The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1937, Page 6

i promises during the tion of the news dispatches credited to it or ' ences, year after year, without having their characters under- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1937 The Bismarck Tribune independent Newspaper An THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ; (Established 1873) State, City and County Officia) Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- Jaarck, ND, and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mall matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Ji ). Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'L Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press ft lusively entitled to the use for repubitca- The Associated Press i* exclusively sthermise ‘gedived tn tite 1 BAT eBAReT ote ublicntton et alt other matt Helping Unions Drive Out Racketeers The touchiest subject any politician can be asked to handle {s the matter of out-and-out racketeers in labor unions. It’s a subject that comes up pretty often, unfortunately. fin 2 good many big cities thugs and musclemen have moved in bn certain old established unions and turned them into rackets. Ruling by bomb and gun, they give labor a fearfully costly black eye; yet the average officeholder is afraid to touch them for fear that he will be labeled “anti-labor.” This sort of timidity is just what enables the racketeers to stay in business. It ought to be obvious that the rank and file of any labor union would be tickled to death to have the author- fities get the racketeers off their necks; and once in a while some servy public official comes along and proves it. Somewhat less than two years ago, a special prosecutor named Thomas E. Dewey went into New York City to try to break up assorted rackets. It was not long before he turned his attention to the unions. And immediately he was loudly assailed es a union buster and a foe of organized labor. Unperturbed, he went right ahead with his work. He found one of the worst messes in the various restaurant unions, where gangsters were in complete control. Another mess, almost equally bad, was uncovered in the painters’ union. During the succeeding months Dewey sent the restaurant unions’ racketeers to prison and enabled the rank and file in the painters’ union to do their own housecleaning. And just the other day he was called in to witness the signing of a contract between the Childs Restaurant chain and a joint committee from the waiters’, waitresses’ and cafeteria workers’ unions. “It was a happy moment,” he said afterward, “when I was privileged to witness a contract between these unions and one of the nation’s largest restaurant chains, and to know that through that document a union I was accused of trying to wreck was about doubled in membership. What I had done was to release that T Behind Scenes Washington New Deal Prophet Forecast Stock Market Slump Due to Rising Price Levels... He Urges Business to Seek Profits on Volume, Not Unit Basis. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Wi Correspondent) Washington, Oct. 4 — The recent small dent in the business curve has been taken here and in Wall Street with varying degrees of optimism and pessimism. °: You can find more advanced rea- sons for the stock exchange slump within the administration than you can in New York, where the Stock Exchange is investigating said slump. And much more difference of opinion as to whether the market decline has been a good thing, a bad thing or something of no real importance. All this writer pretends to be cer- tain about is that Dr. Leon Hender- son, chief economist for WPA, last spring — at a time when authorities generally were predicting an uninter- rupted two or three-year market rise —prophesied a wave of price-raising which would result in a deficit of purchasing power by this fall. The test of the prophecy is now with us and Henderson believes the outlook isn’t any too sweet unless business acts rapidly and on a wide front to: 1, Cut prices where possible. 2. Bring out cheaper lines of goods. 3. Refrain from price increases. x * * Four Per Cent Loss Henderson believes the stock mar- ket went up on the theory of a long uninterrupted rise, whereas continued recovery is based on two things: Con- struction, which now lags, and pur- chasing power—increases in which, he says, have been largely destroyed by price increases. He quotes Dr. Glenn Frank as saying recently that consumer pur- chases had increased five per cent over @ year previous, while retail prices had gone up nine per cent, Tepresenting an actual decrease with an inevitable effect on production. Purchasing power has been held up by higher wages — wage income having increased steadily for 15 months with one exception, farm income—running at the rate of a billion dollars over last year, a na- tional income increase estimated at 11 per cent, bonus payments to vet- erans and other federal expendi- tures, and a rise in instalment buy- ing+to 50 per cent over the 1929 total. How much of the total, asks Hender- son, has gone to pay price boosts? “If the price level had stayed lower, there would have been a big increase in retail buying instead of a disappointing volume during the union from the domination of the racketeers, so that those men in it who had been fighting racket control might once again take its affairs in hand.” And on the following day, Dewey appeared before 3,000 members of the painters’ union and was cheered to the echo as a true friend of labor. The point of all of this is obvious. When racketeers get con- trol of a labor union, no public official is going to lose labor’s friendship by putting the racketeers in prison; on the contrary, he is going to win it. For when gangsters do take over a union, they do it against the will of the honest rank and file; and the officeholder who is too dumb to realize this or too timid to act on it merits—and gets—labor’s deep contempt. Home Problem in Crime Juvenile crime is usually blamed on thriller movies, maga- vines and novels. Usually this sounds a little less than con- vincing—for millions of boys have been exposed to such influ- mined. But there does seem to be something in it, in the case of the 12-year-old Toledo boy who shot his school teacher. According to all acounts, this lad was steeped to the gills in the flamboyant lore of the underworld. Notes scribbled before the shooting leave little doubt that the youngster was dramatizing himself 8s a bold bad gunman like those of screen, radio and magazine. - This being admitted, what is the answer—to remove all reference to crime from those media of entertainment? Perhaps —though that would be a trifle drastic. Problems like this are, after all, chiefly for individual parents. A father and mother can, if they will, see that their child retains his balance, even if he is getting a strong dose of two-gun melodrama. They'll Pay the Taxes One of the amazing things about America, to most foreign- ers, is the fact that here the AVERAGE family can enjoy an automobile. During the last two years ownership of automobiles among families with weekly incomes of '§30 or less has been expanding lat the rate of 1,000,000 a year. If the trend continues two- thirds of the automobiles in the country will be owned by the so-called lower income group by 1940. Since every automobile owner pays taxes, direct and in- direct, it is obvious that the major burden of the automobile tax already calls on the common, every-day citizen, Still politicians get away with the ery of “tax the rich.” And most of the very people who KNOW they are paying auto- mobile taxes believe it. They never stop to think that while taxes may differ in minor ways, they are all alike in one respect. All of them are passed on to—and paid by—the consumer. Britain’s Dilemma That the hot potato which the British picked up for them- selves in Palestine, during and after the war, is not getting any cooler these days is tragically proved by the murder of the British commissioner, Lewis Andrews, by a band of terrorists. During the war Britain needed everybody's help in the far east, and sought to get it by promising everybody everything. To the Jews it promised a restoration of the homeland in Pales- tine; to the Arabs, it promised an independent Arab nation. Ever since the war it has been trying to keep the peace in a Palestine which is the scene of these contradictory promises, It thas not been having very much luck. That the murder of the commissioner will once more bring to a boil the long simmering dissatisfaction of the people of Palestine is very probable. And once again Britain will pay summer months,” Henderson says. “Because of price increases goods are not being taken off the market and inventories remain high. “Unless the great mass of people have money to pay the price of goods produéed, we will go into a tailspin again, with temporary overproduc- tion and then reduced production schedules. A ‘buyers’ strike simply means that the buyer has no credit or money.” * * * Seek Profit on Volume Henderson would urge business to seek profits on volume of business rather than on high profit per unit. Automobile companies have ad- vanced prices with the explanation that higher labor costs made it ne- cessary. Henderson, who once super- vised an exhaustive study of the automobile industry for NRA, says the increase in automobile labor cost has been relatively small and not as much as to offset the gain from tech- nological improvements and greater volume of operation. As to the anticipated fall price- raising wave, Henderson says some manufacturers have put their boosts into effect, others have delayed and some already have withdrawn price advances. Still others are producing newer and cheaper lines. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) Incident in the Better-Times Parade ton: peta ini health but aot nly avin ‘Address ‘Dr. Grady accompanied by « stamper une. All queries must gon 5 hauling may be needed. Local treatment of swollen or congested nasal tissues may be needed. * The correspondent happened to be a Scot—I haven't said Scotchman since a highly cultured lady gave me ballyhack for such vulgarity—and he was evidently quite beside himself about it, for he recorded his sentiments on & postcard, to wit: You might tell us ‘tis pleasant weather some fine day. Judging by your verbosity on such subjects as vitamins and colds you're not exactly a mine of information about anoring. The main fault with my answer, I infer, is that it might cost something to follow the suggestions given, Long ago I found that a good many readera are like the beautiful Miss Philadelphia—you can’t give her a book as & birthday gift because she has a book. I never advise any one to consult a physician—unless it is some barbarian who contrives to telephone me about rill i i i il a i lt che Great Comet POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun ' By FRANK R. KENT ‘The treasury blandly i ap ehaeiesinc err) a President sponsors which, in addition to further unset- tiing of business, the The reasons for these things are not |not make sense to attribute the sink- psychological, but entirely material/ing of the security markets to psy- and concrete, and it is easy to enu-|chology. On the contrary, there merate them. an extremely solid reasons for the fall. —GREAT GAME OF POLITICS THEY IGNORE THE FACTS Looking at the sad state of the stock market, the financial geniuses of the administration left in Wash- ington say there is no particular rea- son for it, that the drop in prices is psychological and that Wall Street has the “jitters.” Spreading sweetness and light on his political tour of the West, the president tells the people not to worry, assures us that the United States is not going broke, that every- thing will be simply swell if the pur- suit of his “major objectives” is not thwarted. For the twentieth odd time the secretary of the treasury speaks hopefully of economy and of a balanced budget—if not next year, then some year. In brief. listening to these dulcet New’ Deal voices the conclusion is easy to reach that the future is bright, indeed, that there are no clouds on the sky and none save the low-grade Torles, clogging the wheels of progress and blocking the Roosevelt reforms, have the pes- simistic view. One is that, due to the increase in the cost of labor and materials, the building and construction industry, which seemed about to boom, has sickened and slackened almost to a standstill. Another is that the rail- roads of the country, with their pay- rolls upped many millions by wage advances and their receipts sapped by lowered rates, are today in a thor- oughly precarious condition, In the last few months they have been com- pelled to lay off more than a hundred thousand men; they have practically ceased all repair and construction work, and they are purchasing abso- lutely nothing not required to keep trains running. The usual long delay by the interstate commerce commis- sion in granting the concededly es- sential rate increase may have serious results. For example, the vague and casual references to budget balance and economy upon the part of the presi- ident and his secretary of treasury run up against the cold reality thet we are getting farther from both every day. The government revenues for the first quarter of the present fiscal year—July to September—will amount to $1,600,000,000, which is| Press close to the highest point on record, but the deficit for this period will be more than $200,000,000, which means 4 ‘ approximately a billion-dollar deficit!) ea er eae While revenues have |i! creased, all government departments lare spending more money than before.| denouncing the. Hi In any event, the present condition of the railroads has added greatly to unemployment, decreased general purchasing power and depressed busi- ness in many lines, To a considerable extent the prosperity of.the country depends upon the railroads. When the latter stop buying and start lay- ing off men it is impossible for the country to be really healthy. A third ignored fact is that the steel indus- try, with several of its widest markets practically closed, ‘When That is.the general administration attitude and it is a typical attitude in that it completely ignores the reali- ties of the situation. It is plain that the buoyant business spirit of six months ago is now extremely damp and soggy. It is plain, too, the con- fidence that we were on the threshold of a great industrial boom has dis- appeared and fear of the kind Mr. CAST OF CHARACTERS PRISCILLA PIERCE — heroine, young woman attorney. AMY KERR—Cilly’s roommate and murderer's victim. IGAN—Cilly’s @anee. ARRY HUTCHINS—Amy’s atrange visitor. SERGEANT DOLAN—ofiicer as- BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN An Indian and his squaw were forced to spend the night in a large city. It was their first experience in a hotel. The night was hot and sule try. The poor Indian sent the squaw out for a glass of water. She came back in a little while with the water only to be sent out for another glass. The old buck waited and waited and finally his wife came back with the glass still empty. She replied to his question: “Ugh, white man sit on spring.” Wife: “Don't you think, dear, that ® man has more sense after he's mar- ried?” 5 Hubby: “Yes, but then it’s too late.” Teacher: “Johnnie, did you want to leave the room?” Johnnie: “Say, teacher, you don’t think I’m standing here hitch-hiking do you?” Salesman: “Are you still engaged to that homely girl you had as clerk the last time I was here?” BARBS ) heavily for the light-hearted way in which her government made war. 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