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Show AVirn ileclcir ot Current Events YET NO LABOR PEACE Each Other's Proposals A. F. of L and C. I. 0. Reject . . Japs Drive Back Chinese . . Will Not Attend Parley Mussolini's Bold Talk d EARLY a million Italians in Rome to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Fascist march on the Eternal City, and heard Mussolini declare that bolshevism must be driven put of Europe, meaning primarily that the rebels must win the Spanish civil war. Among the invited guests waa a delegation from Nazi Germany, and for their benefit II Duce asserted vigorously that Germany must obtain colonies, peacefully or other- wise. The motto of the sixteenth Fascist year is peace, shouted Mussolini. There has been much use and abuse of this word by the bleatreactionary ing of the democracies. But when it comes from our lips the lips of those who have fought and who are ready to fight again this word attains its real, solemn, original, human definition. Because to obtain a durable, lasting peace it is necessary to eliminate bolshevism from Europe. It is necessary that some absurd clauses of the treaties of peace be revised. It is necessary that great peoples like the German people have again the place to which they are entitled, and which they once had. under the African sun. The presence of the official Nazi delegation, led by Rudolph Hess, deputy leader of the party, demonstrated the ever closer political bond uniting the two people, Mussolini said. Chautemps Gives Warning newa camera man took hia life in hia handa to aecure thia excellent photograph of Japaneao mopping up" operationa in the Chapei diatriet of Shanghai. Mopping up" ia the military euphemistic term for stamping out whatever life is left after the artillery bombardment has done its work. Ike " urrJr U. TirJcufrA SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK C Wesurn Knaptr Vnlse. Japs Mobbed in Frisco Labor Parley Deadlock FIVE eminent Japanese citizens, T EADERS of the American Fed-sent out on a good will mission eration of Labor and the C. I. 0. couldnt get anywhere in their to the world, arrived at San Franpeace conference in Washington. So cisco and were at once besieged on their steamship by a howling mob they adjourned temwhich struggled with the police for porarily, and some two hours. of them said the be not The demonstration was sponsored parley might resumed. George M. by the district council of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, comHarrison, head of the fedration deleprised of seagoing unions affiliated with the Committee for Industrial gation, said that unless the C. I. O. atBut about a third of Organization. titude changed there the crowd was comprised of Chiwas no prospect of nese, who streamed out from the peace. city's vast Chinatown to vent their Both sides had rage at things and persons Japamade nese. offers, but these were scornfully rejected by the opponents. for Stock Market The A. F. of L. proposed that the Help since the slump in the stock FVER fate of the C. I. 0. affiliates organmarket began the government ized since the split be decided at an between has been urged to do something about immediate conference it. Finally the administration yieldrepresentatives of organizations chartered by the A. F. of L. and ed to the demands and the federal organizations chartered by the C. I. reserve board of governors reduced 0. and which may be in conflict with margin requirements on stock pureach other, for the purpose of chases from 53 to 40 per cent and bringing about an adjustment to imposed a 50 per cent margin on bring the membership into the A. short sales. The new requirements 7. of L. on terms and conditions went into effect November 1 and are not retroactive. mutually agreeable." No official explanation was given This clause of the fedration proposal brought a denunciation from for the boards action but it was understood that it was designed to adn Philip Murray, chairman of the C. I. O. peace committee, who just the margin requirements to asserted that it asked "desertion current stock market conditions. and betrayal of these unions. Imposition of the increased marThe C. I. O. proposal was that its gin requirements on short sales was an innovation from the board's unions should return to the federation and that a new autonomous de- standpoint, a stock exchange rule only 10 point protection on partment should be created, to be requiring short sales. It was understood that known as the C. I. 0., to have combefore arriving at its decision the plete and sole jurisdiction over its reserve board consulted with the This and plan operations. policies and exchange commissecurities no concessions. represented sion. John L. Lewis called Murray and Many brokers were doubtful that others Into a strategy meeting to this action would stabilize the marconsider whether a new proposal but the immediate effect was for a truce should be offered by the ket; to stock prices a start upward. give C. I. O. James Dewey, Labor department conciliator, and Senator George L. Yardstick for Power in Berry of Tennessee were busy try- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, conference with J. D. Ross, ading to find a way to peace. The position of President Roosevelt was ministrator of the Bonneville dam unknown, but it was believed he project on the Columbia river, eswould continue his hands-of- f policy. tablished the yardstick rate by which the charges of privately owned utilities for electric current Chinese Smash Japs are to be judged. indeclined the JAPAN officially The formula is to operating vitation to the treaty charges, amortize thepayfederal inconference in Brussels, and her vestment in power generation in 40 forces went ahead fast in their opand provide a net return of erations in China. They had been years cent. 34 per checked by a desperate stand of the For the present the formula is to Chinese defenders of Shanghai, but only to the Bonneville project, apply launched a new offensive that forced but Ross recommended that the the Chinese to abandon Chapei, same principle be followed with rethe native section, and fall back to to power from the TVA and a new line to the west of the inter- spect other government plants. national settlement. There they entrenched with their backs to the Soochow creek on the other side of Miss Roche Quits Treasury ISS JOSEPHINE ROCHE, first which were the United States mawoman to be an assistant secrines. These American troops had A orders from Admiral Yarncll to retary of fiie treasury, has resigned shoot at any planes attacking them that post and returns to the presor at idency of the Rocky Mountain Fuel The British troops in Shanghai company of Denver. The position had similar orders, and the inter- will be left unfilled, for the adnational tension was brought nearer ministration hopes she will resume to the breaking point when a Jap- it later. She was appointed by Presanese tank fired on a British infan- ident Roosevelt three years ago and try detachment of which Brig. Gen. has been in charge of the treasury's A. P. D. British public health and other welfare accommander in chief, was a member. tivities. A few days before a Japanese in a plane had killed Steiwer fo Retire a British soldier. 1 'WENTY years of public service In refusing to send a delegate to 1 is enough for Senator Frederick Brussels the Japanese government Steiwer of Oregon, Republican. He said the conference was inspired by has announced that he will not seek the League of Nations and would next year, but will reput serious obstacles in the path turn to the practice of law. Steiwer of the just and proper solution of the was the keynoter of the Republican conflict." national convention of 1938. ten-ma- nine-pow- er Telfer-Sollct- t, necessity arises, France prepared and ready to employ force in defense of her vital interests. At the same time she offers peace to all nations that will prove by their acts their desire to keep their engagements loyally." was the Such evidently warning, directed especially to Italy and Ger- IFis THE many, which Pre- mier Camille Chautemps uttered fore a congress of Ai.Chautemps the central federation of his Radical Socialist party. I hope especially in the grievous affair of Spain this pacific, prudent, and courageous action will succeed in cutting short the violations of justice which cannot be renewed without constraining France and Britain to renew their liberty of action, Chautemps said. The premier's declaration recalled French insistence that unless the nonintervention committee soon pulled foreign troops out of Spain France would open her frontier to aid the Spanish government. Francos Progress Generalissimo franco, his conquest of Gijon and the rest of the loyalist territory in northwest Spain, began moving his insurgent forces eastr ward to the Aragon front, where his officers said the decisive offensive of the war would be begun. The loyalist government moved from Valencia to Barcelona. Windsor Talks of Trip 'T'HE duke of Windsor, speaking at a dinner of the Anglo-Americ- an Press association in Paris, said that he wanted to make it clear that in any journey I have undertaken or may plan in the future, I do so as a completely independent observer without political considerations of any sort or kind and entirely on my own initiative. He added that I am a very happily married man, but my wife and I are neither content nor willing to lead a purely inactive life of leisure. We hope and feel that in due course the experience we gain from our. travels will enable us, if given fair treatment, to make some contributions as private individuals to solving of some of the vital problems that beset the world today. Noted Editor Dead EATH chose a shining mark when it removed George Horace Lcrimer, retired editor of the Saturday Evening Post. He succumbed to pneumonia at his home in Wyncote, Pa. Honorary pallbearers at his funeral included former President Herbert Hoover and other men distinguished in public life. Mr. Lorimer became editor in chief of the Saturday Evening Post in 1899 and developed it from an obscure weekly to its high position in its field. J Ecuador Coup deEtat GEN. ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ, minister of Ecuador, and officers of the army executed a coup d'etat which forced Provisional President Federico Paez to resign and leave the country. Enriquez at once assumed power as supreme chief with a cabinet composed largely of army officers. He decreed the establishment of a popular tribunal to deal with persons accused of tampering with public funds and announced a national political purge." The people accepted the change of government quietly. machi- ne-gunner That's Donem a jiy gath-ere- John Roosevelt to Wed f RS. FRANCES HAVEN CLARK of Boston announced that her daughter, Anne Lindsay Clark, and John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, will be married in A Na-han- t. Mass., next June, shortly after is graduated from Harvard. Mr. Roosevelt This-t- he newest in crod-- i m expensive quickly or two colors (the leaf trasting) adds beauty home. PrU ment that unless congress re pells Mr. Roosevelts plan to destroy the curb on trick and illegal spending, citizens will pay Network keep pace with this nation and its every for the folly in waste not now conprogress, of Spies one of us is con- ceivable. fronted every day with some sort of Someone might arise and say that government regulation or restriction. We are told what to do and my statement is unjustified because there was not such what not to do and a good many Drain on a terrific drain on politicians want to increase the the treasury benumber of things we are told to do. Treasury fore the general Included in this modern civilizaoffice came into extion is a perfect network of spies accounting 1921. My answer to that who bear official titles of one kind istence in or another, and probably the most is thaton there was a tremendous the treasury before 1921 insistent of these spies are the drain when the accounting, auditing of look after agents of government who taxes. All of which is necessary bills and checks, was done by indibecause tax payers undoubtedly will vidual agencies of the government The difficulty is that, except for dodge a little if they can get away with it. The federal government has war time agencies, the cost of runa good many thousands of them; ning the federal government before state governments have them and the general accounting office was established was only about county and city governments mainof what it ia now. None of tain a veritable army of employees whose job it is to check up on tax- the federal agencies then in existence as large then as they payers. They do their job thorough- are werenone had as much authorinow; If no Make that. mistake about ly. nor as a scope of operaty great the taxpayer does not come through in accordance with the orders of tions, and the bulk of the new agenthe tax collectors, there is plenty of cies have been born in legislation that is haphazard and undigested punishment to say the least. The older agenof Which brings us to the point of cies have scores of and the reason for this discussion. workers government who know how to handle It sets the stage for the question: their business. Regretfully, it must If the government, national, state be said that most of the new agenor local, is so punctilious about tax cies are controlled by, completely of in the collections, peo- filled gathering up with, men who are unple's money, why is it tnat govern- familiar with the gigantic problems ment is not equally punctilious about their jobs entaiL the way the money is spent? This Public sentiment is a thing diffiquestion is very much to the forefront now. It is a question of para- cult to understand. For example, mount importance because of a pro- millions of people became wrought posal for governmental reorganiza- up when President Roosevelt sought tion which President Roosevelt in- to increase the membership of the sists must be considered by the Supreme court of the United States by the addition of six judges of his forthcoming session of congress. own choosing. The federal government must be They rightfully reorganized. The reason for this fought back against the destruction reorganization, according to the of our judicial system. Fighting President's argument, is that the words characterized the criticism of present structure is inefficient, Mr. Roosevelt and his New Dealers wasteful, and generally quite un- who sought to break down the system of checks and balances created wieldy. our government by the founding It is to be granted, I think, that in when they provided for exfathers much of the present federal government structure is inefficient, waste- ecutive, legislative and judicial diful and unwieldy. Throughout the visions of governmental authority. So, I am wondering why thus far government one will find various agencies charged with the same re- there has not been an outburst of sponsibilities, doing things in oppo- vehement criticism of Mr. Roosesite directions, winding and binding velt with reference to the proposed red tape around the citizens until destruction of the check on spendsome of them scarcely can get a ing. I am wondering, too, why peohand free to mark their ballots. ple who complain so violently The whole thing needs a thorough against spies in the form of tax ingoing over but, as I see the picture, vestigators should not demand of this going over should be done with their government equal protection a view to making governmental ma- for the funds after they have been chinery workable and rebuilding taken away from the taxpayers. only where hastily conceived govThere are two other agencies of ernmental agencies and functions have demonstrated that they are the federal government which Mr. Roosevelts reor- acting as a deterrent rather than J wo Good ganization an encouragement to the nation as plan a whole. Ones Doomed will eventually deEach has stroy. I have no quarrel with Mr. Roose- proved its worth. Each has a recvelt concerning the need for chang-in- g ord of service to the ration and prosome parts of tection for individual citizens that the governmental cannot be ignored. I refer to the Changes machine. I have a interstate commerce commission Proposed very definite ob- and the federal trade commission. The ICC has supervised the railjection, however, to some of the changes he proposes. I object stren- roads nearly half a century. It has uously, for example, to his move to compelled them to be fair when destroy the present setup for pro- some Individuals in the railroad intection against improper spending dustry were inclined to cheat or take of the taxpayers' money. Specifi- advantage of an unorganized segcally, I can see no possible excuse ment of the population. Sometimes for Mr. Roosevelt's demand that the there has been criticism of the comgeneral accounting office be made mission for placing the railroads in subservient again to the whims of a but the good that the politicians by placing that agency ICC has done far outweighs sny under the control of a political ap- damages it has caused. pointee, namely, the secretary of Yet, it is proposed in the Presithe treasury. That is exactly what dent's reorganization plan 'to take is proposed, and if the Presidents away the independence which has governmental reorganization pro- characterized the history of the opgram is accepted by congress in its erations of this agency. The Presipresent form, the President of the dent wants to place over the comUnited States, whether Mr. Roose- mission a political appointee responvelt or his successor, again will be sible only to the Chief Executive. able to determine to a large measThrough all of the years I have ure how the taxpayers money is worked in Washington, there has spent. been a g effort on the That may appear to be an exagof politicians to get their hands part gerate! statement. One may ask on the agency that controls the railabout the constitutional provision roads. It takes no stretch of the which requires that all appropriato see what would haptions shall be made by congress. imagination politicians were able to This wot'l seem to prevent execu- pen if the in this direction. I am quite tive mismanagement of the taxpay- succeed convinced that if the ICC is subers mory. Such, however, unfor- ordinated to the political philosophy tunately is not the case because of a presidential appointee, every we have hrd proof under President one us who uses the railroads Roosevelt's administration what can will of be don' vlien one political party not be topaying toll. The toll will the railroads but to the go has such complete control of the politicians. Conmachincr; of government. With respect to the federal trade gress appropriated billions. True. commission much the same can be Eut had there been no general acLike the ICC, the trade comcounting office in existence, I doubt said. if anyone could have even guessed mission is quasi judicial. It is an what would have happened to those independent agency. Times unnumbered, it has stepped on crooked vast sums of money. It has been my privilege to watch business and has forced business of stripe to play the game within operation of the federal government this almost 20 years. Because of that the regulations. On occasion, I have specific actions by the experience, I think I am able to say criticized that I cm more conversant with the commission as lacking in judicial tricks to which politicians resort in consideration. By and large, howretting money out of the treasury ever, I think no one can say unhan perron'-- who have not had an qualifiedly that the federal trade commit-ciohas failed to do its jot t study the government in tin interest of individual s it a L .Elions. And .;! -- which, after all, is what goverr ef rwi experience. I cm i meat is xuyosrd to do. S to make thti unequivocal state tt Wcatcrr t ISTdiJS Make ' cotton or lurt In this Washington. modern civilization of ours when we are supposed to one-seven- th - strait-jacke- t, never-endin- - ipro-tun:- '- riii:-cii- f be-:iu- se XwvKl I'll Uni. 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