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CURRENT EVENTS
KING ALEXANDER MURDERED BY
TERRORISTS — BARGAINING
PLAN OF GENERAL MOTORS
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
{Q , Western Newspaper Union.
*TMVO 1 mon of great Importance
~~ r l ^ e rna i r *tenance of peace in Europe
were removed from the scene by the
bullets of the assassin, Petrus Kale-
men, who slew King
Alexander of Jugo¬
slavia and Louis Bar-
thou, French foreign
minister, In Marseilles,
"Another Sarajevo?’’
was the question in
every mind, and, in¬
deed, there was some
slight danger that the
crime would start an¬
i m other great war. Alex¬
Prince Paul ander was just begin¬
ning a "good will"
visit in France, which was closely tied
up with Barthou's plan for au accord
between France and Italy, and Bar-
thou was soon to go to Koine to fur¬
ther the scheme. Jugoslavia Is allied
to France but Is not at all friendly to
Italy, and Alexander hated Mussolini
personally, believing that the duce
gave moral support to the rebellious
Croats. But the king did not want
war and was willing to help along the
proposed accord If it was not inimical
to his country.
If trouble does follow after the as¬
sassinations It probably will start with
revolution In Jugoslavia. Only by as¬
suming and exercising dictatorial pow¬
ers was Alexander able to keep peace
in the hodgepodge that comprises the
kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes, otherwise Jugoslavia, and it
Is not certain that there is anyone else
there who can do it. Civil war might
tempt some other nation to Intervene
and grab part of the realm, and in that
case a general conflict might be pre¬
cipitated. A
Alexander’s eldest son, Peter, who
."as In school In England, was prompt¬
ly proclaimed king and, being only
eleven years old, will rule under a
* regency of three men who were named
it In the political will of the murdered
Whether these three can
IrA.tid the kingdom Intact is a question.
jvial ly the Serbs are really loyal to the
* r house, though nil the people had
0 lexander, mired the strength and bravery of
whose life had been at¬
tempted 4 four times before.
Prince Paul, cousin of Alexander,
is at the head of the regency and he
Is considered fairly capable and is well
liked. His two colleagues have been
rather prominent In the government,
but they are not Serbs.
The death of Alexander was held
especially Important to Germany by
the statesmen of that country, for they
had looked to him to curb to a con¬
siderable extent the alleged ambitions
of Mussolini, lie was considered a
close friend of the reich and a poten¬
tial ally.
Franco was not only worried by the
possibility of trouble In the Balkans,
but also deeply mourned the death of
Barthou, one of her ablest statesmen
and, Indeed, one of the ablest In Eu¬
rope. He had been working assiduous¬
ly on his pet scheme of a security pact
for eastern Europe; and, although Ger¬
many had scored him for trying to
build n diplomatic and economic ring
about the reich, last June he personal¬
ly negotiated an ncoord between
France and Germany that was believed
to give assurance of peace.
Petrus Kalemen, the assassin, who
was quickly killed by the French po¬
lice, was found to have been traveling
on a forged Czech passport. Two men
who accompanied him on his mission
of death were captured near the Swiss
border anil another was being hunted
down in Fontainebleau forest
From the confessions of those cap¬
tured and from the Investigations of
the police of France and Belgrade it
was learned that Kalemen was a no¬
torious Macedonian terrorist named
Vnlda Georgeff Tschernocemskz who
killed two Bulgarian political leaders
several years ago. He and his asso¬
ciates in the plot w r ere directed In their
murderous work by a mysterious “mas¬
ter mind,” and the authorities assert
this man. whom the assassins knew
as “the doctor,” controlled the activi¬
ties of several distinct terrorist bands
that were ignorant of one another’s
moves.
The French police were convinced
that at least nine persons were in¬
volved In the assassination plot. Their
chief interest centered on one Egon
Kramer, whom they believed to be the
chief of the gang and who had not
been caught, and a beautiful young
woman known to the prisoners as
Marie Vjudroch whose trail was picked
up in a hotel in Aix-en-Provence. The
woman is supposed to have brought
from Germany the two weapons, vir¬
tual submachine guns, used by the
killer.
Premier Doumergue’s French cabi¬
net was considerably changed as a re¬
sult of the tragedy In Marseilles. Al¬
bert Sarraut, minister of the Inferior,
and Henri ('heron, minister of justice,
resigned and were replaced respective¬
ly by Paul Marehandeau and Henri
1 /Pinery. I/aval was made minister
of foreign affairs to succeed Barthou
and his place as minister of colonies
was given to Louis Koliin.
ORANGE lost another of her elder
* statesmen in the death of Raymond
Poincare, who was president from 1913
to 1920 and returned later to public
aervice as premier. It was during that
period that he seized the Ktihr In
effort to compel Germany to pay
war reparations to I id ice.
was horn In Lorraine, and that fact
plained in part his unrelenting
toward Germany in dealing with
war problems. Entering political
In 18S7, he was mixed up In
prominent ‘‘affaires’’ and made a rec¬
ord as an intense patriot and a
republican. In 1920, when he
called out of retirement, he
In saving the country from its
astrous financial state. Poincare
seventy-four years old when he
and had been In poor health for
years.
XTA/1 dictatorship over religion in
i x Germany was bitterly attacked by
10.U0U Protestant pastors from their
pulpits, despite the presence in every
church of secret police and spies. The
congregations cheered and shed tears
as they were told that a crisis in the
rebellion against the tyranny of Keichs-
bishop Mueller was nearing a crisis.
Mueller and Dr. August Jaeger, com¬
missioner of Protestant churches in
Prussia, were held responsible for the
"triumph of violence and hypocrisy” in
a manifesto distributed to congrega¬
tions.
"Through Mueller and Jaeger Satan
does his work," the manifesto said.
“The church regime has nullified the
gospel. It has violated the constitu¬
tional church government, and is using
political force to gain its end.
"It splits Bavaria’s unified church
into two^trts, but still it talks of un¬
ity. It dWies the Ten Commandments
and employs lies against truth and rob¬
bery against justice. Still it talks of
Bible and creed.
“Caprice and falsehood have gained
the upper hand in the church.”
Growth of the semi-military forces
placed at the disposal of Hitler was
revealed by Minister of Labor Seldte
in a speech at Dresden.
"One hundred and fifty thousand
youths of other boys’ organizations
have joined Hitler Yo'uth,” he de¬
clared, “and 314.000 comrades of the
active Steel Helmets and 400,000 of
the regular Steel Helmets placed
themselves at the disposal of the Storm
Troopers. The remaining Steel Helmet-
ers joyously joined the Nazi organiza¬
tion."
C'lRST shot In the coming contest be-
tween the automobile manufacturers
and the American Federation of Labor
was fired by the General Motors cor¬
poration In the form
of an offer to its 130,-
000 employees of its
own plan for collec¬
tive bargaining. In a
letter sent to every
worker President Al¬
fred P. Sloan, Jr.,
said : “We of the Gen¬
eral Motors recognize
‘collective bargaining’
as a constructive step
A. P. Sloan, Jr forward, both for the
employees and the
management. Regardless of any obli¬
gations that may exist, we propose not
only to continue the idea, but to de¬
velop it.”
The plan, which actually is already
In effect, was designed to meet all re¬
quirements of section 7A of the Na¬
tional Industrial Recovery act. Though
the company in Us communication did
not mention the A. F. of L., it declared
that "membership in a labor union or
other type of labor or employee or¬
ganization does not in itself establish
the right of any such union or other or¬
ganization to represent employees in
collective bargaining negotiations. Rep¬
resentatives for sucli purpose must have
been specifically chosen by the em¬
ployees they are to represent and the
fact of such choice must be estab¬
lished.”
Employees must be given complete
freedom In setting up collective bar¬
gaining organizations and choosing
representatives, the company declared.
The management may, however, as¬
sist any employee organization in
plans for employees’ mutual benefit,
provided that In the determination of
the right of employees to participate
in the benefits there is no discrimina¬
tion by management on the ground of
affiliation with any labor organization.
Collective fRrgainlng was defined as
“a method of Intercommunication and
negotiation between employees and
management for maintenance of har¬
monious and co-operative relations
through mutual understanding and
agreement with respect to terms and
conditions of employment.”
Under the General Motors plan, rou¬
tine matters within authority of the
foreman or supervisor in immediate
contact should he settled by him as ex¬
peditiously as possible. If it Is out¬
side his authority, the matter is to be
referred up through the organization
unlit it reaches an executive who can
act.
The corporation emphasized that it
will not submit to arbitration any point
where compromise might injure the
long-term Interests of the business. An
impartial, fact-finding agency, how¬
ever, may aid in settling questions of
fact, it added.
npWELVE hundred coal miners at
A Pecs, Hungary, won a sensational
fight for better wages, risking their
lives on the outcome. They impris¬
oned themselves far underground for
days, declaring they would die there
voluntarily unless the employers would
raise their pay, which had been only
$2 a week. Food sent down by their
friends was returned, and many of the
men were crazed and nearly dead be¬
fore the company was forced by the
government to make a settlement the
workers would accept.
The owners agreed to eliminate a
wage cut, to raise the working time
from two to three days a week, and
to pay a bonus of $3 a man to help
over th» winter.
DADE COUNTY TIMES: OCTOBER 25, 1934
/GEN. /DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR,
vj cbieWof staff and now in cotn-
maud of the G. H. Q. combat air force
and also of the ground forces. Is plan¬
ning to develop a fighting lleet of super
battle planes. The first step will be
the organization of the G. H. Q. air
force of at least 1,000 planes grouped
i In five "wings” based on both coasts
and in the Middle West This would
bring the army corps up to about 2,300
planes, making an aerial fighting fleet
approximately the equal of any in the
world.
"All air forces, in spite of the in-
cessant talk of disarmament and the
efforts made at Geneva to curtail
1 them,” General MacArthur says, "are
increasing. The whole trend through¬
out the world has been to increase
aerial forces. Weapons of war have a
certain need and necessity and are very
sensitive to relatively. That Is to say,
every one wants what the other fellow
has, and the trend has been up."
/GOVERNMENT crop benefit checks
vJ for more than $302,000,000 have
been paid to farmers participating in
the production adjustment program,
according to figures compiled by the
AAA. Some $575,000,000 additional Is
scheduled for payment under pro¬
grams now iu effect, nearly GO per
cent of it before the end of this year.
Thus, the farmers’ stake in the AAA
approximates $ 1 , 000 , 000 , 000 .
Payments already made or to be
made before January are included 1 b
the estimate of the bureau of agricul¬
tural economics which places 1934 cash
farm income at about $0,000,000,000
compared to $5,000,000,000 last year
and $4,333,000,000 in 1932.
'T'HEIIE is an interesting report cir-
1 culating in Wisconsin, especially In
Madison. It is to the effect that Pres¬
ident Glenn Frank of the University
of Wisconsin Is looking toward the
Republican Presidential nomination in
193G and that this idea explains his re¬
fusal to permit Lloyd K. Garrison to
remain in Washington as head of the
national labor relations board.
The Madison Capital Times said it
understood Doctor Frank feels the Re¬
publican party is In need of a "lib¬
eral” candidate, yet not a "dangerous”
liberal, and believes he is in a T»sl-
tion to qualify.
To interviewers Doctor Frank de¬
clined to comment on the newspaper
story. He said his Insistence that Gar¬
rison return to his duties as dean of
the law school was solely In the inter¬
est of the university.
iIIINA’S Nationalist government Ir
retaliated against by the Imp silvo^
of the United States "if
per cent tax on all silver t j V
China. This action follovvJ
ceipt of the American re[8
note from China pleadln„
States co-operation in mnin^Phrff^
ver prices and halting the drain of
silver from China.
The United States’ answer, offering
a measure of co-operation, but point¬
ing out that the United States silver
program was deemed mandatory by
President Roosevelt, failed to satisfy
the Chinese.
/~v RGANIZED labor doesn’t like R.
Clay Williams, chairman of the
new national industrial recovery board
recently appointed by President Roose-
velt. At the San
Francisco convention
of the American Fed¬
eration of Labor, a
resolution was adopt¬
ed demanding an in¬
vestigation of Mr.
Williams’ attitude as
vice chairman of the
board of the R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco
company of Wins-
S. Clay Wil- t o n-S a 1 e m, N. C.,
liams the charge Joeing that
he was opposed to
trade unions and to collective bargain¬
ing with them. The federation’s exec¬
utive council instructed President Wil¬
liam Green to present the matter to
Mr. Roosevelt on his return to Wash¬
ington, and he promised to do so. In¬
cidentally, it should be recorded that
Mr. Green was re-elected president
Without opposition.
It is not considered likely that the
federation will get far with Us fight
on Mr. Williams. He was deliberately
selected for membership on the board
because his conservatism will be a foil
to the comparative radicalism of other
members, especially Sidney Hillman
and I/eon C. Marshall. The other two
members, Arthur D. Whiteside, head
of Dun and Bradstreet. and Walton
Hale Hamilton, are rated as moderate¬
ly conservative.
j The new board is hard at work on
■ the problems which beset the NIIA. It
has devised methods for quicker tran¬
saction of business and has strength¬
ened the subordinate executive person¬
nel, and, in the matter of enforcement,
it has agreed not to interfere iu labor
disputes, these being relegated to Sec¬
retary Perkins and the labor relations
board.
IN A plane piloted by Bill Bowlin.
A Admiral Richard E. Byrd returned
to Little America, Antarctica, from
the advance weather base where he
spent almost seven months alone, mak¬
ing observations. He apparently was
almost recovered from the serious ill¬
ness which was caused by fumes of
an oil stove in his little snowbound
hut He had gained in flesh and was in
the best of spirits.
AN O HODE ISLAND Republicans are
quite satisfied with Felix Hebert
as senator and have renominated him.
For governor the state convention
named Gen. Luke H. Gallan, a veteran
of the Spanish-Amerlcan and World
wars.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Deeds, Not Words
Many Kings, Real Ones
A Great Frenchman
$1 a Day and Board
Russia has troubles corresponding
with our anxieties about Communists—
whispering propaganda.
In Russia the trouble is the other
way around. Fascists in Russian fac¬
tories are spreading Fascist propagan¬
da among Communist workers, telling
them that Communism is a failure.
Here we are content to moan, wring
our hands, roll our eyes toward heaven.
In Russia they believe In words, not
deeds only, and three engineers of the
"Kuhnetzk” metallurgical works are
ordered shot for praising Fascism, the
Mussolini kind of dictatorship, as com¬
pared with Communism, the Stalin
kind of dictatorship.
Serbians gathered along the line as
King Alexander's body passed be¬
moaned the passing “of the last real
king in Europe.” Other kings must
take orders from parliament. It was
the last real king who was passing.
King Alexander did make his own
laws and enforce them, but in so doing
he aroused the hatred of Croatians, one
of whom killed him. He might better
have imitated mild King George of Eng¬
land, and allowed his parliament and
ministers to carry the load of responsi¬
bility.
However, plenty of other "real
kings” remain in Europe—Mussolini In
Italy, Stalin in Russia, Hitler in Ger¬
many. They do not at the moment
wear golden crowns or cloaks of er¬
mine, but any one of them may wear
one or both, and, in the meanwhile,
they are real "kings” as regards power,
greater, more absolute, than Alexan¬
der ever had.
With the death of Raymond Poin¬
care, France loses a noble patriot and
great statesman.
Four times prime minister of France,
he was war-time president of the
French republic.
All of France knows that Poincare,
a devoted i^triot, member of one of the
most distinguished intellectual fami¬
lies of France, died of strain and over¬
work, to which he cheerfully submitted
n the service of his country.
Happy the nation that, like France,
boast of so many devoted sons,
j Idling with patriotism through the
__
For the first time since January,
1932, according to the Department of
Agriculture, the average pay of farm
laborers has gone up to $1 a day and
board.
The $1 a day and what you need to
eat seems small, but there was a time
when a President of the United States
complained seriously that he could not
hire a really good American workman
for less tiian $100 a year. Times, bad
as they are, improve. But actual
wages mean little. The important ques¬
tion is not how much are you paid,
but how much can you get for your
money ?
Sir Arthur Schuster, one of Eng¬
land's ablest mathematical physicists,
is dead at eighty-three. Born in Frank¬
fort, a German of the Jewish race, he
chose to live and work in England for
many years.
Ilad lie stayed in Germany he prob¬
ably would have been driven out in his
old age. The British king conferred
knighthood upon him, making him “Sir
Arthur" Schuster, in appreciation of
his services to science and Britain.
Germany’s Protestants protest vio¬
lently against the Hitler government,
going so far as to denounce the Nazi
church as "Satan’s agent.” The
Protestant church demands the right
for Protestants to worship and believe
as they choose. This Protestant anti-
Hitler demonstration makes it unani¬
mous. with Catholics, Jews, Protestants
united in denunciation of interference
with religious and racial freedom.
The American Federation of Labor
hopes for 1,000,000 more members with¬
in a year, and President Green, in San
Francisco, predicts that increase In
1935.
if new members paid in dues only
$10 a year, which would be very little
for the protection that the American
federation offers, the new membership
would mean an Increased income of
$10,000,000 a year, a very substantial
addition to union labor's war chest.
The late Percy Rockefeller, son of
John D. Rockefeller’s brother. William,
said to have left $100,000,000 behind
him, gave everything to his widow.
Mr. John A. Garver and the National
City bank of New York are executor
and trustee.
Mr. Rockefeller’s will mentions no
gifts to charity. Perhaps he thought
his widow would spend the money as
wisely as any charity could spend it,
and perhaps he was right.
At least he set a good example,
Showing appreciation of his wife and
leaving her the “head of the family.”
French authorities announce a new
“death light ray” manufactured from
a metal procured only in this coun¬
try. This ray of light, turned on an
airplane, would paralyze the pilot, and
bring his plane to earth. The light,
reduced in power, can be packed into a
small "flashlight" container for police¬
men, blinding the criminal and making
him helpless without killing him,
Q, Kin* Feature* abdicate. In*
W.NV
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington. — President Roosevelt
believes that commodity prices should
No Runaway go somewhat higher,
but he has advised
Price Boost administration lead¬
ers to be on guard
against a runaway movement. In mak¬
ing known his view, the President like¬
wise for the first time tossed over¬
board the plans of many theorists for
stabilization of prices on the basis of
the 1926 price range and adopted in¬
stead something approximating the av¬
erage of quotations existing in the pe¬
riod between 1909 and 1914.
Although Mr. Roosevelt never has
publicly espoused the 1926 price level
as such, his discussions have given rise
to a general belief that the parity ex¬
isting around that time constituted a
relationship between farm products
and industrial products which was sat¬
isfactory to him. Therefore, when he
said the other day that he preferred
the 1909-14 level, he turned his face
from the position occupied by numer¬
ous groups, such as the committee for
the nation and several farm organiza¬
tions that have contended the 1926 re¬
lationship between farm and industrial
prices should be the goal.
Most Washington observers agree
that the administration is alert to the
dangers of runaway prices, resulting
not so much from the unbalanced con¬
dition of the budget and paper infla¬
tion as from uncontrolled and ungov¬
erned credit expansion. In other
words, it is believed the President
recognizes threats of a dangerous boom
which, if it occurred, and was followed
by the inevitable collapse, would leave
our country in the throes of another
depression.
In a conference with the President
a few days ago, Mr. Roosevelt gave
newspaper correspondents every indi¬
cation of a conviction that price ques¬
tions involve many factors that are
at the particular moment quite impos¬
sible of ascertainment. He showed,
too, in the opinion of many of the
writers, that lie is not following ad¬
vice of the theorists without giving
some practical consideration to the
doctrines they advance. For example,
the President’s position clearly shows
a desire to find ways and means of
preventing wide fluctuations in com¬
modity prices such as those that have
characterized quotations in periods like
1920 to 1930. How far he will get in
working out such a system is, of
course, entirely problematical, but his
comprehension of the problem lias been
accepted by the conservative element
witli more enthusiasm than they have
given heretofore to his pronounce¬
ments.
Mr. Roosevelt believes that the na¬
tion is solvent. He contends that the
column of assets has
Nation Is risen, through in¬
Solvent creases in general
prices, to the point
where it exceeds the column of liabili¬
ties or debts by a small margin. Ar¬
rival of this condition, therefore, has
prompted him to give thought to the
question of putting on brakes for ris¬
ing prices. It is my understanding
that the brakes are not to be applied
yet. He intends, however, to keep
them ready for use in case the run¬
away boom appears.
None of the administration spokes¬
men are willing at this time to dis¬
close statistics which will represent the
price level that is satisfactory to them.
It Is said, nevertheless, to be a per¬
centage somewhat higher than now ob¬
tains.
The commodity price index of the
bureau of labor statistics shows farm
products now at 72.8, which research
discloses is not far below the period
from 1909 to 1914. The low point of
this index figure for 1934 was 57.4. and
the low point of the depression in
March, 1933, was 42.8. Of course, in¬
dex figures do not breathe life, but
when two sets of them are arranged
alongside each other, they become at
least a basis of comparison, and after
all, comparison is the best basis for
judgment.
In some quarters of Washington I
hear expressions to the effect that Mr.
Roosevelt’s latest move regarding
prices indicates a conviction that res¬
toration of the country’s solvency is
more important in the general recov¬
ery program than a good many of the
theoretical and untried remedies
brought into use in the last fifteen
months. His price proposals obvious¬
ly have not ended conjecture as to pos¬
sible new moves. The program being
in generalities did not cause fears to
subside concerning future tampering
with the monetary structure nor did
it alleviate conditions born of the pres¬
sure on commerce and Industry result¬
ing from NBA and its hundreds of
codes.
Taken as a whole, the Washington
picture at present is viewed by many
astute observers as an indication that
Mr. Roosevelt is trying to get together
with those who would release credit
if given reasonable assurances as to
future plans of the administration. It
must be said that Mr. Roosevelt has
not been coaxing business leaders into
the White House. It can be said with
equal force, however, that he is being
kept informed fully as to what these
business leaders think. That being
true, it seems to be a proper predic¬
tion that the administration is search¬
ing quietly for ways of compromise
and is hoping at least that there can
be proposals in the next
which will have the eongrea. co7
siderable support of a J!
segment of business a
the ment administration that is decidedly not pulling
doubts the efficacy . now because t,
of the brain tru
proposals.
The guiding hands of NRA have
into a tough adversary run
right here t n
N ir R n A a Faces c the National ^ CaDi-
ta , in a Hnn
Bitter Fight name of w. F. Rob.
erts company, i nc o r
porated. The .
Roberts company ij e
dined to sign the graphic arts code
the code that applies to printing and
allied industries. Having refused to
sign the code the Iioberts company
paid no attention to the code pro-
visions governing wages and hours of
labor, so NRA turned the case over
to its lawyers for prosecution, and that
was the beginning of a fight that prom¬
ises to be as bitter as any yet arising
from New Deal legislation.
The NRA lawyers, armed with affi-
davits of eight Roberts’ employees to
the effect that they were not receiv¬
ing minimum code wages and were
working more than the maximum
hours, sought in an injunction in the
District of Columbia courts to prevent
ihe corporation from violating the code
further. Their contention was that the
code applied to the Roberts company
despite its refusal to sign because it
was drafted with the assent of a ma¬
jority of the printing industry. But
the court declined to grant the injunc¬
tion. deciding that the case should be
tried on its merits. The Roberts com¬
pany felt it had gained something of
a victory in the court’s ruling, but it
did not stop there. It has laid out a
much broader campaign and it is that
campaign which is proving so embaras-
sing to the NRA.
B. II. Roberts, head of the corpor¬
ation. told me in the course of a dis¬
cussion of ttie case that he was de¬
termined to awaken the country to the
excessive costs of code maintenance.
He objects strenuously to some of the
code provisions and maintains that the
bulk of his pay roll is well above the
minimum prescribed by the code, hut
that his main complaint is against the
arbitrary actions of the code authori¬
ties set up by NRA for enforcement
of the code provisions.
The Roberts company further con¬
tends that the code authorities are
impractical, that they lack an under¬
standing of the businesses over which
they preside and that ttieir whole
course of action tends to put legitimate
industries in a strait-jacket which, ac¬
cording to Mr. Roberts, can have only
one result, namely, loss of profits and
eventual dismissal of some if not many
employees. the
The reports in Washington are to
effect that since the Roberts company
case reached the trial court, something
like 1,800 print shops throughout the
country have declined to pay further
assessments to the code authority M
their industry. There is no means at
present available for ascertaining this
figure accurately, but the gossip around
NRA is to the effect that not only have
scores of print shops refused to pay
assessments, but in a vast number oi
cases they have surrendered their blue
eagle to NRA headquarters. This
means virtually an open revolt in that
part of the printing industry, and it
is a circumstance that is causing cod
siderable worry among NRA adminis¬
trators.
This weekly resume of Washington
affairs is not intended to be of a gos¬
sipy character, but
Nearing there is a report " astl g»-
Cinen Upen Break tire ing arounJ in '
qujte ancon .
firmed as yet. that holds much sig¬
nificance. For that reason I Shall inciu
it that may know all things are
you
not serene. the u
The story concerns a rift in • -
partment of Agriculture and its adopt¬
ed child, the Agricultural Adjustm
administration. In no governmental
agency are there as many brain trusi
and theorists as are to be ound
ers to
in the AAA. They have come
known as the Tugwellians, named
l-rof. Itexford Guy Tugweli, undwsetf*
tary of agriculture. Professor ng •
regarded as the outstanding brai
long consistent in P 1
truster, has been
tion of his theories and his
trusters have followed and strife his 1™! between ^
SUHSi^d Th U e ;actica. men With¬
in the administration. , e
Now, according to the W’- • , ft
rift between the brain trusters 1 ^
practical men in the AAA an '
partment as well is approaching ^.ac¬
break. It has gone w
open authenticate! . i
cording to } well wtrxi ----- have r<? _
that the practical groups
pared their resignations and ; ^
.
them in the hands of on beljeves
present when a ^
to* necessuru^e^ [ am
that course becomes
not informed whether th - ^
.
group is prepared to take bBt
event of an e *P ^
action in tbat
past performances would i < ■’’ t
they will stick on the job and -
predict at this time ni
It is difficult to one
what the outcome may te. _
uie uum-w*-* — • „ .jntr vj
thing is certain. the 1>
be changes in the AAA a ami^
partment of Agriculture ^
those changes come it n
be prelude to revision of po
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