Show SEEN and HEARD around the tho National Capital By By CARTER FIELD Washington Next WashIngton Next to the bonus the harde hardest t fl ht PresIdent Roosevelt will wUl have wIth Capitol HIU HAI wIll be on the St Lawrence seaway treaty It Is nee for hIm to muster a two thIrds majorIty for the pact last year he heas was as able to muster barely a majorIty The trouble then as now Is geo geographical graphical It Is not a question of poi pol polIcy Icy or Democrat or Republican or New Deal It gets down to the lowest common denominator of selfish Inter est When local Is put In front of selfish the emphasIs Is Intensified Because that Is just what hat It is Is For Ilor example take tahe the two Massa Massachusetts senators Both are Democrat Democratic Ie ic Both followed the PresIdent on most Issues Senator Id Da Da Id I Walsh was warmly endorsed by Democratic ChaIrman James A Parley for hIs al aid l to the administration during the ses- ses sessions of cong congress ess In whIch Roosevelt has been PresIdent Farley arley would have done the same for Marcus A A Cc had he been a candIdate thIS year But both Bay state senators voted agaInst the treat and for the same reason Because n a Derv large number of theIr constituents Interest interested ell in the shIppIng busIness at Boston or In r roll roads leadIng to Boston whIch would carry the Import and export freIght and a lot more who vho work on the docks in Boston or on the railroads serving them believe that the St St Lawrence Is against theIr personal Interest They bellere belle e logically enough in view of the claIms of frIends ot of the treaty that If the seaway is built a lot of business whIch now mo moles es from the Interior of thIs country and whIch goes goesby goesby by way of Boston would move through the new St St Lawrence seaway Issue Is Geographical Now the same thing precisely top ap plies to the Rhode Island senators though to a much lesser degree wIth respect to the port ot of Providence Maine objects to the treaty because It Would tend to hurt Portland Both New York senators voted against it although both followed the PresIdent on most thIngs because they thought it would hurt the port ot of New ew York York the Erie canal and the raIlroads run runDIng running DIng ning to New York The same precIsely with the Connecticut senators although one was a Democrat and the New ew Jer Jer- Jersey sey senators The PennsylvanIa senators dId not vote against the treaty because they were Republicans but because of the port of Philadelphia and the railroads through that state The same with the Delaware senators Maryland wIth one Democrat and one Republican vot- vot voted voted ed agaInst the treaty So dId Virginia and North Carolina and Georgia Both FlorI Florida a senators eo eten en failed to sup sup- support support port the treaty And the LouisIana senators both feared the effect ot of the seaway on the port of New Orleans So the Issue might be called geo geographicaL geographical graphicaL Now there Is no doubt the PresIdent has picked up R a few votes Totes for the treaty No one thinks that Joe Guffey will heed Philadelphia's exporters Im- Im Importers Importers porters and dock workers or even the Pennsylvania railroad against the urging tug ing ot of the President It may be that George L L Radcliffe close friend ot of the President wIll follow hIm despite the clamor of Baltimore agaInst the St Lawrence rivalry But the geography Is st still l working and Mr Roosevelt Roose Is goIng to have n a abard hard bard time All of whIch Is interesting because If the truth were known M Mr Roosevelt Is not very much Interested In the St Lawrence project as n a sea sea- seaway way He would never neer say so because that would be most Impolitic In the Middle West and Northwest whIch urgently want the canal because they believe cheaper freight rates to Europe would mean hIgher prIces to American farmers But the PresIdent Is primarily Inter Inter- Interested interested ested In the power angle anglee And nd hIs visit to the Tennessee valley project will reo re suit In a lot of publicity for cheap elec NewYork t e current aimed at stirrIng up New York and New England particularly for forthe forthe the project despite the port Inter Interests ts against the seaway phase Old British Game Came There was more than met the eye In the huddle ot of the British and American delegations at the London Landon naval conference the other day while the Japanese delegates accordIng to press dispatches were vere perplexed It was just that perplexIty which was desIred The only surprIsing lea fea tare willingto was that the BrItish were willing to make the gesture this year But even that Is solved by some confidential advices just ed from London The whole difficulty ot of the situation In London where Japan has bas been de de- de demanding manding equalIty with BritaIn and AmerIca In nasal na armaments was that whIle both London and WashIngton of ob vIolently to anything of the sort sort London was dIsposed to let WashIngton take the brunt of the opposition apposition It was simply the old British dIplomatic game getting some other country to pull the chestnuts out ot of the fire But thIs time the situation pros pro ed too serious and from two angles First there was WIS the evIdent fact that as long longas longas as Japan felt confident that BrItaIn was secretly on her sIde she was en entirely too obdurate So that the chest chest- chestnuts chestnuts nuts were not coming out ot of the fire Meanwhile terrIfic pressure was beIng put on the London Landon foreign office by three very Important parts ot of the ag- ag aggregation ag of Independent nations whIch once was the British empIre Australia New Zealand and AfrIca Africa dId not like the Idea of Japanese na- na na rol ml equality with or Britain even wIth he United States Canada did cUd not lIke It very much eIther though she was Wall sot not as agitated and therefore not as forceful as the three outer other units of oC the he British dominions MeanwhIle American high naval om officers admIrals for tor years cers ers and British have bave thought and contended In private conversations that BritaIn and America together could maintain the peace ot of the v world orld Especially since the Wash WashIngton Washington Ington arms conference Forced Into Open But the poInt now Is that BrItain has been en cn out In the open so far as Japan Is concerned for the first time It v was us well ell I known to the AmerIcan State department at the time the Washington armament conference was called that Britain v was willing to nb- nb abrogate tc rogate or 01 rather to fall fail to renew the Anglo allIance That That In fact was the chic chief e C ot of Charles Evans Hughes then secretary of state In the whole conference The four power pov er Pacific pact was simply an ex- ex excuse excuse cuse to su sugar ar COlt coit the pm pill for Japan But If Japan suspected the sugar su sugarcoating coating she never sho showed ed her sus In fact there are many diplo diplomats mats ot of other countries who have con constantly constantly suggested with sin sin sin- sincerity and pel perhaps haps with Ith ulterIor mo moties ties tl that the alliance between Albion and Nippon was no longer on paper but It was really there There IS no doubt that British states states- statesmen men were perfectly willing to let Japan gO on thinkIng so as long as they could assure the New Zealand Australian and South n governments that nothIng was further farther from theIr thoughts But the stand of America agaInst Japanese parity for either AmerIca or Great BrItain at the London naval con conference conference ference brought this to a very sharp Issue The saw London standing by with the Japs thinking was on theIr sl side e whIle America made the fight the Do Dominions minions wanted So some gesture was necessary ary even It if the feelings of Japan were hurt by bythe bythe the apparent duplicity ot of her late ally Need More Confidence Nearly one firth ot of the people bor- bor borrowing rowing government money for home are on government pay payrolls payrolls rolls Which proves to backers of at the plan which has not succeeded on any any- anythIng anything thIng like as bIg a scale as had been hoped that what is still needed be- be before before fore real prosperity can come back IS more confidence The trouble Is one or of the officials connected with the plan pointed out though not for quotation that the rank and file ot of people ot of moderate means are holding on to theIr money far too tightly and the reason Is they are afraid to take any chances It Is interesting therefore to find such a large percentage of the people who are willing to take tahe a chance and borrow some money to make mahe theIr homes more attractive are on govern govern- government meat ment pay rolls A recent survey of the loans made so far showed 1613 13 per cent ot of all of them had been to public employees Clerical employees ranked next with per cent There are only two other really Important In numbers numbers- classes Skilled mechanics and bust busl Des nes men who are the sole sale of their enterprises In other words the lIttle fellows Sale Salesmen men constituted only per pcr percent cent of such borrowers Corporation officers only 5 04 per cent and unskilled laborers only per cent Railway employees curIously enough amounted to less than 1 per cent So 80 dId bar hers bers So that almost thIrd one of the loans so far have been made to government employees and white collar workers Heating Plants Lead New heating plants constituted the biggest IndivIdual demand for these home modernization loans Ot Of the first t loans made were for heating beating plants Redecorating of at Interiors came second with and new plumbIng ac- ac accounted accounted counted for These three classifications lead ez- ez terror repaIrs and roofing outsIde paInting and general remodeling whIch had been e by some to be In the lead Despite all the propaganda about bet better better ter kitchen arrangements only 63 loans were made for thIs purpose and only for addItional rooms There had been expectancy also that new Dew lighting would be one of the bIg classIfications yet only loans were made for this purpose The administration Is convInced that only the surface has been scratched In InthIs inthis thIs home modernization move But it has been driven to the conclusIon that thIs must be relied on as one ot of the bIg helping factors after atter more progress toward recovery has been made In short that It rightfully belongs In the next stage not the present Yet every dollar loaned In thIs way wa works again and again advocates of 01 the bythe plan point out It Is paId by the householder almost at once to the contractor who undertakes the job who splits It between the men actually do doIng doing Ing the work and the producers of the materials used livery one of these these of course at once starts spendIng a 8 large fraction ot of the money or else paying his debts whIch In most in instances Instances stances amounts to the same Bame thIng The desire to squeeze every penny penn agaInst possible worsE conditions Is oh ob- obvIous administratIon officials poInt out and this Is what Is doing more than anything el else e to hold back recovery A penny saved Is very different from II a penny earned today the old maxim to the contrary notwithstanding For a 8 penny earned Is just a penny panny but a pen penny ny fly spent may easily become a hun hundred Bred dred pennies If It passes around fast enough copyright Sarno |