Show ealy news An analysis alsis y has britain ceased age dAppie appeasing tsing 0 9 paris aris hadreas has reason 64 to doubt doub t it J by joseph ap aeilt W ingine la bine 4 I 1 ac EDITORS NOTE when opinions tf r ia this these columbi C colu mai ty they ort r thou those ol 01 0 the A news gw analyst at and ad not aft eves saily of el the i newspaper europe atrom at rome british prime minister neville chamberlain had bad ric received elved no reassurances but merely Benito threat areat to end the spanish ish war im immediately in idl attly by bi helping rebels against loyalists that done I 1 II 11 duce would have his bis hands free to press mediterranean terra ean terri territorial demands against france england and france could choose choos between helping the loyalists or keeping hands off an and d letting Musio mussolini lint win the war since chamberlain had reportedly made imade no conces concessions sioni in rome it was first thought a new policy ot of nari non appeasement wai was dawning inferring a franco british plump for the loyalists 1 but within a few days a some orne negative results result of the rome conversations were apparent back in london mr chamberlain chamberlaon aln paid na no attention to aletter abettor from clement R attlee Parlia parliaments rients labor leader it is obvious thit that the policy of nonintervention in spain has now belabors 2 6 i 4 CLEMENT ATTLEE mr chamberlain ignored his letter come the means ot of insuring that thai the spanish loyalist government shall be unable to provide tor for its defense against aggression by a foreign power in paris where first news news of chamberlains alleged non appease ment was greeted by demands tor for french assistance to loyalist spain as a self defense measure later news from london brought macool a cooling off the whispers that chamberlain had secretly agreed with mussolini to let rebel spain win constituting an additional appeasement at the expense of france whatever the cause the paris chamber of deputies felt obliged to approve FoT foreign eign minister georges bonnets declaration decreeing hands bands off in spain meanwhile despite disastrous losses in northeastern catalonia loyalists felt their cause wai was not defeated authoritatively reported from paris was the fact that loyalists had reached an understanding der standing with the vatican aided by a groi growing ying catholic opinion that rebel generalissimo francisco Fran franco comay may be using the religious issue merely as a cloak for his fundamental da fascist aims alms nevertheless loyalist spain stillham still has much weaker friends than general franco who continues continue sto to g get taid aid from both italy and germany pressing their current advantage berlin and rome avi are hastening diplomatic victories in the east before britain gets around to calling a new new four power con conference ferince tor for european peace while italis county gal leazo clano visits in and warsaw germany is making hay in at least three eastern countries 1 A iO credit agreement has been s signed with turkey for foi delivery of germin german manufactured goods 2 germany has accredited a minister to saudi arabia 3 hungary gary ind and germany have tightened their bonds agriculture I 1 whew when commodity prices drop U S farmers co operating cooperating in theada crop control program receive I 1 parity payments designed to maintain farm purchasing power under the first AAA parity payments came froni from processing taxes later outlawed by the sup supreme reme court colArt under the second AAA parity payments merely increase the federal deficit since last winters congress made no provision for them this shortcoming was brought to congress attention in president roose belts recent budget message I 1 aut but even the president has failed to suggest means of financing the payments having merely stipulated that no new taxes shall he be levied which inc increase i rease the bon consumers sumers burden processing taxes would do this but secretary of agriculture henry A wallace wallac favors pulling this ni I 1 trick from the bag once once more hoping I 1 ii a liberalized supreme court will drill a approve the idea secretary of the treasury henry whose department must handle the deal opposes processing taxes since the a administration cannot agree on on ii a method of financing cur rent parity payments of con congress grea Is to no mood to take the lal initiative tia tive it may well ie that th this indecision Is responsible for or revival of last years mcadoo elcher eicher farm bill just reintroduced in house and i senate respectively by north dakotas rep william lemke and sen lynn J frazier Fraz ter its ey crux minimum cost ot of production price levels would reestablished be established for domestically coni consumed umed farm products while all surplus pr products 0 ducts would be dumped on world markets for whatever they would bring proceeds less marketing costs would be returned to the farmer cost ot of production critics argue that removal ot of crop restrictions would glut the market drive prices down and force grain deal dealers eis t to 0 pay a large margin between the actual market marke t price and the cost of prodoc tion price this margin it is maintained would eventually be assessed against the consumer taxation two former U S treasury secretaries andrew W mellon and ogden L mills condemned the inequity of tax exempt federal state and local bonds since his soak the rich revenue proposal ot of 1935 president roosevelt has fought tax exempt securities and one other unpopular exemption that on federal state and local employees salaries if these exemptions could be abolished theu S government figures atwould it would net eventually annually from government securities plus from employees jacone income taxes one day before the president offered this program to congress in a special message he sent treasury undersecretary john W hanes to pave the way before a special senate committee said mr hanes the time tor for action has come the constitutions sixteenth amendment gives congress power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived therefore the administration thinks statutory enactment rather than constitutional amendment will suffice later after congress ha has s spoken the courts can decide whether its action is constitutional A argued mr hanes tax exempt securities now permit many large income persons to escape income taxes entirely therefore they are unfair the in tax exempt securities now outstanding of which some would be taxable is so formidable that it discourages discourage i investment in private enterprises involving risk thus industry cannot compete As tor for income tax exemptions the U S supreme court has already set a precedent by ruling that salaries of such public agencies as the port of new york Y ork authority are subject to federal taxation As might be expected state and local groups jumped into the fight 0 overnight ver nIght argued the conference HANES the lime for action has conw I 1 of state desense Dei defense ense tax yield would not approach the immediate treasury estimate of a year moreover it would work hardship on states and municipalities by increasing financing costs the statutory procedure would be unconstitutional most important once congress power to tax income of stati state and local securities has been established a situation could arise in which congress would attempt to tax state revenues revenue i argued the V ence of mayors in a similar similar vein federal and state governments may recoup from income taxes the higher costs to municipalities in interest on their bonds observers thought income tax exemption could be repealed easily but were less confident about tax exempt securities I 1 people left for the U S brazilian foreign MIni minister r oswaldo aranha I 1 to confer with president roosevelt the purpose as explained in a rio di de janeiro newspaper to discuss desous pra practical instruments for continental defense as well as hat national ional protection of id each of countries against foreign infiltration public works two 0 president Roosevel ts pet p projects have been the harne harnessing of tides in ln maines bay and the digging of a ship canal across nor northern thirn florida florid Qu oddy was started star abed several years ago 96 much mach ol of the original al appropriation being spent on preliminaries toche to the actual job 1 when congressional opponents argued ahat that quoddy Qu oddys s T power would have no outlet because it could not be transmit transmitted lia pr profitably i to new england industries ei a new appropriation we was I 1 refused in 1836 1038 since then the buildings have been used by banya NYA likewise a start was made on the Florl florida dil canil canal but last year ion congress balked brij more funds the arguments against it that Florl florida das fruit hidu industry stry might be damaged by seepage of salt water that it was was SENATOR GLASS it wont happen again unnecessary that southern florida would suffer irreparable economic damages this winter minter president roosevelt has asked an economy minded congress to zenive both projects and appropriate to complete them on quoddy the time will come when there will be a joint agre agreement erent between canadians Canadia Canada and nd the united states for the joint development of the larger sized project which would utilize all tidal power in that bay on both sides of the international date line it is my thought that an appropriation for test borings bolings and a small experimental plant would be justified anthe on the canal A florida ship canal will be built one of these days it is justified today by commercial and military needs while the house rivers and harbors committee under texas rep joseph J manfield prepared to argue the proposal virginias outspoken sen carter glass spared no words in 1936 the late senator fletcher of florida came to me with tears to in his eyes saying his political 0 future would be ruined if florida set get the canal i he asked me to vote for it it and like a old fool I 1 did but it wont happen again international last summer summer oppressed china begged the league ot of nations to approve sanctions against japan this was done but only by resolution suggesting that lealie league members teke take whatever action they saw fit nothing happened uncil until anon a nonmember non member the U S began applying pressure against export of arms to ja japan great britain followed suit in arn srn small all measure but thus tar far the international ter boycott has failed showing typical oriental resignation to fate chinas cainas dr wellington koo ambassador to france has again broached the boycott issue lisue in geneva his proposal that an international ter a I 1 ordination coordination co committee be named to unify world action against tokyo Toky membership would include both league and non league nations only result of dr koos Kools plea has been to focus attention on the leagues weakness also to point out that ahat only Bri britain talu france and russia now hold that badly tattered battered organization together the phinese chinese diplomat knew he could get no anglo franco russian support without first winning U S support hence he pointed out ut that president roose belts january 4 message to congress had proffered the io co opera tion of the american people in support of the cause of democracy and peace france britain and russia greed agreed a not daring to speak all three turned eyes westward acro across tb atlantic awaiting washington a leadership I 1 rel religion ig ion i I 1 in prosperous prosperous years church membership and attendance remains even or shows a very slight increase during depressions hemr membership and atten attendance danci will rise through a return to religion foremost mo a t among U S religious statisticians cla is rev dr herman heman C weber whose report for 1937 has just been released salient facts ind and figures total membership early in 1938 was M 04 I 1 1 church members having increased in twice as fast agthe as the population Chui chei increased by 1743 A trend to church unity was evident since of the total tota U S church population belongs to the SO 50 larger bodies about smaller bodies account for the remaining 27 per cent |