The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1937, Page 6

APRN : : k A fies {have known -he was i Be THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1987 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper fe THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER f (Established 1873) H 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 ‘fmatter. 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 Bismarc! Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year ... ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per ye: ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, 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 all other matter herein are also reserved. Nineteen Years After Another Armistice Day finds America thinking more of the NEXT war than of the LAST war. This is inevitable in the light of present conditions. Two ‘wars now are raging and others doubtless are in the making. ‘Americans think of this as they observe the day which, 19 years ago, marked the end of the WAR TO END WARS. That peace was the peace of defeat for Germany and the peace of near-exhaustion for the Allies. It looked then like it would be permanent because the entire world had come to a deep understanding of the FUTILITY of war. The nations then realized that war is CRUEL AND UNINTELLIGENT, that it settles nothing. All grasped for peace. But in the world today there is no peace. Worse still, no reasonable person has any sound HOPE for peace. The search now is not so much for peace as it is for national security. Even those who most hoped for a rule of reason in world affairs now realize that PREPAREDNESS is the first essential. Even the most confirmed pacifists now understand that a desire for peace is not enough. They see a huge but helpless nation attacked by one with a lust for aggrandizement and power. The parallel between China’s defenseless condition and that which would prevail in America if the pacifists had their way is too deadly to be ignored. But even as the heart sickens at thought of another war, it is necessary to face the possibility of another conflict—and to prepare for it. For another war is.coming. . Whether we get into it or stay out will depend both upon the quality of our national thinking and the skill and honesty of our statesman- ship. There is hope that America will be able to stay clear. The national will should be directed toward that end. It will strengthen that resolution if we count carefully the cost of the last war. Behiné Scenes Washington Department of Justice Secretly In- vestigating Several Big Industries for Anti-Trust Violations ... Suc- cess Even in Failure, for Present Laws May Be Strengthened. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) ‘Washington, ‘Nov, 11.—The news- print, milk distribution, fertilizer and automobile tire industries are all be- ing secretly investigated by depart- ment of justice officials who suspect that consumers are being gyped through violations of the anti-trust laws, The automobile finance company “racket” is also being investigated by a Milwaukee federal grand jury. The Aluminum company and various big oil corporations already are being di- rectly prosecuted under the monoploy laws. It’s all part of a campaign to try to apply anti-trust laws to industries whose products are bought by large masses of consumers. News-print prices were boosted $5 a ton the other day and the D. J. is interested in the how and why. It also is suspected that farmers are paying unjustified, artifical prices for fertilizer. Federal trade com- mission evidence that “milk trust” companies fixed prices with so-called producer groups in order to soak con- sumers are being carefully sifted. And 14 tire companies which sub- mitted identical bids to a government purchasing agency—and then resub- mitted them after they were tossed out—have had the shock of their lives to learn that their bidding methods, too, are being investigated with a view to prosecution, ee * Jackson Goes Ahead Whether anti-trust laws mean any- thing and, if so, what, is an interest- ing—and important — enigma which may soon be solved. Assistant Attor- ney General Robert H. Jackson, head of the D. J.’s anti-trust and business regulation section, is going right ahead on the that those laws mean what they say, This is a rather perilous assumption, as it is com- monly believed the supreme court at one time and another has shot them full of holes and that the monopoly laws must be amended if they are ever to be enforced. Nevertheless, the present supreme court is not the same supreme court which held that the “steel trust” and other trusts were not illegal combi- The Gress Cane Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun nations in restraint of trade, An anti-trust law, as Charles Evans Hughes—now chief justice—once said tices say it is, Justices often disagree or change suaded itself to validate some of the me the New Deal may a come to de- UNNECESSARY TIMIDITY One of the best examples of why conferences of the so-called peace- of the constitution, is what the. jus-|seeking nations have been futile to halt the offensive activities of the tveaty-breaking, aggressor nations was their minds and it is quite possible|/given the other day in the curious that a supreme court which has per-|display of anxiety of the United States and Great Britain to disclaim respon- ost, controversial laws passed under (sibility for having initiated the idea of calling together the nine powers For us it was not a long conflict. From April of one year |cide that the venerable statutes de-|which in 1922 signed a pact guaran- to November of the year following. Yet the World war has now cost the United States more than $46,000,000,000. How much more it will cost cannot even be estimated, for we still have signed to curb monopoly aren't 30 toothless after all. ze k May Strengthen Laws teeing the territorial integrity of China. It is perfect clear that this confer- Furthermore, friends of anti-mo-|ence, as have all such conferences, 52,000 in hospitals. And thousands of others on the pension |nopoly laws are edified to find that|inevitably will be dominated by the - t rolls as the result of injuries or sickness directly traceable to cur participation. These are the maimed in body. Thousands of others are maimed in mind although the world little notes this fact. Men who might have been worth- while citizens and who returned from the war physically sound still suffer from the mental agitation which afflicted them. They LOOK perfectly normal but they are not like other men. The scars they bear lie deep in their inner consciousness and in many cases have kept them from material success. This accounts for the unusually high percentage of unem- ployment among veterans of the last war. These men still are paying the penalty for American participation just as surely as are those who still lie on beds of pain. The body of war experience is vanishing, all too quickly. Many war veterans have risen to places of prominence and power, yet the Grim Reaper takes to himself 83 every day. As time passes the death rate probably will increase. In Bismarck the mortality runs almost a dozen a year. One a month, But the months pass ceaselessly by and the toll continues. It will be only tomorrow before the last of the veterans of the World war goes to join his departed comrades. Thus the nation steadily is losing those citizens who know most about war and who, consequently, have the greatest desire to keep the peace. And what of the dead, those who died that “the world” might be made safe for democracy? With what sardonic laughter must they watch the rabid senselessness of the world they have left behind. With what bitter condemnation must they say “thou fool” of all who look to war as a means of settling the difficulties which confront eny nation. New Tax Theory For our government to adopt a really SANE tax program is not to be expected. It is a topsy turvy subject and business hasn't always been on the level about it, either. Therefore the suggestion of Morris Tremaine, New York state comptroller, to the Investment Bankers association, is hardly likely to be adopted. It is too honest to win support from politicians and too simple to win the support of business. Tremaine would tax gross profits on a sliding scale, the rate declining as the turnover of inventory increases. Credits would be granted for maintaining stability of employment. Corporations could decrease the RATE of taxation by increas- ing production and gain credits by carrying employes during slack work periods, Lower manufacturing costs—and of goods —and increased employment would result, ment should be assessed as a “first cost of goods,” not levied only on those who make a profit. Under the present system the efficient pay government costs for both themselves and the inefficient. The business slickers who always find loopholes in the income tax law have a holiday. There are “bugs” in the idea, of course. But it does pre- sent a wholly new approach to a difficult problem about which | there has been too much falsehood, misrepresentation and loose Fall food demonstrations call for renewed warning to the male kitchen {putterer. A simple corkscrew may turn out to be a potato with a perma- Dent wave. ars |. Contract fans analysing Shanghai's foreign casualties say West should \ vulnerable when East led his big trumps on the 5 eee Distillers of bourbon complain movie bar scenes always show actors asking for Scotch—a new way to start a headache without drinking either industrial groups ed or in- vestigated, even if they think they can beat the government's case in the court's, automatically per- United States and Great Britain, act- ing together. It is equally apparent that the gathering now being held at Brussels would not have taken place It all springs from a new theory, that the cost of govern-| turbed and sometimes scared to the|at all except upon the initiative of point of mending their ways: Until|elther America or England, or both, quite recently there hadn’t been any | Nothing can or will be done there anti-trust prosecutions for nearly 15 |except through English and American years and such suits as the aluminum |initiative, which conceded fact makes and oil actions have come as a shock, |it manifestly absurd to say the initia- Finally, there is the likelihood that|tive for the conference itself came if Jackson and Attorney General |{from some one else. This being the Cummings lose all their present and |indisputable fact, it is difficult to Prospective anti-trust. suits, the pub- | understand the excessive fear among licity will spur Congress on to provid- | the diplomats of these two dominant ing stronger legislation. countries lest it be publicly acknowl- Congress refused to appropriate |edged that they were the real instiga- more than $475,000 for anti-trust work | tors of, and are the real forces in, the in the present fiscal year, ‘The ofl | conference, companies and their officials now on trial at Madison, Wis, have com-| This isn’t a secret at all. Every plained that this litigation will cost intelligent person, whatever his na- them at least $2,000,000. And tlie oil| tionality, is fully aware of it, which case 1s but one of several which Jack-| makes their timidity all the more ‘aon iden of me idea of the way the Supreme Court feels about monopoly aes ni tions may appear when it decides soon whether a Pittsburgh federal judge, who was recommended for his job by the late Andrew W. Mellon, was cor- Lt rect in insisting that the case against NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN or thrown. 13 Genus of auks. 14 To stop. 16 Back. 17 Falsehood. 18 Cruder. 19 Ready. 20Golf players’ M/E] attendants. ‘Teacher—Now, Hayton, if I subtract 20 from 45, what's the difference? Hayton (product of the new “scram- bled math” system) — Thats what I say. Who cares? [S] — "i 45To pierce pOtdonelle ‘ordering, breakfast) — 2 Ber de with a knife. 0 €B8S poac! medium soft, but- ; tered toast not too hard, coffee not| 25 Breeding 49. Os. too much cream in it. Place. 52 Smell Waitress—Yes, sir; and would you| 29 Overpower- spe 54 Heathen god. 55 To corrode. 56 Italian coins, 57 The scoring place in this game. ing fright. 33 Banal. 34 Exclamation. 35 Impetuous. 36 Insurgent. 37 Beverage. 39 Period. like any special design on the dishes? Elsie—Jim is a tremendously con- vincing talker, don’t you think so? Tessic—I did until I heard him try to talk back to a traffic cop last night. Mrs. Newbride—I took the recipe| 40 Twenty-four for this cake out of the cook book. hours (pl.) Hubby — You did perefctly right, 43 Tea. | dear. It never should have been put in. —— | SOTHEY SAY | o—_______________-@ We have taken the rattle-traps off the streets. Now we have to get the rattlebrains.—Safety Court Judge J. M. Braude of Chicago. z* * The present conflict has been forced upon Japan, and Japan wants to end it as quickly as possible. She wants to end it in a way so decisive that a situation like the present can never recur.— Hirosi Saito, Japanese am- bassador to the U. 8. nse & Germany must have colonies! The old peace treaties must be scrapped! —Premier Mussolini of Italy defends Germany's colonial ambitions. xe * I'm glad I was caught and sent down here and its turn at —— Posses- sion of this I am slowing down for the rest of my life.—Floyd Stewart, convicted speed- er, while breaking rock in a St. Louis workhouse quarry. The Badge of Leadership striking. A couple of days ago, when ‘Mr. Anthony Eden was quoted as saying that the initiative had come from the United States, our State Department was reported as “greatly shocked” and “seriously upset.” One paper asserted that officials were “speechless with astonishment.” A day later, Under Secretary Sumner Welles, in @ very guarded statement, declared his great gratification that clarifying cables had made it clear that Mr. Eden did not say the suggestion for the conference had come from us, but only that we had suggested Brussels as a good place to meet. Thus the de- partment’s inarticulate agitation was allayed and the shock absorbed. How- ever, the next day when it was pro- Posed to give the honor of presiding over the conference to the American chairman, Mr. Norman Davis, that gentleman hastily and firmly declined —made it plain he wouldn't touch the job with a ten-foot pole. Neither would Mr. Eden, This extreme eagerness upon the part of the dominating delegations from the strong countries to refrain from publicly supplying the leader- ship of conferences such as the one at Brussels, and which they unques- tionably run, undoubtedly is one rea- son these conferences have’ so often had almost completely negligible re- sults, and why the Brussels confer- ence is not likely to take any clear cut, definite action, The attitude of the English and Americans, now that the conference is on, is hard to recon- Answer to Previous Puzzle the Mellons’ aluminum company must. HORIZONTAL be tried in Pittsburgh. Pictured ball Pr ETS (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) is in the CIHIAIRIL IES] np game of ——. HEIL TIS! CHARLES} sit is either fAIRIEISHENION Vo BIT OF HUMOR —_ carried [RIEJ Diaiat LIAMBRIE (SIE MiB} @ FAS Bem Slo [SIAIO} ial ac AIGIA] Als 58 Each side has 9To stuff.” cile with reason. The keen appre- Autumn Sport ——s 15 Ocean. 20 Player in this game. A Ri 21 Interpolates. IDIEJAIN! 23 Discloses. Dp A 24Guard player M in this game. 26 God of war. 27 To excavate. 28 Indian. IEISMMNIA] 30 Beer. iL} 31 Lock part. 32 Frozen water, 38 Oak tree OR. UINWEIP IT) OUINIDIE TR] _ fruit. [EIOIUINIDIETR 30 Kind of ball. : mendicant. VERTICAL 40 Flightless 1 Musical note. bird. 2 Jar, 41 Wild ox. 3 Fetid. 42'To scream. 4Set up a golf 44 Cowl. ball. 46 Balsam. 5 Land measure 47 Entrance. 6 Meadows. 48 Tiresome 7 Legal rule. person. 8 Part of type. 49 Large. 50 Rumanian 10 Military cap. 11 Devours. 12 Doctor. POLITICS Cera 1001, EA. By FRANK R, KENT hension upon the part of the Btate Department lest some one believe that we took the lead in proposing a con- ference does not harmonize at all with bold words of President Roose- flayed aggressor nations and spoke of “quarantine” as an effective remedy which might be employed. The natural follow-up of that speech for us was to propose just the conference that is now being held and in that conference, concerning which we, of course, had preliminary con- versations with the British, it was just as natural for us to take the lead. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but not dis or diagnosis. Write letters briefly and in ink. Address Dr. Brad: re of The Tribune, All queries must be accompanied by a stampe: dressed envelope. BELLY BREATHING FOR NEURASTHENIA Certain individuals, whether they are regarded or regard themselves as “neurasthenic” or not, are unable to hold # deep breath for anything like the normal period (around 40 seconds). In most instances this is directly due to some impairment of circulation or perhaps impairment of the lungs. One who is unable to hold the breath more than 30 seconds may not have any specific heart or arterial disease, but he or she unquestionably needs medical attention. No matter what ails the person whose breaking point in the breath-hold- ing test is below normal, and no matter what the main cause of the condition may have been, there is good reason to believe that the essential basis of the trouble is anoxia—oxygen deficit in the tissues. We might go into the causes and the symptoms in greater detail but, after all, that-is not the layman’s concern. Medical men may find it enlightening to read the chapter on “The Nervous Control of Breathing” in J. 8. Haldane’s “Respiration” (Yale University Press, 1935). Haldane suggests that common symptoms or complaints of “neurasthenic” persons or those suffering from fatigue or shock are “analogous to the exag- gerated reflex restriction in the depth of breathing and the inability to hold the breath. All these symptoms seem to be due to what Hughlings Jack- son called ‘release of control.’” Haldane .then refers to the shocks to the nervous system in connection with various incidents of warfare and the part this played in the causation of ‘soldier's heart,’ ‘chronic gas poisoning’ and permanent ‘shortness of breath,’ but it was equally evident, he adds, that “infections of different sorts were also in part responsible for the condition, the nervous system apparently having been weakened by toxic influences.” Only way I can conceive that bacterial toxins could “weaken” the nervous system is by damaging the nerves or the nerve centers, poisoning them. Fatigue of the respiratory centre or other parts of the nervous system may be due partly to overwork, Haldane thinks, but also partly to want of oxygen. Then he makes this significant remark: “Neurasthenia may be thus regarded as only a more lasting and persist- ent form of ordinary fatigue or exhaustion. It will be shown later that a very important effect of the shallow breathing characteristic of neurasthenia or fatigue of the respiratory centre is imperfect oxygenation of the blood.” Don’t make the mistake of inferring from this that “deep breathing exer- cise” will correct the fault. Wait till we clarify the matter in a later article. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ‘Will sleeping in a room where damp clothes are hanging to dry be harmful to health? (E. I. K.) 5 Answer—On the contrary, it is benefiicial to health, especially in the winter when the air is artifically heated. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for monograph on Heating and Humidity, " eat Can one get wheat germ by itself or is it available only in the form of whole wheat. The whole wheat we get from the mill has some of the bran Polished off. (Mrs, L. R. B.) Answer—Health food stores generally have pure wheat germ for sale by the pound. Get wheat from the farmer or from a seed or feed store and you get plain wheat with nothing removed. Send stamped envelope bearing your address for instructions for using plain wheat in the daily meals. Tongue Tied Myth Baby, month old, nurses all right, gains, but never sticks her tongue out. Some friends say she must be tongue tied and will probably never learn to talk unless we-have it clipped. Our doctor says the baby is all right. What do you advise? (Mrs. T. McK.) Answer—I think you have the characters mixed up. Your doctor is your friend. The busybodies who fear the baby is tongue-tied are just busybodies. There is no such thing as being “tongue tied.” Copyright 1937, John F. Dille Co. the British are equally shy of coming responsibility and the fear that some- forward, how one or the other will be put “on the spot” for doing or suggesting what Tt does not make sense. This cal- culated refusal of England and Amer- ica to accept responsibility for a con- ference for which everyone knows they are responsible, or openly to direct from the front proceedings which everyone knows they are di- recting from the rear, does not create an impression of either candor or courage. Perhaps it may be inexpedi- ent to take strong measures toward Japan for her clear treaty -violation and perhaps the wiser course will be tu urge, as is now forecast, that Japan and China: get together, stop fighting not only is the natural thing but the indubitably right thing, weakens the whole cause of international co-opera- tion. It does more than that—it almost insures a pussyfooting conference and diminishes respect for whatever action thing about this timidity upon the part of these two nations is that it is sd unnecessary. It certainly isn’t essential to soothe the feelings or appease the pride of the other conferring nations, which and arrange a peace. But, if that isn’t Yet, we exhibit not, only peek But indignation at the suggestion ri we thought of the ference first |cacy with Which both our own and the and our representative sternly puts |British diplomats move at these con- aside the request that he preside. And jferences, their reluctance to assume pretty close to futility, what is it? The truth is that the extraordinary deli- CAST OF CHARACTERS .L WENTWORTH, heroine, here, rising YY WENTWORTH, Jill’s young artist, brother, j CoA ce WENTWORTH, sure SYLVIA SUTTON, off hetress. Yesterdays Alan delares his love for Jil. ‘The event ia im the hands of Fate now. CHAPTER VIII - patty had dropped by Alan’s studio for a cheering word and also with a practical suggestion. Had he ever done illustrating? ‘There was a chance her publisher might be interested in having him submit some sketches. Alan thanked her. But color was his forte. He would feel as helpless as an armless man trying to express himself through any medium but paint. “['ye had some good fortune since I saw you,” Alan said. “A I haven't been able to dis- who he was—bought one of my pictures through a dealer. He paid the unbelievable sum of $3000 for it.” “What a break!” Patty aed She was inely pleased an srnere, she had been E Zé a She stopped. There was a queer ‘was a ring at the door. smile in Ardath’s eyes. Alan opened the door of the “ier voice sounds rich,” Ardath | dismantled living room and faced drawled. Ardath, Patty stared. This Ardath wasn’t so dumb after all. Jill’s voice did sound rich. Well-bred, beautiful- ly modulated. The voice of a thoroughbred, who had had thor- oughbred training. What did you know about that? sk “Well, it should,” Patty rep! “Her father’s John H. Wentworth, the millionaire.” “Then, Cis secu ‘Went- worth,” Arda' wor course. Her friends call her Jill.” “I¢ you think Jill had anything to do with this, you're mistaken,” Patty continued, crossly. “Jill was wild for him to sell something. But even a rich man’s daughter H 4 nm pictures.” away on = “Maybe she wouldn't be throw- ing it away—on a picture.” Ar- dath’s voice sounded wise. Thinking it over, Patty came to the conclusion that Jill must have interested some of her wealthy friends in Alan’s picture—if she had not been, as Ardath had During the next few ‘was a man with two minds. .” Ardath said. “How are you?” Alan spoke more formally. Ardath held out a long, slim hand, “Perhaps you don’t remem- ber me. I’m Ardath Holm.” “I remember you quite well,” Alan said. Which was true. ‘There was something dangerously arresting about this girl You might not admire her type. But: you would never overlook her in a crowd, “I'm afraid I must appear in- hospitable. I can’t ask you in, Miss Holm. I’m moving. In fact, I have moved. I’m waiting now for a cab.” : “J heard you were going away,” Ardath spoke, slowly, “and that you had sold a picture.” ah ita lac ereithgrygseind Spreading the news. ‘was hard to keep. It’s pretty great, isn’t it?” “I should say so.” Ardath still looking up at him. She move to go. Alan, rest- be on his way, won- it more there was to be fentworth must be i i if ‘E i i i e is Jacqueline. friends cali ge BR i iE i 2