The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1936, Page 4

Ls THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY,-SEPTEMBER 5, 1936 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. — Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Behind the The Ghost That Walks Every Four Years Scenes The Campaign pertaining te health but aot . Brady will auswe disease or ‘izenoal Weil riefly and ia inl ese Dr. ready in cai je Trib All queries must be accompanied by © 5 atamped. celf-addresned envelope. 5 coos Bitterness of Wall Street Against Roosevelt Is Not a Whit Abated . . . Landon Isn't Exactly Its Idol, HARD TO TEACH AN OLD DOG TRICKS Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher | Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres and Gen'l, Manager Kenneth W. 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Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation | Member of The Associated Press | The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this/ newspaper and also the loca! news of spontaneous origin published herein All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, Knowledge Is Truly Power “What good is such knowledge?” the layman may ask the| scientist when he uncovers a bit of new information and, at the! time, the latter often is puzzled to find an intelligent answer. | In such cases he falls back on the fact that bits of unrelated! information are interesting and may some day be useful. | This, of course, is true, for the achievements of today are built on the learning of yesterday. Knowledge which didn’t “fit” at the time it was discovered becomes valuable in the light of subsequent developments. For illustration one need only turn to the case of the snails in the Potomac river. Forty years ago Dr. Paul Bartsch, now curator of mollusks at the Smithsonian institute, noted that snails in the Potomac were different from those in brooks run- ning into that stream. | There was no physical barrier to keep the species apart and the phenomenon interested him, so he looked for the reason and found it. It lay in the fact that water in the Potomac was slightly alkaline, the water in the brooks was slightly acid. Dr. Bartsch recorded this queer fact in his notebook and, if anyone noticed it at all, it was just another bit of useless in- formation. But over on the other side of the world the people of China, Japan, Formosa and the Philippines suffer from a disease called schistosomiasis, caused by a tiny worm or blood fluke which bores into the body and swims in the blood stream. Thousands died from it every year. The search for a cure was fruitless until Japanese investi- gators found that the larvae of this blood fluke invariably lives in a certain kind of snail while undergoing metamorphosis into the form in which it attacks human beings and animals. It was apparent that bare-legged workers in the rice pad- dies could hardly escape, and few did. Cures afforded relief but they became reinfected. Investigation showed the host snail to be of the “acid” variety but there the hunt for a remedy was stalled. No one knew what to do about it. Then the Japanese, pursuing their hunt for further knowl- edge—to be used in a practical purpose—came upon Dr. Bartsch’s observations made 40 years ago. Here might be the basis for a cure. So they crushed some limestone rock and dumped it into ‘the headwaters of a small stream. The disease-carrying snails disappeared as the water turned alkaline. A scourge is on the way to extinction as the result of an abstract scientific observation made 40 years ago in a different part of the world. All But the Driver | Everything connected with highway traffic problems has been improved—except the quality of the driving. Recklessness has joined with incompetence and careless- | ness in sending the death toll steadily upward. A few acci- dents are clearly unavoidable—but their number is small. Meanwhile, where science and engineering can answer the problem it is being solved. Last year, for example, the number of fatalities resulting from train-automobile collisions at grade} crossings was only two-thirds of the record toll for 1928. Many grade crossings had been eliminated by constructing underpasses, overpasses and by rerouting roads. The OPPOR- TUNITY for destruction was more limited. Now the bulk of the tragedies has been transferred to the open road and the toll is inevitable. How could we expect it to be otherwise when persons whose capacity for safe driving ends at 40 miles an hour are whirling along at 80? This is a free country and every man sets his-own stand- ard, but it is worth remembering that a mishap at 40 miles an hour is not necessarily fatal, whereas one at 80 miles an hour is almost always so. Orchid to Hollywood Everybody is familiar with the criticism that Hollywood movie productions pander to the salacious and miss no oppor- tunity to drag in a parlor, bedroom, and bath situation. Those responsible for such criticism usually make knowing reference to the supposedly higher plane on which British and continental films are produced. Now comes the report of the Australian censors for 1935, revealing that last year they rejected 3.1 per cent of American films for such reasons, while at the same time banning 6.5 per cent of British films. Hollywood movies have captured the world because, con- sidering the entire production of the industry, they have been infinitely better than those of any other country. The Austra- lian report would seem to indicate that they’re cleaner, too. Amid all the dead cats that have been tossed toward Holly- wood by the higher critics, let’s include one orchid when it’s deserved. | Prestige Has Waned . . Either .. Flood Forecast Re-Elected. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) is still lined up almost solidly against the re-election of Franklin D. Roose- velt, but with certain exceptions, a few mental reservations, and a fairly | general tendency to fear the worst. Governor Landon is not a hero in the Wall Street area. That may be | partly because of a feeling that he hasn't yet fully demonstrated his ca- pacity to straighten out the nation’s affairs. But it is certainly in part due to the fact that he has refused to take an outright conservative posi- tion and insists on demonstrating certain liberal leanings. Landon conspicuously refused, on his eastern trip, to rub noses with Old Guard leaders in New York state with whom Wall Street is on excel- lent terms. His declaration for re- peal of the undivided corporate sur- plus tax appealed to many financiers and big business men and his pre- vious stand on labor was popular among conservatives. But there are other factors which tend to make him somewhat less than an idol. The president of one of the largest corporations in America went west awhile ago laden with advice to see Landon. He came back reporting that no one in the Landon camp at Topeka was in the least interested in his ideas, although some interest was displayed in the amount of money he might contribute, ese * Contributions Slowed Up Reports from Chicago that contri- butions, especially from New York, aren't coming in to the Republican treasury quite as rapidly as antici- pated may reflect the fact that Wall Street is nowhere as sure Roosevelt can be beaten as it was a few months ago, One hears of wealthy men who practically had pen in hand,and then, hearing reports through private sources of a muddle at Republican national headquarters, put their check books back, pending more en- couraging assurances, Chairman John D. M. Hamilton is reported to be straightening out that situation. In any event, everyone who knows anything about it seems to be sure the G .O. P. will have far more cam- paign money to spend than will the Democrats, * * * Congress Another Worry Although the bitterness which the upper and near-upper crust in New York feels toward Roosevelt hasn't abated and shouldn't be minimized, one no longer hears many complaints based on the uncertainty of what to expect under Roosevelt. Whether the president's assurances that new taxes won't be sought if he is still in the White House after De- cember have had much to do with that is doubtful. “Big Business” operators have as- similiated the fact that the next con- gress will be Democratic, certainly in the senate and by all odds of proba- bility in the house as well. And that still leaves “uncertainty” as an ele- ment to face, regardess of who's elected. Without horning into the issues be- tween Wall Street and the president, it may be said that some of the rela- tively big figures in downtown New York have some lurid personal tes- timonials of experiences in Wash- ington. Some of them have been pushed around by underlings—and very often to the wrong places—in a manner different from anything to which they are accustomed. * * * Pained by Prestige Loss Nevertheless, some of the boys a couple of steps removed from the top are willing to admit that what really bites the captains of Wall Street and industry hardest is the fact that they have lost rather than regained pres- tige and power under the New Deal. As an erstwhile “ruling class,” they. have been challenged by Roosevelt and his followers, as well as by con- gress. New York may not now be ruled from Washington, but Washington certainly is not ruled from New York, and New York can no longer get whatever it wants from Washington. ee Dividend Flood if F. R. Wins The Street, meanwhile, is anticipat- ing a big outburst of dividend pay- ments in December if Roosevelt is re-elected. Some estimates say cor- porate disbursements might rise as high as $4,000,000,000 for the year, nearly two-thirds of an anticipated net corporate income of more than $6,000,000,000. The new tax of 7 to 27 per cent on undivided corporation profits is re- sponsible for these expectations, but it is said that many boards of direc- tors are witholding decision on di- vidend policies until after election, because Governor Landon has prom- ised repeal of the tax. But even if Landon should win, the directors might still be in a box. They coudn’t be sure Landon could per- suade a presumably hostile congress to repeal the tax. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) poceeoeece BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 1S RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN . Moguls Pained Because - Dividend if President Is |_ New York, Sept. 5. — The Wall Street industrial-financial community | (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 5.—Everything around here seems to be air-cooled— office buildings, hotels, stores—every- thing but the politics, which, like the noonday sun, seems to have become a bit hot. The lines are sharply drawn and the state would seem, even at this Sep- tember writing, to show sings of be- ing close. The meaning of the word “close” is best understood when it is zecalled that Mr. Roosevelt carried Arizona by 43,000 in 1932, against a record of a Wilson victory in 1916 by 12,000, a Harding triumph by 7,500 in 1920, and a Coolidge acquisition of the electoral vote in 1924 but a failure to get a majority. This was because the LaFollette third ticket subtracted ma- terially from the Democrats. Hoover carried Arizona against Smith in 1928 by 14,000 majority. Today, as against 1932, there is no thought even among the Democrats of another 43,000 landslide for Roose- velt. A conservative estimate given me by the Democratic side was about 10,000 majority for Mr. Roosevelt, which, in a state that will cast more than the 115,000 votes it did four years ago, is not a very comfortable margin and is, therefore, subject to consider- able variation as the campaign pro- gresses. It is quite significant that the Re- publicans do not even privately con- cede that the state will go Demo- cratic. They are counting on a swing toward Landon as the campaign issues are evolved, but their primary hope lies in the possibility of a repetition, in principle, of the 1924 result. For there will be a third party 29 Very thin. 52 Rail (bird). 31 Form of “a.” 53 Smell. 32 Stop. 55 Exclamation. 34 Sun god. 57 Made of 35 Senior. oatmeal. 36 Herons. 58 Once more. 41 To peruse. 42 Postscript. 44 God of love. President 45 Half an em. Roosevelt. 46 Rattlesnake. 61 She wa: 50 Measure of (pl.). state and that means @ number of ‘Townsend votes separated from the Roosevelt banners where a good many of them might otherwise go. Until the strength of this third party trend, is more accurately determined it would appear that Arizona is leaning toward the Roosevelt electoral column. To get at some of the common denominators of pro and anti-Roose- velt sentiment here, I found that, ‘among those opposed to the New Deal, there are accumulated grievances growing out of importation of Can- adian cattle, resentment by cattle rangers against the provisions of the Taylor grazing act, to some extent criticism by cotton farmers that they are losing foreign markets and by Coking oe Ke oT avid Lawrenc | —they had an idea it was way up in the millions. Actually, it is several times the annual cost of state govern- | shape. The ment in Arizona. Official information made available to me at the local office of the Na- tional Emergency council reveals that, as of March 31, 1936, the State of Arizona was allotted $42,445,153 for federal PWA projects and contracts had been let for all but $2,000,000 of that sum, with actual expenditures pene about $38,000,000 on March 31, Now, exclusive of PWA, it appears that, as of July 10, the total expendi- tures in Arizona under the 1935 emer- gency relief act amounted to $30,000,- 000, of which $5,000,000 went to the A. alfalfa farmers that the federal gov-} gp, ernment is encouraging an increase of alfalfa planting in other sections of the country where cotton production has been curtailed. Among business men I found @ rather intense feeling that the na- tional administration was engaged in @ spending orgy that might have dire results when the time comes to pay for it. But I was advised, on the other hand, that some of the retail business people feel very much gratified with the increase in their business and are inclined to attribute it to the New Deal. Business conditions in the state are on the whole good and there is a 1elative contentment here which is the kind that usually helps the party in power. The Democrats boast about the amount of federal money that has been spent here. It interested me to ascertain, upon questioning several citizens, that they did not know ex- Lemke ticket on the ballot in this | Well-Known American 39 Cotton staple. 60She was ap-" pointed minis- 7 North ter to —— by Ame —— of the U.11 Northeast. S. A. Congress 13 Jewel. actly how much money had been spent. . HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Pusrle 17 Legally 1, 5,8 — —— 5 excessive. ae (GIAIFIF] [PIATRISIE] [BTAITi ie To mente FAIVIAIL] [UINITITIE! JOlLLLIo| 18 Yes. ” furious INIELIT I (OVAIL] ILIAIMIE) 20 Her —— was 14 To come. EIDIGIEIOMEMIETHEGIOIRIEID) a famous’ 16 Elderly EIRIAISIVIRIE! statesman. matron. SE0RAES SOT 22 To be in debt. 17 Age. AIGIAIR vit ley 24 Commences. 19 Roof’s edge. | Ble 26 Fragment. 20 Grazed. ISIE} 28 Bird of prey. 21 Wealthy. DIE DION 30 To dine. 23 Being. 4 ly! IVIAICIEI - 4 noleinge: 25 a) Ni a wore fe} FEIWIEIN| 37 Hastened. 28 Formerly. . =i? 38 One that VERTICAL 1 Note in scale. 2 Below. 3 Exchanges. 4 Meat. 5 To exist. 6 Long ago. spares. 40 God of war. 43 Was in bad odor. 46 Instrument, 47 Earthy matter. 48 Brink. 49 To wander. 51 To sum. 52 To soften. 54 Chest bone. 56 Possesses. 57 Upon. 59 Compass point 8 English coin. 9 Dragon. 10 Lays smooth. 15 Scarlet. It would appear, therefore, that Arizona had about $72,000,000 of fed- eral aid, of which practically none is A young man who had finished his course of training for life and spent two years in enforced idieness finally lined up a reasonably good job doing skilled labor in the field of his profession. His qualifications for the job were all satisfactory, but he was barred because he had a small hernia. The médical examiner of the board brushed medical ethics aside and did his best to persuade the young man to undergo the operation for hernia at his hands. But the young man didn’t like the gleam in the pirate’s eye and declined to be inveigled to the cutting. So he was rejected and the job went a-glim- mering. But this young man was nobody's fool. He had read somewhere of a newfangled method whereby hernia might be cured by injections, without hospitalization and without the hazard of a major operation and anesthesia. He wrote to a newspaper doctor and asked for the name of a man who could treat hernia that way. In the course of a few weeks the young man’s hernia was cured. Again he reported to the medical examiner, asking that he re-examine him. The medical examiner assured the young man that of course the injection treatment was worthless, never could cure hernia in any case, always left a potential hernia, and besides was very dangerous, hence never used by reputable physicians. But the young man persisted and finally the Grand Slamma consented to make a perfunctory examination. Cer- tainly, just as was to be expected, the hernia was still there. Still the young man maintained he was cured. He challenged the examiner to state over his signature, or better to say in person over the tele- Phone to the physician who had administered the ambulant treatment that the hernia was still present. But that was going a bit too far. The medical examiner of the civil service board stood pat on his equivocal assertion that there was still a “potential” hernia there, though the young man did succeed in getting the shyster*to commit himself to the novel view that “the external ring was still open, and normally it should be closed.” Prior to June, 1936, the external ring has always been open—that’s why it is called “ring.” When taken to task for this amazing statement the civil service medical examiner coolly dismissed the matter by pinning back his ears and saying he didn’t care go into that. fy Not to be daunted, the young man found a way to go over the head of the arbitrary expert, to the chief surgeon, not without some brisk engage- ments with underlings. The chief surgeon examined him. “Do you mean to tell me injections cured your hernia?” he asked, when he had made the examination. “Well, you see no surgical scar, do you?” replied the young man. The chief sent him to a colleague who examined him carefully. “Not ° a sign of hernia” was the final verdict. The young man got the job. But have the old fossil physicians learned anything? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Cold and Stiff Muscles A claims you say the breeze or draft from a fan is perfectly harmless when it blows directly on a person reading, resting or sleeping. B claims you qualified your statement . .. Please explain whether it might cause stiff neck. (H.P.C. CO.. Inc.) Answer—In my opinion a breeze, wind or draft, natural or artificial, never causes illness. Any one who has become heated from muscular ac- tivity, work, play, exercise, may experience stiffness, soreness or lameness in the muscles if he or she cools off too quickly after the exertion. With sudden cooling the products of combustion are too long retained in the muscles and lameness results. But this is purely a question of circulation, not of excretion through sweat. No harm in sudden suppression of sweat by cold if the sweating has been induced by heat. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) reimbursable. Now, the finances of the | ing like the milk and honey of old, this state of Arizona are in fairly good! state has had presented to it various legislature appropriates | kinds of improvements which Arizona about $5,370,000 a year and two-thirds’ not only is glad to have but the final of it is raised by a sales tax and the | cost of which it doesn’t in the slight- other third by a direct property tax.| est degree feel embarrassed about load- The budget is nicely balanced. ing on the taxpayers of other sections f the intry. git h bounties I was curious here to find out what an te todos fraser why might have been the sentiment of the | Arizona should regarded as a close people of Arizona if the federal policy| state and one that the Republicans of 1933 and thereafter had been to loan | believe they have # fighting chance the money to the states, taking some | to win seemed a bit puzzling to me. sort of promise to pay in the future} But maybe the citizens of Arizona, so over perhaps a period of 60 years. The|many of whom are independent of answer given me by some of the most | party lines, are counted upon to learn substantial citizens of both parties was | during the campaign more than they that Arizona would never have bor- rowed that much federal money and/|to business and prices of necessities would have taken care of relief and|ii federal finances continue as they unemployment with only a fraction of | are today and invisible sales taxes be- the sum. gin to make a real dent in the family But, since federal money was flow-| budget. RESORT #2 HOTEL === CHAPTER XII & Desk Morgan \now, but she gave her assent.)me why you were willing to take - do now about what's going to happen _ ANN dressed quickly, and re-| When she came back on the ter- joined Bill on the boathouse docks, In those few moments since Bill had come to her with the tale of the stolen bonds her thoughts had raced swiftly, but her course was perfectly clear. Though it would take courage for her to go before the people in the lobby of the hotel and say that she had spent last night on the mountain with Bill Ware, she had steeled herself to do it, Of course Bill couldn’t have taken the bonds, and it was her duty to shield him. As they walked up the lake shore toward the hotel her heart | went out to Bill Ware. She didn’t tell him what she was going to do. But she looked the hotel manager in the eye, and said, “I spent the entire night in a lean-to with Bill Ware. We were trapped by a storm on the mountain? We didn’t return to the hotel until this morning.” Bill stood there, clenching his fists, but feeling fiercely proud of her. She was a game one, all right. There was nothing he could do about her frank admission be- fore all those people, except— His eyes glittered with a new light, as he faced her. They were together now against the world. Outside, on the terrace, he said, “But why—why did you do it?” “Because it was the only thing to do,” she said. “And because—” His eyes grew wide. “Do you mean it? Oh, you must!” ee 8 A BELLBO' Y came out on the porch to call Ann to the tele- phone. She left Bill, standing there with all his hopes of win- race Bill watched her closely. “That was Jaime,” she said. “He's on his way to Canada.” “That's funny,” Bill said curtly. “He borrowed $5Q from me day before yesterday. I should think he might have let me know if he was leaving.” Ann stared at him, wide-eyed. “Did Jaime need money? Do you suppose he lost so much gambling on the races that he—” “I didn’t know what he wanted with it. It seems that he lives on an allowance—so much a month. He was in a jam, and promised to pay me back today.” Ann’s eyes were dark. “Could those missing bonds be disposed of in Canada?” she said. “Yes.” Ann whirled about, and faced the water. Her throat hurt her. Tears dimmed her eyes. ~ oe @ [pee did not show up at the Glenwood Inn. By the time he had his bags packed the detec- tives had come to his room in the big hotel across the lake, and ar- rested him. One of the guests had seen him prowling around the inn around 1 o'clock the night before. He had come, ostensibly, to find Ann. They found the bonds in one of Jaime’s bags. He broke down then and admitted that he had lost heavily on the races. He my side? It took a lot of the right stuff in you to tell those people that you and I were marooned in the mountains.” Ann turned to him, and her eys were shining again. “Oh, that!” she said carelessly. “But I do love you, Bill. Why shouldn’t I take your side against the whole world?” He gathered her in his arms. “You angel,” he murmured. “You darling.” eoeet 1 she. had recovered her breath after this crushing em- brace she said, smiling, “Please, Mr. Ware! Why, I hardly know you. Aren’t you just the young man who sold me this vacation?” “You bet I am! And now I'd like like to sell-you myself. I've a good job, and I like it. I’ve just had a raise. There comes a time when every young man wants to be married. I don’t see any rea- son why we shouldn't be.” “Then ask me,” she said, smile ing. “will you marry me?” “Of couse I will!” “Now? Today?” His eyes were “why, Bill—” He shrugged his shoulders, and ran a hand boyishly through his hair. “Gee, why didn’t we make up our minds down in the city? Then we might have had two weeks’ honeymoon up here in this glorious spot.” r) Ann was practical. “We still have three days, twelve hours and”—she glanced at her wrist watch—“twenty-four minutes.” His look was wistful. “Yes. We have to be back at work Monday pease one ning the sun and the moon and|toom, thrown herself face down| .¢ 9, But I don't care.” Until she took lessons from # quick-tempered golf instructor, Dumb Dora Official Washitig- the earth and the stars. on the pete pt lain there for} «1 don’t care, either,” she said. ~ had not realized what was meant by “teachers’ oaths.” ie as boon ome: The voice on the telephone was geal 3 Bead “We're together now. All the 4 oe ling over a story go- Jaime'’s. He said, “I want to see| When she arose she world”—her hands made a sweep- Political seers say the campaign will not really start until Octcber, which ing the rounds con- you, Ann. Please.” eyes and went down to meet Bill! ing gesture over the mountain? : . Might be significant, since that 1s nut gathering urae. | cerning a man who ‘The sound of that voice still had|#s2im- They walked along the} ang hitis—“is ours” pee. was brought to the a hold on her. His plea evoked | lake shore, and took an old road] “Ours,” he repeated after her. A radio comedian may hire Jesse Owens. It must be nice to have some- Cp ane se her sympathy. leading into the woods. Ann] «ourgi” one run for you after one of those air jokes. many government “lm sorry I behaved as I did/didn’t want to see anybody. She} They walked slowly back to the lake ae hon ste Sim oli ics sand Sits taser Sond reiterated ra on the docks,” Jaime went on,|didn't even want to think. hotel, planning their life together, 3 , | sect cl rl ad “y lo S beeak for bed boys who get thelr mouths sudsed out and ate sent to bed) stroy «hue ‘stack ‘of useless docl- Eri ce i ped aad a ee eee | Suac bad te, Pineh perent/ so be ‘ ia ee veyary well” aiid the new depart- want to apologize, I think you're] autumn leaves and the new/|The boy who had been working o ‘Officers of Britain's Queen Mary and France’s Normandie, disputing | ment head officiously, “but be sure to a swell girl” He added, “I'm/ movies. But when they reached eer anl thaes Stare Ur arin ee re rOemne, HOR Ay tog epmmien ciate | make duplleats. copies fit.” Meaving for Canada within the|Echo Pond, Bill reached out and| ti‘ ere ears, He WoekiOn _ meer. eae ‘ais dates Geen Raia? our, Tll drive by to see you in|took her hand. They walked|ju> “romasimy hac overiaoked. man with e maid henceforth be 9 caytious one; if] “Yes, and everybody in the row thé car.” along, saying little. romance, to them, had been sweet. stepped on them.” Ann knew she distrusted Jaime! “Go on,” Bill said finally. “Tell THE END