The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 26, 1937, Page 4

2 ge == Pallentone in the conquest of disease is about to be The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST. NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper The Bismarck Trib Co! , Bis- eens aly coered at the postotiice at Blamarck as second class mall matter. : Mrs, Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Z Archie O, Johnson Kenneth W. Simons + Vice Pres. and Gen'L Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance a Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press soclated Press {s exclusively entitled to the use for republica- Manat ie eos 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. Virile Industry Can Solve Our Problems The present session of congress is beginning to resemble the meeting of that western frontier debating society, whose president announced that the evening’s topic would be “What’s this country coming to?” with the high school teacher taking the affirmative and himself the negative. Which ig to say that while congress is full of talk about what this country may be coming to, it is having a mortally hard tinie deciding just what the affirmative and negative sides of the issue should be. There is the matter of the budget, for instance. Congress ‘wants to see the government expenditures cut, but the cutting tool has a handle like a red-hot poker, The army and the navy are costing enormous sums, and bid fair to cost more; but with the world in the state it is in, the army and the navy look like first-rate insurance which is worth whatever it may cost. Then there is relief—a stupendously expensive thing, which must be bitten into pretty materially if we are to get our govern- ment costs down to anything resembling normal. But while congress sidles up to this subject, the Cassandra voices of the eonference of mayors ring in its ears, warning that to cut relief will be to invite trouble by the carload lot. Mayor LaGuardia of New York says bluntly that relief fs going to cost more, not less. The present business recession, he warns, means increased unemployment; far from tapering off, the relief load is due to increase, and increase materially, fn the coming winter. Mayor LaGuardia is followed by Mayor Harold H. Burton of Cleveland, a conservative Republican. Conservative Burton talks just like Left-Wing LaGuardia, when relief is mentioned. Cut off the federal relief program, says Mayor Burton, and in Cleveland “100,000 people will be compelled to choose between starvation and a lawless search for food.” Other mayors talk in the same vein; and from their remarks one senses that the relief load, onerous though it is, is some- thing that can neither be talked away nor ignored. We still have this enormous undigested mass of unemployed men; humanitarian reasons aside, we cannot, in sheer self-defense, do anything but continue to carry it as long as it exists. Which seems to indicate, then, that our immediate salvation may not lie in the direction of cutting expenses and slicing into the deficit. We should stop spending scores of millions on relief, but we can’t do it while need exists; the need will go on existing until private industry is able to absorb the jobless workers. So congress might well think about industry instead of the federal treasury, for a while. It might think about that delicate, tenuous thing called confidence, and how it can be restored; about the proposition that if government can’t get business back on its feet, it could try letting business get back unaided—and unhampered. For our problem can be solved, apparently, only in terms of a genuine business revival. : Intrigue and Fascism... Students of Fascist movements might find something instructive in the verdict of the French court which held Col. Francois de LaRocque, French Fascist leader, guilty of slander- ing his former associate, Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo. The duke had asserted that LaRocque’s outfit, formerly known as the Croix de Feu, had received money from the French government during the regime of ex-Premier Andre Tardieu; LaRocque had countered with the remark that the duke had “dis- qualified himself as a patriot.” But now it develops that the duke’s charge was, indeed, correct; and LaRocque is assessed 3,000 francs damages. ‘ The case is instructive for two reasons. First, it emphasizes the way in which Fascist leaders use slanderous personal abuse in their fight for power, denouncing all who oppose thefn as unprincipled and unpatriotic. Second, it is a reminder that such movements often receive covert aid from the very governments they are out to overthrow. Crime Revives The insolent underworld gangs that were so notorious a few years ago have pretty well been broken up; yet J. Edgar Hoover, head G-man, warns that it is a mistake to suppose that crime in the United States is decreasing. Addressing a convention of the American Hotel.association, in Pittsburgh, Mr. Hoover stated bluntly that more felonies were committed thus far in 1937 than in the same period last year. ‘There were sharp increases in robberies, burglaries, larcenies and auto thefts. There were more homicides, more cases of criminal assault. Clearly, there is nothing in this picture to justify any trace of complacence in our attitude toward the crime problem. A fine job has been done, since Capone was in his heydey, but an equally big, if less spectacular, job remains still to be done. ‘Big Push’ on Disease It is interesting to note that mass inoculation of Americans in an effort to eradicate pneumonia was discussed the other day at a conference of medical experts with Dr. Thomas Parran, . @¥., surgeon general of the U. S. Public Health Service. Probably nothing of the kind will actually happen—now. But the mere fact that the proposition is being discussed is a given to 800,000 CCC boys, must be giving strong indications ef high value. Next to heart disease and cancer, pneumonia kills more ‘Americans than any other disease. If medical science is on the Werge of finding a new and effective weapon to fight it, a great EELS A I, Behind Scenes Washington Financing Farm Program Sets Con- gress Searching for New Sources of Revenue, but Bill Will Go to Con- sumer. ; By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Nov. 26.—Whispering and mumbling about a general sales tax on food, as a substitute for proc- essing taxes to pay for the proposed new farm program, is to be heard from certain members of the House Ways and Means committee. Politically, and perhaps from the standpoint of sound tax policy, such a |suggestion may seem preposterous. It won't be enacted. But it indicates the way congressmen grope around from pillar to post when what they really want is an expensive program which won't cost any money. The current farm program costs $500,000,000 a year. The new one will cost at least $750,000,000. But although the administration demands that the difference be made up in new revenue and Secretary Wallace urges new processing taxes, the House agricul- ture committee has turned over that little problem of financing to the Ways aid Means committee, a majority of whose members are known to be op- posed to processing taxes. * * * Consumer Will Pay The alternative to processing taxes is either a general tax or a program that doesn’t meet the surplus crop problem. New and heavier general taxation is what nearly everyone is trying to avoid. So the ultimate an- swer is likely to be processing taxes, even though strenuous opposition is also expected from Senators Smith of South Carolina, Bailey of North Caro- lina, George of Georgia, and others who depend on textile interests for political support. Proposed processing taxes call for 20 cents a bushel on wheat, three cents @ pound on cotton and half a cent a pound on rice. The effect of these would be a sales tax on consumers, “Tough” Tallulah Miss Tallulah Bankhead, actress- Off to a Flying Start daughter of the Speaker of the House, would be tougher than her father if she had his job. “They were all talking at once and it was confusing,” said Tallu- lah in describing her: reactions to the opening session. “I didn’t think Daddy was severe enough with them.” (Under the House rules, there’s no way in which Miss Bankhead can take over the speaker’s gavel and show what she means.) 7 A SENATOR FREED One of the factors likely to flavor not only this extra session of congress, but the regular session to follow is the changed attitude of Senator Pa‘ although it is said some of the cotton tax would be absorbed by processors, |Harrison, of Mississippi. For the first But the old AAA processing tax |time in five years Senator Harrison is which hit consumers hardest was the | able to be himself, Y panes on wisirneeieee: ee It isn’t his convictions that have by the time @ hog became pork chops |changed; it’s his position. What has or roast. The AAA isn’t proposing | happened is that the reasons which any process tax on meat. prevented him from either freely ex- xk * pressing his opinions or standing up Speculators Must Pay = and fighting for them no longer exist. Chairman Joseph P, Kennedy of the | As a result, he is a happier man and Maritime Commission, who had been|a more useful senator. It is a good conspicuous as a stock market specu- | thing for him and a good thing for the lator before Roosevelt gave him his|country that he was not elected ma- former job as head of SEC and who! jority leader of the senate—an honor was back in Wall Street between jobs, | he ardently desired. is one of the most active workers for repeal of the capital gains tax. oe he isn’t making much headway, for possesses qualities the reason that the administration (anion would, oe nade hima, suc- believes speculators reluctant to PAY | cessful and effective leader. but be- taxes on huge stock market profits | cause the leadership would have com- would be the chief beneficiaries, pelled him to continue subordinating Although Roosevelt has come to admit that there are inequities in the his own views to those of the White House, kept him in line for policies in corporation surplus tax and proposes which he did not believe and regard- revision to help small businesses, he | 94 ‘as danger: ‘Able, clear-headed This. is not said in an uncompli- doesn’t want to lighten the capital and experienced, a man of high per- sonal character, many engaging traits gains tax except to help investors in babedgestideitarts peste : and a considerable senate following. Men who were able to buy stocks,|Mr. Harrison, freed from his former bonds and real estate at low 1932-33 | handicaps, is equipped now to be- prices are entitled to exempt 60 per | come a greater force in the senate and cent of their gains from income tax |in the country than would have been Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sup matter what they were. There are evidences that he intends to. Unquestionably Senator Harrison} suffered @ lot in the past four years, “going along” with the New Deal when he felt it was going in the wrong di- rection, Essentially, he is the same kind of Democrat as Senator Carter Glass. What kept him advocating New Deal policies which Senator Glass opposed, was the fact that Senator Glass was free and he was not. Now they are both free. Two things form- erly shackled Senator Harrison. One. was his deep personal devotion to Senator Joe Robinson, whom he sup- ported through thick and thin. The other was that as chairman of the pow- erful senate finance committee his support was essential to the White House and indispensable to Senator Robinson. Combine these with the fact that Mr. Harrison is a strong party man, whose natural tendency is. to stand with the party leader, and you have the full explanation of why he swallowed so many unpelatable White House doses and so many times uncomplainingly held the bag when the White House shifted. y But those days, so far as Senator Harrison is concerned, are gone for- ever. The death of his old friend, Joe, removed one very potent reason for accepting Mr. Roosevelt's orders when they clash with his own beliefs, And the White House part in defeating him for the leadership. removes any ‘obli~ When, in addition, it is recalled that Mr. for-his fourth term as senator and has 'six years to serve before another cam- paign, the full degree of his independ- ence can be appreciated. He is not a vindictive man and he will continue to have pleasant personal relations with the president and often will co- Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. th rtaining to health . briefly and invinke Addr Dr, Brady will an qi must be accompanied Write Lett i queri but Dr. CHAFING AND CHAPPING If we regard eczema or dermatitis as a disease it is rather absurd, if we regard it as simple reaction of the skin to irritation it is not unreasonal to attribute the trouble to cold weather or winter in some instances or to weather or summer in others. Indeed Pusey’s textbook of Dermatology, one of the classics in this field, contains an illustration of a case of “Demtatis Aestivalis,” ecsema or skin inflammation ascribed by Prof. Pusey to hot weather. A familiar skin’ inflammation (call it eczema or dermatitis as you prefer) indirectly due ‘to hot weather or excessive warmth, is chafing or scalding, though excessive warmth alone will never produce this reaction. Friction and the direct irritation of retained excretions (sebum and sweat) are essential factors, To relieve chafing bathe the scalded surfaces with tepid water and very Uttle soap, rinse the soap away with plain water, dry by patting, not rubbing, with soft towel, and then powder freely with borated talcum or with zine stearate powder. Or, if the surface is moist (from exuded serum, weeping), smear it with fresh castor oil or with soft petrolatum (petroleum jelly) and cover with clean soft linen cloth for protection. Nothing is better for prevention or relief of chafing than exposure of the surface to the air. “Heat rash” or “prickly heat” is s-form of eczema or skin irritation swollen. inflamed, itchy, burning. Bathe gently with tepid starch water or bran water (small handful of cornstarch or wheat bran in basin of water), dry with soft towel, and powder freely with cornstarch powder and boric acid powder mixed half and half. Avoid soap. Leave the affected to the air. The regular f borated talcum it prickly heat, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Ultraviolet Carbon are lamp for ultraviolet ray treatment, has wire screen ae rays come, Is this as good as the ultraviolet rays in : on Answer—Such a lamp delivers ultraviolet rays. In the area lamp is focused probably more ultraviolet than in the winter sunlight, screen would shut off 2 considerable part of the ultraviolet Here Raw Food Should « child three and one-half years cid be permitted to carrots? (Mrs. T. L. R.) Answer—Every child should receive one or two raw vegetables daily, Until the child has teeth enough to chew them, grate them finely. But @ child three years old should chew his own. (Copyright, 1937, John F. Dille Co.) ‘White House, word went out from time had come to stop talking; there that “You can’t trust Pat” and that Senator Dietrich, of Mlinois, who badily wanted to support him, was switched to Senator Barkley personal White 5 were at least two -Harrison was re-elected last year | - operate with Senator Barkley, wh0|son cherishes defeated him in the Democratic cau- cus by a single vote on a secret ballot. But he no longer hag to obey the one, and the other can hardly expect the sort of. deyotion that. Mr. gave “Old Joe.” either Feasbeis te ¥ WENTWORTH, Jill's atepbrother. JACK WENTWORTH, Jill's brother. SYLVIA Ls oil heiress, purchase date expires. Thus one who made a million-dollar investment and now liquidates for two million must pay income tax on $400,000 of his gain, according to Treasury officials, who express no sympathy. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) Peters. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED 6Y THE BEST OF MEN Clarice—Who laid the table for breakfast? Helen—I did, all but the eggs. Goofus—I see that tips are forbid- den here. Waitress—Bless your heart, sir, so were apples in the garden of Eden. Girl—What is that odor I smell? Boy—That’s fertilizer. Girl—Well for land’s sakes. Boy—Yes, that’s right. Harriet—It looks like a storm. You had better stay for dinner. Larry—Oh, thanks, but I don’t think it will be that bad. ——_______—__ | SOTHEY SAY | I don't have anything to do with what's happened in Brazil. I hope this won't stop me from being an en- gineer.—Getulio Vargas, Jr., son of the president of Brazil. x * * Iam the law!—Mayor Frank Hague, Jersey City, N. J., state Democratic leader. ** * Our jails are beginning to look like a8 soon as a five-year period from the | possible for him es senate leader, forced to echo the president’s views, no gation he otherwise might. have felt. toward Mr. Roosevelt personally. 1,8 In 1620 a group of English colonists landed at 12 Deception. 13 Constellation 14 Den, 16 Nimbie. 18 Every. 19 To coat with an alloy. 20 To entangle. 22 Worth. 23 French. 25 Mineral spring 26 Form of “a.” * 27 Musical note. 28 Lion. 30 Type standard 31 Large. ‘32 Queerer. 34 Oleoresin. 36 Obnoxious plant. 38 Money changing. 39 Electrical unit 40 Mooley apple. 42 Street. 43 Cubic. —_—. 60 Some had IPIOINICIEIDIEILIEIOIN] OlVIEIR MAD [ORIN ler tal ISIPIAINT | JAIRID] 44To snarl. 46 Chinese money. 48 Matter. 49 Assembly place. 52 To tear stitches. 54Sun. 55 To make ead, ready. 57 Inlet. 59 These colonists were EJAISITIE IR} VERTICAL 1 Chum. 2 Lixiviums. : 3Sea tales. 4 Hawaiian bird 5 Russian mountains, 6 Sesame. 7 Low river land. 9 Liquid part of fat, 10 Wagon. 11 Relative. migrated from12 The ship—— 58 New England Landmark HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle carried the colonists, 15 The pilgrims came for —= freedom. 17 Candle. 19 Vestige. 21 Battering machine. 24 Proverbs. 27 To imitate. 29 Poem. 31 To implore. 33 Paradises. 35 Tardier. 37 Resinoid extract. 41 Mother. 42 South America. 44 Aquatic bird. 50 Jewel. 51 Hurrah! 53 Brooch. 54 Spain. 55 Pair. 56 Ell. Paid publicity. high schools, because there are 50) many youngsters in them.—Cornelius Willemse, former chief, New York homicide aaued. * * In 100 years, women will definitely rule this country.—Dr. William Moul- ton Marston, psychologist. ** * Many misunderstandings and quar- rels in Hollywood have originated from some untrue gossip note.—Tony Martin and Alice Faye, screen newly- most hopeful indication. The new serum, which is now being |" * * * We are born not immoral, moral, but unmoral.—Dr. A. Sophie Rogers, Ohio State university psy- c ee * T have nothing on earth to say and T'm going to say it.—J. P. Morgan, on his return. to the United States from/ Passed. Js. trip abroad. oo a dk lt + Ardath leaves Alan's ‘| Yeaterday: ; Studio aster deatre; to onli for England and his talking: asley, after —_ with ae CHAPTER XX ([ HE sott closing of the front door |Put upon him? behind Jill had not disturbed | 77 6 John Wenworth, who sat in a deep 'H It couldn’t be chair by the fire in his study. It|haq sacrificed He fe By i i i uf ii Feee E. EEE oe} ma ibe THLE & y lan deckaes home > a a rH tf i could not i i ST EGTLS HBG HT EL a 2 leave him a big slice, and cut me lout—” ‘ John Wentworth spoke heavily: “Your mother came to about z i i Hh | ri} EEE ig F if aE i at fF E ui E ~ iE i i g i E $ Ey 3 P zt i | i “£8. 2 « ! a 82 Ft: ef ¥§ HEL i Ht l hi Ef i; tl ele i i i i 3 3 i § j H 4 z f i i sSe zs : ge i mt eRe