The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 2, 1936, Page 6

6 cs _ ~ The Bismarck Tribune ‘ oes oo ‘ Behind S xf An Independent Newspaper the cenes | THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER —in— i (Established 1873) Washington State, City and County Official Newspaper 4 3 Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and ‘Watered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter, Stella 1. Mann vf a Thorn in the New Deal's Side ella I, ++. and Boosting His Own Stock as 4 Vico President and Publisher a G, O. P. Presidential Prospect by 2 Archie O, Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Leadership in the Senate. + Seoretary and Treasurer Faltor Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan . . . He's Becoming More By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, April 2.—The Roose- velt administration, which loves itself for the enemies it has made and counts every attack from the Liberty League and Wall Street as so much velvet, now finds itself more than an- noyed by a serics of jabs right in Washington. Senator Arthur H, Vandenberg of Michigan has taken over the function of a minority party in congress, which other Republicans there have seemed unwilling or unable to assume—the function of opposition. For the first time, the senate has rebelled under the leadership of a Republican against the administra. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck). Dally by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year Weekly by mall outside of North ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The ‘Associated Press The Associated Preas is exclusively entitled to the use for republic tion of the news dlapatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In thin newapaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rlehts of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, tion—which was what it did when Vandenberg persuaded It to stop funds for the Florida ship canal and three lesser projects. Thanks to Vanden- berg, the Passamaquoddy project in Maine is being similarly treated. On top of that, Vandenberg be- comes even more embarrassing to the New Deal by his promise to expose huge AAA benefit payments to large corporations. He also has been among those foremost in demanding investi- gation of WPA. By such assaults Vandenberg is building himself up as an outstand- ingly available candidate for the Re- publican presidential nomination, If by any chance Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas should not be nominated, it is generally believed in Washington that Vandenberg would be the party's choice, A Farmer's Idea Four or five years ago a humble farmer from the north- ern part of the state appeared in Bismarck to tell some of the state's business and political leaders of a new plan of farm- ing. He had borrowed a surveyor’s level and plotted a field, then used a scraper to develop it in a series of benches for what now is known as “contour farming.” The season was not a particularly dry one, but just before he came to Bismarck he had dug two feet into the earth of that field and been able to make mud balls with the soil at the bottom. In a field across the road he said, the ground was “dry as punk” 14 inches from the surface. But what, the wise men wanted to know, had he been able to raise on a field treated in so unorthodox a manner. The answer was that a fine volunteer crop of sweet clover had sprung up on the 40 acres and the man had let it stand. Thereupon the interest which he had stirred appeared to Jag. Men who might have been in position to encourage others to experiment refused to listen further. The visitor went away, wondering what was needed for proof. Now the federal soil conservationists are urging farmers to do what this North Dakotan did on his own initiative and, just to prove the idea isn’t new, they are citing the fact that Thomas Jefferson. third president of the United States, and a farmer, was practicing contour farming on his Virginia sh He'd Rather Run in 1940 But the senator has made no move toward getting the nomination and there isn't any organized effort, even in his own state, to nominate him. The real lowdown on the Vandenberg dark horse “candidacy” is this: Less than a year ago the Michigan senator was acting very much like a man who would seek the nomination. But now he suspects that the G, O. P. nomination won't be worth having un- til 1940. Vandenberg favors the nomination of Senator Borah of Idaho, The Michigan delegation will go unin- structed to the Cleveland convention, Handicap Race With Other A WARNING TO THE PRESIDENT (Minneapolis Tribune) ‘The president's committee on gov- ernment competition with private en- estate as early as 1813. Writing to a friend in that year, he said: “Our country ts hilly and we have been in the habit of plowing in straight rows, whether up or down hill, or however they lead, and our soil was all rapidly running into the rivers. We now plow herizontally following the curvature of the hills and hollows on dead level, however crooked the lines may be. Every furrow thus acts as a reservoir to receive and retain the waters, all of which go to the benefit of the growing plant instead of running off into the streams.” The greats of North Dakota's yesteryear evidently didn’t but reports are that it probably will be pro-Borah. Borah wants Vandenberg nominat- ed in case he can't win the honor himself. He is sald to have prom- ised in effect that he would throw his support at the convention to Van- denberg if his own nomination seemed impossible, Meanwhile, the two men are play- ing closely together and yor 8 lot more about all this if it appears ll hear that Landon doesn’t have a walkaway at the convention's outset. xk Oe Gets in New Deal's Hair Meanwhile, Vandenberg gets under the New Deal hide because he picks the spots where the hide is thinnest. Such projects as the Florida ship canal and Passamaquoddy have been under suspicion from the first as to their soundness. PWA engineers re- jected them, Roosevelt okayed them and there was plenty of room for be- lef that they never would have been approved unless political angles had been considered. ‘They were begun in each case with $5,000,000 from the work-relief fund. Then the administration undertook to unload them on the regular budget. The appropriation asked for the Flor- ida canal for the next fiscal year was $12,000,000. The House eliminated the recom- mendations for both projects and the | administration would have had the money put back in the senate bill if it hadn't been for Vandenberg. * oe Makes Project Look Bad | He argued that when a “doubtful” | Project such as the ship canal came ‘up, the senate should think twice be- fore it permitted the president to em- bark the treasury on an expenditure Ot $150,000,000 or $200,000,000 without | previous congressional study and ap- | proval. know that. If they had they might have treated a local farm- er'r idea with more respect. Put and Take Contracts recently let by the interior department of the federal government call for the expenditure of $955,175 in dig-| ging a main canal on the Gila reclamation project in Arizona, which will eventually cost a huge sum and bring 600,000 acres under irrigation. Critics of the federal government who contend that it is silly to curtail production by paying farmers to reduce their plantings and, at the same time, increase production by new irrigation projects, undoubtedly would be justified if that were the only consideration. But these objections do not take into consideration several important factors. Least important among these is the local political pressures involved, If we could have managed it, the federal govern- ment would today be developing the Missouri river valley for | irrigation. It would be a big boon to Bismarck and all of western North Dakota. But underlying the whole program, crazyquilt though it seems, is a realization that anything which makes for more | abundant and cheaper production of food, textiles or other goods Is a benefit to the human race. Even those who most ardently favor restrictions in farm production to support prices | The senate agreed with him and admit this. | seemed so certain to do likewise as And irrigation is merely the application to agriculture of | peg gee hata ee the same principles which have enabled manufacturing in-|that one. The obvious result is to dustry to supply the needs of the people. On that basis it tees iy DL eke eee May eventually turn out to be a good thing, even though it | couple of $5,000,000 errors and tempo- “an no pretense of solving the fundamental questions of the leid ieoe ike uate aoe Ps stribution of benefit and the distribution of labor with which | eard of the senate. ¢ nation now is struggling. | * * * Bares Big AAA Payments | ; When Vandenberg says he knows jof an AAA com-hog contract which ) brought a beneficiary $219,825 in two Soon, according to dreamers on the subject of road de-| Yes for not raising 14,587 hogs; a A Boon to Peace terprise has now reported. On the whole, it considers such competition an unmitigated evil, save in such sit- uations where “the public welfare can only thus be served.” There is noth- ing equivocal or evasive about the committee's opinion; on the contrary, it is bluntly given and so direct and simple that no child could fail to un- derstand it. Unless government com- petition is the only means by which the interests of the public may be promoted, the committee is convinced that it is “wholly destructive.” Thus the president is told: “It invites and cultivates a growth of bureaucracy. It necessarily in- creases government expenditures while decreasing tax revenues, and it operates to dry up the sources of gov- ernment income.” It has been said of government re- search committees of the sort that they are the burying ground of con- troversial issues. The usual procedure is to appoint them with great flour- ishes, and to ignore their findings in profound silence. Whether or not President Roosevelt intended to inter the question of government competi- tion in this fashion we do not know, but if he created the committee in good faith, and has respect for the competence and judgment of its members, he can hardly escape the responsibility of weighing carefully its well considered opinion, Under the New Deal, the federal government has made many inroads into the fields tradition reserved to private enterprise. The Tennessee valley authority is probably the out- standing example of this invasion,| EDITORS THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1936 Reprinted to show what they say. We may or may not agree with them. but it is by no means the only one. | rate, has spoken, and it will be inter- That this competition is all bad and /esting to observe what weight, if any, wholly unwarranted has never been|the president attaches to its words. contended but on one point the New/If he attaches none, the cynical Deal critics have been fairly well/smiles which greeted the recent an- agreed, namely, that much of it tends/nouncement that Mr. Roosevelt had to shake business confidence, retard | appointed a committee to study fed- recovery, and undermine the very |eral economy would seem, offhand, to sources of revenue which the govern- | be thoroughly in order. ment is counting on heavily for its support. For the most part, this point of view has been dismissed by the New Dealers as reactionary, but now Mr. Roosevelt has come squarely against it in the report of his own committee. Under the circumstances, the possi- bility that something more than Prejudice and self-interest bases this point of view would seem well worth investigating. The committee, at any BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN {S RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN “They made me manager of thé First National bank to- day.” “You couldn't hold & job like that, What have you ever man- aged before?” “I mal to marry. the president's daughter. Perhaps the reason half the world doesn’t know how the other half lives is because the other half is paying hush money. “I see you have # new room-mate.” “No—I bought this tte myself.” 18 One who goes before. 20 Fish, 21 Upon. 22 Mortar tray. 44 Preposition. it wi a 5 ‘i e | Wheat contract ch brought 65| 23 Spigot. 45 Long cut. velopment, it will be possible for a resident of Bismarck to point | checks for a total of $78,638 to Rosie 25 Musical note, 47 Toward. the nose of his automobile southward and wind up at Cape SAGE InEs: ed 8 cob on epaiiaet |. FURIE 48 Congulated [orn, . which paid $168,000, he naturally 29 Crowd. mass, Horn, on the southern tip of South America. | makes the New Dealers sqlirm. He} 31 Serrated tool, 52 Eons. intends to name the beneficiaries, Presumably such payments were made sirictly within the law and were required by law. Corporations, such as insurance companies and banks, ve become large owners of farms | through foreclosures and hence are technically “producers.” But it looks bad—or can be made to In the journey he will pass from the northern part of the temperate zone, through the sub-tropics, the tropics, and sub-| tropics and south temperate zones again and into the south-/ ern sub-arctic region. Such will be the range of climate| traversed by the proposed longest highway in the world. The thing is already more than a dream, for it now is pos- sible ipo tid “ Northern Canada to Mexico City by im-)look bad—and this is a campaign proved highway, the latest stretch to be opened being the 768 |°>3: And Mr. Vand rapidly be- oneal from oop bge ad to Mexico City. That it came into eae! one of the chee enone oy as a part of Mexico's unemployment relief program ror. ecminiszevion Weyl Rapala > oad - difference. It is there and it offers an attrac. | (Oonpriant 1096, NEA. Service Inc.) ve vacation possibility to residents of the United States. hee Rs ae Other roads are being driven southward and soon it will > So They Say be possible to reach the Panama Canal zone. Other South’ Ray —, fogs achlgoa desiring American tourist trade, are be- ning to @ up and the Canada-to-Cape project soon may |S SI ited? —Ki 7 turn from a dream to a reality. " recent trip to Glasgow it is hard to imagine anything which would tend toward. aR 4 . ard) rhe British is an hi friendlier relations than the free intermingling of peoples |[acciasnt TE al ME aR : Tt was never deliberately Which such a highway would provide, planned by the will of a sovereign said in a distant capital. —Hendrik | Willem Van Loon, noted historian. champagne for a hiccup cure. But sup- | se | Tm the last picture I made in Holly- | Wood, they made me sing all day and Proofreaders, who struggled with Allegheny, Monongshela and Youghio-|milk a cow in th ny, 2 e] - e bargain. I don’t ‘gheny, found it easy to sympathize with other flood victims. 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Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but not briefly and in in! Address Dr. $n nC oe ee Ths ase! A queries’ must be accompanied by & ¢ ‘TEACHER TELLS A TALE OF TACT One old fogy teacher seriously assured me that it is the teacher’s duty of age. to assign endugh home work to all the pupils to keep them off the strecta a But that isn’t the tact we are going to hear about. The teacher who tells the tale of tact is a young teacher, of 1 A grade children six or seven years of, age. One of her pupils “who we shall call Mary,” the teacher decides before the it. Sounds like a quaint believe it or the school, evidently soe | not. The over I can christen the child Cyril, had s vomiting attack every morning while old lock-step formation, doesn’t it? But it is a teacher explains that one of the rules by @ martinet, is that classes assemble the the basement waiting for the lynx-eyed to permit them to go to their classrooms. still perpetrated with classroom morning and afternoon, great relish by antediluvian is not coddled or spoiled. After she would vomit again. Mary’s who looked her over and said she of other children. So teachers’ staircase just as the at the classroom door as the other QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Parkinson’s Disease What is Parkinson’s disease? Is it contagious? What causes it? Is it can give such treatment. . Gi sleeping sickness)? ... (E. B. C.) Answer—Paralysis agitans, otherwise known as shaking palsy. contagious. Cause unknown, possibly infectious (that is, due to bacteria). A condition resembling it occurs after encephalitis. Treatment of either affection by stramonium has given relief. Not Of course only the attending inger Ale Can you tell me if ginger ale is on the list of foods to be avoided by diabetics? ... (Mrs. J. P. P.) Answer—More or less sugar in it. The patient’s physician can advise how much sugar the patient may take. Prospective Mothers Please say a few words about prospective mothers smoking. . . « GM) Anwer—I think they shouldn’t. Some physicians permit expectant mothers to’ continue smoking. Glad to send any prospective mother who provides a stamped addressed envelope a letter of advice and instruction. Baby's Head Will Round Out My baby’s head is so flat at the back. Have tried placing pillows behind him and laying him on his side but he will roll onto his back. . (Mrs, O. D.) Answer—The head will round out by the time he is three years old. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) “Well, I wouldn't say that. least, I wasn’t going to. Is it “Bome people think s0.” frowned. “But why should I tend to like sitting around office when I don't? 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