| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W labine tax revision brought to fore by adminis administration objection over huge farm appropriation EDITORS S NOTE when whan opinions are arc expressed in these columns they are arc those of tho the news newa analyst and no not t necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper paper union CONGRESS spend tax save excess spending was the com plaint ot of V U S chamber ot of com merce marce members at their annual convention ven tion this has also been congress complaint against president roosevelt A few days after the chamber adjourned secretary ot of commerce harry hopkins returned from a potomac cruise with tho the president to radiate optimism pooh pooh the ch chambers a mb C r I 1 s complaints and plump for another years spending as essential essen 11 almost as he spoke the senate passed a record agriculture ampro appropriations privations bill which totaled 1218 compared with the presidents budget estimate of restored were in parity payments to growers of wheat cotton corn tobacco and rice earlier shelved by the house added was a item for disposal of surplus commodities and an extra to the original est estimate imato tor for a farm tenancy program if tho the senate thought mr hopkins spending plea pica meant a green light from the white house it soon learned otherwise at his press conference tho the president rebuked icon con gross gress for bor breaking its promise to levy new taxes to meet out of pocket costs recalled was last sessions farm parity appropriation tor for which no revenues were provided chimed in secretary of the treasury henry Morgen the bill disturbs me greatly I 1 think that if they are going to add to the present deficit it should bo be up to congress to meet tho the increase its about time we began tapering off probable upshot Is that the form farm appropriations squabble will force consideration this session of two issues treated superficially thus tar far namely economy and tax revision said georgias sen richard B russell floor leader for the form farm bill 1 I am strongly opposed to singling out the farm program as tho the only one which must be reduced or for which we must levy new taxes I 1 am willing to economize but not solely at the expense of the farm er 11 since the president opposes new levies on small taxpayers tax revision probably the price congress al 4 w i 0 Z SECRETARY its about time must pay for or its huge farm taran bill would likely mean a mere shakeup of upper bracket taxes to secure more revenue if the farm bill Is any sample of congressional congress ionnI economizing this cause will also go unsung until an other year already having appropriated record breaking army funds under the new defense pr program 0 gram the house coughed up for the navy more than the president asked meanwhile a house committee investigating heard chicago Chi cagos s mayor edward J kelly new yorks florella H laguardia and other municipal chiefs testify that congress must not curtail relief spending this year lest city folks go 90 hungry EUROPE peace history may relate that edward duke ot of windsor helped avert a european war in 1939 when he spoke from Ver duns battlefield simply as a soldier of the last war to ask that national leaders renew their efforts to bring about a peaceful settlement tl windsors Wind sors speech gave voice to a whisper already in the wind within 24 hours the dove could raise its head without risking decapitation poland to stop germany from seizing danzig and part of the polish corridor poland needs russian help britaina Brit ains effort to line up the soviet were blocked by 1 prime minister chamberlains wariness and 2 polish hesitancy over letting russian troops cross her soil stopping at warsaw en route home from turkey bulgaria and rumania dussias Rus sias vladamar Vlad idimar lmar P first assistant foreign commissar had bad a two hour conference with kith polish foreign minister josef deck upshot was it a lessening of polish suspicion next day the so vict proposed a four power russia franco france poland and britain mutual I 1 assistance pact to safeguard european peace reason hillers Hit lers denunciation nun nuncia clation tion of pacts with poland and britain have made a new peace front imperative vatican pope plus XII himself a onetime one time ace diplomat had his papal nuncios to britain poland france italy and germany invite t vu f 4 4 1 11 N 1 loland granv less suspicious those nations to a conference over the polish german question though shunned because 1 anti axis nations feared it would mean a new munich appeasement conference and 2 anti god russia kasnot was not invited to participate in a discussion which vitally concerns her tho the proposal nevertheless brought one possible ray of hope hitler and mussolini rejected it because they believed bell eved the european situation not sufficiently serious to endanger pence peace the vatican thought this might mean hitler does docs not intend to precipitate trouble right now scandinavia foreign ministers of denmark norway finland and sweden apparently rejected prof aggression non treaties with germany such pacts are still possible but by their reluctance scan dina donavian vinn states remain a bulwark of neutrality which obviously wants no truck with der fuehrer japan often reiterated the past month has been japans reluctance to turn its communist anticommunist anti pact with germany and italy into a military alliance reason japan wants no war with democracies which would inevitably result if a new russ brit ish french follst entente were to light fight littler hitler PEOPLE charlie again one summer day in 1874 curly headed four year old charles ross and his brother were taken for a ride by two men who promised them fourth of july fireworks charlies brother was found a few days later but charlie himself was wa never found despite 23 ransom letters demanding for his release the best clue was lost when two burglars were shot five months later on long island one joseph douglas gasped before he died that his dead partner had helped him steal charlie ross since then hundreds of abandoned children have been identified as charlie ross but this spring a new candidate arose in gustav blair 65 year old carpenter at phoenix ariz blair claimed his traits and appearance resembled charlie ross lin coln coin C miller whose family reared blair testified his millers father had told him blair was a child that he had guarded the four year old child in a cave alter after deliberating eight minutes a superior court jury at phoenix decided on the basis of this testimony that charlie ross had been found 11 at 65 the horny handed carpenter looked to radio and film contracts FORECAST by democratic statistician emil hurja that on basis of current standing vice president garner and new yorks tom dewey will win democratic and republican presidential nominations next year provided president roosevelt seeks no third term meanwhile a gallup poll gave dewey 54 per cent of all republican votes by washington gossip appointment of francis B sayre assistant secretary ot of state as philippine high commissioner to succeed paul V mcnutt democratic presidential aspirant also by washington gossip midsummer mid summer resignation of richard C patterson assistant secretary of commerce to ent enter er el cl ther utility field or motion picture industry POLITICS GOP COP liberalism though 1 S political power swings pendulum ilke from conservatism to liberalism and back again there la Is a long run trend to liberal ism now deal liberalism will ably be followed by republican conservatism ism but no alert republican believes his party can win by junking all now new deal reforms and going back to the theories of coolidge cooledge and hoover days A good sample of progressive 0 0 P thinking Is that of minnesotan Minnesota Min ls youthful gov harold stassen who according to dr glenn frank of the bartys program committee believes something like this republicans should accept much of the new deals social legislation first auditing the new deals results and soliciting constructive statements regarding G 0 P childs philosophy 0 on political and economic problems though believing farmers are ready to repudiate tho the new deal mr stassen warns that the party cannot favor any individual clique like farm business or labor groups stassen on tho the 1940 conventions convention it Is very important that delegates represent genuinely and honestly the sentiment of their states they should not just bo be a de delegation i gatto n picked by political bosses among them should be some youngsters some real farmers real workers WHITE HOUSE plan plait no 2 legalized by the newly passed governmental reorganization bill president Roosevel ts no I 1 federal shakeup effective june 24 created now new agencies for public works lending and welfare plan no 2 to followed quickly a roundup of long misplaced bureaus whose abolition or r consolidation the president believes ile ves will save yearly its most significant feature abolition of the unique national emergency council and transfer of its major functions to the president an immense elaboration of ex dent hoovers tamed famed secretariat has been and will remain a 11 sensitive nationally organized ears cars to the ground device whereby the chief executive can keep his linger finger on the public pulse its 38 state administrators will probably be retained t a in C d it its 9 director lowell mellett Mcl lett will probably be named famed one of six presidential assistants with a passion for anonymity other changes with former affiliations parenthesized to COMMERCE inland waterways commission war to AGni agriculture CULTURE rural kural electrification administration in dependent to JUSTICE federal prison industries inc and national training school tor for boys independent to NATIONAL An ARCHIVES CHIVES codification codification board independent to be abolished to INTERIOR coal commission independent to be abolished bureau of insular affairs war bureau of 0 fisheries commerce biological to logical survey Agri agrical cul ture and mt rushmore memorial commission independent to be placed in interiors teri ter lors ors park service to STATE foreign commerce service commerce foreign agricultural service agriculture and foreign service buildings commission independent to TREASURY bureau of lighthouses commerce to be placed under treas u rys coast guard director general ot i railroads ra roads and war finance corporation independent both to be dissolved expected soon is plan no 3 probably shifting jurisdiction over deportable aliens from labor to justice I 1 depa departments rt ments and ironing out jurisdictional overlapping con concern cerry ing public lands ASIA twenty two months ago chinas cainas capital was japanese aggression gres sion slon pushed it westward up the yangtze to bankow next backward into szechwan Sze chwan province and the on an dent cleat walled city of play ing a retreating game gen chiang kal kai shek knows that the deeper he can draw japan into his bailiwick the easier will chinas cainas resistance be K W I 1 1 y I 1 I 1 4 IV i 51 I 1 0 H G T 71 ua 4 if 4 11 1 I 2 shan phol 35 0 1 41 chiq KINQ A R 15 1 1 11 V 4 fa WA A A con IF P V I 1 CHINA AND HER CAPITALS japan is prepared to tollow follow but generalissimo chiang did not expect what happened next into normally population swarmed refugees in itself a grave problem ther then one day 45 japanese war planes swarmed over dropping incendiary bombs and more than in all when the smoke cleared china could count casualties a ruined capital end and temporarily blasted morale germany and britain found their embassies destroyed for all concerned it seemed best to move the capital on wheels again this time miles northeast into Cheng chengfu tu whose normal halt half million population ww will automatically double overnight peace loving chengfu might well regard this official invasion as a death sentence general chiang probably hopes an off the river capital may break his bad luck jinx but tokyo thinks otherwise despite british protests that Chung kings bombing was purely and without a definite military objective Nip pons warriors announced their death planes were prepared to follow chinas cainas capital wherever it may roam |
