The Bismarck tribune., 1933-01-18

Z Job for . few good political wire.
pullers who could not make q living
unless they had q salaried position?
We would like to ask II It Is not true
that It would require quite . number
Of salaried officials to look after all
public swimming pools and tourist
camps, to say nothing Of keeping
track Of Just how the water supply IS
being filtered and whether or not
your milk supply Is pasteurtzed?
It reminds me Of the way the bo-
vine tuberculosis matter is handled.
It Is like this: Your cows are vacci-
mated and II they react favorably-
that Is to the agent, not to the own
er -or In other words, II they show
that they have T. B.. you are paid so
much for your COW, becaust the milk
is not fit to drink or use. That cow
q shipped to South st. Paul, Minn.,
there slaughtered and the meat ship
ped back to North Dakota and other
points and sold for human consump-
ton. The milk Is deadly poison, but
the meat Is all o. K. The old say
Ing that one had Just as well eat Of
the devil as to drink his broth Is re-
versed in this case. You dare not
drink the broth but the devil Is all
right.
When the writer was . boy he
lived In state where about all they
had to live on was the proceeds from
the sale Of milk. When, II one had
no cows to milk or milk to sell to
the cheese factories, one was out Of
luck. The cows were never vacci-
mated for any disease but we have
known of people living to ripe old
age. We have known of men and
women, too, who had evaded the
kindly ministrations Of doctors and
dentists, who could still brag Of hav-
Ing never been sick enough to go to
bed and ask for the assistance of q
doctor, and who had most Of their
teeth, although the teeth were as
black as the hubs Of hades-still they
had them and they had lodged the
undertaken until they had lived out
their allotted three score and ten,
and more, too. We have see them,
too, who had been afflicted with
ague, and who had taken Quinine
and calomel for the same to such an
extent that II they bit into a hard
winter apple they would be almost
sure OF leaving fang sticking In it,
which the calomel had shaken loose
from its original abode; and despite
that fact, they hung on until some
Of them were killed by accident. We
wonder at times whether or not
good live sanitary board could have
added much to their longevity. II
one was forced to call a dentist and
have fang extracted 1t cost Is cents.
Now, In order to be relieved of such
. fang, one must plunk down two
dollars.
Wheat then was 81 per bustel and
one bpshel would pay for the pulling
Of four teeth. Now It's worth 22c
and 1t requires the selling price of
nine bushels to pay for this struggle.
It does beat all how times have
changed. Then II a doctor was re-
quired to drive with q horse and
buggy 10 miles into the country, and
take care Of some poor woman. it
would cost the head Of the family
from SIS to $40. Now, when one
goes out In a high-powered car.
snugly tucked In, and attends to the
same kind Of case, the charges are
from $50 to SIS. It would seem to
me that this fact alone would take
care Of the question Of birth control
and that Mr.. Roosevelt would not
have to argue the point. It then
cost the father, In wheat, from Is to
20 bushels. Now he is let down to
the tune Of from 200 to 800 bushels.
And yet we yelp about overproduc-
ton. II the head Of every family In
this state was active along these
lines, and the doctors were all get
ting their pay, there would not be
enough WHEAT grown In this state to
pay them alone.
| Yours truly,
j. N. McCARTER.