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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
Penalty and Poverty

One reads with q certain sardonic
interest that Martin insult, one time
Chicago utilities magnate, went on q
hunger strike shortly after he had
been locked in Jail at Toronto, where
he was being held for extradition to
the United States.
The food, It seems, wasn't quite up
to . utilities magnate's standards.
For breakfast there was porridge,
BUTTERFLIES bread and sugarless tea;
for dinner there was stew and cold
water: for supper, rice, bread and
tea.
All this Is rather plain fare, espe-
cially for . man used to the best food
that money can buy. It IS hard to
blame man for refusing to eat It:
and doubtless It Is only human per-
versity that reminds one that it
might seem like q feast to some luck
less old person who invested, and
lost, all his LIES savings in insult Sc
curities.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26

Our peaceful country needs Z
peaceful national anthem, like Amer
lea the Beautiful" David Muz-
zey, Columbia University.
+ i
We do not need investigators
shopping around to determine what
Is good and what Is bad for the pub
lie mind. It Is not possible to make
people good by law.-Representative
William Connery, Of Mass.
i i 4
Right now I'm just the mama Of Z
baby that I hope will be q swell brat.
ELSIE Janis.
4 X X
Radio Is the universal sewer Of Ill
the arts.-Gilbert Seldes, journalist
and playwright.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
Barbs

It cost $40 each for the CWA to get
rid OF some rats in Brooklyn, N. Y.
They must have used a rare imported
cheese.
X \ X
Never again!" says Aimee
Semple McPherson-H Hutton, about
marrying. Shed better guard
against kidnapping, too.
4 * X
Baseball is becoming popular in
Russia and golf has been made the
national sport Of Germany. Those
countries might adopt our sports,
but not our politics.
copyright, 1884, NEA Service, Incl
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
THE OLD HOKUM BUNKEM IS
STILL TAUGHT IN SCHOOL

NE OAD 11ONONA OOIVEA0NA 40
STILL TAUGHT IN SCHOOL
From a village comes the naive
query:
We have had an argument in
our High School physiology class
as to whether or not we breathe
through our skin. Our instructor
says we do. Will you please set
tie this question for US.
No. child. you don't.
It would be great thing for the
welfare of the race If human ply
siology were introduced into the
schools. But I doubt II 1t will ever
be admitted into the grammar school
or high school curriculum.
The instructor of the physiology
class in this instance must have
found the idea in an almanac. Sure
ly it was never taught in an educa-
t:onal institution, nor published In
textbook Of physiology.
It is q crime to waste the public
funds and the time of school children
with such instruction or study. Peo-
pie pick up enough misinformation
from the quack doctor literature and
nostrum promotion stuff. without
having an official instructor appointed
by the school board to clinch 1t In
their minds.
The question OF the ability Of the
skin to absorb things is still contro-
verSial-at least there are still few
medical men who Seem to believe 1t
can happen. But there is no ques-
ton whatever concerning the func-
ton Of the skin as respiratory Or
gan; 1t has none.
Even the absorption Of poison or
food or chemical or medicine through
the skin has not been proved scien-
tifically. Most physicians have long
since ceased to imagine that any
medicament applied to the unbroken
skin is absorbed through the skin
Most physicians know that any such
medicament that is absorbed is alb
sorbed through inhalation of the va
por or the volatilized substance.
Now and then some muddleheaded
doctor expresses his belief that some
such poison has been absorbed
through the skin-especially in case
Of shoe dye poisoning. I should like
nothing better than to submit my
own skin to any scientifically con-
trolled test Of this question. with shoe
dye or any other poison or substance
and abide by the results OF the test
But no fear that any one OF standing
OF: the other side will agree to such
test.
No. daughter, the skin does moi
breathe. Nor does it ever Absorb
anything, unless it is scratched o,
punctured or abraded so that raw
flesh Is exposed. Nor Is anything Of
poisonous nature excreted through
the skin ordinarily. The skin excretes
practically nothing but water and salt
Don't let the physiology instructor
fool you about that.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
Member Of Audit Bureau Of
Circulation

Member Of The Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
Of all news dispatches credited to 1t
or not otherwise credited In this
Newspaper and also tho local news Of
spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights Of republication Of all other
matter herein are also reserved.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
They Worry About Us

AAsSJ vsSAAJ AADOV ~
Americans win Do interested in the
reaction Of Premier Mussolini,s news.
paper, The Popolo d'Italia. published
ct Milan, to the declining birth rate
Of the United States. It sees, - q
result Of It and the contrasting f.
cundity Of the American Negro, Z
black civilization In America within
the next century o. %.
Hear its cry Of alarm:
1.-THE diminution Of births In the
United States Is assuming alarming
proportions. II It continues at this
rate the number Of biers will surpasa
the number Of cradles 49,.
"When We reflect there are In the
United States ll.5oo,Ooo Negroes. peo-
pie Of extraordinary fecundity. it Il
necessary to conclude with = real cry
of alarm -.
I'VE will encounter IN Africanized
America In which the white race, by
the inexorable law Of numbers, win
end BY being suffocated BY the fer
tile grandsons Of Uncle Tom.
"Aro Ne to $50 within . century Z
Negro In the White House?"
This plaintivs vail about the fu-
ture Of tho white race In this country
has it, amusing angles, but It con-
tains an important grain Of truth
just the same. We think we are see
ing important developments in Amer
lean life now-and we are-but none
Of them is quite 50 important Is the
changing trend in vital statistics
which eventually will turn many Of
our schools into homes for old people
u 1t continues.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
Age Might Help Save Youth
From DeSpair

You would think that suicide would
oe the refuge OF old and beaten men
people tired by life, discouraged
brought to the end Of the tether by
disappointment and hard luck. fac
Ing a future that could not possibly
hold for them anything to compare
with their dreams.
But somehow it doesn't always work
out that way. Youth can grow as
respondent as age, sometimes. Only
the other day q young student In q
middle western university gave way
to worries about his studies and took
his life.
And 1t makes one wish that it were
easier for an older person to go to
one Of these worried and discouraged
youngsters and explain that the Diff
ficulties Of youth are never quite as
big and overpowering as they seem.
A lads career isn't hopelessly
ruined because he fails to master
the intricacies, say, of analytical
geometry: failure In . college course
usually becomes one Of those thing,
ut which mature man looks bach
with nothing more than = rueful
Smile.
Yet there Is . barrier between
youth and maturity which the best
Of advice all too often Is quite unable
to span. We who are older have had
our defeats. and we have accepted
them. We have gone with our feel
shod In light, only to discover thai
kind Of footgear isn't suitable fol
tramping through mirs and BRAN.
6les.
Youth has Ill that to learn; and
because 1t has. It has . way Of refus.
ing 70 listen to Us when we try Il
explain that those catastrophes o.
the late teens and early twenties an
never quite as bad - they seem.
For each young man Is buoyed VI
BY the conviction that he Is differ
ent. Other men have dreamed dreaua'
and seen them dissolve: he Is some
thing special, his dreams viii be real
szed, his battles win b victories.
It Is because youth believes tht
that 1t IS always willing to die OF
battlefields, or on barbados. TO LEAK
lost causes, to tackle . smudged ant
time stained world with bright con-
fidence.
Then, sooner or later. thu young.
ster has to find out that II Isn't %
And there Is where our wisest and
most sympathetic counsel = needed
II We can give It, and ct Il listened
70, We can save . younsster IRON
black despair.
Sometimes W can't: and then. 4
lt,ck u bad. Ne have that most pa
thstic q N tragedies-tl,e suicide o.
= yoamg man.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Mice and Rata

Gould you not tell Us how. to rid
our apartment Of mice, Is We find It
inconvenient to keep q cat. Il. L.
Answer-Turn to page Is Of the
booklet "Unbidden Guests" and you
will find instructions. hesitate to
name the poison here. For q copy Of
the booklet send 10 cents In coin and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY William Brady, M. d.

pertaining hygiene
diagnosis treatment will Brady stamped
envelope
in No be made conforming instructions
Address William Brady, In Of this newspaper
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
Dy RODNEY BUTCHER
Tribune Warrington Correspondent)

Warrington, March 26.-"somebody
got my pants and somebody got my
shirt, !" commented Assistant Secretary
Of the Treasury I. w. "Chip" Robert.
"As soon g they get my underwear,
I'm going back to Georgia."
That marked the first sign Of weak.
ening on the part Of either contestant
In the unofficial but no end exciting
battle here for the title Of the Demo-
cratic partys most successful man
about-town.
The other contestant Is Ray Baker,
handsome white-haired director Of
the mint In the Wilson administra-
ton.
Everyone likes Ray Baker, but
everyone also likes Chip. 30 when 1t
became . local game to count up
which one you'd see oftener at
places Of entertainment and amuse-
ment, private or public, friendly in
terest became intense. Mr.. Baker
soon edged ahead, however, because:
!. He had long head start and
had been playing with the Democrats
for 80 many years. 2. He had no job
to distract his attention, whereas
Chip" though he crashed through
Washington society In spectacular
fashion, still tried to be conscienti-
Gus about hts.
i s
"Chip" began to crack when Secre-
tary Morgeuthau deprived him Of
control Of the Treasury's federal
building division. It was after Roose-
welt ordered him off the P1NA execu-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
Politics Must Reform for New
Economics

VAAVAN0 AO0k ASSAO1 III 1Ol ANVW
Economics
(Bruce Cation In N. E. A. Service)
II presen: tendencies continue, the
whole face Of American politics is
likely to be changed almost beyond
recognition.
This change Is not simply matter
of new alignment Of the two ma
tional parties. It will be concerned.
rather, with the mechanics of gov
eminent, especially Of local govern
nlent.
Our conception Of the duty which
an officeholder owes to the public,
as contrasted with his duty to his
party, may at last be brought up to
date.
You can get an understanding of
what the change may be like by con-
sidering proposal recently advanced
for series Of state factories in North
Dakota.
This scheme has been propounded
by Senator Lynn Frazier, Republican,
and A. G. Townley, organizer Of the
Nonpartisan League. Under it, the
North Dakota Industrial Commission
has asked the PWA for q loan OF
n, 900, 900 to finance q chain OF state
factories-75 OF them, in ALTO make
wooden cloth. clothing, shoes, linseed
OH, flour and 80 on.
The idea II that these factories
would provide work for the states
unemployed, help supplement the in
come Of farmers, and turn the states
raw materials into manufactured
articles.
Leave aside. for the moment, the
question Of whether such an expert
n4ent In Socialism is wise, and con-
s.der what pressure the scheme would
put on the traditional. politics ridden
government Of the average American
state.
It u reported at Washington for
instance. that PWA officials will not
consider making the loan unless they
are convinced that there will be eff
ticient and rigidly honest admins
tration within the state.
And It also Is recalled that officials
of the CWA recently ousted Gov. Will
liam LANCER Of North Dakota as state
CWA administrator because OF al
legged political collections from CWA
workers.
A stunt Of this kind, in other words
simply would not work at III unless
the state government were run with
lar more sense Of public responsibility,
and far less thought for political ad-
vantage. than We find nowadays II
the ordinary state government.
And Il such proposals are to be-
come part Of our scheme Of thing
-. according 70 present indications
they may-lt becomes vitality neces-
sary for u to make our system d
politics ready for them.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26
Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show tho
trend Of thought by other editors.
They are published without regard
to whether they agree or disagree
with Tho Tribune's policies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26

Postmaster Farley says politician.
ore more honest and truthful than
ny other group. But they're suct,
inveterate jokers, don't you knowl
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26

The erase Tor contract has done
away with the aEt q conversation.
octavls Roy Cohen. famous short
story writer.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26

How many boys and girls have?
Oh, shout -. I no count them any
MARI. I Ike babies. -Kavilt, Eskimo
mother.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-26

tive board, however, that things begar
TO seem serious. (Pants and shirtO
Secretary Ickes must have been re.
spousible for that. He thinks Chip
i too friendly with power interests
especially since Robert opposed PWA
loans for municipal power pojects.
The fact Is, though, that "Chip'
was friendly to everybody. He may
not have been 4 high-grade govern
ment executive. but everyone agrees
he's q nice fellow.
II he departs and gives Ray Baker
the undisputed championship, there1l
Be many to remember "Chip' Robert
and his parties for = long, long time.
NYE LEARNS HE'S NIONGREL!
A senate subcommittee WAS
confefring peivately On N ~.
polntment confirmation and Sem
ator N.Y., annoyed By evidence q
peanut politics, said he'd hke 70
know how 70 label men @ Repub.
licans or Democrats o. something
else.
Roosevelt had . msjoeity IN
North Dakota q 1eS,oo0 while !,
running on the same ticket -
Hoover, had ono q 107,ooe,~ 10
said. "What does that make met"
THAT makes yoa . mongrel,"
growled partisan Senator Steph.
ems q 1liasisslppl.
JUST ROAMING AROUND
Noticed here and there: National
Labor Board, meeting On tho auto
mobile case-Two priests On the
bench. Stout, specialized. bald Fathe.
Frederick seidenburg Of the Detroi,
regional board and Father Francis J
Haas, rugged, curly-haired Nib mem.
Der Newton D. Baker at the hear.
ing, but insisting he just has returned
from Mediterranean trip, u,erel,
was looking around, and wasn't rep
resenting anybody.
SENATE: Grim, white.haired Tese
demanding that McKellar yield hin
the floor because the latter had men.
toned his name In an airmail speech
HE must yield!" insisted Fess.
Mcclellan, angry, and With face con
torted, replied, IT that's the SENATOR
attitude, he might Is well sit down
because I'm going right on"
Tess became exaggerately deferen
tial. Would the senator please
yield? The senator did.
HOUSE: Edith Rogers, with pur
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-04
Baker, MIRA Director,
Is Backed by B0rah

Glenn Ferry. Idaho. Aug. 4.-R-A
baker, who refused to abide BY m
NRA code authority administratton's
order, has won the support Of Senator
william Z. Borah, (Rep.. ldAho).
Ordered BY the bakery code author
ity Of southern Idaho to increase the
wholesale and retail price Of unsliced
bread one cent, =. w. Nestor, the only
baker here. complied and then sought
the senator's advice - to the advisa-
bility Of restoring the former prices Of
7 and 10 oents.
r feel you ars justified Ii going
ahead and conducting your business
. you have been conducting It and
diregardine I'll instructions to raise
tho price Of bread" Senator Dorah
wrote. III you choose 70 taxa this
course ana are prosecuted I viii see
that you Get counsel without expense
% yoli."
Nestor, who has no competition
from within q without q the city.
lowered thu prices 70 THAR former
standard altar receiving The senator's
lstter.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-04
THE TRIO sought
IN EXT0RT|ON PLOT
AGAINST FIVE men
Los Angeles MiIIlonaires. In
Guiding Cettle, Receive
$4,000 Demand

Los Angeles, Aug. 4.-(R-A gang.
known to police only as THE Trio"
is being sought In connection with an
extortion plot directed against five
rlillionaires. among them william +.
Gettle, Beverly Hills Oil magnate, who
was kidnapped last May and freed
without the payment OF ransom.
The search for the gang was dis
closed Saturday as investigators Of
the district attorneys office and
United States postal inspectors at
tempted to trace letters In which
500, 900 in cash was demanded Of the
five business men.
Besides Gettle the men who re-
ceived the threats were Alexander
Pantages, film impresario; E. L. Do
heny, oil king: J. J. Doyle, oil and
fight promoter; and Ora Monnette,
vice president Of the Bank Of America.
The first extortion letter was de-
livered to Monnette Thursday. A few
hours later another was delivered to
Pantages. Friday, Doyle received q
letter. Neither Gettle nor Doheny
were approached, SO far as IS known,
tut their names were mentioned In the
other missives.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-04
Dynamite Found on
Presidential Route

Spokane, WASH, Aug. 4.-@-A
sack Of dynamite and percussion caps
lying near the railroad right-of-way
over which President Roosevelt's train
passed early Saturday led to extreme
precautions Of federal and county Of
ficers to avoid any attempt against
the presidential train.
Roosevelt's train passed over the
spot, two and q half miles southwest
Of Spokane. without any untowarc
incident.
The explosives were discovered by =
Union Pacific agent four days ago,
who became suspicious Of three men
he saw depositing . package. Sighting
through . watch tower door, the agent
directed searchers to the spot where
the cache was hidden IN the brush.
I'VE thought possibly the dynamite
might have been intended for the
presidents train" said Sheriff George
Miles Saturday IN disclosing the dis
covery, and We were taking no
chances"
FOR four days . heavily armed body
OF secret service men and sheriff's
deputies watched the spot.
I'VE kept the guard there" Milsa
said, ito capture the men Il they n
turned for the explosives"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-04
Peace Appears Near
In Stockyard Strike

Chicago, Aug. 4.-RePeace seemed
nearer In the Chicago stockyards
strike Saturday.
Hugh 8. JOHNSON, NRA admins
TRAITOR, remaining here to work on
mediation plan until some compos-
ure" Is attained. said the prospect
for settlement = hopeful" He aban-
doned plans to leave Chicago Friday
night.
FOR five hours Friday johnson
studied . file Of proposals and counter
proposals made during the II days
Of the strike. He would not discuss
his conference with principals IN the
controversy, asserting II might .iln-
peril settlement"
No violence arose . commlasion
merchants resumed tn sale q CON-
mercial cattle.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-04
new ORLEANS Still
Tense IN DEADLOCK
OF POLITICAL war
Mayor Will Enlist TO- Police
II Necessary to Fight
OFF Long

New Orleans, Aug. 4.-R)-Having
announced that he was going fishing,
Senator Huey p. Long Saturday closet
ed himself in the governors mansion
at Baton Rouge, 90 miles north Of the
New Orleans political war zone, while
q state Of deadlock continued on the
local front" where opposing camps Of
state militia and city police have been
drawn up behind their leaders for six
days.
Senator Long declined to talk about
the New Orleans situation at all, but
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, his an
tagonist In the bitter struggle for po-
ltical supremacy In New Orleans. re-
Piled to the continued refusal Of state
authorities to withdraw troops from
the city By threatening to increase the
local police force to 10000 men, II that
number was necessary to match the
strength Of the modified militia.
The troops have already seized the
city voting registration office. but
Walmsley said that no other office
would be yielded to the militia with
out . fight"
"This city Is now prepared to fight
to the last inch Of ground defending
its Independence" he said.
A civil district court order calling
for rehabilitation Of the National
Guard was out against Adjutant Gen.
eral Raymond H. Fleming and SEN
ator Long, but the general, protected
by the bayonets Of his soldiers. re-
manned unserved IN spite OF city
threats Of contempt citations.
Senator Long, who accepted service
In the city suit to dissolve the militia.
went to Baton Rouge Friday and an
ilounced amid much laughter that he
had asked his lieutenant, Gov. o. K.
Allen, to disband the troops and that
the governor told me to 60 to Hell. "
Senator Long then announced he
was going fishing, but instead retired
to the executive mansion. Newsmen
who located him there to find out
"how the fishing was going" were
told they were mot biting"