The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1937, Page 6

sigan 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 mat) matter. : Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Kenneth W. Simons Archie O. Johnson ‘Vice Pres. and Gen’l. Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per yea: (in Bismarck) . Daily by mai) per year (in state outside Daily by mail outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail in state, per year .... Weekly by mai) outside ot North Dakota, per year. 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 {t or not otherwise credited In this Newspaper and also the iocu! news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of al! other matter herein are also reserved. Should Call Him Blessed If ever proof were needed that the people of this region must place their hope of economic advancement in men of science and the development of a new system of agriculture it is contained in the announcement made Thursday at the state agricultural college that a new and superior type of wheat has been developed there. Most North Dakotans have heard the name of L. R. Wald- ron of the state experiment station but relatively few know the man personally. Yet he probably is in position today to do more to save the wheat industry in this state than all of the politicians the state has known since it was recognized as an| integral part of the union. The new variety is said to be resistant to both rust and drouth. What that means is evident to anyone more than 10 years old and who is interested in the things about him. Who, young or old, can forget the ravages of the drouth years? And who can ever forget the sickening devastation caused by the rust epidemic of 1935, when one of the best prospective crops in the history of this region was turned, within a few weeks, into a shambles of blighted hope and widespread privation? Developments such as this new wheat, coupled with new systems of farming and wiser use of-the soil, offer the real hope for North Dakota. “ Government can help. It has helped by making it possible for such men as Dr. Waldron to do their work. But no political action can cause acres to produce, an essential to any farm prosperity. No political action can actually put dollars into the pockets of anyone without first taking them from the pockets of someone else. Our men of science, working unseen and unsung, CAN do these things. They reach their objectives by working with nature, by taking infinite pains, by hard and persistent labor. According to the announcement from Fargo the new wheat will have been propagated to such an extent that it will be ready for distribution to farmers in 1939. Within a few years after that, we may expect it to become common and, possibly, to replace Thatcher wheat, a variety which will be widely grown next year. This newspaper has contended and still contends that the plaee of wheat in our agricultural economy has been over- emphasized, that it has been vastly over-rated. But it also recognizes that wheat has an integral and important part to play. And who can deny, as long as we are going to raise any wheat at all, that we should raise that variety which yields the greatest return? Who can contend that a man who increases the yield a bushel or two an acre by introducing a new strain, does not deserve credit for producing perhaps millions of bushels of EXTRA wheat while that variety is in use? : Such is the accomplishment of Dr. Waldron and his co- workers. The farmers and businessmen should rise up and call him—and all like him—blessed. The Right to Look Ridiculous The proofreader is a noble person with whom, unfor- tunately, people who have nothing to do with writing and print- ing never get acquainted. In ordinary newspaper offices, a proofreader is a preter- naturely wise, scholarly individual, tucked away in a little cub- byhole and devotes himself to the melancholy task of ferreting out errors of grammar, spelling, fact, punctuation or typog- raphy in the works of the hired hands. “The brash young gentlemen of the press have a way of speaking of him as “the comma hound.” As creative souls, they get irritable when their mistakes in the matter of names, ad- dresses and historical facts are called to their attention; but at bottom they know that the proofreader saves them from look- ing ridiculous, full many a time and oft. All of which is by way of introduction to the fact that Uncle Sam has a set of proofreaders on his payroll. They go over the matter which is printed in the Congressional Record— an one imagine a more soul-killing task ?—and the most recent complaint about them centers about the fact that they do their job too well. : Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas makes the com- plaint. In a letter to the Government Printing Office, he pro- tests that the federal comma hounds make congressmen look wiser and more learned than they really are. He ought to know, for he admits that they recently performed that favor for him. Sheaking from the floor of the House, Mr. Maverick re- ferred the other day to David and his coat of many colors—an error which, if spread on the records, would have branded him forever either as a man with a poor memory or asa distressingly inept student of the Bible. But the poofreaders saved him; ee Coen got ae it spoke of Joseph, not of David. ittle before t! continues Mr. Maveri spoke of Lieutenant obeons feat of ae the Merrimenin nila Bay—an error of fact to the extent of some 10,000 miles. But the proofreaders came to the rescue, and in the Congres- econ eng the Merrimac was sunk where it belonged, in This sort of thing, says Mr. Maverick, is common. Con- gressmen are saved daily from all manner of ridiculous errors by . these G-men of the proof press. The Texan says he once knew @ congressman whose grammar was exceptionally, ludicrous! bad; but in the Record he always Bourn like 4 college nad fessor, so alert and canny were the proofreaders, Which seems to us to be too bad. Our vaunted freedom ought to include the liberty of a congressman to make a spectacle of whenever nature so moves him. There never has been any tradition that our congressmen were models of erudition and classical English; the tradition, indeed, goes the other way. (Consult, Aa ar the legendary “Change the Name of are all right in their place, but th sional Record isn’t it. Can't we read our congressional bch n al unretouched inaccuracy? their glowing, pristin Behind Soenes Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 27.— Even the oldest inhabitant doesn’t seem to re- member when Vermont was particu- larly influential in national politics, but now that she stands as one of the two states which voted against Roose- velt last year, her sons are demanding @ voice in affairs of the Republican iy Lhe George D. Aiken of the Green Mountain state, who obviously seeks a share in party leadership, has just issued @ blast telling what he thinks the G. O. P. ought to do. And you may or may not have noticed that Harold W. Mason, a Ver- mont business man, quite recently be- came secretary of the Republican na- tional committee through appoint- ment by Chairman John D, M. Ham- ilton. . “We have become a party of old men,” protests Aiken, and this critic- ism gained some point with ensuing reports that former Gov Frank O. Lowren of Illinois almost surely would be chairman of the committee of one hundred chosen to work out a party omen is 76, and although no one proposed him just because of his ad- vanced age, it was recognized that he was too old to harbor presidential am- bitions which might be promoted by his selection. * * * z Vermonters Are More Liberal Few have expected any strong lib- eral influence to emerge from among Vermont Republicans, but Aiken and Mason are distincitly less conservative than those elementstwhich continue to control party machinery, and Aiken propses to “accept in general the so- cial aims which the opposing party has had the wisdom to adopt... .” Mason, who operates a large whole- sale shoe business in Brattleboro along lines which appear to be un- usually “enlightened,” has a lively in- terest in health insurance. Seven years ago he underwrote a home town scheme by which about 3000 folks pay $10 a year ($5 for kids) and in return get $300 worth, of hospital service and surgeons’ fees if and when they need it. He thinks the Republican perty ought to study the possibilities of this sort of thing. During the depression, the new na- tional committee secretary kept all his employes on the payroll at regular wages by dipping heavily into a large accumulated surplus. The workers “had a right” to a large part of that surplus, he explains, because they had created it, Q zee Wants G. O. P. Labor Policy adopted the five-day, 40- hour week 6 months before NRA came along. His plant is not unionized — because, he says, his people aren’t in- terested—but he thinks that if and when the Republican party adopts a labor policy its leaders ought to sit down with William Green and John L. Lewis and find out how near they can come to a meeting of minds, Mason, a director of public utili- ties and other corporations, would like to see industries most concerned es- tablish a fund to study and experi- ment to learn how cheap housing can be built. He thinks the public utilities inguaey needs a Will Hays or a K. M. *** * . G. O. P. Vote ‘Helped State’ “You are now leaving the United States.” said signs put up by wags on highways crossing the Vermont line after the 1936 election. But ria says ermons vote for Landon has been a great thing for the state, attracting not only tourists but many well-to-do persons who have cl THE END OF THE SESSION As the extra session of congress, convened by the president on Nov- ember-15, comes to a close, its com- plete futility is the outstanding aspect of the record.’ Except for the amend- ments to the housing act, which under heavy pressure are being jammed through at the last moment, a com- pletely blank score was made. The one concrete accomplishment was the passage of a bill providing mileage for members and other ex- penses, This is a practically unparal- lelled performance and the facts ought to be clearly understood. For one thing, it definitely re-establishes the fact that Mr. Roosevelt, with a four- to-one party majority, has lost con- trol of congress. In the regular ses- sion last summer his inability to im- pose, his will on the legislative branch was shown in the remarkable revolt against his proposal to pack the su- preme court with six additional jus- tices. In this session it was shown by the failure of congress to enact finally the crop-control bill, for which he had said the country could not wait, and by the striking defeat of the wage-and-hour control bill, which the moved to build summer homes or rent old farmhouses. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) People’s I Forum Editor's Note—The Tribune wel- comes \ jects of inter- with contro- jects, which unfairly. oF ite and fair tt to use 8 pseudon: donym flest and your th it, = ws Bese ill gE SEEFETE A z 5 £ Fy 2 Au f i FF Ff ri yee HH efiee nil means of contour plowing and wind As the situation exists, every per- tioje of moisture which is permitted & : g a i ! a] E cul eee ent be il se : z i : i A i | a z eee B SE i c lak ie li president called upon it to pass as a redemption of both a party and a per- sonal pledge. Last spring, addressing the Ameri- can people, the president likened the executive, legislative and judicial citizen will give them all the aid and assistance which is possible to not only put these improvements in prog- ress, but in addition, to make them feasibly adapted to the gre: eco- | ater nomic production of the entire state. The ‘brains are here, the engineering ; ability and experience are here, and the ntal departments are lberal in supplying the finances. The thing which is necessary is the-local co-operation to put the amount of push behind. all of these necessary projects to-make them successful. I sincerely hope that the year 1938 will show quite material progress along those lines throughout the en- lie je i E i i pLan HERE i Tt WP A CROP a eit aere AND THERE A Bi, RE yo everyone THEYRE DirrER Ey, es 4 The Great Game of POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimore Sun branches of the government to a three-horse team. He indicted the court as the one horse which was not pulling with the other two. Today, if he still adheres to that unsound con- ception of the American system, he would be compelled to indict the leg- islative horse along with the judicial. Because it is much too plain that it is not now pulling with the executive either. In brief, though his party ma- jority is still the largest any president has had in'a hundred years, it is now clear that, Mr. Roosevelt cannot com- mand it ds he did in his first term; meaning. about these facts. They are too obvi- ous to dispute. Nor is there much divergence of opinion as to the rea- sons the president today finds his leg- islative leaders cold and 5 an increasing number of Democratic senators openly expressing dissent from his policies and a growing con- fusion among his followers. First, that the present depression has deepened distrust of the New Deal policies and awakened members of ‘and in this Mr. Roosevelt has urged upon congress the enactment of bills (the court-packing bill for one and the wage-and-hour bill for the other) deeply distasteful to the people as a whale and involving radical changes By FRANK R. KENT in the American system for which there was neither justification nor demand. In any event, the fact remains that the control over congress which Mr. Roosevelt lost in the last session be- cause of his effort to seize the supreme court he failed to regain in the extra session through his demand for a wage-and-hour bill and a farm bill. The striking thing about the defeat of the former was that it was brought from be and \ Democratic party has its greatest solidity. In eleven southern states there were GAME TRICK ON FINESSE Declarer Chooses’ Less Obvious But Safer Means of Making ? Onée-Guarded Honor Count By WILLIAM E, McKENNEY (Secretary, American Contract Bridge League) SOLUTION TO PREVIOUS CONTRACT PROBLEM Duplicate—All vulnerable. South West North East 16 20 26 Pass 4@ Poss Pass Pass 2 > ager i ¥ i $ EBbs § mais at i at yi for goddess of STE IRINIMLOITEEPIUII INIAIMIEIL IY} iA GIRIOIVIEIL |S MEBIL I E IRINIE Mame IAIVIE|S CIO DIE JAIRIS | uestions pertaining to rs bristiy and Write lett in: ink, (Copyright, 1937, John F. 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