The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1936, Page 4

at eae ee "vacation. The Bismarck Tribune An inéependent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City aid County Officiai Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. : Mrs. Stella 1. Mann t President and Publisher Archie O. Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas. and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by mail per year ‘in state outside of Bismarck). Dakota Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press tion th news: All rig The Greatest Loss Just as the loss of production from unemployment is a situation which cries out for cure in the industrial sections of the nation, so is the loss of production from labor lost because of the drouth a situation which causes the Northwest great con- cern. In times like these farmers have little to do. Nearly all of them are free to take WPA jobs if they can get them. One of the favorite tricks of politicians is to tell farmers how hard they work, and ordinarily this is true. The farmer has stock to feed, fences to mend, corn to plow and a host of other jobs. But this year he has had no occupation other than to sit by and watch his crops disappear, his pastures burn up and his cattle grow gaunt and thin. A Burleigh county farmer recently called at The Tribune office and remarked that he had done only one day’s real work in the last two months. That was hauling hay. Caring for his stock has been only a part-time occupation, even though he has more stock than most. There are lots of things he would like to do, such as paint- ing and making repairs, but these occupations would require a cash outlay for materials and he hasn’t any cash to spare. The result has been idleness on his part. At the same time he revealed that a good many of his neighbors are not overly enthusiastic about the situation which might be produced by irrigation. Some of them contend that irrigation involves too much work, he said, Also, it “ties a man down” so he isn’t always free to come and go as he pleases. These handicaps are admitted—but they are the same ob- Jections as those advanced against a mixed farming program. When wheat was the only crop the farmer was free to come and go as he wished at all seasons of the year except planting and harvest time. In this respect he was far better off than either the business man or the man working for wages or a salary. There was no independence quite like it. The introduction of stock and dairy farming changed that. The farmer who has had any chance of survival at all, even under good conditions, has had to keep his nose on the grind- stone pretty steadily. Any farmer who makes good in the future ‘will have to pursue the same course. If there is any business where a man can make good by working only a few months a year it is pretty certain to become crowded very quickly. The basic question which many farmers must decide, if and when irrigation becomes a fact, is whether they will choose to try for a higher standard of living by working harder and more steadily or whether they choose to go on as they have been with the low standard of living which inevitably attends poor yields and lack of opportunity for productive labor. Trouble from Promises All the difficulty that Britain has had to date with that troublesome Palestine mandate will look very mild if the Be- douins beyond the Jordan carry out their threat to cross the river and come to the aid of the Arabs in Palestine. Upward of 100,000 desert fighters are said to be eager to strike the blow. So far they are restrained only by the fact that their ruler, the Emir Abdullah of Transjordan, is friendly to the British. If they once get out of control, Palestine is in for a fearful time. And all this is a little object lesson on the inadvisability of promising too much. During the war the British fomented the great Arab revolt and promised a free Arabia; at the same time they promised a restoration of the Jewish homeland in Palestine. As a result, they found themselves, when peace came, pledged to give Palestine to two rival groups. They have done their best to carry out their promise to the Jews—and the Arabs have been bitterly hostile. The new development is only the most recent of a long series of bloody outbreaks. Let us hope that it does not be- come the most serious of the lot. Worse Strain on Germany ® recent assertions in the London Morning Post about Ger- man expenditures for armaments are correct, it is hard to see how the German people can continue much longer on their present path without- running into complete financial disaster. According to the Morning Post, Germany this year is spending the colossal sum of four afid one-half billion dollars on rearmament. Last year it spent better than three billions. Since 1938, these expenditures have totaled no less than eight billions. ‘ German finances were in a precarious state when Hitler first took office. What they must be now, if military expenses are mounting at the rate cited by the British newspaper, stag- gers the imagination. Something is bound to crack if a strain of that kind is borne indefinitely. : Gimile: .Peeling like an eight-day clock on the ninth day of the family’s ; : eee ‘ ae may have been served at the Schmeling-Louis affair, but Joe @4n'F care for thet kind ot punch, Tree iy ot Deane” too erally New that Germany will take no-button men’s shirts are on the market, but we're not interested. ‘are so hard to distinguish from our newly-! ones. Behind Scenes Washington Power Interests Gunning for Maury Maverick in Primary. Roosevelt Is Kept Waiting by First Lady... Lemke Is Target of Hot Blasis in Radical Papers, By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 14.—First report of alleged irregularities to the senate committee which will investigate campaign expenditures has to do with thousands of purportedly faked poll tax receipts in San Antonio, Tex. Pressure on the committee, chair- man of which is Senator Lonergan of Connecticut, to investigate the charges has been strong, since the congres- stonal district involved is that of Rep- resentative Maury Maverick, one of the most popular and valuable mem- bers of the house. Maverick is having a hard fight for ja | Tenomination—equivalent to re-élec- ja. |tion in this heavily Democratic terri- tory—because of the huge sums of money being spent to defeat him. It is understood here that Maverick is one of several congressmen marked for political death by power interests, as a result of his active participation in the battle for the public utilities holding company bill. His most important antagonist is Ralph W. Morrison of Texas, a utility man, the only political appointee to membership on the Federal Reserve Board. Morrison is reported to have expressed willingness to spend as much as $150,000 to defeat Maverick and is said already to have spent tens of thousands to elect Maverick’s op- ponent in the primaries July 25. * 8 % F. R. Backs Maverick Morrison recently submitted his resignation from the Reserve Board, but Roosevelt thus far has refused to accept it. Meanwhile, the president on his southern trip paid a special visit to San Antonio and its Alamo “to keep a promise I made Maury Maverick,” which meant as strong an endorsement as a president can give @ candidate in party primaries. Other Texas politicians fear Morrie son because of his wealth and reputed power. He was an “angel” in the Jack Garner convention presidential campaign of 1932 and subsequently contributed or lent $50,000 or more to the Roosevelt campaign chest. The Missus Comes First Down in the Blue Ridge moun- tains the other day, after the Roosevelts had had picnic lunch with Gov. George Peery of Vir- ginia and others, time came for the presidential party to start to Monticello. Roosevelt had his car brought around, headed to leave, and sud- denly noticed that Mrs. Roosevelt wasn’t ready. She was dictating her daily newspaper column to Margaret LeHand, his confiden- tial secretary. “She hasn't finished her piece yet,” Ne explained to Peery. “Let's wing over here and awhile. talk for Morrison's chief claim to fame among insiders here, however, de- rives from his successful handling of the Hamilton Dam power project on the Lower Colorado river, which had been started, but left uncompleted, by the Insull interests. After failing in attempts to get RFC and PWA loans for development, he got a bill through the Texas legislature to create a state power authority to take it over. Then it was fixed up for the power authority to get a $12,500,000 loan and & $7,500,000 grant from PWA. Mor- rison is reported to have made a Profit of $800,000 on sale of the dam to the power authority, which bought it with PWA funds. es * * Barrage Hits Lemke Politicians of the major parties are keeping quiet about the Union Party candidacy of Congressman Lemke,! backed by Father Coughlin, and prob-! ably will continue to do so. Strangely, perhaps, radicals who be- lieve in a third party of one kind or another are hurling the bitterest de- nunciations at Lemke. Communists have charged that Lemke is a stooge for Landon and the Liberty League. The American Guardian of Okla- homa City, leading Socialist weekly, charges that Lemke has “definitely tied his organization to the openly Fascist ‘Third Party’ outfit of New- ton Jenkins in Illinois,” that he an- nounced “perfect co-operation” with Jenkins after a conference; and that Jenkins has appeared with uniformed Nazis on the platform at official Nazi meetings, is openly anti-Semitic, and favors hanging “labor agitators” to lampposts. And the militantly progressive Na- tion is out with a critical article en- titled, “Lemke: Crackpot for Presi- dent.” (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Frankie — We had chicken croquette for . Herbie— What part of the chicken is the croquette? Frankie — It is bed part that goes on table last. Mrs. Busby—Wakewp, John! There's @ burglar going through your pants pockets. John (turning over)—Oh, you two Just fight it out between yourselves. Looking at Washington (Copyright, 1936, By David Lawrence) Washington, July 14—While it is natural for the politicians to stress differences in the two major party platforms, it is worth while, on the other hand, to note the main points of similarity. The Republicans adopted their platform first and the New Deal had a chance to see just what its rivals said. But, nevertheless, the New Deal in several particulars did not go beyond the Republican declara- tions. Indeed the platforms conform pretty largely to predictions made several weeks ago in these dispatches, namely that the Republicans would present a more progressive document would not show its radical teeth but would insert here and there con- servatively written phrases that seek to reassure rather than disturb. | Both parties express their opposi- | tion to war. Both parties are against monopo- | lies and trusts. Both parties are against unhealthy working conditions and sweat shops | and child labor. | Both parties want to help agri- culture, in fact to subsidize it. Both parties want to bring about a/ system of old-age pensions and un-/ employment insurance. Both parties express themselves in favor of the merit system in public service. Both parties say they want to en- courage legitimate business and in- dustry. Both parties pledge themselves to maintain freedom of speech, press, radio, religion and assembly. Both parties say they want @ sound currency and both favor stabiliza- tion of international currencies at the earliest practicable time. Both platforms declare for an en- largement of foreign trade. Both say they want to eliminate unemployment and both promise re- lief for the unemployed till private industry can absorb the idle. What then is all the shouting about? Why have a campaign? Why not toss a coin and pick a candidate “ David Lawrence Platforms look alike but they do not mean the same things. Likewise, even if they meant the same things, they would not be carried out in the same way by the Republicans as by the New Deal Democrats. But how would the platforms be} carried out? What do we know about each party? The New Deal points to its record and the Republicans likewise point to the same New Deal record as an example of what would happen if the New Deal were given larger powers in the federal mechan- ism of government. ‘The New Deal speakers, on the other hand, refer critically to the Republican record of 12 years and than has been their custom for a was caused decade or more while the New Deal yy Sane cleans Republican policies. This is rather reminiscent of the old cry the Republicans used to have which is that the Democrats if elected would bring a panic. What then is the average man to do? Certainly he cannot get very much enlightenment out of the simi- larity of objectives as expressed in the two platforms. Nor can he as- sume that a depression which swept the whole world was just brought on by one political party in the United States, especially when other nations in the world have cut down their un- employment in the last three yoars | and made rapid progress, as has Can- ada, without adopting New Deal measures. The probable answer to the dilem- ma is a study of the character and purposes of Franklin Roosevelt and. Alf Landon. When Senator Borah said that the candidates were the real party platforms he spoke what— ito borrow a New Deal phrase—might be called “self-evident truth.” Of what avail then are party plat- forms? Many a student of politics has asked that question for many years. The platforms could be of the Greatest value and accomplish & truly useful purpose as an integral part of the American system of gov- ernment. There are two ways in which this could be achieved. One would be to let the party con- ventions nominate their candidates first and then take counsel with the or a party? The answer is that the successful aspirant for the nomina- SIDE GLANCES - By George Clark tion so that he might shape the Platform to meet his concept of the campaign that should be waged. Such a method would increase inter- est in the pre-convention speeches of the would-be-nominees. The other way would be to require each state delegation at least thirty days before the national convention to name a member of the platform committee and to hold meetings for 30 days prior to the convention so ‘that all interested persons or groups could be heard and so that the party leaders would have ample time for conference and consultation and for the drafting of a platform of prin- ciples upon which legislation actually conforming to those principles could be based. jlather, when rubbed in water. i sador to’ Germany. Pg eT ae 5s x ee Flowers of the California lilac bush; Young people have far more liberty \produce an abundance of cleansing | Anny dit You Personal Health| - ‘By William Brady, M. D. stam; enve! . SCIENCE OF KEEPING COOL Are biondes than brunettes or do they just look cooler? x wouldn't know about that, but I don’t believe brunettes. ‘Thanks to the clothing we wear our bodies live in what is practically THE cooler climate, an atmosphere of nearly 90 degrees F. Everywhere brunettes ® tropical blondes and one’s deliberate election to live in a tropical of us get out of the tropical climate created by clothes. The men teaching. Why should any man wear a tight collar, even a soft collar, & little self-assertion he can just as well be comfortable in collariess and peghaps sleeveless or short-sleeved shirt? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Pruritus For five months I have suffered from intense itching—doctors be various things and seem afraid or insinuate I have cooties. .. (Mrs. M. T. K.) Answer—At this distance I can't conjecture what the trouble may be. Send stamped envelope repried your address, for monograph on Pruritus-- itel without a cause. hing pparent sein Lump on back of shoulder 2 inches wide, physician says it is accumula- tion of fat. Have tried baking treatments, rubbing with oil, no results. . . (mM. 8) Answer—If it is a fatty tumor or a sebaceous cyst, the only permanent cure is excision, which the physician can do under local anesthetic in his et ane Please tell me the caloric content of 1 pound of salmon, 1 pound of halibut, one pound of beefsteak, 1 pint of tomato juice, 1 (proprietary foun- tain beverage) ... (Mrs. J. A. W.) Answer—Salmon 660 calories per pound, halibut 560, beefsteak averages 130 calories per pound, tomato juice 120 calories in the pint, the glass of sweetened carbonated liquid yields about 60 calories. Bulletin 26, Agri- culture Department, which any one may purchase by sending ten cents for a copy to Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., gives the chemical composition and caloric values of American food materials—it is the source of most such information. (Copyright 1996, John F. Dille Co.) ERT Re eer ee f So They Say SRR colt i LR just because you have a latchkey.— ||Dr. John W. Maclvor, St. Louis ¢| churchman. * * * There is not a country in Europe; Rugged individualism has latterly where it would be possible to start &|been responsible for “ragged individ- | war if the people had been taught his-| uals.”"—Dr. James M. Matthews, Bab- tory accurately for one generation—/son Institute. Dr. William E. Dodd, U. 8. Ambas- ‘elite Every woman entering business and “ industry should use her mothering in- stinct so far as her business or in- today than they used to have, but/dustry is concerned—A. A. H. Find- there is no need to go to the devil'lay, British labor leader. 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