The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1936, Page 4

ismarck Tribune Ap independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Behind the Scenes Washington State, City and County Officiai Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and @mtered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas. and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) Politicians Study Townsend Conven- tion Activities to Guess Size of Lemke Vote . . . 1,500,000 Seen as His Limit ... John L. Lewis Quick on Verbal Trigger ... Reason for All the Rush on Bill Sent by Plane to Bankhead and Garner Is Re- vealed. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 22.—The amusing and exciting aspects of the Townsend movement's convention in Cleveland still gave little indication as to the size of the vote the Lemke ticket will roll up this year. Among politicians, hardly anyone has been heard of who is not at the moment guessing a total of more than ee Many estimates run below that. Despite the fact that Dr. Townsend himself and the Rev. Geld Smith have joined Father Coughlin in sup- porting Lemke, there is no particular boom in the North Dakota congress- man’s stock. One reason is that it appears to be manifestly impossible to “deliver” the Townsendites to any presidential can- didate this year. Townsend's hold on his followers is none too firm. When the impressively large crowd of dele- gates cheered Gomer Smith’s pro- Roosevelt speech almost as hysteric- ally as they did Coughlin’s vicious at- tack on the president, it began to ap- Pear that the doctor’s dream of con- trolling millions of votes might be slightly cockeyed. A further tip-off is that the three states of the Pacific Coast, birthplace and chief stronghold of the Townsend movement, are generally considered to go for Roosevelt this year by big majorities, Nevertheless, the Union party will be backed by the most spectacular group of rabble-rousers gathered into @ political party in our time—lacking only the late Huey Long to give it vital leadership—and predictions now are likely to fall wide of the mark, either way. The ticket will get much or most of what cynical politicians call the “nut vote” and nobody really knows how big that vote is. * * & Rush Flight Explained You may have noticed an interest- ing story about the night flight of an army transport plane to Jasper, Ala., by ‘mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck). by mai) outside of North Dakota mail tn state, per year ... mai) outside of North Dakota, per year . mail in Canada, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press s 18 exclusively entitled to the use for republ hes credited to it or not otherwise credited in ewapep. the local news of spontaneous origin publ herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, Efficiency in the WPA * A Tribune subscriber, in a private note to the editor, sug- gests an editorial on the subject of “doing something toward getting efficiency and work from those who applied for work and are being amply paid for labor performed on roads, dams, etc. It is going to be a crying shame the way time and money will be wasted unless something is done.” The observation is timely but somewhat unfair. That there will be some waste of both time and money is inevitable. The question is how to prevent it and if anyone has anything to say on this score let him speak up or else hold his peace. The WPA administration is trying with honest zeal to make the labor now on the federal payroll effective in perma- nently improving the economic outlook for North Dakota. It wants efficiency, if for no other reason because efficiency would save it from legitimate criticism. But how to get it is the question. There are men loafing on private jobs. They always have and they always will. WPA, because it is COMPELLED to employ people merely be- cause of their financial situation, will doubtless have its full quota of loafers. The cheapest thing, in dealing with such people, will be to Jet them loaf rather than employ one man to see that another does an unworkmanlike job. iba bill 4 ih te cg But granted that every WPA worker was filled with burn-| of Senereae to gpeaker ‘William Banke ing zeal, there would still be much waste and inefficiency. Men| head for signature. must work near their homes. If no job exists one must be eae eis peers sled (bene MADE for them. And that isn’t as easy as it sounds because] also signed the measure. The bill was the work must be of a PUBLIC character. SLs ui OA OAMIMBICEILE ee . But eliminate these disabilities. There is the further ques-| The inside story is this: In the clos- tion of the capabilities of the men involved. Not every farmer ite Ati eae cats peetel| is as handy with tools as he might be. In the work available] sional committees might take recalci- there is little opportunity to make use of the individual skills| ‘®t witnesses to court on contempt . = men on the job. That, probably, is the greatest waste Galle iAveouanea aaa au, of all. pe Se But even if none of these conditions existed there still would be waste. To work 60,000 men efficiently requires tools and machinery. They are not available in quantity. Shovels, wheelbarrows, wagons and trucks are about the only equipment which can*be mustered. To provide tractors, graders, loaders and other machinery in quantity would mean a heavier capital investment than the government can be expected to make in an emergency situation. Doubtless there are other bars to efficiency, such as the rules under which the men must work. But there must be rules. Every large employer has them. In brief, the WPA must meet a condition and not a theory. It is doing the best it can and to date has done an excellent job. Constructive criticism doubtless will be welcome, but un- less it is constructive it seems unjustified. Lewis ‘Quick on Draw’ If husky John L. Lewis, leader of the mine workers and other in- dustrial unionists, doeesn’t look out, he will be getting a reputation as a wisecracker. The question came up as to how William Green, whose membership in the A. F. of L. derives from membership in the miners’ union, could still be president of the A. F. of L, if the United Mine Workers were suspended, It was pointed out that he could be elected to another union. Lewis suggested that Green might get into the musicians’ union, because, he said, Bill was an accomplished fiddler. Then he added, after a pause, “—while Rome burns!” “What's the charge?” he was asked after it wes announced that the committee for Industrial Or- ganization unions would go on trial. “Exceptional activity!” snapped Lewis. A Change in Name Although a rose by any other name is just as sweet, the Townsend old age pension plan is that no longer. Now, as a result of action taken at the recent convention in Cleveland, it is the “Townsend Recovery Plan.” It may be unfair to make deductions but it might be that the new name is merely bait to enlist the interest of persons other than those who would be direct beneficiaries of the plan. One feature of the Townsend movement is the claim that it would bring prosperity to all, not merely a rather fat com- petence to the’aged. The fact, of course, is that adoption of the Townsend plan 4 would penalize every head of a family in his active working ; years. It might put fine feathers on grandma in her declining days but in doing so it would take shoes from the feet of the next generation and bread out of children’s mouths. But the votes and support of the old folks are not enough. The plan must have a wider appeal and so it is held out as a panacea that would cure all of our ills and bring permanent and lasting recovery. If it did it would be the first time a tax scheme ever had such an effect. Some not of benefit-receiving years may espouse it, but if they do it might be well to see if The bill passed House and Senate without amendment. But someone on the senate side wrote on it “passed with amendments.” If that had been correct, the bill couldn't have become & law, as the house had no time to Pass on any senate amendments. The bill went on the wrong pile and considerable mixup resulted. Finally everything was straightened out and the bill was saved by the quick flight to Jasper and Uvalde. Significance of the episode is that important senate investigating com- mittees will be able to make things immediately hot for witnesses who re- fuse to asnswer their questions, in- stead of being compelled to wait until after election—and until congress re- convenes in January—to be able to start prosecutions. The committees to which this is most intportant are those invetigat- ing campaign funds expenditures, la- bor espionage and civil liberties vio- Ler railroads financing, and lob- ying. they haven’t some old folks in the offing somewhere whom they| (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) would expect to be generous with their share of the pension| money. : | So They Say | If a man were old enough and his parents lived long enough,| @ ra The basic investments are still health, children and land.—Roger W. Babson, investment statistician, *** * New York City is completely fem- inine! Especially at night, it is tall, graceful and sheer like one of ma- dame’s gowns.—Jean Cocteau, French Poet and dramatist. ** * We want a type of woman intel- Jectually capable to stand by her hus- band in his interests and his struggle with life and make his life richer and fuller—Rudolph Hess, Nazi official. ess 4% Votes for women have achieved few he might get by very handily and never have to work. But such observations may be unfair to the movement, its sponsors and those who believe in it. The change may merely be due to the fact that the Town- send plan no longer¢arries a proposed pension of $200 a month, though that figure has been much advertised. What it calls for, as revealed by examination of the official Townsend old age pension bill as introduced at the last session of congress, is “monthly payments of no fixed amount” to be paid from the transactions tax and other levies, ‘Old folks who dream of a $200-a-month pension might have found themselves fooled if the bill had passed. o 1 wants to give the people his side of the case. If it will make! _- Bioncheck ‘act up as every bottle. Pe Pe can beep expey bee woman suffrage have’ been disap- negligible and invariably = France is trying out a New Deal, too, but in its “sit down strikes” it | imitative—Dr. Alan Valentine, presi- s to have misinterpreted the WPA. cist lenis ge -aeraaad oe * crow iss dish in Tulsa, Okls., in case the nation’s sports eee THE BISMARCK TRIBI WEDNESDAY, JULY That Strong Grip of Fellowship 22, 1986 Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Bra jons_ pertain health bat PEPTIC ULCER ABROAD AND AT HOME Be we i ie i E effectively they might have promoted their right kind. Hyperacidity (hyperohlorhydria), the secretion of excessive hydrochloric (muriatic) acid in the stomach, is a common complaint of persons who smoke too much. arent ded feed aie Mpeg ts bole ihe ito Ben Told spikenard makes childbirth easy. Would it have any harm- Campaign Washington, July 21.—What Bishop Gallagher of Detroit said about Father Coughlin’s speeches has a national im- portance because it will explain to many people why the eminent radio priest feels justified in carrying on a public campaign for what he believes are sound principles of government. Bishop Gallagher, to be sure, did not condone Father Coughlin’s intemper- ate language in reference to President Roosevelt, but the bishop made it clear that, so far as he could see, the general speeches of Father Coughlin were in line with the teachings of Pope Pius XI and Pope Leo XIII. This word, given to the reporters as Bishop Gallagher left for home over the week-end, will revive interest in the famous encyclical letters of Pope Pius XI in which he brought up to date in 1935 the teachings of his pre- decessor, Pope Leo XIII, first issued in 1891. That document is far from conser- vative in its tone and far from a com- mitment for any particular form of economic society. It expresses a good deal of sympathy with the efforts to attain social justice and examines various plans with a critical eye. Thus, ruthless competition, or the law of the survival of the fittest, is condemned because it too often is carried on with- cut dictate of conscience by the s0- called individualistic school. The declaration, however, shows the fallacies of both unism and Socialism and endeavors to show how they are both antagonistic to true Christianity. Most interesting is the denunciation of class warfare. As in the following passage: “Now this is the primary duty of the state and of all good citizens, to abolish conflict between classes with divergent interests and thus foster and promote harmony .between the various ranks of society.” The encyclical letter gives due recog- nition to the aspirations of labor and the right to form associations or “vo- cational groups” as a “natural and spontaneous development.” While the sentiment against ruthless competition or, to use @ phrase em- bodied in law for many years—unfair competition—is recog- nized, the cure is not to be found, according to the papal pronounce- ment, in any form of state monopoly. Present-day Fascism, for instance, is OUT OUR WAY WHEE -THAT Looking at the \i, this comment: “We feel bound to add that, to our knowledge, there are some who fear that the state is substituting itself in the place of private initiative, instead of limiting itself to necessary and suf- ficient help and assistance. It is feared that the new syndical and cor- porative institution possesses an ex- cessively bureaucratic and political character, and that, nothwithstand- ing the general advantages, it risks serving particular political aims rather than contributing to the initiation of @ better social order.” In paying its respects to Socialism, the famous encyclical letter says: “If, like all errors, Socialism con- tains a certain element of truth (and this the sovereign pontiffs have never denied) it is nevertheless founded u on a doctrine of human society pecul- jarly its own which is opposed to true Christianity. ‘Religious Socialism’ and ‘Christian Socialism’ are expressions implying a contradiction in terms. No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.” ‘The question then arises to what extent the New Deal is a truly social- istic experiment. In some parts of the same encyclical letter will be found a statement to the effect that “certain forms of property must be reserved for the state, since they carry with them an opportunity for domination too great to be left to private individ- uals without injury to the community at large.” But further exploration of the same document will find that class, warfare, which is so fundamental in New Deal philosophy, together with its emphasis on. political bureaucracy, is looked upon as fundamentally wrong. The essence of the'papal declaration is that social justice and social char- ity come from enlightened administra- tion and nobility of individual pur- pose. It would appear that Bishop Gal- lagher's statement that a Catholic priest has a duty as a citizen to ex- pound his views on current problems is the answer that is given to those who object tothe prominent part in present-day affairs taken by Father Coughlin. Inasmuch as the radio priest is directly responsible to Bishop Gallagher in the Detroit diocese, the comment by the Bishop may be said to dispose of the matter of Father Cough- os BY eA Qanviee, we. TM ROG UO. Par. David Lawrence (Copyright, 1936, By David Lawrence) | viewed with considerable doubt in ful effect on the child? ... (Mrs. R. 8.) Answer—There is no foundation for the notion. Send 10 cents and lin’s proper relationship to his church ‘superiors. Now it happens, of course, that many members of the Catholic clergy are emphatically in disagreement with Father Coughlin and wish he were not making himself so conspicuous in the political arena, but the clerical custom is that, as long as the bishop T want to thank you for the suggestion of calcium lactate for migraine headaches. I very seldom have even a slight attack now. (No Name). Ne session. For either booklet send ten cents coin and a envelope bearing your address. aa (opyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.) the reelection of President Roosevelt, it is probable that, during the campaign, he will various pieces of leg- and acts, has violated some] Js vant to roost on éhat 2 Rube Barbie — She's homesick, I guess, She was hatched from a mail order. egg that came by parcel post. - Selimore—But surely you are not going to let your husband’s insurance this time’ 9-22. TRwavams