The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1937, Page 4

4 The Bismarck Tribune 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, marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Treasurer O, Johnson Kenneth W. Simons ‘Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Bu- mail a year per year (in Bismarck) per year (in state outside of Bismarck). outside of North Dekota mail in state per year .. by mail outside of North Dak mail Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press xclusively entitled to the use for republica- ews dispa redited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, No Cause For Pride Now that labor troubles in the steel industry have dimin- ished it is time for the American people to look at all of the facts in a dispassionate way—if it is possible to do that—and formulate some opinions which will serve as a guide in similar matters which may occur in the future. The conditions leading up to the strikes and prevailing throughout their duration are well known. The people as a whole, while generally sympathetic to the cause of labor, came to the conclusion that these strikes represented an effort on the part of so-called labor leaders to gather unwarranted power into their own hands; that it is not good policy to permit a minority of workers to force a majority to leave their jobs, At the bot- tom of the whole argument was the question of majority rule, a principle which has been an accepted guide in this country for many years. This fact, rather than love or admiration for the Tom Girdlers and other employers, dictated the public reaction. The public still wants and will join in demanding a square deal for labor, but it also wants labor to behave itself and not try to take undue advantage. On this basis, the public defeated the CIO strikes in Lit- tle Steel. But there is another aspect of the strike occurrences which also merits the public’s attention. It is best disclosed by the report of the senate Civil Liber- ties committee which went deeply into the fatal rioting at East Chicago. The facts, as disclosed by such unbiased evidence as was available, indicate that factory officials and the police have no cause to be proud of their record. Conflicting stories were told by the rioters and the police but the impartial evidence of medical examiners and of the newsreel camera show that most of the men slain by the police were shot in the back while they were running away. Thus it is clear that the police contributed more than their fair share of fatal violence. ss @ Chicago police had no tear gas bombs when they met the rioters, but a large number of them were thrown. They came from a store in the Republic Steel plant, located there for use in case of trouble. Other evidence taken by federal committees indicates that many industrial plants were well organized for defense, with machine guns as well as tear gas available. On the theory that violence breeds violence, it is difficult to apportion the major blame. No one can approve the riotous actions of strikers but for employers to talk of “Americanism” while their plants are filled with munitions to use against their employes is clear evidence of a whited industrial sepulchre. The same lack of a judicial attitude appears on the part of government. The nation has not approved the open alliance be- tween the federal government and the CIO. That is why Presi- dent Roosevelt was forced to retreat from his position of open support for the union cause. But neither has the nation approved the actions of the Chi- cago police in openly aligning themselves with the employers. The evidence shows that one side was as partial as the other. The federal government would have done better by taking a stand for impartial justice and fairness and, in view of what did happen, there is no doubt that such an attitude would have been constructive. Granted that the police of Chicago were under pressure at the time of the shooting and that there is a limit to the judicial qualities a policeman may be expected to possess, there is no doubt they would have done better to have exercised restraint. se ¢ The net result of the whole situation is quite likely to be a demand by the public that the government take definite steps to prevent a recurrence of these conditions; that it act as authoritative umpire in future industrial disputes. The trend -has been in that direction for years and the movement has been accelerated by the events of recent months. Both the union movement and the employers lost: prestige with the public as a result of the excesses occurring during the strikes. Not only that, but both the federal government and local government got black eyes. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, Behind Scenes Washington For First Time in Histery, Action Gives a Democratic Senate Two Leaders From Northern States. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 27 — The close- shave election of Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky as senate ma- jority leader is likely to prove more important than defeat of the Roose- velt court plan. It depends on the degree to which Barkley, who will go straight down the line for Roosevelt, can exert senate control. Roosevelt has had real results from the court fight—not only a licking for himself, the extent and effect of which are to be determined, but also in transforming a conservative court into a liberal court. It is questionable whether the court will again assume its erstwhile habits of vetoing legisla- tion. But the chief significance of Bark- ley’s 38 to 37 victory over Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, is its ac- centuation of the fact that the south- ern Old Guard in the Democratic party is making what may or may not be its last stand for power. This is the first time a Democratic senate has had a leader who wasn’t from the deep south and representa- tive of its conservatism. It is highly significant that the assistant leader will be Senator Sher- man Minton of Indiana, who isn’t a southern conservative but a forceful militant, able Hew Dealer * * Once Had Battle Won “Power trust” agents, manufactur- ers’ association lobbyists and Harri- son's close friend, B. M. » lob bied feverishly for Harrison and s0 did nearly all the bitter court plan foes. The argument that Barkley was liberal and hence would allow anti- lynching legislation to come up was hammered at southern senators. ~ But there was also fast action for Barkley from the forces of Roose- velt, who had declared his “strict neu- trality.” Harrison had the battle won until some time around the middle of the night before the caucus vote. At that point Senator William H. Dieterich of Illinois, who had pledged his vote to Harrison on the Joe Rob- inson funeral train, was caused by aided by some hard-boiled Chicago Politicians — to change his mind. Dietrich is up for renomination and election next year. The inducements which were offered to him may in time be revealed. Anyway Dietrich telephoned Har- rison early in the morning to say he was withdrawing his pledge. * * * DANGERS OF A REACTION It would be both bad taste and poor Policy for opponents of Mr. Roose- velt’s court-packing plan to gloat over its collapse or rejoice at the per- sonal discomfiture of the president and the effect upon his leadership and his future. However, suave and Broken ingenious the journalistic explana- Many Pledges At least a dozen “double-cross” votes were cast in that caucus, repre- senting broken pledges. With 38 votes Necessary for a choice, Harrison was “dead certain” of 41 votes, and the Barkley-Roosevelt forces had 43 pledges. It was apparent after the secret ballot that some senators had pledged themselves to both sides. Harrison obviously had been definitely knifed by four of his pledges and Barkley by five of his. Other senators are thought to have deserted one man or the other, their desertions can- celing off some from the other side. One administration tactician had decided Barkley must allow for five double-crossers and hence must have 43 pledges. Every nerve was strained until Dieterich, a few hours before voting time became the 43rd. When the Barkley vote appeared as a bare 38, insiders felt the tactician’s pre- acience had been uncanny. The 38 to 37 vote wasn't a real showdown between Roosevelt's Demo- cratic senatorial friends and foes. At Yeast a few voted for the popular Harrison from pure friendship and memories of fares! oC amoriains 18-Mile Hog-Caller Some to know about Bark- : He is genuinely liberal but not radical, tremendously energetic, bull- voloed and forceful, ardently parti- campanionable, an excellent parliamentarian, a strong rough-and- tumble broadswordsman on the floor, @ friend of organised labor and broad-shouldered. In his youthful farm days he is we had a 12-mile hog-call- He is 50 years old and to keep in good Fs5Seoe Beek Hl Feeesil's i In view of these facts the people, if they had adequate means of expression, probably would say “a plague on ALL their houses.” Certainly they would take a stand for justice, de- vency and fair play for all concerned. Steel Wages ; Make any deducations you wish from the fact but the truth is that the American steel worker now is the most highly paid employe in industry. In April, according to the American Iron and Steel Insti- tute, the average steel workers pay envelope contained $36.20 every Saturday night while autmobile workers were getting $88.09, rubber workers $32.37, garment workers $18.58, soft coal miners $19.06 and anthracite miners $34.40. This, it will be recalled, was at the time that Big Steel made especially the Staunchest of porters, he Roosevelt on apathetic on to speak dent in 1940 Knowledge of this fact sible for some of the his candidacy for the leadersh{ tions of the rout, when taken in con- nection with the fact that only the personal spite of the not highly esteemed Mr, Bilbo saved his prefer- ence for leader from defeat in the wenate caucus, the damage to the president’s prestige is clear. There is, of course, considerable temptation to review the Roosevelt record since he first launched his attack upon the supreme bench; to dwell upon certain recent phases of the fight, such as the letter to “Dear Alben,” and to make the obvious de- auctions. But these can wait—or per- haps had better be indefinitely post- poned. The important thing now is to Tealize the danger of an emotional part of some of battle to save the unwise. The relief of the country over the gratifying end of the as- part of a far-reaching and extremely radical administration program. The other reason is because during the heat of the fight several of the Tus is JOE BULLHEAD, A DRIVER WHO COULDN'T SE BLUFFED... TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1937 Rock-a-Bye Baby in the Tree Top. | The Great Game of POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sum istic and political, as having become) bill, came from the Corcoran-Cohen reactionaries, “gone Tory” and be-|group of presidential advisers; thet trayed the “liberal cause.” All of|they, with the court bill, formed an which, of course, was tommyrot—/ administration program so ambitious merely the typical New Deal method | and far-reaching of debate, the standard administra-| detached observ. tion way of describing dissenters from | city, and that its policies and critics of its acts./tegists will be eager Nevertheless these charges, silly as| tage of any “let down” they were, had an effect upon certain | fight defeat, to restore opposition leaders who are somewhat | nearly as possible to supersensitive concerning their “lib-|form and enact them. eralism.” In the past they themselves have hurled allegations of a similar nature against those on the other side. In other words, until this court fight developed they had held high| place among the professional “liber- ; personally or silly sensitiveness upon te part of the estranged “liberals” == ee gayety oa pemencous There is some danger now that in | speed in a direction it did not want an effort to re-establish themselves | to g0. It would be a dreadful thing as “liberals” and to make it clear that | after such a victory to resume the they were moved in the court fight | direction. ————__—__———_# Sixty-five an hour nothing, I was making 75—Gener Keys, Salt Lake City, Utah, when charged with driv- eee ee White us put upon the statute books a series of tive monstrosities, which clash with Ege mncemente) conception of free country and for which there is nel- After living 35 demand. years in a trunk, this che eects Oe . it would be lis the first time I've ever had « real highly unfortunate if either through home—Bophie Tucker. sora) genie to adjourn quickly or eee @ wish of certain senators to seem liberal” rather then sound, that| We are living tn Lea garagt tinned should happen. sults by ve terrorism rather Comstock. Xt 1s true that to a considerable ex- CMO eS tent the Departmental Reorganiza- tioh ‘bill, the Wages and Hour con- ane stieetine aiaicable relations trol bill and the new AAA or Ever-| rung of 2 Premier . Normal Granary bill, sometimes China. se * called the Joseph bill i similarity in principle eW are becoming, without realis. {ing it, @ totalitarian state—Arch- Pharaoh scheme so vi bishop John T. McNicholas, Cincin- in the Old Testament de- nat! Catholic archdiocese. pended for its success upon the com- **k * plete co-operation of the administra: tors with God—it is true these bills| because they aren't sufficiently so- have been emasculated and and are intensely pro- in committee. It is, however, vinclal—Ted Peckham, of “Your Es- remember that they like the court|cort Service.” 1 Hollywood’s got me, but I love it. OUT OUR WAY —— Your Personal Health | By William Brady, M. D. estions pertaining to health but not dis ra dlagne nite Write letters briefly and in ink. Address Dr. Brady gate, cF dinprotrripune. All queries must be accompanied by mped, a EARLY, SMOOTH ’EM OUT Physicians a yap agree about the cause of dental caries, it seems, On the one hand, in recent years students of the subject have regarded nutritional deficiency as the main cause. On the other hand, the older physi- cians and dentists still cling to the theory that a cavity begins by erosion or acids eating away the enamel, and so providing an opening where germs may lodge and work away enlarging their quarters, The acids, we are asked to be- lieve, are produced by bacterial fermentation of sugars or starches in the mouth, particles of such foods remaining on the teeth or between the teeth or under the margins of the gums long enough to ferment and give rise to lactic acid. So deeply imbued with this quaint theory of dental caries are many dent- ists that they sometimes stand right up in meeting, lay back their ears and relieve themselves of comments like this (quoted from @ symposium held by medical and a dental society): y dpedeaslged & formed (as in the adult) the calclum content of enamel or dentine cannot change. You can’t change the compostion or structure of such a tooth by administering calcium in any form or vitamins, Neither can the tooth be robbed of the calcium it has, during pregnancy or in other conditions.” fon 3 an Tf that is sound science (and I am not the one to quest! , then batet long held by the laity and the medical profession and the dental pro- feasion, that the teeth of a pregnant woman are likely to become soft, crum- bly and suffer from a rapid decay if her nutrition is faulty, is not based on fact. ho believe a tooth once completely developed or formed never cetcae tenali do not hold a similar view about bones. Just why they as- th are exceptional is obscure. sere aicaeosn Gare ot dental caries, healing of cavities or deposit of new enamel or whatever it is that stops the progress of decay, has been observed by numerous investigators in the mouths of children who happened to be kept on a diet providing optimal amounts of vitamins. Some dentists deny that such spontaneous cure of dental caries can happen. The same school, I think, that insists a tooth once formed never undergoes any further change. They do not maintain that the fully formed tooth is dead. No, no, it is still alive, but having grown up it never can grow any more, It’s lucky the bones of adults, even elderly adults, are not subject to such arbitrary limitations. It would be most inconvenient to have a broken bone dangling about for the rest of one’s life. Whatever the important factor of dental caries may be, the cavity be- gins as a minute fissure or scratch in the enamel. No amount of can remove such a fissure. Only burnishing or polishing can smooth it out. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Ear and Sinus Trouble in Swimmers What do you Tenner 8 protection against sinus and ear infec- tions contracted in swimming? (A. B. H. Answer—Wear a suitable nose clip to keep nostrils closed and breathe en- tirely through mouth while in swimming. Wear in each ear a loose plug of no- absorbent cotton with a few drops of oil on it or of naturally oily lambswool, or ear stoppers of @ pliable wax material such as people wear to dull disturb- ing noises when they are trying to sleep. Can't Bear It ‘Walk twice around the floor on all fours, with your legs straight and not flexed, and your palms flat on the floor like a bear—if you can do this you may brag about rolling somersaults, (Homo Sapiens) Answer—I tried it, Sep, and it is child’s play compared with twenty som- ersaults, Not that walking like a bear is not a good exercise—for the novice. Since I saw the late Luther Burbank rolling (movie news) somersaults on his lawn on his 75th birthday, I haven’t bragged much about my two dozen rolls daily. Just mention ’em from time to time in the hope of lowering the mor- tality rate. A lot of people die of dignity. By-laws of the Somersaultauqua will be mailed on request if you provide a stamped envelope bearing your address. (Copyright 1937, John F. Dille Co.) | SIDEGLANCES - - By George Clark ne ne ne ene co eee “~ people stop at this hotel, but look at towels! Hardly worth taking home.” “Only the very best the quality Of these THET DISQUALIFIES YUH, (CK ~~ YUH'VE LOST TH’ STIRRUPS, 40ST TH’ REINS, LOST YORE HAT, Lost YORE SEAt, Joe stoop uP FOR HIS” PRINCIPLES HE'D : SHOW THIS BIRD WHO HAD THE RIGHT-OF-WAY / Poor Joe! HE DIED MAINTAINING HIS RIGHT To THE << = Pluto's name was considered ap- -OF-W Besid RIGHT-OF-WAY. an agreement with the CIO and when Little Steel was hoisting propriate for two reasons. wages in an effort to stem its advance. coe ae val Lowell, the name The CIO, doubtless, will claim that it made the steel worker fot of ih otter dans, ad hl the best paid man in the land, demand his allegiance on that if Sees el S , ground. Unorganized steel companies will use the wage scale as nae Peete an argument that its workers can get fair wage treatment without unionization. ; Meanwhile, the public—including the lower paid workers in other’ industries—really is footing the bill. * V \ # ade BuT~ [ a SOEs WIDOW WISHES JOE HAD LET THE OTHER FELLOW HAVE |. ‘THE RIGHFOFWAY, EVEN IF Soe was ON A THROUGH STREET’!