Show TT 1 i STUFF Politics t l and andI Finance I I 2 I WASHINGTON By e Durno Dumb Secretary of ot Agriculture Wallace 1 took a afew few lew shots as s a result of being tuck stuck out front in the hotly controversial contro contra sugar quota negotiations 0 It will be recalled a quota agreement agree J ment was reached some days back at alter alt aft t er months of struggle but was rejected reject ed cd by the thc administration 1 Apparently y Wallace was told to thumb down the agreement and give his isis own reasons 0 I. I The real reason was the Cuban quota This must be agreeable to the Cuban government Unfortunately l' l Washington is not at all U sure the wobbly Cuban administration Is going gor goy go go- y ing lag to stick sUck r 1 So Wallace announced to the refiners refiners t ers erst growers vcrs and their associates that out outU I the agreement was temporarily U tile the c window because of unsettled conditions conditions con con- in Cuba J i The state department immediately let out a a yelL ACIDITY Wallace then tracked back his line ine of ot reasoning and said the benefits of 1 the thc agreement accruing to the sugar fugar beet farmers In this country t c would be far tar on onset et by lofty sugar i prices to millions of Again the heat was turned on on this this L time from the thc farm belt Agricultures Agriculture's lures ture's boss was told his figures on the 1 1 number of ot beet farmers and prices F were all wet Wallace finally decided the quotas I Were ere rejected for high reasons of oft to t S state slate state The state stale department blandly bland bland- ly said it didn't know what he hc was wast t talking about There the matter matteri i rests I The sniping and biting back among I Ithe the sugar men is ge getting ng a little bit S ludIcrous I. I Two fa factions ons have been at each i othe others other s 's throats ever since th the negotiations negotiations began beg last spring S leveled charge and countercharge and countercharge against each ench other some other some of at which i have broken into print 7 Others have gone so far on the wrong side ide of the libel border that I no newspaper would dare dar print themI them I HUM IIO-HUM S So far the hopeless job of getting the industry together has passed through four hands j i Each side has succeeded in knocking knock knock- ing lag at least one AAA arbitrator out of the job Now th the refiners are muttering f that one of their chief opponents has been getting advance Inside information tion and speculating in the sugar mar t ket kel The accused is passing the word 5 around that he Is very close to the administration that the charges are arel l not true truc and their publication would 1 be embarrassing to certain very high 5 officials DUTIES DUnES Manufacturers and d importers of cordage and binding twine have 1 f raised an interesting question in an interesting way i Cord and twine along niong with hundreds hun of other products are now Importable Im Ira- portable duty free Under the terms 5 of the recover recovery act the tho president is 15 bound to protect American code adherents adherents ad ad- from foreign competition by lifting tariffs clear up to complete t embargo Can the president take an article ot off the free list and tax It or bar it The question Is important because t so 10 many things arc are on the free list I GUNNERY Gus Gennerich personal bodyguard to President Roosevelt and a former lieutenant of New York police has very definite ideas on crime suppresS S ion sion First he would use guerilla methods methods methods' meth in ln fighting guerillas Dont give I them any more of a chance than they give the people they spray with machine ma ma- chine guns He reasons the war on kidnapers Continued on Pue Pase Twelve INSIDE STUFF I Politics and Finance continued J from Pare One racketeers and other hoodlums Is Js just justas justs as s much l a war as was the late unpleasantness un tin- pleasantness in France 0 a The Roosevelt aide would form a picked force of men into the United States Stales police with broad powers which know no state lines Trial of the mobsters Inadvertently inadvertent nUy brought in alive would be te by court court- court court- martial Penalties up to the firing squad would be invoked immediate immediately ly on establishment of guilt Gus further would make posses posses- slon of a gun a capital offense He lIe would not even permit police to own their own weapons All AU firearms in circulation would be bc subject to Instant instant In in- stant check Hunters would call at armories in season for their shotguns sign for them and return them when the hunting was over REBUFF Senator McKellar of Tennessee apparently ap ap- ap has lost himself a constituent The senator recently has been advocating ad Russian re recognition and repeal re rea repeal peal of the immigration laws a according accordi cord Ing ng to this aggrieved gentleman Taking Taking Taking Tak Tak- ing Issue with these views the constituent constituent con con- wrote McKellar a a. letter of protest He got D. D W. W McKellar McKel McKel- lar ar secretary Brother Don stating the letter would not be shown to the senator NOTES I Senator Bob Wagner of New NewYork York chairman of the national labor board has as had some tall orders in his career ca reer but recently he got one that took ook took his breath away 1 A Pennsylvania Penn sylvania lady writing in a cultured hand requested Please send me complete information on capital and labor Barney Baruch addressed officer students at the army war college col col- lege the other lother day He docs does it it once a year Having been head of the W war t industries board he lectures lec tures the army officers on pooling patents price-fixing price purchasing etc in n time of war NEW YORK By fly James McMullin The Swope plan for handing Indus Indus- try ry back to itself was was was' wasa a b backdoor or move to bolster N R RA A. A The ion tion tion has been feeding g on red meat lately and something som had to be done dohe to o head off wholesale rebellion atan awkward time The chief complaint from the business business busi busl ness moguls has been that they no longer have authority to manage their own affairs What could b be sweeter than to imply that some day they hey will get that authority back Many Jany a time a tasty dish of hope has killed off olf an appetite for insurgency The odd thing is ls that when the Swope plan was first broached two years ago it It aroused no enthusiasm whatever Now it il looks like manna mannato to o starving individualists in compari compari- comparison comparion son on to the profit famine they think the he government has inflicted d on them Many lany of its present adherents adherent believe be- be leye lieve it ft could be jettisoned when once ad adopted arid and the government was out of th the picture VETO Even if adopted adopted adopt adopt- ed it wouldn't get as far away fromN from fromI N I R. R A principles as most people think The government would still sUll have representatives though representatives though with only a veto po power sitting power sitting in on industrial industrial in in- conclaves Offhand it seems that the government would thereby yield field most of its authority But the Joker Is that the plan presupposes the adoption of N R A codes by In ln- Therefore the veto power Would be enough to prevent changes in im code hours or wages or other con The individualists couldn't get too rug rugged ed under that restriction BALLOONS Local Local- I insiders say sa the significant angle to the Swope plan plan presentation was General Johnsons Johnson's two reactions to it a day apart They say it certainly certainly thinly saves time to send up two trial balloons at once instead of spacing spacing spacIng ing them out Public reactions will willbe willbe be closely watched and New York believes that Washington's course will be shaped by public sentiment There Is practically no chance that N R A principles principles' will be sharply mo modified even though the N R A A. it itself it self goes into the discard EASING Meanwhile the drive to give employers em cm- a better break has hasl one foot loot well Inside the blue eagles eagle's door The local compliance board has already approved several applications to lengthen working hours and is considering considering con con- granting relle relief to several concerns which insist that higher wages are arc too great a a burden You can to In the book that the gain of even an inch will be pushed as as' a a precedent The tim old ers still sUll nurse hopes of converting a rearguard rear action into a a. counter counter- attack MOTORS l' The automobile makers will try to recapture the declining popular urge to buy by bringing out new models much earlier than usual The tool and strike is being cleaned up with that goal in view view- They're not sure it at will work b but t they'll try anything This should make happy happy happy hap hap- py news for the steel compan companies companies and and and they need It REGULATION Wall street hears that one of the moves to regulate the stock exchange will take the form of naming government government government gov gov- representatives tives to sit on the exchange board of governors with power to compel Immediate action In n cases eases of funny business The exchange exchange exchange ex ex- change would like this as well as the Chinese like Japanese I military gov governors Whether this move would do any good depends entirely on the caliber of if men to be sele selected ted A A. A well moan ing amateur would trip over over- over his own feet teet a dozen times Umes a day if i he attempted at at- tempted to outsmart experienced Wall streeters at their own game ABSTAINERS ABSTAINERS The New York New York banks have become teetotallers so far as the stock market marketis markets is s concerned The They just arent aren't haying hay have i ing ng g any part of any speculative ac- ac This helps to account for lor the thel extreme thinness thinness' of the market in recent weeks Normally b bankers like I their little swig of speculative stimulant stimulant stimulant lant as well as anybody But they can see no percentage in it with the he senate investigation just getting gelling Into stride P ORTO PORTO RICO RICOA A Porto Rican ghost may mayi rise to haunt our delegations delegation's efforts at the Montevideo Pan American confer confer- ence The Intense dislike of a powerful powerful pow pow- erful minority for Governor Gore will be translated into subtle propaganda propaganda propaganda ganda among the Latin nations against Uncle Sam the oppressor New Mew Yorkers say the Gore appointment appoint ment may may do plenty of damage that we we haven't heard about yet e. e I Copyright 1933 McClure Newspaper Syndicate |