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Show PUS 1 . Topics Interpreted ZU fSm 2 hv Williarti Bruckart Xdm? .if-'."'''"'; MMton those Jays con--n nation's status lu ;f r sturdy national .' ito worries of our .(.renot lessened by wnih Newton D. o exv reported our military ,ftUfatI can .fsome satisfaction ,hr4 with responsl-'nt responsl-'nt because the : 2ere pointed ou called upon to resort C of our national de-t de-t knowledge of the ' .5surely should be of :L board, as It has come was the fifteenth n -Bitot has given study ;,;W It apparently went Jt to core of the trouble beetle! problem, In e -..Hit or miss policy with air development Since ",ls the policy-making body It must accept the re-; re-; tut my own research Stance with matters re-','tiie re-','tiie appropriaUon of funds ' BTerwnent leads me to be-'4 be-'4 tie budget bureau has too wise in determining "nes for recommendation to -aendaUons by the Baker "all first for establishment iEtarj air force of more ji planes; a force second to .Trie world. An air force of i!D Is adrised, a corps of milled men who know how ..ie their planes that, in event .is, tie air service will not sit sacrificing good blood a occurred Id the compara-- compara-- safe business of transporting a Tie board said the gov-:;i gov-:;i stonld encourage an air pintle Cnited States to pro-iaieqnate pro-iaieqnate resource for the ; It that is done, the report '. out, there Is a reserve .i ieveloped that provides -sie In peace and strength ji little confidence that con- i going to pay much atten-: atten-: tie Baker board's conclu-; conclu-; II seldom has paid any atten-) atten-) such expert advice. Presi-jxevelt Presi-jxevelt asked the board to ie bottom of the problem, and It has done so. At je country Is informed, and vresentatives In the house or ile do not perform in a way 3 correct the condition, then j know thereto place the 1 'ample, the report proposes -ft be adequate and continu-Spriatlons continu-Spriatlons for expansion of -srticeof the army. In that ' :-adat!on the board struck a ; It said "continuing" ap- '-'in were necessary, and !tieesuch a view Is cor- -nm otherwise a big sum J ";riaW one year and wasted when the brothers who Prse strings say in the . a UW they are not going ,, , ' "J more such expendl- " ia exactly as though one build a honse and after Tere "P. the money ran - I;1' could be put on. The - fmaina incomplete, no "'2 ' aPPrPriatlons intone of contention all : ot n,ean to say tha , tie War department Wfm effectively, but If competent authorl-WUld authorl-WUld DOt 'AST topprt -SiTv. Proposal for-an 1 Zyhm the army ;e(;ef; ttler.the, well n.'0'"1 'hat view. The . 4anln'egralpart :iVtCe8"tIoa of the w oTa6aCCePt-X oTa6aCCePt-X . , ut arKument. HX o way , 8s,out and in her " a'ureeUnH0tlOna apPar-o. apPar-o. , nD0 ,y she does 0 .. "e,P?,ot Ded or wish k ?Lm of Pro-Jlhrouth Pro-Jlhrouth CUrrent Proof f ;!' tie ,an? 1116 eltect't Ih eU,t,Uraladust-4 eU,t,Uraladust-4 "tte s.h 8 glven to i tme for eur- , , extreme drouth has made the r. ductlon plans unworkable and even dangerous to the country's food stocks. So it begins to appear thnt there will have to be revision of the ng-rlcuUural ng-rlcuUural program upon which the administration has worked so desperately des-perately and upon which it has expended ex-pended so much money. The Agricultural department ls authority for the statement that the drouth already hns removed nny probability of a wheat surplus. To this shortage has been added unfavorable conditions abroad that have resulted In a general world total of wheat probably as much as -KXUXXi.OOO bushels below what Is held to be an average yield. This Is happening just when many of the wheat-growing nations of the world were approaching the point of a binding agreement thnt would hold down the quantity of wheat entering enter-ing Into export trade and thereby force crop reduction. But the authorities au-thorities tell me the movement for an International agreement naturally natural-ly Is going to die. There being no dire necessity for It, the Interest behind It will lag. I suppose there will be few, if any, further moves made on it until years of bumper crops again are upon us nnd a gigantic gi-gantic surplus of world wheat stares farmers in the face. That Is usually the case. It likely will be some weeks before be-fore the Agricultural department can formulate a definite course of action as to revision of the crop reduction plans. President Roosevelt's return Is eagerly awaited among some of the "brain trust" who Brain Trust's are variously re- Little War ported in Wash" ington as desiring desir-ing the Chief Executive to Intervene Inter-vene in their own little war. There are a number of minor disputes taking shape among the professors and the so-called young liberals, and I am Informed In what I believe be-lieve to be authentic quarters that anti-administration agents are fo menting more trouble among the group that has served as such important im-portant advisers to the President during his term. Obviously, none will admit It, but there Is every reason to believe that some keen individuals who are not in sympathy with the New Deal are spreading poison among the brain trusters about each other. The natural result re-sult of this, of course, Is to cause the young liberals to be suspicious of each other and that kind of suspicion sus-picion nearly always is followed by an open break. The stories in current circulation in Washington are that some of the brain trusters are at outs with Raymond Ray-mond Moley, for a time the No. 1 brain trust man with the President but now the editor of a magazine, and that several of those still In the administration are saying unkind un-kind things about others who still are serving here. It is a situation not without its humorous side, and from having seen such factions develop de-velop before In the government, I Imagine this one will turn out to be a real comedy. The economic events of the last few weeks indicate to some Washington Wash-ington observers See New Crisis that a new crisis xj Is approaching in Neanng the depresslon. August is always a dull month. September Sep-tember Is little better from a business busi-ness standpoint After that things usually pick up. To get through the next six weeks with drouth devastating de-vastating mUlions of acres and strikes and riots and military rule and uncertainties among business Interests as to what the New Deal of the future holds, there necessarily neces-sarily must be a steady hand and calm Judgment. On top of this, of course, Is the disturbed international internation-al situation, and it is not helping the weary old world to settle down. - Since the kind of government management of business that we have had has not taken us out of the depression, the course immediately immedi-ately becomes problematical. Shall we have more of the same, or expand ex-pand it beyond Its present scope, or shall we retrace our steps and go back to the old days? In the midst of this turbulent condition, the slimy head of inflation infla-tion of the currency again Is arising. aris-ing. Strangely enough, there are many men now talking about Inflation Infla-tion seriously when all of their knowledge and all of their training ordinarily would make, of them the bitterest of antagonists to such a course on the part of the federal government. Some of them have been in Washington in recent weeks and I gathered from the arguments ar-guments they advanced that they sincerely believed Inflation would do good for the country as a whole, and for themselves in particular. This Is the sad part of it: they seem to think that they can pay off their debts and the average person can pay off his debts easier with an inflated in-flated currency, and, therefore, they want to turn the printing presses loose. , Western Newspaper Union |