The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1935, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official News- paper. Published by The Bismarck Trib- une Company, Bismarck, N. D, and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher Daily by carrier, per year ... Daily by mail, per year (in effect him is the important thing, for he constitutes the vast majority. ‘This citizen is likely to come to the conclusion that the president’s plan is the better of the two. In that event congress will hear from him. Fewer Deaths Under Stress One of the oddest things about the depression is the fact that the death rate has been falling. When people fare gcing hungry and are unable to pay for medical care, you would ex- pect more of them to die; on the con- trary, in such a representative state as New York, the death rate has 20! dropped from 12.4 per 1000 inhabit- Daily outside of Bismarck) Daily by mail outside Dakota .. ants in 1929 to 11.1 in 1934, ‘The chief explanation, according to D. J. V. de Porte of the New York Weekly by m , Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ......... weve 150 Weekly by mail in Canada, per FEAT ....sseeeees 2.00 Member of Audit Bureau of ant 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. Problem for People Action by the senate in voting the prevailing wage amendment into the proposed public works bill presents a number of problems, not only to the president but to the American people. Here in North Dakota surveys have been made to catalogue the various jobs which would be of lasting bene- fit and which would, at the same time, offer employment to many of our people. We had rather looked for- ward to the institution of this sys- tem as @ distinct improvement over the relief organization which has spent much and done a relatively ood Job in keeping people alive but which has accomplished little in the way of public improvement. As @ re- sult, the apparent impasse between the president and congress comes as state health department is fairly Simple. It is, he says, “the fact that state and federal governments have assumed ever greater responsibility for maintaining of life among the millions of unemployed and their families.” A sharp commentary on American society, when you stop to think of it— the fact that so many people get bet- ter attention when they are broke than they do when they are self-sup- Porting. Even Criminals Have Limits One of the most significant pass- ages in the story telling how Bruno Hauptmann was transferred to the death house in the New Jersey state prison was the pararaph describing the attitude of the other convicts in that prison upon his arrival. Hauptmann was led through the mess hall as some 600 prisoners were at breakfast. Instantly they stood up to look at him, and a chorus of boos and catcalls resounded through the hall. ‘There could not be more striking evidence of the horror universally in- spired by the crime of which Haupt- mann has been convicted. Convicts in a state prison are not exactly sen- sitive about such things. But the kidnaping and murder of the Lindbergh baby was a thing which a distinct disappointment. ‘That the relief system will be con- tinued, no matter what happens to the public works proposal, is a fore- gone conclusion. The system has been so well established and has taken hold so strongly that we shall have difficulty in getting rid of it when good times return. Most of the states are in little better position to assume the burden now than they were a year ago. As a result, public pressure will be strong enough to force an agree ment on that subject in Washington. Meanwhile, the public should take @ look at the question presented in the argument over the public works bill and reach some sort of @ decision. ‘It will have the deciding voice in the matter and should prepare to make that voice heard. ‘The senate majority would make the new public works scheme a good deal similar in its nature and opera- tion to the first PWA, which was terminated suddenly about a year ago. It produced all sorts of arguments as to what constituted the “prevailing wage,” a difficult thing to determine when the payroll comes from the pub- lic purse, partly because the facts as to what the rate of pay is are too often confused with ideas as tc what they ought to be. ‘The arguments for the senate ac- tion are clear. They are that men who are put to work ought to have more than @ bare subsistence level employment by working at low wages now. For this reason and @ host of others, outraged even their sensibilities. It went beyond the limit, even for the state’s most desperate criminals. Trying Wrong Cure Delaware legislators are reported on the verge of passing a bill which ‘would prohibit public attendance at the floggings of criminals, ‘The legislators say that the state has received unfavorable publicity lately because too much attention has been focused on the whippings which are provided by the state's criminal code. Five youths recently were given from 10 to 20 lashes apiece in below- freezing weather, and the general re- action has been unfavorable. ‘The unfavorable reaction is easy to understand, but the remedy seems a trifle mixed. The theory hack of a Punishment like flogging is that it will have a deterrent effect. Conse- quently, one would suppose, the more Publicity the flogging received, the Greater its effect would be. 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. Italy Assails Abyssinia (Duluth Herald) Tt is strongly probable that Great 1 NEW ,DEAL [ASHINGTO: —BY RODNEY DUTCHE! (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Fast Spending to Be Policy Under Work-Relief Plan . .. Depend on It, Johnson Is Not Slated to Come Back .. . That Famous Roosevelt | Grin Is Fading. ‘Washington, Feb. 25.—A large part of the administration’s relief pro- ram for next winter will of @ glorified CWA. . It won't be called that, of course, because CWA is supposed to have a bad name. And there will be distinct modifications of the huge civil works Program which hastily put 4,000,000 Deere to work in the winter of 1933- Just the same, enough of the ad- ministration’s concealed and only half-formulated plan has leaked out to show that certain fundamentals of theory and practice trace directly back to that great emergency effort. Roosevelt favors the “force ac- count” method over the contract sys- tem in spending most of the $4,000,- 000,000 Congress will give him for work relief in the fiscal year 1935- 36. “Force account” means you go out. with a lot of money and hire a lot of People to do a lot of work. That was what CWA did, as against the slower, much more economical PWA scheme under which all projects were thrown open to competitive bidding and con- tractors were bonded to do the job Jat stipulated cost. tery. If it happens, as is possible, that Italy shall be held back by the gal- those who expect to get jobs under /| that the new system want the higher seale, They are in the minority, when compared with the people as a whole, but they are a large minority and exe tremely vocal. Labor leaders protest that the presi- Nef and relief employment will van- ish from the current scene, They never will if soft jobs are created for hundreds of thousands at relatively high pay. Under the president's plan, the in- centive would be to get off the public Jist and into private employment. Un- der the senate’s scheme the only com- petition would be for places on the public payroll. Ib ! i & FE E ih ert Ht Ni TT i} é i i if it FF g E ge gE t Ht : | ~ 7 F E 4 .| WASTE, GRAFT CERTAIN “Force account” is the fast way to spend money. The money is handed to a mayor, say, for his works or re- lef administration, which proceeds to expand its work force by drawing from relief rolls and starting on cer- tain projects. In such program, talk of self- liquidating projects—such as has come from the White House— is ab- surd. Contractors, instead of draw- ing from relief rolls, would recruit the most skilled crews available. Politics, graft, and waste obvious- ly are unavoidable under force ace count. That’s why administration leaders are divided between those who | want to pump money out rapidly and Stories in STAMPS Z of the minican Republic in 1900 brought that country to a arms with its neighbor, Haitt. The boundary, cried the aroused Haitians, encroached upon their territory. Only a quick disavowal inhabitants of the two West Indian countries. Officially, the blame was placed those who want to be slow and care- ful about it. Roosevelt sides with the first group, recalling the decided fillip which CWA gave to business and in- sisted that all employables be put to Chief departures from former CWA methods will be the $50 a month subsistence wage and greater emphasis on projects which will stimulate industry by greater re- quirement for materials. JOHNSON WON'T BE BACK After General Johnson went away from NRA, there were frequent. re- that sooner or later he would be brought back into the administration. A rumor that he would be utilized in ant things happened while Johnson was head of the NRA are 50 diver- gent from the general’s account that in private he is often accused of a basely. 25 Sundry. 26 Mother. 27 Wands. 28 Lids, 29 Mortar tray. 30 Wrath. 40 Pertaining to wings. 41 Laughter sound, 42 Position. 31 Mother or 43 Astringent. father, 45 Arranged in 32 Donated. layers. 33 Musical note. - 46 Short letter. 38 Note in scale. man to talk with,” one of its mem- bers explained later in private. “You start to say something to him and he interrupts you and talks steadily for five minutes. You can’t inter- rupt the president, of course, and ‘when he bows you out, you're through.” Under-secretary Rex Tugwell holds the recent record for length of a con- versation. After he barged into the /White House to protest the AAA “purge” in his absence, he and Roose- velt talked for two hours and Tug- ‘well was persuaded not to quit. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Gervice, Inc.) FLAPPER. 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