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6=a«By CARTER FIELD==
Washington.—lt was just a coinci
dence that Senator Couzens introduced
his excess profits tax amendment on
the heels of another blast from Father
Coughlin, who happens to be one of
Couzens’ most prominent constituents.
Couzens has always believed in high
taxes on the rich. He has been at
tacked many times by those who said
that he had his own fortune in tax ex
empt government bonds, and was there
fore not as unselfish as it might ap
pear in wanting the taxes on big in
comes and corporation earnings.
Curiously enough, Bernard M. Ba
ruch, so bitterly assailed by Father
Coughlin, and apparently with so little
information—about the only thing he
had right was as to the closeness be
tween Gen. Hugh S. Johnson and Ba
ruch —is also an advocate of high taxes
on the rich, and on corporations.
Baruch’s motive is slightly different
from that of Couzens. The financier
is a fanatic on the subject of balancing
the budget. He agrees more nearly
with the economic and fiscal ideas of
Lewis W. Douglas, former director of
the budget, than with anyone else in
the New Deal. Incidentally, his advice
on fiscal affairs has never been taken,
though several times asked, by the
Roosevelt administration.
Just before Inauguration, Baruch,
consulted as were many others about
the inaugural address, pleaded with the
President to stress two points and only
two —stand by the gold standard and
balance the budget. The President
gave a little lip service, for a few
months, to the idea of balancing the
budget, but he gave the hint that he
would not worry about the gold stand
ard In the words “an adequate but
sound currency.”
Then Went to Europe
Baruch believed in cutting govern
mental expenses, imposing high enough
taxes so that receipts would equal to
tal expenditures, and no “emergency
budget.” He was pleased when his old
friend and lieutenant, Johnson, was
appointed at the head of NRA, but had
nothing to do with that appointment.
As a matter of fact he Immediately
departed for Europe, so that it could
not be said truthfully that Johnson was
just a mouthpiece for Baruch, or just
acting as his creature.
This is not just supposition. Baruch
told friends the chief reason he was
getting out of the country for a while
was to head off just such talk. And
as a matter of fact It is no secret that
when he returned to the United States
he was not too well pleased with the
way things had gone.
Washington correspondents who have
been observing the movements of
Baruch for these many years are rath
er intrigued at the amount of misin
formation Father Coughlin had ac
quired about the financier. The two
men differ violently on one tremen
dously important Issue —inflation.
Baruch is desperately against it.
Coughlin is enthusiastically for it.
Roosevelt stands somewhere between
the two. Roosevelt is against printing
press money. He is for devaluation of
the gold content of the dollar. He
would like to see some international
system for currency worked out —not
now, but after commodity prices have
reached the level he thinks proper.
And the chief merit of the system he
would like to see would be that it
would tend to hold commodity prices
where he thinks they ought to be. So
that the purchasing value of the farm
er’s crops and the wage earner’s en
velope would be fairly constant.
Coughlin Is for taking a short cut
to increase commodity prices by print
ing enough money so that the dollar
would no longer be so valuable. Baruch
stands firmly by the gold standard,
thinking both the Roosevelt and the
Coughlin plans fantastic, but Cough
lin’s worse than Roosevelt’s, because
the Coughlin plan departs just that
much further from what Baruch re
gards as sound.
Cotton Situation
Concern about the cotton situation
continues to mount in administration
and New Deal circles. Os all those
speaking about It publicly, however,
the only high official who really gives
anything like the real picture Is Dan
iel C. Roper, secretary of Commerce.
He is one of the few who openly con
cede that the government has tried to
maintain the price of cotton at too
high a level—that If held there it Is
only a question of time until the rest
of the world either finds an acceptable
substitute, or a new cotton growing
area. He is one of the few who has
had the temerity to talk openly about
the menace of the new development
In Brazil, one known result of which al
ready is that certain important English
cotton mills have altered their looms—
a most expensive operation, hence In
dicating permanence—so as to handle
Brazilian instead of American cotton.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
while denying vigorously that any
change In the cotton program Is antici
pated, did not attempt to predict that
the amount of money the government
would loan on a bale of cotton in 1935
would be as great as it has been.
The amount the government will loan
will be cut In other words, the govern
ment has slowly but surely been driven
to what It now knows is the necessity
of pegging the price of cotton lower
than it has been.
One of the most convincing points in
driving the administration to this po-
sition —not yet officially announced —is 1
not the fear of a substitute, or of the
future development of a new area,
though both of these are recognized
as being real enough. It is the fact (
that the rest of the world is not now j
buying anything like the normal
amount of cotton from the United (
States.
More Trade Treaties
Coming right on the heels of the '
collapse of the effort to barter half a (
million bales of cotton in a deal with
Germany—mostly for blocked marks .
which would have had to be expended j
inside Germany for exports—the fall- ]
Ing off in American cotton exports ha*
given a decided boost to the pressure
for more reciprocal trade treaties.
Manufacturers of tins country have
been warned by Secretary Roper that — ,
in this drive to provide exchange in
this country for foreign countries ।
which might buy our cotton, and other
products—they must stand ready to
submit to foreign competition. It is
not enough, he warned, to reduce duties
on foreign goods, which do not compete ,
with American factories. It is neces
sary to admit a very large volume of
goods, which do compete with ours —
or else give up all hope of selling our
own goods abroad. (
Underneath all this pressure is one
particular necessity—to provide a for
eign market for American cotton. Oth
er things, too, of course, but cotton is
one thing that is causing the most
worry.
This does not mean that the govern
ment hopes to continue the present ;
price of cotton by obtaining additional ■
foreign buying. It now accepts as a
fact that it must reduce the price as
part of what is necessary to induce for
eign buying; that —and provide in some
way for foreign purchasing power. The
last, of course, is why the government
is now pressing for reciprocal trade
agreements looking to American pur
chases of more foreign goods.
The situation has not been much dis
cussed because it is so unpleasant No
body is expected to be happy about it
Not the southern cotton growers, for
they must look forward to lower prices
for their staple. Not the manufactur
ers, for they must look forward to
keener competition, and to sacrificing
part of the American market to their
foreign competitors.
Return of prosperity, with gi eater
purchasing power in America, will help
the manufacturers. For the cotton
planters, however, it would probably
spell higher prices for everything they
buy.
Business Salvage
Right under the smoke screen pro
vided by Senator Huey Long and Fath
er Coughlin, business has eased into
Washington and run off with more sal
vage than it had thought possible two
months ago—or even two weeks ago.
For instance —due to an amazing
flood of propaganda—repeal of the
pink slip publicity for income taxes
provision seems assured.
Also—the death sentence for utility
holding companies has been reprieved
to life imprisonment—or at least dis
cretion to do so will be reposed in gov
ernment agencies.
Also—contractors, scheduled to be
left high and dry whenever possible in
the four-billion-dollar work relief ex
penditures. now find themselves in such
satisfactory shape that the construc
tion league, spokesman for the recon
struction industry, and Michael McDon
ough, of the building trades unions,
join in a statement singing the praises
of the Presidential program. While
another big group of contractors, the
road builders, are giving a good imi
tation of a cat with cream on its whis
kers.
And that would not be all, if a few
more industries wake up to the situ
ation and realize what they have to do
to be saved. Though so far not many
have shown indication of so doing.
For example, the railroads, with an
army of security holders almost as
large as the utilities, have not thought
of making a mass attack on individual
senators and representatives for what
they really want—regulation of trucks
and busses, but especially trucks.
They have been very discreet, stat
ing their case in pompous arguments,
and leaning over backward lest they be
suspected of speaking In self-interest.
If they would get their stockholders
writing in to the senators and repre
sentatives in whose states and districts
the security holders vote, there might
be action very quickly.
How to Get Results
What the railroads should learn, and
what a good many other lines of busi
ness should learn, is a very simple fact
about how to get results in Washing
ton. It is a fact that was appreciated
to the utmost by the Anti-Saloon
league. It is a fact which has been
appreciated for the 'first time this ses
sion by the utilities. And a fact spec
tacularly demonstrated by the forces
fighting now for repeal of income tax
publicity.
The fact Is that the average senator
and representative can be affected only
by backfires from his own state or dis
trict. The average senator, for exam
ple, is no more interested in a referen
dum by the National Chamber of Com
merce on some piece of legislation than
he is in a treatise on why the ancient
Assyrians did not drink whisky Instead
of wine. Probably not so much.
But he does care, and tremendously,
If half a dozen of the very manufac
turers who voted in that referendum
send him strong personal letters and
wires—if the manufacturers In ques
tion live In that senator’s state. And
if they Induce a lot of their friends to
join the clamor, the senator seeks light,
as a rule, very quickly.
Copyright.—WNU Service
Chemists Seek Means of
Slowing Down Oxidation
Oxygen, which gives us life. Is
also man’s greatest industrial ene
my, notes a writer in the Montreal
Herald. The air we breathe con
tains one-fifth oxygen, and this gas
Is a highly corrosive substance.
When a house burns down it Is
simply combining with the oxygen
in the air. When soap turns brown
on a chemist’s shelf It is merely an
'ther instance of the corrosive qual
ity of oxygen. But It Is the motor
industry that suffers most from the
ravages of oxidation. Its two chief
organic essentials, rubber and pet
rol, are especially susceptible. Thou
sands of pounds worth of these ma
terials have been utterly wasted
owing to the action of air—and
now the scientists have struck back.
They have been experimenting with
the development of substances
known as anti-oxidants These com
pounds when mixed with any prod
uct, slow down oxidation to such an
extent that its usefulness and life
are increased tenfold.
Pictorial Sign*
So that travelers from all parts
of the world may understand, pic
torial signs have been erected ar
Parkeston Quay, Harwich, England,
a telegraph pole Indicating the tele
graph office, a trunk the baggage
room and a big question mark the
information clerk.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the orig
inal little liver pills put up 60 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels.—Adv.
Labor
It Is not what the world has to
offer you, but what you have to
offer the world, that makes you a
success or a failure. A determined
soul can do more with a rusty mon
key-wrench than a loafer will ac
complish with all the tools In a ma
chine shop.—Grit
Constipation Troubles
Thedford’s Black-Draught is made
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when they are sluggish or consti
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“I was almost down; was bloated
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after meals. I found it was helping
me. I have regulated my bowels.”
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