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TUX FLAW SEEN
IN TUGWELL IDEAL
Question of Funds for ‘Third
Economy’ Declared
Overlooked.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Just the other day, a prominent offi
cial of the Wilson administration re
marked to a friend that the $4,800,
000,000 appropriation bill which has
Just become law would profoundly
change the history of the United States
tor all time.
Within 24 hours thereafter, Rexford
Tugwell, Undersecretary of Agricul
ture and the real spokesman for Pres
ident Roosevelt nowadays, made a
speech in which he proclaimed for
the first time his concept of the “third
economy”—a new description of the
New Deal, which aims neither to go to
the "right” nor the “left,” which
doesn't bring us either Communism or
Fascism, but which places In the hands
of the Federal Government new con
trols over certain phases of our eco
nomic life.
“I should like to explore with you.”
said Dr, Tugwell in his prepared ad
dress. “the geography of what could be
called the third economy—the sphere
which belongs neither to private profit
nor to State Socialism as it is generally
understood by those who advocate or
fear the nationalization of utilities, key
industries, basic natural resources,
banks and other institutions of similar
social importance.”
Public Works Stressed.
Prof. Tugwell, who is to have the
responsibility for spending a large
part of the $4,800,000,000 fund on be
half of the President, points out that
there is a category of public works of
necessary yet unprofitable measures
•'which must be taken to preserve the
values of our national patrimony.'' He
concedes that these things “do not ap
peal very strongly to that important
group which, set aside from common
insecurity by the possession of wealth,
resents the necessity for taxing itself
for the sake of posterity.” He goes on
to argue that people still ask, "What
has posterity done for us?” and that
people generally do not seem to be
willing "to forego immediate pleasures
nnnni-tnnlfior ♦ V* ~ -
erat’ons yet unborn,” but he thinks
that nevertheless such a public senti
ment can be and should be developed.
After outlining certain types of
public works which "cannot return a
direct profit to the State or to the in
dividual," such as control of soil ero
sion, by dams and by drainage, canals,
shelter-belts, reforestation, flood and
wind control measures, he adds proj
ects for rural housing, rural sanita
tion. rural electrification and com
munity developments. Dr. Tugwell
goes along with Federal Relief Admin
istrator Hopkins, who said the critics
"were too damn dumb to understand”
the finer things of life.
Holds Developments Necessary.
"Such community developments.”
lays Dr. Tugwell, ‘‘as recreational fa
cilities, educational, artistic and cul
tural enterprises, which create both
new demands and new satisfactions,
are an indispensable part of this pro
gram to conserve our national re
sources and to develop them as well as
our own capacity to utilize and enjoy
their benefits.”
On the question of Industry Dr.
Tugwell Is no less specific. He de
clares:
“For the main task of production
we shall always have to work under
Home form of co-ordination, whether
that co-ordination is . expressed
through public control over hours,
wages, prices and conditions of em
ployment, or through what President
Roosevelt has called partnership with
industry.
"Co-ordination is the essential ele
ment in large-scale production. • • •
It seems to me that we are now en
gaged in a more or less conscious proc
ess of reassigning and redistributing
powers and controls in the indis
pensable co-ordination.
Appeals to Teachers.
“In certain spheres, no doubt, where
enterprise is affected with a public In - •
terest, we shall be forced to resort to
an Increasing degree of public author
ity to achieve the necessary control.
Public ownership of certain utilities
seems to me clearly forecast by pres
ent facts.”
Dr. Tugwell's remarks were ad
dressed to the school teachers of
Rochester, N. Y., to whom he is ap
pealing for the spread of propaganda
in support of the “third economy.”
Bald Dr. Tugwell on this point:
"The teaching profession, It seems
to me. holds largely in its own hands
the answer to the question of whether
the American people can escape from
the iron ring of logic which would
narrow their choice of policy to purely
conventional alternatives, and so bring
to their new economic and social op
portunities a new attitude, a new spirit
and a new faith.” *
^UCSIIVII M it i auivuii *•
The revelation of the third economy
this week, as plans are being made to
spend, the $4,800,000,000, may or may
not be a coincidence. But nowhere in
Dr. Tugwell's address is there any
fourth economy, which is to answer
the question of how the American
people are to be taxed to pay for these
public ownership adventures.
If the sources of taxation—the
profits—are to be abolished or'dried
up so that private businesses and suc
cessful individuals who pay revenues
to States and cities which need funds
to support schools and other public
work.; can no longer do so, some one
will have to devise a substitute econ
omy. Such an achievement would
make the Treasury officials less wor
ried and cure all monetary difficulties,
and the inventor would be awarded
the highest honors his countrymen
could bestow.
(Copyright. 1835.)
STRESA COMMENT
DENIED IN MOSCOW
Attitude of Officials and Press
One of Waiting for An
nouncements.
■y tils Associated Presi.
MOSCOW, April 12 —Soviet officials
and the press alike withheld comment
today on developments in the tri
partite conference at Stresa. The at
titude appeared to be one of waiting
for further announcements either from
Stresa or Geneva before making any
official commitments.
Observers point out that the Soviet
press on the very eve of the Stresa
conference was denouncing whatever
attempt might be made to sidetrack
the eastern security pact by propos
ing a general European accord as a
substitute. Yet, the Tass (official
Soviet news agency) statement last
night said the Franco-Soviet under
standing for a mutual assistance pact
Is “on a basis of a general European
agreement.”
What’s What
Behind News
In Capital
Delicate Situation in
Congress Cuts Down !
Presidential Fanfare.
BY PAUL MALLON.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS dra
matic return to the Washing
ton battlefront was not very
dramatic. Last year he came
came back “a tough guy.”
This time he just came back.
There was no parade of members cf
Congress down to the station to greet
him. no band, no swift-swinging and
hard-hitting promises by the Presi
dent. This was due only incidentally
to the fact that he went on to New
York to attend the funeral of a life
long friend.
The real reason was that the sit
uation this year in fundamentally
different. The job he is facing
with a lazy and disinterested Con
gress is too varied and too delicate
to permit him to try any of his old
bold strokes.
A mild butld-up was attempted for
him on the assumption that he would
take hold of the 4.880,000.000 relief
dollars with vigor. But this Job also
requires more endless, tedious, detailed
planning than vigor. There just Isn't
any room for drama now. There is
too much work.
President Blamed.
Congressional leaders are telling
their friends Mr. Roosevelt Is re
sponsible for slowing down the con
gressional machine. Their view is
that he has not furnished enough
leadership on particular issues—social
security. NRA reorganization, holding
companies, the bank bill.
! This may be partially true. It does
not explain why the Senate, after sit
1 ting three months and passing only
one major piece of legislation, has
been able to find nothing important to
j do while all the other New Deal bills
are stuck on the flypaper of the
Senate committees The same situ
ation preyails to a large extent in the
House.
The greatest deliberative bodies in
the world appear to be deliberating
more for the purpose of delay than
delaying for the purpose of delibera
tion.
Huey Tax Case Curbed.
There are good reasons for believ
ing the Treasury wants to start a tax
case against Huey Long, but the White
House doe* not.
Those who have their ears at the
Treasury keyhole have heard that Mr.
Morgenthau's sleuths, after years of
undermining in Louisiana, struck what
they thought was pay dirt a few weeks
ago.
Some Question has arisen about
how much the dirt will pay. The
Treasury thought if had a fairly
good case and wanted to proceed.
The matter was submitted to the
White House, where it was Quietly
filed away, for the time being.
Apparently the White House did
not share the Treasury’s enthusi
asm amout the case. At least not
just at this time.
Most of the political experts believe
it would be foolish for the administra
tion to go out of its way to make a
martyr of Huey.
The Genteel Newsman.
A London correspondent, visiting
Washington, wanted to get an inter
view with Huey. A meeting was ar
ranged through one of Long's friend*,
and the correspondent went to Long's
office. There he found America's hit
less Hitler fanning the air in deep
thought.
“You want an interview with me,
eh!” said (not asked) the Kingfish.
"You want to know about American
politics and about me. eh! Well, get
out your paper and take this down.
Are you ready? Quote: “Franklin D.
Roosevelt 1* a blankety, blank, blank,
blank.’ We will start off from there
as a starting point.”
The genteel correspondent from
London dropped his pencil on the floor,
fumbled with his tie. lost his paper.
He had never seen or heard anything
like that, even in Europe.
uv/
The conservative elements here and
In New York have been hopping about
lately, contending the New Deal is
done for. They are enthusiastically
confident that Mr. Roosevelt will not
be re-elected next year.
Apparently they have overlooked
the practical implications behind
the new relief bill. Some of Mr.
Roosevelt’s associates regard it as
his masterpiece in tactical maneu
vering. Fundamentally it is a two
year blanket lease on expenditures.
No congressional strings are hang
ing loose. Members of Congress
and their constituents will have to
come to him for money and proj
ects. He has regained the upper
hand 1or at least IS months more.
Then the election will be over.
Every politician knows what this
means.
If the conservatives are right when
they say that spending won the last
election, they should now be saying
that Mr. Roosevelt won the next elec
tion when he signed the relief bill
Tuesday.
One of Huey’s bodyguards carries a
Phi Beta Kappa key. Also two guns.
The White House has said: "We
are shooting at July 1, 1938" as the
date for concluding existing relief ex
penditures. It may shoot at July 1,
but will hit election day the follow
ing November.
The late Adolph Ochs used to say
to some of his associates in his de
clining years: "It is not good for a
man to live too long, i have lived
beyond my span.” He was 77 when
he died.
The old puff racket is being worked
on some of the more innocent New
Dealers. You get a telephone call. A
pleasant voice informs you a story
is being written about you for pub
lication, and you are asked to listen
to it and check its accuracy. It is
always very flattering. A few days
later you receive M copies and a bill
for ISO.
IN C. C. C. PLANNED
Roosevelt Approval Is Ex
pected Today—$600,000
Allocated for Project.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
President Roosevelt today took the
first active step to put in motion his
$4,000,000,000 work relief program.
After he had conferred with Robert
Fechner, Civilian Conservation Corps
director, the latter announced that
300,000 new men would be enrolled In
the organization within 60 days.
The President is expected to put his
official approval upon the plans be
fore the day is over, and the work of
expanding the C. C. C. to double its
present size will start at once.
In order to check up on the finan
cial part of the C. C. C. program, the
President had Daniel W. Bell. Jr.,
acting director of the Budget Bureau,
sit in for a part of the conference.
Under the terms of the new work re
lief act, $600,000,000 is to be allotted
for this recovery agency.
New Sites Planned.
As Fechner was leaving the White
House he said that within a few days
he would bring to the President for
his approval the selection of the new
sites throughout the country for C.
C. C. camps. There are to be 1,740
new camps, making total up to
2,916, which will make it possible to
take care of the 300.000 additional
men, making a total enrollment of a
trifle over 600.000.
It was believed the corps will per
mit absorption of some of the college
graduates coming out of school this
June who might be unable to find
work otherwise.
Fechner said the new camps will
be distributed among the nine Army
Corps areas in about the same ratio
as the existing camps. In his opin
ion, the new camps will be ready for
occupancy In about 60 days. The
work of laying out and constructing
the various camps will be done by
the Army, and as is the case at pres
ent, the officers jn charge of the new
camps will be selected by the Army
| from the Officers’ Reserve Corps.
Confers With TugwelL
After Fechner left, the President
went into conference with Dr. Rex
ford Guy Tugwell. Undersecretary of
Agriculture, who is expected to occupy
a major position in the work relief
set-up.
Administration officials said mean
while they expected public works to
become a permanent part of the
] national economy, the Associated Press
reported.
Harry L. Hopkins, the relief admin
istrator, said the work program by
putting 3,500.000 men to work would
break the back of the relief bugaboo
so far as the Government was con
cerned. He added that he expected
public works would continue.
The President and a delegation of
mayors got together yesterday in an
effort to decide how much of the four
billion dollars should be expended on
city projects.
Among some of the mayors there
had been the expressed fear that the
cities, where the bulk of the unem
ployed are, would not receive enough
money to put their men to work. Offl
I cials declined to talk about the matter
or how it would be handled.
After the city officials left the
White House the gist of their com
ment was that they had a “very
satisfactory and encouraging talk.”
Consider Mississippi Work.
At about the same time it was
| disclosed that the administration was
giving close thought to the feasi
bility of carrying out upward of
$300,000,000 of projects in the Mis
sissippi Basin. The projects would
involve power, irrigation, navigation
and flood control, with the latter
receiving the greatest stress.
Only a few on the long list of such
projects that have been put before
the President involved water power,
but he did have a recommendation
that the Mississippi Basin would be a
good place to try out rural elec
trification.
While the President was going over
plans for the work program. Secre
tary Ickes and Harry L. Hopkins, the
relief administrator, two of those
who have been closely associated with j
him during the formulation of the
program, held press conferences.
Their talks with newspaper men
were sprinkled with "I don't know.”
or “I can't discuss that,” but out of
them came information that:
A proposal to change the form of
loan-and-grant, under which *900,- j
000.000 will be provided to cities and
State subdivisions, from a 70-30 ratio
to one in which the Federal Govern
ment and the municipalities match
funds on a 50-50 basis, is under con
sideration.
Housing work probably will follow
about the same charn els as before,
with P. W. A. handling certain types
of low-cost and slum clearance proj
ects in cities and the Relief Admin
istration doing some rural building.
The National Park Service has asked
that more of the new ClviUan Con
servation Corps camps be stationed
in public parks.
TRADE DISCUSSED
WITH AMBASSADORS
State Department Official* and
Japanese and French
Envoys Confer.
By the Associated Press.
Continuing their efforts to recap
ture foreign business, State Depart
ment officials yesterday discussed
trade questions with the Japanese and
French Ambassadors.
After a lengthy confers ce with
Secretary Hull and Assistant Secre
tary Sayre, Hirosi Saito, the Japa
nese Ambassador, Issued an optimis
tic statement predicting continued
friendly and profitable trade between
the two nations without the stimulus
of a new reciprocal trade agreement.
Andre de Laboulaye, the French
Ambassador, discussed with Hull
pending Franco-Amerlcan questions,
including trade negotiations, prior to
the former's sailing tomorrow for
Paris.
The French Ambassador, who has
been discussing the possibility of
activity negotiations for a trade agree
ment with the United States which
would eliminate some of the major
discrimination* now in force against
American Import* into France, told
newspaper men the talks would go
on during his absence and a final
decision might be reached before he
returned hi June.
Danieli to Come Home.
MEXICO, D. F., April 12 (^.—Am
bassador and Mrs. Josephus Daniel*
will leave Monday for Vera Cruz en
route to New York and North Caro
lina for a six weeks* vacation, it was
Zoo Elephant Spanks Unruly “Infant”
C --
Spoiled Pachyderm Gets Sound Wallop for Ripping Up Uncle
Sam’s Concrete.
Kechil Li just showing off in this picture, but if the husky young Sumatran gets out of bounds Old Babe
will swing into action. The former circus queen is standing in the background now, just watching.
—Star Staff Photo.
//IV T0' NO!—Mamma spank!”
*• \ Old Babe means it. A
I \l free translation of her
A l elephant talk would go
something like this:
“Quit rattling your crib, you Infant!
This cage cost your Uncle Sam money!
Behave before I spank you—again!”
Old Babe emphasizes her discipli
nary rumblings by boxing the culprit’s
ears. Kechil, the huge Sumatran
jungle queen, is Just a spoiled brat
in Old Babe's eyes.
Old Babe has spanked bad young
sters before.
I If the erring Kechil reaches through
the bars and jerks out a hunk of
concrete from a crack in the floor of
the elephont house, there Is a warn
ing rumble and, ■'Socko!'’ Kechil
knows better.
Young Kechil used to be quite a
bully. A strapping young hussy, she
took a swing at Babe when the old
elephant was retired from the circus
and went to the Zoo to live out her
90 years or so.
But Babe had commanded a picket
line for half a century. She quickly
put Kechil in her place, after the
I
mysterious manner of jungle royalty,
and now proceeds to keep her there.
Kechil still gets a little frisky at time*,
and she outweighs Babe by aeveral
hundred pounds.
Several days ago she found the
flaw in the concrete and began tos
sing bits of the stuff around. But
Old Babe fixed that. She shouldered
Kechil back into the cage, cuffed her
a few times and waited for the keep
ers to come and have the damage re- j
paired. Old Babe keeps the repair j
, bills down to a minimum.
TAMMANY JOINS
G. 0. PJNREVOLT
Tiger’s Tail Stepped On by
Redistricting Bill, It Puts
Up Fight.
By th® Associated Pres*.
ALBANY, N. Y., April 12 — Having
hurled defiance at President Roosevelt
and Gov. Lehman, Tammany forces
planned a new revolt today against
national and State administrations as
the New York Legislature turned to
the Democratic proposal for congres*
sional reapportionment.
Determined to prevent a redistrict
ing which would cut its representation
from 10 to 7. the tiger stood ahoulder
to shoulder with Republicans to kill
the measure, just as it voted down last
night the administration’s State legis
lative reapportionment bill.
Despite the Governor's appeal to the
public to force passage of the measure
and his charge to the legislators that
they were failing in their duty. Tam
many and the Republicans sent the
Senate-Assembly realignment plan
down to defeat for a second time by
nine votes. It has passed the Upper
House.
The congressional redistricting bill
headed the calendars in both houses
today in the midst of a drive for
adjournment.
It was given a alight chance of ap
proval in the Senate, but its defeat
was considered certain in the Lower
House, where Louis A. Cuvillier. dean
of Tammany’s Assembly delegation,
charged yesterday that the President
seeks to disintegrate Tammany Hall
because of the fear of what it might
do in 1936.
Cuvillier charged the President had
"ordered" New York's Governor to
have the Legislature reapportion the
Empire State so as to deprive Tar •
many of its strength in Congress.
NAZIS TRAIN TAILORS,
NEEDED FOR UNIFORMS
Serious Lack of Skilled Workers
Is Blamed Upon Former
Governments.
By tha Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 12 —Germany’s tail
ors were called to the front yester
day to avoid a serious delay in mili
tary conscription when the first re
cruits are summoned next Fall.
An official announcement said there
is a serious lack in skilled military
tailors, and the Nazi labor front an
nounced the creation of five training
courses in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne,
Munich and Dresden.
More than 900 skilled tailors to
make uniforms will be available within
six months, labor front officials said.
“Antipathy toward uniforms" of for
mer governments was held respon
sible for the present lack of skilled
masters of the needle.
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BOLT FELLS WORKER
—
Railway Employe Hurt While
Working on Bridge.
A bolt accidentally dropped from an
overhead structure while he was at
work on the railroad bridge spanning
the Potomac River from Potomac Park
to the Virginia ahore aeriously injured
George Brown. 26, of Philadelphia,
yesterday when it struck his head.
Brown, whose local address ia 307 C
street, was treated at Emergency Hos
pital for a po'sible skull fracture. He
is an employe of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co.
ANSELLLOSES^VIOVE
IN LONG LIBEL SUIT
Justice O'Donoghue Buies Sena
tor'l Defense Is Adequate
for Trial.
District Supreme Court Justice Dan
iel W. O'Donoghue today overruled
a demurrer to Senator Long’s an
swer to the half-mlllion-dollar libel
suit brought against the Louisiana
Senator by Gen. Samuel T. Ansell.
retired judge advocate general of the
Army. The ruling brought trial of the
long pending case a little nearer.
Court officers said that in the regu
lar course of affairs the case prob
ably will come to trial late this year.
During arguments on the demurrer
Wednesday, Burr Ansell, son of the
general, who acted as his father's
attorney, contended Senator Long's
answer to the libel suit did not con
tain sufficient facts for a valid de
fense; that it contained generaliza
tions alluding to certain documents
without making specific allegations
and that the law of privilege could
not be pleaded.
Justice O’Donoghue decided that
the defense offered would be adequate
if proven and that the case must go
to trial.
| Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
Debates bill to authorize more H. O.
L. C. bonds.
Munitions Committee Investigates
Colt Arms Co.
House:
Debates economic security bill.
Banking Committee studies omnibus
banking bill.
TOMORROW.
House:
Social security bill under considera
tion on floor.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee. 10 a m. open, utility hold
ing company bill.
Banking and Currency Committee,
10:30 am., executive session, banking
bill.
Senate:
Probably will recess until Monday
if home loan bill passes today.
Finance Committee to continue
N. R. A. hearings.
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3.000 HONOR OCHS
I i
—
Hundreds Crowded Out of
Synagogue Stand in Rain
in Front.
_
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 12.—Last rites,
brief and simply conducted, honored
Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New
York Times, in the presence of nearly
3.000 persons today.
The services were held in Temple
Emanu-el. a massive synogogue at First
avenue and Sixty-fifth street, which
seated 2.500 people. Others stood in
the balconies. Several hundred more
stood in a misty rain in front of the
edifice.
The casket reposed before the altar
, in the center of the nave. It was
i blanketed with orchids on green.
A softly-played organ prelude opened
1 the service promptly at 10:30 a.m.
Rabbi Samuel Goldenson gave a text.
"The earth Is the Lord's and the
| fullness thereof,” he said in sonorous,
echoing tones.
Choir Give* Response*.
Cantor Moshe Rudinow sang "I Set
the Lord Always Before Me." The
choir gave antiphonal responses. Rabbi
Goldenson resuming read: "Even
from everlasting to everlasting thou
art God.” He turned also to the
twenty-ninth chapter of the Book of
Job.
Invisible in stalls above the altar,
the choir sang Handel's “Trust in the
Lord." It was a favorite of Mr. Ochs’,
one he enjoyed hearing at Friday night
synogogue services.
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise read the
twenty-third psalm, and prayed:
"The Lord hath given and the Lord
hath taken away. Blessed for ever
and ever be the name of the Lord."
The 23-minute service was ended.
Lehman Leads Pallbearers.
Dr. Wise and Dr. Goldenson started
slowly through the center aisle.* The
organ played softly. Honorary pall
i bearers, led by Gov. Herbert Lehman,
former Gov. Alfred Smith, Owen D.
Young. John W. Davis, Charles M.
Schwab and others, followed.
Ten bearers lifted the coffin to their
shoulders and bore it out. Behind
them walked Mrs. Ochs, the widow,
and others of the bereaved family.
The procession started at once for
the Temple Israel Cemetery at Mount
Hope. N. Y, several miles north of
the city, and near the Ochs’ Summer
home at White Plains.
Sarcophagus From Tennessee.
There a sarcophagus made of Ten
nessee marble at the publisher's own
request awaited the coffin. Mr. Ochs
began his publishing career in Ten
nessee as publisher of the Chatta
nooga Times. He died there last Mon
day at the age of 77, being suddenly
stricken while conferring with execu
tives of that paper.
There was no activity during the
hour 6f the funeral in the plant or
offices of the New York Times, fcr
all employes were given an oppor
tunity to attend the services.
Another tribute was paid by the
Associated Press, of which Mr. Ochs
was one of the founders and a di
rector. All wires were silenced and
Associated Press activity was stopped
for two minutes at 10:30 throughout
the world.
MRS. ROOSEVELT’S PLANS
FOR 1936 ARE UNDECIDED
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt isn’t
taking 1936 campaigning seriously yet,
but she evidently is confident her hus
band will be a candidate.
To the question "Will you campaign
in 1936?” seriously put since Mrs.
Roosevelt worked in the last cam
paign. she answered as follows at a
press conference:
’’If you consider traveling with a
candidate campaigning. I shall prob
ably be doing so. But 1 haven't given
the matter a thought."
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This
Changing
World
European Statesmen on
Honeymoon at Isola
Bella, Italy.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
THERE are two classical honey
moon reaorta in the world.
One la the Niagara Falls and
the other Isola Bella, in the ]
Lake Magglore in Italy. It is
on this tiny Island that the “wise
men” of Europe—Mussolini. Laval,
Flandln, MacDonald and Sir John
Simon—are meeting now to discuss
the possibilities of a European honey
moon. (Maybe the mellow air of this
Italian beauty spot and the delicate
perfume of the acacias which are now
In bloom will inspire these men to find
a solution to the problems of the
much harassed old world. They are
all like young bridegrooms—scared
Btiff.
* * * *
Of course, some observers notice
that the gathering would have been
more complete if the other actors of
the European drama had been present
—Lltvinoff and Hitler. But Mussolini
believes that too many cooks spoil
the broth and decided to make this
gathering ar exclusive one—just inti
mate friends, you know.
Mussolini did not invite the others
really because he wanted to tell his
Intimate friends a few truths which
would have made them uncomfortable
had others been present. He wants
to tell them what fools they have
been by not taking a chance with the
Oermrns when Bruening was in
power, in 1932. Mussolini was then
ready to let the Germans arm parti
ally. He was denounced as a traitor
at that time.
* * * *
Now. the old-fashioned diplomats
must lock facts in the face—much as
they hate it.
The problem at Stress is not how
to prevent Germany's rearming, but
what to do to prevent Hitler from
making use of his new land, air and
sea forces. And that will be difficult
not because der Fuehrer wants an
immediate war, but because the in
terests of the three nations which
have sent representatives to Isola
Bella are not harmonious.
* * * *
Hitler has discovered that if he
plays his cards carefully he can get
away with almost anything he wants.
This because the other nations are so
scared of the consequences of another
war they will do their utmost to pre
vent it.
* * * *
There is no difference in the poli
tical conception of the former Austrian
house painter and that of the former
Kaiser.
Like the dethroned "highest war
lord.” Hitler believes that Germany
must expand. She must find new
lands to colonize and markets to
exploit. The Kaiser had the same
aim, but had the unfortunate idea
of following Britain's example and
wanted to build a colonial empire
in Asia and Africa. He butted
against Great Britain and burned
his fingers.
Hitler's aim is to expand in Europe.
* * * ♦
Germany will do her best to bring
about a reunion with Austria. During
Hitler's talks with Sir John Simon
last week In Berlin he assured the
British secretary of state that Ger
many would abstain from a "formal”
interference in Austria, If the other
powers did the same. Although Hitler
spoke all the time, seldom giving Sir
John a chance to put a word in. it
was clear that der Fuehrer meant that
Austria will become nazifled without
an active Interference on the part of
the Reich.
* * * *
There are some 3,500,000 Germans
in Czechoslovakia. If Austria is swal
lowed by the Reich there is no reason
why the doctrine of Nazlism should
not be spread In Czechoslovakia, too.
Hitler and Goebbels believe the Ger
man Czechs could be disrupted and
eventually attached to the Reich.
Should these plans materialize,
the German empire will have a
population of no less than S0.000 -
000 inhabitants and will be solidly
established on the Brenner pass.
Its only outlet to the Adriatic will
be Fiume—af present an Italian
port—which is situated only SO
miles from the Austrian frontier.
It Is easy to understand why Mus
solini Is nervous and why his predomi
nant thought at the Stresa conference
is to keep Germany out of Austria
at any co6t.
* * * *
The French are worrying mostly
about the German rearmament. They
know that for the time being at least
the Germans have no ambitions on
any portion of the French territory.
But a strong Germany *hich might
fulfill its aim in Eastern Europe will
necessarily become France's rival on
the continent. Hence Flandln and
Laval will do their utmost to induce
the other delegates to do "something"
about the German rearmament and
the violation of the Versailles Treaty
a a a a
But Hitler has told plainly Sir John
Simon that Germany cannot be re
frained from arming. This is not only
a political and a military necessity,
but also, temporarily, an economic
expediency.
What can der Fuehrer do with the
vast army of men who have been
working overtime for two years on
cannon, tanks and airplanes? Worse
still, he would be facing the wrath of
his financial supporters, the Krupps
and the Th.vssens. The great swollen
industrial machine of the Ruhr would
stand still, without outlets or markets.
* * * *
The British share the worries of the
Italians and the French, only because
they fear that a war in Europe must
embroil Great Britain as well.
And will the empire be as willing
to follow the mother country as it
did in 1914? Probably yes, if the
war expands to the Far East and
the Japanese take a hand in it.
Probably no, if the war is localized
to Europe. For this reason Ramsay
MacDonald, following his old theory
of “elastic diplomacy," has gone to
Siresa with good will, but no defi
nite plan.
Ramsay is a “romantic” in diplo
macy. He has brainwaves on the spur
of the moment and trusts the old say
ing: “Britain can always muddle i
through."
I r
Portrait Heads of Leading'
New Dealers Exhibited
at Gallery.
Coincident with its current biennial
show of American paintings, the
Corcoran Gallery of Art will open to
morrow an exhibition of portrait
heads of nine leading New Dealers by
Reuben Nakian. an outstanding
American sculptor.
Administration officials represented
in the exhibition are headed by Presi
dent Roosevelt, whose likenes* in
plaster will occupy a place of honor
in the central gailery of the second
floor atrium. Surrounding him in a .
large circle will be heads of Secre-.
taries Cordell Hull, Henry Wallace ■
and Harold Ickes and Harry L. Hop
kins, Edward F. McGrady. Rexford G.
Tugwell, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson and
Donald R. Richberg.
Sculptor Nakian found Johnson
such an interesting subject that he
modeled two heads of him, and bo'n
will be on display during the ahow,
which will continue through April 28.
For the opening tomorrow only in
vited guests wil be admitted.
“New Deal in Portraiture.’*
In a formal announcement, it was
pointed out that the exhibition repre
sents “a New Deal in portraiture.”
because Nakian “in his forceful and
Informal portraits did not strive to
plea.sc,”
,-It has been customary In this
country,” it was stated, "to select the
profesisonal portrait artist whose suc
cess depends largely upon his ability
to flatter the sitter and to please his
friends , . . Nakian made no compro
mise of art and fashion.”
Nakian, a native New Yorker, was
at the gallery today to arrange the ex
hibits to the best advantage. He said
he began working on the heads last
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had what he calls ‘‘plastic appeal.”
He sat in their offices and watched
them at their business of directing the
destiny of the Nation. All the heads
were modeled from life except that
of the President, which was done from
an ‘'idealistic" standpoint, the gfulp
tor said.
Fupil of Manship.
The workshop which Nakian used
was in the Department of Commerce
Building, where much of the New Deal
activities centered.
Nakian was born 37 years ago at
College Point, Long Island. He was
a pupil of Paul Manship and in 1931
he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He is a member of the American So
ciety of Painters, Sculptor* and
Gravers.
The Corcoran Gallery today an
nounced purchase of another painting
which hangs in the fourteenth bien-.
nial exhibition of contemporary
American oil paintings at the gallery.
It Is Randall Davey's “Paddock No.
1,” a picture of a spirited horse at.
tended by his handlers in a stable.
The gallery already has in its penria*
nent collection another picture bv
Davey, called "Sea Captain.” The
gallery previously had purchased five
other paintings in the current show,
Sale to a private art admirer of
Stephen Etnier's "Street Corn re.
Charleston,” another item in the
show, also was announced. Two other
paintings have been sold to privatq
interests.
Gallery officials reported that more
than 30,000 persons have visited th'
biennial exhibition to date—far ex
reeding attendance at the last show
ever a similar period. The exhibition
will continue through May 5.
YOUTH DIES SUDDENLY
Joseph Francis Nalley Was Grad
uate of Central High.
Joseph Francis Nalley. 19. a gradu
ate of the Central High School class
of February’. 193*. died Wednesday
after a brief illness. Since gradua
tion he had been with the Floyd E.
Davis Realty Co.
A large group of his classmates at
tended the services which were held
yesterday afternoon at Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
He is survived by his mother. Mrs.
Olivia Nalley of 2121 H street, for
many years in the Bureau of Vital,
Statistics of the Census Bureau: a!
sister. Mrs. Emily Farrin, and a
neice, Jacqueline Farrin.
■ ■ — ■ • ■
D. C. Barber Shops
And Bars Guide
To Goldsborough
Representative Reveals
Method of Learning
Public Sentiment.
B▼ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 12. —T. Alan
Goldsborough, Representative from
Maryland, revealed last night how he
determines the sentiment of the gen
eral public.
Speaking before a gathering of
bankers and business men at the
! Economic Club of New York, he said:.
"I spend about two days a month
j m making the rounds of the barber
shops, the pool halls and the bar
rooms In Baltimore and Washington.
"I rub elbows with the common,
people. I talk with them. In that
way I know what the masses of the
people are thinking.''
EZjE 3S5I.fti
WHO ARE
YOU?
The romance
of your name
... your fam
ily tree and all
its branches.
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