The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1937, Page 4

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Two Real Problems Members of the North Dakota legislature face only two seal problems at this session, They have a world of complica- tions and numerous manners of presentation but, boiled down to their essentials, they are these: How can we get the vast bulk of able-bodied citizens off the relief rolls and how can we collect sufficient taxes to operate the government which the people desire? The answer to one will provide the answer to the other, for few think of the relief roll except as a last resort and if t Washington Roosevelt Points to Nation's Found- ing Fathers to Back His Censtitu- tion Stand... Author Offers Proof That Congress Was Given Power te Establish Mercantile Monopolies « «+ Cites Switch by James Madi- son. os By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 22.—Mr, Roose- yelt, as he moves toward some action to curb the powers he feels have been usurped by the U. 8, Supreme Court, will undertake to show that his attitude toward the constitution is similar to that of the founding fathers who wrote it, and that mem- bers of the court are the ones who have misinterpreted that document. So his followers and spokesmen will raise the shade of poor Dred Scott, quote the critical dissents of Justices Brandeis, Stone, and Card- ozo, and launch expeditions back to the point 150 years ago when the constitution’s framers were telling one another exactly what they thought they were doing. In his first message to this con- gress, the president urged all hands to read the constitutional debates. You can do that with surprising re- sults, because the history of the con- stitution’s origins is still unknown to the great bulk of Americans. Just how interesting such study can be was demonstrated in Wash- ington the other day by Irving Brant of the St. Louis Star-Times, an au- thority whose “Storm Over the Con- people are returned to a self-supporting status they will be able to pay taxes. In North Dakota, where everyone is a farmer, directly or indirectly, two major calamities struck, one after the other. The first was the miserably low prices which accompanied the onset of the depression, The second was the drouth which reduced an already low production to practically nothing, et The first has been cured, largely through an act of nature, i -and there is reason to hope that mechanisms already in opera- tion will prevent a recurrence of this calamity. It is unlikely ; that any one now living will ever again see such low prices for 4 agricultural products as prevailed in 1982 and 1933. 1 The second reason still distresses us. The attack is being made upon a wide front and nearly everyone agrees that the wider it is the better it will be for all. | Granting that much of our western land should never have been | plowed at all, there are systems of agriculture which will re- i store the range in some cases, make it possible to continue dry farming in others. These should be encouraged in every way possible, In addition, steps must be taken to utilize the land and water resources we now have by definitely encouraging irriga- tion and to provide more water storage where this is feasible. How ‘to do this, particularly, how to defray the cost of _ meeting the disaster already upon us and still find funds to / al begin building so that it will not be repeated in the future, is ees the nut which the legislature must crack. It will take all of ij its ability and every ounce of devotion to public duty and the { welfare of the people which it is possible to muster. Every citizen hopes the legislature will meet it vigorously, manfelly and with an eye to the future as well as to the present. Therein lies hope. And that there is real cause for hope no true North Dakotan doubts. Eyes on Detroit Important as they are, the labor troubles now centering na- tional interest upon Detroit, Mich., may ultimately prove to be ef far less importance than another movement now under way. there which is attracting much less attention. : This is the current effort to definitely banish tuberculosis us one of the ills of-human flesh in the Michigan metropolis. It involves mass application of a new theory of discovery and treatment with the ultimate aim of ‘eliminating hospitals for advanced cases with their expense and the economic losses : which the disease inflicts in other ways. °e- It involves co-operation of doctors and health agencies to i give X-ray examinations to discover infections before they be- |g come apparent by clinical methods. This is the minimal period : of the disease when tuberculosis is most easily cured. It includes provision for taking these people out of circula- tion and treating them before they even feel the effects of the disease, thus preventing them from spraying the White Plague upon others. said to permanently heal the lung cavities and thus give com- plete cure. Under the organization set up if Detroit this is being done at less cost than is required to pay the bill for treating the ad- vanced cases already recorded there. It can be done elsewhere. This is something new in America but it is vastly impor- tant, It may be the means of finally vanquishing one of man- Kind’s greatest enemies. It may yield dividends long after the march of science has outmoded the whole motor industry. Man Bites Dog , This legislature recently saw the parallel of a man biting a dog. rf The phenomenon appeared when the Lake Metigoshe Im- provement association, dedicated to the development of one of North Dakota’s beauty spots, petitioned the legislature not to = do anything about turning the state transient camp buildings at Bottineau into an adjunct of the state tuberculosis sanatorium. Their reason was that it would throw a pall over the spirits | of those who use the lake as a playground and discourage them © from coming there. Expression was given the views of the association by Judge G. Grimson of Rugby, its president, after the county commis- _ Bioners convention had urged that the transient camp buildings " be used by the tuberculosis sanatorium at nearby San Haven. Judge Grimson said the buildings are unsuitable for that use, Besides, they are to be used by a CCC camp which is ex- , pected to do fine things in developing the lake region according » to a plan approved long ago. The significance of the whole matter lies in the fact that here, for the first time in history, is a group petitioning the atate not to establish a public institution in its area. Usually the furore operates in the other direction, every district which _can do £0 seeking the location of state institutions or activities. jy t Truly, this is a case where the Lake Metigoshe man has ‘And it is topped off by a “lung rest” treatment which is| plained. stitution” is kept handy around the White House and in other important New Deal offices. ee & League Sidesteps Debate If it could be proved that the framers of the constitution intended to give congress the power t6 estab- lish mercantile monopolies, Brant argued in a speech to the People’s Lobby, it would follow that the gov- ernment had constitutional power to go far beyond anything found in the New Deal and could even take over} _ ust economic life of the nation, lo prove that government monopolies are constitutional is available, be- cause the American Liberty League, which was asked to send the chair- man of its lawyers’ committee or somebody else to debate the point, didn’t accept the invitation. 4 Three days before the constitution was signed, Brant pointed out, James Wilson of Pennsylvania told the convention: “As to mercantile monopolies, they are already included in the power to regulate trade.” Wilson was the outstanding legal acholar of his time and Washington later made him one of the original justices of the supreme court. x * * Power Vested in Congress Brant finds further evidence in the fact that George Mason of Virginia gave as one reason for his refusal to sign the constitution that “the ‘con=| answer to Brant’s effort to ie ‘ How About a Little More ‘Courtesy of the Road?’ - Your Personal Health ' By William Brady, M. D. et ngnts Sattareh sry a tak haar Pe Breas’ “ re ‘AD queries must be accompanied by 3 SULPHUR COMES BACK INTO STYLE : many of the wearing the quaint leg-o-mutton sleeves that vf peladpeaa not fer behind, and no pun way the blood they were thet the § a ag5 i! HL With Other A ‘LABOR DEMOCRACY’ (New York Times) Mr. John L. Lewis has often de- scribed, in writing or in speech, the aim of his movement to bring all workers within one vast organization. It is, he explains, to establish a true labor democracy. All ‘other means would be subordinated to this. end. Once let a labor democracy be firmly set up and recognized, it would “be in a position to obtain, methods if possible, if not, then by strikes and political activity, what it ¢onoeives to be its just share of the Production of wealth. by peaceful “The country has just Matta good EDITORS example of how Mr. Lewis's labor democracy proposes to work. Cer- tainly not by democratic methods. | ‘We have seen the steps by which a small minority proceeds to coerce the majority of workers. In Flint, Mich., it was estimated that a “sit-down” minority of 5 per cent was able to throw all the rest of the automobile | employes out of work against their will. This looks much more like dic- ‘tatorship than democracy. Indeed, Mr. Lewis has been steadily assuming for some years past both in labor and in politics the air of an autocrat. The General Motors strike neces- sarily took on the appearance of a iH i tains about § ounces of sulphur. J thing abaut the old sulphur and molasses “spring tonic” is it can: never ‘do Reprinted te show what they say. We may oF; may agree with them, quarrel between two rival organiza- tions of labor, and two bitterly op- posed labor leaders. It has been said that if all the workers were able to unite, and stay united, they could put compulsion upon their employ- ers. But would working men ever | be able to agree, or long to stand by one leader? It might be rash to pre- dict that in the modern world such @ union never could be expected, but after what Mr. Lewis and his asso- ciates have been showing us, it may confidently be said that the system which they would contrive and set to work would look much more like a tyranny than a‘ democracy. ~~ Gress may grant monopolies in-trade. and commerce.” Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, also refusing to sign, complained that “under the power of commerce, mo- nopolies may be established.” James Madison, often called the Constitution's “father,” said that “the power to regulate commerce is indi- visible and ought to be wholly under one authority.” : Madison also proposed in letters to Washington and Edmund Ran- dolph of Virginia: “Let the national government ... have a negative in all cases whatsoever on the legisla- tive acts of the states as the king of Great Britain heretofore had. This I conceive to be essential’ and the least possible abridgment of the state sovereignties.” Madison further recommended that the states be reduced to “the: con- dition of countries.” Alexander Ham- ilton, meanwhile, was saying that states, as states, ‘ought to be abol- ished.” eee Madison Switched Sides ‘There were seven staunch defend- thought of her. BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN {8 RELISHED BY ~ THE BEST OF MEN Mike—No girl likes candor — about the last thing on earth she wants is to be | of her. | Harold — You’re wrong. I told a girl I know just what I Mike—And what did she say? told what you think, awful racket coming from the bath- room singing, I do. Cowsill—I_ say, waiter, call the manager; I can’t eat this awful stuff. Waiter—There's no use calling him, sir, he won't eat it either. Spieth — Yeah, he and I are old}. bunk mates. Zimpir — What! mates at college? .- Spieth—No, I mean we believe the same kind of bunk. Were you room- Margaret—But, Dorothy, aren't you getting Jack and Joe conflused? Dorothy—Sure, I get Jack confused one night and Joe the next. Harold—She said “I love you, too.” Mrs. Chubbwitt—You mean to say you've mortgaged our little home? Chubbwitt— Don’t take is so hard, Honey. It’s just temporarly like— until the mortgage is foreclosed. Mrs. O'Jawish—Do you believe what, jthey say about earthworms singing? ers of state sovereignty at the con- vention, Brant said, and all seven took a walk or refused to sign. So how, he aska, can anyone consider the constitution a states’ rights docu- ment? “The debates of the constitutional convention were kept secret for 50 years and Madison had charge of the only copy in existence,” Brant ex- “In 1790, Madison ‘quarreled -politi- cally witl” Alexander Hamilton and became a follower of Thomas Jef- ferson. He turned at that point from a nationalist into a state righter and spent all the rest of his time interpreting the constitution con- trary to the principles he had laid down while helping to frame it. “Madison a0 distorted the history of the constitutional convention that the effect has lasted 150 years.” Of course if you're suspicious of al! this, you can read the constitutional debates for youréelf. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) > | SO THEY SAY ° Can you imagine the flapper wear- ing woolies?--The Rev. Alice P. Al- drich, of Chicago woman's court, who contends return of women’s woolen underclothes signifies national up~ swing in morals, ; eee We find that a big corporation gets blamed for being big. But it is only big because it gives service: If it b doesn’t give service, it grows small faster than it grows big.—William S. Knudsen, executive president, Gen- eral Motors Corporation. ee % Australians hate strikes, because of their destructiveness and because like war, they hurt women and children most.—Dr. James Marshall, | noted Australian minister and nat- uralist. | ees We French are supposed to be a hard, practical race, but we are all} pretty sentimental beneath it all— Charles Boyer, stage and screen} actor. i *ee j ‘The statute of NRA has been out- | lawed. The problems have not. They cai stil] with us. — President Roose- | velt. © - ar eNt STAM * By LS. Klein WOVLAUSU LOY GREAT was the rejoicing in - Finland recently, on the 75th birthday of the country’s presie dent, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, whom the people hail as the “Father of Finland.” He had fought for the political indepen- ence of his people, had suffered sie, aoe) bre returned even more enthusiastic for an independent rin IDA, whe In j/ when he was a jud, and Finland was under Ruslan. rule, he was deported to Siberia for his loyalty to Finnish law. But he returned after Russia's revolue tion of 1917, and became the coun= try’s first prime minister. He re- tired in 1918, but his people cone tinued to appeal to him for advice. Finally, in 1930, he had to accede to demands for leadership, and be- came prime minister again. The next_year he was elected presie dent and he has remained at the helm of Finland Mm ever since, | Austere Lady—Stop sniffling, little boy. Can't you do anything with your nose? 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