Show r news review of current events the world over ard president silent starts his social reform program putting unemployment employment insurance first visits TVA on way to warm springs by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by western harpper Nar union ITH the election in the background aground Wg WITH round president roosevelt Is ready to push forward more rapidly his bis ambitious ambitions plans for what he calls the abundant life in this country so he has appointed a large advisory council to aid in formulating and getting through congress his program of social reform the chairman Is frank P graham president of the university fr franr n P of north carolina gra graham am who has been serving as vice chairman of the consumers advisory board he and his colleagues all known to be new dealers or in close sympathy with the new deal are asked by mr roosevelt Soo sevelt for ad advice vice and counsell couns coun seli elj in development of a program ir for un employment 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 the executive committee has named an advisory committee of physicians and surgeons that according to advance rumors will report a program that will be revolutionary almost to the point of establishing tab lishing socialized medicine this medical group Is headed by dr harvey gushing cushing of yale sale whose daughter betsy Is the wife of james roosevelt son of the president secretary perkins 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 won WHEN on economic security met in washington nearly all the members of the advisory committee were present the president told the delegates that he would present pr e to the coming congress bills to provide for setting up immediately an unemployment insurance program pi program As to health insurance and old age pensions he said he was not certain the time had arrived for federal legislation to put them into effect and he uttered a warning against organizations promoting fantastic schemes and arousing hopes which cannot pos ably sibly be fulfilled though mr roosevelt conceded to the separate states the right to decide what type of unemployment insurance they would adopt he declared that he would reserve to the tha federal government the right to t 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 ot of these funds as a means of stabilization may be maintained in central management and employed on a national basis 11 it Is expected that from to would be raised in the course of several years i mr roosevelt insisted that unemployment insurance must be kept entirely apart from the dole and an that it should be managed strictly on an actuarially sound basis he indicated that he be favored legislation along the lines of the tha wagner lewis bill introduced in the last congress under which a 5 per cent federal tax would be b put upon alf commercial pay rolls certain por per j I 1 tlona of the proceeds being paid back to tuch such states as had bad adap adopted e legislation for the working of 0 f an unemployment insurance program before the conference members went to the white house to hear bear the Prest president dent they indulged in a discussion that brought out all sorts of views of what should be done belief administrator hatry harry hopkins and mayor la guardia of bf new york urged immediate establishment of a federal program to include bene fits for thi he families now novi 4 on an relief hopkins ln said any pro araia yam not encompassing these des destt ti tute la is not worth its salt silta la guardia Gu ardla in the same vein said alt tei to cannot hold up under the re lief load much longer this was waa tot not in accord with the view ex z blittle later by the presidents president and was waa an example of the confusion of ideas la in the conference FOR FOIL the purpose fie of 0 obtaining better operation cooperation co among federal agen genelea gen clea cleg engaged in lending government funds the president has appointed a committee consisting of the heads of the agencies with see sec rotary of the treasury me as chairman the new orga organization nha will report to the president from time to time and its activities will cover the treasury interior public works federal housing tarm farm credit home owners loan corporation po ration agricultural adjustment abts 4 administration export import banking commodity credit federal deposit insurance tho the federal reserve board and public works housing lu in connection with this coor co or dilating dina ting move the white house stated that when the present apall applications of the home owners loan corporation have been reduced to terms of approval the original allotment will have been used up at the same time it was pointed out that no other funds for that recovery phase were immediately in sight R program that Is being ANOTHER aing rapidly prepared by the presidents advisers for action by congress has to do with the nations natural resources and the feces sary legislation Is being drafted by the national resources board it Is of utmost importance and in washington there Is a belief that tt it may lead to government control and possibly government ownership of all timber lands oil reservoirs and coal fields and government dominion over all existing and future ater power developments on the nations lakes and rivers agone PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT ROOSEVE LT 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 te experiences first he traveled to harrodsburg Harrods burg ky where he helped gov GOT ruby laffoon and other officials in the unveiling and dedication of a memorial to the men and women who established there the first permanent anglo saxon sason settlement west of the A al legh enles the erected erect edi 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 clark who there planned his conquest of the old northwest territory from harrodsburg Harrods 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 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 miss the th first town to purchase power from the new dew federal development senator pat harrlson harrison ingrodi introduced abed him at exercises in the town square the party continued to warm springs by way of birmingham the president was accompanied by mrs roosevelt and secretary of state hull UNCLE SAM need expect no payment me nt from france on the war debt on december 15 when the next installment Is due it Is stated in paris that france will then default for the fifth straight time pierre etienne flandin Fland ln new premier 1 opposed payment ys in 1932 when he was minister of WA finance a and n d h his I 1 s cabinet to la now taking the same position posta posia A as the previous government awalt premier ing an anglo amer lean gy settlement which would serve as a basis for franco amerlean american negotiations the only idea for revision of the debts that has met with any enthusiasm spasm in french parliamentary circles Is a 10 per cent payment to correspond I 1 with the reparations relief granted germany by the lausanne agreement proposals for larger amounts or payment in kind have met with coldness the chamber of deputies ts clinging to the position that france will not pay one cent more than thai it gets from germany FREDERICK FRe REDERICK LANDIS the only republican publIcan to be elected to congress from And indiana andiana ians in the recent election died of pneumonia in his home town logansport Logan sport he was waa a brother of 0 Kene kenesaw M landis national baseball commissioner i Bair requests reque ata for new D airplanes planes have been submitted by the army alt air corps and it if the th corps plan Is approved the united states will have the largest and most up to date military aerial armada in the world including ID eventually 2400 planes Is determined determined to prevent avent ARIZONA the construction of the parker diversion dam across the colorado river unless it gets geta what it considers its ita share ot of the hydroelectric power to be developed by that project gov B B declared a war zone on the arizona side of the river nt at the dam site and sent a detachment of national guardsmen guardsman Guards men with rifles and machine guns to halt work 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 Prescot and tand phoenix its a showdown this time said we are going to get something or we arent and if we cant expect anything we want to know it before this project Is IB farther advanced IV P whitsett chairman of the los angeles metropolitan water district board of directors said he be heartily agreed with governor that arizona should have one halt half of the power privilege at the parker dam it Is to be hoped that the fed eral era government and the state 0 ot f arizona will be able to reach an accord enabling the construction work to proceed he said the advantages which will accrue to both arizona and california more than justify the building of parker dam at this time THOMAS and his fel S SENATOR low were not pleased with the presidents choice of a new governor of the federal reserve board to succeed eugene black he eie picked marriner S eccles B c c I 1 e s a utah banker whose ideas of inflation are not wi at nil all those of A thomas for they do 10 not include flat money mr eccles believes in credit inflation he would control the reserve marriner 8 banks purchases of eccles government securities issue money duoney against these purchases and spend the new money for government bonds thus creating an endless chain of credit arrangement rage ran gement ent so long as this chain were maintained unbroken the governments ern ments credit would be inexhaustible haus tible something uke like fifteen billion dollars according to mr eccles should be spent by the government for public works and housing projects and he thinks this vast sum can be obtained by following out his bis monetary plans HE government has issued an order THE permuting permit ing the free exportation of capital from the united states and business men take this as a concession to those who demand stabilization of the currency as a prerequisite to 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 if further attempts to cheapen the dollar in foreign exchange were contemplated the treasury would not leave the doors open for the wholesale flight of american capital abroad JUDGE CHARLES L FEDERAL DAWSON of louisville ky overruling an attack on the validity of the frazier lemke farm moratorium act declared with regret that it Is constitutional in his opinion he be said the legislation in some of its provisions Is unfair to creditors and unwise even as to farm debtors I 1 for it inevitably closes to them all private sources of credit ANDREW A MELLON may now have another cause for grievance against the federal treasury department for the government has made charges against th the union trust company of pittsburgh a institution of filing a false and fraudulent income tax return for 1930 in a tax action demanding payment of plus a BO 50 per cent penalty in supporting its claim the government listed eight transactions in as evidence that all were a part of a false and fraudulent course of conduct on the tha part of said union trust company among the 1931 transactions were two accommodation c deals with andrew W mellon GERMAN ERMAN nazis in the as aa the german front assert that tho the rench french separatists have been trying to stir up a quarrel for the purpose of inducing geoffrey knox president of bf the league lague 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 has gone beyond the law in urging inhabitants ot the to vote for return of their land to germany in the plebiscite to be held Janu january aryn 13 in its memorial to the league the german front asserted that it possesses documents to provo that france tins has sent arms into the and that pro french groups have been trained in the 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 sall said |