The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1935, Page 4

tt te a8 SAanan The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper \ THE STATES OLDEST f NEWSPAPER | (Established 1873) Pate, City and County Official News- paper. Bismarck Trib- tne Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck 8 second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN ' President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .. Daily by mail, per year (in Bis- marck) 1.20 mail, per year outside of Bismarck) Daily by mail outsid Dakota ly by ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ........ veces 1.50 Weekly by mail in Canada, per Py 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, Washington’s Example One wonders a little, on Washing- ton’s birthday anniversary, how the Father of His Country would view ‘the current scene. What light would he shed on our problems? How would he view the attitudes and actions of iis successors in American citizen- ship? No estimate is possible, to be sure, but one thing we do know and that is, if Washington were to return to this life today, he would have pa- ‘tience neither with those people who} want to change everything overnight or those who would fight to the last wasp for the things that are. We know that Washington, in the face of present conditions, would dis- play @ commendable spirit of forti- tude; that his efforts would be di- rected toward getting something done rather than in trying to get the other Sellow to do something. The phrase, “let George do it,” did not originate with this first American, Most young Americans get @ dis- ‘torted picture of George Washington early in life and never are able wholly to dispel it. They learn that Wash- ington was the boy who could not tell @ lie about chopping down a cherry tree; that he was a surveyor at 17, @ militia colonel at 19. They learn that he saved the British troops from annihilation in the retreat from Fort Duquesne and their favorite picture of him is that at Valley Forge, rally- ing his men to withstand the deadly dullness and the sapping cold of a northern winter. Thus he is pre- sented to the public as a man of ac- tion, a winner of battles, a glamorous figure. Many never learn that Washington lost more battles than he ever won and few reach the realization that the most important contest in which | he was victor was that over himself. The cherry tree incident cannot be proved, but everything points to the fact that he was extraordinarily truthful. As a result, he probably would have difficulty getting elected ‘to anything in our day. As a young man he had something of a violent temper which occasion- ally got out of hand, but time and the self-discipline of @ strong char- acter brought it under control, made him a temperate man when clear thinking was the greatest need of ‘the nation. Great as was Washington’s useful- ness in the military maneuvers of the Revolution, his value increased rather than diminished when the war was over. It was his calm counsel and gift for leadership which helped make the constitutional convention a suc- cess. It was largely his prestige and Popularity which got the states to approve that document and thus escape the status of 13 individual na- tions. ‘There is no denying Washington’s part in liberating the country from England, and that very fact gives us pause, for Washington was one of the richest men of his day. He and good many others who fought for the principle of freedom might prop- erly have been expected to align themselves with the vested interests as represented by the crown. Instead he risked his neck as well as his for- tune to fight for his ideals, for had the Revolution been unsuccessful he probably would have been convicted of treason, It is evident, therefore, that Washington was in no sense a standpatter. Had he been of this type he would have been a tory. There is no need and less oppor- tunity to emulate Washington's mili- tary deeds but the way is open for us all to imitate the civic virtues What we need is # regeneration of the true American spirit. We could find no better pattern upon which to mold our thoughts and actions than that offered by the father of his coun- try. If enough of us do that, each in his humble way, the future of this nation will continue to be safe. Our School Standards Because some of the classes in Bis- marck high school contain more than 30 pupils, the North Central Associa- tion of Secondary Schools has threat- ened to remove it from the list of first class high schools. Here, as elsewhere, the necessity of reducing expenditures has caused school officials to cut the number of courses offered, forced the teaching of larger classes by reducing the num- ber of instructors. According to present information this condition is so widespread that strict application of the rules by the governing association would wipe hundreds of schools off the accredited Ust and deny to their students the right of entry to the best colleges in this area. Unless the rules are relaxed, at least @ little, many schools which have struggled for advanced positions will lose their standings. The hard- pressed taxpayer is doing about all he can to solve the problem and there is No quick and easy remedy. In Bismarck, for example, we shall soon be faced with a double-barreled financial problem. One is that of keeping our high school in good scholastic standing—which means finding additional money for this purpose—and the other is that of paying the increased cost of operat- ing the new high school building and paying the interest charges on the debt created to build it. ‘When one considers that Bismarck’s school system is in better position than those of most other cities, it seems only @ fair conclusion that a slight reduction in the teaching stand- ards on the part of accrediting bodies is in order. Token of Appreciation Congressman Sam D. McReynolds, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, wants the United States to build a new legation building in Helsingfors, capital city of Finland. At present our legation is housed in an office building attached to a large department store, and the congress- man suggests that we would increase our prestige and pay Finland a deli- cate compliment by spending a little money on more flossy quarters. And why, do you ask, should we bother to pay Finland such a com- pliment? ber that Mttle Finland is the only one of all the European countries owing us money which is doing any- | thing in the matter of payment. Rich England and France have found excellent reasons for refusing to pay; tiny Finland, far from rich, meets each payment as it falls due without a whimper. As a visible symbol of our appre- ciation, we might very properly spend & little money on our legation build- ing at Helsingfors. Editorial Comment Editortats printed below show the trend of thought by other editors They are published without r to whether they agreo or dis: with The Tribune's polici What Was Looked for (New York Times) The House investigating committee has found that there are many dan- gerous Reds and Communists in this country, and also that we are much exposed to “foreign propaganda.” These things it set out to find. If it had not found them, doubtless an- other investigating committee would have been appointed to investigate the investigators. In the nature of the case, most of the evidence sub- mitted to the committee, or sought by it, is of an alarmist nature. Other- wise there would have been no call for it. Quiet citizens going about their daily affairs without seeing a single Red or Communist in the neighborhood had no story to tell which the committee wanted to hear. This is not to say that it merely de- sired to make the country’s flesh creep. It did undoubtedly listen to a great deal of significant and ominous testimony. So far as its inference is, that preparations must be made to defend the Government and public institutions everywhere from violent attacks by men who would overthrow all government, public opinion will be with the committee. The only way to meet force is to do so with a larger force. All who believe in maintaining the Republic as we have known it will agree to that. It is, however, doubtful whether the House committee is justified in attributing so much of this mischief matched by similar domestic produc- tions. It is something that gets into the air, as it were, and infects impa- tient young men and women like in- fluenza. Their cure is not the draft- ing of drastic new laws to “combat” Our great trouble is internal. We should not be seeing so many Reds if widuals and the Govern- Burning lips and a wicked heart are like @ potsherd covered with silver dross.—Proverbs 26:23. ses * Well, you might remem-/|14.. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935 —BY RODNEY DUTCHE (Tribune Washington Correspondent) That Take Profit Out of War Com- mission Silently Fades Out... Baruch Won't Be Handled Wi When Washington Was President Gloves ... Nye Group Out for ai Soul. ‘Washington, Feb. 22.—There’s some talk of sending a search party after the president's take-profit-out-of- war commission appointed several weeks ago with great ballyhoo. But the search probably would be hope- evening when Bernard M. Baruch, the financier, telephoned Senator Van- denberg of the Nye munitions com- ittee and is said to have confessed: “Well, that's about the last you're going to hear from the president's commission, I guess.” Baruch and Gen. Hugh Johnson, the committee’s key men, had just endorsed the McSwain war mobiliza- tion bill before the house military af- fairs committee. The commission it- self included many high government Officials, especially those of the War and Navy departments. It was widely considered a means }of stopping further Nye committee | Tevelations, It was charged with |making a survey and recommenda- tion as to war profits. But the Nye committee rebelled and the commis- sion hasn't been heard of since its appointment. SNARE AND A DELUSION Its ghost, however, seems to hover approvingly over the McSwain bill, which seems to be one of those ad- ministration measures often introd- uced to head off threatened legisla- tion of more drastic nature. The bill would permit the president. to peg prices in wartime or on con- gressional declaration of a war emer- Bency and to commandeer and con- trol material resources and industry. The Nye committee scoffs at the measure as a “blank check” which guarantees high war profits and seems to represent only some ideas Baruch and Johnson had after the last war. Prices usually skyrocket in advance ‘ultelladbdber inl oh allellieltr alll’ Stories in, STAMPS UNGARY'S short-lived Soviet Republic, established shortly after the World War by Bela Kun, has left a weird memento of its existence in a set of five postage stamps. Issued in 1919, the stamps represent five revolu- tionary leaders of Europe—Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Gyorgy Dozsa, Alexander Petofi, and Mar- tinovics. The dread sketches on these stamps have led collectors fo dub the issue “Hungary's Rogues’ Gat lery.” Bela Kun’s power lasted only 143 days, It was known as “Mag- yar Tanacskoztarsasag,” or the Hungarian Soviet Republic, "Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc) m The epitaph was spoken one recent inquiry of war, it is pointed out, and the Mc- |Trotzky,” and another painting be- Swain bill doesn’t even pretend to|cause of a bit of female nudity, Miss curb peacetime profiteering by ship- | Perkins has had removed: builders and munitions makers in} Painting of Lincoln writing Get- a tysburg address ... “Because it ments, » ‘The etn 04 tins might offend visitors from the south.’ featuring the the army's GHG to be at the du Pont | _ Propaganda painting offices in Delaware and the navy's to |Sacco-Vanzetti case. be wherever officers of the “big three” | Bronze scultpure of Negro mother shipbuilders go into a huddle, and child ... Because “people might say she was more partial to Negro labor than to white labor.” Roosevelt himself had ordered the sculpture cast in bronze and Miss Perkins asked for it. She changed her mind, remembering many south- erners would be present for the build- ing’s formal opening, and also the Great roar that came from the south when she remarked it would be a great boon for the boot and shoe in- dustry if more people in the south charges against a wore shoes, byist, and it probably will proceed | (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) against at least three other promi-|———@# —\—_—__—_ nent witnesses in the shipbuilding are suspected of not ‘You may or may not have noticed that C. L. Bardo, president of the National Association of Manufac- MISS PERKINS IS WARY ‘The probable reason Jim Farley didn’t send any of those valuable imperforate stamps to Secretary Frances Perkins was that Miss Per- kins greets gift horses with an inspec- tion of their adenoids and tonsils. 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THE PROOF OF THE EATING I8 |was spoiled with petting. Somehow IN THE PADDING I couldn’t her and turn unharness Modern medical practice, particu-|her into her stall after a night call ithout experience is thi jon, the best authority for Here is a fact which, in my judg- has proved Dancing is both chtef sport and export of South Sea islands. the eyeballs is deficient. That's what makes lope ring your ad- dress for instructions for gaining ‘weight. Lactle Acid ‘Will the lactic acid in sour milk or buttermilk or in sauerkraut irritate icle of yours about angina interested me. X-ray showed I have some enlargement of heart... would the glyceryl trinitrate be good for me? (T. H. 8) ack ly your physician can Judge (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) ‘There are approximately 24,500 of the Communistic party this country. 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