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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
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President Starts His Social Reform Program, Putting
Unemployment Insurance First—Visits TV A
on Way to Warm Springs.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
©by WMtsra Nnrapaper Union. .
WITH the election. In the back
ground, President Roosevelt Is
ready to. push forward more rapidly
his ambitious plans for what he calls
“the abundant life”
In this country. So
he has appointed a
large advisory council
to aid in formulating
and getting through
congress bls program
of social reforms. Tbs
chairman is Frank P.
Graham, president of
the University of North
Carolina, who has
been serving as vice
chairman of the NRA
consumers’ advisory
Frank ?.
Graham
board. He and his colleagues, all
known to be New Dealers or In close
sympathy with the New Deal, are
asked by Mr. Roosevelt “for advice and
counsel In development of a program
for unemployment insurance, old. age
security and adequate health care.”
Work on the social program already
is well under way and an executive
committee has laid the groundwork.
Also Miss Frances Perkins, secretary
of labor and chairman of that execu
tive committee, has named an advisory
committee of physicians and surgeons
that, according to advance rumors, will
report a program that will be “revolu
tionary almost to the point of estab
lishing socialized medicine.” This
medical group is headed by Dr. Har
vey Cushing of Yale whose daughter
Betsey Is the wife of James Roosevelt,
son of the President
Secretary Perkins announced that
other committees were being organized
to aid -In the formation of plans for
• federal Intervention in problems of
public health, hospitalization, and den
tistry.
WHEN the federal conference on
economic -security met in Wash
ington, nearly all the members of the
advisory committees were present
The President told the delegates that
he would present to the coming con
gress bills to provide for setting up Im
mediately an unemployment insurance
program. As to health-insurance and
old age pensions, he said he was not
certain the time had arrived for fed
eral legislation to put these Into effect
and he uttered a warning against
“organizations promoting fantastic
schemes” and arousing hopes “which
cannot possibly be fulfilled.”
Though Mr. Roosevelt conceded to
the separate states the right to decide
what type of unemployment insurance
they would adopt he declared that he
would reserve to the federal govern
ment the right to hold and Invest and
control all moneys which might be
collected.
This was necessary, the President
added, because of the magnitude of the
funds, and “so that the use of these
funds as a means of stabilization may
he maintained In central management
and employed on a national hnsis.” ft
Is expected that from $4,000,000,000 to
$5,000,000,000 would be raised in the
course of several years.
Mr. Roosevelt insisted that unem
ployment insurance must be kept en
tirely apart from the dole, and that
It should be managed strictly oh an
actuarially sound basis. He Indicated
that he favored legislation along the
lines of the Wager-l.ewis hill Intro
duced In the last congress, under which
a 5 per cent federal tax would be put
upon all commercial pay rolls, certain
portions of the proceeds being paid
back to such states as bad ..adopted
legislation for the working of an un
employment Insurance program.
Before the conference members went
to the White House to hear the Presi
dent. they indulged In a discussion
that brought out all sorts of views on
what should be done. Relief Adminis
trator Harry Hopkins and Mayor La
Guardia of New York urged immediate
establishment of a federal program
to Include benefits for the 4,200,000
families now on relief. Hopkins said
any program not encompassing these
destitute “is not worth Its salt.” La
Guardia, in the same vein, said cities
cannot hold up under the relief load
much longer. This was not In accord
with the view expressed a little later
by the President, and was an example
of the confusion of ideas In-the con
ference.
FOR the purpose of obtaining better
co-operation among federal agencies
engaged in lending government funds,
the President has appointed a commit
tee consisting of the heads of the agen
cies, with Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau as chairman. The new
organisation will report to the Presi
dent from time to time and Its activi
ties will cover, the treasury. Interior,
publie works, federal housing, farm
credit. Home Owners’ Loan corpora
tion, agricultural adjustment adminis
tration, export-Import banking, com
modity credit, federal deposit insur
ance. the RFC. federal reserve board
and publie works bousing.
In connection with this co-ordinating
move, the White House stated that
■when the present applications of the
Home Owners* Loan corporation have
been reduced to terms of approval the
original $3,000,000,000 allotment will
have been used up.
-A NOTHER program that Is being
4* rapidly prepared by the Presi
dent’s advisers for action by congress
has to do with the nation’s natural re
sources, and the necessary legislation
Is being drafted by the national re
sources board. It Is of utmost Impor
tance and In Washington there Is a be
lief that it may lead to government
control, and possibly government own
ership, of all timber lands, oil reser
voirs and coal fields, and government
dominion over-all-existing and-future
water power developments on the na
tion’s lakes and rivers.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has gone
■ to his winter retreat at Warm
Springs, Ga., where he will remain
until after Thanksgiving day, and on
the way had some Interesting experi
ences. First he traveled to Harrods
burg, Ky., where he helped Gov. Ruby
Laffpon and other officials in the un
veiling and dedication of a memorial
to the men and women who established
there the first permanent Anglo-Saxon
settlement west of the Alleghenies.
The monument, erected by the federal
government at a cost of SIOO,OOO, over
looks Pioneer Memorial State park.
It depicts an epoch rather than an
event, and the only portrait among the
many carved figures Is that of George
Rogers Clark, who there planned his
conquest of the old northwest terri
tory.
From Harrodsburg the President
went to see the Tennessee valley devel
opment which has been well called the
laboratory of the “more abundant
life.” It was with deepest interest
that he viewed the work that is being
done by about 1,200 men building dams
In the Tennessee river and tributaries
to provide power, flood control, navi
gation and new fields of work for per
sons drawn from unprofitable land.
After a visit to the Hermitage, borne
of Andrew Jackson at Nashville, Mr.
Roosevelt Inspected the revived Muscle
Shoals plants and the Wheeler and Wil
son dams, and then went to Tupelo,
Miss., the first town to purchase power
from the new federal' development.
I TNCLE SAM need expect no pay
ment from France on the war debt
on December 15, when the next Instal
ment is due. It Is stated In Paris that
France will then de
fault for the fifth
straight time. Pierre
Etienne Flandin, new
premier, opposed pay
ment In 1932, when he
was minister o f
finance, and his cab
inet is now taking the
same position as the
previous government
—awaiting an Anglo-
American settlement
which would serve as
a basis for Franco-
Premier
Flandin
American negotiations.
The only Idea for revision of the
debts that has met with any enthusi
asm In French parliamentary circles Is
a 10 per cent payment to correspond
with the reparations relief granted
Germany by the Lausanne agreement.
Proposals -for larger amounts, or “pay
ment In kind.” h”nve met with coldness.
The chamber of deputies is dinging
to the position that France will not
pay one cent more than it gets from
Germany. •
ANDREW MELLON may now have
another, cause for grievance
against the federal Treasury depart
ment. for the government has made
charges against the Union Trust
company of Pittsburgh, a Mellon Insti
tution. of filing “a false and fraudulent
income tax return” for 1930 In a tax
action demanding payment of $218,-
333 plus a 50 per cent penalty.
In supporting Its claim, the govern
ment listed eight transactions in 1031
as evidence that all were “ a part of
a false and fraudulent course of con
duct on the part of said Union Trust
company." Among the 1931 transac
tions were two “accommodation" deals
with Andrew W. Mellon.
Federal judge Charles l
DAWSON of Louisville, Ky„ over
ruling an attack on the-validlty of the*.
Frazier-Lemke farm moratorium act,
declared “with regret” that Jt Is con
stltutlohal. In his opinion he said:
“The-legislation. In some of Its pro
visions, is unfair to creditors, and un
wise even as to farm debtors, for it
Inevitably closes to them all private
sources of credit”
FREDERICK LANDIS, the only Re
publican to be elected to congress
from Indiana In the recent election,
died of pneumonia In hla 'home town,
Logansport He was a brother of
Kenesaw M. Landis, national base
ball commissioner. (
BUDGET requests for 800 new air
planes have been submitted by the
army air corps, and If the corps* plan
is approved the United States will have
the largest and most up to date mlll
tory aerial armada in the world. In
cluding eventually 2,400 planes.
TH« HARDIN TR I■UNB. HKR A U D
SEEN-'HEARD
•round th*
National Capital
■■■■By CARTER FIELD«*»*
Washington.—One thing absolutely
certain In the new congress just elect
ed Is the enactment of unemployment
insurance. Not only is the President
In favor of it, but apparently there la
an overwhelming favorable sentiment
among the newly elected senators and
members of the house.
As a matter of fact, most business
men seem to favor It. Nearly all thb
answers to recent Inquiries sent out
wholesale by the Department of Com
merce, which were answered at all, fa
vored the new Idea. Though It must
be admitted that barely one-fifth of all
the letters were answered.
Some of the big corporations are
strongly opposed to any nationwide
plan. They Infinitely prefer for each
company or employer to handle his
own. They make the argument that
conditions vary so much that any oth
er scheme would be manifestly unfair
not only as between different indus
tries but between Individual workers.
The administration, the writer is In
a position to state very positively, will
not stand for this modification of the
plan. The unemployment insurance bill
passed by the next congress will be
national in scope. New Dealers can
not conceive the advantage to the
country as a whole of several hundred
thousand different unemployment In
surance funds.
But that is not the main objection
to the “company union" system of un
employment Insurance. The main ob
jection Is that while it probably would
afford excellent protection to employ
ees of these same big companies, it
would not work well in instances where
small concerns fail or curtail or en
counter other difficulties.
In such cases. New Dealers point
out, the employees would become a
public burden at once, and the big
companies and their employees would
all have to help through taxes, so that
In the long run, even financially, It may
be pretty nearly as broad as it is long.
Encourage Idleness
Another objection urged by oppo
nents of the national unemployment in
surance idea is that It would encour
age idleness—that men or women who
knew they would draw unemployment
payments would not be much con
cerned over whether they worked or
not, or at least would not be in too
much of a hurry to get another job
when they found themselves out of
. work.
There are two answers to this. One
Is that the plan will very probably
follow the European system, though no
details have been definitely approved
by the President This provides a
waiting period, of from two weeks up
ward, between the time the job Is lost
and the payments from the unemploy
ment fund begin. There were two orig
inal purposes In this when it was
adopted by most of the countries now
using unemployment Insurance. One
of these was to lighten the burden on
the fund, and the other was aimed at
the very objection that Immediate pay
ments would encourage loafing.
There Is another answer, but this Is
purely in the discussion stage. It is
being strongly advocated by Col. Rob
ert G. Elbert, of New York, prominent
recently in NRA, and who has close
connections with New Deal circles in
various ways. Colonel Elbert would
set up an employment agency in con
nection with the Unemplyoyment In
surance administration.
Whenever a worker who had been
paying unemployment Insurance premi
ums (and having them paid for him in
addition by his employer) should lose
a job, he would at once file application
for payments, of course. Because the
payments would not start for two
weeks after such application. This in
sures promptness. But such filing
would automatically put him in touch
with the re-employment bureau of the
Insurance administration, and it would
be the duty of the head of that local
office to get the worker a job as quick
ly as possible.
Might Be Upset
Certain radicals In the Roosevelt
camp are due for a sad disappointment
In the next moves of the President, un
less some usually accurate advisers of
the Chief Executive are very much
mistaken.
Naturally enough, the radicals con
strue the huge Democratic majority as
n mandate not only to continue the
Roosevelt policies, but to turn further
to the left That would seem logical,
but there is a political slant, which the
radicals have not figured.
The point Is that the Republicans are
so helpless, so leaderless, and so with
out an effective issue that 1 no possible
trouble from that quarter presents It
self—so far as 1936 Is concerned —un-
less there should be some altogether
unexpected upset
The upset in the nature of things,
would not be political. There being
no real political opposition to the New
Deal at the moment any, upset occur
ing would almost have to be economic.
Of course, once there was an econo
mic upset there would be Immediate
political opposition. But for the oppo
sition to be Important the upset must
come first It would make no earthly
difference how logical the opposition
might be—how clearly It might fore
cast an upset if present policies were
pursued. The upset would have to
be upon the country before it would
be important politically.
Therefore—and here is the nub of
the argument as -presented by sources
which np to now have never been
wrong In forecasting President Roose
velt’s course—Roosevelt’s immediate
concern is not primarily political, but
economic. He must do everything in
i“ls power to prevent an economic up
set
So, Instead of moving swiftly to the
left, in obedience to the apparent man
date of the voters, the President will
move definitely to the right. In the hope
of encouraging business and speeding
revival of prosperity.
Money Not Enough
•Just continuing to pour out money
will not be enough. Revenue must be
built up so that balancing the federal
budget Is at least on the horizon. Im
provement of business will help in two
ways, it win-produce additional taxes,
and It will take up part of the spend
ing load the government Is now carry
ing on relief.
Roosevelt, as a matter of fact, has
already taken two steps along the road
of encouraging business. For he knew
the problem before the returns came
In. Nothing surprised him much about
the returns except that the New Deal
majority was bigger than even he had
hoped.
First, was his olive branch to the
much despised bankers, even though
the clear intimation of tighter federal
control was there. Second, was his
statement—for the first time—of what
he thought a fair rate of earning for
capital in moderately safe Investments.
It was 5 per cent
True, this applied to first mortgages.
But this is much better than business
had any reason to expect Because
Roosevelt does not apply the banker’s
percentage of losses to this calculation.
He figures .that ‘ with the New Deal
.working, losses on first mortgages
would be Insignificant There would
be no terrible depressions and much
more drastic supervision by the govern
ment. So it means very nearly 5 per
cent net.
Which actually is one of the most
Important bits of news for business
that has come out of Washington for
many a day.
And by the same token it Is the
shadow of the approaching wet blanket
for the more radical of his advisers.
G. O. P. Reconciled
So far from having a definite plan to
revive the Republican party, the plain
truth is that most of the so-called
G. O. P. leaders are actually reconciled
to a continuance of Democratic pre
dominance for at least three more
years. Down In their hearts they have
very little hope of defeating Roosevelt
for re-election In 1936, If he lives. They
have no outstanding leader In mind
who might carry their standard of vic
tory two years hence, and they have
no particular Issue in mind on which
to base the Presidential battle.
Half a dozen Important Republicans,
talking privately to the writer, several
just before election day, and others as
the returns were coming in, voiced the
same idea—though, not of course, for
quotation In connection with their
names. Their logic runs about as fol
lows:
The Democrats have had a top-heavy
majority In the house for two years.
Largely due to the fact that congress
was so completely overshadowed by
the executive branch of the govern
ment, this did not involve them in the
troubles which a top-heavy majority
usually spells for the party having it
They are now certain to have that
top-heavy majority for two more years.
The extreme probability is that Roose
velt will be overwhelmingly re-elected
in 1936. That means continuance of
the top-heavy majority for two more
years, a total of six.
Now. these Republicans contend,
that is too much for any party to stand
without developing rifts which will tear
it to pieces. It is the history of elec
tive parliamentary bodies that no party
can go ahead without serious internal
splits for a long period of time with
top-heavy majorities.
Some History
But it is Interesting to note what
happened to the Republicans after they
had eight years of full control, culmi
nating with the Hoover landslide. If
they had bad only a bare majority of
the two houses in 1929, when the tariff
bill was taken up, it is contended by
many Republican leaders, it would
have been impossible for the Smoot-
Hawley tariff bill to be pushed through.
Hoover did not want it Congress ran
away with him after his suggestion of
mild Increases on farm products.
Most people have forgotten it be
cause so much has happened since, but
the publicity of the deadly Shouse-
Michelson machine, which destroyed
Hoover, pounded away for years on
that tariff bill All the blame for the
world depression was put on it
Turning back to Woodrow Wilson,
bls popularity ebbed after his re-elec
tion In 1916. Republicans are figuring
that after 1936 Roosevelt's strength will
melt Just as rapidly. They figure that
the gigantic governmental spending
cannot be kept up, and that there will
be no gratitude for past favors once
It Is seen that the future promises cur
tailment
Privately the Democratic leaders,
many of them, admit the logic Just pre
sented, but point out that Roosevelt Is
Justas familiar with this sort of thing
as are the Republicans. He will, they
contend, have plenty of new things to
spring, and who, they demand, Is likely
to arise In tbe opposition who Is as
skillful as he In moulding public sen
timent?
But the main point of all this Is not
to attempt to forecast the far-distant
future, but to appraise tbe probabili
ties In the congress to convene in Jan
uary. The fact Is now that the Re
publicans have no particular objective.
They have no Idea who their leaders
are to be, nor what will be their ts
aues. 8® they cannot work toward
anything
Coorrlskt.—WNU Sarvlea
STRING HOLDER
SUNBONNET GIRL
By GRANDMOTHER CLARK
Attractive String Holder
A ball of string is Just as Impor
tant in a kitchen as a pot holder or
a fly swatter. String is used for
many purposes, but where is it when
you want it? This attractive string
holder is always ready to serve you
when hanging in Its place somewhere
on the kitchen wall. It Is to be made
up, and when finished looks like the
picture shown -above. Sunbonnet is
made of bright colored prints. The
face Is painted. The ball of string is
in tlie bonnet. String is used pass
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Package No. A-7 contains percale
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Send 15 cents for this package.
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Enclose a stamped addressed en
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mation.
HOW MANY WORDS
NEEDED TO “SAY
IT PERFECTLY”?
A British professor says It requires
a knowledge of 50,000 words to read
the London Times intelligently and
adds that there are 850 words, with
which a person limited to that num
ber could say anything he would be
likely to want to say, and “say it
perfectly.”
The evident Inference Is that the
erudite London newspaper employs
99,150 words that are superfluous,
mere excess baggage. At least, that
would be the inference if we accept
literally the theory that the best
writing Is that which says some
thing in the simplest possible sort of
way.
But of course It is not always lit
erally true that a worthwhile thing
inay be said “perfectly” In the sim
plest. sort of way, especially if the
sayer or writer is to be limited to
850 words. Tlie perfection possible
by that method Is no more than what
is Implied In the statement that a
“perfect” piece of music may be
written with eight notes all in one
key. As n matter of fact, one of the
chief pleasures of living, though
many do not realize It consciously,
Is found in the tine shades of mean
ing, sound and connotation that sep
arate one word from another very
similar one.
The London Times, we suspect,
will not resent the British profes
sor’s reflection on its surplus word
age but will he content to leave the
sort of simplicity he had in mind
to —well, to the sort of publication
read by those whose word knowl
edge encompasses only 850. —Detroit
News.
Most Primitive Man
Sinanthropus, the recently discov
ered Peking man, is declared by Prof.
G. Elliot Smith, British anatomist, to
have been the most primitive mem
ber of the human family of which
skeletal remains have been found.
While geological evidence shows that
Sinanthropus must have lived early
in the Pleistocene or Ice age period,
Professor Smith says, shows this
creature to have been more general
ized and probably closer to the main
Une of descent of modern man than
either Pithecanthropus erectus, the
Java man, or the “dawn man,"
Eoanthropus, found in England. Both
these early members of the human
family, he points out, may actually
have preceded Sinanthropus In time,
but they diverged from the main
stem while the Peking man remained
close to the direct line of descent —
Pathfinder Magazine.
Why Suffer with Itching, Burning
ECZEMA
token
Cuticura Soap •rfCutteura Ointment
so quickly and effectively soothe and heal. Bathe freely with
the Soap and warm water, dry gently, and anoint with the Pint.
ment. It is surprising how quickly the irritation and itching
■top how, after a few treatments, the eczema disappears.
There is nothing better for all forms of skin troubles.
FEWER AMERICAN “UNCLES’”
Fewer rich men are leaving money
to relatives in Europe and the pro
verbial “rich uncle In America,” who
leaves a fortune to his people bach
at home In the old country, is not
so common now as he used to be.
The head of the department of the
foreign office nt Stockholm, Sweden,
who deals with Swedish heirs to
money of persons dying abroad, has
revealed how times have changed
He says that the amounts received
by heirs are substantially below
what they were a few years ago.
Last year rnly about $500,000 was
handled by his office in comparison
with $1,000,000 the year before. Cor
respondence regarding legacies from
America constitutes about one-fourth
of the work of the department. The
largest legacy was $250,000. On one
occasion, after much correspondence,
the relative of a man who died in
America was enriched by seven cent&
Why Hospitals Use
a Liquid Laxative
Hospitals and doctors have always
used liquid laxatives. And the public
is fast returning to laxatives in liquid
form. Do you know the reasons?
The dose of a liquid laxative can be
measured. The action can thus be
regulated to suit individual need. It
forms no habit; you need not take a
“double dose” a day or two later.
Nor will a mild liquid laxative irritate
the kidneys.
The right dose of a liquid laxative
brings a more natural movement, and
there is no discomfort at the time, or
after.
The wrong cathartic may often da
more harm than good.
A properly prepared liquid laxative
like Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
brings safe relief, from constipation.
It gently helps the average person’s
bowels until nature restores them to
regularity. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin is an approved liquid laxative
which all druggists keep ready for
use. It makes an ideal family laxa
tive; effective for all ages, and may
be given the youngest child.
And Frequently Is
Love is not folly, but it can easily
be made so.—Exchange.
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WATCH YOU
KIDNEYS!
Be Sure They Properly
Cleanse the Blood
YOUR kidneys are constantly fil
tering impurities from the blood
stream. But kidneys get function--
ally disturbed—lag in their work—
fail to remove the poisonous body/
wastes.
Then you may suffer nagging
backache, attacks of dizziness,
burning, scanty or too frequent
urination, getting up at night,
swollen feet and ankles, rheumatic
pains; feel "all worn out.’*
Don’t delay! For the quicker you
get rid of these poisons, the better
your chances of good health.
Use Doan’s Pins. Doan’s are for
the kidneys only. They tend to pro
mote normal functioning of the
kidneys; should help them pass off
the irritating poisons. Doan’s are
recommended by users the country
over. Get them from any druggist.
DOAN’S PILLS
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