The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1935, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1935 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspai | “THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER @Bstablished 1873) State, City and County Official News- paper. Published by The Bismarck Trib- tune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck outside of Bismarck) .. oe Daily by mail outside of North Dakots Weekly by mailinstate, per year 1.00 ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year .........0005 150 ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year ... fo ++ 2.00 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation “Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is 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. Blessing or Disaster? ‘National pride, coupled with lack of knowledge, leads most Americans to the assumption that the majority of the great inventive and research minds are in this country. ‘We have borrowed a good deal of our genius from Europe but much of it has been home grown and we have a better appreciation of local achievements than those which are recorded in far lands. Recently, however, there has arisen in Italy @ man named Strampelli whose researches may force further reorganization of American agricul- ture in much the same manner that the work of our own Luther Burbank opened the way to developments of tremendous importance. Professor Stranypelli, whose first name is Nazareno, is being privately hailed as one of Italy’s greatest bene- actors as @ result of his researches in wheats, Away back in 1900 he started ex- perimenting with wheat strains and has been dt it ever since. Recently he announced the seemingly incredi- ble yield of 131 bushels of wheat per acre on an experimental plot. An American egricultural magazine, doubting the report, sent a repre- sentative to find out about it, He Verified the figures. The basic tools with which Stram- Pelli worked were his knowledge of Plants, native Italian wheats and other strains which he obtained from all over the world. He kept close track of our own American develop- ments and, in addition, imported wheats from Japan and other parts of the orient, from Africa, and from practically every place imaginable. Thousands of “crosses” were dis- carded as useless but others succeed- ed in bringing about increased pro- Guction, including the amazing yield already referred to. The significance of this develop- ment lies in the fact that the aver- age production of American wheat is only 14 bushels per acre. Imagine the introduction of a new variety which would produce almost 10 times that much. Ponder the inevitable consequences of such a development and it will be seen that the adjust- ments already made would seem small in comparison to those which ‘would be necessary. Our agriculture would again have te deal with the problem of plenty, this time presented from a new angle and for an entirely different reason than that which has prevailed these last few years. ‘When we think of technical ad- vances we are likely to consider only industry and *o ignore altogether the changes wrought by scientific thought in the agricultural field. That this is incorrect is amply disclosed by even @ cursory survey of develop. ments. They are responsible for the fact that only a little more than one third of our people now are till- ers of the soil as compared with more than one half a generation ago. The Relief Wage Fight It is becoming increasingly evident, as the battle over the relief bill goes forward at Washington, that Presi- dent Roosevelt is too conservative to suit @ large number of congressmen who attached themselves to his coat- tails in the last election and thereby won the support of the people. ‘Whatever one may think of the New Deal—and some of its gyrations have seemed without rhyme or rea- son—the president has at least refused to adopt in toto the theory that we can lift ourselves by tugging at our own bootstraps. His intelligence pre- vents him from adopting the nos- trums which are so vigorously urged upon him. Even his worst critics agree that he is attempting to restore Prosperity within the framework of ment would pay the “going rate” of wages to persons in all classifica- tions employed under the relief sys- tem. The real question here is not one of wages but of whether we actually de- sire to get rid of the relief system and restore America to a system of private initiative. Clearly we shall be unable to do it if we make relief em- ployment more attractive than pri- vate employment—and that is just what the president's opponents would do. No one who has ever worked in private industry and also under gov- ernment supervision has any doubt 00! on the subject. Government employment, as a rule, is much easier and more pleasant than is generally true of working for @ man who has his own money in- vested and who must obtain results. Government projects usually are less competently managed and there is more opportunity for a loafer to “get by.” If he is getting the same wages for easier work why should anyone attempt to take himself off the relief lst? If we are to get our people back into private employment there must be some incentive for them to act. Unless it is supplied in some manner we shall go on and on with the pro- gram of public expenditures until the Credit of the government 1s broken ard chaos comes upon the country. Perhaps that is just what a great many of the president's opponents want, Commerce and Bayonets Rome dispatches, telling of Italy's expedition against the sem!-civilized people of Ethiopia, give the impres- sion that the quarrel comes about because of border outrages and in- volves the people of these two na- tions alone. Such is not the fact, as any exam- ination of affairs leading up to the Italian punitive expedition will show. The real conflict is one between Italian and other European mer- chants and manufacturers and the ubiquitous Japanese, who recently negotiated treaties with Ethiopia and thereby obtained a foothold on the continent of Africa. This treaty gave s favored position to imports of Japanese goods and Provided for Japanese colonization in Ethiopia and for the establishment there of huge cotton plantations, the soil and climate being adaptable to this purpose. It also inspired the natives with the idea that they are truly independent and need take a back seat for no other country. Italy is involved because she hap-| Pens to be the only European neigh- | bor in good position to pick a quarrel! with her dusky neighbors, Italian! Somaliland bordering on the Ethio- pian frontier. The result is “border, outrages” and a punitive expedition. | intended to put the blacks in their proper place, They are taking their! independence too literally. Something has to be done about it. If the cur-| rent situation were permitted to co] on, the textile mills of Italy, France and England would soon have even Worse competition than they have now. It is bad enough when Japan has to buy her raw cotton. What weuld happen if she had an unlimit- | ed source of cheap, raw cotton makes | them shudder. Hence the resort to bayonets. Editorial Comment | | | Edttorials printed below show the | | | i trend of thought by other edito They are published without r to whether they agree or dis; with The Tribune's p: Restoring a Price Level (Minneapolis Tribune) Much has been said about the money paid to farmers in the form| of adjustment payments for the cur- | tailment of production, and justly so. These payments have been a source | of additional income to farmers that | has been of vast importance in the| past year. In the dry areas they) have acted as drouth insurance and | everywhere they have been reflected | in a needed increase in farm pur-/| chasing power. Payments, it is possible that many have lost sight of the aim of the adjustment program, which was the restoration of a given price level for the benefited products. The level adopted was an average for a period immediately preceding the World war. in the adjustment payments was cal- culated to help re-establish pre-war parity prices. In this connection it is important to observe that 14 basic agricultural the capitalistic system. In fact, that 4s the chief objection which many individuals have to him. ‘The differences between the presi- dent and some of the political mountebanks who rode into office on his popularity is emphasised by the current fight over relief wages. The president wants them to be somewhat lower than those currently paid by private industry in order that men may have an incentive to take them- selyes off the public payroll if they The Audiences Have Grown Bigger; But the Speakers— PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE |S=seeees fo By William Brady, M. D. tha, bem vou con Boney yecae, But in the talk about adjustment bs THE NEW DEAL i} [ASHINGTO: RODNEY DUTCHE! (Tribune Washington Correspondent) If Author of Work Relief Bill Is Hanged, Many Will Have to Die... Measure Is Shaped Up by Numer- ous Hands ... Choice Seems to Be “President or Pork’ Huge Fund, Washington. Feb. 12.—Senator Jim Couzens of Michigan aroused an en- thusiastic curiosity here when he as- serted that whoever wrote the five billion dollar work-relief bill ought to be hanged. “Not in effigy, but Physically,” Couzens explained. Diligent snooping produces evidence that if the idea is to be carried out, the populace will be treated to a spec- tacle akin to a Nazi or Russian purge. Tracing the culprit, thanks to New Deal secrecy and a flood of denials, is even more difficult than finding someone in Washington who private- ly doesn’t say it’s a “bad bill.” But there were at least as many | fingers in the measure—before it was finally polished off for an angry con- gress—as you'll find on the four sides of a bridge table. Couzens said he understood the real authors were Ben Cohen, chief coun- sel for the National Power Policy Committee and probable successor to Ferdinand Pecora on the SEC, and Donald Richberg, whom you all know. But Cohen had nothing to do with ithe bill and Richberg merely gave assent at a conference which con- solved or eliminated by a four-billion dollar work relief scheme in 1935-36. On the basis of explanations from the White House, few believe it can. As for the furore on Capitol Hill, except as it relates to wages and grudges against Ickes, one of the New Dealers who worked on the bill says: congress was s thought too awful to con- template. “And if congress were permitted to earmark the money for specific types of work, Roosevelt's hands would be tied next winter, when the needs of the emergency became more definite- ly outlined, Those of us who think the unemployables can't all be ab- sorbed by the states and the employ- ables all put on work relief with this money realize the bill lets the presi- dent use @ billion or more dollars for straight relief if he wants to and lets him shift the funds around as advis- able when the plan begins to run into trouble.” STUMPS PROGRESSIVES ‘This idea gains strength from the simple fact that in the senate, where the bill has gone after passage by the house, the opposition is unco- ordinated and no one has yet thought of a plausible alternative. Even the senate progressives, who would like to liberalize the thing, haven't yet been able to think of any improvement on Senator La Fol- lette’s idea of increasing the fund to something like 10 billions. No such increase can be passed. And if the proposed administration sidered it. | MANY GET SHOT AT IT This astonishing measure, which in \effect gives the president five billion | dollars to spend at his discretion, was born somewhere between the treas- ury and the budget bureau—which are like ham and eggs since Director Lew Douglas quit the latter—and was then passed with great secrecy around the town. Quite a few changes were made. Harry had an early crack at it. He called in a celebrated New Deal legal wizard, who him make a couple of rather minor altera- tions. You can be sure that when the Part was inserted later, at Roosevelt's insistence. celebrated Dr. Tugwell mulled it over. Finally it got back to the treasury building. There Secretary neutralize the gains somewhat in some fields. ‘The factors which have helped to bring about this rise in prices have been the drouth, the crop curtail- ment effected under the control pro- grams, and the benefits it has paid to farmers. Maintaining these gains in the future will continue to be a prob- lem and one which an increase in do- ee work relief wage of $50 a month is increased, the number of unemploy- Shie funds "wil "be. correspondingly able funds ly diminished. ‘The senate undoubtedly will make some changes in the bill, But if they're important, they'll be knocked out by house and senate administra- tion leaders in conference. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘The town of Marshall, N. C., rigid- ly enforces a municipal ordinance that makes any person, young or old, subject to a $5 fine for tieing « tin can to a dog's tail. J. A. 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