The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 24, 1936, Page 6

The Bismarck Tribune An independent Newspaper v THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Officiai Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D, and @t the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher ©. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons end Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas. and Editor _. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ane, inereted Press is exclusively entiiied i the use for La ft dispatches credited to it or not ot cr Iso the local news. of epontansous 6 ublication of all other matter herein Let There Be Light In the whirl of political events too little attention is likely to be paid to a recent statement by Presidential Candidate Alf M. Landon, even though it is likely to be one of the most sig- nificant utterances of the national campaign. Addressing members of the Kansas Editorial association the other day, Landon remarked: “I don’t like secrecy in public affairs. Much has been said recently about freedom of the press. There is, however, another danger which should be guarded against and that is the suppression of information affecting the public welfare. Suppression of news at its source is as dangerous to American institutions as government control of news at point of publication.” In those brief words Landon put his finger on what is both a strength and a weakness of American politics. They express his recognition of the fact that, if the people are to exercise their powers wisely, they must be adequately and honestly in- formed. By inference he promises, if elected, to keep no essen- tial secrets of government from the people, to throw his influ- ence on the side of honest publication and discussion of the government’s business. It is the one essential of democracy, for if the people do not know and have not the means of knowing they cannot be expected to vote intelligently. At the beginning of his present term President Roosevelt charmed Washington newsmen with his freedom and frankness. They could ask any question they chose and get a fair answer. In his first fireside talks to the nation he discussed with the people the objectives of his administration and the means chosen to achieve them, thereby creating much good will for himself. More recently, however, as the administration has become enmeshed in the devious ways of party politics, the president has shown a tendency to abandon this position. His answers to questions are less frank and there is more equivocation. The result is more unfortunate for him than for the nation, for the newsmen covering the national scene may be depended upon to gather the essential facts and publish them, with or without official cooperation. Meantime, it is sincerely to be hoped that Mr. Landon will solidify his position and that Mr. Roosevelt will get in step with him. The one essential of democratic government is that the people have free and easy access to information upon the objec- tives of their government and the methods chosen to attain them. Our Greatest Waste : Maybe we've lost our ability to worry about waste, or maybe the waste of a man isn’t as important as that of a bushel of wheat or a crate of steel castings; anyway, we don’t seem to understand that the most tragic waste in America today is that represented by unemployment. We put in a good deal of time talking about it, to be sure, but we do it with reverse English. If you get up in meeting and denounce the WPA, for in- stance, as wasteful and inefficient, you will find innumerable people agreeing with you. If you stand up and denounce the dole as an unendurably wasteful drain on the country’s finances, you will get more cheers. But both of these wastes are side issues. The really expensive one lies in the fact of unemployment itself; in the fact that millions of able, self-respecting men who want nothing on earth so much as a job are unable to find one. As a country we are blessed with a considerable number of great natural resources—mineral deposits, water power, rich soil, forests, and so on. We are beginning to understand that it is a crime against nature for us to waste these things. A good part of the resentment against the AAA came from a dim feeling that it was somehow very wrong to let fertile soil go to waste at a time when some people were finding it hard to get enough food. We swung away from the NRA largely be- cause we felt that to waste productive capacity through restric- tive devices was sinful. ; But all the while the depression was committing the great- est waste of all with one of our richest natural resources—man power. The presence in this country of some 40,000,000 intelligent, active men is a resource such as few nations have ever pos- sessed. When a fourth of these men can find nothing useful to do, and must at public expense be kept from starving, a waste of unimaginable magnitude is taking place. The money we have to spend to keep these men fed and housed is not.the real waste; neither are the footling,. picayun- ish jobs we invent to keep them occupied. The real waste is the simple, tragic fact that this great army of men who might be busy are idle. We could abolish WPA and abandon the dole, if we chose; the fundamental waste would go on. We don’t seem to be able to get worked up about it. We can bewail the slaughter of little pigs with fine fervor. We can denounce “scarcity economics” when industrial production is - But we can’t seem to understand that the greatest, most ‘expensive of all wastes is the one represented by the men who rant to work and can’t. siren aie and Rev. Gerald Smith represented, it sppears| Bit gent male £6 comaeete she sie AE he tied Beet ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936 Behind he SCENES | Washington It’s Astonishing Fact, but Supreme Court Did Not Pass on Validity of New York’s Minimum Wage Law + «+ Decision Is Tied Up With 1923 Case . . . Reconsideration Plea in Effect Is Move to Smoke Out Jus- tice Roberts, By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington nt) Washington, June 24.—The Repub- lican party has formally declared its belief that states can constitutionally pass minimum wage laws, despite the supreme court’s 5 to 4 adverse de- cision in New York's Tipaldo case. The Democratic party is shying off the constitutional issue, although the court’s opinion in’ the New York case was its most unpopular decision of the last three years. Governor Landon isn’t sure wheth- er the state can have such laws con- stitutionally and favors an amend- ment if they can't. New York and 11 other states have decided to continue enforcement of their minimum wage laws for women and children despite the Tipaldo de- cision, The attorney general of New York is petitioning for a rehearing of the case and his petition will come be- fore the court for decision next fall. ‘The supreme court goes on the spot again, its ultimate decision tied in closely with the campaign, in a case which threatens its prestige and in which it will be hard put to recon- cile an adverse decision with a pre- vious favorable decision in a similar case, * ee Here’s a Revelation All this needs some explaining and any lawyer can do it for you—if he is smart enough. Astonishing as it may seem—when you consider the fact that no one seemed to notice it at the time—the court didn’t definitely adjudicate the validity of the New York law, as all or nearly all of us supposed. The majority opinion was express- ly based on a supposition that the state of New York had not asked the court to reconsider the constitutional questions decided in the Adkins case and that the validity of the principles upon which that decision rested were not challenged. The Adkins case involved a federal minimum wage law for the District of Columbia, which the court killed in 1923 by a vote of 5 to 3. The .majority concluded that the New York law could not be dis- tinguished from the invalidated Dis- trict of Columbia law. But it didn’t decide that by looking at the New York law and comparing it with the D. C. statute. It merely said that the New York Court of Appeals had so construed it as to make it indis- tinguishable from the previous law. ee * Slide Around Issue Authors of the New York law had tried to frame it to meet the objec- tions raised in the Adkins case. New York state asked whether the objec- tions had been met successfully and whether the court, notably in the Nebbia New York milk control law case, hadn't since 1923 modified its Position on the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. These issues the majority ducked, except as it said it couldn’t go beyond the appeals court's opinion as to in- distinguishability of the two laws. Thus Justice Roberts, who had de- livered the opinion in the Nebbia case, was able to go along with Justices Sutherland, Butler, Van Devanter,| and McReynolds, without seeming definitely to reverse his own position. In the Nebbia case he had flatly denied that “there is something pe- culiarly sacrosanct about the price one may charge for what he makes or sells” and had asserted that “so far as the requirement of due process is} concerned ... @ state is free to adopt whatever economic policy may rea- sonably be deemed to promote pub- lic welfare and to enforce that policy by legislation adapted to its purpose.” Thus the petition for reconsidera- tion, backed by the 12 states, is in effect an attempt to smoke out Rob- erts and find out what he really ze * Four See Difference Four justices, led by Chief Justice Hughes, said the New York statute was distinguishable from the District of Columbia statute and that the Ad- kins decision did not control. These four—including the three justices from New York, Hughes, Stone, and Cardozo—said the appeals court hadn't placed the construction on the law which the majority said it had. The petition now calls for recon- sideration of the constitutional prin- ciples involved in the Adkins case. The chief constitutional principle enunciated there was that the mini- mum wage law infringed the indi- vidual’s right of free contract and thus violated the due process’ clause of the Fourteenth amendment. The Fourteenth amendment was ratified to protect rights of Negroes in the south and the supreme court is asked to decide whether it still be- Heves, as a majority held in 1923, that it also preserves as an inalienable right the privilege of laundrymen to work for $4 or $5 a week, whether they want to or not. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) | means. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN cottes inte the see, but can't the sixtare. They Say It’s Going to Be a Warm Summer Philadelphia, June 24—When it comes to speech-making, adroit phrasing and hard-hitting attack there is nothing really to compare with the Democrats. They have been a minority party so long that they have not forgotten, even in these days of their ascendancy, the masterful art of offense. The keynote address of Senator Barkley of Kentucky was a well-writ- ten, well-delivered, and clever defen- sive speech, pertlaps the best that could be made from the New Deal viewpoint. It repeated the aggres- sive philosophy of federalism and cen- tralized control which the New Deal! intends to make an issue this year. | The Kentucky senator was quick to | pierce the inconsistencies of the Re- publican platform at Cleveland, par- ticularly its inept handling of the re- ciprocal trade agreements, which, des- pite their Republican origin, are now denounced by the Republican plat- form. He made the expected defense of spending as simply the necessary and inevitable corollary of the relief problem. But Mr. Barkley made one gross er- ror. It is unexplainable because his colleagues in congress made the same mistake and attention was called in| the newspapers of the country from | coast to coast at the time to the mis- take, or rather the trick, involved in juggling figures. Yet the misstate- ment now is repeated in a speech as important as the keynote address at a national convention. It happened this way: ‘The Kentucky senator spoke of the! increase in public debt during the| Hoover administration as being about | four billion dollars. Then he pointed out that the increase in public debt during the Roosevelt administration was about ten and a half billion dol- lars. He then said: “When we deduct from the net in- crease in the public debt the more than $5,000,000,000 which will be re- paid by those who have borrowed from the government because of the will- ingness or inability of other lending agencies, we find that the net increase in the public debt is but little more than that of the previous administra- tion, which had little to show for its David Lawrence * (Coyrighpt, 1936, By David Lawrence) , be ascertained from the public rec- basic philosophy of the new federal- jords? During the Hoover administration, the net increase in debt was about $4,000,000,000, but, out of this sul loans and other recoverable or repa! able assets amounted to $2,225,000,000, so that, if there is any deducting done, it should be done as of March 4, 1933, in order that the comparison with the succeeding administration may be accurate. In other words. the Hoover net debt increase would then be about $1,775,- 000,000 and the Roosevelt debt in- crease would be $7,725,000,000, or more |than four times the Hoover net debt increase. Four times a certain sum is hardly | describable as “but little more.” yet | Senator Barkley can hardly be blam- ed for assuming his figures were cor- rect, as they were no doubt furnished | to him by the publicity experts as a | substitute for the “three long years” theme song of the Republican conven- tion. The Kentucky senator empha- sized that the “twelve long years” of the Republican administration would be compared in the campaign with the “three long years” of Democratic tule. The Republican chieftains will] probably welcome the comparison. For, taking the twelve long years as/ @ measuring unit, the Republicans | | reduced the public debt by having a total surplus over expenses of around $5,000,000,000. Also, if the Republi- cans are permitted to use twelve long years as @ basis of comparison, it will ; be found that wages and incomes , | reached the highest level in American | history and so did gainful employ- ment. Likewise, Mr. Barkley's proposed commerce” as being “every article | that is grown or mined or fabricated in one state and destined for another by whatever means of transportation” simply announces that, when the con- stitution is ever amended to validate that definition, the federal govern- |ment, by reason of its right to regu- late interstate commerce, will have as complete control over the business, manufacturing, agriculture and labor of the United States as any Fascist government in Europe. extravagance.” Now what are the facts as they can On this point the ‘campaign will hear a good deal spoken, for it is the definition of “an object of interstate | Democratic Convention ism which is espoused by | Deal. While Senator Barkley delivered the |deeper and more penetrating criticism of the oppsition party’s platform and promises, the palm must be handed to Postmaster General Farley for po- litical suavity. As he stood before the delegates with his typical Tammany tones of voice, he looked the part of the old-fashioned political boss of the Charlie Murphy, Tom Taggart, and Jim Smith days of Democratic poli- tics. But they never had a chance to ascend the rostrum. ‘The postmaster general, who is also |chairman of the Democratic national committee, incidentally made a slip almost as bad as that of Senator Barkley. He said: “Behind the Republican ticket is the New ithe crew of the Du Pont Liberty League and their allies, which have |? so far financed every undercover agency that has disgraced American politics with their appeals to race, prejudice, religious intolerance, etc.” Mr. Farley forgot that the Du Ponts financed the Democratic party be- tween 1928 and 1932 and some of them gave substantially to the Roose- velt campaign. Also it will be noted that John Raskob, who is now proms |inent in the Liberty League, was Mr. Farley's predecessor as chairman of the Democratic national committee and Alfred E. Smith probably will testify that he was beaten for the presidency in 1928 by religious intol- erance and it was not financed by his supporters, the Du Ponts, either. But the delegates applauded Mr. |Farley and gave him as fine an ovas tion as a national chairman ever got. Speaking &f the delegates, they are a | good-looking, fact prosperous looking, crowd. The poll made by a Prominent Democratic newspaper, showing that 64 per cent of the dele- |gates here are federal office holders, would seem to be borne out by the luxury that surrounds the convention itself. No one would ever suspect that this is “a convention of the people,” as William Jennings Bryan used to speak of it with the pride of a great com- moner. The observer has to rub his eyes to be sure this isn’t one of those fashionable conventions for which only the Republicans were famous in OUT OUR WAY | Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Be at wer Ly rtaining te health but ; s aii 30 ale. We ‘ite Tettere briefly and in ink, Address be f the Tribune. Al) queries must be accompanied by & dressed envelope. VITAMINS AND MINERALS FOR MOTHER AND CHILD You folks who have no children coming to you may be bored by talks about the care and feeding of prospective mothers. But I'm we can’t help it. You are of small importance in this world time of peril or disaster the rule is women and children first. true, prospective mothers are the most important group of persons in world, Stand aside, then, and let us go on with these lessons in nutri her Te average Woman is in a state of undernutrition at the beginning of pregnancy, and unless she receives and follows sound advice lek bbe ib tn Gate of Muteinse: Whee her Ee etetes Is it any wonder that the natural process of childbirth is attended with so many difficulties - and complications, and that the majority of infants born in this country show the effects of faulty nutrition? : Besides the daily use of milk, cream, butter, eges, cheese, greens, fruit and plain wheat, as described in an earlier lesson, the expectant mother must +have a supplementary ration dally, especially an optimal amount of vitamin D, vitamin B and vitamin A. Generally an adequate amount of vitamin A will be supplied in the natural food provided the diet includes such yellow foods as butter, cream, cheese, carrots, ripe banana, sweet potato, liver, egg yolk, kidney; or such green foods as chicory greens (otherwise known as escarole and endives), spinach, lettuce or romaine (cos) lettuce, dandelion Greens, alfalfa leaves, etc. If all of the wheat in the diet were the plain wheat, with nothing re- moved, no doubt that would supply enough vitamin B for the requirements of mother and child. But since that is not the custom, it is necessary to add some wheat germ to the diet, in one form or another, or some brewer's ig eB ec) Ae der ase ta RA iran yolk, the richest known food source of vitamin D, does not nope sufficient for the requirements of prospective mother and child, though two eggs daily might supply enough for an ordinary adult. To insure ample vitamin D to maintain optimal calcium and phosphorus metabolism, prevent rickets, promote development of sound teeth, oppose spasmophilic tendencies, favor normal growth, it is advisable that the prospective mother take daily throughout pregnancy five to ten drops of a biologically ae and duly certified vitamin D concentrate, which will give a thousand units or more a day. Little need be said about minerals. If the vitamin ration is adequate the mineral metabolism is certain to be, that is, unless the diet is unduly re- stricted in the proportion of dairy products or vegetables. If for any reason there is considerable restriction in either of these classes of foods, then the physician must prescribe whatever minerals he deems necessary, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Hysterectomy Please inform me just what a hysterectomy operation is and what cystocele is and whether cystocele of two or more years standing can be cured by the proper medicines taken by mouth, or if not, what is the pro- cedure necessary for permanent relief? ... (Mrs, W. M.) Answer—Hysterectomy means removal of uterus. Cystocele means bulging of bladder wall, usually from loss of muscular support due to im- perfect healing of a tear of the muscular floor of pelvis in childbirth. Medi- cines may give relief, but surgical repair of perineum (floor of pelvis) is the cure. This is not imperative in all cases. Sometimes general train- ing and improvemént of posture and resiliency will bring much relief, but the operation for repair is comparatively a minor one and by all means advisable when there is no serious contraindication. in Wine Can you tell me if a white rubber hose would make a barrel of wine poisonous? ... (Miss G. M.) Answer—Home made wine carried through a rubber hose absorbed from the hose some lead and produced chronic lead in drinkers of the wine. Only copper or iron or brass or tin should be used for tubing to convey such a fluid. Asthma and Hay Fever Have been taking calcium lactate for asthma and hay fever and have been so wonderfully benefited by it that I can’t thank you enough. Ben ‘Told now warns me st may cause my joints to calcify if T take it any more. eee GL. AD Answer—There is no ground for that notion. ee who provides 3-cent-stamped envelope bearing his address, monographs on erst irons od Fever, either of which gives inruckiots for the use of jum . Caltus Some time ago you gave a remedy to soften and remove callus from the ball of the foot. I have them on both soles and they give me a lot of trouble . . . (Mrs. E. J. BE.) Answer—Use the familiar corn remedy—paint the callus with @ solu- tion of 30 grains of salicylic acid in one-half ounce of flexible collodion (salicylated collodion, it is sometimes called). Send stamped envelope bearing your address for monograph on Care of the Feet. Improper foot- wear is the chief cause of such trouble. (Copyright, 1936, John F-. Dille Co.) | So They So They Say__| It sometimes seems Christianity i marked only by stately ‘cathedrals and a stale religion. Too many churchmen are pompously sacrificing on dead alters, out of touch with life. —Rev. Dr. Norman Peale, New York | be churchman. ee 4% ‘We cannot preserve our democracy and our liberties if, every time some- one says something that I do not agree with, I get the chief of police to arrest him.—Dr. Harry W. 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