The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 23, 1936, Page 4

smarck Tribune An independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Betablished 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. Dostoffice at Bismarck es second class mai! miatter. Mrs. Stella |. Mann President and Pub! Kenneth D, end Archie O. W Simons Sec'y-Treas. and Editor Johnson Vice Pres, and Gen'l. Manager Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use Ps, republica- tien of ie es credited to it or ni ‘wigs credit Wy this wv news of spontani ia published herein. all other matter herein gre aldo reserved. the ublication of Don’t Hang Daddy Washington Gladsome Game of Lobbying Can Continue Unmolested, With Defeat of Biack Bill . . . Congressmen Snatch at Excuses to Vote It Down . « +» Disregard Evidence of Lavish Use of Money to Thwart Legisla- tien. By RODNEY DUTCHER Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington, June 23.—The inera- dicable yen of the average congress- man for a free drink, a free rheal, a woman's smile, or a kind word has been saved from frustration. Seldom do you find all the lobby- ists here working for or against a single piece of legislation. But they all ganged up on the bill which would have made lobbyists register them- selves, and the house, snapping to tention at its masters’ voice, defeated the bill by a whopping majority. Senator Hugo Black of Alabama, who pushed his bill to regulate the lobbyists through the senate, says he is philosophical about it, because this was the first time such measure had ever as far as the voting No parent can read the story of the hanging of Arthur Gooch in Oklahoma Friday morning without a tug at the heartstrings. The man had committed a crime and had legally been con- demned to die. His offense did not seem so heinous as some others which had been committed but he had a bad record of offenses behind him. Appeals for clemency failed and the law took its course. This newspaper never has and is not now taking the part of criminals as against society. It doesn’t go in for “sob- sister” stuff, but no one could be insensible to the stark tragedy which execution of Gooch brought to his six-year-old son. “Don’t get into any trouble, son,” advised the father as he took leave of the lad and the advice must have come from the heart. Who could give more meaning to those words than a man who was about to pay with his life because he had failed to observe this same rule? But the thing which makes men wonder if, after all, we cannot find a better way to deal with our crime situation is the picture of that same boy pleading with the prison guards “don’t hang daddy.” It brings up a vision of the awful responsibility of parent- hood, the need for fathers as well as sons to observe those parting words, “don’t get into trouble, son.” Should Be Continued Whatever the outcome of the political battle now begin- ning to develop, it is sincerely to be hoped that the government will continue to assist in the development of those farm co- operatives which lie closest to home. Whether or not it is good judgment to put government money into giant concerns intended to materially affect mar- ket prices is a question. Their records to date are not as good as they might be. But those small and eminently practical ventures such as cooperative ownership of machinery or a stallion constitute steps in the right direction. To date, according to data sent out by the Resettlement ad- ministration, which is handling the matter of government loans on such cases, only five applications for the cooperative purchase of stallions have been received from North Dakota. In view of the fact that North Dakota lost more than 100,- 000 in its horse and colt population since 1980 and the current high prices for work animals, these and similar ventures should be encouraged. In the end they will do more to increase the tangible wealth of the state than many more complex and am- bitious schemes. . Plenty of Water Lake Mead, formed behind Boulder dam in Colorado, now is the largest artificial lake in the world, being 9114 miles long and containing 8,000,000 acre feet of water. This is almost half the water available for federal irrigation projects, the to- _tal of 40 other dams in the west being 9,212,258 acre feet. . At the dam the lake is 360 feet deep and it will grow much deeper before it is filled. Meanwhile, a survey of the situation on the government’s 40 irrigation projects is interesting. There is ample water for their needs, the levels being much higher now than in May of 1934 when the reservoirs reached a low point of 5,901,784 acre feet. That crimped the irrigation enterprises a little but the federal bureau of reclamation asserts that at no time has there been a deficiency in the water supply severe enough to serious- ly hamper production. No major drouth has ever been experi- | enced on any government enterprise. ; Those facts are worthy of consideration by folks living in the more arid sections of North Dakota. Spell-Weaving by Air Increasing clamor of politicians for time on the networks _ throws a significant searchlight on the growing power of radio ~ in government. i Radio today has changed politics. When the president asks for radio time, every air lane is cleared for him. Languor- ‘ous America has learned to accept its politics vig the ether. It brings us as a nation closer to the candidates, but the power of radio is the power of mass emotional persuasion and there’s where the danger lies. Assuredly the coming campaign will be fought in a large measure by radio. Voters will live for the next few months in era of spellbinders. Accordingly the radio listener must warned to keep a stranglehold on his emotions. He must guard against the flood of high-sounding, silver- tongued oratory that will engulf him. The best prescription would be to read the same speeches your newspaper. On the printed page words and thoughts out for what they really are. é _ Ain’t Nature Grand Farmers in those areas which are infested with grasshop- ‘will be interested to learn that there is no chance of starv- these pests out, no matter how bare the prairies. has been proved by federal scientists who report that stage in both houses. The house vote, however, was 264 to 77. ‘The result, of course, is that lob- byists will continue to ply their devi- ous trade, collecting millions for sale of their real or imaginary influence on members of cohgress, and the ad- ministration, while masked, for the most part, from the gaze of the pub- lic, whose interests they usually are sacrificing to special interests and special groups. xk * Merry Game Will Go On Democratic political lobbyists whc have reaped fortunes during the New Deal spending era will not be required to tell for whom they’re working and what they're getting for their efforts. ‘They can look forward to further un- disturbed years aboard the gravy boat. i If the Republicans win in Novem- ber, a new army of lobbyists will find the same old happy hunting grounds. Lobbyists and friends of the Amer- ican Federation of Laber, the Town- sendites, and the Coughlinites pro- vided the last-minute opposition which gave worried congressmen an excuse for voting down the bill. The vote was on a conference re- port which theoretically ironed out differences between the Black Dill, Passed by the senate, and the Smith bill, previously Piper the house. Given Excuse to Vote ‘No’ It was alleged that the terms of the bill would require the A. F. of L., the Union for Social Justice, ahd the Townsend organization to report reg- ularly all contributions and the names of all contributors, which would be an enormous and expensive task, ‘There was no such provision in the Black bill and Congressman Smith of Virginia insisted there was nothing in his bill or the conference report which would have that effect. But most members professed, at least, not to believe Smith. After the vote, when the original Black bill was reported to the house as @ senate amendment, it was hastily tabled without ee * * Devious Dealings Bared The Black and Smith bills made initial headway after such recent dis- closures as: Evidence resulting in estimates that $25,000,000 was spent on lob- bying during the first session of the 74th congress. Thousands of fake telegrams sent here in the effort to beat the pape utility holding company Democratic national commit- teemen cleaning up hundreds of thousands of dollars through sale of real or influence with Democratic officals. A lobbyist’s offer to get 10 or 15 million dollars’ worth of business for a shipbuilding company in return for $250,000. A Republican ex-cabinet mem- ber’s receipt of $100,000 from As- sociated Gas & Electric Co. Lobbyists wangling invitations to the White House for clients. An estimated profit of $20,000,- 000 by Joe Silverman on 15 years’ dealing in army surplus contracts, with assurance from Joe that he had spent “most of $500,000" for “liquor, flowers, and gambling with army officer: Conviction of a high army of- ficer for receiving a lobbyist’s bribe. Every conceivable form of so- cial, political, and business pres- sure to make congressmen vote against the holding company bill. Circulation of fake war scares Py hed ment peace jures by lob- byists for shipbuilding compan! seeking big cruiser programs. Various congressmen sharing apartments and houses wiih lob- byists, Secret financing by the du Ponts and other Liberty Leaguers of organizations with various titles engaged in lobbying or propaganda. Black promises to renew his fight for a lobbyist registration bill in the next congress. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR Townsenders, Share-Wealthers Still Withhold Endorse- ment of Dakotan Washington, June 23.—()—Dr. F. E. Townsend and Gerald L. K. Smith emphasized at a conference Tuesday with Rep. William Lemke of North Dakota, they were not commiting their old-age-pension and share-the- wealth follow! to his new Union party until after their followers had decided the matter. Townsend estimated his followers at “better than 5,000,000, with our voting strength four times that.” Smith, head of the late Senator Huey trolled the political views of another eae. “by actual check since Huey’s death.” In statements at a formal press conference after the hour’s confer- ence behind the closed doors of Lem- ke’s private office, they indicated agreement was reached on pooling forces in congressional campaign strategy. As Smith explained it, when there are candidates. For two or more of the groups in any one district an attempt will be made to weed out all but one, with a view to his drawing the combined vote against the two old parties. Burdick Is Manager Lemke announced the selection of Rep. Usher Burdick, North Dakota “Republican,” as his campaign chair- man. He said Burdick would take charge of headquarters in Chicago. Burdick plans to go to Chicago Fri- day. Lemke said he would leave, probably Wednesday, for Chicago “for a conference with some of my friends” on the way to month-end speaking engagements in Iowa. Although Lemke said he did not ,| solidating their forces. P. Long’s movement, said he con-|vited. Insurgents Flock To Lemke’s Camp know whether he would see Father Charles E, Coughlin, head of the Na- tional Union for Social Justice, Bur- dick disclosed a conference of the Lemke, Townsend, Share-tne-Wealth and Coughlin followers was set for Friday at Detroit with a view to con- To Speak at Grave So close is the bond between the two men, Smith said, that Lemke has ac- cepted an invitation to speak “at the grave of Huey Long” in Baton Rouge, without reservation the Townsend old age pensions program. Father Coughlin has made his en- dorsement without qualification. Obstacles to Obstacles to Lemke’s filing in sev- "| prominent in the Socialist govern- wesoccoscocoococe. ooo | Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. a 1 wuswer gui pertaining to health but inonoe or diaaneate. Write bi fly and ia brie: ink, Address ‘he une. Au queries must be accompanied by dresaed envelope. France Will Seek Improved Re- lations With United States, Reports State ‘und Britain and improved relations with the United States Tuesday, informed sources declared. These basic points were reported as Again, if I had chronic arthritis and presumably infected fully sidestep surgical tonsillectomy. Instead I'd have the with diathermy, or at least sufficient electro-coagulation to fect the septic focus. That is all the treatment such a condit no scientific or reason es, nl should attem) ay of tonsil tissue; on contrary, good medicine nse to leave as much normal tonsil tissue in the throa! that diathermy treatment, in com- ment’s foreign policy submitted for the cabinet's approval after the min- istry of national defense ordered eral states were seen by officials at Washington after examining laws set- ting time limits on @ party's entrance into an election. A “write in” cam- paign might be necessary, they said. Union party leaders went ahead with plans for establishing a national headquarters in Chicago, and the se- lection of national party officers. fhomas Charles OBrien, the vice presidential candidate, said in Boston an appeal would be made. to “all those dissatisfied with the present parties and the present administra- tion.” Meanwhile, Col. Frank Knox, Re- publican vice presidential nominee, said the Union party would make “ser- fous inroads in territory upon which Future reinforcement, possibly in October, of the Paris military garrison was reported under consideration when an extra battalion of colonial we ee ee ital. The cabinet met to consider the government's foreign policy as for- mulated by Yvon Delbos, foreign min- ister. Here and there well meaning physicians still withhold of electro-coagulation of infected tonsils, even in cases where surgical ton- sillectomy is too great a risk, No matter how eminent these good doctors may be in their own community, they are grievously wrong about this and it is only fair that the public should be warned against them. The acknowledged representative of the great American Medical asso- ciation, writing in the official organ of the association, asserted that the diathermy method of extirpating tonsils should be avoided as one would avoid a mad dog, and in the next paragraph conceded that it is a boon in The program was expected to place vale be too great a risk! That's what important emphasis on the Franco-| Sls the } control approve or accept nothing unless they have first say about it. But Bee ee ta det tary aatistance pect! Gisthermy extirpation of the tonsils is here to stay, and they may as well with the little entente nations—| Pipe down and try to adjust themselves to the modern trend. Or better, jovakia, Yugoslavia and Ru-| Dire ® new man who will give more of his time to the job of doing their f thinking for them, and less to pushing himself and his various sidelines. (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) Philadelphia, June 23.—(?)—Al Smith’s message created no appreci- able reaction here except one of re- isentment among the delegates to the New Deal party convention. For this is a convention in which the delegates, for the most part, are office-holders or their henchmen. To that extent it resembles the old Re- publican type of conventions, dom- inated by a president up for renomin- ation. The document signed by Al Smith and his four colleagues was, of course, not designed to change votes here but to let the Democratic voters through- out the country know that there is a serious difference of opinion among those leaders who choose to call themselves Democrats. The effect of the Smith message will be felt in the campaign and after the convention has adjourned. Maybe the New Dealers will try to answer the message and carry on an attack here against the signers of the tele- gram rather than against their Re- Publican foes, but such an emphasis would be bad strategy. The chances are the New Dealers will minimize the importance of the Smith step and let it go at that. There are, to be sure, weaknesses in the Smith message which will cause considerable discussion, as, for in- stance the failure of the message to list Woodrow Wilson along with Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland as an exponent of the principles of the Democratic party. There are still Wilson men who have not forgotten that James A. Reed, former senator from Missouri, was an arch-foe of President Wilson and that Judge Cohalan of New York was also allied with the group that fought the Wilson policies. As for Bainbridge Colby, who was secretary of state in the Wilson ad- ministration, he, of all persons, should LIEIOIGIE Mae | IDIVIOMMAIU) PIGIEIRMET IR} IAINISIATTIE! 1Go on (music’ 2In. 3 Indian. David Lawrence IOJATRIEID) 4 Wis BETIEIAMBGILIEISIT| oO a fl have protested against the omission of the name of America’s great war president, who was twice honored by the Democratic party and who had more to do with shaping the Demo- cratic party’s policies than any other Democrat in the last 40 yers. But there may have been a reason for the omission of Mr. Wilson's name which had no possible relationship to the esteem in which he was held by Former Governor Smith‘ or by Former Governor Ely or Mr. Colby. It may have been the fact that Mr. Wilson favored a removal of artificial barriers to commerce, and, were he alive today, he would be espousing the reciprocity policies of Secretary of State Cordell*Hull, himself an ardent ‘Wilsonian, ‘The document sent to the delegates by the five Democrats accepted in- stead the philosophy of George Peek and others who believe in economic isolation. In that respect, the mes- sage is identical with some of the ex- pressions in the Republican platform adopted at Cleveland. It foreshadows a turn by these five men to the can- didacy of Governor Landon of Kan- sas, The bolt would have some effect on the trend of voting, but whether it is ultimately going to take any votes away from Mr. Roosevelt in addition to those already alienated from him depends on how active Former Gov- ernor Smith and his group became in the campaign. Certainly an occasional speech or telegram will hardly make votes. For in the telegram sent by the Smith group to the convention there was no concentration on a single issue, and to make votes it is neces- saty to have such an emphasis and a dramatization of it into understand- able terms for the average voter. ‘There can be no denying the fact, on the other hand, that the Smith pronouncement put a damper on con- vention spirits. This was to have been | Musical Instrument. || HORIZONTAL _ Answer to Previews Pussie A LICIe) OF F (OL IT AIC i} 1 Grain, ib g cup. 20 ts martes makers were _ 57 Like Ina of cases, patients with chronic infectious ar- thritis exe; jarked relief after the second or third electro-coagula- tion of infected tonsil. This, I submit, is enough evidence to convince any reasonable open mind of the soundness of the focal infection principle and the efficacy of the modern method of treating this condition. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Hygiene for Girls Where a girl 18 years old, just finished high school suffers for several days with pain at each period, is it better for her to remain in bed or lying down or to keep up and about at that time? We have tried several recom- mended remedies without effect. (Mrs. H. E.) Answer—Generally it is better for her to continue her usual activities. Dealing with menstruation as though it were an illness is one cause of that very difficulty. Send 3-cent-stamped envelope bearing your address for monograph “Hygiene for Girls.” & happy reunion of Roosevelt men, confident’ of victory. The theme song’ ‘was to have been “happy days are here again,” but when Alfred E. Allergy What is the cause of getting breathless in a smoky room or from frying meat, étc.? Mother, 55, goes for some time without any trouble, then without & moment's notice she seems to begin gasping for breath, something seems to “ope Pes di ecg X-ray examination showed nothing... . (Miss . BAD Answer—Probably allergy—your mother is hypersensitive or sensitized to something she inhales. Some allergic individuals have an asthmatic at- | tack, others a milder difficulty, from such cause. Physician might deter- mine the specific excitant by making skin tests. Immediate spray with adrenalin solution would probably give relief. (Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) is or is not a “genuine t” or whether Governor Lan- is or is not a “genuine Republi- can” or a great executive or familiar with national policies will not cut much ice. The Kansas governor, if elected, will be the beneficiary of anti-New Dealism. EAGLES ELECT MAZE Chaos in the land today is the re- Fargo, N .D., June 23.—(#)—Dr. A.| sult of materialism. Part of the blame H. Maze, Winona, Minn., mayor,|can be laid at the door of our educa- Tuesday was elected worthy president| tional system. Education is inter- of the north central district of the/ preted in as many different ways as fraternal order of Eagles. 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