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

| The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspa: THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by ‘Ihe Bismrack ‘tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail mutter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W. Simons Séc'y-Tre. a Editor ble in Advance | Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'l, Manager Subscription Rates P: Daily by carrier. per year ........ . Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . ... Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarc! Daily by mail outside of North Dakota .. Weekly by mail in state, per year ...... Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year . Weekly by mail in Canada. per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Prexs is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper und also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reset ved. The King Speaks For the last two months or more the welkin has rung with the speeches and statements of candidates and campaign man- agers. The ears of the people have been battered by a barrage of words. The issues have been stated, clarified, muddled, 4wisted, restated and beclouded until, if the American people had done nothing except listen to election speeches, the entire country would have been a madhouse by now. But America, fortunately, has work to do. It has proceed- ed to do it, giving consideration to politics and politicians only in leisure moments. Thus, though it may be strange, the people are in full pos- session of their faculties as they go to the polls today to wield the scepter of sovereignty. For the men elected to officers are only creatures of the people. They have no power other than that the people give them. The really important folks in this country are Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Citizen, armed with the ballot and using it to the best of their patriotism and intelligence. The vote is their scepter and by its use they can wave men and women into and out of office. There is no argument and no reprieve. All of the tub-thumping and racket of the campaign have been in the nature of petitions to the throne. TODAY THE AMERICAN VOTER SPEAKS. That, after all, is more important than what he says. The people may ap- pear to be wrong, but as long as they retain control they can always rectify their own errors. That is the secret of success in our form of government. It is one of the essential reasons it has endured as long as it has. The Outlook All indices agree that business will continue to improve throughout the next year. ‘Under the caption “inflation is inevitable,” Statistician Roger W. Babson says business now is “normal” on an upward curve for the first time in 14 years and that a “boom” is com- ing. He sees continued and increasing prosperity, particularly in the building industry, capital goods, railroad and electrical equipment, oil, chemicals and automobile accessories. The First National Bank of Boston comments that the fu- ture economic and financial policies of the government “will largely determine whether recovery will proceed on a sound basis or drift into uncontrolled inflation” while the monthly review of a leading brokerage house sees the increasing volume of bank loans as encouraging. Its analysis shows that such loans this year have “outstripped gains in the corresponding season of years immediately preceding the depression, except- ing only 1929.” It makes much of the fact that bond prices, the refuge of the conservative investor, are now at an all-time high. The Administrative and Research Corporation attempted to forecast the business trend on the basis of whether Roosevelt or Landon would be elected but agreed that, regardless of the election, the upward surge would continue. It foresees a balanced budget by 1939 under Roosevelt, by 1938 under Landon if he retains the present corporate; irtcome @nd sales taxes and by 1939 if he doesn’t’ Then it adds what is probably the most significant state- ment by any of the commentators: “Lobbies will buck a pro- gram of rigid economy under either.” There you have the business and governmental outlook for the period immediately ahead, Business will make progress be- cause the people have tremendous wants which are unfulfilled. Government will lean in the direction of those who put the heaviest pressure upon it. We'll Have Seed With snow on the ground it seems a far cry to the time when Spring will come again but in truth it will be only a few months until farmers begin to think about their seed and the rest of us will be watching for the first robin. With that in mind it is encouraging to note that prepara- tions already have been made to provide seed so that farmers will be able to resume production despite destruction of their crop by rust in 1935 and the drouth in 1936. _ According to the North Dakota Seed Journal, the govern- ment has set aside $10,000,000 to purchase suitable supplies of high-quality wheat, oats, flax and barley for distribution to farmers. The grain purchased will all be of domestic origin in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana, the four grain states most adversely affected by the drouth, to insure suitability for planting in this region. The program within the state is being handled by North Dakota men and the prospect is that plenty of seed will be available next year without the distressing delays which have marked government efforts in this direction in times past. Not Too Early With the year’s first snowfall on the ground it is not too early to call attention to the dangers which it can bring, partic- ularly to children. bionday afternoon high-spirited children rushed from School to begin “catching rides,” attaching themselves to the rear of automobiles and sliding along with their feet on the hard-packed snow. On the city’s hills children made their appearance with sleds to enjoy the first cold-weather sport of the season. This calls for caution and vigilance on the part of parents, smotorists and police. Everyone wants our young citizens to have @ good time but no one wants tragedy. It is not too early fto begin the ysual precautions which have made Bismarck a eity every winter. he SCeNeS The Campaign By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Nov. 3.—(4)—Class warfare became more accentuated in the 1936 campaign than in any elec- tion since the time of Andrew Jack- son, Although the issues at stake were merely what would be considered iildly progressive measures in other nations, they were sufficeint to cre- ate a lineup wherein the great major- ity of those in the higher income groups supported Landon and the great majority of those in lower in- come groups—except in conservative rural areas—supported Roosevelt. There were many exceptions, of course, but in any large community you could find bankers, business men, |- and big manufacturers in the van of Republican forces, and Negroes, WPA workers, and organized labor throw- ing heavy voting strength behind the national Democratic ticket. This, something new, in American Politics, probably has far-reaching implications. Mixed with the proper amount of stupidity, it might eventu- ally lead to the clash between Fasc~ ism and Communism which most Americans dread. * ke * Called Demagogue You can believe that Roosevelt de- lberately stirred up class antagonisms to get votes and duped American la- bor leaders. Or you can believe that the dominant reactionary forces of in- dustry and finance hated Roosevelt because he raised an eyebrow at an unrestricted profit system, which 60 operated as to cause that steady in- crease in the ranks of the dispossesed, without which the Marxist theory can ever come true. Exen before Roosevelt was nomi- nated in 1932, Al Smith had publicly called him a demagog because of his famous reference to the “forgotten man.” The most important of the conservative Democratic leaders lined up with public utilities to oppose his nomination. * oe Ox Original Cleavage Looking backward, it seems that the provision in the National Industrial Recovery act promising labor the right to organize without interference, and to bargain collectively, first led to the cleavage which finally found Roosevelt hated by the “upper class- es,” and the champion of labor and the poor. NRA was the child of the United States Chamber of Commerce ana was so poorly planned, so badly ad- ministered, and so completely domi- nated by business and industry that practically every citizen had some reason for detesting it, in spite of its various noble aims. Price-fixing and monopoly were fostered by NRA for awhile, and its elimination of child labor and new standards of wages and hours are still remembered fondly by large segments of organized labor. But what the big mass productoin industries and many others absolutely would not stand for was union organ- ization and collective bargaining. ee OF SEC Hampered Raketeers Big business found various other ir- ritants in the New Deal. Those “eco- nomic royalists” whom New Dealers accuse of siphoning off the country’s wealth preferred no interference with that privilege. Zealous reformers in the AAA who foolishly thought they could give both farmers and consumers a better break, while holding processors and distrib- utors toa restricted profit spread, brought down the wrath of packers and other groups on the administra- tion. : The SEC, although lenient ‘in operation, hampered many Wall Street racketeers and discouraged various methods of piracy by bankers and speculators which had been exposed by congressional investigation. Minor experiments in taxation for social purposes frightened wealthy men who envisaged a program of redistribution of wealth. Many honest- ly came to believe the unemployed were receiving too much money from the government in doles and WPA wages, or felt that there was waste. The New Deal program for cheap eiectricity antagonized power inter- ests and Roosevelt's attempt to cure public utility holding company abuses by legislation not only created a ter- rific flareback among the magnates directly involved, but was made to ap- pear the beginning of an attempt to break up all great concentrations of industrial wealth. x * * Stirred Resentment Finally, the American Liberty League was created to represent these various interests and had the double effect of solidifying them and stirring up resentment among the lower in- come groups against the effort to “gang up” against Roosevelt. On the other side of the fence were those who benefited from New Deal relief measures, salvaging of farms and homes, social security meas- ures, and the administration's gestures toward a fair break for labor. Roosevelt became increasingly bit- ter at the lineup against him. More and more he made his appeal to the ranks of labor and the “underprivil- eged.” Eventually, Roosevelt was in an open political alliance with labor, while those in the upper economic strata were yelling their heads off for Lan- don, except for a few who felt Roose- velt represented inevitable social-eco- nomic progress. * * Landon’s Position Landon made the cleavage still wider, first by what seemed an en- dorsement of company unions and subsequently by yielding to the urg- ings of nis most conservative advisers. He proved at least apparently will- ing to undo most of the New Deal measures on which large masses of people were sold. His final attack on the social se- curity program, although perbaps good political medicine, was the cul- mination of an effort to make the administration program appear as a foreign or Communistic conglomera- tion of mistakes. It seems fairly certain that Lan- don and his conservative eastern backers could have had more votes if they had been willing to compro- pe: with the forces of liberalism and (Copyright, 1996, NEA Service, Inc.) It’s in the Bag | Looking at the Campaign (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) Washington, Nov. 3.—Control of both houses of congress would seem to be assured to a coalition of conserva- tive Democrats and Republicans. Counting strictly on party labels, however, there will be a gain for the Republicans of somewhere between 50 and 80 seats in the house of represen- tatives with a possibility that this number may be increased if the pres- ent swing toward Governor Landon materially increases the total Repub- lican vote in certain states where var- deus congressional districts are doubt- ‘ul. ‘The present-congress—the sevdntys fourth—has 309 Democrats, 100° Re= publicans, 7 Progresives and 3 Farmer- Laborites and 16 vacancies. But the congress to be elected this week which takes office on January 3rd next may see a minimum of 259 Democrats, 150 Republicans, 6 Progressives, and 3 Farmer-Laborites. If the 17 doubtful districts go almost evenly to the Re- publicans and the Democrats, then the totals would be 267 Democrats, 159 Republicans, 6 Progressives and 3 Farmer-Laborites. The significance of the foregoing is that the Democrats seem certain to lose the two-thirds weapon which they have had heretofore in order to sus- pend the house rules, There are many occasions when a two-thirds vote can jam legislation through when de- manded by the president. With only 259 votes, the Democrats will fall short by 31 of the 290 needed to overrule committees and upset the normal pri- ority that some bills have. Likewise with only 259 votes in the Democratic majority, the defection by about 41 Democrats of the conserva- tive school of thought would give a conservative coalition a majority on vital pieces of legislation. The dimun- ition by 41 is not a very large num- ber as vates sometimes go on bills in the house. In the senate, there are some im- portant changes coming, too. Thus the present senate has 69 Democrats, 22 Republicans, 2 Farmer-Laborites and 1 Progtessive. Two seats are va- cant—one Republican and one Demo- crat. The probable complexion of the “David Lawrence senate would be a gain of four or possibly six Republicans and, assum- ing the latter, the lineup would be: Democrats ... C3 Republicans .. 29 Farmer-Labor . 2 Progressive .... 1 Total ...... se eeeeeeeee 96 Only a third of the members of the United States senate are up for election as usual but there are four seats in which vacancies occur for un- expired terms so that 36 senators will be elected, The party label will not count for 20 much, however, in the senatorial Mr. Roosevelt's statements in his speeches have been contradictory but the assurances which he gave to busi- ness and the conservatives in recent utterances have been carefully noted by Democratic senators who intend to hold him to the conservative side and to desert him if he proposes policies at variance with the speeches he has made. The average citizen who is voting the straight ticket may think he is taking the easiest course but there are many millions who prefer to be as elections. Thus if Governor John- son of Colorado, conservative, is elected on the Democratic ticket, he will replace Senator Costigan, Demo- crat, who has been regarded as a rad- ical. Senator Norris in Nebraska would re- move @ nominal Republican who has been voting with the Democrats and elect Robert G. Simmons who would become a member of the regular Re- publican group in the senate, though he has progressive leanings. - Again it is important to note that party label divisions do not mean everything. When it comes to the confirmation of a justice of the su- preme court of the United States nominated by the president to fill a vacancy, party lines would disappear. If the nominal Democratic lineup is 64, it can be taken for granted that 25 of that number would refuse to confirm to the supreme court a man who, it was believed, would decide cases on a political basis rather than in conformity with established prece- dent. The prospect that 25 Democratic senators will form a group which will insist upon considerable revision of New Deal legislation and will oppose the revival of the NRA has been talked about privately in this cam- paign among some of those who are going down the line, so to speak, for Mr. Roosevelt this time but who do not feel that he can expect their sup- port if he deviates from his 1936 cam- paign promises. [a amaenaaaaaammeaal { SIDE GLANCES. - Gs “That editor doesn’t know ed - By George Clark ay Says that yarn’s no good, and it’s almost exactly the same story I what he wants. Likewise the possible defeat of | ‘ The ancy.” “Buthenics” is tions to secure more et not quite answer the purpose. Eutonia is out because it as agreeableness of sound of letters. is word “it” was submitted by a Michigan woman. , ing over the problem and a few tentati ence, I have decided to adopt and any one but which was suggested to The word is vite. For the ing to her, the Massachusetts contestant has the first gold filling put in. it would cost about tw about having the gold replaced with porcelain, to stop the possible galvanic action? . . .(G. J, W.) representatives are held accountable pre People generally. Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Eublosis Panugieia Vitabllity Vervality Eutonis “re” Euthenic Eumsnophoria Tip-Top Trim Skookum (Chinook) Juvitality Euphysia Vivality Pleublosis dictionary defines “Euphoria” as “sense of well being and buoy- ‘as “the aclence of betterment of living cond!- it human beings.” Thege terms are warm, yet do the dictionary defines The word “‘vitability” was submitted & Massachusetts woman, the no use in the next, But from now on, when you snag : the word “vite” in this column, on please remember it means preservation of the characteristics of youth, bet- ter-than-average, etc., etc. “ QUESTIONS ANSWERS Galvanic I have hed chronic sore throat for thrée years, beginning when I had All my othér fillings arg silver. Dentist says with gold or porcelain. How Answer—Thete would be no galvanic reaction between silver or other St. Vitus’s Dance Our son, aged 11, had scarlet fever in Juné, and now hé has developed metal and porcelain. St. Vitus's Dance. Friends urge us to give him eléctric treatments. Please advise us. (Mra, A. I. H) : Answer—Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for mono- graph on Chorea (8t. Vitus's Dance). «Copyright 1936, John F. Dille Co.) careful as possible about their choice | maintenance of constitutional rights. | will have to vote on payroll taxes and of representatives and senators in| The drift toward Republicanism shown | the social security act amendments as congress and this would indicate much |in various lonal districts is} well ag on the whole|subject of econ- scratching of tickets. After all the/an indication t, it some of bomy in government and more equit- members of congress are the direct | districts at least, the electorate @ble taxation. Hence the manifest spokesmen of the citizens and what- | to have an ace in the hole in the e importance of consid congres- ever there is to popular government can be immediately asserted in the face of possible centralization only if that Mr. Roosevelt is re-elected endeavors to go beyond the confines of constitutional government, BEGIN HERE TODAY KAY DUNN, pretty alrpla: falls in love with TED. pilot who files ‘Ted has two interest his Job and DICKIE, onted son, 7 years old. When ‘Ted asks Kay to m him, she fears it is Forget to make a home for Dickie, use! be carried om In {he same’ way, with charts and budgets. @ party one night and inst boa Ka: a t regret inpuisivences LAM, the perensal lancer, alse is = pase NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | CHAPTER XXI WHEN Monte Blaine’s escapade was known at the central of- fice of Trans-Pacific Airways it was obvious that he would lose his place as pilot on the Pacific flight. It was Ted 's duty to relegate Monte to the land service. 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