Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH TV labine social security amendments pave way for 1940 elections by wooing townsend voters EDITORS NOTE when opinions ar are e expressed in these columns they are arc those hose of the he news analyst and not mt necessarily of this newspaper I 1 Be released leased by western newspaper union I 1 CONGRESS pensions many a republican and a few democratic legislators were elected last ast november on the promise that dr t francis E townsends Town sends month pension plan to be financed by y a 2 per cent transaction tax would bould get a hearing hearing hearin g it rot got but little else yet townsend tes ites are potent enough to cause pleny ty of trouble in next years election Z A M mv DR DK TOWNSEND beaten but bus the ghost still haunts to satisfy the pension vote to provide weapons for next years democratic campaign based on hu dumant huma mant nl tarlan ism and to soothe tax eaten businessmen the senate passed amendments to the social security act which it if approved by the house bouse would 1 broaden old age insurance to include persons like seamen and bank employees and step tip lip the starting date from 1942 to 1840 1940 2 require states to supply 10 per month for each pension beneficiary fi the U S to match state funds 2 to 1 up toa to a total pension of 15 per month ie a total monthly minimum of 25 for each beneficiary 3 freeze the present 1 percent payroll tax against both employees and employers until 1943 instead of lumping to 1 vt per cent next year estimated saving to employers andi and emp employees lopees annually 4 permit downward revision to in payroll taxes to finance state unemployment insurance estimated annual saving to employers fly in the ointment was that the plan actually boosted federal state cost while lowering taxes a situation which on its face falls fails to add up though a new contingency social security reserve of will replace the old plan for an eventual reserve of sen arthur figured the senate had added to the cost spread over 15 years without providing any method of paying RELIEF ungrateful I 1 old regulations provided union wages for skilled workmen who thus labored fewer hours for their monthly pay than did unskilled re giefers lie fers example union carpenters might work 53 hours a month and pick up odd jobs on the side common ditch diggers might work hours for the same money said administrator F C harrington to congress it Is my recommendation that persons employed on be required to work hours a month and that earnings of such persons be on a monthly basis i said congress 0 K X said more than rel relievers relie lefers fers going on strike congress must restore union wages said president roosevelt you cannot strike against tho the government but strike they did in Alinne minneapolis aPO lis two lay dead after riots mayor george E leach asked washington to clean up the mess and state administrator linus glotzbach shut down all minneapolis projects president roosevelt found himself on a spot with both A F of L and C L 0 who have helped elect both him anahis and his friends but both con gress cress and the white house apparently stuck to their guns despite bellowing by john lewis and wil liam green commented the cincin nati nail enquirer the american people have a great deal of patience with the unfortunate and needy but they have little patience with the ungrateful ASIA exit britain one hot day in tokyo workers at the british embassy heard a storm brewing outside soon a mob that numbered began throwing stones and denouncing british intervention tion in china british im sm in asia and british support of the murderer mui derer chiang kal shek who Is chinese gener generalis alissi sl mo the day before two hand grenades had been thrown into the brit ish consulate at Tsing tao spreading down the coast japans blockade ol 01 british concessions struck awfully close to home when the crown colony of hongtong Hong kong found it self threatened by food shortages as nipponese vessels blocked ports at changchow jungshan Tung shan and chaban all ali able bodied britons in hongtong Hong kong were subsequently conscripted in such a tense atmosphere british ambassador sir robert leslie crangle opened his long touted conversations with foreign minister hachiro arita knowing full well no settlement would be reached japs demand that britain cease supporting general chiang and abandon her anti japanese policy in china which would constitute complete surrender of all her asiatic inter ests britain on the other hand insists that discussions shall deal only with the original conflict over jap blockade of the british concessions at when the first days preliminary pr eli confab ended in hopeless deadlock key jap officials on the chinese front issued more threatening statements and precipitated a few more inc incidents to help make up the harried british mind first sign of what may become wholesale british withdrawal from china came when missionaries sion aries narles were shipped from kal kai feng important honan province railroad city sharp on the heels of a jap inspired ultimatum EUROPE visitors to paris mid july found europe in pre dog day doldrums adolf hitler was reported by the chicago tribunes sigrid schultz as consulting the stars to guide his decisions propaganda minister joseph goebbels fumed over the antinazi anti antl nazi letter En glands stephen kinghall king hall was writing in wholesale lots to dear german readers the toy industry complained that an english made chamberlaon with an toy DELANO ROOSEVELT she was there too was outselling out selling german made toys in the british isles biggest news in parts however was bastille day anniversary of the french revolution hobnob 1 bing on the reviewing stand with president albert lebrun as troops filed by were mrs sarah delano roosevelt mother of the U S president british war secretary leslie hore balisha and many another english notable keynoted keynotes Key noted premier edouard da ladier we menace no one we drea dream of no conquest we desire only peace among all people LOUISIANA indictments out of sta its cell at baton rouge walked a parish grand jury to plump down the makings of a scandal that started with louisiana state president james monroe smith spread to include two of his aides and finally caught in its net dr clarence A lorio who is president odthe of the louisiana medical so clety state senator member of supervisory board and its medical director physician and surgeon tor for the state penitentiary and visiting physician for the tubercular hospital the 29 indictments hit dr borlo tor for allegedly receiving a tolen stolen property and conspiring with pound george caldwell ousted construction superintendent in embezzling in school building materials caldwell on two counts alleging embezzlement of building materials worth 2097 ile he Is already under federal charges of diverting materials tor for private use E N jackson business manager charged with caldwell with embezzling in school materials and separately wil with t h receiving stolen property dr smith charged on 23 counts 12 of them with forgery 11 with altering minutes of the board ot of supervisors U per visors so he could 11 1 borrow from three banks 2 add bonus to his yearly salary 3 allo allow v caldwell 2 per cent commission on all construction st at international A L neutrality every congressman and senator wants to keep the U S out of war but of ideas on how this shall be done there are almost as many as there are lawmakers late in 1935 congress banned shipment of armaments to warring countries in the first neutrality act early the next year it added a provision banning loans to belligerents in 1937 came a third provision banning export of goods to embattled nations except on a cash and carry basis th the e latter provision expired two months ago this year with war hovering over europe and asia at the probable expense of friends great britain and france president roosevelt wanted new neutrality legislation hla his chief aim repeal of the arms embargo because it encourages self sufficing aggressor nations ue like germany italy and japan to replace it he wanted the cash and carry provision restored since britain and france would nominally control the sea during wartime and could pay for their purchases isolationists meanwhile called his attention to the fact that japan is also a big maritime power upshot was a senate foreign relations committee decision to table neutrality for this session while british economists were privately calling wary V U S isolation ests cowardly there was good reason to thrall thlik all neutrality legislation may be wiped from the books and a return made madeko to old international law thus the president would be better off isolationists would be partly satisfied and politically important the intra party democratic squabble would cease NAVY heart break fifty two days after the submarine carried 26 men to their deaths patient salvagers salv agers gol their giant chains around her each link 15 inches long 2 inches thick 76 pounds heavy pumped air into stern stem and bow pontoons pon and raised her from a foot grave to feet from there she was to be towed to shallow water pontoons pon readjusted and raised again As planned two top stern floats broke the surface indicating the lay at even keel while jubilant salvagers salv agers sighed over a job well done water suddenly began churn chum ing around the submerged craft up for a moment burst two huge pori pon Z IL SALVAGE CHAINS big but they hey t failed to bind then came the bow like a whales snout out of the water on an instant then down to her foot gre again to nullify all that had ben done next two days with falling barometers and heavy seas around portsmouth N H rear adm C W cole and his divers could only sit and wait moaning over the mess below |