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protest against high meat prices but it was an outstanding one. of reducing the meat bill. | the Kosher strike hit directly at this situation, for the custom | of Kosher butchers is to buy only the best. | breaks in trade history.” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1937 4 The Bismarck Tribunel| Behina An independent Newspaper \ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ¥ (Established 1873) Grate, City and County Official Newspaper Published except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- puarehs HD cad esianed at the postodtioe at Bismarck as ssc0nd class mad : Mra. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Johnson ‘Vieo Pros. and Gen'l Manager Kenneth W. Simons Secretary ané Editor Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press 1° exclusively entitied to the use for repubitca- Gon of the news dispatches credited to tt or not credited in this Mewspaper and also the loca! news of spontaneou: ublished hereia. all rights of republication of ali other matter herel: Iso reserved. Old HCL Harasses Farmer In case you are not old enough to remember, HCL is not one of the New Deal alphabetical agencies but an ancestor of the Roosevelt system of nomenclature. The initials stand for “high cost of living” and at numerous times in our national existence they have been the rallying point for a public which has subsequently made its displeasure felt. For HCL is not popular. In cities and industrial centers it holds about the same political position that Wall Street, the grain trade and the railroads have held in North Dakota at vari- ous times in the past. Just now HCL is raising cain with both the wage-earner and the farmer, as is clearly pointed out in a bulletin issued by the Central Co-operative association, livestock marketing agency at St. Paul. It so happens, however, that the wage-earner and the farmer are on different sides of the fence. The farmer is for high prices for his products and for low prices on manufac- tured items. The wage-earner is for low prices on everything he has to buy except, perhaps, the item which he happens to be engaged in producing or selling. Attributing sharp drops in livestock prices during recent weeks to consumer resistance, the livestock co-operative points out that this year has seen both sensational advances and sensa- tional declines in prices. From the beginning of the year, with the exception of four weeks from the middle of May to the middle of June, fat cattle prices climbed steadily until mid-October. At that time good to choice steers showed an average gain of $6 for the year and were near an all-time peak. During all that time there was little comment from the consumer and no organized protest. The meat trade regarded this as a good omen. But in early October a bombshell was tossed into the situa- tion by the closing in New York of 5,000 Kosher meat shops serving 2,500,000 Jewish patrons. It was the first organized It was front-page news. The public began to talk and radio comedians began to wise-crack. The result was to make people price-conscious. Housewives began to protest and to hunt ways The notable advance had been in prime beef animals and The women of America began a search for cheaper cuts of meat and meats other than beef. A part of this development was the use on many tables of meat substitutes, of which there are many. The thing became epidemic. And the prices of cattle went to pot. The co-operative agency says they fell “like leaves in an autumn gale” and that “fat cattle values at all markets suffered one of the sharpest At the risk of seeming insensible to the farmers’ needs and interest, this newspaper has frequently commented in recent years, on the fact that food prices which are beyond reach of the consumer harm rather than help the producer, by promoting consumer resistance. Incidents such as this prove the soundness of this theory. It is a convincing demonstration of consumer power and of the effect on agricultural economy of HCL. It ts better for the farmer to maintain good production at FAIR prices than less production at HIGH prices, Recognition of the political significance of HCL makes the national administration insistent on its ever-normal granary proposal. Steady and fair prices are recognized as essential for the farmer but, at the same time, fair prices are just as essential tothe consumer. And the twain look at the food price situation from different standpoints. Potato River Don’t be surprised if you hear on the radio one of these days a song about the sweet Potato river. Tf you do, bet your bottom dollar that a conservation en- thusiast wrote it, for this little Wisconsin stream has just figured in a court decision which sportsmen are hailing as epochal. It was delivered by the Public Service commission of Wis- consin, a quasi-judicial body, which denied a commercial firm the right to erect a dam on the Potato river because it would destroy its natural beauty and destroy fish life in one of the best trout streams in that state. This is the first time in modern history that sportsmen have been able to save a stream from commercial development on the ground that exploitation would destroy its beauty and diminish the opportunity for recreation. It may or may not be a step in the right direction, but in any event it is interesting. The Detroit Tigers are enlarging the seating capacity of their ball park |"Sh! to 60,000, which must indicate that Schoolboy Rowe's arm is going to be all right again. eee Nazis in Danzig have ordered punishment for men who instigated a Dogrom on Danzig Jews. It is believed, however, that they will not go as far as to ban the anti-Jewish writings of a German publicist named Hitler. eoee ® Haile Selassie sues in British court to prove title “Emperor of Ethiopia.” ‘Wonder if Mussolini will be called as defense witness. eee Europe has just about completed restoration of buildings destroyed in (the World war, and is aching for another conflict to tear them down again. eee ‘The movement for reunion between AFL and CIO is making rapid strides. The delegates were able to stay in otie room together for several ‘hours without coming to blows. Gas masks for British babies, Italy gives them guns. the SCENES Washington Official Washington Is Cool, Net to Say Cold, to the Duke By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Nov. 1—In Washing- ton, at least, enthusiasm over the coming American tour of those two great lovers, the Duke and Duchess ‘of Windsor, falls well this side of the bonfire-burning stage. The great heart of America may go out to these twain in the form of mob demonstrations, society brawls. over their entertainment and antics of local politicians, But insofar as federal government officials are con- cerned, the frost is cn the pumpkin. There is even a suspicion among them that the fanfare over the royal visit may be interspersed with one or two sour notes. The state depertment professes vagueness as to the Duke's status en tour and thus far there hasn't been &@ peep out of the British embassy. Later, possibly, this will be all fixed up and a happy, cozy time will be enjoyed by all. Just at present, how- ever, there’s a noticeable tension in the air at the poe: Ickes Cold te Bedaux The flippant press conference re- marks of Secretary Ickes anent his cool response to the request of Charles E, Bedaux—who has full charge of the Eddie-Wally invasion—for @ sug- gested itinerary of projects appears to have pitched the official key. For the time being, at least, Ickes let the cabled request go unanswered fo? about a week. Bedaux representatives then put him on the spot by letting newspapermen know he had the cable. Ickes cabled a list of PWA and other projects collect and said to correspondents, among other things: “He will have to work out his own itinerary and handle his own publicity.” The reference was to Bedaux, not the Duke of Windsor. The obvious fact is that Ickes took his cue or thought he was taking it from down the street in the White House-State department Whether or not the ent, later manages to defrost itself, it's certain to see to it that arrange- ments are made for police protec- tion. It just would never do to lel our souvenir-hunters in mass forma- tion tear the clothes off the brother of the King of England. Some offi- clals shudder at their own visions of enormous crowds surrounding the two visiting celebrities. They have nightmares of such structures as Tri- Borough Bridge and Norris Dam be- ing pushed over 2 the crush, * * Labor Not Impressed American labor, whose problems the Duke will study—according to advance announcement, has not yet extended welcoming arms. Inquiry at CIO and AFL reveals that no ducal! appointments have been made with John Lewis or William Green. Pri- vately, labor leaders indicate that thoy note a more than faint aroma of Fascism in the vicinity of the Duke, that his tour in Germany does not set so well with them and thet the fact Edward will be under the wing of Bedaux fails to convince them that his tour will be a great blessing to labor. Since there’s @ liberal, pro- labor government here this attitude is more or less reflected in other quarters. One reason a large advertising- publicity firm has been engaged to handle press relations for the Duke and Duchess is that Edward has been dissatisfied wih his previous publicity in this country. Recent newspaper articles appearing in Washington and New York indicate that this sad con- dition may not be improved. Probably it isn’t true that Wind- sor will try to sell business men the Bedaux industrial efficiency scheme, Watson of International Business Machines, who recently mastered the Hitler salute and was decorated by the Fuehrer. But that’s been widely reported. Bedaux is reported to ad- mire Fascism no end, and the Bedaux system has been described in an AFL report as “a method of forcing the last ounce of effort out of workers at the smallest cost in mn Possibly all this will be forgotten in a general wave of excitement when the Duke and Duchess land. Some insiders are convinced that the British government will decide to have its embassy here welcome Edward and use him as an instrument for build- ing up good-will in this country. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Coal Dealer—“Hurry! My coal yard is on fire!” Fire Chief—‘Oh, is it? Well, if it’s the same stuff ag you've sold me, there is no hurry!” “Hard work never killed anybody,” said the father. “That's just the trouble, Dad,” re- turned the son. “I want to do some- tag en has the spice of danger Taxi Driver—“That'll be one buck an’ a half, feller.’ Young “Bay, you'd better back up to 75 cents. That's all I've got!” “Just think, Aunt Josie, we Hamburg and Java on the radie it. “Now don't you think. I'l ever be- lieve that they can deliver greceries be PRIDE STANDS IN THE WAY The undeniable fact that in a good many important lines business is) down on its belly, unable to make any money, has been driven home to the president in the last few days. ules they were talking about. Now he knows he is faced with a Teally serious situation. In some ways it is more serious than the dramatized state of affairs that ex- isted when he came into office—and requires more resourcefulness and courage to handle—it may be, more! than he has. Up to date, his effort has been to prevent his private per- turbation from being sensed at the press conferences and in preserving his pose of the untroubled man of in- finite wisdom with whom all is well. ‘This may be good from one angle, but underneath have beert seeth- s Autumn, 1937 he rere tT POLITICS Copyright 1987, by The Baltimore Sun through economies; fourth, no more disturbing experimental legislation. There is not—or at any rate should not be—anything humiliating for the president in doing these things, but he literally hates doing them. He hates justifying his critics and shrinks from hearing the chorus of “I told you 40's.” And the only reason he has been brought to the point of acceptance is through being thoroughly scared about the consequences of not doing them. The trouble is that in the ab- sence of a concrete crash, and com- forted by the yes, yes group, he gets over being scared. It is a blow to his pride to be forced to “let up” on busi- ness. What he would like to do would be to carry out the threat of his Madi- son Square Garden speech of last Oc- tober and show business men gener- ally that he is their “master.” The danger is that his disposition, plus the advice of his left-wing friends who still cling to the idea that the na- tional planning days are not over, will finally divert him from what in some piel is being called a “return to sanity.” The more levelheaded of his con- ed i Ei fy eeeue By FRANK R. KENT tion made next session must be cov- ered “one hundred per cent by addi- tional receipts from new taxes.” But that is merely a return to the second idea sold him by Mr, B, M. Baruch before his 1933 inauguration. That was the plan he had when he took office, but inside of three months he had thrown it into the ash can. It is @ performance which, unhappily, he may tepaet To get back to solvency now need more determination and force than it took for his twenty- five per cent cut in 1933. In that year, it will be recalled, he reduced the ai erate i [ il S28 = g 5 that is @ menace to health and ular session, That means, of course,|character, “but I do not feel that that 1¢ will not be possible to get s|smoking is a sin.”—Mrs. Franklin D. tax bill before the end of February, | Roosevelt. . which, in their judgment, is taking unnecessary risks. So far as the budget is concerned, slashing things right and left the way|powder and primp and straighten up in unless he is. He has 1933—and it can’t be done|before stepping out where the whole announced, it is|tcwn can see them.—Nunsio Bevil- true, that any additional appropria-|asqua, Ravenna, O., street sweeper. 227 | IVE SEEN SOME AWFUL LEAKY BOATS IN MY DAY, BUT NEVER EVEN HEAD OF ONE THAT LEAKED IcE, SEFORE. By Williams TFAwiruans ite) Groce oc oro ecco Your Personal Health | By William Brady, M. D. juestions pertaini: bealth but sot dis re prietiy and invinke Address Dr. Brad; be accompanied by a star! Dr. Srady will answer ease or diagnosis. Write let In care of ‘Ene Tribune, All queries must Gelf-addressed envelope. A THOUSAND NUTS ON A DESERT ISLAND ‘The other day I offered to wager twenty-five to one in each of a thou- sand cases that a thousand persons subject to habitual or chronic con- atipation and addicted to some special diet, enema or aperient medicine, will no longer require such “aid” to bowel action after three months of absolute Ceprivation of access to such “aids.” No one has offered to accept the wager. I thought it would be fairly safe to make such a wager or to offer to do so. Not that I yearn to see a lot of wretched mortals slowly perishing with autointoxication or any such frightful, if wholly imaginary, fate. But I know the great wise acre public in Yankeeland and I am confident I could get sufficient capital to under- write the project if a few adventurers should volunteer to serve as the guinea pigs for the e: t.. The conditions would not be so frightful as the thought of a thousand 4 nuts on a desert island might suggest. Remember, they are to have every- thing they could have in their environment except their favorite physic. From subjective and objective experience I know that even the average badly educated layman can stand the strain of five days of worry or anxiety—that is the Jength of time usually required of sound mind can hardly permit himself become addicted to physic. No getting around the fact that the lower you go in the scale of intelligence the more fixed the notion that the bowels need constant watching and daily “regulation.” = Booklet No, 25 in the Little series, “The Constipation Habit,” which sets you back ten cent and a stamped envelope bearing your address suggests several substitutes for physic, things which favor natural or normal functioning of the bowel and help to support the addict thra the first five days after he swears off physic. Perhaps the most important thing of the kind is an optimal or more than sufficient daily intake of vitamins to supplement the ordinary diet. This is rather beneficial subsists on the ordinary diet of more or helpful for those who are subject to S, taking for the island and to continue taking plenty of B, D and G while doing their stretch. This, I think, would give them the intestinal vigor they need to overcome their weakness, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Vitamin D Discussion on value of calcium lactate and vitamin D in case of neighbor aged 58, who suffered fractured hip three months ago and still has no firm union but is confined to bed. (G. E. C.) Answer—At least it could do no harm, might be helpful in promoting bony union, (Copyright 1937, John F. Dille Co. | Hardener of Rubber | HORIZONTAL Answer te Previous Pursle 19 Russian 36 Mesh of lace. 86 To perish. 37 Paid publicity. 87 Withdraws. z 39 Stream. 59 Night before. 11 Orient. 40 Exists. : 60 To cleave, 41 He was 61 Dismal. (pL). VERTICAL invention, \ 45 Pound. 2 Shoe part. —— rybber: a Land transure.1¥ Bart ot aye. 58 Southeast, i BE a A aed el | THis CURIOUS WORLD: Btm ] (IN JAPAN, EACH QNCE VEAR, PRAYERS ARE SAID, AND INCENSE BURNED BY HIGH PRIESTS OF THE BUDDHIST TEMPLE, TQ SOOTHE THE SOULS (IN INOIA, PAY FIVE DOLLARS A @OTTLE FOR BATH WATER, FROM THE DAILY BATH OF