The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1936, Page 4

a v ¥ ‘ 1 ‘ j ] An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER \ (Established 1673) State, City and County Official Newspaper ‘The Bismarck Tribune » Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- © maarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Kenneth W. Simons Sec'y-Treas, and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck). Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state per oo Weekly by mail outside of North Dak Weekly by mail in Canada, per year.. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Chemurgical Advance The fact that $40,000,000 is being spent on the construction of papermaking plants in the South is of interest to North Da- kota farmers despite the fact that this state has no considerable forest area and that we will reap no benefits from this develop- ment. j It is important because of the method by which this new industry was developed and the possibility of applying that method to our own region. The South always has been an important source of pine lumber and allied products, such as turpentine and pitch, Its forests grow rapidly and have long been recognized as a great national asset. Nevertheless, the newsprint requirements of that region were met by importations from our own northern forests and : from Canada. The slash pine and by-products from their own mills were not suitable for making paper. It was to this problem that the Farm Chemurgic Council addressed itself. As may be inferred from its name, its object was to apply to the resources of the farm the latest discoveries * jn chemical and allied ‘sciences with a view to making them more valuable, Long and painstaking research went forward amid scoffs and jeers. Paper had never been made from pine and it couldn't be done, But it IS being done and southern farmers will reap the benefit. Five thousand persons will be employed in seven new paper mills in the south and 15,000 others will be given work in the timberlands and in allied trades. The net result will be a distinct boon to the entire region. The same possibilities exist for North Dakota. It is easily possible that chemurgical research might prove of great bene- fit to us. It is worth thinking about; because in that direction lies a very substantial hope for the future. A Good Example Cities in the same classification as Bismarck are prone to look-to larger communities for an example, but in so doing they ' should not overlook the fact that they can also learn from their 3maller neighbors. A case in point is the activity of the Bottineau Community Service club in launching a campaign to promote interest in and attendance at the State School of Forestry there. It is the only state institution Bottineau has and its business folk are both interested in it and proud of it. They have prepared and are distributing an interesting brochure which tells all about this institution which is “not a high school, not a teacher’s college” and where, we are informed, the downtrodden taxpayer gets 9 real run for his money, since the cost per student is only $174 a year. The moral which Bismarck should observe is that Bottineau doesn’t have a great deal to get chesty about but the assets it does have get full recognition. Bismarck, with a greater variety of institutions and industries, is liable to take all of them for granted, do little if anything toward making them successful. ‘The job seems so big that we never tackle it at all. But big jobs of a civic-building nature ought to challenge our interest. The fact that we have a number of assets should not cause us to forget even the smallest among them. We should take a tip from Bottineau and consistently blow our own horn as it is doing, loudly, but withal modestly. Prohibitive Rates Reporting on the work done by the government with a view to establishing crop insurance, the Associated Press points out that data accumulated in the various crop control programs could be used to assess the risk on each farm. It then reaches the conclusion that “premiumg would be low in good areas, high in poor-yield regions and prohibitive in some semi-arid wheat sections.” é ‘ That tells, in brief, the story of crop insurance. It will be ‘what its name implies and will be handled on a business basis. It is not intended to be and will not be something for nothing. Following in natural sequence is the question of what rates ‘will be charged for crop insurance in THIS area. Will Western North Dakota be in the first, the second or the third classifica- tion? To all except those who wish to deceive themselves it is obvious that much of the nation west of the 100th meridian will be in the “prohibitive” classification. If the cold and un- compromising figures prove that to be the case then we can no longer be interested in crop insurance until and unless we tablish production on a sounder basis, either by changing ‘There was 9 truce this Christmas day. Dads didn’t play with the toys the boys didn’t disturb the match piles on. the beer vethe SCENES Washington Behind the Relief and Budget-Balancing Battle Will Be Fought Over Again in Con- His Supporters . . .. Lawmakers May Feel Liberal, but They'll. Fel-. low Roosevelt Lead. A series of six stories on Con- gress, its lineups, and the prob- lems of vast importance which it will face has been written by Rodney Dutcher, NEA Service and The Bismarck Tribune Washington correspondent, This is the third of the. series. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 29.—The peren- nial twin problems of budget-balanc- ing and unemployment relief prob- ably will cause the 15th Congress and the administration no end of trouble, Congress must appropriate money to operate the government for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and must also make a deficiency relief appro- priation to carry the Works Progress Administration through to June 30. Already it is obvious that the 19: 37 budget will not be balanced, though rising treasury receipts from taxation indicaté that it will come nearer to it than for several years. Advance guesses are that the presi- dent will ask Congress for something like $7,000,000,000. The one place where federal ex- penditures might be drastically cut is in the relief category, and the hard- hearted budget-balancers and the soft-hearted humanitarians already are warring about that. The first struggle will come when Congress determines the size of the deficiency appropriation to carry WPA for the five months beginning with Febru- ary. Drastic Cut Possible Roosevelt recently intimated at @ press conference that he felt $500,- 000,000 would be enough for the ap- propriation. If he sticks to that and Congress supports him, there will in- evitably be a drastic cut in the WPA rolls. That would mean an average expenditure‘ of only §100,000,000 a month, whereas WPA has been cost- ing about $165,000,000 a month. There are now about 2,375,000 WPA work- ers and no such reduction in expense could be made without dismissing at least a third of them. Harry Hopkins, the U. 8. Confer- ence of Mayors, the WPA workers and many members of Congress will vigorously resist proposals to liquidate WPA. In reply to assertions of the budget-balancers that the pickup in business and industrial production should be matched by corresponding WPA cuts, they say it just’ doesn’t make sense. There are, roughly, about 4,000,000 heads of families or persons recelv- ing federal or local aid and about 4,000,000 others unemployed who re- ceive no ald, Most of those being hired by private industry, it is said, come from the latter group. Oppose Relief Shift The budget-balancers insist that the relief problem should be turned back to the cities and towns. Hopkins and his group insist that turning WPA workers over to local politicians just means mass misery. Relief costs are coming down gradually, they say. WPA officials estimate unofficially that they will need at least $750,000,- 000 to carry their program through to July 1. For 1937-38 they tentatively guess close to $2,000,000,000. Roose- velt is understood to have told Hop- kins he would like to get the cost down between $1,000,000,000 . and $1,500,000,000. On the other hand, certain mem- bers of Congress are talking of a combined WPA-PWA program to cost about $5,000,000,000. One bloc already has been formed to oppose relief slashes in drouth states. F. D. R. Will Give Cue Congress probably -will be disposed to be liberal to the unemployed, but is likely to take its cue from Roose- velt, whose eventual attitude is high- ly uncertain. : The administration has promised there will be no new taxes. There will be some effort to repeal some of the excise or “nuisance” taxes, but these are yielding $500,000,000 a year and it is doubtful whether Congress will decide to cut off much of that income. The corporation surplus tax may be changed to lighten the burden it puts on debt-ridden companies, but that also is uncertain. There is a growing feeling in the administration that the extent to which the tax hinders plant expansion may not be such a bad thing after all, providing still another brake against danger- ous booms. Meanwhile, it begins to appear rather definitely that federal ex- on Another Big Game Hunt —_ erccccoce coccccoccconcce. ‘ By William Brady, M. D. _—— rtalsin; but not dis- Getttis oferty ava ‘in take” Audreee ‘De. y in care o! e Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by & Stamped, self-addressed envelope, Dr. Brady will answer Wri HYPOTHETICAL UNTOWARD EFFECTS OF IODIN For many years Dr. John Ritter fo the Miami Tuberculosis Clinic, Miam!, Florida, has been an advocate of the administration of tincture of iodin in the treatment of tuberculosis in all of is various forms, In @ report he pub- lished in 1934 Dr. Ritter presented in the summary these among other con- clusions: 3. Iodine is rapidly eliminated, does not accumulate in the body. 12, Iodine Produges: active does not coagulate albumen, and 18, Always remember that Tincture of Iodine is not toxic, it is not poi- sonous. From his extensive experience Dr. Ritter asserts that “Iodine is with- out equal for the cure and treatment in any of the various forms of acute infections” and that ‘Iodine is the most logical and appropriate remedy for the treatment of tuberculosis in all its various forms.” Gradually increasing doses are administered and Dr. Ritter insists that individualization is neces- sary and the patient must be under the constant ‘observation of his physician. For many years I have been advocating « suitable iodin ration for every man, woman and child. Generally the most satisfactory plan is to take a little nip of iodin two or three times a week, say a drop or two or three drops of the ordinary brown tincture (U. 8. P. or B. P.) in » half glassful at any time of day when it may be convenient, This applies to mature adults who feel a bit stale or prematurely old as well as to school children in their early *teens who are likely to have simple goltre or characterized by Hida and lack of that vite and buoyancy which should characterize youth. -* To be sure, following an old tradition druggists still put a “poison” ~|1abel on the vial of tincture of iodin, but who, I ask, has ever heard of any With Other —— THE WHEAT INSURANCE PLAN (St. Paul Dispatch) ‘The report of the president's crop insurance committee contemplates a start of the.plan on the wheat crop of 1938. Wheat is presumably singled out for the first experiment because of the wide distribution of the crop, | its importance as a staple grain, and the relative simplicity of such prob- Jems as storage and is also selected because of its recent | experience with drouth and because , as a bread grain it naturally fits in with the related idea of the ever- normal granary. The 1938 crop is chosen because the 1937 winter wheat is already in the ground. EDITORS. a The plan calls for insurance of & 75 per cent yield. The premium would vary by counties and individual farms and would be determined by the pro- duction records averaged over a pe- riod of years. A farmer who has been producing an average of eight bushels per acre would be guaranteed six jushels. The premiums run from as low as a tenth of a bushel a year to handling. Wheat jabove three bushels, The premiums would be paid in wheat. The govern-, ment would pay costs of administra- tion and storage, but would escape much or most of the drouth and sim- ilar relief costs it now stands, In ex- ceptionally good years farmers might pay several years’ premiums at once; Reprinted what they may or not agree with them. te show We hence the ever-normal granary pro- viding in fat years for the lean. In case of crop failure, the farmer would be paid, out of this reserve, enough wheat to give him a yield of 75 per cent of his average. There is something of a dilemma about this insurance, if it is to be kept on substantially a self-supporting basis. To induce the needed general participation, costs must be scaled in proportion to the risks; but this means that the farmers needing the protection most desperately, those in| the drouth area, must pay an almost prohibitive premium. But it at least warrants experiment. BIt OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE GEST OF MEN Western Sheriff (in saloon) — I'm lookin’ for that loud- mouthed, hell-raising two-gun stranger who busted in hyar last night and shot the ~ bartender of his forehead. Husky Gent — Well, here I am, you half-pint, tin-badged, bow-legged ba- boon! ‘What have you got to say to me’ Sheriff—Who me? fine plece of shootin’, Oh, that was a stranger! through the middle}, “Were you ever kissed before Tcame along?” : “pwice.” “ 2” “Before and after.” “Give me amatch, Bill.” “Here it is.” “Well, can you beat that? ‘I've for gotten my cigarettes.” “Too bad; give me back my match.” “I want to get a nice easy chair for my husband, please.” ~ “Did you see where some of the Kentucky *s were able to count up Ohly to four?” “Oh, that’s nothing; I know lots of golfers just as bad.” He: “Since I met you I can’t sleep, 11 To turn away. 42 One of the United Greeks. 13 The cheek. 15 Viscous. 16 Amber. 18 To allot. 19 Court. 20To finish. 21 Electrical term. penditures have reached a new “plateau” where they aré likely to stay, at least for the next four years. Although normal expenditures were about four billions a year before the depression, they now seem likely to stay between six and seven billions. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) 3 Neutrality and People who are fond things apart to see what tick should Jet. someone else their mail. ee 8 4952 weeks, 50 Less common. 31 Monoceros. 52 Was in debt. 34 To be ill, 53 Perishes. 35 Female horses'55 Still. 37 Broader. 36 Small bird. 39 You and me. 57 Magistrate. 41 Evening 58 Alluvial moisture. materials. 28 Devoured. 30 Neither. ANS) (Stele) PIVIRIS 47Cotton fabric, 3 Scottish Poet, Animal. 4 Obliterates. 5 Right, 6 Bushel. 7 Uneasiness. 8 Tumultuous disturbarice. 9 Backs of necks. ye tumor. 14 Tonjunction. I can’t eat, I can’t drink.” Bhe: “Why not.” He: “I'm broke.’ > one being poisoned with fodin? Unpleasant results would probably follow the swallowing of a quantity of undiluted tincture of {odin or undiluted fodin itself, but there is much more justification in everyday experience for labelling as “poison” many nostrums which druggists sell without such warn- ing than there is for applying the poison label to tincture of iodin. Indeed, most accidental or intentional deaths from poisoning are due to one or an- other nostrum which bears no poison label and no fair warning as to the \xisks involved in its medical use. This is, of course, ® question of profit. ‘There is very little profit in the sale of tincture of fodin. Actual experience has amply proved that small doses of iodin two or three times a week are harmless in any circumstance. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Law Is a Joke Is there no law to regulate the sale of a secret proprietary nostrum which purports to cure arthritis? My brother, a victim of chronic arthritis, is using this nostrum, at $5.15, the package, principally because of the testimonial of an actor.... (G. B.) Answer—The laws in Yankeeland are a joke so far as protection of the public is concerned. Anything goes, so long as the false statement is not made on the label. Tonsillitis and Pneumonia Daughter, eight, had pneumonia last April, She has had three attacks of tonsillitis, once this fall. One doctor assures us her tonsils should come out, Another says the removal of her tonsils would invite another attack of pneumonia. ... (A. W. R.) Answer—If the child is tractable and the physician skilled in the technic, the septic focus in the tonsil can be eradicated by diathermy treatment. Why not compromise on this safe method? The soles of my feet are covered with hard, scaly skin, and this cracks and get sore... . (H. D.) Answer—Rub glycerin on them every night. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) ‘80 THEY SAY Pons army. ‘bonus army. PE SS EE When you're through with football, * *o* Married persons who lose their you're through, that’s all. Me—I'd get killed out there now.—‘“Red” tempers should have a “growlery,” @ Grange. Alferi, one-man room wh they can retire to growl, alone.—Judge John J. Gregory, Mil- x * * waukee, Worries about wars and politics are * ee graven in the faces of European women, — Guillaume of Paris, hair stylist. xk * American criminals are the best dressed in the world.—Benno Pearl- man, Lord Mayor of Hull, England, after American tour. ee * We want pensions, I guess $60 a month ought to hold us at first ... make the big guys give until it hurts. ... Tax ’em till it hurts, and then they won’t want any more war. Pen- sions for peace.—Get it!—Sergeant Sporting officials, prison officers, and others say they never saw the equal of the sportsmanship and fair Play of the inmates at games in Sing Sing. There hasn't been in six years one man penalized in Sing Sing for roughness in a football game.—Harry E. Vonkersburg, volunteer coach of Sing Sing team. Father—Da, you think he is inter- ested in you in a matrimonial way? Daughter—Well, last night he asked me if you and mother were easy to live with. hand and help me get rid of them?” ewe Lal TH next hour was spent in tree with a knife in his tl ‘There are peony, strange thi about “Thunder Mesa,” besid: fet that each of the three bi FEant JouN is th PEARL PIERRE t,he ie ae ae ee x Be tao tales ving had posseasion Knife "ene CHAPTER VIII stripping the house of the wreaths and garlands and piling the great mags of evergreens on. a large canvas which Pearl John had spread in the middle of the living room floor. If Bob had thought the house gloomy and forebidding before, he found it were feeling the suspicion and distrust that hung over every- thing. This waiting around for the officers to come—if ever they did —was getting on\his nerves. In order to get outdoors, even say, Betty, promise you'll marry me. | Then [ll know everything will be all right. We'll make my brother let us out of here. We'll go to Santa Fe or any place you say and forget that there was ever such a place as Thunder Mesa, T love you, dearest. I've tried to show you how I felt but maybe you didn’t understand.” “Oh, Pearl John!” Betty’s voice was breathless. Bob strained for- pare hear ini ae He had to yw; even though he despised himsele for listening, “I—I didn’t mean that,” Betty went on. “It was only that I wanted you to know how sorry I am for you, and—” “Then it was just that you're sorry. for me—nothing more?” the afterncen esses the NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY though the snow was now knee- high, Bob offered to help the two Mexicans who were carrying away the bundle of Christmas greens. Pearl John assented, readily enough, and, getting his coat and hat, Bob plowed his way through the drifts with the men, holdihg ; Jone side of the canvas. As usual, the servants did not e TT ‘was getting toward noon, and still no one came up the trail from the world beyond. the mesa, and Ramon stood together Sek rat 5 agti é st PEP fe - tal ip rene ret : F iy (Rue tf gu z E i He HL a Bs