The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 19, 1935, Page 4

ehind the Scenes in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspeper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Batablighed 1873) Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- Dr. Brady will answer questions Lege to health but not r ia, Write ters brie in ink, Address Dr. ibd. HD, 544 eatices an ab jeocaetion wx Siskazed | Spbiniaia Ges With Poa w Pibiee ‘Trough... Merit shy OF cineRenle Wilts, teterR geares maust be socompanied By 8 second cléss mall matter. ‘and Ability Don’t Count—Just Be s Pal ors Rela- 8 stamped, solt-nedressed on: tive of a Higher Up. George D, Mann Lead Payrolls. president and Publisher ‘Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Gimons Washington, April 19.—No end of nasty cracks have Gecretary and Treasurer Editor bat spiel a Farley's spoils system and at nepotism on 5 It's about time somebody looked at the “personal friend racket” and nepotism in the huge federal admin- istrative machine, which figure just as importantly in distribution of New Deal patronage—with results often Just as sour. The two systems combine to invest with absurdity the theory that appointments to most government jobs are based on efficiency and merit. Outside the Farley-Harju job machine, which has had its best success operating with regular government commerce—the Subseription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ... Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .. Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Daily by mail outside of North Weekly by mail in state, LM year le departments—especially justice and type.” that, along many other concepts of quack ayehology, town is full of small groups of major and minor offi- FARMERS ARE Ha been dlocarded.” Toe Muany of OUT noblest clens qualified fe ball end cials, as well as individuals, who have established phe- WEARING A HEAVY ._.. chain, and too many of our most notorius criminals were veritable saints nomenal records in getting jobs for friends, acquaint- ances, wives, and sweethearts. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation COAT OF DUST Member of The Associated Press ely entitled to the tel 0 Inspiration for Today Now he that planteth and he that watereth are || one; and every man shall receive his own reward | according to his own labor.—I Corinthians, 3:8. i of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful i eee | He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed | a, | Why They Don’t Disarm Americans who feel that Europe’s obvious failure to reduce armaments is due wholly to suspicion and a spirit of pure cussedness fail fo look behind the obvious to the true facts twhich govern the actions of every nation. The truth of the matter is that real disarm- fament would bring so many and such serious economic dislocations that many governments ‘would fall beneath the strains imposed. Mili- tarism offers occupation to too many persons for it to be scrapped without cataclysmic re- sults. The arts and occupations of war are too deeply imbedded into everyday affairs to be disposed of easily. Take any great European nation, with the possible exception of England, and see what | |member of their families on the federal payroll. These unofficial job-wranglers operate for various reasons. Some seek to widen their little spheres of in- fluence and thus expand a sense of power. Some are sincerely seeking the best possible talent for New Deal agencies and want to pick associates or subordinates from those of whose merit they personally are aware. Others are paying off various kinds of debts and still others seek jobs for acquaintances, new or old, out of mere kindness. And many are out to land every possible AND WHAT A MIXTURE! The result has been a queer melange in New Deal Personnel of able workers, nitwits, chair-warmers, and just so-so employes. Frequently one finds, in the same office, one or two brilliant persons who supply all the work and all the brains and three or four more—of equal status—who represent mere waste of taxpayers’ money. Many an able person has been recruited who couldn't have obtained 2 Democratic endorse- ment. But many mean injustices have been done to superior men and women whose appointments have been blocked because an inferior person with “pull” sought the same job. ‘There's no beginning and no end to this nebulous system I'm trying to describe. Except as it begins in the White House with Mr. and Mrs, Roosevelt and the secretariat and ends with the Negro elevator operator at RFC who is striving to get his girl friend a similar job at interior or agriculture. In other words, every- body plays the game. ‘ ROPER DOES WELL BY KIN At least three cabinet members have relatives in other federal jobs here—Roper, Wallace, and Ickes. (It may be unfair to name them because there probably are others.) Roper had five relatives drawing government Pay when the last count was made. Millionaires with alleged New Deal sympathies have had little trouble landing their sons in berths “for the experience.” Quite a few society gals are sprinkled around. Gen- eral Johnson started in by loading NRA with personal associates whom he “knew he could trust.” One man who three years ago was collect- ing money to beat Roosevelt for the presidency the situation is. Approximately one man out of 10 is under arms. Vast numbers of the civilian population are engaged in industries of which armies and navies are the main customers. Wipe out this system and you greatly augment the un- employment already rampant in most countries. This accounts, in part, for the high enthusi- asm which has swept Germany during the last few years. The Germans knew, long before Hitler announced it to the world, that the na- tion was rearming. The great Krupp works at Essen have been closed to visitors for more than 20 months. Young men have been passed through the reichswehr just as they were called out for the Imperial German army when the kaiser was teaching them the goose- btep. Instead of dullness and inaction, they have had activity and hope. They like it. Had Germany found it possible to employ hher people in strictly peace-time pursuits after the armistice there would have been no urge to fearm. If the nation were prosperous and con- tented, Hitler would have found it impossible fo whip it up to fury. Had the German genius proved equal to this test we should have had|" fn example which other nations could have fol- lowed, But there was no apparent manner in which the millions who formerly had served in the army could profitably be occupied. The seeds of excessive nationalism found fertile ground {n the idleness and discontent of the masses. Militarism was the one way out which they knew. They took it. Any European nation which might disaym would find itself in about the same situation that the United States would be in if, by fiat of faw, we were to close down our giant automo- bile industry. We should have to find some fway to keep occupied the men thus thrown out of work. Under such pressure, our leaders, too, might adopt the expedient of fearing other na- tions and building up a new militaristic indus- fry. If Europe were to build up an automobile (ndustry similar to that in this country and otherwise concentrate on raising the level of living, it would be a great step toward the estab- lishment of permanent peace. The Air Becomes Sefer has landed six members of his family in govern- ment berths, A smart woman who came to town about a year ago has successively berthed two sons, a daughter-in-law, and finally herself. There ate many such instances. BOOTLEGGER “MAKES GOOD” The other day I ran into a fellow who before repeal was one of the capital's best-known » By pestering his old customers in high places, he had con- four most important New Deals officials to get a job for himself. (Knowing the official, I doubt if he made out very well this time.) One can think of several subdivisions of government overloaded with nice, middle-aged or elderly people who are there because they had sympathetic friends and simply “had to have a job.” eee PUT WIVES TO WORK Many husbands have kept working at it until they struggling along on $1200 a year who badly need more money. ‘The moral of all this is perhaps the same one that has always applied to nepotism in congress. A congress- man’s wife or son may be the best possible secretary, both for him and his constituents. Or such a relative may be one who never comes near his office or, in any event, has no place on the federal payroll. puller. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) 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