The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 22, 1937, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937 The Bismarck Tribune An independent Newspaper it THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ' (Established 1873) State, City and Cou..ty Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- tmarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mat) matter. : Mrs, Stella 1. 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 Bi! Daily by mail per year (in state outsit Daily by mai) 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 entitied to the use for republica- nows dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this and also the loca! news of spontaneous origin published herein. 8 of republication of ali other matter herein are also reserved. Tremendous Business One of the most interesting and amazing documents to} come out of Washington in recent months is a statement of the activities of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, the biggest banking organization in the history of the world. | It is of particular interest to people in this area because there are some things which North Dakota wants from this set-up, things to which it clearly is entitled both as matters of good business and of national policy. | This organization, be it remembered, is not one instituted by the New Deal, although the Roosevelt administration has greatly expanded its activities. It was established by congress | at the suggestion of former President Hoover and had rendered yeoman service before Roosevelt appeared on the scene. Since; then its work has been expanded, as is true of most govern- mental activities under the present regime. Altogether, this corporation has loaned a total of $11,790,- 494,921.64 of which $8,990,247,068.45 is in the nature of loan investments and $2,800,247,853.19 were allocations to other | governmental agencies for relief. | It has collected $4,768,684,667.11. During its operation it has collected in interest and dividends $169,838,827.18 more than its expenses, excluding interest paid on money borrowed for allocations to other governmental agencies and for relief. Some of its major operations follow: Loans to 1,257 open banks, $248,046,589. Loans to 1,771 closed banks $916,020,618. Loans to 1,484 institutions on application of the de- posit liquidation board, $284,322,734. Purchase of preferred stock in 4,171 banks, $861,- 937,384, Loans on preferred stock of 272 banks, $23,322,755. Purchase of capital notes and debentures to 2,891 state banks, $434,819,430. Loans to 150 mortgage loan companies, $371,293,879. Loans to 56 insurance companies, $10,431,926. Loan authorizations and allocations directed by con- | gress to agriculture, $2,386,198,705. Included in this sum . were cotton, corn, turpentine and rosin loans. Forty-six railroads obtained $321,039,264. Ninety-seven loans to public agencies for self-liquidat- ing public works totaled $219,176,480. These halted when PWA entered this field. The corporation invested $500,224,921 in 1,682 issues | of marketable securities authorized by the PWA. (Inci- dentally, it made $12,094,228 on this business.) Loans to 2,271 industrial and commercial borrowers totaled $184,292,181. Other loans listed include those to public school au- thorities, catastrophe loans and loans to mining companies along with $46,500,000 to the Rural Electrification admin- istration. This represents a wide range of interest and a tremendous volume of business. On the whole, it seems to have been well handled. What interests North Dakota now is that, at last, it has need for some of this money. This state began its water devel- opment too late to get some of the “easy money” which was made available in the lush days of the Roosevelt administration. Yet it has projects which not only are self-liquidating but which will do much to relieve the effects of past catastrophes and prevent new ones, Members of the state water conservation board recently were told that the corporation is “interested” in proposals that it take bonds of some of the irrigation districts which now are being formed and the state agency presumably will seek to push this development. The risk certainly is no greater—and probably is less— than the $370,636,000 loan already made to the federal land banks, an amount included in the total of $2,386,198,705 ad- vanced to aid agriculture. \ Jobs for Workers The depression may be over, but the young chap fresh out | of college is still apt to find it hard to get a job. So says a re- port issued by investigators at the University of Buffalo, who! find that although there are more jobs now than formerly, em- ployers are getting increasingly careful about the men they | pick to fill them. é | “Employers, through improved personnel services, are re- quiring that graduates ‘sell themselves’ more than ever,” says| the report. “This means partly the possession of good man- ners. neatness, confidence and apparent ambition. Above all, it is dependent on submissive willingness to work hard as an apprentice.” : It might be a good thing for this year’s college seniors to bear that disclosure in mind. There are jobs to be had, for am- bitious young men—but a college diploma is no longer a pass- port to a soft snap. Worthwhile Attractions Bismarck residents tonight will have opportunity to hear the first of the four artists’ concerts to be presented here this season under the sponsorship of a local committee. They look forward to it with real pleasure in the expectation that it will be one of the best entertainments of its kind in recent years. The standard of attractions offered this year, topped as it is by the famous Russian ballet, seems to be of big-league quality and there is every reason to believe that all who support the series will be more than satisfied. Though “different”, these entertainments are not neces- sarily highbrow and it is a safe gamble that all who attend the | is a most important question. Narrow escape during the storm. | ** * concert of Mme, Wettergren tonight will enjoy it. Behind Scenes Washington Any Attempt to Disqualify Black From Sitting in Individual Cases Likely to Hit a Snag, Because Other Members of the Supreme Court Are Not Exactly Invulner- able. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Oct. 22—Whether the supreme court’s prestige has suffered because of the court’s acquisition of Hugo Black, who now seems firmly planted in his new seat, presumably Opponents of Mr. Roosevelt, nearly all of whom have vociferously pro- tested Black’s appearance as the newest justice, are insistent that the | Alabaman’s presence there has given the court a terrible black eye and lowered public respect for the previ- ously sanctified processes of justice. Whatever the truth or error of this conception it seems especially in- teresting to those here who recall that early in the year the New Dealers were frankly saying—athough not for quotation — that they did hope to crack the supreme court's prestige to a point where the people would lose | faith in its infallibility and where parliamentary government, meaning congress, would be supreme. So if you believe the opposition, it appears that the New Dealers won a victory there, although they certainly are not boasting of it on the same basis, * * Prospect of Retaliation Many lawyers are inclined to believe that, after the Black expose and sultant hue and cry, it may herea: ter become perfectly good taste in polite society to talk about the per- sonal backgrounds and theoretical prejudices of some of its other mem- bers. At any rate, word comes from the inside that there will be further administration propaganda efforts. Any attempt to disqualify Black from sitting in individual cases are likely to be met with attacks on Jus- tice Pierce Butlgr and Justice Owen J. Roberts, Butler was an oustanding railroad lawyer and among his clients was the Great Northern railway. AS a justice, however, he did not refrain from writing far-reaching opinions on public utility valuation standards, and last year he read an opinion which saved the Great North- ern , $10,000,000 in taxes which had been assessed by North Dakota. Roberts, Hughes and Van Devanter, who concurred with Butler, had all represented railroads in private prac- tice. Roberts, a former director of the Bell Telephone system, did not refrain from giving a decision which held up the rates of the subsidiary Chesapeake & Potomac company above those declared fair by the Maryland pute peryee commission. Court Will Survive é On. the other hand, itis not to be inferred that justices necessarily have a bias in favor of former clients. They merely fail to “sit out” when former clients bring cases, as Justice Brandeis did at the time of the ad- verse minimum wage decision of 1923, because he himself had been active for minimum wage legislation. In January, 1935, Hughes, who once represented Standard Oil interests, upheld a West Virginia chain store tax on filling stations which Standara Oil of New Jersey contested. But the court doesn’t like to be told that any justice isn’t qualified to sit in a particular case, and that’s one reason for guessing that such tactics against Black won't get far. Another reason is that in the Frizzell-Newman case, which Hughes cited in denying Albert Levitt's petition against Black, the court held that only public repre- sentatives such as the attorney gen- eral could bring court proceedings contesting a public officials right to hold office. Otherwise, said the court, every private citizen would have the privi- lege of bringing such proceedings “and a public officer might from the beginning to the end of his term be harassed with proceedings to try his title.” The court's prestige doubtless will survive in the long run, although its “liberalization” presumably will lead to invalidation of fewer federal and state laws. (Copyright, 1837, NEA Service, Inc.) A BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 1§ RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Why Teachers Quit Currie: Say Al, you're 15 minutes | late. You should have been here at 8 o'clock. Burrie: Why, what happened? They'd Wonder Why Lines: And why wouldn’t you want to have your name inscribed in the hall of fame? Vines: Well I'd sooner have people asking why it isn’t there than asking why it is. Plain Fact Belgum: Why did’t Jane vote at the election? Welgum: Oh, she considers herself a bit of a beauty. Belgum: What has that to do with it, Welgum: She says the election posters were addressed to the plain people. ————,>- | SO THEY SAY | We hope that reace may yet be secured for all civilization, but if other nations must go to war, then we say they shall be left to fight their own battles._Harry W. Colmery, retiring American Legion salt. * * I was not washed clear of the boat at all, just over the side. — Captain Heard of the English sailboat En- deavour I, giving his version of his Constitutional government in this country is succeeding despite the oo- Stacles being placed in its way by those who do not want to see it work. —President Roosevelt, * * It isn’t so bad being mobbed by au- tograph hunters. I imagine it’s a lot worse when they stop mobbing you.— Tyrone Power, film star, Changing Horses in the Middle of the Pacific | THE MAJOR IS-“FED UP” ‘There is a curious lack of co-ordin- ation among labor leader allies of the administration which is confusing to the president’s friends and annoying to his legislative advisers. This is par- ticularly evidenced in the matter of the Wage and Hour Control bill for which Mr, Roosevelt claims to have a “mandate” from the people, but which, despite that claim, a tired and irritated congress let fail at the last session, From the political standpoint, the enactment of this measure early next year is deemed very desirable, the expectation being that it will form the basis for most of the New Deal propaganda in the 1938 campaign. Northing so well lends itself to slo- gans of the “More Pay and Less Work” type, and the publicity bu- reaus are all geared to use it as an illustration of the noble way-in which Mr, Roosevelt has sternly compelled unscrupulous employers to cease grinding their labor “beyond human endurance” and pay a “living wage.” There is a large percentage of bun- combe in the administration bally- hoo on this subject, but it fits in per- fectly with the New Deal style of demagoguery and there was keen White House disappointment at the manner in which the bill was kicked around last session. Had it not been for the demoralization of administra- tion forces following the collapse of the court-packing proposals, a more |be determined effort to jam it through would have been made. That in either fextra or regular session it will be on the “must” list is clearly understood, Recent developments, however, indi- cate that it certainly will not go through as originally drawn by the Messrs. Corcoran and Cohen, spon- sored by the president and presented to congress. This was made clear the other day in the speech of that volu- able and ardent friend of the work- ing man, Major George Berry, now senator from Tennessee, who, ad- dressing the A.F.L. convention in Denver, declared himself strongly against having in the bill any pro- vision for a government board or bureau “to regulate either the unions or the cohduct of business.” The Major further alleged that he is for “a simple law” and is “all fed up on bureaus in Washington to fix wages and hours.” As a board to do exactly that thing is the heart and soul of the Co:- coran-Cohen bill for which the president has asked, the attitude of Major Berry in “bawling out” the regulatory boards is, to say the least, surprising. It is true that the Major is not as important in labor circies as Mr. Lewis, or even Mr. Sidney Hillman, now a fair-haired favorite: of the White House, and that both of them are for the regulatory board. But the Major is a recognized leader just the same. Moreover, he was the chief speaker at the A. F. of L. con- vention and is, besides, a member of the senate, where he is supposed to *labor’s spokesman.” Clearly his declaration on labor legislatior is not lightly to be dismissed, even though ——————— ° Relief Worker | ©: . HORIZONTAL Answer'to Previous Puzzle 12 Frenzy. 1 Prominent 15 She formerly" settlement ' PSI was with the house worker [Aj IPIAINIEIL| —— Reliet 12 panaaliepod [TIOIOITIE IO} anaes i Wace: e. w i 5 13 Opposed R IRVING IBIRIE[AICIH] 19 Tree. to verse OMS! BERLIN fe) evn 4 pinaallve IP|s| ela ibe see vote. 16 According to. [JE DIOISERMNEINIEMITETs] 25 ates: 17 Form of “be. ISMESITEIGIE MM TIDILIE! 96 Fodder vot. 18Clan symbol ICIEMESIOINIGISENIOISIE! 28 To teak. u Fone bag. [SICAIRILIEITS (SITE IE IC IE IO} 29 Mate cat. 22 Meadows, ° 39Wood demon. VERTICAL 30 Zo stay for: 23 Within. AoX pon 1 Substance 33 Heavenly 24 Sound of 41 Taro paste. Peocmaric body disapproval. 42 Measure of 25 Cistern. area. golds. 34 poet 26 Senior. 43 Form of “‘me” ,2 Sword handle. 2 pale 27She is Jane 44 Speech defect “3 Constellation. 5 ah — successor 45 Toward. 4 Musical note. | anarchy 29 To carry. 46 To pass. 5 Uncloses. 30 Toupee. \ 48 Gossips. 6 Weight 31 Pitchers. 51 She is a allowance 32 Fern seeds. trained'——- 72000 pounds. 44 Varnish 33 Auction. service worker 8 Electrical ingredient. 52 She is head of Hull Settlement 34 Slipped. 35 Act of sowing 37 Point. SR Oe TaN 2: unit. 45 Greek letter. 9 Oily chemical 47 Behold. 10 Rodents. 49 Stop! 11Grain. 50 Compass point it may be—and is—exceedingly irri- tating not only to the Messrs. Co- hen and Corcoran but also to the Messrs. Lewis and Hillman, who not long ago inched the Major out of his headship in Labor's Nonpartisan League, from which position state- ments gushed from him like water from a fountain. The truth is the Major's stand against the proposed board in the bill ist of real significance. It is possi- ble the president may put pressure upon the Major and compel him to “do an Ashurst,” eat his words and fall in line. On the other- hand, tt may be that the president may con- clude that the only way to get any bill through is to drop the board al- together and have, as the Major urges, “just a simple bill.” It is a fact, of course, that the immense ‘Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Srady ae Cad tio! als is. jetters br tn care of fn Tribune, All queries solf-addresse: velope, tat health but not ais tly and invin, Address Dr: rad} must be accompanied by tamaped. HORMONE TREATMENT OF CRYPTORCHIDISM ‘The age of puberty, when the individual becomes capable of reproduction, is 14 years for boys, 12 years for girls, on the average, and the law fixes these as the ages of presumptive puberty. Actually it varies from 11 to 16 in boys, from 10 to 15 in girls, Puberty generally occurs earlier in tropical or sub- tropical countries, later in north temperate clime. Insufficient milk, cheese, cream and other dairy or milk products in the child’s diet favors precocious sexual development and consequent abnormal organic differentiations and psychological behavior. It might be a boon to the race if the consumption of milk and milk products were increased and the consumption of tobacco restricted among children in Yankeeland. : In the Bulletin of the Academy of Medicine, August, 1937, Dr. Arthur J. Cramer, Buffalo, presents a clinical report of the results obtained in the treatment of twenty consecutive patients for undescended testes with Anterior Pituitary hormone—one dose injected subcutaneously two or three times a week. He says that usually 5,000 units (50 doses) are sufficient fora _ fair trial of the treatment. The ideal age for this treatment is from 9 to 12 years, and non-descent of one or both testes generally responds to the treatment in 70 per cent of cases if there is no mechanical obstruction to descent due to a congenital anomaly, Of course, in such cases only surgery will correct the condition. The majority of cases of unilateral undescended testes or crytorchidism have some such mechanical obstruction and it is in these unilateral cases that most failures occur in the hormone treatment. The prospect for success seems to be better when both testes are undescended. Spontaneous descent of the testicles may occur in such cases with the onset of puberty, that is, about the age of 14 years. But a course of hormone treatment would seem advisable in any case if spontaneous descent has not oocurred when the boy reaches the age of 13. With the onset of puberty and thereafter degenerative changes occur in the undescended gland. If the cryptorchidism is bilateral the inevitable effect of these degenerative changes is sterility. A secondary effect is failure of development in virility, masculinity and physical character. An ultimate effect in some cases is malignant or cancerous change in the retained gland. : It is the present opinion of competent physiologists that the important factor of sterility in cases of bilateral crytorchidism is the higher tempera- ture of the gland retained in the abdomen or in the inguinal canal. The germinal cells or tissue in the gland require a lower temperature for normal functioning. Of course, if one testis is normally descended and free from disease the complete failure or loas of the other makes no difference 80 far as virility, development, physical character or fertility are concerned. ee Sy QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Inward Goltre ‘What would you advise for my inward goitre. Friends and relatives differ—some say by all means have operation, others urge rest and right diet. (G. 0, M.) Answer—Your best friend is your physician. Tuberculosis Montoux test given all employees in our plant. Mine showed positive. Now they want me to have X-ray. But I have never had. any symptoms of the. (A, H.) Answer—The X-ray examination cannot do any harm. If you haven't faith in the plant doctors, why not put the matter up to your own doctor and be guided by his advice? Husband subject to angina pectoris. We have a diathermy machine, which he was advised to use for bronchial trouble. Is it in any way dan- gerous for the heart ailment? (Mrs, E.) Answer—Owing to your use of the evasive mode I am unable to offer opinion. Better ask the physician who prescribes the diathermy treatment for your husband. Porcelain My work is spraying on porcelain finish on kitchen ware, and on re- frigerators. What effect on health? (R. E. W.) Answer—Goluble lead and ground glass powder sprayed on red hot cast-iron, sanded. Dangerous work. One in three engaged in such work has chronic lead poisoning—palsy, cerebral manifestation. Leadless en- mel used in Germany. No reason why floor, walls and ceiling of shop should not be washed with hose several times a day. This is done in some porcelain enameling shops as @ measure of protection against the dust. Copyright 1937, John F, Dille Co. powers given the board in the bill| Berry position even more interesting, constituted its most offensive feature, | His is the first labor cry.to be raised aroused the most violent opposition |against it. Perhaps, as some suggest, and created the gravest doubts as to|the Major, who loves the sound of the its constitutionality. As against these|human voice when uttered by him- objections, the framers of the bill in-|self, did not quite grasp the full im- sisted that without the board there | plications of his own words. Time will would be no bill, which makes the /tell. CAST OF CHARACTERS PRISCILLA PIERCE — heroine, Dolan stood in the living room, |a hurry he couldn't get a taxi. So taking in the situation. we drove him down to the flying “KERE “Come in, Mrs. Perry,” Cilly| field.” EEA MIGAN. mw aance, \Uréed. “Hello, Mr. Perry. This is! “You drove him to Floyd Ben- HARRY HUTCHINS —Amy's peace Dolan, poe Police best: nett oe Soest wich icity otrenee aN D quarters. Mr. and Mrs. Perry repeat incredulously. saw, — AERHGEANE bot.an—omere as; thy next door neighbors, ser-|his carefully Amy Kerr. Pa geant.” Yesterday: Jim calls Cilly while Dolan is in her apartment. Cilly refuses to divulge wi called, Dolan orders her o headquarters with him whil: police in her rooms to ther CHAPTER XXV1 city leaned helplessly against the wall while Dolan pro- ceeded to give orders over the telephone to trace Jim’s call. Jim had phoned from the Penn- sylvania Hotel. The operator veri- fied that. He could get out and/ , disappear into the subway in 30 hee, seconds, She felt a subtle pleas-| Perry ure at having outwitted Dolan.)exectly midnigh\ He was so sure of himself, so positive in his theory. What did it matter to him that he was rail- roading an innocent man to jail;|meet the young mant” Dolan to the... . to the electric chair!|asked quickly. next door in Apartment 1-B. Mrs. Vm po terribly, terribly sorry.” take were voices in the outer) “Exactly midnight. Remember, hallway. Cilly recognized|/Mary, you remarked on it?” them. A second later, her bell “O, K, Answer it,’ Dolan or- dered, Cilly opened the door to admit Mr. and Mrs. Perry, who’ lived| that only heard about it today. Dolan acknowledged the intro- duction with a brief nod. “Oh, this is just too horrible for you, my dear,” Mrs. Perry went on, “And to have it happen the minute your young man was called away... .” Cilly’s eyes widened. Dolan turned his shrewd glance on Mrs. Perry instantly. “How did you know Jim was and then we started for Fall River.” aee City could have wept for joy. Jim had been down at Floyd Bennett Field at quarter past 12. was killed at 12:20. ‘was a lump in her throat ibbed Mrs, Perry’s hands “Thank you so us that,” she ex- i i \bruptly. “Just about midnight,” Mr. altel “Yes, it was Z g i S23 Hi see ‘ILLY’S heart bounded as a new dawned. “Just how and where did you ; Mr. little sur- | id not say so. “Well, we'd better take the gold- fish and run along,” Mr. Perry “If there’s any way we sergeant, we'll be right door... .” the door closed behind the A E 8 E é zh H 8 i HH i F i ii. au not. Their story rang «+. and we can al- on it.” He looked up iled @ little crookedly. looked at his watch, , I’ve got to hustle and on some of these other ou’ve been harping on. If in touch with you again, you ask him to see me im- “Yes,” Mrs. Perry affirmed. “The pcr y Higa Hi es, ill mi, impor- steeple clock was just striking /tant.” ny midnight. I teased Mr. Kerrigan] “I'll do that, sergeant.” about being in such a hurry “Thanks. hope we'll be leave and he exp! king together from now on, ierce. Sorry about every- Dolan left, Cilly made up r mind as to what she was going do. There had been altogether many stones left unturned in house since Sunday night. (To Be Continued) id Fe [ a time i i