The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1936, Page 4

ag é The Bismarck Tribune THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER . State, City and County Official Newspaper Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D, and class mai] matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher ©. Johnson @mtered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second Vico end Gen'l. Manager Kenneth W. Simons Goo'y-Treas. and Bditer per year it North Dakota, per year . in Canada, per year .....cescesseee Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press Log Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the us tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise Rew! F and also the local news of spontaneous origin a! au feats of republication of all other matter herein are glso reserved. The Rabble-Rouser The term “rabble-rouser” isn’t supposed to be a compli- ment. But when the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith addressed a Na- tional Press Club luncheon in Washington the other day he admitted the epithet had been applied to him—and he gloried Behied Scenes Washington Crop Insurance Given Close Study in Laying Plans for Drouth War... Disasters of Past Years Yield Val- uable Data . .. Premium Rates are Puzsle to Experts, —_ By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Aug. 18—As the ex- tent of the drouth disaster begins to be realized, it becomes increasingly likely that we will hear more and || more about crop insurance. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wal- lace’ has been promoting the idea. ‘There is also at least a hint that Gov. Alf. Landon has been studying it, with a view to a possible pro- nouncement later. Both the Hoover and Roosevelt ad- ministrations have established farm 8 | relief programs and neither program has proved satisfactory. ‘The old Federal Farm Bédard is a sad memory. The AAA crop contro] programs have been messed up by drouth, even assuming they were oth- erwise sound. No one knows how the current soil conservation program will turn out, but it is obvious enough that farmers need some protection against the in it. Mr. Smith explained himself like this. “Oh, I know,” he said. “If you say ‘the flag’ you are a rabble-rouser. The very first reference to the Stars and Stripes makes you a rabble-rouser. “And never refer to the Bible. That makes you a demagog, and a rabble-rouser. Never reach down where people pray. Never reach down where people are sincere. Stay out where people are smart, drunk, and sophisticated. Stay with them. Then you are somebody.” < Mr. Smith makes an eloquent plea and makes demagogy sound like a high and holy thing. The only trouble is that he forgets that the spirit in which you do a thing can be a good deal more important than the thing you do. Getting down and appealing to the sincere and humble emotions by which people live is not solely a trick of the dema- gog. Lincoln was a past master at it. The American Revolution was fought largely because such men as Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams had the same knack. Bryan could do it, and so could Theodore Roosevelt, and both men occupy honored places in our history. The thing that stamps a man as a rabble-rouser and a @emagog is the fact that he appeals to those profound and magnificent emotions for his own ends. He does not really care whether the high aspirations which are evoked by his ap- peal to those emotions are fulfilled or not; he has an ax to grind, and his appeal to those emotions is just his way of get- ting someone to turn the grindstone for him. The tragic thing about the demagog’s work is the fact that he arouses a force which could move mountains, and then turns it to his own selfish ends. For the human race, mean and weak and confused as it . often is, nevertheless is capable of magnificent things. It has the power and the heroism and the self-sacrifice to work miracles... the faith that can move mountains . . . if only|‘"% the right appeal be made, The force is there, waiting to be put to work. Now and again a man arises who can unleash that power, who can demand that men live up to the best there is in them —and when he does, the wheel of history makes another turn. But it is not a game to be played lightly. A selfish man can unleash the same power only to debase it, can rouse men to the pitch where they can transcend them- selves—only to lead them into some swamp such as Hitler has created in Germany. It is not words that make the demagog. It is the motive back of the words—the soul of the man who utters them. Mr. Smith is deeply mistaken if he thinks that any intel- figent man objects to an appeal to the emotions of the mass. fhe objection is to the use which is made of those emotions once they, are fully stirred. & Direct Action i Smedley D, Butler, grizzled veteran of the marine corps, fias a plan for making sure that the United States keeps out of any future wars—and it is a good one. i After thinking about wars—why they occur and how they fire fought—during most of his mature years, Butler has come fo the conclusion that the simplest and best way to maintain the peace is to keep our armed forces at home. _ Writing in a women’s magazine, he suggests an amend- ‘ment to the constitution which would read as follows: “1. The removal of members of the land armed forces from the continental limits of the United States and the Panama Zone for any cause whatsoever is hereby prohibited. The vessels of the United States Navy, or of the other of the armed service, are hereby prohibited from steam- for any reason whatsoever except on an errand of mercy, more 500 miles from our coast. “3. Aircraft of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps is hereby Prohibited from flying, for any reason whatsoever, more than 750 miles beyond the coast of the United States.” It may be that there are objections to such an amend- ment, but certainly it would make a good many of our diploma- tic problems easier to solve and there is little doubt that it ‘would be approved by the people of the country if they had an opportunity to vote on it. One way to keep out of war is not to go where a war is being fought. é ' | nh Railroad Prosperity If anyone doubts that business conditions have improved throughout the United States let him look at a recent report » by J. J. Pelley, president of the Association of American Rail- » roads. > ry Not only have the carriers repaid $155,292,899 to the fed- _ eral Reconstruction Finance corporation and $23,643,000 to _ the PWA, they have repaid $36,922,582 to the Railroad Credit corporation, an.agency set up by the more prosperous roads to weaker brothers meet fixed interest obligations and ravages of nature and that it may be good political medicine to propose some such plan for them. Furthermore, the “ever-normal granary” plan, which Wallace sug- gests should be combined with any system of crop insurance, presum- ably would also serve to protect con- sumers from violent fluctuations in food prices such as occurred in the case of meat last year and will soon be repeated. ee % Collect Valuable Data AAA officials are working on plans for crop insurance covering all pos- sible risks to wheat. Regardless of] . whether a New Deal or a Republican administration decides that a federal system of insurance is @ good thing, the records of the AAA will prove in- valuable in determining the extent to which the system would be feasible, ‘These cover individual farms for six years and although they cover only farmers who par- ticipated in AAA programs and the period is about the worst that Amer- ican agriculture has ever had, there was no period data on which an ac- tuarial study might be made. Great areas are likely to produce nothing in very dry years and bumper crops in years of heavy rainfall. The succession of drouth years, 1930, 1934, and 1936, however, has struck many of the best farming sections. ee ke Jardine Cited Snags Even in 1928, Sectetary of Agricul- ture William M. Jardine was report- ing that every year thousands of be- ginners in farming and farmers with heavy interest charges to meet “are economically ruined or seriously crippled in their future production programs by reason of unexpected failure or destruction of their grow- rope.” At the same time, Jardine pointed out some difficulties in the way of a crop insurance system. A uniform- rate plan, or even an approach to it, he said, would result in discrimina- tion against the better farming sec- tions in behalf of less-favored sec- tions and would unduly encourage bringing more submarginal land into Production. Complaints from localities where insurance premiums were high be- cause of severe crop hazards would be likely to lead to dangerous politi- cal pressure for rate revision. It would also be difficult to make sure that policy holders lived up to requisite conditions. Foggy on Premium Rates One proposal suggested at AAA would insure the farmer for up to 75 Per cent of his crop. Ideas about how to fix the premium rate seem rather thus far. One plan would de- the average annual crop de- over @ six-year period and work tert similar average for of individual farm. rate would be worked out on the each average and then the rates would be averaged together pute the premium rate to the ti Officials seem to favor collecting lums in the form of grein than in cash and collecting | only in years of excess produc- ‘This would both draw off sur- from the market and build up “ever-normal granary,” which be simply a system of-holding in storage against lean years. ht, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) got the and I know He mumbled a few words in church And he was married. words in his es Looking at the ; ‘Father Knows Best’ | Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Galt. Answer—Anything is possible except a mouse’s nest in the cat’s ear. Such @ mistake. would have no very serious consequence, unless the doctors insisted on removing the brain tumor which isn’t there. « (Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) ‘ eee teresting to note the states in which| In every one of the foregoing states, Campaign “David Lawrence (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) Helena, Mont., Aug. 18.—This is one of the states where the labor vote counts decisively and it is ranged strongly on the side of the Roosevelt candidacy. Also, with a population of 530,000, relief was given to around 100,000 persons. This helps the New Deal campaign. Careful appraisal by persons who know this state very well would seem to indicate that the president will carry it. The Gallup poll first put Montana in the Republican column and recently switched it to “border- line,” but there is no evidence here that the state has changed at all from the set position it has had for several months—a pro-Roosevelt state. Republicans are hopeful of the “breaks,” and plenty of them are pos- sible if the factionalism that has arisen inside the Democratic party should develop or if the Lemke- Coughlin-Townsend tickets should be- gin to acquire any strength. For these third party tickets draw votes from Mr. Roosevelt rather than from Mr. Landon. But as the situation stands today I find that well-informed persons even of Republican leanings concede privately that there is only a fighting chance of winning the state and that, if the election were held tomorrow, the Roosevelt party would carry it by anywhere from 30 to 40,000 votes. In 1932, Mr. Roosevelt carried Mon- tana by 49,000. ‘The chances of reducing the Roose- velt vote to something around 10,000 or 15,000 are dependent upon the third party movements and possible friction inside the Democratic party itself. Representative Monaghan, who came within 2,000 votes of de- feating Senator Murray for the Dem- ocratic nomination, is planning to run as an independent. In a three- cornered race, the Republicans hye to gain strength. There are some here who believe the Townsend-Coughlin-Lemke tick- et will draw farmer votes away from Roosevelt in eastern Montana. This might be thought to parallel the sit- uation in 1924 when the late Senator La Follette was running on an inde- pendent ticket. But actually condi- tions are not the same. For example, Senator Wheeler, Dengocrat of Mon- tana, was then running on the vice presidential ticket with Mr. LaFol- lette and there was enough local strength here to give the third party, ticket quite a prestige. Thus Calvin Coolidge polled 74,000 votes, La Follette 61,000 and John W. Davis 33,000 in Montana in 1924, It will be noted that the combined La Follette and Davis vote was just 20,000 in excess of the Coolidge vote. If the third party ticket were well- organized and put on an intensive campaign this would be fertile ground for its appeal, as there is a large rad- ical vote Here which lately has been tied up with the Democratic party. Mr. Landon’s chances of carrying the state as a minority candidate are, therefore, entirely related to what the third party amounts to, and I cannot find many trained observers here- | Royal British Child | HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle statues. 1 Member of x 41 Dish for the British heating. ' royal house, 12 Mine hut. Princess ——. 13 SuMx form- 9She is the ing nouns. — of the oI 17 Foregoing. King. 20 Free ticket. 14 Signal 21 Sweetheart. systems. E] 22 Duty. 15 Project 24 Rail (bird). former. 25 Pedestal part 16 Spanish 26 Forlorn. linen. 270One who 17 Bard. inherits. ~. 18 Departed. 28 Fabulous —~ 19 Meadow. 38 Italian 50 Her grand- bird. 20 Compact. river. mother is 29 Earth. 21Genip wood. 39 Chum. —— Mary. 31 Three united. 23 Corpse. 40 Toward. 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It is not often considered that in 1924 there were 11 states in which Calvin - idge did not get a majority the total cast for the three candidates and that he won 64 electoral voteg| even though he was a minority choice of the voters. It didn’t matter so much in that election because Mr. Coolidge had a wide margin anyhow, but it is in- the radical appeal in 1924 took votes from the major parties and to con- sider what might happen if, this year, the Townsend-Lemke-Coughlin ap- peal were as effective in subtracting Democratic votes as a third party was 12 years ago. 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