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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-20

ton entitled to retain their benefits.
Brigadier General Frank L. Hines,
veterans administrators, has asked
President Roosevelt to extend the Oct
ober 81 deadline for the boards to
pass on the remainder of cases where
compensation has been paid on the
presumption that the former soldiers
contracted their disabilities during
war service.
Such a extension would mean that
veterans who have been getting IS
per cent Of their former compensa-
ton since March 20. when the econ-
omy act was enacted, will continue to
receive that amount beyond October
81, until their cases are acted on.
President Roosevelt was expected TO
issue an extension order soon-possi-
bly, this week.
Although previous estimates Of the
presumptive cases have ranged as high
as 10000, a well-informed quarter
Friday placed them at nearer $4,000.
Delays In organizing the boards were
credited with having slowed up the
work, which officials desire to COM
plete before congress convenes.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-20
WAR VETERANS HIT :.
BY APPLICATION OF
DISABILITY CLAUSE
Records Show Many Are Unable
to Connect Injuries With
Their Service

Copyright 1893, BY The Associated
Press)
Washington. Oct. 20.-(F-Less than
half the war veterans whose future
benefit payments depend on proving
their presumptive disabilities to be
service connected Friday seemed II,
line for continued compensation.
Special boards Of the veterans ad.
rninistration have reviewed 50 pei
cent Of the presumptive cases. Unof-
fetal but closely checked figures show.
ed only 40 per cent Of this cross sec.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-20

all county sales of property for de-
llnquent taxes until the first Monday
IN January.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-20

cogntzance Of the prevailing agricul-
tural situation, Governor Herring Fri
cay issued proclamation postponing
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-20

POSTPONES TAX SALES
Des Moires, Oct. 20.-(H1-Taking
Evening star., 1933-09-05
Foreign Affairs to the Front.

Secretary Of State Hull announces
that the general outlines of American
foreign policy will be the special subject
OF q cabinet meeting soon after Resi-
dent Roosevelt's return to the White
House this week. Preoccupation with
the domestic recovery program pushed
foreign affairs into the background
over the Summer, except on emergency
occasions like the crisis In Cuba. Now
all the loose ends of our external re-
lations, Secretary Hull indicates, are
10 be picked up and policies and pro-
grams formulated. In a variety of
directions concrete action is necessary.
The European war debts constitute
perhaps the most ticklish issue clamor-
ing for the administrations attention.
The defaults which occurred on June
IS and the new installments due on
December Is require consideration. Co.
incident with Norman H. Davis cur
rent trip to Europe for the approaching
reconvened session of the Geneva dis
armament conference, the State De-
partment issues q statement made by
Mr.. Davis in mid-Atlantic emphasizing
that he has no intention whatever Of
linking debts and disarmament ques-
tions. That accords with the Roose-
welt attitude that the issues are un-
related and must be dealt with sepa-
rately at Washington. There are init
nations that Great Britain and other
debtor nations are prepared to enter
Evening star., 1933-09-05
Gas Tax Differential as
Between ID. C.. and States
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Devious are the ways of government
and politicians. Definitely the gasoline
tax differential between the District
and two States is the responsibility of
the legislative bodies of the areas con-
cerned; yet, instead of rewriting unjust
laws, the politicians are still trying to
burden the oil companies with the pre-
negatives Of government. Moving the
State boundaries out into the hinter-
land never did benefit the oil companies
or station operators as groups; merely
benefits and damages OF the tax law
were changed in distribution.
Delegate Hugh Reid of Virginia was
only partly right when he told the Vir-
ginia House, as reported in The Star
Of August 20, that the code provision
will drive out of business all dealers ad-
jacent to the District of Columbia.
Dealers whose business Is built on their
own ability will move to other localities
and fare as well. OF course, land
owners Of virginia and Maryland will
lose, but that loss is only the loss of
unearned increment, and will be bal
anced by corresponding gain for land
owners Of the District. Lease-holders
will be affected the same as land-own-
ers, but land-owning, or leasing. Is dis
ttnct from operation Of service stations.
If Justice is desired, legislators Of
Maryland and Virginia will petition the
District government Congress-, to ap-
propriate the extra rental or profits
from favored landowners and lessees,
using the proceeds to reimburse un-
fortunate landowners and operators
beyond the confines of the District.
w. G. DUNCAN.
Evening star., 1933-09-05
Henry Ford and
National Recovery

To the Editor Of The Star.
Your editorial Thursday entitled Mr.
Ford and the N. r. A." is very timely
and interesting. I quite agree with you
there should be no fight between Mr.
Ford and the N R. A. I also agree
with you that threatening Is not the
proper way to proceed to get Ford
under the N. R. A. OF course, it Is
human for him to resent it, especially
when Mr. Ford is a pioneer in the
betterment of the working man. Can
any one blame Ford for not joining up
with something he doesn't approve Of?
There are no doubt thousands of others
who'd prefer not to fly the Blue Eagle,
but through fear of boycott they can
not afford to resist the political drive
to be herded in. think Mr.. Ford
is to be commended on having nerve
enough to test out whether this is still
a free country. Although I don't feel
this administration is worthy Of the
support of the Republicans after the
way the former administration was
treated by them, yet we are quite will
ing to go along for the peoples vel
fare, but we cannot be expected to
swallow everything and like it. This
cracking down on Ford Is just about
as repugnant to the fair thinking mind
as closing sound banks for the fault Of
the unsound So long as there is
ghost Of a show to get the unemployed
a job I believe the public will pull with
the administration, but when it makes
only political moves then will be the
time for the Republicans to crack
down. p F. SKINNER.
Evening star., 1933-09-05
Green Traffic Light Only
A Qualified Permission
To the Editor of The Star !:

To the Editor OF The Star:
The National Safety Council points
out that the green traffic signal does
not mean the motorist Is justified In
proceeding without caution.
The green light, the council explains,
Is not a command to the motorist, but
a qualified permission to proceed law
fully and carefully with his car under
control.
It does not mean that the driver re-
ceiving the "go" signal may drive on
without a care or thought as to the
safety Of those who may, even unlaw-
fully, be in his path.
Even with lights working perfectly"
an expert quoted by the safety council
said,. ''the average driver will fnad-
vertently go through red light once
in q whiie-perhaps once or twice q
year. Now If you always take the green
light in your regular stride you will
sooner or later meet one Of these dream
ing drivers-to your sorrow.
"As you approach a green light, re-
duce your speed and increase your alert
ness You cannot tell when q driver
might ignore the stop light and 60
through"
The experts reasoning Is good and
deserves the consideration Of every
motorist. As the safety council says:
'If we could always depend upon the
other fellow to do the right thing we
could speed through every time we get
the green light. But we cant-and
that's one big reason why there are
30 many accidents"
OLIVER =. CARRUTH.
Evening star., 1933-09-05
Storm Suggests One Span
For Calvert Street Bridge

To the Editor of The Star:
With regard to your recent editorial
relating to the collapse of the railroad
bridge over the Eastern Branch not
long ago. may make few comments?
The editorial suggested that when
the bridge is replaced, it be with a
single steel span across the whole
stream. SO that future danger of abut-
ments being swept away be avoided.
That is good idea, and one which
will probably be followed by the rail-
road company; probably that was their
intention as soon as the cause OF the
collapse was aScertained.
But would it not be good idea also
to adopt the single steel span type of
construction for the proposed bridge
over Rock Creek at Calvert street? I
understand Rock Greek rose IL feet or
more during the recent storm, and the
pressure eXerted by such formidabl
wall of rushing, surging water against
q concrete abutment or base must be
terrific - possibly millions of pounds
and if the multiarch design is used in
the proposed bridge it will be no
stronger If as strong as the recently
collapsed railroad bridge.
One thing stood out in the recent
railroad accident, and that was the fact
that no passenger was killed or badly
hurt. This was another victory for all
steel construction of railroad car bodies,
and in my opinion, and probably that
of many others, all transportation
agencies should adopt such type of all
steel construction for their busses. troll
lev cars, airplanes and taxicabs for
the safety of the riding public
ROBERT A. MULLEN.
Evening star., 1933-09-05

Cleveland paper offers the information:
Ihe attention Of science has been turned
toward the lowly and despised mosquito.
When no one suspected it, a particular
kind OF mosquito was found to be
spreading yellow fever. Pinning the
guilt on the culprit was half the battle
won; from then on the fight was COM
parattvely easy. Whether or not in
sects, food or human carriers are re-
sponsible, the Nation hopes the cause
OF the new disease will soon be found.
Tropic countries apparently have no
corner on sleeping sickness, in spite
OF the tSetse fly and kindred nuisances,
for the disease has been encountered
IN M1dwtnter amidst conditions that
the Jungles could not approximate The
fact may also be an alibi for the
mosquito
In Spokane" according to the
Atlanta Journal, "the total for three
year period 0918-192D did not exceed
80 or 40. In the present outbreak the
disease has spread rapidly and has oc-
CURED, curiously enough, much more
widely in the suburbs than in the city
proper. Its mortality has been highest
among patients in their mid-fifties or
mid-sixties The sleeping sickness here
referred to IS different from the African
disease OF that name. The latter is
caused by germ that is easily visible
under the microscope and is carried
from person to person by the bite of
the tsetse fly; whereas the germ of the
temperate-zone sleeping sickness, prop
erly called encephalitis lethargica, has
not yet been isolated The large num-
Der OF cases now concentrated in one
locality gives medical science an un-
usual chance for clinical studies of
the disease and for laboratory research
into its cause. its transmission, its pre-
vention and cure"
Evening star., 1933-09-05
The Profteers.

The Nation and Washington had
their war proflteers. Unless present
signs are wrong, and unless further
steps are taken to clamp down on this
kind of gentry, the Nation and the
National Capital are to have their
N. r. A. profiteers. Indeed, there are
evidences here and in other cities that
these pests are already at work. Soon
after the Roosevelt administration took
command it became evident that the
program was to increase commodity
prices of all kinds. It became the an
nounced policy Of the administration.
Laws were enacted looking to such an
end. with currency imitation made pos
sible. In the expectation that prices
would advance and the value OF the
dollar decrease. thousands of orders
we're placed for goods at the still low
prices. And now it is proposed to sell
these goods at much advanced prices.
Already the sale is on. The profits are
likely to be exorbitant. Shirts that
sold, for example, for a dollar, for
which the merchants paid prices which
would enable them to make a profit at
the dollar mark, have been advanced
in some instances to $1.50 and higher.
They come out of the same box, GER
tainly out of the same consignment,
as the shirts which were purchasable
at dollar.
It has been urged in defense of these
advanced prices that, with prices Of
manufactured goods going higher, the
merchants must make these large
profits on the goods they purchased at
Evening star., 1933-09-05
u. S. Should Not Sell
Its Native Gold Stock
70 the Editor OF The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star.
AS I now understand it, Attorney
General Cummings ruling is that
American mining companies may ex-
port gold concentrates, amalgams,
washed gold ores and even placer gold,
which as rule is either fake, shot
or pure nugget gold. Why not have
American virgin gold concentrates.
amalgams, washed gold ores smelted
and refined, and with the placer pure
gold put into gold bullion and pur-
chased by the United States Govern
ment at price per ounce Troy of 480
grains for the refined gold bullion,
meeting the European or world prices
for gold per ounce as they are quoted
daily, in lieu of our now American
price Of s20.66 per ounce Troy for re-
fined gold bullion? The United States
has the two largest smelling and re-
fining companies in the world.
The common and preferred stocks
Of these two companies are listed on
the New York Stock Exchange and
quoted by The Evening Star. England
has ceased coming gold bullion into
our gold concentrates, amalgams,
washed gold ores and especially our
pure placer gold-an new virgin gold
to help build up England's gold bullion
stock with her South African gold re-
ceipts? England now has over ST ,000,-
000,0 in coined gold in the Bank of
England Her holdings of gold bullion,
gold concentrates, amalgams of gold,
washed gold ores and placer gold from
Australia are unrevealed If an act
of Congress to increase the purchasing
price Of pure gold from $40 66 per ounce
Troy to the present world price for
pure gold Of $29 per ounce is neces-
sary, I am confident Congress in
January next would unanimously pass
such an act, and make it retroactive
to pay for every ounce of new Ameri-
can virgin gold the Government might
or may purchase from that date for
ward. w. E. RYAN.
Evening star., 1933-09-05

into such discussions here. They know
now that the United States II not
minded to buy q disarmament agree
ment, anxious as this country is for
such, by tying 1t up tn any form with
debts.
Trade agreements with Latin Ameri-
can republics will bulk conspicuously in
the impending cabinet consideration Of
foreign affairs. Recognition Of Soviet
Russia is due for discussion, too. Rela-
tions with the new government of Cuba
and plans for American economic and
financial aid in starting the island back
to prosperity will receive prompt atten-
tion.
Until the recovery program has
progressed further toward its goal, the
energies of the Washington admins
tration and the American people as a
whole will naturally continue to be
concentrated for the most part on home
rather than foreign affairs. But be-
tween the lines of Secretary Hull's an
nouncement of general cabinet
meeting" to consider external relations
it is discernible that economic national
ism Is not to hold sway indefinitely,
and that the time has already come
when the United States feels the neces-
sity Of envisioning conditions beyond
the twelve-mile limit and considering
their palpable part in the scheme Of
recovery everywhere, here as well as
abroad. To what extent this country
can usefully join in reconvened
London monetary and economic con-
ference for world rehabilitation Is
among the items scheduled for early
Roosevelt cabinet discussion.
Evening star., 1933-09-05
''kingfsh'' Objective
Of An Earnest PRAYER

To the Editor of The Star:
My father used to tell a story about
the most unique prayer he ever heard
offered up. The story smacks of sacre-
ligiousness, but the suppliant was not
sacreligious. He was just earnest. His
name was Nose Tingle. Age, about 10;
height, about feet; color, black as
tar. He was a frequent fishing COM
pan1on OF my fathers in the waters Of
Chincoteague Bay. One Summer day
this pair were enjoying their favorite
sport when storm came up out Of the
southwest. They headed for shore,
Nose rowing and father bailing out the
boat. which was leaking badly. Each
wave was larger than its predecessor
and things began to look rather omi-
nous and their chances of getting to
shore pretty slim. AS each wave struck
the boat Nose would roll his eyes up
ward and mutter 'Lawd, cam desc
waves!" However, his supplication
seemed to have no effect. Finally a
huge breaker almost swamped them and
Nose dropped in the bottom of the
little boat and raised his hands to high
heaven and yelled. "Lawd. CAIN desc
yare waves an. an, an'-do it quick
about it." Not in a sacreligious way at
ALL He was just real earnest. And.
strange to relate, the sea became
smoother and they reached shore.
Now what am getting at Is this:
On the occasion Of my last visit to the
Senate gallery as I sat and listened to
the rawlings Of that monumental clown,
the Kingfish from Louisiana, muttered
Lord, let somebody sock him!" As he
preened and strutted and harangued
and aired his colossal ignorance kept
repeating my supplication Nothing
Ever since that day 1 have,
at intervals. been repeating my prayer
No results. The other day, as I read
the Kingfish's latest asinine pro-
nouncement, I bethought me of old
Nose Thgle's final prayer about the
waves and acted upon it. Well, you
saw what happened. You've Just got
to be real earnest about these things.
s. II. MUMFORD.
Evening star., 1933-09-05
N. r. A. Working for
The Man in the Street
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of Ths Star:
The N. r. A Is no mere noble ex-
pertinent. It Is an advance toward so
cial Justice which society can never
retract. This Nation is committed once
and for all to q policy which will de-
fend the rights Of the common man.
No future President or party will ever
dare to suspend that policy.
I, for one, do not hope for imme-
diate and miraculous results from this
movement. think that the mobiliza-
ton Of industry Is q task that will
consume many years. But I believe
that the motive behind it is so over
whelmingly right that all the forces
Of human seldshness cannot defeat it.
As guardians Of their own welfare,
the American people have often failed.
They submitted blindly to the Hayes
T1lden election fraud, the Teapot Dome
oil scandal and. for a long time, to the
political, social and moral pollution Of
so-called prohibition.
But every time the American people
are thoroughly aroused to the folly and
injustice Of certain conditions they ad-
vance as body to rectify those condi-
tions. They fought for representative
government, they fought for the aboli-
tion of slavery and they fought to crush
the degrading menace Of Prussian i'm
perialism. Idealism and not greed Is
the basis of everything truly American.
There are men with criminal records
who would fight to defend this country.
So with working conditions as they
are, with child labor, starvation wages,
long hours and unemployment beyond
the limits Of national safety, our peo-
pie will embrace this cause as they
have always embraced good causes
when ably directed.
The man in the street may not be
all that Jefferson wished for him to
be. But he is infinitely better and
wiser than Hamilton ever dreamed that
he could be. Tell him the truth and
patriotism and he will respond. But
if you lie to him, deceive him and deny
him the right to earn a living in
Land Of boundless wealth, he will over
throw the existing order sooner or later
For he Is neither ignorant nor stupidity
submissive.
The N. r. A. proposes to work in
the interest Of this man. It proposes
to force industry and finance to rec
ognize his rights Do not suppose for
minute that he will fail to appre-
ciate the honest friendship that backs
this effort. Do not suppose that he
will again turn to his false friends
when they seek to lure him with quack
phrases and gold-brick tariffs.
For the man In the street Is king
when the man in the White House
spiritually shares his intimate hopes
and fears and speaks frankly to his
mind and his heart. j. HILLYER.
Evening star., 1933-09-05

low prices In order to make their re-
placements Of stock. Against this
argument 1t may be said that new stock
itself will be sold at prices sufficiently
high to give the merchant q profit on
the transaction. Unfortunately the
tendency Is to raise prices higher than
a fair profit warrants. And that In
plain language Is profiteering.
The N. r. A. must act, and without
delay, to prevent profiteering, which,
it is clear. is at present engaged in by
some who carry the Blue Eagle. II
necessary, the emblem Of the N. r. A.
should be taken from the profiteers.
The grave danger to the success Of the
recovery drive under the program Of
the N. r. A. has always been profiteer-
ing. with prices far outstripping the
salaries and wages paid the workers
who constitute the great consuming
public.
The people today are being urged to
buy now, to stage a great outpouring
OF their money for all kinds of goods,
in the effort to bring industry and busi-
ness back to the thousands of pro-
ducers and merchants of all kinds. If
this buy now" drive is to be spon-
sored by the N. r. A.-and Gen. Hugh
s. johnson has been quoted as favor
ing it-then the Recovery Administra-
tion's duty is to protect the buyers.
Spending orgies, such as that now pro-
posed, are great incentives to business.
But the public is entitled to get its
moneys worth for what it buys. And
furthermore, an orgy Of spending at
exorbitant prices will soon wear itself
out. What would come afterward
would be another nose dive into de-
pressed business conditions. As Presi-
dent Roosevelt warned the employers
and manufacturers and merchants
weeks ago. they must be content to
take smaller profits on larger measure
Of business for q time, until the pur-
chasing power Of the public. through
higher wages and more employment,
has been increased.