Show economic j aigul highlights gats J that affect the lh din f ner er a divid dividend 1141 cl chech alij r T tux a of every 11 A N and it it national arob leor I 1 ants In b is arom I ul welfare two pot potential eqUal courses or of action must have occurred to the ilia president when tho the bonato disclosures 4 concerning tho the air mall contracts anve r 0 brought before him ono one was to a ferret out tho the guilty and punish them tt the 1 0 other oilier was to cancel all colar contracts good and bad and turn the carrying of the niall mail over to tile the arany the president took tho latter courso course and started stalled tho ilia hot test battle of tits his administration As usual there are two sides to 1 l every matter tho the senate disclosures aro are sensational fraud and collusion are charged along with 4 terrific profits through speculation j and promotion in ili one case it Is 1 alleged that it a fow few hundred dollars was run up to a paper total of w some twenty million while tile tho government was paying heavy J subsidies on oil tho the grounds that they were essential to the development J of commercial aviation but it has not yet been proven that all the operators are crooked to cancel every contract lumping tile the good with the bad Is punish ment of 0 an sort that was waa what the lindburgh telegram complained about it throw am a bombshell into the proceedings and m it created a highly dramatic situ situating atina in which the most famous private te citizens and the head of the ilia government clashed violently the colonel laid himself open to JW criticism on the grounds that the yu giving of the telegram to the press before it reached tile the whito white was a breach of ethics and that in being associated with an interested A I company lie was a biased party opinion seems to be about evenly halt half lining up with tit the Prost dent the other halt with the n colonel the belief Is expressed that the presidents action was drastic on oil innocent stock block 11 jh but that spartan means ato ro get graft out of gover ment are essential A S at this writing the tight fight if 13 3 amov jang in ili the courts government won I 1 athe thet first victory when a plea of transcontinental western air to rostra estrain ln the order was refused li i A determining factor in arriving ant t a basis for future air mall contracts 1 tracts will be the efficiency of the larmy in handling the mall its S alps are slower than those thosa of private operators though it Is hop qed sed 0 that this will bo be offset by short stops stopa duo due to elimination of pas 1 gengor ie ngor or service the first ulea dulea are pretty sketchy in aview of private service chany many points will be left off the map at least to begin with and flights will be fewer in number army air heads are worried orr lea by the fact that their pilots are young and inexperienced tor for the most part when it comes t to this kind of flying and are st start arl ing at a bad time of year three were immediately ailed to posts in idaho find and utah A the cancellation order was waa vaguely worded left room for now new 4 private contracts it if they are do banded and are necessary it seems certain in that case that t the h e subsidy system 1 la discarded that the fixed price basis will prevail that smaller concerns will be 4 given a borealo in obtaining contracts 1 l wes A yes business Is 3 better and the purvey survoy Is holding stubbornly to its fulward I 1 upward trend tread mainstay of the ump Is still tho the automobile indus spectacular recovery and Is the word every fresh report coming from the S ator centers Is more moie encouraging athan jhan the last unfilled orders tor for 5 ibeth tru trucks ks and cars fire are zooming dilord yi lord vord and general motors alone tire reported to be at least a titer 41 ter of a million orders behind and lher hr industries in dus tries are racing along with auto makers in the depart tt lyent T stores st ores according to the last a the cash registers V ife is ringing merrily mei with an ver aver a 1 e national natt conall gain of 25 per cent n dollar volume over last year edthe 19 chemical chumical chuml chU mIcal cal industries which su I 1 ed 1933 in fit good gond shape are their advance now with lass ass textiles paper etc finding markets and stable prices artlie abe most re r cent Dep department ariment of 1 commerce survey shows steel out al out U t higher business activity bet ter commodity prices on an tila rise tock and bond prices up and gen lix iral betterment all along the line discontinuance of CV 1 A A which has bas people including teachers artists street cleaners insect a 1 t j poet or two and about every pos poa ible classification of worker Is and will naturally react favorably on business dut but lead continued to back rage |