The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 11, 1936, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune 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. Mrs, Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vico Pres. ard Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance @ Daily by carrier, per year . nial eeaencin Daily by mai) per year (in Bismarck) ... Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ... Weekly by mail in state, per year aia Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year Weekly by mail in Canada, per year tise Bismarck! 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 cr not otherwise credited tn this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Faked Photographs Much to do has been made by some newspapers over the fact that certain photographs sent out by the Resettlement Ad- ministration were “faked” or at least “pepped up” in their presentation. The accusations, of course, are true but it is a little difficult to find the answer to the question “what of it?” ; Take for example the picture of a skull of a steer which was sent out, ostensibly to show the effects of drouth. It was a weather-beaten skull with the marks of age upon it. It probably had lain upon the prairies for years. How the animal came to its death was unknown. It was clearly not a drouth victim. But it did call attention to the fact that thousands of cattle were slaughtered in 1934 and thousands of others would have died this year had they not been moved out of the country. There was neither feed nor water to sustain them. Thus the picture, while technically faked, did serve the purpose of calling attention to the plight of the range country. For that purpose it was effective and its use was justified. Another picture which drew adverse comment was one of cattle feeding on the North Dakota capitol grounds. It, too, was branded as a fake. The fact is that it was true—and there was no reason why it should not have been. Everyone living in Bismarck knows that there is a field east of the Liberty Memorial building which lies in a depres- sion. It is bounded on the south by the capitol boulevard, on the east by Highway No. 88 and on the west by the site of the buildings on the capital property. With his own pasture depleted, a local dairyman sought and received permission from the board of administration to pasture his cattle on the field. The arrangement was much the same as though the field had been privately owned. There was no “fake” either in the picture or the arrangement and the fact puts no blight on the reputation of North Dakota. Not to use all available feed in an area where farmers will feed much Russian thistle this winter would be silly. The whole disturbance is very much a tempest in a teapot. It may be taken for granted that resettlement administration photographers selected the most lurid drouth scenes for pic- turization purposes. A few months ago when eastern newspapers were asking North Dakota newspapermen for drouth pictures, the photos sent out were not those of the most prosperous farm scenes and herds. On the contrary, the newsmen looked carefully for the scrawniest and thinnest cattle in the country. When pictures were sent out showing the effects of dust storms, they were not taken in fields where no erosion had occurred. Instead they were taken in those areas where the dirt had piled against fences until only the tops of the fence posts showed. These were sent out by private agencies, not by the government. New Basis Needed American business, the American people and business statisticians need a new basis for their economic thinking. For proof one need only look at the current business indices which show industrial production at 108 per cent of the 1923-25 average and match it against the unemployment which still persists. The point is that the period of 1923 to 1925, while it may loom large in the minds of economists, means nothing to us now. Those may have been halcyon days but they will never return. The standards which prevailed then are no goal toward which . we should strive now. America still is a young and growing land. It has millions more of population now than in 1925. Enough more millions to more than consume the eight per cent increase in production above “normal” and leave a gaping void of unfilled wants besides. Thus the old basis, which may have meant a generally sat- isfactory condition then, is nothing by which we can gauge now. It is an artificial thing, outmoded and outworn. f Our struggle still is toward the ideal where every man who is able and willing to work will be able to achieve comfort and a reasonable security for himself and his family; where every child will have an opportunity to develop his talents and where every mother will have the assurance that there is room enough and creature comforts enough for the children she brings into the world. When everything gets back to 100 per cent—on a 1928 to 1925 hasis—we still will have the problem of unemployment ; with us simply because the nation has outgrown that sort of _ figuring. ° A - Putting It to Work Canada’s conservation officials are going to put the Anglo- Saxon gambling instinct to work. Saskatchewan has banded 856 crows and magpies and turned them loose in the countryside. Each band hears a num- ber and the man who turns in a number will get a prize, ranging in value from $1 to $500. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936 Behind Scenes The Campaign Distinct Flavor of Barnyard and Zoo Features Campaign . . . Elephant and Donkey Only a Small Part of Menageries . . . Pigs, Dogs, Horses, Cows, and Even Quail Come in for Roles in Vote Drive ... Not to Men- tion That Dust Bowl Skull. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) New York, Sept. 11. — What this campaign doesn’t need most is a few more animals, Both parties already have drawn heavily from among our four-footed and fine-feathered friends for their propaganda. If you pause a moment to consider the menagerie which they have assembled for us, you will find that, with the exception of one or two items, sueh as the laughing hyena, all the birdies and beasts are there. It P. T. Barnum were alive, one could imagine the old showman pro- moting a mammoth parade of these political animals up or down Fifth Avenue, led by an elephant and a donkey. He might have Republican Chair- man John D. M. Hamilton astride the jeiephant and Democratic Chairman Jim Farley atop the donkey—if the donkey were big and husky enough. Then, by rights, should come the “six million little pigs’—or was it three million?—because they were the first quadrupeds to enter the cam- paign. They are still in it despite a few tons of statistics and economic data which Secretary Wallace has on hand to prove that their slaughter three years ago was justified, even if the price of pork is going up at this time. eee And Mr. Pottle's Pigs, Too ‘These little pigs can’t appear, how- ' ever. They're dead, without even hav- | ing gone to market. But so many Re- / publican tears have been shed over them that for parade purposes it prob- sbly would be easy to collect a memo- rial fund for a large monument which could be mounted on a float. Our parade, however, need not march pigless. The pigs of Ed Pottle up in Eastport, Me., immediately leap to mind. These are the porkers which were reported to be eating 800 pies a day at government expense because the army had contracted for the pies to feed Passamaquoddy workers who were United Under One © 1936, NEA Looking at the Campaign “David Lawrence | (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) | Roosevelt’ administration as financial-|dence here, is well-liked. If the elec- no longer there to feed. Denver, Colo., Sept. 11.—Of all the/ Inquiry developed that there had | western states I have visited thus far, never been any such pies at Passama- | Governor Landon seems to have much ee zeleen fercous sou meee more assurance of capturing Colorado and even left vague misgivings as to|Without the aid of Townsend or whether there was any such person.as|Lemke-Coughlin votes than any of Ed Pottle. the others. But those are mere details. After! for here there is a clean-cut swing all, pigs is pigs. toward the Republican nominee which The dogs in the $25,000 WPA dos |is noticeable in the appraisals that are pound at Memphis were early entries|made by well-informed citizens. Even in the campaign, Col. Frank Knox |pemocrats, with few exceptions, who and the citizens of Memphis still have |can Jook at things objectively admit. an argument as to whether these dogs | the state is “close.” are washed in marble shower baths.) But—September 8—they’ll have a For parade purposes they unques- | primary in Colorado which may have Uonably should be accompanied by |an important bearing on the outcome Senator Kenneth McKellar of Ten-|of the presidential race. This is be- nessee, shouting to the world about all|cause a sharp radical and conserva tion were held tomorrow, Governor Landon would surely carry the state. Solid carbon dioxide, formed in Mexican oll wells, is being shipped to ly and economically unsound. Governor Landon, on the other hand, who has spent his summer va- cation here and has been given an unusual amount of attention in the press because of his temporary resi-| New York for refrigeration. a NEE AEE IIE LE NCO NEO TE ‘Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. stamped. self-addr Invelope. WHEN IS A DRINKER DRUNK? In many instances on record diabetes patients suffering with scule hypoglycemia (lowering of the sugar in the blood below the normal le from the effect of = dose of insulin without food shortly afterw been accused or actually arrested on the charge of being drunk. ‘A neighborhood bum suffering with delirium tremens was cessfully in hospital and sent home sober and determined to Exactly a year pooteng was picked up by the police, again brought to the hosptial. was not mania # potu but the delirium of advanced pneumonia, and of course pneumonia makes short work of a hard drinker. The poor fellow would never again become a diagnostic problem for the police. Persons who have been drinking more than they can handle, I méean more alcohol than they can burn or oxidize—as the odor of alcohol or aldehyde on the breath proves—sometimes suffer some head injury which causes stupor or complete loss of consciousness. Likely there is no gar wound or evidence of injury, and such victims have been dragged to in police stations and left there to die without proper treatment in s many instances, There ought to be a strict regulation against drawing inferences the odor of alcohol on the breath. A man or woman subject to chronic Bright’s disease, for example, may be overtaken with illness or with & “strange” feeling, stop in somewhere for a “stimulant” and proceed on the way, to collapse on the street and sink into complete stupor or coms from dremia—the odor of alcohol on the breath of such a victim may easily mis- lead the bystander, the police or even the doctor summoned in the emergency... ‘Anyway alcoholism in any stage or degree is disease and should be so dealt with in every case. The man or woman with the “horrors” should not be held responsible for attempting to kill his or her best friend who in the hallucination appears to be the devil or a serpent or a monstrous spider with obvious intent. Rather the penalty Jor possessing or carrying con- cealed weapons (including alcoholic liquor) should be so severe that sane per- sons will hesitate about taking any aboard. In the Jour. A.M.A. Sept. 8, 34, Dr. Herman A. Heise, of Milwaukee, pre- sents observations and figures to show that there is a measurable loss of efficiency and judgment when even small amounts of alcohol are present in the blood. He shows that the ordinary sobriety tests are of small value in these days of dangerous combination of alcohol and gasoline. A driver or 8 pedestrian may be able to walk and talk well, yet be under the influence of alcohol. Dr. Heise urges the adoption of the chemical test for alcohol in place of these unreliable tests commonly used by the police or police surgeons. In the Am. Jour. of Clinical Pathology for March, 1934, this same authority described the chemical test for alcohol in body fluids and showed that it is specific and practical for confirming a diagnosis of drunkenness, intoxication. or being “under the influence of alcohol,” as you prefer—an aid in convicting or acquitting persons charged with responsibility for accidents. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Epilepsy Is epilepsy in the blood? Should epileptics marry? Is there a law agatnat such. marriage in some states? Please tell about inheritance of epilepsy seo. (MEF) Answer—Epilepsy is not directly heritable, but the offspring of feeble- minded, insane, alcoholic or neurotic persons are more likely to have epilepsy than are the offspring of normal persons. Of course no one having epilepsy should marry. Some states prohibit such marriages by law. Even an ap- parently normal member of a family in which epilepsy, insanity, feeble- mindedness, alcoholism, drug-habit or moral obliquity occurs may contribute faulty material and is therefore a poor risk for marriage. Fairy Tales Always supposed skin absorbs at least some air. How about the stery of the artist who gilded the boy for a pageant—the boy died of suffocation before hey could get the gilt off from his skin.... (E. P. P.) Answer—And there was another story about Jack and the bean stalk. Beans do grow like everything. TODAY IS BEGIN HERE TODAY JUDITH HOWARD has d to STEPHEN FOW! of hear to this. Judith meets Steve for lun and they go over the if judith pon the people bitten by dogs in Memphis before that pound was built. ee % Trot Out That Skull Somewhere in the line of march should appear that now celebrated cow skull which the Resettlement Admin- istration has been using in its photo- graphs of drouth country. This skull, according to Republican | publicity, has been carted around the Dust Bowl area and planted every time the RA photographer wanted to take a picture, although the photo- grapher insists he found it and took a} lot of pictures in the same area, never | moving the skull more than 20 feet or 50. Whether the skull should be carried in the parade by the photographer or should be mounted on a pedestal on 8 float is hard to decide. Farmer George Mays of Arcadia, Mo., and his six cows must also be given a place of honor, since they are understood to have been employed by | the Republican National Committee. The G.O.P. publicists heard that WPA had built a $20,000 sidewalk sys. tem in Arcadia which was used onl: by cows, and sent sound-movie photo- | graphers there for pictures. No cows being found on the sidewalk, but only people, the movie men are said to have paid Mays $25 to drive his cows along the sidewalk and also paid him a dol- lar a minute to make a sound-movie- speech about ft. | The town marshal, noticing the cows on the sidewalk, ordered the movie! men out of town. ee % | Even Quail Eligible | Make way, also, for a few thousand birds from the Carthage, N. C., quail; farm of Julian T. Bishop, the New York broker who lives in Greenwich, Conn., and has been so worn down and oppressed by the New Deal that he has promised to sell the farm, quail and all, and move to Canada if Roose- velt is re-elected. Thanks to publicity given to the cffer of purchase from a New Deal | fellow who said he would appreciate | it the sooner Mr. Bishop left, and to the assertion of Minister of Public Welfare David Croll of Ontario that Canada didn’t want Mr. Bishop, those quail also have become very famous. liberal as to the entry requirements, celebrated quadrupeds as Governor Landon’s horse and the White House dog which bit Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas in the left leg. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) A BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN — Albertus — I woke up in the middle of the night and found _ ‘The ides is that hunters, knowing they may win a prize, will shoot every crow and magpie on sight and thus help to reduce their numbers. The scheme may work, for the Nordic peoples love to le. If they cannot find a way to risk their necks risk their time and their money. tendency has its handicaps but willingness to take a coupled with an inquiring mind, has resulted in much advancement for the race. q » _ If the Saskatchewan plan works it may even help to rid the prairies of pests which annually take a toll of thousands 3 and other game birds by killing the young and de- a burglar going through my pockets. Crabshaw — What did you do? Albertus — Just laughed at him. My them earlier And of course if one wants to be | it would be possible to include such | i tive cleavage is shaping up in the con- test for United States senator on the Democratic side, as well as for gov- ernorship. Governor Ed Johnson, Democrat, who has by no means swallowed the New Deal, hook, line and sinker, as 80 many other Democrats have done, is being opposed by a radical who claims New Deal support, namely former Gov. Sweet. If Mr. Johnson is nominated, he will be assured of the election because he is conceded to be stronger as a candidate than Ray Sauter, his Re- publican opponent, and will win Re- publican vote. If Mr. Sweet is named, much of the Johnson strength will go to Mr. Sauter and Colorado will have a Republican senator. This is the way some of the veterans here size up the senatorial situation and they point out that much of the same cleavage will overflow into the presidential contest, with Governor Landon likely to carry this state be- cause it is primarily conservative. Incidentally, much attention has en attracted by United States Sen- ator Adams, who may be classified as u Carter Glass Democrat. Just the other day, the bank at Pueblo, of which Mr. Adams is vice president, an- nounced a voluntary liquidation. It is no small bank either, for it has $2,500,000 of deposits, $100,000 of cap- ital and $75,000 surplus. The bank is considered just about 100 per cent liquid, for it has all its deposits in cash or government securities and only about $89,000 in loans and discounts outstanding. Why has this bonk, which is 55 years old, decided to liquidate? Because it cannot make money as a financial institution. There are some hereabouts who say that the bank did not think conditions in the future looked sound and that the excessive borrowing by the federal government and low interest rates caused by the federal policy had somee thing to do with it. But whatever the Teason, the fact remains that, not- withstanding outward appearances of prosperity and the heavy flow of fed- eral money to this state, a conservative banking institution decides to pay off and take no further risks. And one ot the officers of the institution hap- pens to be a United States senator of the Democratic party. Nor are they pleased among the farmers with the economic theories of the New Deal. The beet sugar pro- ducers do not see any future for them Pleased with the Cuban reciprocity treaty, which enables Cuba to take a large part of their market. There are five sugar factories in the Arkansas valley and three of them are idle now. What the sugar farmers here want is an increase in production oppor- tunity. The cattle farmers are like- wise on the warpath. They see the government building up competition with them by subsidizing farmers else- where to convert lands used hitherto for wheat or cotton so that they may become grazing or forage lands for cettle-raising, * Then, too, there's the Canadian reciprocity treaty, which has enraged the cattle raisers becausé of importa- tions of foreign cattle. Likewise, the prevailing wage rule in the WPA has in restricted output. They are dis-|, VIRGINIA happily, ol jteve, suddenly realizing she is in earnest, asks to come to apartment that evening to tal He comes a ort time later Bob and > with, H. the girls are preparing e ‘oby get ire their argument id Bteve Toby. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IV 'TEVE stood towering, still white with rage, while Toby Lynch rubbed the side of his face with a trembling palm. Bob rushed forward, grabbing Steve's half-raised arm. “Good Lord, Steve! Hang onto yourself! Toby didn’t mean anything.” Slowly Lynch got to his feet, partly angered and partly fright- ened. “What's the. idea, Steve? Looks to me as if three fellows ought to be.able to get into a dis- cussion without a brawl.” + “I didn’t mind your generali- ties,” mentioned Steve icily. “But when you applied them to Judith and me, you were going a little too far.” “I didn’t mean anything,” said Toby, still rubbing his cheek. Bob looked at Steve Fowler. “There you are. Toby’s apologized for a loose tongue. Looks to me like you'd better apologize for a loose temper, Steve.” There was a moment. of tense silence; and then, slowly, Steve said, “All right. Let’s forget it. I’m sorry, Lynch.” - “Better go in and wash up,” Bob advised Toby. “We mustn't let the girls know about this.” Toby nodded and left for the bathroom. When the door had shut behind him, and they could hear the cold water running into the bowl, Bob said, “He was wrong, Steve. I'll grant you that. But so are you.” He held out a . package of cigarets toward Steve, held a light in nervous fingers. “T still think Virgie and I are right.” Steve shot him a sour glance. “Now don’t you start, Bob.” “I’m not starting anything, Steve. I've a right to defend my position, haven’t 1?” Bent grinned up at the other. “Even at the risk of a poke in the nose?” Despite himself, Steve had to smile. “I guess my nerves have ath jittery lately. Go -ahead, “If a man can’t support a girl ‘on his own earnings—and the girl has a job of her own—then I think it’s okay for them to marry, if it happens to be agreeable to both of them.” . “I know,” said Steve, gazing at “Modern!” exclaimed “Bob in disgust. “Listen, Steve. My grand. \dmother were |get Steve paused. through?” he asked. meant it.” wash dishes after ... fruit to put up and quilts to make, Work? Say, my grandmother did more work in a day than Virgie has to to in a month at the office!” In_his excitement, Bob Bent paced across the room. At the other end he turned suddenly and poked vhis cigaret toward Steve. “There’s nothing modern or revo- lutionary about what Virginia and I are doing, Steve. It’s old as the STEVE. grinned. But it was a stubborn, sober grin; and it was a grin at Bob's socieaaen rather grandmother's day. The whole world was dif- ferent.’ your opinion, mine. > isn’t so much different now from ‘what it was then. Certainly ple aren’t any different.” sheepish, He wal toward Steve. i With Fowler took “You really meant it when said we “I—yes, Steve,” Judith ith his prin- | were 3 |glance for Judith. Steve noticed it, and stubbornly put down his hat to wait until Lynch and the Bents were gone. “I thought they’d never leave,” he told Judith. Nervously she glanced at the clock. “Tt is late. And I'm dead tired.” “Judith .. .* Steve made no. move from his spot by the table. “Yes, Steve?” “I want to apologize now for oes that happened here to- Puzzled, Judith looked up at him, “What do you mean, Steve?” “I —well, Toby Lynch said something I didn’t like, and I...” His voice trailed into silence. “Yes, Steve?” Judith turned, facing fool « (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) by NARD' JONES Nn © 1000 HEA Series, tna, +g508 e ss : Lo into an argument with '. didn’t you?” Steve colored. “I'm afraid it ‘was worse than—than an argu- ment, Judith.” “Was it about ... you and me?” “Yes.” ea impressively. “But you can't say : ay i [ F iti Ese if i vig ii i ximit it Judit i iy : tL E 9 t ; af Nevertheless, | 5 3 HS i 1 is br it AH ib & ! a 8 i is i is ahve Hy al. i uf UF