The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 27, 1936, Page 6

fo) $Q5 SERBSS pa £24 0 =—SSSSanan[=SSSs!| I CLT The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper ra THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mai] matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas. and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance | | Daily by carrier, per year . Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . 1.20 Daily by mail per year (in state outside of 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota 6.00 Weekly by mail in state, per year ... 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Hence the regulation that all cameras aimed at the president must be “approved,” and the ceaseless vigilance of the secret service men. : There are. other reasons behind these precautions. The untimely death of a chief executive would not only shock the moral sensibilities of the nation, it would prove vastly unset- tling to the business world, might cause repercussions which would have untoward effects in many households. Every president in recent years has been the beneficiary— or the victim—of precautions such as we people of North Dakota see put into effect today. Some of them have resented the ceaseless vigilance and have tried to get away from it, but none has been successful. Powerful as a president is he cannot dis- miss his own bodyguard. President Theodore Roosevelt tried in vain to escape this friendly surveillance. So did Presidents Wilson and Harding. The present occupant of the White House probably wishes that he could be permitted to do with less of it. But the secret service men go ahead and do their work just the same. They have their job and they stick to it. Overdone Much of the political propaganda now being spread by all political parties is half-baked but a goodly share is overdone. Sometimes it is impossible to tell the difference. An excellent example is a blurb issued by the Farmers In- dependence Council. If you never heard of it before do not be alarmed. Such organizations have a way of springing up at campaign time and, if the truth were known, they usually are something besides what the title implies. This organization, which has headquarters at 166 W. Jack- son boulevard, Chicago, is opposed to the New Deal. Anyone will grant that it has a right to be, because this still is a free country. But nothing in its charter gives it the right to make a fool of itself, as it seems bent on doing. . In its latest blurb we find the New Deal charged with “per- secution of business to prevent recovery.” To charge the New Deal with mishandling national affairs in such a way as to prevent or retard recovery may be a legiti- mate charge. A good many people think it is. But to charge it with deliberately intending to prevent recovery is silly. The Farmers Independence Council might better save its postage than to circulate such statements. No right-minded opponent of the administration is going to accuse it of deliberately befouling its own nest. Are You Fingerprinted? The G-men have announced with pride that they now have the fingerprints of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and other well- known men. These are the latest additions to the federal bu- reau of investigation’s growing list of civilian fingerprints. J. Edgar Hoover explains: “When a person places his fingerprints in the bureau’s civil files, he automatically insures his family against prolonged mental suffering and the expenditure of a large amount of money in an effort to locate him, should he be unfortunate enough to perish in some manner in which all means of identi- fication except fingerprints are lost, or should he become the victim of amnesia.” Fingerprinting heretofore has been allied too closely to the criminal side of life. Now the public is beginning to realize its importance as a measure of general security. Too Old to Work at 45? The tendency toward lower age limits for positions under civil service, and in business and industry generally, appears to be meeting with increasing disfavor. A recent instance is that in Cleveland, O., where the city’s civil service commission has abandoned its general age limit of 45 years in holding examinations. City officials agreed that it’s obviously absurd to consider that a person reaching 45 automatically becomes less competent to fill a post than one a year or so younger, or to assume that every man or woman at 46 is ready for the shelf. The ability of a person to perform the duties of an office is not a matter of years, but of training, education, and physical condition. Any arbitrary age limit, such as 45, therefore, is utterly without justification. ithout the Red pe a ceeser mieput i oe ne ee ne ‘Motoring for the average husband has been made fairly saf for the antique shops his wife sees slong the road. aT Ae a J ‘ **e . ee re OFF: tie tecend’ rexnenest ware regarded as 2 A laundry ticket Jed to © Chicago slaying suspect, proving that every- thing comes out in the wash. a ih i ¢ who offers s prise for proof that real “spirits” exist in sound a Whee and ts Rous 10 give up the ghoet THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Behind ae Scenes Washington PWA and WPA Still Add Up Into a Grand Mixup .. . Ickes, with $300,- 000,000 to Spend, Doesn't Know What to Do with It... Figures Show His Outfit in More Favor- able Light. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Aug. 27.—Given an- other term, President Roosevelt doubt- less would eventually make up his mind as to what kind of PWA pro- gram he wanted. The battle between Mr. Ickes’ boys and Mr. Hopkins’ boys has been going on steadily for more than a year and jit is importantly involved in the cur- rent peculiar situation, which finds Mr. Ickes sitting on $300,000,000 and not knowing what to do with it. Mr. Ickes is not only confused. He is also bored. He has had PWA pulled cut from under him and then tossed back into his lap so often that it isn’t even funny any more. The latest mixup is due to Roose- velt's alarm over increase in the WPA rolls, which would be hard enough to cut in a campaign year anyway, with- out the great drouth coming along to add enormously to them. Heading toward the election, the president realizes that the increase in relief cost and evidence that avail- able relief funds are likely to run out long before January will not be quite the best type of propaganda for the administration. * * * O. K. If It Worked Roosevelt's idea is that large num- bers of WPA workers should be em- ployed on PWA projects. Which would be an excellent idea if it worked. So far, the PWA program for this fiscal year hasn't even started, be- cause of confusion over presidential regulations. Current understanding THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1986 Wonder How Our Yard Looks to the Neighbors? | LOOK HOW BUSINESS HAS UAPROVED IN ENGLAND, FRINSTANCE is that PWA can put money on its basis of 55 per cent loan and 48 per cent grant only if 45 per cent of the : labor on the project can be taken irom the relief rolls. Looking at the PWA would be permitted to grant only such percentage of the project's Camp aign cost as could be used for employment ot relief labor. Ickes figures this would mean that the federal contribution would have to be cut to 10 or 15 per cent, since PWA projects require skilled labor for the most part, and doubts whether municipalities want to put up 85 or 90 per cent of the money themselves. Having geared themselves to 55 per cent and arranged bond Issues and other complicated arrangements on that basis, it would take them a long time to get the technicalities re- Jiggered, even if they did. xk x Boost fer PWA Meanwhile, it is understood that a confidential study of relative costs of WPA and PWA employment per man recently made by the budget bureau has put PWA in a very favorable light. When the amount of local contri- (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) | Ogden, Utah, Aug. 27.—(?)—This/| state seems certain to cast its elec- toral vote for President Roosevelt. It is virtually conceded by well-inform- | ed persons in both parties, though a reduced majority over four years ago when Mr. Roosevelt carried Utah by 32,000 is expected. Why is Utah so pronouncedly pro- Roosevelt when it has been known for such a long time as a Republican state? The reasons are to be found in the relative prosperity enjoyed here through a combination of New Deal generosity in disbursing public funds and the weather man’s favor. Metals are up in price, mines are sging at satisfactory capacity, wool is up in value and the cattle market is “David Lawrence ficiai or tmeporary, it will carry to)there aren't 315 persons in the state election day. As for the suggestion |cf Utah whose entire assets are worth that some day the federal bill will |$100,000 apiece. Somewhere in the have to be’ paid in increased taxa-|more populous areas of the United tion, there is little thought given to |States the quéstion of who is going to is relatively small and it is said that ‘as yet, in Utah. RESORT BEGIN HERE TODAY ° ANN HAMILTON, pretty youns | [x20 © secretary in a large business : oMice, goes to a travel agency to make plans for her two-week vacation. —* BILL WARE, travel bureat ploye, persund such a contingency as the population |pay may be getting concrete but cas ‘Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ; y te health but aot tly and in take Address ries must be accompanied by & i Dr. Bret win ener, Givay ts cere of The Tribune, Allg stamped. 6 are envelope. uestions jetters HOW THE WIND BLOWS IN BOSTQN In the official bulletin of the Massachusetts Health Department, issued the last quarter of 1935, a Boston physician offers the public this opinion of | the injection treatment of varicose veins: “This method has proved eminently successful and at present at least 128 people a week are being treated by injection in a single Bos- ton clinic. At first we only injected (elsewhere than Boston read injected only) one vein at a sitting. Now some of us inject many veins, thus diminishing the number of times the patient has to have treatment. The great advantage in this method of treatment is that it is essentially ambulatory that is, the patient does not have to give up his ordinary routine of life but can go to the doctor's office for treatment and return to his regular occupation.’ soso ‘Today this method has superseded the older surgical me! the pduetics of competent physicians everywhere. It is uniformly successful and satisfactory. It brings relief without interfering for even a day with the patient's reghlar work or occupation. It is available not only for varicose veins in the legs but also for cases complicated with varicose ulcer—chem- ical obliteration of the underlying or affected vein by injection being the thing needed to enable the ulcer to heal. Many women who suffer few or none of the disabilities due to varicose veins undergo injection treatment purely for cosmetic purpose, as the prominent veins are unsightly. Then, too, a physician skilled in this work and equipped with the necessary strong light and binocular loupe and special fine needle can obliterate the min- ute venules or “broken capillaries” under the skin of any part of the body by this method, giving an excellent cosmetic result. Finally, as is well known in Boston but for some reason was ignored in this health department publication, the same method, injection, is now em- ployed everywhere as the method of choice for the cure of hemorrhoids (which are varicose veins, essentially). When I say everywhere, I mean wherever the medical profession is open-minded, tolerant, progressive. There are still, too’ many towns and cities infested with brass specialists who cling to ancient tenets and even carry their reactionary attitude to the extreme of perpetrating crude surgical operations on victims of ordinary piles. While Boston has some leaders in modern methods, no doubt there are some rare old timers still holding public confidence there: I gather this to be the case, from a quaint remark made by a Boston nose and throat special- ist (I do not suggest what metal he is made of) who makes a plea for the old Spanish custom when it comes to having one’s tonsils hacked out. I mention the old Spanish custom (hacking the tonsils out by guillotine, snare, dissection or “enucleation”) only to deplore the use of it in any case where the modern method is applicable. In fact it is hard to understand how a physician today can justify subjecting a patient to the hazard of a major operation for the removal of tonsils. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Radium Have a slight cut on finger, caused by the thin glass covering of a lum- inous light pull. Any danger of radium poisoning? .... (Mrs. A. R.) Answer—No. Whole Wheat ‘Would like to know the amount of sugar in whole wheat and in gluten flour. Dr. Brady said one is as good as the other. (L. E. J.) Answer—I said one is as fattening or as non-fattening as the other That is, so-called gluten bread yields about as many calories to the ounce or pound as does so-called whole wheat bread. There is no sugar in whole wheat flour or gluten flour. R Todin for Varicose Ulcer Thanks a million for printing that suggestion of {odin ration for chroni¢ aeanT ulcer. I believe it is going to work, and so does my physician.... (8. J) Answer—Send 3-cent-stamped envelope bearing your address, for mono- | Sraph on Varicose Veins and Varicose Ulcer. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) HOTEL = ; |mist? Or am I seeing things? Look here, Ralph, I thought you were only interested in flying arches—not the pretty arches in a lady’s foot. And what be- yutiful tootsies, lady!” Jaime went on glibly. “I’ve been looking for bution and the labor indirectly em- ployed in producing materials is fig- ured in, it appears that PWA money employs far more men than indicated by figures previously given the presi- good, to say nothing of the prices for various specialty and staple crops. For there is only a small drouth area in Utah, whereas most pf the state has had almost an excessive amount of rain. This was one of the first states to get in on the federal spending and to get a political organization going to take advantage of the federal ac- tivities. They make no bones about it here. They coliect’a “voluntary” tax on the salaries of all federal office- holders in the state of about one per cent a month and this is used for Democratic organization purposes. They have control of the jobs in vir- tually all the agencies and have man- aged to oust the Republicans on every side. The political aspect is so brazen that even when the national emer- dent—figures prepared and furnished by WPA statisticians. One complication likely to arise if the president sticks to his present ideas is a protest from labor organ- izations. Members of the building trades crafts unions, representing skilled labor, are likely to resent what seems to them an attempt to fill PWA jobs with unskilled labor, Whatever happens, the admissions of Ickes at his recent press confer- ence must seem extraordinary ¢o any- one who has assumed that Roosevelt had long since .straightened | out WPA-PWA relations and respective HEoetAms, gency council had a meeting recent- ly of all the federal agencies in the State for purposes of “coordination,” there were present the Democratic State chairman and the secretary of the Democratic state committee and their names are officially listed in the proceedings. Notwithstanding the seemingly prosperous conditions and the fact that recovery is supposed to be here, the federal government is spending per month about $600,000 for WPA. A Prominent Democrat, nevertheless, told me he had trouble getting labor for his farm and that there is a short- age of skilled labor in the state. It seems agreed that as long as the WPA is in existence there will be diffi- culty -in getting workers on private jobs—the federal competition on the wage basis is, indeed, affecting the state's own projects. The state of Utah has received about $50,000,000 in federal money in the last three years, of which about $25,000,000 represents an _ outright grant and is not repayable. Yet many of the projects represent improve- ments which will benefit only the people of the state of Utah. In the face of all this stands aut the fact that Utah has in its state treasury a surplus of $2,000,000 ac- tor: Bright and early | cumulated since 1933 and that it has ning st two. Bobby was on hand at the Robinsons | Us,2°n "awa ctea soooas, te has ems and demanded to see the new rug.|pioyed various kinds of taxes, which Much pleased at the interest, Mrs. clearly proves that, from a taxing Robinson complied. Bobby gazed at standpoint, there has been plenty of it for a few minutes, stuck his hands potential revenue from which the fed- in his pockets, and remarked: “Ileral government, over a period of Guess there must be something wrong |years, might have had repaid to it with mama. That rug doesn’t make|qrectly some of the sums spent in me sick.” Utah. As it is, the federal income tax collections in 1934 from Utah were were doing 39 miles an hour in a 22- | $1,138,582 and, in 1935, they were $1,- mile zone. 920,398. The federal government is Offender — You'll have to overlook | spending virtually every two months it, officer. I'm Judge Fogge and I'm |here for WPA a sum equal to. the in a hurry to get to court to dispose |federal tax collections for a whole ot 27 speeding . cases. year. Et Ee Last April the total WPA workers numbered 12,000. It is still around 10,000. If you ask Democrats and Republicans when they think private work will absorb these persons they pessimistically tell you that it never bolished. e+e % Ickes Seems Bored Ickes frankly said he just didn't know what the president’s plan was, “in the absence of any direct com- munication from him.” When someone remarked that @ certain other phase of the situation “didn’t make a damn bit of differ- erce—" Ickes interrupted and said: “That is how I feel about the whole business.” His top subordinates explained later that Ickes was bored. Some of them feared his remarks would appear to Roosevelt like “insubordination.” (Copyrigt®, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) Poser rere err n nnn BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN ey One night little Bobby Brown over- heard his father end mother discussing a new rug of brilliant green recently pur- chased by a neigh- Officer—What's your hurry? You A speaker who had just taken the floor was constantly interrupted by a man in the rear of the room who shouted at intervals: “Congressman Snoop! We want to hear Congress- man Snoop!” "I “Will the gentleman keep quiet?” seid the chairman. “This is Con- gressman Snoop who is trying to speak.” “You can’t fool me,” replied the heckler. “That is the feller who gaye me a dollar to holler.” eee velt. Professor's Wife—Here is the doc-| There is no mystery why Utah is tor, dear. going to be for Mr. Roosevelt on elec- Prof. Chill day. Federal money and high Lake Racine. jqnely. RALPH SPRING, the 2. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IV ALPH SPRING, the head boat- man, was the most indifferent man Ann had ever known. In a few moments he had told her that he was only paddling her canoe because he had nothing else to do, because all the other boats were out, and because he needed some exercise. Then he explained elaborately that it was part of his job to help entertain the guests. Most of the girls at Lake Racine were too silly for him, Ralph added. He was not interested in anything but build- ing bridges. A beautiful arch in a bridge was a far finer thing than the sight of a pretty girl. Ralph was a college man, & sophomore engineer, working his way by this summer job at the hotel. When he finished school he he was going to the jungle and build some of those bridges he dreamed about all the time. Then he’d be happy. “T trust you don’t go in for the frivolous life, either,” Ann said, her thoughts going back to con- acientious Bill Ware who worked at tne travel office. “Why do all you men go at your work with such a vengeance? Don’t you ever relax?” “Have to get ahead,” Ralph said shortly. Then, with an unequaled abruptness, he said, “Want to sit in the bottom of the canoe with me? Oh, don’t worry! I won't get tresh with you. I just thought you could hear me better if you sat close by.” Then he began telling her about the new bridge across the Golden Gate. “Southerners build all the bridges,” he announced, a little proudly, “I don't know why, but they do. I'm from Georgia Tech.” “Is that so?” Ann answered. “Then I suppose one day you'll build big bridges, too. I like the Washington bridge at night—all the lights twinkling up there like strings of beads against the dark.” “That's poetry,” Ralph said scornfully. “The most beautiful in the world is built over an ugly swamp in Mississippi. It’s like a marble tower rising up out of the morass—" Ann eyed him smilingly. “Isn't that a little poetic, too, Mr. Spring?” “Not No!” he scoffed. “It’s a strong stone bridge. It'll be here.” hat Then he added bluntly, “Call me|she said simply. Ralph. Everybody does.” you.” “For me?” Ann faced him; then she recalled her casual glimpse of this young playboy back in the ““Oh, come on, Beautiful,” Jaime urged. “Go to the dance across the lake with me. Softly she laughed. “All right, Ralph.” eee HE paused long enough in his paddling for a furtive look at her, facing him, her white face coming out coolly against the dark. She was laughing up at him, and he didn’t know what to do about it. This girl was dif- ferent. She was so—so elusive. “Tl bet you’ve got some sense,” he said. “Not like the rest of these girls.” > “Thank you!” she said prettily. “I don’t cotton much to girls. I’ve always done road work in the summers. 4 haven't ‘had ‘tina to dance, and all those silly things. Do you dance?” he added accus- ingly. She said, with an air of defying him, “Of course, I dance. I adore it.” he added generously. For a mo- ment he engaged in thought. “I'll teach you the new American crawl. And I could paddle you around in the canoe at night.” He grinned amiably. “I’ni not much on the romantic stuff, but I guess I could take lessons in that, too.” She laughed. “Do you know, I like you.” “I guess I like you, too,” he said. “But I’m going to live in the jungle a few years before I think of getting married. I don’t get any ideas.” “Ideas?” she “With flying arches?” asked, laughing. “I'm getting a little cold out here without a pe she added, but gs ve Ralph any began to toward canoe He didn’t seem to mind the re-| sweater,” he said. buft. “I,suppose I could learn to —T'll let you teach me.” “Thank you!” she said, laughing | standing up.at him again. But he seemed so in earnest that she added, “I'd be glad to teach you.” “We could have the. boathouse to ourselves three nights a week,” he said. there, “That sounds very attractive, “There's a radio in|Laird,” the head boa‘ Ann out wT * |He ‘wonder, “Oh, I'l do something for you,”|; “Say, you're not there, “Hello, Ralph,” the newcomer said. “Been with the lake again—alone?” But then he saw Ann smiling up at him and his mouth gaped. “Sor-ry!” “Miss Hamilton, this is Jaime ut her hand, and aime aasisted her from the cance, stood gazing at her in silent the lady of the city. He had been buying a vaca- tion at the travel bureau where Bill Ware worked. Again she noted his expensive flannels. He was the fabulous Jaime Laird who followed the sunshine and the horses, and made the rotogravure sections. “All my life!” Jaime said. “1 came up here for a rest. I’ve just recovered from an operation. And what do I find? A mountain lake inhabited entirely by fishes and other aquarian life. There isn’t a girl in the town that I would hire for a nurse.” “Perhaps you don’t need a nurse,” Ann said. “Jaime needs a nurse,” he said stubbornly. “He needs one who'll follow him around all day, and slap his hands.” “Then I'm afraid I wouldn't qualify,” Ann said. “And I think you're wrong about the girls. I know a hotel full of them, And very few men around.” “Oh, come on, Beautiful, and go to the dance across the lake with me,” Jaime put in. “Ralph doesn’t care. He’s an old stick- in-the-mud, except when we're swimming.” . The languid young man turned to the boatman. “I'll race you across the lake at 6 in the morning,” he said, eee HE spoke to Ann again. “I'm a better swimmer than the head boatman at your hotel. What do you think of that?” Ann was eyeing this rich young man with a cool, appraising glance. He was entirely too sure of himself, He seemed spiritless, lazy, utterly lacking in ambition, too. Ann through Ralph’s introduction. And she couldn’t hurt Ralph’s feelings by running off with a strange man who her a gay party.