| Show I P Prevailing p Opinions reni ons Comment m n of the ih A p Press Little Utile Rivers Commenting on th the report of the national resources committee on small streams and their relation relation rela rela- tion to flood control and erosion the president declares we must have literally a plan which will envisage the problem as it is presented presented pre pre pre- in every farm tarm in every pasture every wood lot every acre of th the public domain Hero again the great regulator seems to have let his enthusiasm run runaway runaway aw away y with his judgment and c confused the local with the na na- na- na That the control of small smaIl streams ia Is the ideal way of controlling controlling con con- trolling th the larger ones which they make up no one doubts but that it i is necessarily the but best practicable tl able way may wen well be ques ques- Th The ideal way to control anything is where It starts A nation nation nation na na- na- na tion which did not have to c count cost or which had an infinity of oC time on its hands could consider going into ever every farm every pastur pasture pas pas- ture tur every ve-ry wood lot lol with an army of ot workers and correcting the damage and when that was done the flood and erosion n ms would be solved A compromise plan in which congress should provide the major flood control works and aid states and localities with advice on the minor ones is obviously what should hoUld b be done now It can be carried out relatively quickly and speed is a requisite It seems to be the tho disposition on of the president not to count costs in anything he ha proposes Go ahead and hang the expense is his motto It is possible the hc president president dent den suffers from never haVing earned any money he does not know how hard it comes Los comes Los Angeles limes Words Mere W Words Undersecretary tar of at State Phillips Phillips' Phillips Phillips' Phillips Phillips' Phil Phil- lips' lips notice that the United States will insist on retention atthe of at the open door principle in China is 15 not likely mely to make malee the Japanese Japa Japa- nese ness military clique lose any sleep This notice o of Phillips Phillip is just words and words repeated so ao often often often of of- ten that they havo have become tudes The otten or they aro are re repeated repeated repeated re- re the less attention Japan pays pay to them The United States State can Insist In words all it likes like and Japan goes right ahead When Japan stopped stepped in and took Manchuria in despite of at the Kello Kellog Kel- Kel lo log g treaty and anI the power nine tc treaty t th the United States some word words So did the tho league longue But these words did not make Japan remember her treaty obligations ob ob- ob- ob illations and get put out of Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- churia churla On Pa the contrary being only words they encouraged Japan Japan Japan Ja Ja- Ja- Ja pan to go further She took and and Inner Mongolia and has virtually taken and How soon she will take them actually rests on her own idea of her own convenience So too rests the question of when she sho will take Shantung and Fuki n and perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps the city of Shanghai Words do not stop her in the least San least San Francisco Chronicle A Republican Roosevelt According to careful journal journalists UI who have studied the matter at first hand such as Raymond Graham Graham Gra Gra- ham barn Swing and Walter Valter Davenport Davenport Daven Daven- port writing in the Nation and Colliers Collier's respectively Governor Go Landon is building a Republican campaign out of the ilie essential features tea lea tures of the new deal He i. i is Li for tor a child labor Jabor amendment amend amend- ment for tor the newly adopted social security act for the agricultural adjustment act In any new form torm that may seem constitutional and is not opposed to the Wagner Vagner labor disputes act and the Guffey coal act He L Is also alo in favor lavor of at drastic banking reform In short according to these inquirers Governor Governor Gov Gov- Landon is 13 not so much a a. Kansas Kanse Coolidge as a R. i can Roosevelt Cincinnati Cincinnati En En- qui Both of Us Should Reform If It there is to be real friendship between the tho United States and soviet Russia it can only come about we think if it tho the Russians agree to revise the names of at their towns It is very difficult to re remember remember remember re- re member that the new railroad in Siberia starts at just east eat of and runs to Kom- Kom where whore it joins the line from tram to Vladivostok through the the city where the old Trans-Siberian Trans havIng having hav hay ing lug passed through and proceeds with a branch to to tho the meeting point and then runs a sou south 0 U t h to where It joins the former Chinese Eastern Residents of at Poughkeepsie and Schenectady find these names name hard to pronounce and the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania miners miner who live Jive near the junction of ot the Monongahela and the tho unless they are areat of at Russian extraction find difficulty difficulty dUel dUel- culty In remembering them From Connecticut and to toLa toLa toLa La Jolla and Puyallup our people consider Russian place names dif diC- dif dif- They complain in Xenia and In Oconomowoc even the of ot Hamtramck pronounced Ham dont don't like Ilke them What about a re reciprocity treaty treat DetroIt Detroit News flews ot How Much Is Human Life Worth Howard S. S Cullman vice chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of of the National Committee on Safety of Life Lite at Sea charges that powerful political pressure of at certain shipping g groups deliberately deliberately deUber- deUber keeps the tho steamboat Inspection inspection inspection tion service starved and made made- quate He proves his case with the following array of facts The department of commerce has fewer men to inspect ships than airplanes though there are documented ships against airplanes and though times as many persons travel in ships as in plan planes ell Commercial underwriters will not accept the findings of at the tho United States steamboat Inspection Inspection inspection tion service for tor Insurance purposes pur pur- poses though poses though passengers entrust their lives to that inspection Recommendations for tor safety legislation made by the steamboat steamboat steamboat steam steam- boat inspection service in 1904 31 years ears ago after the General Genera Slocum disaster are still stUl awaitIng AwaitIng await Ing action The skipper went to jail in that case as in the Castle Morro-Castle Morro Castle fire but tho the law remained the same at after r both tragedies f r. r New wireless regul regulations new lifeboat drills and oth other measures recommended after the sinking eight years cars ago have not been adopted Fire drill rules recommended after aCter tho the Morro Castle blaze ar arnot Are Aro not being enforced ed The labor turnover on American ships runs as as high as 30 per cent compared with 6 IS per cent on British Brit ish ve vessels a sels-a sels a reflection on American Americ Ameri Amen c can n marine working c conditions No government bureau has the tho power to approve or disapprove any ship construction cUon plans in advance And most And most imp important important we arts n t we know for a fa fact t that the tho relationship relationship relation relation- ship between American ship owners owners own own- ers era and their ha has not been worked out on n a permanently permanent permanent- ly Jy satisfactory basis How Hov asks Mr Cullman can cana a great shipping line entrust a dollar million ship and the lives JIves of a. a a thousand people to a chief executive officer receiving a salary of 40 a week The report now v comes cornu up from Washington that the well oiled lobbies are arc again at work and that J. J M. M Johnson a assistant secretary sec eec of at commerce is doing hi his utmost to block the steamboat services service's services service's services service's ser ser- ser ser- vices vice's reque request t for tori a n much larger appropriation on Secretary of oC Commerce Roper Poper Johnsons Johnson's superior established the Cullman committee Has Ha he read its report What does doea he intend to do about it Is Johnson acting for him hUn Philadelphia Record |
