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There was no way to educate young men for the ministry and no formal means of imparting learning to the young gentle- men of the Massachusetts Bay colony when he organized what was, at first, a grammar school. Hence Harvard was for the gentry. There was no thought of common education. Even after the Revolutionary war the public schools had few supporters. The demand for those came from the common people who knew that the liberty of equality mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Constitution was a meaningless thing unless they and their children were in position to know what those liberties were and what went on about them. Our public schools have come far, supplemented by a fine system of parochial and private schools, but the educational standards of this country still are far too low. A recent census showed that the number of native-born illiterates runs to some- thing more than 4,000,000 persons. That is something at which America must hide her head in shame. It shows how far we have still to go on the way to equality of opportunity which was envisioned by the nation’s founders. 2 Data compiled by the Office of Education at Washington shows the average annual cost of teaching a pupil in America’s public schools is $96.18, the daily cost per child ranging from 12 cents in the lowest city to $1.12 in the highest. The system we now have should be maintained and im- proved, but the real question confronting the nation is how to teach the illiterates and those thousands of boys and girls who are daily approaching manhood unable to read and write. In short, we need to complete the work which was started when John Harvard founded the first school on American soil three hundred years ago. The Automobile Industry Approximately 4,000,000 automobiles were sold in the United States and Canada last year and apparently more will be sold this year. On this basis it is interesting to note that of all these vehicles only 2,428 were.of such quality that they sold for $3,000 or more in 1935. This fact is emphasized in a little booklet just issued by the National Machine Tool Builders association in which it dis- cusses the question of technological unemployment and the effect of mechanical improvements upon the economic life of the nation. The reason machinery has not “taken the count” in view of all the agitation against its widespread use, according to the association, is that use of machinery is responsible for low prices, low prices create demand and demand creates jobs. Were it not for machinery, it points out, the average mod- ern automobile would sell for $3,000 or more, the $60 portable typewriter for $650 and a $75 accounting machine would sell for $700. These are just samples. And in addition to the men making these and a host of other articles the probability is that there would be vastly fewer sales and service people engaged in all these lines. Another illustration is offered by the printing industry. When the linotype was invented printers were fearful that it would deprive men of jobs, and for a short time it did have that By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) New York, Sept. 2.—This year’s La- bor Day will find a large group of or- ganized workers embarked on the most important attempt labor has yet made to organize and wield its politi- cal power. The American Labor Party will have a column on the ballot in New York state. From several angles it is one of the most interesting factors in the national campaign. The ALP leaders seek to get out a big vote for Roosevelt and Governor Lehman in New York's industrial centers. The two men are the party’s official candidates on the ballot. (ALP is part of Labor’s Nonpartisan League, which functions elsewhere for Roosevelt without forming a poli- tical party.) The big idea of ALP, however, is to test whether it is practical now to form a national labor party in the United States. The leaders privately 1 say that’s why they created it. Most Roosevelt voters will mark their crosses in the Democratic col- umn, But if enough of them take the trouble to sign up under the clasped- hands emblem of ALP, some of the ablest and strongest labor leaders in America will feel justified in spread- ing the party into the other states. They believe they can quickly find strong nuclei in the industrial east, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Pacific 1i1E BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936 See z Tee Tas Behine Scenes elie reri cuted onirhiu rd I Your Personal Health rine By William Brady, M. D. The Campaign you Dr. Brady will auswer taining t NUE MEUTEAL Brann, pwn? WE WORT STAY, ° anv Money Bagge 8S 0 ere 4 ress Dr. ire of The Tribu All queries must be accompanied by o in ca: 5 wpvidely self-addressed envelope. VITAMIN B FOR WEAK DIGESTION While these observations apply primarily to infants, babies are people, ‘and vitamins are as essential for adults as they are for the young ones. Any- way we had better insert here a plea for reform of popular education. Every boy or girl should receive a course of instruction in anatomy, physiology and = hygiene, in grade school, and certainly a course of training in the care and feeding of infants. Such elementary education would make better citizens cf us all. And less business for the quacks and nostrum vendors. Now I have got to crab a bit on my own teaching. In Little Lesson 25, “Constipation Habit,” I make this bald assertion: (page 5): “Excluding the constipation which naturally occurs in innumer- able illness where patients are restricted in diet and in other factors on which the digestive functions normally depend, we may safely say that ninety-nine out of a hundred who are troubled with constipation are simply addicted to a bad habit. On page 13 of the same booklet I say: “Indeed we know that when the daily supply of vitamins (espe- cially B, G, C, and A) falls below a certain level necessary for most (remind me to delete the most in the next edition) perfect nutrition, the digestive functions are all more or less weakened and the motor functions of stomach and intestine particularly. .. .” Babies generally thrive better today than when you and I Were young, Maggie, because they are getting more vitamins. More C, more D, perhaps more A. But they still suffer from weak digestion and from constipation and in my judgment—this is another of my notions—the reason is that they do not get enough vitamin B. Prospective and amateur mothers had better pay close attention. When we arrive at “colic” we shall dispose of it in a few cold words, for, as it seems to me, the baby who gets an adequate ration of vitamin B, even though enlirely: surrounded by grandmas and kind neighbors, will never make a noise like colic. Nutrition authorities estimate that every one needs 30 units of vitamin B for each 100 calories of food taken. Babies are people. We believe babies need much more vitamin D than adults, It is not unreasonable to believe they need relatively as much vitamin B as adults. A month old baby requires about 500 calories daily; a six months old Coast. The test in New York state will cost more than $100,000. ** * Takes Over Tammany's Job Tammany, according to many fu- mors in New York, will “lie down” on Roosevelt and Lehman in the Novem- ber election. If it does, and Roosevelt still carries his home state by a small plurality, the efforts of the ALP may well appear to have decided the re- sult. For the ALP is going to see to it that thousands of union members ting the doorbells which Tammany rings when it seeks a big vote. It presents itself as the antidote for Tammany defection. Finally, a large part of whatever credit the ALP gets will have to go to & woman—Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, the new party's state campaign direc- tor. Mrs, Herrick is a person who al- ways goes places when she starts. The party platform calls for defeat of “the combination of reactionary anti-labor and anti-social forces head- ed by Gov. Alf M. Landon,” for elec- tion of Roosevelt, Lehman, and “in- dependent candidates sponsored and approved by the American Labor Party of New York State and com- mitted to its political, social, and leg- islative program and objectives.” It also calls for securing “the en- actment in the coming Congress and the state legislature of an adequate and effective program of social legis- lation.” ee Backed by Labor Chiefs The big men of Labor's Nonpartisan League, of course, are the driving forces behind ALP—John Lewis of the United Mine Workers, Sidney Hill- man of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, George Berry of the Press- men, David Dubinsky of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers, and others—although none of those nam- Looking at the Campaign x . 2.—"Cali- |be some system of national registra- Ce eee oe area maght well (#0 #0 that when a state in the mid- en, |dle west begins to export its popula- te the theme song of many hundreds |tion, the federal government might of thousands of persons who have |some day, by suitable legislation, see flocked here during the depression|to it that no state shall transfer from debt-ridden homes and drouth- |to another those citizens likely to be- ridden farms of the middle west. It |come public charges unless there is has made a political as well as an |some compensating arrangement. economic problem of national im-| It does look inequitable for states portance. te unload their idle population on For years California has adver- other states and escape the expense tised her sunshine and her mild cli- |of caring for their natives. But that’s mate, her all-the-year-'round sum-|what has been happening with re- mer. And just as the covered wagon |spect to southern California. pioneers took their families and a| Relief expense continues high be- few household utensils and started jcause the Pacific coast cannot as westward, so in flivvers and trailers, |yet absorb the newcomers. Some of “David Lawrence (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) | It would appear that there ought to | newspapers spread out before ut | they made an unbeautiful sight. But, it was reasoned, to chase them away| meant misunderstanding and maybe an undesirable episode. So some- body conceived the bright idea of a/ water sprinkling system which now! has been duly installed and, when the | crowds are about to gather, the sprinkler system begins to send its) sprays over the greensward. And why shouldn't the idle folks of other states travel to California? Here they enjoy not only wonderful sunshine but they can fish or hunt or go to Hollywood and look at the movie stars or bathe in the Pacific or climb| the mountains for recreation and, as for food and shelter, why the federal in used cars of the vintage of a decade |the new population is welcome be- ago, and on buses and box cars, the |cause is gets to work and doesn't loaf. people have come to this state to/|But there is an increasing need here start afresh—and most of them have |for industries to furnish employment picked southern California as the|to the unemployed now on the Pa- haven of refuge. Local authorities | cific coast. tried to stop them at the state line,| Unhappily, there has not been but the state attorney general ruled|much progress toward scientific it_unconstitutional. placement of the idle. The federal The consequence is that the unem- | government, with all the millions of ed is an official of ALP. ployed have run as high as 500,000. collars it has spent on boondoggles President George Meany of the New York State Federation of Labor is on the state executive board. Other un- jons affiliated include those of retail clerks, furriers, millinery workers, and motion picture operators, In the current campaign, ALP leaders actually hope to line up 150,- 000 people who wouldn't vote for Roosevelt—or at all—without special Pressure. These theoretically will come from large numbers who never bothered to vote before, from Social- ists—whose right wing leaders already are affiliated—from purists who can stomach neither the upstate Republi- can machine nor Tammany, and from ‘@ large force of floating radical votes which accept neither major party. of one kind or another, has done lit- tle toward classifying the unem- ployed and determining their suita- bility for different kinds of work. Only last week did the president set aside $1,500,000 for the beginning of @ study of WPA workers for various jobs in private industry, but this classification work should have begun three years ago. As a matter of fact, there is a short- age of skilled labor here as elsewhere. Also some who are on relief do not want to work on the farms and in the orchards where there is work for them to do. Not long ago, the city authorities of Los Angeles found that the people on relief had begun. to make « habit of disporting themselves The federal government has poured enormous sums into California. Maybe it is California's fault that she painted her attractions so vividly, but the fact remains that, since citi- zens have the right to come and go as they please across state boundaries in America, it does not seem fair to assume that California could, on a local basis, care for all the excess population of several other states of the union. Those who insist that re- lief can be handed locally would have to revise their policy somewhat and permit of a few exceptions, that is a few metropdlitan areas such as Chi- cago, Detroit, New York and Los An- geles. This state has a sales tax, but is still running a deficit and it seems hardly likely that California could have handled the problem with- out some financial aid from the fed- eral government. Offices will be set up in larger cities of the state. ee *% Strong Organization Built In New York the Tammany form of organization has been adopted— company. leaders for each assembly district. “any time I can’t run this place, All union members who can be per-| without armed guards, I want to be suaded (and union discipline among] fired,” she announced. “They can't about 100,000 needle trades workers e in my departments with 8 in New York is very strong) will be cn then. oe Loa ever had such a job with the du Pont effect. Then, as reduced costs were passed on to the public, the de- mand increased and employment in the mechanical departments of the printing industry alone now is far in excess of any figure which was even dreamed of when the linotype came on the pcene. Newspapers, books and magazines are far less expensive The machine industry performs a service by calling these things to the attention of the public. The real question is not how to reduce the flow of improve- ments but of how to distribute their benefits most widely. ____ Two Theories on Feed A saying current in the Scotch highlands is “cows don’t dike hay unless it is three years old,” which is merely another way of saying that the thrifty farmer has feed for his cattle three years ahead of his immediate requirements. In this country, with its lush newness, there has been a tendency to overlook the merit in this sage saying, extreme though it may be. Instead, we have adhered more closely to the old English belief that it is unnecessary to store up feed and that death of cattle through drouth or lack of feed during long, Put at work on the doorbells, call-} after that the guards parked thelr ing for Roosevelt-Lehman votes. artillery on Mrs. Herrick’s desk. Literature will be distributed! another time she prevented the rope- through industrial areas. Mass meet-| lynching of a guard—who had ings are being held. Memberships! cracked an employe’s skull—by the will be sold for 50 cents apiece and! force of her vehement denunciation of affiliated unions will pay in 10 cents} would be lynchers who had spoiled ber capita to the ALP treasury. her month’s production schedule by The ALP is now struggling to assure| turning off the power. itself a place on the New York state seh Gains Wide Experience ‘ ballot—a complicated and ped pro- cess requiring ignatures of espe- Bored, she left industry, became pee qualified citizens in every ie tor, Arthur borgan come Luigi Antonini, picturesque vice| director o: toch college, president of the garment workers’| majored in economics, and simultan- union, is chairman’ of the party.| cously ran a college boarding-house President Rose Schneiderman of the | With the help of her two boys, who romen's made the beds. Women's Trade Union Teague is vice) “Gy duated, ‘she returned to New Jacob 8. Potofsky, assistant presi- York to be executive secretary of the dent of the Amalgamated, is chair-] Consumers’ League. In 1933, ae lob- man of the executive committee,| bled through the New York pipes which includes many of New York| ture the famous minimum wage law state’s most important labor leaders. which the U. 8. Supreme Court re- Certain congressional candidates cently Enocked on the head, but will probably will be approved by ALP. In again. Rochest stron, Lately, Mrs. Herrick has been re- er, where the party is strong! sional director in New York City of ma Gesinet Cobgecuan | pees the National Labor Relations Board, With bottles of wine and a lot of on the beautiful lawn in front of the modernistic city hall on the many afternoons: of California sunshine. STORIES IN STAMPS By 1. S. Klein ING ALEXANDER of Serbia, weak in mind and spirit, was 24 when, in 1900, he married his mistress, Drage Mashin Then Serbia suffered under the cruelty, intolerance, and selfishness of a queen who had no thought but to increase her power and that of her two arrogant brothers in the army. When the congress objected to her actions, the queen had Alex- ander suspend the constitution, dismiss the legislators, and replace them with men of Dr: choice hard winters was an act of God and couldn’t be helped. Extremes, of course, are hardly ever good judgment, but if = one must make a choice the best argument would seem to be | cious women, is sometimes described on the side of the Scotch. Surely, farmers now striving lustily to get together feed in any form, be it Russian thistles or straw from last year’s crop, will remember that the Scotch have shown remarkable 5 ability to get along under all kinds of circumstances. Two days from the electric chair, Sing Sing inmate asked that the prison radio be turned on, since he can't have music wherever he goes. tells 8 man the mistakes he makes in driving. The to refrain from saying “yes, dear.” *ee has sought enforcement of the Wag- Mes, Beri Dysme (Gopyright, 1906, NEA. Bervice, Tnc) The extraordinary Mrs. Herrick, ® if ; solid, { forceful, fast-thinking, viva-| ass “dynamo” or a “whirlwind.” | So They Say | She was born in New York, daugh-| ©—————— ter of a prominent Unitarian minister.| t's what they put on to take off After s college education she was| that counts.—Alols 8. Knapp, Chicago married, widowed, and left with two eyree and nudist nD ioandee, giv- sons. views on populari leaque and family she| strip dancers. ® spooler and = throwster mill. But she had ideas Stories were spread of Draga’s crucity, selfishness, and immoral- ity These the people believed, and prepared to overthrow the regime of Alexander and Draga. Taking advantage of that fecl- ing, one night in 1903, a band of conspirators entered the palace. slew Alexander and Draga and hurled their bodies into the streets r of Belgrade. This story is re called by a picture of King Alexander on a rede stamp ‘was sued during hb (Conryright. 1936. NEA Service. Inc.) government provides all that. When election is over, something besides a sprinkler system is going to be neces- sary to prod some of the idle into even looking for jobs. _ ! BEGIN HERE TODAY ANN HAMILTON, pretty young tat in a large busin: a travel agency for her two-week NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IX NN awoke with the dream that she was sailing into a crim- son sunset with Jaime Laird at her side. The sun was streaming in her windows, and she felt a little lazy when she was wakened. It was a fine day for a sail. She lay back in her bed and yawned luxuriously. There were only a few days each year that she could enjoy the luxury of late sleep. She pressed a button, and the waiter came to the room to take her order for breakfast in bed. This luxury was the final touch! She didn't feel like the Ann Hamilton who pounded a type- writer the other 11% months of the year. But as she lay back, waiting for her coffee, she thought of the uniqueness of a resort hotel, isolated in a beauty spot, where people came and mingled for a brief time and then went back to their regular, ordered tasks in the workaday world. She sensed the danger in vaca- tion romances now, but thought she was sufficiently aware of her- self to avoid them. A resort hotel was an artificial community, iso- lated from the home and the world’s work. It was the scene of things that really counted. Ann was a little bewildered by the admiration she had been re- ceiving. She began to distrust her own impulses. baby requires 1000 calories. It is a problem how to give an infant on liquid diet from 150 to 300 units of vitamin B daily. A whole quart of milk yields 300 units of vitamin B, but few babies can take that much milk before the age of six months. A teaspoonful of wheat germ meal of flour contains 100 units of vitamin B. Infants 1% to 5 months old have thrived remarkably well when a tea- spoonful of wheat germ flbur was mixed with a bottle feeding daily. “Thin, scrawny babies become satisfied and contented” when some brewer's yeast is added to their diluted milk diet. Until pure crystalline vitamin B is available, I believe every young infant should have some wheat germ meal or flour added to one or two bottle feedings daily. Such infants will enjoy extraordinary freedom from the “colic,” “indigestion” and constipation which are so troublesome to babies on a diluted milk diet. 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Answer—A great many people suffer from vague weak or “queer” spells which are due to hypoglycemia (lowering of blood sugar below the normal) and are best warded off or relieved by sugar in one form or another—candy, plain sugar, sweetened beverage, fruit juice, milk, tea or what'll you have. On and Off I find I have taken on no less than twenty-four years. Now I must reduce before Christmas. ... (M. Answer—But not that much. Better to lose it no faster than you gained it. Send ten cents coin and self-addressed envelope for booklet, “Design for Dwindling.” Vitamin Treatment of Chronic Arthritis a Is the vitamin treatment of arthritis likely to be of any benefit in a case of six years standing where the patient is only able to get about with the help of a cane? . . . (Mrs. L. O.) Answer—It is at least worth trying. Send stamped envelope bearing Hed address, and inclose ten cents coin, for booklet “The Ills Called Rheu- matism.” pounds in the past two A, O.) (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) by Deck Morgan © 1926 NEA Service, tne. RESORT 4 HOTE |tion. Jaime had made no effort whatsoever to gain her love. He would have laughed at the old- fashioned word “courtship.” . She had simply fallen for him from the start. ee AxD it was strange that she should fecl ,this way. It wasn’t his money—plenty of which he seemed to have despite his losses at gambling; it was mainly his manner toward her. Jaime was personable, charming, and they enjoyed the same things. They laughed at the same jokes. But, in the back of her mind, was a faint desire to reform him. The idea grew until it subor- dinated all other considerations. It satisfied some urge in her that she couldn’t define, But a desire to reform a man does not help gain insight into the man’s real character. The va- cation experience blinded Ann. | She didn’t know Jaime Laird. She got up and flung the win- dows open. Gone were her doubts when she saw the bright sun on the choppy waves out there. When she went downstairs she met Bill Ware in the lobby. He came toward her again with his ridiculous air of proprietorship. He was sure of f—that young man! But Ann recalled his sincere avowal of his feeling for her. His chin was stubborn. He had said, “Perhaps every man is selfish over the girl he loves,” Bill couldn’t afford yachts and gay parties, but when he saw something he thought was really worth while, he went after it. SHE was talking to Bill on the porch when Jaime drove up to take her to the regatta on St. Regis Lake. For a moment the two men eyed each other with cool, measuring regard. Bill couldn’t find it in himself to dis- like this personable youth who had somehow walloped his chances of sweeping Ann off feet, But Bill felt that, of all the men at the resort, Ann had picked the wrong man. After he had wait- ed all these years to find the right girl, she had fallen for a weak- ling. All that Bill could do was to wait—and see what would hap- pen. Instinct told him that Ann was infatuated with this gay lad. The way she looked at him, the way she made him tie his reefer around his throat as a protection against the morning chill, the bright chatter she conjured out of the air for him—all convinced Bill of the futility of his own blunt efforts to make her see his love. When the pair drove away, their drowned by the roar Jaime’s expensive motor, Bill felt forlorn and lonely. His throat hurt. It was a bitter ordeal he en- dured on the mountain that morn- ing, but the ordeal was not in the climb, He lived too intensely at all times. He had stubbornly laid his course, and he wasn’t going to deviate from it, no matter how much it hurt! He was in love with the girl. To Ann it was an idyllic day. She lay back among the pil- lows in the stern of the sailboat, while Jaime kept his hand on the tiller, The regatta on St. Regis Lake was exciting. The whole fleet was out, and the pink and white sails dotting the lake looked like butterflies on the wing. eee SAILING ‘was new to her, but it was no less pleasing than Jaime’s behavior today. He was deferential. He remembered all the little things that pleased her. His flattery was warm and, since there were so many other pretty girls who waved gaily to him from boats, it was convincing. When the boat was in its pen again, and they were driving along the shore, watching the sun set behind the neighboring moun- tain range, there was a look in Jaime’s eyes that made her be- lieve in him at last. She didn’t distrust her impulses any longer. Just now she wanted to know him better. She yielded to her own urge to heart-searching. . He parked the car on a penin- sula which jutted out into the lake, and for a long time they sat there, silent. He slipped an arm around her, holding her close. “Have a good time?” “What do you think?” she asked, smiling. “It was marvelous. Too soon this is all going to end.” “Why must it end? I don’t want it to end.” “Work!” she said succinctly. “Back to the pots and pans.” “Oh—work! Let’s not talk about disagreeable now.” Sud- anything her|denly his eyes shone, and he turned to her. “What do you say? Let's pack our duds and run up to Canada for the week- end. You'll be back in plenty of time to climb that absurd moun- tain you've promised to climb with Bill Ware.” “That sounds very attractive,” she said. “But—” “We'd have a gay time! Don't be a fossil. What do you care what a lot of porch-sitters at the hotel would say? We're young. We'll 1 -’c our fun where we find it. It's 1. body’s business but our own—up here in the mountains.” Her voice was calm. “Yes, in @ vacation place, a resort hotel, it's nobody’s business but our own. That's why I couldn't go. T'm thinking about—us.” (Te Be Continued) t ‘ i j