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Show - f i THE LEIII SUN. LEIH, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over FresiJent Starts His Social Reform Program, Putting Unemployment Insurance First Visits TVA on Way to "Warm Springs. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C by Wtittri Nwipper Union. Fran P. Graham WITH the election Id the back-ground. back-ground. President Roosevelt l ready to push forward more rapidly fcla anbltloug plana for what be colls "the abundant life" In this conn-try. conn-try. So he baa appointed ap-pointed a large advisory ad-visory council to aid In formulating and setting through congress bis program pro-gram of social reform. re-form. The chairman chair-man . Is Frank P. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, who has been serv ing aa vice chairman of the NRA consumers advisory board. He and hie colleagues, all known to be New Dealers or In close sympathy with the New DaV, are asked by Mr. Roosevelt "for advice and counsel , In development of a u-ogram for unemployment un-employment insurance, old age so-cnrity so-cnrity and adequate health care." Work on the social program already al-ready la well under way and an executive ex-ecutive committee has laid the groundwork. Also Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor and chairman of the executive committee, commit-tee, has named an advisory committee commit-tee of physicians and surgeons that, according to advance rumors, will report a program that will be "revolutionary "rev-olutionary almost to the point of establishing es-tablishing socialized medicine." Thla medical group la headed by Dr. Harvey Cushlng of Yale, whose daughter Betsy Is the wife of James Roosevelt, son of the President Secretary Perkins anonunced that other committees were being organized or-ganized to aid In the formation of plans for federal Intervention In problems of public health, hospitalization, hos-pitalization, and dentistry. WHEN the federal conference on economic security met In Washington, nearly all the members mem-bers of the advisory committee were present The President told the delegates that he would present pre-sent to the coming congress bills to provide for setting up immediately imme-diately an unemployment Insurance program. As toheaUlLjnsurance and old age pensions, he said be was not certain the time had ar rived for federal legislation to put them Into effect, and he uttered warning against "organizations pro- noting fantastic schemes" and arousing hopes "which cannot pos sibly be fulfilled." Though Sir. Roosevelt conceded to the separate states the right to decide what type of unemployment insurance they would adopt, he de clared that he would reserve to the federal government the right to hold and Invest and control all moneys which might be collected. Thla was necessary, the President added, because of the magnitude of the funds, and "so that the use of these funds as a means of stabilisation stabilis-ation may be maintained in central management and employed on a na tlonal basis." It Is expected that from 11,000.000,000 to $3,000,000,000 would be raised In the course of several years. Mr. Roosevelt insisted that on employment Insurance must be kept entirely apart from the dole, and that It should be managed strictly en aa actuarially sound basis. He Indicated that be favored leglsla tloa along the lines of the Wagner-Lewis Wagner-Lewis bill introduced In the last congress, under which a B per cent federal tax would be put upon all commercial pay rolls, certain por tions of the proceeds being paid back to such states as had adopted legislation for the working of an snetnployment Insurance program F.efore the conference members went to the White House to hear the President, they Indulged In discussion that brought out all sorts f views of what should be done, Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins aad Mayor La Guardla of New York arged Immediate establishment of a federal program to Include benefits bene-fits for the 4.200.000 families now tm relief. Hopkins said any program pro-gram not encompass'ng these destitute desti-tute "Is not worth Its salt." La Guardla, In the same vein, said cit ies cannot bold op under the re lief load mil co longer. This was not In accord with the view ex pressed a little later by the Presl eat, and was aa example of the confusion of ideaa in the confer- administration, export import banking, bank-ing, commodity credit, federal deposit de-posit Insurance, the RFC, federal reserve board and public works housing. In connection with this co-or dinating move, the White House stated that when the present applications appli-cations of the Home Owners' Loan corporation have been reduced to terms of approval the original $3,- 000,000,000 allotment will have been nsed up. At the same time it was pointed out that no other funds for that recovery phase were immediately immedi-ately in sight ANOTHER program that la being be-ing rapidly prepared by the President's advisers for action by congress has to do with the nation's natural resources, and the neces sary legislation Is being drafted by the national resources board. It Is of utmost Importance and In Washington Wash-ington there is a belief that it may lead to government control, and possibly government ownership, of all timber lands, oil reservoirs and coal fields, and government dominion do-minion over all existing and future ater power developments on the cation's lakes and rivets. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has gone to his winter retreat at Warm Springs, Ga., where he will remain until after Thanksgiving day, and on the way had some In teresting experiences. First he traveled to Uarrodsburg, Ky where be helped Gov. Ruby LafToon and other officials in the nnvelllng and dedication of a memorial to the men and women who established there the first permanent Anglo- Saxon settlement west of the Al- leghenles. The monument, erected by the federal government at -a cost of $100,000, overlooks Pioneer Me morial 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 con' quest of the old northwest terrl- tory. From Harrodsburg the President went to see the Tennessee valley developmentwhich has been well caiiea the laboratory of the "more abundant life." It was with deepest Interest that, he viewed the work that Is being done by about 1,200 men building dams in tho Tennessee river and tributaries to provide power, flood control, navigation and new fields of worn for persons drawn from unprofitable land. After a visit to the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson at Nash ville, Mr. Roosevelt Inspected the revived Muscle Shouts plants and the Wheeler and Wilson dams, and then went to Tupelo, Miss., the first town to purchnse tower from the new federal developmen. Senator Pat Harrison Introduced him at ex ercises In the town square. The party continued to Warm Springs by way of ISIrmingham. The President Presi-dent was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull ARIZONA Is determined to pre-vent pre-vent the construction of the Parker diversion dam across the Colorado river unless it gets what It considers its share or the hydroelectric hydro-electric power to be developed by that project Gov. B. B. Moeur declared de-clared a "war zone" on the Arizona side of the river at the dam site and sent a detachment of National Guardsmen with rifles and machine guns to halt work there. The United States bureau of reclamation ordered that work on the Parker dam on the Arizona side be stopped until the dispute is settled, set-tled, so Governor Moeur called the troops back to Prcscott and Phoenix. "It's a showdown this time," Moeur said, "we are going to get something or we aren't And If we can't expect anything, we want to know It before this project is farther far-ther advanced." W. P. Whltsett, chairman of the Los Angeles metropolitan water district board of directors, snld he heartily agreed" with Governor Moeur that Arizona should have one-half of the power privilege at the Parker dam. "It Is to be hoped that the fed eral government and the state of Arizona will be able to reach an ac cord enabling the construction work to proceed," he said. "The advan tages which will accrue to both Ari zona and California more than Justi fy the building of Parker dam at this time." SENATOR THOMAS and his fellow fel-low Inflationists were not pleased with the President's choice of a new governor of the federal reserve board to succeed , , Eugene Black. He picked Marrlner S. Eccles, a Utah banker, whose ideas of inflation are not at all those of Thomas, for they do not Include fiat money. Mr. Eccles believes In "credit Inflation"; he would control the reserve banks' purchases of government ; secur ities, issue money against these purchases pur-chases and spend the new money for government bonds, thus creating creat-ing an endless chain of credit ar rangement So long as this chain were maintained unbroken, the gov ernment's credit would be inex haustible. Something like fifteen billion dot lara, according to Mr. Eccles, should be spent by the government for pub lic works and housing projects, and he thinks this vast sum can be ob tained by following out his mone tary plans. 100 APE SMAKlNGlO A CENTLEMANOFTHE OLD SCHOOL THE ; SCKOOLOF79 SAH' wm i I LA Marriner S. Eccles THE government hns Issued an order or-der permltlng the free exportation exporta-tion of capital from the United States, and business men take this as a concession to those who de mand stabilization of the currency as a prerequisite to business recov ery. It does not mean stabilization but Is a step toward it and Indicat ed the administration has dropped the Idea of bringing about recovery by debasing the dollar. .Presumably, if further attempts to cheapen the dollar in foreign exchange were contemplated, the treasury would not leave the doors open for the wholesale flight of American cap ital abroad. I ' V - 1 Li 21 FOR the purpose of obtaining better bet-ter co-operation among federal ageacles engaged In lending govern-Bieot govern-Bieot funds, the President baa appointed ap-pointed a committee consisting of the beads of the agencies, with Secretary Sec-retary of the Treasury Morgenthau as chairman. The new organlza-t'M organlza-t'M will report- to the President frea tine to time and Its activities will eever the treasury, interior, psMIe works, federal housing, farm credit Home Owners Loan corporation, cor-poration, agricultural adjustment UNCLE SAM need expect no payment pay-ment from France on the war debt on December 15, when the next Installment Is due. It Is stated In Paris that France will then default for the fifth straight time. Pierre Etlenne Flandin, new premier, pre-mier, opposed payment pay-ment In 1932, when he was minister of finance, and bis cabinet is now tak ing the same position posi-tion as the previous fvArnnii,n t a a- If . Flandi" lean settlement which would serve aa a basla for Franco-American negotiations. The only Idea for revision of the debts that has met with any enthu slasin In French parliamentary cir cles is a to per cent payment to correspond with the reparations re lief granted Germany by the Lausanne Lau-sanne agreement Proposals for larger amounts, or "payment In kind." have met with coldness. Th chamber of deputies Is clinging to the position that France will not pay one cent more than It gets from Uermany. FREDERICK LAXDIS. the only Republican to be elected to congress con-gress from Indiana In the recent election, diel of pneumonia In his borne town. Logansport. ne was a brother of Kenesaw M. Landls, national na-tional baseball commissioner. FEDERAL JUDGE CHARLES I. I1 DAWSON of Louisville, Ky. overruling an attack on the valid ity of the Frazler-Lemke farm mor atorium act declared "with regret' that it is constitutional. In bis opin ion be said: "The legislation. In some of Its provisions, Is unfair to creditors, and unwise even as to farm debtors. for it Inevitably closes to them all private sources of creClt" A muscw Air.ui.o.N may now have another cause for grlev ance against the federal Treasury department, for the government has made charges against the Union Trust company of Pittsburgh, a Mel ion institution, of filing "a false and fraudulent Income tax return" for 19T.0 In a tax action demanding payment pay-ment of $218,303 plus a 60 per cent penalty. In supporting Its claim, the government gov-ernment listed eight transactions In 1931 as evidence that all were "a part of a false and fraudulent course of conduct on the part of said Union Trust company." Among the 1031 transactions were two "accommodation" "ac-commodation" deals with Andrew W. Mellon. BEVERLY HILLS Well all know is Just what I read in the mall. Got an awful lot of Birthday Greet- lngs couple of weeks ago, I was kinder letting the thing slide by, and had even forgotten it, but they wont let you. They want to remind you how old you are getting, and too you would be surprised at the amount of people peo-ple that was born on that very day, Nov. 4th, '79. Along on that date In 79, must have been quite a day for births. But I was mighty glad to hear from all of em, and we can console each other on reaching such a ripe old age; I am going to start in de manding a little more respect You take a dignified fellow thats arrived at 55 years of age, and "Hello, theres Old Bill." and "Look at that old guy Rogers over there". Well thats all got to stop. From now on there is go ing to be some "Mr Rogers" used. My hair la arriving at a sort of a blend that it deserves respect if nothing else. A greying head Is a mark of respect in any land, so you guys cut out this rough uncouth stuff. You are speaking to a gentleman gentle-man of the old school The school of 79 sah. ' One fellow was telling me, "I think you are kinder spreading some prop aganda to get in on this old age pension." pen-sion." You know they are going to have that Thats going to be the very next thing. It advocated by practically everybody and it would be the grandest thing we ever had. It would be a great mental relief to millions and millions of old folks. There Is nothing more terryfylng than that thought of facing the fu ture with nothing to carry on with. I dont know where they will get the money. Take It out of increased Income tax, ah, there Is a thousand taxes that other countries have that we havent touched yet. Why a match, and a salt tax in many countries are the biggest things they have, India almost has war with England every year over the salt tax. And Luxuries? Lux-uries? Why we havent started tax ing them yet But I dident write this to get started off on any economic eco-nomic theory. I havent got any, but 1 sure do want to see an old age pension, if we have to print the money for It Here Is a letter from Rex Beach. Rex lives down in Florida, and in addition to being one of the most constant best authors In America, he is an expert farmer, got a great eel ery plantation, does It scientifically Rex and Professor Hamilton Holt of the famous Liberal College. Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida". Rex Is an old Alumni. They want to give me a degree, (a kind of a non paying old age pension). Now what In the world would I be doing with a degree? de-gree? A lot of guy3 that earned em dont know what to do with em, much less me that wouldent know what one was. They gave Fred Stone one. Well he deserved It I can think of a hundred reasons why he should be knighted. Talked Flnnland the other night and here Is a lot of sice letters. Those Finns are the most apprecia tive people, in fact all the countries are. Here is a banker, J. Rowland, from Youngstown, Ohio, who wrote before this last election and says that it is Roosevelt and not the bankers that are In the "Dog House' as I said. He knows more now that he did before November 6th. a note from Sam Fordyce. St Louis pet politician. Amon Carter of Ft Worth Texas sent me a saddle from some South American R e -1 1 public on his fly. ing trip clear around South America. I hear the next Democratic Demo-cratic Convention Conven-tion Is to be held in Dallas. I am glad to hear it She deserves It. Its a great l i. Amon will . .aps go back 10 bouth America, flovennr RvtM i fife -juTlP M f Mifi ' f j The Berf - . -"-a6sl I , ZTIj I dent that was" responsible. The I Rntnttttssnttunsttt! 1 GERMAN Nazis In the Saar, or- of the Bank of Finnland, is in this irfl n IvAi! set ttiA a. I nu M m . ... . B CDGET requests for S new airplanes have been submitted by the army air eorps. and If the corps" plan is approved the United States will bare the largest and most up to date military aerial armada ar-mada In the world. Including eventually even-tually 2.K) planes. ganlzed as the German Front, assert that the French separatists have been trying to stir up a quarrel quar-rel for the purpose of Inducing Geoffrey Knox, president of the League of Nations commission for the Saar, to call In foreljrn troops. The accusation was contained In a note sent the league denying thai the German organization has gone beyond the law In urging Inhabitants Inhab-itants of the Saar to vote for return re-turn of their land to Germany In the plebiscite to he held January 13. In Its memorial to the league the German Front asserted that It possesses pos-sesses documents to prove that country, and wrote and thanked me. Charley Wagner, my old concert manager, has got the itch again, thinks the Country is ripe for one of those long winded concert tour talks of mine. No. I am going to let the country alone Its had enough trouble without me adding to It Thanks for the offer. Charlev Thanks for the wire, Malcolm Ste venson, the international nolo Dtav er. Here is one telling about the record of the American Airways. irora Los Angeles to Ft Worth, and from there to Chicago, with their nrst new Douglas. They ramble. those babies. 1 also have the good and that pro-French r-ours have been trained In the use of machine guns and inflammable liquids. This is for the purpose of executing a coop d'etat lute In November or early In December, the German note said. France has sent arms Into the Saar news here of the terrific hit Fred Stone made in his new show In New York. Things are looking up since election. I tell you it they would just quit having those things we never would have hard times. 134. HcXfhi StUnl. c I president I .mt toDted with ), ever .juil to the I. - . U the kelt nl1 I, real dan buna generally jj leaoera ill politics iiwhorefus come tb: I went Into 'finished th Our 'amesWaldoJawcett in Uashin&fon Star HANKSGIVING is an an-clent an-clent custom, but It has ha1 Ifo nna nn1 dAmttn ;--At jy Historians say that It 'a 5 ha8 not a,ways Deen 1116 jjjEMaJ universallT popular oc- fMj caslon which It now Is mMSKS considered to be. The first thanksgiving ceremoniously cere-moniously observed In North America Amer-ica was that conducted by Kev. Mr. Wolfall, chaplain of the Froblsher expedition to Newfoundland, May 27, 1578. and the earliest Thanksgiving Thanks-giving observance reported within the present boundaries of the United States was held by the Popham colonists at Sagadahoc, Maine, In AugustlG07. But the first specification of a whole day of thanksgiving was that proclaimed by William Bradford, first governor of Massachusetts Colony Col-ony of Pilgrims, "in gratitude for the plenteous harvest" of 1021. The date was December 13. old style. - The festival became an annual and regular on in Massachusetts In 1GS4, and tiie example so established estab-lished was followed by all the other New England colonies, ft was the most Important feast of the year, taking rank above Christmas, of which the Puritans disapproved. During the Revolutionary war there were at least eight separate MfJl V J aV ,i The Great Day Dawned. The Pa-rade Pa-rade Was Held. days of general thanksgiving. George Washington ordered days for prayer and thanks on December 13, 1777 and May 7, 177a But It was not the Father of His Country who first conceived the Idea of a national Thanksgiving day for the newly liberated colonies. Con-trary Con-trary to common belief. It was congress con-gress rather than the first Presi dent that was responsible. The credit In the circumstances Is due particularly to Elias Boudlnot a member of the bouse of representatives representa-tives from New Jersey, who on Sep- lemner zo, ivy. introduced a reso lution calling upon "all the- citizens of the United States" to Join "with one voice in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings he bad poured upon them." The original document Is still in the files of the congress. where it recently was discovered. The record shows that the motion prompted strenuous debate. Opposl tlon to the proposal was passion ately Intense. Aedanus Burke of South Carolina attacked "this mimicking of European customs.' Thomas T. Tucker of Virginia sar donically submitted that "it might be well to wait for some experience of the efficiency of the Constitution before returning thanks for It" But It was an Episcopalian who signed the proclamation when Bou- Abraham Lincoln Was Responsible! for Present Custom. dlnot's resolution finally was accorded ac-corded congressional approval. It happened, too, that it was the first document of its kind ever endorsed by an American Chief Executive. November 26 was the day assigned, and Washington summoned the new nation to express gratitude "for the peaceable and rational manner In which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government" govern-ment" However, the opposition party was not satisfied. Jefferson, for one. declined to take part in the ceremonies. cere-monies. His celebrated rival. Alexander Alex-ander Hamilton, on the other hand, determined to make a really memorable mem-orable event of the festival With the imaginative flair which a distinguished distin-guished him, be visioned a "monster "mon-ster celebration," with Washington as Its presiding genius. There should be a great parade, a'color-ful a'color-ful and dramatic pageant an American equivalent more or less, of a Roman triumph. Troops were to march, bands to play, flags to fly. and the multitude could be counted upon to cheer. The whole affair. Hamilton decid ed, should culminate In a banquet at Fraunces tavern. To the festal board he Invited his chosen friends and preparation for their entertain ment In the grand manner proceeded. pro-ceeded. Blut Mrs. Washington had plans wsatstmtj THANKSGIVING DAY By GEORGE ERWIN ii CMujo Port f: 0R all the Sifu ol twin Tbat brightea Demon Make bow my heart 11 ilta O, Lord, where faith lUI W A tittle while I (retted When shadows hid the lifkt, But now I find your kiidnea Wat patient with mj ilikl To all the loving toarcet Of bleningi tweet I thm, A grateful ong uplifted O'er gentle paths I hew. For where my heart wu baffltd And bitter lots I knew. This finer faith was gathered From tempests battled tkn For all dear thought of mertj I've learned from cmeltj, O, Lord, a kind apoitle To broken souls I'd be. As to the blind a leader, I'd teach the sight I toned When patience gave me garde In bleak and barren groisl For more than life can neuin,,, Dear Lord, how shall I tees A sweet or shining portioi While those unnouriibed ten? Whenever Dawn comes iroili&K- O give me grace to knov Its promise and be worth) As with a song I go. v.ut and 4 li to bi I Republi le or nw . Fletche w Bast esentativ In to hai cisms of I jensuJ K ithiaaloi H resulte feat wMch 4 rather, ti proposa itVnhlp, ai j, acconUt Spatlon, jiMicans i nothing " t place ( -4 was p: Isomeq lr!sted SfieiBM t!.e dlsn 'a'C-dep: KgM W whethe a Preside least ht paring of ai :"4 other a and ' i to hit :fi not i H as 4t has freiid !?ro&i of her own. She desired 1 total levee at the Executive Mansfa It Franklin square, and Mates were dispatched to "everybodj A was anybody." Hamilton, natunlU. was one of those whose pressa was requested. The great day dawned. Vxp rade was held. The receptiM lowed. Hamilton was late Is n Ing at the tavern, s tardy bo bis own dinner. To his amazement, the fto the feast found his guesti w waited for him to appear. W had been eating and MDl!'f all they were worth la W f From the doorway Bamllt J veyed the scene, his f . vrthpl(SS. M 181 Wlin raga w- . 1 his tongue for fear of tie T scandal" of an onttom. fell as he moved scros. tbero to a place at the table, inevitable outburst folio g For Ave years there MJJ Thanksgiving day PJj Thanksgiving day ffT in a later period AnftjH son and Zachary Taylor reWJ order observance of Ahraham Uncoln was rwt for the present cumoi the fourth or last vemberasanaUonalW" But it w.Bl"ntWa paratlvely receni j & people of the entire III if ti.i with enthusiasm. J rlty Pres! m ft- fie t 'k beei ' an Anagb 7 t 5trtlcul! esei 1a ,ajf n ii w t Prt "iow tsto U ft : 4l 80 i mis ' I'e 1 - otf 'ce da! 4t ise flio in U 4. i 1 |