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

i i i i en reraee eI The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper k THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873), State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- gmarck, N, D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mall matter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Weekly by mail in state, per year .... Weekly by mail outside ot North Dakota, Weekly by mail in Canada, per year . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the loca! news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Military Observation America’s military men in Spain and China are getting some first-hand information on modern war machinery and the skill of various armies in operating them. ‘ One bit of news which follows these observations may, un- fortunately, have the effect of making the United States a bit more cocky than otherwise would be the case. And we shouldn’t take too stern a stand unless we mean business. In Spain it was established long ago that Russian planes, modeled after American ships, could fly rings around those of Italy and Germany and that the Russians were better fliers. Modern tanks have proved effective against infantry but are no match for up-to-date artillery. Machine guns and automatic rifles are of increasing importance but the man who still wins wars is the foot-soldier. He takes the ground and holds it. This country has long been told that the Japanese made poor military aviators but this is not borne out by observations in China. What they would do against a well-equipped opponent may still be problematical but they have done a workmanlike -job against the opposition so far encountered. Their tanks are good and their infantry has been superb. They are effective, as demonstrated by their progress. The big military weakness of the Japanese, it seems. is their inability to do effective work with their artillery. In the early stages at Shanghai the German-trained Chinese did a much better job. Shells from Japanese guns fell all over the place, whereas those from Chinese guns went where they were intended. The Japanese navy gunners were no better. Their shells failed to land where they would do the most good. These reports make American naval and artillery experts confident of what would happen in the event of trouble with Japan. They feel that if the Nipponese didn’t shoot straighter than they have to date in their present trouble, they would fall easy prey to American accuracy. Another thing they have ~ in mind, of course, is that American industrial supremacy would enable her to shoot two shells to any other nation’s one. These reports emphasize all the more the reason why the ‘average American citizen should interest himself in the cause of peace. If they feel it wouldn’t be too tough a job, American military men might advocate a war with Japan. Such advocacy should be met by a stern counter-thrust from the people who, after all, pay the price for every war. 1 Nature’s Arctic Odyssey Man being the queer creature that he is, going around the world trying to find out things he doesn’t need to know, it has long galled him that he has never been able to find a passage around the northernmost tip of the American continent. Many ships have tried and failed, with disaster to them- selves and their crews. ; Still, such a passage does exist and the Canadian Forest Products Laboratories at Ottawa can prove it. They point to a stick of wood, picked up by the Canadian . ice patrol in Bellot strait this year. Scientists have determined that the stick was grown in the McKenzie river basin. To get {nto Bellot strait it had it make the northwest passage. How long it took or what conditions were encountered on the way no one can tell. The significant fact is that the passage fs there, even if man hasn’t been able to chart it. The Countess Chooses Countess Barbara von Haugwitz-Reventlow, who as Bar- ~bara Hutton attracted much attention when she inherited a $45,000,000 fortune, has renounced her American citizenship. Dispatches from New York say that, having married a Dane, she is becoming a Danish citizen; and her erstwhile fellow- »~ countrymen, who created her fortune by their purchases in the five-and-ten-cent stores, presumably will see and hear of her no more. i All of this seems to come under the general heading of news that the nation can bear. We pay too much attention, anyway, probably, to those lucky ladies who come into enormous fortunes that they did not earn; life will flow as smoothly if this one transfers her activities to foreign soil. It is too bad, probably, but we'll try to get along. Legal Hair-Splitting An odd legal tangle in Chicago makes one wonder whether our courts are not sometimes the instruments of a complicated legal game rather than implements for attaining exact justice. A Chicago woman whose husband had vanished in 1926 went to court the other day to have him declared legally dead, so that she could collect his insurance. The jury heard the evidence and retired to deliberate; while it was deliberating, . word came that the man was not dead at all, but alive in a town in California. The word came too late, and the jury brought in a verdict that the man was legally dead, And the judge, with this news at hand, held that he could not reverse the jury’s verdict, and ordered the insurance com- ~ pany to pay up. Higher courts will probably overturn the case; but doesn’t this unbending adherence to legalistic formula seem rather odd? Roosevelt has added 13 President acres to his Hy himself wide open to critict Hyde Park farm, leaving that this is just another New Deal plot. eee Sctentiste say sharks are not dangerous, but a Chamber of Commerce “oe ye Hey btpetod acta erably rane eee ‘Twin feature movies having been razsed so i suggests elimination expert horoughly, one baseball of double plays to help next summer's box office. ec 6.6 ‘Mussolini might have lasted longer around Hollywood studios represented something alien to the average player's make-up, eee Fighting hoof and mouth disease, G j East Prussia, teaiporarily throwing East Prussian Vittorio <> Wt he hadn't aie forbids shipment of fodder cannon off their feed. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1937 rors. Behind t | Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune W: Wash: , Dec. 23.—Dapper the gal happens to be Brazil. ‘Welles really is whistling in the dark. In rebuking a large section of the American press for assuming promptly that the new system of government established by Brazil's Getulio Vargas was essentially Fas- cist, Welles was right at least to the reports that the new Vargas, regime was intimately or even loosely associ- ated with or promoted by the Italian Fascist or German Nazi governments. The motive was to say something sweet and pretty which would please Miss Brazil, who admittedly has Hit- ler and Mussolini among her suitors. Locally, however, the effect was to please the Fascist-minded group in the state department and to distress those who dislike anything which ap- pears to be an official encouragement of Fascism. U. 8, Wocing Brazil's Favor The state department, realizing that it has competition for Brazilian af- fections, feels that it must overlook certain imperfections — as Roosevelt did in his pious tributes to the Latin- American democratic tadition while visiting the land of Latin-American dictatorship, Totalitarian pinciples are inherent in the new Brazilian set-up. The new constitution carries provisions vividly reminiscent of Mussolini and Hitler, especially as they apply to supervision over industry. “Freedom of the press” in Brazil means that a news- paper can print whatever it likes just as‘long es President Vargas and his crowd do not consider its criticisms dangerous to the regime. Mr. Vargas, however, has been ac- tuated by a fondness for his job and a desire to hang onto it indefinitely, rather than by influences of Fascist and Nazi organizations in his own country. Confidential state depart- ment advices indicate that he declared ‘@ crusade against Communists, whom he accused of imperling the Brazilian form of government, in much the same manner that American politi-; cians often do the same thing. In short, it appears that Vargas is a demagog in his own right rather than a Hitler or Mussolini pal. Brazil Fears Border Attacks ‘Traditionally, relations of the Unit- ed States with Brazil have been closer than with any South American re- public, These two nations and Can- ada are the only non-Spanish speak- ing countries in the western hemi- sphere (Brazilians Portuguese). Brazil, whose vast and loseley con- trolled territory touches every South American country except Chile, always has feared attack by some combina- tion of Spanish-speaking countries which might result in detachment of some of her outlying states. Hence has arisen what amounts in effect to @ Brazilian-American alliance. Brazil is still anxious to maintain that alliance and so is the United States. ‘The Vargas government is much mote pro-Washington than pro- Berlin or pro-Rome. Just the same, Vargas can hardly help but observe the success of Mussolini and Hitler in retaining their places, Many Ei in Brasil In Brazil there are 1,500,000 Italian citizens and 800,000 German citizens, all unde? pressure from homeland governments to esfablsh new spheres of influence. And Vargas, in his for- eign relations, is in a position to play both ends against the middle. The Vargas government previously has played with and used the Fascist Integralista party, which was in close league—m¢ id. But the state department was de- lighted to note that Vargas threw the Integralistas overboad after his last campaign and has now made them take off their green shirts by abolishe ing all political parties. The Integral- istas are very sore. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF MEN Boogy—I presume that when your son went fo college he was inoculated with the love of learning? Woogy—Yes, but it didn’t take. Mrs. Chuzz — John, dear, do you really believe there is such a thing as beginner's luck? John—Oh, sure! We were happy the first week of our married life, weren't we? = Bunchuck (at depot)—Say, look at those men over there in a circle ® post-season game. Dzudi—Why man, that's no football team. That's just a bunch of Scotch- ‘men lighting their clragettes. Munhall—You don’t know Mikhail’s girl, do you, She's her own chaperon. Zeigler—How's that? P Munhall—Man, you ought to'see her face, Rastus—Effen beauty was sugar yo’ sho’ would make fine vinegar. Sambo—Yes, an’ effen brains was dynamite yo’ wouldn't have enough to produce a good sneeze. —_— Jimmy—You know, Elsie, you have an ultraviolet beauty. Elsie—Oh, Jim, you're such « flat- terer. But what do you mean? Jimmy—It’s invisible to the naked eye. Tramp (after hand-out) — Thanks, lady. Is there anything I can do by Mary—I always think of all kind that I've said di things luring. day before I go to sleep at night. You don’t toad} How Un- dersecretary of State Sumner Welles has just essayed the role of a fellow who publicly defends his girl friend against local criticism. In this on ut President extent that he denied, by implication, the can New Doctor on the Case weoocoooccroccoescoccccccs coor coc ccooce cocccccoocs: NEED OF AN ALTERNATIVE If, as has been frequently asserted, @ strong and virile opposition party is essential for the good of the coun- try,’ then the-Republicans who so bit- terly berate their own organization would appear to be doing a distinct national disservice. Of course, it would be different if their denunciations improved either the machine or the situation, but quite obviously they have the reverse effect. With the country definitely sick of the New Deal’and the Democrats deeply divided, the political strength of the President is kept from disintegrating largely by the amazing stupidity of these alleged Republican leaders who The Great Game of POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Saltimore San By FRANK R. KENT For example, there are the Hagues, the Pendergasts, the Guffeys, the Kel- lys and others through whom the ad- ministration does business and upon. whom it relies for power. It might advantageous from the Republican standpoint to give some consideration tothe conduct, character and political background of such hard-boiled ma- these lines are Governor Aiken of Vermont and Governor Murphy of New Hampshire. One of these gentle- men demanded that the whole Re- publican National committee resign; the other insists that there shall be included in the Policy Committee of One Hundred neither millionaires nor college professors. “They,” he says, “never won an election.” Z The utter impracticability of the first suggestion is too clear to discuss. As to the second, the governor appar- ently overlooked the fact that a col- Jege professor — Woodrow Wilson— was twice elected to the presidency, and the further fact that Mr. Hoover, elected in 1928, was a millionaire and unsavory, individuals left in publican organizations, but in prevent a decent alternative from de- veloping and kick over their’ own chances faster than they can get off the ground. There are quite a few who fre preparing again to do exactly. that ‘ds soon as the executive committee in St Louis completes its work, thus beautifully playing into the hands of the New Deal propagandists, and checking at the start a movement to equip the opposition with the princi- ples it so completely lacks. At almost fegular intervals for the past three years Republicans of a cer- tain type have raised their voices to bellow that the party must be reor- ganized; that the “Old Guard must be turned out”; that unless it becomes “liberal” it is bound to die. No matter how often repeated, this sort of stuff is good for a certain amount of pub- licity and that seems the main- idea. Because it is a matter of record that the gentlemen who sound these clarion calls, immediately fall back and sub- side after publication. They never follow through because apparently their demands have nothing resem- bling ¢oncrete thought behind them. They completely ignore the fact that after the Landon nomination the party management was reorganized; that the “Old Guard” through phys- ical death, political annihilation or, as in the case of Mr. Hillis, voluntary resignation, has almost entirely dis- appeared; and that in its platform last year the, party went so far in the effort to become “liberal” that it be- came silly. The two most recent mem- bers of the once Grand Old Party to become articulate and voluble along [Slope Briefs | Richardton—Resident of this area since 1898, Mrs. Raphael Berger, Sr., 58, is dead. Beulah—Burned about the face are Mrs. J. T. Whitledge, Glen Ullin, worthy matron; Mrs. Alice Grindahl, ‘Hebron, associate matron; Mrs. 8. E. ‘Halpern, Glen Ullin, conductor; Mrs. Sam Rosenau, Glen Ullin, associate conductor; Mrs. J. H. Watts, Hebron, secretary; Mrs, R. E. Dittus, Hebron, treasurer, Temvik—Mrs, Katherine Bender Eisenbarth, 73, died here. Mr. Roosevelt, elected in 1932 and 1936, 4s, at least, a potential millionaire. A further idea of the value of advice of these governors can be had from the declaration of one of them when the name of Ex-Governor Frank Lowden of Illinois was mentioned, that “I never heard of him.” With due respect to these Republican governors, it must-be admitted that neither of them has helped the situation either as to the party or, what is far more im- portant, the country. On the contrary, they appear de- finitely to have contributed to the New Deal continuance by promoting discord in the opposition and weaken- ing the effort to provide the alterna- tive. It does seem that if they have nothing in their heads more practical and helpful for their own party their energies might be more profitably de- voted to denouncing the politicians of the Democr&tic party, who are in- finitely more im) it because they are in power and the others are not. — McKenney on Bridge SURPRISE OPENER FAILS Defense Ignores Long Suit in Attempt to Outwit Declarer, But Strategy Bounces Back = WILLIAM E. McKENNEY (Searesard, asnonions Centrane loridge Langue) professionals who have been playing politics with relief money and who are today rulers of the people. From a detached point of view, He Principles te Which men and women, who distrust Mr. Roosevelt and de- country needs more than else is a decent alternative—and it does not make much difference where ti comes from. If the Republicans again demonstrate that they cannot or will not give it, then they ought to get out of the way and let some- body, else try. 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