The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1935, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune a (Ratablished 1873) state, City and County Offic News- News- per. ar une » Bismi I. Da at the postoffice at Bismarck mail matter. spontaneous pul All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Should Ignore Threats Members of the North Dakota su- preme court, as they begin hearing of the Moodie qualification case today, must be conscious of the wild reports and even threats which have been and are being circulated. Undoubtedly they are aware of the oft-repeated threat that, in the event they decide that Moodie is entitled to sit as governor, they will be im- peached, Just as clearly, it must be obvious to them that these threats are being uttered in an effort to intimidate them, force them into rendering a de- cision on @ purely political basis. This effort to frighten the judges, to force them to abandon the integ- rity without which any public official is nothing, cannot be condemned too severely, It is hard to imagine any- thing less in keeping with American Principle and tradition. Clearly, politics and political con- siderations have no place in deter- mining this case. Either Moodie meets the qualifications of residence set forth by the constitution or he does not, In determining that issue there are precedents to guide the court, for the matters here presented are not entirely new. The only thing the court can honorably do is to go ahead and interpret the law and the facts just as if no wild words had ever been uttered. In no uncertain terms the people went on record for non- Political decisions at the last elec- tion. They are entitled to get what they demand in the only way open to them for adequate and accurate ex- Pression, that of the ballot box. From the standpoint of those guilty of wild mouthings it doubtless appears to be good politics to pursue such tactics but to a normal mind the wis- dom of such @ course seems doubt- * ful. No good citizen can approve of any effort to poison the wells of jus- tice and the vast majority of North Dakotans are good citizens. Members of the court can ignore these attempts to influence them by realizing that stresses easily unsettle weak and flaccid minds. They have| only to remember that large mouths and leather lungs do not speak for all | the people. If they need to look any further they may properly remember that the persons now seeking to in- timidate them are the same ones who, no more than @ few months ago, were conducting ® campaign of villi- fication and propaganda against them because of their decision in the Langer removal case. To the public the current effort to frighten the judges is proof that the People acted wisely in electing to the bench men who at least were not committed in advance to the service of a particular political faction. agin i The Fate of Revolutions It is not so many years since Leo} Kameneff and Gregory Zinovieff were among the greatest names in Soviet Russia, Today these are just two of ® score of men who have pleaded guilty to complicity in a revolution-|CO°PS. Opinions of relatively inex- ary plot against the Soviet regime. pessened cere engineers have been ‘Thus, once again, time fulfills the truth of the saying born during the French revolution—that the revolu- tion always devours its own children. Tt must do so. Any revolution must. Revolution follows its own course. It gets out of human control. Before it is over, some of the men who brought it into being must inevitably | “arr, be crushed before its juggernaut progress. And if that happens to men, it also happens to ideals. The goals which revolution was aimed at get lost in the shuffle just as men do. The thing is incalculable, uncontrollable, ‘unpredictable. or another, or of the humane factors which make the general idea popular. who will really benefit if one of the bad if it weren't for the parents they have to live with. {with them, business standpoint, could not be ex- Just as obviously, it would be a pretty! big headache to the manufacturer. A stiff fight can be expected in con- gress, In the main, the idea looks like an excellent bit of protection for the consumer. It is backed by the con- sumers’ division of the national emer- gency council and the consumers’ ad- visory boards of the AAA and the NRA. The Old Guard Attitude Despite the strong endorsement which the idea of an old age pension has received from all parts of the country, it is interesting to note that there still are persons opposed to the idea in principle. For example, one Eben W. Burn- stead, as executive secretary of the Massachusetts Civic Alliance, has taken the time and trouble to circu- larize the newspapers of the country against the adoption of any pension Plan, Because it represents the ultra-con- servative point of view it is worth study. Entirely too few of the old guard have the courage to speak out in meeting these days. It is a shame, too, because they can at least serve the purpose of picking flaws in what- ever plans are presented. Anyway, here's Mr. Burnstead’s let- ter: “Thanks to the over-extended old age pension plan, of giving away billions of other people's money—it is now apparent that a motive for the transfer of vast funds is covetousness. “All who can capitalize on the aged persons among their rela- tives will be able to cash in through their aged dependents. “Children and grandchildren can send the elderly members of the family to the public pay- house, and get them to buy suto- mobiles, radios, and every desir- able thing that heretofore has ‘been beyond their reach. “With this prospect of addi- tional patronage, it is not to be wondered at that the National Retail Trade association, in con- vention, has endorsed the old age pension and tax on industry's payrolls, apparently without con- cern for the consequences to bread winners now employed by hard pressed industries and rail- roads, and to the unbalanced federal budget. “Will congress adopt such a fantastic payroll for everybody over 65 years of age? It may— when the United States becomes land.” Plain talk, that, and therefore to be commended. It takes no account of the money which dependent old age already is costing us, in one way But it does raise the question of fantastic high-pay pension schemes were adopted. It emphasizes the po- sition of the extreme right in this discussion and thereby lets us know! that such a frame’ of mind still exists in some sections. Perhaps the fact that this protest comes from staid New England has some significance, Quite a few children wouldn't be so Other children wouldn't be so bad if their parents would stay home long enough to live Editorial Comment |; Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree | with The Tribune's polici The Army Engineers (Scranton Star) For many years, the United States Army Engineering Corps has been making surveys of flood control and Power projects, as a part of its mili- tary duties. Following its surveys, it has made exhaustive reports to con- gress concerning the feasibility and practicability of the projects. In many instances, it has offered the opinion, su) by statistics and @ wealth of factual information, that various projects are impractical from an engineering standpoint or, from a pected to justify their cost. During the last few years some of the projects the army engineers warned against have been started for Political reasons—and often public officials in charge, in an effort to laugh off the engineers’ reports, have cast aspersions on the ability of the It is interesting, therefore, to trace the education of any army engineer. He first must graduate from a four- course at West Point, which pro- him with the equivalent of a B. &. degree issued by leading private technical schools. Only the highest ranking students at West Point are i THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1985 That Bubble Dance Again THE NEW DEAL i) [ASHINGTO: Y RODNEY DUTCHE! (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Defeat Is Inevitable for Townsend Plan, but Record Pressure for Bill May Sway Congress’ Pension Action. Washington, Jan. 24—The Town- send plan for old age pensions will be laughed out of Washington and many old hearts probably will be broken in the process, On the other hand, scores of bright young stenographers on Capitol Hill will be darned glad when the old folks stop hoping for that $200 a month. You find them working into the dinner hour, night after night, monot- onously typing off letters advising constituents that the senator or the representative has received their com- munication about the Townsend plan and is giving intense consideration to old age pension proposals, No one quite remembers when s0 many letters and postal cards were coming in support of a bill. Looking over batches of them, you're chiefly impressed by what seems to be the desperate character of a large propor- tion. Pleas of need are interspersed with solemn assurances that the recipients will be able to spend the money, as the Townsend plan would require— and how! | THREATS IN LETTERS More than every other letter bears a threat—“We voted for you in the last election and, if you stand with us now, will do so again.” Few barrages of organized pleas are quite as crude about that as these Townsend letters, so often written by shaky hands, So many threats are bound to have some effect. You will find s substantial — but ineffective and in many cases insincere—bloc of con- gressmen who will tell you they're in favor. Few of them ever expect a chance to vote on the measure, though Congressman John 8. Mc- Groarty of California, who intro- duced it in the house, already claims 95 pledged to back it. Although the high hopes of many of the aged will be dashed, the Town- send agitation may do some good.| The administration and congress may consent to a more liberal old age pen- sion system than they would have considered if there had been no Dr. Townsend, even though they refuse to stand the whole economic system’ on its head at the behest of the doc- tor and his followers. FIGURES JUGGLED WILDLY No one can be quite sure what would happen if the Townsend plan were adopted, but any economist you meet will assure you it would be pret- ty_awful. When it comes to the sales or transactions tax designed to finance palais FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: } the plan, Townsendites seem to leap about from one figure to another and the figures often seem unreliable, ‘When the plan seemed to compre- hend a 10 per cent retail sales tax, it was quickly pointed out that, even on 1929 business, that would amount to but @ fourth of an estimated $20,000,000,000 a year needed to pay the pensions. Somebody else carefully figured out that the plan would mean a 70 per cent everything you bought simple way of criticizing the to say it would take half the national income and give it to 8 or 9 per cent of the population. TRILLIONS . Townsend has been Dr. in sing a 2 sales tax on a trillion dol- and would bring about a seventh of the required funds, one is assured the tax could be increased or that there'd be so much business with the plan in operation that 2 per cent would suffice. Attempts to estimate the “vastly increased business,” higher prices, and avoid if you ever want to find your| way out. Someone suggested recently to Dr. Townsend that there seemed no rea- son why the age limit for pensions shouldn't be reduced from the present age of 60 to 55 or 50. Sure, said Townsend. “Then, eventually, nobody would be working?” “Exactly,” was the reply. Jet the machines do the work.” “We'll THEY'LL TAKE SUBSTITUTE Stamps affixed to many commun- HORIZONTAL 1 Where, does Pope Pius liver 7It is the — residence in the world, 43 Frozen dessert Te] rag fe ed a. 14 Native. >|=(Z/>/<] Le <i — [iri [ery Omi —| 20 Measure of area. 36 Lost to view, 37 Conjunction, foot. 38It is in — 23 Bees’ home. 39 Northeast. 24 Single. things. 40 Skillets, 26 Court. 41 And. 27 Heavy volumé.42To grow dim, 28 Emperors. 43 Black bird of 29 Therefor. the cuckoo 30 Bundle. 31 Courageous. 32 Antler. 34 Finale. 85 Saline 81Rope. =~ 2 Back of the 45 Bones. 46 It has been the home of ing for the best one they could get. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) The Knights of Columbus has a membership of approximately 620,- 000. ‘The average man’s hair grows seven inches annually, Only the female firefly carries the “tail light.” Answer to Previous Puzzle yt. Ah (3 ICILTE TAN BIEISIT IRI since 1377. 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