The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1935, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1935 rhe Fears ae"? DOLITICS Sheen See Your Personal Health THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ot the Oy By William Brady, M. D. Established 1873) Dam ae uA Mads MON oak ° 9 e E to health but not State, City and County Official Newspaper Nation ( ‘a tal : , . Dr, Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but, Sas “he ———e—eEeeee aa S pi mee surest, ae, Set bee TE ye sxc Published by The Bismarck Trib pany, Bis- t : ” . _ a wa & stamped, self-addressed envelope. George D, Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W. Simons question of Archie O. Johnson a @ecretary and Bus, Mer. Editor heal association, and in reply received a stereotyped vidual’s signature, running as follows: Subscription Rates Payable in Advance ing their families back home from abroad upon retire- Daily by carrier, per year ... ment, a showdown between the administration and the Daily by mail, per year (in Bi No. 1 keeper of the nation’s purse seemed inevitable. eSALTara ber Seer ot reve, Coe Ce ae r NF ee ee eee by mail outside of North Dakota . ‘The comptroller general, one-time secretary to Sena- Wreeuly by mail in state, per year ..... tor Hone te bianre and eS ek vid f North . lef ts offic! fore Weekly by mail outside o! Dakota, eg A 8 tad With the White House aligned against him in the ‘Swanson incident, however, it was a different story. Or 80 it seemed at the time. . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation COMMITTEE HEARINGS It is rather generally agreed now that had the Member of The Associated Press troversy been taken to the floor of congress, the The Associated Press ie exclusively entitled to the! trolier general would have won easily. This view 1 dispatch at Q gl snot SPareite creditee inthis rewapaner ana ‘also born out by the secretary's own attitude when he ap- the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. | peared before a committee of the house to urge @ change All rights of republication of all other matter herein aré/in the law. aed He not only denied that he was attacking the gen- eral accounting office, but went at length to explain + - that as a member of the senate he voted to set it up- Inspiration for Today and had nothing but the highest respect for both MeCar! Then said He unto them, Nation shall rise institution. agains kingdom against kingdi As a matter of fact, it was McCarl’s suggestion to aesiie = _ om.— | |Swanson which had much to do with settling the con- - eas eee troversy. The naval secretary made a personal appear- A great war leaves the country with three ance before a sub-committee of the house appropriations committee to urge that the law be clarified. MMT ve Gono ‘This is to be done. A rider is to be attached to the z FB i 33 B¢ eli Navy's appropriation bill for the coming fiscal year au- ‘@ | thorizing the secretary to make such expenditures. The Strength From the Sea and Sky “Doesn't it seem,” asks a reader, “as though the president might better stay in Washington just now instead of going off on a fishing trip? Doesn't it give the impression that he is indif- ferent to the plight of the nation and the jam fn congress?” The answer to this forthright question would seem to be “No.” If leadership counts for anything, the American people may get far more benefit from this brief vacation than the president. It is hard to imagine the pressure which is exerted upon the occupant of the president’s chair. He is beset from all sides, more by real or alleged friends than by his enemies, The latter can be barred out, but the former must be seen, frequently in droves. In view of things which have been going on in Washington, it would be impossible for the average individual to maintain his perspective. There are signs that the president has had dif- ficulty in doing so. Faced with conflicting re- ports and antagonistic plans, it is difficult to view the current Washington situation coolly and calmly, unless one gets away from it. Sitting in a fishing boat, alone with his thoughts and the sun, the sea and the sky, Mr. Roosevelt should draw new strength and new inspiration from the majesty of nature. He should be able to think a great many things through—which he apparently has been unable to do recently. He should return to Washington with his own ideas straightened out in his mind and the new energy and force necessary to bring some sort of cohesion into the national picture. If he does this, his little vacation will be a blessing to us all, for lack of forceful leadership has been one of our national problems during the Jast two months, Big bankers and other major executives have laid down the principle that too long hours of work, when one is dealing with big problems, contributes to mistakes. And the ordinary president puts in at least a 14-hour day. Open Season for Bandits ‘Two banks have been robbed in North Dakota with- fm the last month—proof that the open season for such banditry is with us. It also should mark the opening of the season ON bandits, for such raids constitute a distinct threat to the lives of our citizens and the well-being of the state. To be sure, the amounts of money taken have not fbeen large and no one has been killed yet this year, but the toll of bank robberies in recent years has been heavy both in lives and money, Not less than half a dozen North Dakotans have been killed during such raids in the last few years and the number of arrests and convictions has been all too few. As a result, many bankers do business with a con- stant feeling of fear in their hearts and the cost of insur- ‘ance or other protection constitutes a heavy drain upon the business. ‘What to do about it is a problem. Our law-enforce- gent agencies have been pretty helpless to combat bank faiders who strike and get swiftly away. By the time they are apprised of the crime and organize to begin pursuit, the bandits usually are far away from the pcene. whole amount involved is only a few thousand dollars. cee MOVE TO REAPPOINT M’CARL From McCarl’s standpoint, however, an amicable settlement of the dispute probably will work to his bene- fit. His 15-year term as comptroller general expires next year. Under the existing law he can’t be reappointed. There's a move on foot, sponsored by Senator Van- denberg of Michigan, to amend the law so as him eligible for another term. An open break with ee ition at the present might work to his vant ehind the Scenes in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER One Witness Stirs Guffaws, Another Tears at Senate Hearings » April 3—One man drove senators into Washington, fits of hysterical laughter and another man, at another|mond Mac! Senate hearing, made men weep. Both incidents happened within a week and each was unique. First I will tell you about William B. Shearer, famous as the “big bass drum” since he came to be credited with breaking up the 1927 Geneva naval arms confer- ence on behalf of American battleship builders—a pro- fessional big navy super-patriot with a reputation for delivering the goods. The only new things the Senate Munitions com- mittee learned from Shearer were that he stopped work- ing for the shipbuilders in 1929 instead of 1927, as they had said, and that Admiral Pratt, then navy chief of operations, had sent him to Geneva in 1926 to get the lay of the land. But it exhibited Shearer as a blatant, irresponsible master of blah who nevertheless had held the confid- ence of and responsible assignments from greedy ship- builders, patriotic societies, and even the navy itself, and as one of the most amazing showmen ever to sp- Pear before a committee. Shearer looks like a Prussian colonel of the big bad wolf type. He made you think of a pre- depression super-type of a high-pressure, rapid- fire, sweep-you-off-your-feet blue sky salesman such as never really existed except in one of your bad dreams. Breezily, explosively, insistently, and with the self- ‘hinoceros h dom allowed a senator to interrupt. eee HE KNOWS EVERYBODY He boasted he knew “practically every captain and admiral in the U. S. navy and every Democrat in Wash- ington.” Often he was funny, as when solemnly ex- plaining that in speaking to ex-secretaries of the navy, “We never say, ‘How do you do, Mr. Ex-Secretary’; we always say ‘How do you do, Mr. Secret ‘Hillma: Igamated Clothing Workers, was curiy-haired, brillant, speaking win aa assent, be curly-l , brilliant, 5) an ablest American labor leader. Senator William H. King of Utah baited and heckled him. At King’s elbow, prompting, was F. M. Curlee, non-union manufacturer of St. Louis and head of an anti-NRA group of manufacturers whom labor leaders term “sweatshoppers.” in 1906 after imprisonment by the csar). was so unusually nasty, you could hear spectators curse Since many banks are located in towns where there softly. fis little or no police protection, it becomes increasingly evident that protecting them is matter for local organi- ft > TE Hie is ef E i FEI atl] Fé to find someone who can be to feel inferior —Mrs, Franklin made 'D. Roosevelt, defining a “snub.” 7 rye HH wee a Rpg ATH Y |. “Please,” he said, “remember that he's Norman's hands dropped. | “Please; s as you like to term it, on someone else.” “No,” he said soberly. “I saw him come out of your room.” “You saw him leave my room?” “Yes.” She was silent for several sec onds, Then she said slowly, “And 80 you decided to come in and try to brow-beat me, Is that it?” “No. ‘You know better than that.” “What do you meant” “You know why I came here.” “Why did yout” “I came to help you.” There was something in the very simplicity of his words that made her thrill with some psychic pleas-| ure, It was as though she had “On the contrary, I think it means @ good deal, I detest med!- “You like the kind of brains that eapPltayite can’t come in here and talk to like that, No man has onme Iam free to do as yl nf It please. 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