The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1936, Page 4

4 The Bismarck Tribu : An independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Officiai Newspaper .__ Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and S@tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher ne Archie O. Johnson Prea. and Gen'l. Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Kenneth W Simons Sec'y-Treas. and Editor ? un iif Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ed Press ie exclusively entitled to the use for republica- Gispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this ir a0 the local news of spontaneous o: ublished herein. ite ef republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, Machines Man Builds May Turn Against Him Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s speech on aviation in Berlin ‘was a sobering reminder of the fact that the race acquires tre- mendous new responsibilities every time it makes a conquest | over the realm of inanimate matter. q It invents the airplane and frees itself from the old limita- tions of time and space in a way that people of an earlier gen- eration could not have dreamed of. But at the same time this new invention increases to an appalling degree, the race’s power for sheer destruction, it changes the whole character of war and, as Colonel Lindbergh points out, does away with defense. “As I travel over Europe,” said Colonel Lindbergh, “I am more than ever impressed with the seriousness of the situation which confronts us. When I see that within a day or two damage can be done which no time can ever replace, I begin to realize that we must look for a new type of security.” All of which is to say that a new advance in the mechanical arts, a device like the airplane for instance, is a double-edged tool. It can be used both ways—to make it easier for the races of men to get along together on this troubled planet, or to make it harder. And unless we get so that we can display as much wisdom in using new tools of this kind as we did in devising them, we are very apt to rue the day that we ever heard of them. Colonel Lindbergh’s own career is a case in point. When he flew alone from New York to Paris he gave us one of the most spiritually uplifting experiences of the century. There was something about that exploit which made eter- nally visible the triumph of the dauntless spirit of man over a hostile environment; as his silvery plane circled over Paris in the dusk, all of us shared in that triumph and were uplifted. But you need only turn that flight of his inside out to get a clear picture of the sort of thing he was talking about in Ber- lin the other day. Pe Suppose there is a war. Over the sea come other planes— whole flights and squadrons of them, this time, with swollen egg sacs of bombs in their bellies. Each plane is flown with all the skill and individual bravery of that first lone flight; but when they circle over Paris—or London, or New York, or Ber- lin—at the end, they provide no uplift of spirit for anyone. Instead, they rain down death and destruction. As Colonel Lindbergh says, in a few moments they destroy things that can never be replaced. And the sunlight that glints on their wings signalizes the folly of a race which has the mechanical skill to commit hari-kari and lacks the sense to refrain from doing it. Both of these flights come out of the same egg. The Wright brothers bequeathed them to us when they took their silk-and-bamboo crate into the air at Kitty Hawk. As Colonel Lindbergh says, our only security henceforth lies in intelligence. Unless we can bring to the use of airplanes the same intel- ligence that went into the inventing and perfecting of them, we face a dark future. The Old Combination It’s a bit hard, despite the optimism of the diplomats, to swallow the new Austro-German treaty negotiated by Chan- cellors Hitler and Schuschnigg, guaranteeing Austria’s complete independence of Nazism. For one thing, its three-year limit falls sadly short of the 25-year non-aggression pacts Hitler has talked about. But more important is the fact that the treaty swings Europe back to the pre-war habit of alliances and combinations. Already there is ample evidence that Il Duce has effected a sort of triple alliance with Germany and Austria, even though he has not signed a formal pact. Witness, for example, the ‘refusal of both Italy and Germany to take part in the new Locarno conference, seeking to rebuild the treaty which Der Fuehrer so boldly scrapped a few weeks back. It appears that Europe again is headed toward the vicious doctrine of the “balance of powers.” It’s pretty difficult to look hopefully on that sort of development. We Must Plan Far Ahead Out of the tragedy of the 1936 drouth comes talk of aban- doning vast stretches of the prairie states under a wholesale resettlement program. More sensible, however, is the proposal that a gigantic irrigation and conservation program be launched to make such migration unnecessary. Which is to say that the current drouth, climaxing many years of.hardship and aridity for the farms, has driven home a very vital lesson—that the drouth problem essentially is a long- term proposition. “Dry farmers” and agricultural experts alike aye agreed that something more than the spending of emergency maillions for relief of human beings and livestock must be worked Just what such a program should involve may be prob- _ Iematical. But in any case it is clear that a long-range program looking far beyond the immediate crisis is necessary. : ‘A columnist says Governor Landon is in » state of sincerity. Any min- now Parley will claim it. ene were wondering about the silence out of Italy lately, until we real- a al ey Starfire He tare Duce from the cabin, they erob- ‘If Spain insists on keeping it up, it would seem poetic justice to give all ‘Dax seats. . see Peters ee” Sica ss eae mit ‘child dreads the fire, but you just can't keep the older folks Behind the Scenes Washington Other Government Workers Get Va- cations, but There’s No Rest for Ed McGrady ... Proves He’s Tops as Labor Trouble Conciliator . . . His Toledo Plan Has Attracted Wide Attention. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Aug. 3—New Dealers seldom have been scarcer in Wash- ington than now. Nearly all of them are having their vacations, But not Ed McGrady. It doesn’t look as if he would get any vacation at all. Most lately McGrady has been down in Savanneh, Ga., trying to head off a strike of longshoremen. Before that he was sitting in, unof- ficially, at conferences in Washing- ton between the A. F. of L. and the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion. A month ago he was trying to do his job as an official at the Democratic national convention and mediate the strike of RCA workers in nearby Camden, N. J., at the same time. Before that, it was a long string of other labor difficulties, including the bituminous coal mines settle- ment, to which McGrady applied the important finishing touches. He has played a unique role as the administration's trouble shooter and conciliator par excellence. He also has his position as assistant secre- tary of labor plus direct authority from the president, whose name he uses for all it’s worth in the pinches. No high official ever had such a big jail record as McGrady. He was arrested a score or more times in labor disputes before he entered the government service. Never convicted and always, he says, “framed.” At any rate, he has fought in la- bor’s battles and today has labor's confidence. He has had the confi- dence of employers, too, or his rec- ord of successful conciliation couldn’t have come to be what it is. **e Doesn’t Lock His 64 Years Most of those who see McGrady are astonished to learn that he is. 64 years old. His hair and moustache are black and his body is hard. He dresses snappily. He works fast and vigorously, nearly always until late at night, and he speaks tensely and forcefully. During the last three years he has flown nearly 100,000 miles in connec- tion with his peace-making efforts. He was born in Jersey City and his formal education ended with @ high school course in economics and business management in Boston. First & newsboy, he became a newspaper pressman 42 years ago, then head of the newspaper pressmen’s union, the central labor union, the Massa- chusetts Federation of Labor. He went into Democratic politics, too, serving in the Massachusetts legislature. In his ,earller days he was an amateur boxer. During the war he recruited skilled labor and investigated war depart- ment contracts. In 1919 Samuel Gompers hired him as @ lobbyist for the A. F. of L. on Capitol Hill and he served in that job for 14 years, mak- ing many friends and few enemies. He led labor's drive for the Norris- LaGuardia anti-injunction act and for defeat of the nomination to the supreme court of Judge John J. Parker, who had upheld so-called “yellow dog” contracts. * * % Won Over Madam Perkins He went into the campsign for Roosevelt in 1932. When NRA was formed, he became Gen. Hugh John- son’s labor aide and friend. Roose- velt and Farley wanted to make him assistant secretary of labor, but Sec- retary Perkins couldn’t see it. McGrady performed valuable serv- ices. It was he who got the Pennsyl- vania “captive mine” coal-miners to call off a strike when he promised them, “The president intends that) you shall get a square deal.” After that, Miss Perkins told Far- ley: “I was wrong about Mr. Mc- Grady.” Today McGrady and his female boss have strong respect for each other. McGrady thinks you can adjust almost any labor dispute without a violent bitter-end fight, costly to both sides. Sometimes he fails, but he in- sists there would be far fewer labor troubles if there were more tolerance, undertanding and freedom from per- sonal bitterness on both sides. ** % Works Out “Toledo Plan” At Toledo, after much strike vio- lence McGrady worked out the “Tol- edo inlustrial peace plan.” This calls for a neutral board of 18 of the city’s outssanding citizens, pledged to try to work out agreements in case of threatened strikes or lockouts. There is nothing compulsory about it, but it is said to have worked out well. The theory of it is that the board much be such as to impress both sides with its fairness. Looking at the Campaign (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) Washington, Aug. 3.—There are two objectives in the acceptance speeches of candidates—one is to intensify the activities of the rank and file of a party already sympathetic with a cause, and the other is to win in- dependent votes. As a matter of strategy, the speech of Colonel Frank Knox, vice presi- dential candidate on the itepublican ticket, was well calculated to put en- thusiasm into the party workers by giving them a clear idea of battle formation; in fact, in some respects, it furnished a better lesson in fight- ing tactics than could be found in the purposely restrained paragraphs of the Landon speech of acceptance. Colonel Knox has a good radio voice and seems to understand how to de- liver @ radio . He does not break rapidly or slide over his words, but gives the audience a chance to digest his ideas, He talks, indeed, with almost the same slow and delib- erate pace so successfully used by President Roosevelt. Radio technique is commented on because it is important nowadays. In Colonel Knox, the Republicans have @ campaigner who will no doubt have to bear the brunt of the speech-mak- ing on the air. The speech itself sounded much bet- ter than it read; in fact, just the reverse of the experience with the Landon address, which, on paper, made a much better impression than when delivered, The difficulty of writing a speech that will satisfy both the eye and the ear arises from the fact that most People can grasp a written thought more rapidly than they can catch with their ears the rapidly spoken “David Lawrence words of a speaker. Simplicity is so much more essential in radio ad- dresses than in printed exhortations. This means that old-fashioned po- litical “state papers” are not usable on the air nowadays. ‘The political orator, of course, used to have an advantage in that he could launch his personality directly into the audience by gestures and facial expression. But even in the old days, prepared speeches were rarely any good when delivered. Many a speaker found it necessary to discard a prepared speech and indulge in the informal. ities of extemporaneous speech. W« row Wilson, in his 1912 campaign, spoke extemporaneously nine times out of 10. The radio adiresses of modern political speakers would be much better if extemporaneously de- livered—at least they would have much more of a natural sound. The trouble is that few nationally promi- nent men can make good impromptu ‘speeches on the air. &o the spokesmen of political com- mittees are going to be challenged this year to phrase their speeches in dramatic style, for there is a great op- portunity for the revelation of per- sonality by means of naturally ex- pressed arguments. The commercial sponsors on the air have long since abandoned monotonous talks and have tried instead to put into their programs @ dialogue or the elocution- trained single character with origin- ality of radio style. These programs are written and edited by expert “script” writers and rehearsed many times in advance—all for the purpose of achieving naturalness. ‘The political committees, however, who are now spending hundreds of A Househ HORIZONTAL 1. Fairy tale heroiné who went to a ball {0 She worked as scullery ——. \4 Flyer. 15 Skillful performer. 16 Part of hand {€| 17 Chief. : WIA 20 Southeas' 21 Diminish 23 Measure of area. 24 Like. 25 To be sick. 27 Spain. 29 Every. 312000 pounds. 33 With might. 34 Fairy. 51 Metrical foot. 52 Skillet. 54 Nullifies. McGrady’s own ability to create such an impression is the chief secret of his relative success. And a fur- ther example of that is the fact that he stands equally well with the lead- ers of the A. F. of L. craft unions and those of the C. I. O. There are times, however, when he crashes his fist on a conference table and says, “The president wants —.” And that uually works, too. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN ey Guppy — I pretty young girl you would cease to care for me, Mr. Guppy — Non- sense. What makes you think I anything for youth and beauty? Mrs, Guppy—I syppose that if you snag sem. 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Their party rallies show about as much Sense of dramatic knowledge or show- manship value as might be furnished by the @verage amateur producer. But, judging by old standards, the bret speech was perhaps the best endorse it and like it. The Knox address will be helpful to the local campaign orators be- oo forceful and understandable ms, Whether the speech won any dependent votes it is too early know. The man on the fence po- litically is not yet ready, on the basis merely of @ severe indictment against —s in- to BEGIN HERE TODAY of the mine. An him and unseen opponent at Pat falls. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VII . CLAIRE watched alone Steele’s bedside. Hannah gone to get a room ready for self, and Susie was busy her kitchen duties. stillness hung over Only the sound of breeze the pine tree and the faint, dripping of the eaves could heard. 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