The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1937, Page 4

Bismarck Tribune i Am Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Stace, City and County Official Newspaper A Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mal! matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres and Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-Treas and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ............+- -87.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) . . Daily by mail per year (in state outside Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state per year ..... Weekly by mai} outside of North Dakota, per year . Weekly by mai] in Canada. per year Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation ' Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press ie exclusively entitied to the use for republica: ~ ton of the news dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in thie Rewspaper and also the loca! news of sprntaneous origin published herein All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Without Mourners : The “close adviser,” otherwise known as the “authoritative spokesman,” died in the White House Thursday and left few to mourn for him. His twin brother, the “official spokesman,” died there in 1933, due to a sudden change of climate. He had flourished for years and was comfortably ensconced, a gentleman of dignity and usefulness in the halcyon days of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, but the Rooseveltian air disagreed with him. The at- mosphere had changed and when he suddenly “shuffled off this mortal coil” all of his friends were gone and there was no one to shed the tears of pity and of personal loss. But the “close adviser” took over where the “official spokes- man” left off and has flourished mightily. In fact the meat upon which he fed was so nourishing that he speedily doomed himself. When it became a question of whether he or the presi- dent should continue to live in the White House the latter had to do something about it. Because the simple fact is that Mr. “Close Adviser” was making things very warm for the chief executive. By exposing —or pretending to expose—the latter’s private thoughts he caused severe embarrassment. Even Mr. Roosevelt’s urbanity was unequal to the occasion. “Close Adviser,” of course, has had many identities. He appeared in many personalities, first one and then another of the president’s intimates taking the role. But his latest incarnation seems to have been in the per- son of Dr, Stanley High, who accepted the mantle as one of many in the course of an interesting life. What Dr. High told the world in a magazine article caused the sword of Damocles to fall. After pointing out that in- dustry and business have rushed to climb on the Roosevelt band wagon and that many liberal advisers to the president feared the adoption of new Lares and Penates, Dr. High flung forth the banner of confidence and hope for the New Dealers. i They need not fear, he assured them. Their champion might dally among the fleshpots in a moment of ease on his } return from wars but when the bugle call of progressiveism | again was heard in the land he would again be found leading » the phalanxes of Democracy against the citadels of special - privilege. , That was all right and no one would have objected had he ; stopped there. But the good Dr. High continued. He was frank to the | point of brutality, going so far as to point to the conditions within the Democratic party which make (in his judgment) in- | ternecine strife unavoidable and to name the chief conspirators | against the cause of progressiveism. In fact, he said, the Old Line Democrats were as hard- | shelled and reactionary as their Old Guard Republican brethren. - }\They came from the South where more than-a vestige of feud- alism still remains and where the political theory is that the | rich should grow richer and the poor grow poorer and that . | power should be retained in the hands of the “upper classes.” "| know little except how to get out the vote. E Thus, with one swipe, he whanged the noses of leaders in Democratic party. asserting that the Democrats hadn’t won as a political entity at all, that the party had been made merely the instrument for Bourbons—would speedily go to sleep on its shield and turn control back to the reactionaries. Having scored his knockout, Dr. High did not hesitate to was none other than Texas Jack Garner. Mr. Garner, it may | Dr. High cast his piercing glance into the future and announced the New Dealers, none other than Mr. Henry Agard Wallace, the establishment of the new. He didn’t even forget to put the Wallace, only a little while ago, was a Republican, The effect, of course, was inevitable. Mr. Roosevelt had to “in this case happens to be Dr. High. Had he wanted to resort to a colloquialism he might simply orld that“ Stanley doesn’t live here any more.” It Isn’t Warm Picture of a mother trying to keep herself and child warm in a haystack struck a responsive chord in the heart of many a North Dakota man. Most everyone who ever followed the harvest is familiar ith the delights—and discomforts—of sleeping in the straw- atack or the new-mown hay. Others have tried it under more + strenuous exigencies, and the verdict is always the same. Such beds may be cool on warm summer nights but they are never ‘warm in cold weather. They afford some protection but not much. Since understanding is promoted by similarity of experience this picture should do much to give many a man a deeper sym- pathy with the flood sufferers. Think of sleeping in a haystack $n January or February. Brrrr. ‘Ah—You Lucky, Lucky Girl!’ Scenes fo SAR You La Washing Relief Program Faces Cloudy Future - ++ Great Flood Scrambled Admin- $100,000,000 Monthly WPA Cost by June... Experts Believe It Impos- sible . . . Only One-Fifth of Re- Relief Expenditures Are Recoverable, Estimated. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Feb. 8—The immedi- ate future of the federal relief pro- gram is always blurred. True to old-timbe habits, Roosevelt administration plunges into the next few months of relief with its fingers crossed, its face grim, and an ear cocked for the first sound of rioting or other pro- tests at proposed drastic curtailment By William Brady, M. D. Stanley Btivers calls my attention to this omis: ters which may interest “weakness of the foot is a decided ‘This is due to the fact that its with the result that formerly were of sufficient Gace fot because 5 k we find a great num ~. In our worl the 1 3 gaR ee which require long hours of improperly designed or ill fit- podiatrist, “The pathology of glenoid ligaments of the toe and se And as if also from habit, Mother Nature —after heretofore contenting herself with sending drouths—has now again added further to the complexities and fogginess of the Program with a great, flood, which scrambles all the pre- vious blueprints, reliable or other- wise. The $790,000,000 deficiency bill for relief, passed by the House and head- ed through the senate, provides $850,- 000,000 to carry WPA to the end of June. Theoretically, word of Administrator Harry Hop- kins, the plan is to cut the present ‘WPA army of 2,200,000 persons down to 1,600,000 by June, 600,000 heads of families and single portant this factor may be ‘Weakness responsible for hammer toe, by an optimal daily ration of vitamin D mateo Sitar Actually there will be no such re- duction, and it is most unlikely that it would have been achieved even if there had been no flood. With l- 000,000 persons made homeless by the don’t be surprised if there are more men and women on the WPA rolls in June than there In addressing a house sub-com- mittee, Hopkins said it would be difficult to hold the WPA figures down to those he outlined. He began with the assumption that the WPA roll would not increase in January and Febuary—‘an assumption that cannot readily be made, because in every other year the relief rolls have jumped in the wintertime.” He referred to the plan for reduc- tion of 600,000 not as @ program, but as “our proposal” and “our propo- sition,” explaining it was “based on continued recovery and assumes & lazy after a month or two of compara- trim, yet... (R. F. J,) cents coin and stamped through the winter. For all seden- to store the car and walk summer and fall I With Other E afford it, an excellent plati is (Copyright ,1997, John F. Dille Co.) added more than/not the peafow!—George L. Daugh- it if Mr, Roosevelt | -erty, Ey NC ee eal attire: ctor court efficiency in defense of his pro-| facts” through “old glasses,” and the posal. The case which he presents is | presi an ingenious and in many respects a| additional justices with modern spec- plausible one. But behind the presi-!tacles. Because there is a dent is a record which speaks far mental or physical vigor’ \ more elogeuntly than words. It is a) ‘leads men to avoid an examination | ™ record of impatience with the Coated pre complicated ae changed condi- towards its! tions,” Mr. Roosevelt proposes to ap- int half a dozen robust justices of/*mply not open to {such mentality and AN AUTOCRATIC PROPOSAL Inneapolis Tribune) Having lectured the supreme court. in his message to congress, President Roosevelt now takes down the hickory stick, The stick is labelled “reorganiza- tion,” but few will be deceived. First and last it is an implement of coer- clon, designed to force the court into @ complete surrender of its independ- lence. It is Mr. Roosevelt's way of making the court his captive and of gaining, without a constitutional the vast authorities which have been pronounced “uncon- Last month the president urged the ‘supreme court to take “an increas- ingly enlightened view” of the consti- tution; on Thursday he proposed to thrust enlightenment upon it without waiting for the slow conformance of Judicial conscience to Mr. Roosevelt's ident would like to appoint six good agricultural year, that will make drouth expenditures unnecessary.” Providing also for a monthly reduc- tion in cost per man, with an “ sumption” that “we will get more money out of sponsors.” Public opinion looks with dread on the coming of the day when a few gi- gantic combinations of capital shell control production and sale of the Cd Cen BRETT Rian te|| SO THEY SAY | ° ee monopolies, I seemed to float into = soft dark- of outspoken. antagonism “horse and buggy” philosophy, of re- luctant yielding to its decision, of a restless search for larger executive authority. It is a’record which has be made efficient; thus it “modern 3” thus it is to become, in a word, ‘and would like nothing }@ New Deal Roosevelt court. There is no doubt about the author-| Prinz, o: this matter; it 1s/ clinically Ambitious Program ceives of it as a musty barrier to so- Obviously there were plenty of as- sumptions—and loopholes—in Hop- statement which didn’t ap- reports. ‘Witat Hopkins really was saying was that he would try to carry out ideas of the president—ideas pressed upon Roosevelt by Secretary Mor- genthau, the group which would bal- ance the budget at all costs except that of new taxation, and southern conservative Democrats led by Chair- men Buchanan and Glass of the House and Senate appropriations If possible, Hopkins would try to get WPA cost down to $146,000,000 for March with a cut of 50,000; to $134,- 500,000 for April by cutting 150,000 more; and finally to $103,000,000 for|?erred to as a program of judicial re- Sure after lopping off 200,000 more |organization. In reality it is a pro- by May and 200,000 more by June. jgram for judicial subjugation — and humillation. Mr. Roosevelt cites the as ; EGER pees ae to $160,000,000 a month need for speedier justice and greater ley came from i (2 lor the fiscal year 1937-38. y ie Indust fortheast, where political Other WPA. experts belleved this m would not be achieved, that the need of WPA jobs was too great, I still feel that General Motors great mistake; the Amer- ican people don’t expect them to sulk in their tents. — Secretary of Labor ‘Why should men be more afraid of | Frances Perkins, commenting on {ail- coler than women? It is the peacoek| ure of General Motors to accept her and at no time/ that has the fancy color and design—' invitation to peace conference. better than to substitute, for its su- jesh., who was has made a ity of congress in clearly empowered to enlarge the court. To be sure, the present num- changed since 1869, HALF-ACRE president's startling message gress in the light of that record. It would be far easier to believe that his only purpose is to strengthen the court and improve judicial procedure if he had not cried “wolf” so long. Mr. Roosevelt may offer his program in the name of reorganization and present the most persuasive argu- ments on behalf of it; but when all is said and done, it remains a program for packing the court and permitting him to surround, with his own ap- Pointees, the justices whose views conflict with those of the executive. court fusion of new blood” and Mr, Roose- velt has volunteered to be the donor. The justices are looking at “new The blunt and simple truth is that the president has asked permission of congress to “pack” the supreme court with his own appointees. Under the plan which he has set forth, Mr. Roosevelt could immedi- appoint six new justices to the for each member now This plan is euphemistically re- BY ROBERT DICKSON | © 1936 NEA Service, Inc. U ugh ye Important! You've brought heavy business, you — Roosevelt wanted to get WPA ex- “T still get a 1:.ugh when I think that Dog Wa jon stickup. That night ‘ou were going to the late mail truck for that contractor's payroll. And you wrong by an hour! ; “That's the important money M De ening ier you. pe and vanity cases dames at the bri ere was silence while || bosses cannot afford to think in terms of high public policy and progra — two vast districts which are considered highly important to the and hae sey pes would be ‘found o him, Frank leaves TONY STELLICCY in’ brother, CARLO, one ase | Powerful Politician 1,7 The political [MIE] were willing to back up this ‘ ith statistics as to need, in- tion for a real wallop, he administered the knockout punch by dicating that 600,000 families couldn't be tossed off WPA without great suf- fering and more rioting than the ministration would care to contem- |@ cause and, if left to itself—and to the domination of the | Plate. § Then, having maneuvered the party’s Bourbons into posi-| petty EJ complaints?” the it i hn a a Came the Deluge! However correct they may have a. been, along has come the flood and Kick the fallen foe. The Bourbon leader, he boldly announced, | made 1,000,000 persons homeless, be| fo fued lef Bucs PH dar S or rel wi ve recalled, is a southerner and is vice president of the Republic.| take care of an unestimated number The family skeletons having been laid out for all to see, | % pera whom the flood will add to And don't be surprised if that that the next president would most likely be the strongest of| appropriation is big enough also to keep on the rolls most of those }000 persons scheduled under the so-called “official 30 He ; advocated Po a ae and her father are ‘away, thelr home robbed. 26 You and me. 45 Typical. Tiny 50 Note in scale. NOW GO ON WITH TRE STORY CHAPTER XIV “sf S¢DERSONALLY,” said Philip 8 ah ae ee sick of it! Wha' it is isn’t the town pat “But, Mr. Canfield,” protested the chief, “think how and that he, taking over where Mr. Roosevelt leaves off, will| ora One of the men at the table re- complete the dismemberment i WPA program.” plet t of the old Democratic party and Ott tures on New Dal et s Penditures for recovery relief, / Tast little bit of salt in the wound. -He pointed out that Mr.| as provided by Chairman Buchanan of the house appropriations commit- tee, show expenditure of $1,286,000,- 4 000 in the fiscal year 1933, $3,903,000,- do something to ease the fretted spirits of the Old Democracy | 9 for 1984, $3,506,000,000 for 1935, ‘and so he announced the death of the “official adviser,” which oan one plecatbege eye $790,000,000 were the last of it. 60He is —— of re amen. 61 He caused the doesn’t tell us who they are. don’t live here; we haven’ faintest idea where to look for “Well, something has to be done, “What's the use if we don’t certainly! porns 1 Yulee fellow. 12 Form of “be.” 55 Hops kiln. 59Jumbled type. ! What have you found|@y more than we have so far?” out about the gang, anyway?” “We know that it’s eh, We're almost cer- i hhave stood on the White House porch and announced to the| other pect and three or four billions is recoverable, (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) et eee. Bit OF HUMOR Now AND THEN {8 RELISHED BY THE GEST OF MEN $ nesaeaw ore r ee rere reed New Congressman — Do-you think debate in Congress ought a &. i | Perhaps I would. i gaaga gis earller speeches.® 4 i JE, might conceivably forded a degree of- sa! to the police as they sought for watch when the rice boiled over’ Maid—Yes ma‘am, I Just half past ‘leven.