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Show ' AMtfMCAtt FORK CITIZEN - Natidnal Topics Interpreted by William National Pr Bulldlnr Washington. A good many per sons in Washington still are-arguing the point whether That President Roose Conference vclt nd Secretary Roper, or the ue-partment ue-partment of Commerce, made a mistake in arranging for the so- called conference of nearly a thou sand "small" business men. The conference that turned into a near riot provided plenty of publicity, if that was what was planned, but it was publicity of a distinctly bad sort from a political standpoint. On the other hand, some way, some how, there came out of that conference confer-ence a score or more of recommendations, recom-mendations, and some of them were the very "recommendations" which Mr. Roosevelt wanted from "business "busi-ness interests." It is a new vehicle on which bureaucrats and advisers can ride. But before I attempt an analysis of the results that may flow from the conference, a review of the meeting itself should be recorded. The business men, widely publicized as being "small and independent fellows" were convened in the Commerce Com-merce Department auditorium. It had all of the earmarks of a session for which a program had been drawn up here in Washington. It appeared to be cut and dried. No sooner had the session convened, however, than things began to happen. hap-pen. Since there were nearly a thousand thou-sand individuals, there were nearly one thousand different views, and the individuals sought in various ways to express themselves. The result of the first day's meetings can be described, therefore, as nil unless you want to consider the riot, the necessity for physically ejecting some of the members who si" a Testrfti" Itv was- session hr which "ih6ua''"we'"''Mara''"'aB6ul, "hand-picked chairman" and "log rolling" and "you can't dictate to me." With the first day's session a flop, machinery somehow was set in motion mo-tion for the second day so that a recurrence of the riot would be avoided. The conference was broken brok-en up into group or sectional meetings. meet-ings. It was hinted that big things could be expected from these in the shape of concrete recommendations. Well, we observers found instead that the big conference-riot of the little business men had been broken up into some ten or twelve smaller conference-riots. Just as an example: exam-ple: one session was so uproarous that it was found necessary to call in the building police and forcibly throw out one little business man who measured over six feet and weighed plenty. Those were the physical phases of the two-day conference. Yet, believe be-lieve it or not, there were "recommendations" "recom-mendations" made by those nearly one thousand business men representing repre-senting small businesses of the country. They were duly presented present-ed to President Rosevelt who sent out word to the newspaper correspondents corre-spondents afterward that some of those recommendations were, indeed, in-deed, quite constructive. I shall not attempt to set them down here. They would take more space than is available. I noted among them, however, one item that urged the government to "establish "es-tablish a procedure to encourage and facilitate loans to small business." busi-ness." It recalled to me that there has been much talk among "advanced "ad-vanced thinkers" in the administration administra-tion that the government should have an agency to make loans to small businesses. It was discussed In these columns recently. Undoubtedly, Undoubt-edly, it was just a coincidence that this "recommendation" should come from the small business men while the advisers to the President were considering it Included In the recommendations, however, were proposals for the administration ad-ministration to do Some Are several things that Plea$ed tnui far have not had administration administra-tion backing. One of these was a recommendation that wage and hour regulatory legislation should be abandoned. No one seems to know from whence that item came; and it was variously reported as not having had the "full support of the conference." It may have been that even the 12 chairmen who car-Trte'd-th"TeTO White House meeting with the President Pres-ident performed a miracle but there is no denying that the item was included and quite a few members mem-bers of the Democratic parly in congress were glad to see it. So, the conference has been held and its work and efforts to solve the depression problems are spread on the first pages of newspapers. The results in this direction would seem to justify Mr. Roosevelt's recent intimations that the business men do not know what they want. Such view would be correct" if the conference con-ference itself had been representative. representa-tive. True, the delegates came from all sections of the country. True, all excepting a very few were of the type known as small business men. But it must not be overlooked that the conference was planned, , Invitations extended and program Bruckart Wahlnton, D. O written from Washington. I think it is quite unlikely that men would be Invited without somebody in the administration ad-ministration having knowledge of their general attitude toward the New Deal. There actually may be something to the charge that was variously hurled In the sessions that chairmen were hand picked and that there was a bit of log rolling done, just a teeny, weeny bit of it. Concerning the after-effects, one can hear many observations. Some say that the bulk of the small business busi-ness men went away from Washington Washing-ton nursing a grudge; others add that many of the delegates went back home with a sour idea of government gov-ernment conferences and, therefore, with a willingness to ridicule the administration, and still others hold the conviction that the very confusion confu-sion that came from the meeting provided Mr. Roosevelt with the horrible example that he wants in his criticism of business leadership. It seems to me there is ground for each of these three conclusions. Time, alone, will disclose the ultimate ulti-mate effects. Mr. Roosevelt may utilize the recommendations in a fireside chat or a message to congress. con-gress. Some of his advisers may bear down on the lack of agreement and understanding among business men. Or, the whole thing may be treated very seriously and an attempt at-tempt made to convince the country that the administration is being guided by what it believes the business busi-ness interests want as shown in the recommendations of the conference. The Treasury laid some stress on announcement the other day that it will begin a series Treasury 0f borrowings late likely will be the ernment "in this generation." It was stated that between 200 and 300 millions will be borrowed during dur-ing the next several months, but that June tax payments and subsequent subse-quent collections will provide money mon-ey for. current needs, .That is to say there will be no need for "new money" which is money borrowed out of the money market or banks. It has not been made clear how the Treasury will accomplish the objective of cessation of borrowing at this time. President Roosevelt has predicted that there will be a deficit of about one billion dollars in the next fiscal year. A Treasury deficit can mean only one thing, namely, that the amount of income is less than the amount of the expenditures. ex-penditures. Something appears to be screwy In a circumstance where there is a deficit of a billion and only a few hundred millions have to be borrowed. However it may be accomplished, it is hopeful to think that borrowings are going to be terminated. The Treasury has been doing it for a long, long time. I think it is about t nine years that the Treasury has faced a deficit each year and there has been new money borrowed to pay the bills. Those borrowings ranged anywhere from half a billion bil-lion during 1930 to more than four billions in 1933 and 1934. The Treasury's announcement explained ex-plained that the Treasury would re ceive more than one billion dollars for the account of its trust funds during this year. Trust funds are segregated moneys, such as the fund for. payment of social security benefits. Well, it strikes me as a bit unfair to say the Treasury will not borrow any new money this year when it actually is borrowing from the social security fund. There is no violation of law in that course, because the law says the social security se-curity funds must be invested in government bonds. The borrowing from social security secur-ity funds calls attention to another anoth-er phase of gov-Another gov-Another ernment finance. Phase Those funds come from payroll taxes. They are taxes paid by the workers as well as by the employer. It has occurred to me, therefore, that unless the government's revenue reve-nue can be made to balance its expenditures, ex-penditures, sometime in the future workers will want to obtain payment under the provisions and there will be nothing but government bonds in the fund. Further, there is fmx. possibility Indeed. I...he. lieve it is a probability that these payroll taxes are going to bear more heavily on the workers of the future than they do today. There seems little doubt that the social security dream is here to stay. Unworkable, as It is, there will be no politician with sufficient courage ever to tell the voters of his constituency that the social security se-curity act will fail. Some of the "advanced thinkers" among the New Dealers have had spasms when remarks like that were made in their presence. The real spasms, however, will develop when the public pub-lic is given a clear understanding of what that law does to a civiliza. lion when it is shown by opera tion that the ideal of protection takes much more out of the pockets of those who are supposed to benefit than they ever can get back. C Weetern Newepupar Union. A7ir Review of Current Events BIG SUPERHIGHWAY PLAN Senator Bulkley Introduces His, Measure for Toll Roads to Cost 8 Billions , , , M i .... 'J t ' ; j I . s' 1 3 Brig. Gen. Jay L. Benedict, center, and his staff are shewn Inspecting the cadet corps at West Point as General Benedict took ever command of the military academy as superintendent, thirty-seventh to hold that post since the academy was Instituted. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK WtiTB Newspaper Union. Bulkley's Toll Road Plan WITH the approval of the President. Presi-dent. Senator Bulkley of Ohio offered to the senate the great toll highway plan that he has been working on for some time. It is designed to be a long range medium of work relief re-lief for the jobless flfld---to stinaJat business. vides for the construction, con-struction, by the federal government of ten superhigh- uravn aprngs the Sen. Bulkley country . nlng east- and west and. three north and south. The cost is put at eight billion dollars. . This, according to the terms of the bill, would be liquidated liq-uidated from "reasonable toll charges" and from sale or lease of tracts of a strip of land not over SS0 feet wide on each side of each highway. The tolls employed for estimating purposes were 25 and 50 cents on passenger and freight vehicles, respectively, re-spectively, plus xk mills a passenger pas-senger mile on passenger vehicles and 4 mills a ton mile on freight vehicles. Freight and passenger vehicles would operate on separate pavements. More for Dole Asked PRESIDENT ROOSEVEXT in a special message asked congress to appropriate $250,000,000 more for relief to supplement the billion and a half relief fund. He said this was necessary to care for three million persons thrown out of work during the last three months. A bill to carry out the President's suggestions was introduced in the house immediately and speeded toward to-ward passage. Steel Price Cut; Wages Stay MAYBE President Roosevelt was right when he said recently that steel and other mass production produc-tion industries could and should reduce re-duce prices to buyers' levels and at the same time maintain the general gen-eral wage level. Anyhow, United States Steel is doing just that. This huge corporation extended indefinitely its working agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization in which present rates of wages and the eight-hour day are maintained. At the same time the price of cold rolled sheets used in large amounts by the automobile industry was reduced S4 a ton. the first break in the steel industry's price structure. No Secret Alliances WITH three curt expressions of "No," Secretary of State Hull denied that the United States has any alliance with Great Britain relating re-lating to the event of war, or with any other power or any agreement in connection with the operations of the "Amer ir an- navy;" "" " The denials were made in a letter to Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations. The letter, which was read in the senate, gave a specific answer to questions which have been raised by opposition senators, who have been seeking a definition of the administration's foreign policy. pol-icy. House Passes Farm Bill LIMITING debate by a gag rule, the house adopted tho conference con-ference report on the administration's administra-tion's crop control bill by a vote of 263 to 135 and sent it on to the senate. sen-ate. As it came out Of conference, the measure continues, in an extended and revised form, the existing soil conservation program, providing benefit payments to co-operating farmers. t ' ft is. i i ! 5 r'i: I'l W.Pichuut It would control production through acreage allotments on the five principal commodities on the basis of domestic and export needs. In bumper years, marketing quotas would be applied with penalty taxes to enforce them if approved by two-thirds two-thirds of the affected farmers in national referenda. , It would set up an "ever normal" er years surpluses on which loans would brtnadr. to' ihir profaeeti: Through this medium the administration adminis-tration aims to stabilize the flow of commodities during lean years to prevent consumers from being "highjacked" into exorbitant prices because of shortages. ' Capone May Be Mad AL CAPONE. who attained a bad eminence as America's most powerful gang leader during the prohibition era and was sent to Al-catraz Al-catraz for ten years for income tax fraud, is under observation in the hospital of "the Rock" and it is reported that he has lost his mind. His attorney says if medical men find he really is insane, he will apply for a writ of habeas corpus to get him out of prison. Capone would be eligible for freedom free-dom on January 19, 1939, but still has awaiting him a sentence of one year in jail and a fine of $20,000. Hitler Seizes Full Power ADOLF HITLER has made himself him-self the absolute ruler of Germany Ger-many and has assumed full control of the armed forces of the reich. E. mil in i. proclaiming nimseu r "chief' of national " J defense." Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg was removed re-moved from the post of war minister; Col. Gen. Hermann 73 'f 1 Wilhelm Goering. , ,r j minister of aviation, IvmT I wa made general Walter von Brauch-itsch Brauch-itsch replaced Gen. eral Werner von Von Brauchitsch Fritsch as commander in chief of the army; seven army generals and six generals of the air force were summarily dismissed. According to the London Daily Herald, between 180 and 190 senior army officers were arrested in the German provinces. Reorganization of Germany's diplomatic dip-lomatic corps was announced, the ambassadors to several European countries being changed. In the shakeup Joachim von Ri-bentrop Ri-bentrop was recalled from the London Lon-don embassy and made foreign minister. min-ister. No new minister of war was appointed, ap-pointed, but Gen. Wilhelm Keitel was named chief of the supreme command and will rank as minister. minis-ter. Monarchy Plot Foiled BAe R of Hitler1 sudden grab of absolute power was a movement move-ment among high army officers for restoration of the monarchy. It was revealed In Berlin that a secret speech delivered by one general to a group of his fellow officers in which the return of the exiled former for-mer Kaiser Wilhelm was urged was reported to the reichsfuehrer and aroused his anger, hastening his determination de-termination to assume personal command of the armed forces. Anyhow, the coup Is a crushing victory for the Nazi government group over the army clique that had been growing daily more threatening to Hitler's regime and that was said to be planning to force his gradual retirement The monarchists' plot, it is said, included the elevation to the throne pf the ex-kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel Friedrlch. Heinrich Himm-ler, Himm-ler, head of the Gestapo or secret police, revealed it to Hitler. What Small Business Wants TWELVE delegate from tha "lit-tie "lit-tie business" conference that held such uproarious sessions la Washington were received by President Presi-dent Roosevelt and presented to him list of 23 proposals for the, cure of their economic ills. Thesai had been consolidated and toned down from the proposals conceived by the conference, the condemnation condemna-tion of much New Deal legislation being omitted. The principal recommendations la the report were for easier credit for small business, repeal of the undivided un-divided profits tax, modification of the capital gains tax, equal responsibility respon-sibility on employer and employe for observance of mutual labor agreements, the return of relief to local governments as soon as possible, pos-sible, the abandonment of wage and hour legislation and the immediate Investigation of the Wagner labor relations board. Through Secretary Early, the President announced that a large majority of the recommendations seemed constructive and possible of fulfillment Others, however, he felt, sounded well but were rather impractical im-practical It is known that the administration administra-tion does not want the undivided profits - tax completely - repealed.. Neither does it want relief returned to local governments, abandonment of wage and hour legislation, or interference in-terference with the Wagner labor relations re-lations board. New West Point Chief D RIG. GEN. JAY L. BENEDICT has assumed command as the new superintendent of the United States Military academy at West Point succeeding General Connors, about to retire for age. General Benedict, who is fifty-five years old, began his military career ca-reer as an enlisted man in the National Na-tional Guard in 1898. A. F. of L. Ousts Miners WITH tears in his eyes, President Presi-dent Green of the A. F. of L. announced to the convention in Miami that the United Mine Work- Union of, Mine,, .Mill and. Smelter Workers and the Federation of Flat Glass Workers had been expelled from the federation. The miners' union is headed by John L. Lewis and is the nucleus of his C. L O. Madame Perkins on the Spot CECHETARY OF LABOR PER- KINS, who has been having a hard' time explaining why Harry Bridges. C. I. O. leader on the Pacific coast has not been deported as an alien 1 Communist, has put - ' 1 herself in a tight ' "V n olace and aroused fWHerel indignant protests (S J1 neujr, ciiairiiiaii vi g 3 tne maritime com- 'J mission and ambus- a - - - - sador-desienate to 1 Great Britain. til -l nil D..bl.. I'lauumc A c (tins J. P. Kennedy appeared before the senate commerce committee and took a stand beside Ralph Emerson of the C. I. O. affiliated maritime union in condemnation of the maritime mar-itime commission's proposal to settle labor disputes in the merchant mer-chant marine by the mediation methods successfully employed on the railroads. Kennedy, who was in Palm Beach, sent angry telegrams to the White House and it was said he was on his way to Washington to demand a showdown between himself and the labor secretary. If the President Presi-dent should side with her, Kennedy might be expected to quit the administration ad-ministration and give up his appointment ap-pointment to the court of St James, Should Mr. Roosevelt uphold Kennedy, Ken-nedy, Secretary Perkins might resign re-sign from the cabinet Emerson defied congress to pass the bill and apply the principles of railway mediation to the merchant marine. He said the union would not obey the law if it was enacted, adding that "there are not enough Kennedys to man the ships." Links C.I.O. With Reds JOSEPH RYAN, president of the International Longshoremen's association, and A. F. of L. affiliate, told the senate commerce committee commit-tee that the C. I. O. is tied up with the Communist party of America, and gave facts to support the charge. He also accused Mrs. Elinor M. Herrick. New York regional re-gional director of the National Labor La-bor Relations board, of using her official powers to wreck the A. F. of L. maritime and waterfront unions "with the ultimate objective of becoming" secretary of labor under un-der John L. Lewis." After hearing Ryan's testimony the committtee adopted Chairman Copeland's resolution calling for an appropriation of $50,000 for an investigation in-vestigation by a special senate committee com-mittee of subversive influences in the merchant marine. " Fear Borah-O'Mahoney Bill THE National Association of Manufacturers, Man-ufacturers, apprehensive that President Roosevelt might take up the Borah-O'Mahoney bill to place corporations under a federal licensing licens-ing system, denounced that measure meas-ure as providing for an end of "home rule over business." In a formal statement the association asso-ciation declared the bill would permit per-mit the federal government to put any concern entirely out of business for "the most trivial violations" of the terms of its federal license. 1103001100 ssM Second Henri Break for Maid Who F or gives Unreliable Suitor, DEAB MISS DENEi I am twenty-seven twenty-seven and the man I love ta thirty-one. Be b well-educated and goed looking and many other things which make him desirable husband. hus-band. Tws years age we were en-Caged en-Caged and very happy. Then ha decided that he didn't care for me. He went rat with ether sirls and finally became engaged to someene else without telllnc me shoot It. Bs lied to me and even ridiculed ma for believing la him. When It all came out my heart nearly broke. It took me months to get ever his desertion. Well, his engsf ement to the ether girl lasted six months and then he began to treat hey as be treated me. Now after all this time he wants to come back and as I have not forgotten him nor been able to get ever him, I want to take him back. Yet I am so afraid of letting him hurt me. I am ae anxious anx-ious to see him. I know that Us lying ly-ing habits could break my heart an ever again bat he swears be win reform for my sake. What is the right thing to do? MlUy. ANSWER It seems to me that you are Inviting second dose of disillusionment and disappointment if you take back a man who has hurt you cruelly and who seems temperamentally tem-peramentally unfitted to be true to any one woman. Don't misunderstand misunder-stand me. I'm not saying that a man can't live down one mistake. I'm not saying that it doesn't take courage on his part to admit that he has been wrong and to ask forgiveness forgive-ness of the girl he has treated abominably. Many a young boy has Jilted the girl who loved him has tried to find happiness with another charmer charm-er and has lived to repent of his hasty action. When his old love has granted him forgiveness he has 1 ,prived.. to. .hac.-and.to the -world, at large that his repentance was sincere sin-cere and lasting. ' But when e man of thirty use unfair and dishonorable methods in breaking off with the damsel who has trusted him then it's time to wonder whether he could ever be anything but a gay philanderer end an unprincipled liar. It is one thing for a man to discover an error In Judgment and to gv franks ly to his fiancee with the news that he no longer cares for her. It is quite another story for the disillusioned suitor to sneak away with another girl to mock his former sweetheart and to cover up his traces until detection is inevitable. All that smacks of habitual deceit. I consider, Milly that you've given this man his chance already. You played fair with him and in return for that he gave you lies and deceit Now he's tired of his new conquest and it is quite natural that he should think tenderly of your devotion devo-tion and kindness. But if you're fair to yourself you won't let him come back to torment you DEAR DORIS DENE: I am a boy of nineteen and have lived at home all my life. My mother Is a very strong character and has managed me successfully. 'I am now In love and want to marry. My mother has pnt her foot down and refuses to consider my marriage. She offers to give a college education educa-tion which she refused to de until she heard I was u love. I want to get a job but unless I can live at home I cannot hope to support a wife right away. I like year advice and will be grateful for any yon give me. C. G. ANSWER Your mother's strong character will be of value to you now my boy even though you are not in the mood to appreciate it If she were indulgent and weak enough to agree to your marriage at the present moment she'd be doing you an injustice for which you might never forgive her. Any boy who ties himself up in matrimonial chains at the age of nineteen with nothing to depend on but his mother's income, is virtually throwing away bis life's happiness. His wife it placed under a severe handicap living on the bounty of her mother-inJaw. lie, himsell, is under such obligation to his mother that he must take her word as law and let her run his life whether he wishes it or not. At nineteen he cannot hope to have attained the mature judgment which fits him for matrimony. He may not even be sufficiently in love to make the venture a success. All the cards are stacked agaiml him from the word "go." Take my advice, C. G., and accept ac-cept the offer of a college education. Equip yourself to face the world and to hold down a job. Prepare to be an independent citizen not a dependent son for the rest of your life. And don't forget this; that the more you learn and the more you study, the more able you'll be to resist re-sist your mother's strong influence. You have lived at home so long that the maternal protection has become be-come a habit with you. Get away from that sheltered area and learn how to be a man among men. Then when you've reached a more suitable age and when you have acquired ac-quired the stamina to stand by yourself, your-self, you'll have no cause to worry about mother's interference And if the girl is sincere in her love for you she'll wait till you have fitted yourself to become a resl wage-earner able to offer hei a home of her own. 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