The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1936, Page 4

a The Bismarck Tribune AB inéspendent Newspaper : THE STATE'S SEuee LNEWEEATER State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily exeept Sunday by The Bismarck [ribune Company, marck, Hf. D., and eptered et the postoffice at Bismarck as second clas Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W Sec'y-Treas and Editor Bis. maul Archie Johnson Vice pres, ané Wen'l. Manager Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associa.ed Press !s exciusively entitied to the use for republica- tion of the n tches credited to it or not otherwise cred In Rewepaper an hi r also the local news of sportaneous origin publi All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also St. Louis Blues ; Mrs. Ernest Simpson, American beauty who now ranks as the ruling favorite with England’s young King Edward, files suit for divorce and the Scottish bagpipers at dignified Balmoral Castle are practicing up on the “St. Louis Blues.” That ditty, experts in jazz will remember, has an intriguing jine which, with syncopated accompaniment, announces that “St. Louis woman, with her diamond rings, pulls that man *round by her apron strings.” It is an ancient custom at Balmoral that when the mon- arch dines the nine castle pipers march around the table play- ing tunes. The St. Louis Blues will be a notable addition to their repertoire and, in view of the stories which have come out of England recently, a very appropriate one. Americans, reading the news of Mrs. Simpson’s, shall we say “association” with the king, will react as their various -natures dictate. Some will be shocked, others will sneer and still others will merely laugh. After all, what the King and Mrs. Simpson do is their own business—and that of Mr. Simp- son. Soon he, apparently, will no longer be interested. If the English people are shocked, they give no hint of it. In fact, the affair has attracted more attention in the United States than in England for the newspapers there have given little publicity to this unusual liaison. It also should serve to set at rest any rumors about the king being married in the near future. Even a princess, born to the belief that a king can do no wrong, might object to enother womah being constantly at the king’s right hand as Mrs. Simpson was during the recent royal vacation on the im- perial yacht. If she was close enough to the monarch to war- rant him in taking her with him to greet the Turkish dictator and the current ruler of Greece—as she was—this American woman might well be considered Britain’s unofficial queen. For those Americans who are shocked it is only fair to point out that a king’s legitimate social opportunities, insofar as they concern the fair sex, are rather limited. Publicity tgencies have a habit of describing every eligible princess as “beautiful” or at the very least “attractive” but the words tre not always applicable. A princess cam be as much of a sourpuss as any other woman. Because of this we often have monarchs kicking over the traces. They always have and probably they always will. The ancient heraldry of England is filled with references to illegiti- mate children and no one knows what the situation is in Ru- mania where King Carol, also a grandson of the late Queen Victoria, tossed his Grecian princess aside to make a com- moner his unofficial consort. é Even King Edward VII, grandfather of the present English king, was not above taking a fling among the bright lights and within the last decade an effort has been made to prove that the daughter of a famous American actress might well have claimed him as parent. The Simpson affair and these matters of history prove nothing—except that kings and commoners may be brothers under the skin. 4 _ .. On the Right Track Announcement by the biological survey that 57 small mi- gratory waterfowl refuges, totaling 90,000 acres, have been established on private land in’ North Dakota through the cooperation of farmers, shows a trend in the right direction in this worthy conservation movement. Y Twenty-five such refuges have been developed during the last year with WPA money and 1,800 men now are at work on 32 others. In each case landowners have granted perpetual easements permitting the government to have access to the land and complying with other requirements. The biological survey is interested in the ducks but we are interested in the water. Last summer many farmers hauled water for livestock from such places and other livestock was brought to them for water. In addition to this benefit it ia only reasonable to expect that farmers will find a better supply of water in wells near these ponds. In some cases picnic grounds and bathing beaches have been constructed, thus contributing to the social and cultural development of a community. It is a pleasure to North Dakota to note that this program | iio will go forward regardless of the outcome of the election, since both major parties have endorsed it. se Laudable Self Interest ; In a joint statement sent out to Northwestern newspapers, the Northern Pacific, Soo Line and Great Northern railroads call attention to the low rates established by them on materials needed to keep our farm population in shape to resume pro- ductive work in 1987 and then explain WHY they have taken such action. — “We acknowledge a selfish interest in this matter,” says Behind the Scenes The Campaign G. O. P. Bases Hope of Triumph on October Drive in ‘Big Five’ States; Landen Must Carry All. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Chicago, Oct. 16.—In the face of a growing belief among politicians and students of politics that Roosevelt has an edge in the presidential con- test, Gov. Alf Landon and the Re- publicans have set out to prove that an election can be won in the last month of a campaign. Landon, himself, according to those who have been with him daily since his nomination, is more confident of victory than at any previous time. At one period, they say, he felt there wasn't much hope. Although most of the political writ- ers who are darting around the coun- try with the candidates or on tours of thetr own are betting on Roosevelt at the moment, Republican leaders, though varying widely in the degree of their expectations, continue hope- ful, Lopping off the extremes of optim- ism and despondency, the most com- mon remark the boys make when they teke their hair down is: “We've got a good chance!” Enough of the political map has Jjelled to enable the Republican high command to boil the situation down to one nutshell formula. Here it is: Landon must carry New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Mich- igan, and New Jersey if he is to be elected. If he loses a single state among the first five—the “Big Five” —he is sunk. He might win them all and still lose the election, but no such thing has ever happened. If you care to take out your pencil and play the game which everyone, down to the youngest office boy, at major party headquarters is now playing, you can have herewith the latest confidential figurings among the Republican big shots, whose Chi- cago offices are spread through three large downtown buildings. ** * New England Held Sure New England, they are sure, will throw the 41 electoral votes of her six states to Landon. if Add that toa possible 47 from New York, 36 from Pennsylvania, 29 from Dilinois, 26 from Ohio, 19 from Mich- igan, 16 from New Jersey, and 14 from Indiana. The total is 228. A majority in the electoral college, re- quisite for victory, is 266. Republicans say they are sure of Kansas and Wyoming—nine and three votes respectively—which makes 240. ‘Then there are some “good chance” states—Minnesota 11, Iowa 11, Ne- braska 7, Colorado 6, South Dakota 4, and Delaware 3, which would bring the Landon total to 282, The only other states which the most realistic Republicans say they consider as possibilities are West Vir- ginia 8, North Dakota 4, and Idaho 4. But in current computations, these states are being léft out of the theor- etical G. O. P. column, » * % Need New Jersey - It would be possible to lose Indiana and still win the election for Lan- , don, since Indiana has but 14 elec- toral votes. The figurers can se@ how, mathematically, they might lose New Jersey and still nase out ahead—but it takes no sixth sense to tell them that loss of New Jersey could be little else than indicative of a strong national trend to Roosevelt. ‘The obvious deduction is that it becomes important to know how things political are going in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan—and this writer is taking a trip through these and one or two contiguous states with the idea of finding out just that. It will be observed that Republican leaders privately concede to Roosevelt the “Solid South,” everything on the Pacific coast, the states of Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Wis- consin, Arizona, New Mexico, Okla- homa, Utah, Nevada, and Montana. That's a theoretical Roosevelt nest egg of 233 electoral votes and might be taken as an indication that the president is far closer to victory than his opponent, who must carry nearly all doubtful prser te crit * Big States May Swing Back Until 1932 at least, the “Big Five” states always were considered “nor- mally Republican.” There appears to be a trend back to the Republicans this year and it may take all these states back into the G. O. P. fold. Pennsylvania was the only. one which cast her vote against Roose- velt in 1992 and she has since elected @ Democratic governor and a Demo- cratic senator. Previously, all five went consistently Republican except in 1912, year of the Bull Moose split, and in 1916, when Ohio went to Wil- gon of Hughes—an essential factor in Wilson's election. elements of guesswork enter into any attempt to decide how the nation would vote at various: periods of the campaign if the eléction were to be held forthwith, But it usually is accepted that the result has on two or three occasions been changed by developments or new trends in the last month or two, even ugh decisive last-minute trends are often pufe imagination in the minds of party leaders who are des- tined to lose. ** € Lincein Expected Defeat Abraham Lincoln believed at one point in the 1864 campaign that he would be defeated by General Mc- Clellan. Many historians believe that it was only @ succession of Union victories under General Sherman and others which turned the tide in his favor. It also ts likely that William Jennings Bryan could bave been dlected ever McKinley in tember, 1896, But millions of Re- Looking at the Campaign. (Copyright, 1938, by David Lawrence) Enroute to Kentucky, ‘Oct. 16.—As I ride toward -the Blue Grass 5 there's a phrase that keeps in my ears. It is a phrase that awakens memories, a phrase that probably mil- lions of persons heard on the night of October 1 and millions more agreed with as the president of the United States spoke it, 2 Mr, Roosevelt’ was making-his “box score” speech at Pittsburgh.. He was “President Hoover's administration increased the national debt in the net amount of three billion dollars in three depression years and there was little to show for it.” The phrase keeps coming back— “And there was little to show for it.” My memory reverts to a certain night in 1932 when a certain group of banks in Kentucky, with branches in Ten- nessee and Arkansas, were on the verge of failure. The danger of start- ing a fire of bank failures that might become nation-wide was known in Washington ‘and the president of the United States was being petitioned by ager people in those states to avert it I remember the incident vividly not because a line about it was printed in the newspapers at the time—for to give publicity to such things means a conflagration — but because Alex Legge, now dead, who was head of the federal farm board, talked to me about it many times. The government put about $100,000,000 in the. breach to avert disaster. The method. was to lend on the farm commodities which these banks had in their portfolios of loans. Criticism of the lending on crops by the farm board was wide- spread, but it wasn’t farm policy that caused the making of ‘those loans—it was a simple act of rescue. “I don’t care what they say about the farm board,” said Mr. Legge to me with considerable feeling, “I’m not going to let 100 little banks go to the wall.” And he did prevent the im- mediate crists, *Yet, as President Roosevelt says, there is “little to show for it.” I remember another occasion in the winter of 1931. The whispering was that three states in the far south were on the edge of the financial precipice, that they could hold out’ no longer without federal aid.. Members of con- gress from those states—Democratic senators, of course—were imploring the White Hot for aid. And .Mr, Hoover was imploring other members of congress to rush his bill through that would create the reconstruction finance corporation and give him at least a couple billion dollars to stem People’s Forum (Bditor's Note)—The Tribune wel- | which offend good taste u be eturned to tl yu beneath it. e to delete auch pa Istters as may be necessary to conform to this policy and to re- quire publication of a writer's name where justice and fair make It advisable. All letters must be Imited to not more thas 0 words. ANSWERS JULIUS MEYER . Wing, N. Dak., Oct, 12, 1936. Editor, Tribune: In a recent letter to the Tribune our friend Mr. Meyer criticizes Mr. Lemke on the grounds that Mr. Lemke encouraged the establishment of a state mill, in order to provide the people of North Dakota flour at cost of production. Mr. Meyer claims that the Sherman Anti-Trust law, which I do not claim to know anything about, would pre- vent such a procedure, But I do know that the state mill has produc- ed and marketed flour at less than cost of production, while the private millers. in order to stay in business, must get ‘at least cost of production. A law that would allow production and marketing at ‘either a loss or a profit, but would deny the right of marketing at cost, which is the only fair price, would not seem to have been wisely conceived. It appears to me that Mr. Meyer is trying to confuse the people in his discussion of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. He certainly should understand that the difficulties of the state mill have been economic and political and not legal. The chief economic dif- ficulty is the fact that the mill was built during the height of war-time inflation, when the prices of labor and building material were at their highest. The political ~ difficulty is due to the fact the state government has been, a great portion of the time, in the hands of people opposed state industries. 3 . It seems also necessary to call at- tention to the two theories concerns ing cost of production. There is the competitive theory, duction figures his cost ‘of produc- tion according to actual expenses in- volved, regardless of unfairness in- volved toward labor, While on the other hand there is the ‘cooperative theory of cost of production, which is figured by allowing wages high enough to provide for a decent stan- | dard of living to labor. By A.R. J. Editor's Note: The anti-trust law has nothing to do with prices. It is intended to prevent big commercial or in- dustrial firms from taking ad- vantage of their emailer competi tors. It can be invoked when one firm is so big and so dominant : ina field that it can lower prices | in an area served by 8 small com: petitor until the little fel forced out of business, at tl same time charging much. prices in other districts r such competition does not exist. ee pp Be tectee iden knows ere never been any sugges- tion of anti-trust law violation in flour milling business, the tide of deflation that had set in wouldn’t be very desirable from a Democratic point of view. But the reconstruction finance cor- poration was created—its powers were 3 there were ample funds, He was right —the big Chicago banks were safe, but the people didn’t think so. ‘The tumors had begun to seep through. And so Chicago was saved from what might have been # social dis- turbance—possibly revolution—who knows? And yet there-is “little to show for. it.” Mr. Hoover didn’t know how to ballyhoo what he was doing. He was curiously inept when it came to s¢if- dramatization. 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