The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1935, Page 4

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Congress Holds Back Roosevelt Tide ‘The present session of congress seems to be fooling the experts almost as badly as the 1934 world series Cooled the sports writers. Drawing analogies between politics ‘and baseball may be slightly irrever- ent—either to politics, or to baseball, as you choose—but the ghost of a parallel is there. ‘The 1034 series was going to be a walkaway for the Tigers. They had the class, the vim, the determina- tion, the what’s-it; the result was all charted in advance. The only thing that went wrong was that nothing happened on the field the way it had been doped to happen, and when the dust had set- tled the Cardinals had the triumph. And in politics? Well, this was the eession in which the administration enjoyed @ record majority. The preai- dent’s popularity was at its peak. Congress would give him just about what he wanted, and no more. His re-election in 1936 was a fore- gone conclusion, and to go against hhim in this session would be a com- paratively painless way of committing Political suicide. So what happened? Well, the big ‘work-relief bill aroused much more opposition than anyone had expected. ‘The senate kicked over the traces on the World Court. The whole legisia- tive machinery got out of gear—tem- Pporarily, at least. Townsend planand bonus bill took on a new aspect. To quote @ recent press dispatch: “The confusion which has become apparent in Democratic ranks has heartened Republicans to such ex- tent that some of the more optimistic are talking now of 1936 instead of 1940. ... The bolder Republicans, in private conversations, say now that perhaps they can make a real fight of it.” : Boiling all this down, we can dis- cover @ tide, or @ combination of ‘tides, setting in directions not fore- seen two months ago. The congress- men have been hearing from home— about old age pensions, about the bonus, about the 30-hour week, about the World Court, about heaven only knows what else; and the voice from home seems to be a bit louder than the voice from the White House, ‘What, then, can we expect? Prob- ably this: That the administration will presently get its first really big test, We shall discover, then, whether the upsurge of popular discontent which expressed itself in the last two elections has reached high-water mark or is still rising; whether this agmjnistration’s left-of-center course is to be followed docilely or only after @ stiff fight. political situation which seemed to have solidified two months ago is revealed as still in a state of flux. ‘Mr. Roosevelt has never been called on for higher qualities of leadership than will be required of him in the immediate future. Call for United Action —which, by the way, was the first full year of repeal. Now there are two possible explan- ations of this fact, neither of them, to our notion, worth a great deal. ‘You might say that a lot of people who used to drink coffee are now drinking alcoholic beverages, and that that is why coffee consumption has dropped. Or—remembering the desperate way in which a man gropes for lots of black coffee on the morn- ing after a thorough bender—you could argue that the decline in coffee consumption last year reflects a simi- lar decline in the drinking of hard 7.20 | liquor. As we say, we don't think much of either explanation. We're Not So Smart ‘The intelligence of the American people is gradually deteriorating at a Tate of about 1 per cent in each gen- eration, according to Dr. Norman E. Himes, Colgate university sociologist, and if the trend continues it will have profound and probably unpieas- ant effects on American democratic society. The trouble, as eugenists have pointed out before, is that people who are well-equipped genetically to en- dow their children with desirable qualities are having fewer children than those less well equipped. “The sources of intelligent leader- ship are gradually drying up,” says Dr. Himes. “The rate of 1 per cent, which seems slow, is, as biological changes go, actually very rapid.” One comfort is that the present trend in birth rates may be only a temporary thing. Individual atti- tudes and social viewpoints have been shifting tremendously in the last few decades; when the shift slows down, the present trend in birth rates may be completely reversed. Refreshing Disgust Once in a while a man will decide, suddenly and unexpectedly, that he is just naturally fed up with things. When he does so, he is more than Ikely to do something very queer; but the very queerness of his action sometimes makes it rather refreshing to the innocent bystander. A sample is the case of a Wash- ington street car motorman who came abruptly to the decision that he didn’t like his work. He reached this deci- ston while piloting his car through crowded traffic along a main street; but having reached it he never hesi- tated, He simply turned to his passengers, said. “To hell with this job,” got off the car and walked away, leaving ‘street car and riders to get home as best they could. ‘This would be an odd sort of world if men generally used that method of giving up a distasteful job. But there is, nevertheless, some- thing humorously appealing about this little story. It gives the imagina- tion something to play with. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they aj with The Tribu: or polic! Literary Snobbery (New York Times) For several years there have been signs that the cult of obscurity in lit- erature is on its way out. James Joyce and Gertrude Stein continue to function, but the latter at least now Seems mainly to be protecting a vested interest, like a losing trolley line that keeps going because it has a franchise. If some enterprising statistician had kept s chart showing the number of new imitators each year, it would un- doubtedly have shown a distinct fall- ing off in 1934. Most of the former cryptologists have now set up as Communists. Far from wanting to be understood only by a select few, or by nobody, they are now writing for the Workers, ‘When the cult of obscurity was at its peak, some of its practitioners told us that what they were really setting understood by the reader, because they didn’t want to go to all that trouble. This would have been easy to believe if they had not published their work, and had not obviously to far more pains to be obscure it could possibly have cost them One suspects that, though less candid than Swift, they too hoped that “where I am not un- derstood, it shall be concluded that THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 THE NEW DEAL [ASHINGTO; —BY RODNEY DUTCHE (Tribune Washington Correspondent) New Dealers in Panic Over Senate Quiz Threat . . . Swope Is Big Shot In Framing of Social Insurance Plan... Ickes’ Stock Rises, With Even Glass Converted. Washington, Feb. 9—Critics of the administration's five billion dollar work-relief bill are considering a pro- posal that will strike terror into the hearts of many New Dealers. The idea is to bring administrators and cabinet members to the Senate floor, where they can be questioned in detail as to administration meas- ures—somewhat after the manner of the British Parliament, A simple change in Senate rules would permit the invitation of high Officials to the chamber for ques- tioning. And it would be difficult for an invited official to refuse with dignity. The chief reason for hesitation in Proposing such a rule has been the certainty that administration forces would combine to bury the resolu- tion in committee. But you're likely to hear from it, “Perhaps it's @ good thing we wouldn't have a chance,” says a Prominent progressive Democrat who has been studying the possibilities. “Too many of them would resign at once if anything like that passed.” 60,000 “COUGHLIN WIRES” Telegraph company officials place the number of World Court telegrams recelved by senators after Father Coughlin’s radio speech at about 60,- 000. That doesn’t come up to the wild tales you've heard of hundreds of thousands, but it's more telegrams than ever landed here before at one time and enough to scare a Senate The Vicious Circle the bonds the city presented on @ PWA loan for a water system. The senator i i i le FE i in to keep him from administering the work relief booming again. After assured F RSE i | fi did Blanton of Texas, who had said Ickes had “filled all our states and ith Republican incom- Ed Taylor of Colorado, House Dem- ocratic whip, had done some quiet and pointed work. He happens to be a close friend of the secretary's. Fy gy Bia oP BE of a lovefest, according to leaks from the secret hearing. Glass, who hates heavy federal spending and is described by Roose- velt as an “unreconstructed rebel,” chuckled heartily as Ickes told how of Lynchburg, Va., had been so much better than it supposed that PWA had made @ $13,000 profit in selling) —especially since most of the mes- sages were signed by from two to a. dozen names. Senator Wagner of New York seems to hold the record, with ap- proximately 10,000 telegrams receiv- ed. But he stuck by the administra- tion and voted against the court, World Court letters at least equal- ed the telegrams in number. SWOPE GETS HIS HAND IN Progressives in Congress profess to see the hand of Gerald Swope, Gen- eral Electric magnate, behind the ad- ministration’s social insurance meas- ures—which they regard as conser- vative. Although they consider Swope a relatively enlightened industrialist, his influence in forming the legis- lation is supposed to have been great- er than they think any industrialist should have been allowed to exert. Swope was on the presidential se- curity committee. Nevertheless, insiders know that the most important influence behind the Wagner-Lewis unemployment insur- something very useful and profound is couched underneath.” So much for what the unintelligible writers got out of it. But the greater mystery was always what their read- ers got of it. Desmond Mc- fe Tiled : a Y | ga g Ff hide BET. ate ile iat i ize? i ; E et i i | 5 fa f : ance bill—whose principles are pre- the administration a g i g 8. g 4 E Z Hf) i ; erry Leader in Drama HORIZO! RIZONTAL 1 Who was the’ author of “The Amazons"? » 18 Old garment, 14 Eagle's nest. 15 Stir. 25 Above, i 27 Light-hatred.. 49 Melody. $0To shatter. 52 Back, 83 Black and blue53 THn. metal To pare. by netionality. 10 Part of a lock. £7 Age, VERTIOAL Hi Pare‘in a. i 50 Thi FY 4 39 Curtain rod. 7, * 45 Ceremony. Conver <8‘"2 Oe A ET a NT a N TE E PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. 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