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The Washington times., 1932-07-13
Cant Aid Americans?
Then No Aid to Europe.

1t is now announced that
Mr.. Hoover is prepared to
consider Europe's "capacity
to pay"
He knows that if she cuts
her war budgets she will
have the capacity 20 pay her
debts to us.
He knows that if France,
for example, taxes her own
people as we are taxing our
own, she will have the
capacity to pay.
And he himself has but
recently made a statement
which shows that he knows
we do not have the capacity
to pay the cost of the war
we did not will, and did not
bring about.
In his conference with
Speaker Garner and others,
in which he was fighting an
adequate relief measure for
the American people, Mr..
The Washington times., 1932-07-13

IL. ELSIE ROBINSON
"You say that day-dreaming
is a sort of death, and that day
dreamers are half ghosts" she
writes. "You say that every
time we evade reality and drift
into day-dreams, we choose to
die. But why shouldn't I evade
reality? I do it all the time,
because I can't bear my monoto-
nous life.
Il go to work every morning
and come home in the evening
and do the same thing over
and over again; go for a walk
with a girl friend, or stay
home. What pleasure can I
find in reality like that? I
never get, the breaks. So, of
course, day-dream of the
things I'd like to do. That's as
near as I'll ever get to them.
Stop Dreaming
Yes, that's as near as you
will ever get to them, little girl,
If you keep on dreaming. But
it isn't as near as you COULD
get to them if you would stop
dreaming and face reality.
What is reality?
You're thinking of it as a
rigid set of circumstances over
which you have no control.
You feel that life has plunked
you down in the midst of pow
erty, monotony, uninteresting
work and tiresome people, and
that there is nothing you can
do about it.
Other people, so you think,
have the breaks. Other people
are born in delightful environ
ments and have charming and
exciting things happen to them;
but Fate loaded the dice against
you, and so you take refuge in
day-dreams.
You day-dream because you
believe that that is your only
chance of happiness. Since you
can never own real castles. you
build yourself castles in Spain.
Is that the way you feel
about it all? Then you feel
wrongly. my dear.
Reality isn't a rigid frame
work from which we can't
escape.
The Washington times., 1932-07-13

rifices mothers make for their
children.
Perhaps too little is said
about what Dad gives up for
his family.
He is willing to work hard
and curtail his own personal
expense.
The world in general does
not give enough credit to the
Dads who love the home folk
well enough to go without in
their behalf.
The only thing children can
do to repay a father for his
self-denials is to extend cour-
teSies and kindness to Dad and
try to make him happier.
He may seem gruff when he
gets a word of appreciation but
he likes it just the same, so
don't forget to show that you
are not ungrateful.
The Washington times., 1932-07-13
Cancellation Again;
The Treasury Inquiry
Bu Claude G.. BOlUerS-

THE drive now is on to
4 convince the American
people that since the allies
of war days in Europe can
not extract anything more
from Germany in the way
of outrageous reparations,
we must protect them from
loss by taking over their
debts and putting them on
the backs of Americans.
We asked no reparatlons
the others did.
We got no reparations-
the others did.
We grabbed no German
colonies or land-the others
did.
And all these things they
got and have, while we got
nothing and generously
asked nothing.
Therefore we must take
over the eleven billions Of
debts of these other nations
or be considered "shylocks. "
The Washington times., 1932-07-13

troubled by ticker-tape. And.
while others are furrowing
their brows over the stock re-
ports. THEY are perusing the
comic shetland laughing.
Go to. They trouble not at
the thought of gangsters and
hold-up men, and fear not to
go home in the dark. For their
treasures are few, and their
"jewels" come from the Five
and-Ten.
HAPPY are the obscure and
the inglorious! For none shall
envy them nor seek to destroy
them. And their days shall be
free from boredom.
Climbers and Snobs and lime
lght-seekers shall not invite
The Washington times., 1932-07-13
Challenge to Garner
Stupid G. o. P. Move

We ere in the lidst of a
grave crisis and the Govern
ment must help. That is the
reason no one objected seri-
ously to the loaninC of vast
sums to banks and railroads.
We understand that at this
time, $1,6O0,OOO,OOO of the
two billion has been loaned.
Just how much of this was
secured by "any old kind Of
security" we do 1lot know;
we have no doubt that some
bad loans were made. OF
course, we are going to lose
money, but, as in war, we
must expect it.
But how stupid Of the act
ing Republican leaders in
the House to ch a llenge
Speaker Garner and the
Democrats to investigate the
Treasury Department at this
time. How did it come
about?
Garner had said that he
was not in favor of an inves-
tigation at this juncture,
lest it further disturb the
country, and Mr.. Michener,
representing Mr.. Smell, in-
vited Or dared him to in
vestigate.
Very WE'LL" said Garner,
IF that is what you want. "
A resolution for such an
investigation was pending at
the time the challenge was
made. And Garner now says:
IF the Republicans still
want the investigation we
will make it. I have suffi-
cient data to show the neces-
sity for an investigation, but
if they will admit it will
alarm the country, we will
drop it. It's for them to
say"
And so Mr.. Ogden Mills
and Eugene Meyer are in
vited before the committee,
which will determine, to say
whether they want an in
vestigation. They are in
vited to reiterate the chal-
lenge of Mr.. Michener. If
they do, there will be an in
vestigation. If they admit it
would have a bad effect, the
investigation now will be
dropped.
1t was rather stupid man.
agement on Mr.. Michener's
part, wasn't it?
All of which brings us to
this point: The state of the
public mind today is not such
as to warrant the old-time
arrogance and defiance from
the Hoover Administration
or from high finance.
The Washington times., 1932-07-13

Hoover is quoted as follows
by Mr.. Garner in a speech
in the House:
II heard him say last
night in reply to my ques-
tion, in which I asked,
DO you believe that the
appropriation Of 1882, 100000
will bring on a panic?' that
he was afraid of it. He
said it might and that it
would be a shock to the
country"
If we cannot afford $332,-
100000 for the relief of
Americans, we have no
capacity to pay the debts Of
Europe reaching into the
billions.
The Washington times., 1932-07-13
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

them to dull parties and they
shall never be called upon to
make after-dinner speeches nor
to pose for flaShlight photo
graphs and snapshots.
Neither shall they strain
their pocketbooks to keep up
with the Joneses, nor squander
their shekels upon glad rags or
their evenings in noisome night
clubs and whoopee palaces.
But a famous man dwelleth
all the days Of his life as a
goldfish in a glass bowl; and
all his spots are plain to the
eyes of the multitude.
Happy are the simple-minded
yea, even the commonplace
and the dumb.
For, they are not tempted to
become columnists! Neither do
they yearn to become play
wrights! Thus may they en-
joy their friends, their dreams,
their laughter and their love-
affairs, without the temptation
to turn them into copy"
Happy are the plain of face
and the homely of countenance.
For they sigh not after sex
appeal and yearn not after
Hollywood. Neither do they
dwell in the fear of middle-age
and avoirdupois. Nor torment
their spirits with banting and
dieting. Nor torture the flesh
in the struggle to acquire a
Sun-tan.
Happy are the unromantic!
For they seek not after the
impossible and sigh not after
new thrills. They have no il
lusions to be shattered and are
not deceived by false alarms.
Behold they can walk in the
moonlight without danger,
make love without fear of
heartacheS, and marry without
fear of a headache.
Then, wherefore shalt thou
envy ANY man or woman, my
Daughter? For, only those
The Washington times., 1932-07-13
ONCE-OVERS
Remember Dad

Remember Dad
Families are often heard to
complain because their older
men folk do not dress better.
They go farther and remind
the men that other men in the
same class are more particular
to look and dress we'll.
Some men are naturally
negligent about their clothes.
But in Dads case it may be
that he is saving to give more
to others.
He deprives himself that
mother and children may ap-
pear well.
His income won't permit all
to be dressed to the scale he
has mapped out for those de-
pendent upon him and so he
gets along with less himself.
Much is said about the sac
The Washington times., 1932-07-13
False Statement
Beclouds Issue.

Mr.. Hoover has vetoed the
relief bill because he is OPP
posed to the use of Federal
money for loans, unless the
money goes to the bankers
and the railroads.
He has set a class aside to
be the privileged-and that
is running true to his phil
osophy.
We are sorry that the
President permitted himself
to be put in the position Of
misrepresenting fact by
Ogden Mills, who wrote his
statement on the Garner
bill. Therein he said that it
provided for loans to private
business enterprises with
any old kind of security.
That is a false statement;
a maliciously false state
ment; for the Garner bill
provides for loans only where
adequate security is given.
The malice in this deliber-
ate misrepresentation raises
the question as to whether
the security Mr.. Hoover has
been getting for the loans to
railroads and banks is
" adequate" in every case.
The Washington times., 1932-07-13

escape from
reality which
weak . souls
took to their
undoing?
How did I
k no W ? Be
cause I had
wasted plenty
of my own
life in the
d op pe of
dreams, and I
know they're
bad medicine.
But Rachel |
won't believe
The Washington times., 1932-07-13
Reparations Have No
Connection With Debts

When our debtors bor-
rowed our money there was
nothing said about repara-
tions. We knew that these
nations could pay their debts
without the reparations. We
know that they can pay
their debts now by trans
ferring an insignificant part
of their expenditures for
war in their budgets to the
debt part Of the budget.
We also know that, aside
from Germany, no country
involved in this debt busi-
ness has less "capacity to
pay" just now than have the
taxpayers of this country.
And we likewise know that
there can be no cancellation;
that there is an honor obli-
cation somewhere that must
be met; that the money we
loaned to Europe, which
Europe wants us to for
give, " we had to borrow
that this money we borrowed
to loan to Europe must be
paid back by us; that if Eu-
rope does not pay us what
she owes us we shall have
to add the eleven billions to
the burdens of our own tax
payers.
So, all bunk aside, all de-
ception aside, all hig h
finance by the international
bankers aside, the matter of
cancellation" resolves it.
self into just this:
Shall American tax
payers pay the debts of
Europe and assume the
burden of the World WARP"
Await Election
Before Acting
Congress has said We will
not.
The Democratic party in
it's platform has said we will
not.
Mr.. Hoover, whose party
convention was not quite
frank with the people, says
we will not cancel, but may
scale down" having al
ready scaled down enor-
mously.
And we are told, signifi-
cantly enough we think, that
nothing will be done until
after election.
That will be after the peo-
pie, who may be asked to
assume the billions of other
peope's debts, have fired
their gun. 1t is always
safest to gouge the people
after they have cast their
ballots.
The Washington times., 1932-07-13

Mrs. Solomon Says
Happy are the poor, oh my
Daughter. For they have
naught whereof to be robbed;
neither can they be gypped by
grafters and four-flushers. And
their way is not beset by bor-
rowers and go-getters.
They go not down into Wall
Street, seeking more; and
their days are free from fear
lessness and their sleep un-
The Washington times., 1932-07-13

Life Is What You Make 1t
I said that day-dreamS we're
dangerous dope; that, like
other narcotics, they offered an
The Washington times., 1932-07-13

know contentment of spirit
and peace of heart, who have
little to gain and nothing to
lose!
SELAH.
Copyright. 1882. KipE Features
SyndtcAtes Inch
The Washington times., 1932-07-13

Did the old time buccaneers
Ever give three rOusing cheers
At the sight of an approaching O. war?
No, they knew that ship could shoot.
And there wasn't any loot
To be gathered from fighting man O. war.
The Washington times., 1932-07-13
By Nelson
Harding

When the jolly Roger flew
Ger buccaneering crew
Were they glad to see cruising man O. war?
Unarmed merchantmen they met
With a welcome, but you bet
That pirate never liked man O. war!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
$S,90Q,oO0 PAID IN
INSURANCE TO n, D,
CITIZENSLAST YEAR
Bismarck Gets 1924, 900; State
Ath in Payments, 38th
in Population

Life insurance companies paid
North Dakota policyholders and
beneficiaries s5,900,O0O in 1881 ac-
cording to the special "Life Pay
ments Localized" number issued
Friday by The National Under
writer, weekly insurance news
paper.
| North Dakota ranked 44th in life
insurance payments while it is 3Sth
in population among all states. If
the payments had been divided
equally among all people living in
North Dakota in 1881 each would
have received $8.67.
Fargo led all North Dakota cities
with $355,O0O in life insurance pay
ments compared to S51S,0O0 the year
before. Grand Forks was next with
$4,000 compared to $156,000 in
1880, followed by Bismarck with
S124,OOO; Minot, 100000; Devils
Lake, $S5,000.
The largest individual life insur-
ance death payment paid in North
Dakota in 1881 was on the life of
person whose name was not given
who lived in Grand Forks for $685.
639. Other large payments were:
Adolph I. Dokken, Kindred, $54, 1000;
Edward Pehl, Glendale, $4,000. The
family of a Devils Lake man was
paid $4,000.
Life insurance policyholders and
beneficiaries in the United States
and Canada received a grand total
of $3,548 ,949,338 in life insurance
payments and loans in 1881. Of
this huge amount, death claims, ma
tured endowments, annuities and
additional accidental death benefits
totaled $1,316,337,731. Payments on
premium savings and cash surrender
values totaled $1,5S9,515,345, MAX
ing total of $2,9O5, S53,O76. This is
an increase of 10 per cent over the
1880 total of S2,642,OOO,OOO, or an
increase of &c per cent in five years.
Policyholders received $643,O96.262
additional in policy loans in 1881,
bringing the total Of payments and
| loans up over the three and a half
billion mark.
Double indemnity and disability
pay HleHtS Oh lie insurance policies
have increased sharply in the last
few years. In 1881, $66,272,299 in
disability payments were made, an
increase of "a per cent over 1880 and
"a per cent over 1929. In 1880, the
payments totaled $50 1886, 1874. maxi
ing an increase of $12,736,OOO in
1881.
Double indemnity payments total
ed $27,O1S,033 in 1881, showing an
increase of z per cent over the 1880
total of $25,240,561. Payments on
double indemnity in 1881 were more
than twice as much as in 1928, when
they totaled $12,160,76S.
The largest individual death claim
IN 1881 was on the life of Lawrence
+. Ach of Cincinnati, who carried
$l,516,50O in life insurance. The
next three large claims were paid
on the lives of publishers-E. A.
Simmons, Brooklyn, head of the Sim
mons Boardman Publishing Com
pany, business paper publishers, who
left $1,300,000; while Walter A.
Strong of Chicago, publisher of the
Chicago Daily News" and Knowl-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
At the Movies
CAPITOL THEATRE

Richard Dix, virile RKO Radio star
will be seen at the Capitol Theatre
tonight in Roar of the Dragon" a
stirring spectacle of the Far East, re-
flecting vivid panorama Of the haz-
ardous frontier with its stately parade
OF adventure seekers.
Appearing with Dix Is Gwili Andre,
famous Danish beauty from Copen-
hagen, who makes her screen debut
in the film. Miss Andre. about whom
Hollywood has been building legend
OF mystery and intrigue, Is seen as q
Russian noblewoman, one of the pa
thetic patricians who have haunted
the frontier towns of northern China
Truth About Manchuria
A striking perspective insight into
the Manchurian situation which has
plastered the newspapers throughout
the nation for months, is presented
in Roar of the Dragon" Unfolding
tale of the experiences of a group
OF Occidental refugees in a small
town, the picture is as graphic as a
newsreel in its details of the present
chaotic condition in China.
The love story, between Dix and the
exotic newcomer. augmented by an
appealing romance between Airline
Judge, pert, vivacious ingenue OF
Are These Our Children" and Ed
ward Everett Horton who shares the
comedy in the picture with ZaSu Pitts,
is set against background of war
torn China aimed for the ultimate
In new variety of action thrills in
tersperSed with tense drama.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
Highway Commission
Is Letting Contracts

Letting Of contracts for highway
construction to be carried out with
federal emergency relief aid funds
was in progress before the state high
way commission Friday.
The work, consisting of I'll miles
grading and crawling, is the first
to be let since the recent enactment
by congress of the relief bill under
which nearly 100000 federal aid
funds are advanced to North Da-
kota for road building.
Projects being let Friday included
lib miles gravel surfacing and 57.72
miles grading.
A. D. McKinnon, chief highway
commissioner, said he believes about
500 miles additional construction
would be possible under the emer-
gency funds, resulting in giving ap-
proximately twice as many men en-
ployment as are now working on
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
Three Exhibits Added
To Historical Museum

Three exhibits have been added to
North Dakotas museum Of natural
history
The rooms which houses the mu-
scum now displays an all-North Da-
kota collection-animals not native to
the state having been eliminated.
The three most recent additions in
clude trumpeter swan, an immense
bird which formerly nested in suit
able localities In North Dakota but
with the advance Of civilization has
become practically extinct, Superin-
tendent Russell Reid said. The bird,
one Of the largest in America, was
received from the University Of North
Dakota.
The second is a great blue heron
which had its habitat along the
Heart river. It still is fairly common
In suitable localities, Reed declared.
A beaver Is the third exhibit re-
Gently added to the collection.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
UNCLE SANS
NEW TAXES
WHERE THEY LIT YOI-ANn u0Wu
WHERE THEY HIT YOU-AND Howl

vaper photographers must pay the tax
though admitted free. The tax law
exempts only bona fide employees and
municipal officers who attend in the
course Of their duty. There is, how
ever, q special exemption for children
under IL years Of age when they are
admitted free or at reduced rates.
II you want particularly good seat
and you buy your ticket from ticket
broker who charges a commission in
excess of the regular price, there Is a
tax Of 10 per cent on this excess.
Thus, If you pay ticket broker $3.50
for q $685. musical comedy seat lad
mission tax paid, there is an addi-
tional 81 cents as tax on the broker
65-cent commission.
The admission tax likewise applies
to box lessees and holders of season
tickets. regardless of whether they at
tend the games or performances. Re-
served seats and other special &C
commodations bear the same rate of
tax as admissions, being included in
the total price.
The admissions tax applies to all
scholastic or club games except high
school athletic contests) unless all the
proceeds, not even excepting expenses,
go to charity. Not even this exemp-
ton is extended to wrestling matches
or prize fights, which are taxable
under any and all conditions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
Wipes Bills from
Books; Gets Cash

Racine, Wis, July 29.-(P)-
Thursday night the cash register
was tinkling in the grocery of
Mike Brusha, and it was a melody
not heard very often in the little
store of late.
Brusha is back on a cash basis,
and the money Is coming in be-
cause Thursday he assured the
community he isn't expecting to
be paid for $1,000 written down in
his ledgers. In a newspaper adj
vertisement he announced:
Anyone owing us for groceries
please bring in the bill and we
will mark it paid. We will appre-
ciate the continuance OF your
patronage on a cash basis"
The line Of old customers
reached all the way from his Of
flee in the rear to the pickle jar,
and before he closed for the eve
ming the beaming grocer had
written off hundreds of dollars In
small accounts.
Grateful patrons thanked him
and most of them stayed to buy
something for cash. Hence the
melody Of the register which
Brusha had waited SO long to
hear
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
PARAMOUNT THEATRE

When some unknown girl answers
the summons Of the Goddess OF
Cinema Fame and goes to Hollywood
to play the role of the Panther Wom-
an in H. G.. Wells Island of Lost
Souls" she will be treading the same
path that brought fame and fortune
to many of filmdom's most famous
actresses.
This was disclosed Friday by Of
ficials of the Paramount Theater
Screen Opportunity Contest" which
is being conducted to select Bis
marcks candidate for this national
competition.
Tallulah Bankhead, Nancy Carroll,
Mary Brian, Clara Bow, Lois Wilson,
Gertrude Olmstead and F1orine Nc
Kinney are but few of the film
colony's prominent personalities who
achieved fame via the contest route.
Paramount's contest to find a girl
to portray the Panther Woman is in
many respects more promising OPP
portunity than the ones which
brought success to the others. Can
didates for this screen opportunity
VIII be selected by contests now being
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
FIRE HERE CAUSES
DAMAGE OF $1,000
Flames Destroy 7. W. Asbridge
Barn on Third st. Early
Friday Morning

Fire destroyed a barn and an adj
jacent garage at the rear of the T.
w. Asbridge residence at 613 Third st.
at 2:45 a. m. Friday.
The loss was estimated at $1,000 by
Harry A. Thompson, chief of the fire
department. The Asbridge family
was not in the city Friday and II
could no be learned whether the
property was insured.
The flames were discovered by
neighbor. who turned in the alarm.
BY the time the fire department ar
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
Valley City Farmer Invites Hoover
ToSpend Vacation in North Dakota

Valley City, N. D.. July 29.-(R
An invitation to President and
Mrs. Hoover to visit the VAL
ley View Farm near Valley City
during the election campaign was
sent to the white house in a let
ter Thursday by Halvor Selman-
son, manager Of the farm and
Mrs. Selmanson.
They suggested that a stay at
Valley View would be restful to
the president during the strenu-
Gus activity of campaign year.
would place him in closer contact
with the farm situation and
would convince farmers that he
Is interested in their problems.
Ours Is just an old fashioned
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29

farm overlooking the prairie"
Selmanson wrote to President
Hoover. your coming here
would help northwest farmers to
understand you better and to see
that you are interested in their
problems. It Is our belief that
farmers need your protection
from harmful legislation, that
their interests require the MAIN
tenance Of yourself in the presi-
dency and that your expression of
goodwill in coming here would
be tremendous factor in slim
ulating in the return of better
farm conditions which already
are appearing in the offing."