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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Nation Indorses President and the New Deal at the Polls Democrats Gain Nine Seats in the Senate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Western Newspaper Union. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and his fellow New Dealers had every reason rea-son to gloat over the results of the elections, for, generally speaking, their fwv-- policies and acts were - V J- f" endorsed by the citi-' citi-' zens of the United - States by what " y., amounted to a real VI landslide. The Demo- ,T crats gained nine -r I seats in the United ;V TT" j States senate; and on , , incomplete returns, . jK" " A appeared to have just rj"J A J.i about held their pres- ent strength In the Joseph Guffey , . r lower house. Outstanding among the many Democratic Demo-cratic victories was that scored in Pennsylvania. That state has not previously pre-viously sent a Democrat to the senate In a half a century, but this time Joseph Jo-seph Guffey, the party boss, rode roughshod rough-shod over Senator David A. Reed, leading lead-ing adversary of the New Deal, and sent him to the discard. Two other persistent critics of the administration who were retired were Senator Simeon B. Fess of Ohio, beaten by former Gov. Vic Donahey ; and Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana, soundly walloped by Sherman Minton. Hatfield of West Virginia, Walcott of Connecticut, He-bert He-bert of Rhode Island, Kean of New Jersey, Goldsborough of Maryland and Patterson of Missouri, all Republican senators, must give up their seats respectively re-spectively to young Rush D. Holt, Francis T. Maloney, Peter G. Gerry, A. Harry Moore, George L. Radcliffe and Harry S. Truman, all Democrats. Upton Sinclair, the extreme radical, had the fun of scaring California out of its wits with his EPIC campaign for the governorship, and at little or no expense to himself; but the national administration had turned him down and the Republican nominee, Gov. Frank F. Merriam, won by a handsome majority. So the wealthy "refugees" who make California their home decided de-cided not to abandon the state. Hiram Johnson, being the nominee of everyone every-one for re-election, goes back to the senate. Wisconsin remained true to the La Follette dynasty even though it had created a new "Progressive" party for Us own uses. Senator Bob La Follette had been patted on the l; my,,, , head by President s-"-Roosevelt, and John "'l M. Callahan, the Dem- 1 ocratlc nominee for f tie senate, was not ac- i -j,!? j ceptable to the admin- I i I Istratlon because he f it was a friend of Al M Smith; so Bob came l0., through with a big L r plurality over Calla- ban and John B. " Chappie, the Repub- S.h,frman llcnn candidate. Tn Minton clinch the victory of the third party, Philip La Follette was elected governor gov-ernor again, defeating Gov. Albert Schmedeman, Democrat, and Howard T. Greene, Republican. There was a crumb of comfort for the Republicans in the re-election of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, who has condemned parts and espoused other parts of the New Deal. One other crumb, less comforting, comfort-ing, was afforded them lnMaryiand where Albert C. Ritchie was defeated in his attempt to annex a fifth consecu- ; tlve term as governor. He was beaten by Harry W. Nice, a Republican of Baltimore whom Ritchie defeated for the same place in 1019. The old line Republicans succeeded In re-electing Senator Austin In Ver-;! Ver-;! mont and Senator Townsend in Dela- ' ware. Illinois, New York and Massachusetts Massachu-setts were among the states that were swept by the Democrats. In the first named they took five house seats from the Republicans, the defeated including includ-ing the veteran Fred Britten. New Yorkers returned Dr. Royal S. Cope-land Cope-land to the senate and II. H. Lehman to the governorship by tremendous majorities. ma-jorities. Senator David I. Walsh was re-elected in Massachusetts, and Jim Curley, three times mayor of Boston, was made governor. In the main the Democratic campaign cam-paign had been skilfully conducted under un-der the leadership of Postmaster Jim Farley. A fight to oust the "ins" always al-ways is difficult, and the Republicans in their hearts had not hoped for much. They did not get even the little they had expected. For at least two years President Roosevelt is assured of full support by congress for whatever what-ever policies and experiments he may undertake, and the voters of the nation na-tion have told him to go ahead and do what he can to restore the country to prosperity. SEVEN states voted on repudiation of prohibition and only Kansas, slill stoutly Republican, remained dry. The others, all turning wet, were Florida, Flor-ida, West Virginia, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and Idaho. In Nebraska Senator George Norris succeeded In putting over his pet amendment to the state constitution providing for a small one-house legislature, legisla-ture, and there Is a belief that he will run' for governor In 1936 to guide the experiment. Under the amendment, the 1935 legislature will pick a number of legislators between 30 and 50 for Its one-house successor. Annual salaries sal-aries will be determined by dividing the number into $37,500. THIRST of the administration chiefs to make a post-election speech, Secretary Secre-tary of Commerce Roper said over the radio: "We are not going to have a dictatorship to the left or an autocracy auto-cracy to the right." He Insisted that the Roosevelt recovery re-covery program contemplates the restoration resto-ration of private profits and that, in fact, the government's essential revenues, rev-enues, through the Income tax, are dependent de-pendent upon private profits. "As soon as future relief requirements require-ments can be determined," Secretary Roper said in announcing a new approach ap-proach to the relief problem, "the major ma-jor portion of these expenditures should be assumed by the states and localities, with federal assistance supplied sup-plied only In those instances where the situation cannot possibly be met without federal aid. We need to discourage dis-courage the growing tendency to 'let the federal government do It' " GASTON DOUMERGUE, utterly unable un-able to make headway against the political schemers in the French cabinet, cabi-net, has resigned the premiership and returned to the retire- ment from which he p l&fA was called last Febru- -ary to save the coun- it " try from imminent p. kw;,- civil war. The six ' - t . g Radical Socialist min- if- J "U isters, determined to R ' , . i frustrate his plan for fv:& constitutional reform, v refused the premier's j jgffZ- j offer to postpone dls- RfBf cussion of this scheme until after a regular Gaston budget was voted, pro- Doumergue vided the chamber of deputies first passed a three months' budget Dou-mergue Dou-mergue thereupon read his resignation, and at the suggestion of Edouard Her-riot Her-riot leader of the Radical Socialists, the entire cabinet resigned. President Lebrun immediately asked Pierre Laval, foreign minister, to form another coalition government, but he refused the commission. So the difficult job was turned over to Pierre-Etlenne Flandin, a left Republican who was minister of public works in the Dou-mergue Dou-mergue cabinet The crisis aroused fear of armed conflict in Paris between the Socialists and the so-called Fascist groups, for both these parties called on their militant mili-tant elements to be ready for action. There was danger, too, that the meeting meet-ing of war veterans and patriotic societies so-cieties on Armistice rinv wnnid ha turned Into an anti-government demonstration. dem-onstration. ()FFICERS and crew of the Mor- ro- Castle are held to blame for the heavy loss of life when the liner turned, In the government's report on the disaster, but no attempt Is made to fix the origin of the fire that took 134 lives. "After a careful examination of the wreck and evaluation of the testimony," testi-mony," says the report submitted by Dlckerson N. Hoover, assistant director direc-tor of the steamboat Inspection service, serv-ice, "It Is not possible to state what the exact cause was." Blame for the catastrophe is placed by the government also on the construction con-struction of the vessel Itself. FOR the Information of those who are hazy as to what the Germanic Faith movement Is all about, here are the nine commandments just Issued for the neo-pagans, to replace the ten commandments of the Christian Bible: 1. Honor the deity, the World foundation. foun-dation. 2. Honor ancestors and grandchildren. grandchil-dren. 8. Honor the great of thy people. 4. Honor thy parents. 5. Keep yourself clean. 6. Be loyal to your people. 7. Do not steal, a Be truthful. 9. Help the noble. SOVIET Russia celebrated the seventeenth sev-enteenth anniversary of the Bolshevist Bolshe-vist revolution with a parade of the great Red army before the tomb of Lenin In Moscow, and at the same time the Comintern, or Third Internationale, Issued by cable an appeal to the tollers toll-ers of the world to unite in a common front against imperialist wars and Fascism. Fas-cism. BECAUSE of her personal achievements achieve-ments and not because she is the wife of the President, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has been awarded the second Gimbel prize of $1,000 and a medal for outstanding work for America. Amer-ica. She will receive the award In Philadelphia on December 12. Mrs. Roosevelt has requested that the $1,000 be applied toward sending a child suffering from the effects of infantile paralysis to Warm Springs, T TNDER the auspices of the National Association of Manufacturers, a drive has been started "to prevent labor la-bor union coercion," and all state legislatures, leg-islatures, when they convene, are to be asked to enact six specific provisions pro-visions "for the purpose of fixing the legal responsibility of labor organizations organiza-tions for their acts." The association says It Is moved to this course because it believes the federal government Is at last aware of the "terrorism" practiced by union members against other employees em-ployees who desire to act The laws to be asked of legislatures are: 1. To make sympathetic strikes and sympathetic lockouts illegal. 2. To make both employers and unions equally responsible for the observance ob-servance of contracts. 3. To make It illegal for any association associ-ation of employers or employees to expel, ex-pel, suspend, fine or otherwise punish members refusing to participate in an illegal strike or lockout 4. To make picketing illegal when it Is carried on in such a manner as to intimidate or coerce employees or customers. cus-tomers. 5. To declare illegal employment contracts requiring a person either to join or not to join any labor organization. organi-zation. 6. To require written consent of the employee before the deduction of any part of his wages for the payment of organization dues may be made. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT agreed to extend the automobile Industry code until February 1 without changing its wage or hours provisions. The American Federation of Labor had demanded de-manded an Immediate and drastic revision re-vision of the code, and this the President Presi-dent refused. Mr. Roosevelt, however, said he believes the code needs revamping, revamp-ing, and he hinted that on February 1 he may demand that the industry stabilize stabi-lize employment and pay rolls. "I have no hesitation in telling you," the President wrote in a letter to William Wil-liam Green, president of the A. F. of L., and Alvan Macauley, secretary of the Automobile Manufacturers' association, "that there are a number of matters connected with this code with which I have never been fully satisfied." He disclosed both in his letter and a separate formal statement that he is launching an investigation into working work-ing conditions and wages in the industry, indus-try, with especial attention to the workers' annual earnings. FOLLOWING a week's conference " with agricultural economists from 40 states, officials of the Department of Agriculture and leaders of the AAA, the bureau of agricultural economics has issued a bulky report forecasting generally Improved conditions for the farm Industry during the coming year. Here are the chief points in the predictions pre-dictions : 1. Greatly reduced supplies of most farm products will be seen, which, with improvement in consumer purchasing pur-chasing power, will probably bring a higher level of farm Income during the first half of 1935, this despite low foreign for-eign demand for American farm products. prod-ucts. 2. Farm production will be larger than this year's unusually small production. pro-duction. 8. This year's higher prices may tend to stimulate excessive planting of some crops not under production control next year. 4. Continued Improvement In demand late next year will depend primarily on recovery In the durable goods industries. in-dustries. 5. "A small improvement in the purchasing pur-chasing power of farm families may, In general, be expected." 6. Prices of goods used in farm production pro-duction are expected to average somewhat some-what higher, at least until June, 1935. 7. The farm credit situation "will continue to show gradual improvement above the bad conditions of the past several years." 8. Next year's wheat crop is expected expect-ed to result In an export surplus, with prices hanging close to an export basis. 9. Substantial advance in prices of meat animals Is expected, with no material ma-terial expansion in live stock numbers sighted before 1936. 10. Next year's wool clip will be the smallest In several years, with prices dependent on world production. 11. "A generally favorable" outlook is seen for poultry raisers, with prices remaining at seasonably high levels until un-til next summer. FRANCIS J. GORMAN, head of the " United Textile Workers' committee commit-tee that directed the recent strike, in a letter to George A. Sloan, head of " -v?55' "ie -'0,;'on Textile in- fvS' 8tltnte. 6aId J union labor would be I j glad to co-operate S!" vrlth the Industry in w ! 1 developing new mar- i x I tne factories. S's -! M He declared that ti after controversies had been Ironed out . j?. j by the federal board . named as a result of F. J. Gorman .. . ., the strike, representatives represent-atives of the two sides could "begin conferences looking toward the improvement im-provement of the Industry." Mentioning the Increased competition from Japanese goods and other factors which caused demand for American textiles to fall "millions of yards" below be-low production capacity, he said: "A part of the purpose of the conferences con-ferences which I have in mind would be to create joint employer-union machinery ma-chinery for the expansion and extension exten-sion of the textile market Such a program pro-gram would be In furtherance of the Interests of workers and employer alike." |