The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1937, Page 6

The Bismarck Tribune t * An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) tate, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, ee og ne eee ee pomoince at eS matter, Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer % Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Editor Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen’ Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail outside of North Dakota .. ‘Weekly by mail in state per year ... Weekly by mai) outside of North Dakota, ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Mewspaper and also the Iccal news of spuntaneous orig! blished herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. The Ancient, Undefiled Art of Log-Rolling Up in Escanaba, Mich., they are going to have a cham- pionship contest that is a championship contest this summer. They are going to settle the birling championship of the world. If you don’t know what birling is, that only proves that you never lived in a land of tall timber. For birliag is the sport of the lumberjacks, those descendants of legendary Paul Bunyan, who sometimes seem to be just about the toughest, brawniest and most rip-roaring of all the two-fisted types America has produced. _ To birl, you need a pool of water, a log, and a pair of steel- spiked boots—two pairs, to be accurate—one for each con- testant. Donning the boots, you stand on one end of the log, and your opponent stands on the other. One or the other of you starts to twirl the log, and his opponent keeps pace with him. Faster and faster it goes, spun by the heavy spiked boots, reversing its spin now and then as one contestant takes it away from the other; until at last either you or your opponent is unable to keep footing any longer and tumbles into the water. . 8 * The thing is interesting to watch for two reasons: First, because a good lumberjack can do miraculous things in the way of keeping his balance on a spinning log, and second, because it is always fun-to see a fully clothed man fall into the water. But beyond that, birling is a game that grew out of one of the most dangérous jobs mortal man ever tackled. In all the great lumbering regions—in Maine, in Michigan, * * duced to logs was only half of the job. They had to be got to the sawmill after that, and the usual way was to roll them into a river—thousands upon thousands of them—and let them float downstream. . Thus the great log drives came into being. For mile upon mile, a swift river would be carpeted with logs, so thick that a man could walk from bank to bank dry-shod. Now and then some obstruction would cause these logs to pile up. It was then up to the lumberjacks to skip out under the face of this menacing, jam, find a key log, and jerk it loose. Then, with a roar like a collapse of a 10-story building, the jam would loosen itself and go thundering downstream. If the lumberjacks were skilled and lucky, they would skip over the swaying carpet and get out of danger; if luck or skill failed, they would be overwhelmed. That, in brief, is bitling’s ancestry. So you can see that a birling championship is something worth having, and worth looking at. If you happen to be in the vicinity of Escanaba on Aug. 18, you'll find this event something to see. A Rule for U. S. Workers Some day, the nation’s genius may produce a code of social relations. By looking on such-and-such a page, anyone will be able to tell at a glance exactly what rights he has in living, working, going on strike, and perhaps, dying. In case that code ever is written, people can look back on some of today’s perplexing contradictions, and get a laugh out of them. The administration ruling against collective bargaining for federal employes may be material for one such laugh. Pres- ident Roosevelt says that the government cannot make con- tracts with its employes because their pay scales and condi- |, tions are determined by congress and not by executive officials, In addition, federal employes are denied the right to strike or designate any one union to represent them all. Now these rights have been guaranteed, by federal law, to nearly all workers in private industry. Can it be that the administration’ is just’ now’ finding out how much the shoe pinches when it’s worn on the other foot? - * 2 8 @ Mental Slips in Traffic Dr. Lowell .S. Selling, Detroit court psychiatrist, has re- vealed discovery .of a. new type of mental aberration observed only among traffic law violators. Not a specific disease, the disorder was traced in investigation of motor law violations. by Dr. Selling and his staff. Scientific programs have accomplished many things in improving traffic conditions. Autos and tires have been brought steadily toward the peak of perfection. Roads have been widened and improved. Dangerous intersections have been eliminated, and a great campafgn of education has been started. : But even when all these improvements are combined, ac- cidents still occur. That leaves little other than the “human element” to account for the trouble. So, if Dr. Selling can throw light on just why certain otherwise respectable and reasonable members of a community suddenly go berserk when they get behind an automobile wheel, he will deserve the.everlasting praise of the whole nation. a ‘A Warrior’s Reward _ For a tiny nation, wracked with the plagues of the post- war era, Austria often has displayed surprising spunk. With ; ically no backing, it has buffaloed various European powers and has kept the sage minds of the League of Nations in a continual stew since 1919, ~ Latest evidence of this belligerent tendancy is the gov- - ernment law forbidding dancing to military music and pro- ‘hibiting the “jazzing up” of military theme songs. It could easly be said that Austria is just playing Grau- stark again.’ But in fact, the decree has its elements of gen- ‘erosity amd good sense. Why shouldn't military music be teserved as.an qbbligato to a)warrior’s death? That’s about jal he can ever expect to ‘get out of the profession. 4 dh Behind Scenes Washington Bis- | Startling Consequences May Follow the Death of Senator Robinson, and | They All Depend on Possibilities That Aren’t Often Related. for the Public Ear By RODNEY DUTCHER | (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 21.—The death of | Senator Joe Robinson certainly seems to make a filibuster on the supreme court plan impossible, and that pre- sumably is why the opposition forces are talking about a long adjournment. Such an adjournment may be taken, but at the moment there is a curious unanimity on each side—the one holding that the Roosevelt program must now be dropped while all hands go home, and the other insisting that it be driven through. If Roosevelt sticks to what he told his strategists and Neutenants a few hours after Joe Robinson was found dead, the compromise court plan which the senate has been debating, a gov- ernment reorganization act and a wage-hour law are still on the “must” | list. ** * Sutherland te Go Next? The one thing most likely to block supreme court and other legislation this summer is a process which in- siders in each camp speak of as “throwing Justice Sutherland to the wolves.” This means that Justice George Sutherland, his fellow justices and their congressional defenders may decide that it’s worthwhile for Suther- land to resign. Because if Sutherland did quit, following in the wake of Justice Van Devanter, congress al- most certainly would insist on going home for keeps. Wives and daughters of senators are a potent factor in the demand for quick adjournment. They're wor- ried about husbands and daddies, and want to go to cool vacation spots. But the White House is sending Private threats that it will hold con- gress up to scorn if it tries to run out without passing the final triple- pointed “must” program. . * *e * What Was to Blame? The game of politics begins to be Played just as soon as the news of a Prominent politician’s death gets around, and candor compels the ad- mission that few of those who deliv- ered splendid eulogies to Robinson failed to have both ears and both eyes cocked at the changed political situation caused by his death. The argument as to “what was to blame for Joe's death?” rages all over town, although few are willing to speak for publication on the subject. The oppositionists are wailing and weeping over the fact: that Robinson \ DEVIOUS IS’ A MILD WORD One of the basic reasons those so constituted that they require facts to bolster their faith have so profound a distrust of this administration is be- cause of the great difficulty of getting, from it solid, reliable, accurate infor- was kept in harness until he dropped, forced to make his last valiant fight for a court bill he really didn’t like and an appointment to the supreme court for which he passionately yearned, The administration crowd replies that the filibustering tactics of its Opponents threw a terrific and need- less strain on Robinson, and point cut that the most sensational de- velopment in the court fight occurred just a few hours before Robinson died, when Chairman Hatton Sumners of the house judiciary committee broke loose with a scorching denunciation of attempts to jam the court bill through. eek Wheeler's Friends Worry Senator Burton K. Wheeler's friends are worrying about him since he called on Roosevelt to withdraw the court plan “lest he seem to be de- fying God.” Wheeler's bitter dislike ot Robinson has been common talk here for years and although the White House gang’s feeling that he has been guilty of unusually bad taste may not be valid, that statement and other signs indicate that Wheeler is not standing the strain any too well. Senator Copeland, speaking as the only physician in the senate, issues grave warnings of imminent collapses among senators. He would get more attention if he were not an outstand- ing opposition leader. Everybody knows, of eourse, that congress has done little in six months, Neverthe- less, a majority in each house would Promptly vote to quit if it were not for White pressure, It is not impossibye that this pres- sure will’ relax. Whether congress stays or goes now depends entirely on whether congress or the White House sets its teeth hardest, (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) People’s } Forum Editor's Note—The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of inter- est. Letters dealing wit versial religtous subject individ which offend good ta: play will be returned he writ- ers, All letters MUST be signed. If you wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and your own name bi h it. We reserve the right to such parts of letters as n@cessary to conform to this Welle) and to re- quire publication of a writer's fame where justice and fsir play make it advisable. Letters must be Imited to 600 words, FOR PERSONAL LIBERTY Baldwin, N. D., July 15, 1987. Editor Tribune In your issue of yesterday I saw & of Poca South. Burlewe county o Soil Conservation District” land lying in Burleigh county, N. D., in accordance with Chapter 9, Ses- sion Laws of North Dakota for 1937. Zn E E z fe in aforesaid chapter worse T'do oppose lesing' my iber lo oppose 4 it American citizen. ee Yours very truly, JULIUS MEYER. i ne g — mation about its fiscal affairs. Sometimes the searchers after facts are baffled by the reluctance of the bureaucrats to divulge figures and by the ability of some to juggle them. But ‘more often the information is not ob- tainable because it is not available. No one can give it because no one has it, ‘and the confused condition in which the emergency agencies operate makes it impossible to dig it out. However, this unreliability is not confined to the emergency agencies but extends to the regular departments as well. It is doubtful whether there has been a period when treasury reports were 50 misleading or, statistics and estimates concerning federal finances so un- stable. The president presents one set of figures; the treasury follows in less than a week with another set. Roseate there is literally no control over ex- penditures. Every six months finds us deeper in the red, but every six months we are told that the time has now arrived when through reduced expenditures and increased revenue, contror over our finances will be . This talk + economy comes regularly from the president, but just as regularly nothing is done. His latest utterance the subject came in a statement days ago—the third of the year. all heads of i tle C Pot Cities” under the Rehabilita- tion Administratio#. The fact re- Eee POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun Your Personal Health ning to health but I~ ad inviak, address Dr br | be accompanied by a stamped, fi Dr. Brady sae aid ak he Tribune. All queries mu! adresse! envelope, DIETETICS 18 STILL A GOOD LINE ‘At the dawn of the twentieth century Mey practice sisted of tearing off printed lists of food® the eat, and it was a very good Des poser) eng have once revamped at least once ® m aan of the latest advances in science, as well as a pleasing comestibles. Each revision gave the euchre party or the without referring to the record, than ‘When the lady protested the doctor explained that ie was ‘maling rapid strides, and the heyday of quack dietetics far as regular medicine was concerned. Such & contre. the style of the near-doctora and queer-doctors, ingenious charlatans exploit dietetic fads in bewildering the idea that starchy foods are indigestible, then the un. physiological notion that “wrong combinations” are harmful, and more “gcidosis” bugaboo. Customers, brought up in polite inno. ysiology, paar that regular or “ordinary” doctors just lerstand about these Bs. tt pression. one screws on Wid ceo pried bites ith and illness, the prac tetics or dicto- pacer egeny pe consume too much refined food, not enough natural food. thor, writing on food allergy, asthma and hay fover observes that flreteborn ‘children in all families and the youngest , 8:280, March, 1937). Allergy, $:28 shail comment on the striking fact that calcium shortaze a common fault of the American urban dietary, that this is due mainly a the excessive refinement of food in this country, and that food allergy, which seems to be steadily increasing in frequency, is intimately associated with, if not caused by, deficiency in calcium metabolism or utilization in the body, whether this depends on an shortage of calcium in the intake or or utilization in the body. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Chalk -!y pgbacringas precipitated chalk the same as the calcium carbonate you recommended: in place of sodium bicarbonate for relief of excessive acidity of stomach? Druggist sold it to us in powder from, but only directions say it is for removing spots from delicate fabrics. (M. McD.) Answer—I do not know whether that would be safe to take internally, Precipitated chalk 4s the pure article for internal use. Is a fine white odorless, tasteless powder. It may be had in tablets of 5 grains each (cal- cfum carbonate) and two such tablets is the average dose—will neutralize excessive acidity in stomach for several hours, without disturbing normal acid-base balance in blood, as the much abused soda does, Circumeision ‘My husband has implicit faith in whatever you say... our baby boy cixcumcised. (Mrs. M. A.) Answer—I should advise circumcision only when # is necessary for cleanliness or to relieve obstruction. Fry or Coddle? iAppreciate it if you would kindly send me a little argument on fried food such as potatoes, bacon, chops, etc., and the harm done the stomach. (Mm, W.) Answer—That’s just a notion of some sour old dyspeptic, Food cooked By FRANK R. KENT ‘What it really does is create a false im both as to the size of the national debt and the extent of the relief expenditures. The reports of the RFC make clear the state of af- fairs so far as it is concerned, but the reports of the treasury do not. Quite the contrary. SO | SO THEY SAY | low to be just to all is the dem- ocratic requirement of life—Dr. H. ‘W. Overstreet, College of the City of New York. . mains that not a single, prac proposal to save a single dollar been made by the president, by New Deal agency or adviser. On contrary, there have come numerous, proposals, all involving greater ex- penditures. How much longer this can go on is uncertain, but the thing that most, worries those who sppre- ciate the gavity of the situation is the inability to find out exactly how bad the situation is. So many things are obscured, It is so easy to present a plausible argument which only on analysis is found wholly falacious. For example, take the semi-annt treasury statement in which the no’ Bring on your old offensive; we are ready for you.—Radio challenge to Loyslists by Spanish Rebel Gen. bad * * Self-sufficiency is opposed to the basic idea of economic life—Dr. Otto Nothan, New York university. se I see nothing to be ashamed of in the fact that the government spends money to find a way to make living better for people in rural, suburban or city areas.—Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. BARBS | ee A kiss was Stalin's reward for one of the North Pole pioneers, who wasn't given the alternative of the usual firing squad. *x** * Southern Michigan prison inmates are to be taught dancing and stage presence. Nothing like being com- pletely ready for the coming out among them in one item of $1,500,000,- 000 advanced to Mr. Hopkins for. di- rect relief and expended by him. Cer- tainly no one regards that advance as an asset. “I.am,” said Senator inquiry reason this devious method of making direct expenditures: “The only explanation I received from a government officiai was that the reason may have been to avoid larger totals in the :ygular sppropriation bills.” When Senator Byrd calls this a “devious method” and intimates that omni a Percy (timidly)—I have halé a mind to kiss you. Roberta—It you had a whole mind you'd have done it an hour ago. |_COPR. 1937 BV WEA SERVIOR, W1C._Y. Mt. REO. “Look, Mae! ‘Isn't that little Tommy Davis who.tsed in our class at school?” ; decepti the reason given as discreditable. HILL-BILLY MUSIC Bur THEIR MUSIC \S SWEET COMPARED WITH THE S0Lo OF THE AUTO HORN TooTER, WHO THINKS HE CAN START THE STALLED CAR AHEAD BY BLASTING HIS WON KER! OUT OUR WAY, y LOON'T CARE iF 17" , IS A SLOW FREIGHT; TWO MILES AWAYE WHEN YOU GRow A_MOTOR CAR. YOU WON'T BE” PiccoLo S PLAYERS IRRITATE OTHERS pT y 4 in