The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1937, Page 6

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Always a Reason Much that goes on in the world seems senseless but look far enough beneath the surface and always there is a reason. Such things as the attack on Bilbao by the Spanish rebels, the fight against established religion in Germany and the bloody incident between Japan and Russia on the Amur river are barbaric, yet there is logic behind all of these things—if one can accept the point of view. Take Germany’s obvious interest in the capture of Bilbao, | as evidenced by her throwing men and munitions into the battle. Herr Hitler let the cat out of the bag when he told a Nazi group at Wurzburg that “Germany needs Spanish iron ore and that is why we want a nationalist government in Spain.” It may be a peculiar way of thinking but the need is felt to justify Germany in ignoring international law and the rights of a sister nation. * * * The fight against both the Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany presents twa points of common background. The first is the resistance by both groups to the Neo-Paganism which makes so-called German blood a god and Hitler its high priest, if not, indeed, a Messiah. The Hitler philosophy doesn’t take so well with church leaders and, hence, they must be dis- credited. The second point is the financial position of the churches. » The Catholic church owns considerable land. It would help the government pacify agrarian unrest if it seized this land and gave it to the peasants. i “A land distribution program is to become effective next Jan. 1. It provides for the pooling of many small farms into collective enterprises—the same system as is used in Russia— with the individual farmer holding rights corresponding to the . amount of land contributed. F This program could be supplemented if a pretense for seiz- ing church-owned land were found and those holdings turned over to the collective farm enterprises. : The Protestant churches do not own much land but many of them have been receiving government subsidies. Involved in the fight with them is the right to spend that money. Here- tofore it has been spent at ecclesiastical direction. A new decree now takes the right away from Protestant prelates and puts it in the hands of the Nazi church propagandists. Soon, it is logical to expect, these payments will be stopped altogether and even the pretense of government support will be abandoned. These things are apparently the real genesis of the anti- church campaign in which the leaders of both Protestants and Catholics have been mercilessly vilified, the Catholics by the so-called “morality” trials and the Protestants by other means . of propaganda. * ¢ @ To understand the incident on the Amur it is necessary to look into the Russian situation. During the last year there has been a series of “purges” whereby Stalin has “removed” from the scene all of the leaders whom he suspected of trying to un- seat him. The technical charge is that they are trying to under- mine the government but in the dictator’s mind the government means Stalin. ° One of the last such events to be disclosed was the execu- | tion of eight of Russia’s leading military men. Included in the i group was the brilliant leader of her giant air army and the i man who put the colossal Russian war machine together. The loss of these men weakened Russia’s military power. F At least Japan thought so. What more logical, then, than to : provoke a war when Russian leadership was at its worst?: None of these reasons are compatible with the doctrines of peace, justice, decency and fair play but they are reasons, ~ pevertheless, j The Tax Problem So much is heard about taxes that it is refreshing to get a factual view of the situation such as is provided in a current analysis of the national situation by the National Industrial Conference Board. This puts the total of expenditures by all governmental units in the United States at $17,000,000,000 for 1936 and then goes on to establish a “breakdown” of the figures for 1935, the last year on which complete data are available. In that year the total spent was $14,931,000,000, an increase of $500,000,000 over the previous year. Federal expenditures in 1935 as com- pared with 1984 showed an increase of $60,000,000; state ex- c penditures jumped $186,000,000 and local expenditures were up $236,000,000. 4 The federal figures for 1936 are expected to show in- i crease of $1,732,000,000, of which $1,673,000,000 is char; le | .to payment of the soldiers’ bonus. These figures are important. They show not only what | the tax problem is but that the place to begin holding down tax expenditures is at home. a ‘It won't be real summer until a picture up showing someone - a ing flapjacks on a curbstone. ” bene wp . om 4 ‘The last few stratosphere flights have lusit a | the initial cost, it's the upkeep. Proved conclusively that it isn't ‘The president didn't admit it, but the Democratic (eoduced the normal picnic quota of hard-boiled eggs. cee ‘This is the age when 200 policemen for a film weddi h Nothing less than the militia will be colossal from now on. = sear 2g eee Hollywood with thousands of reserve scripts on its shelves, went to the island outing probably the : —_ - Washington F.D.R. Often on Verge of Leading Youth—Age Rebellion in Congress +.. War That Started in Supreme Feartul. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 6—The war de- tween the young New Dealers and the old is not confirmed to the onslaught against the conservative septuagen- arians on the supreme court. Week by week the tension has grown between the Boss Young New Dealer in the White House—meaning Mr. Roosevelt, who is only 55 and feels much younger—and the elderly gen- tlemen who make up the so-called Democratic leadership in congress— most of whom also feel younger than they are. Roosevelt said, in effect, that the elderly conservative justices were too old for their jobs, that they had been @n the job too long and that they were out of touch with the needs and desires of the people. More or less secretly, that’s the way he is known to feel about most of the party leadership in congress. He is cautious about bringing the point up publicly, partly because there is plenty of fight in the old boys—and caution doubtless is the course of wisdom—and partly because the Capi- tol Hill leadership hasn’t given him as much trouble as the supreme court did. But it has come to be an n belief among the Roosevelt faction in and out of congress that most of the titular leaders and powerful commit- tee chairmen are nowhere near as closely in touch with the current thought of the populace as the young- er, more recently elected members of house and senate. Leaderships and committee chairmanships come to members through seniority based on length of service, : Just a little less “co-operation” from the leaders, according to some of his advisers, and Roosevelt would be will- ing to try to bust the seniority sys- tem. x * * They'd Rather Go Home The leadership—usually called the southern leadership—is both worried and sore. The leaders early in the session counseled Roosevelt to take it easy, to cut the spending program drastically and to rest on his oars Roosevelt hasn't paid enough heed to this conservative advice. He popped the court plan on them without warn- ing or consultation, Most of them have been apathetic or antagonistic ever since. They complain that he sees more of young Senator Bob La- Follette and other young liberals than of them. Most of them would like to forget about the Riosevelt program and go home. What worries them. is the in- surgence of a young ip leader- ship in the’house and senate which might well upset the old leadership and take control of congress if Roose- velt gave it formal recognition. Maury Maverick of Texas, Jerry Voorhis of California, and other first and sec- ond termers form a nucleus of the in- surgent New Dealers in the house Minton, LaFollette, Schwellenbach and others are in revolt against the senate’s Democratic old guard. 49 senators who beat the relief bill amendment of Majority Leader Joe Robinson the other day included 30 first term members. The leadership is predominantly southern and conservative because the one-party south is given to re- electing its entrenched favorites But many southern members worry ied liberal opponents flying @ 100 per. nt Roosevelt banner may rise up to rob them of what otherwise might be lifetime jobs. a * * Long Years of Service Following is a list of the principal congressional leaders, with their ages and the years in which they began to serve in congress. Many of them are too bashful to give their ages in the col directory. First consider the senate: Vice President John N. Garner, 67, Texas, 1903; Majority Leader Joe T. Robinson, 64, Arkansas, 1913; Chair- man Pat Harrison of the finance committee, 56, Mississippi, 1919; Chairman Ellison D. Smith of the ag- riculture committee, 73, South Caro- lina, 1900; Chairman Carter Glass of the appropriations committee, 79, Vir- ginia, 1902; Chairman Royal Cope- land of the commerce committee, 69, New York, 1933; Chairman Key and Senators Barkley, Black, Pepper, | "8 ‘ MR. WALLACE A TARGET Just as there are degrees among Democrats so are there degrees among the New Dealers, They range all the way from reluctant and unbelieving senate leaders, who think it vital to cut down expenses, restore solvency, cease experimentation and stop fomenting class hatred, to the .so- called “intellectual intimates” of the White House, from whom has sprung the amazing legislative program now before congress with presidential in- dorsement. “It is the frequently expressed con+ viction of the latter that so far from slowing down, now is the time for an ardent and united drive of all the “lib- eral forces” toward what the more advanced thinkers among them call “The Third Economy,” and which is fairly well exemplified by the pend- administration bills, recently de- scribed as revolutionary by as friendly @ fellow as Gen. Hugh Johnson. It is typical of this group that it should The |regard with bitterness and suspl- cion not only those in the opposite camp who dissent but even their own colaborers in the New Deal vineyard who seem to them to lack genuine en- thusiasm for the forward movement toward that irresistible alliance of the farmer and laborer, so eloquent- ly urged as the goal. An example of this intolerance ‘1s found in recent efforts to make it appear that Mr. Henry Wallace, sec- retary of agriculture, is weakening in his New Deal religion and has suc- cumbed: to the arguments of the un- godly. There is no reason to believe the relations between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr, Wallace are not as cordial as ever, but a painstaking attempt to make them appear less cordial is be- ing made. From time to time crit- ielsm from spokesmen of the new anda plain purpose to make him a target revealed, For example, it is alleged that Mr. Wallace by no means has given the president’s plan to con- trol the supreme court the sort of support he should.’ It was expected that he would hit the line hard in behalf of the president’s bill and, by utilizing the full weight of his great organization, swing the farmers of Pittman of the foreign relations committee, 64, Nevada, 1913; Chair- man Henry F. Ashurst of the judi- clary committee, 62, Arizona, 1912; Chairman Morris Sheppard of the military affairs committee, 64, Texas, 1913; Chairman Burton K. Wheeler of the interstate commerce commit- tee, 55, Montana, 1923, In the house, Speaker William Bankhead of Alabama is 63 and came here in 1917, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas is 55 and reached the house in 1913. The chief com- mittee chairmen are: Agricultire— Marvin Jones, age unavailable, Texas, 1917; appropriations—Edward T. Tay- lor, 79, Colorado, 1900; banking and currency—H, B. Steagall, 64, Ala- bama, 1915; foreign affars—Sam Mc- Reynol ‘Tei means—Robert Doughton, 74, North Carolina, 1911. Not all these men are sour on the Roosevelt program. But most of them are. And most of the younger, newer men are for it. * (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc). BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Dots—I never could see why they always call a boat “she.” Joe—Then I guess you never tried to steer one, did you? Boogy—You say you can’t read or write. How did that happen? Woogy—Well, you see it was this- a-way. I never went to school nohow only one day, and that was at night, and we didn’t have no light, and the trouble of man cs garbage for realism in a movie scene. q >> ‘4 the country in behind it. Instead, the big farm organizations have exhib- Brain Trust is directed toward him |. eee POLIZICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun ited hostility to the Roosevelt court- packing plan and this is attributed by the “houris of the palace” to luke- ‘warmness upon the part of Mr. Wal- lace, Now from the same source an at- tack is made upon Mr. Wallace for what seems the certain emasculation of the farm tenancy bill, together with the prospect that the new agri- cultural measure, which provides for far greater crop control than the orig- inal AAA, will not be enacted. In brief, there seems on foot a deliberate plan_by the extreme left wing New Deal‘ group ‘to create a rift between Mr. Wallacé and his chief, to make him appear almost a deserted to the cause. They stop just short of ac- cusing him of being agriculturally for “property rights instead of hu- man rights,” but they strongly sug- gest that he is susceptible to the blandishments of the larger and more prosperous farmers, impervious to the plight of the little and impover- ished tillers of the soil. It is, of course, @ ridiculous charge to make against Mr. Wallace, but it is splendidly illustrative of the type }of mind of some of the closest of the president's advisers. With them it seems essential that every argument and-every attitude be directed against those who have accumulated any- thing. Otherwise, there is no merit in them. Apparently, they sincerely believe it inherently wrong to have acquired anything and that the sound Policy is to take away from those who have something to distribute it among those who have nothing. To all in- tents and purposes, this is identical with the old Huey Long doctrine, and it seems strange that, as recently enunciated by Mr. Roosevelt at a White House press conference, it is not more generally recognized. Mr. Wallace has “gone along” with the advocates of this appealing idea for some years without arousing their enmity. So far as known, he is still in sympathy with the general direc- tion in which they steer. Certainly no man in the administration has been or is more loyal to Mr. Roose- velt than he. Personally as well as politically they have been s0 close that Mr. Wallace from time to time has been mentioned as likely to be WHEN A DEMOCRAT AND A REPUBLICAN GET TOGETHER You WAVE AN ARGUMENT... ~~ WHEN A CAT. TURNS ebe'et GETHER YOU, HAVE A HGHT! —~AND WHEN *& DRIVER AND B00ZE GET TOGETHER ~— YOU HAVE AN ACCIDENT / oon By FRANK R. KENT the Roosevelt choice as his successor. Perhaps that, as much as anything is the reason for the deliberate efforts to drive a wedge between him and the president. Conceding his char- acter and courage, Mr. Wallace has been criticized in the past as being too visionary. That isn’t the fault found with him by the advanced thinkers. Their complaint is that he is not a true New Dealer in that he 4s beginning to show a curious re- spect for “property rights.” In a lit- tle while they will be calling him a “Tory,” j President Roosevelt may not be a dictator, but he is paving the way for someone who may be hard where he has been soft, brutal where he has been benevolent.—Dr. Harley L. Lutz, Princeton university. By William Dr. Brady wil: ans: ease or diagnosis. Wri in care of Tribune. self-addressed envelope, Your Personal Health id in jes must be accompanied by a stamp: Brady, M. D. 3 aining to health but not dis- Fink. Address Dr, Brad; ly THE TEACHER WITH UNDULANT lent asked: FEVER Correspond “Would you advise employing a school who has undulant fever? Reasons for or " against.” ted in this Answer column. “No, The germs of the disease may be given off for eight or ten months after the onset of the illness.” ‘This brought a protest from the fever for three years. She would like wife of a man who has had undulant to know my authority for “stating un- conditionally that the disease is contagious for eight or 10 months fol- lowing onset.” I have never “stated unconditionally” that undulant fever is contagi- ous at any time or stage. There is still considerable uncertainty about the mode of infection with undulant fever (also called Malta fever, Texas fever, Mediterranean fever), and until we know positively how the disease is con- tracted we cannot conscientiously say that a person who has it or who has recently recovered from it may be employed in any capacity which involves more or less intimate contact with other persons. Nor can we honestly assure the public that one will get undulant fever if one drinks no raw milk. Undulent fever is more frequently seen in per- sons employed as handlers of goats, cattle, swine; it is comparatively un- common in infants and young children who are the chief consumers of milk, However, if there is any anxiety about the hazard of milk from cow or goat that has contagious abortion, » Bang’s disease (which is probably identical with or closely related to undulant fever in man) the milk, regardless of its source or grade, may be made perfectly safe for’infant, child or adult by the simple process of bringing it to a boil for one minute only. Competent investigators who have studied undulant fever say that the germ may be discharged in the urine from twenty to three hundred days after the onset of the illness, They the carrier of the infection. Only subsidized experts, if you about the cause and believe an insect may be concerned a3 prevention of undulant fever. For that matter, one has to make due allowance for the subsidy that inspires much of our pres- ent-day “science.” QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Young Man's Rest I am 21, happily married nine months. Husband, 27, has his own meat market and grocery store. He gets up at quarter to five every morning ... and he gets seldom more than six hours Answer—A grains calcium phosphate and six (Mrs. A. 8.) In my opinion plain milk or cheese, treatment of acne, blac! 5 (Copyright, 1937, ¢——___________» | BARBS | Se TS | Testimony showed that a Mount Clemens, Mich. man was hit in the neck by an egg thrown by his wife. Out of the scramble he got a di- vorce, * * & The charitable person wiil hope that the ritzy neighbor who went to England for the summer has better than the usual luck in finding it. xe * Success of the President's Chesa- peake Bay parley can be measured by usual picnic standards of how many guests got a nd iS eels, ear. On the credit side for autos is the visible decline of stories sbout the | Person who drowned in horseshoe * ek oe It may be more than a co-incidence that the arch criminal never is caught flat-footed. Qars, P. W. W.) sleep. man can live that pace for a while, but not for long. He needs at least eight hours sleep each night, and if he does the actual work in the shop he needs at least nine hours sleep. T have been taking dicalcium phosphate tablets, each containing nine calcium gluconate and 660 units grains vitamin D. How do these tablets compare with the calcium content of milk? Answer—A quart of milk contains approximately 20 grains of calcium. say cottage cheese, is superior to any medicinal form of calcium or phosphorus. There is more calcium (lime) in milk than in lime water, for example. The organic or inorganic phosphorus and calcium in milk or cheese is probably more suitable for human nutrition than is any medicinal preparation containing calcium or phosphorus, Please tell me something for blemishes. My face is a sight. (Miss H. P.) 4mswer—Probably you mean pimples and blackheads, 80, send stamped puted eaten your address and ask for oily skin, acne. If instructions for John F. Dille Co. ——_———_—_"————* | SO THEY SAY Modern Judaism takes the stand that the worker has an inviolable right in the industry in which he works ... we recognize labor's right to strike, but we strongly prefer arbi- tration to open conflict.—Rabbi Bar- nett Brickner. ze * If we can all exercise caution, pa- tience and self-restraint, we may yet be able to save the peace of the world. —Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, xk OR America has fewer strikes now than in the past, but the people seem to make more of them.—Lady Nancy zk me Within five years we will see mass Production of an inexpensive plane that can’t stall or go into a spin—Air Pilot Charles L. Smith, former mayor of Seattle. SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN By Oren Arnold Copyright 1 937 NEA SERVICE Inc CAST OF CHARACTERS Yesterday: Stuart give: itifal bracelet. gins te both, . CHAPTER X STUART tried all that evening to put two and two together concerning the near tragedies in Superstition, but he couldn’t get a satisfactory four. He suspected the Colter men one moment, and dismissed his suspicions the next. His regard for Carolee helped with the dismissals. Next day, though, he decided on further action. He would drive in for official counsel. He had leased an eight-cylinder car for their stay in Arizona, and he wanted to buy some things in Phoenix anyway. Superstition Todae was only 40 miles from He drove directly to the Mari- copa county courthouse and went in to see the sheriff, old Tex Leatherwood: “Knowed you was up thar,” the old man told Stuart. “We keep a general eye out on newcomers. Havin’ any difficulties?” “Yes, sir,” Stuart answered. “Nothing you could put a finger on, but—” eee Stuart: related details of his cliff, father’s narrow escape in Su- perstition, then of his own experi- : ence in the mountain. He was about to tell why he suspected the Colters when it suddenly struck him that he couldn’t do so. They were, after all, Carolee’s family. But she was so separate and dif- ferent from them in his own mind that he had literally forgotten the relation momentarily. He felt a trifle silly, having to change the course of his narrative to the sheriff. “Cain't see nothin’ to worry about yet, son,” old Tex told Stuart. “Superstition is full of queer doin’s. Most of it ain’t so queer, when you git right down to it. Just a lot of dudes like yourself goes there, and you ain’t at home. This is a wild country, ‘lemme tell you. You're more t’ bome in a busy town, ain’t you?” Stuart smiled and admitted that it was so. “But the shooting— what about that?” he asked. “I don’t know. Prob’ly some mistake. I do know that hardly a month passes, since I was a young man, that some tale of bein’ shot at don’t come out of Superstition. i “Son, shots ain’t bein’ shot at. There’s prospectors alw'ys takin’ ore sample from up there. And hunters. And ranchers huntin’ steers. “Any of ’em likely to shoot at rattlesnakes or painters.” Stuart considered that a mo- ment, while the old man eyed him. Then the sheriff resumed. “You take them two fellers at the Water Association here, name lof Blaine and Briest. Honest yor tellers. Said they was shot at. But it was deer season when they was up there, and men was huntin’ in them hills.” “I tell you how it tis—f'r years, all my life, the’s been tales about Superstition. That’s how it got its name. Some people have been ‘killed up there, and each one of "em makes a corral full of yarns come trailin’ along. People are skittish when they go up thar. I feel it m'self. I can hear shots and figger I’m bein’ shot at. Son, that mountain’s full of ghosts!” ene ‘HE sheriff chuckled a little. Stuart smiled and nodded. “I ought to know,” Stuart agreed. “I saw plenty of them ‘water. But dad swore the bullets struck near him. And I can’t be- lieve my horse slipped over a Old Tex considered that for a moment. “Didn't you say while ago you feud a painter den? Some kit- tens’ plenty.” “Don’t blame you, but you like- ly wouldn't have come to no harm. [These here lions ain't vicious to Iman. But lemme tell you—they kill many a deer and cow and hoss. And.a hoss knows it. Son, if yo’ hoss got one whiff of a lion near him, he'd go loco. I’ve seen it. I’ve killed, I reckon, a hun- dred lions in my day, and when they tree I have to whup my hoss to get him in shootin’ range. 'Yours likely snorted and trembled and run hisself right over that|. cliff without knowin’ it.” “And ripped open my canteen when I was craving a drink of |); “Yes, sir. They frightened me P; in the fall, I suppose,” Stuart finished. “Likely.” It wasn’t convincing, but it all seemed to dovetail. The sheriff, in common with most old-timers, loved to talk. He gave Stuart more regional lore than a book of history could have done. He leven told of the Spanish days ‘when Don Miguel Peralta, So- Moran rancher, was sending ex- editions up: to the mountain to bring out gold ore. . eee TUART didn’t accomplish much, but he learned more about Su- perstition’s treasure than he had lever dreamed of knowing. He had taken the stories lightly hereto- fore. Now he was intrigued by the possibilities. The Spanish lepisodes,.and the half dozen or so subsequent murders that were on official record, were convincing proof to Stuart (as to many an- other) that Superstition must somewhere clutch a rare treasure. But—as old Tex laconically an- iswered his inevitable query— “gold is where you find it, and Superstition is mighty big.” Stuart was about to shake hands with the venerable sheriff and take his leave when the desk tele- phone rang. The old man mo- tioned him to wait until the call ‘was done. Stuart couldn't help overhear- ing—not that he tried to. A sher- iff is sort of public property any- , everyone feels; his affairs should be open to public scrutiny. At least it’s a convenient excuse. ‘Stuart wasn’t especially attentive, though, because the officer listened Imuch and asked a few questions. Finally he hung up. “Be damned if this won't inter-. est you, son,” he declared. “*Stunny. But wait'll I call Wat- See & Superstition’s mostly in When old Tex got Sheriff Wat- son of Pinal county on the phone, Stuart strained for every word. “Wat? This here's Tex Leather- wood. Call frum a woman at Apache Junction. A Miss Colter, \C-o-l-t-e-r. Said her brother's lost in Superstition. . . . Yeah, they been huntin’ gold. He’s been out four, five days. His pappy and brother went fo: him and found his hat and nothin’ else. Carried just a quart of water. + + + That's a fack. . . . Yep. - - Yep. Lemme kn Yep, Colter; Paul Colter.’ (To Be Continued)