The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 30, 1937, Page 6

. i (i { | i { i | THE 3} BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1937 ABBE The Bismarck Tribune| An Independent Newspaper il THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER rs (Established 1873) 4 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 and matter. ; Mrs, Stella I. Mann President and Treasurer Kenneth W. Simons Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'L Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates iacueel in Advance Weekly by mail in state, per year . Weekly by mail outside of North Dak Weekly by mail in Canada, per year . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press eo Ass ted Press !s exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion ae re 's dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this mewspap also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights ot republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. 2 Ride Carefully, Please American business is about to be returned to the saddle— unless all the observers are wrong—and thereby will have ITS chance to put this nation on a sound footing. According to David Lawrence, seasoned and conservative commentator on national affairs: “New Dealism—as we have known it—is over. New Capitalism has come to take its place. The dealer of the cards is still President Roosevelt but the |tax shuffle puts the play in the hands of American business, “We are passing through a fateful period of transition— the ending of one epoch and the beginning of another. “It is not a time for pettiness or the emotions of prejudice. Each side in our class war must suppress its hates. The common foe of both is here again—depression. An era of co-operation between the government and business has been initiated by the president himself. Business must meet these overtures more than half way—they have no other choice in the common interest.” This is sound, practical advice. The pendulum swings toward conservatism in national affairs. People are willing to give American commercial and industrial initiative freer play than has been true in the last few years. They feel that the fidea of “government run everything” has not lived up to its advance notices. They are willing to try something else. But business, on its part, must show a sense of social and moral responsibility. It must prove that it can, if left alone, bring about a better standard of living and more happiness for the average man, than was true under government domination. To do so, in all honesty, it will have to abandon some of the practices which made it so easy for political leders to preju- dice the public against it. It will have to set other gods along- side that of profit, respect the public conscience and prove that it can be of more benefit to the public welfare than anything else. In the late and unlamented NRA era, business showed a|*%> marked tendency to enter into unholy combinations to mulct the consumer. In the upward surge which terminated with the recent recession, it showed a tendency to squeeze the last pos- gible penny from the public purse. There has been a tendency to charge all the traffic would bear, not merely what the goods or services were worth. This is true of so-called big business. Small business enterprises have shown much more discretion in this regard. The real function of business is to distribute goods as widely and as cheaply as possible. To finance this service it must have @ margin over and above the actual cost of this operation. {That is profit. But the REASON for business still is service and any attempt to profit too much or too quickly defeats the ends of business itself. If business FAILS to grasp the opportunity which appears about to be offered it, the effect will be tragic for it, for the nomic job which its protagonists—including this newspaper— * @ Planned economy are inevitable. would be more drastic than any we have known to date. To say that business is on trial seems silly, but such is the fact. For the people still are enamored of the AIMS which have epitomize the hopes and ambitions of every people since the dawn of history. The only reason anyone questions what Mr. Roosevelt has done is that he has proved much less able to achieve those aims than to put them into words. If and when business returns to the saddle, it behooves it | fo ride carefully, very carefully, lest it ride to a fall of such proportions as to destroy both {tself and the political, industrial and economic fabric of the nation. Cost of Social Work One of the commonest protests against the present relief which is that too much goes to pay administrative + salaries and too little to those on relief, has been given factual study in Cincinnati, O., and found unjustified, according to findings announced by the Public Administration Clearing House, fact-finding agency for America’s municipal govern- ments. When relief money got short most cities cut down on the - pumber of “caseworkers.” This was done by the Resettlement administration, now Farm Security, in rural America. The fdea was to give a higher proportion of the money available to those who needed it most. tA Cincinnati did just the opposite. Instead of reducing the fe number of caseworkers it put more of them to work, gave them ») fewer cases to handle and told them to do a better job. 4g Now the Ohio city announces that it has saved $8,700 per under the former system. This involves “securing a job or haps of solving a health problem and generally rehabilitating him,” according to the bulletin on the subject. It was all figured out on a sound bookkeeping basis and in addition to the financial economy it is pointed out that the i shorter period relief clients were on the public rolls “constitutes |@ measure of successful treatment in the welfare field as truly | the would in the medical field. The shorter the duration of ry the less likely it is to leave permanent handicaps, D ; that cases are not closed arbitrarily.” Phis will come as a surprise to many who have felt that ee vaiceh {indictment was well based. It also will be a -maligned and little-defended social worker gn't done such a bad job in this part of the government and for the people. Unless business does the eco-|tead to been so ably presented to them by President Roosevelt. They |' 100 cases by “closing” them in a shorter time than was true| jy oehe SCENES Washington New Dealers Wait on Spring Upare Upturn for Actual Drive Against Business Recession .. . Building Boom May Be Impetus for Recovery «+. Stand Firm on Tax Repeal. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Nov. 30.— Roosevelt and the New Dealers have a plan for ending the depression before it ap- proaches disastrous proportions. The plan has curiously little in common with remedies proposed or described in most congressional speeches and newspaper dispatches. The president's economists have told him that there isn’t much chance of any pickup in business worth speak- ing of before some time next spring. The administration is now convinced that the country is in one of those oid-fashioned economic spirals of de- clining production and - purchasing power—and that nothing can actually be done about it until some sort of a new balance of prices, production and. purchasing power is achieved, although now is the Hime to plan, x * At Odds on Tax Repeal This is not s very common view- point outside the inner circle of advisers. Congress is very likely, in the meantime, to take the word of business interests and conservative economists that there's no cure like ge of the corporate surplus profits New Dealers scoff at that proposal and others of the sort, claiming that Wall Street is entirely unrealistic in its suggestions as to the depression’s causes and possible cures, But there will be a real fight over the surplus Profits tax if Roosevelt sticks to his determination to confine action to alleviations for small businesses. During that other period which Democrats like to call “the Hoover Sepeeesions there were several up- turns in the spring—in 1930, 1931 and 1932, Friends of Mr. Hoover like to say that the depression really ended in 1932 and that only the presidential ‘campaign and Roosevelt’s election pre- vented a parade to recovery from con- tinuing. Rogsevelt’s friends say the trouble was that Hoover never had a plan of action ready with which to take advantage of an upturn when he saw one. Z ee * Predict Upturn by Spring Anyway, Roosevelt’s idea now is that there will be at least a leveling oft of the declining industrial curve some time in the spring and that the government - promoted private house- building iooane previously discussed in this column, can then take hold and provide impetus which will start ind spiraling upward again. (Latest decision is to ask congress to get the FHA interest-service charge Fate down from 6% per cent to around Although the administration and its economists believe there's no chance of turning’ up the business curve at once, that dosen't tean they expect the curve to keep going down at its recent accelerated rate. Christ- mas trade and extra dividend pay- ments are expected to help. There might be some natural rebound from the present business blues and surely, it’s believed, talk and action toward ® building boom will stimulate a eae for inventories. The spring “adjustment” expected te provide the psychological moment for the housing boom to be actually felt is anticipated partly as a result of an approach of prices and produc- tion Jevels to the normal, unchanging. goods. , each housing will mean « three-billion in- - have insisted it can do, further experiments into Socialism and | mission And the new experiments A some other financial assistance for the relief recipient, or per-|S#*nins women party died a slow death for many years before it was pte apparent in 1932 and 1996. And that happened bit “uppity” in its Pero D. Nine times nothing but ier * college Fi Tf the: government feoession | Roosevelt. | You’re Invited to Co-operate, Too oe Yi our Pey er. | H ealth By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Gey will eli questions pertaining to health but not dis ease or di! is. Write letters briefly and in ink. Address Dr. Brad: in care of ‘Tribone, All queries must be accompanied by a stam: self-addres: nvelope. NUTRITIONAL FACTOR OF CVD Only a year or two ago 8 representative of the old guard in medicine was declaiming that “even the physician with a very large practice will see only & few cases a year in which he will suspect” a vitamin deficiency, and that reactionary outburst is still reverberating down through the woodpulp and scavenger press and misleading thousands of persons who believe whatever ‘Today reports dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of vitamin deficiencies in the well-to-do as well as the poorer classes. A special article by Drs. Weiss and Wilkins, published in the Jour. A. M.A, Sept., 1937, mene without apology to the old guard, that systematic study thas revealed that “beriberi with cardiovascular as well as with neurologic manifestations is of regular occurrence in the United States. One hundred and twenty such cases were observed in the Boston City Hospital. Thirty- five cases of this group, on which special investigations were conducted, oc: curred out of 5,506 medical admissions. The condition occurs, at jeast in certain sections of the population, more frequently than congenital heart dis- ease or subacute bacterial endocarditis. Beriberi, however, is a far more com- mon disease than is indicated by the frequency of the cardiovascular mani- festations, as in the majority of instances it manifests itself in neurologic disturbances only.” In order to understand the strange medical lingo you find this soenry | helpful; ae CVD, cardiovascular disease or degeneration, means premature or slow wearing out and weakening of the heart and arteries. Beriberi is the name of & form of polyneuritis or multiple nerve inflammation with progressive weak- ening or partial paralysis, a disease prevalent in oriental countries and due to insufficient vitamin B in the diet. Without any actual scientific knowledge or investigation of the question the old guard officially asserted there is “no sech animile” because the extreme cases are not encountered in this country, or only rarely. The old timers simply hadn't the necessary knowledge and skill in diagnosis to detect or even “suspect” the mild cases. Neurologic ‘means nervous. Congenital means present at birth. Subacute is between acute and chronic, Endocarditis is inflammation of the lining of the heart. The common heart-artery manifestations of this vitamin B deficiency in the United States, Drs. Weiss and Wilkins find, are shortness of breath on exertion, with palpitation and rapid heart action, perhaps with bounding or throbbing pulse. Edema (dropsical swelling) is frequent. Most of these_beriberi sufferers observed in this study regularly drank large amounts of alcohol. Some of them were addicted to drugs, a few were pregnant, a few had diabetes, a few had some chronic gastro-intestinal trouble for which they dieted, and in some cases fool fads or poverty played @ role, The direct cause in all cases was insufficient intake of vitamin B. That is as true in the moderate and perhaps unsuspected beriberi in this country as it is of the endemic disease in the orient. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Short Work Mother received the instructions for ridding the house of cockroaches. She followed instructions and it had almost instant effect. We had tried numerous other things without disturbing the critters in the least, Once more, God Bless “Ol’ Doc Brady,” say we. (A. T. H.) Answer—Instructions for eradicating cockroaches will be mailed on re- quest to any correspondent who provides a stamped envelope bearing his address. Or inclose ten cents coin and ask for booklet “No, 12—Unbidden Guests”—it deals with all kinds of pests, vermin, bugs, parasites or what have you. Unfortunately it does not discuss the one who begins every remark with “Listen”—I feared to mention prussic acid lest somebody use it for hookworm or ringworm. (Copyright 1937, John F. Dille Co.) The Great Game of POLITICS Copyright 1997, by The Baltimore Sun By FRANK R. KENT had he any plan for raising the inomay, whayever thie smoutt, ‘The house farm bill is not yet com- plete but is expected out—so the lead- ers say—before the end of the week. Equally vague as to cost, it is slightly Jess drastic than the senate bill, but THE EXTRA SESSION MUDDLE ; official house leader so far have not been able to dislodge it. ‘The extraordinary spectacle was presented on Tuesday of the Demo- cratic floor leader, with a four-to- one Democratic majority behind eR could not sign either house or senate bill as they now are, inasmuch as he has insisted that whatever form the legislation takes, the money must be provided without further dislocation of the budget. form, Yet the President, convinced as his friends say he is of that, cannot bring himself either to drop the regu- latory reforms the. congress does not Wane @ pare of permit tt to pass the. tax legislation it desires. He may not The plain truth about these two! get the reforms, but administration Bills is that, left to itself, congress/ leaders, acting under White House or- the| would pass neither of them. If they| ders, are going to see that no step to- ill be long and bitter. No| get by, it will be because of the com-| ward tax revision is taken until next human being can more than guess Bs bined weight of the labor lobby and ‘There seems slight danger of it hap- pening. Yet, full of contradictions as was the last session, few in or out of congress expected quite the state of; « affairs which now prevails in this one. Take, for example, the facts as they appertain to the two main features! ther of the President's program, for the gress into extra session and which he insisted could not wait, but must be done “now,” “now,” “now.” Actually, sage both of his Wage and Hour Con- certain that if elther or both meas- enactment of which he called con-|’ the prospects at the moment for pas-| man the Democratic administration. With the Crop Control bill the situ- ation is not less complicated, but more inal form of the measure, or the President behind one and the farm lobby; and the President behind the other: There was for neither the sort of public demand or emergency to justify an extra session. The real em- ergency is the business emer- gency and the real legislation needed is relief from crippling tax laws rather than more regulation and re- immediate beneficial effect—to wit, Tepeal the undivided surplus tax, which now has so defender—not even the President, himself, They do not make sense, but such are the facts. lactory to friends and foes alike, half baked, ill BY considered, disjointed and ib unconstitutional. ba MARY RAYMOND. Barring a near miracle, no other Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, lac. CAST OF CHARACTERS heavy object at aim ... which} “All right, we'll think of some . is convincing proof of this"‘On the aT ERTEORTH, Serotee, |causod heart failure.” other way.” “Patty's volce was house side the Wage and Hour bill, ALAN JEFFRY, sere, rises “They say I waz running away ray | soothing. eo urged by one labor faction, the CIO, SARNY WENTWORTH, sits |{70M 2omething, and I was,” Jill| and don’t worry,’ said. “But I can’t tell them about ‘t.” SHE *But, Jill, darling, you must!” a ; x Ee a s Patty cried, horrified. “The po- nies ward who can help her. otersays Ths Sohn | lice— ey’ve got to help. I’m :ure he'll re tena caren | “Yes, I know,” Jill answered.| want to. I don’t many retura, |“But you couldn't expect me to/ blond eee at tie and is tightly held in the rules commit- tee, from which the combined efforts of the President, the Speaker and the #1 stepbrother. Ack "WENTWORTH, Jill's mens was thinking: Ardath and SYLVIA SUTTON, oll heiress, even approximate not say whether the expense would be secure, tee onuratyo peceie half a billion or three billion. Nor J™ was one of those things that “Did y 6 itty sou eert enn see that timer” Patty probed HORIZONTAL Answer to Preview’ Passie 17Stream- couldn’t happen. But it had, “Yes, T couldn’t have him 1Senorita — [ATTA obstruction... Patty-iold herself. She was star-| despise ‘me utterly. So, as soon as ee ret alia oaaig noe Gunpien in EU | 19To assert as’ ing at the front page of a news-|it was daylight I drove to his|of the apartment. I took off my fact. paper. Night before last, while pice. to expan about dad; how/red scarf see put it about her tennis. 21 Bush. —- she was spending the week-end|1 had decided at the ball to ve her a bill, She nounce my engagement to Milo| was talking Roe to save dad. It was 6 o'clock when ies aie Place. That was the time : $22 with relatives in the country, Jill Wentworth’s millionaire father had died. Or rather, the paper today announced he had died from a heart attack after he had been struck by some unknown person. Police, the story ran, hed found found Jill “driving aimlessly about” early yesterday morning, and she had given “no satisfactory ex- told her it was ge g a F 43 28 HE & i att if 22To perform. 48To woo. 2:Day in Homan 38 Instrument, planation of her strange conduct.” and 24Geographical 49'To revere. month, 40 Aperture. They were holding her, with uarrel drawing. 31 Acted as 3Part of eye. 41 Possessed. other members of the family, for you 28 Series of . 4To make lace. 42 Wallet. investigation. The worst of it, the strange paper declared, was that Jill wouldn’t talk. rie y 6 5 ‘orpid. TImaginary nn Patty flung the paper aside. No be pleasure. S5To soak flax. belt in the. 48To depart by’ time to be reading newspaper ac- your 31 Reckless, To ascend. sky. t. counts, when Jill was at her home tanne, 32To immerse. 58She is the SAmidst. 50 Before. j battling police and their absurd |) be, 34 Stir. only —— ' -9Preposition. 52 Unit of work, suspicions. ie 53 Provided. . Tell us AA an et her Into the big man= to hide man let her into the big man- sion. Patty crossed the entrance is fine.’ hat a trap : ‘Money won't help ave T till iow, Miss Wentworth, They want |tives an: > ixsantions you about Yyour| ova ey Pe father's death.’ Just like that!” | anybody else. What Patty patted Jill's trembling /1¢ seems to me—” “They're right about pulling|_,.0% nol” Sill, cried. together, Jill. Nobody in|f7iont “her i [ H a a i eee Eee 5 & a i i af i i H EE i E aaa aa ann z aa Cw 2 SEE oe 2mm a anemia EF ii oF i ia if igh Hy 7 & Ly i BS