The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1937, Page 6

e Bismarck Tribune Behind Scones An independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) 5 Washington ‘This is the fifth of six columns by Rodney Dutcher on the Pres- ident’s “brain trusts.” | Must Be a Case of Dual Personality . | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1937 & Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. ; State, and ficial Newspa; . Bi ALD ts pertaining to health but mot dis Si ent ous Oe nae ease oF dlague Ts a Mttive letters piety and invink Address Dr, daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- in care of The Tri! pees ueries Di y tara) . D,, and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mai) Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Editor By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Sept. 23—Men closest to the Roosevelt “throne” always are subject to sharpshooting from those not so close, but wishing they were. Embittered ex-members of the in- Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen’ Manager rays were too strong for them. this, The specialist said the he: Yet I see mothers exposing babies leaving them to swelter in the sun. ner circle constantly snipe at them. There are all kinds of specialists in the world. They are bombarded by powerful any one else can persuade any reput outside opposition forces which find Uf 7 /, | > nonsense as that, I'll warn people about it. it easter to shoot at the president in- 1 6 ; that they should expose babies to the sun directly with the hope of dislodging shine available, for the best welfare of the those advisers and aides who remain. sunburn and to keep the sun from shining on 5 Conservative hosannas greeted uncomfortable it is to have direct sunlight glaring in your eyes. Tugwell’s departure as a Roosevelt Its merely an old wives’ superstitution that sunlight on the head, and spine is more injurious than sunlight on any other long as the sunbath or is reasonably comfortable than can possibly follow is sunburn, and every one must use own judgment as to how much sun the individual can stand without burning, infants or others not yet accustomed, exposures should be for minutes at first, gradually lengthened day by day or week by week as progresses and the skin becomes accustomed to exposure. Not only infants but growing children and every one else should enjoy daily exposure to sunshine wherever or whenever it is possible. Another reader rings in another funny i “I took your iodine ration 2% years ago. I was then 20, and had always ‘been slender.” vation. Mine is fodin ration. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance per year (in Bismarck) .. per year (in state outside outside of North Dekots in Canada, per year mail outside of North Dakota, per year. “shift to the right!” Promptly, how- ever, it became obvious the president was cooking up the most radical of his programs — the supreme court change plan. And it took little time for the op- position, the would-be favorites and the ex-favorites to get thelr fire centered on two lawyers, Thomas G. Corcoran, 36, and Benjamin V. Cohen, 42. “Tom and Ben” are the opposi- tion’s latest candidates for the sau- Member of the Associated Press ‘ Ipsivel; ntitied to the Petite moa dicatcnes, cred ed tornt oF not otherw' redited in this 8 of spontaneous origit eo persia for republica- wspaper and also the local n ar rights of republication of ali other matter herein are also Good Horse Sense There is nothing especially brilliant in the announcement ef Highway Chief Zina E. Sevison that he is going to stress the fheed for more surfaced roads in the coming year, but it does represent the application of good, common sense. Every highway commissioner in recent years has realized the same need and has said practically the same thing. As Jong ago as 1927 highway engineers contended—and their po- litical chiefs agreed—that it would be better to build roads with higher initial cost and lower upkeep. The man who drives down a graveled road and watches it blow away in dust behind him knows without being told that it costs more to maintain such a highway than is true of one where the surface material stays in place. Because of that Mr. Sevison will receive nothing but encouragement from the motor- ing public. But, before we grow too optimistic, it is well to note the reasons that the good intentions of highway officials in the Ti ® past failed of realization. It is wise, before we expect too much, Ue : to note the demand for new roads which still exists. It is : . f i Beg eres proper to note the condition of the state’s treasury and the without fuss, the president The Great Comet POLITICS A is "7 tremendous sums which must be spent on maintenance of roads held, count upon an easily It wasn’t my fodine “After taking it for a month I started to gain weight, and gained steadily for nearly two years, gaining 40 pounds in that time. Dieting and exercise gave no help. Consulted specialist. He thyroid gland which had Both Considered Geniuses Neither functions as a general ad- viser of the Tugwell or Moley type. But their scalps, for anyone who would strike at Roosevelt, are well worth getting. Corcoran, ubiquitous, to statement of his view or belief about the effects of iodin ration on the thyriod gland, The notion that such an iodin ration may overstimu- function was exploited by “specialists” as a theoretical objec- Of iodized salt in the place of ordinary salt for table tice the popular use of iodized salt has not only endemic or simple goiter but apparently it has for exophthalmic goitre or hyperthyroid @obn F. Ditle Co.) si 5 diverted people to forget the incident, | which cannot possibly be oiled. It is merely normal prudence g | to estimate the political pressures which, by forcing diversion of the available money to other purposes, have kept past high- | way administrations from realizing the same ambitions which Mr. Sevison now expresses. Fortunately he is in good position to adhere to his policy. | He has a six-year contract to do a job and can, if necessity | arises, ignore political pressure. Temporarily, at least, he is | above the mundane things which have so hampered highway | development in the past. He is, substantially, his own boss as ‘well as the boss of the road system, and politicians can either like it or lump it. That fact gives rise to hope that this state will at last ‘have a soundly-conceived, soundly-administered highway de- | partment which will give the people what they want and what they ARE PAYING FOR. But it probably would be best to restrain the cheering uatil ' the job is done—or at least well begun. There have been so many promises and such poor performance in the past that Mr. Sevison can hardly blame the average citizen if he is a little super-energetic, brilliant, is the pres- ident’s favorite trouble-shooter, liai- son man, co-ordinator, conciliator, ghost-writer and salesman. Cohen, his teammate and room- mate, has drafted laws—none of which has yet been found by either Wall Street lawyers or the supreme court. Both have been dragged unwill- ” lerance” make sit Members who had refused to “co- Bes ‘better, dns. situation S07 . That's exact- operate” with him. 3% seoms safe to state he ts nol on tty’ ingly into the limelight. Cohen is nat- longer amused. The effect to date of urally a recluse, but Corcoran was called by. Justice Oliver Wendell - ra = = Holmes “the most alive man I ever 5 knew.” Both were considered “geni- uses” by their professors, Both have been exposed to the Brandeis-Frank- turter influence, Corcoran was secretary to Justice Holmes and four years with a Wall Street law firm. Cohen was with Brandeis in the Zionist paereaay t’s return & way can The fear of the president's inti- mates is that, before they can be blurred, the facts will so sink into sistant Attorney General Robert Jackson and SEC Commissioner te 2. Doras. ese four liberals, all promoted from obscurity in New Deal ranks because of jobs well handled, are ex- pert in certain fields — Jackson on Pesalion, monopoly ines Re success: Growling Dictators Are Afraid to Bite | ‘ The look of things in Europe is more warlike and threaten- ing, these days, than at any time since the World war. Yet a | betting man might very well feel inclined to gamble that there | ship |jpvon’t really: be another world war, after all. The situation |) probaby looks darker than it really is. The most encouraging factor is that underneath their blus- er and big talk, the statesmen of Europe are scared to death. For one thing, the memory of 1914 is too close. The jar that sent the world sliding into war in that year was actually | {much less severe than some of the shocks Europe has had lately ; | {but while today’s statesman may play with the word, “War,” he knows from actual experience what the word really means— something which his predecessors of 23 years ago did not know. (it makes a world of difference. The Europe of 1914 had not seen a large-scale war for'more the scenes. All have had extensive ex- perience outside the New Deal. Corcoran and Cohen rank as spe- cial assistants to the attorney gen- eral, in addition to important legal jobs under RFC and the National Power Policy committee respectively. They seem to get the toughest White House assignments, Much of the anti-Corcoran and Cohen attack is based on the delu- sion that they were responsible for the badly licked, perhaps fateful, court plan. Attorney General Cum- mings plotted that one exclusively with Roosevelt. This fact may help Gispel the notion of “Tom and Ben” | than 40 years. There had been time for a romantic and unreal |as top brain-trusters, {idea about war to be built up. The horrible calamity that war Nevertheless Roosevelt at once called them in as shock for Bas 5 HE: EETEATEEEES at AY 5 E ee 3 tilfevect eS Pn "3 brings had grown hazy and indistinct in men’s minds, Europe|the early administration for slid into war easily because no one really knew just what war | ne, pian. With Jackson they wrote ie : jwas going to mean. It’s different now. The dictators may fume and bluster and strut, their massed troops may be cheered to the echo by throngs—but down underneath all of them know pre- cisely what is involved. Not while the World war generation still alive will any European nation go to war as blithely irresponsibly as the nations went in 1914. There is another thing—the specter of revolt, which has a of materializing out of the smoke and darkness of a long » No dictator wants that specter raised; no dictator can et that war is 1ikely to raise it. Kings and emperors lost ir crowns because of the World war; would dictators be apt p fare any better in another world war? They would not—and oy know it. : And if that thought holds back the dictatorships, it also back the democracies. For democracy, like monarchy, d @ tendency to collapse during and after the last war. it might survive another such strain and it might not. No cy is likely to take the risk if it can possibly avoid it. On the surface, these fears do not seem to have much effect, Japanese are involved in war in China, and the Germans, ns and Italians are piaying with fire in Spain. The Med- ean “anti-piracy” naval program offers innumerable e4 for war-making accidents and collisions. Warlike talk neyer more common. But down underneath there are these restraining influences nseen but powerful. They explain why the momentous of the last two or three years, which looked so much like did not actually ‘bring war. And they give one reasonable for hoping that what is happening now will not actually Europe simply cannot afford another war. And Europe arguments, ited speakers, primed witnesses and col- laborated with members of congress. Later command of the fight was taken over by the justice department ‘and then by anes Joe Robinson. * paign Corcoran, Stanley High and Juge Sam Rosen- man—who was on the presidential train—were collaborators vious n and Cohen had fought the lobbies of the stockbrokers, investment bankers and public utilities, Roosevelt had given them the se- curities, stock market and public utilities acts to draft after other had failed to produce wanted. 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