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PBSSJFI REVIEW
BUSINESS SEEKS TO ASSIST IN
DIRECTING PROGRAM FOR
NATIONAL RECOVERY.
By,EDWARD W. PICKARD
0. Western Newspaper Union.
MORE and more it becomes-evident
that President Roosevelt Intends
to pursue a middle of the road policy
In his efforts for national recovery, and
that in the over
whelmingly Democrat
ic next congress there
will be no one faction
strong enough to dic
tate to him. The chief
Exec ull v e and the
business leaders of
the country are grad
ually coming together,
and if and when they
reach an accord on
methods it will be
found that a good
i
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Silas Strawn
ninny of the more radical ideas of the
brain trusters will have been discard
ed. The best minds In Industry and
finance are no longer standing back
and merely criticizing. They are tak
Ing an active part In planning for the
future welfare of the nation. Here
with are summarized some of the im
portant nt w developments in this di
rection :
President Henry 1. Harriman of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
in pursuance of a resolution adopted
by the board of directors, lias appoint
ed a committee of six men, headed by
Silas Strawn of Chicago, to co-operate
with other business and agricultural
associations In drafting plans for the
recovery of business. The board of the
chamber endorsed the continuation of
relief and housing, but signified that
business Is still opposed to the-unbal
anced budget, further reduction of
working hours as embodied in the
movement for a 30-hour week, new and
unprecedented outlays for publie
works, continuance of the NBA, the
doctrine of majority rule in collective
bargaining, and unemployment insur
ance.
Through the National Association of
Manufacturers, Invitations were sent
to every manufacturer In the United
States to attend a national industrial
conference in New York on December
5 to draft "constructive recommenda
tions” for presentation to President
Roosevelt. Among those signing the
call for this meeting was John J. Ras
kob, former chairman of ttie Democrat
ic party. Included in the questions the
industrialists will try to answer are:
What in the future should be the re
lation of government to business?
How Is the gigantic problem to be
met to relieve distress and at the same
time not plunge the nation Into bank
ruptcy or threaten Its credit?
How Is the new flow of private capi
tal into legitimate Investment to be
stimulated?
What new moves to curtail unem
ployment are practical and feasible?
In a petition addressed to the Presi
dent and congress the National Econ
jumy league has presented a definite
program for balancing the federal bud
get In the coming fiscal year, holding
that only by balancing the budget can
sustained national recovery be accom
plished. The petition proposes heavy
reductions In government expenditures
and additional taxes totaling $935,000,-
000, but does not presume to suggest
how the new taxes should be raised.
The league's proposed budget is giv
en In round numbers as follows:
RECEIPTS
(In Millions of Dollars.)
Income taxes $1,250
Excise and miscellaneous taxes 1,500
Processing taxes 300
Customs . 300
Miscellaneous 150
Total $3,500
RFC repayments ~..51,000
New taxes 935
Total receipts $5,435
EXPENDITURES
(In Millions of Dollars.)
Estimated general expenditures:
Interest on debt $ 951
Departmental expenses 700
Veterans administration 625
National defense 500
Agricultural adjustment payments 300
Total $3,035
Estimated emergency expenditures:
Federal relief SI,OOO
Public works 1,000
Civilian conservation corps 350
• Grand total >....55,435
NOT so pleasing to the Industrialists
were the two speeches the Presi
dent delivered during his inspection of
the Tennessee valley project, for If his
predictions are borne out, his “revolu
tion” will bring about the death of pri
vate enterprise in the power industry.
At Tupelo. Miss., he declared himself
flatly for public ownership of public
utilities, saying: "What you are do
Ing here is going to be copied In every
state in the Union before we are
through”; the allusion being to the
fact that Tupelo has contracted for
TV A power.
In Birmingham the President said:
“I am aware that a few of your citizen
ry are leaving no stone unturned to
block and harass and delay this great
national program. I am confident,
however, that these obstructionists, few
In number In comparison with the
whole population, do not reflect the
.views of the overwhelming majority.
"I know, too, that ths overwhelm
ing majority of your business men, big
and little, are in hearty accord with
the great undertaking of regional plan
ning now being carried forward."
Os the government power projects,
Sir. Roosevelt said: "This is not regi
mentation. It is community rugged in
dividualism. It is not the kind of
rugged individualism that allows an in-
dividual to do this, that or any other ।
thing that will hurt his neighbor. He '
is forbidden to do that from now on—
and It Is a mighty good thing.
“But he is going to be encouraged In
every known way from the national
capitol and state capital and the coun
ty seat to use his Individualism In co
operation with his neighbors’ individual- |
ism so that he and Ids neighbors may
Improve their lot in life.”
The President said there probably
would be "a certain amount of—what '
shall 1 say?—rugged opposition to this ;
development, but I think that opposl- i
lion Is fast fading.”
.—
WHEN the federal conference on :
economic security met In Wash- .
ington, nearly all the members of the ■
advisory committees were present. I
The President told the delegates, that |
he would present to the coming con- I
gress bills to provide for setting up Im- ;
mediately an unemployment insurance '
program. As to health insurance and )
old age pensions, he said lie was not :
certain the time bad arrived for fed- ;
eral legislation to put these into effect, i
and he uttered a warning against I
“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, lie 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 1
funds as a means of stabilization may
be maintained in central management
and employed on a national basis.” It
Is expected that from $4,000,000,000 to ’
SS,(XX),(MX),(MX) would be raised in the
course of several years.
Philadelphia lawyers are tradi- ]
tionally supposed to be aide to
unravel the worst of tangles, so Presl- j
dent Roosevelt lias picked one to be
chairman of the na
tional labor relations
board. He is Francis
Biddle, of the famous
family of that name,
and he succeeds Lloyd
K. Garrison, who re
tired from tlie chair
manship to resume his
duties ns dean of the
law school of the Uni
versify of Wisconsin.
Francis Biddle has
been engaged in law
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kSbi
Francis Biddle
practice as a member of the Phila- | ।
delphla firm of Barnes, Biddle, and j i
Meyers. He served from 1922 to 1920
as assistant district attorney for the 1
eastern district of Pennsylvania. In
Ills new post his task will be the set
tlement of labor disputes arising out
of the recovery act, especially those
Involving collective bargaining,
FORTY-FIVE new bills were pushed
through the Louisiana legislature
In five days with Senator Huey Long
on the rostrum telling the legislators
just what to do, but seldom stopping
to tell them why. The "Kingfish" says
he now Is in position to make the state
a Utopia, or rather, in Ills own words,
“the kind of state nobody has dreamed
of." It Is the general belief that he
hopes his "share the wealth" program
will ultimately land him in the White
House.
The senator’s most ambitious legis
lation Is the statute proclaiming a two
year moratorium for harassed debtors.
Another bill sets up a civil service
commission, composed of state admin
istration leaders, with power to re
move police and fire chiefs. That will
give Long control of virtually all mu
nicipal policemen and firemen. Long
said the bill was Intended to take them
"out of polities."
Long's first contemplated move to
bring his new laws into use was dis
closed when he announced Glint O'Mal- i
ley, Alexandria chief of police, would :
have to be removed from office by the I
civil service commission because lie !
permitted “two riots in the public [
square." • • I
WHILE seemingly futile conversa-
tions about naval limitation are |
continuing in London, the United :
States and Japan are engaged in what
looks like a little game of bluff. See- i
retary Swanson, after asserting the
American navy would be built up to ,
full treaty strength, and that this coun
try could beat any others In a navy i
construction race, intimated the other
day that it might be a good plan to ■
send one of our great navy dirigibles ■
on a trip to the Philippines.
Vice Admiral Sankiehl Takahashi, -
new commander in chief of the com- ;
bined Japanese fleet, declared Japan j
was determined to retain the west Pa- !
cilie mandate islands at any cost; and
that Japan's claim to naval equality
with Great Britain and the United
States with a view to an all-round re
duction of armaments is the fairest
and most reasonable scheme imagina
ble. As Japan is leaving the League
of Nations, the mandate given her aft
er the war by the league over the
Marianne, Caroline and Marshall is
lands Is likely to come up at Geneva ;
next year. Admiral Takahashi says :
the Japanese navy is ready to resist
forcibly any attempt to take these is
lands away from Japan.
TWO really eminent men and useful
citizens passed away in recent
days. One was Justice Frederic De
Young of the Supreme court of Illi
nois, who had served the public long '
and well. The other was Cardinal :
Pietro Gasparri, most accomplished j
diplomat of the Vatican, who was
papal secretary of state during the
World war and until 1929.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA
P I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS &
• Co. has supplied most of the gov
ernment’s explosives almost ever since
I the establishment of the Republic, and
1 during the World war, according to tes
timony before the senate special com
mittee on munitions, the concern re
ceived orders totaling one billion two
"hundred and forty-five million dollars
and paid dividends totaling 458 per
i cent of the par value of Its original
stock.
At the request of Chairman Gerald P.
i Nye of the committee, Lammot du
। Pont, president of the company, has
। set forth ills recommendations con
! cerning the business of war munitions,
i These are, in brief, the elimination of
all excessive wartime earnings applied
to every business and every individual,
i and federal control over the export of
' munitions.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has gone
to his winter retreat at Warm
1 Springs. Ga., where lie 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
Laffoon and other officials in the un
veiling and dedication of a memorial
to the men and women w ho established
there the first permanent Anglo-Saxon
settlement west of the Alleghenies.
'The monument, erected by the federal
government at a cost of SIOO.LMX), 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 de
velopment which has been well called
the laboratory of the “more abundant
life." It was with deepest interest
that he viewed the wmrk 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, home
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
Senator Pat Harrison introduced him
at exercises In the town square. The
party continued to Warm Springs by
way of Birmingham.
FOR the purpose of obtaining better
cooperation among federal agencies
engaged in lending government funds,
the President has appointed a commit
tee consisting of the heads of the agen-
| des, with Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau as chairman. The new
organization will report to the Presi
dent from time to time and Its activi
ties will cover the treasury, Interior,
public 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 public works housing.
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 S3,(XM),(XXI,(XX) allotment will
have been used up.
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 fraud
ulent Income tax return” for 1030 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 ail were “a part of
a false and fraudulent course of con-
I duct on the part of said Union Trust
j company." Among the 1031 transac
| tions were two “accommodation" deals
' with Andrew W. Mellon.
UNCLE SAM need expect no pay
ment from France on the war debt
! on December 15, when the next install
ment Is due. It Is stated In Paris that
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Premier
Flandin
France will then de
fault for the fifth
straight time, Pierre
Etienne Flandin, new
premier, opposed pay
ment in 1932, when
he was minister of
finance, and his cab
inet is now taking the
same position as the
previous government
—awaiting an Anglot
American settlement
which would serve as
a basis for Franco-
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.” have met with coldness.
The chamber of deputies Is clinging
■to the position that France will not
| pay one cent more than it gets from
Germany.
Federal judge Charles l
DAWSON of Louisville. Ky., over
ruling an attack on the validity of the
Frazier-Lemke farm moratorium act,
declared “with regret" that it Is con
! stitational. 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 crediL”
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National Topics Interpreted Zj 1
by William Bruckart
Washington.—Administration plans
I and policies appear to be undergoing
a shaking down proc
ess. Safely passing
the elections and
with no need t o
Shake-Up
in Policies
make moves solely to please particu
lar segments of voters the President
appears to have started getting rid of.
duplication in the various alphabetical
agencies of the government. Further,
many conservatives are taking some
hope out of other administrative ac
tions lately and are willing to believe
that the shake-up among the many
emergency groups along with White
House pronouncements may possibly
Indicate a slight return toward what
they regard as sounder fundamentals.
In a move held by many observers
to Indicate an attempt by the Pres
ident to eliminate some waste the
President has brought under one su
pervisory control all of the agencies
lending government money. It may
be surprising to know that there are
ten important federal offices engaged
In loaning money. They have been
operating largely on their own pro
grams. No attempt lias been made
heretofore to co-ordinate their efforts.
The result has been conflicting policies
and undoubtedly waste in results.
The President now proposes that
this shall end. He has named the com
mittee for the defined purpose of es
tablishing uniform policy respecting
government loans and lias declared
with emphasis that the duplication
must be eliminated.
Some leaders th and out of the gov
ernment construed tills action as In
dicating a conviction by the Presi
dent that there were too many agen
: des floating around doing odd Jolis
without restraint. Others believed
that Mr. Roosevelt was making an hon-
I est effort to bring some semblance of
: order out of chaos in the hope that
; eventually expenses can be reduced
i thereby.
I In support of this view was the ac
' tion taken by the Home owners’ Ixian
; corporation which has cut "off further
j loaning on homes. In announcing its
action the home loan board said it be
i Heved government aid in this dlrec
। tfon was no longer necessary, thus in
: ferentlally at least saying that some
I recovery had taken place.
The home loan agency Is among
! those placed under cabinet committee
I control. It will begin Immediately to
। shrink its organization, turning loose
eventually a total of 28,000 workers.
i The Reconstruction Finance corpor
; atlon, another one of the groups which
| will be guided by cabinet committee
policy hereafter, has announced it will
■ not seek additional funds from the
: forthcoming session of congress, Bor
■ rowers who have been using that
: agency will be accommodated further,
of course, in accordance with the
i terms of their obligations but the
whole tendency will be to cut down
on new loans.
And so it is for the first time in the
current administration we are witness
ing a shrinkage, rather than an expan
sion, In governmental facilities set tip
ns a part of the recovery program of
the New Dealers.
• » »
Along with the establishment of the
loan policy committee, there came an
May Export
Currency
order from the treas
ury, bearing Mr.
Roosevelt’s approval,
which once again al-
lows unrestricted exports of currency,
but not golM or silver metal. Hereto
fore It has been necessary for private
business to obtain a specific license
from the treasury before it could ship
currency abroad in settlement of ob
ligations. This move is expected to
have far-reaching consequences because
it lifts from business one of those an
noying red tape procedures to which
business always objects and a kind
of transaction that has never crept
i into private business in any way.
Gold and silver, both having been
nationalized under the New Deal, must
stay in this country. Gold must stay
In the coffers of the treasury. Never
; theless, from many sources X hear fa
vorable comment on the relaxation of
I the restrictions on movement of cur
rency because it is generally believed
■ the action will have a psychological
benefit Many persons will feel that
: if the government at Washington is
I willing to permit shipment of curren
cy abroad, there is no reason to fear
embarrassing situations as a matter
! es dealing in currency. Os course, ob
viously, the confidence hitherto repos-
Ing- in our dollar by foreigners cannot
। be fully restored as long as gold can-
I not be shipped.but the present change
I admittedly improves the situation. It
should be explained that the treasury
I still keeps its fingers on the currency
movement and that it has the author
ity to slap on an embargo again when
ever it sees fit. This appears to be
| unlikely, however, as long as interna
tional trade retains anything like Its
’ present stability. Indeed, experts de
! clare that greater stability in interna
i tional trade ought to be one of the re
sults and the treasury is obviously
■ looking for that end to be served.
In some quarters the lifting of the
i ban on currency exports was accept
ed as meaning that Mr. Roosevelt is
not entertaining any thought of fur
ther devaluation of the currency. He
: may have to give consideration to that
proposition after congress comes back
because there are half a hundred sen
ators and representatives who are
avidly pursuing the inflation phantom.
They think this will solve the coun
try’s economic problems and they can
be counted on to bear down with their
ideas when the forum of congress
again is opened to them.
Whatever these men may do, It is
pointed out now, Mr. Roosevelt would
be only complicating his own problems
by allowing free interchange of cur
rency at this time if he had any
thought in mind of changing the dol
lar value in the not too distant future.
• * *
With the time only a month aw-ay
for selection by the Democrats of their
(andidate for speak
er of the house —se-
lection that means
election—the speak-
Speakership
Fight
ership fight is attracting much atten
tion. Heat is being shown and ene
mies are being created in every direc
tion. There are at least a dozen mem
bers of the house who figure or hope
that the Democratic caucus to be
held late In December will pick their
name for one of the honor posts,
speaker, majority floor leader or chair
man of the rules committee. At the
moment one can deal only with possi
bilities. for the stage of probabilities
is yet in the distance.
Although, as I said, the fight is wide
open there are certain straws that
tend to show the way the wind is
blowing. There are certain back
grounds and conditions as well that
must be accepted as having a mean
ing.
For example, Representative Byrnes
of Tennessee, the Democratic leader
while the late Mr. Rainey was speak
er, normally would be expected to be
chosen as speaker. But Mr. Byrnes is
not sure. In fact, there are many ob
servers who declare that the odds ara
against him. For instance, he was not
invited aboard the President’s special
train to make the recent trip to Har
rodsburg, Ky.
There is a row brewing between the
North and the South. Northern Dem
ocrats resent what they regard as
southern domination of the house.
Consequently, some of the harmoniz
ers are attempting to effect a deal
whereby the speakership will go to
the South and the post of majority
leader be filled by a northern Demo
crat.
In this combination the names of
Representatives Rayburn of Texas
and McCormack of Massachusetts, fig
ure most prominently. However, this
arrangement has vulnerable spots be
cause there are many other southern
Democrats who feel they are entitled
to consideration, and they may not
be satisfied with such a combination.
On top of all this is a statement
from White House quarters that the
President will remain aloof. Mr.
Roosevelt considers the speakership
fight solely a house matter, but it must
be added that the President's pro
nouncement has not deterred some of
his stellites. A dozen or more New
Dealers are active and some say that
they have agreed on Mr. Rayburn and
Mr. McCormack. If that be true Mr.
Roosevelt Is In n tough spot unless he
wants to deciare openly- that he does
not favor Mr. Rayburn and Mr. Mc-
Cormack. In which event he Is ex
pected to antagonize their supporters.
• • •
q'he responsibility which the admin
istration carries in having such com-
plete control of gov
ernmental machinery
has its thorny cush
ion despite the abil-
Borah
Criticizes
ity to muster a two-thirds majority In
both the house and the senate. One
of the sharpest of the thorns appar
ently is Senator William E. Borah of
Maho, Progressive Republican. Mr.
Borah always has played a lone hand
in the senate and he apparently is go
ing to do so again.
The first harpoon which the Idaho
senator has thrown was directed at
the relief policies pressed through and
administered by professional relievers.
Mr. Borah says there is an enormous
amount of waste In connection with
the relief activities. He says there
are thousands of superfluous jobs be
ing maintained out of relief funds un
~der the guise of distributing the
money. He has called attention as
well to the lack of co-ordination and
the apparent inability of the relief
heads to arrive at uniform bases for
ministering to the destitute. Having
begun the fight well in advance of the
opening of congress Mr. Borah can be
expected to give it momentum from
time to time so that when it reaches
the floors of congress it can be count
ed on to be more than a puff ball.
Os course, the administration has
fought to ward off just such attacks
as Mr. Borah has Inaugurated, by an
nouncement of employment plans and
transfer of unemployed front relief
rolls to work rolls. T reported to you
several weeks ago that Mr. Roosevelt
favored elimination of the dole and
the creation of work for which the
present unemployed would be paid.
Yet it is being pointed out in many
quarters here that pursuit of such a
plan as the President has in mind re
quires an Immense amount of study,
Otherwise It Is Hable to flop and If It
goes off half-cocked, undoubtedly the
criticism will be more vigorous.
I ©. Western Newspaper Union.
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THIS WEEK
News of Astronomy
Japan Underestimates
Air, Water, Power
Paradise for Killing
Astronomy marches on. Recent dis
coveries include 1,700 new variable
stars, used as “yardsticks" to measure
the depths of space, also a new twin
star, a double sun, of which there are
many in the heavens, as there are
many double protons and nuclei Inside
of some atoms. The double sun has an
eclipse lasting thirty days. Professor
Shapley of Cleveland tells ail about IL
Some of these "yardsticks” of space
have a light fifteen times as great as
that of our sun. Try to imagine that.
Other suns are one million times as big
as our sun, which is a million times
as big as the eakth.
.Tapan and England are friendly.
Japan will not demand naval equality
with England, only with the United
States. Japan suggests a 5-4-4 ratio,
five for England, four for the United
States, four for Japan.
In’ 1770 our Japanese friends were
locked up in their own islands, no
American having gone to dig them out
and Introduce them to the West.
Had they been around this neighbor
hood in that year they would now com
pare, differently, the United States
and Britain.
Also, if they knew Franklin D. Roose
v^t, they would know that he will
build, on behalf of the United States,
whatever he thinks the United States
neefs, asking no permission from Eng
land or Japan.
President Roosevelt’s words, prais
ing workers In the Tennessee valley
for their efficiency, made one of th“
most important si>eeches that he, or
: any President or ruler of a country,
1 ever made.
He promises cheap power. Not all
j the plans to drive away depression
j could do one-tenth as much as really
cheap power for all.
Nature gave man free air and free
water; not much else is free. If
science and wise government can add
to free air and free water power un
limited, as nearly free as possible, that
will mean another step toward the
desired millennium.
Cheap power for farms, factories
and homes, cheap power giving the
light necessary for study, power that
means conquest of nature and Jier
hardships, will free men from slavery.
It is planned, Washington says, re
convert millions of acres of uneco
nomic land, worthless for farming, into
a "hunter’s paradise.”
On the millions of acres wild ani
mals will be encouraged to raise their
families, that noble white men may
have the pleasure of shooting them.
Civilization does progress, but slow
ly, when the richest and an allegedly
highly Intellectual race plans an earth
ly paradise for killing. Imitating the
red Indians' heavenly hunting ground.
What should we think of our alleged
cousins, the gorillas, if they set aside
a million acres of land in Africa for
1 the purpose of breeding and killing
human Africans?
Wise ones tell President Roosevelt r
"You can’t expect prosperity until you
balance the budget.”
What Is the magic In balancing the
I budget? What is balancing the bud
: get? Do individuals always balance
; their budgets in times of emergency?
If a capitalist Is building a gigantic
■ hotel, to cost millions, does he balance
his budget that year or next, or does
he borrow, build, pay back when re
turns come?
Must the government, trying to build
prosperity at a cost of billions, spend
no more than it takes in?
Isn't It enough to avoid spending
what you can't pay ultimately? What
is the great magic tn budget balancing?
The way to solve railroad problems,
serious in the United States, with rail
road trains empty, automobile, motor
trucks taking their business, is to do
something.
In Germany, where stream-lined
trains were built and run, as they were
In Switzerland, long before anybody
built one here, the director of the
reich railways announces “stream
line, Diesel-powered freight engines,
running at 80 miles an hour."
France considers modification of her
method of fixing the price of wheat.
This country endeavors to increase
wheat prices, and the farmers’ income,
by paying farmers not to plant so
much. Make wheat scarcer, thus make
it dearer. The French, apparently,
have some other plan, which included
encouraging the farmer to plant, all he
could, France being sometimes a wheat-
Importing country.
In London, Anthony Eden, Lord
i Privy Seal, tells the house of com
' mons that British troops will not be
■ used to help the French maintain order
in the Saar, soon to decide whether it
j wants ts) be German or French.
The British want their dear conti
nental friends to be as happy as pos
sible, but in this decision about the
Saar they say to France: “If you get
into a fight with Germany you may
1 have that fight all to yourself, with
i our best wishes for both sides thrown
In.” War is painful, expensive, and
Uncle Sam has had a ten-billion-dollar
lesson and Is not lending.
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