The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1936, Page 4

4 THE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, DECEMBEK 26, 1936 The Bismarck Tribune An independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) | ‘State, City and County Officia) Newspaner Published daily except Gunday by The Bismrack Tritune Company Bis- | marck, N. D. and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mali | matter. j Mrs. Stella 1. Mann | President and Publisher | Kenneth W Simons | Sec'y-Treas and Editor Archie O Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'l Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier per year ........ Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . Datly by mat) per year (in state outside of Bismarck) .. Datly by mat! outside of North Dakote . Weekly by mail in state per vear Weekly by mat) outside of North Di 4 Weekly by mail in Canada. per year .......... Member of the Associated Press The Associated (ress 1 exclusively entitied to the use for republica i tion of ‘he ne: eh credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this Rewepaper and oc All cighta of tepubiication ef all other matter her Who Goes Haywire? Embezzlements end defalcations by trusted officials and employes cost American business $200,000,000 a year, accord- ing to a study by a big Baltimore Insurance company, so it set| out to find out why. | Tt learned, first of all, that the typical American embezzler is a white-collar worker, 36 years old, with a wife and two chil-| dren, He lives in a fairly good neighborhood, has had good up- | bringing and background and a high school education or better. He lives comfortably, often giving his wife and friends the im-| pression that his salary is higher than it actually is. He owns an automobile, travels during his annual two-week vacation, is a “good mixer” and will take a drink, but almost never during | business hours. He is employed in every type of business, is| competent on his job and has really earned the position of trust which enables him to “go south” with some one’s else moncy.; Usually he has a better-than-average business reputation and} prospects for the future. Why, then, does he violate the trust which has been placed | g in him? The answer to that is as varied as the individual and the circumstances in which he lives. Sometimes he gets into trouble | simply because he is a poor business man, obtaining or extend ing credit unwisely. Sometimes he is overly ambitious, oper-| ating a business of his own on the side. When that gets into) trouble he “borrows” from his employer’s funds to pull it out. Sometimes he permits debts to accumulate and takes money to| ease their pressure. His wife may be a spendthrift or a nagger, discontented unless they can “keep up with the Joneses.” Unusual circum- stances such as illness or invalidism of a wife and child may | put him under pressure. Other family troubles may make him deel reckless and every once in a while he becomes involved with | “another woman,” stealing money that he may spend reck- lessly on her. Over-indulgence in liquor, gambling or speculation play a “part, \as do unexpected emergencies, such as death, illness or} unforseen losses. A peculiar thing is that, when discovered, he almost never runs away—unless there is another woman in the case. Then he may be expected to “fly the coop.” The usual thing is for) him to either commit suicide or stay and face the music. news of spontaneous origin published herein n are also reserved. ‘In the 1,001 cases studied there were 963 men and 38) Republicans among the 435 members women. The men earned an average of $175 a month and the} of the house, women $115. The youngest embezzler was 18 years old and the! oldest 85. There is only one generality which applies to the majority cf cases and that was the tendency of embezzlers to live beyond their means. Executives with employes who handle money, and employes themselves, should keep that in mind. The man who demon-| strates competence in managing his own affairs and ability to live within his income is quite likely to prove the best risk} when entrusted with a position of financial responsibility. Into the Light of Day Tf you are easiiy shocked be prepared to shudder frequently during the next few years for the cold fact is that syphilis and gonorrhea, hitherto mentioned only under the general term of “social diseases” are going to be mentioned more and more frequently in the public print—and by their correct names. | Reasons for this are the increased funds available to the| U. S. Public Health Service by reason of the Social Security act and the decision of Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the} public health service, to make venereal diseases the next im- portant point of attack in the effort to improve the health of the nation. Backing the movement is the American Social Hygiene association which has long recognized the advisability of doing something about an evil which is all the harder to combat be- cause it is difficult to bring it out of the shadows and into the light of day. The importance of the situation, according to Dr. William F. Snow, general director of the association, is shown by the fact that approximately 6,000,000 men, women and children in this country are afflicted by syphilis and about 12,000,000 with gonorrhea. A good many, of course, are troubled with both diseases. The age group reporting the largest number of infections is that from 16 to 30. These ailments strike most seriously at those in the lower | economic strata only because they remain infected longer. They | lack the finances to obtain treatment whereas, when it strikes | in the wealthier classes, which it does all too frequently, they ure better able to deal with it. Outside of a natural desire to assist in cleaning up the con- ditions which now exist there is plenty of reason for the citizen to interest himself as a taxpayer, Both diseases are curable but lack of treatment or repeated infection seriously handicaps thousands of persons. Eventually they may wind, up in free hospital wards, as the charges of visiting nurse associations, |¢ | ‘BARBS in insane asylums or as pensioners of the state because they | are blind. Statistics for North Dakota are not available but it is fairly safe to say that the population of such institutions as our insane asylums, the school for feeble-minded and the school for the blind would be materially reduced in time if these dis- eases could be eradicated. That is reason enough to wage unremitting warfare with- out regard to the physical suffering, the broken homes and the ruined lives which can be traced to these enemies of mankind. Beariy tore tao pareet Pree tans igi eas td And, incidentally, how'are the ts doing? | a oir lal hese Mokment sap ait Be got. for hike pains. | jously | to control a house with a majority | Snell of New York. (occ cee eo ccoc coc coocccs, ssl - SC enes Washington a ee | New Congress Will Wrestle With Issues That May Shape U. 8S. His- tory for Many Years, (This is the first of a series of six stories, in which Rodney Dutcher, NEA Service and Bis- mary Tribune Washington corres- pondent, discusses the problems facing the next congress, By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 26.—The 78th congress, which meets Jan. 5, and President Roosevelt, who will be in- augurated Jan. 20, will take office under the impetus of a “mandate” | backed by a plurality of 11,000,000 votes. 50 what? It will be difficult for this congress | to avoid making history—even if It tries. For one thing, this will be the first time a president and a new con- gress ever have come into office within three months of election time. The Norris “lame duck” amend- ment to the constitution is now fully operative, and now may be tested the theory that popular government is best attained when the federal elec- tive officials come fresh from victory at the polls to take their seats. Never before has one political party dominated both house and sena 9 overwhelmingly as will the so-called Democratic party in the next two years. If the president is to haye effective opposition, it must come from Democratic ranks. It seems a preposterous idea that any picce of legislation might pass against Rooeevelt’s wishes. It is likely —but far from certain—that Roose- velt can have from congress what- ever he demands, * * % Important Issues Faced Roosevelt and congressional lead- ers are in huddles as this is written. But the administration's legislative program will be developed gradually s the session progresses, rather than all at once. Measures to restrict the U. 8. su- preme court's veto power over the legislative and executive branches of government, wage and hour legisla- tion, federal housing subsidies, relief expenditures and budget-balancing, neutrality, crop insurance and farm | tenancy, government reorganization— all those issues will be prominently before congress, The’ safest prediction is that this ion will be extremely busy and at it will not be short. To be settled at the outset is a bitter contest for the majority leader- ship of the House between Sam Ray- burn of Texas and John J. O'Connor of New York, Speaker William H. Bankhead of Alabama will be chosen again without opposition. Roosevelt has announced flatly that he is taking no part in this battle, but so many of his confidantes and liaison men are working tor Ray- burn that if O'Connor, a Tammany man, is chosen, insiders will construe his victory as a licking for the admin- istration and a portent of trouble ahead. There will be only 17 Republicans in the senate, several 6f them notor- independent in speech and vete, among 96 members. And only 89 * % % House Majority “Unwieldy” Old-timers say they'd rather try of only 10 or a dozen than one with a majority of a hundred. It is recalled that Roosevelt's first real troubles with congress began soon after the Democratic landslide of 1934. Some fear that this congress may break up! into blocs difficult to control. | Senate leadership will remain the; same—Joe Robinson of Arkansas as|* floor leader, Pat Harrison of Missis-| sippi as whip and Charlie McNary} of Oregon ittular leader of the small) Republican minority. Vandenberg of Michigan is expected | to be the outstanding Republican | spokesman and will have as much as anyone to do with shaping the pro- grams which Republicans hope to formulate for use in the campaigns of | 1939 and 1940. { The mjnority leader on the house! side will again be Congressman Bert The 75th congress will be more liberal than the 74th, especially if you count in an increased number of those who professedly are strong New Dealers, But there is little chance that Townsendites, Coughlanites, or other inflationists will throw monkey wrenches into the wheels. + + * Several Powers Expire First executive powers to expire by limitation are the authority to de- value the dollar and use devaluation “profit” of $2,000,000,000 as a stabiliz- ation fund. Roosevelt wants both these extended beyond Jan. 30. Other powers or agencies expiring are: Lending power of RFC and of Electric Home and Farm Authority, Feb. 1; use of government securities for Federal Reserve notes, March 3; appropriations for CCC, March 31; Federal Housing Authority moderniz- | ation loans, April 1; May 1; State Department's authority to negotiate trade agreements, June 12; prohibition of interstate ship- ments of oil above quota, June 16; three-cent letter rate and various excise or “nuisance” taxes, WPA, PWA and Resettlement Administra- ‘tion, June 30. Under a joker in the first defi- ciency bill of 1936, most of the emer- gency agencies will die at the end of this fiscal year unless continued by special act. after I got out and turned around to/ thank the gentleman who had given! me a ride gone.” coming to you, girlie.” “Oh, thank, you darling, but I'd, Mr. Neurich—That isn’t necessary, rather have ermine.” doctor; I can afford somethting im- | ported! PBeople aay Tia ve eyes ag iuetakc Any wife can tell you that a letter father.” dis yere Stone Age?” trumps.” going to have appendicitis, you'll just have to wait. ‘propose. Why, my husband acted 1ike! defense against national suicide. That | thought. | wite informed Weary Willie. Neutrality Act, | (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) ——_..— + o——____________¢ Mussolini plans to tour the “toe” of the boot-shaped Italian peninsula, and anti-Fascists hope he gets a kick out of it. ee % Extent of birth control influences may be indicated by the “No child- ren Allowed” sign over the maternity ward in a Honolulu hospital. +e % China has opened a strategic rail- road, which solves perfectly that troop transportation problem Japan's war Ceara In a duel, both a Budgpest attor- ney and his opponent were wounded. Prébably pure carelessness. : Eugene O’Neill Gets Prize in Five Acts Pe cccec cc cccccs coc cccces coc cccocccororccccs. MR. O'NEILL =—— 45,000 BUCKS 1S ALOT OF DOUGH IN ANY LANGUAGE crpancel INTERLUDE BIf OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 1S RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN os “Where is the car?” plied. “Just gimme the grub an’ I'l! feed myself.” | Rube—Sally, will you marry me? Sally—Sure, (Silence from Rube.) Sally — Why don’t you say some- thing else, Rube? Rube—I think I have said too much demanded Mrs.|already. Dages. “Dear me!” ejacu-| “How's things, mister?” lated Professor, “On, I have to scratch for a living.” Daggs, “Did I take} “What do you do?” the car out?” “I'm a furniture mover.” “You certainly did! | You drove it to; “Darling, I have a terrific hangover town.” this mozning.” “How odd! I remember now that} “Well, well! You must have looked on. the wine when it was red.” the whiskey when it was} I wondered where he had| green.’ “| Dentist—-I am going to administer ‘I'll bet a coat of tan would be be-}@ local anesthetic before I extract your tooth, | | carrier is an absent-minded male man, a ee SO THEY SAY American pacifism is -harming the cause of peace by strengthening the aversion of the American people ; against participation in foreign strug- Wifie—Well, I need a new gown, so | gles and endeavors—Prof. Albert Ein- vets “Uh, huh, pop-eyed.” “An’ did dey evah play poker in| Ge “Dedd dey did, an’ clubs was always: Husband—I feel as though I were * Oe * Soil conservation is the last line of Beile—Hoy silly men are when they} a fool. | defense must go on.—Secretary of Ag- Nell — That's just what everybody’ riculture Henry A. Wallace. * OK Ow Perhaps one thing in particular the “I never feed tramps,” the house-| college student needs to learn is the art of courtship, now known as pet- The high art of loving must be “I ain't askin’ yer ter lady,” he re-j ting. J Ameri Writ s: R - i» HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle 12 For fear that, 1,7 Nobel Prize 14 Ready. Ve fon 15 To sin. 13 Trap. 18 Form of “be.” 14 Beer. 19 To help. 16 Chests. 23 Beer. APTS quote: 24 Zoological 18 Arment: garden. 20 Headlani 21 Hawaiian bird [Tip mC! 26 Wireman, 22To martyr. 29To delay 25 Street. punishment. 26 Artifice. 30 Constellation 27 To accomplisk 31 Golf device. 28 Banal. 34 Weight 30 Work of skill. 51 Bad. 2 Mussel. inspector. 32Silkworm, 53 Like. 3 Pistol. 35 A tie. 33 Attempted. 54 Half an em. 4 Living in 37 Long tooth. 34 Tiny 55 Deportment. solitude. 39 To give surgi- discoloration, 56 He was once i cal care. 36 Era. — SNortheast. 49 Feather 38 Erring. 57 ‘And for a 6 He is a front- 43 To relieve. 40 Father. short time an rank —— 44 Cravat. 41 Sloth. — (pl.). (p1.). 45 Breakwater 42 Kind of nun. 8 North 46 Without. 45 Postscript. VERTICAL America. 48 To immerse. 47 Guided. 10One who. 9 Sea eagle. 50 Stream. 49 Plaguing. accompanies 10Frozen water.52 Behold. 59 Inlet. another. 11 Girl. 55 Mountain. learned if leisure time is to be well spent.—Dr, Walter Stone, Nashville, | Tenn, * * * Americans are the world’s greatest lovers of the irrational. Compared to} Americans, the French are narrow, drearily practical, and bound to real- ity.—Salvador Dali, Catalonian paint- er. * OK O* People who think it is nice to live so long don’t know what they're talk- | ing about. They're crazy; it isn’t nice Lyons, N. Y. * % It doesn’t take much skill to drive @ new model car, but it does take a| ;Whole lot of sanity. — Barney Old- field, old-time auto racer. eee Today, vaster changes impend than ever before in all man's history. Many of them favor older people. But how few older people see them! They are beclouded by the mists of memory.— | Walter Pitkin. * * Ok The nations of ‘the western hem- isphere may well become the reposi-!, . jus call it What-a-name) to provide vitamin C? . | wroee------. | Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer questions pertaining a be ease or diagnosis. Write letters bi jk. A Brady in ci e Tribune. All queries must ee accompanied by stamped, dressed envelope, th but ni THE EASY TO DIGEST FALLACY Many physicians and specialists still exclude from the diet or restrict the allowance of dark meats in certain circumstances, though there is no good reason for this, Years ago the doctors imagined “dark” meat contained more uric acid forming material than light meat, but precise chemical meas- urements of the proportion of purines (nitrogenous material from which uric acid is derived) show that there is no significant difference between light and dark or white and red meat in that respect. For that matter, it is far from an established fact that uric acid is a cause of any ailment. One has to accept the uric acid theory on faith alone, and precise measurement of the amount of uric acid in the blood in a given case is as likely to dis- appoint as it is to bear out the theory. In his classical work “Preventive Medicine and Hygiene,” Rossenau falls into this traditional error when he says (p. 733) “In fact, pasteurization tends to make the eurds smaller and in this way perhaps easier to digest.” Except in the imagination of the old timers, there is no ground for the notion that milk is more digestible if the curds, which naturally form dur- ing digestion, are kept smaller than normal by the physical or chemical change brought about by heating or otherwise processing the Sleepy, backward practitioners, family doctors and specialists, still frown upon “fried foods” and imply that a fried potato or a fried egg or fried fish or fried meat is more “difficult to digest” than a baked, steamed, boiled, or otherwise cooked or half raw piece of meat or other item. Actual investiga- tion of this question, however, showed the notion is just as groundless as most of the other quaint dietetic views which are still imposed upon un- sophisticated patients. In his little book, “What We Eat and What Hap- pens to It” (Harpers). Hawk says: “Our (volunteer subjects) stomachs did not share the popular prejudice against fried foods. In fact, the average emptying time (period when stomach digestion is finished and the material passes on into duodenum) for fried potatoes was shorter than that for baked and boiled potatoes.” Prof. Hawk further observed that French fried potatoes tarried 40 per cent longer in the stomach than German fried. If they were the humbug French fried you get in 97 per cent of Yankee eating places, no wonder; under that name the restaurants in this country generally serve the soggiest mess imaginable. Anything soggy digests more slowly. Besides, it is no fun chewing soggy stuff and darn little pleasure eating it—and the masticating and the pleasure of eating have a great deal to do with the efficiency of digestion, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Calories in Beer Can you tell me how many calories in a twelve ounce bottle of beer? ++. (C, A.M) Answer—About 175 calories. Pint of milk yields 320 calories—12 ounces pg milk yields 240 calories. Cold Sores Can you suggest something to relieve cold sores? I have them fre~ quently and sometimes they last a long time. I have tried vaseline, slycerif and camphor but these seem to increase the irritation ... (N. 8.) Answer—Try frequent applications of tannipaste. You will find a tube of this excellent for chapping and for burns, It contains tannic acid and chlorbutanol which is locally sedative or anesthetic. Vitamin C and A Son, 15, and self, 56, have for three years taken milk sweetened with chocolate syrup. Is this harmful in any way? What do you think of (let . (W. B. T.) Answer—The chocolate milk is harmless. Fresh home grown fruits or their juices, in season, are the“best sources of vitamin C. Adequate daily lration of vitamin C for adults in two or three ounces of freshly expressed orange juice, freshly expressed tomato jucie, or vacuum process canned tomato juice from freshly opened can. Any such fruit, vegetable or juice jon standing in the air loses vitamin C strength through oxidation. Home canned fruit or juice is deficient in vitamin C because of oxidation during ‘cooking. Little or no oxidation occurs when the food 1s cooked or heated in ©! vacuum (hermetically sealed cans entirely filled so that no air is contained tin can). ‘and perhaps 20 units of vitamin A. An ounce of tomato juice (fresh or at all—Mrs. Samuel Cuddeback, 96,/ factory canned) contains 14 or 15 units of vitamin © and perhaps 170 units An ounce of orange juice contains 14 or 15 units of vitamin C of vitamin A, Orange juice yields 12 calories, tomato juice 6 calories per ounce, Comparative costs depend on season and geography. In infant | feeding, or in household economy, factory canned tomato juice is quite as | Satisfactory as any other source of vitamin C and especially valuable as a jsource of vitamin A. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) tory of civilization if another great eeouna myself. I haven't had to give war breaks out in Europe.—Henry I./¥UP my career, and I haven't been \Harriman, former president, U. 8. Meelecled, elienMey Wert, Chamber of Commerce. ! The oak is the tree most frequently cbretad ‘struck by -ligntning. England has Well, the king's business seems to had no record of a beech, birch, horse be everybody's business these days./chestnut, or holly being struck since . I've never had that love and duty | 1832. The HOLIDAY a MYSTERY. HERE TODAY ty of the Chris hon 1 ending. when PEARL FOREST, oldest af three ts found den: thront, beneath tree. ‘There are many strange things “Thunder Mesa,” beald fact that ench of the three Pes PEARL youngest, PEARL PIERRE next. the ‘household a a RAM i ANGELAGUE ABFYTA, Ruenis t FRORBSSOH S SHA ad BOB GRAMA’ jopped at t car broke dow It {s Ramon who finds Pearl Sam's body. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VI IENEVER Bob tried to re- member just what had hap- pened in the next few hours, he was always conscious of the ‘utter confusion that gripped the house- hold. People hurried up and down the halls, and in and out of the littered rooms, aimlessly doing un- necessary things, as though to ease the horror that held them. Pearl Pierre, now head of the family, took charge of affairs and issued orders to have the house chapel put in order to. receive his brother’s body. A careful examina~ | oy) tion showed that Pearl Sam had been dead for some time there un- der the Christmas tree. A candle, just above him, had burned itself out and dripped on the gold signet ting on his outspread hand. “They shouldn’t move the body until we send down for the sher- iff,” Bob protested to Ramon as they stood, watching the servants lift the limp form. “Think we ought to remind Pearl Pierre of that?” “He may have forgotten,” agreed . “These sudden cases are hard to handle, you know.” Accordingly they moved over to Pearl Pierre's side. He was stand- a‘word. Then a sneer came over Fy & e de Forest hacienda, ‘others, ith ‘a knife in his the Christmas He smiled a little. “He|Bob reflected as he stopped to little enough time there|look more closely at one particu- while he was alive, Heaven|larly morbid example of the friars’ knows. All this riff-raff coming | art. in here tonight, which Pearl John * # # picked up anywhere, the wonder is we weren't all killed where we eee Gyehe ball to tne sroom him.” spent j | Party. stood!” “You think he was murdered during the party?” asked Bob in astonishment. “Why not?” Pearl Pierre turned to him. “What is your opinion of his death? Maybe you know more about it than you'd like to have us think.” With this acid thrust, he walked after the Mexicans as they moved slowly out the door with their burden. “A pretty mess we're in now!” growled Ramon. “That fellow isn’t above putting the blame for this on any one of us. Don’t lose: sight of the fact that he’s the one who really profits by his brother's death.” oe 8 PEARL JOHN, approaching then, made further discussion impos- sible. “My brother asked me to re- mind you that no one is to leave the mesa until this is cleared up,” Pearl John was saying. After Pearl John had walked away Bob tried to reason things it. Betty seemed to be busy taking care of the old lady, and Ramon. was talking in low tones to Ange- lique—evidently trying to soothe her shattered nerves. The girl’s coquetry had vanished entirely after the tragedy, and she was plainly on the verge of collapse. eee PROFESSOR SHAW, alone, seemed unexcited over Pearl Sam’s death. He appeared to view the catastrophe as he might have looked on an in’ » unusual scientific development. Still Bob waited, wondering what he should do next, and why Pearl Pierre did not come back to tell them what he expected them todo. Suddenly it occurred to him that he might ‘busy him- self putting things in some sort of order in the big rooms. Accord- ingly, be began moving chairs and couches back into place, and clearing away the litter of ash- trays and cigaret stubs left by the low cold and forbidding the big rooms looked now, with the fires dying down in the fireplaces and the strange gaunt figures of the little Santos staring down from their niches! “Something like giving a dance in a chapel,” where the Christmas tree stood, ‘he hesitated a moment in the doorway, wondering if anything should be done about that awful spot on the floor. Since they had not thought it necessary to leave the body where it could be ex- amined by the sheriff, perhaps it would be as well to cover that spot up, too. Bob stooped to draw the edge of an Indian blanket over it, when Pearl Pierre’s voice de- manded behind him; “May I ask what you are look- ing for in here?” “Why—why nothing,” Bob gasped. “I just thought it might look better if that was out of sight.” He pointed to the blood stain. “I see.” From the other man’s tone, Bob gathered the impression that Pearl Pierre thought he saw a good deal more than he was mentioning. “You seem to find a number of things to interest you in this room,” he went on. His cold voice and level stare. made the hot blood rush to Bob’s forehead. For a minute he had a wild impulse to grasp that dark throat in both his hands. Then he shrank back, aghast at the thought. Was he losing his mind, too? Just when he needed to see things clearly, if he was to get Betty and himself safely out of this mess. With an effort Bob managed to control his feelings and, not trusting himself to an- swer Pearl Pierre, he turned and walked out of the’ room, But after the houschold had re- tired for the night Bob was to re- | member again that incident in the death room, and wonder just how Pearl Pierre would turn it to suit his own ends. Bob was convinced now that Pearl Pierre was the murderer, He was just dropping off into an exhausted sleep when a woman's shrill cries came to his ears from a room on the other side of the courtyard on which his windows opened. Betty! Could anything be hap- pening to her? Throwing on his coat, Bob rushed, barefoated, out into the pease ran across the cracked voice rose in hysterical wails, She was accusing Pearl Pierre, and then Pearl John, of the murder. (To Be Continued)