The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1936, Page 6

Ses 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 Bismrack Tribune Cumpany. Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as secund class mal! matter, Mrs..Stella 1, Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W Simons Archie O Johnson Sec'y-Treas and Editor Vice Pres. and Gen’ Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance | Daily by carrier per year .........+ . oe Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck) Datly by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state. per year Weekly by mai) outside of North Dakota, p Weekly by mail in Canada, per year ... Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation | Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press {s exclusively entitled to the use for republica tion he news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Rewspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Farmers’ Conference? Little success attended the drouth committee’s hearing here Monday. Farmers had been invited and 60 of them came, accord- ing to the register which was signed by those present. But only three who were farmers—real farmers—had a chance to say anything. The time which they might have used to express their views was taken up by officials of various boards and agencies who saw in the meeting an apportunity to toot their own horns. This was not the fault of Chairman Cooke or the other two committee members. They asked, even urged, the farm- ers present to express themselves but just about the time a farmer approached the point where he had nerve enough to stand up and say what was on his mind, another official of some sort or other had popped into the breach and the farmer’s mustering of self-confidence was in vain. Psychologically the conference was interesting. From a constructive standpoint, whatever it cost the government was wasted. The officials who took occasion to make reports on what they had been doing—or what they thought—told nothing | new. The members of the drouth committee must have known it because every private citizen present did. This is no disparagement on the work the government and its agencies is doing. That work received the complete en- corsement of the three farmers who did get a chance to speak. They reported that the things which have been developed in theory are—many of them—working out in practice. Thus a farmer from Park River told about conditions in his area last Friday, when a dust storm blew across the state. The land in the demonstration area did not blow. That just outside of it did blow. So far as he has seen, the practices which have been introduced there by the soil conservation serv- ice are proving successful. He will know more about it at this time next year when production figures are available. Dams received universal endorsement. They are almost a fetish in this area, a sacred cow which can do no wrong. Crimes may be committed in the name of dam building and the civic consciousness will not even shudder. The idea of building dams has taken hold of the public ccnsciousness in much the same way that bonanza wheat took hold of it a generation ago. There was much talk of water. That theme dominated the conference. But there was no real discussion of the possible use of the Missouri river, the one great water resource this area has. The committee was afraid to get into that field be- cause it feared to become involved in the discussion of indi- vidual projects, of which there are many. They didn’t want io take the chance of getting into deep water. The Missouri river diversion project apparently has be- come such a nightmare to government officials that every time use of the river’s water is mentioned they see a horde of prop- agandists pursuing them in behalf of a high dam across the stream. And the very idea makes them shudder. As a result, they are afraid even to have public discussion of what might be termed lesser uses for river water. On the basis of the evidence adduced at the meeting here the report made by the committee last September will be little changed. At least it will not be greatly influenced by any- thing said to the committee by farmers. If the latter have anything to say they can probably write to the committee, or tu their congressman, and win recognition. They couldn’t get it in the game of freezeout which they went up against Mon-| day with the official disposition to talk handing them cards from a marked deck. Devil and the Sea Attendance at the drouth conference here Monday was limited somewhat, at least on the part of “bigwigs,” by the fact that the National Reclamation association was meeting at the same time in Seattle. : There officials of the western states which KNOW they ere located in an arid or a semi-arid section of the globe, are getting together to “put the heat” on the government for more projects such as Grand Coulee in Oregon, Hoover Dam on the Colorado river and the host of others which have brought money and production to the mountain states and those on the Pacific slope. The effects of that conference will be seen in the next con- gress—as will that of the conference here—but it is a safe bet that the acknowledged reclamationists will get more spectacular results than will be achieved by persons from this area. Why shouldn’t they? They always have. The reason, perhaps, is that in the government’s thinking, as well as in our own, we are neither fish, flesh nor fowl from an agricultural standpoint. We aren’t a farm area in western North Dakota as one thinks of farming in more humid regions, for that. kind of farming has definitely failed here. We aren’t a ranch area because we have plowed up our range land and put it into farms. We aren’t an irrigated section because there is always the hope that it will rain. And we haven’t been able to produce satisfactoryily without irrigation, even outside the drouth years, because it hasn’t rained enough. Meantime we have 57,000 families on relief with the prospect of 70,000 before spring. The- government is going to spend millions to maintain the old economy, but it is afraid to spend a minor fraction of that amount in cooperation toward a substantial change in the current situation. Both the goverament and the people are caught between the devil and the deep sea and all are confused by intermin- able talking and plans which never get off of paper. It looks as though it were time for the people to make up their minds, then help the government to make up its mind. es - Behind the Washington Spain's Learned Ambassador to U. 8. Sits in Lonesome Splendor and Wonders and Wonders . . . Lays Blame for Atrocities on Germans, Italians, and Moors .. . AW the People Against Rebels ,Envoy De- clares. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Noy. 24.—In the most beautiful of the embassy buildings in Washington, alone among beautiful portraits of fat, powder-wigged ladies of the ancient Spanish court and many other aristocratic trappings, is a amiddie-aged professor of great learning and distinction, who muses over the relative ease with which this country accepted a New Deal, He is Don Fernando de los Rios, the Spanish ambassador, until recently president of the University of Madrid. He is short, has a black beard, wears spectacles, and speaks in a soft, mus- ical voice. His eyes sometimes {fill with tears. He is one of the world’s most edu- cated men, an internationally known authority on philosophy, medicine, political science, economics and law. The Spanish republic successively made him minister of justice, minister of education, and minister of foreign affairs. * * * Aides Leave Him Alone One by one the aristocrats and army officers of the embassy staff slipped off as the cables told of General Franco's advances, until finally De los Rios was left alone with a couple of servants. The servants spend much time watching for Spanish news on the news-ticker which ts out behind # palm in the embassy’s marvelous patio, a great, high, brilliantly decor- ated space with delicate white pillars, a fountain, and'many Spanish plants. De los Rios sits down and says there are things he cannot under- stand—why the Spanish people could not achieve social and economic prog- ress without inciting the wealthy land-owners and the army to a cam- paign of mass murder; how the clvil- ized world can accept the ravish- ment of Spain by half-savage Moors and mercenary Foreign Legion troops, or the massacre of women and child- ren in the bombardment of Madrid; how it ever came about that the Spanish situation was so misrepre- sented in the American political campaign as to convince many Amer- icans that Communism and religion were issues primarily involved. “These people are not Spaniards who bomb and burn our churches and museums and seats of culture in Ma- drid,” insists the ambassador. “The pilots are either Italians or Germans. No Spaniard would bomb our women and children ag they wait in line for milk.” * * * Tells of Outrages De los Rios produces clippings of uncensored dispatches to the Man- chester Guardian. He reads that 8,- 000 people were executed by rebels in Seville, that 1,500 citizens were shot down in a small town he knows well, that in Badajoz the Franco troops gathered the poorly dressed people and killed them in batches, that in Seville they killed all the Free Masons they could find. He tells of the murder of the dean of the school of philosophy at the University of Granada whom he knew, of an austere, stoic 70-year-old labor leader who diced shouting “Viva Soc- jalismo!” before a firing squad, of the execution of the internationally fa- mous poet, Frederico Garcia Lorca by Moors. “Now I read,” he says, “that ‘Fresh Moors have arrived.’ Fresh Moors! Fresh Moors! It is @ war of Moors and mercenary troops against labor unions, the intellectuals, the republic, and all liberty-loving social forces. “There were no Communists in our government when this war began. How can these things be accepted by the world today as a legal form of of war? It is a form of conquest new in the world. An army has turned against a nation.” * ex | All the People on One Side Imagine, De los Rios suggests, Mus- solini bombarding Rome or Hitler Berlin. At least those dictators stirred up the people and achieved some mass support, he says, In Spain, he claims, the “people” are all on one side. The most radical thing the Span- ish republic did, Del los Rios says, was to pass a law under the constitu- tion to modify the topheavy concen- tration of land ownership by spend- ing 52,000,000 pesetas a year to buy up and redistribute land. He display’s Spain’s national budg- ets for past years, showing how an eight-year plan for 20,000 primary schools—which he himself launched— has been half completed since the monarchy went out. “If Madrid falls, the struggle will go on,” declares Ambassador De los Rios. ‘What can they do without the people? There will be mass sabotage unprecedented. The people will not work for these conquerors. No tri- umph will be possible.” (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) Vee ee ye | BARBS | —_$§__—_—_————+ A girl was shot out of a cannon at Toronto. We've heard a lot of can- non fodder, but never of cannon sis- ter. se We will just have to go on wondering how the European mess is going to turn out, until Prophet Farley returns from abroad. ee ® The Louisiana Moses to be just an ordinary baby. Our training teaches us it isn’t easy, nowadays, to pick up a tie: Peppiel “The first chauffeurs were brigands.” Judging from . their charges, some of the modern ones frequenily ae to TO Becoming a bowler and giving exhibitions is one way to earn pin. money. ** * ‘Trailers are fitted up as dental lab- Scenes eS No Marines! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1936 ! Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. jnegt!: alth ease or diagnosis. Jetfers y aa Ink. Address Dr. Brady in care of The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by & stamped, self-addressed envelope. Dr. Brady will ans but not dis- rt COUGH AND THE CIRCULATION The other day we told how cough can deceive. When it seems to come from deep in the chest the real source of the trouble may be entirely apart from the breathing organs. Pretty foolish to takeScough ,medicine when the cause of the cough is adenoids, simple coryza, chronic sinusitis or some irritation of the auditory canal, yet thousands do so every day. Chronic dry cough which comes on after undue exertion and accom- panies shortness of breath is a prominent compliment in some cases of heart disease. This may be the complaint which first brings the heart trouble to the attention of the physician. In such cases most likely there is no “murumu” or other marked sign of heart trouble elicited by casual exam- ination, but the diagnosis may be made by finer analysis of the disturbed rhythm and other evidence obtained by electrocardiograph. must remember that the great vagus or pneumogastric (tenth cranial) nerve supplies both the heart and the lungs. During a fit of coughing the blood pressure in the vital coronary ar- tery (which supplies blood, oxygen, to the heart itself) falls to practically zero, so that for a time no blood with its fresh oxygen reaches the hard- working heart muscle. The coughing spell, which raises blood pressure iu the systematic circulation and also the (intrathoracic) pressure within the chest, leaves the heart inadequately filled with blood and the pulses rela- tively empty. You try it on the dog if you know how to feel your pulse and have nothing serious the matter with your heart or arteries. First notice the size of the pulse, then have a hard coughing fit, cough and cough for @ score of times, and note how the pulse wave thins down or disappears. Then recover and take a few free full breaths and feel the pulse wave coming back to normal size and fullness. In a patient gravely ill of pneumonia such a strain on the heart might have fatal results. So it becomes obvious that cough may be symptoms or signs of a disease affecting the circulation, or a factor of serious disturb- ance of the circulation. szi| In any case it is rather a bootless business treating cough unless you know the cause of it and are sure the remedy you choose will not do more harm than good. In my judgment the popular habit of resorting to one or another nostrum which purports to ease or stop cough is the straw that turns the scale against recovery in many cases. It is always a serious After all we" better be left to the physician. pimples, but very good results are BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 1S RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Judge — Twenty days for vagrancy. Lock him up, Dan. Prisoner — But, Your Honor, I am not as corrupt as Swift, as dissipated as Poe, as depraved as Byron, or as per- vert as— Judge—That will do. Get the names of those other fellows, Dan, and bring them in. They're a bad lot. Bleeker and Meeker were chatting. Said Bleeker: “Don’t you sometimes say hasty words to your wife?” “Sure,” replied Meeker, “that’s the way I say, ‘Dont’ hit me,’ and, ‘Put down that vasel’” Country Cop (on guard at scene of tragedy): I tell you you can’t come in here.” Cub—But I’m a reporter. I’ve been sent to “do” the murder.” Cop—You're too late; the murder’s been done. Prof.—What do you mean by saying that Benedict Arnold was a janitor? Ferdie Frosh—The book says that} after his exile he spent tHe rest of life in @ basement. “I'm hungry.” “What?” “I said I was hungry.” “Sure, I'll take you home. car makes so much noise that I thought you said you were hungry.” “Who beat you up?” “You see it’s this way. girl to a restaurant and she found a This | I took my) | dents badly.—Robert M. Hutchins, fly in her soup. She called the waiter | and said: “Get this insect out of here.” “So what?” “So what? He threw me down a flight of stairs.” “My boyfriend’s perfume business went bankrupt last week.” “Tl bet it raised an awful stink among his creditors. “Til say! He paid off ten scents on the dollar.” Z easter |_ SO THEY SAY | I've never succumbed to marriage. An intellectual vagabond doesn’t take on ballast. — Harry Gerguson, alias “Prince Mike Homenoll) No formal education in a world like that of today can possibly be adequate to last its owner through life.—Dr. Harry W. Chase, chancellor of New York University. es Liquor alone can cause enough trouble. Why add women? — Louis Wulff, head of New York bartenders, opposing the affiliation of barmaids with his association. * Oe OK Birth control has liberated women so that, in addition to motherhood, they can have leisure, culture, and other things. But it breeds from the bottom and destroys from the top.— Will Durant. * eK Democracy . . . demands continuous sacrifice by the individual and more exigent obedience to the moral law than any other form of government.— Louis D. Brandeis, 80-year-old mem- ber of U. S. Supreme Court. * oe * The educational system has become a vicious circle. The teachers are badly educated. They educate their students badly. Some of the badly educated students become badly edu- cated teachers who educate their stu- University of Chicago president. | Popular HORIZONTAL 1,8 Actress called “Sweet- heart of the . 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Actress 16 She enter- tained the troops ——. 18 Wall hangings [AJRICI 20 She acted in [OINMMAIH] when OlOlL aA still a child. fTli] 271s fitting. 36 For nothing. 37 Fashions. 38 To make loose LN VERTICAL = 41 Finished. * 2 Envoy. 44To drive in. 3 Seasoning. 46 Electrical 4 Wrath. term. 5 Half anem. 47Sky color. 6 Paradise. 48 Prima donna 7To subside. 50 Pastry. 8 Junior. 52 Flying 9 Limb. mammal. 10 Ghose. 11 Crazy. Thin! roa pen in the the bob-sled. hay rick true yourself. oped ties either physician, doctor of divinity metaphysician by profession, though passed through ence ho revering Ul Sotony. tle F Copyright by Mabel Osgood Wright SYNOPSIS Christmas of 1913 1s only eight day: away. Ira Vance and his wife are wail ing wistfully for a reply to their letter Inviting their son, Emery, his wife, Elea- ‘cor, and their children, Tommy, eight, and Bess, five, to the House in the Glen tor Christmas. Emery, a self-made ex- ecutive in a big city, has not been home in five years. The elder Vance, firm by business reverses and dent, works on inventions dism! The Vances are them? Vance says that Eleanor has a hunger bred of loneliness on her face. The maid teturns without a letter from Emery. fra tells his wife to write three special delivery letters, one to Emery hinting that at last he has invented some- thing successful, one to Eleanor urging her to come, and one to little Tommy, and Bess. Mrs, Vance’s first letter has tain unopencd on Emery's desk, but Kitty Mack, his secretary, brings it to his attention along with another personal letter. He opens the latter, finding it is from a boyhood friend, Philip Knox. CHAPTER 1—Continued. aS Thus it ran: Southwest University, St. Stefano, California. Oear Old ‘Merry’ This name may put you in tune to hear from me after the long lapse, the reason for which it is foolish to explain as it is probably only the Will-o’-the- Wisp absorption in the people and things nearest to hand that holds us ail in thrall. ‘Two events have come during the past week, however, to shake me from the lethargy that sometimes falls on = teacher even in a young and pro- Eressive institution such as this, and make me feel the vital need of speech with you. First and foremost I am going East for the midwinter vacatior back to take a look at the “Tech” and then revisit Westover, the place from which you and I went forth to fight our way and that I have not seen during the intervening fifteen years. Of course it 1 quite different with you. Your homestead ties have never been broken. You doubtless have gone back to the Glen with your wife and children for sumrner vacations and other holida; so i'm asking you to write me about the old home town, its changes and improvements— and in particular—don't forget the Glen people. I'm wondering if Clara Ethe- tidge is there again, having tired of foreign travel. ik back to the days when you and I, with our broad axes, cut a trail through the pine woods, so that we could coast from the top of bird hill, over the river, into the valley Stick ink, re- bob-sled, and set us all to giggling until we flew into the great some halfway down hill, sticking like pins in a cushion. I hope, whatever else has changed about you, that the old laugh echoes J ‘The other matter that moved me to write is also to ask a favor, a serious request that might even be counted ‘an inconvenience to anyone born less hospitable than 4 Dr. Amunde has been speaking at the university. He is a most lovable and inspiring man, whose, interests are centered in the ethics of home life The Stranger at the Gate By MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT (Copyright, 1936, WNU Service and replaced it in the envelope, with a little dry clicking noise in his throat. The plunge frora pret ent to. past was too sudden. Knox’s ideal of his life was too far from the practical. Simple-minded Phil Knox, who al- ways had and always would believe in-| that everything and everyone could -|be taken at the face value, how little he realized the stress of New York business life. Vance, at first halt amused, presently began to re- sent the letter. . As he began to realize that he was expected not only to entertain a stranger during the busiest part of his year, but one whose ideals would hardly be filled by a formal dinner at a club, a theater party, or a New Year’s Eve supper in a Broadway restaurant, he growled to himself: “It is preposterous—I can’t and won't have the man. I must have Miss Mack look up the St. Stefano rates and wire that I shall not be in New York at Christ- too, how would Eleanor take it, thus having a stranger thrust upon her at a time of so many engagements, to say nothing of the round of Christmas trees at which she must exhibit the chil- dren? Truth be told, Vance really did not fear any opposition from his wife. She had recently acquiesced in anything he planned, though not perhaps with enthusiasm. This Before He Had the Will Te Meve He Was Listening. - Vance did not expect or miss, for during the last three or four years, since Betty had ceased to be a baby, the time that Vance ha given to his wife had grown less and less in exact proportion as the luxuries, that he would have said had/ were the price of his absence, had rt ‘You will find him Map taller has yet led for always away from which, however, I surmise was once his hom Joti! at last his inquiring nature has moved him to visit’ it anew. ‘Amunde is most anxious to see and modern spirit of Christmas increased. Thus he really did not notice that Eleanor’s vivacity, her individual viewpoint and. gift of self- expression was slowly passing into a studied reticence, or that her once frank, high spirits were turn- keeping |ing to a polite indifference as to what happened, During their first few married years Eleanor and Emery Vance had lived. in a simple suburban house, set in a bit of greenery. At this time they had given and taken risks as the young should, dreamed of deeper meaning than letter. | mere 2 ‘As to myse¥, I shall have my arms about your shoulders before the New Year. Your old friend, can one say more? PHILIP KNOX. that there was anything wrong or anything out of tune: how should he when he never paused to listen? question whether to attempt to ease or stop cough; a question which had QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Pimples and Sweets A bets you say candy, cake and other sweets are not the cause of pimples and that a person with pimples need not avoid such foods. B... (C. L. Answer—A wins the candy. Not only are such food NOT the cause of Ww.) obtained by increasing the intake of sugars and starches in the diet of persons with pustular acne. Overcoming Nervousness Please tell me whether nervousness can be overcome. (K. W.) Answer—Send ten cents coin and stamped addressed envelope for booklet “Chronic Nervous Imposition.” Decide whether you are @ Class A or Class B Neuritic, and govern yourself accordingly. John F. Dille Co.) - his wife, his reply would have been an astounded — course. Presently, a repetition of whistles and various signals told that it was not only noon, but one c’clock, and Vance, without closing his desk, dropped the blue-edged letter in his pocket, seized hat and cane and went out, meeting Kitty Mack in the passage-way exhaling fresh air and the excitement of her lunch hour. “Better wear your overcoat, Mr. Vance,’ she said with a pretty ma- ternal decision that was the reverse ‘weather has dropped and it’s windy besides. The girl always looked full at her employer when she spoke, with a cheerful convincing directness. Yet today Vance thought there was something questioning — even pity- ing—in her eyes, and wa: for the moment puzzled. Not heeding the warning about the coat, he pushed into the crowded elevator and shot down fo::rteen sto- ries to the street, but it was not until he had been ejected from the rotary glass door of the building that he realized the cold, or even that the girl had spoken of it. In- stead of going to the club where he usually lunched, he turned into a small grillroom near by, where the tables were partly separated by oak panels into little nooks. ‘There were but two of these coi partments unoccupied. Vance chose the furthest, a corner section and, while waiting the filling of his or- der, realized from, seeing the file on the rack that fe had not fin. ished his morning paper, an omis- sion that fairly jarred his sense of business method. As he rested the file frame against the wall, so that he might turn the paper with one hand, his eyes were held by a rectors of the Railway Equipment and Tool company, for the election of officers, will be held in the New York office of the company on merely be the cut and dried affair of several years past, and a new ticket may be presented. Emery ‘Vance, the president and manager, has always maintained a conserva- tive and tight-grip policy, that is deemed in some quarters perilous to healthy expansion.” For a moment the room whirled round. Then the folly of such a feeling of penis pulled Vance to- No matter how well-made coffee — may be, the blending of it with the sugar and cream is the critical test. Eleanor knew the art to perfection and when it was lacking, even though he was unconscious of it, the day began indifferently. Vance, however, had not formulated all this, but now he suddenly realized a discussion and responsibility, until he had come to consider it a profound wis: dom in which he took pride. Settling himself to his meal, he ‘was attracted by men’s voices com- ing from the next alcove; one tone was high-pitched and fluent, the other, deep and rather hesitant, an- t