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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Starts His Social Reform Program, Putting Unemployment Insurance First Visits TVA on Way to Warm Springs. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western Newspaper Lnlon. WITH tlie election In the background, back-ground, President Roosevelt Is ready to push forward more rapidly his ambitious plans for what he calls .. . - "the abundant life" :?W"j ln tllls country. So ; i ' ji 1)8 na3 niPlntei3 a a large advisory council U J to aid In formulating ' s& Pk, i and getting through " ' congress his program ' J of social reforms. The "''JS' I chairman Is Frank P. f Grnham, president of i i 'V i the University of North Carolina, who has been serving as vice Frank P. chairman of the NRA Graham consumers' advisory board. He and his colleagues, all known to be New Dealers or ln close sympathy with the New Deal, are asked by Mr. Roosevelt "for advice and counsel in development of a program for unemployment Insurance, old age security and adequate health care." Work on the social program already Is well under way and an executive committee has laid the groundwork. Also Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor and chairman of that executive execu-tive committee, has named an advisory committee of physicians and surgeons that, according to advance rumors, will report a program that will be "revolutionary "revolu-tionary almost to the point of establishing estab-lishing socialized medicine." This medical group Is- headed by Dr. Harvey Har-vey Cushing of Yale whose daughter Betsey is the wife of James Roosevelt, son of the President Secretary Perkins announced that other committees were being organized to aid ln the formation of plans for federal intervention In problems of public health, hospitalization, and dentistry. den-tistry. WHEN the federal conference on economic security met in Washington, Wash-ington, nearly all the members of the advisory committees were present. The President told the delegates that he would present to the coming congress con-gress bills to provide for setting up immediately im-mediately an unemployment insurance program. As to health Insurance and old age pensions, he said he was not certain the time had arrived for federal fed-eral legislation to put these into effect, and he uttered a warning against "organizations promoting fantastic schemes" and arousing hopes "which cannot possibly be fulfilled." Though Mr. Roosevelt conceded to the separate states the right to decide what type of unemployment insurance they would adopt, he declared that he would reserve to the federal government govern-ment the right to hold and Invest and control all moneys which might be collected. This was necessary, the President added, because of the magnitude of the funds, and "so that the use of these funds as a means of stabilization may be maintained in central management and employed on a national basis." It Is expected that from $4,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 would be raised in the course of several years. Mr. Roosevelt insisted that unemployment unem-ployment insurance must be kept entirely en-tirely apart from the dole, and that It should be managed strictly on an actuarially sound basis. He indicated that he favored legislation along the lines of the Wager-I.ewls bill Introduced Intro-duced ln the last congress, under which a 5 per cent federal tax would be put upon all commercial pay rolls, certain portions of the proceeds being paid back to such states as had adopted legislation for the working of an unemployment un-employment insurance program. Before the conference members went to the White House to hear the President, Presi-dent, they indulged In a discussion that brought out all sorts of views on what should be done. Relief Administrator Adminis-trator Harry Hopkins and Mayor La Guardia of New York urged immediate establishment of a federal program to Include benefits for the 4,200.000 families now on relief. Hopkins said any program not encompassing these destitute "is not worth Its salt." La Guardia, ln the same vein, said cities cannot hold up under the relief load much longer. This was not In accord with the view expressed a little later by the President, and was an example of the confusion of Ideas In the conference. con-ference. FOR the purpose of obtaining better co-operation among federal agencies engaged ln lending government funds, the President has appointed a committee commit-tee consisting of the heads of the agencies, agen-cies, with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau as chairman. The new organization will report to the President Presi-dent from time to time and Its actlvl- I ties will cover the treasury, interior, public works, federal housing, farm j credit, Home Owners' Loan corpora- i tion. agricultural adjustment adminis- i tration. export-import banking, com- modify credit, federal deposit insur- j ance. the RFC. federal reserve board j and public works housing. In connection with this co-ordinating move, the White House stated that when the present applications of the Home Owners' Loan corporation have been reduced to terms of approval the original $.',000,000,000 allotment will have been used up. ANOTHER program that is being rapidly prepared by the President's Presi-dent's advisers for action by congress has to do with the nation's natural resources, re-sources, and the necessary legislation is being drafted hy the national re sources board. It is of utmost importance impor-tance and In Washington there Is a belief be-lief that It may lead to government control, and possibly government ownership, own-ership, of all timber lands, oil reservoirs reser-voirs and coal fields, and government dominion over all existing and future water power developments on the nation's na-tion's lakes and rivers. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has gone to his winter retreat at Warm Springs, Ga., where he will remain until after Thanksgiving day, and on the way had some Interesting experiences. experi-ences. First he traveled to Harrods-burg, Harrods-burg, Ky., where he helped Gov. Ruby Lafl'oon and other officials ln the uu-veiling uu-veiling and dedication of a memorial to the men and women who established there the first permanent Anglo-Saxon settlement west of the Alleghenies. The monument, erected by the federal government at a cost of $100,000, overlooks over-looks Pioneer Memorial State park. It 1 depicts an epoch rather than an event, and the only portrait among the many carved figures is that of George Rogers Clark, who there planned his conquest of the old northwest territory. terri-tory. From Harrodsburg the President went to see the Tennessee valley development devel-opment which has been well called the laboratory of the "more abundant life." It was with deepest interest that he viewed the work that is being done by about 1,200 men building dams in the Tennessee river and tributaries to provide power, flood control, navigation navi-gation and new fields of work for persons per-sons drawn from unprofitable land. After a visit to the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson at Nashville, Mr. Roosevelt inspected the revived Muscle Shoals plants and the Wheeler and Wilson Wil-son dams, and then went to Tupelo, Miss., the first town to purchase power from the new federal development UNCLE SAM need expect no payment pay-ment from France on the war debt on December 15, when the next instalment instal-ment Is due. It is stated in Paris that vswwwssj France will then de-lffiiiyN;Sy de-lffiiiyN;Sy fault for the fifth straight time. Pierre Etienne Flandin, new Ikse if Preiriier. opposed pay- iSSiM ment 1:1 !!!:!2- when he :'f;Ri:Iili was minister o f V finance, and his cab- lnet is now taking the same position as the t?i' " M Prev'ous government h& A M -awaiting an Anglo-. Anglo-. American settlement Premier wh,ch woud sgrTe ag Flandin a basis for Franco-American Franco-American negotiations. The only idea for revision of the debts that has met with any ?nthusi-asm ?nthusi-asm in French parliamentary circles Is a 10 per cent payment to correspond with the reparations relief granted Germany by the Lausanne agreement. Proposals for larger amounts, or "payment "pay-ment In kind," have met with coldness. The chamber of deputies is clinging to the position that France will not pay one cent more than it gets from Germany. ANDREW MELLON may now have another cause for grievance against the federal Treasury department, depart-ment, for the government has made charges against the Union Trust company of Pittsburgh, a Mellon Institution, Insti-tution, of filing "a false and fraudulent Income tax return" for lO.'iO ln a tax action demanding payment of $218,-333 $218,-333 plus a 50 per cent penalty. In supporting Its claim, the government govern-ment listed eight transactions in 1931 as evidence that all were " a part of a false and fraudulent course of conduct con-duct on the part of said Union Trust company." Among the 1031 transactions transac-tions were two "accommodation" deals with Andrew W. Mellon. FEDERAL JUDGE CHARLES I. DAWSON of Louisville, Ky., overruling over-ruling an attack on the validity of the Frazier-Lemke farm moratorium act, declared "with regret" that it is constitutional. con-stitutional. In his opinion he said: "The legislation, In some of its provisions, pro-visions, is unfair to creditors, and unwise un-wise even as to farm debtors, for it Inevitably closes to them all private sources of credit." FREDERICK LANDIS, the only Republican Re-publican to be elected to congress from Indiana ln the recent election, died of pneumonia in his home town, Logansport. He was a brother of Kenesaw M. Landis, national baseball base-ball commissioner. BUDGET requests for S00 new airplanes air-planes have been submitted by the army air corps, and If the corps' plan Is approved the United States will have the largest and most up to date mill-tory mill-tory aerial armada In the world, Including In-cluding eventually 2,400 planes. EltMAN Nazis In the Saar, of-ganized of-ganized as the German Front, assert as-sert that the French separatists have been trying to stir up a quarrel for the purpose of inducing Ceutlrey Knox, president of the League of Nations commission for the Saar, to call in foreign for-eign troops. The accusation was contained con-tained in a note sent the League denying deny-ing that the German organization has gone beyond the law in urging Inhabitants Inhab-itants of the Saar to vote for return of their land to Germany in the plebiscite pleb-iscite to he held January 13. In its memorial to the league tlie German Front asserted that it possesses pos-sesses documents ro trove that France has sent arms into the Soar and that pro-French groups 'have been trained in tlie use of machine guns and Inflammable In-flammable liquids. This is for the purpose pur-pose of executing a coup d'etat late in November or early in December, tlie German note said. Toll MOON FY, who has served IS years of a life sentence for complicity com-plicity in the San Francisco Preparedness Prepared-ness day bombing In 1010, may yet win release. The United States Supreme court consented to ive at least preliminary pre-liminary consideration to his ease, and that Is a big point In his favor. The court ordered tlie warden of San Quentln prison to show cause within 40 days why counsel for Mooney should not be grunted leave to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The order of the court does not mean that It will review the case. SENATOR THOMAS and his fellow inllationists were not pleased with the President's choice of a new governor gov-ernor of the federal reserve board to r ,k ? ; ' succeed Eugene Black. a Ue P'c';ed Marriner S. . i Eccles, a Utah ba nk-er, nk-er, whose ideas of in-l in-l -v ,X flation are not at all VK"i ' smT those of Thomas, for El fllPf ' ill J they do not include !Sf fiat money. Mr. Eccles - believes in "credit in-'aw'fjjj in-'aw'fjjj flation" ; he would ;;'';;s:! .' p control the reserve v FT, banks' purchases of government securities, Marriner S. issue money against Eccles these purchases and spend the new money for government bonds, thus creating an endless chain of credit arrangement So long as this chain were maintained unbroken, the government's credit would be inexhaustible. inex-haustible. Something like fifteen billion dollars, according to Mr. Eccles, should be spent by the government for public works and housing projects, and he thinks this vast sum can be obtained by following out his monetary plans. THE government has issued an order permitting the free exportation of capital from the United States, and business men take this as a concession to those who demand stabilization of the currency as a prerequisite to business busi-ness recovery. It does not mean stabilization but is a step toward it and indicated the administration has dropped tlie idea of bringing about recovery re-covery by debasing the dollar. Presumably, Pre-sumably, If further attempts to cheapen the dollar in foreign exchange were contemplated, the treasury would not leave the doors open for the wholesale flight of American capital abroad. ARIZONA Is determined to prevent the construction of the Parker diversion di-version dam across the Colorado river unless it gets what It considers its share of the hydro-electric power to be developed by that project Gov. B. B. Moeur declared a "war zone" on the Arizona side of the river at the dam site and sent a detachment of National Guardsmen with rifles and machine guns to halt work there. The United States bureau of reclamation reclam-ation ordered that work on tlie Parker dam on the Arizona side be stopped until the dispute Is settled, so Governor Gov-ernor Moeur called the troops back to Prescott and Phoenix. "It's a showdown this time," Moeur said, "we are going to get something or we aren't And if we can't expect anything, we want to know it before this project is farther advanced." W. P. Whitsett, chairman of the Los Angeles metropolitan water district board of directors, said he "heartily agreed" with Governor Moeur that Arizona Ari-zona should have one-half of the power privilege at the Parker dam. CELEBRATIONS of Armistice day In the United States and the allied countries of Europe were generally marked by warnings of the dangers of another terrible war in the not distant future. At Arlington national cemetery President Roosevelt quietly laid a wreath of chrysanthemums on the grave of the Unknown Soldier while military detachments stood at attention, atten-tion, and then, as taps sounded. Mrs. Roosevelt stepped forward and placed a single white flower at the foot of the shrine. National Commander Bel-grano Bel-grano of the American Legion was one of the speakers at Arlington, and called for adequate defense of the nation against both foreign foes and the forces of unrest that are attacking our Institutions. Insti-tutions. IN A cablegram to the League of Nations, Na-tions, Chancellor Rlart of Paraguay said his government could not accept a truce In the Chaco war ln return for International guarantees, as was proposed pro-posed by the league. Riart Insisted that an end to hostilities should come before negotiations are undertaken to solve the war .and to arrange definite terms for peace. However, Paraguay accepted the principle that the conflict proper should be settled by conciliation. concili-ation. The Chaco consultative committee of the league asked the secretary general gen-eral to request the United States and Brazil to collaborate ln ending the war. |