The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1935, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1935 The Spirit of Sacrifice The Bismarck Tribune C—O An Independent Newspaper | THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The god N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W. Simons Editor Archie O. Johnson Secretary and Treasurer Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (in Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck seeeeeseeees seeees Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year oe Weekly by mail outside of North Dako! per year 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 @lso reserved. Inspiration for Today For the Scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, the la- borer is worthy of his reward.—Timothy 5:18. eee Justice is to give to every man his own.— Aristotle. a es New Frontier Is Reply to Relief Problem By contrast with the frantic jam of the thousands who went to Alaska during the great gold rush days, the present migration of some few hundreds of people who are to be estab- lished on farms in the Matanuska Valley looks rather pallid. But there is something intensely interesting about it, nevertheless. It brings to 20th cen- tury ears a last faint echo of the old home- steading days, and it also hints that the great territory of Alaska has a future other than that which relates to gold mines, fur-bearing animals, and scenery. In a very small and limited way we seem to be regaining our frontier in this move. In the old days the family that ran into bad luck in a settled community could always head for the frontier and make a new start. That is precisely what is being attempted in this case. The 200-odd farm famiiies from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin who are going to set- tle in Alaska are now on relief. Their situation is hopeless if they stay where they are. So, with Uncle Sam’s help, they are going to the northland to try again. We think of Alaska as a desolate polar out- post. As a matter of fact, it has vast stretches of fertile soil, many lakes and rivers and for- ests, and the section to which these families are going gets less cold in winter than does northern Michigan. The summer is short, but much sunlight and plenty of moisture bring abundant crops. To be sure, it is no picnic that these 1935 pioneers are beginning. Going to a new coun- try is always hard. There will be isolation, a sense of being infinitely removed from familiar scenes and places, the necessity to work hard for a small reward. But all that is better than staying on relief, hoping fruitlessly that something will happen somehow to cancel old debts and put a new light of hope in the sky. Staying on relief for a long time does some- thing to people. It removes that sense of self- reliant independence which is the American’s most priceless traditional possession. So it is a wise thing that the government is doing, in promoting the settlement of Alaska. Not only does it begin to tap the great re- sources of that territory in a new way; it also enables at least a few of our citizens to get away from the numbing charity of public relief and regain their old independence. By itself it is a good thing; as a sample of @ new way of meeting the relief problem it is even better. Tough on the Toughs A convict who recently emerged from Alcatras prison, es (where Uncle Sam confines his most vicious criminals, has ® horrendous tale to tell of the plight of poor Al Capone. ‘The one-time czar of Chicago's rackets, according to rules, he says, are punished by confinement in | dentally, that had these silver purchases not Se «axe Pps Ariss "| gold imports would have been even larger Capone has had a taste of it, and it’s beginning to get | ments, with its huge flow of gold to this according to him down, says the informant. Making due allowances for the exaggeration with Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- | # ehind the Scenes in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER ‘Washington, April 20.—According to various popular magazine writers, Roosevelt has fired the “Brain Trust,” spurned the left-wingers, turned completely to the right, and surounded himself with a new ring of conservative advisers, I suppose that explains why the major New Deal casualties of the last year happen to have been Budget. Director Lew Douglas and NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson, two of the best friends conservative financiers and industrialists have had in Washington since Mr. Hoover left. I suppose that’s why Roosevelt, faced with his most crucial program in the $4,000,000,000 work-relief opera- tion, has chosen as his “brain trust” to direct it the three outstanding New Dealers who still stick their necks out as liberals—Mr. Hopkins, Mr, Tugwell, and Mr. Ickes. And I suppose that's why Roosevelt had Tom Cor- coran and Ben Cohen, two original brain trusters and leading young Brandeis-Frankfurter disciples, prepare and fight for the Wheeler-Rayburn holding company bill, which has called forth the “power trust's” most furt- ous propaganda effort of all time. eee ‘PALACE GANG’ STRONG Enough of that. What I mean is that the situation as to Roosevelt's advisers is much more complicated than most commentators would have you believe. Despite those important incidents, the ear of Roose- velt has lately been lent most of the time to cautious conservatives, who warn him against the alleged dangers of radical reforms, A certain ring of those fellows is coming to be known as the “palace gang” and the more Roosevelt seems to listen to them, the less he seems to take counsel from such liberals as Tugwell, Ickes, Hopkins, Frankfurter, and the progressive senators. The “palace gang” includes: Donald Richberg, who has become increasingly un- popular with labor and the liberals since he started try- ing to make the New Deal the darling of “big business.” MORGENTHAU ON TOP Secretary Henry Morgenthau, who now stands in at the White House better than any other cabinet member, who takes his troubles in all their detail to the president —in contrast to independent Ickes, who runs his show— and who has become increasingly powerful through the no-longer independent budget bureau. Postmaster-General Jim Farley, the administration's political boss. White House Secretary Marvin McIntyre, commonly considered a pipe-line to Roosevelt for the big-time lobbyists here, and the doorman for “big business.” Raymond Moley, original Number One Brain Truster, who comes here frequently, loaded with advice from the business-financial crowd in New York. Moley has been the lion at a long series of lunch- eons, cocktail parties, and dinners in New York, arranged by a taxicab magnate named Freed, with the idea that Moley could explain “reasonable radicalism” to the tycoons while they in turn told Moley what was wrong with the government, eee , MOLEY’S WHITEWASHED Liberals here usually think Moley has been taken Mr. Freed’s imprimatur has just appeared here on an incredibly handsome and expensive privately printed book, warning the administration against radicalism— including an attack on the stock market act—and pre- faced with editorial admonitions from Moley that desir- able reforms can be subordinated to recovery. The red- hot liberals are red-hot about this book. Harry Hopkins is the favorite White House liberal at this writing. That's because Harry has been playing Politics more than the others. The liberals are distinctly worked up and discour- aged, for the most part, at Roosevelt's disposition to listen to conservative advice in most matters. They ex- press dark fears that he will go the way of President William Howard Taft. eee POINT TO TAFT’S FATE Taft was elected on his promise to carry out policies of Theodore Roosevelt, who endorsed him, and then succumbed to the blandishments of stand-patters and the “big business boys,” losing all the progressives and ending up as the worst-defeated president in history. As to the complications and conflicts embodied in the situation—considering “left” factors initially men- tioned in this story—the men who know F. D. best differ. that the president's “right turn” is based on the idea that an urgent need of stimulating the capital market, capital goods market, and private employment can best be met by instilling business confidence. Roosevelt knows the relief load is simply too huge to carry and thinks he needs some real recovery to win in 1936. Re-employment by industry of two or three million men, according to this theory, would encourage Roose- velt to become more radical than he ever was before. He will be far more “left” in his second term. MUST REGAIN CONFIDENCE Of course Herbert Hoover used to whisper similarly to the senate progressives. And on the other hand, Roosevelt has at times shown his instincts to be infinitely more liberal than Hoover's ever were. Roosevelt's biggest job is to regain the confidence of the American people. Business recovery has always been a sure-fire method of doing just that and the work- relief program—which is being coupled with overtures to business—is the one big weapon which may achieve it. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) [7 With Other | Be"32 | DITORS We may or Our Gold Imports in 1984 may not agree with them. (New York Herald-Tribune) Preliminary under the provisions of the silver purchase act of 19. There seems to be every reason for believing, nm fy gE Ha were. The most important factor in the i # But some who have known him many years insist |Of we wie GLADLY give UP OLR SONS, CUR | TREASURES, CUR NATIONAL RESOURCES, FOR s Bb WHAT! You WANT US TO GIVE UP SO008 OF OUR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND POSSIBLY A FEW COLLARS WORTW OF BUSINESS, TO SURE PEACE? = at the - NATION'S CAPITOL into camp and whitewashed of his last trace of pink, |*0me sizeable tasks, but it is question- able whether anything he has tackled thus far is even in the same class with the $4,880,000,000 spending job he now is beginning. The total of the new work relief appropriation is so great that most ordinary people simply can’t grasp its magnitude. To most American citizens, $1,000,- 000 is hard to vizualize. Imagine 4,880 stacks of money, with $1,000,000 in each. ‘And in spite of the qualifying amendments, which congress put into the act, the president's latitude as to the manner and allocation of the spending remains extremely broad. The ease with which “earmarked” funds can be moved about from one ledger column to another has been demonstrated frequently. The responsibility which rests on Mr. Roosevelt in this matter would be positively staggering, even if it involved only the obvious difficulties making wise selections, in a wholly detached way, from among the thou- sands of spending projects which will be placed before him for approval. * * * Under Pressure But it involves a great deal more. Mr. Roosevelt is very far from being in the position of a man making a will disposing of $4,880,000,000. Un- due pressure from possible benefici- aries invalidates & will; and moreover, the maker of the will never has to worry much about the consequences. From now on until the last penny ted, Mr. Roosevelt is certain the strongest kind of Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ertaining to health but not dis- letters rietly and in ink, Address Dr, ¢ quer Dr. Brady will answer x All jes must be accompanied by is. Write ease a oR Tr stamped, self-addressed WHY WN IN SALT WATER? 1 have recommended io chouands of students of health an excellent lttie ook published a few years ago by MeColiim nd a and Prof. Sim- i , ti in the school of hy- pressure, The states, cities and com-|“new deal” came into being. That munities are mobilizing their most/ preparation will include a claimant. Not only his recovery program, political future may easily become in- volved. Either a first-class failure or a first- class scandal would be used against him in 1936, even though the real cause lay in the blundering crooked- ness of subordinates. eek At s Critical Time Many in Washington believe this test of Mr. Roosevelt's acumen hard could come at @ more critical time. ling uncertainly. Republican opposition, declaring lic sentiment is turning strongly away from the president, is preparing for its most vigorous attack since the afraid I'd get into more trouble. I want to come in.—Harry Iwanshyn, pleading for readmission to Sing Sing. * *k *& “What's @ million dollars? We made it once; we'll make it again.—Rosetta, Duncan, of famed vaudeville sister team. HORIZONTAL +» Answer to Previous Puzzle 20 He lived in AIC TV IRIE ISIS) LISTE RIT LIAL AIL MME IAIGILIE | LIVIE Beit IEJAIN} 5 (adie 57 Ex-King Pra- Jadhipok of sultan. 43-Mute. 10 Egg of a louse. 44 Dry, 11 Dove's cry. 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