The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 14, 1937, Page 4

i { : ‘ . as much or as high-standard goods as somebody in authority 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, AUGUST .14, 1987 An Independent Ni THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, mars, ND, und entered atthe postin at Bumarek es sonad caaé mal ‘tuatter. Mrs, Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O, Johnson ‘Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Secretary and Kéitor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance The (in state outside of Bismarck) North Dakota Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin publ! herein, All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Red Tape and Ruin in Centralized Rule People who consider the value of highly-centralized govern- ments on the German, Italian or Russian models usually base their thought on high principles of one kind or another. Too seldom do they think of the most valid objection of all— the difficulty, the almost sheer impossibility of running the economic life of a great country through a central bureaucracy. Fortunately, at no direct expense to ourselves, we can study some fine object lessons in these matters by looking overseas, where the experiments are being carried on with human guinea- pigs or nationalities other than our own. For instance, Germany: Here is the story of a single deal involving purchase of 10,000 pounds of wool. In the first place, it wasn’t a straight simple deal. Toys had to be exported first to balance the im- port of wool. Then to complete the deal, 680 forms had to be filled in, and it took just 18 months to steer the transaction through the Sargasso Sea of red tape with which it was sur- rounded. Smaller businesses are no better off. A southwest German Chamber of Commerce inquiry found that among small plants with 100 to 200 employes, up to 75 per cent of the clerical work of the company was devoted to filling out control forms, and that the average number of forms to be filled out in a single transaction is now 140. 5 It is no better under the Russian form of centralized con- trol. Since the epidemic of shootings of hundreds of business executives who happened to differ with the prevailing ideology, and the summary firing and blacklisting as “saboteurs” of hundreds of administrators and workers who didn’t produce at Moscow thought they ought to, initiative has worn hobbles. Every executive or administrator who plans a new step is found to be writing to Moscow first to see whether the step would get the approval of the powers-that-be. He is afraid to act on his own responsibility for fear that his act will be mis- construed or fail or go wrong somewhere. And then he faces either the firing-squad or a political blacklist which prevents his earning a decent living in the future. Thus the objection, to the European dictatorships is not only on principle, and on the loss of freedom. It is also practical. For there is good reason to believe that any system trying to run the entire economic machinery of a country in detail from a central control-room is doomed to die a certain and inglorious death in a sea of red tape. That is the lesson. Certain of the current developments in our own country suggests that now is the time to learn it Bismarck Tribune Behiod Scenes Washington generally understood here now that Belgian Premier Van Zeeland’s visit to Washington had as its chief’ ob- Jective a loan for Hitler's Germany. What isn’t so generally known is the extent to which interested na- tions, including the British govern- ment’s leadership, have been peeved because Van Zeeland failed to impress even the elevator boys at the treas- ury. Van Zeeland was asked by the British government to offer Britain's enthusiastic help in calling a world economic-armaments conference if, the United States would sponsor that German 1 Premier Neville Chamberlain gathered the idea from Germany that she would try to be nice in European politics if she got the loan. Chamberlain, according to reliable reports, was no end miffed when Van Zeeland reported that he hadn’t even had a nibble over here. Chamber- lain became sour at Roosevelt and contemptuous toward Van Zeeland. Subsequently there has been con- siderable talk among British and other statesmen as to some kind of a conference which would put the United States on the spot and would be sure to make Germany happy. This government appears to be hep to the scheme and is taking every precau- tion against being pushed into a sucker role. ** *& Third Term Poll “The Progressive,” a weekly de- scribing itself as “LaFollette’s Maga- zine,” the president of which is Sen- ator Bob LaFollette and the secretary Gov. Phil LaFollette, both of Wiscon- sin, has started a poll reaching vari- ous states on the issue whether Franklin D. Roosevelt should seek a third term. ‘The question is: What was in the minds of the LaFollette boys, who are now allied with Roosevelt and leaders, when they started the poll? Assuming that either Bob or Phil or both should have 1940 ambitions, why should either or both sponsor a which might well demonstrate — and may, in view of first returns — that their closest followers preferred Roosevelt. Another possible assumption is that the LaFollete brothers may actually prefer to back Roosevelt at the next election, feeling that he is the best hope of the progressives. After all, Governor Benson of Minnesota, close- ly allied with the LaFollettes, hes done 80, and so has Governor Earle of Pennsylvania. LaFollette brothers sailed down the river with the president on his yacht shortly before their pol] be- gan. So far none of those who were that Author Week after week, ysually in - zines and seldom by newspaper cor- respondents—who know better—those -/partmental reorganization THE BYRD VINDICATION Not often does a public man vin- dicate himself as strikingly and sub- stantiate his position as completely as has Senator Byrd of Virginia, in the controversy he has been having with the administration. It is a pity that more spectacular, though less im- portant things have prevented the facts from making a deeper impres- sion upon the public mind. Since the beginning of this session of congress Senator Byrd has taken the lead in two frontal attacks upon the New Deal: policies. First, he has missed no occasion to stress the in- credible waste of public funds and has tried to force some action to check it. Second, he has been the leader of the opposition to the president’s de- bill, the and unsound nature of which he has repeatedly pointed out. Is it interesting that last week in proving his case on the score of waste he simultaneously proved his case against the ion plan, It presidential aides Tom Corcoran and from example before it is taught us by the more expensive method of experience. ‘Chivalry’ Not Dead If memory serves, back in the days of periwigged and per- fumed gallantry, there used to be a great deal of bowing and scraping, and picking up of ladies’ gloves. The return of such @ glove or veil was accompanied by a graceful bow and scrape and a whispered trifle of sentiment. Not quite dead is this spirit of chivalry. Just the other day during a reception of the public aboard British naval ves- sels at Portsmouth, a woman dropped her handbag overboard in 40 feet of water. And the gallant British navy promptly sent down a diver, and recovered the pocketbook of the fair guest. What a gallant act! What a beau geste! Perhaps one could be surer if he had a dictaphone record of what the diver said as he swung over the side. Pershing and Peace Gen. John J. Pershing, erect and soldierly at 77, speaks at the dedication of the American battle monument at Montfaucon, France, urging peace. Speaking as a soldier, all his words voice a hatred of war and conflict that brought no profit to anyone but left many questions still unsettled. Nor can they be settled by war, Pershing warns. The arm- aments race is a madness, thg general declares, adding that another World war means the end of Western civilization as we have known it. Words like this from any thoughtful man should command attention. From America’s most famous soldier of modern times, they ought to be listened to even by those who sneer at the ordinary pacifist. If Pershing is right, and another general war can be fought only at the expense of the whole of civilization as we know it, then what war cause can be balanced against this inevitable cost It reduces all the “border incidents,” the assassinations and the infractions of a touchy “national honor” to a petty insignificance. ‘See Germany First’ German tourists walking about in strange cities with vir- tually nothing in their pockets are held to give a false idea of the German people. Hence, the Reich now forbids its citizens to go abroad with no more than 10 marks of capital. “Marginal” tourists taking overnight excursions, say from Berlin to Paris, also are held to “lower the reputation of the German nation” because upon arrival the next morning they do not look fresh and clean. The joker in this is that the Nazi law does not permit tour- ists to take more than 10 marks out of the country. The net result is that Germans with wanderlust are just going to have to stay home on week-ends. This pales into insignificance all the arguments, campaigns, op and speech-making designed to provoke Americans First.” It still takes Germany to Ben Cohen have been accused of hatching the plan to pack the su- preme court. Corcoran and Cohen, according to their friends, don’t appreciate the ac- cusaion. They heard about the plan when they read about it in the news- papers. But the man who gets good and sore about those reports is Attorney Gen- eral Homer 8. Cummings, the shrewed Connecticut Yankee, who actually sold the sixanew-judges plan to Roosevelt and who is still very proud of that achievement, insisting thet his proposal was the most feasible of all. He wrote most of the presidential messages on it, in collaboration with his friend Donald Richberg. Roosevelt asked several people for recommendations. Corcoran and Co- hen were among them and they con- servatively suggested a constitutional amendment that would give congress @ veto power over the court similar to the one the president has over con- gress Roosevelt's preferenec for the Cummings proposal rather ruined the idea that Corcoran and Cohen were his pet brain trusters. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) SO THEY SAY | Im going to get (Grandma) Weoks,“celabrating 1ieuh je! Reduction of traffic deaths and serious injuries depends most—next to prevention of accidents themselves sons on the some, Di Gecrgs P. e scene. — Dr. » O'Malley, Cleveland. ae e Removal of fangs does not make polsonous sankes harmless—Kenneth Lewis, the Trailside Museum, Fort Montgomery, N. Y. ** * It's hard work sometimes, but I en- joy it.—Mrs. Henry Ford of Oberlin, C.,, helping her husband build their | renee) | BARBS } OO French law has met its great- the ‘stand without pleeding’ the at ling the unwritten law. -_* & In these days a good diplomat is one who can resist being talked into Be sereemroy 52 beep. le ipasee, A bridge expert says there are no natural players. It takes Practice to kick the right person under the table. me same water- Teorganizati was @ unique dual justification, the full implications of which ought to be generally understood. -The facts are these—early in May Senator Byrd centered upon the Rural Rehabilitation administration as the most conspicuous and indefensible ex- ample of extravagance. As is well known, the RRA was the brain child of that great governmental genius, Professor Tugwell, now operating as a member of the molasses trust. It was he who visualized the construction of scores of “satellite cities” in different parts of the country and it was the president who made available for this gurrel dream a quarter of a billion After six months spent in gathering | made the facts, Senator Byrd made the charge that this scheme was the most stu- pendous and fiftile waste of public money in all history, He proceeded to give the detailed: figures of the costs per home in the half completed Tug- well city being built in Virginia and, pointing out the utter economic im- possibility of the venture, urged that the project be abandoned and no more money spent there. Aside from the fact that this was the first time on record that a member of congress had Protested against the federal govern- ment spending money in his own state or district, the picture of the cost and aoc cameof POLITICS stand out as potential third party!) Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun ‘Wake Up and Live’ ater By FRANK R. KENT seems to have the administration in a corner on both where it has literally nothing to say. To the final figures supplied by the comptroller general's cffice there has been no answer. Ap- parently there is going to be no answer, Apparently Senator Byrd has won his argument and established be- yond dispute the accuracy of his charge that these satellite cities rep- resent an indefensible waste of the people’s money. But does that mean the the uselessness presented by Mr. Byrd attracted national attention. Some sort of answer from the ad- ministration seemed essential, and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was selected to make it. While the RRA technically is under Mr. Wallace, it is well recognized that the scheme was not his and that he has had little or nothing to do with its operations. Nevertheless, supplied with figures from the accounting department of the NRA, Mr. Wallace gave out a statement disputing Senator Byrd’s figures, alleging that they were much too high, and presented a set of his ‘own, much lower. While the RRA’s own figures seemed to prove Senator Byrd's indictment, the latter felt that his accuracy had been challenged and went to work. Last week he returned to the attack armed with figures ob- tained from the general accounting office under the comptroller general, which, at his request, had made an independent investigation. These figures not only substantiated Senator Byrd’s original figures but showed that he had understated rather than overstated his case. Nat- urally, in submitting his proof Sen- ator Byrd did not fail to make the point that Mr. Wallace’s figures came from the RRA’s own accounting de- partment, which is subservient to Mr. ‘Wallace and not from an independent agency, where his figures came from the camptroller general's office, the one wholly independent audit and accounting bureau in the entire fed- eral government, free from control either by the departments or by con- gress. Naturally, too, Senator Byrd stressed the great value in a con- troversy like this of having an inde- pendent auditing agency and then telling point that the presi- dent’s reorganization proposes to abol- ish the office of comptroller general, Co away with the independent audit and put the entire accounting system under the departments, Thus, as the senator pointed out, the congress and the people would be left ai ee any means of getting faci igures concerning administration expenditures except from sources wholly under the con- trol of the administration. It was clever of Senator Byrd to use his proof in the one case to the terrific expenditures of the past four years that they have become inert to what in any former administration would have stirred rational indignation. Another is because this administra- it can't last, but no one can tell when the crack will come. A goldfish, frozen stiff in liquid air, will swim around normaily within a few seconds after thawing out. | FLAPPER FANNY. By Sylvia | “I thought you'd decided to throw him over.” “Yes, but you know how badly a girl throws.” strengthen his contention in the other and he now OUT OUR WAY i . eee, Your Personal Health! By William Brady, M. D. ‘ ‘ ( Dr. Brady will answe: ions pertaining to pean att not i B Tribune. All queries must be accompanied by a stamped, -addressed envelope. ease or diagnosis. Write le! briefly and in ink. Address Dr. Brady n care of fi THE DYSPEPTIC’S FAMILY MUST EAT too bad that the well members of the femily of an invalid who peptic ulcer have to hold back for the invalid’s sake. Here is a menu list for twenty-one meals, with the items the patient E can eat marked with stars. Sit right down, folks, here's where everybody break. eines it is generally advisable for one with marked hyperacidity or with or duodenal ulcer to take six meals instead of meals, teak tie patie may have a glass of half milk half cream between meals ‘and at bedtime, and perhaps a shredded wheat or better still a wheat germ Discuft with it, An ounce of shredded wheat contains 60 units, an ounce of wheat -germ 360 units of vitamin B, and vitamin B is very good for peptic ulcer. SUND. *Gelatin and AY Escalloped to. Bread and butter mato Morning cream 1 *Rice pudding omilk Cabbage salai sGornmeal. with omilk Evening Bread and butter ‘milk and sugar Eveaing Hard cooked obrune whip *Toast and butter *Cream of spin- esses Milk or tea tas seogerree Ae THURSDAY *Egss Baked dried lima Morning *Chocolate ice Baked potatoes beans ae buter Pidedudicl 1 Ruricets “i u atm *Spinach Bread ant atmeal Am ieee dy erican chees Baked rice wit ‘tomatoes Lettuce salad Bread and butter *Apple sauc sai or tee sugar *Toast and butter *Milk or coffe Noon Beef stew with carrots, onions, potatoes *Peas MONDAY Bread and butter *Tapioca pudding Milk Evening *Canned or stewed peaches *Milk or tea Baked hash Morning *Stewed or can- ned peacl *Malt breakfast food with milk and sugar *Toast and butter eMilk or coffe Noom with Bread and butter DAY at Lamb stew, wit! read a: Morning re puddin, potatoes, car- Apple sauce Prunes oMilk : rotsand onions °Cocoa TUESDAY Bread and butter *Baked custard *Any shoronehly Evening cooked cerea Creanfed fish eh redd and butter Baked potatos: Morning Stringbean salad ene, Neon Brea butte AN owed caren Oe avenies Baked fish *Baked custard *Toast and butter Cold meat Prep netaen oMilk or ter emu or corte’ mscelloped| po- | Bread and butter Pot roast of ae and pea SATURDAY Morning *Cornstarch pud- *Stewed apricots ai Any thoroughly, ouile” cooked cereal sal Mashed potatoes *Canned pears Spinach *Milk or tea WEDNESDAY Morning: *Milk or coffee |*Toast and butter Baked rice and Fresh fruit in Noon Milk cheese season Hamburg si Noon Tomato salad *Any thoroughly Mashed po: 3] Fish chowder *Apple snow cooked cereal *Buttered carrots|*Buttered peas *MIlK or tea *Toast and butter Breadand butter! Bread and butter The patient may eat items marked with (*) QUESTIONS AND ANSWEES Preparing for Cruise Plan six weeks Mediterranean cruise, visiting Palestine, Greece, Italy and Egypt. Appreciate advice regarding vaccination or other precautions. (Mis: AB) Answer—You must satisfy health authorities you have been successfully vaccinated within past few years. You should by all means have your physician immunize you against typhoid and paratyphoid A and B—this should be done several weeks in advance, as immunity takes two or three months to develop. Carry with you # small vial of tincture of iodin—for first aid application to scratches, etc., and put a drop or so in a glass of water and let stand fifteen minutes before drinking, if you have to drink water whose purity is questionable. Raw vegetables or fruits not safe—better to eat only freshly cooked things. = By William Ferguson THis Curious WoRLD The (AORNS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP SHOW THE ANIMAL'S AGE THROUGH THEIR ANNUAL GROWTH RINGS. i RESULT OF ALBINISM. IN CANADA THAN IN THE UNITED STATES/ (ABOUT 42: US. GALLONS) : THE massive curved horns of the Rocky Mountain sheep gave it the more common name of Bighorn Sheep. Each year, until the animal is past the prime of life, these horns show a well-defined growth ring. A numiber of skulls have been picked up which, together witb the attached horns, weigh more than 40 pounds. By Williams BOY, NEVER KNEW WAS SUCH A HUSKY! FEEL THIS, FIRST-