The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1937, Page 4

2 ‘The Bismarck Tribune t Independent A dey it Newspaper woh THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Behind Scenes : Btate, City and County Official Newspaper Wa S hington Published datly except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- | exriong N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail By RODNEY D} HER : s (Tribune Washington Corresponden penile Ae rene Washington, Dec. 3—By no stretch ¢ imagination could this period be chie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons 2 “ ” ¢ Yieo Pres and Ge'k Menger Secretary and Editor called an “era of good feeling” in ee, | Washington and a aegis are hig greater bitterness ie mont Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .....++++.+++ ahead. Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year . Weekly by mail outside of North Dako! Weekly by mail in Canada, per year . many names been called during the first couple of weeks. Most of these names are being called behind peo- ple’s backs and sometimes they're only muttered, but they're dirty ones and seem more and more likely to be hurled around openly. ‘The depression seems to breed ex- asperation on Capitol Hill, perhaps because no one knows what to do about it. Members find themselves able to get unusually nasty over & farm or wage-hour bill and of course the anti-lynching bill, which always produces hotter, meaner inter- changes of personal scorn than any other, has been under debate in the senate. ** * Assistant Whip Cracks When “the senator from New York” was being accused of prompting the anti-lynching bill as a vote-getting expedition into the Harlem “black belt,” Senator Royal 8. Copeland of New York arose to point out that the Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press {s exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Mewspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin pu’ 6 herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Life Insurance Review Meeting this week in annual convention, presidents of the feading American life insurance companies reviewed their busi- hess and found it good. From the chairmen of various committees they learned Phat during the last seven years cash payments totaling $12,- 000,000,000 have been made to the holders of life insurance policies and that Americans now are carrying 110 BILLIONS fin life insurance, the largest amount in history. There are 4,000,000 policyholders and the average policy is slightly more than $1,700, Of the total insurance $5,300,000,000 was written $his year. Three and one-half million persons derive their livelihood from this great business. They are the employes, agents and their families. Of the huge assets held by these companies, 26.2 per pent are in bonds of the United States and its political sub- givisions and of some foreign countries, notably Canada. And the business is getting better. According to one ppeaker the mortality record shows 57,000 lives saved in 1937 as compared with 1936, Younger persons may not compare favorably with their piders in intelligence—a thesis frequently advanced by those {with gray hair—but they are healthier. One of the nation’s experts comments that “One would expect an increasing mortality (because of the higher average age of policy holders) junior senator from New York, Robert FP. Wagner and not Copeland, was meant. has already been on a vote-getting expedition,” pointed out Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana in what was an especially mean dig, consider- ing the walloping which Copeland took in both ‘the Republican and Democratic mayoralty primaries in New York. But the really extraordinary thing about Minton’s crack is to be found in the fact that Minton is the sen- ete’s assistant Democratic whip. Actu- ally he is the real whip, since the ti- tle of whip is held by the venerable J. Ham Lewis of Mlinois. One of a whip's jobs—or an assist- ant whip's—is to go around trying to make everybody happy and one of the ways not to make Senator Cope- land happy is to remind him of those primaries. Of course Senator Cope- lend doesn’t make Senator Minton happy, since he is a violently anti- New Deal Democrat. Just the same, “The senior senator from New York} , a whip is a whip. es * * Cherry Tree ‘Rass’ One hates to see the ladies of con- gress mixing into anything that sug- put what I believe is happening is that there is tmprovement among the younger adult ages more than sufficient to offset the inevitable rise in the older ages.” These are glad tidings. It means that, eventually, life {nsurance premium rates will go down, as they have continued to do for half a century. It also means that the insurance companies will continue to prosper since their patrons will live _ longer and hence pay longer for most types of policies, angels sordid political world. been physical encounters between members—and many threats of them —but a hair-pulling match between two congresswomen is almost unim- The whole record, as disclosed in numerous detailed reports, | sginabie. ‘ ; ‘There excite- is one of the most amazing things in the annals’of the human Hokegld Fees’ Pre epee 2 race. It proves in cold, hard figures that new ideas can be | assimilated by society. One hundred-yeats sgo insurance was ' for the few. The number of persons who recognized its value : was limited. Those who believed in insurance were laughed at f as visionary. . Today, insurance is for everyone. The serious-minded husband and father carries all the insurance he feels he can afford. Those who laughed have died, probably without protection for their dependents, and those who believed are among those who received the $12,000,000,000 paid out to policyholders during the last seven years. Alabama jumped into the anti-lynch- ing debate, because of the rough fighting words and her delivery was 80 good that many listeners com- mented on it. bad about Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes of Indiana and Congress- woman Nan Lee Honeyman of Ore- gon. Mrs. Honeyman seems to stand Guilty of giving Mrs. Jenckes and one of her pet ideas the rasz. Congresswoman Jenckes has just started a one-woman campaign for uprooting the famous Japanese cherry trees around Washington's Tidal lf The explanation most often heard is that county organi- | zations were set up when travel was difficult and that the com- | ing of the automobile has made larger political districts logical. | In fact, all kinds of arguments are made for it and no | one even takes the trouble to argue against it, yet NOTHING! genstorial courtesy” isn’t the grand f, EVER IS DONE ABOUT IT. on fe Politicians are afraid to advocate such action strongly and q the average citizen is more concerned by more intimate and 7 4 has dropped out the window. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN pressing affairs. Still, something CAN be done about it if the people wish. In its current issue the North Dakota Taxpayer, organ of the Taxpayers’ association, points out that certain small counties in Tennessee have been consolidated to save the taxpayers \ money. New York also has made intensive studies of the cost of i county government and now has laws permitting counties to take their choice of a number of different forms of organization. Among them are the County Manager plan, the County Presi- dent plan, the Council-Manager plan and the Council-President plan. Courage Ralph: If I attempted to kiss you, what would you do? Lorraine: I never meet an emerg- ency until it arises, Ralph: But if it should arise? Lorraine: I'd meet it face to face. Other experiments are going forward elsewhere. North Dakota has a law permitting the consolidation of counties but it remains unused. The difficulties of putting it into effect are too great to be faced by a disinterested citizenry. Summer Joke Railroad Buying ‘Thelma: I spent last winter in What industrial prosperity means to the country was out-| ~ "Jerome: Berne? lined the other day by Ralph Budd, president of the Burlington railroad, in testimony before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. Arguing for higher freight rates, Budd said the nation’s railroads might well spend $900,000,000 a year for the next several years if their credit were strengthened by adequate earnings. neck and neck when I Getting down to cases, he listed probable purchases as = 3 Not follows: olen phenyl What is q 100,000 new freight cars a year .-$300,000,000. icing ls work, 1.3 2,000 new locomotives a year 300,000,000 Pace eeadb al iy 1 Other improvements to plant ... 300,000,000 | to tell' me this tables work? a 3 And when those items were installed the railroads could) ®' Se. make substantial savings in operating costs by reason of su- perior equipment. It is now possible to make freight cars which will weigh Jess but will carry more than old designs. This alone would eventually result in a saving of $125,000,000 a year in operat- ing costs, for the railroads have to pay: for 500 BILLION ton miles of transportation a year in moving freight cars alone, to say nothing of their contents. The orders which prosperous railroads could place would mean prosperity to many industries—and increased buying power for those who purchase the products of the farm. EEed Sheds gests @ personal squabble, since it is Nevertheless, it does seem to be too Ls NOTE Guy Bs ‘WORDS AND DEEDS Quoting Mr. Roosevelt against him- self has been one of the great Ameri- cen diversions for more than four — | —two things to which there is gen- eral accord in attributing the collapse of prosperity. Not only were the public and pri- vate words of the President indicative of his decision to remove these handi- County Consolidations wood. Mrs. Jenckes doesn't think|cars to business but the conclud One of the suggestions which has been knocking around Hah ot Japan, aa Saree of message, For i in North Dakota for a number of years is that certain counties| ioe wow onsen tele ty wnt vay ond Geib etehond should be consolidated, thereby reducing the cost to the tax-|Jenckes, seemed to just about put the} mean he want once. Bu kibosh on her Indiana sister's idea|does he follow through with action payer. when asked for comment. She said|himself along these lines? He does 3 Instead, we find him using the curb the é mediat exerting session to con- of the original administra. program, the principal features of which, if enacted, helping regain Be good | impose additional burdens and re- tion, which adds to the gravity of un- it and is alarming in other is a far greater fom fiea on THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937 ° 3 THIS IS JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW THAT CAN SNEAK UP ON YOU IF YOU DON'T START NOW TO Yenrs Connnce-= S-=-=-25 E----! The Great Game of POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sen bill, concerning which among farmers, there is even more discord and dis- sension. There exists no real public sentiment for these proposals, each of which is mixed with propagan and politics, and both of which will ‘add to the cost and confusion of gov- ernment. On the other hand, the seri- ous nature of the business slump Geeply concerns every man, woman ‘and child in the country and the de- sire for remedial action to check it is general. In face of this condition, and holding the convictions on the subject he has expressed, the President's na- tural course would seem to be to give recovery right of way over reform sud urge congress to relieve business before it enacted any other class legis- lation, however desirable and no mat- ter how much committed—particu- larly as that is what congress would like to do, Instead, his plan is to postpone any tax revision until the regular session next year and devote himself entirely to driving through the work-and-hour bill and the new AAA, both of which business views with alarm. One would think the gravity of the present situ- ation would convince a man in Mr. Roosevelt's position that this is not the time for delay, that reforms could | in more safely wait than relief, that by the time he gets around to relieving business there may be very little busi- ness to relieve. But, apparently that. involves too much of a reversal for the President to contemplate, too cleat an admission of mistakes, too great a te | sacrifice of pride. So, putting aside the immedia\ matter of te business relief, in a recent.speech he directs another hostile thrust et the supreme court ‘and resurrects George Wi Washington as believing that cultiva- tion of the soil grows more and more a object of. public patronage, “Insti- tutions for promoting it,” wrote Wash- ington, “grow up supported by the public purse: and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propri- ety?” ida} and Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer questions ing to health but not dis ease or diagnosis. Write letters brief! in ink. Address Dr. Brad: in of The Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by a stamped, ressed envelope. NUTRITION AND OTOSCLEROSIS Otosclerosis a growth of spongy bone in and about the hammer, anvil and lucing progressive deafness which first de- the individual has attained adult age. The condition tuns in f on extensive statistics the following advice has been re ear SES tus ep Ot area a Inder circumstances exceedingly dangerous to marry a blood relative, no matter whether the relative is deaf or hearing, nor whether the deafness of either or both or neither of the partners is congenital, nor ers sa either or both or neither have other deaf relatives besides the other That advice applies as well in respect to deaf-mutism as to otosclerosis. Either oot ee Day be rece, Lee adler Not manifest in some of the or deaf-mute parent, still be passed down in dominant Sse piel or wires inci sin far I have given the prevailing scientific view of otosclerosis or pro- ane deafnéss. There is no absolute proof that it is inherited, but just a ‘lief based on the frequent occurrence of the condition in two or more gener- ations of the family. Now this may be perfectly sound reasoning so.far as Geaf-mutism is concerned. But when you apply it to otosclerosis it seems ‘are frail, for it fails to account for the first thirty or forty years of normal iH aring, in the history one ot pee cases of otosclerosis. It raises the juéstion whether some nutritional deficlency may not be the essential fs > A EEE en _“ al one- cases of otosclerosis, along with the slowly in- deafness, patients complain of vertigo or dizziness and of tinnitus or head noises. There is no inflammation or infection of the ear. The best, otolo- gists hold that the less local treatment of the ears the better. of course, this does not mean that patients may not use whatever devices they prefer. Some victims of otosclerosis have apparently experienced considerable improvement from an optimal daily ration of the apocryphal vitamin A, in od liver oll or other fish liver oil, or in such natural foods as raw fresh milk, cream, butter, egg yolk, carrots, watercress, escarole, oranges, bananas, liver, etc. I say apocryphal, because that’s what I believe about vitamin A. In my of the effects attributed to the apocryphal vitamin A may in bed to the real vitamin D (which was formerly confused with A and named vitamin A). Not that the apocryphal vitamin can do any harm, but if I had otosclerosis I wouldn’t fash myself at all about it; instead I'd make sure to get about 6,000 to 10,000 units of vitamin D daily, to promote normal calcium and phosphorus metabolism. Likewise, and for a similar If you don't know, sends stamped envelope Rearing your adcvens, rst Tit noel A asi envelope ir address, and 1’'ll your instructions for taking an iodin ration. a cca QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Dampness ‘This time of year it seems children are worse than at any other time about rene beagll opie twe ‘ee aed ae and ee nie 4—would go for weeks in summer ting, cold weather sent Gn BE a a ey wet nearly every Answer—Gend stamped envel bearing your address, a Bedevetling® lope ie ‘ess, for monograph Multiple Neuritis Son confined to bed and unable to use his limbs, from alcohol neuritis, three months standing. (Mrs. W. W. 8.) bout and taking little or no food) is the cause of alcoholic neuritis. Wheat germ richest food source of vitamin B. Brewer's yeast dried is still richer Peanut Butter food value of peanut butter. Also is there any harm By FRANK R. KENT A 4 i £5 E g g § 3 : E j z * ‘This is not a new depres it Because she can make fudge-| another decline in the od one’ thet has been with us since 1929.—Col. Leonard P. Ayres, economist. I. xk * I note that the countries that war ate artiste.—Sir ish actor, giving advice of young sociers * ‘The basic need today is to foster the full application of the driving force of private capital—Secretary of baat ieriar aaa An essential factor for success in any endeavor to bring about s settle- ment is the cb-operation of the Unit- to a group ‘The government should be empow- ered to draft women as well as men in time of war—Mrs. Dixie Graves, U. 8. senator from Alabama. ** ae, called me a “naked she-male,” =) recount her exper- fence when held up by bandit = QUIT CACKLIN'! DO YOU WANT To. SIT ALONE HERE WHILE I’M GONE FOR HOURS? WELL, STOP YAWPIN'! EARS! 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