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

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1987 | 28. 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 B! ck Tribune Company, Bis- = N. D,, and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail ; Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Kenneth W. Simons Archie O, Johnson Vice Pres, and Gen'l. Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance per year (in state outsit 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 local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of ali other matter herein are also reserved. Lesson From the South Farmers producing basic crops on these Northern plains should note what has happened to the cotton industry and take heed. H America this year will produce some 16,098,000 bales, a record-breaking yield per acre and one of the biggest crops in history despite the withdrawal of approximately 28 per cent of the cotton acreage in the deep South. The increased yield per acre is not surprising since farmers normally would withdraw their worst land rather than their best. But while the South is decreasing her cotton acreage, Cali- fornia and other states have found it profitable to grow cotton under irrigation. Because they get high yields they are not interested in a reduction program, hence are expanding with- out regard to the government’s policy. One reason they can do so is that they are growing a superior variety of staple which is worth more on the market. At the same time this has been going on, world production of cotton has increased, impetus having been given it by the high price of American cotton. An inevitable corollary has been a reduction in exports of American cotton to 5,000,000 bales. And, to add insult to injury, cotton from California and other states is “scooping” the export trade. Caught between their desire for profitable prices and the world competitive situation, the South is getting quite excited about the matter but those interested see no course other than unrestricted production, even though that will mean lowered prices. The only alternative to that condition would be an in- greasingly large government subsidy. It never seems to occur to the South to take some of its | eggs out of the cotton basket, to encourage an agriculture which twill not depend wholly upon an export crop and which must either be the object of government ministrations or sell at a ruinously low price. The moral is clearly applicable to wheat. If the Great Plains area had produced a bountiful crop this year, wheat ‘would be on a distinctly export basis and the world supply would be so large that the price would be greatly reduced. Any time that wheat is on an.export basis ruination lurks around the corner because remote parts of the world now can produce wheat more cheaply than we can. More and more wheat acreage, producing a so-called normal yield, would only tend to make the situation worse, as it became in 1982. In view of the cotton situation it would seem that agricul- ture elsewhere would do well to keep an eye on its prospective market and be prepared to turn to products which are in more demand than the so-called staple crops. One of the advantages of the South’s Western irrigation competitors is that they can do just that., : Japanese Propaganda Drive _ Kimpei Sheba (no relation to Solomon’s lady friend) tells fa a special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune how Japan is or- ganizing for war and incidentally reveals that the Japanese are | charging their Chinese opponents with using dum-dum bullets. These, in case the reader doesn’t remember, are lead bullets which spread out on striking flesh, making a large and gaping wound. The people of Nippon also are being told about other “Chinese atrocities” with a view to making them angry enough |* to give real support to the war. At the same time Premier | Konoye urges the populace to “act in perfect obedience to im- ' perial wishes and be loyal to the national cause and co-operate to the fullest extent and endeavor further to raise national |jn morale.” All of which comes in the nature of confession that the nation is in a major war, whether the Japanese realize it or not. ‘At the same time it emphasizes what the Western world has | long suspected, that ancient traditions have taken a licking in Nippon as well as elsewhere in the world. Time was when every Wapanese, presumably, craved an opportunity to die for his emperor but contact with the Occidental world has made him | gnore practical. While they have been doing things to the rest | O£ the world the rest of the world has been doing things to them, too. As a result the Japanese government is being forced into ‘Phe use of the same kind of propaganda that took America into the World war. Everyone over 30 can remember the atrocity | @tories which made America shudder and which, at the time, | were accepted as the gospel truth. We now know that fake ‘photography and vivid imagination played a large part in that The trouble with Japan is that it went into the Chinese war } overconfident and expecting an easy victory. The Chinese were ‘supposed to flee in disorder as soon as the Jap war machine hove in sight. j But China’s modern army hasn’t performed up to expecta- | tion. On the contrary, it has set the Japs back on their heels so hard that Mr. Sheba confesses the Japanese expectation that Nippon’s effort to make a friendly nation of China (that’s all the current imbroglio is) may last well into 1938. The fact, of course, is that atrocity stories from either side could well be true. The Associated Press, which isn’t noted for its imagination, recently reported that the average number of prisoners taken by either side was less than one a day. This shows either remarkable military skill on the part of froops involved or a disposition not to bother much with prison- pes. The Associated Press’ answer was that both sides were faking the easy way out by shooting captives on the spot. f This isn’t quite accordihg to the standard rules of war, but Bien the white man’s conception of what’s what seems to be faking a drubbing all up an@ down the Oriental line. } could well study Japan, what with her morbid tendency fe datios ba boves ns Sone toa . Behitd Scenes | Washington | U. S. OPERATES ITS OWN $12,000,- | 000 BARGE LINE. (Editor’s Note: This is the third of five columns on the federal government in rapidly-increasing “big business.” These special col- umns substitute for Rodney Dutcher’s “Behind the Scenes in Washington” while Dutcher is on vacation.) By WILLIS THORNTON (NEA Service Staff Correspondent) Washington, Sept. 15.— Many people will remember that the entire railroad system of the country be- came “public business” @ pe- riod of the World War and that the government came within an ace of taking it over on a permanent basis when the war was over. But not so many will remember that the government embarked at that time on a transportation system of its own, which is still operating, still the subject of controversy as it was then, and today a tremendous factor in the transportation system of the country. This is the Inland Waterways Cor- voration, familiarly known as the Federal Barge Lines. Last year it operated water-transportation lines on the Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, and Warrior river systems. It oper- ates the barges and terminals, and even runs a railroad connecting the Warrior river system with the Birm- ingham steel district, ea 8 U. 8. Went Into Business Ever since the government was first established, it has poured millions of, dollars into widening, deepening, and keeping open the rivers for transport. Nobody ever objected to this except an occasional taxpayer, but it was not until 1918 that the logical step was taken. The way to see to it that some good came out of the millions spent in building waterways was to operate boats on them and so. the government went into the internal waterway ship- ping business, The corporation was formed, and congress directed the War Depart- ment to carry on this shipping enter- prise “in the same manner, and to the same extent, as if such transportation facilities were privately owned and operated.” Stock to the amount of $12,000,000 was issued and sold to the treasury, which holds it. An additional $3,000,000 has been appropriated to buy more stock, and this has been available since 1932. But, reports Gen. T, Q. Ashburn, the very able head of the Federal Barge Line, “it is apparent that the cor- poration wil] never need it,” and he recommends that it be turned back to the general funds of the treasury, eee Say Competition Unfair Proposals are now being extend the barge line service Savannah and Columbia rivers, General Ashburn believes can be done without costing the taxpayers an- other cent, hy ar the exten- sion from tHe resetyp funds @% the corporation. ‘ All this is, of course, highly dis- pleasing to the railroads, which are being helped by various other federal agencies at the sathe time this fed- eral agency is clipping their poten- tial revenues. “It has cost the. tax- Payer $46,000,000,” the Association of Railway Executives complained a few years ago, stressing the fact that the burge line, free of heavy taxes and burdensome regulations, is a most un- fair competitor of hard-pressed rail- roads. * But on the other hand, in the cur- charges paid on traffic routed via the barge lines and what the charges would have been if the traffic had moved by rail.” Such sa’ have been more than $26,000,000 1924, the barge people claim. The current report claims # “consolidated net pro- fit of $539,552.47 for 1936, in a season success of water transportation.” xe * Its Just One Item where the screen ment is functioning id let alone two sets of bookkeep- ing. For instance, the railroads always want to charge up to the barge line all the costs of river improvement. General Ashburn asks: “to what would those costs be assessed if there be no water transportation?” Here, then, regardless of worth or right or wrong, ie & definite ef- Rastus (boasting)—Boy, when -ah hits a man he know it. Marcellus—Dat's nothin’, Big Boy. When ah hits a man he don't know it until a week later. Henry—How's your new secretary getting along, Gus? Gus — Why man, she’s a genius. She has so turned the office upside down that now I can’t do without her. City Visitor — Did you hatch all these chickens yourself, Mr. Jubb? Farmer Jubb—Nope, I used a couple incubators and quite a number of old settin’ hens, Mrs. Chubbwitt (to new maid)— Can you serve company, Mandy? Mandy—Yes ma’am—elther way, Mrs. Chubbwitt—What do you mean —either way? 80's they won't, The Withering Hand Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. dy will answer questi perta! dealth Nostn. Write iettors briefly: aad ins ine ep be Sody ‘he Tribune, All queries must,be acconipanied st ased envelope, BREAKING UP MALARIA correspondent writes that malaria is very prevalent in his munity they do not have much success it up. In many cases it has been of long duration. He asks how much quinine a malaria victim should Teceive, for how long and “all necessary information.” Inherited progressive deafness, éaid the leas treatment to ear The Great Game of POLITIC S Copyright 1997, by The Baltimore Sun A HOLLOW GESTURE Probably no shoddier or more worthless piece of legislation ever got on the statute books than the bill re- president calling Ployt ed, It is In this case, as in most of the others | = ation | chusetts. The Johnson’s proposal is ited By FRANK R. KENT Sak poe pene ger wi it usly out haps — who are Hy in extent and character. Until its size) ii, country either on tite relief rolls and nature are actually known it can- not be feally faced. For four years| Or holding jobs that could be taken there has been -a demand for a real! by legal residents now on relief.” This | want to try it, census of the unemployed, and in the] allegation has been made many times, |'and last session of congress two concrete| but without a real census there is no| dress and proposals which would have brought/ way to prove or to disprove it. the answer were presented. One was — to utilize $20,000,000 of the relief} Be that as it may, the administra- money employing the unemployed on| tion tossed aside the two solid sug- the WPA lists to make-a door-to-door} gestions for a count of the jobless and count of the unemployed. This was] evolved this absurd and meaningless Sponsored by Sentor Lodge, of Massa-| voluntary postoffice call plan. In brief, other was General) after spending billions of dollars in of a self-registra-|the dark, it still proposes to rely on the’ lines of the} guesses as to how many unemployed | fe tion, . | Selective-draft law of the World War,|there are, where they are, who they | 17. f | discarded by the administration, Re- fed Under this law the unemployed would| are and why they are unemployed. nave to register as no federal reliefj The demand for facts is met with a could be had without a registration|gesture so hollow that some of its Either of these plans would have produced the facts. They were both fusal to consider them is attributed by some to the consistent disinclination of Mr. Roosevelt to accept any idea that does not originate within his own group of intellectual advisers. Gen- eral Johnson charged, however, that the real reason is that “any census would disclose hundreds of thousands BY NARD JONES BARBS .. ] “TOHREST BROTHERS ant GRANT HARPER—young: scien- eee tints whose expedition turned out Geologists are the only people as- pilus See ree sured of a respectable place in society Zesterdars, Failing to find Kay despite «Ife of fault-finding. oe Grant, the party returas to the ‘Washington has 121,625 trees Hning its streets, which may at last account for the city’s habit of putting people out on a limb, * ek * The boomerang was known to stone age Europeans and ancient Egyptians and is now being re- vived by Boater tes cocesre, * One peony sometimes produces three and a half million grains of pollen, partly accounting for the fine bouquet of some hay fever sneezes, * * * A. J. Cartwright started the Practice of keeping 90 feet be- tween bases on the ball diamond, but even his fertile mind over- looked the value of barbed wire enclosures for umpires. 3 and ef assistance to your ” it orders they leave the island at once, CHAPTER XIV @ark, deep steps they fully ex- pected some death trap . . . per= haps an abandoned weil to smoth- er them out of existence. Or a pit in which they would be at the mercy of the owner of that in- sistent voice that came to them out of the night’s blackness. Clutching Grant Harper’s arm, Kay found her mind filled with all sorts of fiendish possibilities, Step by step they went deeper, and she felt sure that each step would be the last. “Here we are,” the voice said. are surprised,” he said with a smile. “Indeed, I have Hie at Wu “Well, you said I hadda be in the school orchestra. 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