The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1935, Page 4

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Inspiration for Today i For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: i I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stran- | ger, and ye took me in—St. Matthew, 25:35. eee 1 If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that | he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent j that joins them—Bacon, Profiting by Experience Decision by the FERA to shut down its com- mon labor work projects on August 2 may cause discontent here and there, but on the whole the reaction will be good. No one can tell what the labor situation will be at harvest time but it seems only reasonable to assume that private employment will mount sharply as the binders and threshing machines begin to hum and thus take up much of the slack caused by abandonment of the various public enterprises now going forward under FERA auspices. In issuing the order the relief administrator fs profiting by the experience in states to the south where it proved necessary to shut down public works that farmers might have ample help for their harvest operations. At the same time; it is worth noting that the probability is few of the men thus released in Washington | | WITH RODNEY DUTCHER a Democrats . . . Roper Takes Care of His Own... Puerto Rican Publisher Learns Life Isn’t So Safe. « . » Governor Trouble Again Afflicting Roosevelt, cee Washington, July 22—Not all the wealthier citizens of this country will slam the door when the Democrats pass the hat for the next campaign fund, You were reminded that Me. Roosevelt hadn’t scared all the “angels” out of the party when Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., of Philadelphia was named minister to Nor- way. Mr. Biddle is sometimes called “the Biddle of the Biddles” and is reported to have tossed in more than $100,000 for state or national campaign chests at one time or another. Other millionaires among a fairly large group expect- ed by Democratic politicians to contribute next year are Gerard Swope, Vincent Astor, Ambassador Jesse Straus at Paris, and Averill Harriman, who has been working at NRA. New Dealers recognize the need of such men in the party fold, whether they are attracted because they like to be close to those in power or whether, as it is de- scribed, they are “more enlightened” than most others in their class, Swope has sons occupying important jobs with the Tesettlement administration and the SEC. Straus has & son with resettlement. If you looked around ie you'd find quite a few sons of millionaires posted here and there in New Deal ranks. None of Roosevelt's millionaire friends has walked out on him since he called for a “soak-thé-rich” tax pro- gram. Some of them deplore a few of his tendencies, but cling to his leadership. Republicans, meanwhile, continue to moan that they aren’t getting any money. Their old friends seem to be giving it all to the American Liberty League. STILL ALIVE, BUT WATCHFUL Senor Luis Munoz Marin, Puerto Rican senator and publisher, has learned from the local police that the Ban Juan police chief warned them of a possible attempt by Political enemies to assassinate Marin. The local force now checks up with him once a week to see whether he is still alive. Marin, here to work with the administration on its plans for Puerto Rican rehabilitation, isn’t worried, but is sure he will be safer when he gets back home. Nobody ever commits a political murder there, be- cause possibilities of escape from the island are so re- mote. eee MORE GOVERNOR GRIEF ‘The administration continues to have trouble with its Rican governorship after series of jams. Paul Pearson, whose troubles are largely due to his status as a Hoover GOOD PROVIDER Secretary of Commerce Roper’s daughter Grace, recently married to Dr. Frank Bohn, will continue on her research job with the tariff com- mission, Roper is so celebrated for the number of his relatives on the payroll that when one asked in a group of newspapermen the other day just how many of them were drawing government checks, the reply was chorused: “Tell me how many relatives he has and I'll tell you.” from FERA work will return to payrolls under those auspices. The FERA organization rap- idly is preparing itself to take over the care of non-employables under the auspices of the state welfare board and, in the not distant future, all work relief enterprises will come under the aegis of the new works progress administra- tion. The. fact that the latter has not thrown its machinery into high gear also is largely due to the approaching harvest, all government agen- cies clearing the decks so farmers will not have competition in hiring harvest help. Wages to be paid for harvesting have not yet been determined. If the crop bears out the forecasts made by the more optimistic observ- ers they may be higher than some expect, for there is much straw to be handled and it is pos- sible thaf a labor shortage may develop at the peak of the harvest season. Those persons who have made a “soft snap” of relief jobs may protest, because work in the fields is hard and gruelling, but it will be no harder for them than for the farmers and their families and, with work relief projects shut|s down, necessity will do the driving. For most of those on relief the opportunity to get private employment will be welcomed. Even if the rate of pay is a little lower than that offered by the government they will be able to work longer hours and hence make more $n the long run. The result, in any event, should be an in- frease in business volume and heavier purchas- fing on the part of the people generally. One of tthe difficulties of the last few years has been the lack of productive enterprises. The volume of money received from crop allotments and other sources has been enough to justify a larger turnover of goods and more employment were it obtained through work by ithe people rather than through government checks. Dictator’s Progress Reports from Germany that the Nazi government is ®ngaged in a bitter clash with the Catholic church is ot surprising. It was inevitable, in view of the Nasi effort to dominate all German thinking and the stand of the Roman church requiring fealty to the Pope in matters of faith and morals. The two creeds could not live side by side in peace ‘nd amity for very long. In fact, the last two years have been merely an armed truce between Hitler and the Vatican, brought about by Nazi concessions made when trouble first loomed. Now, however, with the Jews pretty well disposed of, the Teutonic demagogues need something new to whip the people into continued frenzy. From their standpoint it must be just formidable enough to create the illusion of @ fight, too weak to offer real opposition. Whether pr not the Catholic church in Germany can be so classi- filed remains to be seen, for in Germany it is not only fpne church but all creeds which are under fire and all bf Christendom is united before a common threat. The fpross has clashed with many dictators in the 1900 years pf Christian history and has always emerged triumphant. Somehow, things of the spirit always win out over those fpf the flesh. Christianity seems to carry within itself tthe essence of imperishability. Hitler might remember fhat as he and his cohorts dream of a new Pan-Ger- manism. ‘The attack on the Steel Helmet or war veteran or- is easily understandable. These men fought flor the fatherland. They bared their breasts in its bat- ” ¥ rumbles of criticism are heard as to that amiable gentle- Corporations have ignored the law and now own most of the island’s good soil. An enforcement law by the Puerto Rican legislature is desired by the administration. HE DOESN’T CLICK Winship has shown little vigor or aptness in getting this point across to the legislature, which is dominated by politicians anxious to protect the ions and to: get their hands on work-relief funds available for the island. He called a special session of the legislature without raising the point, with the result that Secretary Ickes issued a statement which was in effect a message to the legislature demanding action, Thus far the legislature has only passed a bill insist- ing that corporations sell their land over 500 acres if they can get what they consider a good price for it. And Winship is being told that this won't do at all. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other 4 DITORS | 23.3% Betrayed From Within (New York Times) ‘When the Wheeler-Rayburn bill first made its ap- Pearance members of the utility industry, regarding it as a destructive measure—as indeed it was—felt called upon to fight it with every legitimate weapon at their command. A number of utility executives banded to- Reprinted, to From the outset of the controversy, it utility leaders have lived in terror lest they might be be- trayed by some of their less us thren. It was ayes Fy 8 i 5 g E - s E i £ < i ae AL i E é te i Hl it i a Bi | i i i have rights and have @ disposition defend them. ‘The result was certain to be with the mad men at the head of the government. The order for their dissolution was not surprising. ‘The whole affair constitutes a splendid lesson for those Americans who have regarded a dictatorship as a ‘way out of our own ills, Picture an American government which, at one time, 55 z Z g i organizations as inimical to the common good. That is what is happening in Germany. We prob- ‘ably would not like it here. But such is the inevitable progress of dictatorship. This is an era of change. Fifty Seattle men have entered a diaper derby. ehind the Scenes ||! All the Plutocrats Haven't Turned Cold Shoulder on island governors. Bob Gore had to resign the Puerto/@: THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935 8 OLITICS - at the - NATION'S CAPITOL | E—————————— By BYRON PRICE Bureau, the have been born of depression and Tecovery—and they are many—the Present tax tangle in congress prob- ably is the strangest and most puz- ‘Taxation always is a prime politi- cal issue. It touches the individual as few other issues do. It constitutes .|@ perennial cause for strife between =| (Chief of Press, Washington) Of all the political snarls which the parties, whose conflicting view- points have been quite dissimilar. Yet here is a congress which is overwhelmingly Democratic, and in which the small Republican minority is badly split, fumbling in bewilder- ment as it tries to translate into law the tax recommendations of a Demo- cratic president. If anyone had predicted such a situation a month ago, he would have been set down as a thoroughly un- reliable prophet. How could it pos- sibly have come about? A review of es facts may answer the question in eee A Need For Action tion prestige struck by the supreme court in the NRA decision. Following it, a sense of stalemate, settled over administration men of the need for some swift counter-blow to renew the New Deal psychology of for- ward motion. Into that situation fell Mr. Roose- velt’s unheralded message asking for higher taxes on wealth. Who ad- vised him to send such a message remains a mystery, but it was not the party leaders in congress, who were to wind up a trying ses- sion and had no desire to open so explosive a subject as taxation just on the eve of a general election year. The feeling on Capitol Hill was that the president simply was talk- ing for the record. No one appears are a good thing, islty is the objec- tion to writing them on the statute Mr. Roosevelt do? He say the social objec- tives he had in Tinian were less de- | 4 @/avoid further complications by tack- An interesting sequence of events|ment to anyone. began with the blow to administra- It Must Be Fun to Be President ing the new levies onto the excise tax resolution, and so dispose of the whole matter quickly. That, how- ever didn’t work at all. The time was far too short. So work began on @ new bill. eee G. O. P. Seized Opportunity ‘Thereupon the Republican regulars saw an opportunity. In their turn, they put @ proposition to the White House: If we are to have a tax re- vision, why not have a real one, and balance the budget? The White House approached this eta cautiously, A general! increase — and that would be bedi to balance the budget—never has been desired by any administra- tion facing re-election. It was disclosed that the president hoped the bill would be confined to the levies he had recommended, but. when the treasury was asked for specific recommendations as to rates, it replied that that was up to con- gress, So the weary Democratic leaders resigned themselves to battling or- ganized business—by this time thor- oughly aroused — the Republicans, and a host of other opponents; try- (Editor's Not comes letters est. Letters dealing with contro- oe subjects which offend good taste and fair quire” ‘Mpublication mame where justice and fair play it. advisable. All must be limited to not more than ONE FARMER TO ANOTHER Livona, N. Dak., July 16, 1935. Editor, Tribune: advertisement by Julius Meyer of|it will help a little. 5 D., in which advertise- ment he is against the sales tax law,| stored prosperity to our beloved North it I read the advertisement right. Now if Mr, Meyer is afraid to spend|our granaries. the few pennies that he will spend in a year for sales tax, I can’t see|as much groceries and other stuff] ered. ing to hold in line a rank and file which was but recently in revolt, and put through a project which Capitol) Hill never asked for in the beginning. It is a most unusual sequence of events. What the future chapters will develop is unknown at this mo- A speaker at the recent meeting of the International Association of Police Chiefs. declared that small men make better policemen. New York’s famous Park avenue is not a street, but a bridge—at least, it Mes over the route of a railroad line, which rumbles underneath. The village of Regenstein in the Harz mountains with five inhab- itants claims to be Germany's small- est town. Part of the Red Sea is known as Foul bay—it’s on the Egyptian side. USSIA has superseded Italy as the land of stamps for every occasion, all highly attractive and interesting, but printed more for the benefit of collectors than for postal use. The latest isgue, and perhaps the most unusual in design and treatment, is the series of 10 stamps printed in connection with fn International Athletic Meet in Moscow. Each of the 10 designs has a different illustration of some sports activity, and all are framed in the sort of ‘border. The design two kopek stamp is shown he illustration being slight- than the actual stamp. hammer and sickle in the By William Brady, M. D. hy nivaua to health but not dis- and in ink, Address E>. les must be accompanied sy Dr. Brady will answer nyt diagnosis. Write iy in care of The Tribune. Au ‘a a stemped, self-addressed envelope. HERE IS THE MOST ELUSIVE CULPRIT Ubiquitous is the middle name of the culprit who bobs up occultly, now here, now there, wherever a dog meets an inscrutable fate. The un- expected demise of one dog arouses idle speculation. If two dogs turn up their toes the same day in the same neighborhood, certain neighbors are suspect; if three dogs meet a more or less condign end within the space of a square mile and a week, the papers announce that the dog poisoner is busy again, ‘The dog poisoner has come to me for advice and consolation. In divulg- ing the fact that she is feminine I mean no slur on the sex. The dog is romantically or poetically called “man’s best friend.” If that be true, then I say man treats his best friend in an ungrateful, shabby manner. ne ee She is always as kind as she can be to ‘This woman who asks for my expert advise has my sympathy. In her place I should feel just as she does, and I say this with tender recollec- tions of Tony the Wirlsh Terror, whose portrait hangs above my desk stray dogs and cats in the neighborhood that pester constantly. She has tried every thing she knows of, but the animals still intrude on her right to privacy. Now she wants some poison that will be sure to put an end to the pests. Her patio is surrounded by a low wall, but the curs ‘don't mind that at all. They jump right over and make free with the garbage can, upsetting it and strewing the contents all about, making a most unpleasant mess of the yard. Still, poison is unpleasant. Apt to create ill feeling. Of course one doesn’t care about the feelings of neighbors who maintain such nuisances. However, I must advise against the use of poison, because it is too danger- ous to harmless domestic animals, fowls, birds and mayhap even children or adults. I can suggest a more effectual remedy, and one which gives some good sport, too. Get a little air-rifle or pop-gun which shoots BB-pellets. Load up and sit in your blind till one of the marauders hops the fence. Then sting the unbidden guest, if you're a fair shot. The visitor will depart with considerable alacrity and perhaps some vehement remarks. He may try one more raid on the garbage can, but as a rule a stung dog or cat has enough sense to give such a disagreeable place a wide berth in future. In a week or two of fair hunting you can educate all the cats and dogs in the vicinity. An occasional hard-bitten old Tom or Maria may require an extra treat- ment to teach him that one has to pay just to sit on the fence and gaze at the can, but that’s all good practice and you still have half a pound of medicine to dispense. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ‘Whooping Cough . My six-year old son has whooping cough. I am giving him 5 drops of diatussin every three hours. When he gets the coughing spells he can’t get his breath but just turns blue . . . (Mrs. B.) Answer—That is the way with whooping cough. A snug wide belly belt with stout elastic webbing inserts on each side, kept on over the undershirt, is a help to the child. X-ray treatment to region of diaphragm seems to les- sen severity of the spells. I know of no advantage from diatussin. Cultivating Physic Habit Since my 15-months-old baby was three or four weeks old he has been getting mineral oil every night. If I fail to lg it one evening, his bowels will not move. Soctor chinks he will outgrow it . . . (Mrs, R. G.) Answer—It is a mischievous habit you are cultivating. If you could not get any mineral oil or any other physic, in a week the baby would re- cover natural function. (Copyright 1935, John F. Dille Co.) ——— why he would go to any expense at alljas he does and the sales tax don’t to pay for an advertisement against bother or hurt me a bit. A nickel on such @ law if he is so stingy. dollar wouldn’t hurt me. It would It seems to me that Mr. Meyer|make the tax dodgers dig up some- could have paid the sales tax rol br toward the support of our This ‘The Tribune wel- yn subjects of i which unfairly, iduals parts of 1 ype ited to oliey and to re- a writer's about $100.00 worth of Larrea with h the money he spent for this ad. I letter may be put in the forum think it is about time that the e peo- if it is worth any thing. ple that haven't been paying any Yours sincerely, tax should begin paying Burl W. Corbin. toward the support of our state. The| P. S.—I didn’t mean any rub on sales tax will make a bunch of young the Tribune about this ad, as I am clerks and stenographers feel a little|glad to see the Tribune get all if letters 600 words, of what us farmers and business men can. In reading your fine paper of Fri-|jhave been feeling for a long time. day, July 12, I saw a paid political|The sales tax may not be perfect but} Editor’s Note: ‘We consider Mr. Meyer's ad- vertisement an unusual indica- tion of interest in the issue. The cost of advertising in The Trib- une is low when the large num- ber of persons reached is consid- Mr. Meyer says that God has re- Dakota. But God has not put it in Now I am a farmer and buy about to make you forget the heat AND the humidity— that’s what the new serial, “Sun-Tan,” offers you. ¢ 1s guaranteed hot weather insurance—a gay, bright love story with plenty of excitement. “Sun- Tan’ begins Today on Page 2 in The Bismarck Tribune Your Personal Health |