Show canadian pact to boost trade Arre agreement b ement hailed as master alaster stroke shifts target of republican abuse by EARL GODWIN ASHINGTON As it if a steel W washington clamp had been taken off this count rys dealings with canada the new trade treaty with that country Is described here as the most progressive action tor for greater worldwide world wide peace results taken by any government in a decade dont look at this thin thing as a mere set of dry tariff schedules look at it as if a gigantic hand band had pushed aside enery barrier to the perfect flow of commerce between tso friendly nations out of it will grow better international relations As trade expands we increase indrea e our contacts etli with lie he fellows across the line and it if these relations are pleasant and profitable we all become friendlier there can be no better practical example of the administrations slogan for international relations ce be a good nei neighbor abor we enter upon this proposed new business agreement with our neighbor to the north tit at a moment when other nations are building trade and military barriers all around themselves the nationalistic feeling of european nations bristles with bayonets and this international agreement with canada Is a miracle to foreign statesmen for a century we have agreed with canada not to arm the amo kllc frontier the new trade agreement is a development of this friendliness it may be the handgrip hand grip which will result in a strong north american alliance in turn that may tend lead to a ran pan american alliance which will see the western world in accord heres a tip look for just such a trade are agreement ement with the great argentine republic we are canadas second largest customer canada Is our second largest customer but see what happened to our mutual trade under the recent restrictions strict ions with a high duty on everything thin we imported imports from canada dropped from in to an last year we sold approximately WAX worth to canada in 1929 and only AX last year we lost two thirds of our trade with our neighbor because both of us were surrounded with barbed wire we both hope now to expand our business at least to where it was put hut the trade agreement will have to run the gauntlet k from froin special interests NO teresta and those who fear the word imports as a threat to home industry it will he be to overcome this fear by showing the ho advantage of exports as a reviver of american I 1 industry and a moans means in increasing industrial du employment the canadian agreement Is the work of experts who have been pegg pegging ing away for a year it la Is so skillfully drawn that even chairman fletcher of the republican national committee former member of the tariff commission has not at this writing attacked the schedules altho although herbert hoover gave voice to a wholesale denunciation our factories gain by concessions from canada our automobiles are especially ally favored so also s some ome of our farm anti and vegetable products our concessions to carand canasta a on certain agricultural products will be closely stud left led for clinn changes ch inges it if they prove unprofitable to the united states our lumber people feel fed that we are letting in too much lumber at a reduced tariff there will he be a political fight on that studies will be made on cattle cows and cream on those items th rates are arc reduced from canada to this country but there are limits on the quantities that may be imported at reduced rates when spread through the entire united states these agricultural imports amount to very little the treaty Is a personal achievement for cordell hull full secretary of state ile he has been arg arguing for the lowering of international trade barriers as a peace move for twenty years a in this column I 1 have been inal eating cating that the cities cannot handle relief unaided now cornea comes a group of about a hundred bundred mayors of our largest cities to tell roosevelt it that int he roust must not end federal feder it aid on july 1 cju because the cities are not in shape to do their own part Roosevel ts attitude remains the same ns its lone iong as there Is genuine need for oderal federal relief to the hungry it will be granted but it must be remembered too that no matter what roosevelt says the only way to get federal aid beyond july 1 if G Is by an act of congress Roosevel ts recent talk to the mayors who called on him shifts the target of republican abuse from the I 1 resident president to the people professional republican politicians have been charging up and down the public highways and byways attacking the administrations relief policies by criticizing ing certain portions those parts which have been most tin erakly attacked include the money given for work relief and projects in the cities now come the mayors of those CRIPS cities men of nil varieties of politics declaring these pro projects pr jetts 0 0 K and that federal aid must be continued I 1 cant see how the republican party can gain a thing by attacking the governments ern ments policy of jobs tor or the anem aloyed by helping to put the jobless to work on projects made up by tho the cities li iv which the jobless live thes anti and new deal critics have made run fun of money being spent and men being put to work on such things as school playgrounds and swimming pools these are for the rank and file of or ordinary americans who want to expand their lives just as much as those luxurious and critical gentlemen who get their recreation in expensive country clubs one third of 0 the works progress m money on which supersedes the dole g goes for country school houses and high schools I 1 say that expenditure Is silly 0 Ere everyone tier here Is tal talking lang about the new Il hoover and for the moment herbert hoover becomes nationally more interesting than any other man in the republican party because he presents an intriguing enigma ills his public utterances bespeak a new technique of expression which will match him with Roo roosevelt Revelt himself ile he Is in a strong poll position tinn because he can attack principles while other candidates are scurrying around for delegates the administration leaders hope fe fervently r they will have to oppose sir mr hoover in the race for election because they think P roosevelt can win hani handily lily against mal him there are all sorts of inside s stories you can hear definitely that herliert herbert hoover Is not a candidate and will not under any circumstances accept the nomination you ran can hear also that ogden mills is fixing up lip politics so that hoover just cant escape running at any rate lie he 1 Is 14 4 now dow so far ahead of other possibilities tilli as far as public interest Is concerned that he is 14 something for the opposition to answer yet I 1 lie be at all surprised if noo roosevelt avelt himself completely ignore ignored the former president tant would be gall and worm wormwood to in hoover who Is rampa rampaging g around in Roosevel ts front yard bedzin him to come out an and d fig fight gh t sir mr hoover boover is unfortunately for him one of the worlds poorest public speakers that great eng engineering I mind has been too pre lin preoccupied occupied with heavy stuff to permit showman showmanship but of late there is a sparkle and a brilliance in his whip like aphorisms which indicates he Is going aning in for a hit bit of human interest Inte resL those of us who knew him when he was secretary of commerce and president congratulate him on having resumed relations with hen B en S allen alien publicity man associated with hoover in one of his european relief jobs cven if you dont like flon hoovers vers reactionary policies and his failure to recall the near revolution he precipitated by a misconception of hungry lin humans mans you must agree that he I 1 Is doing his level best to arouse his crowd to cheers whistling catcalls cat calls and stamping feet which Is certainly something thin new for Tl herbert erbert hoover I 1 have said from time to time that the real issues for the next campaign have not been stated and when I 1 heard hear that a republican n had avon won th party nomination for congress on the town townsand and old nee nce pension platform in a michigan district I 1 put down a score for myself the townsend old age pension plan Is the newest nept and most lively trouble me old political parties have to contend with and they are likely to shut their eyes and declare it an issue just as they did on the liquor question until they were forced to take a stand the townsend plan ti Is going anin to worry nearly every congressman who wants to run for election reelection re there are enough in some districts to in elect or defeat a candidate dir Inte enough Townsend ites in ganv other districts to split spilt the vote in all directions they are well organized the best sinae ni organization since wayne wheelers day I 1 believe now suppose Townsend ites put up tip a candidate for president or get behind a third party radical that in it itself elf will he enough of a trouble for the old line parties carlies par lies but let us go further and suppose that father coughlin conghlin radio priest and his nine mao million members member of the social justice justic union lincks backs the townsend plan or the candidate selected by the town you would have a chrep light fight with veno venomous mou PO possibilities 0 0 0 the fate of this race of men seems jepma to to hang in the balance as the nations send their naval experts and mats to the london conference OTI on naval armaments Is this civilization going to permit itself to go on spending more money than it can earn to build up tip successive wars to end war the united states sends a delegation to london headed heibei by norman davis of tennessee with the plen plea fo for the world to stop building navies which are bren breaking kina the harks of the ing people we in this country start ed d the idea of limiting armaments we W brought the lint nations ions here for armistice jay 1122 1922 and in the shidow shadow of the tomb of the unknown soldier deerr enry of state Il now chief ju lice of the united states rend a 11 of vessels we e would scrap and a program we would maint maintain aln if the rest res of the world would loin join us in dolne doing the same thine never had diplomacy seen so direct a method old worl warl schemers gasped for breath they had come to fence adroitly and to avold direct bargaining they were forced instead to in accept our program of hail tation nations promised to cut down armies and navies and none mone of them kept the promise except the unit united 0 states we skinned our forces to t tho th limit not even up to treaty strength but when japan blew up and declarer it would no lonser longer abide by the agree im m nt we started in to build n navi would protect us from ingasio Ini asio at least the dl dishonored honored treaty 0 1922 comes to on an end and wp we in london to see what ran he be lp about the next ten years a newspaper vl 11 v |