Show news review of current events the world over kh 0 aki ft president pres l dent starts his social reform re form program putting unemployment insurance first visits TVA on way to warm springs by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by western New sPer union the election in the background aground WITH Wg president roosevelt Is ready to push forward more rapidly his ambitious plans plana for what he calls the abundant life in this country so he be has appointed a large advisory council e to aid in formulating ar and getting through 4 congress his program of social reforms the th chairman Is frank P graham president of the university of north carolina who has been serving as vice frank fran P chairman of the graham consumers advisory board lie ile and his colleagues all known to be new dealers or in close sympathy with the new deal are asked by mr air roosevelt for advice and counsel in development of a pr 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 ns secretary of labor and chairman of that executive committee has named an advisory committee of physicians and surgeons that according to advance rumors will report a pr program that will be ivolu revolutionary almost to the point of establishing socialized medicine this medical group Is headed beaded by dr narvey harvey cushing of yale tale whose daughter betsey Is he be wife of james roosevelt son of the president secretary perkins announced that other committees were being organized to aid in the formation of plans for federal intervention in problems of public health hospitalization and dentistry HEN the federal conference on W anen economic security met in washington nearly all the members of the advisory committees were present the president told the delegates that he be would present to the coming congress bills to provide for setting up immediately med lately an unemployment insurance program As to health insurance and old age pensions he said he was not certain the time had arrived for federal legislation to put these into effect and he be 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 be declared that he would reserve to the federal government 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 to 0 o would be raised in the course of several years mr roosevelt insisted that unemployment insurance must be kept entirely apart from the dole and that it should be managed strictly on an actuarially sound basis he indicated that he be favored legislation along the lines of the wager lewis bill introduced in the last congress under which a 6 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 insurance program before the conference members went to the white mouse house to hear bear the president they indulged in a discussion that brought out all sorts of views on what should be done relief administrator harry hopkins and mayor la guardia of new york urged immediate establishment of a federal program to include benefits for the families now on relief hopkins said any program not encompassing these destitute Is not worth its salt la guardia Gu Cu ardla in the same vein said cities cannot hold bold up under the relief relict load much longer this was not in accord with the view expressed a little later by the president and was an a n example of the confusion of ideas in the conference OR the purpose of obtaining better FOR fco operation cooperation co among federal agencies engaged in lending government funds the president has appointed d a committee consisting of the heads of the agencies with secretary of the treasury as chairman the new organization will report to the president from time to time and its activities will cover the treasury interior public works federal housing farm credit home owners loan corporation agricultural adjustment administration tra tion export import banking commodity credit federal deposit insurance the federal reserve board and public works be berating in connection with this coordinating co move inove the white house stated that when the present applications of the nome home owners loan corporation have hare been reduced to terms of approval the original allotment will have been used up op ANOTHER A NOTHER program that la Is being rapidly prepared by the presidents advisers tor for action by congress has to do with the nations natural resources and the necessary legislation Is being drafted by the national resources board it Is of utmost importance and in washington there Is a belief that it may lead to government control and possibly government ownership of all timber lands 0 oil 11 reservoirs and coal fields and government dominion over all existing and future water power developments on the nations lakes and rivers ato PRESIDENT RESIDENT 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 first he traveled to harrods burg ky where he be helped gov ruby laffoon and other officials in the unveiling vellin 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 overlooks pioneer memorial state park it depicts an epoch rather than an event and the only portrait among the many carved figures Is that of george rogers dark clark who there planned his conquest of the old northwest territory tor v from Harrods harrodsburg burg the president went to see the tennessee valley development 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 1200 1 0 men building dams in the tennessee river and tributaries tributa ries to provide power flood control navigation and new fields of work for persons 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 dams and then went to tupelo 11 miss liss the first town to purchase power from the new federal development UNCLE U SAM need expect no payment from france on the war debt on december 15 when the next nest inseal ment Is due it Is stated in paris that france will then default for the fifth straight time pierre etienne flandin new 41 premier opposed payment s in 1032 1932 when he was minister of finance and his cabnet cabinet Is now taking the same position as the previous government nav awaiting an anglo american settlement premier which would y serve as flandin a basis for franco american negotiations the only idea for revision of the debts that has met with any en enthusiasm 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 in kind have met with iab coldness the chamber of deputies Is clinging to the position that mat 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 for the government has made charges against the union trust company of pittsburgh a mellon institution of filing a false and fraudulent income tax return for 1030 1930 in a tax action demanding payment of V 18 plus a GO 50 per cent penalty in supporting its claim the government listed eight transactions in 1031 1931 as evidence that all were a part of a false and fraudulent course of conduct on the part of said union trust company among the 1931 1031 transactions were two accommodation deals with andrew W mellon FEDERAL JUDGE CHARLES L I 1 DAWSON of louisville ky overruling an attack on the validity of t the he frazier lemko lemke farm moratorium ac act declared with regret that it Is constitutional in his bis opinion he said the legislation in somo some of its provisions Is unfair to creditors and unwise even as to farm debtors for it inevitably closes to them an all private sources of credit FREDERICK LANDIS the only ro L publican to be elected to congress from indiana in the recent election died of pneumonia in his homo home town Logan Lo sport he was a brother of kenesaw 31 landis national baseball commissioner BUDGET requests tor for SM new airplanes have been submitted by the army air corps and it if the corps plan Is approved the united states will have the largest and most up op to date mill tory aerial armada in the world including eventually 2400 planes G GERMAN ERMAN nazis in the organized as the german front as sert that the french separatists have been trying to stir up a quarrel for the purpose of inducing geoffrey knox president of the league of nations commission for the to call in foreign troops the accusation was contained in a note sent the league denying that the german organization hat gone beyond the law in urging inhabitants of the to vote tor for return of their land to germany in the plebiscite to be held january 13 in its memorial to the league the german front asserted that it possesses documents to prove that france has sent arms into the and that pro french groups have been trained in the use of machine guns and inflammable liquids this Is for the purpose of executing a coup late in november or early in december the german note said ty TOM OM 1 MOONEY who has served 18 years ears of a life sentence for complicity in the san francisco preparedness day bombing in 1916 may yet win release the united states supreme court consented to ive at least preliminary Il consideration to his case and that Is a big point in his favor the court ordered the warden of san quentin prison to show cause within 40 days why counsel tor for mooney should not be granted leave to file a petition tor for a writ of habeas corpus the order of the court does not mean that it will review the case SENATOR S THOMAS and his fellow were not pleased with the presidents choice of a new governor of the federal reserve board to succeed eugene black ile he picked marriner S i 4 eccles a utah banker whose ideas of inflation H are not at all Z those of thomas for they do not include flat fiat money mr mcclea believes in credit inflation fla tion he would aa control the reserve banks purchases of government securities marriner mariln 8 issue money against eccles these purchases and spend the new money tor for government bonds thus creating an endless chain of credit arrangement so long as this chain were maintained unbroken the governments credit would be inexhaustible haus tible something like fifteen billion dollars according to mr air eccles should be ba 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 ane HE government has issued an order ordee permitting the tree free exportation of capital from the united states and business men take rake this as a concession to those who demand stabilization of the currency us as a prerequisite to bustness business recovery it does not mean stabilization but Is a step toward it and indicated the administration has dropped the idea of bringing about recovery by debasing the dollar presumably su it if further attempts to cheapen the dollar in forel foreign n exchange were contemplated the treasury would not leave the doors open for the wholesale flight of american capital abroad Is determined to prevent athe ARIZONA the construction of the parker diversion dam across the colorado river unless it gets what it considers its share of the hydroelectric hydro electric power to be developed by that project gov B B declared a war zone on the arizona side of the river at the dam site and sent a detachment of national guardsmen guardsman Guards men with rifles and machine guns to halt work vork there the united states bureau of reclamation ordered that work on the parker dam on the arizona side be stopped until the dispute Is settled so governor called the troops back to prescott and phoenix its a showdown this time said we are going to get something or we arent and it if we cant expect anything we want to know it before this project Is farther advanced W P whitsett chairman of the los log angeles metropolitan water district board of directors said he heartily agreed with governor that arizona should have one halt half of the power privilege at the parker dam C celebrations celebrations ELEB RATIONS 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 arlan arlington ton national cemetery president roosevelt quietly laid a wreath of chrysanthemums on the grave of the unknown soldier whua military detachments stood at attention and then as taps sounded mrs roosevelt stepped forward and placed a single white power cower at the foot of the shrine national commander belgrano of the american legion was one of the speakers at arlington and called tor for adequate defense of the nation against both foreign toes foes and the forces of unrest that are attacking our institutions tut ions I 1 TN N A cablegram to the league of na eions chancellor alart of paraguay said his bis government could not accept a truce in the chaco war in return tor for international guarantees as was proposed by the league alart 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 the chaco consultative committee of the league asked the secretary general to request tho the united states and brazil to collaborate in ending the war |