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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Congress Quits, Having Done Most Things the President
' Asked—Steel Strike Postponed—Roosevelt’s Daughter
\ in Nevada, Presumably for Divorce.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
• kr WsMvrs N—«i>spw Ualos.
A FTBR several day* of hectic work,
** pushing through the last measures
labeled “must” by the administration
and a host of other bills demanded
by various members, the Seventy-third
congress closed Its second session.
The measures passed during this ses
sion Include some of the basic laws
of the New Deal and considerable
elaboration and modification of laws
passed last year In addition to the
regular appropriation bills and a nor
mal amount of necessary routine legis
lation.
As In the first session. President
Roosevelt was in full control, though
the legislators displayed a more crit
ical attitude and a tendency to give
proposed legislation closer scrutiny
before giving it their approval. This
could not be attributed to a lessening
of the President’s Influence or of the
confidence in him, but rather , to the
fact that the members of congress
didn't wish longer to be labeled as
“yes men." On the whole Mr. Roose
velt succeeded in getting what he
asked and in preventing what he did
not want
Several measures that had the back
ing of the administration failed of
passage. These included the oil bill,
ardently desired by Secretary Ickes;
the pure food and drug bill, which
never came to a vote; the ratification
of the St Lawrence waterway treaty;
and a series of amendments ampli
fying and clarifying the powers of
the AAA.
In its closing hours the congress
spent money like water, indulging In
what Congressman Britten of Chicago
called "an orgy of spending such as
never has been known in the history
of the world during peace times.” The
last of the major bills disposed of
were:
The deficiency appropriation bill,
allotting the President more than two
billion three hundred million dollars
for relief and other emergency pur
poses.
The one billion dollar housing bill
to promote the revival of the building
trades and of the durable goods in
dustries.
The Frazier bin for relief of farm
mortgagors.
The bill amending banking legisla
tion.
The railway labor bill.
TITILLIAM GREEN, president of
W the American Federation of La
bor, succeeded where President Roose
velt, Administrator Johnson and all
■ others had failed. He
appeared before the
delegates of the steel
workers* unions n't
Pittsburgh and per
suaded them at least
to postpone their
threatened strike. The
plan which he offered,
and which may lead
to a permanent settle
ment of the contro
_ , , versy. in brief pro-
“7 **• Tides:
rornocK Establishment of a
three-man board by the President to
adjudicate and mediate aU violations
of code on matters of discrimination
against employees.
To Insure the right of workers to
organize, empowering the board to
hold and supervise Industrial elections
for collective bargaining representa
tives.
All grievances or complaints would
bo referred to the board for final de
cision.
If acceptable to labor, capital, and
the federal government, the strike
would be called off permanently.
Leaders of the "rank and file"
steel workers, including Earl J.
Forbeck and other chiefs of local
unions, were especially bitter in their
attitude toward General Johnson, and
were still eager for a strike, but they
were outnumbered and the Green plan
was adopted as a basis for further ne
gotiations. Tie union leaders went to
Washington for a final decision. They
carried authority to can the strike
if the peace plan were rejected by the
government or the steel operators.
Ilf A formal letter, accompanied by
a long explanation, the code au
thority of the cleaners and dyers has
notified the President that it has with
drawn its consent to the code. The
reason assigned for this action is that
Administrator Johnson, acting by au
thority of the President, suspended the
minimum price and other fair trade
practice provisions of the code while
leaving In effect all other provisions,
including those establishing minimum
wagos and maximum hours of labor.
The' cleaners and dyers say that
with operating costa greatly Increased
by the labor provisions It is Impossible
to make a profit unless a minimum
price Is established and enforced.
In Its appended explanation the code
authority challenged the validity of
this action by General Johnson, eon-
“We cannot believe that you would
knowingly countenance a reckless dis
regard of repeated promisee and assur
ances given to authorised rspresenta
tivos of the trade by the administrator
personally within two weeks of the
The code was consented to, says the
memorandum, "on the express under
standing” that the minimum price
and other trade practice provisions
"were absolutely necessary if mem
bers of the trade were to comply with
other provisions of the code, including
the limitations on maximum hours
and minimum wages of labor.” The
suspension of the minimum price pro
vision Is pronounced “a deprivation
of the primary benefit of the code to
members of the trade, leaving them
only the burdens.”
The memorandum states that 97
per cent of the 11,000 plant owners
and 175,000 to 200,000 retail shops are
able and willing to comply with the
price and other trade practice provi
sions if there is “reasonable co-opera
tion on the part of the government in
enforcing compliance on the other 3
per cent There Is virtually complete
compliance In 132 of the 312 districts.”
In conclusion the memorandum
takes this wallop at Administrator
Johnson: «
“We are equally confident however,
that confidence in a program, no mat
ter how meritorious, cannot long be
maintained when its administration is
Intrusted to an agent who makes so
little of the elementary requirements
of good faith and who is oblivious to
the hardship and suffering his con
duct is causing to thousands of loyal
and law abiding citizens of this coun
try.”
SECRETART OF WAR DERN and
President Roosevelt have received
a unanimous report from a house in
vestigating committee demanding that
I Maj. Gen. Benjamin
D. Foulois be re
moved as chief of the
army air corps “with
out delay.” The re
port accused the gen
eral of “dishonesty,”
"gross misconduct,”
"inefficiency,” "inac
curacy,” “unreliabil
ity,” "incompetency,”
and “mismanage-
G M .Fouloi. m “er praising th.
"young men” who fly army planes un
der Foulois’ direction, the report con
cluded:
“We find it necessary to report that
we are most firmly convinced, from
the evidence and records submitted,
that before any substantial progress
in the upbuilding of the morale and
materiel of the army air corps can be
attained, Maj. Gen. Benjamin D.
Foulois must be relieved from his
position as chief of the air corps.”
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT went up
1 to New Haven, Conn., for the Tale
commencement and was presented
with, the highest honor the university
can bestow, the degree of doctor of
laws. After the ceremony he attend
ed a luncheon of alumni and took oc
casion to challenge the critics of his
New Deal and especially those who
make fun of the “brain trust.”
“It is true,” he told his hearers, and
there was obvious in his voice a note
of defiance, “that today, more than
ever before in our public life, we are
calling on the teaching profession for
assistance in our government There
have been certain ribald comments
and some laughter about the use of
brains in the national government but'
it seems to me a pretty good practice.
"It is a practice that will continue,”
he added firmly. And the professors
around him started the vigorous ap
plause which followed.
Later on he evoked further applause
when he said: “I couldn't tell you the
party affiliations of the majority of
people holding responsible positions to
Washington, and it is a mighty good
thing I cannot”
That evening Mr. Roosevelt boarded
the presidential yacht Sequoia and
proceeded Slowly to New London,
Conn, to witness the boat races be
tween Harvard and Tale. His son,
Franklin, Jr. was one of the Harvard
freshman crew. After the regatta the
President motored to the family home
at Hyde Park, N. T. to remain over
the week end.
ANOTHER divorce In the Roose
velt family is impending. Mra.
Anna Dall, the daughter of the Presi
dent has taken up residence in Ne
vada with the evident
though not yet def 4-
clared purpose of
seeking legal separa- I
tlon from her bus
band, Curtis Dall, pISMSiS
New Tork broker. The I .
news was no surprise
to friends of the fam- f ■
Uy. The Dalls have X*
not been living to
gether for a year,
Anna and their two
Sen, “8Istle” and Ann «
"Bussle” residing in D,H
the White House.
For the six months She must remain
in Nevada Mrs, Dall has selected a
log cabin on the shores of Lake Tahoe,
some fifteen miles from the bouse
where her brother, Elliott, lived a
year ago, whoa be aad the former
NMaaboth Doaasr of Philadelphia wean
THE HARDIN TRI■UNE -HER A L D
(COLLUSIVE blds on city supplies
and contracts are ended by the
recognition, by the NBA administra
tion, that NRA code regulations are
unworkable in dealings with municipal
and other governmental agencies. An
executive order has been Issued ex
empting contractors, manufacturers
and merchants from the most impor
tant of the code restrictions in an
transactions with federal, state or city
or other subdivisions of government
It was published after thousands of
cities had protested against Increases
in operating costs occasioned by the
NBA.
fHANCELLOB HITLER has been
receiving some hard knocks re
cently. vice Chancellor Frans von
Papen delivered himself of a vigor
ous criticism of the
more radical experl
ments of the Nasi
regime, and Its “ex- Br |
cesses and arrogance." .J
Alluding to the pagan ;
revival, Von Papen
said: “Germans must -J
not exclude them- 2
selves from the so- /W
clety of Christian na- ■
tions.” The speech, jZS J
delivered at Marburg,
was kept out of the
German press but the Nadolny.
German people read it in Swiss pa
pers, and then learned that President
Paul von Hindenburg had sent Von
Papen a telegram of congratulation.
Immediately after this incident
Count Rudolf Nadolny announced his
resignation as German ambassador to
Russia. This was the first defection
from Nazi government ranks since Dr.
Alfred Hugenberg resigned as minister
of agriculture and economics in June,
1933. Nadolny’s resignation is attrib
uted to his failure to persuade Chan
cellor Hitler to accept Russia’s pro
posal for a non-aggression pact The
count Is a dose personal friend of
President von Hindenburg.
Late dispatches from Berlin say Hit
ler has rejected Von Papen’s offer to
resign and has made a temporary
truce with him. Both of them ar
ranged to confer with the President
at Neudeck, but not at the same time.
JAPAN was obviously pleased re
cently when the American fleet
was moved from the Pacific to the At
lantic, but it will not be so glad to
hear that the fleet Is to return to the
Pacific about November 1, when all its
maneuvers have been completed. Pre
sumably there will be an attempt, in
passing through the Panama canal, to
break the 47-hour record made in the
spring*
Secretary Swanson says the navy's
construction program will be pushed
ahead with $40,000,000 obtained from
the public works administration. Six
new submarines and fourteen destroy
ers will use up most es this sum.
About $5,500,000 will be spent on air
planes.
TERRORISTS in Cuba, who have
been stirring up continual trouble
for the Mendieta administration, pre
cipitated bloody warfare In Havana
by making an unprovoked stack on a
parade of 35,000 members of the ABC,
the Island’s largest secret political so
ciety. The radicals, ambushed in
cross streets, opened fire with ma
chine guns, pistols, sawed-off shotguns
and. rifles, mowing down scores of the
marchers and many bystanders. About
a dozen were killed outright The
ABC members fought valiantly with
their revolvers and with clubs and
stones. Later the fighting spread
throughout the city, the students tak
ing sides with the terrorists.
CoL Fulgencio Batista, chief of staff,
declared martial law in Havana as
soldiers, sailors, and marines strag
gled to stem the rioting.
Only a few hours before this furious
battle. President Mendieta narrowly
escaped death at the hands of the
terrorists. 'A bomb was exploded be
hind his chair during a luncheon st a
naval base across the bay from Ha
vana, and he was badly wounded la
the legs and arms and severely shocked.
Two naval officers were killed and tea
others were wounded by the blast
LADY ASTOR, the American-born
member of the British parliament,
hss done a lot’ of bright things aad
some stupid ones, in the latter cate
gory comes her action la Plymouth at
a ceremony in memory of Blr Francis
Drake. She grabbed from a midship
man of the American battleship Wye
mlng a wine-filled goblet and threw
the wine into the river, saying: “i
cannot understand why men will leave
home for this beastly stuff."
BEGINNING July 1, the air mail
postage rate will be six cento an
ounce; -flat The old rate was eight
cento the first ounce and 13 cento for
each additional ounce. The reduction
was announced by the Post Office de
partment
HENRIK BHIPSITIAD won renom.
ination in Minnesota as the
Farmer-Labor candidate for the Unit
ed States senate. He will bo opposed
at the polls by Congressman Einar
Holdale, Democrat and N. J. Holm
berg, Republican. The Farmer-Labor-
Ites also renominated Gov. Floyd B.
Olson.
XJLTIIJLUM LANGER, governor of
v North Dakota, and four of his
associates, were convicted in federal
court at Bismarck, of conspiracy to de
fraud the United States government,
the ease involving the alleged eoßoc
tton of campaign funds. They faced
possible terms of two years in a peni
tentiary, a 810,000 fine or both. The
governor to a candidate for reeloctloa
and swami* irr’[* M
SEEN—HEARD
•round the
National Capital
■■■■By CARTER FIELDBBtaM
Washington.—The suggestion of Sec
retary of State Hull in his recent note
to Great Britain that foreign debtors
of the United States might pay “in
kind"—ln goods—has added to the re
sentment already felt by a strong mi
nority in congress and in many lines
of business throughout the country be
cause, of. the proposed reciprocity tar
ifftreaties.
Olticlsm ranges all the way from
those who believe that every last cent
should be collected, to those who are
willing to cross off the debts entirely
and charge It up to profit and loss. Curi
ously enough It Is the latter who are
most bitter.
Actually, their position Is quite con
sistent The people who have been for
cancellation right along have been ac
tuated by two motives, sometimes
three. One is that the United States
would never be able to collect any
how, and there is no use having an
Irritating argument and bad feeling
with the countries of Europe if it is
not going to do us any good. The sec
ond is that the only way Europe can
pay, of course, with the possible ex
ception of France, which has an enor
mous store of gold, is In goods. The
theory here of the would-be cancella
tlonists is that It would be better In
the long run for this country to cancel
the debts than to take payment in
goods, which would deprive American
producers of just that much market.
The third theory, not Important in
this connection, is that America should
make that contribution to the allies
because she got Into the war so late
and consequently did not pay so high
a price In killed and wounded as did
the European nations.
It Is the objection to taking goods
which figures In comments on the Hull
proposal. While, of course, there is no
doubt that President Roosevelt read
the note carefully before it was sent,
not even he is sure how the payment
“in kind” would work out
The Matter of Tin
In discussing the situation recently,
he Illustrated with tin, mentioning it
because it is one of the British empire
products which Is not produced In this
country, and consequently not in com
petition with American producers. But
the President was rather uncertain as
to whether any action with respect to
accepting payment of the debt in tin
would really Increase the British mar
ket for tin.
In other words, this country is buy
ing all the tin it needs now from the
British empire. It, is scarcely likely
that anything will happen materially
to Increase American purchases or use
of tin. Hence the British will actually
not be selling us any more even if the
British government obtained the tin
from the producers, and then handed
it over to this country in payment on
the debts.
Naturally,'such a course would help
the American taxpayer, because the
money received by the United States
government for the tin from the Amer
ican producers would go into the treas
ury here instead of being sent abroad
to pay the British producers.
But the point ta how would Britain
be able to pay any more by doing this
with tin than she is doing at present?
For, obviously, the British government
would have to pay the British tin pro
ducers for the tin.
This being so, critics of the Hull
note contend. It Is certain that to en
able Britain to make any greater pay
ments by paying “in kind” it would be
necessary for her to deliver to the
United States just the amount of goods
necessary for, the payment, and goods
of a character not now being sold to
the United States, or in addition to the
amount now being regularly pur
chased.
Any such deliveries, it is contended
by the critics, would take jobs away
from the men and women now produc
ing either that kind of goods, or goods
the new imports would supplant
Serious Errors
Necessary killing of so many dairy
cattle due to the drought has post
poned one Une of activity on the pro
gram of the Agricultural administra
tion which had been set for immedi
ate action. This was a publicity cam
paign aimed at stimulating consump
tion of dairy products, not only milk,
cream and butter, but cheese.
As long ago as 1927 and 1928 the
federal government considered this
sort of campaign as a part of the farm
relief program. In the Presidential
campaign of 1828 there was much dis
cussion of tariff duties on butter.
In attacking the dairy problem, the
AAA opened its campaign with several
serious errors. One, for example, was
to compel the chain stores in big cities,
notably Boston, to raise their prices
for cream. It so happened that the
Boston chain stores sold cream at
prices sharply below those charged in
moot titles.
The immediate result was to cut
down purchase cream, to back the
eroam up on the farms, so to speak,
and increase enormously the produc
tion of butter. Which, as there was
already such a surplus of butter that
prices had fallen to an all-time low,
and as the government Intervened to
buy huge quantities of butter for fed
eral relief, was quickly realised to be
g bad mistake.
Complicating the situation was the
taotte Metlon between various Meal-
cream. Each wanted to build • wan
around its own market, keeping out
dairy products from other sections.
Of course, this did not apply to butter.
Nor to cheese,
So, after more than six years, the
idea of Eugene Meyer to make Amer
ica cheese conscious, and boost con
sumption of this commodity sufficiently
to take up part of the slack between
production and purchase was about to
start
Then came the drought the slaugh
ter of dairy cattie, and the probability
that it will be a year before production
of dairy articles again approaches the
level that was cansing so much trou
ble, So the “Eat More Cheese” cam
paign was again postponed.
Hits States* Rights
A perfect illustration of the ease
with which the federal government
encroaches, bit by bit, on states’ rights,
is the Cartwright bill recently rushed
through congress. This is the bill pro
viding that, after July 1, 1935, there
will be no further federal aid for road
projects In states which use their own
gasoline revenue for other purposes
than specified by law.
The language is reasonable enough.
It simply says that each state must
obey Its own laws. No one can quar
rel with that But what business is it,
many critics demanded—though not
enough to make any difference to the
fate of the bill—of the federal govern
ment? If a state chooses to violate its
own laws, what has the federal govern
ment got to do with it?
But behind the bill were many en
thusiasts who were far more con
cerned with getting what they wanted
than in any academic discussion of the
question of federal versus states’ rights.
They care nothing about preserving
some vestige of the power of the states
if they could attain the Immediate,
and to them highly important, objec
tive.
Behind the bill were the motorists
of the country, ably represented by the
American Automobile association, the
truck and bus owners, and last, but
far from least, in potency, the high
way contractors of. the entire Union.
All three powerful groups want ev
ery possible dollar spent on roads.
The contractors want the work. They
want the profits attendant upon road
contracts, and they want to keep their
organizations functioning even if the
profits happen to be small. Behind
them are the cement manufacturers,
and makers of road-building machinery,
and a host of related trades, all very
potent here, even if for the present the
cement people do seem to be under a
cloud with Secretary and Public
Works Administrator Ickes.
Want More Good Roads
The bus and truck people naturally
want all the roads that can be built
The more good roads, the more money
they will make. Back of them, and
back of the motorists represented by
the AAA, are the automobile manufac
turers, and back of them are the steel
manufacturers, the tire makers, and
the automobile parts makers, all eager
that more cars are not only put on the
road, but kept there. And, of course,
back of all of them were the ell com
panies, with the earnest desire to sell
every drop of oil and gasoline possible.
Their cause was reinforced by public
opinion In general, because even the
disinterested citizen who does not
drive an automobile and is not inter
ested in tracks, busses, read building
or anything of the sort, believes that
the gasoline tax should be used ex
clusively for building roads and other
servlces-to the people who use roads.
The justice of this Is demonstrated
by the fact that most states along the
coast, or which have lakes, exempt the
motorboat user from the state gasoline
tax. He pays the tax, takes a re
ceipt, and gets a refund. This Inci
dentally does not apply only to fishing
boats and other commercial craft It
appUes to yachts and smaller pleasure
craft which use gasoline. The theory
is, of course, that they should not be
taxed for roads because they do not
use the roads. It, is a sort of toll
bridge Idea.
Yet many of the states have been
spending a considerable fraction es
this gasoline tax money for other pur
poses, many of them in defiance of
their own lawn Naturally if the law
does not provide that the money must
be used for roads, there Is no punitive
effect in the Cartwright bill. It is only
the states that violate their own laws
which will be hit Yet it is just another
step to providing that they must use
all gasoline taxes for road building
and other services to motorists.
About Fletcher
Many Republican leaders fear that
Henry P. Fletcher, new chain— es
the national committee, will prove a
round peg In a square hole. This has
nothing to do with the objections by
some of the Progressives, such as Sen
ator La Follette, who regards Fletcher
as one cf the Old Guard in his lean
ings, though actually he has taken
very little part in politics. Nor has it
anything to do with the objections
some others have, who fear that
Fletcher’s being chairman will give
some of their political opponents a
slight edge.
The point here is that Fletcher has
demonstrated extraordinary ability
along certain lines. But the lines are
as far removed from politics as medi
etas is from law.
Washington newspaper men and oth
ers in a position to observe his activi
ties regard Fletcher as one of the
ablest diplomats this country has had
In sonny yean. He has boon particn
lariy effective at ißfmnatVmal coadß”
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CALL FOR CONSERVATION
Every countryside proclaims the
fact that we have, today, less con
trol in the field of conservation than
in any other contact with surround
ing nature. We patrol the air and
the ether, but we do not keep filth
out of our creeks and rivers. We
stand guard over works of art, but
wild species representing the work
of aeons are stolen from under our
noses. We stamp out the diseases of
crops and live stock, but we do not
know what alls the grouse, or the
ducks, or the antelope. In a certain
sense we are learning more rapidly
about the fires that burn in the spiral
nebulae than those that burn in our.
forests. We aspire to build a me
chanical cow before we know how to
build a fishway, or control a flood,
or handle a woodlot so it will pro-
duce a covey of grouse.—Aldo Leo
pold, Game Manager, Wisconsin Col
lege of Agriculture.
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