The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1936, Page 4

a OLITICS by PERTINAX ‘With charity for toward none ‘Warming Up the Prophets ‘This is the season when the politi- ‘cal prognosticators begin to sharpen their pencils and calculate the prob- able result of the forthcoming elec- tion. They put their respective ears to the ground, & report that ‘Whoozis precinct will go solid and that ‘Whatsis precinct is in bad shape, pull a rabbit out of a hat, rub the left ear of a gray mule with a rabbit's foot ‘and come up with the prediction that it ls “in the bag” for so-and-so. That, at least, is the only way in which to explain the rather weird predictions in past campaigns, partic- ularly in view of the fact that two opposing groups cannot each win at one and the same time. The present campaign hasn't yet reached the forecasting stage except in private. The public presentation of the act is saved for a day or two before the election, but it is in re- hearsal now. The boys are warming up and will be in form when the time comes to take the stage. No One Really Knows The fact, of course, is that no one ever really knows how an election will go until the votes are counted. There have been times when the most ama- teurish prophet could guess the win- ner but no one could really be sure until the people had spoken. Neither does this column propose to enter the forecasting field, but there are some things which may point the Cirection of the wind. For the time being, at least, the supporters of Gov- ernor Walter Welford are well pleased. They are not cocky but they are dis- tinctly optimistic and are going about their work wtih new energy. ‘The reason is that they have been getting word from all parts of the state that individuals who always have been leaders in their communi- ties and who formerly were aligned with the opposition now are support- ing the farmer governor. Others who never claimed to be able to influence votes are giving him their support also. The Welford folks are not claiming victory—yet—but their attitude is a contrast to the rather desperate efforts of their op- ponents to whip up certain elements of the people to the white heat which this state has known in the past. ‘The Trend of the Times The current direction of the politi- cal winds may be judged by a recent experience of the anti-Welford fac- tion. Some of its leading speakers were billed to talk in a western North Dakota town. The meeting was held on Saturday night and the sireets were-filled with people. A fair number attended the political meet- ing but conspicuous by their absence were a large number of men and wo- men who would have attended in for- mer years. They were in town, too, but they were meeting and talking with their friends and neighbors and . paying little attention to the poli- ticians. You can make your own guess as to their attitude for they didn’t express themselves any other way. Did they have their minds made up to vote for the anti-Welford candi- dates anyway and felt no need for further conversion or did they feel that they had received sufficient po- litical salvation from that source and were prepared to vote for Welford? Figure out the correct answer to that one and you will have a pretty good hunch as to how the election will go. The facts outlined are de- pendable. Readers can make their own deducations. Not So Hot in Town Some of the best stories of the cam- paign, before it is over, will have to ‘do with the public appearances of the chief executive. Active in state af- fairs for 30 years, the governor is nevertheless not a polished orator, al- though his platform manners have improved notably since he took office and has had to speak frequently. In- dependent reports say he is doing well when taiking to moderate sized crowds. Apparently he gets their “feel” without effort and they take him to their hearts as one of them. But with big crowds he isn’t so con- vincing. Talking to small groups he is just “one of the folks,” but large gatherings still appear to awe him a bit. What to do about it is a question. A Feed Box Tip Don’t bet any money on it but there is a rumor going the rounds that Sen- ator J. Frasier will take the stump for Welford before the cam- paign ends. It is one of the things the Welford men hope: for and their opponents fear because Frazier, though baldheaded, still is the politi- cal fair-haired boy with many farm- ers in this state. The endorsement so far given Wel- ford by Frasier is rather feeble, for the senior senator is a cautious indi- vidual, and the Welford men are hopeful he will make it stronger but they aren’t pestering him about it, so far as can be learned. Some Congressmen Lemke and Burdick are sitting in the political clover. As long as i i i OUT OUR WAY. SS BO _© 1996 BY NEA SERVICE, WiC. _T. M. RED. U. 8. PAT. OFF. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY 380, 1936 THERE'S SOMETHIN'!?, T_BEEN HERE TEN * YEARS, AND I DON'T KNOW, YET, WHETHER TH’ COMPANY SHOULD EXPECT US TO READ THEM BULLETINS ON. OUR TIME, OR WE SHOULD EXPECT THE COMPANY ‘TO LET US READ 'EM ON THEIR TIME== WELL , OF COURSE, THAT DEPENDS ——IF THE BULLETIN IS FOR TH’ COMPANY'S BENEFIT, THEN WE SHOULD READ! 'EM ON TH' COMPANY'S: TIME+ AND IF FOR OUR BENEFIT, READ ‘EM ON OUR TIME~-AN' WHEN. THER'S NO BENEFIT, YOU GOT TO READ 'EM KIND OF A SHOP LAWYER- THE BULLETIN BOARD Relief Is Supreme Issue As Noisy Party. Wrangles Precede 1936 Conventions Press, Washington) . The There is at least a hint of prophecy in the fact that the re- lief issue plays so prominent a part in the final noisy prelude to the national political conventions. The new tax bill may be disturbing in some industrial quar- ters. The farm issue may dominate the campaign in certain states. Various-groups of citizens have shown special concern about the constitution. But when all is said and done, the uni- versal issue is relief. gangsters and racketeers won another temporary victory.” Thus Lemke is placed in the same position that Senator Borah may oc- cupy. He isn’t for Roosevelt and he isn’t for the dominant group in his own party. As a result his campaign song may be a revival of that old war- time ditty, “They’re All Out of Step But Jim.” The best guess, however, is that he will do little talking about the presidential contest this year be- cause there is practically no chance that the party convention will sup- port the Frazier-Lemke plan, al- though the resolutions committee will be asked to do so. Note on the Vote In this column several weeks ago the question of how many signers of the Frazier-Lemke bill would “stay put” when the roll was called was raised. Lemke’s circular letter pro- vides the information that 58 of those who signed the petition to force a vote cast ballots against the bill when the count of noses was made. The moral is that it takes more than support of a petition to get a bill through congress. Drivers Enthusiastic About New Overdrive With the arrival of the touring sea- son, many motorists are giving seri- ous consideration to overdrives, with which 1936 Studebakers are equipped, according to A. C. Wilde of Wilde Mo- tors, Inc. may ride three miles and pay for only two when on tour. “This ‘free’ ride is all simple and easy to explain,” Wilde says, “for that is exactly the way the overdrive works. Having a car equipped with driver does not have to shift any gears to use the over- drive. Running along at 40 miles per hour, the driver merely takes his foot off the accelerator mometarily and the overdrive comes into action. ‘When he later slows down the over- Minnesota—Generally fair tonight and Sunday, becoming. unsettled west and north te 3 Not so cool northet tonight; cooler north by Sunday afternoon or night. Weather Outlook for the Peried of June 1 to For the Great Lakes region—Gen- erally fair first half of week, showers south rtion M sibly showers latter ture mostly near or first half, rising latter For the epee MI Missouri valle; of kk, sho peratui : of we and above normal middle and latter part. For the northern and central Great Plains—Considerable precipitation likely, with temperatures mostly above normal. a” Low rent can be had by buy- ing a Covered Wagon House! Trailer, monthly payments. On display at Fleck Motor Sales. part: below normal halt.” BUDWEISER Now 15c- No Charge for the Bottle On the side of the Democrats, no other issue has produced such out- spoken disagreement in the party ranks in congress. No other has re- sulted in such open public dispute among officials of the administration. Among the Republicans, too, there are differences of view which it may be difficult to overcome completely. Some of the most influential, how- ever, are talking of launching the Re- publican campaign on the keynote of & radically-revised relief program, let- ting ‘all other issues take secondary places for the moment. Relief is something every voter knows about. That is the kind of issue, which inevitably pushes itself to the top. . s* * Miners Forget Guffey Act Recently a visitor to a coal mining section brought back word to Wash- ington that the miners and their fam- ilies were not talking about the Guf- fey act, nor about wages and hours a — Projects, but about re- What about all of these chargés of Politics in the relief set-up, they asked, and would some other method of handling the problem be better? If anyone doubts that relief has be- come a burning local question every- where, he will find the proof in the columns of the daily newspapers of| virtually every state in the union. The care with which the Republican national committee recently prepared its case relating to conditions in Mis- souri, and the thoughtful manner in which this case was handled by the administration, testify to the impor- tance accorded by both sides to this far-spreading problem. ne & Poor Must Eat Tt is not that there is any dispute bout the necessity for taking care the needy. Even the ranking Re- leadership in congress sup- new relief appropriation. so after protesting that’ much better be done way. of the controversy 1s, Harry L. Hopkins’ admin- the vast relief funds en- him. der-surface conflict between Hopkins and the Ickes schools of thought has been much more severe the general public realizes. Ickes has not hesitated ad 3gtk i i i LF ical ition. 4888 diy? congress so that compromise was un- avoidable, but in the main Mr. Hop- kins still dominates. - The exact form of the Republican C ONTINUE from page one: Hundreds Gather | For Huge Parade In Capital City rights for which men struggled for centuries. “But over and above these, main- taining the schools and supporting the constitution so that it will remain the ruling law of the land, is the spirit of unity which covers the nation from east to west and north to south and makes everyone worthy of the name proud that he is an American. group of commonwealths has ever be- fore been welded into an indivisible whole. Nowhere else has a govern- ment of, for and by the free people persisted for so long or been so strong. Cemented By Blood “The reason is that the states are held together by the blood of the na- tion’s patriots which have cemented them into a single arch of national solidarity. They are welded by the sacrifices which have been made for the flag which waves above us all and the memory of the men who died in its service. They are supported by the recognition that America, as is true of no other nation, has offered a haven for the downtrodden and op- pressed, that it has lived up to the obligation of the good neighbor even at times when other nations have sneered at it. “It is a nation where idealism still is unafraid to lift its voice, where patriotism and the spirit of sacrifice in emergency still flare brightly when the need arises just a; it flared in the breasts of those upon whose graves we lay today the wreaths of sorrowful and reverent memory.” Jackson Invokes Aid ‘The program opened with Ralph Warren Soule leading the audience in the singing of “America.” Rev. Ellis L. Jackson, chaplain of the American Legion post, gave the invocation fol- lowed by a short talk by Department Commander Harrington. Wesley L. Sherwin, commander of the local V.F.W. organization, had charge of the dramatic grave ritual in which Harry Bernstein, senior vice commander; Adam Klein, junior vice commander; Chris Free, officer of the day; Reverend Jackson, chaplain, and Mrs. Oscar Selvig, president of the auxiliary, took part. Piano solos by Miss Ruth Rowley, a vocal number by Soule and taps, jeone by Luther Munson, brought the program to a close. H. F. O'Hare, commander of the local post of the United Spanish War Veterans, pre- sided. Commanders and adjutants of ell veterans units and presidents of the auxiliaries were seated on the speakers’ platform, decorated with the flags of each organization. Parade in Washington Ceremonies in the nation’s capital more than charge waste and political manipulation, and hint at some new form of relief administration. It will be for the Republican nomi- nee to advance a tangible outline of what this proposed new approach should be. That may be, in fact, as matters stand, his first task in the campaign. Whatever he suggests is sure to provoke nation-wide dispute. And once the battle is on, can any- one think of any other issue which is campaign attack remains undeter-/jlikely to shoulder this one aside, so mined. Many politicians doubt wheth-| far asthe ordinary voter is con- er the national convention can do ——_— 3 sentia Good Presswork, Good We seek |Poin in PRINTING Good Typography, Paper on each order we print, An order here does not mean just so much and ink but a happy combination of the printer's creft and PAPERS « KNOWN FOR THEIR QUALITY BUY YOUR PRINTING AT HOME YOU'LL BE BETTER SERVED BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. PRINTERS - BINDERS - STATIONERS Phone 32 “No other nation composed of @ Child Actor's Dad Willing to Let Aunt Retain Boy's Custody Los Angeles, May 30.—(#)—The family circle around Freddie Bar- tholomew was completed Saturday with his father’s arrival from England in the role of peacemaker to iron out @ dispute over custody of the $1,000- a-week child actor. Cecil Llewellyn Bartholomew, the father, declined to comment when he erived by plane Friday. His attorney, Isaac Pacht, said he would be agree- able to Freddie's aunt, Miss Mylli- cent Bartholomew, remaining in charge of the boy’s movie career. As to his personal guardianship, now assigned to the aunt, Pacht ex- pressed hope “something could be worked out that would be fair to the mother and father as well as the aunt.” Bartholomew arrived slightly more than a month after his wife opened a court fight to break Miss Bartholo- mew’s guardianship of the 12-year-old boy. The mother's first petition was de- nied, but Superior Judge Harry R. Archbald, after continuing the case until the father arrived, recently in- dicated he would award Freddie to his mother since her fitness had not been questioned. included a parade of the veterans of the Civil, Spanish-American and World wars along Pennsylvania and Constitutional avenues, with govern- ment leaders and diplomats in the reviewing stand, the Associated Press reported. Arlington national cemetery. where 43,000 war veterans lie, was the scene of midday ceremonies including ad- dresses by General John J. Pershing and Secretary Roper, with President bute. Foreign Graves Decorated In Belgium, among other nations where United States soldiers are buried, the day was observed after the American traditions and the graves were decorated. A message to the president Saturday from Leopold, king of the Belgians, said: “Faithful to a tradition which is dear to it, Belgium decorates today the graves of the American soldiers who fell on her soil during the great war, “I associate myself with all my heart in this sacred duty. I renew on this occasion to the American nation the attestation of the profound grati- tude and friendship of the Belgian people.” Roosevelt Reciprocates President Roosevelt replied: “I thank your majesty for your Decoration day message and the friendly sentiments you thereby con- vey which I cordially reciprocate. The heartfelt thoughtfulness with which your majesty and the Belgian people continue to keep in remembrance the American dead interred on Belgian soil touches the hearts of the Ameri- can people and is gratefully appre- ciated by me.” Naval Academy midshipmen at An- napolis planned a re-enactment of Stephen Decatur’s recapture of the frigate Philadelphia in 1804 in the Bay of Tripoli, with President Roo- sevelt viewing the pageant from the yacht Potomac. ‘Tribute was paid also to Robert Mills, the first federal architect, who died in 1852. He was the designer of the Washington monument and was described by Mr. Roosevelt as “a very great genius.” Services in Europe America’s 31,250 World War dead who lie in European graves were hon- ored by memorial services at which veterans of many nations pleaded for world peace. Bugles sounded “taps” over the six pieces of American territory in France where thousands of white crosses mark the burial places of soldiers and sailors of all ranks. In Belgium an American group visited the graves of 356 soldiers buried in Flanders fields. Under the American flag at Brookwood, services were held for the 453 khaki-clad dead interred in English soil. Danish- American veterans decorated the 59 isolated graves of soldiers in Den- mark. In Paris, the American colony ob- served the day with services at the American cathedral church of the Holy Trinity and a mass at St. Joseph's church. State Thrills - Chills “The Murder of Dr. Harrigan” —with— Kay Linaker, Richard Cortes Fri. - Sat. 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