Show news review of current events the world Worl dolTer over president roosevelt tells congress con ra ress of his great work relief plan designed to supplant the I 1 downright dole by EDWARD W PICKARD V 0 by newspaper union RESIDENT ROOSEVELT in his P PRESIDENT message to congress delivered in person at a joint session offered the lawmakers law makers a new and greatly enlarged plan of work relief ile he did not dot estimate its cost but asserted that the system of outright doles should le ile dropped and the government should undertake projects of 3 slum clearance grade crossing elimination and other public works that would give employment to about 3 president pr si ent persons now R roosevelt sevelt without jobs the figures to be proposed for this were reserved for ills his budget message but he assured congress that teat they would be within the sound credit of the government ern ment mr roosevelt declared the gains made in the year 1034 1934 were greater than the losses and expressed a strong hope in the coming year ile he reasserted his belief in the profit mo tire but uttered a warning against wealth wIlI which cb through excessive profits creates undue over private affairs and to our misfortune oer 01 er public affairs as well ell this nat anally was taken as appling especially to the public sen ice interests hleb hale haie been so apprehensive of the ad administrations in iniestra lions intentions As for a legislative program the eres president ident made DO attempt to outline one but lie he did promise that definite legislation soon would be proposed covering old age and unemployment insurance su rance benefits for children and mothers and other features of his social cial security plans re he declared the nation was making headway toward the new order but under the framework of the constitution and he spoke of the increased in du Ju activity benefits to agriculture and profits to merchants that have been realized then came this stern warning let him who for speculative profit or mr partisan purpose without just warrant would seel to disturb or dispel this assurance take heed before lie he as responsibility for any act slows our onward steps the president reported an unsettled condition in the foreign field with tile the resurrection of old jealousies and pis pas alons and new strivings for armament and power in more than one land adding in there Is no ground for apprehension that our relations with ith any na non hilll be otherwise than peaceful discussing the matters that will be brought before COD congress gress for action mr roosevelt said among tile the subjects that lie immediately fl before us are the auns cuns of fedral federal fed ral regulatory administration over all forms of transportation the renewal and of the alie gen eral purposes ot of the national indus trial reco recovery rec cry ery act the he strengthening of our facilities for prevention detection and treatment of crime and criminals the restoration of sound con MOODS in the public utilities field through abolition of the evil features of at holding companies the gradual ta oft off of the emergency credit activities tivi tIvIt ties les of government and improvement in our oar taxation forms and methods we have already begun to feel the bracing effect upon out oui economic system of a restored the hundreds of millions of additional income that argers ariu ers are te leie iving elving Is finding its way into the channels of trade tile the farmers share of the nations national income Is slowly rising tile the economic facts justify the widespread opinion of those engaged in agriculture that our provision for maintaining a balanced production gave at this time the adequate remedy for an old and vexing problem leni for tile the present and especially in view of ab abnormal world conditions agricultural ri adjustment with certain necessary improvements in methods should continue TUG seventy fourth congress elected on the sole eole issue of support of the new ueal deal begun its first session on tile the dot and devoted its first day to the organization of the two houses and the swearing in of new men members ibers the lawmakers assembled to in hie elie capitol were a V serious looking lot and with reason for they have on their bands a big job that thai of making the new deal permanent and in the doing of it they must fiolle some of speaker the tha most perplex perplexing i byrns problems that our national legislators ever have faced it would seem that the democrats will have no trouble in passing any legislation they wish for they have an overpowering to the senate are 69 democrats and 25 republicans plus one llva elva robert M R lafollette and one farmer laborite ShIp stend the rhe house is comprised of demo brats republicans seven progreso and three the administration democrats do not anticipate any trouble from the republicans Rep till it la is from the radical members or of their theft own party that their woes boes are likely to come anil and the help of the republicans may ile he ne necessary cesary to curb those left wingers the majority leaders in both houses can b be e counted on to hold the radicals under a tight rein if that is pos pis gissible sible to la the speakers chair sits joseph T byrns chosen unanimously by his fellow democrats lie Is too much of a compromiser to suit many of them but Is now tied to the administration which declined to oppose his election john H bankhead of alabama like byrns one of the old school won the leadership of the house after a brief struggle senator joseph robinson of arkansas was reelected elected re majority leader of the senate and senator lewis or of illinois continues as whip in their pre neslon caucus the democrats toted to reduce material materially the republican representation on house committees and decided to abrogate the rule for discharging a committee and bringing a bill to vote within a werk week the number now required for this action Is this latter action will provide another restriction on the radicals WO thousand eight hundred bills were introduced and referred to committees on tile the first day of the new congress number 1 handed in by wright W right patman of texas provides for the payment of the adjusted service certificates of veterans n cast cash through the issuance of greenzalis green balis buks patman and other supporters of this plan call it controlled inflation lemke of north dakota republican introduced a measure for the liquidation and re financing of agricultural indebtedness the liquidation would be carried out at a reduced rate of interest according to the bill by establishing tab lishing an efficient credit system through the use of the federal farm loan and federal reserve bank banking systems lenike also provided for the creation of a board of agriculture to supervise the program continuance of the HOLC was proposed by several leeral congressmen the biond issue of this agency would be increased anywhere from one billion to four and a half billion dollars in the various bills introduced on the subject A per cent payoff for depositors whose who funds are tied up in trust companies was sought in two bills written by representative clarence J mcleod of michigan higan many inda bills were introduced providing unemployment and old age insurance P ROOSEVELT did not 1 wait all for tile the op opening eniti of congress to stait his fight against immediate paytent of the veterans bonus tile the cummi inder of a legion post in texas ailin for information on the nutter and mr 1 too replied at length detailing his reasons for OI opposing poSIng the payment ue figued that the obliga tion lion Is not dot due that of 3 auw outstanding buu alk leie ete ians iaus have burrowed borrowed or mure more thun than the present worth artil of their bonus berti certificates licit tes and that when the 1 tei ete erans hot bui ro rowed ed zio 50 per cent of tile the tale value nine of the die in 1931 they used the funds to discharge their debts this last point according to nation al commander belgrano Belgra of the american legion is one of the strongest arguments tor for immediate payment of the adjusted sen bernice ice certificates the of good business Is goud good cheda bald commander uel gracci the money due veterans would be abed to batisky bills at the corner gru gro iery Lery would help bell pay rents that ure ion lung past due and would go to hard pressed merchants to discharge tile the accounts of harder pressed act e t erans beeaker api aker barns admitted that the cash bonus bill would pass the house bouse because be Lause Is nu no opposition to it there but lie he added that it if tile llie measure is finally ell enabled acted the administration hilll insist on sume additional taxation to mm the estimated expenditure it Is believed the senate also will pass the bill but lead ers doubt its passage asage Ij by congress over the presidential veto II IF LOUISIANA cains tiny any more public lic works muney money from tile the adin administration hils tra tion it must clarify some or of the new laws which its leg has passed at tile the bellet bc liest of senator huey fluey P long this is the gist of a letter sent gent to gov 0 K allen alien by president roosebelt Roos Roo eielt and tile kingfish Is not pleased by it ile he told the reporters he would make his reply on the floor of the senate at tile the first opportunity the presidents warning applied especially to the Lon kinna moratorium law passed in since its enactment the has held up pay routs on about CO louisiana projects of imil S SENATOR igan liberal republican says lif hf hlll III id I introduce d ce in tile hie senate senaie a hill designed to take tile post onice office department out of politics I 1 the measure lie has drafted would put ill all postmasters und mid postal officials als except elie postmaster g general e n e r a 1 under udder the civil service and in the llie giving out of jobs the post office employees would have the preference senator r has buen been demanding that post senator master general par far ley either resign from tho the cabinet or give up his chairmanship or of tile the democratic national committee in line with this his bill would prohibit the postmaster general from holding any political office by taking politics out of the department part ment and establishing a career service salt said the pavement pounding letter carriers mity may look forward to ultimate graduation to tile the high post of first assistant postmaster general under this bill he added politics and postal affairs at last are separated as far as is possible in a democracy all local poRt postmasters masters are put squarely under civil service with emphatic and effective priorities given to tile the postal grays themselves existing postmasters are permitted to serve out their present commissions thereupon the vacancies tire filled by promotion from the service ranks only in the event that no such person Is available aind we anticipate that this contingency would not arise other than in some of the smallest smili pst can tile the vacancy be filled otherwise than by promotion 0 ONE NE of the most sellous issues that will confront congress Is the battle between business and industry on one side and organized organised sed labor on the other especially over the thirty hour work week the american federation of labor Is committed to this proposition and to the retention of the collective bargaining provisions of tile the NKA INRA act big business as represented by the chamber of comerce of the united states and the national manufacturers rs association Is opposed to the thirty hour week and now has the support from the he brookings institution it also seeks the separation of labor bargaining and practice codes in the reorganization of the NHA the open in anc shot in this battle Is the introduction by senator ungo L black of alabama t of ills his thirty hour work week hill bill which at pre present ant has not the support of the administration DEMOCRATS r of rhode island surprised themselves and everyone else by gaining control of both houses of the state general assembly when a senate committee recounted the ballots from portsmouth and south kingston and declared two democrats had been elected to the seriate senate instead of the two republicans who tind had heen been certified as winners by the lie state rp returning turnIng board the democratic legislators leg Isla tors am in med mediately lately organized the assembly ousted the supreme court members abolished the state appointed board ot of public safety and passed fined a reorganization hill to consolidate more than SO agencies into 11 state departments MINISTER PIERRE LA FOREIGN valls Is earning out successfully the work begun by his murdered predecessor earthol Part liou thou to bring france and italy into friendly accord for the settlement of all tile conflicts that have arisen between those nations since the world war the agreement it Is believed will also insure pence peace in the balkans after a week of lively negotiations it was announced that NL laval would go to leome to have I 1 important m port lint conversations with premier mussolini on questions which interest the two countries and on international politics and to conclude conversations which have heen been going on between the two to countries WITH win remarkable celerity the jury in the trial was selected consisting of eight men and four women and attorney general set forth the states case against the bronx carpenter who Is accused of and murdering the baby son of colonel the colonel and mrs lindbergh were present and they and betty gow the childs nurse were among the alie early witnesses on behalf of the state the attorney general demanded the penalty of first degree murder I 1 IN N 1 1033 tile the james E L sullivan memorial trophy awarded to the athlete contributing the most to alj the cause of amateur athletics during the year aas as missed by hill bill BoD bonlaron thron of prince tou by just one vote and was given to glenn cunningham now it Is to in bills as aa the result of his ill great lout foot racing campaign during 1034 in the course of which he established a world record tor for 1500 meters and beat cunningham Cuno ingham in three out of live five races in the nationwide ballot conducted by A A U Bont bonthron bron led lu in the preliminary lini loary voting and then piled filled up 1072 votes in the final test after the held field had been cut to seven benjamin B liast east man former stanford track star ran second with 0 and then came ralph metcalfe marquette negro negra sprinter with and glen hardin louisiana state university iab with am three swimmers trailed the track men lenore night of homestead pa received votes jack of 0 seattle igal and katherine Kather lne rawla fort lauderdale fla |