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Show rv I'F News Review of Current Events the World Over House Democrats Defy President Lobbyjng for and . Against Utilities Bill to Be Investigated Senator Glass Best3 Eccles. W. PICKARD By EDWARD Western Newipeper Union. SECRETARY SUNA. OF AGRICULTURE proclaimed the establ- SEEN- -' HEARD ishment of an AAA adjustment program for the 1935 rye crop which will Include benefit payments of amounts not yet disclosed Representatives from 16 rye growing states met In Washington to discuss the program and outline plans for Its operation. Farmers from the principal wheat producing states met with AAA officials and gave their approval to a tentative flexible plan for the payment of benefits to wheat growers. around the National Capital sm-iBB- 1 four-year- i line. A Attorney cles. For example, .a high official of the Federal Emergency Relief administration was told that his agents in a large middle western city had threatened to take families off relief if they refused to permit their sons to go to the CCC camps, or if able bodied men In the families refused to take jobs which were offered. I have not heard about that," he You see it is a purely said shortly. local problem. The man on the ground handling the relief situation lias authority Jo handle the. matter in any way be sees tit." You moan if he turns families off tliP relief rolls for such reasons as that, it is entirely up to him? he was asked. Exactly. tie replied. Would the local officials make a report to headquarters here about itj , the questioner persisted. Nothing of the kind need "he. re. ported. lie replied. And his whole manner indicated, vvliat sqme of his underlings told th writer in confidence, that he did not vvanj any such reports.! h 0 Cut Huge Fortunes s 1 Pre-ide- t ..f.h-mn- vv d for-caus- e , IresUfcnt Rooosevelts objective Is to reduce all large fortunes to a maximum of 57.iHiO.OiM4 all large incomes He to a maximum of $60,000 a year said tills In a conversation a few days ago with a very rieli Democrat, who incidentally had Ieen a big campaign fund contributor, nnd the gentleman is still sputtering about It. In another most interesting conversation with 'a Wisconsin man who hjul hacked him vvlTcn Roosevelt .really needed lanking. In the. ention his caller da.vs. the I'rcMdent advi-e- d to "go bat k to WJscmisin and nuke jour peace with t he I. a Fnllettih .They are our kind of people. Whi lu of .course is purely corroborag tive of vvliat the has about bis tux irogr.au that "it has two objectives, a" better social order,it. as welln as revenue I i Meanwhile busine.ss men ns a whole are at the. prospect, for they see in tho;lrive again-- t bigness almost surely further boosting of" the rates to apply against. all corporations which have big earnings. auia-iJ.Llit . JiuLagri. &ikx the w.silom. entirely a -- hie from their seiti'ii interests, of this policy. Mud of them almit that there is some merit in the contention so often made" in private conversations by Justice Rrandeis against bigness in pr.vately owned corporations. Frequently, they admit, many of the faults which characterize pre-eon- 1 1 D Real Problem The whole question brings up the point whether the United States is now going through what England' went through a few years back. In England the dole brought some interesting consequences, arid, as they occurred before the depression bit this country, there was quite a feeling in this country that Rritain was bringing her troubles on her own head by pampering the dole collectors. . Then came the depression, nnd the New Deal. Whereupon it became progressive in this country to insist that it was the duty of the government to take care 'of the cold and" hungry, and to point tq P.ritains reactionary troubles on the same sort of problem. Now it is being realized that it is a problem involving fundamental traits of human nature, and that the United States is not very different in the character of its people from Rritain. No one, not even the most bitter critic of. the administration on Capitol Ilill, Is advocating that people should lie allowed to starve or freeze. Rut a very Interesting mental transformation is becoming appai ent In New Deal cir- e ed FIELD-- fisa Washington. Grave concern is felt high administration officials over the lack of eagerness of so many people, all over the country, to get off relief rolls, even when fairly good Jobs are offered. It Is Impossible to obtain accurate figures about this phase of the situation, all the bureaus, administrations, agencies, etc., being very much publicity shy about this disturbing development. It is known, however, that reports from all over have been received, and that lresiderit Roosevelt's hopes of getting everybody off the relief rolls as speedily as possible have run up against a very stiff resistance. In many cities young men eligible for the CCC camps are refusing to take the examinations. In one large city families are Insisting they do not want their boys to tie trained as soldiers that they bear beer Is sold at the camps that their boys would have to associate with low characters. Professing entire ignorance of the situation in that city, the CCC officials here insist they do not believe the objections cited by the parents are genuine. They say that the talk about military training was very widespread when the camps were first started, but that It broke down of its own weight a long time ago. They believe the sole and only reason Is unwillingness to get off relief rolls. In other cities, In fact in most cities, enrollment In the CCC camps has been way below what was expected, and the answer Is believed by officials here to he just unwilllngnetfs to get off relief. Rut In every Instance officials say 'to inquiring reporters from the city In question: Please don't mention that you talked to me about this. Incidentally the Veterans bureau has been having Its troubles along the same al- - $8,571,-000.00- CARTER by EDEN, Englands CAPT. ANTHONY electrouble shooter, Isles Iirltlsh trified the announcing by tors, subject to reserve board approval, TJ EYOLT In congress against Great Rritaln had offered to give that fl for arid the reserve of the periods, leged dictatorial attempts Halle egelassie, emperor of Abyssinia, administration reached a climax when hanks need not buy additional governa generous strip of Iiritish Somaliland the house, b.v the decisive vote of 258 ment bonds unless they choose to do so. to replace territory acquired by Italy, to 148, rejected the If the Italian government would prom"death sentence" in INVESTIGATION of the admlnlstra-ise not to wage war against the domain tlon of the Virgin Islands by a senholding the utility Lion of of Africas Conquering as ate commltjep was certain to be lively. bill companies Judah. The senate very first witness heard, Charles passed by the Nothing doing, said Premier Mussoand demanded by the 11. Gibson, was threatened with jail who has turned a deaf ear to lini, recthe The President. Interior Ickes for by Secretary of all Rritains proposals of an ord vote came on a removing ollicial documents from the He was reported compromise. files. Mr. who was to substitute motion Glhson, governto as go Intending right ahead with the house bill placing ment attorney for the islands until s war to effect a his of plan cumIckes ousted t had testified rather him, utility holding of the Afrithe pacification complete vaguely against the regime of Gov. j panies under regulaA He Insists that there can empire. M. Paul Pearson. securities of tlon the must be more room In Africa for overRep. Brewster Qd Glhson testified that Governor Pear,.nm. mission for the senate bill which pre- son had exceeded his authority under populated Italy to expand. Mussolini has threatened to "rememscribed the dissolution of the holding the law, was unpopular" with a large ber" the nations which have offered to besection of fir the of more q of the tlnn companies degree population furnish Abyssinia with arms, and they Islands, and was not frank In his adginning in 1910. . The adaption of tills motion k'lled ministration. To support his testimony have withdrawn or modified their ofGibson Introduced several letters which fers. The African emperor pleaded: the death sentence." A 'ter If we are In the right and If civithe house hill fur ihe senate were the documents to which Ickes lized nations are unable to prevent bill, tlie perfected measme was parsed alluded. at least do not deny us the this war, 81. to 322 of vote a by means of defending ourselves. PN. HUGH JOHNSON assumed Immediately after tills action, the The Rritish parliament was no betbouse voted unanimously fur an Inhis new office of federal works offer of land vestigation Of alleged lulile, ng by relief administrator for New York ter pleased with Edens than was Italy, and the colonial secreboth the supporters and the toes of city. sechis ever Robbie," present the utility measure. During the de- retary, fended off the reporters for a tary, son of former Prime Minister bate on the bill it was frequently day, but let them In then, and to them MacDonald, had a hard time explaining it. the general walled: charged that the cnpltnl was swarmThen Italy heard that the Rritish I hate this thing I It Isnt helping ing with utility company lobbyists, and was considering a proposal government two came then serious accusations anybody, anywhere. When the source to join In an agnlnSt the other side. Representa- of money Is cut off well be right back to Invite other nations to check of blockade economic Italy II. of tive John California, where we started. Its disheartening lloeppel Rome was on Ethopla. Democrat, asserted an unnamed adto sit here, knowing that when the her aggression ministration lobbyist bad offered to funds are gone, the Jobs will he gone." astonished by this report but didnt seem In the least alarmed. Neither get Californias relief allotment Inwere when the Italians frightened If would vote the creased for lloeppel cummings learned officially that Ethiopia they general had bill as the President wanted It. This on that July 29 a asked the United States to means study but the didn't greatly Impress hmisq, school would be opened by his departlater Representative Ralph O. lirevv-ste- r ment In Washington for the purpose of of persuading Italy to respect the Keltif Maine, Republican, charged training state, county and dt.v police logg pact outlawing war. The emthat Thomas G. Corcoran,, a young in law enforcement theory and prac- peror himself made the appeal to W. of the tice. A twelve weeks' course will he Perry George, charge daffaires at brain truster who Is administration bill, had threatened given to selected officers, the Instruc- Addis Ababa. cessation of construction of the tion being free. famous for darn project PusMiiiiaquoddy Andrio nsCitroen, In "the Henry Ford of the congressman's district If REPUBLICAN senators were ad- Brewster should vote against the vised that former President Her- France because he built most of that death sentence. bert Hoover will not he a candidate for countrys low cost motor cars, Is dead. Mr. Rrewster said he did not bethe Republican nomination In the Pres- And probably he was happy to pass for Ids vast enterprises had collieve the President was aware that idential race of 1936. on, and his once huge fortune was lapsed mch tactics were being used by his They were advised aids or would countenance them, and that Mr. Hoover would gone. Rankin of Mississippi and Moran of make the formal defended Mr. Roosevelt. Rut some time THE federal government began a fiscal year with intentions of the Presidents contact man, Charles He Is this summer. more money than In any preWest, and Postmaster General Parstaying out. It was spending vious of peace. Mr. Roosevelt anyear inley's lobbyist, Emil Ilurja, had been said, because he so active among the house members tends to remain In pri- nounced that lie would spend $8,520,-000- , 000, of which $1,582,000,000 will go that the resentment of the lawmakers vate life and has He expects was aroused and they gladly directed his future ca- for recovery and relief. planned that the lobby I ng charges he investireer along that line. the treasury to collect $3, 991, 000, 000. No, It doesnt add up. The deficit for gated. For his active critithe new fiscal year will be $4,52S,000,-000- , cisms of administraIt is estimated. t he he final fate of tion policies the reaWHAT wouldmeasure The fiscal year just passed came to was doubtful. son was given that, although he does Senator Wheeler of Montana, after a not choose to run, he thought the an end with the public debt at a new peace-timjieak of $28,665,000,000, still call nt the White House, said lie was party needed some sort of direction; confident a satisfactory bill would now that his candidacy Is shelved, It some shy of the $31, (XX), 000,000 the President estimated a year ago. To come out of the conference, and if one Is expected that his political utterances finance the new budget, he had countdid not, the measure would lie alwill be clothed In less authority. lowed to die. In either case the war The Informers, however, assured the ed In part upon the $500,000,000 exnuisance taxes Just tension of on the holding companies Is likely to senators that Mr. Hoover would get passed by congress, but not upon the be made a nnjor Issue of the next behind the partys candidate and enter program which the New Presidential campaign, and administhe campaign for him, and that. he tration leaders are predicting that the thinks, with unifleafion glowing, the Dealers hope to Jockey through some In August. Estimates have It Democratic congressmen who dared Republican are looking time prospects that this will net another $340, (XX), 000. to vote against the death sentence" brighter day by day. The expenditure for the past year is will tie defeated at the polls. These $7,258,000,000 instead of only doomed" men number liid, asngilnst TIORLD war veterans fro in both forecast at the start of the 331 Democrats who stood by the Presithe Allied and the Central powThe deficit was $3,472,347,000 year. dent. ers met olliclnlly in Paris nnd debated Republican lenders were Jubilant, ways in which future wars may he instead of the proposed $1,869,000,000. If the expenditures outlined In the professing to see In t he episode the averted. They denounced as enemies 1930 budget reach the estimated total, a real of. beginning uprising against of their own countries those who the piddle debt on July 1 next year the President and Ids New Dealers; would seek to foment a new war, and stand at $3 1,239.000, 0(H). would neutral observers looked many upon passed a resolution declaring: The During the next year the President it as only a battle between t he two respect for treaties being the bns's expects to spend $t,SX0, 000,000 for relobbies In which the victory went to of International relations, this eontl lief and for the employment of 3,500,-00- 0 the utilities lobby. lienee can be durable only w lien interA general upswing Idle workers. national accords nnd the resulting ob- in business would improve the revenue IN THE battle between Senator Car- ligations nre mutually and sincerely re- expected by the treasury. The Presiter Glass and Marriner S. Pedes, spected. dent counted on $3,71 1,000, 000 coming The meeting was held under the ausgovernor of the federal reserve board, in during the 1935 fiscal year. Rethe former has, at tills writing, scored pices of Fidae. The Amerieuti dele ceipts proved to be $3,7S5,000,(KH). the most points. The gates Included S. P. R.iiley, Winona, astute Virginian Minn.; Ju'bin V. Thomas, Salt Luka weeks peak in ertme was from the City; Rernhard Ragner. McKeesport, THE when Detroit police found I'o.iti-svillL. and Harold Pa., Smith, banking Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent bill most of the radiPa. New York attorney and nephew ol cal provisions that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, would have led. to govT. ANSK1.I.. a young attorney BCRR liii" dead in a ditch beside a lonely ernment or public ownfattier, Gen. S. T. Ansolt. road with a bullet through of the federal ership is suing Senator Huey Long for libel, Rouge park liis head another through his chest. nnd reserve system, and, was enraged when Long intruded on a law associate Dickinson, ol reIndeed, practically his party at a Washington hotel and Evans Charhs Hughes, Jr., had been wrote the measure. One of took a suing at the Kingti-di- . in Detroit on "business of the $10,000,. Then 'his subcommitthe senator's companions estate- - of the lute, William IL 000 tee handed It on to arm mid the young hum says Yaw key. Apparently, he had driven the. senate banking and currency com Long then ran away. , to Rouge imrk while on a drinking mittoo. which promptly gave the lull puny niter lorn ness hours.- - is comIts approval, without a record vote, 1.1 Y O ID' ) GEORGE, whose on the .ride. Aim were William and after making tidy two minor .New Deal progiaui was not well panions Detroit underworld charSchweitor, changes!. bv reeeiied the ltiitisli government, Had three tmrlesipie-shoacter, girls, Pedes and Secretary ot lias resumed active participation in . Governor all of whom he had picked np at" hla the Treasury Morgentliati expected to polities, reluct jntly," but with exhotel In the motor city, tied the scene lie called before the committee and pressed determination to "go on wit h and were traced to Fort Wayne, Ind., were prepared to toll why the loll it." The little Welsh veteran stateswhere they were arrested. would not suit the mini nistrution, tint man addressed the national conveii After iLiii otgrdU'JS by .pothe comm.ttee didnt give them a lion of reconstruct ion lice, the sejtyJ. the, pg. lew a four confessed they had plotmovement, and asserted the nienaey to ted the murder to rob Dickinson. As passed by the house, the banking peace and the economic confusion" Svveitver admitted firing the .shots. bill would give autocratic powers owr the vvoild throughout aie growing Their loot was 8154. the hunk tig. system to u poiiflealh . orse. dominatul federal reserve hoard; it'd KTEEMLNED that what goes up the party in power would hate the nil I PANS beautiful Inland sea was P must stay iip.--ks to force the tvvidve reserve thority 2 ik b'.t -(X'S VT'PU. Vuat ! . . fi.ers, broke the worlds J.ndvS-te-l'.in,1'ui.n-!,- -,! ;nr,Ttr r.("s 'to t Tie ost 101 fives. The Midori lime record for heepoig a plane aloft, laticnal treasury. Cml.r the till us Mam. clouded with stearnei, holiday passen-geis- , lauding after C55'3 hours In the air rewritten by Glass, reserve boaid mem collided with a tnigimi in the at Meridun. M,sS. Tliejr 'passed the bers are to be appointed for 11 year t'oggy night and sank almost immediunofficial endurance record of G 47 terms and are to be discharged only 91 of hours, 28 minutes .and 30 ately. Rescue bouts puked seconds set chief oftieors of the reserve the 166 passengers ami 56 of up the crew. in 1930 by Dale Jucksou and Forest bunks are to be chosen by tbdr direc All the victims were Japanese. ORrieD at St. Louis. UTAH j nt been-savin- all large scale government operations creep in when a corporation attains unwieldy size. They even admit that Instances can be cited where the mere size of the corporation Increases the cost of whatever unit It may manufacture, or the Item of service it may render. NEW IDEAS LEND CHARM TO FROCK PATTERN 2199 Take the Automobile Rut they Insist that for the most part these Instances are the excep- tions, and not the rule. A favorite illustration of the reverse is the automobile. Anyone who knows anything about manufacturing admits that If the automobiles of this country were produced by say 2(10 manufacturers of fairly even size, the cost per automobile to the purchaser would be more than double. The best illustration of this is the Ford car now manufactured by a fairly good sized plant in Strassburg, France. That car costs the purchaser In Paris about $1,700. This is not due to the protective tariff, for the car is made in France. Actually of course, if the cars were made in the big Ford plant at Dearborn, they could pay 100 per cent tariff and still save the purchasers a good deal of money. It is the French quota system on imports which forces their manufacture on a small scale at Stra'lmrg. Manufacturers contend that if Ford curs were produced by separate plants of small size in tins country, each owned by a different owner and operated Independently in short If the policy desired by the administration In this use of the taxing power against bigness were forced into effect the cars would cost purchasers In this country more than the 51,700 charged in France. For it so happened that wages in the Strassburg plant are lower than in the Dearborn plant. All of which helps to explain what some critics of the plan mean when they insist it Is a distribution of poverty" not a "distribution of wealth. One Real Danger Only one phase of the huge share level off the big forthe wealth tunes and pass prosperity around taxation program of President Roosevelt seems In any real danger. This Is the sliding scale tax aimed at big corpora terns. There seems no doubt whatever that the big levies on inheritances, and the boosts in the upper income tax brackets, will be approved by congress substantially as desired by the President. Already a trickle of protests has begun arriving from holders of common stocks in the big corporations. A few of them have already realized that heiivier taxes on the companies in whip their savings ure invested hits them, and them alone. For the bondholders, and the preferred stockholders, will continue to get their interest ;ind dividends, if they are earned. Additional taxes will hit the equities, not the debts, of these corporations. Except of course such as are not earning enough to pay dividends at present, and have no prospect of paying any in the near future. If the big companies should do anything like ns thorough a job In rousing their stockholders as the utilities did, there is little doubt that this phase of the program would bo in serious danger. 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Opposition to them might prove very hurtful at the next election. The opposition is based chiefly not on any theory that it Is a bad idea to cut down the big fortunes though there are a few who insist that many big fortunes have proved far more beneficial to the public at large than If the same amount of money had been spent by the government but on the old Mellon theory of efficiency. Andrew V. Mellon, when secretary of the treasury, frequently contended that lower percentages of taxes for the .high brackets would bring more money into tlie treasury than higher percentages. lie pointed to the fact that every time taxes were reduced on big incomes, rei eipts from big incomes increased. Critics of the Mellon regime that tlie ivufnn for always insi.-te- d tliis was morel.? that it occurred during. a rapidly rising tide of prosperity. As there was undoubtedly such a rjs-intide during that period, there Is no conclusive method of demonstrating t hat Mellon was right. Rut there is a 'iSflifgly hnld view that he was. "This theory and It Is the one entertained today by many men In congress who Will vote for tiie now levies despite t hoi r views Is that when tax rues are too high, ways of evading them will ate ANTICIPATION Tlie Suitor Believe me, Gladys, I love the ground you walk on. The Gardenette It looks nice, doesn't It? All full of carrots, turnips, potatoes and onions. Detroit News. Modern Woman "My wife is a woman who always speaks her mind." Her conversation must be monotonous. Not at all. S!ies continually Border Cities changing her mind. Star. Two Goals in Sight Bill Is working his way through college by acting as chauffeur for a rich widow. And when will he be tlirou h? "Just as soon as he gets Lis di-- " " ploma or tlie widow. . WXU W 35' g found. )e " tTiTs "vTovv" at those with big incomes are either smart themselves, or have smart lawyers, and that they will have no scruples whatever about finding methods of evading both tntieritance and income levies if they regard them as ,V-- - (TV 'ji'-j- e r |