The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1936, Page 4

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All rents of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Business and Politics Business is going to take a keen interest in politics this fyear, make no mistake about that. All the signs and portents indicate that industrial and commercial America is watching closely the various political developments with a view to de- termining what national policies will be best for it. And as the situation progresses it is likely to become more nd more apparent that much of business may find itself without @ real political home. Unwilling to subscribe either to policies now in practice or to mere political shibboleth, it is likely to find ftself faced with making a distasteful choice rather than giv- ing whole-souled support. This is typified by the attitude of the railway industry, pne of the largest and most important in the country. One of . its chief spokesmen is Samuel O. Dunn, editor of Railway Age, the industry’s leading trade magazine, and a veteran fighter for railroad interests. His view, expressed in a speech to the Chamber of Commerce at Danville, Ill., the other night, is that the New Deal is socialistic and the Old Deal is not entirely ‘Nincere. Said Mr. Dunn: “Opponents of New Deal policies af government regimentation and competition with business can get their best arguments from the actual experience and present condition of the railroad industry, but, curiously enough, defenders of the New Deal can also derive from the experience and condition of the railroads their best arguments to show that many of the opponents of the New Deal are neither consistent nor honest. “The railroads have been and are now subjected to more regimentation and government competition than any other industry. If the application of such policies to other industries is in the public interest, why do not New Dealers use the railroad example to prove it? If it is not in the public interest, as opponents of the ‘New Deal contend, why do they not use the railroad example to prove it? “The reason is that mere mention of the present railroad situation and its causes cramps the style of both New Dealers and Old Dealers. It calls attention to the fact that such policies as the New Dealers advocate for other industries have proved ruinous for the railroads. But it also calls attention to the fact that many of the same politiclans and business interests that are now most loudly denouncing regimentation and government competition with other industries have got these same policies applied to the railroads and, in their own supposed selfish interest, favor their continued application to the railroads. Consequently, the railroads are being pushed toward government ownership by the combined efforts of both avowed advocates of socialistic policies and professed op- ponents of them. “I have opposed the New Deal policies of regimentation, gov- ernment competition and huge government expenditures to ‘prime the pump’ of business from their inception. But I respect their advocates for having bzen at least consistent in their professed principles and their actual practice, while I daily become more disgusted with the hypocrisy and dishonesty shown by many op- ponents of the New Deal. When are all those who say they are opposed to government regimentation of business going to begin really to oppose regimentation of the railroads? When are all those who say they are opposed to government competition with business going to begin opposing the continuing and increasing subsidization of carriers by air, highway and water in competition with the railways? When are all those who say they are opposed to huge wasteful government expenditures going to begin opposing huge wasteful government expenditures upon inland waterways and upon commercial highways that cost much more per mile than highways adequate for public use with private automobiles and light trucks? ....” “In the more than forty years that I have followed and partici- pated in discussions of political and economic questions I have never heard and read so much hypocritical cant emanating from business interests as now. They say they are opposed to ‘social- istic’ policies while they are nelping to push the railroads toward government ownership, which would do more to establish state socialism than any other single policy that could be adopted. I will believe that opponents of the New Deal are consistently and honest- ly opposed to government regimentation, government competition with private business, wasteful government expenditures and other ‘socialistic’ policies only when they begin trying to reverse these policies as they are being applied to the railroads and thereby begin trying to save the railroads from government ownership.” Tf all business interests were to take the same attitude it would be a good thing for the country. The least that business and the people can expect from public leaders is frankness and strict adherence to the policies which they profess to espouse. If the political attitude of business is to be one of struggle for advantage by political means, at the same time decrying the general practices by which such results are achieved, the result will be disunion and defeat. America stands to gain more by the leadership of en- lightened businessmen than it does from the leadership of politicians, but the businessmen who assume to lead must be sincere. No Free Speech in Army Removal of Major General Johnson A, Hagood from his command by the war department should constitute a major scandal in the affairs of our government, for this action hits directly at a right which every American Js supposed to have under the constitution. General Hagood is one of the most enlightened of our army leaders. It may or may not have been GOOD TASTE for him to make fun of the pres- ent governmental set-up but his RIGHT to speak his thoughts should be unquestioned. ‘The charge against General Hagood which caused the drastic action fas not been explained, but it is presumably based upon his slighting refer- ence to the WPA program when he appeared recently before a congressional committee. What irked his superiors most, probably, was his plea that some ot the ‘stage money’ allotted to the WPA be put into permanent improve- ments instead of spending it “without buying anything.” Granted that there is much to be said for the WPA and that General Hagood may have overlooked the social necessities involved, the fact remains that he was asked to testify and that his opinions were given in response to the questions of committee members. Remember, also, that he is attached to an arm of the government service which SHOULD he above political considerations, for surely the national cons sises superior to politics. What we have, then, is a situation in which the men charged with de- fense of the nation in time of peril are being gagged at the behest of the brass hats and the political heads of the war department. They are for- bidden to speak their minds unless their views happen to coincide with those of their political bosses. The fact that General Hagood’s removal follows close on the death of General “Billy” Mitchell, another. distinguished soldier who was disciplined for speaking his mind about the national defense, emphasizes the point. The situation thus presented is a scandal and one which merits the mttention of the American people. ‘The way most politicians meet an issue, you'd think they owed it some paney. & ‘THE BISMARCK TRI | Behind Scenes Washington Despite All the Statistics, No One Knows the Number of Unemployed ... Nor How Many Aliens Illegally Are in the Country . . . Twoscore Pians in Congress Aimed at Modi- fying High Court Power. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Feb. 25—In a world in which the statistician and account- ant are looming larger every day, it is marvelous that so little is known about certain very important things. For instance, every legislative ef- fort to cope with relief and re- employment must hang on one bit of information. How many unem- ployed are there? And the answer, with all the elaborate statistics that come flood- ing out of statistics machines daily, is simply this: Nobody knows. The American Federation of Labor and the National Industrial Confer- ence board make periodic estimates, usually agreeing within a couple of million. But they can be little bet- ter than intelligent guesses. Nobody knows. ‘That is why a census of unemploy- ment has been periodically proposed, perhaps as a national WPA project. Hugh Johnson had a pet plan to use voting booths in every precinct in the country as registering-places for the unemployed, just as they were used during the war for draft registry. es 3 % Bad Election Year Task But you may be sure that nothing will be done this year toward an ac- curate national listing and census of the unemployed. Bad election year jusiness. Some day, however, an increasing number of government officials feel that it must be done, on the prin- ciple that before you can accurately determine where you're going, you must first know “where you're at.” Another example of this vagueness of knowledge of elementary data came up in debate on new alien laws in the senate. It was Senator Rey- nolds of North Carolina who pointed out that nobody knows how many aliens there are in the country, let alone how many of them are here illegally. For instance, the commissioner of immigration estimates that the num- ber of aliens illegally in the coun- try is less than 100,000. But one New York City official estimates there are 300,000 in his city alone. The near-impossibility of prevent- ing the illegal entry of aliens is shown by the fact’ that 40,000,000 people cross the land borders of the country every year. That includes commuters, tourists, and the like, but in so great a shoal it would be un- usual if there were not some strange fish, * ke # Makes People Think It. would. be inaccurate to say that the adverse ‘supreme court decisions raised the public clamor of protest that inner New Dealers hoped it would. Spontaneous public clamor was strangely absent. But plenty of thoughtful people are thinking, both ways, which is at least an improvement over the former tendency to consider the court blind- ly as something somehow superhu- man. More than 40 proposals are pending in congress to modify in some way the powers of the court. There is almost no chance ‘f modi-. fication in this session of congress. After the November elections, per- haps, but not now. Hence, frantic efforts must be made to frame the new AAA substitute in terms that may be made to agree with the présent court's interpreta- tion of the constitution. * # % New Way Over Hurdle The idea, of course, is to promul- BUNE, TUKSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1 No Relief in Sight - The Country Doctor A Novelization of the Twentieth Century-Fox Film, Starring the Dionne Quintuplets With Jea® Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson, June Lang: Michacl Whalen and Slim Summerville BEGIN HERE TODAY DR. JOHN LUKE, country dec- tor in the little north woods set- tlement of Moosetown, receives an emergency call to the lumber mill when MIKE SCANLAN, lum- berman, is crushed under-a fallen log. Both of Mike's legs are seri- | ously injured, NURSE KENNEDY assists the doctor as Mike wails, “I don’t want to live if you cut my legs off!” * Moosetown is in a state of ex- cltement because the season's work at the mill is ending. Next day the last boat south will de- part, taking the crew of timber- men home for the winter. NOW GO Oi! WITH THE STORY CHAPTER II Mike Scanlan didn’t die. Nor did he lose the sturdy legs that had meant @ living, life itself, to him. Dr. Luke's practiced and sensitive fingers served for X-ray, and Mike was soon encased in two mummy-like casts up to the hips. Far into the night worked Dr. Luke, to get Mike comfortably in- stalled in his boarding house. To soften the blow of missing the morrow’s boat and the dreary gate the law as a soil conservation | stead, measure. Soil conservation has been & legitimate objective of the national government for years. Then you operate the ‘soil conser- vation program in such way as to accomplish about the same things which the old AAA was accomplish- ing—that 1s, balancing crops with consum| . A. new twist was added to this effort to make the new AAA court- proof by Senator Logan of Kentucky. iM He added to the purposes of the bill “protection of rivers and harbors against the effects of soil erosion.” The point is that states, be they ever so touchy about their rights, that might help to get over the su- court hurdle, bis BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN Flubb—Now there's @ general for you. One day you read about him in Mexico, the next in Cuba and @ day later you hear he’s in Europe. do you refer? Chaos. “What makes @ wedding ring?” “Perhaps it’s the belle that wears it. @ general Flubb — General Prof—I believe you missed my class yesterday. Student—Why no I didn’t, old man, not in the least. Robert: It looks like the cook has let the cheese spoil again. Ray: Yes, it’s story. Prof—Tomortow I'll lecture on evo- lution. Voice from last row—Oh, cut out the monkey business. the same mould Mrs, Newlywed: cat went and ate the nice prepared fo: you! * Mr, Newlywed: There, there, dar- ling! I'll buy wou another cat! have never Shieclet t9 the federal | 4 government coming and spending millions in dredging out thelr har- bors and rivers, So, the senators figure that if one of the objects they say they're work- ing toward in the new farm legisla-| The tion is to improve rivers and harbors, pressed dinner I|the grimy hand. walk Constable Ogden was there, his jaw doubly swollen by the recent tooth fous medical supplies, were at purser's window. “About @ gallon...” A_lumberman elbowed his way up to Dr. Luke. “I was looking ed to yap you.” grimy hand, greasy bills, and silver, come & “Five-sixty, five eighty-five, five-| region where babies were part of the annual routine, aboard, calling, “Doc! Hey, Doc!” coins “That all you got, son?” inquired Pe, Lae with a wry smile, ninety-five, six!” he counted as the dropped. grinned. didn’t I, Doc?” he commented. With a furtive look about him, Dr | “Too soon!” the money quickly into “Keep it,” he pered. “You'll need it ‘outside. Pay ‘Anything “I guess that’s all,” speculated Dr. men on deck, all a little drunk, were} nuke. go this time. I'll get ‘em next year. rol ‘a George. “Got . “Just made tt.| Wyatt!” whis- | firmly. And suddenly the} away?” Le Mary ... revealed all the fresh loveliness that is part of youth ... she was obviously still in her teens. Have a nice win- enough detective stories tilt| rons yonee and songs stopped, “I guess 80. Everybody left me detective stories, movie those confession sort of symbol even in a came hi Nurse Kennedy turned to Dr. Luke . “Well, I guess it’s another she said tiered 1” spluttered the doctor. “Not for her!” said Nurse Kennedy | “Can you come now, Doc, right tt. implored Wyat less pedestrian “ure, sure, let's go!” reassilgtd the volved’.in an accident. 1 too, if the care’ It’s an aocifent, too, if the care” Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. rg a Dr. Brady will enswer g oor diagnosis. Wri ly tn care of The stamped, sel! lunging ahead and the orthodocs ciange of weather, a draft or wet feet., don’t mind the orthodocs sounding off about “the common cold,” for genuine humor in their attitude. Or maybe my rate I have to chuckle every time I 4 have in the medical profession two schools of back—there supervened upon a period of “dieting” in standard weight, serve as a sad example of and immunity. Not that adiposity or superfluous flesh protects against tuberculosis, for indeed we find that recovery from tuberculosis is not favored against tuberculosis and immunity against infection in general somé other infections. Just which vitamin {s most essential, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS pamphlets on breaking out of pimples on the ish 1 Vc ee Ppy.... (i .) stamped envelope bearing your address arid ask and Blackheads. Such breaking out is more or youth. Humidity ‘We have water pan in furnace. Our walls are wet when we cook. our window: i as Ee cH ture will come apart... . (C. R.) Answer—Certainly the gallon or two of water evaporated the ordinary furnace water pan can have little effect on humidity. The condensation of moisture on kitchen walls and windows indicates humidity there, but how about other rooms? Some “steaming” of windows when the temperature is below 40 indicates normal humidity. If the windows steam up some, the air indoors is probably excessively dried out. | Infection catching disease in using public bath tub? How disinfect Danger of r itagious disease? ... (ESS.) if by FELL IN THE NORTHERN UNITED