The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1937, Page 4

An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper daily except Sunday by The and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer ' chie O, Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Sond and Gen'l. Manager Secretary and Editer merck, N. matter. 5 gal ag gE Ee year (in state outside orth Dakote Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitied to the use for republica- tion of the news 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 el] other matter herein aro also reserved. Need Business Statesmanship Both the leaders of American business and the leaders of the government seem to have forgotten that what the Ameri- can people want is an economic system which will insure free- dom of enterprise, the liberty which business needs to do its work and—at the same time—the social security represented by a job for everyone and a smooth-running machine which will put the nation’s production into the hands of its customers. In fighting each other they seem to have forgotten that the people are free to make a choice and that they are quite as likely to support one idea as the other. All of which puts business on the spot. The recession is getting worse instead of better and the urge to new spending rises in Washington. The only thing heard from business to date is the plea that the government take off all restrictions and leave it alone. Which group is right in its attitude is beside the point now. ‘The practical thing to do is search for common ground and get together. And in this business should take the lead. A new era of spending means still heavier public debt, a long step nearer inflation of the currency and a general debacle in which busi- ness would lose practically everything. Business can do the job of putting this country on its feet better than any other agency, but it must show a will to take the steps necessary. An attitude of “let us alone and all| tori will be well” is not enough. The simple fact is that the people will not wait as they used to do. Government has had plenty of statesmanship, good, bad and indifferent. Business has had none at all, What the nation needs just now is one outstanding business statesman who could set the pace and induce others to follow him. One-Man Crime Picture Whenever it wants a missing criminal, the Federal Bureau of Identification sends out posters, asking for his arrest. These usually contain pictures of the culprit; if available, a description of him and his finger prints, if the latter are on file. In another and wholly different department, the bureau keeps records on the trend.of crime in America and, from time to time, issues statistics showing the average age of the fed- eral offender. Put the work of these two departments together and we have the case of Harold Zack Thompson wanted ag the result of grand jury indictments in Texas, Pennsylvania, South Caro- lina, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Alabama and Florida. He is 31 years old and has 48 listed aliases, or names other than his own, by which he sometimes is known. His specialty is posing as a federal employe and passing bad checks. Sometimes he presents himself as the winner of a prize offered by a news- paper or publishing house. Mr. Thompson is not the “dangerous” type of criminal— now. He is a smooth worker—and very old at the business at the age of 31. What he will be 10 or 20 years from now, provided he remains free, is a question. One thing is sure. He hasn't learned to.work and will continue at some skin game as long as he lives. ' He is a one-man picture of America’s major crime problem, cal begins with youth and ends with loss to the honest Everywhere the Same Data compiled by the National Industrial Conference board show that world industrial production dropped sharply in November for the second consecutive month and that un- employment and distress have followed as # matter of course. ___ In England, which in recent years has been doing well, the increase in unemployment during the last three months has totaled 190,000. World trade for September was less than half of the gold value of the 1929 average but 21.6 per cent above the preceding September and 14.5 per cent above last January. Preliminary reports for October indicate a further increase in world trade despite the fact that falling commodity prices have cut the pur- chasing power of countries producing raw materials, particu- larly the nations of South America. Sugar, rubber, copper and tin have led this decline. The fact that industrial production drops at the same time world trade increases would seem to indicate that there are commercial dams existing within all nations which keep the| ** people from taking advantage of the capacity to produce. Finding those dams and breaking them-would seem to be one of the major tasks facing every nation, our own included. The Old Helps the New : It is interesting to see how very old and very new methods of ocean travel are joining hands in Pan-American Airways’ venture in the Pacific. Pan-American has reconditioned an old four-masted schooner to carry supplies to various island bases. Although equipped with auxiliary Diesel engines, this ship depends on the wind for most of her motive power; her officers thus hark back to old clipper ship days, when a ship captain spent much _of his time studying upper air currents and trying to forecast the weather on which the speed of his voyage depended. Which, in a way, is precisely what the pilots of Pan-Amer-| mobiles ican’s planes have todo, Like the old-timers, they have to watch the weather far more closely than do steamship skippers; and it is somehow fitting that Pan-American should be using an old-time windjammer, which follows the same rules, as an auxiliary surface ship. ISTAGE DOOR JOHNNY DAYS MOURNED WHERE CLUB MONEY GOES How do Christmas club members spend their money? That was a question recently asked the First National Bank and Trust company of Bismarck. . R. H, Barry, assistant cashier, circularized 100 club depositors and pre- pared the following tabulation on the basis of 61 replies: ChHistmas purchases ++ 32.66% Permanent ILE ‘Taxes .... 241% Year-end bi . 895% Mortgage interest Ae Ensurance premiums Education, travel, charity Unable to classify Barry also learned that only 24%% of have regular savings accounts with the bank. ee ewe +» 483% the Christmas club depositors MODEST FELLOW . Dr. O. C. Gaebe of New Salem was elected president of the district medi- cal society this week. The Tribune wrote him for a photograph and a biog- raphy of himself. This is what The Tribune received in reply: Dear Sir:—I graduated from the University of Southern California Medi- cal college in 1905 and have been located in New Salem since 1910. I have no recent photograph of myself and so can’t furnish one. ‘Yours truly, O. C. GAEBE. eoeeae REX V. KING’S CORNER: A Bismarck attorney tells this one. He was called in tq defend a bum check artist. His client told him his story and concluded by saying, “I don’t know what your politics are Mr. Jones, but I am a standpat Republican.” Which reminded Rex that @ year or 20 ago there was @ “lion” the prairies around here. That same lion—or one like it—has recently been roaming around Rockford, Ill. Rex opines the “lion is the same old Republican looking for a friend. He ought to look up Judge Bonny, I'll bet-he would take him in.” eee ee GETS THE LAST WORD Rex states we can tell all of our feminine readers that he always gets in the last word when he argues with the queen. Rex always says, “Yes, Shadi redoet iy eevee VIRTUE'S OWN REWARD ; King’s queen has informed him that ahe no longer retains memberahip in any women’s societies because they keep her up late listening to all the dirt about every man, woman and child in Bismarck. Further, she told Rex she always had to stay till the last because she feared that if she left early they would begin talking about her. eee ee BOYCOTTING JAPANESE? 8 Don’t ask Rex how he knows, but he states that Bismarck women are beginning to purchase lisle hose and rayon underwear. Two merchants told Rex they have increased their cotton orders and decreased their silk orders. Rex sees this trend of trade as having two specific results. One is that it will cut down Japanese revenues, and the other is that it will help keep the price of American-grown cotton up. Further, states Rex, if every family would eat another loaf of bread a week it would help keep up the price of wheat. eevee + Rex writes he recently saw one of the musical comedy plays which re- minded him of bygone years when road shows used to play in the city audi- jum. “After the show I would go around to the stage door and pick up a chorus girl or two and had very nice times with them until their train left. “after the show the other night I went around to the back entrance of the showhouse but I couldn’t get the door open.” see ale DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY Rex submitted the following statistical report under the title, “Dates in American History as Shown by the Bismarck Telephone Directory”: 1492—Columbus discovered America .. 1607—First Settlement, Jamestown, Va. 1621—First Thanksgiving Day . 1732—Washington’s Birthday .... 1776—Declaration of Independenct 1187—Constitution adopted 1812—War of 1812 Day 1937—Year just closing .. MINOT WOMAN WAS BALLERINA Girlhood days in Russia were recalled to Mrs. W. T. (Olga Usova) Hiatt of Minot when the Ballet Russe played there. Trained by the father of the famous Nijinsky, the Minot woman was with a circus ballet as dancer and trapeze artist from the time she was eight until she was 25. Mr. Hiatt is chief dispatcher for the Great Northern at Minot. Their daughter, Lola, 18, has inherited her mother’s grace. eee ee Ee FLAX QUEEN Regina Shoults lived up not only to her name but also Regina has been interested in seed since she was 10 years old. eeeee MAN BITES DOG 2 these days of cocktail lounges and new-fangied liq bars, it was He is his editorial career had ¢: remembered. Gall it in Montana one and leggings, wad snow to replace Diehl form. “I saw his and in ing, STAY AS SWEET sample pondered the problem, Supt. H. O. Saxvik work with paper and The next morning other packages, Christmas-' 8 box of the deodorant. Office.” NEW INVENTION One of our Dickinson correspondents writes that a former man may have a leading part in the marketing of s new motor for suto- ‘W. A. Cooper, sailor aboard the D. A. Whitman, another sailor, formerly of Dickinson and now a marine blueprints, The inventors claim their motor, the ulation sise eight-cylinder | $3) head lake, north of Jamestown is re- rr will be returned to the wri tters MUST be seoee If you wish jeudonym, sign the don: your own name e reserve the right to delete part of letters ae may be necessary to con- form to this policy and to require pub- Heation of a writer's name where justice and fair play meke {t advisable, tters must be limited to 600 words, HISTORY OF THE LAND Braddock, N. D., Dec. 12, 1937. Editor, Tribune: T noticed early in the winter older Indians across the river were predict- ing heavy snows, while our meteorol- ogist claims the remainder of the win- ter will be mild. A winter could be mild and considerable snowfall, but generally a mild winter has little snow, I din’t bother much about the winter weather, it is the summer that is important to the farmers. Last winter was quite severe and the snow- plows kept busy on the state highways, pictures of the plows nearly aes ges ‘We came to Dakota Territory in|years 1882, The first four years were fair- Lagi on debts a ill early settlers left their farms, Small |itriga' town papers-carried sold pages of real|made observations estate mortgage foreclosures and |from one to another f reaped a rich harvest, only to suspend |complained that such later from lack of patronage. Banks | expensive closed, meronants | re bogged aes up the towns were jeserted., je | 0 @ trip to the county seat and was sur- af ub te ay Ce a prised to find such a large number of vacant business buildings, Ghost} western part of the state, towns. The southwest quarter of the |own irrigation system and bunch township we lived in had but one set-|dairy cows tler left, and most of the deserted . Irrigation along the farm buildings were either burnt|toms in this state will also meet down by prairies fires or moved away | Obstacles, hail and rust and I recall I sold No, 1 wheat at 44c |the same as on per bushel those days. But still some;pers might be controlled but before it will be ent 28 : iH 8 HH 383 s Li of us stuck to the farm and better /ever the river fH H a ERE. i i i Fei be See : za g il Eee 25 2°t i Hs HU i E . That & F last autumn there was little moisture for the surface and with the subsoil | 1002 and dry all summer it indicates little} “Hugh” knows, did promise of a crop next summer. But| me with his father’s machine, ‘Well, I am satisfied that our coun- summer because’ the rainfall last| try will not turn into s desert, if we autumn moved further westward than | don’t assist it to do so. I have changed usual. The sort of a crop we are to| my course in farming and I am going expect does depend @ lot on the rain-| to try my new style, before I shall fall the latter part of the summer,| give up. but we want it right here in the dry| Well, “Hugh” give us some more, belt, not somewhere near it, Arrow- oe sae ported completely dry. for the first time since 1883, It is a widening of the James river, about five miles long yearly dam- and is only 90 miles. from the Red} age done by insects at about river, That is not an encouraging] $2,000,000,000. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates the BIDDING DEFEATS ITSELF Holdings So Clearly Revealed in Try for a Slam That Defense Is Tipped Off to Proper Lead have been content to let the hand play at six clubs, which is easily In general, a four-four trump suit is the most desirable distribution, and this hand is no exception. In the play, when East got in with the ace of trumps he led second club, gave his parener aul, and the crease ae Adverse bidding had been so accur- ste that the hand defeated itself. At On the North and South bidding, enactment that the subsoll mois-/ to titteen degrees the differential between the Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Tet Wittetledters brisuy and incinke, Addre Nika. be accompanied a 80 YOU DON’T LIKE OUR WEATHER News item tells of i of an ordinance in Cincinnati, “limiting temperatures ditloned building and the temperature outside.” At last somebody is doing something sbout the weather. The term “differential” in this item should not bother you—it means difference, but sounds more acientific. The Cin- cinnati ordinance was enacted in the summer time and can no doubt be amended if winter comes. ; In the summer time throughout the south and the east where heat and humidity cause discomfort and distress, tending to injure health and lower efficiency, air-conditioning is as desirable in homes, offices, stores,” churches and theaters as it is on transcontinental trains and in passenger ships plying southern waters. Such equipment built in or installed filters, circulates and humidities too dry air or dries too damp air, and s0 con- tributes to the comfort, health and efficiency of occupants or patrons. In- cidentally it keeps rugs, draperies and upholstery clean—by removing ex- cess of dust—and saves furniture from shrinking and falling apart. » In the winter time air-conditioning is still more important for its well : recognized prophylactic value against cri. Oh, pardon me, but “Call It Cri” is the name of a bookket in the Little Lessons series, which tells you how to prevent common respiratory infections—‘“colds” to scoundrels who like to spread ‘em—and sets you back ten cerfts coin and a stamped en’ ing your address. Air-conditioning in the winter-time not only has this prophylactic value but operates as a guardian or regulator of fuel consump- tion, It uniformly lowers the fuel bill. 14 In any building, house or room artifically heated by whatever method, 4 is both advisable and practical to condition the sir at least to the extent of evaporating @ few gallons of water every day, for the purpose of prevent- ing the evi] effects of the extreme dryness of winter air when so warmed Rosenau (Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Appleton, New York, 1927) ait in winter at zero temperature and 50 per cent relative humidity, when heated up to 70 degrees will have only 3 per cent relative the air of the driest climate known. Average ‘alley, California, is 23 per cent, and has been found as low as 9 per cent in the Libyan desert. Relative humidity is the ratio the amount of moisture in the air bears to the amount the air can hold , at the given temperature when saturated. For the air of dwellings, rooms,‘ shops of any artificially heated shelters relative humidity of 50 per cent or higher is generally most comfortable, and in such atmosphere one feels fit and can work efficiently. In order to maintain a reasonable degree of hu- midity in the artificially heated atmosphere it is necessary to evaporate at least a gallon or two of water a day for each average size bedroom, offiee or living room. I have @ monograph on this, if you will provide a stamped addressed envelope, QUESTIOS AND ANSWERS Swing Any benefit to be derived from swinging on » bar. I am not yet able to chin the quien, Pas spiaven dit 8) HOvEWeY, Where it de ernyeniant tee bar. I (Mrs, W. J, W.) 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