Show ROOSEVEL TS RADIO CHAT IS OP VIEWS OF BUSINESS LEADERS by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 costern newspaper union H T optimism marked tile fireside 1 chat president roose roosevelt elt delivered oer the radio to the hie people of america which people lie said ore are as a whole acella feeling a lot better a lot more cheerful than tor for t many many years t ne fie asserted me e pre already on the unmistakable march toward I 1 recovery and told how flow e 4 f lie he means to promote note the to burmil conditions W with I 1 tit ills his i lediet program ile he promised to put to president p and a half i roosevelt ui la illion persons now low on tile the relief rolls and to pi ess for enactment of legislation lie he considers necessary tor for carrying on the new deal only once did mr 1 cosevelt wo sevelt allude to such clinics of his administration as senator long father coughlin and governor talmadge lie ile said the overwhelming of people in this country know how to SIR sift the wheat from tile the chart in what they hear and what they read they know that tile the process of the constructive rebuilding of america cannot be done in it a day or a year but that it Is being done in spite of a few vi ho seek to confuse them thein and to prout profit by their confusion these six fundamental principles said the resilient president must guide tile the boil relief program projects must list be useful most of the money must go K for labor a considerable proportion 0 of the costs must be lelu ined to the treasury only those projects which can employ persons on relief will he be approved and projects will be approved in a 1 given aiea abea in proportion pio portion to tile the unemployed in that area admitting that graft will mill creep into such vist vast end speedy Ep spending ending as ills his program calls tor for the president aked citizens to help him ninke make this the most eil efficient lelent and cleanest example of public enterprise the world has ever eier seen and thus to give ghe a sni smashing ashing answer for those cynical men who alio say a democracy cannot be honest and EGI the president L legislation sa said d to in ills his radio talk should be enacted by bv congress immediately included the old age and unemployment insurance bill tiie the INRA RA extension bill tile the public utility holding company bill the transportation control bill and the bari banking king bill here lie he comes into conflict again with tile the mews lews of business leaders of the country the national Nat lunil association of et manufacturers lias has just issued its economic analysis of conditions which sas reco recovery ery is within our chur grasp and that the nation is closer to breaking the balk baik of the delmes depression slun thia than at any time lime for years but bill it a ls ks that in order to stimulate business the alie administration and con confess bess temporarily shelve its as disturbing such leg sli tion as tile omnibus banking bin king bill the utility holding li oldin company bill the 30 hour wink week the wagner labor disputes bill the guffey bituminous loal coil leasure and proposed changes in ili railroad laws of aled up capital the analysis anal his said this surveys lad leate 11 ll at cloge clew to 20 in expenditures m blikh lilan would glie gle amplo employment went to men for tino years Is peul up ii tall ali field of factory expansion ren renovation 0 va on anil and rehabilitation alone the re leise of tills this flow of private capital by le moving political pull li il dainties tain ties would mould dwarf the billions appropriated by congress fur for relief and an male lie expends tire ol of much of the hie marwy T this document was gian out ont as the lie me members tubers of the united states tates cham bor ber if Cool cooleene mene were gathering in washington for their tm twenty enty third an nual convent convention lon and naturally latin Latu ally rally their spellers Bp eakers alers endorsed it and attacked much of the proposed propped legislation mentioned as iu irr anted intrusion of tin thi government into ba siness henry 1 I Ilar ilman mho lias has heen been president of the hie for three bears cars retired from that office in favor of harper sibley of rochester ochester It N Y the new dew president Is a banker idd and fl a farmer on oil a big scale how t JOW the new dealers propose to 1 1 redistribute wealth by double taxation of large estates is revealed by secretary of the treasury in a letter to sen senator ator pat harrison chairman of the senate li 11 nance committee mr 1 outlines a w plan of imposing in herl tance taxes and tilso also retaining the ex vae launs estate taxes laws as berting this 1 Is to in lint line with our fundamental hes that this result in the S secretary cre tary dissolution ot of I 1 at r rg g e tb alie secretary recognizes for lie he says to pi event the necessity of hasty tit large lir iori ties in order to lo lav the ahe tan ta it io br be pr oldell that hint Inherit awe e taxes alm s lit in lw abe in a conlen loit or of the plan na its outlined by mr air morgen blargen thau aluni Is to impose graduated inheritance taxes on estates with rates follow following la those of the present income tax lax rates which approximate CO 00 per cent on incomes of a million dollars or more the present estate taxes have a maximum of CO per cent over ten million dollars thus there would first be a tax of CO 60 per cent upon the estate or gift and then another tax tat of CO per cent to be paid by those inheriting or receiving it this would amoust to a combined rate of 83 per cent on au all L state estate or of one hundred million doll dollars aril if all this oils money were handed out to the poorer people even bluey long might be satisfied PLANS LANS for spending the ork relief fund are being made rapidly parts of the general scheme being regaled to the public almost every day the president will mill be the final arbiter but practically v all the federal ageny cles cies wit will I 1 participate and three new ones I 1 liae ime been announced belt these will handle rural rehabilitation rural dec clee triplication cation and grade crossing elimination standing S tan dl ng at the frank walker presidents right hand Is frank C walker former treasurer of the democratic party ue he has as replaced donald ilenberg as chairman of the national Ellier emergency gency council and Is the head of a new division la in that body known as the division of application and information under his direction all proposals will be sorted out and delta data on them from various government units ill be coordinated co then they will be handed on with sir mr walkers recommendations to a new works allotment b board 0 ar d which Is headed by secretary harold irold II ickes those these two additions to the alphabet groups in washington are known as DAI pad and WAB mr air roosevelt also announced the appointment of federal relief administrator harry L hopkins as chief of a pi pt ogress diAl slon lie ile will pick workers fix wages purchase materials und and generally supervise projects in a press conference the president named these eight types of work which will be undertaken dundei taken with the amount of money to be spent on each I 1 highways roads streets grade cro crossing asing elimination and express highways m SS 2 rural le habilitation relief in stricken agricultural areas water conservation water diversion irrigation reclamation rural industrial communities and subsistence homesteads 3 rural electrification flea t oil 4 housing low cost housing to in rural and urban areas reconditioning and remodeling ISO 5 assistance for educational professional fess ional and clerical persons and other white collar unemployed 0 6 citizen conservation forups 7 sanitation soil erosion stream pollution reforestation flood control briseis and harbors 3 8 loans grants or both boll to cities count counties les states and other oilier political subdivisions for public maiks tI the rural rehabilitation nork will mill be dir directed eted by rexford rex ford G tugwell ander secretary of agriculture at and ile he will mill riot not be responsible to secretary wallace but mill hill have a free liand land to tarry arry out its ills schemes for moving families from marginal lands hinds shifting stranded rural communities and belld ing cities outside of lar large lare e urban centers to relieve slum congestion appointment of if mr walker lem leas es mr miff Rich her herg free the t said to devote liis his time to tile NKA during the period of pending legislation in ili congress anil and lid litigation gation in the Su supreme cuart list pried to senator long H of if and other orators alio ho do not like tile administration and its new liedl ano naso bae little loic lobe for the 0 0 11 I 1 the 5 7 national Nat onil farmers armors feol aee adny lay association in session M at ies des mollies I 1 lo 10 ion a 1 deI decided dei thit a ak third national nill onil political to barty should be kal I 1 fort fortner dinned ned I 1 y reno national president of tile the asso clation cia tion hid had a COCO ator ill a group or of alleged communists milo reno during a business session they sou sought it adoption af f a reso lotion railing calling for legislation for relief without debts production credit iNith out strings and immediate repeal of the AAA reno denounced them as wall street racketeers and henchmen of soviet russia you ou cant talk you cant argue dont try to get lie floor im aurin running ing tills this vL reno leno sald said sit town down and shot up let get out be beffie vie we get really nud mad R 0 republicans of nine midwestern 1 states mho ho met let at excelsior springs mo to decided that the grass roots con conference confer ferene eme of leaders irada rs of the baity should be held in SIn ingfield ill III tile llie dile date to be fixed later lit tr ll it probably mill be early in aune lime the purpose of tills this gm hering will be the of the party and tile the launching of a campaign to restore popular popi ilir the nine states diat us a faill hl nime name dele kites gatos ure are illinois lema indiana diina In min alin besola kansa nebraska missouri mid and olda boina labor opened its attempt 0 ORGANIZED to obtain recognition in the automobile industry with mith a strike ot of markers in the toledo plant ot of the chevrolet motor company the factory was uns closed down immediately though only a part of the foice joined in the strike union pickets weri mere placed about it but city police and deputy sheriffs were mere on hand to see that there was no disorder president sloan in of general motors corporation issued this statement in now york the vital question involved Is whether general motors corporation li 19 milling filling to sign an agreement for a closed shop recognizing the local union as the exclusive representative of all the lie employees of the toledo plant this general motors will not to do the union in a lengthy statement said its committee has done everything in its power to meet with mith the management and to secure tin ao ilmi amicable cable and fair adjustment of the matter of wages hours pad and binl finlin in recognition and various other grievances the management refused to sign a contract of tiny any kind and flatly refused every section of the proposed contract w with ith the exception except in of tw tm 0 minor points the company offered to make wage readjustments and ghe a 5 per cent general wage increase show no discrimination against union men and alid agreed to seniority rights as provided bythe by the automobile labor board leo C wollman chairman of the national automobile labor board reported that that body had completed a canvass of workers la in american can automobile plants and found that per cent of them showed no DO affiliation with any labor organization tile the various employees associations grouped together ranked second with 1774 i members equal to per cent of teetotal the total the american federation of labor was third with or SG per cent while the associated automobile of america were mere fourth with cosa or 37 per cent EN IV IV ATTERBURY ATTEn HURY GEN lilal of oe the pennsylvania railroad has retired as president of the company eight months before that would have been necessary under its re regulations u because of ill health blauth the directors ea elected e c t e d 4 martin W clement to succeed him the new president of the great Z AN yai H system was mas born 53 1 k 11 years ago in sunbury I 1 pa and entered the 1 sen lee ice of the road in 1901 as a rodman nis its M W clement promotion was steady and nine years ago lie he became the vice president general atterbury had bad this to say of his successor since he became vice president clement has been intimately associated with ruo me lit in conducting the companas comp anys biff affairs a rs and in ili our relations with the other railroads and with the alie goern ment the remarkable results achieved by the company last sear one ot of the most difficult periods the railroad has ever experienced were mere largely due to clements leadership ills man manifest irest capabilities have commended him not only to its ills associate directors and officers but also to the executives of 0 other anther railroads with m whom he has been in recent years in the interest of tile the railroad rall roid industry as a whole moreover lie enjoys the confidence respect and operation cooperation co of the entire railroad rail roid organization latest breach of 0 t the h e streaty GERMANYS treaty of versailles the lie building of submarines Is stirring up a lot of angry talk in grent great britain france oil and italy the english are especially disturbed for they remember only too how near the germans came to bt arving them during the war by the destruction of shipping by tile the undersea boats anglo an Io german conversations or on naval restriction were to have been held field in london the second week in may and these may now bo be called off on or r at least postponed the freab are less aexel because they think the development may force a show showdown don on the lie e status of the german navy and ami hillers Hit litt lers demand tor for at least 35 3 per cent of the british tonnage pad and approximate partly parity with that of france naval experts in parts paris said it the disclosure might well prove of inestimable benefit for military fail y france in awakening naval abrl maln to tile the dangers of hillers Hit litt lers armaments policy obtained by the powers was that germany already had under construction it a number of ton submarines and planned a large fleet of them spokesmen for the german government denied that pay any nere mere being built yet id but at the same time admitted little that submarines were being considered in connection with plans for rebuilding the navy the league of nations council appointed p a committee to study what action should be taken if germany violated the peace treaty again so observers s are interestedly waiting to see bee it if the file matter will mill be taken up at the coudill meeting on oil may hay 20 A of the united artates 1 1 states chile peru and argentina delk delivered ered to the BraL brazilian lIlan government a collective co note asking brazil to participate tiel pate in errors to end the paraguay bolivia sla war mar li ili the chaco by mediation brazil rejected such an invitation some soine time ngo ago because she had been unintentionally excluded from a projected chaco economic conference the two warring nations were engaged in a long and very bloody lint bat tic lie the outcome ot of which still undecided |