The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1937, Page 4

oa oA on etna anne mmatasanes : : . : ' ' 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 Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marek, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second clase mail matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons ‘Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Secretary and Editer Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year . Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail per year (in state outal Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state, per year ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year.. ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Asaociated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to tt or not otherwi: ted in thie Rewspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin hed herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, Tender Radio Ears When a leading radio chain recently chased Gen. Hugh Johnson off the air because he wanted to mention syphilis and gonorrhea right out in meeting, it proved that radio still has nt long way to go in gauging the intelligence and the temper of the American people. Time was when the newspapers of America, The Tribune mong them, referred to these plagues as “social diesases.” In much the same manner women never fell and broke legs. If anything ever happened to the female underpinning the refer- ence always was to “limbs.” But that tendency went out when short skirts came in. And following came public discussion of ailments which had long been taboo in polite society. It was this same condition which once made cancer a rather odious thing. From some unknown source came the idea that development of cancer indicated that a person had led a life which was not wholly righteous. It took the medical profession THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1987 _ | ‘ ‘Couldn’t We Do Something a Little More Constructive?’ Y our P ersonal H. ealth By Williem Brady, M. D. ES tl ertaining to health but mot dis ore prietiy, and invinle Address Dr. Bra: une, All queries must be accompanied by a stem f self-addressed envelope, racy will answer rebesiie! 588 fE Fe F bees Sak é ge isi s a a years to overcome that unfounded superstition, let the world | “oust know that cancer is quite as likely to attack the saintly as those of doubtful habits. Venereal diseases are admittedly in a different classifica- tion. The person afflicted with them is open to suspicion as to personal morality. But this is not necessarily so and anyone with any breadth of mind knows it. In fact, the INNOCENT] victims of syphilis constitute America’s greatest single tragedy | % today. No one with decent instincts recommends that full details as to symptoms and treatment be reviewed in the public prints. ‘That is'a job for doctor and patient. But public acceptance of the newspaper attitude shows that newspaper editors were and radio editors are giving the public credit for less common sense than it actually possesses. Prudery has no place in dealing with great social evils. In the fight which the nation should make—and continue to make —on these diseases it is best to call a spade a spade that every- one may be honestly and frankly informed. - It is five years ago, now, since the words “syphilis” and “gonorrhea” first appeared in The Tribune. They were uséd without consultation, but a check was made afterward to deter- mine public reaction. Doctors applauded it. “The public generally could see no harm in it. Consultation was had, among others, with fathers und mothers. They had no objection. ' It is true that parents resent anything coming into their tomes which will cause children to ask embarrassing questions. The Tribune recognizes the absolute necessity of keeping its columns clean. That is one reason why it refrains from so-called “yellow journalism.” But it also is true that only adequate presentation of the facts can stir the public to an interest in the grave social prob- lem presented by these diseases, and hence cause it to take those corrective and preventive steps which are so vital to the national health. There is a moral side to the question involved in these dis- eases, it is true. But to discuss them in specific terms, either in a newspaper or over the radio, is inadvisable. Those things should be brought to the attention of children by their fathers and mothers and other moral advisers. But the health side of the question is proper subject for dis- cussion and it is sincerely to be hoped that the radio will let Gen. Pershing, recently appointed to head a national campaign, present the facts as he pleases. Experiments With Buffalo While young North Dakota boxers and others are eating buffalo meat at a banquet here in mid-month, as a social diver- sion during the coming Golden Gloves tournament, the gov- ernment of Canada will be slaughtering some 2,000 buffalo at Buffalo National Park near Wainright, Alberta. It will, thereby, be making buffalo meat available to a large number of persons, to say nothing of buffalo robes and furs. Advices from the Dominion indicate that the buffalo may, in fact, become the basis for a return to this continent of its oldest industry. The plains Indian once counted on the buffalo for most of the things he needed. For meat, clothing, shelter and even for agricultural implements, since the shoulder blade of a buffalo ence made the best available plow. Now articles made from buffalo skins may be purchased at the lowest prices in 50 years and they are much better in quality than used to be the case. Ways of treating the green hides have been developed which make them more pliable and lighter in weight than the old-timers ever dreamed they could be. Experiments in shear. ing the long hair from dressed skins have produced fur re- sembling plucked beaver in appearance. Because of this it is entirely possible that in the not dis- " tant future there may be buffalo ranches in the United States And Canads, raising the former lord of the plains for its meat and fur. Canada and this country protected its buffalo from extinc- tion that future generations might know what the animal looked like. It may be that in so doing they saved the seed of what could be a valuable industry. Any household knew of Japan's warlike at Tonic effect of LaGuardia’s New York election victory ways, the winners getting that airy effect and the leesrs the bed tase, Arguing over who should put the car in the » @ New York house- wife shot her husband, snother argument for solution of the na- tional parking problem. The Great Come of POLITIC S Copyright 1987, by The Baltimore Sus By FRANK R. KENT the fear that somehow or other Hoover may forge to the front, and feeling that at all costs he must be pre- = ly destitute and which anti-New Deal Democrats as well as Republicans could accept. To this end he urged a meeting of the national committee, at which steps should be taken to name & policy committee which would for- mulate a declaration to be submitted to « party convention next year. That was the plan. It happened to be the first Republican idea hatched in @ year; the first evidence of intel- lectual life within the party since its 1936 defeat. At once a favorable sen- timent developed among who felt come to find out what their party stands for, if anything, and that its utter inertia was con’ keeping the New Deal crumbling and might easily become chronic. The opposition came from two elements. 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