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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over United Stales Won't Interfere in Spanish Civil War Crop Control May Ke Dropped by AAA Jeffersonian Democrats Organize. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. TFFORTS of European nations, not.ibly France, to persuade the United States to Join In a neutrality pact concerning the civil war In WHEN the American Bar association as-sociation convenes in Boston soon it will receive two widely differing dif-fering reports from a special committee com-mittee named to study the eflects of New Deal legislation on the rights and liberties of citizens. They were made public in Washington. The majority report, signed by John D. Clark, Cheyenne, V.'yo.; Fred H. Davis, Tallahassee, Fla.; George L. Buist, Charleston, S. C, and Charles P. Taft II., Cincinnati, Ohio, "deplored" the action of President Roosevelt in reducing congress to a "rubber stamp" body to carry through his program of legislation. "Novel legislative and governmental govern-mental trends of the New Deal are just as uncertain today as they were two years ago," the report said. "Laws specifically proposed as emergency measures with limited limit-ed life have been declared by important im-portant members of the administration administra-tion to be the beginning of permanent perma-nent changes in national policy. "There has been a continuing conflict between such officials as to whether a new social and economic order is in the making or the old institutions are being perfected so that they may be preserved." . These findings were challenged by Kenneth Wynne, New Haven, Conn.; Fred L. Williams, St. Louis, Mo., and James G. McGowen of Jackson, Miss. In their minority report they said: "If the purpose of the resolution creating the special spe-cial committee was to get the opinion opin-ion of the American Bar association regarding legislative trends designed de-signed to meet changing economic : ' i Spain are not likely to succeed. However Howev-er it is the Intention of our government not to interfere in the situation In any way whatsoever. Instructions In-structions to this effect ef-fect were sent to all American representatives repre-sentatives in Spain by William Phillips, acting secretary of state. While asscrt- 2. Launching cf an immediate study by treasury and congressional tax consultants of present revenue laws as a basis for recommendations recommenda-tions to the next congress for elimination elimi-nation of Inequitable taxes, especially especi-ally those unfair "to consumers or to trade." 3. Treasury assurance that "with continued recovery" the revenue yield is approaching the point where it will cover government costs and provide a surplus for reduction of the public debt. Mr. Roosevelt then started on a three-day trip to the vicinity of Johnstown, Pa., where he talked over flood control problems with Governor Earle and others, and on to Cleveland for a visit to the Great Lakes exposition. His itinerary provided pro-vided then for a visit to Chautauqua, Chau-tauqua, N. Y., to deliver a speech on foreign affairs. VV. I'hllllps ing that the American neutrality law prohibiting assistance to warring war-ring nations does not apply to the Spanish civil war, Mr. Phillips said that the United States intended to conform with its "well established policy of noninterference with internal in-ternal afiairs in other countries, either ei-ther in time of peace or civil trifo." conditions, the report is superficial. It does not deal with the problem but concerns itself with a short range attack on surface trivialities." The sharp divergence between the two reports presages a conflict and . heated discussion at the association as-sociation meeting. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE ROPER'S department has just put out a "world economic review" for 1935 which contains many 'TpWO veterans of the senate, Wil--1 liam E. Borah of Idaho, Republican, Repub-lican, and Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Democrat and majority majori-ty leader, won their fights for re-nomination re-nomination without much difficulty. Borah defeated Byron Defenbach, who was backed by the Townsend-ites. Townsend-ites. His Democratic opponent at the polls in November will be Gov. C. Ben Ross. In the Democratic primary to select a congressman to succeed the late Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee the Townsend influence influ-ence gave victory to Richard M. Atkinson of Nashville by the narrow nar-row margin of 13 votes. In the Presidential contest the American Federation of Labor, as Most of the nations invited to participate in the non-intervention agreement were willing, but Germany Ger-many temporarily blocked the plan by announcing that its answer would bo delayed until Madrid gave a satisfactory sat-isfactory reply to German protests regarding the execution of four German nationals in Barcelona. France set August 17 as the deadline dead-line for completion of the agreement, agree-ment, and it was expected that, if general neutrality failed, the French government would lend aid to the Leftist government at Madrid. Dispatches from Seville said General Gen-eral Franco, rebel commander-in-chief, had received a large number num-ber of German and Italian planes IlilllSl! " si interesting statements. state-ments. It says, for instance, that future business prospects are conditioned condi-tioned in part upon narrowing the gap between g o v e rn-ment rn-ment expenditures and receipts. It asserted as-serted that "the government deficit springs from the root of unemDlov- A. P. Sloan an organization, will maintain its traditional non-partisan policy, according ac-cording to the firm declaration of President William Green. The federation, fed-eration, said he, is not in the Nonpartisan Non-partisan Labor league, which is backing President Roosevelt. "We will not formally indorse any candidate candi-date this fall," Mr. Green continued. contin-ued. "Our non-partisan committee will merely prepare parallel reports on the labor records of the two chief candidates and of the platforms. plat-forms. We will send out all data to our membership. They will have to make up their own minds." PORTY-THREE Democrats, most of them prominent nationally nation-ally or locally and representing twenty states, gathered in Detroit ment, which is still the major problem confronting the country," and continued: "Most of the recent increase in the public debt has resulted from emergency expenditures which will be reduced as the need diminishes. At this date the evidences of need are still manifest." Saying the public debt "has continued con-tinued to mount rapidly, notwithstanding notwith-standing the substantial increase in the national revenues," the report! added: "Future business prospects are in a degree conditioned upon the pos-j sibility of bringing expenditures j more in line with receipts and thus I eliminating, partially at least, the j r i i - i r - J I 1 i j manned by aviators from those countries, and was about to launch on attack on Madrid from the air. The fighting for possession of San Sebastian and in the mountain passes north of Madrid continued unabated and losses were heavy on both sides. General Queipo, rebel commander at Seville, announced he was about to adopt new colors of the rebellion, red and yellow, which are the colors of the Spanish monarchy. OFFICIALS of the agricultural adjustment administration discussed dis-cussed in Washington the advisability advisa-bility of drastically reducing or removing re-moving altogether the planting restrictions re-strictions on corn and heat next year. No decision wat made and farmers will be consulted before any changes are ordered. It was, however, definitely stated that wheat acreage will 4e expanded. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, passing through Chicago on his way back from Iowa, said he believed government-controlled crop insurance insur-ance would prevent wild price fluctuations fluc-tuations in farm produce. The plan, he said, has not progressed beyond be-yond the embryo stage, but probably probab-ly would entail storage of crops in government granaries. Each farmer, farm-er, depending on the percentage of his normal crop he wished to Insure, In-sure, would make his "insurance" payments in the form of bushels to be stored in a common pool. The plan, preventing "lean years and fat years," would tend to stabilize stabi-lize market prices because it would assure a continual adequate supply sup-ply of whatever commodity was to be insured. Gradually, he said, it might be worked out to include all to tell one another and the world how much and why they disliked the New Deal. After two days of conferring, they organized themselves as the National Jeffersonian Jefferson-ian Democrats and named Former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri as their national chair- J. A. Reed uncertainties prevailing in connection connec-tion with future taxation and other budgetary problems." As to "the part played in the recovery re-covery to date by the heavy government govern-ment expenditures," the report said: "This question is not easily answered, an-swered, but it is certain that such outlays have had an influence, in many directions for example, on retail sales, on farm income, on the growth of bank deposits and on the prevailing level of interest ratps " I man. They decided to establish headquarters at once in St. Louis and to set up an organization in every state. Then they gave out a 1,500 word declaration or platform plat-form in which they declared they "will not support for re-election the candidates of the. Philadelphia convention con-vention for President and Vice President, and we call upon all loyal loy-al and sincere Democrats to con- The latter statements may well be compared with the report of Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Gen-eral Motors, to the stockholders. Business recovery throughout the world in which the United States has participated is being generated gen-erated by a combination of various factors, Mr. Sloan explains. In! this country the automobile indus-1 try has been helped, he says, by principal influences. Only one of these, he points out, has its roots in the New Deal financial schemes and he finds that particular infiu-; ence a bad one because it creates a temporary fool's paradise in which sales and earnings are ballooned bal-looned by extraordinary government govern-ment expenditures. sider the question of their duty to their country in the approaching election with the same earnestness that has guided our deliberations joining with us if they feel that our conclusions are sound and our anxiety anx-iety for the future of our party and our country is justified." The name of Governor Landon was not mentioned in the declaration, declara-tion, but a number of its signers are openly supporting the Republican Republi-can candidate. Among these are Joseph B. Ely, CoL Henry Breckinridge, Breckin-ridge, John Henry Kirby of Texas and Robert S. Bright of Maryland. DREMIER BLUM made good one of his campaign promises by major farm produce. TIGURES compiled by Dun & Bradstrcet for July show a de-clina de-clina In commercial failures to the lowest figures since 1920, and a continuation con-tinuation of the rate of decline was sho.vn for the first week of August. Aug-ust. On the basis of an index kept by the agency since the end of 1932, July insolvencies were at the annual an-nual rate of S8.2 for eac 10,000 firms in business. It compared with 44.6 in June and 52.8 in July, 1935. la January, 1933, as business was heading for the banking holiday, it was above 170. T EBELLION among the Town-sendites, Town-sendites, smoldering ever since their Cleveland convention, has broken out into civil war. Dr. Francis Fran-cis Townsend has just summarily ousted from the organization three of the eleven directors. Apparently the reason is that they are supporting support-ing President Roosevelt and object to Townsend' s effort to swing his followers to the support of Lemke. The three men thrown out are Dr. Clinton Wunder, a former Baptist Bap-tist preacher, now living in New York; John B. Kiefer, Chicago regional re-gional director, and Maj. William Parker of New York, eastern regional re-gional director. LEADING officials of Class I railroads, rail-roads, meeting in Washington, voted to petition the interstate commerce com-merce commission for an advance in freight rates to replace the temporary tem-porary surcharges which expire at the end of this year, and to meet the rising expenses of the roads. The petition also will ask the commission to give the railroads relief on the long and short haul clauses in the various commodity classifications. , I putting the French leftist government govern-ment in control of the Bank of France. The board of regents, in existence for a century, was abolished abol-ished and replaced by a council of seven headed by Leon Jouhaux, president of the conference of labor. la-bor. The others are representatives of the ministry of finance, savings banks, consumers' co-operatives, handicrafts, chambers of commerce and chambers of agriculture. The new board is expected to continue the anti-devaluationist policy pol-icy of the retiring board of the institution. insti-tution. TTENRY MORGENTHAU, secre-tJ- tary of the treasury, and the national commission on fine arts have given their approval to the design for a memorial half dollar which will bear the likeness of Phineas T. Barnum. The coin will commemorate the centennial anniversary anni-versary of the establishment of Bridgeport, Conn., as a city, and Barnum is honored not for his achievements as a showman but for his great philanthropies and rich gifts to Bridgeport. July failures numbered 639, a figure fig-ure exceeded on the downside only twice for the month since 1S94 despite de-spite the growth of population and business in the meanwhile. It compared com-pared with 902 in the same month last year and 2,596 in July, 1932, around the peak of the depression liquidation movement For the year to August 6 failures totaled 6,157 against 7,355 in the corresponding 1935 months, a drop of 16.3 per cent rpOLLOWING a conference of i1 President Roosevelt, Chairman Harrison of the senate finance committee, com-mittee, Chairman Doughton of the house ways and means committee and Secretary of the Treasury Mor-genthau, Mor-genthau, the administration's fiscal program for the coming year was thus outlined: 1. Assurance that no request will be made to the next congress for the levying of additional taxes or increase in-crease of present tax rates. |