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Show THE PACE TWO Xvirn Uvvivir of Vurrvnt tivvnls After Labor Racketeers VANDENBERG'S PROGRAM Plan to Give Honest Business a Chance . . . President Talks Peace w ith Utility Chiefs Michigan kMmmm "The best laid plans Washington. of mice and men" will go oil at a tangent, it leeras, even when one po- Congress litical party is nuBalky CfiPfif.fif- merically in su-- r control of the national gov-e- t .ii iit, President Roosevelt called concu't-into extra session with very definite dbjectives outlined, iii he repeated them in his regular message on the state of the Union. He wanted crop control legislation fur relief of agriculture and he wanted wages and hours controlled by federal statute for the relief of labur. Hut congress, or a part of dent's program through. it, has turned out to be a balky So the President's plans have gone mule. It has one foot out of the traces already and the driver is astray. They may remain that way, or they may go even further, dehaving a lot of trouble to keep the pending upon how long the backanimal hitched. ward slide of business continues. Of The above is by way of saying one thing, you may be sure. Partly that scores of Democratic members through his own fault and partly of the house and many senators with through the fault of the type of adseats on the majority side have visors with which he has surrounded come back from a summer on the Mr. Roosevelt does not himself, hustings quite convinced that it is have the confidence of as many not popular with the voters to be a members of the legislative branch rubber stamp. I do not mean by as he formerly held. that statement that the President has lost control of his party machinIt Is a little early to attempt a reery, or that he can not crack the whip and get things done; I mean port on prospects for the regulai that instead of having a few recalcisession of trants within his own party to deal gress that venes in January. with, he now has many, and members of congress are about like coyYet, since it is otes their courage increases as quite evident there will be nothing in the current extra session beyond their number increases. It might be mentioned in passing crop control legislation if even that I believe we might look forward a that at least half a dozen Demobit. One of the things now evident cratic members of the house hav come back from home with plans is the position congress will take on relief for destitute and unemployed, to run for their party's nomination I believe I see a batt!? corning in to the senate next year. The reason given by those with whom I that direction. have talked is almost the same in It has been apparent during the each instance. The incumbent sen- last two years that congress was has dissatisfied with the relief system ator who is up for been too much of a New Dealer. built up by Secretary Ickes and the "Our people are calling for someprofessional reliever, Harry Hoprubber stamps." kins, works progress administrator. thing besides candiThese potential senatorial The requirements, especially for the dates have records showing opposiHopkins machine, have been met tion to the President in some vitally with what has come to be called important New Deal policies while "blank check" appropriations. That in is, congress has passed a bill apsupporting him other phases of his program. propriating two billions or three bilNo one ean say how far .this lions or whatever was thought necmovement will get, but anyone whe essary by Mr Hopkins. It was just has observed congresses perform ir as simple as that. Congress had no other cases where the President was strings on the money, seldom was in his second term can not dis- told a great deal of the details. It miss the circumstance as without was money to feed and clothe the It is the usual prac- destitute. significance. tice for sitting members of the Now, however, some observers house and senate to stick close to think they detect a change. They the President, as party leader, in believe they see signs that congress his first term because they must will put an end to the "blank check" seek with his support. method of handling relief. As far But now many of them regard Pres- as anyone knows now, the President ident Roosevelt as through and they again will ask for a huge sum to be are starting early to make their distributed for relief through Mr. record look good to the voters whom Hopkins and that is when the batthey will canvass next year. tle lines will form. These few paragraphs above must serve to introduce evidence of a Congress, therefore, will be faced much deeper fact. In many important places and among many poweragain with appropriation demands to provide food ful or inlluential men in congress and clothing and Money one hears frequent references and likely the request for Relief observations to this effect: If Mr. tor the funds will Roosevelt is going to retain his control ol the party and carry through come trom Mr. Roosevelt as hereIf the on the propositions which he will tofore for a lump sum. make from time to time, he must number favoring the dole grows to cast aside a part, at least, of his any considerable extent, there may be a reversal of policy whether the radical advisers and the schemes President wants it that way or not. they concoct. You see, in an election year (and senaall house members and As I related, the President outtors face election canvasses again lined his objectives for the special next year) it is nice to be able to session. Two or say to the voters that they are reDifferent three years ago, ceiving something at the hands of Now they would have their representative or their senabeen received by tor. The candidates can justify a and senators break with the President easily, and the representatives with loud acclaim, with ballyhoo. with business sliding backward as But in the first few weeks of the exis the case now, there will be plenty tra session, there has been just as of relief needed for unemployed much condemnation as there has again. The voters can be told that been approval. they are being given charge of these Nor can we overlook another relief expenditures and that they no phase of the situation. Not only longer will have to watch Washinghave many of the men at the Capiton bureaucrats waste the taxpaytol declined to affirm the President's ers money. On the horizon, therepropositions; they have gone in the fore, it is possible to see the line of other direction. They have offered cleavage between the New Deal programs of their own. They are and the old line Democrats leading to elimination of the dangerous prepared to battle for them. In politics, that sort of a thing often has lump-suappropriation and a resproved fatal to the plans of the toration of relief ministration into man who then occupied the White the hands of local authorities. House. It may not turn out that There is one further consideration way this time but there are many in the general relief situation that observers are sure the President is attracts attention. I think it is reagoing to be forced into accepting sonable to assume that the some things he did not want or relief machine which Mr. Hopkins does not want just now. has built up is permeated to the Take the question of taxes, for core with political appointments. It instance. Rightly or wrongly, the is only the usual political procedure President is being blamed for the and is not confied to the present current business depression and national administration. Assuming, criticism of this sort is rolling up therefore, that there is such a politilike a snowball going down hill. It cal machine, it is hardly open to is being said that two tax levies question that it is a Roosevelt mawhich were forced through congress chine. Tiie picture then becomes are largely responsible. The tax on clear: since numerous members of Undivided profits of corporations and the house and want to consnale the capital gains tax are used as trol their own destinies, horrible examples of these unsound they want controlpolitical of the organizapolicies fostered ty Mr. Roosevelt. tions for relief in thair own rcMie M whole-heartedl- d far-flun- g Well, the President is responsible to the extent that he approved of them. They were the product, however, of some of the dozen or so artists to whom the President frequently has listened as peek-a-bo- o advisors. I think it has been generally dem jurisdictions, e LU Liicr. if Mr. lioneveii i a th.rd term should want to Ifcut. nus vwiu nomination, want to up,.!,., t niiii w .ula be i.Ui.e Ik.u to sii i.y b power. e.s if L.l ri del... and w,ti.tss i,.-.pickcj i.u.u i.io.r ' ii .i ...,.iuid c union u,,iji-v.i.tiM s.-i- tme . , w. Senator's ' t I' ' r" V LXJR four months Eliot Ness, the I young safety director of Cleveland, Ohio, has been investigating labor racketeering in Cleveland, es pecially in the building trades, and then he made a report of his findings that resulted in a special session of the Cuyahoga county grand Jury to hear the stories of scores of business men who allegedly have been terrorized by labor union officials. Ness Eliot Nets said these men were prompted to volunteer their Information because of the security offered them and the knowledge that many others were prepared to tes- - onstrated that the two taxes in question have been ruinous, especially to the small business. It is equally true, I believe, that business must be given some consideration if it ever is to get on a sound basis again and that it ought to share attention of legislators with labor leaders even though business has fewer votes. In any event, the burdens which the New Deal admittedly has placed on business are serving at the springboard for a part of the Democratic majority. They can properly fight for these things and easily be too busy to push the Presi- Thursday, December 2. 19.J7 NHI'III. UTAH TIMES-NEW- tify. . In addition to protests from s men that they were being shaken down, Ness also had numerous busi-nes- 1 ' A. 1 ini rtT'rUitfirrn'ilfri' i.Wiiri y- o - Representative J. It. Mitchell of Tennessee (left), and Representative Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the bouse agriculture committee, discusslni farm problems at a meeting of the committee to draft the new farm complaints from rank and file union that their leaders had obtained dictatorial control of the unions and had used it for racketeering pur- men bill. poses. This resulted in hundreds of men being thrown out of work. Impeded legitimate business, and kept hundreds of thousands of dollars in new industries out of the city, the Ness report was said to have stated. Governors Ask Tax Repeal GOVERNORS IV. PuJuuul Mumd SUMMARIZES THE f of the six New in conference Boston, adopted resolutions severely criticizing the tax and tariff WORLD'S WEEK policies of the administration. They demanded repeal of the capital ft Western Nwapapr Union, gains tax and the tax on undistribThat the prudent investment uted corporate profits, and deVandenberg's Program of determining the rate base nounced method the pending reciprocal of VANDENBERG well be used for determining trade agreement with CzechosloSENATOR didn't wait for the might values to be added hereafter and of leaders of the Republican party to that it could be studied as a means vakia as imperiling the Jobs thousands of American citizens. formulate a program on which to of finding present value, that In any The governors who took this accase no system of valuation does tion were L-- i Lewis O. Barrows, Reout broke He crats. or should bring about the highly publican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Rewiui a pi which the watered New Hampshire; George designed to President capitalization condemned in a number publican, D. Aiken, Republican, Vermont; "give honest bus- of examples which he cited at a Charles F. Hurley, Democrat, iness a chance to recent press conference. Massachusetts; Wilbur L. Cross, create stable proDemocrat, Connecticut, and Robert sperity." E. Quinn, Democrat. Rhode Islai.d. War His ten points Chino-Japanein itn-puii- ii se were: JAPAN'S armies were slowed up rain and mud in their ad- Trade Treaty with Britain vernmental "hymns the valley, but IN WASHINGTON and London it of hate" and bitter as thereup seemedYangtse no likelihood that was officially announced that the Senator attacks on business the Chinese line of defense would United States and Great Britain had Vandcnberg men. hold, the Nationalist government agreed to negotiate a reciprocal 2. Progress as as possible moved out cf Nanking, scattering its rapidly toward a balanced budget. departments among a number of 3. Amendment or repeal of the cities. American Ambassador JohnSecretary of State surplus and capital gains taxes and son and his staff moved to Hankow. Hull ever since he substitution of "incentive taxation" The Japanese commanders in started his reciprofor "punitive taxation." cal program in 1934. Shanghai took over full control of 4. Amendment of the social securmost of the city and its customs ofThe negotiations are to act eliminate the "needless fice. ity They demanded that the inexpected to begin drain upon the resources of com- ternational settlement and French before the close of merce and labor." concession officials hand over the the year. 5. Revision of the Wagner labor hosfour leading citizens as American adminlaw to make for greater certainty in city's Most istration officials betages. prominent of these was "long range industrial planning." of DicT. V. Soong, brother-in-lalieve Rurh a nart 6. Abandonment of the SecretaryHull may )ead tQ , com. tator Chiang bill and substitution of wage-hou- r The Far East conference in Brus- mercial union of all English-speakinlegislation to protect states from sels, unable to accomplish anything peoples and will be a powerful the importation of goods produced to end the e conflict, influence in preserving world peace. by substandard labor. was on the point of final adjournLondon looks upon it as an in7. Repeal of many of the Presiment. strument to form a front which all dent's emergency powers in order nations may enter later on condito free business from "executive recitions of French Throne evAfter which with war is at despotism procity, and therefore as an indery tenet of the American system." ALARM of the French 8. Reasonable and practical farm over the plotting of the irect reply to the new alliance. relief, without bureaucratic controls, Cagoulards or "hooded ones" that Principles said to be already processing taxes, or price pegging, led to the arrest of many rightists and the raiding of agreed upon provide that Great but with benefits for soil conservahidden stores of Britain would receive reduced tion practices, financing of exportAmerican tariffs on textiles and able surpluses, and return of the weapons and ammunition was far from coaL domestic market to the producer. In return she would grant the 9. Foreign policies that will keep baseless. Evidently Afherica out of war through purthere was a real United States lower tariffs on foodconspiracy to over- stuffs, certain raw materials, ofiron suing "an insulating neutrality" a throw the republic and steel and other essentials rather than sanctions. i and set 10. "Frank abandonment of all s it up a dicta rearmament program. Immediate opposition to the proactivities and intorship and eventually a restored mon- posed pact developed among the trigues which shatter democratic statesmen in Washington. Senator faith." archy. The governJames Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, ment announced. Due de Guise Democratic whip, protested against that however Peace Talk with Utilities any British accord until the Engplot had been wrecked. of the From his place of exile in Bel- lish pay off their defaulted war RESTRICTION to the United States. He called activities of gium the Due de Guise, pretender debt the privately owned public utilities to the throne of France, issued a the proposed pact "trade treason." Senator Henry Cabot being recognized as an important manifesto announcing he had defactor In the current business re- cided to try to regain the throne. Massachusetts Republican, served notice he would sponsor a resolucession, President Roosevelt began "Have the moral courage not to tion a series of conferences with the negotiation of all new abdicate before present difficulties," tradehalting until congress can treaties heads of these concerns. He seemed the manifesto appealed to French- determine whether to be In a conciliatory frame of they are respona not in men. moment "Do permit, sible for the current business remind and sought to lessen the utili- of of kind abandon, dictatorship any cession. ties' fear of the effect of governto impose itself. ment policies, but without making Representative Allen Treadway, to assure Massachusetts "Certain of my ability His first caller Republican, deany concessions. I have decided to nounced the was Wendell Wilkie. president of the your happiness, proposed treaty as certhrone of my fathers. tain to disastrous to AmerCommonwealth & Southern corpora- reconquer the prove will reassume ican business. He warned it would France then tion, and next day he talked with her mission inagain the world and again throw "more Americans out of their Floyd Carlisle of the Niagara Hudwill find peace, unity and prosperity Jobs." son Power corporation. through a union of the people with he the Though appeared amiable, " defender-king.a titular President at the same time was Rand Is Acquitted sending to various congressional JAMES H. RAND, JR., president committees and federal agencies a Windsor Wins Libel Suit Rand, Inc., and report by the New York state power THE duke of Windsor won his Pearl L. Bergoff of New York were and friends and authority, whacking suit against the author found not guilty of violation of the agents of the private utilities for publisher of the book "Coronation Byrnes act by a Jury in the United "propaganda" against public power Comments," and In a settlement States District court in New Haven, development It presented figures out of court received a substan- Conn. to show the government could protial sum, said to be $50,000, from The verdict was a blow at the duce water power at a much lower them, which money he gave to chargovernment's first attempt to encost than private utilities could pro- ity. Lord Chief Justice Hewart force the act, which forbids the duce power by steam plants. commented that the libels "apof strikebreakers It was understood Mr. Wilkie sub- peared almost to invite a thorough transportation across state lines with the intent of these mitted and efficient horsewhipping." points: interfering with peaceful picketing. That there is a general fear 1. An end to go- by "vance Kai-She- g Chino-Japanes- 1 --""- j throughout the country of government competition and interference with private utilities which can be subdued only by concrete reassurfrom the administration. That money for private expansion purposes and refinancing to obtain lower interest rates, which in turn would be reflected in lower power rates, is hard to obtain. That the government had a right to sell power from its dams, but a basis for marketing it could be found without frightening the whole ance industry. Green Opposes Labor Billl GREEN president of VV the A. F. of L., practically broke with the administration by denouncing the pending' wage and hour bill as unacceptable to labor and demanding that it be sent back to committee for revision. Green assailed the national labor relations board and declared it no longer is safe to permit a government board of that kind to admin-iste- r laws governing labor relations with employers. Another Judge Wanted MINTURN of Indiana a bill authorizing the President to appoint an additional Judge to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. That court has jurisdiction over the seventh circuit, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, and has had one vacancy since the retirement of Judge Samuel Alschuler last year. Both Senators Lewis and Dieterlch of Illinois said they had no candidate for the place. SENATOR Home Heating IlIllLO 3hJmkd about Epr ! When Good Fire Won't Delivei Enough Heat, It's Economy to Call in Service Man pay to neglect your heating plant when you know have a good fire but the heat SANTA MONICA,saidCALIF. you that is below par. You run up fuel bills and make for yourself a lot there were always two big of trouble and worry which could Graone the events sporting Sport Broadcasters. ham McNamee saw and the one that actually took place. 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SOMETHING I said recently about killing every snake on sight, without investigating the snake's character, brought a flock of letters from readers who don't like snakes. venomous snake Even a may have his better side. In Kansas, in the old local option days, you could get a drink only on a doctor's prescription, excepting in case of dire emergency, such as a snake bite. So every properly run drug store kept a rattlesnake on the premises to serve the citizenry. And the only time a drug store rattler ever refused to bite a thirsty stranger was when he was all worn out from accommodating the regular local trade. And what though it was a snake that led Eve astray in the garden of Eden? He may have brought sin into the world, but wouldn't we have missed a lot of spicy reading matter in newspapers f he hadn't? Yep, I plead guilty to thinking an occasional charitable thought for any decimated and vanishing group. 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