The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1937, Page 6

coat siotepoticomayrecins 8 SENET TC THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1987 The Bismarck Tribune| An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) , State, City and County Official) Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Jonson Kenneth W. Simons Vico Pres, and Gen’l, Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Dally by carrier, per year Daily by mail per yea: (in Bismarck) .. Daily by mail per year (in state outside of Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year .. Weekly by mail outside of North Dakot Weekly by mai) in Canada, per year .. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Go Easy on Brazil Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles made an excellent point in his recent speech at George Washington university, when he remarked that America’s “good neighbor” policy in Latin-American affairs has a direct application in the current upheaval in Brazil. This policy, Mr. Welles pointed out, calls on the United States to refrain from minding its neighbors’ business for them. In other words, the kind of government Brazil chooses to give itself is strictly Brazil’s concern, not ours, and our abhorrence of the Fascist label should not cloud the friendly relations that exist between Brazil and this country. As a matter of fact, added Mr. Welles, we may be a bit hasty in pinning the Fascist label on the Vargas regime. Not all of the facts in the matter are known, even now; and for Americans to fly into a furor over a Fascist government that may not turn out to be Fascist at all is rather silly. Exit the Leviathan There are at least 200,000 Americans—middle-aged men, now, a bit less slim and spry than they used to be—who will have a deep sentimental interest in the last voyage of the liner Leviathan. This mighty vessel is about to go to the boneyard. Sold fo the British by the United States Lines, she is to be taken overseas and broken up—a good part of her metal, no doubt, to be used in Britain’s rearmament program. And the sentimental 200,000? They are the ex-doughboys carried to or'from France on the Leviathan during the war. Then, if never before or since, the great ship justified her tremendous size. She carried more soldiers than ever before sailed on a single vessel. And while it.was not precisely a pleas- ure trip for any of these men, there are few of them who will] ing be able to read of the old ship's final trip without feeling at least a tiny twinge of sentiment. Limiting Auto Speeds The chief trouble with automobile traffic these days is that the automotive engineer has ‘gone too far ahead of the highway engineer—to say nothing of the average driver. So says J. M. Gentry, Oklahoma state safety commissioner, in a plea for a national agreement among auto manufacturers to limit car speed to 70 miles an hour. As things stand, Mr. Gentry points out, the average auto will go much faster than the average road can safely accom- modate it, and also much faster than the average driver can safely guide it. A speed much above 60 miles an hour should be entrusted only to highly qualified motorists and confined to specially designe! and built roads. Whether such an agreement as he suggests can ever be obtained is, perhaps, doubtful. But:his proposal'does touch on a of the most important aspects of the highway safety prob- 7m. Missed the Target Slum-elimination schemes have attracted a great deal of * attention and public support in the last few years; but they do seem to possess one flaw which, unless someone finds a way around it, will nullify most of the good they do. This flaw readily becomes visible in one of the housing projects recently completed in Cleveland. In this project some dozen blocks or so of ruinous old shacks were demolished und replaced by modern apartments. These apartments are now occupied by tenants, But—only a few of the tenants are peo- ple who lived in the old shacks before the project was started. Most of those slum-dwellers simply could not afford to pay the rent required in the new apartments. These people, obviously, are no better off than they were before. Anda slum- elimination project which does not take care of the slum-dwell- ers is not quite the sort of thing its name implies. Labor Peace Delay Evidently the experiment of getting the two bosses to- gether for a straight-out, man-to-man talk was not quite the prescription that the A. F. of L.-C. I. O. tangle needed. Now the job of finding a feasible compromise to settle the row be- fween the labor rivals goes back to committees. Neither John L. Lewis nor William Green seems to have realized that a compromise must be what its name so clearly Smplies—a settlement in which each side makes some sacrifices and gives up some cherished point. It is to be hoped that the *committe of 13,” which will take up the problem later this gonth, will have a clearer view of realities. The one certainty is that for the sake of labor and busi- ness alike this row has got to be settled. It can be settled only through compromise. It will be tragic if such a compromise cannot be reached. Full Steam Ahead The industrial skies are pretty dark these days, and the steel industry in particular is singing the blues. But it is worth - while to look at some remarks made by Nathan L. Miller, ex- ' _ governor of New York and now general counsel for United States Steel, at the launching of a 610-foot steamship at Lorain, O. the other day. This ship, the second giant carrier built this fall for U. S. Bteel’s subsidiary, the Pittsburgh Steamship Co., is large, up- to-date—and expensive. And Governor Miller truly remarked that U. 8. Steel “is not preparing for the undertaker” when it builds ships such as these. “Construction of the ships,” he added, “is only part of the | ‘rational. union. torporation’s capital expenditures in face of current depressing business conditions. United States Steel is expressing its con- Fidence in business by keeping plants, fleets and other equipment in the highest state of eficiency to produce steel cheaply and pass on to employes, in the form of good wages, profits that fre not absorbed by high federal taxes.” So erage ne Behind Scenes Washington 30-Year Labor Peace Is Beacon in Troubled U. 8. Industrial Skies. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) ‘Washington, Dec, 15.—Is it possible to avoid labor strife and preserve industrial peace? ‘The publishers of American news- papers and the men who operate the presses which turn out the news- pepers have just joined in answering “Yes!” They have been saying “Yes!” for the last 30 years as they renewed, time after time, an agreement which binds both sides to arbitrate and re- frain from strikes and lockouts. ‘The other day they again renewed for another five years this agreement which has kept peace between pub- ee and pressmen for three dec- ades, President James G. Stahiman of the American Newspaper Publishers’ as- sociation sat down to sign with Sen. George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union, and other repre- sentatives of the two groups. The two presidents called each other “Jim” and “George.” * * * The Only Fair Way “We put the stamp of approval up- on the principle that it is of first importance that there be no stoppage in business; that our differences shall be adjusted by the processes of mediation, conciliation and, finally, arbitration,” said Berry. “It.is our honest belief that arbi- tration is the surest and straightest way to. industrial peace and conse- quent economic recovery,” said Stahl- man, who is publisher of the Nash- ville (Tenn.) Banner. “This agree- ment should point the way to others as the only sensible, satisfactory and fair settlement of differences between employer and employe.” x * * Few “Blurs” in Peace ‘Thus it was promised that the 32,000 members of the union employed by newspapers would not strike or stop production, and that both sides would in all cases of dispute resort to ar- bitration, The A. N. P. A. has 458 daily news- Papers as members, but Berry says the agreement is observed by all but three dally newspapers in the United States and Canada. There have been but few temporary blurs in the thirty- years’ peace: ‘ In 19% the 3700 pressmen of New York newspapers went on strike in defiance of the international agree- ment, demanding changes in work- conditions and wages. Berry helped publishers break the strike by > ‘Let’s See Now—Where Am I? — That Fit But Right Appeal Might Help Sale of Lot of U. S.-Made Goods in Britain By DeWITT MacKENZIE calling on union members in other sections of the country to come to New York and man the presses. This, he says, was an acid test of the un- jon’s ability and willingness to stand by the agreement. On $wo or three occasions, members of the A. N,-P. A. have decjined to fulfill their end of the agreement. Suspension from the association fol- lowed, whereupon ‘the union called strikes in the pressrooms of those newspapers. i ** * Gain by Foregoing Strikes It is-very important to ask—and this writer asked Berry—what union members have acquired and gained while. working under this agreement which abrogates their right to strike. Here's the answer, according | A union shop, with agreement by employers to employ only members of the union. (Berry studiously and politely refrains from saying ‘closed shop.”) lobesioh Security of } including any em- ploye's right to appeal to arbitration it-he is fired, and a provision against lockouts. High wages (Berry says the press- men have the highest standards of compensation in ‘continuous manu- facture—a national average, including apprentice scales of $9.85 a day). Ability to restrict the number of Pressmen available for employment. An average work week of 36 hours. Many social benefits made possible by absenice of ern Penatly payments. Both Sides Benefit Of course, as early as 30 years ago, the pressmen had organized a very strong union. Strong enough, Berry says, “to make a lot of trouble.” But the publishers were* sold on the prin- ciple of protection against strikes by what Berry calls “educational proc- esses.” Publishers, on the other hand, bene- fit from @ constant increase in effi- clency and elimination of waste. The union agrees to supply publishers with qualified workers and in this con- nection maintains an expensive en- gineering school whose expert tech- nicians offer advice to improve ap- Pearance of individual newspapers. The school is operated in addition to the union's home for its aged and incapacitated members, and a tuber- cular sanitarium. Relieved from pay- ing strike benefits, the union provides death benefits of $1000 and old age pensions of a dollar a day. Berry says its income from dues is. more than $100,000 a month. * oe * How Arbitration Works Here's the way the arbitration ma- chinery works: Each local union has separate agree- ual notice of desire to new tations. bisa Pear The two parties are required to conciliate differences, if that be pos- sible, within stipulsted periods. About, 95 per cent of the. disputes are settled by conciliation in local 2 ‘Ol price of Britain's (Associated Press Foreign Affairs Writer) New York, Dec. 15.—scotland has. qualified for a congressional medal by espousing the cause of United ‘States shoe maufacturers almost on the eve of the opening of what are’ expected to be red-hot and hard-to- handle negotiations for the projected Anglo-American trade pact a la Cor- dell Hull. ; FA » member of the British parliament, in whose tongue 4s the burr of the northlands, a couple of days ago in Commons ran with the ball in the wrong direction for a touchdown, by begging for a reduction of the heavy: tariff on wom- en’s shoes from America. Mr. MacQuisten told the house @ sad story. He said shoes within the working women “definitely injure their feet and pro- duce lameness.” The girls want Yankee shoes, which do fit. Did a Service The member from Scotland has a pawky sense of humor and it isn’t improbable that he got a bit of pleasure out of annoying the cabinet. That. was wll he did get, however, apart from @ nasty look from the government benches. Still, he really did a service by pointing to an American ‘product which would find a ready market in England, if it weren’t for that very heavy tariff. ‘ What MacQuisten might have added was that American manufac- turers would do much better in Bri- tain if they were more widely known —provided, of course, that prohibi- tive tariffs weren't laid against them. The English can be taught to buy American shoes and other products, rtising spproac! enough. What is needed in the ma- Jority of cases is a studied and leng- thy process’ of education. For example, Englishmen still pull their shirts on over their heads. Be- only yesterday I was asking an Englishman about this and he said: ‘Don’t See Many’ “I think the coat-shirt is a jolly | nee g Hy E i reg el if if tf Hl ft aEF ge 8 E E E is i re é £ BS 22 rm Bie i (Cave WOT, REA Scot’s Request for Yankee Shoes Bring Scowls From M. P.’s People’s Forum letters as may be necessary to conform this pelley quire publication of! where justice and it advisable. Lett Nmited to 600 wi GANNONS LEAVING BISMARCK by Bismarck, N. D. Dec. 10, 1937. Editor, Trib Tnquiries have come to us from all parts of the state relative to our fu- ture plans, and to clear up questions and misunderstandings. it seems that a statement of this kind is necessary. The consolidation of the Missouri River and Minnesota Divisions of the Soo Line, and the closing of the Bis- marck superintendent's office on No- vember 1st, abolished the position}. the which I formerly held. An opening, has since developed in the Accounting Section of the general office and in order to protect my fifteen years of seniority it will be necessary to trans- fer to Minneapolis soon after the first of the year. A number of years ago T obtained a position as a commercial artist in Chicago but left it to take other kind of work in Bismarck so that I might be able to live in the me back again to the It is with the deepest state I loved. Now the very thing I hoped would keep ioe Date is Tones regret that we have put the soul of the world in jeop- ‘ardy. — Dr. Abram University of mariage Leon Sacher, * I just kind of made myself thin and prayed.—William Chundrlik, 11, De- between troit, who flattened himself railroad tracks after saving two com- ek present slow-down is not a set- back; it’s the pause before another climb.—Henry Ford, speaking of pres- ent business conditio! Kentucky; just a little —v. 8. +e They do not have an; lynchings in Y aisagreement. Senator T. Connally of Texas. se At the present educational level, world peace is an impossibility.—H. G. Wells, British author. ; LOSES ON SMALL CARD PLAY Defender ees Choice of Lead, Paving the Way for Declarer Make Three No Trump Contract By WILLIAM E, In deft & hand at contract, choice 4s, of course, im erally rather clearly bidding or play. SOLUTION TO PREVIOUS t, although gen- indicated by the Rubber—Neither vulnerable. ‘South West North East 1@ Pass 1a Pass 2N.T. Pass 3N.T. Pass Opening lead—@ 2 15 itt aH Fe McKENNEY (Secretary, American Contract Bridge League) He led the diamond ten, a very bad the contract lay in the and East was sure of for # lead. of the right suit to attack) lead, as he could count South’s hand posta) quite accurately. The chance to beat diamond sult, means? ened only by an Dr. Brady will a: ease or diagnosis. care of The 1f-addressed THE SKIN OF A NEW-BORN BABE Over a period of six years Dr. H. N. Sanford, Chicago, studied the skin condition in 3,500 newborn babies. ply. » for infant or adult, the better. fresh olive oil or better , that is enough and no soap or and the hygiene or health of all should be regarded only as civilization, soap and water bath is as great a pro- the new-born babe’s skin as the application of oil after the bath , for the mature adult’s =. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Iron Dust My work is polishing with dry steel wool. Of course I inhale a lot of thy dust. Told this dust forms in balls and causes gallstones. (D. K.) Answer—! No. Inhalation of iron or steel dust causes chronic bronchitis jokoniosis, and a chronic lung trouble called pneumon: Bowlegs Is it possible for a girl of 18 to get rid of bowlegs by exercise or any other QM, Z.) Answer—No. Bowlegs in a over six years of age can be straight- orthopedic on the bent bones, Accumulation of makes the legs appear less bowed. (Copyright, 1937, John F. 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