The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 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 Bismrack Tribune Company, Bis- fmarck, N. D. and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mal) matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W. Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas, and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance per per year (in Bismarck) . per year (in state outside of Bismarck) outside of North Dakota . in state, per year outside of North Dakota, per year mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion o jews dispatches credited to it or not othefwise cri in ne nd also the local news of spontaneous origin publis! All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also r North Dakota Foreign Trade North Dakota is so far removed from either seaboard that | &* we might be forgiven for feeling that foreign trade—except perhaps with Canada—means little to us, Such, however, is not the fact, as a study of the nation’s foreign trade, recently made public by the state department, well shows. Our wheat exports still are down, largely because of the fact that most European nations are growing their own but partly because of the drouth, but other items in which we are interested now are on the up-grade, This state is normally the nation’s largest producer of flaxseed and it is interesting to know that linseed oil cake now is going to Belgium, Cuba and Sweden in ever-increasing quan- tities after a severe decline in recent years. Potato growers find such places as Cuba coming into the market more strongly than before and cattle now are passing the borders between this country ‘and Canada in both direc- tions in increasing numbers. American meat also is again taking an important place in the export picture. Coincident with these and other increases, of course, is a rise in imports, the whole comprising an increase in the ex- change of goods, It is difficult to trace the importance of any one item but that it must,have an effect on general business is indicated by the drop in total exports from $5,000,000,000 in 1929 to $1,600,000,000 in 1932 and the fact that the de- crease in North Dakota’s direct export trade was even more severe, reaching a high of 78 per cent. The state department’s exposition was issued as a defense of its foreign trade agreements but it is presumed that the figures contained therein are true. On this basis it would seem that our own welfare, as well that of the nation as a whole, is at least partly dependent on foreign trade and that its restora- tion will be another step on the road to prosperity. : A Job Well Done Never before in the history of this state has the result of « close and hard-fought election been given to the people of the state so quickly as was the case this year. The last contest was virtually decided Wednesday night, within 24 hours after the polls had closed. When this achievement is compared to the condition which used to exist, with days passing before the result was definitely determined, the improvement is obvious. It is due directly to two things. One is the organization which has been set up by the Associated Press to handle the unofficial returns in a business-like way. The other is the activity of county auditors and precinct officials in cooperating to get the returns to the daily newspapers which act .as col- lecting agencies. Time was when the county auditors went- home and went to bed along about 10 o'clock on election night. They com- piled the returns when they got around to it. Now, as a service to all of the people, they make a real effort to bring in and com- pile the returns from their own counties quickly and give them to. the newspapers as rapidly as they become available. It takes work and it takes money but the result is worth all it costs. Hundreds of dollats are spent in telephone and telegraph tolls and in hiring extra employes, but the result is to tell citizens of the election results quickly and accurately. There is no guesswork and no favoritism. It is entirely impartial and that fact is best proved by the manner in which politicians of all parties depend upon it for information. At this time The Tribune wishes to make public acknowl- edgement of the splendid work and cooperation accorded it by . | went through the recent campaign at Only One of Original ‘Brain Trust’ Lasts Through 1936 Campaign ... Rosenman Stays in Background .., Enlisted Moley in Roosevelt Cause .. Tugwell, General Johnson, and Berle Fade Out, By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Nov. 10.—Of the sev- eral more important members of the famous brain trust which helped Franklin D. Roosevelt plot the strategy, the speeches, and the prom- ises of his 1932 campaign, only one was on the job in a close, intimate capacity in the 1936 campaign. One by one the brain trusters who took important administration jobs, made speeches, and got into the lime- light — unwillingly in some cases— have gone into the doghouse, turned sour, or at least moved several yards away from the throne, The only one of the old crowd who the president's ‘side, collaborating on his speeches, advising on the strategy and phraseology, was the one who has been least publicized among the oup. He is State Supreme Court Justice Samuel I. Rosenman, counsel to Roosevelt when the latter was gover- nor of New York. Rosenman first moved to organize the original brain trust in 1932, He is 42 and served several terms in the New York legis- lature. Two or three comparative new- comers in the presidential circle worked with Rosenman this year, but no microscope or telescope could have found Raymon Moley, Rexford G. Tugwell, Adolf A. Berle, or Gen, Hugh &. Johnson — the “Big Four” brain trusters of the period prior to the 1933 inauguration—slipping unobstrusively into the White House for conferences. Pays to Shun Limelight Assuming that any one wants to keep on being a close-in brain truster, it appears that he must keep his neck pulled in tight and not parade out in front where overyone can take pot} - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1936 AHEM = TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS SOCIAL SECURITY PROPOSITION shots. Not only have enemies of the New Deal concentrated fire on the presi- dent’s most trusted advisers, but oth- ers in the administration have simul- taneously tried to undermiiy such favorites. And as early as the sum- mer of 1933 there was a great hue elements which still didn’t dare at- tack R ell Chicago Tribune In the graphic section of The Trib- It seems funny now to recall that| une our readers will find the first of when Ray Moley, who was Brain|t)ree special articles on the dread Truster No. 1, quit the Washington scourge of syphilis. It is not a pleas- Scene, conservatives hailed his de-| n¢ topic but it is one which no one Parture as sure evidence that the !can afford to ignore as we have ignored president was discarding his radical}it to a distastrous extent in America. advisers and that the administration |po, syphillis is one of the most deadly would “turn Tights ‘- of the diseases that afflict mankind and yet, in spite of the high standi Rosenman Enlisted Moley of public health in the United States Rosenman, when Roosevelt started|nnd the incteasing warfare upon di- after the presidential nomination, | sease which has won and is winning so called in Moley from Columbia Uni-|many battles, no. such concerted and versity. The two planned a program |determined attack a8 has conquered for summoning academic experts to/or is conquering other plagues. has function in the field of economic /peen made against syphilis, thought while Farley and the political’ ‘The result is that syphilis is spread- experts were busy working for dele-|ing and takes a toll of suffering and gates and votes. death which is appalling. Statistics Moley recruited others, notably |are inadequate, but what we have re- Tugwell and Berle, from Columbia,!yeal enough to show that the conquest and was a major factor in the Roose- of this plague is a major problem of velt speeches and messages for two or|modern society. What will astonish three years. the uninformed is that the United Then Moley made the mistake of|States is not in the forefront of this ‘accepting the post of assistant secre- tary of state and became a target for many brickbats. His blow-up with Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the London economic conference forced Roosevelt to move Moley into a more ambiguous post, but he remained a most important consultant, Moley left People’s Forum (Bditor’s Note)—The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of tnter- est, Letters dealing with contro- versial religious subjects, which Washington with the. presidential blessing to edit a pro-New Deal week- ly magazine and for a time continued in presidential councils. ee Tugwell Likely to Go The president's affection for Tug- well is still strong and there is no evidence that he is out of sympathy with Tugwell’s ideas. But Tugwell became a political liability. His in- fluence at the White House has dim- inished and likelihood is that he will return soon to Columbia University. Berle went out of the picture after participating in much early New Deal legislation, He’s a specialist in public finance, banking and railroad rehab- ilitation. General Johnson, who joined the brain trust professors early in their! career and later fought and bled for NRA, put in some effective licks with campaign speeches. The president is the auditors and election officials of McLean, Emmons, Sheri- dan, Kidder, Logan and McIntosh counties, the area from which, together with Burleigh county, it collected the returns. They were the key men in the enterprise and, as such are en- titled to the major credit for a job well done. Information for Pacifists Phcifists, who usually back up their statements with ig- norance rather than knowledge, might profitably take note of a statement contained in the annual report of the Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army to the Secretary of War which has just been made public. ‘ Here is what that authority says: itary establishment is of a type that—conforming policy—is designed for defense and is un- insion, the latter establishments as that ready for instant use, within or without the In contrast, ours-is an unfinished and an ite parts are not in existence, some semi-finished form. Only a few are that this situation exists is good for the country. We need an adequate national defense, If we retain our national sanity we have no reason to even consider ‘As long as the essential defense of any nation remains in the hands of citizen soldiers we need have no fear of domination + by a military clique such as those which rule dictator-ridden : “nations, still fond of him, but Johnson has been erratically off and on the reser- vation and he is no longer of the “inner circle.” The most effective advisers — or brain trusters—who maintained their influence have been men like Rosen- man, who shunned the fierce white light which beats upon the throne, (Copyright, 1936, NEA Servipe. Inc.) ee | SO THEY SAY | > In the hysteria of politics, ridicu- lous extravagances against candi- dates are expressed and Christians should beware lest they give heed to whispered Iles, Neither candidate is @ devil in disguise and neither is on the side of the angels exclusively.— The Rev. F. G. Sayers, Rochester, N. * * * I have reason to believe that some of the decisions we have to make in ordinary daily life take much more courage than any act of valor per- formed in battle—Lothar W. Schur- ast, Cincinnati, O., former German war hero, ** * Just as soldiers cannot be allow to shoot and strike as they please, and as farmers cannot be allowed to sow and harvest as they please. writ- erg also have no right to transgress the limits prescribed by common good. —Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minis- attack Individu unfairly, oF which offend good taste and fair play will be returned to All letters MUST b If you wish to use a ps ™, sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath tt. We reserve the right to delete such parts of lotters as may be ecessary to conform to this policy and to re- quire publication of a writer's name where justice and fair All le 0 words. YOU HAVE IT, MA’AM Bismarck, N. D., Oct. 29. 1936. Editor, Tribune: I would like to have a little corner in your People’s Forum. With Other EDITORS and cry against “brain trusters” from | aH NEXT GREAT PLAGUE TO GO battle. It is not. It has hardly begun te fight. The Scandinavian nations and Great Britain are far on the way to a complete extermination of this evel, whereas it is estimated that about @ million new cases are occurring in our country each year and the number is growing. Yet syphilis is neither incurable nor are the measures required to check and eventually to eliminate it as dif- ficult or costly as those which have been successful in dealing with some other scourges. Why has enlightened America failed to use its great resour- ces of science and public health to abolish this evil? The answer is plain. The public opinion essential to an effective war- fare upon this plague does not exist end the chief reason why it does not exist is that the discussion of syphilis has been virtually taboo. As the head ot the United States health service has said: “First and foremost among American handicaps (of the crusade) is the widespread belief that nice people don’t talk about syphilis, that ig trying to tear our constitution to pieces. Have the politicians of the Repub- Ucan party forgotten, when Theodore Roosevelt was president, the strong Janguage he used when the coal strike was on and the owners of the mines refused to give the miners living wages?” Theodore Roosevelt said he would take over all the mines. The people told him he could not do it because it was against the constitution. He said: “To hell with the constitution ‘When people are cold and hungry they are going to be warm and com- fortable.” He had two prominent men who stood by him, viz, William Howard Taft'and Elihu Root. They-called themselves the three musketeers, Why then, make such a fuss over Franklin D. Roosevelt saying there should be an amendment to our con- stitution? The Republican nominee for pres- I have been reading of late that our president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, ident, in one of his speeches, said if was elected president and it appeared | SIDEGLANCES - - By George Clark | Sane I'm a fighting fool, I am, I don't want anyone to think I got a swelled head, for I ain't. It’s just that I'm good ‘and nothing else but, Why should I lie about it?—Harry Bal- samo, New York City, current mid- sensation. s* * Just because s man has hair on his Up and « lot of pigment in the skin, does that make him a crook?—Joseph Calleia, swarthy movie villain. is an educated man, see, and he ain't goin’ tu waste his time on no ordi inary job, as long as | got two feet to stand on.” Reprinted te show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. nice people don’t have syphilis, and that nice people shouldn’t do anything about those who have syphilis.” This, as The Tribune has said, is partly prudish, partly inhumane and un- christian, and wholly fallacious. Half of all syphilis infections, it is esti- mated, are acquired innocently, and the quite innocent transmission of the disease before birth carries its ter- rible penalties far beyond the limit of original responsibility. The Tribune will not respect this taboo. The American press should not. It should present the truth of this great and continuing tragedy, for only by doing this duty can the tragedy be ended. A year ago The Tribune pub- lished a series of articles on syphilis with editorials of comment. It be- gins a new series today and it pro- poses to drive home the truth until this devastating evil has gone the way of other great afflictions overcome by science among our people. Another objective has been added to The Tribune's platform for America: Conquer the Syphilis Plague. necessary to carry out measures which he thought were needed to help: the people, he would also ask for an amendment to the constitution. If any of your readers doubt the stand Theodore Roosevelt took I would refer them to the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune of Oct. 11, 1936. An article written by W. B. Ragsdale, Yours very truly, MRS, N. A. PRESTON, Editor's Note: This letter was received before election but its publication was inadvertently omitted before election day. It still seems of sufficient interest to warrant printing it now. BARBS “Rome has a ban on horn-honking.” It 1s doubtful, however, whether thi will prevent Il Duce from blowing his own, . ee * Ontario children, arrested for Hal- loween pranks, were locked in cells with four tramps, the children’s par- ents protested. Maybe the tramps felt it was harsh on Pm too. * A “restaurant racket” is being probed in New York, It’s about time the anti-noise commission got around to those saxophne __ nner nanssienetttas Naa ‘Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. estions pertaining to health but not dis- 6 in ink. easenar Uinwacsin. “Write letters, briefly. am ress se oF ie! Brady in care of ‘The relb ‘All queries must be accompanied by & tamped, self-addressed envelope. GIVE ME A DIPPER OF MILK I CAN DRINK Disillusionment. I never quite understood what that means until I re- visited the old swimming hole in McKechnie’s woods after thirty years, It was pretty‘painful, I felt glad, at any rate, that I had never told a son sbout that swimming hole and the exploits we boys achieved there. It ts astonish- ing fact contracts and fiction expands with the years. It is still more how you come to believe your own yarns in time. I am crazy about milk fresh from the cow, for two reasons. going across the street for our milk when I was a kid dipperful which the kindly old German woman always e came for the milk. Second, I recall as fondly a drive our own kids a few miles south of town, out in the hills, & back road, where, if we timed our arrival accurately, e farmer send his collie down the valley, over the bridge to drive in the cows, and then stand by while he milked, dipperfuls as the good tomach at time. I'd be willing to travel by almost the air for a week for the privilege of taking that ten the late summer or early autumn, after a rain. Wow! it makes my stomach water. A good goat dairyman, learning of my fondness for milk fresh from the cow, and of my endorsement of goat's milk as a safe and wholesome raw milk for infants or invalids, drove some forty miles as fast as possible with @ quart of goat's milk to a publishing office where the good man assumed I worked, I learned some weeks afterward that the boys in the office pro- Rounced the milk excellent. I was miles away. Finally, a man who markets a fine high-grade raw milk milked some into a vacuum bottle and rushed it over the mountain to my playroom one morning, still warmish and darn good milk, yet . . . Some day before I die I’m going to get another dipperful of milk au . Maybe I keep putting off the day because of the way the old swimming hole betrayed me. Meanwhile, my notion of # royal treat is plenty of plain fresh milk, oh, say @ quart, with something to nibble along with it. Not only because I like milk, but because I consider it the most perfect health food. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS T notte the enn jimbo’ alvored notice you use the term ‘1 for baby girl or boy. In the Jtejian idiom il bimbo is boy baby, 1 bimbi the boys, la bimba the girl, and le bim! the girls . . . (A. De C.) Answer—Thank you. I wish I had known when getting out the Better Baby Book a few months ago. No bimbos in I have everything else pretty well up-to-date in it. address, Hi “ & & i i ge ie i Be : E H ° $ z g Rees B 24 a = : Meat and Meat Extractives Tf a man has been advised by his physician to abstain from meat, it be all right for him to eat soups made with meat stock or consomme or bouillon? (M. J. R.) is no significant difference between meat and such meat extractives, except that the extractives give flavor without nutriment. Specific Disease . I may be morbid-minded, but I should like to have an intelligent ides of what syphilis and gonorrha are. (Miss W. 8.) Answer—Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for mono- graphs on syphilis and gonorrhea. Wormy Obsession Grandmother believes when child seems restless, irritable or feverish, with flushed cheeks yet pale white lines around the mouth, worm medicine should be given. (Mrs. G. W.) Answer—At least two-thirds of children who harbor worms never pres- ent such symptoms, and most children who present such symptoms have no worms, Instead of experimenting on the child with “worm” remedies, some of which are worthless against worms, others dangerous, why not give the child the benefit of medical advice? ~ (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) jmy business. I want {t to keep on going like clockwork.” Gal—Did they gain any business after they added those two cannibals to the sideshow? Barker — Yes, they some business, but they lost the fat lady. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY “My dear, isn’t that the “Sextette from Lucia” the orchestra is playing?” “No, I think it is a Editor: I want you to go out and interview that inventor who's just from | tested his new sheet-metal placard posted in the space where the names of the selections played usually are placed. She returned to her part- wrong. It's the ‘Refrain from io) “I have to be on my way, girls. I’m going to wind up my business.” “But why? Everything is going like clock work.” “Sure, that’s why I'm winding up “I hear you attended Professor Noodle's fiery lecture. Did his ner, “My dear, we are both Smoking. RIAINICE.| vii TE] IAIRIE [Al BIE INIOMESITIAIGIE MAIWINIS! AIR IK MER IE TAISIOIN]S MESIE IC! SIT] TIOMES|t 14 Inner courte yard. 16 Unoccupied. U7 Opposite of ) Fl TICE TRIS) Sit (AIL IP] a AIGIAI TINIE SIL |AIM} ES ICEINITIVIRIY) isd iid ial il ad oar aaa @ io lid Qe Jee iol TE OMe gd