Show i 1 f JIM Edwar Pickard D o 0 tt t eu r.-m r. n tr Union President Defends AAA and Canadian Trade Treaty the United States Supreme WHILE WIDLE V court was hearing oral arguments In the Mills case in which the constitutionality of the whole Agricultural tural Adjustment act was attacked and defended de le- fended tended President Roosevelt elt was In Chi Chi- Chicago Chicago Chisago cago sago seeking to Justify just fr the entire New Deala Deal I eal a farm furm program lie He ad nd- addressed addressed dressed the American Am tv Farm Bureau federa federation federa- federa federation tion In the International Amphitheater at atthe atthe atthe the stock yards and was heard and en- en George N. N N n nilia UtI ed by some farmers and nn as many man others as a- could get Into the theater and adjoining wings supplied with loud speakers The farm program the President nt said Jl ald aimed to stop the rule rul of tooth tl and claw that threw farmers into bank bankruptcy or turned them Into serfs As evidence that It Is succeeding he h as as- asserted asserted asserted that farm income has lias Increased nearly Drory In the past two and half hair a years Necessarily the new Canadian trade treaty treat because only two days da s 's before that pact Jact had head been bitterly attacked attached by his late trade adviser George N. N Peek Peck Just as ns I am confident said sail the President that the great masses of city elf people are minded fair so I am nm sure that the great majority of Amerl Ameri- American can farmers will be fair In in their Judg judg- Judgment judgment ment went of the new treaty treat If the calamity howlers should happen to be he right you have every er e as lS- assurance assurance that Canada and the United States StItes will join john In correcting inequalities ties but I do not believe for a single moment that the calamity howlers bowlers are arc right We export more agricultural prod prod- nets to Canada than we have Imported from her We shall continue to do so for the very ver simple reason that the United I States with Its larger area of agricultural a agricultural I tural tura land its more varied climate and its vastly greater population produces far more of most agricultural products Including animal products vegetables and fruit than does docs Canada In the case of the few reductions that have hl been made quota limitations are set on the amount that may be brought In at the lower rates In his analysis anal sis of the Canadian agreement Pock showed that S-l S per percent percent percent cent of or the tariff concessions which the New Dealers granted to Canada were on agricultural and forestry prod prod- II products rod rod- He lie also showed that the articles on which the New Dealers granted tar tar- tarin in ur reductions amounted to million dollars In w 1919 whereas Canada In re reo return re- re return turn had granted concessions on arti artl articles articles cles valued at only 24 million dollars After completing his speech and eat eat- eating eutIng eating ing luncheon with a lot of local ocal nota nota- notables notables bles bes the President went to South Bend Ind lad where he received an honorary degree from Notre Dame university and delivered another address Coal Act Held HeId Invalid by Liberty League Lawyers IN TN TIlE TUB opinion of the lawyers lawyers' com com- committee committee committee of the American Liberty league the Cuffey coal act is Although this law Jaw Intended to stabilize the soft coal Industry has been upheld completely by one federal Judge and partly by br another the com com- committee committee committee said It violated the Constitution Constitution tion In that it 1 1 Capriciously and arbitrarily In In- Infringes Infringes fringes upon the Individual liberties of or producers and employees ees and 2 Undertakes to regulate activities which are essentially es and Inherently local In character Neither the pretended exercise of the taxing power through h the tho th assess assess- assessment assessment assessment ment of that which Is not In fact a 8 tax but a Ii coercive penalty nor congressional that the Industry was affected with the public Interest made the act valid the committee con con- tended Offer Made to Italy at Ethiopia's Expense ITALY Is being t punished for starting the Ule war against Ethiopia and aOl will willbe be Le well paid for stopping it That Thu tin In a nutshell Is I the status at this writing Great Britain and France reached an agreement as to the offer otter to be made matle to Mussolini before the Imposition of an oil embargo o set for December 12 I This plan Illan for peace drawn up ull by Brit Brit- British British ish Foreign I Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and Laval was based on the proposal that Italy should re re- retain retain retain tain part of or the territory already con conquered In Ethiopia chiefly in north north- northwestern northwestern western Tigre TI re province Including but hut not the sacred city of or Ale Ale- AI sum and that the Italian border Lorder should be rectified In return Ethiopia would be given gen a 11 seaport either cither In Eritrea or In British o or i French territory Thus poor Ethiopia l already declared by the League Leau of Na r Nations Nations to be a victim of Jf Italian rapacity would could b be still further victimized with h the consent of or the two great powers power s that dominate the league leagLe Presumably If Ir Emperor Halle Haile Selassie refuses the th thi c f I I I v terms and decides to continue his hits fight tight for the lie territorial Inviolability In guaranteed by b the league lealIe covenant he will be abandoned to his big fate Should Mussolini show sho a disposition tion to accept the proposals It was expected the oil embargo o would be postponed to permit negotiations n If he ho rejects the plan the embargo embar o would wo go Into effect and the thc war warIn warIn warin In Africa would continue at least lel t until the rainy season next spring Italian airplanes bombed the city of Dessye three days das In succession but Selassie who was wag there escaped e Injury However er the American hospi hospital tal ta and a lied Hell Cross cf mp were practically wrecked and md many persons p I were killed or wounded Navy Limitation Parley Opened in London PROBABLY P nO AnI with slight sll ht hope of or ac- ac accomplishIng accomplishing anything an worth while wIllie representatives of the United Unile l States Stales Great Groat Britain France and Japan met metIn i In London Landon and alii opened the International naval na 1 r 4 i A conference Italy also 1 was represented hut hilt only ony on as an observer er 1 L k and listener Prime Minister Stanley Stanle Bald Bald- Baldwin Baldwin win welcomed the lie dele dole delegates t c tJ gates In a smooth ad ad- address adi i l dress asking the chief sea powers Jowers to lessen some of their demands to avert the calamity Admiral of unrestrIcted naval na a competition Norman II H. Davis offered President Ire Roosevelt's suggestion sug of a 20 O per cent reduction rt In existing naval nl treaty ton ton- tonnage tonnage tonnage nage or falling failing that a n continuance of present fleet limitations Then arose nrose Admiral Osami chief of the Japanese delegation dele and told the conference that Japan demanded de le- I parity with Great Britain and the United States Instead of the exist exist- In n 3 5 ratio and requested a n just and fair agreement a on disarmament lIe He said in part A new treaty In the view of the Japanese government should be based upon the fundamental idea of setting up a common limit of naval arma arma- armaments armaments ments to be fixed as low as possible which they shall riot not not be allowed to exceed ex- ex exe coed e ed simultaneously offensive forces must be drastically reduced and am am- ample ample pIe defensive forces provided so as to bring about a substantial measure of disarmament thus securing a state of and among the tho powers The French delegates were prepared to accept drastic limitation and even reduction of tonnage and gun Jun calibers on Individual ships but they thought land lan and air armament Issues must be considered In any discussion of the relative strength of navies Italy re re- her loyalty to the principle of limitation and reduction of arma arma- ments men ts The pessimistic feeling that pre pre- prevailed prevailed was attributed to the Japanese demand for parity the rivalry In the Mediterranean between France and Italy the war in Ethiopia rani Its sanc sanc- sanctions sanctions sanctions developments and recent r ent occur occur- occurrences occurrences Inces In north China Any Anyone one of which might well we wreck the confer confer- ence Farley Thinks Midwest Safe for Roosevelt POSTMASTER I P TEn GENERAL FARLEY In his capacity of chairman of the Democratic national committee called that body hody to meet In Jan Jan- January January uary 8 S 8 when arrange arrange- arrangements arrangements ments will be made for the convention of 1030 WW and the lie place of that gathering select ed He lIe told the correspondents corre corre- correspondents r that the chief bidders for the convention would be bp Philadelphia Chicago St. St Louis I Kansas ansas City It and San Sm Francisco Franl c and denied the report that the tho first named J Farley city already had been b en decided upon He said he thought the highest ht heit bidder hlll would be selected provided It has ad ml- adequate equate convention hall and hotel fa fa- cU ties Stories that list Senator Donahey of or Ohio or some one else would be lie given n second place on the ticket of Garner were laughed at by Ity Mr Far Far- arley ley He lie H asserted m that t 1111 t there th re was no nil doubt about the of Gar nar- Garner narner ner for vice ve president pr Asked about the two third nile rule he said the com corn might rc Its abandon abandon- tient hot hilt that any change was the business ss of the tho convention Comment- Comment CommentIng Ing on the tho th Literary I. I It era r Digest Pt poll 1011 which shows a n majority In In the states voting against the Roosevelt New I v e Deal Dal Farley said So far as the poll relates to senti senti- sentiment sentiment ment In the midwest states stats 1112 Iowa own It is p per r- r cent g He tie Insisted that lint the President was very strong not only In that section of or the th coun Coun- country Country try but hut In every part The President will carry as many states state te next year as ht he did In 1032 13 said Farley arlev Roosevelt carried all ex ex- except six states at nt that time Fancy Farley l said he believed Roosevelt Hoose would win the tho electoral vote of or Pennsylvania 1 Consumers May Purchase Potatoes Without Fear CONSUMERS who buy hll potatoes In I J regular ular retail establishments are are not liable to a fine as liS high us ns 1000 I if IC the spuds are In grown and marketed In violation of the potato control net act Only the lie first purchaser of unstamped potatoes Is liable This is the ruling of oC the AAA AA and thin the act may be bo amended later to Include this pro pro- vision The bureau of Internal revenue regu regulations lotions lations require that the producer can cancel cel the tho stamps s mp after they are attached by writing In Ink or Indelible pencil or orby orb orby by b stamping his initials and the date I Industry Is Called Upon to Save the Nation ALFRED A j- j P. P I SLOAN JR In president Li of or General Motors corporation was vas time tile chief speaker r at the annual dinner of the Congress of American Industry in New York and he made an ear ear- earnest j nest plea to industry to save the country from bureaucracy and andi i possible socialism s 's Industry should lead z N-z t the nation away from the fallacious theory w of plenty to promote j the general Jenera welfare of all nil the people Mr r. r Sloan told the nations nation's A. A A P. P Sloan Jr leading ers Should big bl business fall to ac ac- accept accept ac- ac accept this broader responsibility it will bring he said sa the urge ur e for more and more interference from without without- government in business Mr Sloan conceded the gravity and the extreme Importance of or problems of today the today the paramount necessity of ot charting a I sound course for the long future He lIe advocated l Reduction 1 Reduction In the real costs and selling prices of goods and services 2 A 2 A A more economic balance of na na- national na- na national tlona Income through policies affect affect- affecting affecting ing wares wages hours prices and profits The meeting of the congress was held in conjunction with the fortieth annual convention o or 07 the National I As As- Association Association Association of Manufacturers and the speakers before that body bod were as em em- emphatic emphatic in their condemnation of the economic policies of the administration as was Mr Ir Sloan President C. 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L Bar Bar- Bardo nardo Bardo do said Whether we like It or not try has been forced In sheer self self- I defense to enter the political arena or orbe orbe be destroyed as a private enterprise I Robert Hobert L Lund chairman of the board said The New Dealers have been forced to desert some of their boldest experiments This has came cameto cameto to pass because the American people have demanded a return to common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense and sound business American industry has taken the leadership inthis In Inthis Inthis this combat Two Provinces of China Are Granted Autonomy NORTH CHINA autonomists eup- eup supported L ported by the lie Japanese armies evidently e Ire are too much for the Nan Nan- king government go of which Chiang Kai Kai- shek has now become the premier Tin Tho provinces of and with a population of or or more have been granted virtual self-rule self under a apolitical apolitical political council The central govern govern- government overn ment meat made only three stipulations that would continue to control the new states state's foreign forel n affairs finan financial cial military and judiciary matters that lint all appointments would be made by b I and that lint there would be beno beno beno no actual Independence for the area Grave Gra doubts arose nrose over the power of the projected regime to rule one on rift In the northern reorganization ap appearing ap- ap appearing Immediately with the resignation tion of or Gov Coy Shang Chen of Hopel Time and Japan march on Supreme Court Refuses Hauptmann Case Review BRUNO B nUNO HAUPTMANN HA IANN convicted C of and murdering the Lind Lindbergh bergh b baby lost logt almost his last chance of escaping the electric chair when the Supreme court refused to review his case The decision was made through the single word Denied J Hauptmann's attorneys had hall announced an nn- announced previously that In the tile event eventa a review was refused refu ed they would seek seck seeka a new trial If new evidence could be found and would appeal for a commutation commutation tation of the death sentence to life Im Im- m- m Christmas Trade Is Far Above That of Last Year YearS YearS SANTA S AwrA ANTA CLAUS CAUS is doing doln big bl work this year ar for the merchants of the country It Is estimated by officials of the Commerce department d that lint the Christmas trade tralle will amount to V 00 or half n a billion dollars s more than In December last l year ear Preliminary holiday trade reports from nil all parts of the country to the Commerce department Indicated that retail trade already Is running from 5 fI to 35 3 per cent higher than thun u a year ear ago Building Trades Unions Reach Fine Agreement GOOD news for the building Indus Indus- try President Green of the American Federation of Labor gives out the word that tint there will VII be no nomore nomore more snore jurisdictional strikes among con con- construction construction construction workers The factions In the lie building trades |