The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1937, Page 4

4 Ap independent Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1937 The Bismarck Tribune Behind Soones te THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Matablished 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Compeny, Bis- dmaeehs De and watered at the postortice eb Bsmkrex ag stcond eihas mal ; Mrs, Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Johnson Pres end Gen'l Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance . Kenneth W. Glmons Secretary and Editor Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press ‘The Associated Pross 1* exclusively entitied to the use for republica- low of the Giepatches credited to tt or erwise sreale in this per and also the loon! sews of sponte: tm publish hts ef republication ef ali ether matter alec reserved. Obstacles in the Way of Boycott Plan One of the most entertaining bits of business this winter ought to be the attempt to persuade the American woman to stop wearing silk stockings in order that the villainous Japanese may be foiled of their designs on China, From the shapely legs of American womanhood to the muddy battlefields of Shanghai may seem like a long jump. But there is a connection, spelled simply in the one word: boycott. The argument runs something like this. Japan is making war on China in plain violation of all existing treaties. If one nation can treat another nation so, no nation is safe from the threat of force; America, accord- E ingly, must do her part to restrain the Japanese. But the Japanese don’t restrain easily. They have, in fact, shrugged off all protests. And no American cares to see his country go to war to make the protests effective. There re- mains, then, only the boycott. If all lovers of peace and good- will will stop buying Japanese goods, the Japanese will see the error of their ways and the dove of peace will flutter once more jst over war-racked China, Which brings us back to silk stockings. Japan’s principal export to this country is silk. If we are going to boycott Japan, we have got to stop buying silk. And if we are going to stop buying silk, we have somehow got to|*°2 persuade the American woman to encase her nether limbs in something besides silk stockings—in lisle, in rayon, or perhaps in the plain old-time cotton article. And that, when you stop to think about it, is going to be something of a job. Never has there been a country as leg- conscious as modern America. The American woman, you might say, struggled for generations to win recognition of her right to wear silk hose day in and day out, regardless of her station in life. Anyone who imagines that she is readily going to surrender that right, even for a noble and altruistic cause, may well have another guess coming. All of which compels one to wonder just how effective these international boycotts—talked of so freely, these days—are ever going to be. There seems to be a school of thought which would substi- tute the boycott for war, which would make of it a padded club by which an erring nation may be clubbed bloodlessly back into good behavior. On paper it is all very simple. In actual practice it may be quite different. For we buy goods in international trade, not because we admire the people who make them, but because we like to have the goods. It is going to take deep and strong emotion to make such boycotts successful. Is our desire to see Japan restrained, for instance, quite as sincere and universal as: our wish to have the American woman continue to wear silk hose? Maybe it is. If so—watch out, Japan. But then again, maybe it isn’t. Preserving Old Arts One of the incidental benefits derived from the Boy Scout and Girl Scout organizations is their preservation of knowledge regarding trees, shrubs and plants and the uses to which they were put both by the Indians and by early settlers. Civilization has set new standards and opened new oppor- tunities and one result has been a decrease in the general inter- est in the common things around us, Was hington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Nov. 2.—If one con- jcedes the propriety of Jimmy Roose- velt's position on the federal payroll times not. Anyway, the president hasn't been able to sell all the heads of nearly @ score of administrations, commissions and boards to both their big ar baad problems. * Jimmy Has Advantages That's been a hit-or-miss, catch-as- eutch-can affair which has led much bickering on the line of “That fellow gets in and we don’t” and “the problems.” The idea now is to regu: larize the situation, with Jimmy re- serving a half an hour a week for each agency and serving both as funnel into the inner office and conveyor of orders or advice in. re verse. The problems he handk will be mostly minor. Governor of federal reserve, Harry £33 immy. The extent and nature abilities have yet to be ile Fie Hl F Nature studies, carried on by scout organizations, how- ever, bid fair to restore both the interest and knowledge. One|*, follows the other. That there is much to learn is indicated by a recent survey will have of desert Indian tribes made by the federal Indian Service. |Charles We Time has dealt none too kindly with these people and the white man’s influence has not been wholly good. The store, instead of the areas around them, has become a dominant source of In- Interior batches of when congress velt's chief dian supply. batons But home-extension workers and 4-H club members are showing new interest in the old mode of living and some of its etter phases are coming back. Corn, pumpkins and squash still yet, insofar as anyone but he him- knows. self . are raised, of course, and along with them now go wheat and Camere A? Bie Berries tS mew and better varieties of beans which the desert Indians elways raised. But Indian boys and girls again are harvesting the fruit of the prickly pear and saguaro cactus and Indian women again are using the seeds of the saguaro to furnish fat for gravy and gruels. One boy fed the seeds to poultry and produced prodigi- ous growth. Squaw berries again are being harvested for fruit and pies and wild onions, wild potatoes (really a member of the pea fam- ily) and Indian carrots again are being harvested. Pigweed and Indian spinach are used for greens. The spinach doesn’t look like the tame article but tastes like it, and the Indian women again are using the juice of the wild gourd to relieve earaches and toothaches, The nodules of a wild grass plant again are being used to treat colds and natural creosote is back in service as an emetic and poultice material. ' _ These are homely arts and well worth preserving, It may be that items purchasable in stores are better, or at least just 88 good, but the knowledge of how people formerly lived is valuable. It helps us to understand the past, to appreciate the present and to predict the future. Californis, Civil War veteran who atizibuted his longevit; Whiskey died the other day, aged 101. 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