The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 29, 1937, Page 4

__THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1937 | Ap Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) the Scenes Washington} Maybe 1940 Got Here a Little Early - By William Brady, M. D. te health but mot dis pe ra: diaguonlen Welte ears brisey cad nine. "Address De ereay f Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- neatee o Teirane, All queries must be aceompanied by @ 6! Qaarek, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail DE Weeld Tas te oat aed sel reseed pe. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann Forget Previous Klan Connection, President and Treasurer but Incident Gives Ne Signs ef Archie 0. J Kenneth W, Simons hla? johnson ‘Vieo Pres. and Gen'l Manager Secretary and Béitor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance f Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press t# exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this 5 Newspaper and also the loca! news of spontaneou: published herein. i All rights of republication of ali other matter herel: so reserved. i Americans’ Big Stake in a Powerful Navy i Even the most convinced pacifist must have moments, { these days, in which he feels like thanking his God for the | United States Navy. ; We seem to have passed entirely out of the era in which in- ternational law or international treaties meant anything in par- ticular. What makes the present so dark and the future so discouraging is the fact that the world has reverted to the rule of brute force. A nation’s only safeguard lies in its own strength; and it is extremely comforting to see that America’s strength is fully implemented—sinewed and made ready in a way no one can mistake. * * & We have been one of the world’s luckiest nations for a century and a half—lucky because of our isolation, because of our infinite supply of natural resources, because destiny fixed things so that we could work out our own salvation in our own way. But lucky nations are on the spot nowadays. The nations which have not been lucky have set out to take the things which have been denied them. In Ethiopia, in Spain and in China we have had ample opportunity to see just how determined and ruthless this desire to get a better share of the good things of this earth can make a people. It used to be supposed that simply to possess strong arma- ments put a nation on its muscle. Build a great fleet or a great in the general direction of the Pacific, it appeared that the president had boiled down the Black-Klan issue in his own mind to what he considered by all odds the most important ques- tion: Has Black in recent years had any connection with the Ku Klux Klan? No answer to that question has been available, since Black has given no explanation, secre or otherwise. * May Turn Thumbs Down Many administration critics, in- cluding some of Roosevelt’s own lib- eral followers who have been seri- ously perturbed, take the position that no man who was ever a Klan member should be on the supreme court. Roosevelt himself eventually may be forced into that position. But at present he is anxious to keep Black on the court and may be expected to do what he can unofficially to make it easier for Black to stay. Off the record, it seems, the Roosevelt posi- tion is that regardless of how re- grettable Black’s monkey-shines with the Klan a dozen years ago may have been, the man’s liberal record in the senate for many years makes him the type of man Roosevelt wants on the court, That doesn’t mean that the presi- cent is even slightly happy about the Biack incident. Like everyone else, made one grand mess for him and he is looking for the most graceful, least costly way out of it. He expects a statement from Black. He will expect the state- ment to make it clear what contact, if any, Black has had with the Klan since his election in 1926. And it is more than likely that he will give consideration to whatever other evi- dence there may be on the subject. Certain federal agents have been ex- tremely busy, looking into the situa- tion from all angles. ee * Seeking An ‘Out’ Finding themselves very definitely he See come i POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sum CREDIT FOR MR. BLACK in habitual ‘ ness which shows in the lips and the nails or in some instances the whole surface. biuencas of In the same mail today came these letters—one from an eastern state, one from @ western state: army and you will sooner or later go looking for a chance to use it—so ran the argument, But our own recent experience dis-|{0,* pole New Dealers Rave bUMt NP] omhe first reason given by the Proves that. We have one of the two mightiest navies on earth | purposely failed to reveal evidence| president for his trip to the Western —yvet we have resolutely kept our skirts clear of all entangle-|*% 2 Saker Sarasa : ment in the Mediterranean, and have followed, in China, pre-|order to get Black on the bench £0|vorons other secretaries and. steno- cisely the course we would have followed if our fleet were small |4 '0 pat Rooeeret ae ve, hole.| eraphers, Mrs. Roosevelt, a large de- d weak. pag a ane tachment of Secret Service men, ra- ‘ an ; this supposed plot—if there was diobroadcasters, reporters, was that i And as we do this we have the comfort of knowing that |—Wwould seem to have worked he wanted to'see his daughter and the war cannot be brought to our own shores. What happened | "¢2,Cn# son-in-law, who are employed by Mr. Position on the court; it could be|day after it became known that Mr. made clear to the people, without) Black would arrive from Europe early mentioning their names, . Washington dispatches had “stood in the way of reform”|then asserted with considerable au- and “played the role of obstruction-|thority that the president's determ- ist.” That this was the real ination to leave on the twenty-second ot the trip was generally accepted.| was influenced by the fact that th Mr. Roosevelt’s displeasure was to be shown in an indirect and digni- fied, but none the less plain way. After that, the punishment of the recalcitrants was to be left to the people, stimulated, of course, by the i é 5 & accept because of the belief that Mr. FEET gree gE etl iit} Complications are sdded by the /S00-10- to Nanking and Madrid won’t happen to San Francisco or New . sid Hernia qrandaniiires Auntie York. Not until our navy is destroyed—and there exists today | _no power that could Hey Ve that be inflicted on us. i * @ 1 Our old pre-war outlook, which held that strong arma- Hi | ments were somehow incompatible with peace-loving democ- || racy, has had to change. Democracy today is on trial as never +’ before. It has to be strong enough to defend itself against powers which would destroy it. Until this turbulent and uncertain era passes, it is hard to see how we can do anything else than keep our fleet as strong as the strongest and as ready as the readiest. Sizing Up PWA Abolition of the Public Works Administration would seem fight against the depression. The PWA was in some ways the mise indicates that the emergency is considered by the ad- ministration to be pretty well past. It is generally agreed that PWA has been something of a disappointment—possibly because we expected too much of it in the first place. But in the main it has been a useful agency. Since 1988 it has alloted to non-federal projects upwards of $2,- 700,000,000, and has created some 661,000,000 man-hours of ' direct employment and two and one-half times that much in- Exchange Commission. sounds like a pretty good sort of man for the job. He explains that his function, as he sees it, is to fight for markets which are honest and “free of monkey busi- ness.” And then he goes on to answer the complaint that he is a hair-brained radical: “1 think I am really a pretty conservative sort of a fellow from the old school, perhaps a school too old to be remembered. f think that from the point of view of investors the one safe fontrolling and guiding stand should be conservative standards of finance—no monkey business.” That, as he says, is genuine conservatism — of a kind which has now and then seemed rather out of date in Wall FOVERMO RCRA AR Re we eee The American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc., has done a useful thing in opening a $9,000 prize competition for designs for elevated traffic highways in cities. is unbearably congested is not news; | ‘El’s’ for Auto Traffic H widening existing traffic lanes simply + to make some sort of landmark in the slow progress of our long} st; fact that the president, distinctly the defensive, is not — according advisers—in Esse 28 3 a8 ih & iv EPPEETEAL gecatsiegs i a most spectacular of the emergency spending agencies; its de- | his posit to see his grandchildren, Sistie ism was widely ex- as to the adequacy of this tal. one was of- — Mr. Roosevelt to see various ts in the section must travel. Later, to say he desired of the people and @ “trip of inspection.” professions wholly sat- Journalistic appetite credulous enough of Mr. velt—but it that ‘he could hardly seriously. had opposed him and reiterating his Farley machine and the local poli- ticians, who adhere to the admini- stration because of Federal pap and|may not Patronage. At any rate, that was the view held with singular unanimity both friendly and unfriendly commienta- tors. At the time the trip idea was conceived it was the avowed purpose of the president to continue his fight on the court, for the depart- mental reorganization and for other measures which fell by the wayside last session. Perhaps this is still his purpose, but the prospects, so far as the court is concerned, have was this, and so clear, too, was it that the Black incident had sup- plied the dissenting Democratic sen- ators with additional justification for opposing the president's efforts to control the court, that for several days there was uncertainty as to whether or not the trip would be made. For a while it seemed the whole thing had been called off. Final decision to go was made the National Insignia | INIEIGIAIDIE |S} Q ES08 47 Definite article. materials. VER’ 49 Type standard 2 Wind 50 Father. u | Le | Teasoning and is particularly easy to § CAST OF CHARACTERS PRISCILLA PIERCE — heroine, woman at yo AMY KERR—Cilly’s roommate and m Le 3IM_ KERRIGAN. flance. 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