The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 20, 1937, Page 6

Nv THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) he SCENES Washington State, City and County Official Newspaper ‘ Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- ee een emeeren bv ie) poniodrce et Risemarces ON ecoBS labs, call ( Mrs. ho I, Mann ar fae ee rs Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons ge 8 1, Secreta: dit By RODNEY DUTCHER Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager ry and Editor ) ( Wi ) Washington, May 20.—During such an incredibly dull period in congress as the last few weeks have been, with leaders hard put to provide even a pretense of activity, it was not too much to hope that some worthwhile measure might be dragged into the arena which otherwise wouldn't have had a chanoé. Probably the nearest thing to real- ization of such a hope is the fact that the proposed election expenditures ‘act, ® measure introduced by Sena- tor Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota in 1931, will soon come before a senate committee for hearings. ton of the news dispatches credited fe it op ‘sot cineteise eretieea' ie tats | Back in 1990, Nye was chatrman of Newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. |® campaign committee which un- All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. | earthed some heavy expenditures and evidence Sens a hiceey bape y samy Tie Between Nations W. “Grocer” Norris in Nebraska; the A visitor from Mars, reading American newspapers, watch-| indictment and oblivion of | Bishop ing American news-reels and listening to American radio pro- on Mets pan tate ner ae grams recently, might have found cause to wonder just whose aed who was running for sena- king was being crowned over in London. Certainly the corona-|"“Ganvincea that a lot of things were tion of King George VI proved a matter of unusual interest to | wrong with the election machinery, Americans; we could hardly ave been more absorbed {n it if | {ive consulted some distinguished po- we were still a British colony. ure es ssp gai econ Co _But the explanation is not simply that we are a nation of Reed eraty Mead blind Anglophiles. It goes deeper than that. The simple tie| some eee ope al mae ay of a common language, for one thing, is extremely powerful. | cludes nearly everything except ® The traditions that go with that common language—the sharing | cw, ror (ne eee ee of things like Shakespeare's plays and Dickens’ novels and Ten- npson’s poetry—are even more powerful. a And, underlying everything, there is the dim sense that in some way these two great nations do stand for a common herit- age in the way of liberty and democracy. We cannot be indif-| “rnis bill provides for constant su- ferent to each other. America’s interest in the coronation of a peer tae eds seeing ot cuseaies British king is merely a roundabout recognition of that fact. | Rrra, ane expenditunes: iano? ———— ey me use ori muney, pas beet Paes f . 5 , n ‘Nothing in Common wiboat lage means OF tony 0 After Senator William E. Borah’s recent blast on Fascism, seid erred toeven think of run- an Italian editor ‘in San Francisco wrote the senator, taking| ‘The Nye bill would prohibit expen- issue with his remarks. Senator Borah’s reply, just made pub- one of more oe ‘$250,000 rk lic, contains some excellent good sense. Poesieoni und omen teen FEaeaee “You profess to believe,” wrote the senator, “that there ‘is By palit party for a presidential no incompatibility in believing in Italian Fascism and being a | 7; limit of election campaign loyal American citizen.’ Do you believe in free speech? Do you expec or 8 ponsiocinl oo i , and for a can oid bs 16 id te ie phat rea e in a free press? ... and peers gd altace tative, $10. It would be a fine thing if that paragraph could be called to the attention of every American of foreign birth who is striv- ing to reconcile his Americanism with the dictatorial philoso- phies of his native land. Senator Borah puts the case perfectly. To be an American means to believe in things for which none of these European authoritarian governments has the slightest use whatever. It is hard to see how any reconciliation can be made. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press Martyr to ‘Success’ The senate committee's investigation of the financial deals of the late Van Sweringen brothers contains few more painful episodes than the one relating to the Kentucky scrubwoman | MRR who, having saved $2,000 by laying aside one or.two dollars a * week, invested the lot in “gilt-edged” bonds issued by a Van| point ee eee ar Sweringen corporation and promptly saw half her investment wiped out, The woman wrote the brothers a letter pleading that they buy back her securities “at the beat price you can give me,” as | °20*s Per ballot for the SS ereatl tial in she had five dependents to care for and times were getting hard. | ne Men es ee tos presidential tial campaigns. New Siant On The CCC Overshadowed by other and seem-/a i z : ; aft 3 Fy : money in congressional and presiden- be She got a polite note from a secretary saying that the brothers “were unable to be helpful.” The tale of the rise and fall of these “financial titans” is _ usually told in cold figures. This little incident is a useful re- minder that there were poignant human values involved in the story, too. Billions at Stake A resolution directing the secretary of war to draw up a somprehensive national flood control plan which would include development of hydro-electric power and water and soil con- servation has been recommended to the house of representa- tives by the house committee on flood control. With this recommendation, the committee reported an estimate that a national system of control projects undoubtedly would cost “billions of dollars.” The very fact that the cost would be so stupendous is just one more reason why no time should be lost in drawing up a detailed plan. For delay, also, will cost billions. And since such huge sums are at stake, we cannot learn too soon. just what needs to be done and what the bill will be. Only then can we make an intelligent decision. Asking for Trouble The explosion which damaged the British destroyer Hunter, on international patrol duty off the coast of war-torn Spain, ought to make every American thankful that the United States has not felt called on to supply warships for that patrol. For mishaps such as this one are potent causes of war. This particular case will not take Britain into war—but it is the sort of things which might do exactly that, if conditions were favorable. A nation which once went to war with Spain on a slogan of “Remember the Maine,” ought to understand full well that maintaining warships on the coast of a bitter civil war is just asking for trouble. The world can only hope that the case of the Hunter will mot be repeated under circumstances which might stir British emotions as the destruction of the Maine stirred ours, : ve hoboes will prick up ears at news of Detroit's vi i Le wants fo'maketlove 12 the Boab wskeee rrastees People's emotions, but who eee President Roosevelt found the unhs| . tng tip was unling tne ee pices oe ca om A Cleveland 1ad’s school absences were found to coincide with the Indian be held to one cent per vote, No more than 10 per cent of any such Each candidate for congress be permitted to send, postage free, one communication to every registered voter in his district or state. Each nominated candidate must ap- point an agent or committee to handle campaign finances. Sub-agents must have written authorisation with Money limits stipulated. Any. indivi- dual spending his own money on be- half of, or against a candidate would have to report fully. All expenditure | in reports would be printed promptly as public documents, Solicitation or re- ceipt of campaign contributions after the 11th day before election is also prohibited. No bank or corporation could contribute to a candidate's cam- paign, and candidates would be. for- bidden from promising anyone « Public office in return for support. Purchase of votes would be a federal offense, as would solicitation of fed- eral employes. Ballot boxes, must be preserved for» year. House and sen- ate could bar elected candidates who had violated the act and penalties for violation would rin up to $10,000 fine and two years’ imprisoriment. °° Expenditures would be confined by law to traveling, clerk-stenographer- messenger hire and cost of getting out campaign literature, salaries, tele- phone-telegraph-radio .charges and Postage, freight and express, printing and stationery, compiling voter lists, office expenses, newspaper and other advertising, rental of meeting places and expenses incidental thereto, loud- speaking apparatus and traveling ans, Prediction: Sooner or later some measure much like the Nye bill will pass. But it's likely to take a exported shingles worth $7,602,000 to dealers and worth at the cafe, they are ordered to keep the leftovers in their pockets to eat later. Even the lemon ? * *** Increasing iron exports may be bad news to the peace leagues, but never for our young spinach eaters, Baseball club's home dates, proving that youth still must have its inning. The Communist menace has been smothered, but still ha cornfield parasite, boring from within. i eat se & Eighty per cent of tornadoes occur between noon and 6 p. m., excluding filibuster. senatorial bit of indignation which I possess, That the President and the ment of the United States should be u n the manner they are being defrauded’ is an obligation When Nazis can’t eat all they order, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1937 Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but. not dis- { is. Write letters briefly and in ink. Address Dr. fa'care of ho Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by a stamp self-addressed envelope. article hee Sores of eee, ct with emp! on prevent io . I rubbed my eyes and read the letter over more carefully. read it wrongly. But no, that’s precisely what about a cure. Can it be possible that there is developing in an actual interest in preventive medicine? correspondent himself as “over 40 years of age.” Not bad. He might be In the red book (Building Vitality) I cases of arteriosclerosis occur in the 30 per cent in the fifth and 50 per cent If ever I get as many as three express interest in the prevention of oll al By 28 Rg Jor igh ten carte ghee rey oe Ieoholic indulgence. Gicererstnacd of apoplexy is prevention of arteriosclerosis, premature general breakdown. tary adults past thirty who begin to take on excess weight and experience shortness of breath on exertion which formerly gave no such and feel the lack of former ambition of “pep,” should but seldom dota take wore cee the oncoming CR fren Bee for Cates premature old we're talking > When take Saat TOsypeieal the hoof, two miles three times a day, worry, vexation, try. rolling s dozen somersa' (Copyright, 1937, John F. Dille Co.) the officials;mented in similar vein and from at the will] various districts came testimony from administrator.| congressmen as to waste and extra-| governmental structure as Mr. Roose- it may be) vagance, doubt as to the advantages,|velt wants would be an exceedingly Perma~| shock at the cost. bad thing to do. The really startling thing about all} In other words, if these congress- Democrats in the house com- this is not so much that AFRAID to Le: g i g £ z annual Spring Frolic at the Green Hills Inn was in prog- young or ress, Every person— old—who was of any social value in Green forward and iapped him on the shoulder. With a casual “Hello, Phil,” Neil surrendered his . Philip guided his sister's out into the center of the without speaking. With light “in his tone, he sang soft- ly the words of the orchestra’s “A fine romance, with no kisses— A fine romance, I think this is. .” “Keep still!” Sybil snapped, abruptly, *Her brother laughed. “Nice of me, wasn't it, to give lyou a chance to be yourself?” “12 you have to be jealous, Syb,” as gentle unconsciousness too many, Scotch induces. But yet the evening was unspoiled. Hal. Stewart's orchestra, im- ported from a three weeks’ en- gagement on Broadway, swung into the lively strains of “A Fine Romance.” The older women took heart; they preferred these faster * ‘tunes. The quick rhythm stirred pie blood; it proved that they could step around just as lively as ‘the 18-year-old girls, despite grown children at home. ‘ eee SANDERS, Mn the arm of ery teh, 4 stan, glanced. over her shoulder at : serra s wits, Leite, He san asm, egldenheired gil... Sh laked lhe gi “Who's that lovely blond with 2 ie "Bob. Andrews?” a certs iho hed just lapped out of some rare old painting, too delicate lowing Jerry 2 : rt if EE fo aj if i Hi : hi 3f I mn 3 fH : i , : fii gE E F i i : I “Isn't she lovely? Jerry, don't you think she’s : “What's the matter with An- drews tonight?” he aera elle ze Ind i g i ge I atl his untrained seemed fitting that she should be dressed in rich black velvet, una- dorned save for the gardenias at her shoulder. E 8 : z aghg ij g fF Fee i i F I f i yk; a 7 i “No. In town.” He smiled pro- “And you won't find listed in the phone book.” , i Redes, igssiare He fb z: gE relat E i | Fi H BE if : ir A me 8g fiver jini Ww gi the smoldering fire in her blue- the put black eyes, the tense poise of her strayed dark head, the tiny pulse which on beat n her white od i