The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1936, Page 6

he Bismarck Tribune THE svat ios GLotet REWErADER Btate, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D. and (@ntered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mat! matter. Stella 1, Mann Vice President and Publisher Kenneth W Simons Editor Archie O. Johnson Gecretery and Treasurer Subscription Rates Payable in Advance mail per year (in Bismarck) . mail per year (in state outside of Bismarc’ outside of North Dakota by mail in state, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of th patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this ewapaper igo the local news of spontaneous orlgin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, acne weneo rerAger”d Home Rule Is Answer Nothing more sharply outlines the dilemma of congress in dealing with the relief situation than the current plea of Amer- ican states and cities that they are unable to bear the burden— that Uncle Sam must do it. They are perfectly willing to go on spending federal money. In fact, they insist upon it despite the huge deficit which already insures heavy taxes for the future and now threatens the sta- bility of the entire nation. As long as the well yields water these people are perfectly willing to keep the pump in operation. And this consideration, it is only fair to say, includes our own city and our own state. Opposing those who ask more and more federal relief are those who demand that the budget be balanced, but they are not very specific as to the means which should be employed. As long as Uncle Sam plays the role of Santa Claus it takes more courage than most politicians have to advocate placing this bur- den where it can be handled most efficiently—which is as close to home as possible. That minor political subdivisions would have difficulty in | financing the relief load is admitted. Nevertheless, their credit is not yet exhausted and it would be better for the people to have the evidences of mounting debt close at hand, where they can be seen and felt, rather than to have them in Washington where the evil effects of this situation can be further delayed. The average man finds it difficult to give substance to those astronomical figures which represent the mounting public debt and so he is likely to go on living in a fool’s paradise, fondly ' imagining that the government is picking money off the trees, until the bill is presented to him for payment. Because Uncle Sam is furnishing the money he can not be blamed for insisting on laying down the rules for spending it. The result, almost inevitably, is the accumulation of routine which causes local relief officers to complain bitterly that they are prevented by red tape from being efficient. Assuming that this complaint is justified—as it undoubt- edly is—one answer would be to increase efficiency by eliminat- ing this red tape. About the only way this can be done is to establish local control. And before that can be accomplished it will be neces- sary for the local political subdivisions to put up a larger share of the money. If congress had the courage it would enact a law whereby ‘| the government would bear a specific share of the relief load— » say 20 per cent—with the states or subdivisions to take care of * 80 per cent. P It could then safely eliminate all the red tape and let these ' subdivisions spend the money in their own way. The only check © necessary by the government would be to see that the local sub- » divisions actually put up their share of the money. A relatively small force of accountants could do that. This would place the relief problem squarely on the door- ; step of the average citizen and he would immediately do some- § thing about it. The relief problem would cease to be a vague menace to the welfare of the country—a regrettable thing but , mot important—and would soon become a burning issue. If this plan were adopted a lot of toes would be stepped on and a lot of changes would be necessary, but the excuse for the ‘mounting national deficit would be eliminated and there would | be better assurance that the taxpayers were getting a dollar’s worth of value for every dollar spent. _. It would be uncomfortable all down the line, but discomfort 4g necessary before the people can be roused to deal with this problem. If everyone were being pinched, mass attention would be given the issue—and mass attention is necessary before a porereny atettniemmtan Behind he SCENES Washington Amazing Stories of Spying in Indus- try Are Related to Senate Probe Group... Operatives Tell How Anti-Union ‘System’ Is Worked. . . Light Consumers’ Threats Win Re- volt Against Smoke in Alexandria. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) | Washington, May 6.—After modest- ly hiding its head under a bushel for many years, one of the great Ameri- can industries is being dragged .out into the light so that credit may be had where credit is due, This is the business of industrial espionage, which experts of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board say has an army of somewhere between 40,000 and 135,000 men and women whose method of earning a living is to spy on and squeal on those who ostensibly are their fellow workers. Anyone who likes to read detective stories ought to get an earful of the hearings being conducted by Senator LaFollette. Day after day they are producing fascinating real life stories. Amazingly enough, some of the “stool pigeons” themselves, now more or less reformed, have’ come on the witness stand to tell how they infil- trated into the ranks of employes and made reports to agencies which sub- sequently pia the boss, * * Explains A, F, of L. Failure Their stories make it easier to un- derstand why the American Federa- tion of Labor has made such a sorry failure of its attempts to organize workers. The labor spy enters a fac- tory or mine and ingratiates himself with employes. He reports the names of any he hears talking union organ- ization and they're likely to lose their jobs forthwith, Sometimes he gets to be a union Official and helps double-cross his “comrades” from the very inside. The detective agency assigns him a num- ber and gives him elaborate instruc- tions for making daily reports, so he won't be caught. Usually there are other spies to check up on him. Occasionally the spy is caught and sometimes promises to work for the union and double-cross his employer if the union men refrain from beat- ing him up. Many go into the business because it’s the only work they can get. Judging from the evidence, most employers who engage spies are sat- isfied if they can learn who the key- men are in any movement to union- ize their employes and to fire these keymen forthwith. But others, evi- dence indicates, have the union men beaten by agency thugs as a method of discouragement. * * * Many Have Crime Records City officials have joined labor leaders in charging that agencies sup- plying spies and strikebreakers often deliberately create inflamed pictures in the minds of employers. Assistant Solicitor M. Herbert Sime testified that in a recent roundup of strike- breakers in Philadelphia, 49 of 50 arrested were found to have criminal records. He charged that detective agencies often schemed to keep employers and employes from getting together, lest their profits be lost. Numerous attempts to “frame” union organizers by female operatives have been described to LaFollette, who hopes to obtain a full senate in- vestigation of labor spying and civil liberties violations. es & Consumers Win Revolt Alexandria, Va., where many Wash- ington workers live, is celebrating victory in a consumers’ revolt against plans of the Virginia Public Service Co., subsidiary of Associated Gas & Electric—whose head, H. C. Hopson, was chased, caught, and made to testify as to his lobbying activities before congressional committees last summer. New Dealers and newspaper corres- pondents living in the Virginia town led the fight against enlargement of @ power plant which they asserted would seriously icrease an already bad smoke nuisance. Chief U. 8. Forester F. A. Silcox, arbitrator in the recent New York elevator strike, was chief spokesman. President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers; Edwin 8. Smith, mem- ber of the National Labor Relations Board; Indian Commigsioner John Collier, Admiral Perceval 8. Rossiter, R. G. Bolling, brother of Mrs, Wood- row Wilson; and more than 50 others signed a telegram of protest to Hop- son, They invaded a city council meeting solution can be found. | Politics in Crime _ Consider your plight as the average American citizen. There are 300,000 people now living who will be murdered. f¥ou may be one of them. ’ ‘There are 150,000 actual murderers roaming at large. One pr more of these may be shadowing your personal safety. -And, finally, you are inadequately protected under the law, ‘even if “justice” is dispensed, because the average murderer serves only four years in prison. - These are the startling statistics of J. Edgar Hoover, head Hof the bureau of investigation of the department of justice. fhe figures are so threatening, he says, because America’s law forcement agencies are “hampered, hamstrung, and strangled the blood-caked hand of crime-affiliated politics.” Think it over. : Suspected Servant The city of Cleveland has been exercised recently by the Hlogure that # veteran police captain, who has drawn a total $60,000 in salary from the city during his period of service, been able in that same time to put rather more than $100,- pin the bank. : ‘So exercised has the city become. in fact, that the county Jury has indicted the officer, and machinery has been set n to throw him off the police force. And his lawyer, », is declaring loudly that it was all perfectly innocent, wrong construction has been put on everything. ‘ig quite possible. But the case is instructive, never- The public servant who lets his savings exceed his me can hardly complain if a suspicious public decides has been something decidedly fishy somewhere in ee and promised to go back to candies and kerosene lamps if they weren't heeded. The company capitulated, submit- ting new engineering plans which it promised—in writing—would elimin- ate smoke and cinders. Now the “Kerosene and Candle Committee,” as it calls itself, plans a crusade for lower rates. ‘Washington, across the river, pays 3.9 cents a kilowatt hour, whereas Alexandria's rate is said to average around 7% cents. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) A BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth is my policy. What's yours?” “$200 for an eye; Hightower — I wonder why Crab- shaw is lucky at cards, and nearly al- ways loses when playing the horses? Cheek—That’s easy; he can’t shuf- fle the horses. Doctor—What you need is rest. Government Clerk—But.I can’t af- ford ta go away. © Doctor—You -don’t need to. Just stay at the office @ couple of hours more every day. i fs i t money? : "y mer—Well, I. sHould say there HULL ON FOREIGN TRADE (&. Paul Dispatch) Secretary Hull's defense of the re- ciprocal trade agreement policy of the administration yesterday before the United States Chamber of Com- merce was moderate, restrained and convincing. By these agreements the United States is giving tariff conces- sions on things we import, getting . | concessions on things we export. The purpose is to reopen channels of nor- mal international trade, closed these past several years by barriers put up to fend off emergency. When figures on our recent world trade become available, opponents of this policy will probably be able to point out that imports to America have increased more than American sales abroad. This is the natural re- sult of the fact that America is owed great sums by foreign debtors, and notwithstanding the contrary impres- sion caused by default on the war debts of the former Allies, most of these debtors are trying to pay in- terest and principal of what they owe. But it is true that in the long run the reciprocal agreements will stand or fall by their success in reopening world markets for the products of —————$—$—$—$—$—$—————————————? [ So They Say | One hundred million cans of dog food are being eaten by the human tace in the United States, and you can’t laugh that off the floor of the Senate.—U. 8. Senator L. J. Dickin- son, Iowa, x * & How can a little child be expected to understand the difference between what adult society calls “white lies” and what parents call “a great big lie,” when their chidren do the same THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY,-MAY 6, 1936 ‘Candidates Bid for Public Popularity’ | LOOKIT THIS GUY TRAVELING ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY — AND E CAN'T EVEN GOT AWAY FROM WORK To SEE A which the country produces a surplus. Secretary Hull spoke with great force on this point. He gave a list of American products in which the out- put exceeds the demand at home by from 10 to 50 per cent—lard, cotton, tobacco, fruits, copper, petroleum pro- ducts, automobiles, machinery, electri- cal and office appliances, and more. Many of the opponents of the trade agreement policy are also the severest critics of government “regimenta- tion” of production and distribution. Secretary Hull observed that the only alternative to a liberal foreign trade Policy must be greater regimentation, more government control. If America grows more cotton and produces more lard than can be sold at home, and it can not be sold abroad, then there must be controls on production de- signed to diminish the quantities of cotton and hogs. This will eventually mean important readjustments in the entire economic organization of the country. If about half the people of the South must go out of cotton and its related industries and services, place must be found for them some- where else. Such readjustment might be allowed to take its normal course, but practically that is impossible, for the uprooting and transplanting of thing. — Mrs. Paul B. 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H) signature I assume you un- organiza: tion to “Veterans of Future Wars.” FOLLY end FAREWELL BEGIN HERE TODAY LINDA BOURNE, 20 years eld, vretty and socially prominent ia the Little town ef Newtown, is ale most penaiiess after the sudéen fenth of her father. She becomes feloneiz wich * PETER GARDIN! political re- porter, and shows a scenario te in love, bi Pe Hic: letters are tat Setwresn’ ond ioe te soneet him. pid wntpoues the Gate. ot the* weds HONEY HARMON, comes te Ni a A severe cold Kespital. Pet ciig ‘her abest a play’ be kas NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IX pr inspected herself carefully in the mirror, and spoke with sharp sarcasm, “Well, Miss Bourne, you certainly are a fascinating woman. What fs it that you have, my girl, that ties men to you with euch utter devotion?” She gave an angry glance at the old-fashioned clock on the mantel then, and went back to her book. It was the newest best-seller, but, for all the attention she was able to sive it, it might have been a sta tistical report of taxes in 1845. The clock struck 11 and Linda tlosed her book with a bang. Def. uitely she was not waiting up. She wouldn’t wait until that hour for any man. And what right did Peter P. Gardiner have to treat her so rudely? He had distinctly said that he would arrive at 8 o'clock. He hadn't, and he hadn’t tele phoned. Very well, he'd never do that again. She could get along very well without him. If she never saw him again it would be all right! Nevertheless, she went to the front door, opened. it and peered Gown the sirnet nplere she sont Mi stairs, “I'm acquiring the bad habit of talking to myself,” she sald coldly to herself as she mounted the stairs. And then did it agsin— “Movie star!” The “movie star,” Miss Honey Harmon, appeared clearly in Lin- da’s mind. Miss = a3 5 Seediz i : Fresti iskée 5 sf? St laughed then, but not very lightly. Make men happy? What was the matter with wom- en? Linda was only 20, and the only two men she had given any | script. affection to had let her down. First Dix and now Pete. He was probably holding Honey’s hand at the moment and eating up her words, feeling like an irresistible male. Linda wished she lived in a world of women. Pete Gardiner wasn’t eating up Honey Harmon's words, but he was hanging on them. What Honey had to say to him this night was the most important thing in his life at the moment. For nearly 10 days since Honey Harmon had come to Newtown, Pete had been dancing attendance on her, and since 6 that after- ce he had told her that play he wanted her to had been waiting for this moment. He tried to talk about it in the afternoon and he tried again dur- ing dinner and when finally Honey demanded to see the manu- script immediately, he brought it forth and forgot to telephone Linda. When he realized that Linda was waiting, he was sure that he could explain to her. e-8 @ AN exceedingly pretty frown ap- peared on her alabaster brow as Honey pored over the pages of were any. wi “But Petie’—how he hated to be called Petio—“It isn’t me!” Pete didn’t answer that. He still hoped. “It's too marvelous, but it’s not for me. It’s sophisticated.”. is Pete ply won't let me make another sophisticated picture.” “All right, Honey.” Pete smiled charmingly and picked up his “We'll skip it. I wanted you to see if “I think it’s grand, Petie, and T’'m sure you'll sell it. You ought to be in Hollywood.” Pete didn’t tell her what he thought of Hollywood. He said nothing, and whenever Pote said nothing Honey always found something to say, particularly if the subject had been herself. “The real reason I’m on my way cast is to find a play. I do wish you had another. What my producers want is to cast me in something about a little working sirl” She sighed. “It seems that the public is more interested in working girls than glamorous ladies these days. Of all things, they want me to find a play about a stenographer. Something where there is a big bad boss and, and...” eee ONEY had more than that to say, but when she arrived at ae Oe pat eee a on bis ect, a new in eye and his hat is hand. “Honey,” he said, “I have got another play! And it’s about a stenographer and two big bad bosses only one isn't bad. . .” “Twot” Honey asked. “One a Menjou and one a Ga. dle,” he promised, “But I must see it!” Honey ex- . claimed. Pete was already. on his way to the door. “It's down at the office. TU be back with it in 10 minutes. One hour and 10 minutes later Linda gat up in bed and pulled the cord on her bed-lamp. Below the bell was pealing insistently. She drew a robe over her night- gown, thrust her feet into slip- Ders and went to the window. “Who's there?” she called. "Tvs wondertal neve for yours Rews for you,” Pete called back to her.