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

The Bismarck Tribune ¥ An Independent Newspaper . | THE ake oe Ba EWSPAPER State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and @@tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mai! matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W Archie O. Simons Secy-Treas. and Editor . Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance year (in state outside of Bismarck). utside of North Dakota mail in state, per year ail outside of North Dakota, per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press te exclusivi ited the loca! news of spontane cation of all otter matter The Danger of Isolation The world today is riding for a fall, and there seems to be precious little chance of stopping it before it comes down in a heap. This is the sober opinion of Dr. William E. Dodd, United States ambassador to Germany, as expressed in recent remarks before a midwest luncheon club audience. “Everybody thinks everybody is going to fight everybody,” said the ambassador. “Things are worse than at the end of the World War. Masses of people who don’t want war are all anxious to have enough to eat in the event of war and are try- ing to get along without trading with one another.” It is this, perhaps, which is the most discouraging part about the whole business. For it means that people have come to accept as inevitable, or at least as highly probable, the thing which they dread above everything else. Wanting above all things to stay at peace, they are schooling themselves for war —and by that very act they are helping to make war more probable. For the alternative to war, which is the sharpest and most obvious form of international discord, is international co-opera- tion; and international co-operation involves a great deal more than simply refraining from fighting. It involves the steady interchange of goods, the building up of international prosper- ity, the maintenance of a complicated social and economic web in which nations benefit themselves and their neighbors simul- taneousiy. For a good many generations the world made steady pro- gress along those lines. Nations exported the products they were best fitted to produce and imported those which they could not produce economically. The whole structure of mod- ern civilization was erected on that basis. The World War cut across that intricate fabric like a gigan- tic knife and the war’s legacy of fear, suspicion, and hatred has made it impossible for us to reconstruct it. By making complete self-sufficiency the goal for every great nation, the world has not merely headed in the direction of war and turned its back on the old goal of co-operation and mutual help; it has elected to carry on its economics in the most uneconomical way possible jand has doomed itself to a progressively lower standard of living. And this, by increasing the pressure on the ordinary man, arouses his discontent, sharpens his grievances, and makes it just that much easier for the statesmen to sell him a new war when the proper time comes. It is a vicious circle, and no one who studies it can find much ground for optimism. Because everybody is afraid of war, everybody does the very things which make war more likely. At a moment when modern science is making world society an indivisible unit, mankind is doing its best to destroy that unity. The Politician’s Alibi It appears that we're in for another siege of campaign crawfishing. We are beginning to hear from politicians who renig on their public utterances on the grounds of “misquota- tion.” This is an old campaign custom that usually is called into play whenever a speech or statement brings an unfavorable response. Invariably then, the cry goes up, “I was misquoted.” As a matter of fact, however, the error of misquotation is one of which newspapers and press associations are very rarely guilty. For one thing, nearly all public utterances, to- day are handled from advance press releases, thus assuring ac- curacy of quotation. Moreover, the rank and file of working newspapermen get their stories right. The misquotation alibi is pretty thin in the overwhelming majority of cases. Case of Minority Rule Recent surveys of automobile fatalities have shown that the great majority of serious accidents are caused by a small minority of drivers, many of them previous offenders. In other words, your average motorist is a pretty safe bet while, relatively, a handful of drivers contribute danger and death to the highways. This ought to be a good cue for traffic regulation. If the careless and the unfit few can be restricted, motoring can be definitely safeguarded for the larger number. Better police work and a rigidly enforced program for keeping incompetent drivers off the road would do much to solve our traffic problem. The fan who hit the umpire with a bottle hasn't been found yet, even though Baseball Boss Landis offered $5,000 reward for him. That's real oe © ‘When she first heard the phrase, “lunstic fringe,” Dora thought it meant her brother-in-law’s mustache re e* ‘The W. C. T. U. is to use a robot to demonstrate the evils of drink. The Seobably will contain stripped gears tor the morning-after effect, One for drunks: th in with the joremments water comervatoa progem Before érosion became so alarming, we thought there menace to the nation’s topsoil than the non-divot-replacer. singers are only twice as loud as one singer.” The item soprano next door. ‘Wives are was no greater! Z 1 0 ® “shave-your-own-husband” contest in Seattle. It Behind the Scenes Washington New Deal's Friends Go Over Strong in Primaries . . . Foe Routed in Alabama, Two Texas Supporters, to Be Returned to House ... Power Interests Rebuffed. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Aug. 4. — Democrats planning to meet in Detroit Aug. 7 to express their detestation of the New Deal will not include holders of public office or those who recently enjoyed the suffrage of the voters. Whether there is any significance in that—or any reason for belief that Al Smith, Governor Ely of Massa- chusetts, and ex-Senator Jim Reed of Missouri have lost their old popular is | followings — it is a thought which .| arises in connection with the fact that the New Deal has been conspic- uously successful this year in most Democratic primary elections where its prestige, its favorites, or its ene- mies were involved. Numerous pro-New Deal and anti- New Deal members of congress have been renominated more or less au- tomatically. In 20 state primaries in- volving 213 house seats, only 10 members have been defeated for re- nominatien. And only one lone sen- ator, Tom Gore of Oklahoma. x ok x Luck Still with F. D. R. The point is, however—if it is a point—that in fights where candi- dates have been oustandingly identi- fied with the administration and its legislation, and special attacks: were made upon them, and in contests where the Democratic incumbents similarly have fought the New Deal to where they were cordially hated in administration ranks, Roosevelt has had the breaks. Gore, of course, played the role of gadfly in Washington, loud in his contempt for newfangled legislation and constantly censorious of its ad- ministration. He will be succeeded by someone definitely more freindly —Congressman Josh Lee. ee ® Another Enemy Down Defeat of Congressman George Looking at the Campaign “David Lawrence Huddleston in Alabama was ever. more satisfying to the New Dea’ crowd. It’s at least a good guess that | (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) | the administration went as far as il} Washington, Aug. 4. — President could, without exposing itself, to con-| Roosevelt is making hay while the tribute to the result. sun shines—at least political hay. Huddleston came within a hair’s|/This it would appear, is the way the breadth last year of wrecking Roose- | Republicans look at it. For they do vent’s pet Wheeler-Rayburn public |not think he has been on a vacation utility holding company act, served on @ conference committee as/looking after his political fortunes. @ key member, and his die-hard op-| What leads the Republicans to Position brought on as spectacular|<uch a supposition is that Mr. Roose- a test of strength between a president |velt chose this summer for his visit and a powerful special interest group, /to Canada and to have a speech in this case the “power trust,” as has|proadcast in French as well as Eng- ever been seen. — lish. Mr. Roosevelt was governor of The hatred built up between Hud-| new york for two terms and near leston and the New Deal can hardy enough to make several visits to be overtaxed. If power companies | Quebec, official or otherwise, and he didn’t back Huddleston in the pri-| has been up in that vicinity since he maries, they're the most ungrateful| . 3. etected president of the United wretches on earth, which they sel-| srates, iSomanenes Pa ‘What possible relationship, it will He |in the last few days but actually busy | pri of Quebec's history. To show his/Democrat, in ‘Massachusetts, is said speaking ability in French was, in-/to have won the French-Canadian deed, a compliment to the ‘French-|vote from time to time. Canadians. Mr. Roosevelt's decision to stop off The president may not have/at various places in New England on thought of any politics in connection | his way back from Canada, and par- with his visit, and doubtless such |ticularly his desire to look over flood imary purpose would be denied |control projects; is an indication of officially. Even so, Mr. Roosevelt|what may happen throughout the can hardly be blamed for doing in s|campaign. It is believed that Mr. campaign year the incidental things | Roosevelt will move around a good that focus publicity upon him. deal, not necessi making stump ‘As a matter of fact, there are Re-|speeches, but developing local pub- publicans hereabouts who confess it /licity been hetls rr leaders. was shrewd politics on the presi-| For an election t is supposed to dent's part to make the trip to Que-'be “in the bag," the New Deal hig! bec at this time and to get the bene- command is busier trying to fit of two national radio hook-upsjline various group and sec! from a Canadian city. But the Re-|terests than might be expected to publicans, at the same time, insist|the case in midsummer of a the gesture will not be of as much/paign year. aid as might be assumed. For, they | And Friends Come Back In Texas Congressman Sam Ray- burn was renominated (equivalent to be asked, is there between Mr. Roosevelt's visit to Canada and poli- tics of the 1936 campaign? Well, there are, in the New Eng- say, the French-Canadian vote has been drifting away from the New Deal because of the unhappy condi- tions in the textile industry, for ex- the same swamps, cranberries really craneberries. re-election there), and Congressman |iand states, many French Canadians. Maury Maverick received such a large | Political observers in the past have plurality as to assure his renom-|said that the French-Canadian vote nation in a run-off. has often held the balance of power Rayburn is Roosevelt's candidate|in swinging the elections. To visit (it’s supposed to be a secret, of/Quebec and make a speech in course) for Democratic floor leader| French, which would be broadcast and to succeed Bill Bankhead aS|to the United States and certainly speaker of the house in case the lat-| would be listened to by French Can- ter’s health doesn’t hold out. Ray-'adians who now have become Ameri- burn jammed the holding company |can citizens, is not a waste of time ample, where many of them are em- Ployed. It would appear that there are about 1,372,000 New Englanders of French-Canadian or Canadian par- entage. There is no way to tell how many have a vote nor is there any way of knowing how many first gen- eration French Canadians are now living in the United States. But the importance of the French- bill through the house, and rushed through the stock market, security and other New Deal measures. Power companies tried to lick him, even getting house-to-house canvass- ers, ostensibly selling household ar- ticles, to make speeches against him at all calls, Maverick is the south’s outstand- ing liberal congress. He also incurred the wrath of utilities and oil interests, and a large slush fund was thrown in against him. He campaigned as a pal of the administration. Roosevelt, al- though always publicly proclaiming that he can take no part in primary contests, secretly did everything he reasonably could to insure Maver- ick’s renomination. xe * Sure of Further Support Still another successful New Deal congressman who pulled through in the face of a hard fight was Con- gressman David Lewis of Maryland. It would be easy to overestimate the significance of these primary re- sults insofar as it may apply to the presidential race. Except in the case of Lewis, these victories occurred in states where Roosevelt’s plurality in November is a foregone conclusion. What they do indicate is that, if Roosevelt is re-elected, he may haye much the same nucleus of loyal sup- porters in congress which he has had before. That suggestion must be qualified, however, by the fact that Senator Costigan of Colorado had to retire because of physical collapse, and that Senator George Norris of Nebraska may or may not be re-elect- ed as an independent. (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY Silly Sally says the saxophone seems so easy to learn be- cause failure to play the right note can’t make it any worse. Stranger — Is Shortleigh well known around here? Native—Iil say he is. He is so well known that he hes to go out of town to borrow @ quarter. wee ‘may become a 1 a mouse turns up. occupation.” There is always the danger, Serene fore. . ‘Goi to about 9000. “Pesming ranks as hasardous in 0 dust storm, of being hit by 6 know i comes to beating down, by any means, looking at matters from a political standpoint. Mr. Roosevelt likes to make “his- torical speeches” anyway. He man- ages always to intertwine some ref- erence to present-day affairs. In the case of his visit to Canada, he need- ed to do no more than he did, namely Canadian vote is emphasized again jand again in New England politics. Until the advent of the New Deal, the French-Canadian vote was con- sidered to be Republican. 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