The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1937, Page 4

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Dictators ‘Old Stuff’ in Central America Political scraps among the nations of Central America have made little news items for United States readers for years. And, noting that another general had stormed a palace and upset a president, or that a group of rebels were besieging the legislature, our general reaction was a tolerant smirk and the light observation that “boys will be boys.” Now, filtering out of the jungle-bound capitals of the isthmus, comes a more disturbing piece of news. It is the warning cry that the bad boys there are tinkering with ideas “borrowed” from the-trans-Atlantic fascist “iron men.” On the face of the report that Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras have set up a bloc of dictatorships for their mutual protection against disturbing elements “coming across the border,” there might at first seem to be some basis for the alarm. * At the bottom of the movement is the fact that presidents of two of the nations are serving second terms contrary to con- stitution. Gen. Tiburcia Carias Andino of Honduras, inaugur- ated Feb. 1, 1933, for a four-year term, is still in office. Gen. Jorge Ubico, president of Guatemala, inaugurated Feb. 14, 1931, for a six-year term, also is still in office. These two men, with Gen. Maximiliano Martinez of El Salvador, hold the reins for more than four and a half million people, including political prisoners, estimated at from 1,500 to 5,000 in Honduras alone. Many a page in these dictators’ tactical handbook parallels those followed in European dictatorships. Presidential palaces are guarded with machine guns; only the army is paid decent wages, and in some cases only the army is paid at all; sub- stantial “menaces” are perpetuated for propaganda purposes. Guatemala and El Salvador have adopted Communism as their “bete noir,” while Honduras still is satisfied to have the ele- mentary common rebel and soldier of fortune “gnawing at its institutions.” ° s * Just how this “fascist” concept managed to get its start and grow to such proportions so quickly, thousands of miles from the Italian and German centers of political holiness, really - isn’t so mysterious. The fact is that the one-man, strong-arm dictatorship type of government was in vogue in Central and South America be- fore Mussolini and Hitler were born. Testifying to this are the long years which United States marines and. diplomats vainly spent trying to democratize the governmental process of some of these temperamental new world nations. If anyone is afraid, then, that Central America is doomed to be ravaged by the germ of fascism and dictatorship, he need only refer to the history of that area to learn that its politicos can give any tyrant on earth cards and spades and beat him hands down at the tricks of the trade. ‘ On Behalf of Babies Twenty-two children, born in the vicinity of New York City’s lower west side health center, are the possessors of silver spoons which bear the city seal. The children were chosen to receive the spoons as souvenirs of the health center’s inaugura- tion, As contrasted with the accepted idea of the child “born with a silver spoon in its mouth,” these 22 babies are not necessarily destined for lives of riches and ease. But, if the precepts of good health, provided by experts at the health center, are faithfully followed by the mothers, these youngsters stand to inherit a blessing which can not be paral- led in cash or property. For giving new significance to an outworn phrase, but mostly for stimulating the crusade to give a better break to babies, congratulations to the officials who conceived this bright idea. Britain Back to Normal Now that the coronation honeymoon is over, George VI, the British ministers and the British people are back at their old three-cornered game of catch-as-catch-can. In customary fashion, the cabinet attempts to prevent the king from overstepping the royal prerogatives of conferring, suggesting and advising on matters of state. Meanwhile, the king himself dashes off to Wales to crack the forbidden hot chestnut of economic distress there—one of the very things that got his older brother, Edward into trouble. And all the while the British public, at the rate of 100,000 a week, holds forth at the Royal School of Needlework in Lon- don, viewing robes worn by dignitaries at the coronation. It must be comforting for these loyal subjects to know that out of the pageantry of pomp and circumstance, they acquired at least one illusion that is all wool, more than a yard wide, and guaranteed not to fade. Still Unchallenged Bookish people are so amazed by the tremendous sales of “Gone With the Wind” that learned articles have been written discussing its appeal. It has remained at the top.of best-seller lists month after month, with sales of more than a million in a little more than a year. . The publishing world is practically agog about it. And yet this modern book will have a long way to go to beat the record of another book, a million copies of which have just been bought by the Georgia state board of education at one crack. The board is gaing to see that every Georgia school-child has a copy. Behind Scenes Washington Demeeratic stored, Knives Are By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Aug. 2—This is the best guess available right now, and please remember its’ only a guess: Solicitor General Stanley F. Reed will be appointed to the supreme court to succeed Justice Willis Van Devan- ter, retired. Next best guess, perhaps, is Judge Sam G. Bratton of Alberquerque, N. M,, sitting in the tenth circuit court of House is hearing plenty from Brat- ton’s backers. One of the worst crimes the New Deal ever committed against the country and itself was the thing it did to the solicitor-general’s office after Felix Frankfurter had refused the post in 1933. But Reed took that office more than two years ago and has carried the brunt of defending New Deal laws before the supreme court, lately with conspicuous success. He argued the Wagner act as well as the AAA case and many others. Reed for several years was counsel for the old Hoover farm board and early in 1933 became general counsel for RFC under Hoover. He served Roosevelt ably as a legal expert in the banking emergency. He was slated for a federal judgeship in Kentucky when Roosevelt decided he should be solicitor-general. His arguments have indicated definite liberalism along with a desire to fit New Deal laws into reasonable constitutional limitations. He is 58 years old. Bratton was a liberal Democratic senator from New Mexico before Roosevelt made him a federal judge. As an ex-senator, he could be sure of little opposition to his confirmation. **e * Raw Wounds Don’t fall too hard for these nice, Pretty stories about harmony restored in the Democratic party. Knives are being sharpened as never before. If Roosevelt and his friends have any- thing to do about it, 1938 will be known to history as “the great year THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1987 Cactus Jack Rides Again! Harmony, Far From Re-|- Whetted. ining to health but Py ais will answer questions perts! ote Beate Bee ee ei ro ee ete be ez be focompanied bye stamped, of reprisals,” meaning that Roosevelt will not forgive or forget the scuttling of the court bill and other items of his program. Even while Vice President Jack Garner and his Democratic-Repub- ican coalition seemed to rule the Capitol Hill roost after giving the court bill its coup de grace, Roosevelt showed that he was still trying to run the works by taking Senate Majority. Leader Alben Barkley off for a yacht week-end. And their sole companions were the LaFollette brothers of Wis- consin, who come nearest to being Prospective leaders of a new Farmer- Labor party. pectic! Ed Burke of Negtbored op- court plan leader, go! see Roosevelt Judiciary committee would do its best to patch up a good bill and expressed the hope that there would be no hard feelings. Roosevelt, according to an authori- tative source, merely sat, listened, made no reply and puffed cigarette smoke up into the air until Secretary Marvin McIntyre came in to announce the next visitor. ee k Big Ballot Senator Barkley, the new majority leader, described his emotions at the caucus leadership election as the vote counter reached the point where he had pulled 37 slips of paper declaring for Pat Harrison and 37 for himself. Gone With the Wind will have to sell many more millions of | °"!*! | Copies and keep up the pace for 500 years before it will approach the mark set by the Bible. 7 A FIELD TO AVOID The easy strategy, 80 effective with the undiscriminating masses, of cov- ering up failure in one direction by fresh activity in another seems to have no more convinced practitioner than Mr. John L. Lewis, bellicose head of the C. I. O., who for nearly a solid year almost single-handedly has succeeded in keeping the country in a state of industrial foment and unrest, wraiing ina great qlowdl gt favccable opera & great f favorable propaganda and aidéd by ES indefen= sible White House alliance, which in effect gave him the support of the government, nevertheless Mr. Lewis has met with two conspicuous and sig- nificant reverses. One of these was in his drive against the General Mo- tors and the other against the inde- pendent steel companies. While it is true that in the case of the General Motors the recognition of his union and the signing of a contract by the company may have seemed like suc- cess, subsequent events have proven his failure. Actually it would have been better for him in that fight not to have The Great Game of POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimere Sun be pet | Zz ti 4 i gE Pel gis i [ By FRANK R. KENT E ge ig FE 3 g unable to control his own forces; a written agreement does not carry Ciara Ma hs organi way to compel keep its pledged word, or punish it breaking a contract, In other words, however much he personally may want to live up to his obligations, contracts signed with him are futile because he is unable to discipline his forces, which are without reliability or responsibility. That belief, forced upon the public by the epidemic of contract-breaking strikes in the Gen- | | i BF HG a F i E 5 & Peau Eee ie ie ne case of steel, he achieved no object- ive, got no contract and was beaten all along the line. The reason, of tie opt Jon against Rs natty boas lic | 2 eaten swing were—first, the demonstration of irresponsibility in the General Motors agreement; sec- 33 = “That last ballot looked as big as |«. ” , trollable lawlessness CasT OF CHARACTERS “That wasn’t meant to be patron-|she answered: only life, Phil, ® quilt!” he says, Hoe Gent itee speorinena) of teat tee viene nian caesar America’s best dressed’ womsn,” |izing. I'm no great loss to you.| We can’t control the pattern, And ida ddid contract have been violated by mem-|ing forces; third, the resentment of PHILIP IRVING, Jedith’s ce- /But to have the routine changed |I want you to be happy, Phil. I The Senate Fight bers of his union more than 200 sep-|the people over interference with the Uinra mocmns. seas |—" He paused and his eyes|will, too. We'll always be— ‘Your correspondent may have erred arate times, The company lived up|“right to work.” ‘The net result was Pee ebnaire oe ‘gue |2earched her face. “You're very | friends?” Friends—it was such an in asserting that Senator Sherman | to its word! the O. I. O. did not. One|a practical collapse of the strike. GU ck RISES: euthes, wonderful, Judith, dear. I never| unimportant word for two who Minton of Indiana would be the s8-| strike in clear violation of the signed MILLICENT BAYNM, Breee’s |dreamed anything could—could|had been so much more, sistant majority leader under Barkley. document has followed another un-| One would think that two such mee , |tear us apart.” She saw the relief in his eyes Minton wants his close friend, Senator |+i1 it has been demonstrated not only/|failures would have cooled Mr, Lewis Yesterday: Pail and Judith held | “Nor did I. But it’s all right,| because something hard had been Lew Schwellenbach of Ws to|to the industrial world but to theloff for » while, and it would seem g.greckcend house St {hele |The road was good that we trav-|dealt with successfully, because take the job. It ts probable that Sen-|country generally that Mr. Lewis is| profitable to him to spend some time A me ie his €ee. “sedy |eled together.” Odd that she|she had not been hysterical, bee Ratan ek Aaiaciieaess na Ane seer” noire Wet he's ‘could talk in platitudes when the |cause he was free. She held out that Minton will become the party td numbness was going from her |her hand and his pressure was so Pa part . CHAPTER IV Beart now, into her armas, her lags, Hees she could which these 2: & JUDY...” er head. “You want a divorce, cried al sharp pain. other snaia Now Destro operate || Beloved Diva sane: ma pur Maybe he Toved. her and’ dian successfully in assembling a pro-ad- = “No! I mean—yes. Judith, be- | know it. Maybe he would find ministration majority in the senate . set his fait howd "baried “in| Levee, that this is diférent out sometime. x will decide whether congress is to be knees, buried than ever known. ° se under contro] of Garner or Roosevelt. HORIZONTAL Ansyer to Previews Pussie #2 the as bees Judith’s lap and his shoulders|It’s burning me, ‘tearing I SHE was glad when she heard The question right now is determina- PEPTIC) os chen shaking with uncontrollable sobs, |don't, want her out of my sight—| voices in the adjoining room, tion as to how much of the Roosevelt SIOIRIAIS| Sisco 1 She. -ansothed the On ace tee can't you under-/she sat at the head of the long Sebris In the “Wo wate gc comer te Mme 22 Suitable. bright hair, and walted. Now that |arne, 2° hurled the ‘challenge dining Zoom table, where yellow Sevalive tema Bafa f TE NITE IOS IA 285 oe ae bs — Recor? ue Tg to—/en, for the lodge. was simply fur (Copyright, 1987, NEA Service, Inc.) + DEE SION INIUITEESI 27 Meadow. here, she was no longer afraid. “Not until we talk some nished, and kept the conversa- ee Dies nae “T'm in love, Judith,” he sald at| ,, ict until, we feria, | onal bal bouncing gaily from Al OMIN last, and che loves me, a2¢ 10 band. Mouth fo mouth— ; BIT OF HUMOR TOME SIT] EINMMOIR} “I know.” Gently, Hoa Su alae ane ae Mme. | she corrected herself. Like trained Se gently her/I'm her life! You have friends, |seai, NoW AND THEN OMMAIT MC OIPIS [E MOIS ME ; fingets went on stroking the|poise, cl ” Then, as if tol s, 18 RELISHED BY A Yara’: Constellation: 2 ji his he said. ‘Come on, everybody, let's THE BEST OF 36 Purple flower, bowed head. See lerserimed ages sonora] clothes |@ance,” she cried, pushing back 38 Amphitheater ion é Wat|have separated us. | You've spent| fcr Ghult afier the dinner, Judge Sharp — Just where did the center. “Yes, Phil.” Be Gee ee “Judith, you are being marvel- 5 Proud of being dressed | 3 defendants auto bit you, Milas? 40 Taxaceoiss He lifted his heed swiftly, ana | woman.” gu,” Phill said, later in the even Sally—' four Honor, a se been wearing @ loense plate it would 55 Last word of 4Grape refuse, tree. words scorned lis actions. ose have been Badly damaged. MENNA SHS Gitte ce nano Tees ta {Ger A ee anes ace oe can't you tell ae a tt Bree Frances—Oh, I. adore that fufiny =— voice. 7 Low tide. 43. Norse my- Fat paar pighe ear enpiintty could toss her love aside, and then Sted ere came. “The rain's ute new step you bave eoquired. S1She sang in Strawberry thology. Judy, ‘Haybe youte’ too rw i |say that it was something she bad |, ores ate end iey Where did you plok it up? — with une _ calyxes. 44 Boat part, q ‘You never meke mis-|Prought on herself! Only she|In's tar Hubby—Punny step, nothing, My usual success, 9 Portrait 48 Cotton fabrie. takes. Toe loved you so, 1 want| couldn't be angry. She knew Pll |yeitini a poormet Marta was en- suspenders just busted. : VEerseaL (se Ae tog on loving you, Ob, Judy, (00, welrknew that 'be was lke with a gay story, She ene mes — od why ‘a small seeking Teason corner ‘Agent Slick — Well, what do you Arte BU To weave 8 6 Rivas. ~ don't anew." The words | #0 action. She knew, too, that he Beet ba gate little town? 50Desert fruits. 2Steep rugged, sweater. i Quoted Marta’ Rogers’ words for path had a coat ger ee as, pibots into, eleoes aad) were (A he and was ae door. They Prospect - 5 own, something himself walked up a hil stood wi oat fie See Path, Ye id tant Marta] etal wee tack to th UY aa ind 8 Ut —— out ot my sind, small girl she had been, who had ee sudith Jimmy — Too bad about Alford when you, saw us, the other day \wror ‘auch. raggid things trom |"agnrare, of Bruce's sees btiragirm etree spacial Could, its no. good: ve tnieg [second-hand stores in Pittsburgh. Millicent tor & moment fot, knew “Normit—Did stmething go wro0e —Lord, how P've tried! T thought | ven phen though, she had had a lonly that she had a need for com: with his car? maybe it would pass, And I'hated| wanted to be a designer oo erat and he could supply tt. In a Jimmy—Yes, too much play st the ee ee had come to New York, after high |dinienc’” oe? 014 him of Phil's Ms — sure that he spoke the ‘truth "Tes wile” she tutta dees |ipiit Mid ay much but the ate Rastus—Mandy, after I dies, I wish Siad you are being honest now, /and later became secretary to a|ing. They sins ee uiderstand~ you'd marry Deacon Shorter. Phil, Clean wounds hurt but they | capable designer. When the wo-|hill, At came back down the Mandy—Why so, Rastus? heal. Do you—is she—" man went to Paris one spring, she|they met anne toe veranda Rastus—Well, Mandy, I'l tell you eee took Judith with her, ‘They hadlang Metts, ote Couple. Phil de truff. Deacon me ‘THERE was one question she|gone down to Venice for a week’s| “Judith, on a mule trade once coulda’ ask, ner | ze tt, fhe, Lido. There, Judith asked, then he stoped. gu all Oklahoms mountain girls are re~ doom 6s simply as that. The thoes |ft hee beers him (alter Temembered that to ported bleaching thelr hair with words that once had made Heaven| Her thoughts: went back na mutter now, broomweed flowers, elder bark, egs| * Pg recnes | Peta plntin to ‘As she and Bruce turned te ens olks and saffron, @ trend that falls for her, now tore syeronms on the/ter the fre-lighted room, the Jon into the jurisdiction of ‘conservation eee etait, ce ee pagetosweet tones of’ Marta “Judith, you are taking it like|and love, They had been married |you thouee Pact (0th: “And first introduced 2 soldier,” Phil said, and when a/the next year. And now... Garling! Didn't T eet, Ce, hurt, e “ ; Perey bile dt acd Coote Ce nes teed Realizing that she must make a wanted—clothes?” you she only necticut. 's lips, be Sushed a little. |gesture at wisdom, she smiled as (To Ba Continued)