The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1936, Page 4

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While the United States has been experimenting in the politico-economie field other nations have been doing the same thing and it is noteworthy that the supreme court of Canada only the other day handed down opinions in which two of eight social reform laws were held invalid, two others were approved, one was held partly valid and the court handed down five tie verdicts on the other three measures, Compare these statutes, mentioned in news dispatches only by their titles, with some of the things which have been done in the United States and it appears that our experimentation has merely been another manifestation of a spirit which has swept the North American continent, The national products marketing act and the employment and social insurance acts were ruled out, An addition to the criminal code stipulating fines and im- prisonment for unfair busi practices was approved. A farmers’ creditors ingements act was held valid and the Dominion trade and industry commission act was held partly valid. Tie verdicts were returned on the minimum wages, limita-| tion-of-hours-of-work and = thew vekly-day-of-rest-in-industry acts. Now the curious thing about all of these measures is that they bear strong resemblance to many of the laws which have been adopted by our own congress—and some of which have been invalidated by our own supreme court, The minimum wage decision of Canada, for example, fol-| lows by only a few weeks a decision by our own supreme court | on the New York minimum wage act and that as near to! a tie decision as can be rendered by our highest tribunal, | The significant thing is that people everywhere are turning | to government to cure its ills. They may be depending upon} a rather frail and uncertain reed, \ut many of them seem to! feel that it is the only agency suitable for this purpose which | they control. Hence they are attempting to make use of it. dn doing so they may be setting up a Frankenstein of gov-| erngtental power and bureaucracy which ultimately may assist} in defeating the very ends they seek, but, until a better method! appears, this is the method which they prefer to use. | Many of the devices adopted in Fascist countries are simi-! lar to those broached both here and in Canada, Republican France, even now, is launching similar plans on a wide scale. This world-wide trend is not a good one. The direction of | such development is clearly toward a totalitarian state in which! the individual and his rights will amount to little, but it appears that the people of many lands are willing to face that menace, | if and when it actively develops, rather than to go on living ° | personalities become important, | day, office door always wide open} THE Behind the Scenes Washington ey Campaign Looms as Duel of Person- alities ... Gay Smile of Roosevelt Fitted Against Friendly Grin of Landon .. . How Strategists Han- dle Their Cards May Decide Issue. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, June 19.—-To a consid- erable—and perhaps even conclusive —degree, the presidential campaign will be a contest between the person- alities of the candidates. Platforms will be much the same. Landon’s campaign managers are at least as shrewd as Roosevelt's. The Roosevelt record is either a great asset or a net handicap, accord- ing to your views, and you either prefer it to Landon’s record as gov- ernor of Kansas or you don't. Under these circumstances, al- though it’s to be remembered that the record of each man is the best indication of what he would do in the White House from 1937 to 1941, The infectious smile of the gay and glittering Roosevelt will be opposed to the winning, friendly grin of the folksy, small-town Landon. The wealthy, patrician background of the “Squlire of Hyde Park’? will be opposed by the rugged setting of prairie, of] field, and Main Street from which steps “the Kansas Cool- idge.” This conflict with Its possibilities for dramatization, plays a large part in the plans of Landon strategists and It already is causing concern in the New Deal camp. The White House {is being urged by close friends and advisers to tone down any further use by Jim Farley and Charlie Michelson, boss New Deal ghost writer, of such expressions as “synthetic candidate.” “man nobody knows,” and “typical prairie state.” ea % Appeals to Small Towner It seems there are many small towns in the country, and although Landon is several cuts above the av- erage man, Bf appeal to the average man is so direct that any personal, derisive attacks from Farley, who is widely regarded as a Tammany city slicker with no lofty ethics, aren't likely to do Landon any harm or Roosevelt any good. The country ts rapidly getting the picture of Landon—old-fashioned and homely virtues, warm and friendly small-town manner, well-to-do fam- fly man who likes to go catfishing and walks down every day for lunch to a Main street cafeterta, common- place but shrewd, enough hard- headed common sense—horse sense if you like—to pay his own debts and his state's, the boy who sold eggs to neighbors at the age of 10, shirt sleeves and open collar on any hot to the folks, honest, thrifty, modest, kindly, tolerant, and so on. eae Cite Kansas Virtues All that, along with the alleged virtues of Kansas—with a soft pedal| on prohibition laws, anti-cigaret laws, | and certain past or present peculiar- | itles—ts the bill of goods which} Chairman John Hamilton and his} host will be trying to sell the nation! in the next few months. | It may go over well or it may flare! back. Much depends on the skill) with which the New Dealers handle’ it, and no one can tell. The Landonites expect the candi- date’s personality and background to/ draw in votes of millions of farmers, | city workers, and small-town busi-} ness men everywhere. | On the other hand, Roosevelt has exhibited as popular and appealing a personality as any man who ever/ BISMARCK TRIBUNE, Looking at Washington a amazing phenomenon of the depre: iod. 30 to 60-day interval. Such rapid spending of the soldier bonus money may have far-reaching effects, politically and economically. ing a demand for goods and services is to send prices upward. For when- ever there is a scarcity there is a ten- dency to regard the demand as war- ranting a price increase. Then there is the possibility that a shortage of products to meet the de- mand in any given line will result in a feverish desire to produce more goods and stock up. Where businesses misconstrue the temporary demand as a permanent pick-up, there is the danger of piling up inventories and then running face to face with a fall slump. Fortunately, most of the retail bus- inesses of the country are accustomed parked in the White House. His under conditions which to them seem intolerable now, | Roth industry and the people would find themselves bene- fited if they would consciously seek the same ends by individual action and without benefit of law. But before that can come about industry will have to develop an enlighted public states- manship which heretofore has been foreign to its nature. And that statesmanship will have to face the dual job of not only straightening out its own affairs but of selling its ideas to the! public. | A Moses who could lead in this respect would be worth more | to the nation than a whole carload of even our loftiest politi- cians. It is a field to challenge the imagination and one which offers peculiar opportunity for an AMERICAN brand of action. The ‘How’ Is Important | It is beginning to look as if this presidential year would give us a new high in the evasion of issues—by men of both Parties. | For the issues this year are not simple things that can be met by a plain yes-or-no answer. Each one calls for a definite, detailed reply, an explanation of underlying philosophy so forth- right that there can be no misunderstanding it. And it is go-! ing to be very easy to seem to make such an answer without | doing anything of the kind. | Consider, for instance, the much talked-of matter of bal- ancing the federal budget. A candidate will arise and declare flatly that he believes | in balancing the budget; on the face of it, a perfectly plain and} unmistakable stand. But who, in heaven's name, does not believe . he aims to balance the budget, he has expressed a pious hope 3 and nothing more. é Well, he will say, “I favor balancing the budget by reducing needless i federal expenditures, abolishing unnecessary bureaus, and cutting down the| ; army of Nereis employes. | Again, that sounds very definite—dur unless the speaker goes on to cite chapter and verse, he has said no! Of course he Delieves In red Yess workers. Who doasnt? The point ts, which expenditures does he consider needless? Which | bureaus are “unnecessary”? Which departments are cluttered with super- AMuous employes, and how many of them does he propose to get rid of? Go on from there. A speaker will beat his breast and declare that he. ; Stands for the expansion of America’s foreign trade. Fine; so do we all. Bae he said anything unless he goes on to tell us precisely how he would | i Ho will declare himself in favor of labor's right to the exercise of col-| lective ; does that mean anything. unless he tells us just how he ‘Would insure that right? ! He will declaim for @ sound currency: does his declamation mean any- | thing unless he tells us exactly when and how he would anchor our cur- i , the end of unemployment, feney to gold? | ee ee Sam sony ene, | charm is famous and his direct meth-| od of appealing personally to the masses of the people has been his greatest political asset. Landon, by contrast—though he, gets on well with small groups and} has won the friendship of many vis- | iting writers who have talked with! the other hand, is the velocity of the °$2,000,000,000 expenditure undoubtedly | |him and perhaps raided the icebox! transactions that will be set in mo- | at the governor's mansion at mid-/ ight—doean’t go well on the radio; nd has no gift for appearances be- fore large crowds, | ase i Play Up to Piain People i The question is whether enough people will sour on Roosevelt's grin. glitter and gusto to succumb to Lan- don by November. Many former Roosevelt supporters are no longer captivated by the “my friends” technique, although it ap- pears he still has the votes of most of the “plain people” whom both he} and Landon will seek to charm. Hamilton keyed part of the cam-! paign in his nominating speech, when he pictured Landon as one who knew the workingman “not from the in- formation of others received in sur- | roundings of luxury,” a man of “prop- | erty not bestowed on him, but gained hrough his own efforts.” and a can- didate of “no gil, no thea’ Matics, no overwhelming eso: sm, no | self-righteousness, and no pretense of | supremacy.” Tn any event, no one need get the idea that Landon—known as “Fox” way back in university days—is dumb. Cautious and opportunistic, he has missed few bets and pulled few if any ' boners. His political shrewdness may | in balancing | decome as celebrated as Roosevelt's. | the budget? Unless the speaker tells precisely how and when) (Copyright. 1936, NEA Service, Inc. | ‘ : BIT OF HUMOR { NOW AND THEN ’ {S$ RELISHED BY ; TRE SEST OF MEN i} t Biggs —I want you to be present at my golden wedding next week. you're not even mar- ried. Biggs — No, but I will be next week. I am engaged to Miss Goldrox. Eisie—You certainly woulin’, mar- ry a girl for her money, would you? Percy — not. But you don’t think I would have the heart to become just | 12 Imbecile. | 20 You. eoccccces to spurts in spending and buy care- fully nevertheless, They know, for instance, how to prepare for a Christ- mas season. see it, the bonus spending is like a second Christmas for the year 1936, and they will be guided accordingly. What is difficult to measure, on 1, 5 Inventor of (TAIT printing used by the blind. 11 Soft masses. 14 Rowing tools. 16 Devoured. 17 Person mak- ing a grant | 19 Beret. 21 Sleigh. ; 22 Wren. 24 South Amer- Values. 27 Small island 30To be vic~ hearing. torious. 55 Copper alloy. 31 Born. 57 Rubber tree. 3313 months. 58 To cancel. 36 Starch. 60 Three. 38 Emissary. 61 He was —— ‘39 Pair. by birth. 41 Taro paste. 62 He was a 42 Musical note. — (pl.) of 43 Blue grass. & the blind. 44 Form of “be. VERTICAL 46 Form of “a.” 47 To press. 49 To eject. 1 Tardier. 2 Poem. | | | ‘stantial profits this year on account| As some retail experts :pers off. increased demand for products causes | FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936 “ David Lawrence (Copyright, 1936, By David Lawrence) !tion by the bonus spending. Washington, June 19.—The most; mates based on the way the $1,000,- Esti- 000,000 bonus loan was spent in 1931 sion is now going on. At no time since | lead to the belief now that much of government spending or “priming of | the money will be spent for what are /¢lection or will the reaction down- the pump” started has so much known as consumer goods—household | Ward begin in October or just before money been poured into the chan-/ necessities and clothing. Much of it,}the presidential election? This is the nels of trade within such a brief per-' too, will go for household furnishings (Query that is puzzling the political folks hereabouts. and remodelling of homes—refrigera- ‘There have been sums like a billion | oak nis and oil furnaces, an extra | dollars spent in three or four months, | bath tub or a new bathroom, a new | “ but Teo hiee ‘a total of $2,000,000,000 Tadio, or the purchase of an auto,/The glow of health and prosperity ts been suddenly injected into the econ- | The unmteasurable items, however, are /Geceptive and the temptation is to omic system in what is likely to be a | those which will go to pay off debt,;"enew the dose at the earliest mo- political angle this year, it is a big j question how long the benefits will last. Will they extend beyond the In a sense, the spending of the $2,- 000,000,000 is like a dose of inflation. to pay off an insurance loan or to|ment. Probably the best thing that help toward the taking out of a new|could happen to the country would Policy, or for investment in real, es- tate. ibe for the veterans to take their time jabout spending their money so that there will be immediate lux- /the stimulus would be spread over & amusements, which will absorb the bonus in many instances. From an economic standpoint, are* Such sum as $2,000,000,000 is bound to create an abnormal demand, and, un- less carefully watched, may produce an abnormal decline when the bonus money has been spent. The money that goes to pay off debt will find itself in the banks, ultimately swelling existing reserves and making money for investment even more plentiful than it has been. Uncle Sam will get a good bit of the bonus money back through taxation of the enterprises that make sub- of the bonus trade. The important factor is what will happen when the bonus market ta- In those industries where new employees to be taken on, there may be, in the autumn, a curtail- ment. The immediate effects of a stimulating to trade, but, from a Benefactor of the Blind HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Pussle 17 Narrow valley. 18 Bridle strap. 21 Bustle. 23 Consumes. T 26 Apart. 28 To jump. 29 This —— is used today. 32 The letters. are made 5} raised IRE. $4 Roof po covering. 35 Broken wheat =" __ coat. 37 Gazelle. 39 Puddle. 40 Young sheep. 43 To primp. 45 Merriment. 47 Unoccupied. 48 Need. . 50 Container weight. $2 Your and my. 33 Half an em. 54To regret. 36 Courtesy title. $8 Cry of pleasure. 59 Musical note, First of all, the effect of stimulat-!uries, such as travel and vacation |!onger period of time, indeed, so that the spending would not outrun the pace of recovery itself. But the de- sire for things which the veterans and their families have been looking for- jward to acquiring for many months Dr. Brady will answer oF dia disease Brady tn care of The Tribune. stamped. self-addressed envelope. iron is going to help Tf not, then at ample you are 40 pounds never suffer for Dwindling.” Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. is jaestior snosis. Write of certified iron you must be A type of essential primary anemia their early ‘teens, Nees cause and t be accompanied by 5 above mentioned, vitamins, But is merely my opinion, and it is explained “Blood and Health,” in which are detailed instructions for an effi- cient iron medicine and for including a wee dash of in it. If the all, some improvement should be felt within two certainly the condition requires medical diagnosis. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Old All Bi T do not eat a lot but my food seems to go mostly to fat and if I try to reduce by not eating I get sick and dizzy... . (Mrs. G. K.) Answer—You do not mention teat Se een pony Suppose for ex- overweight. You were ing the superfluous. You should plan to devote at least 40 weeks to getting rid of it. If you follow a rational, physiological reduction regimen you need dizziness or other distress while reducing. Send ten cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address, for booklet “Design 40 months acquir- (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) probably will govern in the majority of the cases. The Democrats are rather glad the bonus came at this time, for they think its benefits will be felt by busi- ness and in increased employment and that the psychological factor will help their cause in the election. From the opposite standpoint, the sudden increase in the public debt figures to an all-time high in the his- tory of the United States gives the Republicans a powerful argument in favor of cutting expenses, which 1s their chief campaign issue. Apart from the politics of it, how- ever, the economists will be observing minutely what happens to an. eco- nomic system when $2,000,000,000 is suddenly granted by gift of the gov- ernment to a million or more citizens. Two billion dollars is hard to visual- | ‘ { Hl BEGIN HERE-TODAY pany. | Mark confides in his sED fo to marry E 5 ‘ iy i g ; 8 ; Fi ul ; F i FE | i et H F 34 t Fk é i gt z g red i e i i r Fi : aay! ae ae Hy I ee eke F? i i i [ : f : i E te aoe LL EVERETT, ambitious te Fs Ne ETT! ive shop. friend, old EER, and writes a let- GILES HARDING, New © agrees. nding comes betwee: ILLE TRAVERS telis Le NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Sane =, A! " through the mail, for his boss| forsive me. I fired her! had been called away to one of si Ey H: if ft tai & Bie qe Gramornous ADVENTURE Madame Lizette knew too well that her son disliked his work and she lived in a continual state of dread that he would give up his job and be hanging around home once more. “What a surprise!” claimed as she opened the door and faced him. “What's brought you here, Rex?” “Oh, I’ve got to close a deal for the company.” “What do you mean?” Mad- ame’s beady brown eyes were in- stantly alert. “I think your new designer is the owner of this land—” “You mean Gail Everett?” “Yes. Her ranch has some val- uable ores—may be worth mil- lions but Travers is offering her $10,000 cash for a quick sale. Of course she doesn’t know Travers is behind the deal and she mustn't know it. Why—what's up?” Madame burst into uncontrollable sobs. Rex, Rex! You'll never she ex- : handbag and don’t think about it. Come on, let’s Rosemary said she might call me tonight.” walked over to meet you at office I saw them together, ren I sont have to stay ‘ork now, going to Arizona eedietee) and that uncle of mine.” toward the claimed Gail, as dressed ize, but it is more than all and salaries paid by the railroads in 1935. Tt is more than all the wages paid on relief work projects in 1935. It is more than all federal payrolls in 1935, even including the military and naval services, It is approximately equal to the to- tal wages and salaries of all persons engaged in the wholesale trade in the United States. It is equal to about one-fifth of all the wages received in manufacturing in a single year. And finally, if $2,000,000,000 in sil- ver dollars were placed side by side at the equator, the dollars would go twice around the world. That’s why the phenomeon of a two billion dojjar expenditure in such a short time is something unprecedented in Amer- ican history. “Oh, Natalie, put it AS they started back to the club- nue and buy her orchids!” “What? Who told you that?” “I saw it. That afternoon I in New get acquainted with They were silent as they Gail smiled, but as the threshold of the clubhouse she ere was something to what Natalie had said. Married to Dick she would know security. It was ecstasy to be with must there be heartbreak, too? Derek, and yet “Oh, there's Mrs. Morton!” ex- Sac aceRtech aneere i