The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1935, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) VSS rcatect sentdadeadht an Btate, City and County Official News- EE Published by The Bismarck Trib- ‘une Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ag second class mail matter. QBORGE D. MANN _ Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (in Bis- marck) ......... seeneeeeee sesees 1. Daily by mail, per year (in state ‘Weekly by , ear 1.00 ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year .......+0- ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per 0 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. Bigger But Not Better Destruction of the giant dirigible Macon writes another tragic and per- haps the last chapter in the history of America’s lighter-than-air craft. It may be that never again will this country sponsor another queen of the skies to take the place of those which have brought us such misery and disillusion. Our experience in the dirigible field has been distinctly bad. The Shenan- doah, the Akron and now the Macon have taught us that bigger is not necessarily better and that we lack whatever it takes to make such a ven- ‘ture successful—at least on the basis upon which we have essayed it. ‘The picture is further darkened by the experience of England, which abandoned experiments with dirigibles after two great tragedies. Germany alone has been successful in this field. Her skill in constructing and oper- ating such craft has proved superior to ours, Either that or her judgment 4s better. Some facts may be deduced from the history of the Zeppelins, as the German balloons are known, 8s com- Pared with our own. The Graf Zep- Pelin, for example, has flown more than a million miles, It has invaded the polar regions and the tropics. It has flown around the world, here, there and everywhere and still is in service. It has been a distinct suc- cess and the presumption is that it has encountered and conquered con- ditions similar to those which result- ed in the destruction of our ships. Certainly it isn’t all luck. Our experience with the Los An- geles, received from Germany as one of the war reparations, also teaches us something. It was built at Fried- richshaven and flown to this country. It has had a long and eventful career and still is available for service. Con- citions which destroyed the Shenan- coah, Akron and Macon were not too strong for it. While in service with our navy, it was commanded by American officers aud manned by American sailors. Thus ‘was demonstrated that we have the skill necessary for successful opera- tion of such vessels. On this basis it would seem that errors in design or faulty construction have been the cause of this series of disasters. In this connection, it should not be overlooked that there was some ques- tion about the Macon before she went into service. Charges were made that she was a jerrybuilt craft, that many of the specifications had been ig- nored in her construction. The plain inference, at the time, was that she had been “skimped” to fatten the profits of the company which built her. These speculations recur with startling force, now that she also has come to an untimely end. ‘The pressure now will be to aban- don further experiments in this field— certainly the record is discouraging enough—yet there is no good reason to abandon all hope. America, of all the nations, is best endowed by nature to continue in this field. Our military position is such that the dirigible could be of more use to us than to any other nation. In addition we have the only com- mercial supply of helium gas in the world. Thus we eliminate at the be- ginning the tremendous hazard of destruction by fire which constantly threatens hydrogen-filled bags. The plain fact of the case may be that our lighter-than-sir aviation has at Trenton, unless the courts inter- fere, ‘The verdict brings to an end an- other chapter in the grisly story of what may properly be called the “crime of the century.” Certainly no other single offense in our time has received such tremendous attention. From the time the babe was dis- covered missing and through the frantic effort to contact the kidnapers, public attention was riveted upon this case. The heart of the people went out to the bereaved parents, not so much because of their Prominence as because they came to 20 Tepresent the typical American father and mother. On through the payment of the ransom money and the failure to ob- tain return of their child, the story Tuns like a fairy tale. Even now the .§0 | whole thing sounds like a work of fic- tion. ‘Then came the finding of the slain infant’s body and the order to fed- eral sleuths from President Hoover that they make a lifetime task, if need be, of the job of finding the slayer. Came another period of calm which was shattered by the arrest of Haupt- mann, detected by a filling station operator when he passed a gold ran- som note. The rest of the story has recently been told. It reached its climax Wed- nesday night in that rural New Jersey courtroom when the defendant was adjudged guilty. He had received every safeguard provided by law, in- cluding that greatest safeguard of all, trial by jury, and there remained no question in the minds of those charged with making the decision. ‘The probability is that there will be other chapters. An appeal is cer- tain. The defendant is entitled to take advantage of every opportunity which the courts offer him. No good citizen would deny him that, even though he stands convicted of ‘as loathsome a crime as America has known. He deserved no mercy and the jury showed him none, but the ends of justice require that the for- malities be observed and that if any question of doubt remains it should be resolved in the defendant's favor. But in the end, there is every reason to believe Hauptmann will make that last, slow march which will spell “finis” for him. There is no public rejoicing at the verdict. There will be none when the last chapter is written. To take a man’s life is too serious a matter for that. But there will be quiet satisfaction that justice has been done, tinged with sadness that the whole affair had to happen at all, for sadness has been the dominating motif of this whole them from hectic beginning to grisly jend. 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, Patience and Magnanimity (New York Times) For seventy years students and his- torians have been searching all the Lincoln records as with a lighted can- dle. They have discovered many things of which his contemporaries were ignorant. They have corrected or di several Lincoln legends. His qualities as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy have passed through sharp scrutiny and revision. His sagacity as a politican has been established at a level higher than most of the men of his time suspect- ed, There could not fail to have been, in all this time of inquiry and recol- lection, a surer and fuller drawing of the real Lincoln. But no new infor- mation, no readings from private let- ters and diaries or archives long held secret have caused a change in the appreciation of his fundamental and individual traits of character. ‘These remain essentially unchanged. Chief among them may be placed his unfailing patience and his spontane- ous magnanimity. “He knew to bide his time.” He could not be hurred in- to the Proclamation of Emancipation before he felt that the time was ripe for it, Patient with the course of events, he was also patient with stupid or perverse men. They amused him, or sank him on occasion into deeper melancholy, but they never brought from him a flash of anger nor did he ever fail in treating his political op- ponents and public enemies with con- sideration. Not in one of his speeches or public messages or, so far as we know, in a private letter, did he ever indulge in violent or revengeful lan- guage about the men who, he believed, were bent upon breaking up the Union. He opposed them, he fought them, but he did not rail at them. In wonderful contrast with some utter- ances that came from the South, his ‘words the Confederacy play of his large and ,humane im- Pulses, It is this Lincoln character, as well 1 THE NEW DEAL IN [ASHINGTO —BY RODNEY DUTCHE (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Senators Put Their X-ray on Admiral Have Bad Advisers... . Inquiry No Dirt to Report. ‘Washington, Feb. 15.—Certain sen- ators are taking a close squint at Ad- miral Christian Joy Peoples. Peoples has teen reported as likely to have a large finger in distribution |||0£ the $4,000,000.000 work relief fund. The administration sent him to Cap- itol Hill to explain, after a fashion, its bill appropriating that sum. He has a long and honorable record as the navy’s paymaster and buyer. For more than a year, as head of the treasury’s procurement section, he has bought government supplies and built government buildings. He has been described as “Roose- velt’s closest friend in the navy” — the friendship dates back to war-time — and is honest, amiable, and well- liked. But many senators, already shocked at the proposal to hand all that money to Roosevelt ‘vith no strings attached, are prone to check up carefully on anyone likely to be a key figure in doling out the cash. They know poll- ticlans, contractors, and more grafters are in a lather of anticipation. LINKED WITH LOBBY It was unfortunate for Peoples that @ lobbyist’s confidential memorandum laid before the Senate munitions com- mittee revealed the admiral as con- sultant in a plan to bombard Roose- velt with telegrams urging him to get. the navy to rescind its rejection of bids by the Bath (Me.) Iron Works for two destroyers. Certain persons—and I'd hate to say they weren't admirers of “Hon- est Harold Ickes”—began to whisper that Peoples might be @ bit too sus- ceptible to the wiles of and lobbyists and that perhaps “the peo- | ple around Peoples” didn’t comprise the best imaginable staff. They pointed out that in secret testimony before the Glass sub- committee. Peoples had described an assistant, Max Dunning, as “® very able engineer’ who had signed” from the PWA housing di- vision “to accept an appointment in the procurement division.” RECORD ISN'T DAZZLING bears as a victim of the cleanout in the PWA housing division which lowed an investigation and by Ickes that the division, made i cain gic cong MRE eta Darkest Africa ‘The procurement division early’ obtained $114,000,000 from PWA for federal buildings and the record as of Jan. 1 showed 44 per cent of that under contract as compared with 96 Per cent of funds allotted for agri- culture, 94 per cent for both justice and labor, 96 per cent for navy, 8&3 per cent for commerce, and 70 per cent for Ickes’ Interior Department. X-RAY ON FARLEY Still other records being contem- Plated on Capitol Hill seem to go ‘Touches Mr. Farley... but There’s|@ long way toward explaining recent rumors here that Louis Glavis, chief investigator for PWA and Secretary Ickes, had “investigated” Postmaster General Farley—to Farley's intense indignation. Last summer Glavis and his men investigated the $4,250,000 post-office annex building and the $6,000,000) federal courts building in New York. ‘The General Builders’ Supply Cor- poration had sold about $195,000 of cement, plaster, brick, and terra cotta blocks to the contractor or sub- contractors for the annex job and about $185,000 of materials for the federal courts job. General Builders’ Supply is known in New York as “Farley's company” and the postmaster general, although he resigned as its president, was still a stockholder and presumably in con-! trol. BIDS ARE SIFTED The Ickes-Giavis forces were es- Pecially interested in the bids on the ‘The procurement division had asked for bids four times. A company which had refused to buy supplies from the Farley company was low on the second and third bids, which were reject A company which had been doing with the Farley concern jor years was low on the fourth bid and won the contract. The News-Record charged g | ry with “chiseling” or “a deliberate at- tempt to eliminate s bidder.” GLAVIS STAYS MUM Other subsequent controversies as to specifications and materials were also investigated. But there's no evidence publicly available to show that Glavis found anything wrong, and Glavis won't comment. One hears talk on Capitol Hill of ® proposal in the senate that treas- ury and PWA records bearing on the investigation be revealed. (Copyright, 193, NEA Service, Inc.) Munitions ate up most of the $250,- pica expended during the World rar. 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