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Show r V. News Review of Current Events the World Over . w Cain in Industrial Employment Reported; Steel Industry. Accused of Price Boosting and Fixing; Japan and U. S. Exchange Good Will Notes ; Navy Bill Passes. SECRETARY OP LAROR announces a jump Industrial employment of 345,000 In and a gain of $12,000,000 in weekly pay rolla between January '15 -and February IS.""Factory employment IncreaRed 6.1 per cent while pay rolls rose 12.6 per cent, Secretary I'erklna a a I d In summing op the deShe velopments. added that since March of last year workers 2,4X),000 have returned to Industrial jobs and $67,000,000 added to the weekly pay rolls. Secretary Perkins pointed out that her survey of Industrial employment covers only a small part of the total business field. The manufacturing and Industrlea covered, the explained, normally employ only 20,000, (XX) of the 40,000, (XX) gainful workers of the country and therefore these totals do not Indicate all changes In employment. To them should be added 10, (XX) workers that were reported by the Interstate commerce commission to have been taken on during the last month by. Class 1 steam railroads, and gains In agricultural employment which normally take place at this time with the beginning of farming activities in the southern stales. "The Increases In employment and pay roll In the automobile Industry were the outstanding gains of the month. The agricultural Implement Industry reported employment galna of 14.0 per cent and machine tools a rise of 15 per cent, continuing he galna which have marked every month since Inst May and June. Industries allied with building construction showed Increased operations. DUICE fixing and price boosting, der the Washington and London navaJUxoallea and would like to em ter preliminary discussions. In a PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, house senate and banking committees, asked congress to set up twelve Industrial credit hanks which he had been told would safeguard the Jobs of 816,(XX) persons and create work for 378,000 more. Immediately after the Presidents wishes were known legislation was Introduced In both houses giving the federal reserve system authority to create the banka, financing them by selling $140,000,000 of stock to the treasury. The plight of the "small or medium size Industrialist was stressed by the President, snd he cited results of a survey Indicating that such Industry was badly In need of $700, (XX), 000 working capital. of hope for unpaid school A RAY when a teachers sppeared house subcommittee was ordered to draft legislation authorizing dlrert federal grants to needy school systems throughout the country. The primary purpose of the proposed grants would bo to Insure the operation of schools for a minimum term each year, A serious curtailment of the educational facilities In mnny sections of the. country has been forced by lack of funds, according to the committee, with consequent result that thousands of children are not receiving the proper amount of An Inability to pay teachers Is the most grossing problem. A large part hf the pressed federal grants will' he available for the payment of salaries to unpaid teachers and for (he re employment of many who have been discharged because of Inrk of funds. Under the direct grant measure pnq osed by the education committee, It was understood, the necessary funds, would he supplied either by the federal Emergency Relief administration or the Public Works administration. tending to discriminate against small enterprises, arc current pracbefore an assembly of tices In the steel Industry under Its SPEAKING chief Fascists NUA code, the federal trade com Premier Mussolini outlined a mission declares In the report to the program of Internal and ei senate, xternal expansion That there has been price fixing which, he predicted, as well as Increases In prices of would In the Twenty-fsteel products during the period irst century give covered by the Inquiry, the commisItaly the "primacy sion declares, are conclusions war.of the world. That ranted by ample fads. Under the century, he said, provisions of the code and the will he a black methods of Its application prices ahlrt era." for any' given product at any point "In "pe of delivery are uniform. This la Ik w r plans," 11. I)tice de- a direct violation of the order to dewnnt to dared, sist from the Pittsburgh plus pracbefore you a lay MuM0,,n, tice. plan not for five The steel code, according to the years or ten yenrs but for 60 years centrade commission, la devised to carrying on to the Twenty-firs- t lodge control of the Industry with tury, at which time Italy will have the United States Steel corporation the primacy of the world. and other large producers, to take Italy lias no future In the West business away from little manufacand North. Her future lies to the turers, to discriminate against cerEnst and South In Asia and Africa. tain fabricators and producing cen- The vast resources of Africa must ters and to discriminate In favor be valorized and Africa brought of powerful customers like the auwithin the civilized circle. tomobile industry. do not refer to conquest of terAt a press conference at the ritory but to naturnl expansion. We White House the President Indicatdemand that nations which have aled that he was not satisfied with ready arrived In Africa do not the way the steel code Is operating. block at every step Italian expanThere were signs the Executive sion." might reopen the code and call for Here, It was said, he was referdrastic revisions to prefect consumring particularly to France, ers and Independent manufacturers Internally, Mussolini said. Imfrom price fixing and Increased mediate objectives of completion of costs. swamp reclamation by 1940, new and highways, plans to of cormai regard aqueducts recreate Italian municipalities, comof a desire for the plete rebuilding of fVOO.Otk). rural settlement of any differences by houses and repairs to 930.000 rural amicable means were expressed In houses, a work of 30 years. an exchange of "Every rural person will have a Secrotes between dean and healthy house," he asretary of State serted. "Only In this way can the Hull and Kokl rush to the city be combated." Japanese forIn the midst of a pandemonium eign minister. The of applause Mussolini said Factsm exchange of notes "became universal In 1929. was the outcome of -- Butin this phenomenon, he conInterchanges InitiIs necessary to distin"It tinued, ated by Japan In guish positive from negative Fasfurtherance of a Positive Fascism knows how cism. foreign policy the to destroy the old and rebuild the of general purpose which Is to concll- - Secretary Hull new, whereas negative Fascism late the United States. Japan Is knows only, how to destroy Intent upon persuading the United EXPANSION of the navy to treaty States to abandon the policy of Is now assured with of Japanese occupation of the by congress of the passage Manchuria and to recognize the Japbill. The bill calls anese dominated state of for the construdlon of 102 warships and an increase of 1.1S4 la the J Hlrota expressed the firm belief naval airplane strength at a cost that no 'question exist estimated at between $570, (XX', XX) our two countries that Is fundamenand $700,(XX000 spread over five tally Incapable of amicable solu- jrenrs. tion. The bill merely authorizes" a Hull, - In concurring with that treaty-nav- y Appropriations must statement, said he would be glad to follow In order to translate the acreceive any suggestion calculated tion Into ships and planes. ' to maintain ami to Increase that Private ' builders of ships and friendliness and cordiality which planes for the navy are limited In have constantly marked, since the the bill to a 10 per cent profit on conclusion of our first treaty, the price," excepting on contracts Involving $1(MXX) or less. relations between our two coun. Alternate warships must be built . tries," In government navy yards, unJapan let lt.be known unofficialless the President determines that ly recently that It desires' an Increase In Its naval; ratio with the 'emergency conditions require change United States and Great Britain un- - of that schedule. 60-ye- l. . l f 1 1 4 Assurances Ill-rot- a, Man-chuku- i rbeerT ( the-iVont- rnct -- 1 program for ABROAD national of nations the supply milk from 10 to 20 per cent In return for federal cash payments to the Individual milk producer waa proposed to the dairy Industry of the country by the Agricultural Adjustment administration. The program waa evolved after month of effort by AAA experts. The plan auggested by the adminIt begins to appear istration would Involve some Washington. at the outset. It waa aald, that the principles of NBA, upon ' which President with prospects that the cost might It NRA Nears Roosevelt has rise aa high as, $300,000,000. staked so much would be financed by a processing fest tax of a cent per pound on butter are approaching a fat, gradually Increasing as the pro- teat Despite the Roosevelt assertion that NRA la here to stay, gram advanced, to a peak of 5 cent It seems that there are quite s few per poufid. who are not satisfied with them. man who works for a living They hate revolted, at last The THE gcfT break If amendments challenge appears to have been to the Income tax law pressed by. given, and It is up to the administhe senate finance committee art tration to tight It out now.1 It Is not too much to say that If the adfinally adopted. These amendment from taxes big more would take ministration Is victorious, NRA estates and reduce the tax on small- principles In the nations economic er Incomes. structure are here to stay. If It estimated falls, the story will be different and Harrison Chairman that the net result of the changes no one can say what the course will proposed would add $50,(XX),000 of be. annual revenue to the bill. Disquieting conditions resulting from labor provisions of the codes," voted unanimously The committee particularly the automobile Indusfor a proposal to continue the of 1 per cent corporation cap- try code, the threats, the rumbles, leadital stock and 5 per cenf excess the dissension among political a circumstance all coftstltute profits tax levy, which were re- ers, must he examined together In pealed when repeal put llqnor taxes that to recognize the serloua naorder Into effect. ture of the test that confronts NUA. These taxes would have expired And when refer to dissension July 1. Under the new proposal among politicians, 1 Include not they would become effective again only the differences of opinion on July 1, 1935. Experts estimated tha NRA ; the disagreement runs much revenue from these taxes St farther and embraces many (mints of party policy. Indeed, on the The reduction In Income taxes basis of the undercurrent of talkln would come In the form of a 10 congress, Mr. Roosevelt has sudper cent credit to be allowed on denly found himself faced by a enrned Income up to $20,000. breach with ttie legislative body The estate amendment would Inthat Is not going to he healed easily. crease taxes on such property to a The circumstances seen by obmaximum of 50 per cent as against servers here In their efforts to the present 45 per cent, ihe raises (deco the phture together demone ranging from 1 per rent on estates strate also the thing so tunny valued between $1,(XM),XX) and long bate believed, namely, that $1 XXX), (XX) to ft per cent ou those theorists cannot get along together over $10, (NX), (XX). Mr. Roosevelts brain Indefinitely. trust, as It Is popularly called, has the public to dissension In its ranks.' No two TRACTS urging to promote the sport of of the professors appear to be holdflying In Germany were circulated ing the same theories now, although In Berlin Sunday. Under the Veragreeing thus tur as to the objective sailles treaty public sought. They are jealous of each funds are not other and some of them actually to be used to have become backyard gossips about ' stimulate Aviation, others. Which, to use an old exbut the leaflet points pression, Is a tine kettle of fish. out that the treaty To advert again to the test of does not refer to NRA principles, the situation as we p r I v ate Initiative, see It In Washington Is simply this: a vast segment of Industry has had J and adds: MVe are unable a craw full of professional theories. to construct miliIt has found t hat codes cost Industhe but planes, try money, reduce chances of profit tary trade practices. development of the and destroy sport of flying and It la fighting back, and it Is not Imtraining Oermac portant to this phase of the discussion that Industry has seized on people aa flyers Is entirely dependent upon ourselves and our readi- the company union ns distinguished Fedness to make sacrifices" American from recognized of eration as Labor the chapters The demand for a German air In Issue buttle. the opening Gen. was also force emphasized by The administration has started to Hermann Wilhelm Goertng, premier of Prussia and relchmlnlster of fend off Industrys challenge by reaviation. In speaking at a flying ex- sorting to a counter uttnek in the form of a demand that hours of la hibition at the Essen airport. Goer-lubor be shortened. It hus accepted declared that Germany can enthe challenge of Industry to the exjoy no security, no peace, no equaltent that It has called upon industo she Is until the granted right ity defend helself In the air. This de- try to use its much bruited "organ mand cannot be altered, the air lzed Individualism to manage Its own affairs. And It U not amiss minister proclaimed. out Just here that the sue to point If other countries are permitted cess Industry has with its first the heaviest weapons of attack In on this line will he measventure the air, Germany at least must be ured the amount of slack In un by given the right of defense," he said. employment which It cun take up. ANOTHER Step forward In It Is well to remember, In this between the United that Mr. Roosevelt and connection, States and Austria wns taken with his advisers have n the recent decision of the Problem of the problem of commercial Interests In relief on their Relief. Vienna to found an American hands. As 1 reChamber of Commerce In Vienna. some weeks ago. the ('W. ported I.ter a cognate Institution Is also form of (aklng care of a part of the to be established In Washington. unemployed Is to be discarded be The decision to open up a chamcause, frankly, It hns been a flop. ber of commerce here Is the result That leaves only the of of lengthy study by a committee NltA by which Jobs canprinciples be supplied appointed some time ago "for If tliey nre to be provided. Of founding a special organization to course, the administration has the develop trnde and tourist traffic be- resMnsildllty of supplying work tween Austria and America. now. It started out with many high sounding phrases about social Jus tire, ami the unemployed are now SECRETARY MORGENTHAU President Roosevelt wanting to know when social Justhat Income tax receipts for the tice is going to be worth somefirst qunrter of the year were well thing In the form of beans for the above estimates and far more than belly. a year ago. how- bitTim, it becomes-plai- n Payments to the cloc of business ter this struggle Is (o be. The adMarch 15, the day when all returns ministration's political life appenrs were due, were $147,794 (XX).' W an- to be on the spot. It cannot, dare nouncing this figure on the basis of not, admit defeat. It probably will telegraphic reports from collectors not be defeated lu Its encounter the treasury snid corresponding col- with industry, but one should not lections last yenr were $99,S47,(XX). make the mistake of believing that In 1933, however, the date for fil- victory will come easily. The coning returns was extended from clusions I hear most frequently exMarch 15 to March SI, after tha pressed Indicate to me that the ad' ' ministration and Its NUA Ideals will bank holiday, of estimates Income tax win eventually 'because there nre go Treasury many than employpayments for March are $250,(XX,-CXas compared with $174,000,000 ers. Mr. Roosevelt can count u;on a majority of the last March. people to be ji'mi therefore, herein and serious controversy majority are folks who work for ANEW arisen In the railroad In- their bread aud butter. elf dustry. Unexpectedly, representa- ervation "continues1 to be the tives of the railroad brotherhoods law of nature, despite theory. ln the present situation, the Issue flatly rejected a compromise wage settlement suggested by President has breiVjolned chiefly on the Roosevelt, calling for-- a conttnna-- ' puny union question. It Is an tlon of their 10 per cent pay reduc- growth of the overreaching w tion temporarily, and demanded an I believi was done by supporters of the American Federation of L; her Immediate restoration of predepression wages for all railroad workers. In their demands when the national The action, taken by the Railway recovery written. I do not Maniejbe-federatioLabor Executives leaders. T hey, association, threw negotiations looking to an like every one else, are out to get amicable settlement of the rail wage for their adherents as nmrh qs they can. But their Insistence for labor situation a.ytrtual uproar, fcv WMtora NwjYm rmoo. ,L $165,-000,0- fjneense C. Ball (eo--pi- per-mltte- d t'.... age-ol- d -- g Austro-Amerloa- - nyure-employe- es be-hin- d 44 " nc,t-w- 1o .. Syndic!. WTNTJ xwiedthe Serric. first ) veet ?of k-'.ofd.V By ED HOWE best of the modern ONE of theconfesses he hates ficnovel the Is a dying that tion; to form; that the world things sober snd true; That there are so'&any books that producing and writing them has become a This Is further than I "racket. cage to go, although I care as little for fiction as anyone. protection through the legislation and. the Influence which they wielded on General Johnson apparently, as viewed from this point, were a little bit too strong. In other words, dethey went so strong in their employthe caused mands that they ers to Jlght back. The NRA provisions on labor call The for unionizing all employees. American Federation of Labor says that means affiliation with their Institution and It has fought bitterly for that result. Industries and employers generally disagree with that General Johnson has sided Idea, He baa Donald with labor. a attorney for labor unions, aa his right hand man In" NUA, and Mr. Rlchberg surely has backed up the generals plans. If, - Indeed, he did not formulate " I frequently charge that many noted writers are not understandable because of overwrought figures of speech and poetical fancies not properly belonging In any sound mind or print It Is not a new complaint So Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett have gone off together, said Sidney Smith, when their marriage was announced ; I hope they understand each other; no one else "" does. Rich-ber- g, long-tim- e them. one-tent- h 1 ,J. Writers Power of the Minority Avoid Worry " In the situa- As a counter Irritant tion,, some of the employers have contended Counter Irritant An Idle young fellow (who plainly gives too. much of his time to that In sport) lately called on the editors of the small town In which be lives, and Induced them to print a communication declaring that another football stadium Is needed, although the town already has at least two football fields good enough (one of them lighted for night games). I was displeased with the editor for printing so foolish a suggestion during unexampled hard times, and told my "women folk (In the usual vigorous fashion common to submerged men) that there was no prospect whatever of the proposal being considered. The young fellow convinced me again I am often mistaken. Within a few days he had all the clubs In town considering the suggestion with considerable favor. The papers printed a long list of prominent citizens who had promised to "look Into It," and who seemed favorably disposed. At this writing there Is a fair prospect that this young fellow will win another victory over thousands of fairly sensible citizens who are being outraged and ruined by unnecessary waste, but who are afraid to assert themselves even lb the presence of boys (to say nothing of their fear of old soldiers, statesmen, women, preachers, educators and foolish soliciting committees). if employees their respective plants organized themselves Into a union of their own, there was compliance with the law. They have . Insisted on this to the extent of refusing to deal on wage questions with any delegates excepting those from their A negotiator affiliated own plants. with the American Federation of Labor was welcomed In those plants Just ss warmly as most of us welcome a rattlesnake. As a further bit of history. It should be recalled that Mr. Roosevelt early smelled the trouble that could come under the labor provisions, so he set up the national labor board, of which Senator Robert Wagner, of New York, Is the chairman. It was to be something of an appeals board, a body for review of complaints. But somehow, that body alHo construed the law as - against company unions and the employers were balked again. So now there Is a definite and concerted effort to break down. the program that an organization of employees must be affiliated with the American Federation of Labor before It Is acceptable to the powera that be In Washington. It Is a row that Is going to gontlnue for some weeks. There will be strikes of greater or less consequence. As a part aud parcel of the Roosevelt attack, or counter movement, against opponents of the NRA, It Is generally believed In Washington that the President used tils powers to prevent any government purchases from manufacturers other than those complying with NRA provisions. .It was a week or more ago that he Issued the executive order that precludes the award of government contracts to any bidder not a member of the NRA. Some observers here are Baying that this order is going to cost the government a considerable sum of money. It has the effect of limAlof bidders. number the iting though one may say that nearly every firm of consequence Is flying the Blue Eagle, there are very few that have not In some way or other I do not violated Its provisions. charge that they have done so Intentionally; the facts Indicate the contrary, hut there have been thousands of violations wholly because It soeins Impossible to meet every requirement all of the time. In my eightieth year I have an ambition to candidly write a summary of what I finally think of all I have encountered In my long Journey, the writing to be brief, easily understood, respectable and honest But writing has so long been exaggerated, unfair, long drawn out, complicated, Irrelevant, partisan, that In attempting the task, I find I have absorbed so much of the bad style, I am discouraged. The excuse and Intention of writing In the first place must have been to make honest records of transactions yesterday for use today and tomorrow. If a merchant or his clerk makes note of shipment of peaches to a customer, why should he encumber his writing with mention of blushes, or down, or color. In the peaches? The customer will remark this. If he cares to, when the shipment arrives. Or If the merchant wishes to Indicate on his bill that the peaches were shipped last night, there Is no necessity to mention the moonlight. If there was any ; the customer will not be interested. In the growth of literature writing men have developed so many bad habits, and I have learned so many of them, I am unable to express myself as fittingly as I wish to. .... Mail Controversy admlnistra-At- r velt tlon. Judge, from the current 1 conversation In When yon see a drunken man Washington, that Bundry adinlnls tratlon officials would willingly miss making a fool of himself and wasta couple of good meals If they could ing his money, It rarely follows he retract and cause people to forget Is in that condition all the time. the Jibe made at CoL Charles A. Next day he will be 111 from his deLindbergh because his aviation combauch, and shame added to his punpany released his protest about canishment. I have often woncellation 'of the. air mail contracts dered why a man gets drunk at all before It was delivered to the PresThere Is no fun In It. He Is alident. That White House stateways terribly punished ; . always ment saying that the transatlantic wastes his money to oblige a low flyer was discourteous to Mr. Rooseclaks who keep grog shops, and do velt flits., around the .not- room wheq you want to sleep late. they selL I have heard It said that The White House and the War In the old free days of the saloon department Insist that their attempt Intoxicating liquor was always vilto get Colonel Lindbergh on the lainously adulterated. . . . With army aviation Investigating comdry sidewalks and roads everymittee was ninde because of the where, why do some occasionally Incolonels superior knowledge of avisist upon going Into a dirty swamp, ation. Yet, all denials to contrary diving In the mud,and running the and all Insistence of sincerity have risks of snakes? It Is one of not downed a widespread belief that the many things I do not underappointment of the colonel was stand about men. hoped to perve as an antidote, a sleeping potion., to offset his wbenT worry Tisrar tile contract cancellation It hurts me as much as eating too Political observers here are pointmuch unsuitable food. . . . Organing out that the administration made ize a Dont Worry club of your own, an move In seeking to s I have done, and see how stiff ywr appoint. Undltergh without first hav. .can.Jteepyour- ! n upper avoiding lug gone through 4Lqulet move to cause for worry ; men usually find out his reaction In an Informal worry because they have neglected way. That usually Is done with something they should have attend-- j ppolntmenta. The failure to have ed ta emissaries go around and ask the . colonel whether he would serve on Beery I day think: TU do betthe Investigating committee left him ter tomorrow." - And a position to do some more usually totalkmorrow, I repeat what I did yester-d.T- 5 If he accepted, of course, ing. v he . Occasionally I do a little would do no more talking about the better because of my resolves what ; cancelation of contracts, little Improvement I have made C UuU,- has been because' of them: ... -- Uke-afly4n themsclves-drlnk-the-firew- -- ater ... ip-i- t 1 tomb without th wKere ' to leave the foot .SKe, whom Birth Qty Ukl kj, ofCU k.icrw. Braving Fnxt reeved the wondrou That from Dea-- removed thc-hLfeto- Flowi in that holy garden. Mingled sweetness And (Ken breathed tha yearning heart of won Poured the fragrance cftl, Wa of God are truly honored Oun of Lfe a sacred part; on our knees accord Him Incan of a grateful heart Let U BLOSSOM Paster Tim HEN an oM Dutch rei deflates, of an nioriiinj, that "the liliei the story out," he Is not re: i vi to tj.o American J flower nr ( to Easter the helmed, hut ti common daffodil. Narcius p narcissus, called al-- o the Lei That they are m t liliei, but all narcissi, niemh rs of the a 11s family, did not concern on deners, sas a writer In the York Herald Tribune, whokne a score or so species of a that In at least three centnr cultivation hns multiplied ait! . The air mail controversy continues to rise up to plague the Roose-- . . loth The Modern Eaxter Lily. beautiful confusion that even snlsts do not acrce about It Modern methods of cold t Pj nave made the Bermuda the flower, once truly adornment er Illy, an American pnsque flower la anemone which keeps to the n all-ye- ern central states and Is not lar here. The unique flw i Europe Is also an anemone, poppy Is possible that the mca anemone of Mediterranan like tho red, blue and purple todaj-thcal florists are selling e which gorgeous bloom to "the admired he pointed when the Mexico In field." of the settla is often called floj The Easter cactus" l to the h0) bergera) belongs But the windows. kitchen all to of most appropriate grandma sdnee too rarely seen the waned servatory and ,n cua. slon flower. In Itself to be It Is exquisite, not earths of at the season ffj tlon and of the triumphal -- I first of the church. The It plorers, beholding r- from' branchesstruck were forests, finding In Its stranSnf !Lr . land's own glorification of conversion. Legend gathered Passiflora. A drawing frod Mexico, creawd It at Rome In lCICf. 9 ) the to enfold J!U The ten col redPj Passion. the floral-envelop- e. an ardent fancy yep rofd fti apostles The Inner fringes of Thorns, the five ele the founds,In or Th the drove represented case The vine ' styles or were the cords with the leaves, jp, (!, i j have ors. TMt tWj Christs tornien oral manifestation M Uef should New the might ujsothn even Dutch s S?0 would dies as on pa-i- .nrt - tt t |