The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 23, 1937, Page 4

ee aR re S fer marck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S pron NeW erar Se -@tate, City and County Official Newspaper «Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- @arck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mai) Mrs, Stella I. Mann President and Treasurer / Archie O. Johnson ». Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'l Manager Secretary and Editor , Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .. 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 Press exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to It or not. otherwise credited in this newspaper end also the local news of spuntaneous origin published herein. €ll rights of republication of all other matter herein are alsa reserved. End of the Court Fight ‘America welcomes the end of the court fight. But it doesn’t join in the pious hope, expressed by some persons, that congress will quit and go home. That might be good for some persons in the country BUT IT WILL NOT BE GOOD FOR THE NATION AS A WHOLE. Congress should stay on the job and finish some of the tasks that need so badly to be done. Members of the house and senate get $10,000 a year and the people have a right to demand that the members earn their money. Too many things remain to be done to justify the “let’s go home” idea. There is, first of all, the new AAA bill. Agricultural ‘America needs it—or something like it. For the administration and congress to leave the farmer hanging. out on a limb, un- protected, the orphan child of government which is extending help to every other major industry, is indefensible. Second, there is the governmental re-organization bill. It is no secret that over-lapping of jurisdiction and of duties has greatly reduced efficiency and increased the cost of government. That condition SHOULD BE CURED. Third on the list—first in long-time importance—is the universal draft bill. With conditions as unstable as they are throughout the world America should prepare NOW to defend herself. There is no, greater assurrance against unnecessary war than the universal draft act, as proposed by veterans of the last war. Also, there is no better assurrance that any future war would be prosecuted vigorously and to a successful con- clusion. Z These things should keep congress at work until the job is done.. They are more important than the court fight ever was. zs. *+ & Both opponents and advocates of the bill to pack the supreme court learned a lot of unpleasant things while the argument lasted. And the curious thing is that they learned not from each other but from the public. Take the administration first. It learned that the great American public doesn’t care for making, by indirect means, a major shift in the governmental set-up. It learned that the people are perfectly willing to smack down anyone who gets out of line, no matter who he is. It learned that some people will oppose a thing because they do not like the METHOD CHOSEN TO ACHIEVE THE ENDS, EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY AGREE WITH THE ENDS THEMSELVES. bigot foe Those who have attempted to paint the supreme court as ® specially sanctified branch of the government also received a severe and painful shock. They learned that the rather obvious effort to make the court and the constitution synonymous terms hasn’t gone down with the public—or at least not all of it. They learned that a considerable part of the public feels that the constitution has been pretty badly twisted, not to say man-handled, by the court in the past and that the judges, AS SUCH, commanded very little support. : Most conspicuous among those who took this attitude was Senator Borah, who asserted that the court was itself guilty of tampering with the constitution by strained and illogical inter- pretations. Even so he opposed the court bill on the ground that s|| by C. I. O. leaders as a big break | ushers and other young folks until he THE BISMARCK nes hington C. ¥. O. Chortles Over A. F. of L. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 23.—President William Green’s assurance that rank and file members of A. F. of L. unions will be permitted to support C. I. O. strikes if they so desire is interpreted for the Lewis group. Some of the C. I. O. people opti- mistically predict that a by-product of the pronunciamento will be an acceleration of the disintegration of A. F. of L., which they fondly ex- pect. Green had been receiving. heavy criticism from some of his own locals. ‘There was an especially bad reaction to his public statement which gloated over the failure of the strike against four independent steel companies. Lewis also has promised to support A. F. of L, strikes. But most big strikes have been C. I. O, strikes in newly organized territory and if the Green statement means added sup- port from A. F. of L, affiliates, as C. I. O. anticipates, the Lewis or- ganization will be the chief bene- ficiary. * * * They're Hardly Engaged “Attention, Washintgon editors!” shouted a famous radio voice as Con- gressman and Mrs. Maury Maverick entered the home of some friends. The voice went on to say that the daughter of Congressman John M. Houston of Texas, and Maury Maver- ick, Jr., would soon announce their engagement. Well, the Washington editors picked up the tip all right. They learned that Maury, Jr., was 16 years old and it seemed a news photographer had persuaded him to be photographed with Patricia Houston, who is 15. That's the only time Patricia and young Maury ever saw: each other. Further, says the young man's mother, lovely Mrs. Ferrell Maverick: “I.can’t even persuade him to call her up, go to see her or to bestir him- self in the direction of any other girl.” ee * A Chair for the President &o many stories from the Roosevelt- Dupont wedding have gone into cir- culation that a publisher could al- most make a book of them. With the exception of Ethel Dupont how a Roosevelt—members of the Dupont family are just as sour on the president as ever. - Ethel has de- fended her now father-in-law in argu- ments with other Duponts, at least once ‘to the point of tears. The president himself had a swell time at the wedding reception, how- ever, allowing himself a liberal ration of champagne and wise-cracking with Copyright 1937, by The Baltimere Sun THE PRESIDENT’S FRIENDS It is interesting that the divisions among his political and journalistic supporters reveal more of the real situation into which Mr. Roosevelt has gotten himself than do the soli- darity and strength of his op- ponents. In his case the enemies he has made are not nearly as signi- his friends. It is true that these divisions have existed from the start; that the com- bination behind him has been an became practically the hit of the Party. Previously he had argued heatedly with Mrs. Roosevelt, who had figured she couldn’t come to the reception because of a radio broad- cast date. She came to the reception, went in to Wilmington to broadcast, then returned. Mrs. C. Porter Schutt, Ethel Du- Pont’s cousin, nearly collapsed when secret service men came around to test out her chairs in advance of the President's arrival. Her chairs are antiques, some of them fragile. The secret service men lifted them high and pounded them down on the floor fintil at one point she screamed in vain: “You get out of here!” The visitors kept on testing chairs until finally one man announced: cae President will sit in this air!” irreconcilable have claimed the cleavage has never been as clean- cut and pronounced as how, nor the feeling among the groups as bitter. It fs hard to see how ‘anyone who knows the facts and looks at the full forces can doubt that the :cement which held them together is no longer potent and the point of disintegra- tion has about been reached. It seems worth while to present the different classifications. First, there are the truculent in- timates who constantly urge the/¢ president to “go forward.” From these has come the presént White House legislative program, generally con- ceded to be the most radical ever presented to the congress. These men are frankly collectivist in their think- ing. Apparently they believe the word “liberal” is their own, and they em- Ploy the word “Tory” to describe all]: those who dissent from their views. From them have come not only most a 8 & No, It Wasn't Collect One Wi correspondent who covered the wedding insists the gate where telegraph messenger boys had to wait for copy was nearly a mile away. Anyway, it seemed like that further tampering would only make the situation worse. i s- 8 @ Both sides learned that, while the public is willing to swat the personnel in the executive and judicial branches of the gov- ernment impartially, it has a better understanding of the consti- tution and what it means than either side credited it with having. Both sides learned that the public is hard to fool and that the job is getting daily more difficult, That is something worth knowing . . . and something the politicians of the country had better remember the next time they stir up a fuss. Used Cars and Prosperity That prosperity has come to the automobile industry is re- lected—so automobile men say—by the manner in which used cars are moving. That means the low-income families are com- ing into the market and taking over the vehicles traded in by. those who are better fixed. Thus the lower income brackets assist those above to the purchase of new cars, for the rege allowance” is an important consideration in most Ss. The fact is, according to the American Petroleum institute, that more than half the automobile owners in the country are operators of used cars, some of them having been handed along three, four and even more times. And how the oil industry must welcome all those gas and ofl eaters on the country’s roads. __. Schooling in Unionism First-hand observation of the birth, education and. ma- furity: of a national labor organization is a privilege not often accorded the public at large. Usually, such things develop so gradually that they defy perception. But in the case of the CIO, this evolution apparently is Being compressed into the space of a few months. Classroom fnstructional courses for union men Provide the latest evidence of this phenomenon. ’ A college professor, in charge of one of the classes, advised fils students, on the first day, that strikes are won better by . Pegotiation than by violence and that the basis of sensible is orderly progress. Furthermore, the textbook was in the pouring rain. So he asked per- mission to telephone from the house onde oe it, a 1 way through his report he felt a-tap on the shoulder and a Du- pos servant goted: ix you sei that message col- lect, sir?” jag i 2 ‘The newspaperman gave emphatic sarurances, . He was told: “You see, sir, we've had almost 2,000 2 guests here today and the master|°ontention is that the battle against Bave ms ave to be very sure | Dis Judicial re Tee Rone of them charged | calls to him.” oe ee nomic royalists,” and they gave him “undernourished, underprivileged and ill-fed,” and a good many others in similar vein, BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Mrs. Chuzs (after hearing Sally’ Playing hot swing tunes on the piano) —My dear young lady, have you ever heard of the Ten Commandments? Sally—Whistle a few bars and I think I can follow you. Jeffery—Did you say your girl’s legs were without equal? Dolcini —:No; I simply said they knew no parallel. ‘Traftic Cop — What's the matter, lady, can’t you contro] that car? officer, I just had my car washed and I can’t do a thing with it. Wifey — What's the matter, Bob? You're looking worried. b Bob—Work—nothing but work from morning till night. - Lube Spa long have you been so ove Bob—Oh, I'm just starting tomor- Tow. MouNTAIN SCENERY (S GORGEOUS —— GOSH! ANT) > NATURE BY) GRAND? / TAKING Henry—What would you do, dear, if I should die? | j Mrs. Peck—I should go nearly crazy. fanionism *Roberts’ Rules of Law and. Order.” It all sounds like a splendid start. And it’s a good guess violence-weary nation will be praying that Prieta head your little sister, Janey—She's in the house playing. a.plano duet. I finished my part first.. for aggressive action has come; that disciplinary measures are essential if the “cause of the people” is to be/|strained to be taken furthered and that the Democratic senators who refuse to follow him in| ship and ative, the general. has. become quite the most violent critic of the Roo- sevelt policies. No. one else is as un- Testrained in denunciation. his program decent _ politics.” ‘these advanced New Deal friends and advisers is only equaled by their be- ficant as the conflicting attitudes of|lef in their own wisdom and virtue. E Their great fear is that Mr. Roose- velt, weakening, _may with the opposition and has been gained be lost. Hence, they | geri " urge him s “party purge,” in-| n: ae N philoso} branded as a deserter and marked for| past him as their own. However, | slaughter. “unbelievable it were not before inspired | would say “impossible.” And yet he by the “Tories;” that he has a “clear| cannot bring himself to lay a reprov- mandate” from the people to “com-| ing (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc,) |Piete the New Deal,” that the time}nounces everything he does but cf eS POLLTICS must be “driven out of compromise thus what ‘upon upon a.fight in. which no quarter be given, every. dissenter eulogizes him as @ man, and his ex- TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1987 —E SS — By William Brady, M. D. zt rtaining to ry ean: BAM wl watt Tellers bristly end in ink. wiaereee br , ei in care of The Rhye ‘All queries must be accompanied by a stamped envelope pia alla! gicayeee edsberty i In his milder way, another ardent almost his praise of the. presi- lyrical dent, but he is obviously pained at the present state-of affairs and no picture’ of the so-called Reodsevelt| nounce prae' > our whole system. this he is violently opposed.’ He indicts the entire program, tuation as it now exists an nightmare,” says that our eyes we finger on Mr. Roosevelt. He de- ARE GREATH- DRIVERS WHO WATCH THE SCENERY OFTEN LOSE INTEREST INTHE WONDERS OF NATURE — . epee sabia 80. 7.9, REO. U6. PAT. CrP. 1 “Well, are you going to demand that th thing over—or do you want me to thin > worm?” ze Hy do the whole of you as @ 4 «Win GN & a G iu, Beale Y