The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1937, Page 6

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 193? 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- @arck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mall mmatter. : Mrs, Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Kenneth W. Simons Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres and Gen'L Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per yea: (in Bismarck) Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck). Daily by mai) outside of North Dake Weekly by mail in state, per year . Weekly by mai) outside of North Dal Weekly by mai) in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republica- tlon of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Newspaper and also the local news of spontaneuus origin published herein. All rights of republication of al! other matter herein are aiso reserved. Wasted Life Worse Than Wasted Money Every once in a while the erratic progress of city life turns up someone'like that aged recluse who died in New York the | other day, his apparent poverty contradicted by bank accounts | totaling $92,000. This man was 80 years old and for 16 years he had lived alone in a $10-a-week hall bedroom. He had no friends, no relatives and no evident pleasures; to all appearances he was simply an old drifter who had just enough money to cling to his obscure little niche and drowse away his remaining years. But when he died, people began to find out things about him. They found out that he was rich—rich, at any rate, by comparison with his penny-pinched surroundings. He had a past, of some kind; his rooms contained the sort of books that are read only by persons of culture and education, and appar- ently he had at one time been an active business man whose recreation was big game hunting in the far-off parts of the| world. There have been a good many people like that; aging misers who lived timorously and doled out their pennies, fearfully, | mand Scenes Washington Roosevelt's Cost Reduction Comes First. By RODNEY DUTCHER Washington Correspondent) 5 Opi j= pears to vary as to how much of the potential 16 billion dollar housing boom suggested by Roosevelt actually can be realized. The problem of reducing building material and labor costs, which the President will tackle in promised con- ferences with industry, labor and fi- nance, and which he‘says must be met if the proposed boom is to succeed, is very far from solved. The effectiveness of proposed changes in the Federal Housing ad- ministration law, although calculated to make housing investment slightly more attractive, also is questioned. The administration hasn’t yet made up {ts mind whether to seek to use capital gains tax exemptions, and tax- ation of income from tax exempt bonds, as a means of pushing money into the housing market. Some experts believe that early next year the pressure of insurance com- pany and mutual savings bank funds yearning for investment will begin to flood into the housing field, regard- less of administration moves. Others suspect that the ‘strike of capital” will balk the Roosevelt effort until the administration makes vari- ous concessions to Wall Street or finally defies reluctant private capital and undertakes to launch a huge house-building program of its own. * ek OK Consumer Market in Doubt Finally, there appears to be much doubt as to just how large a con- sumer market there is for new hous- ing and just how much potential buyers or renters can afford to pay. After the President's message peared, the National Housing mittee decided to postpone publica- tion of its report on the available market for dwellings, The report will show that the num- ber of families which can afford to pay $50 a month for rent is now about a third gs large as the number denying themselves the comforts their money could buy them and carefully hoarding useless dollars in bank and strong box. |in 1929, when it was figured at about They always leave us perplexed, and vaguely irritated. Their |7,000,000 non-farm families, (Roughly, lives seem so pointless, their desperate frugality so wasted. | {iayy' ony’ Sant of anout $90. @ month Yet the real puzzle in this particular case goes deeper. on a house costing an average of This old chap wasted that $90,000 hoard of his just as truly shout. gone will show that 83 per as if he had played ducks and drakes with it like the youth in |cent of all dwelling units built in the the fairy tale. Yet a waste of money is not, after all, one of Peay reaterialivana aba Lalsacie| the principal crimes; if a man happens to have ascetic tastes |less than at present, cost $5,000 or and wants nothing that his money can buy him, living like a |More. (Roos gs Piigncd a rari miser is only a minor eccentricity. boom which the administration hopes His real riddle lies in the old gentleman’s retirement from |! sppear erent vy depression.) life. It is what he ae his last 16 years, rather than what penerteee | in Low-Cost Homes he did with his concealed wealth, that constitutes the mystery. ie CO "s survey Some of us may be a little confused about what happens ee eee sree peageba ota after we quit this world, but we are all tolerably certain that |siderable shortage in the range rent- we have but one life to live here, and that it behooves us to ating cay yeigeengias invest it in the best way possible. There is no return any richer |!ng from §20 to $30 a month, than the return one year of a well-invested life can give. Its Pboesrarrinen meiner ee valnes cannot be expressed in terms of cash, for they are beyond |stration and its hopes, they. certainly money and beyond price. ; pas ritarricraveny ys ae dine They come like insignificant things—friendships, loves, |new dwellings must be driven well the little unrecorded human contacts that drive away life’s Belew present serais At ary, lenpoctens unbearable loneliness, the chances to do things for others, the | ney National Houring pace comradeship that gives one a feeling of being part of an infinite |. Which Monsignor and splendid progression. We pay for them by taking our i abr leader and Stoeee. ‘ote: chances in the hurly-burly of life—and though the cost is often | #0"! Prominence. Its survey o! | they are si ni the price. cenmltaion with nba Baers e man who turns his back on all of this presents the |* econo! statisticians deepest of all mysteries, m severe ane neuer : Findings indicate that, the middle- Hothouse Opera income groups which buy average, A few years ago, in the depths of the depression, tere was reteset pega ee + a big campaign to “save grand opera” in New York. One and |ately, 4s the higher income groups all were invited to contribute to a fund to keep this most expen- BAe ye ae was found that sive of musical ventures from collapse; one and all did con-|126 per cent of American non-farm tribute, and the Metropolitan was saved. : Harmerotnipstigr peep ecrgenes fed Ase Comes now a news account of the opening of the current group in 1935. (The average annual Met season. It has practically nothing to say about the excel- Jence of the musical fare presented; instead it is concerned al- |creased 35 per cent from 1933 to 1036, erecocccccccccccccocs | Wings Over Washington Hoped-for Housing By RUTH MILLETT Every young woman in the world ought to be made to study a picture of the face of some old woman who of age, snatched from her in a war- ravaged country. An old woman trem- bling with fear and sick with hope- lessness, Too old to hope for the world to right itself. An old woman whose eyes ask only one question: “Why?” For one of the answers lies in the foolish, romantic hearts of these young women, Silly women whose hearts respond to martial music and whose pride is satisfied by seeing the men they love in uniform. Oh yes, they cry when men go to war. But they even enjoy the tears, ‘They see themselves as actresses play- ing a “teary” role. ve People’s Forum Editor's Note—The Tribune wel- in subjects of inter est. ing with contro- versia! reil aubject hich attack Individuais which offend good play will be returne Letters to use a pseudonym, pseudonym first and your @ beneath it. We resérve fight to delete such parte of ers as mey be necessary to form to this pele and to re- re publicati of a writer's ‘here justice and fair play advisable. Letters must be limited to 600 words, ORDER GROCERIES EARLY WPA wage of $750 was a factor here.) |Ted And while the national income in-| most exclusively with the gaudy “society” crowd that was there, |‘#milies in the $50-a-week group in- | Pears with Mrs. Vanderbilt and her grand entrance, with what was ae ining espns think that called “a glittering assemblage of international society” which |7#sing the insurable limit on FHA used the occasion as a chance for self-advertisement. ae shippers ‘One And this, clearly, is the sort of thing that keeps grand opera |Teason 4s that this raises the from paying its way in America. Until it is utterly divorced ees, ae ai ‘ one per cent from its high-society atmosphere and presented for what it is, rate, Size ot the monthly payment, worthwhile entertainment, it will continue to be a hothouse pire Peper prey cacoeee tele which the man in the street will pass up in favor of | (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc) the movies, Rr ee BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN Az {8 RELISHED 8Y THE BEST OF MEN Crusade Against Death A conference highly important to the well-being of the nation is the one which Katharine F. Lenroot, chief of the Chil- dren’s Bureau of the Department of Labor, has summoned to meet in Washington on Jan. 17 and 18, This conference is called to discuss ways and means of re- Germany's hoof and mouth disease epidemic has spread to Westphalia. Could this be nature's response to the goose-step and war speeches? ducing. America’s distressingly high maternal death rate. De- spite our high level of civilization, we have a maternal death rate which is shockingly high in comparison with rates for European countries. Last year 147,677 lives were lost from this cause; and medical men estimate that from half to three- fourths of these deaths could and should have been prevented. | ing. It is perfectly possible to reduce this disgraceful and tragic «toll; Miss Lenroot’s conference should help to focus our atten- tion on the ways in which it can be done. Receding Traffic Toll Records of the National Safety Council indicate that auto- mobile-drivers are at last beginning to get a little bit more care- ful—but the improvement is so slight that it is hard to get very enthusiastic about it. _ In the first 10 months of this year, for instance, 31,950 people were killed in traffic accidents. The record for the first 10 mionths of 1936 showed a loss of life of 29,560. There was, ‘ecordingly, an increase of 8 per cent in the number of fatalities. | This, however, is offset by the fact that there was an in- erease of 9 per cent in auto traffic. In proportion to the num- ber oe on the road, then, we killed fewer people this year + But the gain is pathetically small. Unless we can speed up our improvement, it will be the year 2000 A. D. before the is visible to the naked eye. ° Tenant — It’s pretty cold tonight. Don’t you think you should put some alcohol in the radiators in my apart- ment? Janitor—Why do you want me to’ put alcohol in your radiators? Tenant—To keep them from frees- Pilcher—All men are born equal. Peebles — Yes, it’s what they are born equal to that makes the differ- BARBS ! o A pessimist says the whole fabric of our economic system has been wrecked by conspiracy. Never ways be reconstructed izal lawyer. fear; it can al- by @ good crim- eee A Detroit sanatorium promising a drink cure in three days, overlooked s Promotional angle by not throwing in the day after free. -_* * Laces don’t show on the modern football. With talk about commer- clalism, coaches figured their boys Contour and strip-cropping control finds support on the gridiron. SEgEES | ad auarnafi think? has had everything, even the dignity | W. ‘Women Glory in War They act the way they have always| enlist if women took a different at- wanted to act, and call the war re-! titude toward the men who “join up”? sponsible. If instead of making heroes of them, Fe cole SOMES SEO Ean women said: “All right, be a moron soldier far away in a trench is carry- ing her picture next to his heart. Ki B Something sa in s woman's| never get it, But young women look- heart geta a thrill out of war stories.| ing with scorn on men in uniform There sre mothers, even, who are| Could do something. Proud to send their sons to war and (horrifying thought!) to death. Glad of a chance to be the mother of a ne eed Women of yesterday, today and to- ‘Yes, women are greatly to blame for| morrow glory in war. war. How eager would men be t0/ (Copyright, 1987, NEA Service, Inc.) service system and ® spolls system, - ~ if the former be a real one, is that un- der the civil service SAY service system—aga! one—is the best way to get it. SAY BEIGH. _ McKemney on Bridge GIVES UP LEAD TO WIN Opening Lead Is Indication That Defender Lacks Cards in Suit Bid by His Partner — By WILLIAM £. McKENNEY (Secretary, American Contract Bridge League) : When a defending player bids one jace of trumps, and found that he must suit, his partner bids another, and the |}0se a trick to West's queen. opening lead is made in an unbiddable suit, the inferénce is usually sound Qoeeococccccoo. Your Personal Health William Brady, M. D. 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