The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1937, Page 4

i was this state’s share of approximately $4,250,000,000 spent by 4 froversy. To date there is no evidence that anyone has unfairly / | te proper The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- qmarck, N. D., and Misieres | at the postottioe at Bismarck es second class mail matter. Mra. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Kenneth W. Archie O. Johnson Simons Vice Pres. ee eae Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance in in Canada, per year mai] outside of North Dakota, per year. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press ted Press te exclusively entitled to the use for republica- lonietitue news ‘iepatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in shie Newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous orig! pabllan ai Hers iD. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserve That Tourist Melon 4 In 1936, according to the American Automobile association, | North Dakota cut a tourist melon totaling $14,000,000. That ‘Americans on travel last year. This year the total for the nation is the largest on record, having substantially exceeded the figures for a year ago by mid-August. But what share North Dakota received is doubt- ful, for the sad condition of our highways greatly reduced our proportionate share of this business. 4 Meanwhile, it is pertinent to note that even last year we were behind the surrounding states, Minnesota tourist travel being estimated at $90,000,000, Montana at $30,298,400 and South Dakota at $15,000,000. The marked disparity between Montana and North Dakota may be explained by the fact that, while they may not have had so many more visitors, tourists stayed longer there than they did here. In 1986 the average cost of tourist trips, including the cost ef oar operation, was $7 a day per person. If North Dakota is interested in making this tourist melon larger, it should take note of the reasons given by the bulk of the people for visiting this area. First of all, scenery and cli- mate ranked high. We have plenty of both and should do a Behind Scenes Washington and This is the second of six col- umns on the President's “brain trusters” by Rodney Dutcher. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Sept. 20 — The early New Dealers were a diverse lot of liberals, conservatives and radicals. When Ray Moley finally went out of the government service, tives whooped loudly that this turned to before. By far the most significant early New Deal resignation was that of Budget Director Lew Douglas, an Arizona congressman whose person- ality and grasp of fiscal affairs had made him # Roosevelt favorite by the summer of 1932. Douglas made a hard fight against the New Deal spending policy and lost. He believed the situation would correct itself if there were genuine successful efforts toward budget-bal- ancing. He held to the old theory that the capitalist system had cer- tain self-corrective forces which would work if much of the existing debt were wiped out. Politics, how- ever, said more debt couldn’t be wiped out. The spenders won and what the interesting results of the Douglas theory under 1933-34 conditions would have been, no one knows. But it was the habit of Douglas in the onthe before he quit to keep say- 1s: “Only 60 days more to national ly at veterans and federal employ: and an inside campaign which mon- key-wrenched one intended on: pump-priming, wheel-turning $3,200,- 000,000 public works drive. ‘Meanwhile, Louis Howe was living in the White House, a factor of great weight with Roosevelt. Gnomelike, better job of advertising and selling what we have. Then, in cage order, came the hospitality and friendliness of the people and the comparative lack of traffic. We would like to change the latter condition but every North Dakotan should constitute himself a committee of one to improve the former if possible. We will not be really tourist minded until the man with a foreign license on his car gets an extra bit of attention. In addition, it fis always.possible.to keep in practice by being friendly, hospit- |Wusl able and courteous to each other. . Who should be interested in stimulating tourist travel also is indicated by the survey. In 1936 the total of $4,250,000,000 Some day the people of the coun- try, particularly the women who have to keep house, are going to wake up the fact that the vast and reck- was divided something like this: gasoline, oil, repairs and garag- |i, place ing, $800,000,000; camping supplies, $1,000,000,000; a place to sleep, $850,000,000; meals, $892,500,000; golf courses, theaters and other amusements, $340,000,000; pop, hot dogs and other refreshments, $255,000,000. In Michigan, where an intensive study was made, tourists stopping with friends spent $1.82 a day; those at hotels $7.65; those at their own summer homes $2.82; those at tourist camps $8.37 and those merely traveling through $2.82. All of these figures are on'a per capita basis. And when they view the passing traffic stream, hotel men need not despair despite the growing use of trailers and tourist | camps, for of the total number who answered questionnaires | 60.9 per cent stopped at hotels, 20.4 at tourist homes, 12.5 at | sourist camps and 6.2 at both camps and homes. Just because war news has succeeded strikes and industrial fe on the front pages is no reason for the country to over- the fine record made by the Industrial Peace Board which tly became two years old at Toledo, Ohio. The board came into being following a disastrous strike which there was riot and bloodshed. It consists of repre- sentatives of all classes and is intended to make the public \« lence an important factor in settling labor arguments. no authority and ‘issues no orders. It merely ascertains the facts are and lets the public know to the best of its And the system WORKS. It has settled 62 of 88 disputes before they became strikes ' and where trouble has developed the settlement in every case _ has been pretty much in line with the board’s findings. The | labor groups or the employers who get out of line are quite lik _ to find themselves so unpopular that they quickly yield, mee i That is a common-sense system. It is subject to further | trial and probably has not yet encountered the difficulty of dealing with a dominant group on either side of any con- | ; Proved By Experience | } i it tried to influence the board. But it has been effective. Which is a very direct answer fo those who fail to remember that the public at large is a (vitally interested party in the outcome of every labor wrangle. Wise Mr. Angell Leaving for Europe to study radio enducational systems break didn’t come early in the 1936 campaign year. Al- ways before, Moley had been the ‘first draft man,” who under presi- dential directions had constructed the first model of each Roosevelt Suddenly he discovered that Dr. Stanley High, brought ‘into White House counsels by White House Pub- licity Secretary Steve Early, had been given that job. Moley then withdrew from the New Deal entirely. His last appearance in ‘was in e bitter attack claptrap and buncombe. And when they do grasp these truths they will As the price of food climbs there are to be certain signs, dis- turbing’ to the better balanced among administration politicians, that popu- lar comprehension is growing keener and that while the president still has ge? [ classes to which he has ly appealed that in the be worse off than they a #3 Qs gold policies atter reid cles, gentleman-farmer Morgenthau became secretary of the treasury, and for a time Roosevelt was sold on Warren's “commodity dollar.” Felix Frankfurter, who had fur- nished legal brain trusters to the Hoover administration, big business men and to Justices Holmes and Brandeis, was another important early influence. His “boys” from Harvard law school were and still are numerous within the New Deal, most important among them Tom the past six months table that this feeling » For one thing, there erEy ie Fi Tis Bw BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN there James Rowland Angell, recently retired as president of Yale University and now educational adviser to a radio chain, ‘was asked the question: “Do you believe adults want to be educated?” His answer was: “No. Or children either.” at Granted that the good professor is right—and he is one of _ the bright men of the country—his answer explains much that puzzles the uplifters. ‘ Few consciously want to be improved. They don’t mind improving theinselves. They don’t want to be classified by their friends as “dumb bunnies.” Nearly everyone will fight for an education for his children. But as to a deliberate striving toward “education” Prof. ' Angell probably is right. Most of us are satisfied with our ignorance and our unenlightened prejudices. We are as good 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN hi I Hu F I Fe | as the other fellow. We dan’t need to study. About the only | ° thing that we really respect is experience. And if it is bad we | forget that as quickly as possible. ‘Typical of the Orientals to do things in reverse. It seems the: International Settlement before they can start « war. mare is not dead as long 9s Paris and Hollywood will argue about adres, Courtesy form of e@ee usb about the time exemple becoming declares «mate of war, een ‘e most depressing, Where there's a STARS _AT THE TIME. URIOUS WORLD thing, the collapse settlement administra inevitably to convey ef phabetical agency ler lusioned Mr. Wallace conceals fact that this grandiose and imprac- tical project, upon which several hundred millions have been expended, is now dead and embalmed, ‘Here was an elaborate and incred- gE By William Ferguson THE SUN AND THE SAME unsuccessfully @ good many times be- fore. 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