The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1937, Page 6

Sn THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1937 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper ————— eee Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck). Daily by mail outside of North Dakoti Weekly by mail in state, per year . Weekly by mail in Canada. per yeai Weekly by mail outside of North Dakot: Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press 1« exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the luca! news of spontaneous origin published herein, All rights of republication of ali other matter herein are also reserved, No Recess in Public School of Experience Because all the examples and object lessons were plunked right into his own lap in his own home—if he had one—the American citizen learned more about economic theories, laws of supply and demand, taxes and business cycles during the depression than he ever knew before. As this knowledge was acquired, it was applied to practical problems. And it helped tide the nation through dangerous periods when the balance of our entire system was endangered by suffering and discontent. But with the return of what purports to be normalcy, people are lazying back to the aititude that they don’t have to worry about the intricacies of economics or government any more, and that from now until the prosperity curve goes over the top again, anything that happens must be all for the best. The only error in that philosophy is that it conflicts with the facts—facts that show debts, taxes, food, clothing, and sxel- ter costs, and government expenses mounting into a miraculous total. i In its last, long, weary session, congress managed to make appropriations totaling nearly nine and one-half billion dollars. The amount for the public debt interest alone showed an increase of $5,000,000, and the public debt proper reached approxi- matey! $37,000,000,000. These gigantic financial involvements are too easily waived aside by politicians with references to the great price the nation hzs to pay for the salvation of the happiness and prosperity of 130,000,000 people. But the truth is that every citizen is paying directly or indirectly for this salvation, and if a man can’t get it ail paid off in a lifetime, his children will have to finish the job: The exasperating ease with which public money is spent may be traced not only ir national government, but through state, county and city administrations as well. The habit is not necessarily confined to one party or one period. It just seems to turn up when the man who has to take it on the chin— and on the pocketbook—lets his guard drop, The whole moral is that the public should ‘maintain its defense by making its elected representatives public servants in fact as well as in Fourth of July oratorical fantasies. When congress apprcpriates more than $400,000,000 for military purposes and more than $500,000,000 for navy pur- poses, the voter should know why. Probe into the reasons be- hind state tax increases; ferret out the cause for the higher county levy or whatever it may be that is costing more. If you aren’t satisfied with the answers, smoke out the. truth. And if your public servant won’t co-operate, elect one who will. Here are bigger problems than ever, tumbling right out of every weekly pay envelope. And the way to face them is still being taught in that big, free school of practical experience. Never Say Die Reds . . Behind Scenes Washington CONGRESS HAS YET TO FACE REAL ISSUES—MAVERICK. Editor's Note: Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Texas, although only serving his second term in congress, already has achieved national fame for his fearless oratory and his ability to lead the progressive group in the house. He is a champion of Roosevelt's measures. By REPRESENTATIVE MAURY MAVERICK (Written Exclusively for The Tribune and NEA Service, Inc.) What congress did not accomplish in the last session makes us think of what should be accomplished in the future. Indeed, considering the fun- damental actions promised and the almost blank record of meeting seri- 4 | ous issues face to face, the session of congress recently over probably is one of the worst in history. Now at home, we can begin to think things out. What happened, and what will we do in the future? Well, in the last session we were stymied. When supreme court: argument came up there was the greatest barrage of words and bitter denunciation in American political history. We congressmen, most of us law- yers, stewed around in our own men- y tal juices, With that confusion, } nothing could be done. So the im- portant legislation was held off till the last, and then dropped over- board. The future? Ar- gument over the court, its powers and the powers of congress must go on, The contro- versy has done Maverick some good, for the American people have at least recog- nized that the judges are human, and the full humanization of the court must be accomplished. We must also have very clear ob- jectives, They must be plotted out, understood, and then we of congress— and all the American people—must go ahead. ek & Asks Permanent Program At the next session we should agree what we want to do; this must be de- veloped into a permanent program. TI suggest the following: 1, Conservation. of natural re- sources, 2. Farm legislation. 3. Establishment of the eight TVA's, 4. A developed and extended housing program. 5. Strengthened ‘labor provisions for settlement of displutes, fair to both sides. ° 6.. Minimum wages and maximum hours; fair labor standards. fs gover nim eat, reorganization; abolition of » duplicating bu- Teaus. i fe An improved food and drug act. The first four —conservation farm, eight TVA’s, housing — must’ be co- ordinated as a great national plan. Where the New Deal has done a great Job of emergency legislation in saving the country, it is not doing as good & job in. establishing permanent policies, « ** * Knows No State Lines When a national plan is mentioned, considering these four subjects, a great yell goes up about state's rights and centralization of power in Wash- ington, That is nonsense. A river Pays no attention to state lines — a drop of water rolls in from Canada The Next Shot Better Be Good of THIS CASE STARTED IT ALL From the standpoint of history, un- questionably the Humphreys case will stand out as the most revealing and significant single incident of the whole Roosevelt regime. From it dates not only the Roosevelt fight against the Supreme Court but it discloses as does nothing else the President's. feelings and his theory of government. Looking back now it is easy to un- derstand this. As a matter of fact, it is difficult to compreiend why it was not grasped more completely at the time, because a more illuminating happening could hardly be imagined. It is old stuff, but worth repeating. Here are the facts: Mr, William E. Humphreys was & member of the Federal Trade Com- mission. It was that Mr. Roosevelt would replace him with a man of his own choice when his term expired. But the President wanted control more quickly and in the sum- mer of 1933 he asked Mr. Humphreys toresign. In‘a personal letter he said, “without any reflection upon you personally or upon’ the service you have rendered, I find it necessary to ask your resignation. I do this be- cause I feel that the aims and pur- poses of the: Administration can be carried out more effectively with psr- sonnel of my own selection.” Viewed in the light of subsequent and goes all.the way to New Orleans, Who thought, during the last presidential campaign, that within a year the Communist party might become a convincing candidate for public pity? Reduced to competition with swas- tika wavers for public square. attention, bustled off the ballot and generously subjected to the “silent treatment,” the party, for all practical purposes. has sunk to a new low level. One of the cruelest rebuffs came from New York’s Mayor LaGuardia, who verbally manhandled an offer of Communist votes in his campaign for re-election. : tearing as it goes. Floods are a na- tional problem, Diseased people in slum areas affect’ the entire country. In all these problems let every division of government do its part. The eight TVA’s will be federal (cheap power, flood control, naviga- tion, dams), but states, cities, indus- try, business will benefit and take ® part, Farm production and prices are af- fected by what occurs anywhere in the Country; there must be co-ordinated. Greatest producer of red herrings (made to measure) in| 8° modern electioneering history, the Communist party seems to have dwindled away to the comparable status: of a raggedy, weed-choked pickle factory on a deserted prairie, But hold those tears! Death may approach but never. will it completely shroud the Red body politic. Not with elections oad short haul over the horizon and campaign issues hard to find. Politics in the Arctic From the Soviet Arctic, 47 Eskimos have been brought to the Kamchatka peninsula for.a course in political leadership. Their first duty to civilization was to learn to tie their shoe- laces and button their clothes. Under Soviet instruction, the Eskimos were dressed for tite first time in European clothing, saw their first map, were told why the moon shines and learned of the new Soviet constitution. 5: Presumably, if. the course dealt mainly with Political lead- -ership, those 47 Eskimos also learned how to undermine the opposition by boring from within, how to establish prisons for At the next session immediate leg- islation should be adopted, especially on agriculture and labpr, but it will be necessary to evolve permanent poli- cies, A housing bill has been adopted. But it must be greatly developed. For friend and foe of the New Deal alike, all must know that oper- ation of the government will inevit- ably be on a scale so much greater than in the past that everything done tiny. Twenty-five lized the gi- gantic operations of corporations to- day. And few realised that ‘the gov- ernment will do the same, without harming, but actually benefitting the business and ae) of the nation. es Yes, if there is anything in ture, be the fu- wayward members who stray off the true party line, and how| ha to harpoon fellow-Eskimo Communists who sabotage Progress by failing to bring in their quota of bearskin and blubber. Civilization a la Soviet has reached into the land df the mid-| *%© th concern of night sun, and if those Red teachers did their job properly, it’s going to be a longer, colder winter for the rugged individualists of the igloo commune. ‘There are new twists every dey on this make friends and influence people business—like shooting foreign ambassadors and tossing champagne on mayors. ‘ Senator Pittman believes it would be “cowardly” to leave United States interests in Ching unprotected. They can't intimidate us, eh, senator? eee ‘There's @ suspicion Roosevelt would like to leave » few senators off his |! “at special session. invitation Het for thet eutumn Maybe Jimmy Welles sree Interided a°the wild card in that New York events, that letter tells ‘the story. It revealed a conception of the Presi- dency and particulerly of these quasi- Judicial boasds which no other Presi- dent had had. The clear purpose of the acts creating them . was to free, The Great Game gPOLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun them from executive control and their independence had not been questioned prior to the Humphreys letter. Mr. Roosevelt took the ‘ opposite view, holding, as he wrote, that it was es- sential that he have on these boards men whose “minds march with mine” and “frankly, I think it best for the people of this country thet I should have full confidence.” " In the language of the street, the Humphreys correspondence was the “pay-off.” That should -have told every discerning man that here is a President who. will not tolerate inde- pendence upon the part of any government agency and who is ing to set aside the law to ecq! power. Because that is exactly wi he did. When Mr. Humphreys de- clined to resign, pointing out that un- der the law he could not be removed except after charges had been pre- ferred and a hearing given, the presi- dent, in October, 1933, summarily moved him. At once Mr. Humphreys instituted suit for reinstatement and eighteen months later, during which time Mr. Humphreys had died, the Supreme Court unanimously declared Prerogative’, that he had no right to remove members of these boards, that the clear purpose of Congress was to free them from executive interference and establish them as independent agencies. There was so much going on at the time:of the Humphreys removal that it was not much of a sensation and the Supreme Court decision was al- most completely overshadowed by the National Insignia HORIZONTAL, Answer te Previous Pussie KEL INIG SIL 14 Musical bell. (GIR) 16 To do again. |NIE] 17 Moist. 4 18 To relax. 19 Unsightly. 0 To diminish. 2 Muscid fly. 30 Genus of’ fishes.” 34 Fume. - 35.Contest for a - prize, besiéging. 36 To'come in. 54 Afternoon 38 Country’ mea}. | +: $$ To habituate. $7It occupies an entire —. 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Write let are of. addressed envelope. practically tasteless, and which contains 300 unite of juestions pertaining to he rs briefl; ‘he Tribune, All queries must be accompan! Brady, M. D. ly and in ink. Ad vitamin D, taken by simply dropping a drop or two in QUESTIONS AND ANSWEBS Medicine Making Rapid Strides In a pamphiet distributed by the American Medical Association I reay that a weil known surgeon objects to the injection method of treating hernig because it requires considerable time and hence is unsuited for patients wha come from a distance as it would require them to remain away from home for quite a while. (T. 8. A.) Answer—You must have got hold of some ancient stuff. The American ‘By FRANK R. KENT fact that it was handed down simul- taneougly with the NRA decision. For these reasons its significance was largely lost. Yet, as time passes, it ‘becomes 0 clear that it seems aston- Newborn infant lived only a to enlarged thymus gland. (Mrs. Answer—X-ray examination of but possibly the large or not. What Your Personal Health aith but not dis dress Dr. has not yet learned about the thymus gland will fill large books some day. (Copyright 1937, John F, Dille Co.) the Departmental Reorganization bill. ‘The chief feature of the second was to give the President control over the in- dependent boards and the chief fea- ture of the first was to give him con- trol over the court which had denied him control over the boards. A calm survey of the facts leaves no room for doubt that the Humphreys aos Cy ay jt inion bills of his 1937 moe a Hissar Judicial Referm bill and | revealed the dictatorial design of Madma NA CAST OF CHARACTERS KAY DEARBORN—heroine whe inherits a yacht for vacation. MELITA HOWAR D—Kay'’s feomm| 5 PRISCILLA DUNN—the third adventurer. RREST BROTHERS and GRANT HARI ouns sele: personal affront, ‘That, rankled every cabin you see?” Play safe and assume nothing. rept gtpse i ey window. “We are coming to the north end of the island. Be ready to follow the shoreline around. I? You made a ot tie thought i, it will Happen to me just as it to that woman in the cabin?” With an effort she brought her- self to “Where do you want me to take you?” she asked, her voice as steady as she : “Perhaps you've the boat doesn’t carry a dinghy now.” the island. Why did you need to interrupt the cruise my friends and I were having? We were ready to leave and not bother you any more.” you might have quit Is it ‘vour habit to ns I Kay's heart jumped. Did he refer only to their visit today, when the cabin was empty? Or was he aware, too, of their visit during the night? She decided to But I hardly need to tell you, do|*® will record that it all started with the ‘Humphreys case. into the water feet first, the revolver head. holding carefully above his Kay struck out easily, her heart pounding much faster arms and legs. She knew could far outdistance her Over her shoulder she saw surprisingly i : : i 5 i t ok ‘{ g { her that she ih was Bay hie Hit: embey, ; al s eis] i BEE Ha E [i i - q : i g i i : At Bae ? : ki tl; FB $ ‘ i E E ype aueer tne! a H Saet z i EE i 5 é E i } Hike BF ridte fi ; iat il (Te Be Continues) ed by o stamped, {| necessary underlying varicose vein or at least to employ measures to counteract the impaired circulation in the leg, in order to heal the ulcer. Thymus pegs: Autopsy report ascribed death series of young infants showed enlarged thymus gland in a large number, whether the infgnts had any apparent trouble attributable to such a condition or not. Frankly nobody knows what enlargement of the thymus in the young infant signifies. X-ray treatments to cause the enlarged gland to reduce to something like “normal” size; thymus naturally undergoes such change in the course of weeks or months, whether treatment is used medicine