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G.O.P. Gains
Committee
Strength
Different Situation
Will Prevail at
Next Congress
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Congressional government by com
mittee is one of the most important
institutions of our country, and yet
relatively little is known about the
operations of these committees, as,
for instance, the far-reaching effect
which the recent elections will have
on the size ana
personnel of
committees in
both houses.
One of the
difficulties which
the minority
party had in the
last two sessions
of Congress was
that each com
m i 11 e e con
tained a prepon
derance of Dem
* ocrats. The few
Republicans
available had to
sit on more com
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mittees than thpy could possibly
attend and when it came to making
a determined stand on a vital meas
ure it usually required considerable
help from the independent Demo
crats to revise or block it.
Now the situation is going to be
materially different. The Repub
licans on the basis of the last elec
tions will doubtless demand a 40 per
cent representation to the Demo
cratic 60 per cent. This ratio is in
line with the results of the election
and in conformity with precedent
used when the Democrats were in
the minority and the Republicans
1 held the majority power.
If the 40 per cent ratio is granted,
it would mean that in the House
Ways and Means Committee there
would be 10 Republicans instead of
7 as at present and there would be
15 Democrats instead of 18 as it has
been heretofore. This means that
the 10 Republicans need to get only
3 Democrats to vote with them and
the vote would be 13 to 12.
Petitions Not Easy.
Committee action can be reversed,
of course, bv a rule from the House
itself or by a petition to discharge
the committee. But it will not be
so easy for 218 signatures to peti
tions to be obtained if 170 Repub
licans in the new House should
stand their ground and back up
committee action.
The situation that may prevail in
the House Appropriations Commit
tee is also worth noting. Thus, the
new ratio would give the Repub
licans 15 places instead of 11 as at
present, whereas the Democrats
would have 24 places instead of 28
as at present. The Republicans
would have to win only 5 of these 24
Democrats in order to exercise a
check on “pump priming." or on the
discretionary use of appropriated
funds by the Executive, both of
which points were of major impor
tance in the last two congressional
sessions.
Take the Banking and Currency
Committee of the House, which deals
with banking legislation. The new i
plan would call for 10 instead of 7 !
Republicans and 15 instead of 18
Democrats. Here again the Repub
licans would have to persuade only
3 of the 18 Democrats to block leg
islation undesired by the coalition
of independent Democrats and Re
publicans.
The all - important committees
which will deal with the armament
program will be composed of 15
Democrats and 10 Republicans, in
stead of 18 Democrats and 7 minor
ity members in the case of military
affairs, and 15 Democrats and 10
Republicans instead of 18 Democrats
and 7 Republicans in the case of
naval affairs.
Larger Independent Group.
The gains in the Senate are not
as big for the Republicans on a
ratio basis because they did not gain
as much proportionately as they did
in the House. There is. however,
in the Senate a larger group of in
dependent Democrats who have been
critical of New Deal legislation and
have voted with the Republicans to
block what they regarded as ex
treme measures.
The Republican strength of 23 in
stead of 15 as heretofore will mean
more representation on committees
and more of a spread of the mem
bers on the committees, that is, less
duplication. As for the majority
power in the Senate, the Republic
ans need only 26 out of the 6D Dem
ocrats to control the Upper House.
In the famous fight against the
“packing" of the Supreme Court, the
independent Democratic strength
approached 36 votes.
A coalition of Republican and
Democratic votes often resulted in a
majority report out of the Senate
Finance Committee in the last two
sessions, especially where tax mat
ters were under discussion. The new
strength of the Republicans in the
Senate will tend to make somewhat
the same situation in other commit
tees. particularly as there may be in
the Senate itself a majority to back
up such committee action.
» On strictly partisan questions, such
as selection of committees, however,
there will be a substantial Demo
cratic majority, but the 69 Demo
cratic votes can hardly be considered
as a unit for anything else.
. (Copyrisht, 1»3S.)
Man Released to Return
To His Child Bride
By the Associated Press.
RUSSELLVILLE. Ark., Nov. 19.—
W. P. A. Laborer Frank Harris, 33,
was released from jail yesterday to
return to his 12-year-old bride of
seven months, the former Pauline
Beavers.
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Rob
ert Ragsdale dismissed charges of
* violating the State's marriage laws.
Harris was arrested last Sunday.
Ragsdale said he dismissed the
case lBecause neither the girl, her
mother nor any of her relatives op
posed the marriage. He said school
records showed Pauline was married
to Harris at her mother's home on
the day before her 12th birthday
anniversary.
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Blast Unlocked Safe
LITITZ, Pa., Nov. 19 (/P).—Bur
glars battered the combination from
a safe in the Long and Co. coal
' firm office, then blasted it open
, with a nitro glycerin charge. Their
chagrin over finding nothing of
value probably would increase sev
eral degrees if they knew' the safe
^sn't locked in the beginning.
The Capital Parade
Aggressive New Deal Cabinet May Rise
From Shake-Up to Drop the 'Passives'
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
The resignation of Attorney General Homer S. Cummings has
the same meaning as the recent White House visit of Gov. Frank
Murphy of Michigan—that his recent set-back at the polls failed to
frighten the president into conservatism. The two events together
make the dawn of an era of good feeling (and presidential Inaction)
seem almost as improbable as the immediate end of the world.
The Attorney General’s resignation is the logical sequel of the
President's chat with Gov. Murphy. He assured Gov. Murphy that
the watchword was still forward, and promised his continued support
for ‘’progressives,” for which you may read “New Deal liberals,” in
their fight to capture the Democratic party. In order to go forward
after his recent defeat, the President must consolidate his forces.
The first step toward a consoli
dation is the reconstruction of
his cabinet.
A cabinet shake-up has al
ready been deduced from the
President's hinting remark that
there were no other resignations
*'a.s yet.” The extent of the
shake-up will depend largely on
the President's willingness to use
blasting powder to get some
members of his official family
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out of the chairs they now comfortably warm. The shake-up's real
significance lies in its objective.
* * * *
Hitherto, the President's cabinet has represented his admin
istration about as badly as the conservative members of his
party in the Senate. When originally put together, the cabinet
was a fairly neat piece of political joinery. The trouble with
the cabinet is that about half the members have had no real
part in the New Deal, have never understood it, and wouldn't
like it if they did. From the moment the President and his
advisers began to develop the New Deal at the White House,
these non-functioning cabinet members have simply enjoyed
fat sinecures. Human nature being what it is, they have stuck
to the sinecures like so many limpets.
Long ago the men around the President began to urge him to
replace the non-functioning, cabinet members with real ones. More
than once he indicated he would do so. but each time he boggled at
handing dismissal notices to me* he likes even though he doesn’t
rely on them. Now, however, when he really needs active lieutenants
with the stature of high officials, he seems to have steeled himself to
be unkind. Attorney General Cummings’ resignation was voluntary,
for he has long played with the notion of retiring to private law
practice. The other resignations will be decidedly involuntary. And,
of course, there may be no others, for the President may boggle again.
The vacancies in the cabinet may be expected to be filled
with aggressive New Dealers. Solicitor General Robert P. Jack
son, for example, is an odris-on bet to succeed Homer Cummings.
There is already talk that Harry L. Hopkins will be elevated from
his W. P. A. post to a cabinet job, and a place may be found for
Gov. Murphy also. The cabinet members most likely to go are
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of War Harry
P. W’oodring, Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson and Sec
retary of Labor Frances Perkins.
* * * *
A cabinet shake-up was one of the items on the program by which
it is hoped to reform New Deal lines and put the forces in marching
order again. Other items are the imposition of peace between the
warring factions of labor, improvement of the farm law, public dismissal
of such discreditable allies as Mayor Hague of Jersey City and reforma
tion of the Works Progress Administration a*d the National Labor
Relations Board. When your correspondents noted the program’s
existence recently, they had no assurance that it would be put into
immediate enect. The circum
stances of the Cummings resigna
tion suggest, however, that the
program is already being acted on.
So far as it goes, the program
represents a sensible realism in
the President. When times were
good, he never troubled to clean
house. He would listen to no
criticism of the W. P. A. or the
N. L. R. B, for example. He
seems to have taken the election
not as an outright defeat, but as a suggestion that house-cleaning
time has eonte.
The possibilities are interesting. Members of the Labor Board
may be requested to root out the extremists in their organization, and
to follow a procedure more satisfactory to business and the conservative
wing of labor. As for the W. P. A., Harry Hopkins is likely to go to the
cabinet, with special additional duties in connection with the national
defense program. And with Hopkins elevated to a higher sphere, an ob
viously non-partisan troubleshooter may be appointed administrator.
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Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address'
Clouded With Controversy
Authorities Disagree on Even the Weather
On Memorable Occasion 75 Years Ago
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Nov. 19—Three
score and 15 years ago today, a
speaker invited as an afterthought—
and without expectation that he
would accept—gave the world a two
minute speech that has become
deathless.
The speaker was Abraham Lin
coln. the speech was the famous
‘ Gettysburg address.”
The commission that planned the
dedication of the National Cemetery
at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863.
had no idea that Mr. Lincoln would
attend. He did not even receive a
formal invitation, merely a printed
circular such as was sent to Con
gressmen.
When Mr. Lincoln promptly ac
cepted, the commission was vaguely
disturbed. If the President attended,
the President should be asked to
speak, and the commission was not
at all sure how he would behave.
Not only were there legends of
his backwoods uncouthness, but a
baseless story was going the rounds
that he had cracked jokes in the
sacred surroundings of Antietam.
So there may have been some rea
son why, as Col. Clark E. Carr, Illi
nois member of the commission, put
it. "the question was raised as to his
ability to speak upon such a grave
and solemn occasion.”
Legend Has Been Exploded.
The President finished the greater
part of the first draft of his address
before leaving Washington at noon
November 18. Perhaps he made a
few notes 01* the train, nothing
more. At any rate, the legend that
he jotted the famous words on the
back of an envelope while sitting in
a rattling railroad coach has been
pretty thoroughly exploded.
The address was finished in his
Gettysburg quarters in the David
Willis House on the Diamond, a
house that still looks over the hub
of life in the Pennsylvania college
town. He wrote it the night before
the dedication, revised it next morn
ing into the form in which it was
delivered on the field where 50.000
men had been killed or wounded
only four months before.
It is strange that so noted an
event should be clouded with con
troversy. yet it is a fact that au
thorities disagree on even so com
monplace a topic as the weather on
the dedication day. The prepon
derance of evidence is that the
weather was fair, yet, on the fiftieth
anniversary of the speech, four vet
erans attended a Gettysburg service
and told their stories of the dedica
tion—and each story was different!
Disagree on Reception.
There is disagreement also about
the reception of the speech. Some
recalled tumultuous applause, others
were equally firm in asserting that
Lincoln's words were greeted in
dead silence. Joseph L. Gilbert of
Philadelphia, the Associated Press
reporter of the day, said the crowd
was “not a demonstrative nor even
an appreciative audience * • * there
were no outward manifestations of
feeling.’’
Yet Mr. Gilbert himself appar
ently felt the power of the Presiy
dent's words for he recorded that,
“fascinated by his earnestness and
depth of feeling, I unconsciously
stopped taking notes.”
The speech was short, so short
that the only photographer on the
field had not time to focus his cam
era before the President sat down.
It seemed particularly brief in com
parison with the one hour and 50
minutes of smooth and eloquent
oratory poured out by Edward
Everett, the orator of the day.
Press Not Enthused.
If the reception by the crowd at
Gettysburg was mixed, the recep
tion by the Nation's press was even
more so.
Some editors classified the address
as nothing more than a bid for re
election. Others did not comment
at all. giving their space to such
events as the convening of the
French Assembly and the speech of
Emperor Napoleon III. Even from
across the seas the London Times
commented that “anything more dull
and commonplace would not be easy
to produce.”
Yet there were gleams of percep
tion amid the clouds of criticism.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulle
tin described it as “warm, earnest,
unaffected and touching.” The Prov
idence <R. I.) Journal said the ad
dress had “the charm and power of
the very highest eloquence.”
A prophetic reporter on the Chi
cago Tribune wrote that "it will live
among the annals to come.”
Perhaps it was Mr. Everett who
most accurately summarized the
merits of the two speeches when he
wrote to Lincoln next day:
“I would be glad if I could flatter
myself that I came as near to the
central idea of the occasion in two
hours as you did in two minutes.”
France Gives Italy
Recognition of Conquest
Yy the Associated Press,
ROME, Nov. 19.—France’s recog
nition of Italy's African conquests
became effective today when Andre
Francois-Poncet, new Ambassador
to Rome, presented his credentials
to Vittorio Emanuele as King of
Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia.
Francois-Poncet, first French Am
bassador to Rome in two years,
rode to Quirinal Palace in the state
carriage for the ceremony, which,
according to Italian custom, was
devoid of speeches.
Unlike Great Britain’s formal rec
ognition of the Ethiopian Empire
which buried the enmity growing
out of the economic sanctions at
the time of the Ethiopian War,
the French Ambassador’s visit to
the King was made without prelim
inary fanfare in the press.
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The Political Mill
Judge Bratton, Highly Regarded Democrat,
Suggested as Cardozo's Successor
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.
President Roosevelt’s appointment
of a successor to the late Associate
Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the
United States Supreme Court may
tend to make peace for the admin
istration with the new Congress—or
it may bring on a war between the
White House
and the Capitol.
Members of
the Senate, who
take the ap
pointments to
the Supreme
Court very ser
iously, particu
larly in view of
the President's
1937 effort to
make over the
court, have
heard a report
that Mr. Roose
velt is intent on
naming his
G. Gould Lincoln.
friend. Gov. Frank Murphy of Mich
igan, to fill the Cardozo vacancy. If
the President picks Mr. Murphy,
the Senators say. it will be a signal
for a prolonged fight in the Senate,
to the exclusion of other business.
Furthermore, the more conserva
tive democrats, under the circum
stances, are likely to dig in deeper
and deeper to resist the New Deal
Administration. Not only will the
resistence be toward the Murphy
appointment, but it may be expect
ed all down the line.
Some of the Senators will oppose
the appointment on the ground that
Gov. Murphy is too radical; that he
sympathized with the sit-down
strikers in Michigan w'hen they
clearly violated constitutional rights.
Others will oppose him on the
ground that his knowledge and ex
perience of the law are entirely in
adequate for the highest court in
the land. Inquiry at the office of the
clerk of the Supreme Court reveals
the fact that Gov. Murphy has never
been admitted to practice before
that court—is not a member of the
Supreme Court bar.
Received Degree in 1914.
Gov. Murphy received his law de
gree from the University of Michi- j
gan in 1914 and had a year of grad
uate study at Lincoln's Inn, Lon
! don, and Trinity College, Dublin.
: He was in private practice in 1916-17
j at Detroit; chief assistant United
States attorney for the eastern dis
trict of Michigan from 1920 to 1923,
and judge in the recorder's office in
Detroit from 1923 to 1930, and dur
ing part of that time, instructor in
law at the University of Detroit.
Since 1930. he has held public office
first as Mayor of Detroit, then as
Governor General of the Philippine
Islands and finally as Governor of
| Michigan. During the last eight
; years, therefore, he has not prac
ticed law. He is 45 years old.
Senators who would not oppose
Gov. Murphy because of his liberal
stand and his attitude in the labor
troubles in his State might, on the
other hand, insist on examining very
carefully his training and learning
and practice of the law. There is
nothing in the Constitution that
says a member of the Supreme
Court shall be first a lawyer. But
the President who sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of any person
who was not a lawyer for a place
on the Supreme bench would be
courting a defeat, since appoint
ments to the court must be con
firmed by the Senate. A liberal
like Senator Borah of Idaho, for
example. might have nothing
| against Murphy as a man and a
Governor, but might be unwilling
to vote for his confirmation as a
member of the highest court if un
convipced of his legal training and
ability.
Bratton Highly Regarded.
! If he went West and selected
Judge Sam D. Bratton of New Mex
I ico. a judge of the United States
; Circuit Court, the President might
j allay considerable feeling in the
Senate and in the Congress. Judge
| Bratton was formerly a Senator
from New Mexico. He is a Demo
crat and highly regarded. During
I the fight in the Senate over the
President's bill to revamp the Su
preme Court Judge Bratton let it
be known he. was opposed to the
measure. That may effectually keep
him from appointment now to the
court. Nevertheless he is geographi
cally fitted to fill this vacancy in
the court, and, furthermore, it would
make the President's dealings with
Congress during the coming session
far easier.
The President relented in his op
position to Gov. Herbert H. Lehman
of New York, who had denounced
the court bill, during the campaign
just closed in order to offer the
strongest candidate possible in op
position to Thomas E. Dewey, the
Republican racket buster, who
threatened to take the governorship
of the Empire State away from the
President's party. Senators say if
the President could bring himself
to do that they see no reason why
he could not go ahead and appoint
Judge Bratton to the Supreme Court.
No one has ever labeled Judge
Bratton a “Tory.”
Other Possibilities.
There are other possibilities for
appointment to the Supreme Court,
among them Felix Frankfurter of
Massachusetts, Robert H. Jackson.
Solicitor General of the United
States, and Senators Minton of In
diana and Schwellenbach of Wash
ington, all of whom have been men
tioned for the Cardozo vacancy.
Frankfurter undcaibtedly could be
confirmed without much, if any, op
position. It was widely reported
here during the court bill fight that
Frankfurter was opposed to the
measure. Mr. Jackson is supposed
to be slated for appointment as
Attorney General. / Minton and
Schwellenbach are both radical
New Dealers. Any of the three
might be confirmed by the Senate,
although it is likely that Mr. Jack
son’s appointment would be serious
ly challenged, but they all would
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leave the anti-New Deal Democrats
and Republicans in Congress bris
tling.
The President has so far given
no particular sign of wishing to
conciliate the opposition in Con
gress, whether Republican and Dem
ocratic. If self-styled spokesmen
for the administration are to be
believed, the President intends to
fight the battle out with Congress
on the same lines which he has
been doing for the last five or six
years.
Anti-Monopoly Problem.
Among matters which the Presi
dent is expected to take up with the
Congress during the coming session
is the so-called anti-monopoly prob
lem, which has been the subject of
an intensive study by the O’Ma
honey committee, composed of an
equal number of members of the
Senate and House and of represen
tatives of the executive depart
ments. It is expected that the
committee, headed by the Senator
from Wyoming, will be ready to
make at least a preliminary report
soon after Congress meets. It is
another thing to draft legislation
and still another to get it enacted
into law.
This joint committee was set up
during the last session after the
President had sent a message to
Congress urging that something be
done about monopoly in all its
phases. It has still to hold open
hearings, following a long process
of gathering data through the vari
ous agencies of the Government.
How radical will be the findings of
the committee remains to be seen.
Senator O'Mahoney has endeavored
at all times to convince industry in
this country that it has nothing to
fear from the operations of the
committee. He has sought the co
operation. indeed, of business in
furthering the investigation.
Depending on the attitude of the
Roosevelt administration and prob
ably on the attitude of the Presi
dent himself, the recommendations
for legislation relating to monop
oly, trusts, patents, etc., will be radi
cal or more mildly progressive. There
has been no indication yet which
way the cat will jump.
Dali's Wedding Set
December 15
By the Associated Pres».
HAVERPORD, Pa., Nov. 19 —Miss
Katharine Miller Leas, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stewart Leas,
and Curtis B. Dali, of New York,
whose engagement was announced
early in September, will be married
here December 15. Dali is the former
husband of Mrs. Anna Roosevelt
Boettiger, daughter of President and
Mrs. Roosevelt.
This Changing World
Hull, Wearing Trade-Agreement Laurels,
Turns to Woo South American
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.
The signing of the American-British trade agreement, which in
cludes besides Canada a number of chicks of the empire, is the crown
ing feat of Mr. Hull’s career. There have been difficulties which at
times the Secretary of State believed unsurmountable.* Frequently he
lost patience with the British methods of negotiating; often he gave
up hope. But with the stubbornness which is characteristic to the
Tennesseean, he plodded along and finished by having an agreement
far more favorable to this country that he himself expected.
Many of Mr. Hull's friends
said that he was tired and fed
up with foreign affairs and espe
cially with the blatant dishonesty
of what he terms the “outlaw na
tions.” It was frequently ru
mored that soon after the com
pletion and signing of the trade
agreement with Great Britain he
would ask President Roosevelt to
relieve him of the burden of the
No. 1 diplomat of the United
States and allow him to retire. In many quarters it was indicated
that the Secretary of State would like to become a justice of the
Supreme Court.
*****
It is true that Mr. Hull is not enamored of the social and
protocol side of diplomacy. But he believes it to be his duty to stick
it out as long as necessary. And he feels that his job is nowhere
near its end.
Besides the trade-agreement policies, which have become a kind
of a fetish with him, he has now embarked upon a policy to make
the ties between this country and the South American republics so
strong that they will be indissoluble in the future.
Secretary Hull has a great advantage over his predecessors in
that he is willing to learn from past mistakes.
He realizes that the previous conferences between the United
States and the Latin American republics have been over bally
hooed; that the results nowhere approached the expectations. He
is taking personal command of the Lima conference and has
kept as quiet and unobtrusive . as possible. He will place the
responsibility on the shoulders of the Latin American delegates
so as not to give the impression that Uncle Sam is wielding the
big stick over their heads. But you can bet your last dollar
that Mr. Hull will be as active as a bee behind the scenes.
"* * * * *
Dr. Dieckhoff is going back to Berlin to report to his chiefs about
the state of affairs between Germany and the United States.
In this day and age, wars between nations are no longer declared,
as in the past. Countries are invaded and the invader explains that
this is only a friendly gesture in order to save the population from
anarchy, Communism or any other thing that might flash through the
heads of the leaders.
The same thing applies to international relations between govern
ments. Years ago a government expressed its dissatisfaction with
another government by officially recalling its Ambassador. This was
done with all the necessary pomp. The Ambassador called at the foreign
office, expressed his country s in
dignation over this or that thing
which was unpalatable to his gov
ernment, and left the country
with a bang.
Now an Ambassador is sum
moned back to "report personally ”
to his chief. He denies that the
departure is a slap at the govern
ment to which he has been ac
credited. He is just going to re
port—and then he stays on to
recuperate for a few months or years. But actually he never goes back.
By the time the storm has blown over, another man is sent in his place.
Ambassador Dieckhoff will be regTetted in Washington. Regardless
as to how Americans feel toward Hitler and his associates in Germany,
there is no doubt that Dieckhoff did his utmost to pour oil over
troubled waters.
In more than one instance he did his best to avoid frictions
over what he believed to be irksome but fundamentally unimpor
tant matters. He sometimes succeeded and sometimes not.
Ambassador Dieckhoff liked America; he was a Counsellor of
Embassy here in the days when the Reich was a democratic republic,
and made many friends in Washington. These friends, though now
antagonistic to Hitler's policies, remained loyal to the Ambassador and
sympathized with the unthankful task that was before him.
State Department officials, while displeased with Mr. Hitler and
his policies, were friendly to Dr. Dieckhoff. They saw in him a man
: who was trying to do all in his power to at least maintain plausible
relations between the two countries.
Headline Folk
And What
They Do
News and Business
Men Regret Recall
Of Douglas Miller
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.
Recall of Douglas Miller from
Berlin to Washington, following
hardly a day after the departure
of Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson, !•
regretted by American correspond
ents in the German capital on the
p u r el y selfish
grounds of hii
value to them as
a source of in
formation and
instru ction
unique in its
depth of knowl
edge and its
construct ivs
thought. And by
the same token,
commercial in
terests in this
country who
have relied upon
his keen insight
into recondita
Douglas Miller
fiscal and economic affairs in Ger
many will also regret the leave
taking.
commercial attache of the United
United Embassy at the German
capital, Mr. Miller's yearly reviews
of the trade situation in the Third
Reich have been generally regarded
as the most accurate and most thor
ough and most penetrating coming
out of Germany, while his analyses
of official facts and figures, so com
plex, involved and inadequate as
to defeat understanding of most
economists, have been looked for
ward to annually as illuminanta
essential to approximate knowledgs
of their meaning and significance.
Invariably, in process of preparing
these reports, Mr. Miller must taks
recourse to specialized knowledge
all his own, gained from profound
and extensive study.
New Yorkers will remember his
presence at a luncheon there sev
eral years ago as guest of honor
of the Board of Trade for German -
American Commerce, at a time
when the ends of this organization
enjoyed a more wholesome outlook
than they seem to do at present.
(Copyritht. 1938.)
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City Dump Sifters Hit
Competitors on Relief
By the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 19—Per
sons known as “chunkers," who
search the garbage dumps for sal
able odds and ends, complained to
the City Council yesterday against
competition by people on relief.
They argued relief clients wero
comparatively prosperous and their
presence at the dumps was “unfair."
Commissioner Ralph Clyde said
he would recommend rules prohibit
ing those with other incomes from
visiting the dumps.
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