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Show CACHE AMERICAN. PRESIDENTS SOCIAL SECURITY BILL PASSED BY HOUSE-HITIS DEFIANT. LER By EDWARD W. PICKARD 6. Western Newspaper Union. benefit o f gag rule perfect party discipline, the administration's social se curlty bill was Jammed through the house substantially as President Roosevelt wants 1L The Anal vote was 872 to 33. It may be some weeks before It Is passed by the senate, for the senate finance commit tee, to which It was referred, Is busy Just now with MtA extension and veterans bonus payment. Grants to states for old age as baslstance (pensions) on a sis, but for no Individual will the federal governments share exceed 15 per month. Compulsory old age benefits for persons over sixty five on basis of salary earned during working lifetime, payments ranging from $15 to $85 a month. Income tax on pay rolls of employees starting with 1 per cent In 1937 and graduated upward to 3 per cent In 1919; excise tax on employers In same amounts This will mean a total pay roll tax Of 0 per cent by 1919. Unemployment Insurance. Tax on employer of 1 per cent on pay rolls In 1980, 2 per cent for 1937, and 3 per cent thereafter. Social security board as new bureau of government In the executive branch with three members appointed by the President Federal grants to states for maternal and child health service, an appropriation of $3,800,000. Federal grants to states for public health service, an appropriation WITHOUT 50-5- 0 of $8,000,000. Speaker Byrns and other majority leaders were elated by the Immense majority by which the hill carried because, as they asserted. It was put through without any pressure from the White House. Ur We got no orders Byrns said: from the President, so help me Almighty God." HUGH JOHNSONS appeal for extension of the NRA, In the course of which tie took all the blame for Its failures, may have been effective, for It was reported that a considerable majority of the senate finance committee was In favor of continuing the life of the Blue Engle organization. Three of the members, all Democrats, were listed as absolutely against prolongation of the recovery act, but most of the others favored such a course, provided various alterations are made. The committee had under consideration a bill Introduced by Senator Pat Harrison, designed, he said, to stimulate discussion. The hottest battle will come on the floor of the senate. GEN. GERMANY was tborotighly the action of the League of Nations council In adopting the trl power resolution condemning the relch for violating the treaty of Versailles by rearming, and It was expected Uelchsfuerber Hit ler would make a defiant retort As a first step he sent from his Bavarian retreat instructions of to Secretary State Von Buelow to protest "Englands defection at Stresa and Geneva. This Von Buelow did, delivering the message to Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps for transmission to London. Then, on his forty sixth birthday, came the relchsfuerhers defiance of the league. In the form of what the German foreign office called a short but determined note." Here tt Is, as made public In Rome: The German government contests to the governments which In the council of the League of Nations took, In the deliberation of April 17, the right of making themselves Judges over Germany. The government sees In the deliberation of the council of the league an atdiscriminations tempt at new against Germany and therefore rejects it In the most resolute manner. The government reserves the right to make known soon Its position on different questions touched lipon In the deliberation. This note did not seem to impress greatly the statesmen In London, Paris and Rome, but It mightily pleased Hitlers followers. They celebrated their leaders natal day with gusto and presented to him a fleet Of about sixty war planes bought with popular contributions, most of Which came from storm troopers. The German press was loud In denunciation of the league action and Litvinov, the Soviet delegate, came la for most of the abuse, because he delivered the chief speech In support of the resolution at the council session. Just recently Ger many granted to Russia credits Poland amounting to $30,000,000 also was asal!ed for "abandoning but In Wara wit was Germany, said by offu lals that Poland was still the friend of the relch. Strange as it may seem, the Jews In Germany are warmly supporting Hitler In this controversy German resentment against Great Britain is especially warm she feels she was deceived In the recent negotiations. Consequently she thinks Britain's prestige as a mediator in continental affairs Is destroy ed. RUSSIA was disappointed and disgusted when the French chamber failed to approve the mutual assistance pact which I.ltvlnov and Laval had concocted The delay was called officially a "temporary halt" In negotiations, and the treaty may be signed later provided the Soviet government promises to shut off the Communistic agitation In ranch radicals France All the want the Russian alliance and so does one section of the conservatives; but anothei Idg group Is op posed to any commitments, espe chilly with Russia Also, there are manv who still cling to the hope that Rrland s old dream of a full Franco German reconciliation may come true, though they don't say much about It In public. Russian and French papers revived the story that there was a secret military alliance between Germany and Poland, hut tills was vigorously denied by officials in both Berlin and Warsaw. Communist parties of ten European countries united In an appeal to the working classes for a demonstration on May 1 against the German Nazis. The appeal, printed In the Communist party organ, Pravda, churgeil that "German Imperialists and their Japanese and Polish allies" are provoking war against Soviet Russia. 1 REPUBLICAN leaders who Will Give Idle Men Real Jobs England Plans Jubilee Celebration a luncheon in WashAllen ington given to William White of Kansas turned the gathering Into a real political meeting und In their speeches ins'sted that the Republican party must openly and vigorously attack the "fallacies of the .New Deal Mr White explained the concep tlon of the regional meeting of eleven mid western states to be held In Kansas next month and said that the amount of in terest aroused among Republicans throughout the country was surpils Ing. Such a regional meeting could do nothing more than write a creed and stir up the electorate to right thinking, he declared, adding: "Confronted with new conditions, the Republican party must face this situation and write a platform that will be constructive ami give prom Ise of carrying out In a sane wav the things needed to restore constl tutlonal government It was announced in Cleveland that the Republicans of the east central states would hold a big po lllical rally In that city late in M ly Second Stage of Recovery Plan Is Program of Big National Projects By EARL GODWIN The second WASHINGTON New Deal's now appears with the amendment of the bill granting the President $4,800, 000,000 to undertake a national program of projects extensive enough to furnish work for every employable man dow receiving direct cash administrations relief program gets under way one of the most Important parts of It, the purchase of muteila! supplies, will have to he at once, started IN THE NEWS 1 Latest por- and it is expected that this will ab- traits of King George and Queen sorb about $1,700, Mary, specially made for the twenty-fifth anniversary of their ascen000,000 of the total sum. According to sion to the British throne on May a u thorltative 6, 2 Palazzo Borromeo on Isolo Bella at Stresa, Italy, where the sources In Wash lngton, this part of premier and foreign ministers of the program will Great Britain, France and Italy met he supervised by to plan for European peace. 8 Rear Admiral 0. J. Scene in western Kentucky when the Green river flooded Its banks. procurePeoples, ment officer In the treasury Peoples entered the navy supply corps In 1900 as assistant paymaster and later developed the navy's present purchasing system. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy he and Peoples became close friends. LONG IIUEY deliv SENATOR The admiral presumably will much advertised attack have full charge of diafting the on the President and the admin istration before a crowd that regulations for material purchases All Britain is looking forward Jammed the senate but It Is understood the actual buy- to the sliver Jubilee celebration to chamber. lie was ing of supplies for work relief proj be held this year on May 6, comlimited to 40 min- ects will In most Instances be han- memorating the twenty-fift- h anniutes, but In that dled by the states and other co versary of King George's acces time he used a lot operating agencies. However, cer slon to the crown. of language. After tain commodities, like cement, that One of the most unusual projects be needed in immense quantl describing I c k e s, will to commemorate the event Is the will ties, be probably purchased Farley, Wallace and acquisition of a new forest which General Johnson In centrally. is to be known as The King's Forterms not very funSome 6,000 acres will be COUGHLIN of Detroit, est ny, the Klngflsh" RATHER w the radio priest and earnest named after the monarch, who reassailed Mr. Roosehis In the velt as personally publicist, has now been endorsed cently gavethree-mil- e permission. beech avenue r e s p o n s Ible for by the bishop of Detroit, Itt. Rev forest a will also be planted. It will be wliat he called a plan to force the Michael Gallagher called Queen Marys Avenue. I pronounce Father Coughlin state of Louisiana to yield to corsound in doctrine, nble In Us appliruption and debauchery. He threatened a tax ri hellion In his realm if cation and Interpret ltlon, the bishDfflE DIVORCEE there were fin tlier federal encroachop said. "Freely I give him my imments in the matter of controlling primatur on his written word and the expendituie of federal loans for freely I give my approval on the state projects May both bo circuspoken word lated without objection throughout Huey charged that the administration was concerned solely with the land. Under my jurisdiction be controlling the expenditures In Lou- preaches the just codes of the old isiana In such a manner as to in- law and Its commandments Until sure winning the election in 1936. a lawful superior rules otherwise, behind this They could go down there and I stand steadfastly spend the whole five billion and priest, Father Coughlin, encourag could not win that election, they ing him to do the will of God as lie he said. But they could load us sees It and I see It. with the five billion debt that we The Michigan unit of Father would have to pty as the result of Coughlins National Union for Socarrying on their politics. cial Justice held Its fiist meeting The priest described this as the TORE than three thousand first of a series of state meetings s lost their lives in a se- to put the millions of members of ries of earthquake shocks that oc- the union to woik to make themselves felt as a democratic foice curred In the most thickly populated section of Formosa, the island off the Chinese coast which Japan A MELIA EAIUIUlT, our premier acquired In 1895 It was the worst 4A woman aviator, made a fine disaster of the kind in the Orient flight from Los Angeles to Mexico since the Tokyo Yokohama quake City, though she was forced to light of 1923. The number of Injured first 60 miles north of her destinawas estimated at fully 12,000, and tion because a small Insect got In a quarter of a million were renher eye. Remov ing the bug, she dered homeless. Property damage continued to the capital, where ten was placed at $28,000,000. Half a thousand persons gave her an endozen sizable towns and many vilAmelia said thusiastic welcome lages were completely destroyed, that after seeing something of Mex and fires and heavy rain added to ico, she hoped to do a better Job the danger and distress of the af- of flying nonstop to New York. flicted people. Water systems were ruined and there was fear of epiteaching of Conrniu demics. The Red Cross and the ALLEGED some of our universities Mrs. Rebecca Llpscome White, Japanese army officials organized and the adoption of that cult by a photographed at the home of her relief expeditions Immediately, but large number of halfbuked young mother in Washington, after her progress was slow because railway men and women in those institureturn from Russia, where she dilines and roadways were destroyed, tions has long been debated and devorced her husbfind, Lieut Thomas as were telegraph and telephone nounced by patriotic citizen Stu D. White, United States military lines. dent strikes and small riots have attache, in the Soviet courts at Formosa lies In the been frequent, and there have been the cost of approximately 10 cents. earthquake belt and has suf- many demands for the suppression fered severely from temblors in the of these reds and pinks. The latest past It Is mountainous and is big institution of learning to be separated from the mainland by a brought into the limelight in this narrow strait Its population Is matter Is the University of Chicago, mainly of Chinese origin. whose faculty contains several decidedly radical Instructor and its body many youthful followDAUGHTERS Inof the American studentMarx and Lenin. Because of their convention ers of in Washington, had their usual ex- charges made by a prominent drug citing and hotly contested election store magnate the Illinois senate ..? T $&Mm' for president general. The candi- has Just adopted a resolution call dates were Mrs. William A. Becker ing for a thorough and complete s of New Jersey and Mrs Flora MyInvestigation by a senatorial com ers Gillentlne of Tennessee, and mittee of five to determine whether ifa jr the former won by a vote of 1,436 any foundation exists for charges S' x -- s' to 619. Mrs. Becker was attacked that subversive Communistic teach by her opponents because she had ings are going on In wholly or The Red Network," a partly tax exempt colleges and uni endorsed m book in which Mrs. Franklin D. versltles of this state The action of the senate followed Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Perkins and other members of the ad within a few hours action by the 'S ministration are listed as Reds house In passing almost unanimous After her victory Mrs Becker gave ly a bill to require an oath of althe members these "three thoughts": legiance and obedience to the state In large things, unity; in lesser and federal constitutions from all r s.r things, tolerance; in all things, teachers and professors. The legcharity. Which sounds like a pret- islatures of other states are passing , similar laws. ty good program. WHEN LOGAN. UTAH the woik Honor 25th Anniversary of Coronation per-son- Clilno-Jap-ane- relief. It Is difficult to comprehend the scope of this program. The sum involved Is the largest grant of money ever handed by any govern ment over to one man to be spent entirely at his direction. While the money phase of the project is large the project Itself is even larger, for It Is but the first step In a 25 year program for the development of the countrys natural resources, as outlined In the Presidents message at the opening of this congress. The administration boldly struck at unemployment by the appropria tlon of $3,700,000,000 in the last con gress. Later it Increased this by $500,000,000, a total of $4,200,000, 000 used for public works and dl rect relief and the great number of projects coming within those two broad divisions. The President him self was responsible for the spending of this money, and every one of the 20,000 projects, large and small, have been personally approved by him. One outstanding accomplishment has been to arouse the national conscience to a realization that the country must take care of Its The hunger of millions has been appeased, even though the doles" have been pitifully small. But a greater thing has also been realized; that Americans dont want charity they want work Its going to cost more to end unemployment by potting 3,500 000 men to work at the Jobs for which they are fitted and the belief Is that gradually the economic situation will ims prove so that this army of will be absorbed into priClyde Pangborn, left, and James Mattern are here seen discussing vate Industry. The materials needthe flight around the world which ed on this $4,800,000,000 program they are planning, hoping to break will start activities In mines and Wiley Posts record of seven days. factories and railroads to such an extent that for every man on the They will use an Uppercu-Bumelplane built for them at Keyport, public Job from four to six men N. J., which will require only three will be working in private industry refueling operations. These will be to supply the goods. In Moscow, China and Siberia. Primarily this program Is to furnish Jobs for unemployed; for that reason the work projects will be planned as far as possible In the neighborhoods where the unemployed now reside. The country will be divided into small areas and work will be planned in those areas so that the workers will be within a daily bus ride of the Job. This will obviate the mobilization of great armies of workmen who would have to be moved long distances and also be provided with temporary housing. The first project to be approved by the President was the doubling of the CCC camps The personnel of these camps will be increased from 300,000 to 600,000; the number of camps will be Increased from about 1.400 to approximately 2,900. These camps take boys from towns and cities where they have been denied a decent chance at life, under the depression, and put them at useful paid work on conservation projects. It Is one of the most popular of the New Deal Items. Inci dentally It has been administered by a combination of the army, the Labor department, the bureau of forestry and other agencies without setting np new bureaus of govern ment Furthermore, the President Intends to spend his $4,800,000,000 without setting np any new agencies. There are already too many bureaus and offices In Washington. There Is more than ordinary importance attached to this second step In the recovery program. CritRepresentative Usher L. Burdick, from the Bad Lands of North ics of the New Deal spending poliDakota, is show n here milking a goat on the 140 acre farm he maintains cies should remember that nearly a in Maryland, 17 miles from Washington. There be carries on as a farmer sixth of the population (Including In the Intervals of representing his people In the house. women and children) are dependent If this vast section of on relief the people should be left to belter skelter, disorganized charity, some day there would either be a revolution or a war Nations with great problems of that sort have either had to adopt a strong Internal domestic policy; or have had to reach out and start a war Look at Japan. zf The few, but politically powerful, who are whining at the cost of President Roosevelts work relief The SL John's Guild, hospital program will do well to contemmore costly alternative. ship, left. Is seen sliding down the plate the ways Into the water at Camden, HOLDING COMPANIES N. J. An elaborate arrangement Back in the nineties, those days of 25 water-tigh- t compartments makes this craft the true nonslnk when people fell down flat on their able" type. She is 181 feet, 4 faces and worshiped high tariff and Inches in length, and has a beam ol were glad that benevolent corpora49 feet Accommodations are pro- tions were good enough to pay vided for 1,500 persons, and there wages at the rate of $6 to $12 a week, there grew up a system of are special arrangements for children. The upper terraced deck can corporation laws which produced be converted Into either a dance those things the cartoonists began fioor or a theater, and there Is a to call Trusts." These giants took the place la modern life of the promenade all around hei deck that Is glass enclosed forward armor clad barons of the Middle ages, who owned everything In to provide a sun deck. Planning a Flight Around the World public-worker- ll I Lawmaker Continues His Farming Unique Hospital Ship Takes Plunge m: Sif .5? Builders Launch Unusual Vessel at Camden sight, including the people, and who stalked around the country knocking folks over the head with a battle axe. We've got the remnants of this race of giants with us today In the shape of a dozen or so holding companies which own or control all the electric light and power companies In the country. These holding companies are responsible for the high electric light rates which could be cut in half, according to the National Power commission. The New Deal program includes putting these holding companies Into the side show as relics. The bill for this purpose is the Wheeler-Ray burn legislation to regulate holding companies and abolish the worst of them by 1940. It Is a measure to protect investors from watered stock and prevent collapses like that of the Insull empire. But Wall Street and the power trust are acting just as their banker friends did in the Woodrow Wilson administration when the federal reserve system was being created to take the control of money out, of J. P. Morgan's office at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, New York city. The power trust is more than a mere abstraction. It consists of a dozen corporations with ominous names and vast financial ramifications. They are in the electric light business; but they dont pro duee a single volt or an ampere of power. All they do is to milk the operating companies; and to get enough cream they keep local electric light rates high. They can fool a state or local utility commission most any time. They dazzle the eye with financial gyrations, stuplfy the average mind with mountain peaks of figures and treat the public like babies lulled to somnolence with soothing sirup in the way of regular dividends. While they are paying $5 or $3 in dividends, they are making a select group of Inside millionaires. The New Deal aims at cutting down these power trust corporations, without hurting Investors, until electric light rates are as low as they should be and permit and encourage a greater use of home electric power. But the holding companies are strongly against such a program. Space does not permit a description of all these companies; but one illustration will suffice. One certain holding company was started in 1921 by two men who put np $10,000 (ten thousand dollars) in cash. By the use of the corporation law they were able without Investing another nickel to collect dividends of In the years 1925 1932, Inclusive; also to gain control over electric light company property amounting to $640,000,000. Now the New Deal wants to get rid of this parasite and its associates. Solid investment does not depend on trick bookkeeping. The widows and orphans who rely on these holding companies for their investments may some day be left holding an empty bag, while the beads of the power trust go down a side street with the property. OLD AGE PENSIONS The old age pension legislation is now in shape, reported to the house of representatives, and It is possible to specify exactly what Is outlined In the administration's measure known as the social security bill. One purpose of the bill is to encourage the states to adopt old age pension laws and to help the state carry the burden. The bill provides that for the Immediate pensions the federal government shall match the expenditures of the states for old age pensions at sixty five, providing that the federal share shall not exceed $15 per month per Individual. States can go as high as they please. (The average pension now paid by the 29 states with aged pension laws is about $16 50 ) It Is not a law for the free distribution of money to all people at age sixty five; pensioners must need the pension and must prove It Right now there are about 1,000,-00- 0 men and women sixty five or over dependent on the public for support the great majority of them being on relief. The number Is expected to Increase In the future due to several reasons, among them the fact that many older workers will never again be employed; the disappearance of savings during the depression and the lessened ability of children to support their parents. The expert? believe, then, that the problem of old age dependency Is great today and growing more acute. The government would take care of people who are sixty-fiv- e years old right now; but expects that a system of contributions will be set up to provide for the future. In the course of a few years every will be contributworking person ing a little bit out of his or her pay Into a fund which will be kept in the United States treasury at Washington, where no state politician can monkey with It Under this plan the monthly old age pension would depend on the age, the length of time of work, the Income, but It would range from $15 a month to $85 a month. The strong feature of this ultimate plan Is the safety of the funds, which are placed In the hands of the United States government Wtrn Nwippr Cnle |