The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 23, 1930, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune ets) 'N. D,, and entered at the postoffice et Bismarch .Preaident and Put Subscription Rates Payable in Advance carrier, . i iit Fee : Lill cH gggee ial (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives 6MALL, SPENCER on “abla « Incorporat ly G. as Co. CHICAGO NEW YO! Prison Conditions tract not to join the union while remaining in com- Plainants’ service, and to forbid the publishing and cir- culating of lawful arguments and making of lawful and broper speeches advocating such union membership. They say that the effect of the decree, therefore, is that, be- cause complainants’ employes have agreed to work on the nonunion basis, defendants are forbidden for an in- definite time in the future to sy before them any law- ful and proper argument in favor of union membership. “If we so understood the decree, we would not hesitate to modify it, As we said in the Bittner case (15 Fed. Rep. II. 662) there can be no doubt of the right of de- 09 | fendants to use all lawful propaganda to increase their membership. On the other hand, however, this right must be exercised with due regard to the rights of the complainants.” Group Banking Up Again Group banking in a way has come about by growth and evolution and as a natural development of « situation demanding mutual security and financial cooperation. It rather justifies itself by the very fact of its existence. It overrode no economic laws in its birth. It admittedly is serviceable, has in iteelf the elements of protection and by its magnitude is fitted to operate on a regional scale as well as continue community activities. The only arguments against it are fear that it may develope abuses, on the ground that in vast power there is tendency to tyrannize and to arrogate privileges not for the common welfare but for selfish ends. There i:as, therefore, been criticism that the new bank- ing is “un-Anrerican,” as though big things were contrary to the epirit of this nation and this people, or as if fed- Overcrowded. prisons seem to be at the bottom of the | eration of units into the unity of many in one also were many riots and fires recently occurring in penal insti- ‘Most of it has been blamed upon a deplorable condition which should have been corrected years ago. In Columbus where the worst catasthrope of all has Just snuffed out the lives of 300 men, the prison hed 2,000 more than it was built to hold. A terrific indictment of modern prison conditions! ‘What is true of Columbus is true of virtually every state and federal penal institution in the populous sec- tions of the union. In New York, several prisons are relics of the time ‘when little or no attention was paid to reformatory in- stitutions. With all the boasted progress made within the last few years in the methods used in handling crim- inals, there is a question whether we have advanced or have gone back. Crowded prisons afford a poor Jabor- atory to practice some of the methods developed by the penologists. ‘The Columbus fire should put the spotlight of publicity on prison conditions. Since the adoption of the Volstead act, the prisons have become jammed with minor offenders. County jails have Deen used effectively in the case of those sentenced for short terms, but even these are filled now and the pro- Diem is to take care of the thousands of new offenders eing:sent to jail under the Volstead act. Attorney General Mitchell has told congress, that fed- eral prisons are not only filled, but there is no room left for more prisoners, Army camps and posts are being employed to relieve crowded prisons conditions. ‘The states and the nation apparently must launch im- mediately upon an extensive program of prison and jail unless the Columbus incendiarism is to be duplicated in other parts of the country. The Attack on Judge Parker Judge John J. Parker, nominated for an associate justiceship on the supreme bench, has enjoyed such & reputation for liberalism that the stand against him made by the American Federation of Labor is mystify- ing and confusing. The opposition of politicians on the ground that Parker has offended the negro voters of the Republican party by slighting them as a political fac- tor in a manner typical of the South is understandable. It is a purely political opposition and can be dismissed ‘without further ado as lacking the necessary dignity to merit serious consideration. The American Federation of Labor quibble about Parker's fitness is of a different character, even super- @icially considered. In such opposition there might be wome virtue. The senate judiciary committee has seized qupon it and has used it in part as the basis of a vote op- (posing the confirmation of the nominee. ‘The issue raised seems very largely to center in the jquestion whether the judge exercised his sense of human- sity in enjoining West Virginia union miners from picket- ing practices in what is known as the “Red Jacket” cases. "A study of the case hardly justifies so pronounced an essumption. Judge Parker simply affirmed another dudge’s decree and he acted upon the facts of the case as ‘Jaid before him as well as under existing decisions of the supreme court which bound his action. The facts were phot through with testimony of violence actual and {meditated and are indicative of # situation in which fur- ‘and even though the coal company involved may have ‘Deen giving its workers s questionable deal, the judge jcongregated at Marmet, W. Va.; had announced their in- ‘tention of marching across Logan county with the avowed | ® heresy of Americanism. The opposite is, of course, the truth of the matter. Group banking has American pre- cedent in the very formation of the union, inthe vast- ness of its territory and the numbers of its people and in the gigantic enterprises, especially of industry, on every side. The case of group banking was argued last week before the house banking committee by the heads of the two great Northwestern finance gripus of recent formation, Lyman E. Wakefield, of Minneapolis, speaking for the First Bank Stock corporation and E. W. Decker, head of the Northwest Bancorporation, for that organization's view of its soundness in an economic sense. ‘The defense made by these men revealed what there is & tendency to forget, now that a formerly acute condi- tion has passed from the situation, and this is the lesson of ten years—1920-1929—in which 1517 banks in the ninth federal district of the Northwest closed and liquidated with losses to more than 300,000 depositors—obviously a symptom of faultiness with a banking system as then existed, if only from its Siameselike connection with an unsafe economic system, in this case the shot gun and horseback style of agriculture which prevailed in the frontier Northwest and weakened the whole structure of its finance and industry. The Northwest has been described as having too many banks and still being under-banked in the period of stress between 1920 and 1929, The drouth years and the de- flation period that immediately followed proved too great @ strain for the financial fabric to uphold. There had been too great an inflation of land values, which had led to overissue of loans. These became the frozen assets which benumbed many struggling rural banks and then paralyzed and destroyed them. The suffering entailed on farmers by this situation is so recent that it should not be necessary to review it. Out of this condition of stress the group bank system has been evolved, providing for the communities covered the most beneficial features of branch banking without imposing the faults and disadvantages. Branch banking implies central control—control outside of many of the communities served. Group banking preserves the bene- fits of local control and provides regional unity, the two insuring greater security to depositors while assuring borrowers increased fluidity and flexibility of credit. Both security and credit can be shifted like troops on a ‘battle front, to be supplied where the need of cither is most essential. Mr. Wakefield in arguing the group system as justified said that “in adopting the group plan we set up the only machinery that was available to us. Crities have alleged | that it is but an evasion of the ban on branch banking. economical in some instances. Our operations to date have shown that there is a size of community which is too small to justify the maintenance of a separately cap- ‘talized and corporately staffed bank of its own and which the group cannot enter with a unit bank. On the other hand, the larger central bank would provide greater security and better service than the small independent unit.” Group banking, therefore, is to be accepted for the Present as a healthy development of finance and credit with promise of benefit penetrating to every corner. With managements left locally in home hands it ought to thrive without abuse. It is not essentially centralized finance, that bogy of this country from the time of An- drew Jackson. Anyhow it can be tested and judged by results, and there is hardly any doubt that these results will be the product of integrity in unit management teaming with regional administrative wisdom. Probably radio fans will consent to the proposed world radio trust if it will only do something about the static. § gett ERE i E & § i | il ie F ie Today Is the Anniversary of On ‘April 23, 1564, William Shake- spear, English poet and dramatist, was born at Stratford-on-Avon, War- wickshire, England. The whole world now recognizes as a creative genius imagina. Shakespeare unique in all literature. “In It is probable that Shakespeare at- | tion, tended a free grammar school at Stratford and later was employed as an attorney's clerk.. But this is as theoretical as the story that he was a wild young fellow stealing deer. In 1582 he married Ann Hathaway by whom he had three Four rg Peed datgind Blackfriers theater. money terprises to able property in Shakeepeare where became joint of the in his theatrical en- able to buy consider- Stratford. these days of keen: compctition ‘wrote and produced'|whisky and business won't. mix—you most of his plays between the ages of |can't do both—Captain Robert Dol- 26 and 40, some or all of them being |Jar, ship owner. [ _ The Dog and His Shadow! age E gEE HE § g Hi k g | i He ‘ s 2 : i i it BE f ih i & lit F) i it H i E E i Hi HH i aff oT | Murder Rackstairs oii20. by BEGIN HERE TODAY i t 3 4 : B ; i fi f : it . Fr f : i j oF t 1 & LE i i il ! pt i He i FE | ‘ “a—what?” she asked. “Don't pretend innocence, Gigi!” Dundee commanded stern- ly, but his eyes were ailled with sank upon the beautiful old four- poster bed, st ten Neg sree Was 'e great bis’ girl would, Ded abivered, “Ob, why oqa’t us all alone? We haved’t done anything to you" “Doris Matthews has beea mur- fy ANNE AUSTIN “We—we didn’t talk about it—" “Doris did,” Dundee corrected her. “For your 8 Doris begged your mother only night not to drink the stuff any moré; re- fused, in fact, to open a new bot- tle for her. And your moth slapped her for her imper nence!”* “Was that why Abbie slapped her?” Gigi stopped crying and ited fearfully at the detect: “How do you know it was for m:; sake that Doris—?”” “Because Doris said so, {na ter she was writing last night to lst he explained gently. “Has—it been very bad, honey 66 AWFUL!" Gigi began to sob agajo. “Abbie and I had got along toge! pretty well before —before she went abroad for that year with Clorinda, but as soon'as she got back I could tell some- thing was wrong. She acted so peculiar! She was either awfully sentimental about me, or—or hor- ribly cruel. Then—I found out. I—found her that way one morn- ing when I went in to kiss her before she'd got up, and I—I ‘smelled perfume on her breath and I—I knew what was wrong with Ml, tactful. I’ I told her f herself. She—she's had it in for me éver since and I guess I can't keep it out of my eyes when I —-what I think of her “I understand, Gigi. Have yor talked with anyone about this “Only Mrs. Lambert,” Gigi con- fessed miserably. “I can tell her anything, because—because she loves me and I simply adore her. She said Abbie must have got the habit in Paris. It seems that lot of people do it, and—and passionately. “Yes, he did! wanted her to —to drink hetselE” to death! That’s why I hate him—” “Gigi, my deat!” checked her. Ye drew his chair close to the bed and took both her icy IL me quietly what basis you have for such . A SHAMED red dyed her cheeks, but her eyes met his bravely. “I—you'll think I'm a nasty little sneak, but I didn’t mean to pr: 1 was in Tish’s room about week ago, while was taking & bi \y I go in to talk to her while she dresses. Well, I just happened to pick up a book on her bedside table and a—a letter fell out.” “Addressed to Mrs. Lambert?” Dundee cut in sternly. “There wasn't any envelope, and when I was picking it.up 1| ae saw a few words that—that made perfectly furious! So I read . It was from Mr. Crosby!" tt made you furious, Gigit” Dundee asked softly, scarcely daring to breathe. * “Well, the letter was all about the visit he was going Hillerest, and—and rinda. Ob, what he said about Clo ‘was perfectly lovely; that wasn't made me sore. The words that first caught my eye were: ‘—her perfectly impossible moth- ae AUTHOR OF “THE AVENGING PARROT? “THE BLACK PIGEON, ETC. se another mystery was cleared up. It was quite clear now what promise Mrs. Lambert: had \* exacted from Abbie Berkeley the night before, so soon after Seymour Crosby had presented his shame ful gift! Suddenly a monstrous suspicion craghed through Dundee’s mind. “Gigi, tell me the truth: was that the only reason you tried to spill all that perfume last night?” “What—do you meant” she Gasped, her eyes popping. “You were afraid that Seymour Crosby had grown impatient!” he answered with slow emphasis. “You suspected there was poison in that botte, intended for your mother!” “No, no!” Gigi cried, shuddering. “I just thought he was helping her into a drunkard’s grave.” Sudden- ty she laughed shakily. “Don't I sound like a temperance pamphlet? ++. You don’t really think—?" “I'm going to find out!” Dun- er, but perhaps abe will not long|| ki be a handicap. “What!” Dundes ejaculated. bing at ber eyes, “So I read the whole letter, but first I read the Test of that paragraph. It said maybe Abbie thought it was the|*S® smart thing to do. You see, Ab bie’s father drank—a regular old town’s-drunkard, and—and 1 guess Abbie and—and Dick both imberited the craving from him.” “Did your father suspect—?” Dundee hesitated. “I guess he was always afraid of her, and for Dick, too,” Gigi tted . “Not until 1 allow any wines or itquors to be served at dinner, ualess it was a bly then he'd ure had hoped would be a happy and peaceful one will present rather law problems.’ in i i [ i I é g nye TT ial fF i u a, b i i ! | ks : i us: iH i it t i i MW i i B ize if =i ee fl A Th ut a