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

smarck Tribune The Bi THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres, and Gen'l. Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year ... Weekly by mail in Canada, per year ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, 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 newspaper and also the lucal news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. We Should Get Out of Asia Peace-loving Americans shudder a little as marines leave for Shanghai and the Dollar liner President Hoover is bombed off that Asiatic port. These things disturb our serenity, bring the war home to us more effectively than even the tragic pictures from the front can do. The facts in China, as portrayed by word and picture, are grim tragedy. But it stiil is China’s tragedy. If they kill enough American citizens, either civilian or soldier, and bomb enough American ships it may mean disaster for this nation. THIS COUNTRY HAS HAD ONE WAR FOR EVERY GENERATION AND ANOTHER GENERATION NOW IS OF AGE FOR CANNON FODDER, Everyone might think of that as they work and pray for peace. They might realize, too, that no matter how our sense of fair play is violated by what goes on in the Orient it is, after all, no direct concern of ours. America used to do a lot of busi- ness in Asia. Our ships opened Japan to commerce and we long made money in the China trade but those days have vanished, probably never to return. Our commercial enterprises have largely been driven out of China by competition which we found it impossible to meet. Japanese and other goods have taken the place of American- made articles. We have no commercial stake there worth fight- ing for and even if we had the probability is that we couldn’t save it by going to war. P At the same time that we make firm resolve to keep the peace, we should prepare ourselves for excesses on the part of belligerents. People who are at war are not normal in their thinking and we never have been able to understand the Orien- tal mind even when it was at peace. : It is inconceivable that Japan should be deliberately court- ing trouble with everyone as she seems to be doing. Respon- sible Tokyo officials, for example, certainly would not have DIRECTED the attack on the British ambassador by a Japan- ese airman. : China, in view of her need for American moral and financial support, certainly would not have ORDERED the attack on the President Hoover. Those are merely unfortunate things which have happened and we should treat them as such. _ America would lose nothing by bringing all of her troops home from the Orient. That would seem to be better judg- ment than sending additional marines there. For if untoward events occur—and they easily may—we may find ourselves pre- cipitated into a war which need be no immediate concern of ours. Slant on Civil Service So much has been said for Civil Service and so little has been said against it that the American public is pretty well sold on the idea that its adoption by government, local, state and national, would be an unmixed blessing. So loud have been the cries in its behalf that it has come to be ranked along with Home and Mother as an untouchable thing. Much that is said about it is justified, just as is the case with those other great institutions, but homes have to be main- tained and even the care of mothers occasionally demands sacri- fices as is evidenced by the number on relief rolls. For an understanding of Civil Service, apart from the pane- _gyrics penned in its behalf, it is well to look at the requests which probably. will be made by the National Federation of Fed- eral Employes, chief booster for the merit system. At their convention, to be held soon at Springfield, Ill., they will consider the following suggestions: Extension of classification to the field services. Minimum salary of $1,500 for all full-time adult workers and corresponding increases for positions requiring greater degrees of skill and experience. ‘ Establishment of a central personnel agency. Civil service court of appeals. Liberalization of present retirement legislation. Pay for night work and overtime. Shorter work week. Allowances for transportation when transfers are ordered by the Federal Government. Stated promotion intervals, Institution of proper methods of efficiency ratings. All of these things are desirable, not only from the stand- point of the workers but from that of the nation and yet there are points which could be urged against them. “For example, a minimum salary of $1,500 a year would in- crease the cost of government and put some government wages far out of line with those paid for similar work by private em- ployers. Liberalization of present retirement legislation would be open to the same indictment and the same thing could be jsaid about the shorter work week and pay for night work and overtime, , if But these things do not touch on the real reason the public ; has not insisted upon action to match the lip-service which the ) merit system. has received. 4: Entirely apart from politics, which are admittedly a highly it factor in the equation, the public has not insisted upon extension of civil service because it is afraid of develop- ing a bureaucratic class which will be outside public control but which still will run the nation. ' ‘The Amerian public wants efficiency but even more than that it wants public servants who are completely subject to its ; domination. That ig the only reason politicians can praise the - civil service system but do nothing about it—and still “get by.” only be a Behind Scenes Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Washington, Sept. 1.—Various ar- guments were considered by Roosevelt as he debated with himself whether to veto the sugar bill or let it ride. But one argument was not — the one put up by continental U. 8S. re- finers’ lobby to the effect that well- paid American labor would be placed in further competition with low-paid, sweated, tropical labor if qouta re- strictions on territorial Puerto Rican and Hawiian refined sugar were not kept in the bill. The government countered this ar- gument by proposing to insert wage and hour standards, applicable to all suger refineries under the American flag. Lobbyists and their congressienal sympathizers promptly turned that one down. Government forces ex- plain by saying that if the “sweated tropical labor” issue had been re- moved, continental refiners would have been left with practically no ar- gument except that they wanted an effecive monopoly. Behind the government strategy as related to the Hawaiian-Puerto Rican| . restrictions was Jerome Frank, bril- Mant former general counsel for AAA now practicing law in New York. He had supervised framing of the present sugar act, but was kicked out because he crusaded too forcefully on behalf of farmers and consumers as against middie men in food industries. Secretary Ickes and Frank's friend, Dr. Ernest Gruening, chief of terri- tories and possessions, asked Frank to come back and help them defend in- terests and rights of the islands. Frank had been offered huge fees to represent Hawaiian producers, in whose cause he believed, and had turned down. When the chance came to do the same job gratis, with no possibility that he could be called a lobbyist selling his government, ex- perience, Frank gladly jumped into the fight on that basis while a dozen other former AAA men worked as pro or con lobbying foe Bien fees. Court Ceremony The news men and photographers who stood outside Senate Secretary Ed Halsey’s office while — as they learned many hours later — Senator Hugo Black was being sworn in as a supreme court justice, supposed the notable occasion had been carefully planned and prepared. As a matter of fact it was only a Spur-of-the-moment idea on Black’s part. Black had come up from his office in the senate’s education and labor committee to greet and congratulate Mrs. Dixie Bibb Graves as her hus- band, the governor of Alabama, handed her credentials as the new senator replacing Black. : Suddenly Black said: “I'm here, Ed Halsey’s here. We're all here. Why not get a man to swear me in and let's get the whole business over right now. I've got to go to Baltimore to see my boy in the hos- pital tomorrow, anyway.” 80 telephoned next door for Charice F. secre decades the sen- ate paymast @ notary ic, The job was done promptly, as Black left hurriedly with Halsey, re- fusing to talk or to be photogray Only five or six persons knew he was then @ supreme court justice and none. told until late in.the evening. Black, although he had posed dozens A Frenchman learning Engiish said to his tutor: “English is a queer language. What does this sentence mean: “Should Mr. Noble, who sits for this constituency, consent to stand again, Je wilt all probability, baveleiwalk= over’ bread when he turned and said to waiter: “Ugh, you slice ‘em ham?” “Ugh,” grunted the Indian. “You darn near miss em.” | BARBS ) o——__________»4 Add similes: As baffled as a pick- pocket at a ae con vere: John L, Lewis enters politics, pre- sumably with the intention of sitting Sopra ont ‘apes “oppnetion ‘candidates * Progress: a senator moves to make a man’s wife as efficacious as his cow og, Ineomme, ta eps i purposes. ** It's only a step now to a Volga float- man song. se ¢ phed. | temerity to ask renomination and re- ,| Ject, publicly and privately, he has The waiter replied: “Yes, I sliced | session. the ham.” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1937 A Census of the Employed Might Be Interesting Too. AOR Se Ree z Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but sot ease of diagnosis. Write letters briefly and in ink, Address Dr. 5 in re of The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. ais ready VITAMIN D AND RESPIRATORY INFECTION Formerly we thought vitamin A was the “anti-infective” vitamin or at any rate most essential for the prevention of so-called “colds,” influenza oz grip, sinusitis and other respiratory infections. This assumption is now questioned and, from all I can learn about the practical use of vitamins ‘not animal experiments but human experience) there is no good evidence to support the idea. The evidence seems to show rather that vitamin D, not vitamin A, aids in building immunity against respiratory infection. This conclusion is based not only on human experience but also on animal ex- petimentation. In one experiment (out of many on record, references to which Iam glad to give physicians on request) group of rats well fed except for lack of vitamin D were given injections of rat typhoid germs and 63 per cent of the rats succumbed. A control group of rats fed a smaller diet but adequate vitamin W, were given the same rat typhoid injections, and only 27 per cent of these succ! . Insufficient vitamin D is the cause of rickets. It has always been rec- ognized that infants or children with any degree of rickets are corres- ponatiely weak in immunity against pneumonia and other respiratory Zections. A great many persons who have adopted the habit of supplementing their ordinary diet with irradiated yeast tablets, which are rich in vitamin D (produced in the yeast by irradiating with certain wave-lengths of ultra- violet light) have noticed and reported an increased immunity and a de- creased frequency of “colds” (to thee, cri to me). Vitamin D is apparently a defense against pneumonia in children af- flicted with whooping cough. Among 2,462 cases of whooping cough, more The Great Comets POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun By FRANK R. KENT those on the other side every un- worthy purpose and which pretends SOMETHING TO REMEMBER Now that congress has adjourned, the New Deal spokesmen, interpret- ers and strategists are being extreme- ly articulate about “the people.” They truculently talk as though they had the United States, written by him- self, being an essential part of the scheme. The calculating policy of the administration to give this sorry busi- ness the “silent treatment,” the shameless retention by the committee some sort of a patent on the people|of the money, and the attitude of the and were able to forecast and direct|department of justice, all constitute exactly what they will do when next|a scandalous performance. they go to the polls. The recent radio outburst of Senator Guffey, which backfired on him so badly, is a sample, to operate upon a high and holy plane, refusing to enforce the laws of the United States which have been vio- lated by its representatives. Ultimate- ly, in politics as in private life, people have a way of sensing hypocrisy and hypocrites are generally caught up with. In face of its pretentions of Piety the administration’s part in this unsavory scheme is as offensive a Piece of hypocrisy as the history of politics shows. If next year the peo- Here we have the spectacle of an administration which habitually at- tributes to itself the noblest of mo- tives, which systematically imputes to The general idea is that in the con- than half of the children with marked rickets contracted pneumonia, 37 per cent of the children with mild rickets contracted pneumonia, and only” 29 per cent of the children without rickets contracted pneumonia, In children with measles there is the same tendency to develop pneu= monia if there is a deficiency of vitamin D. ‘When you say “colds” you don’t know and nobody knows what you are talking about. Just one or another illness, usually communicable via con- versational spray more commonly than via open-face sneeze or cough spray. Only fault I find with calling the illness or indisposition “cold” is that the term implies an intention or desire to disarm the ignorant or innocent folk around you and a callous indifference concerning the fate of those you infect. I urge you to have a spark of decency and call it cri. “I have cri” (pronounced kree) means I don’t know yet whether it is simple coryza, diphtheria, measles, infantile paralysis, but I’m giving fair warn- ing—govern yourself accordingly. There is a golden rule of hygiene, too. Of a group of children with diphtheria 13 per cent had no rickets, 62 per cent had some signs of rickets. The former class had a death rate of 83 per cent, the latter a death rate of 63 per cent. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Drouth Needed Both of our children, aged 5 and 7, wet the bed. The older boy only began to do so after he had measles last fall, but the younger boy has always done so. (L, T.) Answer—Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for in- structions for correcting the habit of bed-wetting. Hemorrhoids Please send me. any literature you have on hygiene for hemorrhoids, (Mr. A, R.) Answer—Send a three-cent-stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for monograph on hemorrhoids. Wet Dressing Just what is a “wet dressing” and what is its purpose? (H, M.) Answer—Say a mass of loose gauze (cheese-cloth) kept constantly moistened, on any infected or painful or inflamed or throbbing wound, Moistened with salt water, strength of tablespoon or common salt in the pint of boiled water, in which taspoonful of boric acid is also dissolved. Applied as hot as endurable. Purpose is to favor drainage and relieve tension and soreness. (Copyright, 1937, John F. Dille Co.) ple are in a remembering mood—if, in fact, they have any memory at all, it will be strange, indeed, if this shakedown racket by which the New Deal committée filled its purse from black-jacked corporations, publicly denounced but privately solicited, is not among the things they remember. At any rate, it will be recalled to them. The present trend in agriculture is toward more grasses and legumes and less grain. Increased production o} grasses and legumes will result in bet- ter farm management practices is, that a larger acreage of land now de- voted to the production of soil de. Pleting crops will be utilized for growing soil conserving and soi) gressional primaries and election next year the people will punish severely those who at the last session pre- vented the president from putting through what has been called his “Second New Deal,” and who have the election from the people. The chief source and inspiration of this notion is Mr. Roosevelt himself. As one who cam speak with authority on the sub- BY NARD JONES CAST OF CHARACTERS KAY DEARBORN—keroine who inherits a yacht for vacation. MELITA HOWARD—Kay's roommate and co-nadventurer. PRISCILLA DUNN—the third adventurer. one nao TEE wate whose expedition “warned to announced that the people are with him, His aides echo that thought with 80 much ardor as to invite the sus- picion that they are-not quite as sure ag they seem. Everybody in active politics who has disagreed with the administration it @ rare experience. in the past eight months 1s now being Xesterday: | Bathuslastio. after threatened with “the people.” For 1eOKlne ere dacige to tnt over example, we are told that “the people” raed iey pnsermae: vacation with were behind Mr. Roosevelt in his ef fort to seize the supreme court ai in his attempt to gain control of the independent federal boards and com- missions. In addition, they were, it is said, for the proposed new NRA as exemplified in the Black-Connery Wage-and-hour control bill; the new AAA, which was evolved around Mr. ‘Wallace's “ever-normal-granary” prin- ciple; the establishment of a series of TVA’s and the interesting national Planning scheme of dividing the coun- try into seven separate zones for national planning purposes, all of which fell by the wayside in the last. CHAPTER III pine long past their usual hour, the three found them- selves with healthy appetites. But the food didn’t interfere with their discussion of the exciting topic of a vacation cruise. “Think of it!” Priscilla Dunn invited. “A private cruise in our own boat!” “What do you mean?” laughed Kay. “‘Our own boat!’ Did I say I was giving you each a third interest in the good ship ‘Chi- nook’?” “You'll have to,” Melita pointed out. “Priscilla and ¥ will share the work and contribute to the outfitting that Mr. Pike men- tioned.” Kay smiled at their enthusiasm. “Do you really: think we ought to make the trip?” . “T haven’t heard you put forth any good reason why we shouldn't. And Mr. Pike dealt very effec- tively with the ones you did offer.” “Well, it all seems very easy to Mr. Pike,” Kay told Melita. “But suppose we had trouble? Suppose we didn’t read the chart right, or the compass didn’t work, and we struck a—a reef or some- 1 “Or ran into a battleship in a fog,” suggested Prisc! ‘These, with several other little things, comprised the Roosevelt 1937 Program, and, while none of its fea- tures was revealed to the people in advance and none has yet been ade- quately explained, the Guffeys insist that the were for them, that th the refusal of con- gress to enact them and are eagerly awaiting the chance to “smack down” at the polls the dissenting statesmen who are nothing but a lot of “Ameri- can Lord Macaulays,” that being the latest phrase devised by the ingenious and versatile Mr. Thomas 5 inventor of “economic royalists” and “princes of privilege” (Mr. Cohen is ‘warmed up the bilge and check the engine Perhaps they are right and the and I suggest you girls get set to spend some evenings and a couple of week-ends working as you've never worked before.” “Aye, aye, sir,” said Kay. Replacing the receiver, turned to the waiting Melita and “ana Priscilla. “That man is exhaust- ing—but I like him. Well .... it foots Uke were ene 80) st tbe sea all jumped overboard and saved . Then the girls fell in love ith three officers.” “I’m serious,” said Kay. aren’t any sailors on a reef, Op alever it is WeraeE Ee Preservers on boat,” retorted Melita. “And in a neue window the other day I saw some| RUT in the days that followed, life jackets made just like sport coats, We might wear those and|amateur mariner had discovered if happened, there | before them—that getting even a we'd be, floating around as nicely |small power cruiser ready for as you please.” summer cruising is not child’s Kay looked at them humorously. | Play. “I really believe you two would} Yet they enjoyed every minute do it.” of it. All day long on their re- “We certainly would!” answered | spective jobs they looked forward Priscilla both for herself and'to 5 o'clock. At the stroke of this Melita. hour each rushed to the street car “All right,” said Kay Dearborn| which would take them to the suddenly. “Then I’m for it, too!”|West Shore Boat Moorage. Meet- They telephoned Jim Pike from |ing there, changed into the the restaurant; and Kay, who|slacks, swea‘ delivered the message, found him|which Jim delighted. were practical. “Good: working |summer’s lagging on her know alwould set to work. ! 1’ have a man in the morning. I who'll_do Madman’s Islan Grateful for the summer's Lessing twilight they set to work. Some- times they worked after dark, until h sentable clothes and a good food shop. for you, too. I'll order the paint, | sh she building crops d \ Copyright 1937 NEA Service, In i: Pn hastily as their stiffened joints) would permit the trio clambered) aboard and ranged around Jim! at the wheel. He grinned at them. “Now look here. We're tied to the wharf. If one of you will go forward and ¢ [one aft to see to the moorin’ lines —and the other fend us off a little on the starboard side till we get out of the basin—then I'll start the motor and do the piloting.” Not without some confusion,. Kay, Melita and Priscilla rushed to obey orders. Soon the little boat was riding nicely along the bay. “She's doin’ about eleven or twelve knots,” he said with satis- faction. “For cruising speed I'd whip her up some more, This y |motor will work best that way.” — Patiently and subtly he dropped information to the interested girls. He let each one in turn get the feel of the wheel, showed them how to line up the bow with a the pass. warped the little boat into the moorage again he had them watch closely at the controls, “Why, it’s easy!” exclaimed Kay. “Well... now that I got you into this,” said Pike, “I want to warn you it ain’t just as easy as it looks. Another way a boat is like a woman is that just about unger drove them into more pre- presentable clothes and a food “Now if you'll come over to my Place tonight after dinner I'll lay out your cruise for you on the op. “I've painter's colic, house- maid’s knee, and blisters on both thumbs,” complained Priscilla. “If I had to do that much work in the apartment I'd simply die.” “T’'ve noticed that,” mentioned Melita pointedly. “But I confess to the same complaints. What I uve Senee-opt te way do we like it? Kay shook her head. “Darned if I know. Jim Pike says it gets you. He says when you do spring housecleaning ashore you haven't anything to look forward to ex- cept getting everything dirty again. But with a boat you can look forward to the good time you're going to have aboard.” “Well,” laughed Melita, “recall- ing the interior of Jim’s house- boat I'd say he believes what he says about spring housecleaning. But isn’t he a grand person?. He's as excited about this trip as we are.’