Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-20 | Page 4 | Clarification Desirable

1 Clarification Desirable HEN W WHEN it became known that the Woodcrest v Construction company a subcontractor on two bridges to tobe be built in part with P W V A funds had boug bought t st steel el piling in Germany at ata a saving of 52 per per percent cent over American bids lightning flashed and thunder rumbled in political industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial and labor circles Paul Clapper told Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues- Tues day how serious the repercussions may be for forthe forthe forthe the administration a plague rising at the moment when foreign trade revival is being sought ough t. t Herbert Hoover was quick t to pin scallions on the trade agreement with on any move to increase buying of foreign goods His statement in Chicago predicting heavy losses to dairy farmers in particular was was' so terse that it is drawing a long bow to infer r that the G. G O. O P. P burning issue in 1936 will flame lame around tariffs a and d foreign buying Some wiseacres m made de great haste to proclaim that they saw this taking shape That they were jumping the gun is rather conclusively disclosed in the opinions expressed by the New York Times Independent Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic and the New York Tribune Herald-Tribune Republican and outspoken critic of the admin admin- The first said of the agreement with Canada cr hopeful augury of a wider restoration of international trade and sanity a no flO doubt that special interests will attack I great gains to us all as consumers Almost st parallel view of the H Tribune Herald H. H embodies a fair exchange of concessions will raise howls from interests affected full sympathy with its broad objectives burden of proof on those who would quarrel with its provisions The importance generally recognized of reestablishing foreign trade demands also recognition of the basic fact that we cannot hope to sell goods abroad if we are unwilling to buy abroad The intent of reciprocal agreements is isto to tog get t a away ay from economic nationalism through leveling of trade barriers as will permit exchange exchange- of surpluses It is too much to hope that this may be done without hurt to special l localities and and enterprises but gains and losses must be weighed in the scales of national welfare All this of course revives all the ancient tariff but dare that arguments but arguments we say they are applicable and pertinent today in a national and an international scene so vastly and so fundamentally changed from horse and buggy days We must also streamline our thinking in ina ina ina a streamline age That is why this German steel may be far more important than it appears appearson on the surface r. r The subcontractor says the steel piling he required is not made in this country though it has has' been used h here re for 12 years rears He says he would willingly forego his saving if he could get what he wants fr from m American mills On one of the jobs taxpayers have been saved William Green protested that this should mould have gone to steel mill workers Secretary Ickes tabulated the bids and showed that all American firms asked 67 a ton It him as strange in view of laws against collusion The deal means that worth of our cotton goes to Germany the total cost of the steel t There may be other relevant facts to be brought out All should be put together and and disclosed authoritatively so that the whole matter may be clarified To seize upon single facts and nd distort them is not wholesome when so much may hinge upon a relatively negligible transaction far more important in principle than in the amount involved t I I Ballroom dancing is not really dancing Its It's lust hugging hugging-a hugging hugging-a a sort of rhythmic hugging Ruth Ruth t. t Denis famous dancer r