The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 10, 1937, Page 4

The Bis An Independent Newspaper 3 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER i, (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper —— $< eee Publish: Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. se aren the postoftice 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 state, per year . Canada, per year . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press ts 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 published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Decline in Religion Religion—and the churches—are losing ground America. Authority for this statement is not a cynical or iconoclastic observer but the Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery, representing all the leading denominations, which is asking the people of America to observe church Loyalty Day on October 2 and 8. October 2 was included to reach those groups which observe the Sabbath instead of Sunday. The attitude of the public toward religion was obtained by asking 9,500 adults two questions: Is religion gaining or losing and are moral standards better or worse. Answering the first question, 24.8 per cent said religion is gaining in influence; 1.3 per cent said it never had any influence to start with; 17.2 per cent saw no change and 49.9 per cent said it definitely is losing ground as a force in the lives of the people. In answer to the second question 17.1 per cent said moral standards are better; 10.1 per cent said they don’t know; 27.8 per cent see no change from the past and 45 per cent said they are definitely lower. Discussing the discouraging situation thus presented the committee says: in “The committee recognizes that religious forces, moral strength and spiritual power cannot be adequately represented by tables or percentages; but when perscnal interviews with 9,500 adults produce results like those graphically shown above, any thoughtful person must recognize a backwatd tendency or eddy in the onward move- ment of religious and moral forces. “The national committee, it is emphasized, has no defeatist attitude in connection with these charts. It recognizes that they depict only = temporary action in a forward movement which spans the centuries, Not content with the mere recovery of any ground which may have been lost by religious institutions, the committee calls: for an advance in the service of all mankind through the sanctions of religion as well as through established character- building agencies.” « Whether or not the committee’s optimism is justified, the situation is one which. demands the intelligent interest of everyone, for the churches have long been a definite force for good in this country. If they accept the figures as correct—and church leaders should be able to tell whether or not they truly represent the existing situation—the leaders of all American denominations should give careful study to the CAUSES of this development. Is it that the doctrines of Christ no longer fit the needs of modern man or is it that the churches no longer are adequately teaching them? Is it that the FORMS of religion have been elevated to prominence above the FACTS of religion or is some- thing else wrong with church organizations? The answer should be found—and soon—lest the influence |} of the churches still further diminish and the church buildings eventually become dark and wholly empty houses from which our population has fled. Planned Flying Pays Off After two months of trial flights over the North Atlantic, for which four nations pooled data and resources, it is announced that trans-Atlantic airlines are feasible. Simultantously comes news that coast-to-coast American commercial air service is now 10 years old, with more than 120 million miles of flying to its account. Trans-continental trip time has been lowered from 48 to 15 hours. For such important accomplishments, these brief, terse announcements strike the observer as somewhat understated. Actually, they are in complete accord with the new attitude toward pioneering. And they recall the Bureau of Air Com- merce suggestion that planned air progress is much more satisfactory, much more fruitful than any specie of stunt In the light of these two latest accomplishments of aviation, it seems that the Bureau’s advice was good. We are learning to blaze trails without ballyhoo. Slump in Free Cannons The cannon on the courthouse lawn, stock in trade of the patriotic zealot and the Fourth of July speaker, apparently has passed its zenith. The government reports that its supply of Civil War guns‘has given out completely, and that captive German cannons all were snapped up long ago. Some French 75's, several varieties of trench mortars, field pieces, caissons and carriages are the only bargains left. Fur- thermore, even this market has slowed because of heavy freight charges which the bargain hunter must pay to get his free cannon home. _ Just how the vogue for preserving these war relics ever came to pass in the United States is hard to say. Whatever the cause, passing of the sacred cannon custom will start no tears of sorrow. With what weapons are left, maybe we'll have time to hammer out a few plowshares. ; Paid-Up Mortgages . Every so often someone rises up to denounce the increasing Washington CAPPER SEES LITILE HOPE FOR STRONG THIRD PARTY Editor's Note: Republican Sen- ator Arthur Capper of Kansas, publisher of newspapers and farm magazines, is representative of the great American grain belt. In the following article he dis- cusses the chances of farmers joining a farmer-labor party in 1940. By SENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER (Written Exclusively for Tribune and NEA Service, Inc, The year 1940 will find the Republi- can and Democratic parties contesting for political control as usual, although one or both parties may suffer from desertions. There is little possibility of a third party which would weld masses of farmers and masses of industrial workers into a political unit. Such a combination, I believe, is impossible at this time. We have three powerful farmers’ organizations in this country, and while they don’t often clash with each other, I don’t think organizers would find them politically malleable. The oldest of the three is the Na- tional Grange, headed by Louls J. Taber, a progressive Republican from Ohio, who represents the large body WW conservative farm thought on poli- tits. Edward O'Neal, an Alabama Demo- orat, is the head of the Farm Bureau, which has been consistently pro- Roosevelt and pro- New Deal in its. political symp a- thies, Probably the most liberal farm group is the Farm- ers’ Union with E. H. Everson of South Dakota, as its_president. On such broad issues as that of the original AAA these three groups worked harmoni- ously for a com- mon cause, but Senator Capper generally speaking they don’t think alike about enough things to form a cohesive pollen tome * Won't Join Forces As for a political alignment with labor, I think with the exception of a few such farm states as Minnesota, where there has long been a local farmer-labor tion, there is ttle disposition on the part of farmers to join forces with industrial workers in the support of a presidential can- didate or more than an occasional Piece of legislation, ‘Typical of the breach between labor and farmer politics is the contrast in reactions to the supreme court re- cently, Farmers were resentful of the court's decision in declaring the pro- cessing taxes under AAA unconstitu- tional, as was labor when the supreme court invalidated wage. and hour leg- islation. But farmers generally were alarmed when the president suggested a re- form of the court as the redress for those who had suffered under its de- cisions. Labor responded enthusiasti- cally to the president's pian. I think before the president proposed to alter the court, he was equally popular with farmers and industrial workers. Today I feel there has been a cool- ing off of farmer sympathies with the dministration. The supreme court bill nierinen the conservatism of the been asked how closely I thought the economic interests of farmers and industrial workers are in- terrelated, and inter-dependent. My answer is that I do not concur with the theory that higher wages for in- dustrial workers are coincident with ' ‘ NS UUM TE "FEDERAL FINANCES There are so many dazzling and Giverting things about the New Deal that the effort to impress the people generally with the dangers of national insolvency and stress the confused and uncontrolled state of the federal finances has not been markedly suc- cessful. For that there are various other reasons, too, One is because the administration automatically balanced. That has been the doctrine, and the degree to the most remarkable things that has 1932 was the most emphatic and ar- ticulate of allthe pointers-with-alarm curate. ised that the deficits would end. Another reason people have not, been greatly impressed is that the! higher agricultural income. It is sald that if labor is succesful in its fight for higher wages, there will be an in- creased demand for farm products. That much is true. It is also true that the manufacturer who sells to the farmer will raise his prices to meet higher labor costs, The effect is to level down the farmers’ income which has been increased by the high- er farm matket. Ultimately the farmers’ prosperity depends on good or bad crops. However, the farmers are not going to complain about good wages for the pepe worker if at the same fey, ‘are getting good prices for wheat and corn and cotton. scheduled for consideration by rape ay ey, shoul, I think, govern y existing prices in the farmers’ market. I believe farmers are feeling better about their economic situation than they have for years. They are getting nearer parity prices now than at any time since 1929, and there seems to me no evidence of overproduction at this point. If there is a trend toward over- Production with a poor farm market resulting, then I think should step in and check the trend. But the farmer Vee dissatisfied with the way things going, as are the industrial workers at this point. I don’t think sgricultural communities in any im- portant measure tion for political reform or any radi- cal departure from the established po- litical party system. BARBS ) OO Any taxpayer cgn tell worried eco- nomists how present wages will last. Until six days before the next Souiraay, Ocoee Wig Those notices you didn’t see about banquets for homecoming congress- men didn’t get mislaid somewhere, number of mortgages which are being foreclosed by the Home| ¢!th Owners Loan Corporation, first of the government agencies set up to ameliorate the ills of the home owner. This situation is bad, to be sure, even though it was ex- pected by any intelligent observer. But there also is a bright side to the picture, recent an- nouncement having been made by the HOLC that 20,844 of its clients had paid their mortgages in full by August 1 of this year, The trend began a year ago and has been growing steadily more pronounced since that time. The it clearly stands to record some losses from 7a the HOLC venture but there is no doubt that the experiment <4 8. 080. U0. 987. OFF warnings have been repeated so often without anything dreadful happening that they have lost their potency 80 far as the general public is concerned, though, of course, thoughtful men that every time the note of alarm is sounded it is more serious and more justified. To the average citizen, however, the unbalanced budget has become a routine affair to which he is thoroughly accustomed.| While he cannot help absorb the fact debt is higher and the deficit é e 3 SEEREE BEet Es i E z Z é i E i ! § He Peak an i! nit Sges fil t ai EB. i tg E I gtk aR lh f i | i 5. i 5 : I E : [ : [ gg i i E i aH te Feet ike fe He rien which it has been swalloweg is one of} Pressur the senate by administration leaders under orders from the White House. ‘That is a matter of record. One pro- posal was to reduce the relief appro- priation asked by Mr. Hopkins from & billion and « half to a billion dollars for the year. The other was to take & flat’ 10 per cent out of all appropria- tions for all departments. Congress was willing and anxious to do both these things. They were proposed not by. enemies of the New Deai but by friends of the president. Senator soothed | Byrnes of South Carolina, was behind one; the vice president behind the other. Congress watitéd to do both. was anxious to economize in ® big way. But the president would not let it. re from the mayors’ lobby was too great on one hand and pres- sure from the departments too erent on the other. Both proposals wi killed and with them went all hope of an approximate balance this year, or next year, or the year after that. In the seven months that have inter- vened since his last economy declara- tion the number of civilian employes on the federal pay roll has been in- creased from 831,000 to 845,000 and there will be a further increase by the end of this month. In the same seven months the national debt has in- creased from around $35,000,000,000 to over $37,000,000,000, the peak for all time—ten billion greater than at the time of the armistice and sixteen bil- lion more than when Mr. Roosevelt became president. Despite great increase in revenues, when the bonus payment of two bil- lion is discounted, it is found that the deficit for the past fiscal year is a = 279, that while revenues i EF i EE, 1 g 5 8 la if ? 3 8 se HE HJ ae E i a p8F : : Ha i Ae id ge fl i ss ane fe tt i i g i E a4 i E z d i ae z : fi eEs 2 rt phe Great Gone POLLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun By FRANK R. KENT The steep rise in the price of food- stuffs and clothing is beginning to make wage earners and housewives restless and thoughtful. Once let the truth permeate that in this way they are being made to pay for the ex- travagance and experiments of the gress to Washington so strong for economy that even the president will not be able to prevent drastic action. The Atlantic ocean, with its 34,- Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. 7 dy will answer ions pertaining to health but as ¢ noe dlagne is. Write letters briefly and in ink. 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