The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1935, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune indent Newspaper { THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER t (Established 1873) Btate, City and County Official Newspaper ee Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- - geet N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Archie ©. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Treasurer Eaitor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .. $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) 720 Daily by mail, per year (in state Bismarck Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail in state, per year Weekly by mail outside of North DEF YEAT ...sserecercecnesceseee Weekly by mail in Canada, per year . 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. Inspiration for Today Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Pather feedeth them. Are ye much better than they?—St. Matthew 6:26, we Faith is to believe, on the word of God, what we do not see, and its reward is to see and enjoy | what we believe.—Augustine, Small Business Problem The new NRA bill hangs fire in Congress while the lawmakers try to figure out the best way of taking the brakes off of business recov- ery without putting any further obstacles in the way of the small business man. And while their arguments fill the air, it is interesting to get the point of view of one of these much- discussed small business men, What is his ¢lant on recovery, anyhow? There came to this desk the other day a letter from the owner of a modest shoe repair shop in Hornell, N. Y. He raises a point which illustrates one of the most difficult angles of the whole tangle. “In 1926—my peak year,” he writes, “I had @ gross sales volume of $5,913.60. In 1934— the same number of sales through the cash register—and a gross volume of business of $1,668.60; the outcome of trying to meet the chain shops’ price dictation. No profit, and in the red. “Naturally, I cannot buy as heavily or for future needs. I cannot make the necessary im- provements in my home or new additions to the shop. Why? Because a chain grocery adver- tised soles and heels at 8 cents a pair. To meet that form of competition I would have to work a man for nothing, give my savings to the wholesaler and donate my services free of charge, Then they wonder why we have hard times and a depression!” (It should be understood, of course, that the chain store was selling merely the soles and heels, and was not attaching them to the cus- tomer’s shoes for that price.) In trying to think your way out of a dilem- ma like this, you come up against one of the most vexing contradictions of the day; the con- flict between the consumer’s desire for cheap retail prices which the economies of big busi- ness units make possible, on the one hand, and the necessity for preserving one of the funda- mental features of the American landscape— the small shop in which the individual worker o retailer ean find independence. As consumers, we look for the lowest price levels available. If a big corporation offers us counter and snap them up. Yet few of us care fo picture an America in which the industrious which squeezed out the small business man ‘would cost more than it was worth. Whatever the answer may be—and it must be admitted that it isn’t in sight, just off-hand—the pres- sure on units like this Hornell shoe repair shop gnust be lessened, Pity the Poor dispatches commodities at a price which the individual | pac sren merchant cannot meet, we rush to the bargain | scidents. ehind the Scenes Your Personal Health K BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1935 in Washington By William Brady, M. D. = ~ ———_e! The President May Give Another Fireside Talk | WITH RODNEY DUTCHER ———— af > 8 wer questions pe to heaith but mot ‘ Pea ay gt ee RN Tekes Retusss te Take Back Seat in Work-Relief Drive.| 4 Bm yt a stampeas seltveddressed envelope. Clash Is Settled ... How Wage «++ Tugwell-Hopkins Provision Slipped in Is Revealed, Washington, April 16.—The executive order creating the four-billion-dollar work-relief board and generaliz~ : 2 ing as to its duties was all set to be flown to President 4 7 Roosevelt down south. / E tA for & quarter. Such grapefruit, he assures prospective customers, is a pre- Yi digested food and hence, once you've got over the agony of taking the medi- 7 ' eine (Ol Doc Brady's contribution), % enters directly into your system. Ickes about it and that turned out to be « mistake. Ickes i f Here the market man thoughtfully recalls how dumb prospective customers found out exactly what it conteined and he raised the 7 i are and explains that your “aystem” means, ef course, your blood. In addl- Lpatlp lh Keto Baa niin f 7 q 4 tion today we have « special bargain for our patrons, in the shape of fine : ington until Roosevelt returned, when it could be hashed ae f f eal imported French beauty cream, discovered by one of Napoleon's distrac: ’ over by all hands-including Mr. Tekes y ‘ a ong i tions, and while the limited supply lasts we offer a two-dollar jer of The order named to the board Hopkins, Undersecre: r 7 eo /” 7 q and purifier, a two-dollar tube of the flesh tary Tugwell, Ickes, Admiral Christian Joy Peoples, and ee , 4 y P crack-tightener all for $1.99. Robert Wood of Sears, Roebuck and Company. f of Every insider knew by this time that Hopkins, what between direct relief needs and the glorified CWA aspect of the program, was going to be Number One Man in so far as expenditures were concerned. But Ickes thought the wording of the order and the board set-up indicated too big a stress on rush expendi- tures and a likely slighting of his beloved PWA to the greater glory of Hopkins and Tugwell, (He expressed himself to Tugwell, 100.) | = a Te are : I F 2e8e € i iH i i i il ER: ICKES READY TO GO FAST Ickes, whose able fight against grafters avidly the PWA_ $3,300,000,000 he had to out as a major New Deal achievement—but whose has had very slow going—believes he now has an. zation which can spend money rapidly and time leave behind social improvements of a ture. He has almost been left out in the ulation of work-relief plans and know best haven't known whether he & very few hundred millions or a billion and Nevertheless, when senate conferees work-relief bill itself wrote in amendment hamper the administration as to both choice and personnel, Ickes took the lead in the attempt fight back. Everyone else concerned HE $33 a Ht re ul in cl 3 fH a h 2B 4 : | 1 i E | i f i i iE H i ie 38 uy 3s x3 which Ickes will stand out relatively unsmeared 1 doesn't now get into it up to his neck, as he wants to. CLOSE FRIENDS CLASH Another thing Roosevelt had to decide was the dis- pute between Hopkins and Tugwell—two close friends— . as to who should take over rural rehabilitation, on which vention which selects the candidates about $900,000,000 will be spent. for elector. ‘This is a matter of buying @ cow here, seed there, It is true that various third-party home somewhere else, or whatever seems to be needed to keep a belaguered ft family self-sufficient than a candidate for the relief rolls. Tugwell, who wil handle the land program felt rural rehabilitation should be his. Hopkins, who has it now and has made 150,000 relief farm families self- sufficient, insisted on hanging on to it. . ONE MYSTERY CLEARED ‘Insiders have cleared up the big mystery as to who provision various conferees had pin it on each other. Senator Royal 8. Copeland of New York was the hero or the culprit—as the case may be. Originally he tried to fix it so 50 per cent would have to be paid for direct wages. He was inspired by power interests who don't want ‘any of the money used by Ickes for rural electrification or erection of municipal power plants. (Ickes had a huge pile of applications for municipal power plant loans. ‘The power boys knew it.) . Hes th i A fe i l : i F a Ff a : iY v il it Se 7 i e F f i i 3 8 4 : Fy if fr nt i Witst i 3 p Hd 1 il Li | ii pre i : i i # i af | i 3 ef i ii iy i i i iH : il il t fy PT i dF | ‘ if ee a Eig i th "Sake fi : H § i i 4 ft pee i E H , there’s nothing unique about that!) (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc. With Other | ie DITORS | #728 Grade Crossing Elimination i ! 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