The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 24, 1936, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribute BO An independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER’ (Bxtablished 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The y Bismarck Tribune Compeny, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as sseond class mail Mrs. Stella 1, Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W Simons Vice pres, and Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas. and Sé4itor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Assoclaced Press !s exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tlon of the news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of sportaneous origin published herein, All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved Forget-Me-Nots Information published by the Disabled American Veterans in connectoin with their sale of Forget-me-nots, scheduled for Saturday, contains information of especial interest to North Dakotans, Of the 25,000 North Dakotans who took up arms in defense of the country in 1917 and 1918, 15,970 saw service in France. Definite data are not available but the probability is that a larger proportion of North Dakota boys got across than was true of any other state. Of those who were sent to foreign soil, 8,914 were engaged in the lines. Of these 522 were killed in action, 148 died of wounds and 3,324 men were either wounded or impaired to such an extent that they received disability ratings. Altogether, the killed, wounded and disabled totalled 32 per cent. These were North Dakota men, some of whom we still see about us every day. It was not some mythical, far-away war but a conflict in which they engaged, suffering the mental fears and physical privations which mark every war. Statistics such as these lend point to General Sherman’s description of war and give new stimulus to our determination to keep the peace. What happened to their fathers can happen to the sons of World War veterans and to thousands of other boys of service age. All we need to set in motion the same forces is another international crisis and another war. Mothers and fathers should think of this as they view the troubled world scene. They should constantly be prepared to make their opinion felt to counteract the jingoistic propaganda which always attends international disputes. They should al- ways remember that wars are not fought by nations so. much as by the flower of the manhood of the contesting nations. And as they make new determination to keep America at peace, they might well remember the ravages of the last war. They have not yet disappeared from among us. Men who were wounded in action or injured in service still live. Some of them have never known good health since 1918 and never will. Some struggle to care for themselves and their families but are not too successful. Others have been denied the privileges of a hus- band and father because they left too much of themselves on fields of battle. Many of these still are wards of the govern- ment, helpless hostages to the past. Thoughts of these men should win a warm reception for the women who will appear on the street Saturday to sell for- get-me-nots, should win approval for the Disabled Veterans’ program, which is to care for the disabled, the widows and the orphans of World War men. They have not forgotten, We should be grateful to them for not permitting us to forget. General Hines’ Warning Brigadier Gen. Frank T. Hines, veterans’ administrator, performed a service to the war veterans of the nation when he warned them Wednesday against pressing for legislation which might be considered by non-veterans as working an injustice upon them. .What General Hines was talking about was the numerous proposals for a pension, which now are being discussed in the inner circles of various veterans’ organizations and which, be- fore long, will be out in the open. Thousands of men deserve and are receiving disability allowances for injuries received in service. The rules covering such claims are more generous than those which have prevailed after any other war. But the new demand is for a flat pension, such as has been paid by the government after all previous wars. It will meet opposition, at first, among members of the organized veterans’ groups, but it seems a fair bet that, within a few years, it will be a major subject for discussion at all veterans’ meetings. In this respect it will follow the history of the agitation for the bonus which has been a major item in the veterans’ program ever since the war. First there was the fight for some sort of compensation adjustment. After that was granted came the agitation to speed the day of payment, which culminated successfully this year. Now the pension campaign is just getting under way. Warnings such as those of General Hines will delay it a . little but voices like his soon will ge like those crying in the wilderness. sa of the CAMPAIGN PROGRAM AS FIRST GENUINE FARM RELIEF PROVIDED SINCE WORLD WAR. By REP. MARVIN JONES The Roosevelt administration is the firat since the World War to make a sincere attempt to solve the problems of agriculture. Other administrations have given the farmer promises. This adminis- tration has backed its promises by performances. Even its critics admit that agriculture’s position has im- proved steadily since 1932. This im- provement is all the more remarkable since it took place despite the drouths of 1934 and 1936, the worst on record. ‘The recovery of agriculture is strik- ingly told in the figures on farm in- come, debt surpluses; in every trend. It is told in increased farm buying pers in the recovery of the nation taelf, Cash farm income rose from $4,- 377,000,000 in 1932 to $7,201,000,000 in 1935, and the estimated income for 1936 is more than $7,500,000,000. Ap- broximately 500,000 farms have been saved from foreclosure. Farm in- debtedness has been reduced approxi- mately $1,000,000,000 since 1932. For the first time on record, tenancy de- creased in the period from 1932 to 1935. The huge 1932 surpluses of al- most every farm commodity have been eliminated. For the first time, a systematic, national effort is being made to con- serve and rebuild the nation’s most valuable heritage, the soil. For the first time, also, farmers, through the AAA's benefit payments, have had crop income insurance. Commodity loans on corn and cotton have helped to stabilize prices. Steps have been taken toward additional crop insur- ‘ance and toward programs that will deerease tenacity. eke * Assails Industrialists In brief, government has given ag- riculture some of the protection and very much about the Washington ence, But there is a lot of important in- formation here and plenty of facts in such documents, for instance, as the annual proceedings of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, so that, if the reader will indulge me the liberty of describing a hypothetical conversation, I will present here what the president of the United States might have asked and what life in- surance presidents might have replied if this were not a political year. Q. Are life insurance companies safe? A. Absolutely. Q@. Are they well administered? A. With all due modesty, we think they are the best admininistered fi- nancial investment institutions in the world. Q. What are your troubles, then? A. We cannot find suitable invest- ments that will yield us enough re- turn to keep up the earnings that we ought to have. The money we take in from premiums must be kept con- stantly invested. @. But you can buy government bonds, can’t you? A. Yes, but we already have too large a proportion of them. Q. What is the proportion? A, We now have 145 per cent of all our assets invested in securities of the federal government alone. benefits that wealthy and powerfyl industrial groups had long demanded tnd recelved. Agriculture did not get real or lasting aid, however, until the special privilege groups had been driven from power by the man now occupying the White House. I have been a member of the house agricultural committee for a num- ber of years. I know that it is diffi- cult to enact constructive legislation for agriculture under the most favor- able circumstances. It is virtually impossible under an administration whose first concern is big business, and big business has been the first concern of every Republican admin- istration since the war. It is, from every indication, the first concern of the present Republican leadership which has the powerful support of the Morgans, the DuPonts, the Rockefellers and others like them. They have fought every effective farm program ever demanded by farmers. They will destroy the pres- ent AAA if they can. They will block any alternative. They dominate the Republican party. I do not want to see the farmers’ welfare again placed in their hands. eek * Cites Republican Failures One of the big reasons for the de- pression was the collapse of farm prices and farm income which reach- ed the lowest depth in 1932. Dom- inated by the views of Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon, the Republican administration followed policies that were unfriendly to agriculture. Presi- Gent Coolidge twice vetoed the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill. President Hoover promised prosperity to the farmers. He gave them the farm board and the Smoot-Hawley tariff act. The re- sult was paralysis of farm buying power. The price of wheat went low- er than it had been since the days of Queen Elizabeth. Corn was so cheap that it was being used as fuel. Cot- ton was the biggest bargain that it had been since the war between the states. People were hungry within the shadow of the very warehouses where the huge stocks of wheat and pork were stored. People without jobs couldn't eat cheap food. When farm- ers quit buying, business collapsed. The Roosevelt administration faced the facts. It gave the farmers a na- tional farm program, It worked with the farmers themselves in restoring prices and income. It used its powers to meet two great emergencies caused by drouth. It is going to keep on working with farmers to meet their future problems, x“* * Charges Empty Promises After 12 years of inaction, evasion and disaster, what does the Republi- can party offer now? It offers an- other set of promises for 1936. They include many of the proposed pan- as of the past, and some new ones. All are vague and capable of two in- terpretations. Every high Republican spokesman including Governor Lan: don has assailed the AAA. The lan: guage of most of them sounds like the language used by the DuPont Liberty League, its Farmers Independence Council, and William Randolph Hearst, arch enemy of genuine farm progress, I do not believe the farmers will be Non-veteran groups may not like it but the only way they can stop this demonstration of mass pressure is by organizing against it. And the prospect is that the wrong people will organize. The voices of industrial leaders will be raised against it but they will be ineffective, just as they won no support in the fight against immediate payment of the bonus. The veteran groups are close to the mass of the people and know how to meet that sort of opposition. : The only. thing which will stop a general pension system, similar to those which have followed other wars, is a protest on the part cf the generation which has grown up since the war and which has come to think that the veterans are being given igures show ‘that the average beard grows only six inches s year— exror had us in a dither over the possibility of s favorite her aight, but $¢ seems she was fast going blond. 5 ae SS gig: Wahl TOC Dees Ng. @re a menace tiowadays. There's always tne persons wodee with Kinock-Rnocks will ty © pint. trialists friendly to agriculture, ests are supporting the iy. They sre would hay if the Republicans should win. It is inconcejvable that the American farmers, in the light of their experience, exchange a Next: ve Snell, house minority leader, de nounces Reosevelt relief administra- tion and with human misery.” Q. Is this high? A. Yes, it is the highest in our history. In 1934, for instance it was just above 8 per cent. By December, 1935, it had gone up to 11 per cent and now the latest figure shows 14.5 per cent of all our assets in federal securities. @. What about your idle cash? A. That too is the highest we have ever had. We now have and have had since last December about $750,000,000 in cash. Q. What's wrong about that? A, We must earn a certain return on our money if policy holders are to) be given insurance at a reasonable cost. If we cannot invest our money for an’ adequate return, it raises the cost of insurance. We have frankly stated on more than one occasion that, if the low interest rate program instituted by the government keeps up and if business and industry hes!- tate to float new securities in which we can invest, there will have to be a reduction in dividend payments to policy holders. clude the companies that do not have @ participation in earnings by policy holders? A. No, but on new policies they too would have to raise their prem- iums to the policy holders. @. You mean to tell me that the cost of life josurance generally may be going up’ A. Yes, and that’s why the public ought to buy now, so to speak. For no matter what comes, life insurance Policies are absolutely the best form of investment and the cost is still reasonable. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN {§ RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN party about an old castle. “Now, would anybody like to ask question?” “Yes, replied ine — quisitive tourist Fal- gar, “I want to know how in tunket anybody could get one of them in his eye?” Florence—What makes you so sure your husband is faithful? Edna—He never looks scared when |Z tell him he talks in his sleep. I suppose Mrs. Gabley is satisfied now that she has been ad- mitted to the bar and can practice law? Fawkes—Oh, no; she is trying to become a judge now, #0 she can have the last word. Mrs. Wimpus — Oh, Mike, the in- stallment man’s here. ~Wimpus—I'll be there in a minute. he'd start with the radio and piano. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: 1933, 1934 and 1985 the dividend pay-| 9 ments to policy. holders . dropped steadily to $424,255,553 for the year 1935. This is a drop of $138,000,000 @ Besides your wnused cash, would you say that much of the money you have invested in govern- ment securities is in short term se- curities at very low interest? A. Yes, the portfolios of different companies vary, but perhaps 50 per cent, or about $1,432,000,000, is in short term or medium federal govern- ment securities earning a very low rate of interest, Q. Then, if you can’t invest your money in more remunerative invest- ments, you must ultimately reduce your dividends and this raises the cost of insurance to future policy holders and to present policy holders | who depend on their dividends to cut the annual cost of their premiums? A. That is right and will be the case if the present trend in money rates continues. _@. Which do you hold responsible for the low interest rates? A. The administration in Wash- ington has claimed credit for the low interest rates. The government pos- sesses ertificial factors which can Rich MOL! MILFORD, ah received . rom _¢ otoll E Eg We veterans regard ourselves a8 the number one pacifists of the world because we are. ready to fight, if necessary, to convince other nations that our demands for peace must be respected.—J. E. Van Zandt, national commander of the Veterans of For- eign Wars. ia * Tl save my pmmunttion for a little later.—Former’ President Herbert ‘Hoover, declining to comment on political ae i . * If I had the Urals, if we possessed Siberia, if we had the Ukraine, Na- tional Socialist Germany would be swimming in surplus prosperity. — Adolf Hitler. es This whole business of grades and degrees is pedagogical snobbishness.— Rabbi Edgar F. Mignin, Los Angeles, urging revision of the scholastic sys- tem, ae & They abhor all outward manifesta- tions of affection—Film Director Walter Lang, recently returned from Japan, tells why Orientals prefer comic rather than romantic movies. ung all coer envelope. essed thing fi peapetod cous sh the skin. If that is a0, absorbed. Of course the sweat glands excrete salt and water, and the sebaceous glands excrete sebum (skin oil). But no one has yet succeeded in reversing the direction in which substances Pass through the skin. What Do You Fear? I know you say there is no such thing as weak nerves but it seems I live in constant dread of I don’t khow what, only that’s the way I feel, and I thought this was nervousness or nervous weakness.... (Mrs. L. A. L.) Answer—You never get anywhere dismissing your trouble as “nerves.’ Send ta cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address, for let “Chronic Nervous ‘Imposttion” (Green weel May come out it. Class B neurot nothing short of institutional in and Feeckless _ rich and propesals RT, wi she loves, has not asked her to marry Borea with a succession of Molly aske Q.. This would not, of course, in-| | NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER Ill 66PNHE Golden Girl, Nelse,” the gether. “That's what she is, too. Golden with money. 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