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Show THE PAGE TWO News Review of Current Events the World Over Congress Not Accomplishing Anything Important Budget Balancing Likely to Be Postponed Johnson Assails Borah in Senate Dehate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ANYTHING of moment Is ac--' to see how they could be more specouipllshed by the present ses-!o- cific. Johnson thereupon soundly beof congress, almost certainly ttie latrt "lnnie duck" session thtit rated Borah for bis stand, and saever will be held, tirically scolded bltn for not giving observers the senate the "facts" known to political will be astonished him when the moratorium was beThe Democrats, In fore that body In 1931. The exnumerical control of change of personalities between the the house, seem be- two erstwhile close friends was wildered and uncer acrimonious. Though Mr. Roosevelt declined to tain ; the Repubwith President Hoover licans gleefully assist In distracting on the war debt questions, he is get- their opponents and Ing ready to tackle this and other ' complicating their International matters Immediately attempts at legisla- after his Inauguration. In pursution ; the more rad- ance of this plan he held long conRep. Rainey leal members of ferences In New York with Secre both parties slash right and left to tary Stlmson, Col. Edward M. add to the confusion. The senate House, who Is an authority on forV. Gerard, doesn't especially like the house's eign affairs; James beer bill, and the house doesn't American ambassador to Germany approve of the repeal resolution be- at the time the United States enfore the senate. Proceedings In the tered the war; Sumner Welles, who upper chamber at this writing are was assistant secretary of state In held op by a filibuster conducted by the Wilson administration, and SenSenator Huey Long of Louisiana ator Swanson of Virginia, one of for the purpose of defeating the our delegates to the disarmament Glass banking bill. And over all conference. Over In France there Is a growhangs the prospect that President Hoover will veto certain of the ing belief that Mr. Roosevelt semost Important measures If they cretly engaged himself to a drastic revision of the war debts, and the reach the White House. As for balancing the budget, that public also refuses to accept Laval's frobably will have to wait for the denial that President Hoover promspecial session of the new con ised him a reduction. gress. President Hoover apparentEMOCRATIC logrolling and ly has abandoned hope that It can tactics of bumpering be accomplished at this session, and the Democrats. Including President-Elec- t marked the debate on the domesRoosevelt, give no Indication tic allotment farm relief bill in the that they have decided how It house. Even If It were passed by should be done. They now deny house and sanate It probably would that they plan to raise the In be subjected to veto by the Presicome tax. the leaders who con dent. The measure was loaded down ferred with Mr. Roosevelt repndl with amendments by representa ated their first statements that such tives who refused to be controlled was their Intention. Representative by their party leaders. Proposals to Include rice within Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, majority leader, declares congress can the benefits of the act were adoptbalance the federal budget without ed 99 to 24 ; peanuts were added by the Imposition of additional taxes, the close teller vote of 111 to 110 except a tax on beer, and bis state- and the butter fat products of the ment is greeted with general ex- dairy Industry Included 102 to 75 on pressions of approval from the tax- a rising vote. When it was finally payers and many members of con- assured of passage by the house gress. He says the budget should the Roosevelt farm relief program be balanced by cutting down the was rounded out with the Introduc cost of government a proceeding tion In the senate of companion that has the nominal approval of bills designed to lighten the burdens of agricultural both parties and that the Imposimortgages tion of a heavier tax burden on the through the use of further federal people would be to "Invite revo- aid and federal money. All of which sounds fine, lution." but so far congress has failed to reduce governmental costs In any apagainst the Glass banking The amount It bill amused a handful of senators preciable degree. will save In this session may not be and a lot of visitors In the gal leries, but kept the as much as $100,000,000. senate from accomSenator Pat Harrison of Missisplishing anything sippi, one of the most astute of Huey made a num the Democrats, agreed with the 1 ber of sarcastic al Rainey program. "We," he said, "are Insions to Senator going to retrench sufficiently to Glass, which rather avoid levying of new taxes, t Is annoyed the Virtoo early now to tell just how close I"'' ginian. Hensserted we can come to balancing the budthat when recently Our plan get through economies. he said he knew Is to hold off on revenue legislamore about branch tion for several weeks while we try banking than Glass, to secure enactment of the beer he really "was not Sen. Glass of the gasoline bill, giving himself much tax and all possible economies When we know how much we can credit." Then he produced a big raise and save It will be tlm enough Bible and read from Isaiah: "Woe unto them that Join house to talk of new taxes." to house, that lay field to field, till A S LAID before the senate, the there be no place, that they may be resolution for repeal of the placed alone In the midst of the Eighteenth amendment was a com earth." "Just change that to branch promise between the drys and wets on the Judiciary committee, and banks," he shouted, "and you've got satisfied no one. It Is designed to what'll happen to the Independent bar the saloon, retains for the fed- bankers." "If you don't take the house of eral government a certain amount was of control over the liquor traffic, Morgan into consideration." aims to protect dry states from the another contribution, "you ain't goImportation of liquor from wet ing to regulate many banks with Belghbors, and provides for submis- any bill you pass here. The house sion of the amendment to state leg of Morgan Is the undisputed king-fisof the banking business." Islatures rather than to special tate conventions. Speaker Garner Long's plan to end the depression and Representative Rainey said was characteristic. He would surthe resolution In that form would vey the country, order production not even be Introduced In the house to cease of any product of which if It were passed by the senate, be- there is now plenty. Issue ten bil cause It does not conform to the lion dolhirs of federal bonds for food, clothing, and public works, Democratic platform. and "just a little capital levy" In on the rich would pay for all of SENATOR BORAH'S assertion that France was jus this program. tlfied In her stand on the war debt because President Hoover in bis IN RESPONSE to a special mes sage from the President urging conference with M. Laval had given "emergency action" to stave off wholesale forced foreclosures, con the European debtor nations reason gresslonal leaders promised a par 1 tial revision of the bankruptcy laws to believe their obat this session. The house Judiciary ligations to t b e committee began consideration of a United States would 9 V" bill embodying the principles sugbe Bcaled down If gested by Mr. Hoover lo ease the reparations were debt situation during the present reduced brought on a sharp debate period of depression. between the Idaho Li. 4 .. DRESIDENT HOOVER In a spe- gentleman and Sencial message asked congress to Senator ator Hiram JohnJohnson son of California. ratify the long pending infernntion nl anus convention or to enact leg The row started with the leading in the senate of islntion at this session, giving the letters from Secretary of State Chief Executive wider powers in Stlmson and Secretary of theTreas placing embargoes on shipments of Neither re nry Mills denying that Mr. Hoover arms to belligerents had given Laval any such assur quest Is likely to he granted. Chair ance. These denials. P.orah said, man Borah of the senate foreign were Inconclusive, though It Is hard relations committee has opposed TF n p - k vJV J TIMES-NEW- Thursday, January 19, NEPHI, UTAH S, the arms convention for years and Is still against It, he and others holding that It would not Interfere with the enterprises of the greater powers, but would discriminate Senator against small nations. Shlpstead of Minnesota said he could approve neither plan, and some of the Republicans, notably Hamilton Fish of Representative New York, declared themselves against them. REPUBLICAN membership In the was reduced by two during the week by death. Congressman Robert It. Butler of Oregon died of heart disease Induced by pneumonia. Next day the capital was shocked by the suicide of Samuel Austin Kendall of the Twenty-fourtPennsylvania district. For months he had grieved over the death of his wife and finally gave up and put a bullet through his head as he sat In his room In the house office building. men Among other who died were Guy D. Goff, former United States senator from West Virginia, and Benton Mc.Mlllin, for mer governor of Tennessee and for 20 years a member of congress. h well-know- ILLINOIS Democrats victorious In the November election gave the country a lesson on bow to get elected at small cost. Figures sub- mitted by the can didates In that . state to the clerks of the senate and i r1 ' house showed that ., . limit tvuuuuj il. uiei-erlcspent only $272 In winning the United States senator s h I p; the expenses of bis defeated rival. Senator Otis F. Glenn. William H. were$5,S8. Martin A. Brennan expend Dieterich ed only $2 in his successful race for the place of con f ' gressman-a- t -- large The most expensive victory In Illinois the contested victory of James Simpson, Jr., Tenth Illinois district Republican congressman-elect- , cost $3,950. Personal, exempt ed expenses brought the total up to $18,014. His election was contested by C H. Weber, Democrat, who spent $1,525. Iowa farmers who THOSE the "strike" of lost year are making rather successful a tempts to stop the sales of propercj for delinquent taxes and unpaid In several localities mortgages. they gathered In large crowds and saved the properties of farmers, al least temporarily. Their demon stratlons were orderly. THOUSAND Indiana farm FIVE met in their annual confer ence at Purdue university and adopted a program developed by the farm management experts of thai Institution. The fourteenth point plan, worthy of the attention of agriculturists of other states. In eludes a policy of "pay as you go reduction In costs especially thosi for outside labor, production oi concentrated products to reduce marketing costs, production of high quality goods, taking advantage of marketing short cuts. Increased in tensity of operations on good lands culling of live stock 'vigorously' and feeding of good animals well, in creased attention to seed selection testing and other crop practices, in creased study of management practices, increased use of home grown seeds, producing more of the fam ily's requirements on the farm, in creased production of legume crops avoidance of Investments in perma nent Improvements, and making more use of governmental atd edu cational forces available to farmers." 1933 Calvin Coolidge Laid to Rest in Plymouth BEVERLY HILLS. Well all I know Is just what I read in the papers and what I bee here and there Well sir. week I went out to our "Rose Bowl" to set a greatOurfootball Rose 2ame. Bowl Is down In a rocky hollow; there Is not a ose In a mile of It. But t b e y sure do replace their roses witb some mighty finely developed football players. Pittsburg come out here twice before and run second, and It naturally was a bard blow to the boys to get such a beating again, but say, they dtdent get near that bad beating, they made 'a great showing. They were as game a bunch of boys as you ever saw. They had two ends that were In the Southern California territory so much that Coach Howard Jones wanted to put California sweaters on em. Then they bad a half back named Heller, that was really that. But tbey Just happened to come on a bad year. This guy named Howard Jones out here can coach. He could take me for three weeks and have me throwing Red Grange for a loss. And then California bad a great team. A lot of the things we brag on out here Is the hooey, but I want to tell you that this football team of U. S. C. is a pip. Pasedena put on their marvelous parade In toe morning Now, that's enough about California, what about the' rest of the That fellow Hiram Country? Johnston, our senator from out here, made a great speech in the Senate on the war debts a few days ago. Now there is a fellow that has always had the dope on a lot of our international affairs. Say by the way I got the finest :etter recently, it was from a blind girl, and she sent me one of my Sunday articles and It was all written out in Braill. She said the article had impressed her and she wanted it banded around In her own language. Well by golly I sure did appreciate that. I must write to my friend Helen Keller about this article being all You pushed through like that know I dont know how long that system of writing has been out. It may have been before the Nobel Prize was given for outstanding achievement, but Braille or who- - last . lei a M-- jf i V 'v -- ? Scene In the little cemetery of Plymouth, Vt, as the body of former President Calvin Coolidge waa Interred. Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1. II f hi! i ! All J' 'iht 4 1 A-- -. - I X f - - k it CD : j 1 United States frigate Constitution Old Ironsides passing through the Cuiebra cut of the Panami canal on Its voyage from Washington, D. C, to Seattle, Wash. 2 Old friends of the late President Roosevelt doing honor to bis memory at bis tomb In Oyster Bay, L. I.,. on the anniversary of bis death. 8 Oil Tanker Doris Kellogg and Its 60,000-barrcargo being destroyed by fire off the North Carolina coast, Its crew having been rescued by the steamer Delaware Sun. el taxes in the desert " i A poet Laureate Looks Over New YorI "hutiii fa in '""- - oust with nicotine was outhernly end of a Wheeling stogie, n ebony black perfecto, with the ick of six mules. I exhaled three r four puffs in front of Tom Hill's arber shop one noon. My next re lembering moment was of a voice saying: "His lids He's coming to!" on the far-wa- y flut-3re- e This same sultry summer, I obsessed with a fixation for ;ork, and those who can't stop lughing will kindly leave the I decided. In lieu of no cash ffers, to become indespensable to he J. M. Kerr Hardware Co. I went arly on a Monday, lifted plow oints, anvils, and euch until eve-linThis went on until Saturday, ate, when I approached Mr. Kerr, ut front wearing a silk hat, and, coughing apologetically, inquired If ihere was anything else I might do. ;ie thought a minute and said: "Run When you ip to the fighting for ,sses :ome back help yourself to a big DESPERATE rich Jehol province lipper of Ice water. Cool off your was going on between the Japanese nterior." From that day to this and the Chinese armies toward the I've been a work atheist. One of close of the week. he The scene of the battle was I notice Eddie Cantor swinging pass in the through Park avenue's Jungle ol Great Wall, the life, daily, with "Pass of the Nine i i s fugleman, Gates." The Jap-- a 3 e n Holzman. n e 8 e, employing He tells me he is quartered for Infantry, cavalry, artillery and bombhe winter, with ing planes, attacked lis family at and occuD e 1 m o n co's. fiercely pied the northern There's an ex-end of the pass, but Gen. Tsal I . I ra t . on. In Ting-Ka- i the Chinese concenmeeting up with trated at the south Cantor. He has ern end and put up a stiff resist- i c o n t a g i ous elded mountain ance, being by the boylsiness. ous nature of the country. Jap- Leaving him, I anese plnnes flew far across the .'ound myself skirting the curb to border of the province and bom throw a leg over a fire plug In hall barded the city of Jehol and other leap-froAnd spent the rest of the towns, the war office justifying this 'dock trying to straighten ii. action by charging that the presence of Chinese troops there con Short shavings: Jock Whitney's stituted a "menace" to . the Jap jvife is known to the 400 as Liz . . . anese forces. Of course the Chinese Houston, Texas, tax bills Include a were on their own soil, but a little .lx cent charge for mailing expense thing like that does not deter Ja- . . . There is no Interest in a LIbby office war The claimed pan. Tokyo Holman appearance on Broadway Victory at Chlumenkow. John RIngling is withdrawing . Tlng-kalcomwho (Jen. Tsal "rom the active management of the manded the Chinese Nineteenth :ircus, to his health . . . Baron route army in Its gallant defense of riothschildregain likes Harlem "hot mu- a come to has year ago. Shanghai ;ic" records . . . Paris newspapers the front and asked that he be per looted at the Garbo publicity dodg-nmitted t" lead his army from Its as a bid for publicity . . . Sidney encampment In Fnkien province '"ranklin, the Brooklyn against the Japanese Invaders. He nakes beaded bags as a diversion lias little confidence In the stamina . . Clyde Boatty, animal trainer, is of Marshal Chnng and seeks to re n the movies, after dexerting the place him as commander in tin "'reus Sharihaikwun region. :$k-- i be-am- . t In' iw, 1 audi-oriu- post-offic- Chiu-menko- J ' Sj Nothing seems to be escaping the eye of the tax collector in these try Ing times. TheCompagnle Generale rranssahanenne, controlling tills tiny gas pump In the wastes of the Sahara desert, has been ordered by the collector of taxes at Adar to pay tax on the gasoline that Is be ing sold at this station. So far the case remains unsettled with the company firmly refusing to allow the courts to arbitrate the matter. I'll l II ? f - ic liJ - S ' 1 1 n f I'ill Dr. A. R. Mansfield, superintendent of the Seamen's Church InstI New York, pointing out some of the interesting sights of thai city to John Masefield. poet laureate of England, and Mrs. Masefleld, who are visiting America. tute of Hunting Dynamite in Mine War TO COACH FORDHAM 1 Q rzy . ft r .f . ---i - - i i -- '4 bull-fighte- O 19"S Wtern Nwapapef Cnl in. Jnrnes II. Crowley, who achieved foolliall Immortality as a member of Notre Dame's "Koiir Horsemen" of 11)24. has been appointed football ronch nt Fordhnm university for a three year period. Illinois National Guardsmen stopping nntos In the mine region mxii Taylorville, III., and senrcblng them for dynamite stolen from one ol the mine company's storehouses. |