Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Davis Warns Japan Against Scrapping Naval Agreement for Saar Plebiscite-MoIe-y and Ricliherg to Industrialists By NORMAN representativeconversations J ' fj EDWARD £ Wootoro by pondents’ association In London but his words were meant for all the world to hear and as his was the first comprehensive speech statement of the American position since the opening of the conversations It was regarded as of the greatest Importance He also announced for the first time that President Roosevelt has all around re“a substantial proposed duction In navul armaments" Mr Davis said that since no agreement for armament reduction has been reached the United States advocates the continuance of the Washington and London treaties with their assurance of “equality of security" Asserting that the Washington pact put an end to a ruinous naval race and established "a sound basis for peace In the Pacific and the Far East” he continued of the system “Only by maintenance of equality of security with proportionate reductions downward of naval be mainIf there can Strength possible tained the substantial fonndiitlon for security and peace which has thus been laid now of the principles “Abandonment Involved would lead to conditions of Insecurity of International suspicion and of costly competition with no real to nation" any advantage It Is said that when JaUnofficially pan gives formal notice that she Is denouncing the Washington treaty prob on December 20 the United States ably will Immediately withdraw from the In discussions In London Oltldals Washington consider that to continue the conversations would be tantamount to acqulscence to Jupan's demand for Of the modification ratios on which the treaty Is based No more than any other nation does the United States wish to see the revival of the race In naval construction but the government will not tolerate the decline of our navy to subordinate place Recent utterances of cabinet members and of congressmen who have to do with naval affaire especially make this plain In hie annual report to the President Secretary of the Navy Swanson says that although the United States may reduce Us naval strength proportionately with other powers It is Imperative that a navy second to none be maintained He warns also of the dangerous shortage of personnel In the navy saying that “ships are valueless unless manned by adequate crews of trained experienced officers and men" of Jugoslavia has government to eipel all the 27000 Hungarians now living In that country The process will be gradual but relentless Already more than 2000 have been deported and more are being sent away dally Hungary called the action of Jugoslavia to the attention of the League of Nations THE i pKACEFUL solution of the Saar plebiscite problem seemed assured when the council of the League of Nations unanimously and gladly adopted the report of the Soar committee embodying the Franco Herman agreement for payment for the mines In case the region votes to return to the relch Leading up to this settlement were two announcements of utmost Importance First Foreign Minister I’lerre Lava! of France promised that French troo(a would make no attempt to enter the Saar territory before or during the vote on January 13 “I desire to announce" said be “that France will not participate In any International force which It may be found necessary to end Into the Saar We cannot participate In such a force because Gercannot many participate” Then CapL Anthony Eden Rrltlsh lord privy seal told the council thut Great Rrttaln would contribute troops to the proposed International force provided Chancellor Hitler of Germany were willing that such an army should be sent Into the territory When Berlin was Informed of this a foreign office spokesman announced that would raise no objecgovernment tions to the plan All this was In effect a victory for the policies of CoL Geoffrey G Knox the league commissioner of the Saar for be has long advocated the creation of an international police force for the territory Delegates of Italy and Czechoslovakia declared their countries would end troops and Maxim Litvinov Soviet foreign commissar laid he believed Russia would be willing to supply a part of the league force t i 4 W Nwppcr American and our chief In the naval limitation that have been going on In Loudon has given plain warning to Janapan that If that tion Insists on scrapping the Washington naval treaty security be endangered will suspicion created and the world forced Into a costly naval conrace Mr struction Davis was addrefusing the American Corres- II DAVIS PICKARD Union P ISl’ATCHES from Warsaw said the Doles were amazed and alarmed by the agreement because they feared the understanding between those two nations would be extended to Include Great Britain and Italy The foreign office hinted that In that case Poland's relations with Russia might be made closer Poland resents being left out In the cold to for she Is determined be recognized as one of the great powers and to play her part In the stabilization of peace In Europe n ROOSEVELT returned RESIDENT I from Warm Springs to his reconditioned executive offices In Washington with the greater part of his winter It will be pre program completed In his aununl messented to congress sage on Jnriuary 3 The major Items have to do with expansion of the public works ndniinlstmtlon to provide work relief revision of the NEA and the AAA extension of power developments social security Insurance and low cost housing and the paring down of the budget EMBERS of the association representing 19 states met In Chicago and perfected plans for a soli erosion and flood control $900000-0(to cost program which the association will recommend to the federal government with a request for a survey to determine Its The plan which was practicability developed by A B Hulit of Chicago of canals and Involves the construction from dams over an area extending northern North Dakota through Texas on to control (1nm1 waters originating moun the eastern slopes of the Rocky tains statements were made INTERESTING Congress of Industry In New York by two of the President’s closest advisers Raymond Moley and Donald Ricliherg director of the nation al emergency council do Moley Professor dared there Is no workable substitute for the present capitalistic economic syshe tem "Basically” said "the New Deal was an effort to save and by capitalism the range spreading under of opportunity It to enable the aver measure of con age man to regnln trol over the conditions under which he lived It seemed to me In 1933 as It seems to me now that this effort to save capitalism was wise and Just "By no stretch of the Imagination could the vote of November 1932 have been Interpreted as a mandate for the abandonment of the capitalistic system Finally even had there been such a mandate there was and Is no workable substitute for our present system" Moley expressed much optimism regarding business He told the Industrialists In effect that they need have no fear of any radical change In the present economic and social order that Industry was needed to stimulate trade and that In the bring about recovery last analysis It would be the business men who would distribute the wealth of the nation Mr Rlchberg admitted the NBA had all Its alms In Its effort not achieved to bring about Industrial but Insisted that its fundamental principles must be preserved In perina nent legislation for codes of fair competition He warned the manufacturers that the permanent law must be written In with labor and consumers ss well as private business and govso that there should be neiernment ther regimentation by business nor business reglmentutlon by government He hinted that If employers consented to legal restriction In return for Increased power under the codes organized lHtor would be called upon to do to legislative likewise tn submitting control Organized labor was soundly berated by C L Rardo president of the Na of Manufacturers tlonal Association to nntlonnt He said Its contribution recovery hnd been "the most widecospread Inauguration of strikes and violence that ercion Intimidation the United States has ever seen as evidenced by strikes In Minneapolis Cleveland textile Industries and the general strike at San Francisco" Rardo pledged the united opposition Association of Manu of the National facturers to the effotts of the American Federation of tabor to obtain through congress legislation Imposing a '30 hour week on Industry or any other effort to “fix s rigid and arbitrary work week for all Industry" for recovery Industry’s platform at a meeting of which was proposed the national industrial council urging a balanced return to the gold standard budget and other orthodox economic measures was adopted who during the LORD RIDDELL war was Lloyd George’s chief liaison officer with the press of In London IU the world Is dead as a gained fame and great wealth As a reward for newspaper publisher his war work Riddell was made a peer His voice over the telephone In 1918 carried the first news to England of the For signing of the Versailles treaty some time after the war be continued to be a friend and confidant of Lloyd George Later there were political differences but while the close liaison ceased the two men never ceased to be friends Lord Riddell leaves no heir and the title expires with him ''M5NTRAL western and northern sections' of Honduras were devas shocks tated by a series of earthquake The ex continuing through two days tent of the disaster Is unknown at this writing for al! contmunlcatlon systems were crippled but It was reported thut at least three towns of considerable size Copas Cabanas and Santa Rita were nearly destroyed KEMAL Ml’STAPIIA PRESIDENT has become "the Idol n all the women of his nation for after social rights as such giving them from the harem he has emancipation At his In given them political rights unanistance the national assembly that any Turkish worn mously decided an more than thirty years old is ellgl hie to election to the chamber of depu ties and that all women over twenty two years of agp can vote In the na Thousands of women tlonal elections their “deepest gratitude” telegraphed to Kenml KIROV one of the most members of the Russian bnrean Communist political party's In Leningrad and as was assassinated he was a close asso of Stalin his elate death was the occa slon of public mourn The government Ing announced that the was taonld assassin Nlcolleff and that he “was sent by the enemies of the working class” But It appears there Is something event to the more than a mere murder A dispatch from Warsaw said ten Red army officers hnd been executed as the result of a plot to assassinate all Soviet lenders at the same time The Moscow government denied this story but at the same time It was putting under arrest scores of White Guards enemies of the Soviet regime action” accusing them of “terroristic ColleThey were tried by a military gium of the Supreme court and of them Including one woman were found guilty and Immediately executed were The names of those executed Among them apofficially announced parently were none of the leaders who with the hnd figured prominently White armies during the civil warfare revolution the Bolshevist following Nor were there any names of men who have had national prominence In Russia subsequently were carried out The executions while Kirov’s body was being cremnt ed Be was given a state funeral and his ashes were placed In the Communists’ Valhalla beside the wall of the Kremlin where rest the remains of Lenin John Reed ad other heroes of the Red revolution SERGEI avia PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’Sconcluded having Its hearings on national defense beand It was gan drafting its report In said Washington authoritatively that If congress approves of Its recommendations government airships In a new will surely be operating Details were be transoceanic service Ing worked out and tt seemed likely the commission would sdopt the plan approved by Ewing Y of comMitchell assistant secretary merce and the national advisory comfor aeronautics mittee That plan calls for two huge Zeppelin type airships and one smaller metal clad craft along with necessary modern landing equipment The commission also will ask congress In Its February report to create a permanent federal agency with su pervlsory control over all civil avia tlon This would comprise five to seven members leaders of the country BUSINESS members of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States de ninnd a reform of the government’s Through a refer budgetary methods endum they have given approval to thirteen proposals to this end One step recommended was “a more con administrative active centralized trol of expenditures” This would be obtained the execu by “broadening tlve allotment system of funds so as to Include all expenditures ordinary and strengthening It and emergency so as to avoid the necessity of defle! ency appropriations” for broader This recommendation branch control by the administrative that also suggested of the government “when feasible” expenditures' be reduced below appropriations “revolt" is INtheLINE with this budget opposition the business men are to the ten billion dollar demonstrating work relief program proposed to the President by his brain trust advisers As outlined by Secretary of the Interior lokes and Relief Administrator to terhopklns this Is an undertaking minate federal direct relief and put all able bodied unemployed persons at work on government financed projects while the states continue to afford re lief to those persons not able to work BRISBANE THIS WEEK' Flying Vanderbilt Communists and Tailors Now It’s EPIA Was EPIC In and Out of Who’s Wto The original Commodore Vanderbilt who ran a Uttle boat from Staten then became the land to the mainland railroad man and country’s biggest head of the NewYork Central would to know that his be Interested William K Vanderbilt according to Mr Maury Paul has built a big airplane for his personal travel A leaders Washington —Administration congress are prepared to oppose any addition to the tax burden of the Fight Taxea try through the action of the next session Although the White House has It Is made no public pronouncement the understanding that the leaders In the senate and the house who have taken unequivocal against a positions tax Increase in 1933 were reflecting the view they had obtained from President Roosevelt In addition to their own conviction that tills Is a bad time to crease the levies which Individuals and business Interests must pay for the upkeep of the government During the current weeks there has If Indeed developed some Indication It Is not an assurance that there will be curtailment of federal expenditures Just bow this Is going to be accomplished Is not yet clear but It can be stated on highest authority that a curtailment of the outgo from the treasIn ury is expected to be accomplished making that statement I think I ought to add that the curtailment la contemto with agenrespect emergency plated cies and does not Include any of the from segments various new proposals Involvof house or senate membership ing additional heavy outlays As an I example of this type of expenditure refer to the proposal for Immediate payment of the soldiers’ bonus That there Is a strong demand for this acYet on tion there can be no doubt the other hand there Is bitter opposl tlon both In congress and among ad lenders to the program ministration of somethat would entail payment thing like two billion dollnrs to the sailors and marines of former soldiers World war days ) The question of taxation always is of an explosive character Hence the urge on the part of some of the new dealers for an Increase In taxation so that emergency might be spending made to appear more In line with government Income has precipitated an had sue very quickly The proposition hardly begun to gain momentum when Robinson of Arkansas Senator tlie Democratic floor leader of the senate and Senator Harrison of Mississippi chairman of the senate committee on to Warm finance both were called Oh for s conference with Springs It wns said at thnt con Mr Roosevelt fprerice that taxation was not the only discussed hut nevertheless both thing lenders came away from the temporary White House with the announcement thnt there would be no tax boost In the 1933 session of congress Simultaneously Representative Hill of Washington Democrat chairman of of the house ways and a subcommittee moans committee made known his opto a tax boost Mr Hill’s com position mittee has devoted Its attention to a survey of tax rates and revenue re and has reached the conqutrements clusion that to Increase the levies now would be to retard recovery as a result of additional Imposts on business The Washington representative feels that the present tax structure will function properly and provide sufficient revenue Just as soon as there Is a return of comnormal something approaching mercial activity He thinks there might of the laws apbe some simplification plying to the various forms of federal but he considers them adetaxation quate as revenue producers If and when there Is a normal volume of business In this connection It seems advisable to recall thnt Secretary Morgenthnn of the Treasury sent a freshman team of brain trusters to England Inst summer to study tli British tax system While this committee's findings and to the secretary have recommendations not been made public Insiders tell me that the results of that Investigation added very little to the sum total of our own probknowledge concerning lem In mil In discussing the governfinancial condition gave It as his opinion that “we Bad are not In such had Financially shape now" Ills statement referred to an approximate balance between receipts and what the administration calls ordinary expenditures These go for support of the regular government establishment and no part of them Is used In maintenance such as the Agof recovery operations administration ricultural Adjustment the Public Works administration or the Finance Reconstruction corporation The funds used by these alphabetical agencies come from the sale of bonds It Is borrowed money and sometime Mr Hill assumed must be paid back these repayments were not necessary ne was to beConsidered at this time concerned solely with having the expenses covered by the regular annual receipts There will be tar legislation In the session That Is necessary forthcoming will be limited Its character however under present plans to considerations made necessary by expiration of certain present statutes The emergency the necessity for enactment brought of various nuisance and excise taxes such as the tax on checks and gasoothers Their exline and numerous piration date was fixed In the statute as of July 1 1935 These must be continued They have Mr ment's Not So - been producing something like four hundred and twenty million dollars annually a good sized chunk of revenue It Is planned In anybody's language to renew these There may therefore be some revision and some change In the bases but the principles Involved Id those levies seem certain to be continued Re enactment of these statutes is not expected to have a material effect on business because business has become I am Informed by adjusted to them business experts that undoubtedly busimove forward more rapidly ness If these taxes could be eliminated Is Since that Is not to be business hoping If not demanding that the tax burden upon It be held within the present confines In order that It may not be under any further handicap while searching for a solid foundation upon which to expand President Roosevelt and his emergency administrators believe they have hit upon n new and Money for plan to productive give money out to the Needy those who need It They are about to embark upon a program of encouraging personal loans loans by hanks to Individual men and women and to guarantee repayment of a portion of each loan made It Is viewed as exceedingly Interestor pny ing that a national government other governmental agency for that matter should embark on such a policy because there are those who hold It to huve done be a dangerous precedent considerable resenrch work regarding this proposal and I have failed to find In the records any such move In the history of Important nations of the It Is therefore world undoubtedly one of the most highly experimental steps yet taken In this maelstrom of recovery plans Announcement of the scheme was made by James A Moffet federal houswho described It as ing administrator marking "a new era In American business” It Is true that there are certain types of hanking Institutions that have made individual or so called character loans where no collateral security was offered by the borrower and where of the good name and the record only the Individual warranted extension of tills credit Mr Moffet said thnt this character loan Idea would prove to be “the very foundation” of the home modernization which he Is administering program He described the action as one predicated upon the government's “absolute confidence that the average American will keep his promise' to repay what he borrows” “Nor Is that position ns much of a Jump In the dark as It at first may seem" said Mr Moffet “As usual Uncle Sam knows what he Is doing Before offering to Insure these loans he consulted the country’s records on He also asked what Installment buying had been the experience of the few hanks who up to last spring hnd made loans character From the banks and from commercial organizations selling on the Installment plnn he learned that the average American Is honest and that the loss from character loans was Just a little more than three fourths of per cent” It Is not the fact that the govern ment found the average American to be honest however that Is exciting comment among Washington observers It Is thnt the government is encourag Ing loans to Individuals gome of whom obviously will suffer the ordinary fate and be uuable to repay them It Is now believed that the world court Issue will be settled definitely early In the next World Court session of congress The foreign rein Itsue tlons committee ol the senate which must pass on such treaties hns an agreement to send the resolution of United States adherence to the world court to the senate early In January and according to present Indications the administration can ens lly muster enough votes to adopt thnt resolution for American Pressure affiliation with the court Is stronger now than tt ever hns been before because of the disturbed world political situation the of the naval limitations breakdown treaties and the tendency among na tlons to split up Into groups for ar rangement of a balance of power Observers here take the position that American adherence to the world court would have far greater slgnlfl ennee throughout the world now than It would have had earlier because of the revival of discussion as to whether the United States should enter the League of Nations It will be recalled that President Wilson’s proposal to Join the League of Nations precipitated one of the most bitter controversies In which the senate has ever been en It subsequently rejected the gaged has been little more heard of plan and It until this fall and early winter Now there Is what appears to be a determined movement on foot for the United States to Join the league and some of the proponents of American adherence Jo the world court believe that a vote to join the world court will carry the United States one step nearer to affiliation with the league Itself c Wun Nwap&pr I'nloa His branch of the Vanderbilt family of railroads even will be' Independent of yachts except for ocean crossings Mr West of the Junior National Chamber of Commerce says one milCommuthousand lion five hundred to overthrow this nists are plotting government The famous "seven tailors of Tooley street" beginning their exordium “We the people of England” also planned to Mr change things but they did not West’s one million five hundred will not overthrow Communists Besides are there either anything not one million five hundred thousand CommuThe number of real enrolled nists In this country Is under thirty thousand and there arfe perhaps one Jiundred thousand pale pink Communists If there were one million five hundred thousand there would still be about one hundred and twenty-twmillion Americans of a different color determined to change this government in their way If at all and do It slowly Have you heard about “EPIA”? It Is a new arrangement of letters vented by Harry I Hopkins administrator of federal emergency relief for President Roosevelt and It means "End Your mind hops Poverty In America" back to Mr Upton Sinclair’s “EPIC" which meant “End Poverty In California" until the election ended ‘eplc Mr Hopkins Is a powerful man of strong will great energy and nobody will his plan to abolish American He would spend poverty public billions on "subsistence homesteads" and rural rehabilitation promove families from poor lands grams to good lands where they might prosbillions to buy per lend government tools equip new homesteads buy live stock etc The new British “Who’s Who” gives Hitler two lines Frances Perkins Is not In the book although Greta Garbo is In and Upton Sinclair with a full account of his “EPIC’ Those left out must console themselves with the fact that Leonardo da Vinci In all his writing did not mention Christopher Columbus and the duke of SL Simon In his long memoirs makes only one little mention of Voltaire merely because “be was the son of my father’s notary" He was also the father of the French revolution which put an end to the Imof French dukes portance But St Slmou could not know that Washington says the President In a financial Imitation of Hamlet asks himself Just now: “To spend or not to spend” If he proceeds with the full program of relief supplying Jobs and food he must ask congress foe more billions perhaps nine of them $9000000000 If congress says yes and the authorities foolishly decide to Issue “Inflation” bonds that will mean paying not $9000000000 tiut $18000000000 the original plus Interest Senator Huey Long of Louisiana Amerisays he has enrolled 1460000 cans In his plan That seems a small figure for a plan to divide New big fortunes York and Chicago had thriving “share-thwealth” organizations before Senator tang started his Some original with Ingentlemen clinations are in Atlanta penitentiary some In a Colorado prison some on Alcatraz Island in the bay back of San Francisco At Tivoli N Y the courtroom cheered a Jury when acquitted a teacher years oki for beating a boy with a rubber hose and allegedly hitting him with his fist The man admitted using the rubber hose but denied using his fist Had he admitted beating a young dog with a rubber hose the courtroom would not have cheered Once reporters tell you Mrs Edythe Townsend was rich a wit a beauty and a lady who visited at the White House and had aristocratic ancestors They found her dead aulcldp by gas In a small furnished room She years old and tollce said lonely Impoverished dependent" Those four words wipe out all past fine ancestry recollections grandeur pf wealth r Borah Senator a sincere Indewants the Repubpendent American lican party to reorganize Itself giving Its “liberals" control He would drive out the “reactionaries” If he dldi that what and how many would he have left? Strip the blubber from a whale humps from a earned and you have llttl“ whale or camel remaining C King r!tirfi 8Tndtct Ido WNU Borvle |