The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1937, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other matter herein a: Help for the WPA When and if WPA workers are assigned to the task of constructing irrigation projects under the joint sponsorship of the state water commission and the federal government, a long step forward, will have been taken in both governmental affairs and the economics of this region. Let those who wish debate the question of whether the WPA set-up is advisable or NECESSARY. The fact is that we have it and that it has the support of a majority of the people. But the very conditions which brought it into being and which warrant its continuance in Western North Dakota have imposed a handicap upon its operations, The major task of the WPA has been to give men work, What they get done has been more or less incidental. Because Administrator Thomas H. Moodie is one of the state’s most constructive citizens, he has bent every effort toward making this labor a benefit for the future as well as a stop-gap for the present. But a certain amount of ineffective work has been inevit- able. Moodie hasn’t liked it any better than anyone else. The only defense he or anyone else makes for it has been that of necessity in the face of existing conditions. for republica- redited in this herein. The WPA system contemplates contributions by counties oe and other subdivisions of government to whatever jobs are undertaken. The WPA money must go into pay checks. Very little is available for materials and machinery. Thus, in order to make the pay checks as big as possible we have a situation in which the WPA administrator is permitted to spend only $14 for materials and machinery to put a $40 to $48 pay check in the hands of the worker. In Eastern North Dakota, where crops are favorable, the WPA is about to be dismantled or at least greatly curtailed. The people will have money there, and taxes will be paid in such amounts that the .counties can assume responsibility for a greater proportion of the needy. But in the western part of the state the WPA will continue. | At the same time, however, FEW TAXES WILL BE PAID | 52st! and the counties will be unable to contribute much to the work- relief program. They can not help, because they do not have money. i Thus, unless something else is done, the WPA is forced into a program which will include more “leaf-raking” projects than ever before. No one is more concerned about this than Mr. Moodie. No one in North Dakota is more desirous of seeing a consttuctive program go forward. Hence his interest in the water con- servation proposal. It will pull the WPA out of a hole into. which it has been pitched by the inability of counties to share in the responsibility. But even those counties which can make little or no finan- cial contribution to the program can be of help. They can ask. first of all, that the relief labor in the counties be concentrated where they can do the most worth-while work. To do this they will need to forget some petty local and sectional jealousies. But this should not be difficult, in view of the obvious need for 8 constructive program which will not only take people per- manently off the relief rolls but insure better payment of taxes. Not Too Easy In the observations of Bismarck folk who recently visited the irrigation project at Sidney, Mont., and the excellent series of stories written about it by a Tribune reporter, one fact stands out which cannot too often be repeated as irrigation develop- ment draws ever nearer in this area. ‘ That is the amount of work involved and the time neces- sary to achieve success. In the West, where irrigation is an established practice, there is a saying that it takes two generations to make irriga- tion projects succeed. The first generation tries to apply to irrigation many of the practices of dry land farming and conse- quently it fails to achieve complete success. But the next genera- toin reared under irrigation, notes the shortcomings of its an- |; cestors and corrects them. Thus it was that The Tribune was ‘able to report that on the Lower Yellowstone 25 per cent of the farmers are definitely prosperous, 50 per cent are comfortably situated and 25 per cent are “getting along.” That was after 30 years of unrelenting labor and it is only in the last 10 that prosperity really has come to the valley. , . There is reason to believe that irrigation in the Missouri valley might progress somewhat faster. The fund of experi- “ence is larger now than it was 30 years ago. Some mistakes made in the early days can be avoided. The means of dissemi- nating information are better and the farmer can get more help in meeting his problems. ‘ That there will be disappointments and heartaches goes without saying. They are an inevitable part of any develop- ment. That hopes will be dashed and unforeseen problems arise is certain. No worth-while development ever was achieved without such things. But realization of those grim facts should only make West- ern North Dakota MORE EAGER THAN EVER TO GET AT THE JOB. : We have the land and we have the water. The end sought clearly is desirable. The only question remaining is whether we have the IN- TELLIGENCE, the COURAGE and the TENACITY to carve for ourselves a Garden of Eden from the resources at hand. ESS oo ARE Mot’ persons soe sof so ihuch weiried about what Farley has in the nd Scenes Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Washington, Aug. 11.—One of the great pities of the long court bill fight is the fact some of the most admirable administration ° policies, to Roosevelt's desire to win court fight, were tossed overboard. While Roosevelt was under steady attack and losing prestige and power in the battle on which he had staked 80 much, congress was quietly raiding the civil service system and bringing as many high-bracket jobs as possible under political control, Few have noted the extent to which the senate has knifed the merit system in favor of the spoils system. Sought Right now the chief difference be- tween the senate and house -wage- hour bills is the fact that the senate insist all employes of the wage-hour board earning more than $4000 a year must be exempt from civil service and placed under the senate’s political control by a requirement that they be late Joe Robinson's version of a gov- ernment reorganization bill which would exempt from civil service about 1000 career men in the government, mostly bureau chiefs and division heads, who are now covered by civil service. The original administration plan proposed to strengthen the merit system vastly. Apparently the only Teason Roosevelt allowed Robinson to Pervert a strong civil service bill into a violently anti-merit system bill was his dependence on in the court fight. Some lawyers who looked at the re- ofganization bill insisted it would mean removal of hundreds of veteran service officials would be tossed to the wolves. 3 «ee Tough on Morale iY AUTOMOBILE HORNS N The Great Game of Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun e POLI Gradually the senate has voted it-| NONPARTISAN CO-OPERATION self the power to pass upon the men! If, as is clear, it is the purpose of making $5000 of more in WPA, Réset-| the Roosevelt political strategists to could “get anything on” the employes, Naturally, we think we have, BUT ONLY TIME WILL | Ford tlement, PWA, Social Security and the Bureau of Archives. This simply means that an official must be endorsed by his senator or senators if he is to get & job. The spoils attack on the SSB was directed only at some 51 lawyers ané technical experts there. per- sons all went without or y Ip they inally weren't employed.’ All have been approved now except one woman from Illinois, but morale suf- fered a shock. Individual records were checked, but apparently no one The confirmed employes now are vir- tually compelled to feel under a cer- tain amount of political obligation to their various senators. At least five acts of congress have passed this session with civil service exemptions written into them. service, the new Guffey act pute only the clerical staff in Washington un- der the system. *e 8 Bad Break for CCC When the bill extending the CCC three years came up, the senate tried to put the technical and supervisory jobs under civil service, but this time the house refused to go along. % Headline says “French, Japanese at Gun Point.” Supposé they're looking to see if it’s eset * That Rome-Berlin axis is slightly off center due, maybe, to the fact that it can’t be run through the the Paha Pagal Pole. * It seems one of the first do what they can to prevent the re- nomination and re-election’ to con- gress of the Democratic members who disagree with the president (with, perhaps, one or two Farley-made ex- ceptions) then a Nonpartigan move- primary. support. One inevitably fol- lows the other. Otherwise there is no sense in the situation. | t ee Buch & movement does not davélve primary purpose of such cooperation must be the re-election of the anti- New Deal Democrats opposed by the administration. way by which a practical and effective arrangement can be worked out gor the congressional pfimaries and elec- tions next year. The belief is strong that if united behind a single candi- date instead of divided behind two the anti-New Deal voters in many states and districts are strong enough to overcome the administration advant- ages from relief funds and federal patronage. It does not require @ very great percentage shift of the voters to do that and recent polis con- ducted by Fortune end by Dr. Gallup's Institute of Public Opin- ion now show a majority against’ the Roosevelt policies and against Mr. It himself. However, it is an tirely futile majority unless brought together. : Preliminary discussions looking to the f ion of this cooperative an- ti-New movement have held already and it can be taken as certain that before the 1938 primar- jes it will have assumed concrete shape. Details will have to be worked out, but it is possible to say now that it will be far more national and thus more practical and Siectre than the It is not worthwhile speculating | plenty of now upon what such a movement will Jead to in 1940. No one can tell about that. The present point is that it is the clearly indicated politics for 1938. It is the only possible way by which the foolish futility of the separation of the anti-New Deal voters into two camps can be ended. It is the only who run next year and who are slated Your Personal Health Dr. Brady will answe! By William Brady, M.D. health but not dis t fF questions pertaining to begin ae Dr, Brady letters briefly and in ink. ease or 4 nosis. et i ‘eroriee rust be sccompaaied by a stamped, Tribune, re of The self-addressed envelope. NO, DARLING © THAT iSn'T Rocce. TICS By FRANK R. NT to be the prime New Deal targets. However, there is one thing about grea com. time and. patience tin, are due to irregular sevelt their polit h told exactly that almost newspaper interpreters, and it is the truth. They are not very bright if they fail to grasp the fact that hav- ing gone as far as they have, it would which, for their own sakes, these sen- | | ators should be clear. And that is tint so far as they are concerned they caw nullify completely the beneficial effects of this movement by trying to face in both directions at the same time—in brief, by tsimming. The time has come to be one thing or the other. The voters who distrust Mr. Roosevelt and: his Corcoran-Cohen- Rosenman-Lubin group of advisers have achieved a frame of mind where 8 CHAPTER XII BAsiz ROGERS, Marta’s di- vorced husband, stood in the doorway of the sitting room where Judith, Marta, and Phil sat. “Hello, my sweet,” he gree! Marta. He leered. “So this—t is the gentleman who's gé: gratulations, my dear, congrat tions! Didn’t think you could REBT EERE would forfeit su New Deal Democrats. They certainly will not be able to reinstate them- selves in New Deal favor, and they will force the anti-New Deal Repub- licans to stick to their own-party and by their own candidates, thus keep- ing the anti-administration forces fatally divided. In other words, they would repeat the sad experience of those unfortunate statesmen in the prohibition days who tried to be wet and dry at the same time and fell between the two. 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