The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1936, Page 4

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Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press |s exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Newspaper and also the loca! news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Light Over the Pacific . Like a tiny ray of sunlight in a gloomy and darkening world comes word that Japanese delegates to the Institute of Pacific Relations session at Yosemite, Calif., definitely indi- cated that Japan would be willing to sign a treaty with the United States and Great Britain to guarantee permanently the independence and neutrality of the Philippines. These delegates do not officially represent the Japanese government, but there is reason to believe they are not backing an idea that is repellent to the Japanese powers-that-be. Up jumps the gentleman with the cynical eye, and says, “Yeah—just the kind of treaty Belgium had in 1914!” 5 Yet when the present period of madness passes, the world must return to treaties and mutual arrangements that are more than “scraps of paper” to nations that are as true to their word as are honest men. The fact that supposedly honorable nations have been toss- ing treaties into the wastebasket with sickening regularity of late does not mean this will always be true. A treaty guaranteeing Philippine independence and neu- trality would be of definite advantage to all three countries involved. To the United States and Britain it would mean free- dom from concern about that particular corner of the Far East. Japan has her hands full at the moment and for some time to come in Asia, meeting increased resistance from Soviet Russia and a reviving Chinese nationalism, and with huge chunks of Manchuria swallowed but still undigested. Further, General MacArthur has perfected a defense plan for the Philippines that would make Japanese attempt at con- quest a bloody and costly job. So it is possible that Japan may be entirely “on the level” about a desire to stabilize the southwestern Pacific by making a reality of the dreani of an independent Philippine Island group. Certainly that is infinitely desirable to the United States, which looks with increasing distaste on continuing responsibili- ties in one of the hottest corners of the earth. Just how hot it is may be seen from the fact that the chief ~ importer of American munitions in recent months has been the Dutch East Indies. Dutch East Indies? What need have they of armament? Well, it happens that in the Dutch East Indies are the vast oil reserves and storage tanks of the Dutch Shell Oil Co., to a large extent British controlled. Surely the Dutch East Indies are not increasing their naval air coast patrols because they think everything is quiet on the Far Eastern front. Perhaps it is not too much to hope that the little ray of sunlight which shone through the institute meeting may broaden out into genuine sunshine in the western Pacific. More Veterans Men who hold honorable discharges from CCC camps are now to be organized. The nucleus of a national organization is being formed in Ohio, incorporated in Columbus under the name “Veterans of the CCC.” It is too early to tell what the course of such organization might be. If it sticks to announced objectives, to help young men get jobs, to support conservation and stimulate business, it might develop into a valuable organization, There is, after all, no stronger bond among men than to have passed together through common experiences. Should the CCC “alumni” turn out to be merely another self-seeking organization, aimed at bonuses or favors for its members, and formed into a bloc of voters “deliverable” at the behest of its leadership, its worth would be open to question. The nation will watch with friendly interest the course of this newest “veterans’ organization.” ‘ Light Destroys Evil A meeting of Michigan police officials, formulating plans to reduce crime, noted that the decline in organized racketeer- ing is due largely to newspaper publicity. Often a man who had been paying tribute to racketeers for years awoke for the first time to exactly what was going on when he read an account of the racket in his newspaper. For the first time he realized what a sucker he was. Then it was’ only a matter of the victims of rackets getting together to stop them. - Newspapers, if read carefully, can give the public a vast amount of information on what is going on in its midst. The criticism that newspapers do not contain enough valuable in- formation comes from those who have never troubled to read more than the headlines. All evils fall when the light is turned strongly enough on them. Sweethearts All Over Again Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Heacock of Houston, Tex., like their marriages often. In fact, the Heacocks have been wedded four times in the last two years, and they haven’t mixed any divorces in with their marriages, either, They were marrie® again just the other day. “And I'm going to marry her again six months from now,” announced the bridegroom. “We just believe in honeymoons, lots of ’em, that's all.” ; e Bismarck Tribune _THE BISMA Behind Scenes The Campaign Parties’ National Headquarters Re- semble Madhouses; Politicians Keep Their Eyes Glued on Various Polls. By RODNEY DUTCHER | (Tribune Washington Correspondent) | New York, Aug. 28.—Political head- quarters in national campaigns are queer hodgepodges of extreme optim- ism, sporadic pessimism, nerves, jeal- ousies, strokes of genius, prima don- nas, sprinters racing in circles, over- worked competent employes assisted by many folk who “had to be taken ‘absences of co-ordination. Many things get done and some- meanwhile almost any politician will tell you: “Sure, our headquarters is a mad- screwy as the other party's.” The Democrats have their national headquarters in New York City. Re- also an important eastern headquar- ters in New York under Congressman Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachu- setts with as much office space as the Democrats have. Everyone in the metropolis gets ex- cited over grapevine reports from Chicago that G. O. P. national of- fices are in bad shape, with jealousy and bickering rife. Eastern head- quarters doesn’t seem any too sure yet where it’s going, either. But the Democratic general staff seems at least equally far from ef- ficiency. Personalities enter in when it appears sometimes difficult to get good men to work here because of a belief that when you work under Jim Farley you tend to become a sort of glorified office boy, with little or no authority. e* *% G. 0. P. Counts on Digest Poll One rumor, accepted in both camps, is that tabulation of the first 50,000 votes in the Literary Digest’s presi- dential poll will show Landon leading Roosevelt by a much more substantial majority than in any other sizeable Poll thus far. Republican leaders greet this report with delight, especially because they are sure that a strong Landon show- ing in a major poll will have a valu- able psychological effect. They are Preparing to ballyhoo such figures. The Democratic staff, on the other hand, is pooh-poohing the Digest poll results in advance and will present various purported reasons why the G. O. P. implications shouldn’t be accepted. Secretly, the Democrats rely heav- ily upon the theory that none of the polls accurately covers a certain group of voters, which should be ex- d to vote heavily for the New Deal. ‘ Polls have transformed pblitical campaign thinking. They are men- tioned, usually “off the record,” at Practically every press conference held by ar or Farley. * * Bank on Hurja’s Poll | They are watched closed by Emil Hurja, assistant to Farley, who keeps a private poll for the Democratic committee and whose associates think his survey is the most accurate of the lot. In 1932 and 1934 Hurja established @ reputation for amazing accuracy in vote forecasts, right down into the in- dividual congressional districts. This year, with the contest now apparently close, his unique reputation as a scientific political prophet is at stake. The Hurja poll is largely confiden- tial, but it is reported that it now gives Roosevelt a slight edge, with in- dications of a future trend which should produce @ substantial electoral college majority. Even Democratic leaders privately admit that Roosevelt's big 1932 ma- Jority will be materially cut. ee * f Another ‘Fear’ Campaign Watch out for a new organization which will profess to have sprung up spontaneously and which will an- nounce it has been formed to defend the federal deposit guarantee system. This will simply be part of a new Democratic effort to meet the “fear campaign” of the Republicans (taxes, preservation of the constitution, per- sonal liberties, and so on) with an- other “fear campaign.” It seems that in 1933 Landon de- nounced the deposit guarantee pro- posal before the American Bankers’ Association as “a greater blow to the ultimate welfare of the American People than the wildest inflation of the currency could possibly be.” He wired Senator Capper, urging him to fight the measure. So there will be a Democratic effort to build up a bogey to the effect that Landon would seek abolition of the national run on the banks in so do- ing. +s System in No Peril as some of the self opposed deposit didn’t feel up to vetoing it when con- on it. to get rid of the system now. “Yes.” “Then we boil it.” “Yes.” “Then we add chemicals to it.” “Yes.” “And then we drink beer.” “Hey, you got any tobacco?” “Bure, I got tobacco to burn.” care of,” rumors, and almost uncanny body always wins the election, but house, but thank heaven it isn't as publicans have theirs in Chicago, and FDIC and presumably cause a great This, of course, is just as cockeyed Republican bogies. The plain fact is that Roosevelt him- it insurance, but gress Neither he nor Landon nor anyone else in his right mind would dare try ‘The Democratic “scare campaign,” however, may become so formidable as to force Landon to declare himself. Republican strategists (each side al- ways seem to know what the other is Rydal tell me, what tions do you take against it." “First we filter it.” Looking at the Campaign (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) En Route Through Idaho, Aug? 28.— This is a story of how a Democratic governor “put it over on Uncle Sam.” Its a story that taxpayers far and wide might read with interest and a story, too, that will tell them more about the issues of the present cam- paign than all the stump speeches made by either Democrats or Repub- licans in the national campaign, And when you get through examin- ing the essential facts, you may come to the conclusion that the real prob- lem is not states’ rights versus federal centralization but state extravagance versus federal gullibility. The picture here is ideally suited for the man who meets in conversation the afgument: “Well, what would you have done—let ’em starve?” First of all, I learned on investiga- tion at Boise that the treasury of the state of Idaho is in excellent condition and that it has done something dur- ing the depression which will come as a surprise—it has actually retired out- Standing debt and has a nice surplus in the treasury. Yet, notwithstanding this, the state of Idaho in the last three years has gotten about $27,- 00,000 out of the federal government for “relief.” If ever there was a state which ap- pears to have been able to get along without such an amount of federal aid or to tax itself to pay its own local improvements it is Idaho. Most of the information to substantiate this con- tention can be found in a message communicated to the state legislature just about a month ago—July 28th to be exact. Here are a few facts taken from that message: 1, The state of Idaho had a cash bal- ance of $3,331,397 on December 31, 1930, and a current debt of $3,628,934, 1 Boy monarch of Yugoslavia. 9Verb @ 10 Back. 11 Exists. 12 Father. 13 Capital of his country. 15 At ease. 16 Jar. 17 Sorts, 19 Trunk drawer. 20 Poem, ‘ 21Den. 22 The craw. 26 Being. 27 Cows’ cries. 28 Salt of oleic acid. 30 Like, 31 Impostor. 33 Shadowy. measure. 34To slumber. 45 Pocketbook. 35 Before Christ. 46 Pendent 36Hangmen’s ~ — ornaments. halters. a ae rule in 42 Cleansing substance:, 43 Prophet. 44 French eee a4GREE we data Anne “David Lawrence or a net cash deficit of only $297,537. 2, After five years of depression— December 31, 1935—the governor says that “we find a cash balance of $3,560,369 against which there were no notes outstanding, and only $403,- 291 of warrants payable, leaving a net cash surplus in the treasury of $3,157,078.” 3. As for the long term debt, it was $8,211,632 in 1930 but after five years of depression, on March 31, 1936, there remained only $2,507,535 of outstand- ing debt about which the governor says frankly: “If the present financial Policy of the state of Idaho is con- tinued, by the end of 1938 the total bonded debt of the state of Idaho could be retired.” Now what is the “present fipencial policy of the state of Idaho”? Again one does not need to resort to argu- ment, but merely to take the words of the Democratic governor himself. He said in a public address on April 5, 1935: “The states around us had paid for those who needed relief. Utah had paid $1,000,000 a year. Oregon and Washington had paid their share and ‘Wyoming and Nevada their share. “Idaho had not contributed. And do you know why Idaho had not con- tributed and matched the government money as Utah and all the states around us? I don’t know any other reason but that we had a Scotch gov- ernor that talked them out of it. We got by for two years and Uncle Sam Paid the bill.” And what has happened since? The WPA is still going on out here. There were 11,000 cases at the peak. There are 5,200 still on the rolls. They had an excellent relief system here before the federal government took it over— HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzsle nobody starved. Today, the federal | Young Ruler 14 Axillary. 18 Electrified particles. doNellawis - wn color. IMIAIT MIE] 21 Awkward |AIDIOIRIE] fellows. IS} 22 Caste. 23 To lease. RIEINIE IW SEIT ERIS! BIOITITIEIN) 2? Opposite of winner, VERTICAL. 28 Fat. 1 Mattress 29 Deliverances. 31 Money lovers. 32 Rubber penci) end. 33 Fashions. 35 Animal. 37 Olive shrub. 38 Male. 39 Lacer: 41 Public auto. 42 To woo. 44 Morindin dye. 45 Portugal; holds to error 8 Toward sea. 11 Lazily. 18 Proffered. government still pours money into Idaho and yet the sales tax imposed by Governor Ross and the other taxes has given the state treasury more money than it really knows what to do with. So the last session saw an in- crease in the bureaucracy of the state. The number of employes has risen from 1,000 to 2,500 on the state pay- roll, But even this leaves @ surplus. The governor ‘reveals it in his recent message thus: “The receipts of the general fund are running well over the budgetary requirements the regular session authorized a million dollar ad valorem tax for each of the two years in the present biennium .... this two million dollars thought necessary, together with the .estimated: revenues from. other sources, to p1 the neceasary money to meet general fund expendi- tures, “The actual receipts received will one under the care of a physician with the knowledge and approval of the in the north, even diffuse my opinion that nakedness or partial ‘when comfortable, is always ul; baré legs or bare knees all winter, If the youngsters find thet should not be frowned on because they weren't fash- years, and have-been careful but. not insurance examinef found I still had trace westigate the financial capacity of Idaho with sufficient care else, as is charged, they thought that, by giving Gov. Ross what he wanted, his political prestige would taxpayers will pay for somebody’s mistakes in judgment. RESORT 48 HOTEL =n BEGIN HERB TODAY ANN HAMILTON, young” ge" business secretary in a lal office, goes to a travel agency to make plans for her two-week ‘vacation. BILL Beker See ey emote pers ce ine. Bill is obviousl; baile’ aineine ns but she gives Fane Se Bee sateen ‘ls. Ral sind yh introduces ME LAIRD, ‘wealth; her t i Ont at the fashionable je Hotel, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER V wae evening turned, of Jaime Laird?” she asked. The maid smiled, He’s quite a lady killer, they say. One of those playboys. He spencs afternoons at the most of his i é é i etey iy ey | i i ies eF 5 g Ped iL ir aE g 2 Ann put on her new gown—the cardinal’s red—the maid was in the room, giving finishing touches to the bed. She helped Ann with the fastenings, and suddenly the girl “Do you know anything | 1: about a young man by the name “Everybody knows him at Lake Racine. 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