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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Natidnal Topic Interpreted by William Naflonal Preaa Building Washington. The month of January. Janu-ary. 1938, has come and it is now gone with the Getting wind. Dozens of Nowhere b'S business men have been called 1o the White House for conferences with the President on means of solving solv-ing the depression problem. And dozens have gone away from the White House after those conferences without any announcement from the head of the government as to what Is to be done. Much conversation and much noise totaling much conversation and much noise. That was January at the White House. A new session of congress started with the opening of January. The house and the senate appear actually actu-ally to have no definite program; certainly, no program for a constructive con-structive course that will lead the country out of the terrific business decline. Instead, the senate has been, debating and debating bill to punish any community where a lynching takes place end the house has been Indulging in its annual sport of passing appropriation bills, voting money without knowing too much about the items for which it votes. Southern senators filibustered against the anti-lynching bill because be-cause of the problems, the burdens, such legislation would load on them and the northern Democratic senators sen-ators seemed willing to let business die, unemployment increase, etc., in order to gain a few negro votes. That was January in congress. An analysis of the situation, therefore, there-fore, would seem to be in order. To do that, we have to go back to 1933 when President Roosevelt took office. of-fice. The nation was in chaos. There tions. The new President oame in with an overwhelming majority to support him. His majority was so large that he needed only to express his view and it was translated into action. The country liked the aggressiveness ag-gressiveness thus shown. Members of the house and senate, however, developed a habit not all of them, but a majority of them. That habit was one of waiting for the word from the White House. While this habit was growing, business interests were pushed and kicked around and generally given to understand that they did not know what the shooting was all about. Like a country school boy, the business busi-ness man was sent to his seat and told to stay there. Otherwise the hickory stick would be brought into use. Indeed, the hickory stick in the form of several pieces of legislation legis-lation was laid onto the business of the country, not' as a pat on the back, but much further down toward to-ward the end of its spine. So business, busi-ness, too, got the habit of standing in the background. It was afraid to venture forth. Things began to look up. There was something approximating good business and it looked as if Mr. Roosevelt's policies were correct in every sense. But something happened; hap-pened; the boat struck a snag. For several months last year the administration refused to admit that conditions were alarming. It was just temporary, officials said. The country would pull out of it and It will some time if there Is anything left But the problem is Immediate and January hat gone Into history, as did December and November. It was in this circumstance that the results of the habit formed In 1033 began to show their worst phases. Business interests have gone to the White House to tell their side of the story, at the President's request, and nothing has come of those conferences. con-ferences. In the criticism of congress, I did not intend to indict all of the membership. mem-bership. There are Some those who see Exception tbeir mistakes and are willing to do something about them. Unfortunately, Unfortunate-ly, they are in minority. Blind followers fol-lowers of the President, generally speaking, constitute the majority. So that those who want to take constructive con-structive action haven't had an opportunity. op-portunity. Lately. I heard Worth Clark, a Democratic :nmembe'r"cT"thi'ousJf' from Idaho, make a radio speech on this fact; or rather he touched on this fact. Mr. Clark is a pretty hard-boiled Democrat, but he believes be-lieves he was elected to represent his people and not to throw them down simply because his party leadership lead-ership wanted to do something else. In the radio speech that I mentioned, men-tioned, Mr. Clark referred to mistakes mis-takes that had been made in the last five years and asked: "What is the remedy?" "First," he continued in his answer an-swer ' to that question, "we must squarely face the problem. We must realize that we have done some things wrong. We. must retrace our steps where necessary and start anew. "One of the difficulties involved here Is the lack of independence of thought and courage among us in congress. The worst injustice that can be done a gieat leader It tu blindly follow his every suggestion. That frequently causes him to make Bruckart Waahlnvton, D. a more mistakes than he otherwise would. A man's best friends are not those who crouch at his feet with blandishment, flattery and subservience. sub-servience. His real friends are those who disagree with him when they think him wrong and who give him their utmost in support when they think him right." There are many others in congress con-gress who feel as does Mr. Clark about the present situation. They recognize, I think, that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt must assume his fair share of responsibility, as President, for the current depression. It is" apparent, too, that he must assume responsibility responsi-bility for the failure of some of bis policies in that he turned to "yes" men for advice instead of recognizing recogniz-ing that there could be honest disagreement dis-agreement with him on the part of many who desired to be helpful. It is, in other words, another result of the type of leadership that he has assumed, a leadership that worked without halt when everything was hunky dory but a type that obviously obvious-ly will fail when the tide runs against you. Perhaps I was a bit unfair when I said Mr. Roosevelt's conferences with business men Well, That's had yielded noth- Something " he has "persuaded" "persuad-ed" the automobile manufacturers and finance companies to tighten up the strings somewhat on installment buying. It is likely that hereafter an automobile finance company will grant credit only for 18 months instead in-stead of 24 months on the sale of a car where deferred payments are used. I do not know how that will solve the current depression, but 4ha was the ..reaaoa ,sieo dtiM?,,ihis; change in business practice. As a matter of fact, experts In the Department De-partment of Commerce said in published pub-lished reports In May, 1937, that a majority of the finance companies were holding to the 18-month limit even then. There can be no doubt that Installment In-stallment buying is a dangerous thing because of the abuses that accompany It My objection to It is the same as I have often stated in these columns respecting other types of debt Any time debt is made easy, there has been created a fresh danger at the very same time. Installment buying has been generally used and the general result re-sult is, as it was bound to be, that hundreds of thousands of people put themselves into debt When their income from wages or otherwise other-wise was reduced, their installment obligations became a burden that nad first call on whatever money was available. In the case of the automobile finance companies, it seems clear that there have been abuses. High pressure salesmen, anxious io get commissions, drove hard to sell cars "and you can pay in two years." The companies found out long ago, however, that the dangers dan-gers existed and they were trimming trim-ming their commitments accordingly. according-ly. Since these sales are comparatively compara-tively small in ratio to the whole country's business, I think the White House announcement will not result in immediate restoration of prosperity. pros-perity. And then its importance is further minimized by the President's course in another field. Housing namely, housing. Problem We u r'c,u tt housing legislation that was proposed as a panacea for what was called a "recession" last falL That legislation is approaching approach-ing conclusion now and will soon go to the President for his signature. So let us take a look at its principal princi-pal features and find what they mean. The heart of the legislation was a provision to permit the construction construc-tion or the purchase of small homes without much money as a down payment In fact only 10 per cent of the total cost of the property is required as a down payment Private Pri-vate money lenders will, finance the other 90 per cent, and the federal housing administration will insure that amount with government bonds to back the Insurance. So, It is soon to be provided that I can buy a houaewitn"'!' valuV""lo'6;000'""tfT' have $600 to pay down. Anybody can get himself into deep debt with as much ease as the man on the flying trapeze, and instead of obligating obli-gating himself for 18 months (as in the case of the automobile) the buyer buy-er is hooked for about 15 years. It is definitely unsound and will make not the slightest bit of improvement in general business. Stewart MacDonald, the federal housing administrator, ought to be a good witness on the soundess of the plan. When hearings were being held in the house appropriations committee, Mr. MacDonald was asked about the idea of government insurance of as much as 90. per .cent of a debt "Do you think that that Is good business to have a man build a home without any more equity than 10 per cent?" asked Representative Houston, Kansas Democrat "1 don't think it Is good business, no," replied Mr. MacDonald. tj WtJUrn Nawspapor y algal. Nat Review of Current Events ii LITTLE BUSINESS" HEARD Five Hundred Formulate ness" Gets Another ,4 9 i Senator Allea 1. Ellender at Louisiana Is here seen la action aa ae established a record for long talking to the. senate, at least la modern times. Engaged la the filibuster against Um anti-lynching bin, this successor suc-cessor of Hney Lang spoke for tt boars and 45 minute and be confined himself strictly U Us viewt on tha meaaare, 'iLmuuL W. PlckoJtd SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Wtuna Ktmmf Vaioo. Turn of Little Business CALLED to Washington from all parts of the country by Secretary Secre-tary of Commerce Daniel C Roper, some 900 representatives of "little IU5UICBI UIIUC w covery program for Went Roosevelt Mr. Bv W -7 ll. noper ana mm assistant as-sistant Ernest Draper, took part in the preliminary discussions, dis-cussions, and since Q II President could b i ll not receive all of Secretary Roper U1C1 11 tuiBU wiir- mlttee was named to take their pro posals to the White House. According to reports from the capital the President desires legislation legis-lation for federal financing of small industries to stimulate business. This would require the creation of a new government agency unless the power were granted to the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation. Three chief complaints of the small business, men are: The undivided profits tax has prevented pre-vented them from accumulating a "rainy day" surplus. The capital, gains and losses tax has frozen capital and prevented the encouragement of new enterprises. enter-prises. Monopolistic practices are presenting pre-senting increasing hazards to their successful operations. Congress and the administration already are busy with steps to correct cor-rect these alleged abuses. Big Business Scared Again MEANWHILE big business and tha country generally was discussing with considerable apprehension appre-hension the declaration by the President Pres-ident that Industry must reduce prices and at the same time keep wages up. An immediate result was the crash of prices on the stock exchanges, the decline reaching as high as 74 points. Commodities declined In sympathy with stocks. "If Industries reduce wages this winter and spring," the President said at his press conference, "they will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying they will be fostering a downward spiral and they will make it necessary for their government to consider other means of creating purchasing power." pow-er." Many congressmen. Democrats as well as Republicans, took issue with Mr. Roosevelt's logic and economics, eco-nomics, pointing out that Industries lack the resources to keep wages up on a falling market because their funds have been, depleted by the undistributed un-distributed profits tax. In his statement the President said: PPBQ.e4Jp.JfiflI Ructions Ruc-tions because the markets of American Amer-ican industry depend on tha purchasing pur-chasing power of our working population. popu-lation. And if we want to restore prosperity we must Increase, not decrease, that purchasing power. "Those in charge of a well managed man-aged and solvent industry should no more consider casting the burden of a temporary business recession upon up-on their workers than upon their bondholders. To cast such burden on the bondholders is financial bankruptcy. bank-ruptcy. To east such burden on its workers is not only moral bankruptcy, bankrupt-cy, but the bankruptcy of sound business judgment" Lynch Bill Doomed " FIFTY-ONE senators voted against a motion to invoke the cloture rule for the purpose of choking off the filibuster against the anti-lynching bill, and the measure which the southerners were fighting so determinedly was thus doomed to failure. Program While "Big Bush Swat from President 1 1 ' ? Majority Leader Alben W. Bark-ley Bark-ley of Kentucky, who had supported the bin and voted for cloture, immediately im-mediately served notice that tha senate had made it impossible for the bill to be passed and that it must be displaced promptly by other legislation. Miners for Third Term MINERS from three states, attending at-tending the convention of the United Mine Workers of America in Washington, presented eight resolutions resolu-tions urging that President Roosevelt Roose-velt be drafted for a third term In the White House. Echoing the description of Mr. Roosevelt by John L. Lewis as "the only President Presi-dent who has given the common people a square deal," the third term resolutions were submitted by unions from Royal, Pa., Avella, Pa., New Salem, Pa., Uniontown, Ky., Rivesville, W. Va. Everett-ville, Everett-ville, W. Va.. Scottsdale, W. Va., and Lochgelly, W. Va. . In response to Innumerable demands de-mands that the C. I. O. make peace with the A. F. of L., Lewis proposed pro-posed that his organization march into the A. F. of L. February 1 and that units be granted charters. President Green of the federation, which was in convention in Miami, said this was just the same old proposition and would merely transfer trans-fer the conflict into the midst of the federation. The building trades department of the federation enlisted in a campaign cam-paign to develop on a national basis a "build America" plan started by the Cleveland Building Trades council. coun-cil. A committee was named to co-operate with real estate men, manufacturers, and distributors of building materials, to promote definite def-inite housing projects. Steiwer Resigns FREDERICK STEIWER resigned as senator from Oregon In order or-der to enter the private practice of law in Washington and Portland, Ore. Steiwer was keynoter of the last Republican national convention and has been a steady opponent of the New DeaL Jackson Gets Reed's Place D OBERT H. JACKSON, assistant attorney general, was nominated nomi-nated by the President to be solicitor so-licitor general of the United States. He succeeds Stanley Reed, whose appointment to the Supreme court was confirmed by the senate. Jackson Jack-son has been much in the headlines lately because of his speeches attacking at-tacking business and his avowed intention to seek the governorship of New York. Niagara Bridge Falls T'HE Falls View bridge at Nl- MM J.JPfefc..rpm ujwhich jnany thousands of honey mooners have looked at the cataract, was crushed by a terrific ice jam In the river and fell Into the gorge In a great mass of twisted iteeL The bridge had been closed to traffic . a few hours earlier, so there was no loss of life. Jap Slaps American Diplomat JOHN ALLISON, third secretary of the American embassy in Nanking, was slapped in the face by a Japanese sentry " when he tried to enter a house occupied by Japanese troops. Allison's protests brought an apology from the Japanese Jap-anese officer in command of the unit Involved. An" official Japanese an-nouncement an-nouncement said Allison adopted an insolent attitude and criticized the Japanese army. The Japanese embassy in Shanghai Shang-hai ordered all-commercial firms there, regardless of nationality, to give the Japanese censor copies of their code books. "Guilty" Is OA Verdict UNCLE 8AM won tag draws) out "trial of oil concerns and their executives before Federal Judge Stone la Madison. Wis. Six teen oil companies operating in 10 Kid dle West states and SO individuals were found guilty of conspiring con-spiring to violate the Sherman anti-trust l a w. Prominent among the men con victed are Henry M. Dawes of Pure OIL E. ..G. Seubert of Ct.'.J.. rill InAI- MUUBIU WU V H. M. Dawea tnlf jaCob France of Mid-Continent Petroleum, L A. Shaughnessy of Globe Oil and Refining. Re-fining. Dan Moran of Continental Oil and Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum. Formal motion for a new trial was filed but will not be ruled on for several sev-eral weeks. The defendants were accused of entering into a secret agreement to purchase quantities of oil from Independent Inde-pendent oil producers at artificially nigh prices. These prices were then quoted as the market price to jobbers, job-bers, who had signed contracts with the defendants to purchase the fuel at the spot (or dally) market price. The defense denied having artificially artifi-cially influenced the market and pleaded unsuccessfully that the companies merely bought distress gasoline to save the independent refiners from failure and did so in sccordance with a policy approved by President Roosevelt and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes. President's Birthday PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was fifty-six years old on Sunday, January 30. He and Mrs. Roosevelt Roose-velt decided to have the birthday dinner the evening before, and twenty twen-ty guests were invited, among them being members of the "Cuff Iink club," wearing gold cuff links which Mr. Roosevelt gave them to commemorate their experiences in vice presidential and presidential campaigns, as well as in the days when he was assistant secretary of After the dinner Mr. Roosevelt made a brief radio address In connection con-nection with the birthday balls being be-ing given all over the nation to raise funds to combat Infantile paralysis. Younger Service Chiefs REAR ADMIRAL WILSON BROWN, former naval aide to the President and not yet fifty-six years .old, has been named head of the naval academy at Annapolis," to succeed Admiral D. F. Sellers. Mr. Roosevelt said the army and navy, at his suggestion, had adopted a policy of assigning younger young-er officers as superintendents of the military and naval academies. Brig. Gen. Jay L. Benedict fifty-six, fifty-six, is slated to take command at West Point in place of Maj. Gen. W. D. Connor, who retires February Febru-ary 28. Bridges' Record Demanded HAVING heard from many witnesses wit-nesses that Harry Bridges was responsible for maritime labor violence vio-lence the senate commerce committee com-mittee ordered Secretary of Labor Perkins to produce all records in her department concerning the alien Communist and West Coast C. L O. leader. The resolution of Senator Vandenberg, adopted unanimously, unan-imously, specifically directed Madame Perkins to report on rec-commendation rec-commendation of inspectors of Immigration Im-migration and naturalization for the deportation of Bridges. King Zog to Marry rARLY announcement was ex-pected ex-pected of the engagement of King Zog, young bachelor ruler of Albania, to the beautiful Countess Geraldine Apponyl of Hungary. The countess, who Is twenty-two years old, recently resigned her job as an office girl in the Budapest national na-tional museum. She is a daughter of the former Gladys Virginia Stewart Stew-art of New York who was married in Geneva on July 29, 1914, to Count Julius Nagy-Apponyi, member of the old Hungarian families of Ap-ponyi Ap-ponyi and KarolyL Australia Celebrates WITH elaborate ceremonies the Commonwealth of Australia began a three months' celebration of its one hundred fiftieth birthday as a white settlement The first fetes were in Sydney, where Capt Arthur Phillip landed on January 26, 1788, with soldiers and 800 British Brit-ish convict settlers. Representing lhe"-Uiilted'-'ter','l,ha'4"'wittr" pageants were the cruisers Memphis, Mem-phis, Trenton and Milwaukee. Fall Kills Congressman REPRESENTATIVE EDWARD A. KENNEY of New Jersey was killed by a fan from a slxtfi story window of a hotel in Washington Wash-ington where he had attended a party given by the New Jersey state chamber of commerce. Ken-ney, Ken-ney, who was first elected to congress con-gress in 1932, won prominence by his persistent advocacy of a national na-tional lottery. Flying Cadets Needed VjORE aviation cadets' are ur-AY ur-AY gently wanted by the'War department de-partment It announced that 232 unfilled vacancies exist for the March flying cadtt class at the air corps training center. Randolph field, Texas. Only 112 qualified candidates can-didates thus far have been autho-t autho-t rlzed out of the class' total of 344. iaMas4iisitMi AVHO'S'.NEVS THIS VEEIt... Dy Ltmutl F. Farien NEW YORK. One of this department's depart-ment's favorite monarchs has llong been Jeff Davis, king of the hoboes of America, who now leads his following of Hoboe$ Will nearly 1,000,000 in Pay Honor to to erect a Payne, author of "Home, Sweet Home." There is perhaps a bit of personal pride involved, as your correspondent correspond-ent helped establish the dynasty. That was many years ago, when a series of hobo stories in the Chicago Tribune elevated Dr. Ben Reitman to the kingship. Dr. Reitman, however, how-ever, was a backslider, turning at first furtively and then brazenly to regular work, went Into politics In Chicago and became a cautious and solvent citizen, too fat to ride the rods. I saw him last at the house of the late Jack London, in Sonoma county, coun-ty, Calif., and, if I remember correctly, cor-rectly, Mr. London reproached him as one. recreant to his ideals and In danger of succumbing to industry and ambition. Until a few years ago, I used to get letters from the hoboes of America, on letter-heads like those of any national bank, carrying the names of the "jungle judges," "shacks" (organizers) and "track walkers" and "supreme knights of the road." They had to do with some misunderstanding mis-understanding in the organization over the lingering King Jeff 1$ sovereignty of Dr. Elected to Reitman, but that it ft is all cleared up Job for Uo now m DavU. rule is undisputed and his name appears ap-pears on the letter-head as "Jungle Judge, King of the Hoboes, elected tor XAtm " Mr. Davis, now fifty-three years old, has covered his first 1,000,000 miles on the road, and plans to start his second million on an organizing organiz-ing trip in Europe early this year. His father, James Davis, who died in Cincinnati a year ago at the age of ninety, had been vaguely identified identi-fied as a newspaper man, working on several Cincinnati newspapers, but with no news as to what department depart-ment Young Jeff, born in Cincinnati, started rambling when he was thirteen thir-teen and now fetches up with a round forty years on the road. Bald and genial, working harder at the hobo trade than do most men on their regular jobs, he campaigns for better migrating and loafing conditions condi-tions for his subjects. He wants the railroads to establish estab-lish a one-cent-a-mlle rate for box car passengers. He says the plan has worked fine in France. He moves about the country, fighting the bum blockades set up by various va-rious states. He denounces the "fuzzy-tails" In his following hoboes ho-boes who talk a lot but never toss anything into the jungle stew. CORRESPONDENTS on the British-Italian radio war front in Arabia report a victory in the first engagement for Abdul Wahab, the s. i w de,ert Rudy Vat Italy Wtn$ let, crooning for Radio Duel Italy. The sheiks, r according to news in Desert ,ccounUi tuned out Britain's broadcast, which included in-cluded news of a death sentence for an Arab found in possession of arms, and tuned in Italy's cheerful crooner. The Italians also were one-up on the Britons, due to the fact that the former had supplied many of the radio sets and takes precautions precau-tions to rig them against Britain's thirty-one-meter wavelength. Sir John C W. Reith. grim, purposeful pur-poseful and, incidentally, Scottish, director general of the British Broadcasting corporation, led off for England, paced by Big Ben and "God Save the King." Abdul countered coun-tered with "Just a Little Oasis for Two," and "Aldebaran and You," in Arabic. It was no contest after that, say the news reports. Sir John's last appearance was at Edward's solemn valedictory. The tall bald, frosty mogul of British Broadcasting, lord of the empire air waves, takes the microphone only when imperial iflteresta demaitd it 4 Recently he said: 'To set out to give the public what It wants, as the saying is, is a dangerous and fallacious policy." Those who know him say he will go on giving the Arabs what -he thinks they ought Lord of Air to want and prob-KteptB.B.C, prob-KteptB.B.C, "My t away tW in rr with Ha has Out in Front ,ambalted a dictator all over the empire, but has ridden through labor and. conservative con-servative administrations and keeps the B. B. C. steadily advancing. advanc-ing. He is the most inaccessible man in England,, forty-seven., years, old, the son of an old-line Scotch clergyman, clergy-man, trained in engineering at the Royal College of Glasgow, successful success-ful as an engineer In London, before be-fore becoming general manager of the B. B. 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