The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1936, Page 4

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The prospects for these are for a seasonal decline but nothing like those in past years, Mr. Weldon says, and use of the bonus bonds, being turned into cash at the rate of $55,-| 000,000 a day in recent weeks, will make the downward dip less noticeable than usual. | Turning his attention to the drouth as a nation-wide econ- omic factor, he says: “The probable loss in farm income, in trade and in the volume of freight to be carried by some of the railroads would be only part of the story. Prices of many foodstuffs would mount sharply. This would necessarily tend to curtail the public purchasing power avail- able for goods other than food and it would likewise encourage labor agitation and strikes. “As to this, however, it all depends on the weather—and that is outside of our forecast. “Nevertheless, the fact remains that the present human inter- esi centered on the drouth news is out of all proportion to its actual economic importance. The damage is not yet as serious as that which resulted from the devastating drouth of the summer of 1934 and that apparent disaster failed to have any vital influence on the course of aggregate business activity. Even in the directly af- fected areas farm income, retail trade and demand for farm equip- ment and automobiles held up remarkably well and within relatively few months resumed the underlying recovery. Steel and motors, not drouth, will determine the early business trend.” This, of course, was written before the full extent of the drouth was appreciated in the East. He is wrong when he says 1934 was a worse year than 1936 and he fails to acknowledge that the rescue of business in 1934 was at the expense of the federal government. Nevertheless, the comment is interesting. reason because a business observer makes it. If for no other Political Cheering When President Roosevelt delivered his acceptance speech at Philadelphia, his appearance was the signal for one of those rousing demonstrations which is characteristic of political sycophants. : When Governor Landon appeared on the platform at To- peka last Thursday night those gathered on the grounds of the Kansas statehouse evidently tried to outdo the Democratic record at Philadelphia. : So far as the rest of America is concerned the whole busi- ness is a nauseating tie. Both instances were demonstrations of sham and hypocrisy on the part of political hangers-on which bring no credit to either candidate. Political managers should do something about it, for their own good and that of the people whom they are sponsoring, for to offend both the good taste and the good sense of much of the nation can hardly be good politics. The people who actually see a candidate upon the occasion of a major address are unimportant in comparison with the vast number who have pulled their chairs up to the radio and are prepared to give attention. . The latter should not be made to listen to a lot of senseless and obviously synthetic bedlam, be it Democratic or Republican. The man sitting in his own home, uninspired by either a lust for patronage or the rubbing of elbows with others on simi- lar purpose bent, is quite likely to get disgusted with the whole proposition, wonder if either party can safely be trusted with the reins of government after such a demonstration of adult infantilism. Both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Landon could be introduced together to an average American group without anything approaching the “demonstrations” such as marked the affairs at both Philadelphia and Topeka. Radio has forced the revision of many practices in Amer- ican political technique. Here’s one thing it should definitely kill. Police in Collusion Criminal collusion of police with mugs of the underworld is getting altogether too frequent these days. Racketeers, pro- fessional gamblers, and gangsters generally, it appears, enjoy not only the protection of certain trusted officers, but have poate actually been tipped off by them to the movements of police departments. All of which explains the successful domination in some cities of crookdom over the ordinary forces of law and order. The public in these cases is cheated of enforcement at the start —cheated by corruption parading in uniform! ~ to the limit. Existing laws provide plenty of machinery by which cor- ruption in a police department may be exposed, punished, and obliterated. Grand juries, prosecutors, and mayors have all the powers they need. Wherever there is the least hint that police officials are too friendly with the underworld, these powers should be used Baer now is an orchestra leader. He wasn’t s0 hot in the ring, pesos the Necsnale , who has 2 horror of venturing far from his hoemae, ought to pay that debt and get it over with. | Fisat otep in event of automobile or clan trouble: Look under the hood. | (Tribune Washington Correspondent) | | publicly described—as certain to wreck | Behind the Scenes Washington A Dip Into the Past Allays Fears That Country Is on Way to the Dogs ... Notables of Other Days Locked With Grave Alarm on Laws! That Are Bulwarks Today ...! Every Step Forward Was Viewed With Horror. By RODNEY DUTCHER | | | | | | | | Washington, July 27.—There is just | a chance, in case anyone wants to be optimistic, that the country won't go; to the dogs, regardless of who's elect- ed. i This is said with full realization of | the gravity of assertions that Roose- | velt's re-election means chaos and | dictatorship and that Landon’s elec-; tion would lead to black reaction and | Fascism. | While it may be that there is more | eral worry about the future this year than practically ever before, con- | clusive evidence shows that such worry is by no means unique. Any- one with a nose for research can learn quickly that most of the laws and in- stitutions most highly regarded today, to say nothing of presidential choices, were once widely viewed—or at least our nation. Early food and drug legislation, | badly needed to curb poisonous me- | dicines and putrefied meat in cans, | was denounced as unconstitutional, | an infringement on state rights and! by Congressman Bartlett of Georgia, as part of the “onward march to cen- | tralization and bureaucracy ... in-/ efficiency and corruption.” | The income tax was a bogey for! many years. The illustrious Senator | David B. Hill of New York branded the proposal as “discriminating, sec- | tional, and Communistic,” and the ; equally famous Senator Sherman of Ohio insisted congress would be em- | barking on a program of “Socialism, Communism, devilism.” ‘The New York Sun insisted that no measure so effective ever before had | been proposed “for the creation.and | | maintenance of tramps.” The Re-| view of Reviews said it was “unmanly and un-American.” | * OK OK | Viewed With Horror The celebrated Joseph H. Choate, attacking the income tax before the |U, 8. Supreme Court, said it was be- ing “defended here upon principles as Communistic, Socialistic, and Popu- listic as ever have been addressed to} any political assembly in the world.” Chauncey Depew described the! court's’ invalidation of the law as al “national deliverance” and New York newspapers described it as saving the government from being “dragged into} a Communistic warfare against the| rights of property and the rewards of | industry.” A constitutional amendment rati- fied in 1913, you'll remember, put the| law in full operation, but as late as 1909, John D. Rockefeller was saying “that when a man has accumulated | &® sum of money within the law, the people no longer have any right to share in the earnings resulting from | that accumulation.” Twenty-five years ago, lobbiests were opposing the parcel post law and telling congressional commitices that “our government already has ap- proached the halting line of Socialis- tic and paternalistic legislation.” Parcel post, it was said, would drive the small country merchant out of business and was an extension of bureaucracy. * *% More Grave Alarm | This administration's references to “private Socialism” also seem to be old stuff. In 1888 President Grover Cleveland was warning against “the Communism of combined wealth and anti-trust laws. association was warning that Clayton anti-trust bill would be in- jurious to business and the National Association of Manufacturers said “unless there is a cessation of hos- tility to legitimate business, the vital- ity of our commerce and trade will be critically impaired.” The Chicago Tribune decided it was “one of the most dangerous and subversive measures ever seriously considered by an American congress.” Senator Brandegee of Connecticut said it was “Socialism” and “despot- ism.” The Federal Reserve System bill was “revolutionary, Socialistic, and unconstitutional,” according to Sen- ator Aldrich of Rhode Island, and practically all the bankers insisted it was ruinous. “Unsound and dangerous,” New York Times. ee Feared Senators’ Election When direct election of senators was proposed, the eminent Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts announced that when that was ac- complished, “the American Constitu- tion is gone.” Senator Elihu Root warned that the senate had been “established by the constitution to Protect the American democracy against itself.” Passage of the first interstate com- merce commission bill, Senator Hoar said, would “create a panic.” ‘The moral of all this, if any, seems to be that most of us can afford to avoid high blood pressure over the campaign until the cool days of said the rr. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) A BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 1S RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN S “Here,” roared the sea captain, ashore after a long voyage, “what is this stuff you brought us?” “It’s soup sir,” re- plied the waiter. “Blast it all, Bill,” said the old sea dog, turning to the mate, “here I've been sailing on soup all my life and never knew it until now.” dazedly. j coldest. | before her dressing table, she pressed jchild.” capital” in connection with Proposed | Years later the American Bankers’) the | The Bright Shawl ee Poeeceooroccce. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. elt but not hee oy result has been simply unbelievable. with it . . . She is very happy and I am so grateful . tired she couldn’t enjoy life as other young people do. Ni over... pega i If there is a ciple of preventive medicine that is thoroughly estab- Iishiad by USNOriAL GREMEOS "Aid Mt ks SAKEGRIG SEED. Pudiont cosa to provided in one form or another for every individual who is not under medical care, particularly for school girls in their early ‘teens, but for school boys too. Any health authority or physician who has the temerity to question this principle today betrays either ineptitude or a strangely warped concep- tion of medical ethics. Some unidentified person purporting to be a Doctor of Medicine quoted at length from the newspaper story of the Tired College Girl ins childish letter to the editor of a prominent medical journel—if we may believe all the editor says—and thus fortuitously gave the versatile editor of the medi- cal magazine a beautiful chance to castigate me, display his own erudition and, incidentally, maybe sell his own health column to fill the place of mine at a substantial saving in cost. Dr. Brady's advice, the omniscient and ubiquitous medical editor pointed out at great length in the editorial columns of what was once the medical association’s official organ, “Dr. Brady's advice is a good example of pernicious therapy, when one thinks that the tired suffering the early stages of tuberculosis or be on the verge of neurasthenia from_unhygienic living.” ' Shucks—I had thought the trick diagnosis of ‘“neurasthenia” was no longer perpetrated on the unwary layman. But how dumb I am, after all. Here it is resuscitated and again put into circulation by no less an authority on everything than the great Pooh-Bah himself. How delighted the army of brass specialists who follow the Pooh-Bah’s lead must feel, now that the the game is restored to them and my “advice” has been branded “pernicious.” ‘True to character the great Pooh-Bah makes it seem that I advised the mother of the tired college girl to give her iodim. In truth I never heard of the tired college girl or her mother until I received the letter quot- ed. No doubt the great Pooh-Bah would have the nerve to assert that the advice that every one should take a suitable iodin ration is pernicious, but I don’t believe any real physician or health authority would or can take that an a CONTINUED | Menaced by. Unknown: | Terror, Beautiful Girl It was like her own world— the world that had always been so beautiful and safe. Smashed into} ¢, broken pieces. “You know I'm crazy about you and want you to marry me. Why won't you say you will? You're the love- liest girl I've ever known—and the} Can't you like me a little, dearest?” | Certainly he seemed everything a} girl could desire, as he stood there pleading with her. Handsome, young and ardent. Yes, she was a fool, yet— “I do like you a lot, Nick.” Her voice was sincere. “I like you but— oh, don’t ask me now. I don’t know —I'm so uncertain about everything. I'm going up to the mountain house for a few days. Maybe when I com back — maybe later, Nick, dear please!” With a choked sob she turned and ran out into the hall and upstairs to her own room. Crumpling in a heap small, clenched fists to her cheeks. “I can't—I just can’t! some other way out.” ended in tears. “Claire, honey!” An elderly maid's Startled face appeared around an open closet door. She hurreid to the girl and put her arms about her. “Tell Hannah all about it now, She smothered * Claire's rumpled curls as she had done years before when she was nurse to the} motherless little girl. “Anyone been pesterin’ you?” She poked her cap to a belligerent angle, her seamed, weather-beaten face glaring defiance. Claire laughed shakily. Drawing! ;Hanna’s head down, she kissed her. (“Don’t frown so fiercely, old dear. Anyone would think you were still | fighting Apaches out on your ranch in the early days. Some scrapper yet, aren't you?” } * * ® Hannah nodded. “You said it, honey. I am when anyone goes! | tryin’ to drop a loop over you if you | ain’t willin’. Go on now, tell me. Is |it that Baum fellah again?” | “Yes,” Claire answered slowly. “He's awfully nice and he loves me, but—” | | “But you don't want to marry him.” Hannah finished the sentence. for her. “Well then, you don’t haye to.” |_ “But I know Daddy hoped I Would, Hannah. Nick was very close to him, had even loaned him a lot of money, and we can’t pay it back.” i “Listen, child,” Hannah broke in.} “Your father was the best man in the | world, bar none, but just because he was so darn good himself, he was @ mere babe in arms when it came to some other things. Now you've got ; your own life to live, and he’s gone. It’s all bosh bein’ tied up by dead folks’ wishes. Nobody oughter try to tun the affairs o’ the living from the grave. How about tryin’ to unearth that blasted jewel your Uncle Ly- man said he hid in the house in the moutains? Claire?” “I was just thinking of that, Han- nah,” Claire looked up eagerly. “Oh, if I could only find it! But we've gove over every inch of the place hundreds of times. Daddy had about decided it was just Uncle Lyman’s delirium when he was dying. You Know he spoke of it again, but couldn’t tell us where it was. But if there really was @ jewel, and I could find it, everything would be all right. I must find The words | could pay Nick and—” ‘ “Then your father didn’t know whether he got all your uncle's Jewels or not?” a “We've never been sure, Hannah. You know Uncle had some wo iderful stones, He was an authority on such things and bought them all over the world on his various travers. But he was always boasting about his ‘Jewel of the Rockies, as he called it. He spoke of it again as he lay dying. Said it was hidden in the house, and that we must .never let the place go George—I thought you were going to bring me a chicken for my Sunday dinner. well, - aad a i Nick—I did intend to, but it got| know Uncle was dreadfully out of our possession, But after we looked and looked without finding anything, we weren't sure whether it was just a fancy or not. You eccentric.” (Continued Next Column) Unforunately the (Republican) con- vention of 1936 at Cleveland has put itself on record as the most reaction- ary in the party's entire history. Seeks Key to Mystery 29.00 Murray Butler, president of | Columbia University. To preserve the liberties our fore- fathers won, to attack and defeat any) “ * ire?” new fear Ret aan aire?” eoathttaazu chances and changes of life, is the| | duty of our generation—William C.. | Bullitt, U. S, ambassador to Russia. ee *® | One of the problems we must guard | jagainst is booms.—Secretary of Com-| Claire looked regretfully at him.'™erce Daniel C. Roper. In spite of the growth of economic | nationalism, the levels of prosperity in individual countries still tend to) |rise—Walter Runciman, president of | London (Eng.) Board of Trade. * ke * ‘The Japanese invasion of China has} |made Mongolia too much of a hot | |spot today—Roy Chapman Andrews, famous eapleren, Wouldn't that help,|, i, So They Say ‘Dr. * % % hich may arise from the; * * * | * CHAPTER IA HANNAH shrugged. “Plain lo- coed, if you ask me. That he could put up with that trifling Susie Spratt for housekeeper proves enough. Then look what he called his outlandish house— the House of Long Shadows. No- body but a crack-wit would ever put such a brand on that kind of a place. All carved walnut wood- work to catch the dust, and those gosh-awful high ceilings! That house wouldn’t be much of a loss, if you did have to let it go. And I don’t envy Eb Spratt and his sister, Susie, tryin’ to take care of it for you, either.” “But it was the pride of Uncle Lyman’s heart, H@nnah. He spent a small fortune copying the east- ern mansions he'd known. He thought nothing was too grand to build in his beloved mountains. That house and his jewels were the passions of his life.” “Yep, the Fosdicks always were up in the air about some fool thing. Your Uncle Lyman was the worst 0’ the mess, but even your own father was a dreamer. Rest his soul. Lucky for you that your mother was a real western woman with her feet on the ground and her head full of horse sense. Or you might be goin’ ‘round, too, with your ideas in the clouds. What you goin’ to do now?” , Claire had jumped to her feet as though she had come to a sud- den decision. “I’m going up to the House of Long Shadows right now, and start looking again. If there’s anything hidden there I'm going to find it. I’ve got to! Help me into my riding clothes—there’s a dear!” “But, Claire, it’s past 9 o'clock. You can’t go galavantin’ up to the mountains alone at this time o’ night. You wouldn’t get there for hours. It’s 50 miles from here.” “Nonsense, Hannah. Remember, Tm going in my car. Not on horseback. I'll be a heap sight safer out on the road than here, wasting precious time. Besides, the Spratt family is there. They'll take almost as good care of me as you would.” Still Hannah shook her head doubtfully. “Well, if you're set to go—but this Nick Baum. Does he know about this—this jewel or whatever it is, Claire?” “I don't know,” the girl replied. “We haven't known Nick Pa very long, you know, but Daddy was awfully fond of him, so he might have mentioned it.” “Um.” Hannah reluctantly held out Claire's coat. “I’m tellin’ you, I got a hunch about all this that T ain't likin’ any too well.” “Hannah! Your hunches— you're worse than an Indian medi- | would cine man. Go on to bed and for- can trump up a charge against @ per- son and lock him up for 30 days— Marion A, Zioncheck. ‘There never has been the slightest doubt in my mind that the man in the street looks upon the president as & man who has been intensively at- tempting to help him.—Postmaster General James A. Farley. es * Bad drivers who teach others to to drive simply turn out bad drivers as pupils, and the supply of road menaces is thereby increased.— ) Charles A. Hartnett, New York State commissioner of motor vehicles, Practically the only temperance education here is a little inadequate sentimental stuff—Dr. Dorothy Grey, Allegheny county, Pa., ciety. You are too rich over here, but you can keep your gold—Montague Nor- man, governor of the Bank of Eng- jand. Patriotism is becoming the most unused and unpopular form of ex- pression —Messmore |dent-general, Sons of American Rev- Things are pretty bad when they olution. Eb on loomed gloomily against the dark background of the mountain. get it. I'll send you word tomor- row that I'm all okay. can send the man.” Claire pulled member you taught me yourself never to be afraid of anything. for any more objections downstairs, AS she passed the library attitude today. Once more I invite readers to send a three-cent-stamped addressed en- velope (I positively refuse to pay the freight or to address your envelope for you) and ask for instructions for taking an iodin ration. Particularly adults who have chronic tired feeling, lack former pep or ambition, fail to feel re- freshed by rest or vacation, take on some superfluous flabby flesh, feel low spirited, turn gray too early, have cold hands and feet . . . * e * QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Some Doctors Backward or Bashful Is the injection method of treatment suitable for umbilical hernia? If s0, can you give me the name of a physician in our community who uses this method? . . . (ZF. L) Answer—Yes, physicians skilled in the technic treat umbilical hernia successfully. I regret I do not know which physician, if any,.in your com- munity uses the method. The Bottle Baby's Is it all right to put the warm milk in a thermos bottle in the morning to keep it till evening for a baby a year old? . . . (Mrs. D. W.) Answer—Only if the milk has been boiled least one minute, It is better to keep the milk or milk mixture refrigerated and warm it up at the time of feeding. Lett-Handedness When my son was & child he was naturally left-handed, and I made him use his right. He has always been less efficient than his naturelly right- handed brother. If I had it to do over I’d never interfere with the use of the left hand if the child naturally preferred the left hand . . . (EB. M.) Answer—Why interfere? 3 Milk and Cream A says coffee removes the nutritious value of cream when cream is put in coffee. B claims the cream retains its nutritious value whether taken in coffee or by itself . . . (J. P.) Answer—B is right.. (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) ee Medical So- ee * ee Kendall, presi- 5 ie Fgess ec ltt et elit fl ia Mlustrated by E. H. Gunder, In the uncertain light of a half moon the House of Shadows peli? CrELES z break Probably Spratt’ll be coming down or s a pair of driving gloves. “Re- i ot EEE , Besides, what on earth could hap- Fact col er gralt gl gored pap d agai gg Toad. Th just a few minutes she would be at her destination. She event if even a peddler finds his sat back in the seat and relaxed way up there from the village.”| had her grip on the wheel. She dropped a light kiss on Han- ‘There was a sudden grinding nah’s nose, and without waiting | She crash as the car hit a huge d z iz : f tg i ii i d ep if g i i fy [ halted a minute and 3 BH fe ia Re -¥ “ HH H | E possibly college girl might be a uy BI \ ip