The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1935, Page 4

4 Whe Bismarck Tribune An Ne Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official News- a Paper. Published by The Bismarck Trib- ‘une '. Company, N. D, and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck Advance Daily by carrier, per year .......87.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bis- MNBTCK) oeeessessessscseeees seeee Daily by mail, per year (in state outaide of Bismarck) ......... 5. Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ........ eesess 6.00 Weekly by mailin state, per year 1.00 ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ........00.. 1.50 Weekly by mail in Canada, per YORE oresecerececcerersceeesees 200 Member of Audit Bureaa of a Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press {s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Schools and the Taxpayer Bismarck has been visited recent- ly by delegations of citizens from so-called “school towns” in the state, intent on protecting the interests of institutions threatened with adverse action at the hands of the legisla- lature, ‘Thus there is again placed in issue the whole question of our system of higher education. Next to the op- eration of the common schools this is the most important function of ‘the state government, for upon the success of our schools and colleges we stake a great deal of the future. Whatever tendency may exist to approach the question in a belligerent mood should be discounted. There is no need for fighting in consider- ‘ing this issue, It can be solved prop- erly only by an open-minded approach ‘on the part of all persons interested. First of all, it should be definitely determined just what the various interests are and ascertain if they really are conflicting, Clarification of that matter will do much to take the heat out of the entire issue, Whatever opposition there may be to continued operation of our state teachers colleges is based upon the idea that they constitute too heavy @ burden for the taxpayer, that the path to financial salvation leads to curtailment of expenses and the axe has to be applied somewhere. Bolstering this is the condition at the state hospital for the insane, jammed to the windows with inmates who are handicapped because of crowded conditions. Either this institu- tion must be further expanded or some other place for certain types of Patients must be found. There is logic in the suggestion that, if one ‘or more institutions serve no good purpose on the present basis, their buildings might properly be used for other purposes than those of edu- cation, Opposed to this movement in all of its ramifications are two import- ant classes of people. First among these are the parents of children who wish to attend these institutions as they now are being operated. The presence of a school nearby has made it possible for more than one boy or girl to obtain in- struction above high school grades which would have been denied them had they been forced to go farther away from home. They insist—and quite properly—that educational op- portunity is guaranteed by the con- stitution and that it would be a back- ward step to reduce our educational facilities at a time when a trained and intelligent citizenry is the great- est need of the state and nation. Of secondary interest is the po- sition of businessmen who would find themselves discommoded if not damaged by tue closing of an in- stitution or any major change in the character cf its activities, They are entitled to consideration but their interests pale into insignificance when compared with those of the young man or woman who feels the need for additional information and ® broader outlook and is denied them. The need for a sympathetic ap- proach is demonstrated when one considers the fact that the parents of children very frequently are tax- Payers, too, So are the business in- terests which ise in defense of the present system. It is rather obvious that there is small reason for continuing our sys- tem of higher education on exactly the same basis as at present. Changes are in order and have long been overdue. We must train our young folks not only to be teachers but sacred, If we abandon it we for- sake something which has contribut- ed greatly to the advancement of our state and nation. : Principle and Practice One of the oldest and probably one of the truest of maxims is that those People who are least governed are the best governed. From this, prob- ‘ably, stems the oft-raised protest against government in business, rais- ed intermittently as new governmen- tal activities sre proposed. As a matter of principle the ob- 20] jection is well raised. It seems clear that fair regulation of private busi- ness through the curbing of vicious Practices would have been much bet- ter than entry by the government in to the numerous fields where it now is playing an important role. All but the more advanced of our “so- cial” thinkers can subscribe to this Position in view of the mounting gost of government and its failure to broaden the opportunities of the average individual. But the trouble, all along, has been that those who are most vocal in Support of the theory that govern- ment should stay out of business are the chief violators, Among its exponents are many who have not hesitated to seek governmental ac- tion in the way of tariffs that their Profits might be increased. Others, both before and after condemning government in tusiness, have obtain- ed financial help from the public coffers, Bankers, many of whom have expounded the theory, were among the first to seek help from the RFC, established in the Hoover adminis- tration. All classes are affected by the ten- dency to talk one way and act an- other, as evidenced by a recent poll of engineers and contractors, taken by the engineering News Record, It showed that 85 per cent of them are in favor of the proposed public works Measure now before congress and that they view it as a move toward “recovery rather than relief.” Types of activity favored by them in order were sanitary improvements, Grade crossing elimination, road and street improvements, bridges, flood control and housing. This program, inevitably, means more governmert in business because its ramifications will touch every individual, yet the question now is whether we shall have less of it and confine it to an emergency basis or more of it with every prospect of mak- ing it permanent. It will be worth noting if some of its most enthusias- tic backers are not also among those who prate eternally about govern- ment in business. | 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 policies, CCC Graduates and Army Training (New York Herald-Tribune) The pacifists doubtless will howl when they read of General Mac- Arthur's proposal that the CCC boys who wish it may apply for two months of elementary military training with the idea that they shall form a nuc- leus for a reserve of enlisted men for the army in case of an emergency. The plan involves no compulsion Rather does it offer the opportunity to those who are physically and men- tally qualified to have a brief military training period after they have grad- uated from the COC camps. The experience with the National Army and in the R. O. T. C. camps shows that two months is enough only to teach the simplest rudiments of military drill. There can be no valu- able instruction in the more advanced technical services. As a matter of fact, if the course gets much beyond teaching close-order drill and the ne- cessity of army routine and discipline it will be accomplishing wonders. But the basis of military movements is in- volved in these fundamentals—espe- cially now that. so many avumiliary arms are used in combat. How many recruits can thus be en- rolled for an army reserve is not yet clear. Many of the CCC boys are Physically unfit when first they en- ter the camps. This is due to inaile- quate physical training, to malnutri- tion and to general neglect of health and physique. Experience has shown, however, that they pick up amazingly under the outdoor work and the camp regime. In the CCC camps they have just a taste of military discipline. The administrative head of each camp is an army officer. These men have been 50 well chosen that they have instilled & sense of playing the game—which is merely a form of self-imposed dis- ipline—by the mere force of their own Personalities. An extra two months of camp life would at least give the youngsters the benefits of further training and health-building, even if it would not make them into service- able soldiers. | Continuing the ‘Plowing Under’ Idea | aoe Th ee SES , —BY RODNEY DUTCHE! (Tribune Washington Correspondent) World Court Issue Empty One, But Defeat Is Taken Seriously... Fas- cism Fear Aroused ... Foreign Ef- fect Bad. Washington, Feb. 11—It made hard- ly the slightest difference whether or not this nation entered the World Court. Except for a few rabid isolationists, nearly everyone in Washington agreed on that. The sound and fury in the senate over the issue was a sort of town joke—even on Capitol Hill. But the court's defeat is a matter of grave concern to the New Dealers because of certain menacing shadows it casts before. Mr. Roosevelt, the great popular leader, is confronted by other rabble-rousers with large popular followings of their own. For the first time, the administra- tion has been licked through efforts of a combination of leaders whom its members call “demagogs,” “crack- pots,” “blather-skites” and similarly uncomplimentary names. It may not be the last time. BLAME TRIO FOR DEFEAT ‘There's no question, of course, that Father Coughlin, William Randolph Hearst, and Huey Long defeated the World Court. They aroused masses of voters to fever heat and stirred up the pressure, the tens of thousands of telegrams which pushed Democra- tic senators out of the administra- tion ranks. Liberal New Dealers who fear Fas- cist tendencies in America, although conceding that entry or non-entry into the World Court was utterly un- important, are whispering that here was drummed up the same type of nationalistic fervor which Hitler and Mussolini used so effectively in at- taining power. People generally hadn't been ex- cited about the court, But a straw man was set up and they were whip- ped to a fury against it. And some New Dealers insist it gives them the creeps. Officials figure that “demagogs” such as Coughlin, Long, and Dr. Townsend will be encouraged to new efforts. Townsend, the old age Pension man, had nothing to do with the But thousands of tele- grams against the court contained grim threats similar to those with court fight. which his followers assure congress- men they'll be ‘cleaned out” in 1936 unless they espouse his plan, STRATEGY WAS WRONG If the vote had been day or Saturday instead lowed to go over to Coughlin a chance to take the the court protocols would have been ratified. Administration leaders were orere emi thing not to let the senate get a too early start on the administration's unpopular five-billion-dollar relief bill. Now hardly anybody thinks the confident and felt it would be a idea was so smart. The State Department crowd is dis- couraged—and its feeling is shared at the White House—because of the un- questionable hampering effect the defeat will have on Roosevelt's efforts forced by Fri- of being al- ‘Tuesday, sving Sa for international co-operation and world peace. BAD EFFECT OVERSEAS The munitions control treaty pro- posed by Secretary Hull, the asser. tion of Norman Davis at Geneva that America would “consult” with other nations in efforts to stave off war, responsible for the lukewarmth of the fight for ratification, The plain fact is that the admin- istration had no idea how badly it was going to feel on the morning after. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) t Barbs , o nh Ever since new methods of sci- entific crime detection were adopted, shyster lawyers and Politicians have been worried. * eK The noises of New York have been recorded and put into the corner- stone of & new building there, so that Posterity may have at least one rea- son why New York is no more. xe kK Yale professor has found the germ that causes inflammation of | the brain, popularly termed the “germ of an idea.” zee | Sidney Franklin, American fighter,| sues @ movie firm because one of its films referred to him as a bull throw- er. And he wasn’t even an insur- ance agent, (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) more than 6,000,000 pounds of food- stuffs, nearly 60,000 dozen egges and | icine thousands of blankets from the Kan- Sas emergency relief council during 1934, pt Almost any bid Roosevelt: makes in that direction now will be met by cynical European suggestions that it doesn’t mean anything, because the senate wouldn't support him. —* Needy Kansas families received WHO wa FIRST IN AMERICA ¢ By Joseph Nathan Ka: Author of “Famous First TT first dental college was the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. The Library of Con- gress was established’ by an act appropriating $5000 for the pur- chase of “books for the both Houses of Congress.” Ann Lee led the Shakers in refusing to ald the colonies in the war for independence. 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