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

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Socially Conscious Launching its annual membership drive, the Burleigh founty chapter of the American Red Cross makes report of its activities during the last year. It shows that North Dakota as a state, and this area as a part of it, is socially conscious. {That it accepts the theory that every man is, in a sense, the keeper of his unfortunate brother. Outstanding in the Burleigh county record is the donation of more than $2,000 when only $525 was asked for the relief of flood sufferers. This may be accepted as proof that those who have themselves known distress may be depended upon to give more freely than others who have never known ad- versity. In the list of 17 Midwestern states, North Dakota stands fourth in contributions to the flood fund, a remarkable record. Last year it stood third in memberships. Contrary to the popular belief, the major function of the Red Cross is not to dispense relief, although it always is ready to function in emergencies. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1987 Behind Scenes Washington Question ef Which Faction Shall Cen- trol a Re-Unified Labor Movement Stands in the Way of Settlement at, Present Stage of Negotiations, By RODNEY DUTCHER Wi “Bare your head, and we will tap it with a sledge-hammer. You will down and out and stay out.” A. F. of L, says to the O. I. O.: “Welk right back into our mouse- trap and have a dose of our highly effective lethal gas.” Struggle for Power That's the effect of the proposals of the two labor groups and it explains why the aa Begeesteitd are er jetting snywhere. proposal 6.1.0. that it return to the A. F. of L. 8 an autonomous department under its own name simply means, if its claims of a larger membership are true, that John L. Lewis and his colleagues would at once dominate the federation if its member were to be given proportionate voting strength at A. F. of L. conventions, The feder- sorb hundreds of thousands of work- ers organized by ©. I. O. and insist that C. I. O. unions come back as & minority under the effective control of A. F. of L. convention machinery. Each side attacks the other’s mem- bership figures. The A. F. of L. claims 3,260,000 workers and C. I. O. 3,830,000. It’s impossible to find out the real strength behind these statistics. Vote System at Stake The proposal that disputes between. rival affiliated unions be settled at In 1931, before the federal government established its own set-up in North Dakota, it spent over $1,250,000, largely in the northwestern counties which still feel the sting of drouth’s lash. When the federal departments were established the Red Cross withdrew from the relief picture to avoid duplication of effort. Just now the Red Cross is engaged in a safety campaign. (Thirty-nine first-aid stations have been established in North Dakota to aid victims of highway accidents. The goal is 100. Last year home accidents took 40,000 lives. This great service organization is attacking that problem and during the current roll call inspections will be made of all the farm homes in North Dakota by means of check lists distributed through echool children. There are other interesting phases of a far-flung program which has its base in the social consciousness of the people. In Bismarck there no longer is a Red Cross roll call. Every- one who gives to the Community Chest gives also to the Red Cross. This is done to avoid the necessity of duplicating cam- paigns. In the rural districts, however, solicitation for Red Cross members is carried on as before and there is reason to believe that the response, despite adverse conditions, will be as gen- erous this year as it always has been in the past. The Business Situation No one knows what is the current outlook for business because that depends, at least in large part, on the way people feel and what they are thinking. It is not so difficult, however, to gauge the present busi- ness tempo because there are measuring sticks which are being applied continually by the doctors of commerce who are expert in their use. Thus the National Industrial Conference board reports that September saw a decline of 1.6 per cent in the number of persons employed in industry as compared with August. At the same time, total man hours worked dropped 8.1 per cent and payroll disbursements 2.6 per cent. Average hourly earn- ings were three-tenths of a cent higher in September than in August. In August the average work week was 38.9 hours und in September it was 38.3 hours, Actual weekly earnings dropped from $27.76 to $27.48 and the purchasing power of weekly earnings dropped 1.6 per cent as a result of an increase in the cost of living during the period. Getting over into production statistics as compiled by the ‘Administrative and Research corporation, the week ending Oct. 23 showed an activity rate of 90.2 as compared with 91.8 for the preceding week and 87.4 for the same week & year ago. Unweighted indices show gains, as compared with the preceding week, in automobile production, bank debits outside of New York City, building contracts, commercial loans, cotton deliveries and electric power production. Losses were recorded in freight carloadings and steel ingot production. When the list is “weighted”, however, to care for sea- sonal trends, increased population and other factors, the net result is a decline from 91.3 to 90.2. Building still is in the doldrums, the latest figure being 39.7 per cent of what it ought to be, and the slump in steel has been spectacular. - Business seers disagree as to both the immediate future and the long-term pull, though optimists seem to be in the majority. But the above statistics tell what the situation IS at the moment without going into the complicated whys and where- fores upon which few are in entire agreement. Japan's sole desire, says a Tokyo spokesman, is peace Asia. The Peace of the dead? : aoe ie ° Somebody nailed a horséshoe over the entrance to the room where the poor Spaniards have seen lately have had flying hooves attached to eee Star football player in North Carolina drops out of college admit ting that he led about the amount of financial assistance fe was geting. , once more, the character-building aspect of college football. eee i 4 Hoover warns the Republicans they can’t hope to succeed without setting up some principle other than mere dislike of the administration 4 Why not? Didn't the Democrats do it in 1932? ile! Now that Rheims cathedral has been restored and Germany a new trealy quaranioing Belgium's Deroy. “Euope ls ht back. Where it was in 1914—except, of course, for the 8,000,000 dead with @ carved pumpkin, acorns and @ carrot. The caricature made Lewis appear in one of his snarli- est moods, Denver convention, although ©. I. O. people declare its membership prob- ably has dwindled toward 125,000, In former years John L, Lewis paid for & voting strength of 3,000 when it was well known the membership of the United Mine Workers was far below 3,000,000, There is nothing in the A. F, of L. proposals which would give more than 10 of the 32-C. I, O. unions repre- aentative voting strength at the nex! convention. ©. I. O, insists that they all get it, te Run It is now being taken for granted in Washington that Jim Farley will be @ candidate for governor of New York in 1938. It is also generally believed that he can have the Democratic state convention's nomination and that he will be elected. PRESIDENTIAL STRATEGY One of the things upon which Mr. Roosevelt prides himself is in his abil- ity to keep “in line” for him personally men of sharply conflicting views and wholly different outlooks. It involves ® certain shiftiness upon his part but undoubtedly it is one of his gifts, from the exercise of which he derives con- siderable enjoyment. For example, more than once he has moved in one direction and yet persuaded intimate friends, who had been practically promised he would go in the other direction, that never- theless his heart is in the right place and it was only a question of time be- fore he turned around. The presi- dential disposition is to regard this sort of thing as “strategy” essenial for the advancement of his “objectives.” Farley hasn’t said a word to anyone Sree, oes nn greatly si ened his decision on fight. The White House has kept hands off, but its real sentiment is be- Meved to be more accurately repre- sented by Secretary Ickes, who re- cently went to New York and gave F. H, LaGuardia a public pat on the back. Anyone who wants to run for gov- ernor * New York on the Democratic ticket is practically compelled to ball with the New York Dena, machine politicians, all of which have been behind Mahoney. In case Roose- velt was consulted at all and approved Farley's leap into the local battle, the president at least was aware that nothing at that stage of the campaign could put Mahoney over, (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Ionc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN Mrs. Chubbwitt—Was your daugh- ter Dora’s Halloween costume rare? Mrs. Newrich—Rare? I'll say. It was almost extinct. Helen—I can’t learn the Big Apple. Joe—Why not? Helen—I don’t know. Perhaps I’m too sound mentally. Botany Teacher—Where do we find mangoes? Pupil—Where woman goes. Boogy—I hear you made money out of the stock market. ‘Woogy—You bet. Been out of it all my life. “How do you find his conversa- tion?” “Like the waves of the sea.” “Ah! You mean you find it rolling, irresistible, vital—?” “No, it makes me sick.” —_——— SO THEY SAY | It takes a tough-muscled and iron- Jered srl teisee avs Oo Benes Sp artes screen kissing. Why, men kiss like horses?—Joan Davis, been brought back to lite. aoe parity—Ralph B, Wilson, vice presi- i @ent of Babson’s Reports, Mayor LaGuardia tells New York voters he found on oftioe thes “++ Peery Pad, Pes A uniecenensy workers on the oly If Tem- Soni Are -rh Sremsenoons import ‘To others it has seemed merely the old game of playing both ends against the middle, by which he first makes boobs of one set of his advisers and, second, In doing this Mr. Roosevelt is not deliberately deceitful. On the con- trary, it is natural with him to try to hold to both elements around him and he very often persuades himself as he persuades others. It is the kind of thing, however, which justifies observers of the Roosevelt character and students of his strategy in con- tending that his convictions are not very strong, his mind not very clear and in the matter of political philos- ophy he is neither a real liberal nor & true conservative, but essentially an opportunist, prone to do the expedi- ent thing in a jam. The Great Game of P O L Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sus In the early days of his first ad- ministration he was so charmed by the colorful pictures painted by the national planners of the Tugwell type that he repudiated his own publicly proclaimed and entirely sound views on federal finance and embarked direction “to prevent revolution,” and unless he placated the radicals there would be great trouble in the country. ‘Tt was not true but he convinced some, scared others and managed through years of extravagant experi- mentation to persuade his business men friends that once the was over he would “return to the ways of sanity.” More than once, and without publicity, he turned to these friends to extricate him from a con- fusion in which practically everybody had lost their bearings. Now he is in trouble again. A business slump has taken place. His boom has disappear- ed. A depression looms and inside his administration some of the most cocksure of the New Dealers are chas- tened and chagrined. At Hyde Park and Washington the president has sent again for various conservative friends, business men, publishers, economists and “economic royalists,” some of whom have been “in the dog house” since the election. There have been long and solemn con- ferences from which all with even & slight radical tinge have been ex- || Creator of Operas | HORIZONTAL — Answer to Previous Pussle UWriter of the (EVIAINIS EILILINIE] Ring of the ‘fine [ale] N disturbance. 4 RIA HAIMIt TIE! 17Utmost extent ‘18 Mathematical ‘r_ltiOlSIG) a 53 Apple cente: 5 le center, Hoo decease, 54 Pedal digit." 28 Doughy 55 Indian 32 Local position, 86 Before. Sosien 7 ee reaks ie x inl a lel ES ik i! ATSIC TAIN! Timm O} TREE IAI INIBIOME ID} U] Alt Alm ILIAINIT! IGIAIBIRII TEI. [AISISMS ILIA eer ool ad 12 He was the originator of _ music —. 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She was sure, how- back from her white face, were} “Let's.” Sylvia's voice Wa8S/ever, that no real damage had ouflined in fhe Gecrway. = eager. ccne fo me ona lovely eve | Same cone, 2 Berry's romance “Somebody some brandy,| could come lovely vi been thrown quick,” Jack commanded. “And ning lke a blanket to put. around her.” mechanically, giving you whén you did,” Sylvia|aside. Soon Sylvia would forget and stooped to hold it to said in a serious tone. “I’m Won-|the exciting rescue, and turn to Sylvia's lips. But Jack took it] dering how it cduld have hap-| Barry again. “Drink en aaah a “ee things are meant”| isting maroslt inet, sence gently, as though oblivious ot\the| Jacks earnest tone matched ber| had suocmstully frestaled come what you|drove over here.” ‘There was Elise Woodworth, look like,” she said. “And then you heard me call| who hed salled the debvione “You were the gamest—” for help.” Sylvia's voice urged! with her two seasons back. “You were pretty swell, your-|him to repeat the story. had turned definitely “arty.” self,” came Sylvia's weak voice. “Yes. I had slowed the car|Once, last year, she had accom- was on my way here,” Jack| down for the turn. At first I|panied Elise to a one-man exhibi- ined to the others, “driving| thought I was imagining tion of pictures. The young man fairly close to shore. I heard her/ But I stopped the car, and next/—a newcomer—had been spone for help. The boat had cap-/time I heard you call qi sored by a rich, elderly woman, and she was trying to swim| clearly.” whose name meant crowds. Lucky she wasn’t far from} “I didn’t call until I realized Jill remembered that Elise had couldn't make it in,” Sylvia said: “When rich old ladies get seemed a long distance when} She shuddered a little. tired of their Pekingeses, they at- swimming in with mé,”| “Stop thinking about it, Sylvis,’ tach some poor young musician 4 said. . Jack spoke gently. “I’m going to|or artist, and pull him around by stung Mrs. Wentworth’s| take you inside where it’s ‘2 leash for a while.” asn’t fair for Jack to' ful. I've kept you out too long”, But Jill couldn't picture her Sylvia in the role of 9 res- eee cool, proud young artist being + with angry elements provid: /MNHE chain grated es Jack se-| pulled sbout and shown off. ing a dramatic backdrop. Jack| 4 cured the boat. He assisted And then, Jill had an inspira- good-looking, and girls were|syivia out of the boat, and they | tion. tic and impressionable. stood for a moment, his arm/ She would call Patty Ralston. hoped it would continue/ tightly supporting her. Patty, who had swooned with de- Rain would provide an) “when I said people would be| light over everything from the to break up the house| wondering—I meant Barry,” Jack| newest tennis idol to the latest 80 into town. said, Bs jecaeieet ical enusher, inion next morning there was| “Why’ days, al herself ttle evidence of the past night’s “You see, I had the impression | tagged “author” and wee domes except broken branches on|as we started off that Barry was|book with an art colony as a set- ground, and rubbish washed | pretty much upset, I had a feel-| ting, the shore. ing—it was a pretty definite feel-| Patty's friends were not only zephyr-like breeze movéd the ing—that perhaps I was, cutting authors, they were designers, dec- wings again. The lake|in. That you and Batry—”" Helorators, and artists. es glass, deeply blue. | stopped. She would drive across town mood from the serene] “It was natural for Barry to|and see Patty, who could always feel upset,” Sylvia said. “He|be counted upon to spted life up, ae ed doesn't like the position you|if it ever ran down, the afternoon, Jatk—who had| placed him in. He left me on the Patty—a thrill chased up and been following Sylvia about|lake and you went in after me.”|down Jill’s spine at the mére like. a constant shadow—took her} “Don’t be too hard on him. He|thought—might have heard of out in a boat. cs must have been pretty sure you|some one-man art exhibits! Barry, sitting gloomily on the|had gone in to shere.” (To Be Comtinnsd) Your Personal Health By William Brady, M. D. Dr, Brady will answer questions pertaining, te health but St a rite letters briefly end in ink. dress Dr, ne st se rribane. All queries must be accompanied by « i elt: envelope. GREAT BRITAIN DECLARES FOR VITAMIN D 2 hay carried out an Research Council, Great Britain, Ho | er : | $2 exercises, under supcrvision of exercises in before Parga ein (Copyright, 1937, John F. Dille Co.) existing situation, and his advocacy of | are ¢o him the more congenial travel- these measures urged by business can-| ing companions. not be avoided. This, however, does not mean that he has changed at ‘TH, hereine, i sé i . F i 3 : | 5 s 4 i af Fd 8 § 5 Lt 3