The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1937, Page 4

heeding it. nr gents nN eee ES APRESS UNE BET An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marek, N. D,, and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail : Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Kenneth W. Simons Sec'y-Treas. and Editor Archie O. Johnson ‘Vice Pres. and Gen'l Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press ‘The Associated Pri tion of the n eps Mewspaper and also the loca! news of spontaneous origin Ali rights of republication of all other matter herein are al exclusively entitled to the use for republica: 4 to it or not otherwise cre in this dill jerein. reserved. Social Security Is Not New Contrary to the belief of many citizens, the urge to establish social security is not a new thing. Intelligent industry has long recognized the imperative need for it and many firms had moved to meet it long before the government or the public at large considered it an important issue. Proof lies in routine statements issued recently by two of America’s great corporations. One, curiously enough, is the General Motors corporation, “now engaged in a struggle with John Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organization to see which group shall control the company’s property. : The form which social security took with this organization Was a savings and investment plan to which both the company and the employe contributed. This year $10,700,000 is being distributed to the “class of ’81.” ' Of the total $4;200,000 was paid into the fund by employes during the last five years and $6,500,000 was added to it by the company. Thus the man who paid in $100 during the period will receive $256, partly in cash and partly in General Motors com- mon stock. : Thirteen such classes already have been completed and four more remain. They will be the last, the social security act having taken the place of the system established nearly 20 years ago. t Swift and Company, big meat packers, have approached the problem from @ slightly different angle, but with the same end in view. "For 29 years it has had an employes benefit association, paying sickness, accident and. death benefits. The company helps finance it. Accident benefits are paid even in the case of. mishaps occurring outside the course of employment. ' For 24 years employes on an hourly wage basis have been guaranteed a minimum amount of work per week; for 20 years the company has had a non-contributory pension plan for em- for consideration by workers and management of hours, wages, wotking conditions and similar matters; for 14’ years every employe, including those on a wage basis, have been granted , annual vacations with pay and for 11 years a group life insur- ance plan has been available to regular employes at low rates. Benefit payments from this arrangement to the company’s 60,000 employes, working in 103 plants and branches, have to- talled $9,250,000 in the last 11 years. Greatest of the concessions made by the packing company, important as the others are, is the guarantee of a minimum work week. Since the amount of work to be done depends upon the volume of livestock sent to market for'slaughter, no other large industry has so great a variation in production from day to day or week to week. Hence the guarantee is an important thing to regular employes on a wage basis. Many other firms throughout the nation equal and some exceed this record. They were active in this field when labor was striving for little more than better wages and hours and when. politicians had never even heard of social security. They were not forced into it ‘but began taking an enlightened view of employer-employe relationships because it was sound business. Industry recognized that the firm which pays the best wages, has the best working conditions and treats its employes as worthwhile individuals, rather than as mere cogs in a machine, gets the best men, holds them longer and makes the most money thereby. No one knows better than intelligent leaders of industry. that the millenium has not been reached. More progress will be made in the future than has been made in the past, even though it doesn’t take an old man to remember when $2 for a 12-hour day was good wages. The social security bill is only recognition by the govern- ment of what industry recognized long ago. Two Different Homes More than any other people Americans love the call of the open road and in recent years more and more of them have been The movement has been intensified of the automobile trailer, which is really a small home on wheels, All contain cooking and sleeping facilities and many have such conveniences as electric lights, gas for cooking, mechanical refrigerators and bathtubs. Eight years ago there were only a dozen manufacturers of guch contrivances and the annual sale was numbered in the hundreds, but in 1935 there were 300 such manufacturers and they sold 25,000 trailers. This year more than 700 firms will produce approximately 80,000 of these units. Some persons, hard pressed by the economic emergency, gave up their normal mode of living and the trailer has been the only home they knew for several years. Others have pur- chased them asa luxury. They can be used for short trips as well as long ones and are much more convenient than the tent which used to be a necessary part of the equipment for fishing and hunting expeditions. Only one development threatens the trend toward con- stantly greater use of this facility and that is the tendency to fmpose taxes on them. Up to now the tax-gatherer has passed them by, although it is possible to invest as much as $1,200 in one of them without being really extravagant. But states where tthe trailerite swarms see no good reason for not collecting some- thing on them and bills to that end are being introduced in What the effect will be no one knows. If an American wants @ thing badly enough‘ anti‘can raise the money he will buy it. If, ‘as the politicians forecast, we are entering an era of abundance for all, the time may come when the average man may have fo homes, one in a fixed location and the other on wheels. - i - ployes; for 15 years it has had an employe representation plan 3 By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Feb. 5.—For an ad- ministration so censorious of the su- Preme court, this one’s record of choices for the lesser federal judge- ships has been singularly poor. Even though Democratic judges on the circuit and district benches have been more prone to approve New Deal legislation than jurists ap- pointed in Republican years and al- though the appearance of domina- tion by corporations may not be so prevalent among them, the crop in- cludes many who obviously are dis- tinctly less than top grade and whose appointments reeked with: politics. * % % Political Deal Anyone who has hoped for a reform in the selection of federal judges will be far from thrilled at the news of @ political deal in which it is planned to make Senator George McGill of Kansas a circuit court of eppeals judge in order to make way in the senate for Guy T. Helvering, commis- sioner of internal revenue and Dem- ocratic boss of Kansas. All things are possible, and it may turn out that Senator McGill is an excellent man for the job. But there are few senators mbre obscure, and the highest legal. post he had held prior to election to the senate in a Democratic year was that of county attorney of Sedgwick county, Kansas. Helvering, who has. worked close with Jim Farley, will be rewarded for his political exploits if the deal is finally approved by Roosevelt. Un- der his leadership the Democrats car- ried Kansas last November, to the great delight of both Farley and the president. ter Roosevelt had appointed Mc- Gil} to the 10th circuit bench, Gov- ‘enor Huxman would appoint Helver- ing to the senate for McGill's unex- pired term and Helvering would run for election in 1938 against the Re- publican candidate—who, it has often been suggested, may be former Gov.. Alf M. Landon. One reason given for. the proposed deal is that Helvering would be @ far stronger candidate than MoGill. 4 ee Boring From Within | There were some dramatic mo- ments as union officials quickly grabbed and checked the list of more than a hundred labor spies employed by the National Metal Trades associ- ation, as made public by Senator La- Follette’s committee investigating la- bor espionage and civil liberties vio- lation. ‘Trusted. union. members, even im- portant unton officials, were suddenly exposed. One visiting union chief was here from Kent, O., where con- siderable violence occurred in a strike lest year. oo & “That -fellow,” he exclaimed as he pled a familiar name, “was the most active mah on our picket line last year. He was always: telling ‘the strikers to go out and usé dynamite!” There was a rush to telephones and telegraph offices to get the news back to local unions, with much question whether certain union officers would ‘News of their exposure soon enough to make a getaway. ~ © In several instances it turned out that the spies, whose business was to reveal names of active union mem- bers and frequently thus to get them discharged, had the union books or even the union funds. One such spy ‘was an officer of.a state federation of ‘machinists. Naturally, there was & specia}.rush of bona fide union men to get honest hooks on” valuable docue ments and money which they feared might be spirited away. Major significance of the metal trades exposure was in the fact that the committee set itself a precedent for demanding the names of other Yabor spies, such as those of the Pinkerton agency and Corporations’ Auxiliary, to which General Motors corporation and the Chrysler com- pany are said to have paid huge sums. ‘The Pinkertons have refused to sup- ply lists of their operatives, so the question may get into the courts, ** Baruch’s Little Joke Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, |’ even busier now as chairman of the Red Cross than he was as chairman of the inaugural, tells how he once went turkey-hunting on the South Carolina estate of Bernard M, Baruch. | | Baruch put him in charge of a|' guide and made him promise to obey the man’s every instruction, The hunt went on for hours,-sometimes on the run and sometimes on the crawl, until finally Grayson spotted a turkey and shot it right through the head. When he approached proudly to pick up the bird he found it was tied to a staké, with Baruch’s calling card |, under a wing. E by the development (Copyright, 1987, NEA Service, Inc.) |* BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Rufus—There’s an exception” to every rule. Goofus—Who's : the exception to the rule that we must all die? Rufus — Why, .that’s the exception . to the rule that all rules have their exceptions, Sambo+Were you sick with the flu; Rastus? Rastus—Boy, wuz I sick? Why every night I looked in the victim list for my name. Askett—Would you marry a woman she were as pretty-as a picture? Tellet-Well, I might if she had a| nlee fran. Chubb—Dear, I'am not worthy of you. Mrs. Chubb — That’s what mother says, James, How strahge of you two people to be agreeing for once. Harold — What color is best for a bride? £4 © nee Mike — Oh, it’s a mere matter of taste, white || 33 Pastries. but if I were you I'd pick s With Oth UNITY IN THE BASIN Sioux City (iowa) Tribune Reorganization of the Mississippi z EDITORS ‘The history of the basin country is a story of progressive strangulation. \ There are, roughly, at least, 32 and Missouri Valley associations as|states affected by the adverse eco- the Mississippi Basin Projects paves the way for greatly expanded: and more intensive work by community interests roughly embraced within the erea between the Rockies and the Alleghenies and the Great Lakes and the Gulf. Within this area lies the greatest treasure house of natural resources on earth, Certainly no area having com- parable resources is blessed with such a high degree of civilization as that of the Mississippi basin. Mighty rivers, vast stretches of rich land, an empire criss: by rail- roads and highways, vast deposits of coal, iron and other ores. Resources for the. cultivation of sugar, yegetable oils, feedstuffs galore. and livestock to supply the multitudes. eat For generations this area has Id- bored under unnatural handicaps im- posed by. capitalistic minorities—dis- criminatory freight rates, discrimina- tory tariffs, discriminatory legislation. The raw materials produced within this empire have been. consistently traded off that indsutry might profit, —coming and going. Manufacturing has been retarded and stifled to serve vested interests along the eastern seq- board. And within recent years new vested interests have hemmed us in on the west. 2 The Mississippi .basin. country hes lost. in wealth, population and even Political representation in congress. nomic tides that have been running against the basin country. Acting in concert, they can control the upper house of congress, they can hold the balance of power in the lower house. The people of the Mississippi basin must be made conscious of their eco- nomic and political position. They must develop @ clear understanding! @ of the past and develop a new vision of the future. ‘They must learn to act in harmony and in unison and to work for one purpose. : To this task should be brought the energy and the resources of every chamber of commerce, every mu- nicipal, county and state government. within the Mississippi basin. Our people are the producers: of the new wealth, the raw: materials upon which all human enterprise depends, . The basin must attain its rightful position in the national economy—something it never has had. ‘With the advance of navigation we can look forward to years of expand- ing. operations, the shifting of wealth, larger margins of profit, greater util- ization within the basin of the raw materials it produces and is capable of producing. The: first wedge between basin economy and New England economy has been driven. 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If the basin populace shall but back its economic leaders for @ decade, unite to shape the po- litical course of their representatives in congress, we shall achieve a de- gree of economic equality with other parts of the nation that the basin re- gion never before has enjoyed. . gion never before has enjoyed, | SOTHEY SAY | I shall shield and protect any one desiring. to leave the church and sim- ply believe in God—Julius Streicher, |. leading-enti-Semite. - . . * ee : ‘ We cannot cure the world by pacts, and treaties, by political creeds, or by ‘speeches, however lofty and peace-. breathing they may be. There must Answer—I have no particular treatment.. Send stamped . . N your address.and ask for monograph on arthritis, Or for booklet “The Ills Called Rheumatiam.” Pe itl I i ; 5 i i BEGIN HERE TODAY . Mal ohn ED, egies | mys. that, the nelanborhose Se NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XII (CN the following day there took Place another holdup, remark- the amount of Wagon and its customers, and who were generally credited with hav- E BY ROBERT DICKSON ‘ © 1936 NEA Service, Ino, ing been the authors of several|the previous robberies as‘well. _ Mrs. Harold Henderson, sister- in-law of the woman who was di- recting “Half-Acre in Eden” for the Stagecraft Guild, was giving , a benefit bridge party at her home, | Approximately a hundred women of Bobbs Neck had gathered for cards, tea and cakes‘ and' the pro- motion of the Village-“Welfare So- ciety budget. ; Conversation, had reached that cres which indicates: that a benefit Bridge is at the zenith when the four men entered the house without benefit of the doorbell, and, taking advantageous positions in the doorways between living room, dining room and sun por announced that this was a “stick- up.” The husband:of Mre. Hender- son’s maid, assisting for the after- noon, had just gone to the back porch to bring in the inevitable ice cream. He was thus permit- the privilege of viewing a hith- ted erto unseen member of the bandit at sight of the Negro, commanded him profanely to get back in the house, emphasizing the order with. a pistol, quickly revealed and quickly shoved back into the pocket of his overcoat. In the house the stripping of valuable property was accom- plished within a very few minutes “Oh, though gave me.” “It may but it’s a Babies and. i town’s less idea of goirig to the movies. ta ’ . “It suits me,” said Marcia. “I haven't seeh a movie in weeks, and tomorrow night there's re- hearsal again. Let's—there goes the phone.” i ' It was Joan Bradford, wife of Mike. Mr. Bradford, she said, brought an old friend from ‘west out to dinner, and wouldn’t Marcia and Helen do her great favor. and i help’ 4 U do Bruce?” asked Josn. ‘ c “Not until_next week.” Bip ed cand city tonight. ‘You can there for a’ day or so; Mike seen you in ages, and I’m so guest room, Beeldes. advised Mike’ “I wane . q tnuch of him out here. all day, mes ae to settle down in jhe may. as well know It was thought to vee him a 4 gta! fora