Show I SEEN RD HEl HEARD nn or und t tN th NATIONAL N CAPITAL P Car Carter ter Field rr n A Washington A careful listener lItener could hate tilYe heard long sighs of ot relief re- re lief over the coli collapse a pile of ot the eena effort to write rite a more drag dras- r tie tic neutrality law saw The relief relict was 81 most moat pronounced at the White WhiteHouse House and Ind State Slate department but bat It U UrOIl was rOIl evident In la many other quarters quarters notably among senators rep rep- Ita states tIll whose whole ports and the railroads fl lending to them thrive on foreign trade And among Southern South ern rn congressmen who rho feared that In some lome wa way or other they would find lInd cotton embargoed If It the law were ere made mode too drastic All of ot which makes all the activities active Ides of ot Senator Gerald I P. Nye Ne BO so far this tM session Just Jut about a per perfect feet batting average cralle In futility He Ill tried to smear J. J I 1 P. P Morgan and the elderly financier emerged with even Nye unable to hate him lIe He tried to make Wood Woodrow row Wilson n both putty In the Ule bankers' bankers hands handl and aliar a aUar aliar liar and got thoroughly spanked lIe He tried to force a drastic neutrality neu neu- neu- neu law Jaw and the committee on foreign relations after atter long consideration consideration consid consid- decided merely merell to extend the present law Then he attempted attempt attempt- ed an aD Insurgent meeting even threatening to block extension of ot the present law w In order to force torce one more drastic and that is le Deter Deter- ing log out There Is ii a s great deal of hypocrisy nay being displayed on this whole hole neutrality business Lots of ot senators sena ena tore tors would like to seo see the tile present law die and nothing whatever put In Its II place They know perfectly well for tor example that the present embargo on arms arm ammunition and Implements of ot war Is III just JOlt diverting divertIng divert divert- ing business which would give employment em In New England and other arms and ammunition plants plant to aim similar liar plants In l I England Japan Belgium and Czechoslovakia Which is III annoying because the ther r shipments of t the these e countries to Halle Selassie's army are being raid paid for in gold end and silver Sf So there is no danger of or either loss lOBI or of ot becoming be be- coming Involved through extension of at credit Avoid Quotation But lut er very few tew people Ind indeed d In political po pe- 1 life lite or out of it tt are willing to talk that way for quotation They Thel know they would be denounced by the Nye Ne crowd as 81 being willing to take blood money nt at the best oras or orns ns as being in the tha pay IB of ot the D Ou Du Ponte Ponts l' l at the worst wont Meanwhile of ot course the very nl nation Uon that the chairman of ot the foreign relations committee Senator Key Rey tn Pittman says Is la like like- 1 ly to make war on the United States State that that Is le Japan Japan Japan-Is is bull building up be her Iler munitions Industry as RI a result of ot o f Americas America's neutrality law Hut But that Is II something else again oguin The relief relict over the collapse o of ot t Nyo's OI attempt to make the Ole present pres pre s ent eat embargo more drastic both fo for tor forthe r the present war In Africa and fo for r any anI future war else ex ex except of ot course In tn Latin America America- Is I. due more to other Interests the theto than to arms arm and ammunition It extends extends ex tends tend to the oil Industry and to fro COpper copper cop COp- per to steel tel and to mules In tact fuel conditions might arise which would l make moke almost any anI given Iv n product t Important Important Im In t portent In the conduct of ot a wa war r Whereupon upon to be neutral In th the e Nye sense lenso of the tho term It would b bl P necessary for tor the United States State to bar shipments of ot that rom comma commod mOl It ity In the opinion of ot some lomo others other s of ot course such luch an embargo would woul be anything but a neutral act act de de depending e pending upon whose whORe ox Is II gored The greatest relief relict of ot all pe perhaps per per- r haps hap was In ID the of ot James A A. A Farley Not because of ot his hI job a as a. S postmaster general but In n his hll function function tow c tion lion as al chairman of ot the Democratic c National Nl committee conducting th the e campaign for tor the re-election re of ot t President lt For there Is I. just no way war of ot measuring men meas e the amount of grief that a really tough neutrality bill Mil of ot flu the e Nye Nyo pattern could cause cl in certain states whose electoral votes are vex very y Important Still Puzzling and the Florl Florida d ship chip ennui canal are still puzzling ever every cry body but Roosevelt a and n d Budget Director lieu Dell Best reports report s are that Mr AIr Dell Bell Is I. the only Ne New w Dealer now satisfied with the Presidents President's Prey dents dent's action In deciding to give KIe congress con cot grew gress a chance chane to vote ote on whether more money monel should be spent up on these two projects or not noL Certain Certainly Mr dr Ir Roosevelt h. h has had plenty of or r grief since Ince he be sent them up to It the e Capitol Tile The first big surprise came camp of ot f f 1 x course cour when the house bouse a fj J lions committee to aid sidetrack side sIde- e P. P track the two IWO big projects Ti Tho President bad had thought of ot course Coors Rat to get the projects Into Juto the regul regular congressional pork l ork barrel Then Ge be he would retain all the tile credit for ha hav J ing lag started thorn them and tong card s would be put Iut Into the position of approving them as u sound lJ There e Is t. m more re to this than Ju just t ii the e Idea of ot general congressional a approval ap p. p prod provi For In r en-r every pork Ork hart barrel l I t i u type of bill members have hue to vore orl natura naturally II for tor many things they do donot donot donot not approve Florida Florid Ship Canal Oreen Green of ot Florida Is II leading the fight to re restore tore the thel l Florida ship canal He tie has hoa already alread put the blame for Its defeat In tn the tbt committee on the ship companies which he says do not want to have their mall mali carrying fees reduced b by having l the mileage on trips to gut gulf ports reduced The idea Idla of ot transporting transporting trans trans- porting mall from Crom to New Orleans b by a boat that takes dv lIe five e days when regular trains make the th journey In two nights seems a bit odd but attacks on all corporation corporations s seem aMm In fashion But nut the point arises suppose e congress sticks by the action of ot lh the et t I house appropriations committee I Suppose the end of ot the session finds find s no appropriation for tor carrying o on n Quoddy and the Florida canal The President then faces disagreeable disagree able ahle alternatives lie can con accept the repudiation for tor his bill two projects admitting right In the midst of or hl his campaign for tor re-election re that bot both h limply imply squandered the taxpayers taxpayers' money on projects project which are no not t going to be finished and finished and which his own party larty In congress did not think thin k worth finishing Or he can It still divert di dl- vert or WA funds for tor carryIng carry carry- lag Ing on the work In that case however he would wont lay himself open to violent criticism from another standpoint It would lend force torce to the argument that congress had actually turned overall over alt all Us It powers to a dictator that dictator that Roosevelt's action In permitting congress to pass on nn Quoddy and end the Florida canal was much like that of ot a cat which lets letl a captured mou mouse e run for tor a couple of ot feet teet before before be be- fore tore pouncing on It U again New Farm Bill The statement of ot Senator David Duld I. I Walsh of ot Massachusetts that the only benefits claimed from the new farm tarm bill are that It would continue the rain of ot checks checkl to the farmers and tend toward tollard cutting the value of ot the the dollar or dollar or inflation Inflation bas started comparisons between the present administrations administration's farm plan and oddly enough the Hoover foreign for tor alga eign policy Both noth It Is le contended were share t the he wealth plans as nil surely as t though hough the late Louisiana had designed them It Is le the dif dlf- differences that are Interesting Ik Despite all the clamor about the f foreign tonne loans whirl which later went sour lour all nil that the United States a as a whole lost was wal goods Just goods just farm tarm products end and manufactured articles The trouble Is that they were never paid for tor in so many Instances But nut here Is la the comparison being made main Who paid or pays pay the bill In Inthe Inthe Inthe the theA AAA A farm tarm plan everybody who eats and amI wears clothes thus being obliged to po pay processing taxes Thus Thul money monty was taken from all the citizens and given to one class claM the farmers on the accepted argument that the farmers were not getting their share in n the ordinary processes proc proc- esses eases of ot wealth distribution In the new now form farm plan taxes will be more widely distributed hut but will 1 continue to hit the same people the the burden continuing to taU full more heavily on ou the poor Who pall the bill In the bad foreign for tor- eign loan lonn case The Tho people who had mone money enough to buy the bonds l plus some who W were fe hit because their banks and Insurance companies com corn pontes panle Invested In fa them riot But by br tar far the greater amount came from tram people with sizable fortunes Who got the money In the farm bills the farmers In the had bad foreign loan case more than 00 pe per percent percent r cent of ot It went to the farmers and the workers of ot this the countr country Th The wicked bankers one hens hears so mac much h about skimmed a nice fat tat profit fat tut t because of the amount but actually very small In percentage And of ot o f course a sizable traction fraction of ot that went to the treasury eventually In n Income taxes And some of ot the profits profile went to bond salesmen an n occupation by the way that once used a lot of ot white bite collar workers Where It Went riot nut the great grent bulk of ot It went t to the men who grew the crops th themen the themen men who fabricated the goods to for tor r wages the railroad workers wh who hauled haute the goods good and aDd crops to sea ala board hoard the miners who ho dug the con coal to provide the power etc eta It was aae a very real distribution o of ot t wealth which was WOl what the AA AAA A was and the new eo called so-called con cos conservation plan lIon Is Intended to be There are two Important differences differ dl In 10 the farm tarm plans tho the industrial indus buns trial workers Yorkers of ot the country benefit t only Indirectly Indirectly ns lu a n result of ot th the a Increased buying power of ot the term farm era ers Whereas In 10 the foreign Ida loan n plan both workers and end farmers benefited ben directly One ODe class CIRSS of ut work work- ers ere those In transportation benefited benefit ed M enormously by the tho foreign loo loan n plan but bat h have been actually hurt a little h by the farm torm plan due to star sharp p I curtailment of ot production production hence hence e less leas freight movement Incidentally y the stock tock yards workers suffered d even eyen morn from the the farm term plan Ilan though It Is II promised that there thre e will wll be nothing so ao drastic as as tim that I again The other big difference la Is In who wh o pays paYI the bills A much larger p proportion pro pro- ro portion of ot the cost coat of ot the farm fans pia plan n tape falls on very small email Income people Of or course no one ever C rats called the sour foreign loan 1000 system a aplan plan It was Just a phase of ot lb the e often otten decried In Ia brain trust circle s profit motive |