The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1937, Page 6

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Some Bitter Truths When American newspaper editors and publishers met in Detroit on July 21 they invited W. J. Cameron of the Ford Motor company to address them. He did. And when he had finished speaking there must have been many sober faces in the audience for he had “told them a mouthful.” Cameron spent the early years of his business career in a newspaper office, then entered the industrial field. He sees both sides of the picture and, happily, he doesn’t want to “go back” to anything. He wants to go forward toa BETTER AM- ERICA, holding all the advantages we now have as a people and getting more. He wants to SHARE THE WEALTH but he wants to do it intelligently. He wants social and Industrial justice, but he wants to achieve it by means which will INSURE JUSTICE TO EVERYONE AND MAKE THAT JUSTICE SECURE. Cameron’s speech concerned itself with the current labor movement and bared that for what it is, but in passing he did not hesitate to point out the refuse on the doorsteps of the newspapers and of industry. His indictment of the press was based on the way it re- ported the outbreak of the sit-down strikes and their develop- ment. The press, he said, failed to adequately emphasize the fact that most of these strikes represented the effort of out- siders to dominate the actions and thoughts of the workers most THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937 ‘Congratulations—You Win!’ Behind the Scenes Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 28—The vaunted dignity of high courts doesn’t pre- vent them from taking an occasional sly kick at the judicial pants of other high courts. Here's one, planted squarely on the derriere of the U. 8. supreme court, itself, by the sixth circuit court of appeals in a recent obscure labor case. The “kick” in the decision, couched in the kind of “whereas and afore- mentioned” language so hard for you and me to understand, follows. But first keep in mind that the Carter Coal case has been for years the key one by which the supreme court as- serted that such businesses as coal mining were local and hence could not be regulated by congress under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. The Fruehauf Trailer case, one of those vindicating the Wagner Act only recently, takes a directly opposite view. 1 Caught between the traditional Carter decision and the new Frue- hauf decision, the lower court rather sourly stressed that it must follow “the latest decisions” of the supreme court, and put its decision thus: “Per curiam: This court thought that Carter vs. Carter Coal Co., and the authorities there relied on, re- quired a holding in Fruehauf Trailer company vs. National Labor Rela- tions Board that the trailer company, in its relation to its employes there involved, was not subject to: regula- tion by congress under the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States. The supreme court, on review of the decision, held that it was. There is. no substantial dif- ference between the status of that company and its employes to com- merce and that of the appellee here, James Vernon company, and its em- Ployes. “We again follow the latest de- cisions of the supreme court, and hold that the decree herein should be vacated, the motion for injunction denied and the bill dismissed. It is so ordered.” A distinguished lawyer advises your Reena that this means sim- ly: : “Lower courts are now forced to explain the inconsistencies of thelr decisions on the ground that they are following the inconsist- directly concerned; that they were called without vote of the workers or previous consultation with the management and that “men who had worked but a few days in the shops bull- dozed surprised workmen; other thousands that had never been in Michigan before swarmed to the gates and held the work- men in.” * In short, he accused the newspapers of having done a bum job of reporting, emphasizing the fact that, had they revealed the facts from the beginning, public opinion would immediately have crystallized against the CIO’s tactics. Big Steel signed with the CIO and Little Steel didn’t, Cam- eron said, because Big Steel is hampered by a “vast and long- accumulated obsolescence . . . and a system of dividend produc- tion that takes precedence over commodity production” and also beause its corporate organization is such that “when you cut it, it does not bleed.” Independent business he described as “equally the enemy of conditions that create labor grievances and of those oppor- tunists who rear their personal empire by exploiting those grievances. When you deal with independent business you are dealing with men—the individuals—who built it.” Bringing the situation home to the newspapers, Cameron asserted: “The newspaper used to be a voice. In too many in- stances it is now a property.” The indictment is a bitter one but it has too many elements of truth to be ignored. This newspaper has long contended that industry would encies of the supreme court.” xe * The blast from House Judiciary Chairman Hatton Sumners against the court plan was ® one-day sensa- tion, but Sumners’ position had been known to insiders for months. Almost immediately after the court bill was introduced, Summers asked a friend for the name of a big shot New York lawyer who could mar- shall all possible arguments on the measure. “You mean arguments against?” the friend asked. “Against,” snapped Sumners. Lately Sumners has been giving the impression that he could obtain the resignation of Justice Sutherland if the administration would accept a compromise otherwise amount defeat. demanding proof that he coujd deliver tne goods, *. * Same as Four New Justices for and One way of saying it is that it|® Sutherland were to follow Justice Van. Devanter by resigning, the president would have the equivalent of four benefit itself if it would chase the rats out of its basement. Cam- | liberal eron emphasizes this fact in more elegant language when he re- marks: “The history of labor and management shows that every im- provement in industrial conditions, every sdvance in industrial jus- tice, originates with management .. . “No labor leader has ever originated or suggested a single im- “provement in industrial conditions. Nor has any statesman. Man- agement alone has done this. And progressive management has been sufficiently weighty to pull backward business slowly along with it, WHEN YOU SEE A JUSTIFIED STRIKE, YOU WILL OB- SERVE THAT THE DEMAND 18 FOR CONDITIONS THAT AL- READY EXIST IN FACTORIES UNDER PROGRESSIVE MAN- AGEMENT.” There is a lot of honest, common sense in what Cameron had to tell the editors. If his suggestions were heeded by all concerned there would be a marked improvement in industrial relations. . Stop, Look and Listen Proposal by the Nonpartisan League advisory council to initiate three measures for decision by the voters at the next general election looks suspiciously like pap for the electorate. The proposals in question are: 1. To require all bank stock to be owned within the state. 2. Force the railroads to pay taxes on a 100-per-cent valuation. 3. Reduce the legal interest rate to three per cent. All are likely to carry, but it is doubtful if they would achieve the ends intended by their sponsors. Doubtless they |” ‘were conceived in an earnest desire to benefit the people of the state but the fact is they may be harmful. Most people are borrowers rather than lenders, hence the cut in the interest rate will most certainly carry unless the vot- ters stop to estimate carefully the probable results. It is possi- ble that such a law would eventually close all the lending agen- cies ‘in the state and make it impossible to borrow money. In that event the law regarding ownership of bank stock would automatically become a dead letter. ‘On the principle of “let George do it” the idea of adding to the tax burden of the railroads also should prove popular. But there is ample reason to believe that it would prove ineffective. "The state board of equalization has taxed the railroads more than their fair share in recent years. The railroads have taken the matter into the federal courts and obtained a reduction. If they did it once they could doubtless do it again. Thus such a law would be merely a gesture. - It is sincerely to be hoped that the executive committee of the Nonpartisan League, to which the matter was referred, will consider the matter carefully before cluttering up the ballot Sutherland's resignation would re- duce the conservative strength to a Presumable minority of four, as com- pared with a probable {liberal major- ity.of five. A conservative justice’s resigna- tion is expected to mean both one leas conservative and one more liberal. One and one makes two and two and two make four. 5 ** * How it Senator Burt Wheeler, bitter court Plan foe, spent an hour and a half with Roosevelt recently and later flatly denied Senator Minton’s charges that he had let parts of the conversation leak out. Also, out of the visit of the “four freshman” senators, who went to Philosophically senate do whatever it wanted about Solution of both mysteries may be found right here: ‘ 1—No one. knew. that Senator Homer Bone of Washington, friend of Wheeler and supporter of Roose- Wheeler delivered impassioned honsaiaad Bone ‘later whispered a 2—Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa, one of the ‘four freshmen,” mede' a seport to Burke of Nebraska. Then Burke passed the word around which was later denied. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘ with these proposals. Unquestionably there are arguments to| Chicago for them but.at first blush they would seem to do more to situation. ‘good; that they’ will result only in fooling the-people.|| (Copyright, 1951,-®EA Service; 120) ‘a a Your Personal Health il] answer questions pel eaee ee Frees, ‘Write letters euler ee A in care of The Tribune. All queries essed envelope. alth but not adress Dr: Brous ied by a stamped, 4 ‘ 4 4 ) \ in ink. accompan U GET THOSE (name your color) EYES? 1h ERE Dior me to heat people 87 a person hed blue, gray, brown or black eyes, before I learned that all eyes are brown. Tam not color blind. 1 know now that when you look Ge Kost berate el ae cies . almost anything — moment and before T"xnow, too, that when you look into other'eyes you be- fin multiplying 21 meals a week by 52 weeks @ year, etc.—these are what the futo license bureau calls brown eyes. And so it goes; with @ little observa. tion and application one can learn in time to recognize three or four different “colors” of eyes, although actually all eyes are brown unless they are colories —ailbino. example. I have brown eyes, like everybody else whae cana cae a ample Jo all 10 pleces when I am required to state under oath what color my eyes ere. It was even worse when I had to testify ‘about the color of my hair, but that isn’t of much moment now. Just 0 how how little alleged eye color means, I have described my eyes from year to year as brown, blue, gray, black, green, hazel—and I believe I might get, by if I called them red, orange, yellow, indigo or violet. You pay your license ce. fee pauca tie} oe of eyes depends upon the amount and distribution more pigme! t it looks gray; if still more it looks brown, like @ river at flood. Tite ine ts heavily pigmented the eyes are “black,” actually dark brown. In various shades of so-called “blue” eyes the pigment in the iris is con- fined to the deep or rear surface, and light is reflected from the pigment cells through the translucent tissue of the cornea and sclerotic coverings of eyeball. In “ ay vor “amet” on Weoeh eet toe Oa Se thickly dis. th the front of 5 tributed throwsh vy colored ring surrounding the black central dot or disk called the pupil of the eye. The iris is chiefly muscle, some of the muscle fibres being ciroular and contracting or narrowing the pupll when they contract; other fibres being racial, nike ie re of ® wheel, and when 1 is wid or ne seri rerpends PH various stimull, contracts and makes the pupil smaller in bright light; relaxes or dilates and males oe ean 8 and makes the pupil larger (to admit more ; relaxes L ee dhe Grea cone POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun FALSE PRIESTS IN THE TEMPLE Difficult as it is to believe, the un- Pprecedented defeat sustained by Mr. Roosevelt in.his extraordinary effort to render the judicial branch of the government subservient to his will, ultimately may redound to his bene- fit. It may turn out better for him personally, as undoubtedly it is better for the nation, that he lost instead of won. It depends upon himself. Of course, if he is going to harbor, grudges against the men who stood against him, as he harbored his grudge against the supreme court after its NRA decision, and as he harbored against the various Democrats, in the senate and out, who have differed with. him as the collapse of his legislative pro- gram, of which the key was his court- packing bill, should so shake his con- fidence in the second-grade intellec- tuals and third-rate welfare workers by whom he is surrounded, and whose advice he has been taking, that he would drop the whole lot of them out the White House window. In other words, get rid of the new Brain Trust, which is considerably worse, from whatever angle it is viewed, |than .the old one. Right from the start, Mr. Roosevelt has had about him as his most intimate and influ- ential advisers a little group of acad- emic and inexperienced but exceed- ingly opinionated young men who had never been elected to any office and whose names were hardly known at all, Nor are they now. Some of them were young profes- sors; some young lawyers,.and some just social workers. Since the first term they have changed somewhat in personnel; but they are still there, and the present set is considerably more radical and inexperienced than the: first. The best evidence of this is the character of the bills which they have had the president sponsor this year and the strategy of the sound. court fight which -they evolved. Most | the! of them hold relatively unimportant official positions but receive . sub- | ha’ stantial salaries, and they really have been running the government of the United States through the president. It is they who have gotten him into the present mess and who are di- rectly to blame for the incredible con- fusion, incom cy and waste with which the administration is saturated—and for the collectivist ts that have been launched with presidential backing. They have great power without any responsibility and they have been © }having a very wonderful time. They all for Mr. Roosevelt— go into the side doors of the White House and move around the halls of congress, advising and speaking with an air of authority. No one would pay any attention to them but for their known closeness to the country—would it be it| Sound TRAVELS 1090 FT. PER SECOND —WE READ THATIN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA AIRPLANES HAVE MADE BETTER THAN 400 MILES: PER HOUR~ WE READ OB WAT In AVIATION News RACE HORSE, SWIMMER oR. al RUNNER BREAKS A SPEED RECORO-—— WE READ THAT ON THE SPORT PAGE. w¢ BUT winen some Reckless MOTORIST TURNS THE HIGHWAY INTo A SPEED- WAY_.WE OFTEN FIND THAT IN THE OBITUARY COLUMN. ‘By FRANK R. 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