The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1937, Page 6

The Bismarck Tribune t An independent Newspaper . , & THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER a (Established 1878) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postottice at Bismarck as second class mall matter. Mrs, Stella I. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Vico Pres. and Gen'l Mauager Simons Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bismar Daily by mai) per year (in state outside ct Daily by mai} outside of North Dakota ed Weekly by mail in state per year .... id Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year if Weekly by mail in Canada, per year......... soaks o " .e is Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation ia f Member of the Associated Press aw ic) The. Associated Press is éxclusively entitied to the use for republica- ‘0 th ews dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this om and also the loca! news of spuntaneous origin published herein. ec Al f republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. e The Real.Danger Since the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation began functioning and thus restored public confidence in America’s ‘ banking organization, 75 insured banks have closed, but 88,912 depositors have received—or will receive—their money. The latest—and the second—in North Dakota was the First International bank of Noonan which shut its doors April 3 on $150,000 owed to more than 1,000 depositors. Payments to these persons will begin soon. f i Experience to date has proved deposit insurance to be a i worth while thing. Losses have been less than the premiums collected. The country can continue to look forward with con- g fidence to a stable banking system, particularly if it keeps the q number of banks to what a given community can support. a But while DEPOSITS are protected it should be remem- bered that VALUES are not. The real danger in America today is that savings will be swept away by a decrease in the > * purchasing power of the dollar. ; i That possibility is what is making the major financial markets uneasy. It is the cause of the president’s warning against too rapid an increase in the price of durable goods. It has inspired a number of significant moves recently made by government fiscal officials, We have had inflation for several years, just as we had it in 1929 and at various other times in our history. It is a:part of the business. upswing. And it never has done any good. The difficulty now is that further inflation is inevitable ‘unless the government manages to balance its budget. Thatvis the one major move which will halt, or at least mitigate, the current movement toward higher prices and lower purchasing power. What of Our Own? Since the school explosion at New London, Tex., ‘school } authorities in Pennsylvania alone have asked for 13,000 inspec- i tion blanks that they may check up on the hazards which they H face—if any. The'blanks are put out by the National Board of i] Fire Underwriters and are free to’all who ask for them. © i Bismarck has real need for at least some of these blanks. E It faces a situation which demands never-ceasing vigilance. 4 The worst hazards in the city, clearly, are the William Moore school, modern when it was built but now out of. date, and the Will school building. Ifa fire were to occur in either, disaster could easily result. The best answer, of course, would be new and fireproof buildings, but the city cannot afford them. The next best thing is to make the buildings we have as safe as possible. 5 e i This means rigid enforcement, of the law, frequent inspec- tions, ceaseless vigilance on the part of janitors and teachers and numerous fire drills. The thing to remember is that no one ever EXPECTS calamity to strike. ‘ Road-Building Contagion The United States, with its vast number of automobiles, fi has shown the way to the world in road construction and the i thing is getting contagious. i One of the finest roads in the world is that from the Texas border to Mexico City through country where road-building was d a real job. Our neighbor on the near south is continuing her j efforts and making excellent progress. . i Now Argentina has joined the procession with a $100,000,- 000 road-building program. The aim is to build 30,000 miles of national or main roads, the states-and political sub-divisions constructing 600,000 miles of feeder roads. One of the main arteries will be Argentina’s contribution to the Pan-American highway whereby, some day, a motorist |! ; may go from Alaska or Hudson Bay to Patagonia, That project sounds like a dream—and it is—but it is com- | f!¢4 ing true a great deal faster than most people realize. Worth Watching - Farmers near Milburn, Neb., have obtained from the Re- settlement Administration a $7,000 loan for the construction there of a small co-operative canning factory which will devote most of its facilities to tomatoes, produced in the Loup river bottoms. Contention is made that the land is sub-irrigated by the river and that it has produced eight and 10 tons of tomatoes per acre in the past. Even last year, when there was little rain, one farmer reported a yield of 430 bushels per acre. On the debit side of the ledger is the fact that transporta- tion facilities are poor and farmers are unable to dispose of such crops in their fresh condition. Hence the desire for a cannery. North Dakota, and particularly this section of it where irri- gation is just slowly beginning, should watch this. experiment with interest.. There's many a slip twixt hope and realization, but if the enterprise does succeed it should be notice to us that ‘we might well try the same thing. ’ Airplane Exports Boom America exported airplanes, engines and accessories valued at $23,055,761 in 1936, a new peak figure. This is not surprising and indications are that the traffic | grow even more rapidly in 1987 than was the case last year.’ i The answer is written in the skies over Spain where many _0f these American-made craft are engaged in military opera- tions. Models designed by technicians in the United States and thade in Russia have flown rings around the German and Italian ships, thus demonstrating their superiority. + <n war‘a second-best plane is likely to mean a destroyed nd-2:dead pilot, and no European nation now engaged.in ning to the teeth is overlooking that fact. “THE BISMARCK T Behind Scenes Washington Utltity Before Frills ‘Was Ickes’ Idea for New Interior Building With Its Sternly Practical Motif. y By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Apr. 15—Herbert Heo- ver, Andrew Mellon and other lead- ers of our Republican past planned and built many handsome, gaudy government buildings which began to be completed about’ the time Roose- velt and the New Dealera were ready |, to move in. Some of these structures seem to have been designed to pro- vide homes for great open spaces. ‘The first big federal building ‘here to be initiated, erected and now com- pleted under the Roosevelt regime is the new Department of Interior building, into which various scattered bureaus under Secretary Harold Ickes are now beginning to move after much vexation and delay. -_ Plan rather than stylization, util- ity in preference to classy frilly-fril- les, an efficient, place for work rather than an imitation Parthenon —that was the idea Ickes had for this building after he found his depart- ment and his PWA scattered around Washington at 20 different addresses. Nevertheless, there has been much beefing about this new edifice. There usually is some grumbling among government employes whenever they have to move out of a dingy, ancient cockroach-ridden office building into & swell, white, shiny, large ‘and well- ventilated palace. But most of the squawking about the new Interior building is based on the allegation that, most of its offices are too small for anyone except “White House Sec- retary ‘Marvin McIntyre, who won't have any use for them anyway. ~ Ickes, who watched the planning and: construction of the building like a hawk, and kept giving the archi- techt his ideas as to efficient design, found at the end that his own offices were much too small, and ordered them re-designed so that walls had to be moved and repaneled, and the plumbing tellecered ae No Buffalo in Bas-Relief But you will not find any Indians or buffalo cavorting in bas-relief on the facade of this structure, or any pillars of any kind, or even any grassy courtyards with or without fountains and goldfish. That is an outstanding |‘ difference between this place and other federal. buildings completed in By William Brady, M. D. Dr, Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but not aye ease or diagnosis. Write letters briefly and in ink. Sours oe Brady in care of T! ribune, All queries must a stamped, self-addre: envelope. H af t E K H if fh i i; Ba i i 5 g= li 8 E i f rf E *e ; ii i J i i i i bs iH RE a 2 3 sf¥i ni : i i i iy a Eevee git Hy zk Es Ps a With Other To ee een bridges, and pepe ane are (Chicago june) quired to lift the it to a whar! bee ely siasrras! et on While other members of congress| from which it may be conveyed to|| “tramp’ artments ieanmercelasy and the su-| accumulate headaches in the.consid- | Warehouses, storage plies, and the like. preme court, eration of weightler problems, the} he included in the ship's charges, & Perhaps the official chiselers 8000 | nouse committee on merchant marine will have to chisel out the words “De-|anq fisheries is conducting hearings partment of Interior” now cut into/on » railway. sponsored measure the stone above the entrance on Con- stitution Avenue, ‘and: chisel in “De-| tion in partment of Conservation.” ‘There | champi of the proposed the government will, if the legislation Would be a: fine chance for s tyP0- | istion gives the bill an administration|| is passed, take complete charge of the graphical error there which would! tinge, It will be recalled that this| country’s commerce at the door of the | many make it read kgs bel of Cony| member of the interstate’ commerce | factory to rélease control at the point versation.” Anyway, of ‘the +! commission was formerly federal co-| of consumption. controversial phases: of the Preal- ‘As stated, the railways are becking dent's reorganization. program. calls the measure, and with these addi- for a change in the department's tional facts the objective becomes crystal clear. Their private sidings honeycomb every industry and if become thorough! ree wharfinger vane can be “hog sen theory that no transportation indus- | by the restrict bureaucratic do- ing, but might later become head | try should be allowed to stir without| mination the good old days of railway quarters for a new Department governmental permission. There is will be restored in practi ee dling not a ripple of public interest in the ings, by the very nature of thelr machinery, Water transportation seldom offers | and with a huge backlog of noncom- service. Elevators, coal| petitive traffic, the railways can exist ing. ‘The program is ill advised. The wa- ¢| ter carriers are in a precarious condi- tin at the present time because they regulation, gained 4 foothold on track regulation, /are undergoing a period of recon- because we just can’t understand how it all possibly can work.—David Ho- man, London, England, in U. 8. to study eoccomie Ly aged Ask those who voted ‘us into that carnage (World War) if they are proud of it; I challenged them from the’ senate floor on April 6 last year, and their silence was eloquent.—U, 8. Senator Ernest Lundeen, Minnesota, I Everything . s0| who voted against America’s going to beastly complicated.. 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Dancing with Neal that cf 3 Femember his ice enriier’ that 7s The ‘new building will help solve a cockeyed housing problem which has become common among federal de- NOW GO ON WITH THD STORY rent more than 2,500,000 square feet of privately owried’ office space here, in addition to buying up some hotels, apartment houses and other struc- 1 Ulcer. 403.3416, 22 Pedal digit. 24 Italian ri 44 Amidst. 2To prepare for 42 Drinks slowly, (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, ine) | 25God of war, 46 Fabulous bird (opie Hecae Dineage leg 48 Statue. nurse. 44 Epochs. i: 45 Bill of fare. 32 Mexican dish. 54 Thin plate. 34 White poplar. 55 Thought. . 7 Scotch 49 Preposition. 36 imitated. 51 Fish. : 37 Greek god writer. 8 Cloth 52 Bronze. $8 She achieved _ measures. with her 9 Lariat. Paral | Bae 28 Neuter Ren. . Brf OF HUMOR = THEN iy xs F fs after he had caught it did you? Political Speaker—All we need now, ped ease is to keep @ working ma- jority. Voice from the Rear—You're wrong there. What this country: needs to- day is a majority. working. — Oh, did I tell i e But you didn’t let me in on the joke.” yin T tld that I slept tn you the trailer last night!” Ds hi F : A i : 3 i iy | i ii E a i i f : F ig E a anne Annee Pt ye ie iy