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Show -Weekly News Analysis , j ingress Speeds U. S. Defense: jay Army Bill,Plan Big Ships J Joseph W. La Hiiic I Europe Few observers doubt that Adolt Hitler's ambition is restoration of we pre-war Hapsburg and Hohen-zollern Hohen-zollern empires. Most agree, also, that his next step will be capture of the Free City of Danzig (now under League control) and the adjacent corridor which is Poland's only outlet out-let to the Baltic sea. That Germany Ger-many will get these concessions without a fight is further evident because Danzig is already 90 per cent Nazi; Poland, moreover, apparently ap-parently recognizes her futile posi-tion posi-tion and is ready to move into the German orbit rather than join a French-British-Russ alliance permitting permit-ting Soviet troops to cross her soil. Though German Ambassador Hans von Moltke has assured Po- President's original budget, but tossed in anyway, was a $250,000,000 rant for parity payments. But no financing was provided, and the house seemed economy bent. Rather Rath-er than resort to unpopular process-lng process-lng taxes the house voted against parity, winning disfavor of the potent po-tent farm bloc and a victory for the President. who insists extra-budgetary extra-budgetary needk must be met with definite taxation. Agriculture leaders lead-ers hoped the senate would restore I . roR'S NOTE Wbtn opinion 'irtserf " " column, thoy ' i el 1I new nlft. nd met ' Z'T l ""'W- . I '.''January 1. 1936. Japan aoDfiJ her 5-5-3 naval treaty with '.U and Britain. Subsequently -n race started on both land i Seal precipitated each time Der fhree r 11 Duce made an ag' ivi step. In the U. S even imo(Jthed congressmen were ,.. $ think of defense in terms 1 invasion until self-right- Irmany swiped Czecho-Slo-d Memel. Two weeks later 1 got down to talking cases, Vfan unprecedented $513,188,-iV-'ff appropriations bill In jig 4 war talk like this In the Ima's Thomas: "Every na--iit be ready every moment taTdefend itself." - "j King: "The only possible Is from Japan, and . . . i beating her head against a t till in China. Even if Ger- (danzig! M Baltic Sea A Lithuania GERMANY Ws Ipw POLAND I CORRIDOR I parity; even so. an embarrassing situation apparently lay ahead. With no money, glum dirt farmers saw only one way to pay off the government govern-ment loans on which they have pledged 81,000.000 bushels of wheat. The way: To default, making the U. S. the world's largest wheat owner. (2) Cotton. Another rejected amendment called for $60,000,000 "to develop domestic markets and subsidize sub-sidize foreign exports." This obvi-ously obvi-ously referred to the plan President Roosevelt broached a few hours earlier: ear-lier: To spend $15,000,000 between now and August 1 by paying pro- DANZIG AND POLISH CORRIDOR Next on Hitler's list? land of Germany's good intentions. Nazi press notes like these sound suspiciously like the start of another campaign: Field Marshal Goering's Essener National Zeitung: "Polish attacks on Germans (in Pole territory) are an intolerable strain on the German-Polish German-Polish treaty of friendship democracies democ-racies pull the strings!" (Similar allegations regarding German minorities mi-norities preceded recent Nazi invasions inva-sions in Austria, Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia.) Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korrespondcnz: The paper advised Poles to continue collaborating with Germany and not to listen to "foreign "for-eign sirens" lest the results not be "advantageous." The "foreign sirens" si-rens" are obviously France and Britain, whose failure to back up protection promises the past year will undoubtedly force Poland to seek German mercy. ducers $1.25 a bale (on 8,000,000 bales) for releasing their government-held loan cotton for sale on the world market. Though the 1939 crop will otherwise swell government-held surpluses to 13,000,000 bales, congressional economy apparently appar-ently won. Said Virginia's Rep. Clifton Clif-ton Woodrum: "We might as well repeal the budget and the accounting account-ing act, and let pandemonium and chaos reign." Meanwhile, far in the future, southern cotton farmers saw relief in the revolutionary "cottonless" cotton developed at Texas A. & M. college's experimental college. Said to produce an over-large, oil-rich seed without detracting from the grade of the lint, the new product made farmers wonder if cotton couldn't be raised exclusively for oil, whose price is fairly constant. Transportation Among other things, U. S. railroads rail-roads blame high taxes, bad business busi-ness and unfair competition from other media for their present plight. Labor blames the railroads themselves. them-selves. Most people blame a mixture mix-ture of geographical, economic and political factors, in which everybody's every-body's hands are partially soiled. When railroading reached a crisis last autumn and congressional aid became imperative, a flock of panaceas pana-ceas arose ranging from the Hastings Hast-ings "postalizing" plan to the substantial sub-stantial bills of Montana's Burton K. Wheeler and California's Clarence F. Lea. Both management and labor la-bor pressed their particular cases and after two months of haggling the issue seemed little nearer a solution. so-lution. The latest voice is that of Joseph B. Eastman, interstate commerce Labor The unhappy plight of U. S. employer-employee relations may be due either to (1) the Wagner labor relations act, or (2) American Federation Fed-eration of Labor's battle with Congress Con-gress of Industrial organizations. Like an impatient school teacher, both congress and the White House have resolved to end this squabble, the White House by sponsoring A. F. of L.-C. I. O. peace talks, congress by amending the Wagner act. When April 11 was chosen starting start-ing date for senate committee hearings hear-ings on Wagner amendments, labor peace talks were in full bloom. But so strong are the workingman's feelings feel-ings about the proposed changes that many a peace advocate thought hearings might have been delayed until labor's warring factions either f NATOR LUNDEEN . favored Hitler technique. hould defeat England, I the slightest idea that would F us'" It's M in ton: "Germany itain Bermuda or part of iota's Lundeen: "Then let led States seize Bermuda iain's West Indian posses-1 posses-1 1 jforce payment of her war " Andrew Jackson set a prece-1 prece-1 collecting a debt from I by threatening to seize 1 territory in this hemi- w 4's Minton: "That would Nj.aing the technique of Hit- iviiil boosted army funds $52,-fver $52,-fver the current year's ap-riatjon, ap-riatjon, congress had next to 'jf navy news from the White i. 1 Admitting Japan's secret I Jj iffram was one reason, t Roosevelt approved two - s super super-battleships to $91000,000 each, bigger than yet! conceived and capable of ttitff through the Panama canal tafeet to spare on either side. i4 reason: By showing that U. . is able to out-arm any r maion, Japan might be forced ink a limitation treaty. ft U. S. strength includes apiftl ships (one nearing ob-ero) ob-ero) ranging from 27,000 to 9 tis. Six more are author- Btitaiu has 15 capital ships - time category, plus the 42.-- 42.-- food and nine other boats v- Last Japanese report I showed 10 capital ships, 33,000 tons, and three un-1 un-1 ftruction. Vague rumors -n indicate about five new ' a.jiadnaughts of excessive ton-; ton-; yeaty or not, both Britain 4r S' 'L1 obl'Sated t0 main- 5'3 r;)tio even though the ' turd largest sea power sets lture 1 the house approved an I00 agriculture appropria-$499.500,000 appropria-$499.500,000 of which is for frvation benefit payments) ure was far more signifi-jtvvo signifi-jtvvo exclusions: ffy- Not included in the make up or draw swords. To amend the Wagner act, congress con-gress can pick from four sets of proposals, pro-posals, all opposed by C. I. O., three of them submitted by coherent factions fac-tions with special interests: (1) By Massachusetts' Sen. David I. Walsh, obviously favored by A. F. of L., which opposes all other proposals: pro-posals: Curtail the national labor relations board's power to invalidate union contracts; require NLRB elections elec-tions by craft rather than by industrial in-dustrial units; permit employer petitions pe-titions for elections; permit appeals in representation cases. (2) By Nebraska's Sen. Edward R. Burke, and supported by the potent, po-tent, strike-weary National Association Associa-tion of Manufacturers: Require that NLRB have representative from labor, la-bor, management and the public; outlaw deduction of union dues from -If'-' - r P' 1 w kf I? tf 1 pay envelopes; outlaw "coercion" by either employers or unions; establish es-tablish code of "unfair labor practices" prac-tices" for unions as well as employers; em-ployers; forbid strikes unless a majority ma-jority of employees approve; require all union officials to be U. S. citizens; citi-zens; permit transfer of "unfair labor la-bor practice" charges from NLRB to federal district court. (3) By Oregon's Sen. Rufus Hol-man: Hol-man: To split NLRB's duties. Administrative Ad-ministrative and investigatory power pow-er would be vested in a labor relations rela-tions commissioner. Final decisions would be made by a nine-member labor appeals board. ICC'S COMMISSIONER EASTMAN A guiding hand? commissioner, who told the house interstate commerce committee that "the government must at least assume as-sume leadership and apply some form of compulsion." Whether Mr. Eastman's will be the guiding hand remains to be seen, but his comments com-ments were at least clarifying. After attacking the apparent reluctance to consolidate or co-ordinate as "wasteful "waste-ful practices," and after refusing to recognize any benefits from greater freedom to increase rates, the ICC member outlined a few high points (4) By Kentucky's Sen. M. M. Logan, Lo-gan, supported by the National Grange and other farm groups: To extend exemption of agricultural workers under the Wagner act to processors and packers of farm produce. Miscehmy Figured, by New Yor s Rep. Bruce Barton, that the stock market usually gains when President Roosevelt Roose-velt goes fishing or vacationing, usually usu-ally falls when he goes on a speaking speak-ing tour. Willed, by the late Chicago Jew Harris Goldman, that his 32-year-old Congregational 'laughter will receive re-ceive one-seventh of his estate (val-ued (val-ued at from $300,000 to $500,000) if she marries in the Jewish faith within with-in a year, that otherwise she win receive only $5. Scheduled for congressional approval, ap-proval, the highly controversial governmental gov-ernmental reorganization bill, compromised com-promised to remove most of last year's objection. for rail recovery: (1) The government should give concessions in taxation and relief in connection with grade crossing elimination and reconstruction of bridges over navigable waters. (2) Elimination of rate concessions conces-sions to the government would save about $7,000,000 a year. (3) All important forms of transportation trans-portation should receive "equal and impartial regulation." preferably under ICC direction. While the house sped passage of a bill to facilitate voluntary rail reorganizations, re-organizations, Mr. Eastman pointed out that creation of a new reorganization reorgani-zation court would delay rather than facilitate matters. His alternative: Give ICC charge of reorganization duties. People Douglas Fairbanks, ex-movie star, has been ordered to return $72,186 refunded by the U. S. on income tax payments in 1927-28-29 |