The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1935, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Batablished 1673) land, he was bewildered and a little appalled by what he saw over here. These things being so, his only pos- sible recourse was to turn author and speak his mind about things. It is impossible not to feel a little sympathy for him, because if there possible to understand at a glance it is this America of ours. Some of us, indeed, have lived in it all our lives and still don't under- stand it. It is, all in all, about as amazing a land of contrasts and con- tradictions as human beings ever made. It is a land which professionalizes college athletes and makes heroes out of prise fighters and baseball play- ers; it is also a land which produces scientists like Millikan and Compton and casts a 200-inch telescope to look @t stars that man never saw before. It is the land where the dollar is worshiped, but it is also the land which is willing to go seven or eight billion dollars in the hole in an effort to break its way out of @ trade de- Pression. It ‘ the land of cheap movies, cheaper radio, and “society leaders” who endorse tooth paste for pay— and it is also the land that produces Persons like Jane Addams and gives men like Leopold Stokowski free rein to create beauty. It puts a Huey Long in its senate, and then counter-balances him with a George W. Norris. It is the land of the Lindbergh kidnaping, but it is| also the land which produced Lind-/ bergh himself. It is world-famous as @ land of boasters, but for years it has paid good money to foreign authors and lecturers to tell it what is wrong with it. Tt is the hard-hearted land of| lynchings, and it is the generous land which will send millions of dollars to Japanese earthquake victims. It maintains a gigantic navy and spends millions on aircraft, but it is the only mation brave enough to expose the chicanery of munitions manufac- turers, You could go on like that for an hour. How, indeed, is any foreigner to understand such a people? A compound of wisdom and fool- ishness, of braggadocio and humility, of strength and weakness—we can't ‘understand ourselves, ‘We can only sense that we are a strange people of infinite possibili- ties, who are building a society unlike any other on earth. And our saving grace is the fact that we have the courage and the idealism to insist that it shall also be better than any other. Trial by Attorneys Lawyers who criticize the way news- Papers cover criminal cases usually complain that reporters and editors like to “try the case in the newspa- pers.” Anyone who follows the daily re- ports of the Hauptmann trial must THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935 Building Boom Ahead Housing Administrator James A. Moffett tells the Middle Atlantic Re- tail Lumbermen’s association that the housing administration is laying the Groundwork for “sueh a revival of building construction as this country has rarely seen.” ‘The results to date have hardly been spectacular, and one can only hope that future developments will be of a kind to fulfill Mr. Moffett's prediction. Tt is certain that full recovery waits on a revival of the building trades; certain, also, that a tremendous ‘amount of work is waiting for these trades, if only some way can be found of getting it started. Mr. Moffett warns that we cannot expect too much right at first. Ulti- mately, he is confident, the long- range program to reform methods of .00| home mortgage financing will release , | @ flood of building orders. If he is correct, a great reservoir of sales and jobs should presently be tapped. ‘... Which Is Absurd’ In the days when we struggled .| through geometry, we all met that method of disproof which led ap to a final conclusion “, , . which is ab- surd.” The kind of dictatorship which in- ‘sists that people shall have only such Plays, books, movies, and newspapers as the rulers believe are best for them, always runs afoul of these ab- surdities in wholesale lots. Two shining examples recently cropped up. In Russia there was a public scandal over the fact that a radio station was caught red-handed broadcasting negro spirituals! Some- body saw insidious counter-revolu- tionary propaganda in the haunting melodies and sweet chords that had wandered so far from their home in the Old South. And in Germany, a movie film, which was immensely popular in Ger- many in 1926, is today barred as “not coinciding with world philosophy of the present day in Germany.” It was Charlie Chaplin's “The Gold Rush!” If a man is @ political dictator, he inevitably thinks he knows better than the rest of us what we ought to see, and read, and hear. Which is absurd. After talking all day to anyone who will listen to them, many people com- plain there is no free speech any longer. ‘Whether one considers the world round, flat, square or crooked de- pends on the part he has bumped against, Simile: As dumb as the girl who cleaned out the sausage when her ma. told her to cook it the same as fish, Speaking of competition betwcen | the radio and the press, did you ever | see your name in print in radio? The broad, general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him mad. Editorial Comment | Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, hey are published without regard to whether they agreo or disagree with The Tribune's policics. i | ‘Destroy the Confidence’ (Valley City Times Record) ‘The impeachment resolution passed | by the House yesterday uses the fol- lowing language, “And whereas, the belief in the existence of impeach- Ment is evidenced by written records, ‘common reports and public charges so extensive as to militate against and destroy the confidence of the people in the affairs of the state.” Whoever wrote that certainly shows ® strange lack of perception, or else is very careless indeed about sticking to the facts. If there is any one thing which has operated to destroy the con- fidence of the people in the affairs of the state it is such horse-play as has been carried on by the House majority since the legislative session began. ‘Confidence has indeed been destroy- ed. Confidence that we could select &@ group of men for service at Bis- marck who would pay some heed to the need of state affairs to be conduct- led reasonably and fairly has been Iknocked cold. Confidence that in the face of the urgent problems facing ‘us, many of them involving bitter per- sonal suffering of individuals, most any group of men regardless of party or faction would see the necessity of doing whatever could be done to allev- jate the distress has been proved Confidence that in the serious situation now upon us we these men to turn a deaf ear to the commands of discredited now promises to be barren of any useful results. We have heard of the iniquity of men cept an country. | At the Crossroads’ | THE NEW DEAL [ASHINGTO: —BY RODNEY DUTCHE (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Faint Rumbles Heard from Artsona as Liberty Leaguers Peer Through Gloom for 1936 Challenger for Roosevelt. Washington, Jan. 25—It’s much too early to predict that Lew Douglas will be the American Liberty League's candidate for the presidency in 1936. It’s even too early to predict that the league will have any candidate at all. But there's a bit of such talk in the air. Lewis, who was Roosevelt's direc- tor of the budget until he just couldn't stand the New Deal spending po- licies any longer, is not uninterested in the possibility that there may be a demand for a more conservative Democratic candidate than Roosevelt. He has such a phobia against infla- tion—to which he believes present po- licies must lead—that he would ac- opportunity to save the Some of the Liberty League back- ers look favorably on Douglas, mean- while, as an‘ outstanding advocate of sound money, balanced budgets, and Teduced government expenses. The conservative element which once dominated the Democratic par- ty would just love to replace Roosee velt with some such man as the Ari- zonan. Nothing will come of all this, of course, unless it seems like a good idea at the time. Right now, no one has any really hot hope that Roose- velt can be licked. TWO-CENT HOWLS STILLED The bank check tax has and there’s no talk of renewing it—) perhaps because so many members of congress have checking accounts and considered it a nuisance, Roosevelt regretted to see it go and may ask for it back. It’s good for about $50,000,000 a year and he feels it hits the people who can best stand it. “But for some reason I can’t un- derstand,” he remarked, “there's an awful howl all over the country at that two cents.” NO MORE KID! iG FIGURES By and large, New Dealers recall all the ridicule heaped on Hoover administration leaders when they tried to do tricks with depression figures. By a noble effort, the New Dealers refrain from doing the same thing. But not always. The notorious Farley postal “surplus” was one example of wishful statistics, Lately an especially prominent official has produced a table pur- porting to show that there are now fewer people on relief than a year ago. But the adminte- tration probably won't make use of these figures, They seem tee raw. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: mating that in addition to 11,663,- 000 at this time, federal money paid to CWA make what seems to them the im- Ueenctord argument that there are now the fact that the number of unem- Ployed increased in 1934, REDS GET SUPPORT tant minority groups to cooperate with Communist leaders was demon- strated at the Unemployment Insur- ance 3,000 delegates who came to demand Passage of the Lundeen bill for pay- ment of unemployment insurance to all unemployed. Seen A Ss crore nr ne ET oc Pn) ) EI 12 to 14 million of their dependents. But although there were 15,000,000 on relief just before CWA became effective, there are now more than 19,000,000. represented. And several organiza- tions of professional people. Mary Van Kleeck, a member of the Hoover committee on unemployment and business cycles, was an important figure and the chairman, F. Elmer Brown, was from the New York Typo- graphical Union. meeting to stir up employed and un- employed workers for the Lundeen| bill, however—which means cash ben-| efits for all unemployed of all descrip- tion, equal to average local wages! and in no case less than $10 a week, with $3 for each dependent. ‘The idea was arrived at by esti-|such “quack remedies” as the Town- send plan, Sinclair's EPIC, Father Coughlin’s program, and Huey Long’s “Share-the-Wealth” scheme, (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) actually on relief rolls last year workers was supporting from Believed a record price, $100 was Paid for a single apple at Grand Coulee Dam Site, Washington. The sum was expended by a contracting firm during a Parent-Teacher asso- ciation drive for school supplies money, And most New Dealers refused to wer persons on relief in the face of An afternoon newspaper in 8&t. Petersburg, Fla., is free every day bee) .| which the sun does not show itsel Increasing tendency of other mill: before the paper goes te ‘The oldest known printed docu- ment was printed from wood blocks by Wang Chieh, @ Chinese, in 868 A.D. here, which drew about Socialist and A. F. of L. locals were Miss) But the driving and organizing force ap| to be supplied chiefly by the Communists. Her- bert Benjamin, veteran leader of hunger marches and unemployed demonstrations, was the keynoter. Earl Browder, chief of the Com- munist Party in this country, was a star attraction, and others to be seen included such well- known Communists as Israel Amter and Mike Gold. 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They even recognise that their Handicap is a disease and that it is wise to leave the management, treatment or cor- proved business, rection of the trouble in the hands about hubby's feeling so good, of of the doctor; that even a big fat ‘ic hooey about late. zg i 8 i i 7 ii Hi z i e if a such theaters as were open already, skunk, hat Kay dangerous 1 Cee eae a kes eh reer ee pees ponent ce eee ceeng wee Cover ao te ean) Sti rst an noe wae Sea ae earn arate” eha| tance, Ske hed eoen tas eong fred heard Earl Harrow places she had read of and the peo-|before in many dangerous situa- soy in so many words that ple she saw and was told she would | tions, but here in these suave, smart | he was in with her, it was the ‘meet when the time came were . . .| surroundings it impressed her more surprise of the many she many of them, the people she had |than over. 1” abe eee eeTrienced in 90 short a time, thought of as legendary fig- ed. going te happen’ —— Lor tetorested in Ber, Central Park Harrow pointed|,. “Nick's to slag | purely casual 5 on an ea kanel eat oe through his HT he or The evald have belles one hid familar (9, Ms gorillas Takes, any quick [But 0 know that ke was in love g ses eeeay n|moves. Your play is to ease into| with her was another matter, ros a rising film star. “In town th) ladies’ room, sister.” And to learn it at « time such Sprang en ‘Now this! She was a long time finding Kay remarked incredulously: ow. Only make it smooth [an enewer. “At Inst ake anit: eS ” “I may seem funny, Earl, and slinky, with black hair?” Kay rose, softly, and maybe—anappreciative, T'm not, Harrow smiled. “A merry of lexcused herself. falking across} you know. not, It’s just that it’s years from now le may -}the room she almost to} all so bewildering. 1—' ing ‘Kay Owen’: 7 thought | hear the sedden ereck & pistol,| “You don't have to tell me,” he Pa o is Hiroe woald' masiotals: his poise | me.” and Wouldn't it be wondectal?” Kay was — sosing Ban terror eslka nebo “T think it would be rather nice,” mpeg ng en sathonels eee et pecnaeyy peodpows. extn and at night was usually tired,| nothing had happened. Nick Cas- it battered down the re- bed did not see as much of him and his party were mi sistance, the suspicion that had been seaste i She wondered | Pheic" own business at a fo her muted Srom time te time; and tention. Harrow was a clever and a ace fors of the [Ponies red emotions more subtle man, and undeniably, no mat-1195 i ‘said. ‘Harrow leaned over kissed ter the circumstances, a charming|be7s’ta a mint, The signal wil Iacwovt an'be bad Ligsod har the Boris Warren called several times| ise"inte the ‘Thea | gecicallyy om the foscheads'* Fin a ig omen Pal ‘we leave. hn, gh be pang yrener breed tarned away, alone and go {c wand] —- with plenty ef rein-|tried breath, silent walks with her, She Tad eyes before the blonde, gent how wins gun to inet feeling disheveled evening dress, m calmness there was a seething fu- feame into the place tittering to her” thing, No mat ‘what Tsay or de, tile restinessness, self and skipped up to the bar. 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In the first place, Z geal a reality im the skvecrerers; ful, and sometimes a lit ieain® have come up here,’ Finally, ‘stopped in the|Feal trouble of any . Herrom are getting Fifties acd went into e swanky mod- Saat os, ele Tee fom teat stone, aren’s yout, You're net being i fl Li i =, e it. And he’d probably the i ara i entrances of other If Kay | vo event any cegrete Kay eaid.|thirty-five dollars a week fetes oP iting ex ts Som snes ted 3 beac ay Se for a furtive at re Sees es aur a woddeny sumed fo items Me eves fay ‘uta And P= 0 Sr Ip deat knew.” she sald slow. wc gery oem al ark conan eck Tera r Bf thy menor, lock nd da, | eoe7ing hee eng fom to tie you down the way T did acd his small st tee . 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