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g?^yr-ent ty in Roosevelt, America.” and Your it means mind "End hops
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hack to Mr. Upton Sinclair* “EPIC,”
jl*ji|Ich -*1." meant until the “End elecflon^'ided PoverW» In “epic.” Call-
j ^.opJiB 8 ls JJiergjM ft powiful man, nobody of
ind
poverty^lie phW to abolish
i^tmeriean would spend
( jiblie billions on "subsistence liome-
jBKfl'ls” Iplims, and rural rehabilitation pro-
move families from poor landg
|p ^r; good lands, where they migiit pros-
lend government billions to buy
jK^Qjs, equip new homesteads, buy live
YAP A new B|-jtish • AVho’s
i *~^r two lines. Frances PerknPl£gRJ
book, although Greta Garlio is
*Wnt \nn,l Upton Sinclair, with a full ae-
of his “KPIO.”
Tiiose left out must console them¬
selves with the fact that Leonardo da
<n a11 his wrltln «- ,li<i not men ‘
^JtfFn^jji.stopher f " ': 11 vt Columbus, in Ids long memoirs, and the
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eas yj m * little mention of Vol-
bull ' because “he was the son
-aaoBai ' ”
' "' r 9 notary
etc. CA^liso vf-1 the father of the French
M*' r vhIch put an end to the Im-
' y f French dukes. But St.
i jffold not know that.
P.J *7 'jt ton says the President, in
»>'-/'“*> 1 of Hamlet, asks
, \ “To sf* |*1. or not
v and the
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JL^VjJhly decide to issue in-
.'aiing “liillatlon" bonds, that
wB^-Tnean paying not $9,900,000,000,
hut $18,000,000,000, the original plus
interest._
Seng' v - 'Huey Long, of Louisiana,
v Vi} CJ lias enrolled 1,400.000 Ameri-
• ’< >4v l * lls “ 8 * ,are t * le “ wea * t ' 1 " Plan.
fV'iV'Ly A- >» , ‘cins divide a big small fortunes. figure for New a
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*> [j v had thriving “share-
r-y-', /ft4 (r/ations before Sen-
, d his. Some original
C, . • share-the-wealth In-
■.yt&P' *4^ ' .u Atlanta penitentiary,
< -*iorndo prison, some on
i ,und, in the bay back of
San Francisco.
voll, N. Y., tlie courtroom
v. ! hui a jury acquitted a
thirty-seven years old, for
a thirteen-year-old boy with
> if>se and allegedly hitting
; ■,'■ list The man admitted
>i ,: \ ‘jidler host', hut denied
•oil *, •x&duiltted heating a young
j \ ” a rubber hose. Hie court-
VV v^-.ild not have cheered.
v i .1.
Once, reporters tell you. Mrs. Edythe
• *r v^ end was rich, a wit, a beauty,
• ' 4’ ’ lady, who visited at the White
a * i*. and had aristocratic ancestors.
/V/ 'ftey found her dead, suicide by gas.
* In small furnished She
8 room. was
fifty-eight years old. and. police said,
“111, lonely. Impoverished, despondent.”
Those four words wipe out all past
grandeur, fine ancestry, recollections
of wealth.
Senator Borah, a sincere, Inde¬
pendent American, wants the Repub¬
lican party to reorganize itself, giving
Its “liberals" control.
He would drive out the “reaction¬
aries.” If he did that what and how
many would he have left? Strip the
blubber from a whale, humps from a
two-hump camel, and you have little
whale or camel remaining.
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WNU Service.
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Womans World !Wo L “T p/ Q Y
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. as to
... enue program.
That therd should be a general ac¬
count ing-j^fflee, dj^ctly under control
of the exSJStlve. *
TN LINE with this budget “revolt” i.4
4 the opposition the business men are
demonstrating to the ten billion dollar
work relief program proposed to the
President by his brain trust advisers.
As outlined by Secretary of the In¬
terior Ickes and Relief Administrator
Hopkins this Is an undertaking to ter¬
minate federal direct relief and put all
able bodied jfSvernment unemployed persons at
work on financed projects,
^u 'e the states continue to afford re-
o those persons not able to work.
Theoretically, the projects would be
to a large degree self-liqj'ijdating gf^lfifhient in 20
to 30 years and the would
tb(Wl*T*Or re cojy e a large ri'liMP; onrt_^ythe be ou^ay. ciVanil Thus the
revival of busiiWPmt the s.ffue time
would be promoted through the (ley
for construction materials and/ V v
crease of workers’ purchasing! 4
resulting from the vast govern niGMj i,'
penditur^. s "
TOE ROBINSON of Ai |
•J floor leader, spent ,Yy
conference with Presida
Warm Springs, amiy wl'j / ^
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Senator be kept well
Robinson the national
income. Of course, this does not mean
a balanced budget, for this cannot be
had while enormous sums are being
spent for relief and re-employment,
but the senator would not admit that
the cost of these would go above the
ten-billlon-dollar mark.
“Unemployment relief is to he pre¬
ferred to tlie dole,” he said. “A rea¬
sonably conservative program should
be adopted with a view to tapering off
the deficit."
Senator Robinson said that the bonus
was discussed at some length but no
conclusion ®\vas reached. Intimates of
the White House have expressed the
fear that a bonus program calling
for expenditure of more than two bil¬
lion dollars may be passed over a veto.
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
chairman of the senate finance com¬
mittee, who was also present at tlie
conference, left for Washington to be¬
gin a study of unemployment insur¬
ance.
Next day the President’s chief caller
was Secretary of Commerce Daniel C.
Roper, and he told Mr. Roosevelt that
business would move rapidly on the
road to recovery if only It were as¬
sured of a safe and sane federal pro¬
gram of expenditures. To correspond¬
ents Mr. Roper said he was greatly
cheered by Senator Robinson’s state¬
ment. He felt that the left wing de¬
mand for vast sums of money for re¬
lief of the unemployed must be
cheeked and that there must be a fur¬
ther shifting of relief control to com¬
munities.
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S avia-
* tion commission, having concluded
its hearings on national defense be¬
gan drafting its report, and it was
authoritatively said in Washington
that, if congress approves of its rec¬
ommendations, government airships
will surely he operating in a new
transoceanic service. Details were be¬
ing worked out. and it seemed likely
tlie commission would adopt the $17,-
000,090 plan approved by Ewing Y.
Mitchell, assistant secretary of com¬
merce, and the national advisory com¬
mittee for aeronautics. That plan
calls for two huge Zeppelin type air-
DADE COUNTY TIMERS: December 13, 1934
TsflTTfis and one smaller metal clad craft
aloogi 'ith necessary modern landing
equipment.
The commission also will ask con¬
gress in its February report to create
a permanent federal agency with su¬
pervisory control over all civil avia¬
tion. This would comprise five to sev¬
en members.
■pHE federal government has start-
Jt ed In Buffalo the contest that will
i - (flctet-^i.ne the collective bar-
(lotvt, of organized labor un-
, S^^%niled % Nltvjf vf’he government asked
Wares District court for
| ii '• western district of New Engineering York to
io.se on the Houde
® n y Buffalo the New Deal’s
M*r_versial labor relations doctrine of under majority NBA. rule
Hbj 'filing the government’s complaint
Houde company United
^ ‘ -ney George L. Grobe asked
i*e court » order the company to do
’.ie following things:
1. To bargain collectively with the
United Automobile Workers Federal
union, No. 18839; this union, a branch
of the A. F. of L„ was the one which
a majority of the Houde workers chose
as their representative when the labor
board conducted an election among
them on March 21.
2. To cease collective bargaining
wlt ljj^J^ tlier unions, especially a cop*?-
known as the Houde Wel-
*? association.
?.li from all action whuC
rngjit Interfere with or coerce
in their self-organizatlimptor
of collective barganung.
ERGE1 KIROV, one of the *,•
prominent members of the RussiSS
party’s political bureau,
assassinated in Leningrad, and as
he was a close asso-
elate of Stalin his
death was the occa-
I sion of pui#ic fovermj| moiuair
- tag. The
Sergei Kirov ()| t
dispatch from w!m
officers had bee
of a plot \A
leaders at tn
said, in «
(sec^L^H of S/rll
P. U.
plot and rBjPL-r
to death iflU
were j
of
g-y,daily ■mb'. , denieflBI^WBhry,
phes not necesarlly mean that
ntrue. #,
\^*'ONSO, former kirtg of Spain,
^ rnd Antonio Goicochea, who used
J^cret ’Jk. his conference minister of in the Rome Interior, the other held
and immediately there were ru-
that a dictatorship might be set
',n Spain, to be followed by restora-
n of the royal family.
Fascists, many of whom have
. xpressed the feeling that dictatorship
in Spain is the only way to avert com¬
chaos, and the four groups of
Spaniards in Rome—the exiled mon-
the leftist intellectuals, the
Spanish clerics, and the diplomats—as-
considerable importance to Goi-
visit.
Tlie name most frequently mentioned
in monarchical circles in connection
with possible dictatorship is that of
Jose Maria Gil Robles, young Catho-
lie leader, The efforts of Jose Pvimo
de Rivera, son of the late dictator un¬
der Alfonso, to spread Fascism in
Spain are hailed by jrchist circles.
JAPAN, having unofficial notice
that^jm will withdraw from the
Washington naval treaty, still seems
to have hope that the United States
and Great Britain will m
agree to give her naval
parity But just in case, W j
she lias invited France f v
and in denouncing Italy to join the pact. her Lag'' f
France has declined ; *9
with ls considering regret and tlie Italy mat- ID j|
ter, hut tlie two great
Anglo-Saxon
are one in de- j
manding that the 5-5- R tat
3 ratio he maintained. e P rese n 've
Representative Carl Carl Vinson
Vinson of Georgia, who is chairman
of tlie house committee on naval af¬
fairs, has made plain the policy he will
insist upon.
“I sincerely hope it will not be nec¬
essary to scrap the treaty,” he said,
“but It seems now we cannot hope very
strongly for anything else. We cannot
grant naval equality to Japan at any
price. If the Tokyo government does
insist upon wrecking the treaty I will
Insist that the house naval affairs com¬
mittee and congress make enough
money available to build five ships for
each three laid down by Japan."
Japan, he said, had once agreed to
be satisfied with three warships for
each five built by the United States
or Great Britain. “Officially and for¬
mally it said that was all it needed,"
Vinson said, “yet now it wants more.”
In his annual report to the President,
Secretary of the Navy Swanson says
that although the United States may
reduce its naval strength proportion¬
ately with other powers. It is imper¬
ative that a navy second to none he
maintained. He warns also of the
dangerous shortage of personnel In the
navy, saying that “ships are valueless
unless manned by adequate crews of
trained, experienced officers and men."
rpOYI’T Ts being given a “New Deal."
^ By royal decree the parliametff. has
been dissolved and all its powers del»-
gated to King Fuad until a new con¬
stitution, much more liberal in type
than the present one, is drafted.
A general clean up of the govern¬
ment, made on British advice, has
greatly curtailed the control of Ibrashi
Pasha, reputed power behind the the
throne of King Fuad, and paved the
way for the new constitution.
Ahmed Ziwar Pasha, veteran states¬
man, was named chief of the royal cab¬
inet, post long unfilled. The political
cabinet was completely overhauled,
with Tewfik Nesshim Pasha replacing
Yehia Pasha as prime minister.
DOLIVIA’S D troops in the Chaco were
being soundly whipped by the Par¬
aguayans and President Daniel Sala¬
manca was blamed. He visited the war
jfront and was arrest-
ed by Gen. Enrique
t Penaranda resign. and Meantime forced
Jtfli to
rgiFf 1 Sorzano Vice President had taken Jose
f Y * v’&■ ' lip '^§|f over ^ ie by presidential decree and
\ Y ’’mP powers
* installed a new cabl-
ift jjjjgjj§§ net ‘ Penaranda ap-
■ ? peared to be the vir¬
tual dictator and it
Jose seemed likely he
Sorzano would take steps to
bring about peace with Paraguay.
However the fighting in the Pileo-
f mayo river sector was continued, the
Paraguayans pushing the Bolivians
steadily back toward their main base
at Villa Montes. There were contra-
-dictory claims from opposing quarters.
Bolivians declared the offensive
f with heavy losses suffered
iguayans, while the latter
c ^- ‘ture of La Puerta, only
a fSI _jth of Cururenda. North
of thi sWifiayo strong Bolivian forces
were. ■rating.
over the Saar plebiscite
t, averted after all the alarm,
unofficially that Chan-
t Germany and Foreign
•*5 ' ■Jfj, filing 0 *’ France have
• that Ger-
'
prop-
f plefl#i; jder tndons the
RAvhen the f ‘v,
rations.
TIit'lB * ,’yl v'tryVEC- report
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>I r RCUV WJ avoid- “ ..
, iered uhn ances * v f oe
ed fijfcl thi ~*zi must rely,' ;elj
'.,G> ,4"rerritory tlie Swast.t fly-
af’s, the
i § \ seem«#-i..a ,ure
0 ^ KN rhonS--^' JwL ^ • ' -nine ■ ^N'AS. who old
, years
Is a veteru. w-Mexicaa revolu*
tion, was instaiieu as president of Mex¬
ico on December 1. He ls of Spanish
and Tarascan Indian stock, a fine sol¬
di.^ . ut) statesman and has held office
under the revolutionary government
for five years.
INSPECTOR SAMUEL P. COWLEY
Uirid Agent Herman E. Hollis of the
bureau of investigation, Department of
Justice, engaged in a gun battle with
Lester Gillis, better known as George
(“Baby Face”) Nelson, Public Enemy
No. 1, and a companion, near Barring¬
ton, 111., and both tlie federal men were
shot to death by machine guns in the
hands of the bandits. The killers, ac¬
companied by a woman, escaped for
the time being in the agents’ car, their
own being disabled.
Next day Nelson’s body was found
miles away, in Niles Center, at the en¬
trance to a cemetery. He had died of
nine bullet wounds from the guns of
the federal agent's he killed and evi¬
dently his body had been left at the
roadside after his companions had
failed to save his life.
Cowley was the man who killed John
Dillinger, chief of the gang to which
Nelson belonged, and he also was In
command of the posse that ran down
and killed “Pretty Boy” Floyd in an
Indiana cornfield not long ago.
npHOMAS 1 N. M’CARTER, president
of the Edison Electric institute,
has made public the legal opinion
drafted by Newton D. Baker and James
M. Beck holding the Tennessee valley
authority act unconstitutional.
In their joint opinion Mr. Beck and
Mr. Baker declare that analysis of the
TV A act indicated that its content did
not constitute regulation of interstate
commerce or provision for national de¬
fense. but rattier a project for the fed¬
eral government “to embark in the
power business.” The opinion goes still
further and finds that the very enact¬
ment of the law “was beyond the con¬
stitutional power of Hie congress.”
For the government to engage in the
power business, the opinion asserts, is
“at once a denial of the police power
of the state and an Invasion of state
sovereignty over territory as to which
the state has made no cession of sov¬
ereignty to the federal government.”
Mr. Baker and Mr. Beck voiced the
belief that the references in the TVA
act to flood control, navigation, and
national defense are merely “a dis¬
guise for the plain but unconstitutional
purpose of the statute.”
The act. according to the opinion,
does not authorize the acquisition and
operation of electrical distribution
plants, nor the extension of utility rate
legislation beyond the narrow limit of
sales to municipal plants. The pro¬
posal of TVA to regulate rates of pri¬
vate utilities to which It makes power
sales is attacked as outside the con¬
stitutional sanction. Mr. Beck and Mr.
Baker assert that in this respect the
law violates the fifth amendment to the
constitution by denying “equal protec :
tion of the laws.”
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington.—Administration leaders
In congress are prepared to oppose any
addition to the tax
Fight burden of the coun-
Added Taxes try through the ac¬
tion of the next ses¬
sion. Although the White House has
made no public pronouncement, It is
the understanding that the leaders in
the senate and the house who have
taken unequivocal positions against a
tax increase in 1935 were reflecting the
view they had obtained from President
Roosevelt in addition to their own con¬
viction that this Is a bad time to in¬
crease the levies which individuals and
business interests must pay for the
upkeep of the government.
During the current weeks there has
developed some indication, If, Indeed,
it is not an assurance, that there will
be curtailment of federal expenditures.
Just how this Is going to be accom¬
plished is not yet clear but it can be
stated on highest authority that a cur¬
tailment of the outgo from the treas¬
ury is expected to he accomplished. In
making that statement, J think I ought
to add that the curtailment Is contem¬
plated with respect to emergency agen¬
cies and does not include any of the
various new proposals from segments
of house or senate membership involv¬
ing additional heavy outlays. As an
example of this type of expenditure I
refer to the proposal for Immediate
payment of the soldiers’ bonus. That
there is a strong demand for this ac¬
tion, there can be no doubt. Yet on
the other hand there is hitter opposi¬
tion both in congress and among ad¬
ministration leaders to the program
that would entail payment of some¬
thing like two billion dollars to the
former soldiers, sailors and marines of
World war days.
The question of taxation always is
of an explosive character. Hence, the
urge on the part of some of the new
dealers for an increase in taxation so
that emergency spending might be
made to appear more in line with gov¬
ernment Income has precipitated an is¬
sue very quickly. The proposition had
hardly begun to gain momentum when
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the
Democratic floor leader of the senate,
and Senator Harrison of Mississippi,
chairman of the senate committee on
finance, both were called to Warm
Springs, Ga., for a conference with
Mr. Roosevelt It was said at that con
fer:«-^» thin," discussed that taxation but, nevertheless, was not the both only
leaders came away from the temporary
White House with the announcement
that there would be no tax boost In
the 1935 session of congress.
Simultaneously Representative Hill,
Democrat, of Washington, chairman of
a subcommittee of the house ways and
means committee, made known his op¬
position to a tax boost. Mr. Hill’s com¬
mittee has devoted its attention to a
survey of tax rates and revenue re
quirements and has reached the con¬
clusion that to increase the levies now
would be to retard recovery as a result
of additional imposts on business. The
Washington representative feels that
the present tax structure will function
properly and provide sufficient revenue
just as soon as there is a return of
something approaching normal com¬
mercial activity. He thinks there might
be some simplification of the laws ap¬
plying to the various forms of federal
taxation but he considers them ade¬
quate as revenue producers if and
when there is a normal volume of busi¬
ness.
In this connection it seems advisable
to recall that Secretary Morgenthau
of the Treasury sent a freshman team
of brain trusters to England last sum¬
mer to study the British tax system.
While this committee’s findings and
recommendations to the secretary have
not been made public. Insiders tell me
that the results of that investigation
added very little to the sum total of
knowledge concerning our own prob¬
lem.
Mr. Hill, in discussing the govern¬
ment’s financial condition, gave it as
his opinion that “we
Not So Bad are not in such bad
Financially shape now.” His
statement referred
to an approximate balance between re¬
ceipts and what the administration
calls ordinary expenditures. These ex¬
penditures go for support of the regu¬
lar government establishment and no
part of them is used in maintenance
of recovery operations such as the Ag¬
ricultural Adjustment administration,
the Public Works administration or the
Reconstruction Finance corporation.
The funds used by these alphabetical
agencies come from the sale of bonds.
It is borrowed money and sometime
must be paid back. Mr. Hill assumed
these repayments were not necessary
to he considered at this time. He was
concerned solely with having the or¬
dinary expenses covered by the regu¬
lar annual receipts.
There will be tax legislation in the
forthcoming session. That is necessary.
Its character, however, will he limited
under present plans to considerations
made necessary by expiration of cer¬
tain present statutes. The emergency
brought the necessity for enactment
of various nuisance and excise taxes
such as the tax on checks and gaso¬
line and numerous others. Their ex¬
piration date was fixed in the statute
as of July 1, 1935.
These musl be continued. They have
President Roosevelt and his emer have! l
geney administrators believe they
Money .. for , hit upon a new and I I
productive plan to I
the Needy Rive money out to
those who need pro-1 It I
They are about to embark upon a
gram of encouraging personal loans, I I
loans by banks to individual men and
women and to guarantee repayment of I
a portion of each loan made.
It is viewed as exceedingly interest¬
ing that a national government, or any
other governmental agency for that
matter should embark on such a policy
because there are those who hold it to
be a dangerous precedent. I have done
considerable research work regarding
this proposal and I have failed to find
In the records any such move in the
history of important nations of the
world. It is, therefore, undoubtedly
one of the most highly experimental
steps yet taken in this maelstrom of
recovery plans.
Announcement of the scheme was
made by James A. Mofifet, federal hous¬
ing administrator, who described It as
marking “a new era in American busi¬
ness.” It Is true that there are certain
types of banking Institutions that hare
made individual, or so-called charac¬
ter, loans where no collateral security
was offered by the borrower and where
only the good name and the record of
the individual warranted extension of
this credit.
Mr. Moffet said that this character
loan idea would prove to he “the very
foundation" of the home modernization
program which he is administering.
He described the action as one predi¬
cated upon the government’s “absolute
confidence that the average American
will keep his promise to repay what
he borrows.”
“Nor is that position as much of a
jump in the dark as it at first may
seem,” said Mr. Moffet. "As usual,
Uncle Sam knows what he is doing.
Before offering to insure these loans,
he consulted the country’s records on
installment buying. He also asked what
had been the experience of the few
banks who up to last spring had made
character loans. From the banks and
from commercial organizations selling
on the Installment plan, he learned
that the average American Is honest,
It is now believed that the world
:ourt Issue will be settled definitely
early iD the ne.Yt
World Court session of - ongress.
The foreign rela¬
tions committee of
the senate, which must pass on such
treaties, has an ,:i agreement to send the
resolution of United L States adherence
to the world court to the senate early
in January and, according g to present
indications, the t________ administration can ens-
liy muster enough votes to adopt that
resolution. affihftioa
Pressure for American
with the court is stronger nou tha
it ever has been before because of tne
disturbed world political situation, the
breakdown of the naval ! uui s 1
treaties and the tendency among na
tions to split up into groups for ar¬
rangement of a balance of power
Observers here take the P«s
that American adherence to the ''" r '
court would have far greater s'gnut-
cance throughout the world no"
ft would have had earlier becaoo 0
the revival of discussion as to whet"
the United States should enter tn
League of Nations. It will he reoioaa
that President Wilson’s proposal '*9 '
the league of Nations precipitated one
of the most bitter controversies n
which the senate has ever been e
gaged. It subsequently rejected of
plan and little more has been heard
it until this fall and early win ' -
Now, there is what appears to
determined movement on foot for •
United States to join the league a
some of the proponents of Ann"
_
adherence to the world court ■
that vote to join the world couia
a -UP
will carry the United States one
nearer to affiliation with the league
self.
©, Western Newspaiper Umo».