monoxide poisoning from faulty combustion apparatus or gas leakages or leakiny flues, or lack of direct sunlight on naked skin, or lack of sufficient oxygen; perhaps a combination of all three. At any rate, many housewives are anemic when spring comes around, and some of them scarcely recover before summer is over. In some homes there is still a quaint fear of drafts and a conception of economy which reckons not at all with health. The treatment of secondary anemia, that is, Motel Aerntird I repeat, is not a matter of iron or other medicine purporting to build blood. Such medicines have no effect at all on ordinary anemia. There is but one remedy, and that is discovery and correction of the cause. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS we Lifters Attention vacation trip which included a tour of Yellowstone National park. They also visited friends at wd yall Mon- tana points. * 8 * Miss Aslaug Eide is having a va- cation from her work at the Polly- |anna beauty shop and is passing the time with her parents who live at | Cooperstown. coe will return July 27. H * The Misses Helen and Mary Irons | were hostesses at an informal party | Thursday evening. They entertained 12 guests at the party, which honored their aunt, Mrs. Fannie Irons of Aus- tin, Minn., who is their house guest. | e+ % & Mrs. Mary Jolly of this city, accom- panied by her sister, Mrs. Margaret Lovejoy of Buchanan, left this week for Kalamazoo, Mich., where they ex- pect to make their home. ee * Miss Marie Lemohn, Tribune apart- ments, left Thursday for Minneapolis where she will vacation until about CONTINUE With Recovery GOP Sept. 1. She will visit her mother from page one: Leader Emphasizes and a sister. Stop This Fumbling playing lasted nearly 10 minutes when he stepped forward to speak. “Shall we continue to delegate more and more power to the chief executive | “No, no, no,” shouted the crowd in one of the most enthusiastic out |bursts of the evening. | “Or do we desire to preserve the | American form of government?” Lan- don continued. “Yes, yes, yes,” roar. | Pleads Seriously, Intently Once started on his 4,000 word ad- dress, Landon read in a serious, in- came back the now and then nodded his head and jclipped words for special emphasis. Near sat Mrs. Landon, smiling the governor's 79-year-old father. Peggy Ann Landon, 19-year-old daughter, had an eye for the crowd and happenings in the press boxes. Brig. Gen. Milton R. McLean, Kan- sas adjutant general, estimated a two- hour parade drew 120,000 onto Topeka’s avenues, brilliant with ban- iners, sunflowers and bunting. The Republican chairman intro- duced Rep. Bertrand Snell of New York on this “happy and auspicious occasion.” The permanent chairman of the Cleveland convention then delivered the traditional notification speech, OUT OUR WAY WHUT MAKES A Guy ae pare on | ‘V Ewe ihe Because YOU FORGET ABOUT TH’ DAYS YOU TOOK OF AND THEY. NEVER 90- TE%0 be PRERMNDED On iow ABS5ENT- MINDED YOU ARE AND HOW BEEN: ‘MINDED THEY By Williams tent tone. He used no gestures, but |. | that the constitution is above change. times at bursts of applause. Next sat]. eight I, Ol’ Doc Brady, do’ hereby publicly apologize to the weight lifters of America. I don’t know for what, but some of them are demanding that I do so or else. I hasten to do it, because they haven't long to live. Weight lifters are short-lived—that is, peed exhibition weight lifters. Is it necessary for a person be pe completely blind before under- going a cataract operation? ... (Mrs. B. R.) Answer—No. Skilled ocuilsts remove cataract as soon as the better eye can no longer read comfortably. Man Is Animal A claims man is classified as an animal. B claims man is known only as a human being. (Mrs. K.) Answer—Man is scientifically the highest type of animal existing or known to have existed, differing from lower animals in his greater mental development. Red Nose T have a fiery red nose, but I have never drank a drop in my life... . (R. C, P.) Answer—Send three-cent-stamped envelope bearing your address, and ask for monograph on red nose and one on acne rosacea. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) and through the people and not by usurpation.” Among the Rear which Hamilton ori back to his chief were the telling Landon “America will see you through to victory.” Free Spirit of Enterprise On recovery and relief, the Repub- lican nominee said: “The time has come to unshackle initiative and free the spirit of American enterprise. We must be free from incessant mental intimidation and hostility . from private monopolistic control. . Those who need relief will get it.” ‘Debts and Taxes: “Crushing debts and taxes ... invariably retard pros- perity. .. . Our party holds nothing to be of more urgent importance than putting our financial house in order.” Farm Policy: “The mppereprerd through its program of scarcity, has gambled with the needed food and feed supplies of the country. ... We shall establish effective soil conserva- tion and erosion control policies. . . ‘We propose to pay cash benefits.” Labor: “An employe has an equal right to join a union or to refuse to join a union... . Under all circum- stances .. . to be free from interfer- ence from any source.” On International Relations International Relations: “We shall join no plan that would take from us . . independence of judgment... . that might involve us in a war.” Constitution: “It is not my belief i hallelujah,” Hamilton told Republi- can committeemen ata ee Sleeping sickness . But the changes must come by| of tropics in 1921. LOU SALAL I governmental EIAISIT MEBIAINIAINIA| 22 Trudged. FH to arene 43 Small shield. arrai le ne 3 9 1oBrought up. 61 He is oas against 11 Fat. 12 To impel. PT oS BECrecetttr