The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1935, Page 4

{The Bismarck Tribune “Tun STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER ‘ism : . Daily by mail outside of North newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Farming the Farmer If it did not constitute tragedy, the way in “hich the farmers of North Dakota are being “farmed” by the gang which still desperately strives to retain control of the state government would be funny. ‘Take a look at the group which is largely responsible for the recent ac- tions of @ group of men, many of ‘whom are themselves farmers and ‘who certainly give representation in the legislature to a large section of our farm population. Begin with William Langer, & farmer in that he owns « large amount of land, but who never sows ‘® seed or runs @ binder. How he ac- quired the land and became a farmer is @ story in itself, It is sufficient to say that some of the men who once owned these lands still live on them as renters. Pass on to Frank Vogel, school teacher and busted banker. His record ia a long one, too, but it doesn’t con- tain any mention of farming in his mature years, if, indeed, it contains any at all. ‘Take @ look at James Mulloy, not important in himself but a valuable messenger boy for his bosses. He never got those soft hands or those flabby jowls on the business end of a gang plow or in honest labor with a grain shovel, ‘W. J. Flannigan has had enough of contact with labor to get himself designated first as @ labor politician and then as an all-around workman at his chosen trade, He didn’t acquire those nifty clothes from the proceeds of his labor on North Dekota acres. There are others in the same class, but why go on? ‘The obvious fact is that the farm- ers of the state have given over their political heritage to a group of pro- fessional politicians who make no bones of the fact that they are just that and nothing more. Their main virtue is that they can ‘weep salty tears for the farmer— openly and publicly — in copious amounts. But they always have been too busy commiserating with the farmer's ills to do anything about them. As farmers each of these men and thelr cohorts might have just one vir- tue, They might outdo « real farmer in handling @ manure spreader. Boon to the Suffering Let the loud hosannas ring. Someone has at last perfected a method of protecting long-suffering eardrums from the cacophony of pub- Jie speakers who never know when to quit, The identity of this hero is not given in the first announcement of hits device, but he should be ferreted out and accorded the honors due him as a benefactor of the race. Of course it had to come. In chem- istry and politics we are taught that every action has a reaction, and med- Seal science has long affirmed the doctrine that nearly every has s cure. But in spite of have gone along patiently our ability to take it. Too polite to adopt stern methods of protection, we have wished in vain for something plain enough to do the job, yet subtle enough to avoid direct offense. ‘Now we have it in the well-known traffic light, adopted by the Ameri- can Game association for use at its convention in New York, at which a « § in 4 TH i ill THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935 generally with overwhelming disaster. Very little, if anything, has yet been done to avert such a calamity. ‘Only the lack of funds, the depression itself, has succeeded in slowing up this process. But now Senator Wheeler of Mon- tana promises a measure that may savé American business millions of dollars in losses, may spread the profits of industry among more busi- nesses of the same type, and prevent & single crash of immense propor- tions. Senator Wheeler's bill, if passed, would put @ graduated tax on corpo- rations; the larger the capitalization, 00 the higher the tax. With such a pen- alty on hugeness, probably business will find some workable means at which its operations will be both safe and profitable. A Laugh on Canada Just in case North Dakota folks get to feeling that ours are the most pressing problems, it is well for us to take time out and look at conditions created by the relief set-up in Can- ada. From Estevan comes the news, via its local newspaper, that the city fathers who administer the Dominion set-up for helping the needy are on the warpath against none other than our old friend Dan Cupid. Dan, it seems, has done them wrong and they propose to do some- thing about it—just what, they aren't sure. In Canada, as here, @ married man gets more help than one who js single and the councilmen of Estevan have viewed the increasing marriage rate there with great alarm. After inves- tigation they came to the conclusion that some of these weddings were mercenary affairs, designed largely to nick the public pocketbook. So they fumed end fretted right out loud in meeting, asserting that it was an out- rage. The outburst was wholly on a fi- nancial basis. Apparently there was no one to suggest that the moral tone of the Canadian village might be improved by this devotion to Hymen. Editorial Comment Editoriats printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they or disagree with The Tri polictes, Under the Big Top (Williams County Farmers Press) Political quibbling shamefully, y@ distinctly, describes what has been going on in Bismarck since the com- mencement of the legislative session more than a week ago. Elected by a People who had faith in their com- Mon sense and ability, these repre- sentatives have lapsed into a spell of irresponsibility that finds them jump- ing blindly at the crack of the whip manipulated by a disgraced and shop- worn political demogogue. In the governor's chair sits Thomas H. Moodie, elected last fall by the People of North Dakota. His quali- fications to hold office have been questioned, and the gourts—in their own slow manner, it is true—are mov- ing to give a decision in the case. In the meanwhile, however, Attorney General P. O. Sathre, who probably could not be said to have any par- ticular love for Moodie, has opined that Mr. Moodie is legal governor of the state until the courts decide it otherwise. But the house of representatives is not satisfied. Controlled by a major- ity, which is controlled by a caucus, which in turn is controlled by leaders who take their orders from Bill Lan- ger, the house of representatives re- fuses to work. It wants to stall until it knows Moodie’s final status. Critical problems, touching upon a Population crushed by the adversities of the depression are crying for at- tention. Yet, obstructionists in the house of representatives find it more to their pleasure to ignore these prob- lems while they play the part of stub- born school kids. And the taxpayer must pay a couple of thousand dollars ‘8 day for the entertainment whether he likes if or not. Were it possible for the house of Tepresentatives to accomplish any- thing by its actions, it could be par- doned. But no matter how long the house sees fit to indulge in purely po- Utical quibbling, decisio: will not be reached any sooner. Even were Moodie to be ruled out of office subsequently, the change would have no bearing upon anything really con- structive that the legislature might Quite apparently the only objective is to embarrass Mr. Moodie and to play into the hands of the back-stage differentiate obstruction ion. However, it is no of the calibre in our body to be taken into iter, even though he be Mr, 4 the house forgets its po- fight and gets to work, the bet- . The people of North Dakota are | Beginning to Catch Up | 3ASh. SS THE NEW DEAL —BY RODNEY DUTCHE! ‘Hoover’ Dam? Bah! Snorts + + + Good Little Boys in Act. . Stopping Cutting. ‘Washington, Jan. 23. — zona, Read the brief and you'll see why. Hiram Johnson of California, won river. project as Boulder Dam. disgust, named the thing after ver Dam.” it one thing or another for quite while until a change of be “Boulder,” not “Hoover.” development. Biggs, Ickes found in the en tion of Parker Dam purposes: for other public purposes.” which, the brief cohsistently refers BOUQUETS AND BOOTS stray incidents will tell you how it Senator Sherman Minton of ana, a new man, is to quick cash bonus payoff. be especially helpful. Ickes |Senator feel good, Get Bouquets; Boots fc Bad Ones iquets; lor ... Joe Guffey Is Raw With His|°f the three Pennsylvan: . Farley Still Dreams of |tives who voted against the House Secretary Ickes swore softly as he read the gov- ernment’s brief in its Parker Dam in- junction suit against the state of Ari- long, grim fight against the “power trust” for government construction of a huge power project on the Colorado They always referred to the Then a secretary of interior named Ray Lyman Wilbur, to their intense friend of his whom they heartily dis- liked. Wilbur designated it as “Hoo- Most senators went right on call- ing it “Boulder” and you could call ition occurred and Mr. Ickes, not long after he succeeded Wilbur, announced with grim satisfaction that it was going to But recently the governor of Arizona sent the state's army and navy—con- sisting of one bumboat on the Col- orado—to drive federal engineers from. their work on Parker Dam, a PWA project closely related to the larger And the federal government has just sued before the supreme court to enjoin Arizona from interference. In: its brief, signed by Attorney General Cummings and Solicitor General “, . . reregulating the water dis- scharged at Hoover (Boulder) Dam, in such manner as to enable more ef- fective use of said Boulder Dam and After to the dam as “Hoover (Boulder) Dam.” If it had only said “Boulder (Hoover) dam,” Ickes wouldn't be quite so sore. He shows every sign of being “regular” for the administration, which hopes he can The other day Minton had a tele- Phone call from the White House, asking how he would like to address FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: a the Dutchess County Association of New York, a high-hat organization of which Roosevelt is a member and which had invited the president to speak. Flattered, Minton said he Soon he had a letter from the asso- Clation president, saying the White House had designated Minton to speak “for the administration.” That sort of thing usually makes a new as Roosevelt and Secretary Louis Howe well know. On the other hand, there's the case ia, representa- leadership's “gag rule.” They were Promptly relegated to unimportant (Tribune Washington Correspondent) ‘commitees and all three—Ellenbogen, ‘Dunn, and Moritz — landed on the census committee. They feel a bit ‘silly about this, as they were intended to feel, since each comes from the city of Pittsburgh and there won't be another national census until 1940. Some years ago a group of progres- | WATCH YOUR EARS, JOE sives in Congress, led by Senator ‘You have to get used to almost any- a|thing—good and bad—in this admin- istration, but plenty of eyebrows are raised at the spectacle of Senator Joe Guffey, political boss of Pennsylvania, giving instructions to House leaders about the favors or lemons he wants handed to Democratic members of his State's House delegation. a| Guffey doesn’t like Congressman Berlin of Greensburg, Pa. So he had Berlin kept off the powerful House Tules committee. And his office tele- Phoned to departmental officials and the Democratic National Committee @ that Berlin shouldn't get any patron- age and the appointees he had landed in federal jobs should be fired as soon as convenient. Pennsylvania and other congress- men were irritated when they observed Guffey, in full view of the House, leaning over Speaker Byrns’ desk and whispering to that complacent leader about still another member of the 1, 7 Who was president of Harvard for 50 years? 11 Pertaining to the dawn. 12 To change. Being (7 Free from dirt, 18 Cuckoopint. 9 5 4 mimeograph. 23 Third note, — 46 Mother. 24Form of “be.” 48 Vessel. 26 Paper mul- 60 Manifest. berry barks. §1To wander. 29 Harem. 53 Soft mud. 32 Silly. 54 Wigwam. 83Slumbered, 65 Kiln. 84Pertaining § 66 He wasa to wine, well-known 85 Goodby. 86Preposition. 67 He gained 37 Exists, $8 Hour. a — (pl). delegation he didn’t like. It's no new revelation here that Guffey is an even cruder tical manipulator than Jim Farley himself. But now that he is here as a senator and operating so openly, it’s a fair bet. that someone, one days, will be knocking his ears down. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘That Hollywood committee which reported the average annual income of more than half the film actors at Jess than $3,000 mustn’t have had a press agent on the board. ‘The man who has just become father of his fifth set of he'd rather have twins recognition as 11 He devised HORIZONTAL = Answer to Previous Puzsie [ Renowned Educator | VERTICAL 1 Self-possessed. 2To listen. 3 Conjunction, 4 Decorative lonkey. 38 Cask’s ‘metal net. 6 Measures of cloth, 6 Let it stand. 7 Sea eagle. 8 God of war. 9 Rowing implements. 10 Genuine. 43 Fiber knots. 44 Company. 45 Passage. 46 To stir. 47To affirm. 48 Genus of cattle 49 Afternoon meal, 81 To decay. the —— sys 52 Being. 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