The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1937, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, . THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1937 a The Bismarck Tribune An independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, @arck, N. D, and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class matter. Mrs, Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Vice Pres, and Gen'l. Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press lated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of thi dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in t! Rowspaper 1s0 the Iccal news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. SSS Law Enforcement One of the strangest and saddest commentaries on the law-enforcement situation in America exists in the five states where prohibition of alcoholic liquors still prevails. Georgia, where the people recently rejected a repeal pro- posal, is an outstanding example. There, the record shows, the federal government has issued 14,661 special federal stamps which, of all things, ARE A PERMIT TO ENGAGE IN THE LIQUOR BUSINESS IN SO FAR AS THE GOVERNMENT IS CONCERNED. In neighboring Florida, where liquor is legal, only 8721 such stamps have been issued. Now it is hard to believe that state and local officials in Georgia don’t know at least some of those 14,661 individuals in the liquor business. No one would concede that they couldn’t find at least the large majority. All of which raises the question of why the government should apparently be better able to enforce a criminal law than is a state. Is it that a law on the statute books lulls a citizenry “to sleep or that America is coming to be a country in which the law means little? The A: A ‘Prosperity’ Problem The most exasperating fact in the path of the man who wants to raise prosperity by raising incomes and prices is the way in which such increases inevitably tend to cut down on the demand for goods. A current bulletin from the Alexander Hamilton Institute points out, as an example, the way this is about to work out in the auto industry. All signs have been pointing toward a sub- stantial increase in the demand for autos in the immediate fu- ture; but now a 10 per cent price advance is rumored, and if it comes, it may well offset the expected increase in demand. Wages in the auto industry have come up 14.6 per cent since 1929. The price of steel, likewise, has risen by 18.4 per cent in the same period. Yet auto prices, far from having advanced, are about 15 per cent under the 1929 level. Some sort of increase looks almost inevitable; when it comes, how far wil) it go toward offsetting the “increased prosperity” which increases in wages and raw material prices were supposed to effect? Good Temperance Sense “That woman has good sense,” comments the Boston Trav- eler anent a remark by Bertha R. Palmer, former superintendent of public instruction in North Dakota and now engaged in tem- perance work. Inspiring this whole-souled commendation was Miss Palmer’s suggestion to the W.C.T.U., of which she is director of scientific temperance instruction, that its members “Don’t preach a sermon.when you refuse alcohol. Don’t let your prin- ciple bend but don’t make yourself obnoxious to others. Avoid dogmatic statements that will make you unpopular. We have a chance to educate people if we don’t irritate or antagonize them.” Few will disagree with the Boston newspaper's observation for what Miss Palmer was doing was merely recognizing one of the fundamentals of human behavior. No one likes to be re- formed. The “goody-goody” person is never popular. The best way to teach a lesson is by setting an example—and not being too self-conscious about it. Rail Pension Act The Railroad Pension act became a law July 1 and, watch- ing it go into effect, the average American well may wonder if it will not prove superior, in most respects, to the gigantic old- age pension system recently organized by the government, for the nation as a whole. It is designed particularly for one industry and, for that reason, probably will be much easier to administer than the gen- eral law. It deals with only one general classification of em- ployes, which is a simplifying factor. The public will watch its operation, both because of the peaceful manner in which employers and employes agreed upon it—thereby setting an example which the nation can use—and because it may point the way to constructive modification of the general law which affects nearly everyone. , Peacetime Death Roll For something like 30 years a crusade for a “‘safe and sane Fourth” was carried on in this country. When it started, each Independence Day celebration saw scores upon scores of people —usually children—killed or maimed by fireworks. So effec- tively was the campaign pushed that this year’s Fourth found only four names on its list of fireworks death casualties, But just how far ahead are we? Our fireworks killed only four people this year—but our autos, over the Tndependence Day double holiday, took 247. And 104 people met death by drowning while swimming or boating. After many years, we did manage to learn to be careful with fireworks. If we can just learn to be careful in other ways, we may yet be able to celebrate our nations birthday without rolling up a casualty list that looks like that of the Battle of Bull Run. Congress sometimes seems to be trying out the theory of the cautious man who, before deciding on a proposition, has to sleep on it. : eee Father, Divine's “celestial olympic” games failed because it was too hot, Scorers crediting the first and final heat to the weather. i eee Jugoslavia’s King Peter II now has his Jong-wanted baseball suit. With © course in umpiring, he ought to do pretty well against the opposition. eee ‘The $100 monthly alimony granted a Detroit artist's wife might be Prop- ely described as a drawing account. Ae Bis- mail Behind Scenes Washington Hog-Callers Get Into Condition for Floor Duty. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 15.—That party the Democrats had at Jefferson island best stories of what happened on the island are just beginning to leak out. One of them evidences the fact that although President Roosevelt will call a man by his first name as quickly as one thus addresses a bar- ber or waitress—often applying the praenomen to a lady or gent on first ineeting—it takes a Jim Farley to re- member the correct name every time. A group of anticourt bill senators stuck close to each other on the island and a half dozen of them approached he president in a group to pay their so-called respects. Senators Bailey of North Carolina and Byrd of Virginia had passed by and had not been greeted by their first names, which would be a story by itself. Then up stepped Senator Clark of Missouri. And the president either had become flustered by this time or else suffered one of those brainstorms or memory lapses which at one time or another afflict us all. The only other possi- bility is that he was trying to be funny, which is unlikely. “Hello, Frank!” exclaimed Frank Roosevelt. And was Bennett Clark sore! * * *® Research in Hog-Calling Your correspondent also has in- dulged in research as to the hog- calling contest which was a feature of the picnic, heretofore inadequately reported. Not with any thought of inflicting any bum humor about hog calling and pork barrels, but rather with the thought that hog-calling might soon enter into the court plan debate. Sen- ators, as you might say, have been calling each other everything else, and diligent scrutiny reveals that senate Tules do not say hog-calling is barred when filibusters run short of words, But no senators entered the Jeffer- son island hog-calling contest, pre- sumably because they were saving breath, It seems that Roosevelt himself or- ganized and umpired the hog-calling contest, entering Harry Hopkins and Secretary Henry Wallace as White House rivals against Congressman Jim O'Connor of Montana, Bob Mou- ton of Louisville, and Otha Wearin of Iowa—all three great braggarts as to their hog-calling proficiency. Mou- ton offered to call hogs for five hours if the president would raise the Louisiana sugar quota, but got no taker, Roosevelt himself decided the re- sult was a two-way draw between Mouton and Wearin. Mouton uses the “Bayou Bawl” techique, with a warm, alluring bellow of “Eh, la bas!” meaning “Hey, you down there!” and calculated to make the most well-done pork chop lurch toward the side of @ plate. Wearin, a thin, bespectacled young man, begins with a soft “piggy- piggy” which works up to a screech and eventually gets back to a soft “eoo-ee,” which is alleged to be all taat keeps a responding pig from climbing up his leg. ** ® Free Mail in South Seas The Union Postal Clerk, official organ of the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks, in a column called “Trapp Opens His Trap,” because it’s written by one J. B. Trapp of Los Angeles, is responsible for the follow- ing items: The one and only place where one can mail a letter free to any part of the world is at Postoffice Bay, Charles Island, in the South Seas. The postoffice is a barrel anchored in shallow water, handy for sailors on long voyages. Zachery Taylor once refused a post- age-due letter. It was notification of his nomination for the presidency and he didn’t get the news for days. The .first- opening of a postoffice in Korea in 1885 was a flop because the Koreans, thinking it was a plot of the “foreign devils,” burned the The Most Interesting Things About That Jefferson Island Picnic Have Not Been Told—Until Now ... The Faces Were Familiar, but... is well in the past, but some of the } Not Exactly Encouraging Copyright 1937, by The Balti THE ATTEMPT TO FRIGHTEN The tactics of the administration in its attack upon the integrity of the supreme court have changed several times since the president first Jaunched his plan, now nearly six months ago. It is interesting—and significant—that as the debate be- gins there is practical admission that the whole proposition is beaten un- less the opposing senators can he frightened out of a fillibuster. That is the situation in a nutshell. To this end the full weight of the administration propaganda is now ex- erted and from various pro-Roose- velt quarters the alleged danger they run is being pointed out to individual senators—particularly to those who come up for re-election next , year. Hardly a day goes by but from some journalistic spokesman a warning note is sounded. The general idea sought to be conveyed is that the people of the country will react against a prolonged filibuster. It would, it is conceded, defeat the court- packing compromise, but it might swing public sentiment back to Mr. Roosevelt and against the Demo- cratic senaters who have stood up against him on this issue. That is the argument. Administration politicians contend that the determination to fight to a finish is already weakening among the dissenters and that before the summer is “over ‘they will agree to a vote, which means passage of the bill and the end of an independent judi- ciary. They even name the senators expected to surrender and point out the local reasons why they will not go the limit. It is rather a transparent piece of business and it will be inter- Fostoffice and killed the postmaster on the very first day. The telepraph was a part of the Postal service from April, 1844, to March, 1845, and during that period its inventor, Samuel Morse, was on the federal payroll as superintend- ent of that branch of the service. Then congress refused to provide for its continuance on the ground that it should be a private enterprise. A man in Webster Grove, Mo., has Paid rent on a private postoffice box for several years. He has never re- ceiver a letter. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) ———_________—__-¢ SO THEY SAY | The physician, psychologist, lawyer, clergyman, educator, executive, par- ent, all share in the problems, caused by mental disorders—Dr. L. E. Hinsie, pee York Psychiatric hospital of- iclal. xe ek ® An ideal little world, complete in every detail, could be built up right here in the western hemisphere —Dr. Guy, H.. Smith, head of Ohio State Geography department. * * * The churches have only themselves to blame if the Nazi state no longer contributes to their upkeep.—Adolf Wagner, Bavarian Minister of the Interior. * * * I believe that labor is entitled to 8 constantly broadening share in the fruits of its own production—Senator Arthur Vanc-nberg, Michigan. ** # _We need today inspiration, not ir- rigation—Owen D. Young. ** *& Far too much of many persons’ lives is put in by using others’ think- ing—Wilbur L. Cross, governor of Connecticut. GAR. VET DIES Minneapolis, July 15—()—Free- man C. Caswell, 93, state commander of the G.AR. died Tues‘ay night at the home of his daughter, Mrs, Arthur Nelson, at Lesueur. He served with the Green Mountain Boys of company 3, ninth regiment, Schenectady, N Y., has a greater population than the entire state of Nevada, which has an area of 109,821 | square miles, esting to see what, if any, effect it has upon the situation. The plain fact is that if the oppos- ing senators do not weaken under pressure and refuse to be frightened by the roaring effort inaugurated by the rejuvenated Robinson to make a filibuster seem sinister the president cannot achieve his purpose. Actually the result seems to depend upan pub- Mec sentiment. If public sentiment sus- tains a filibuster Mr. Roosevelt's plan not only to pack the court, but to The Great Game of POLITICS put through the revolutionary pro- gram evolved for him by the Corcor- an-Cohen group of advisers and which is dammed up behind the court bill will collapse. If, however, public !sentiment can be swung against the filibuster and the opponents fright- ened away from fighting to a finish then Mr. Roosevelt may gain his ob- jective and the fight be in vain. Re- alization of this is behind the presi- dent's known plan to deliver another “fireside chat” on the subject when the debate has reached what he can ‘claim is the filibustering stage. His proponents are confident he can charm the people back into belief in the virtue and wisdom of his course. At least they profess confidence, though reasons why the more astute among them are anything but serene \are clear. One is because the president’s first public appeal—last February—on this subject distinctly was not effective. Another is because he has suffered in public esteem through the weak- ness of his course in the strike situa- tion and because the political alliance with the C.L.O. has offended a good many people who voted for him last year, Another is. because of the clar- ity with which it has been demon- strated that the bulk of the people are against him on this court-pack- ing plan, strongly with the senators who oppose it. It is difficult to be- Heve that these will not be supported by the people in filibustering to de- feat a measure of the viciousness of which they are so completely con- vinced. On the contrary, it would seem that these senators would run far more political risk if they failed to use every possible means to defeat it, To permit themselves to be fright- ened away or cajoled out of battling to the limit of their endurance would seem an admission that the thing for which they are fighting—to wit, the independence and integrity of the federal judiciary—is not as vital as they had proclaimed. Tt would seem that failure to go the limit would deeply disappoint the millions of people who are behind them in this struggle. It would seem, to many, a desertion and betrayal. It would seem further that open knowl- SPEAKING OF S&FETY Some Sicns ARE IGNORED oe AWS » -- OTHERS ARE DOUBTED —— Sti ! i i ! { { GO SLOW READ'EM HEED, EM. LAUGHED AT BUT sacety sions must BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY—- OTHERS ARE AND Dr. Brady wil! caso or ditfre reibune. All queries tiigeadaressed envelope. <<< Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. wer questions p Write letters briefly HYPOPITUITARISM four children says shi Mother, Ofer out and go places W! me sO Se is tall, aged thirty-three years, and vith her children, but every one laughs f-conscious that she never goes out of . At twenty she was a nice looking girl, to rating a family and changed almost overnight. Soon after her first baby was the girdle, hips and thighs, and in the upper portion of chest, ni born she began to accumulate excess flesh about at the same time eck, shoulders and head. ituitarism or deficient pituitary gland func- seemed to become scrawny That is the picture of Bypor below the waistline 1s characteristic of tion. Accumulation of excess fl t as of the chest, dent, Pr ehe lower part of the normal fat layer which ering of the body. The correspondent I physical form. Usually there describe in a health column ( tell the physician more de! products, internal secretions, ent successful treatment of the trouble. In these cases of hypop! gland treatment, together wi blind semi-starvation), achieves first understand clearly that there tion which will aire much sal f her physician, ani oa eee if she hopes to neck, shi body, but highly ductless g) of functional impairment of doir’,d, mentioned by the corres. ontrast with the increased bulk is in some cases only veal cases there is an actual loss of the lands, The “scrawny” ap- underlies the skin, a redistribution of the fatty cov- tion other changes than the change in ee ee other sighs or symptoms, which we need not, this is not a clinic), the interpretation of which finitely what hormone or hormones (ductless gland docrines) are deficient and guide him in the ble. itary obesity modern endocrine or ductless io scientific regulation of the diet (not just pleasing results. But the patient must 4s no cut and dried diet or line of medica- tisfaction. She must place herself in the care d remain under his constant supervision and direction come back. I cannot impress this upon the After all, I seldom harp on the idea of hypopltuitery victim too strongly. ASC! fore is a circumstance that makes “consulting @ physician,” ni absolute auauealie the regimen rative for success. on young woman weighed was 65 inches tall. Twelve years and general advice of your own physician 146 when she mavried, at the age of 20. She later she weighed 327 pounds. Something I said to her, by mail, then persuaded her to place herself under the care of a good doctor. In eight months she | half she reduced to 156 pounds, and known for ten years or more. I have received—but as I say, oe pea eas give no information about it, except to physicians who it, physicians in good faith, not near-doctors. every may ask for t 97 . In about a year and a colle health than she had her clinical record and know all about this is an individual question in QUESTIONS AND ANSWEES Chicken Breast Daughter, aged four years, has chicken breast bone. Exercise? Other treatment? (Mrs. H. F.) ‘Answer—Belly breathing exercise, with sandbag weighing ten to fifteen pounds on chest, helps. Send stamped en’ Physicians should attend to diet, sunbathing and vitamin D. Blood Appreciate it if you will tell me pressure should be? (J. M. W.) What should be done for one who W. T. McC.) By FRANK R. KENT (Copyright, 1937, velope for instructions. prescription of suitable ration of Pressure 2 how you figure how much your blood ‘Answer—I don’t. I leave that to my doctor. What do I care how much my blood pressure may be? Even when I undergo a life insurance examina. tion I haven’t enough curiosity to Ba to 1] what my blood pressure registers. vat is salivated from taking calomel? (Mrs. Answer—Take the calomel away from him. John F, Dille Co.) oo —_—? | BARBS | Congress sometimes seems to be {trying out the theory of the cautious 'man who, before deciding on a pro- position, has ie sen = it. edge that the Roosevelt senate ma- Jority—if it is a majority—can only be- obtained through the coercive weight of federal patronage, White House favors and party pressure; and that on a secret ballot Mr. Roosevelt's Proposal would not poll fifteen votes —in view of these practically undis-} Father Divine’s “celestial olympic” puted facts, it would seem that if ever a filibuster were justified and in the public interests, this is the time. games failed because it was too hot, scorers crediting the first and final heat to the weather. ** % Jugoslavia’s King Peter II now has his: long-wanted American baseball suit. With a course in umpiring, he ought to do pretty well against the opposition, ek * ‘The Michigan man who studied law after he was sent to prison has set some kind of example for budding ‘The reason it is not likely the opposi- tion will be frightened off either by the bellowing of Mr. Robinson, the cooing of Mr. Roosevelt or the out- pourings of inspired propagandists is because in it are included the Demo- crats of real courage and conviction in the senate. It required both to take their stand in the first place. It would imply a lack of both to weaken now. barristers who want to know their profession inside and out. * * & The $100 monthly alimony granted a Detroit's artist’s wife might be pro- perly described as a drawing account. Extradition of Golf Expert Is Requested Albany, N. Y., July 15—(#)—Act- ing Gov, M. William Bray signed Wednesday a request for the extra- dition to New York of M. Laverne Moore, asserted by Thomas W. Mc- Donald, district attorney of Essex county to be John Montage, mysteri- ous. Hollywood, Calif., golf expert, to stand trial for the $600 holdup of s Toadhouse in 1930, Montague has said the will fight extradition. SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN By Oren Arnold Copyright 1 CAST OF CHARACTERS CAROLED COLTER, heroine, prospector’s daughter. STUART BLAKE, eastern enough—near Weaver's Needle. Through interminable canyons, she rode up and down and around, so rough was the terrain, but she knew her way. Then at last she climbed up a particularly steep slope—up where they could see the smelter smoke at the town of Superior 40 miles away and Squaw Peak in another vague dis- tance—and stopped with them on a rocky flat no larger than a horse corral. She pointed to the base prospectors sons, NINA BLAKE, Stuart's sister. sees Yent sepststtar se Tet led India: myste: of cleared 4 if the NEVER was more drama packed into_a few hours, thought Stuart Blake, than in those in which the aged Indian ebbed to his end in the Colter cabin. He did not die immediately; in- deed, he lingered nearly a whole ned tt he hed furnished the ey many long unanswered 2" i questions, the solution to most of ae Stale giao ako Gee oe “nad ben“, jee, wi friended him and his kind, un-| store, “out moved boil with he doubtedly caused him to talk s0|miner's pick he had brought. {It G ‘was slow business, and the women The old Medicine Man sent for helped him. Once Carolee looked his squaw and instructed her to|back, saw the men and signaled Tatars tee ts thi Ridden pe? hoe e e a The squaw knew the location of See ne oh me Be he sacred sole. wood, extremelyshard, and Caro- ‘ou can’t go up there with |iee knew it was the desert iron. only an Indian boy and woman!” lwood that grows in Superstiti Stuart growled. “It may be a|She recalled the Dutchman's f They amiant do anything! story, decades before, that he had beepers covered his mine shaft with just Le so. I am not| such logs. They would endure mae You go 'home, Stuart, and for centuries in so dry a region. er atson will bring Dad} tronwood grows but 15 or 20 and Silas close behind me. The | feet tall, crooked and gnarled; Indians may have nothing, really,/and its ‘trunks are never ver: bat it won't hurt to see. it will thick. ‘The longest over this mine gates Sapeneely. it was|shaft was about eight feet. But you es snot the old|it was extremely heavy, and an man, remember. '¢ #qUaW |hour or so elapsed before Carolee would’ never let you go.” The six riders departed well be-| Vis, '° ‘he open tunnel of the fore sunrise on the morning after| ‘The tunnel w: jas not Peaebocr ure oe copied —30 feet or s0, AR Pe rs pee “heged into the bulk of the mountain, Carolee, the heat ban (Carolee was so excited she terpreter ~ ree oe ea anae couldn't help trembling. She ouvee ee sheriff picked up rocks and at once saw 5 flecks of gold. eee JUARTZ pieces, egg-sized, iC jee high-lighted with the yellow metal. Near the end of the shaft she found looking nuggets of all, @ pecan, seemed to be metal. The white girl stared at them for a long time, them. Then she began of a boulder about head high, and said a word or two. o “It is there,” the interpreter re- ported, simply. “You mean—the mine is under Softly to | th 937 NEA SERVICE Inc She waved then to Sheriff Wat- son and her father and brother, whose curiosity and interest sent them forward with great haste. Excitement knew no bounds for the next quarter hour. “People have hunted for this for I reckon 50 years,” orated the sheriff, at last. “Now it’s yours, This will run I don’t know the ton, “Why, some of W's pure e ton. , some ‘s pure gold! Look at these here peas— pure yellow! And this piece! And this'n!” The sheriff was ab- normal, and nobody blamed him. “Let's put up your monuments,” he ordered, “and take what we can of this back home. You folks don't seem to realize it, but I tell you you're millionaires!” Sheer emotion overcame stoical old man Colter then, and he s down on a rock to cry Silas and nee were manner of like children they Mere tata exclaimed Sheriff Watson, state'll never hear the last this!” see they got home bags laden with ore, they had calmed enough to watch the ex- citement of Mrs. Colter, to rest and to eat a bite, for it was then well past noon. Carolee, though, had no intere est in eating. She mounted Chieftain again, mee! of you at ie Lodge—for dinner,” she told them. “Do not come with me now.” She saw Silas grinning and knew that he would obey, knew that he didn’t care. She was alone when she stopped at the appointed spot down trail, their trysting place. She was holding a few of the best nuggets, but she wasn’t thinking of them now. Strange calm had suffused her. The afternoon was waning. Evening colors were creeping into the cliffs, Velvety shadows were emerging from their midday lairs. Far off to the northward she glow—irridescent western” gold, elusive, vagrant but celestial. She sat very quietly. Never had the landscape been so magnificent; so exalting. Her hair waved with e breeze, and her lip trembled cry. “Oh, God,” she whi: “Help it ‘not to make aa ae + ference. Hel them—sure right way.) U2‘ se it the eet £0 little. wn the trail, then, she saw Stuart coming. THE END