The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1937, Page 6

.the same time food costs increased in those communities out of The Bismarck Tribune An infependent Newspaper : THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper , Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, marth, N. D. and eaered at the postoifice at Bismarck aa second class j Mra, Stella I. Mann President and Treasurer Kenneth Archie O. Johnson ‘W. Simons ‘Vico Pres. ané@ Gen'l Manager Secretary and Editor outside of North Dakota, per year .. in Canada, per year........seeeee Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press Associated Pri tion of the news dispa! ‘mewspaper and also th ‘of spon’ au rights of republication of all other matter hereia ar: this lished herein. 0 reserved, The Average Citizen Tf you are an average citizen you earn $1,800 a year if you work in a factory; $1,350 if you work in a store and the Lord only knows what if you live on the farm. There are from three to four persons in your family and you pay $28 a month rent. Of your neighbors four out of 10 of marriageable age are unwed and one in 10 is either widowed or divorced. Fifteen per cent of the wives are employed outside the home and two out of three families have no child under 10 years of age and only about one in three of your neighbor’s children of high school age are going to school. That, according to a study of the social characteristics of Cities, is the average American in the composite. There ap- pears to be plenty of room for improvement. Will It Pay? Electricity on the farm would be a great convenience for both the husbandman and his wife. There can be no doubt of it. Yet there is cause to wonder if there isn’t a little over-enthu- siasm in the effort to put farms on the power lines, the question being how the farmers are going to pay for it. For example the Rural Electrification administration has advanced $440,000 to the Southern Cass County Co-operative to build lines in Cass, Barnes, Richland and Traill counties on the theory that it will get the money back. Tt may. Good citizens hope it will. But one wonders if the expectation is based merely on hope or whether the private elec- tric companies have been overlooking a good bet. Merry Go Round America’s steel workers were jubilant at the pay boosts which they were recently accorded but, according to a survey by the Literary Digest, they cheered g little too soon. For one result of the increases was to cause landlords to raise rents from five to 37.5 per cent in the steel towns. At all proportion to increases elsewhere and the worker finds that, while he is handling more money, he has little more left at the énd of the week. : This emphasizes again that the PURCHASING POWER cf the dollar is fully as important to the recipient as the number of dollars he gets. Beware inflation. Behind Scenes Washington Rising, But Each Federal "Zone Defends His Job te the Last Ditch, By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, May 1—Lots of statis- tics pour out of the various govern- ment bureaus these days, but there is jone thing on which issues not a single statistic. That is the rising tide of govern- ment payrolls. The latest word on that is from the president's committee on. administrative management, which is authority for the statement that be- tween June 30, 1932, and June 30, 1936, the civilian employes of the executive branch of the federal government in- creased from 578,231 to 624,250. That is a gain, in four years, of 246,028, or more than 40 per cent. Perhaps that gives you @ cue as to why it is always hard to trim federal expenses. Every one of these employes defends his job resolutely, and most of them have direct influence with congressmen who appoint them. When you cut budgets you cut jobs. And that’s where the shoe pinches, Incidentally, this rise is a tendency that runs throughout all government not merely the federal government at Washington, though attention centers here at the moment. In 1631 there were 82 people working for national, state and local governments for each 100,000 of population. In 1891 there were about 250. In 1911, around 400. And today nearly 600. The New York ‘Trust Co. not long ago estimated that in 1934 10 per cent of the national iacome was being paid to government officeholders in salaries, federal, state and local. Admittedly it would reduce govern- ment operation costs to cut these that during the last four years something like 50 new government bureaus and agencies have been set up which never existed before. Very few have been abandoned. It takes People to man them and you can’t cut personnel to any real extent with- out abandoning whole functions and activities. And that is where the con- gressional shoe pinches, not to men- tion the pin pricks from constituents eee be looked after in their jot eee Criss-Crossed Party Lines Party lineups are doing some Strange dances these days. The state- ment of former President Hoover praising the recent supreme court la- bor decisions left some Republicans gaping. But what will they think when they learn that Ogden Mills has been giv- ing a series of lectures before the New School for Social Research in New York? The New School is known to be somewhat leas conservative than Calvin Coolidge. Mills, discussing at the New School the future of the Republican Party, sald: “It is the sole residuary legatee of the tradition in the United States that the individual man has rights independent of and prior in’nature to government, and that no government may deny him these rights without arresting progress and making élaves,” A rousing peroration, to be sure, and the purest kind of an echo of Thomas Jefferson and that arch-ra- dical, Tom Paine, whose writings once inflamed America to revolution. All of which helps explain why many Re- publicans, and Democrats as well, are wondering today just where their party lines Ca alte anyway. * * Each Figure Represenis 4 Million Persons, America’s new employment opportunities will be found on the country's industrial frontiers, and are’ dependent upon the development of ald and invention, according to John W. O'Leary, president of the Machinery employment has been declining both in actual numbers and in to the nation’s population for a me employment More than a generation, whereas it has been . O'Leary cited figures from United States census reports showing grew from less than 23% million time of the last census. During that but agricultural employment increased z employment in the United States almost the 5 8 5 8 oe : ae fain : < & 7 i it B Better Chance Here “The greatest bargain in the world” —American citisenship—is being sought by increasing numbers of peo. ple today throughout the country. Naturalization fees have been cut in half during the last few years and every city with a large foreign popu- lation reports a rush for citizenship. The ambitious claims of several relies countries ce lifetime au- hority over people who happen to have been born there has speeded up the movement. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN A Teacher — Now, children, who can name some things, that didn’t exist 50 years ago? Little Billy—I can, Teacher—air- planes and automobiles. ayacbes — That's right; and what else’ Billy—Me, Miss. Old Maid—The waiter said to me, “How would you like your rice?” Second Ditto — And what did you say, Dearie? Old Maid —“Thrown at me,” and did I blush? Frankie—Is your Dad an early riser, too, Dickie? Dickie—Is my Dad an eardly riser? Why, he gets up so early that if he want to bed a little Jater he'd meet himself getting up in the morning. Jenkins—Goodness, friends you must have. Mrs. Schappins—I think, Dear, that young fellow with his back to us wants to propose to his girl. We shouldn't listen. Whistle so they will know we are here. Schappins—Why should I? Nobody whistled te warn me. F E 8 if tiers of new products, make them available to before. Who would contend labor, managment, inven- develop modern industrial civilization to g 2 Statistics reports which show mechaniged industries, é ‘A THOUGHT Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord; or what is Place of my bd 1:49. * * the shed the soul drinks from the living streams of love that roll by God's high threne—Bowring. them | 28 — People’s Forum (Editor’s Note)—The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of inter- est. Letters dealing with contro- versial religious subjects, which attack individuals unfairly, which offend good taste play we be tired to tl If you wi use sign the pseudonym such letters as may be nece conform to this policy and to re- quire publication of a writer's name where justice and fair play make it advisable. Ali letters must be limited to not more thas 600 words. : OPPOSES FLAX PLANT Bismarck, N. Dak. April 26th, 1937. Editor, ‘Your April the heading of the words of truth. “THE TAXPAYER torial in your issue of INTERES’ by what authority can our Indus- trial Commission proceed without consulting the boss, which is the taxpayer, to spend another $100,000 on a concern that has been a money losing proposition since its very. in- ception and always will be? We will grant, for argument’s sake, that a flax-crushing plant will show a pro- fit, but certainly not sufficient to offset the losses which the mill it- self will suffer annually, this year as well as any other year in the fu-|°) ture. Any well-informed taxpayer will agree on that. Then why, in the name of common sense, spend an- other $100,000. There is no particu- Jar rush about building that plant. Let us submit it to the voters of the state next year. If they want it let us build one, but not on the very edge of the State. Let us find a centrally the 24th is timely arid, sound, | di editorial arejere TED.” What right and | bo: Unit Btates is at Laredo, Tex. Coat of Arms | Club fees. 10 Electrical (1 Nulljfies, 54 Father. unlt 57 Right. SO THEY SAY { There is great need of a federal ap- of to el} arcmin Davis, president, ition of Teachers. education in the United States.— American “Jing Fesearch is of this questionsble © and motive of the many letters | string. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ertaining - ois ed but not éis- ease v ‘lefly ai A 3 Dr. eae of dlagnogle. Writtine. All queries must be accompanied by & ‘The Tri! stamped, self-addressed envelope Dr. Brady will answer TEACHING THE T! TO Many basketfuls ted propaganda stereo! are sorted out from the mai to this column shea Bhp ban dla as I 00 it, for the good of he Healt tn information or enlightenment I EACHER multigrap! ready-made stuff here. Even for my own take with a large grain of sat any finding or conclusion reached By ‘ research—until I can learn whether the research is Gear some ey ‘commercial interest, and sad to say, @ preponderance of modern scient Admirable, by contrast, is the spirit instance it writes: oat sino tena rateuling misleading term, should sound that way) “to tell you . - BL Bs rena hiatereretid the common cold, and by denying its existence may be harmful. “Tt is generally known that what we 80 glibly call a Common of aoarlet fever, all respiratory diseases begin with seer vent If reasonable to think diphtheria, and many others Sneumonia, will ? Stamp out cri and you Well propetog eel weekenet St chia iy aan phi weakened by fatigue. from being chilled or insist E E e ; : 2 HH a giget S892 Tieeey Gees a 8 E Ei a of us it. If I were indisposed and some doctor told me I have pe fisther trade with him, for I honestly believe even can make that bed guess as well as any blooming quack can. : sist it 1s @ guess in one hundred per cent of cases. And ey, fidently but entirely for your own good that if you are not jumb to realise yourself how you have been bamboosied when the iliness can see it is the measles, the the nature of the illness becomes obvious, the quack’s first guess was, or to ques- “turned” into pneumonia or “developed into” diphtheria. ofession has gotten away with murder in For generations the medical pr to it wt plead the : F 2 HF 3 ppen to be hypersensitive may suffer much the same symptoms from eae ee rtacco amseke second hand that a non-smoker is likely to suffer first indi je in tobacco. from the julgen: A partment ‘We have a year old baby. Would basement apartment be unhealthful into? (Mrs, A.) eo "answer—It enough sunlight and ventilation makes it cheerful and com- fortable it is as healthful as an upper floor apartment would be. 3 years, 4 months old, 3 feet tall, weighs 20 pounds. Pulse is 112 to 100, ts thee too fast? ‘Would his heart beating too fast account for him feeling tired all the time? (Mrs. P. M. B.) ‘Answer—¥es, that is too fast, but the child's weakness accounts for the rapid heart action. He should weigh 36 pounds. Have a doctor examine him and advise you about his nutrition and care. Copyright 1987, John F. Dille Co. | reported, she is probably keeping her || eve open for a Prince Charming from BARBS | the nits, There are many prominent people! who started their careers on a shoe- it seems, 8 G-string does just as well. aes If the Missouri miss of 2 has been ee € Until these: grave-diggers’ strikes are settled, it may. be necessary to postpone burying crooners on the lone prairie. ‘sa keeping up with current events, as| (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service Inc.) sy TRAILER ADVENTURE ——____By Nerd Jones OT NEA Service ee CHAPTER XXV QDPDLY Betty looked at Martha. True, Mart had smiled as she asked, “Isn’t three a crowd?” But it had been a peculiar, an almost ‘bitter smile. As if—but Martha couldn’t be jealous. Betty excitedly. “Martha, doesn’t it seem ages since you've danced?” Yes, Martha Brittain thought, it ‘did seem ages. Ages since she'd danced that night at Del Monte with Gerry Neal. And yet she remembered it so clearly, so poignantly. Would she, Martha ‘wondered, ever forget it? Must she go on, now and forever, re- membering? Must she think of Gerry Neal whenever someone mentioned certain magic words like “dance” and “moonlight” and —and “love.” Must she think of him at the sound of such words, and then be struck coldly, as she | be lobby. was now, with the thought that he was a criminal of. the lowést order? ‘That against the soul of the only man she had ever loved was laid murder, and countless other crimes. Must she thus always be alter- nately exalted and degraded by the memory of love, or would time erase Gerry Neal from her mind? eee found Betty Haynes admiring herself in tall door-mirror of their hotel She wore a “Mr. Howison says they picked it up in front of the abandoned warehouse dock where Speddon left it when he took you to the waterfront. It was moved to the Federal Building’s garage, but Mr. ‘Weeks had our baggage taken out and sent to the hotel. And She knew that Betty realized something had happened to her during the time they were parted. And eventually she must confide to her friend—but not now. It was all too close and too painful then—” new: G Betty stopped, observing Martha | war aniter ana'ditty fed ae closely. “Look here, Mart! What on earth is wrong with you? Here we are out of a rotten mess. Here we are all spick and span, |;ealy, in love with one and with the perfectly good Haynes money Dad wired. Here we are ready to live again—and |you mope!” “I'm not moping,” Martha in- sisted. “I’m just—sort of tired.” “Well, you can rest at the Olym- pic as well as here. The music will do you a lot of good.” ees ele iz3 Bigg 2 stopped. Beyond the , waiter was a handsome and smil- BETTY’S hurried help, Martha was ready by the time they were notified that the “rll have to admit,” Betty laughed, “that we must present an improvement over our appear- ance. when your boat joined Mr. Ciznik’s!” Howison ushered them to the waiting cab. “I saw Guy Weeks % iP i z é i Hi i : I il ? ! F | TREE it zs Ef s 5 z é ai tt ey E