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Show LKH1 FREE PRESS. LEHL ITTAIT r - Is World Naval Race Soon to Begin? " - .... j0 'I SEEN and HEARD around tfie NATIONAL CAPITAli iffy Carter Field FAMOUS WASHINGTON Washington. Evidence Increases that mere win be a real drive for the we-when congress reconvenes. In fact, despite the bitter opposition of many business men. particularly large employers whose plants require cuuunuous operation to obtain maximum efficiency and economy, the probability is that congress would pass the week till at this session If tne onion labor leaders were sincerely ior it. Nearly every development ls grist to uie nun of the measure' advocates. For example, the latest government figures show that wage payments a rough way of stating employment-ha- ve advanced to within 71 per cent of normal. But production as 9 result of that employment and these wages has reached 01 per cent of normal It's technocracy all over again the constantly recurring problem of how to pass the work around how to keep enough consumers In funds to purchase the products of the decreasing number of workers. Many experts still think that this cycle, far more than the loss of cash by the purchase of foreign bonds that later defaulted, and Infinitely more than the stock market crash, was responsible for the economic troubles which began in this country in 102!). No better Illustration of this theory has ever been advanced to this writer than what be discovered In Birmingham, In August, 1020. Just a year before, the steel mills of that dls-met naa employed 4,000 men. In August, 1929, they were employing oniy .m.wu men. But they were turn Ing out more steel k pfv I' 'I II fr l j Lwlf , ' 5V V Important cogs in the world's two greatest navies Right: Britain's newest, most the British admiralty. Lower States fleet rt lord of C. Y itWthat TIT1I the whole world fearful the Kast African inciih ii; jirovoke the entire lOu ropean continent Into another terrible war and that such a war, if It comes, will eventually spread to the far corners of the earth, there Is lit-t- i room for hope that any definite of importance will he agreements reached during the uaval conference which opens In London Deeemher 2. no reductions in naval Certainly armaments of the powers will find fa vor, meaner win tninirs remain exUather the chief actly as they are. hope of the meeting will be to put some sort of limitations upon the naval building which Is certain to begin with the expiration of the present London treaty at the end of WHO. If the delegates can succeed In preventiall naval race which ulting a free-fo- r mately might lead to disaster, the conference will not have been In vain. The December conference Is In reto conferences In ality a preliminary May or June of next year. Delegates will now attempt to clarify the desires and intentions of the several major powers ; in the spring they will return ti London to see what actual technical agreements can be arrived at, using the revelations of the December meeting as- a foundation. It has been generally predicted that the outcome of these meetings will be additions totaling 1,000,000 tons to the navies of the great powers. Whether each power will be able to build her toired share of the additions without serious protest from the others re- - .11, Left- inc. By WILLIAM t :" , w iV tW-E- M&-tr- . loum if ;mi" -'.,..; "7- - V , v l IH7 :V-:- a: i ,Uun'h,n the Phelps, the newest addition to the United the Rdney l ooiion William H. Standley, chief of Umted States naval operations! tyres-Monse- , pn;iav tiiem in I'M'ijmn.ary conference, with all of SU(.(.,,S oimeiy i, .. tllMt ,. I. ") i ne situation with to underwater craft in the sal, sequent discussions. -- s i ),., Limiting Battleship Tonnage. There Is also no doubt that America "i oe successful in upholding the international legality of the capital I lie question will snipresolve itself Into an effort to limit the tonnage of uiese vessels, rather than to abolish them altogether. The United States was successful In defeating the British proposal to limit capital ships to 25.000 tons at the London conference oi i;o. The League of Nations Is even now to take some of Mussolini's steam out of him by the of sanctions until he decidesapplication it Is time to halt his Invasion of It Ethiopia. Is not beyond the realm of possibility that these sanctions will have to be enforced through the use of a naval blockade. Prime Minister Baldwin has openly reminded his country of such a possibility. He has also "said that Great Britain would have no part of any such blockade without knowing exactly how the United States stands with respect to it. The league Itself has been apprehensive on that point and has asked the United States to define its position, without having obtained a clear answer, as this Is being written. tr'ing 1 1 Down the Line u M t I, and fall I'ollrlcs ls behind all Oils. The New Dealers fear If the present boom continues, well through the winter, there ls likely to be the normal setback In the summer and falL The effect of this on the country would be precisely opposite to that desired. The most encouraging sort of stock market movement to the country, the New Dealers figure, ls the creeping advance. It Indicates lmproIng business prospects, no speculation. But It cannot occur, very well, after a big bull movement, especially If stock prices have been pushed np during that bull movement far beyond any sane ratio to earnings and dividends. There' the Rub r jut fcrtM. that rmk. Jaat dnaa aboat a IdUk waataia Impin, M balUiram ana ft? Dwt Bens lndlstbt Now that Is where the rub comes In. For despite all this talk about breathing spell and reassuring business, every one close to the administration knows that there are going to lie more taxes after election n1 that these taxes, assuming the New Deal Is continued by the voters next November, will fall on business. Especially big business. Although tills Is absolutely clear to anyone, no matter how remote from touch with the White House, who carefully studies the President's official utterances (lie pointed out In th "breathing spell" statement that no more taxes should be Imposed on the little fellow, already burdened by nroc-esslng taxes, etc.), It has not been generally appreciated. liut by next summer, the New figure, the gentry who buy and sell securities In large quantities, and therefore come pretty close to con trolling prices, will realize IL Hence they will be Inclined to liquidate their stock holdings. If stock prices at the nme happen to be high. It Is well known that stock prices are controlled by what the buyers and sellers regard as future prospects, rather than past performance. Hence the conviction that the corporations must shoulder a much greater load of tax burdens will not be helpful to bet ter dividend prospects. In short, 13,000 well paid men had lost their Jobs, had stopped buvine at the local department store and other stores, were wearing old clothes and squeezing their pennies. Newspapers were forced to cut expenses because the stores had been forced to cut their advertising. And so it went ail the way down Hie line tnore than two months before the stock market crash. The generally accented naval theory And the same thing was happening In is that battleships have outlived their How Navies Might Meet Pittsburgh, Gary, Youngstown, Chiusefulness after they have become cago and Bethlehem. The same sort Hangs on Farm Plank If member nations of the league remore than twenty years of age. There of thing, to a greater or lesser extent, have Ieen no battleships competed fuse to sell goods to Italy, will the The most significant point about the was happening In every otbsr IndusUnited States Increase its Italian exrecent during the last ten years, and by far try, which meant that the buying 1 ress poll taken by the American the greater part of the world's battle- ports? Suppose ships carrying our association, which shows a con power of the country was being slderable ships have already passed the twenty- - goods are refused entry into Italy by dried up. fading of the Roosevelt ron the blockade: would our fleet step In ularity, Is the clear demonstration, by year mark. But virtually nobody realized It! and attempt to break the blockade? certain unstated points to By agreement, the United States and In such In the last session of congress so putting case our navy might well be a, the agricultural plank of that gether, Great Britain may not lay down an- much sentiment developed for the Uoosevelt's Britain. opponent may decide otner Dattlesiiip until l!)r7. It takes operating against bill that, In the early stages, whether the New Deal Is to have four Meanwhile, there Is quite a movethree or four years to build one of leader after leader told a group of more or Is to die on March 4. the giant "floating fortresses." By the ment afoot here at home to clear up editors Inquiring Into the general leg- 10.'!7. years, our own naval policy. The growth of islative 1941 there would be only two situation that they exacted year Most Important In the poll Is not the some modification of the r British battleships less than twenty our navy has been spasmodic and withmeasfact that the Northeast has turned out a clearly defined objective for If not ure, that Itself, to pass. It did years old the Rodney and the Nelson. not pass because union labor leaders against President Roosevelt This has The United States will have the Colo-rad- many years. been kno"wn for some time been Gen The start of the World war caught traded it for the Wagner labor rela and the West Virginia still of erally accepted since the Ithode Island our We were tions bill. They far preferred that. navy quite unprepared. useful age. Japan will have none and Nor Is the fact that New There are two major objections to York France will have none. Italy is build- forced to build a fleet of very great Is included. The big point state a in size r the big hurry; naturally, the proposal, one by the big ls that the poll shows sentiment ing two 35,000-tobattleships now, and cost was much more than it should I employers, and the other by some of they alone In II Duce's navy will be nidlno apparently have been. In the early years fol ""io hi ue seen. the rery people who believe that the against the President, less than twenty years old. on the returns so far la war the navy was allowed of thing Illustrated by the Bir- strong enough lowing the Would Ban BattleshiD. type and as of today, to Indicate the PresiFrom this It will be seen that if the to decline to a great extent This was mingham steel mills not only caused dent J Great Britain, it Is safe to nrotir.f naval conferences do not succeed In might lose the electoral votes la the the depression, but has held back the traditions created will renew her efforts to sell the other abolishing the battleship, Father Time only following Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and return of prosperity. by our government In the years immePowers on the idea of South Dakota. Also Wisconsin. abolishing the will, unless the powers begin build- diately following other wars. The objection of the employers Is battleship in all navies. She has inTo appreciate the significance of ing new ones soon. Battleships cost that It will disrupt their organizadicated that she Our Spasmodic Building. would like to aughardso it is about this, a resort to electoral Totes la apiece, tions. a hours week Is ment her Thirty only The Washington treaty was signed In these dispatches some present naval tonnage by the ly reasonable that new ones will be r fife days. Such a limitation necessary. In the eight years after that in 1!)L''2. on work hours does not flt In readily months back it was pointed out that we laid down only i nien-war. and with shifts. And of course there Is Itooserelt could lose every state north were the result of periodic bursts of the Mason and Dixon line, and the these How Leading Navies Compare always the objection to a blanket Ohio of enthusiastic building, rather than river, and east of the Mississippi, In wages, raise boosting production Warships o! Useful Age, Being Built, or Appropriated For: of a carefully scheduled plan. Ihirlng Wisconsin, and also lose Caliexcept costs. This last phase is especially Aircraft Heavy that same period, much of our warCapital Light fornia, Kansas and Delaware, and still now true because business is generally Carriers Cruisers Destroyers marines 2fi! electoral votes, or three more time fleet became obsolete, hut we Great Britain concerned over the resentment of house- have 32 63 7 18 46 15 The United We than were not make did replacements. enough. Statei 19 61 12 18 59 6 wives In particular and buyers In genjapan 62 g 23 12 83 6 In short, he could lose all New Engrapidly falling well back Into third eral over advancing prices. Also befrance , 1 74 12 83 7 pluce In naval strength, for during the cause they know that security bill land, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, 54 65 15 7 years between l!i'J'' and lD.'to (Jreat taxes for old age pensions, unemployPennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, SdnItaL,0nnag!: Great Britain. 1,163,000; the United States, 1,022.000; Japan, Britain built SO ships and .Japan built ment Insurance, etc., are shortly go- Michigan, Kansas and California, and France, 571,000: Italy. 405,000. rjfi. ing to advance production costs fur- still win. At the time this table was presented The policy of ther. parity The objection by the theorists Is that by the writer largely to show the trewas extended ir ''.il'.n at Ioinlon. lint mm of a, new cruIserS- - If the constructed with !.e rei kanything for us the parity was purely theoretiany such move Is Just a temporary mendous importance of New York, mesnlp am remaln flt less abandon. ,nsist cal, for we did not actually huiM up palliative. Further advances In labor and hence the possibility that Tam"Oeof other n:itlm. Roosevelt by 35,000 Tons Our Limit to it at all. saving machinery additional shortcuts many Hall could J start construction of at least nun can li.'.O'KI straining every nerve to get out the will come. tons No than RooseThey fear the advent of the ship the larger Now since to renins . . . iiw.-imeasure might prove a veritable strait-Jacket- . vote, or defeat him by mere apathy. to his cupuai snips clear the locks in the I 'ana ma canal, velt administration, the This was on the theory that upstate it k.- .- oaJesty's fleet which are rapidso it is safe to predict that the Unit naval bill has definitely approved "waning ohsia, New York would probably be about battlenew will not plan any The Stock Rise Too Fast construction up to the parity principle, li,., ..stat(s win. without ed States the same in sentiment as lis neighborNor limit. that more and than tart, .:"" of of planes ships authorizing the building The stock market has been rising ing states in New F.nglind. tllK L.8uraent. . seek to uphold is it probable that Uncle Sam will ever ships to make parity a fact. Present nnl!.. ' too rapidly to suit the administration. m,vnI parIty wi,n agree to the limit of 27,."txi tons, which GrmBrltX Information to this effect comes from Loses New York The Standley Plan. will Washthe Britain proby it is reported, Crent n n taSgran,ed B the same Fources that enabled the Ibis emphasis on New York Is I'.i side this, the alert and able A.l- pose. writer to make this same statement In abundantly Justified by the recent poll, chief of II. Standley. With FirItain on t'1P William mira: fcPH . , Ps Britain feels that It would he more June, IP!"!, when It may be remem- which indicates New York Is against t0 be but. since the tattleskL rmval operations O the I'ui'eil States. to her advantage to distribute her tonbered, the administration to literally the PresUlent. Also two of the p'tt rai'1,al sl,iP- - Is has outlined and acinally begun real 0slti fr an smacked the market down and took con states Included In the antl nage limit In a larger number of small into a plan which gives the efficient American er scatt.-repractiee In the process. In these dispatches list sldersble ships. With her widely California and pleasure naval ileiinite policy nation a more colonies, administration does not want Kansas. covering the earth (Vo'i ilie Tie' before. had ever It has alrPa'1 than rt!n r,roken tno know: "The sun never sets on of thf In any such crash at the moment. So that the Important new point Is Standley plan is only the beginning, she has ample fuel sta forclhi. :": i,ti0 wln reiterate fact, all It wants Is a small decline. really Involved In the additional Middle flag"), I! must have the successful hpr demands for he to for lth '7 a and It does not want that until after Western states Iowa, Nebraska, Minparity tlons to feed her ship on long cruises Br, or congress ior aml Parity , America. Such America has no comparable system oi C'ontlnued support , January 1. nesota ind South Dakota. Wisconsin come. to '. for likpliliood theoret- - !.i..,it. .lunula nrid therefore finds I' many ,var' The significance of this Is that It may be left to one side. No InIl political ls r,n.o,'lPan "'tie likely to be essential to have ships with larger The plan " simpl" enough. knows many business executives plan observer believes that Wisconsin will and clear -, 0 a orderly, Merit, Ionn .do enough building fuel solves eh th. their budgets around the end of De- buck over the traces If the La Follette capacity, which can p .. . !- ,- ..... of annual re) tn.i. "'"l level If' u,e lW0 cember and at that time lay out their organization sets out to deliver It to I from home without having ing ton way long It all obsolete ships are go!n5 t make placemen's ef plans for expenditures and expansions Roosevelt no to worry about refueling. one Further, has te what the admiral calls to their nnvnl "taitk. dCllti0ns prom durhig the year. For this process the much donM at the moment that more every day 1 Growing more and me pum mans navy. s 1 wants the administration business the Foilettes will da Just that If In Great Britain Is the feeling that anil !,c projected Into the fu'ure. won leaders of the country to have all the there should be any slip-uan agreement with rBarUalaSB battleship agreements there, and of the completion dllow for encouragement possible. Hence It will there should be no material change "'lk:h " allow her to are not worth bothering about any Wolll every thirteen snips or jear move to no Interfere with the otherwise In the lineup, It will be Just make to :jo per cent of ,,. unthinkable that ,wl,p-way, because It seems 'tf the same number boom so evident In the market until too bad for Roosevelt It rranco mill of the two fleets should ever he directed , take the places ear become over would make will each j after January 1. the New Deal battle line so long and Oorm" m,1,'hl" 8hiP each other. "Let America go a regular item be Pi W;'h would against cost ,,, The Of course the administration even vulnerable that breaks would be sure n., . wi..,.1 . n t ion Mil. win rlL'ht ahead and build ships on any . " ,r .ronr then does not want anything approachto occur somewhere. C.Hh It i)r..i Ieil,""l at the time. size Khe likes." say the sponsor of In the at "em bill would eive us debacle. ing l confidence-destroyinDe ik, But these fanu states In question, H(I She win ?t on ... . et. 1IWO. , l.a Ulnnrl. lb s nlnn. "and let Britain build whato It would merely like to see a decline from Nebraska with I'.ritain parity advisable." up to Minnesota, may deems our navy from ever size she set in which would carry security he depended upon to go as the IntelSnU.... . . 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