G" REAT BRITAIN has been Invited
to discuss with the United States
the war debts with a view tp revision
and possible reduction, the invitation
having been extended
by the Hoover admin.
istration with the al-
most certain concur-
rence of President.
Elect Roosevelt, The
conference, if the Brit.
ish accept, will be
held in March; and it
will be followed Im-
mediately by similar
conferences with the
nations that are not
in default in payment
to this country, name-
ly, Italy, Lithuania,
Czechoslovakia, Finland and Latvia.
ut Secretary of State Stimson, in
sending out the invitations, omitted
France, jelgium, Poland, Hungary
and Esthonia, the nations that have de-
faulted; and this, too, it is under
stood, met with the approval of Mr.
Roosevelt, who will be P'resident when
the negotiations are under way.
However, there were indications in
Washington that Mr. Roosevelt will
have arranged separate: conferences
with the defauiters. England Is espe
cially having France in-
cluded in arrangements as may
be made, believing a final settlement
of debt and economic subjects cannot
well be reached unless France Is taken
into
Representative
Democratic floor
seemed
“The conferences
anything,
“because
Chancellor
Chamberlain
interested in
such
account,
Rainey of Illinois,
leader In the house,
to be roused by the news.
won't amount to
in my opinion,” Rainey sald,
the American people are not
going to stand for a reduction in the
debts,
“The debt
linked with
ference,
conferences should be
the world economic con-
The thing to do is to bring
about a removal of international trade
barriers so that trade can be revived.
The neces already projected
hold only a possibility of opening up
trade routes and giving the debtors a
chance to pay.”
England accepted the Invitation,
and her stand on the war debt ques
tion was stated plainly by Chancellor
Neville Chamberlain in an address be
fore the Leeds Chamber of Commerce,
Jriefly. the British government will
ask either canceliation or reduction
80 drastic that it will almost amount
to the same thing. If this cannot be
obtained, said Chamberlain, the settle
ment reached must be final and must
not involve resumption of the German
reparations. "To disturb the Lausanne
agree he said, “would be to re
open old wounds and to destroy for
an Indefinite period all prospect of
agreement on matters affecting the
happiness and prosperity not merely
of Europe but of the whole world.”
Undertaking to explain the matter
to “the farmer of the Middle West,"
the chancellor sald that if the war
debts payments were to be resumed
they could not be made by loans or
by further shipments of gold “Ef.
fective means of paying.” he contin
ued, “would have to be found and they
could only be found by Increasing
sales of foreign goods to America or,
what would come to the same thing,
by diminishing purchases from Amer
fea.”
conferer
nent,”
HERE will be no more lame duck
sessions of congress, for the Twen-
tieth amendment to the Constitution
has now been ratified by more than 38
states and will go
into eifect October 15
next. Action by the
Missouri legislature
clinched it, and sev.
ernl other legislatures
eame Into line the
same day. Under this
amendment both sen
ators and representa
tives assume office on
January 3 following
their election. The
President and Vice
President take office
on January 20 following election. The
newly elected congress is automat.
ically called into session on January
3 and on the same date one year
later, The changes do not affect the
terms of Hoover and Curtis or any
member of the present congress.
Adoption of the amendment Is some.
thing of a personal victory for Senator
Norris of Nebraska who fought for it
through many years. It was passed
by the senate several times but al
ways previously was blocked in the
house,
Sen. Norris
NFLATIONISTS are becoming more
vociferous and apparently more
numerous dally in Washington, but at
this writing they have not got any
where. Their first big effort was put
forth during debate on the Glass bank.
Ing bill in the senate. Wheeler of
Montana, independent Democrat, of-
fered an amendment providing for the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of
sixteen to one—the old formula of
William “Jennings Bryan--and Huey
Long of Louisiana proposed another
mmersdment authorizing the govern.
ment purchase of sliver and stabiliza.
tion at approximately 14.98 to 1.
After violent discussion both these
schemes were defeated, by a vote of
56 to 18 In each case,
During the debate Senator Tom Con.
nally of Texas increased the perplexity
of the senate by announcing he was
preparing a measure to debase the
gold content of the dollar by one
third and perhaps, If it were consti-
tutional, to forbid Individuals making
contracts calling for payment in dol
lars of current weight and fineness.
Both Senator Glass and Senator Fess
argued strongly against all the Infla-
tion proposals, as did Reed of Penn-
sylvania.
After being badly mangled by
amendments the Glass banking bill
was passed by the senate, [ts fate
in the house is problematical,
ARMERS are to have the oppor-
tunity of borrowing $00,000,000
from Uncle Sam with which to produce
this year's crops, unless the bill passed
by congress is killed by a Presidential
veto, The measure makes available
the sum named of the unused balance
of $200,000,000 of R. F. C. funds allo
cated to agriculture, The loans will
be made for planting, fallowing and
cultivation, and the secretary of agri
culture Is empowered to exact from
borrowers agreements to reduce acre
age not to exceed 30 per cent,
million dollars Is allocated for feed
for farm live stock In drought and
storm stricken areas.
Farm bloc members of congress de
fended the bill, asserting there would
be widespread suffering on the farms
unless such loans were authorized.
Many member, however, attacked It
as paternalistic, socialistic and bound
to increase farm product surpluses
Snell of New York, minority leader,
declared it was utterly Inconsistent
with the pending domestic allotment
measure, the purpose of which Is to
increase farm product prices and de
crease acreage.
The senate agriculture committee
began hearings on the domestic allot.
ment bill Wednesday, hoping they
would be completed In a week or so.
The same arguments for and against
it that were heard in the house were
repeated,
One
N R. ROOSEVELT, In Warm Springs
after his inspection of Muscle
Shoals, was busy studying the prob
lems that will come before him and
sews CONforred with many
notable men of his
party and a few who
are not of that per.
suasion. Among his
callers were several
who, according to the
cabinet makers, have
good chances of being
offered portfolios
Among these was
ronson Cutting, the
senator from New
Mexico who bolted
the Republican ticket
last fall and helped elect Roosevelt
The gossip was that he would be made
secretary of the interior if he were
willing to accept the place. Senator
Cutting was accompanied on his visit
by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin,
another “rebel” Republican.
Bernard M. Baruch of New York.
chairman of the emergency national
transportation committee, also was in
Warm Springs helping the President-
Elect nrepare his program and giving
advice especially on the rallroad sit
uation. Therc was talk that he might
be appointed secretary of state, prob
ably the only cabinet position he would
take, though many still thought that
position would go to either Senator
Walsh of Montana, Owen D. Young or
Norman Davis. Mr. Roosevelt told
the correspondents he might announce
une cabinet choice before going on his
yacht trip, but no more than one. Pre
sumably that will be Jim Farley, who
it is conceded will be postmaster gen-
eral,
Sen. Cutting
PRESIDENT HOOVER vetoed the
first deficiency bill, carrying appro-
priations of $31.000000 and the house
upheld his action, the vote being 192 to
158. The President disapproved of
the measure because he and Attorney
General Mitchell held unconstitutional
a provision placing control of all sub-
stantial refunds from Income, gift and
inheritance taxes in the hands of a
Joint congressional committee. Sena-
tor McKellar Indicated that he would
make another attempt to remove con
trol over refunds from the treasury,
LIMINATION of the citizens’ mill.
tary training eamps as an economy
move was rejected by the house, which
added $2.500000 to the War depart
ment appropriation bill to Insure their
continuance. Also $500,000 was add.
ed to the appropriation for the re
serve officers’ corps. The measure
was then passed.
The senate finance committee re
ported the house beer bill amended to
include wine and to provide 8.056 per
cent alcoholic content. This mensure
may get through congress before ad.
Journment but probably will be vetoed
If it does.
pra: ANS for the {inaugural of Mr.
Roosevelt are rapidly nearing com:
pletion and the stand from which the |
new President and other
will review the parade is being con
structed. The Inaugural committee,
headed by Rear Admiral Cary D. Gray-
son, 1s really arranging for quite a big
show despite the request of Mr. Roose.
velt that the affair be simple and nex.
pensive, The committee decided that
the parade should be limited to about
10,000 marchers who will take two
hours to pass the stand. As now
planned it will be in four divisions led
by General Pershing as grand marshal,
ANADA scored a victory in a rum
running case that was ruled on
by the Supreme court. It grew out
of the seizure of the Nova Scotian
rum ship Mazel Tov. The court
that In cases of vessels of British and
Canadian registry, the 1024 treaty with
Great Britain superseded the provi
sions of the 1022 and 1030 tariff acts
The oplulon declared therefore that
coast guardsmen may board, search
and seize British and Canadian ves
sels only when they are less than one
hour's sailing distance from the Amer
fean shore, Instead of within a 12-mile
limit as provided by the tariff act
LEXANDER, the handsome young
king of aecompanied
by- Queen Marie and his foreign minis
ter, Bosko Jeftich, spent the week In
Rumania visiting King
Carol at the latter's
country place, Sinaia
palace, Officially it
was just a family vis
it, Marie being Carol's
sister, but the
spondents sald it
for the purpose of
seeking a common
front on the question
of equal armuments
come up for
in Geneva
The
entente powers
two nations and
not like the action
of the great powers in giving Germany
judicial equality in armawents with
out consulting little entente, and
they propose now to demand more con
sideration important matters
come Geneva
King Alexander was especially
fous to get Rumania’s backing on a
protest which Jugoslavia plans to raise
against leged pouring of ma
chine guns and munitions into Hun
gary Austria.
Diplomats in Bucharest sald an im
portant the royal visit
would be a private conference
cerned with the problem of restoration
of former King
of Greece. Such restoration, it
explained, would be immensely vain
able to Jugosiavia, since a friendly
Greek government would secure use
of Saloniki harbor for Jugosiavia
should circumstances demand,
held
Jugosiavia,
corre
was
Ld
due to
King discussion
Alexander on January 31.
little
which Include these
Czechoslovakia, did
the
when
up at
anx-
Naly's al
through
side issue of
con
ruler
was
George as the
OUTH AMERICA'S two unofficial
Sos attracted considerable atten
tion during the week. Colombia sent
a joint ners of the Kellogg
pact asking that they call upon Pert
not to the treaty at Leticia,
toward which a Colombian flotilia
was steaming to recapture the town
from the Peruvian Nationalists who
seized It some The place
was ceded to Colombia by Peru un.
der a treaty signed in 1922. The Pern
vian government asked the League of
Nations to order suspension of “all
measures of force” In the Leticia
area,
Secretary of State Stimson hurriedly
called to his home the diplomatic
representatives of the powers signa
tory to the Kellogg pact to consider
this critical situation. He then sent
a note to Peru Invoking the pact and
making it plain that the United States
considered Peru was in the wrong In
the dispute.
Bolivians and Paraguayans were
fighting desperately for possession of
Fort Nanawa in the disputed Gran
Chaco and both sides claimed the ad
vantage. The battle Iasted for days
and the casualties were numerous,
note to sig
violate
time ago
RR Eros from Tokyo said the Jap
anese cabinet had decided that Ja.
pan's withdrawal from the League of
Nations was Inevitable and had In
structed Yosuke Matsuoka to restate
his country's position In regard to
Manchuria and then leave Geneva for
home.
Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida
was understood to have informed the
cabinet that application of paragraph
four of article fifteen by the league,
under which recommendation for defi
nite action in the Manchurian dispute
ean be made, appeared almost certain,
The cabinet, it was said, agreed that
this step would be followed by con.
demnnation of Japan's action in recog.
nizing the Manchukuo Independent
government headed by Henry Pu Yi,
the former emperor.
NIVERSITY
its accomplished president,
about two years.
presented his resignation, effective at
university, succeeding
Brown.
made a fine reputation.
ee
Irish Free State elections, his party
gaining votes everywhere at the ex-
pense of that of William Cosgrave,
his chief opponent.
© 1913, Western Newspaper Union.
CENTRE HALL. PA.
WHAT'S GOING ON
IN WASHINGTON
Congress Headed Straight
for Long Extra Session;
Many Weighty Problems.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
Washington.~—The wish of a great
pumber of senators and representa-
tives to stay in Washington at least
a part of this coming summer is go-
ing to be fulfilled. They are headed
straight into an extra session of con-
gress, and unless all signs fall it is
going to he a long-drawn-out affair,
It always has been the case that a
goodly number of the national legis
lators prefer to stay around the Cap-
ital after a futile session, rather than
to go home and see the folks, Con-
stitnents have a habit of asking em-
barrassing questions as to why noth-
ing was done about this, that or the
other. So, except for a short period
between the retirement of Mr. Hoover
and the date which President-Elect
tonsevelt fixes for the extrn session,
representatives and senators are like
ly to be here on the job through much
of the summer,
The Incoming Chief Executive thus
far has kept his own counsel about the
extra session, but the wiseacres among
the hundreds of volunteer assistants
who have tied themselves to him, or
have attempted to do go, claim that the
extra will be called around
April 20. That will give Mr. Roosevelt
roughly seven weeks of the seven
months’ “honeymoon” In the White
House for which he asked during his
campaign,
Mr. Roosevelt was not the only
who desired to have that hones
period at the beginning of his admin
istration. The expressions from busi
ness leaders were sme ten
They thought, and still believe, the a
sence of Washin
for a while woul a tonic
the country by allowing busiz
move nlong undisturbed dur
time
RegRion
one
moon
congress from
i serve as
* * .
Heavy Work Ahead.
There is no better way to
f kind of a job contr
tra sceksion than to set down
the this
Are Just a few of 1
depict
the ex
some of
Here
nts
£8 pressing tor
hem:
ideet. with
te family { ate uestions like
taxation,
abolition or
ent funct
sary to carry out those «
relief, with the fur.
funds for loans to
and
«4 to
economie overnment,
consolidati f govern
ns and the policies neces
lecisions,
Unemployment
ther eal)
financial
states, and now It Is even propos<
make loans to school districts,
War to which is inseparably
linked proposals for a world economic
conference involving tariff policies,
economic restoration, monetary stand
ards (involving valorization of silver),
and re-establishment of foreign
and
ortgages,
for federal
houses, railroads, cities
debts,
trade,
Inflation of the currency ita Si-
amese twin, domestic m
farm and city. Allied with
questions necessarily is the question
of ways and our own
it of the depression, and leg
ising national banking and
™
federal reserve laws, he demand for
both
these (wo
means to pull
country «
f{slation res
immediate payment of the veterans
bonus has a place in the sa
Prohibition In its various p
The whole eategory of agricultural
problems and of commodities
and questions of produetion and distri.
bution,
These are not mentioned in the order
of their importance, but they all are
with us, and they all must be dealt
with.
ne picture
I
ss phases,
prices
* » *
Left-Overs on Card.
No one doubts that the extra session
will continue for a good many weeks,
There is much to be done, A gonsid-
erable portion of the work to bé faced
results directly from Democratic party
pledges upon which victory was won.
But, important as those are, the things
that will be left over from the present
do-nothing session of congress prob
ably are equally, if not more, impor.
tant.
That is to say the Democrats have
added to their burden by being unable
or unwilling to formulate and pass a
definite program of legiclation in the
current session. Take the question of
the treasury's finances, for example
Majority Leader Rainey, of the Dem
ocratic-controlled house, has aban
doned any attempt to balance the bud.
get, or even take steps to do so, in the
short session. Taxes and government
economies are all tied up In a neat
bundle in that one question. It will
not be easily solved
Of course, it must be stated that
any program which the house puts
through under present conditions will
be torn to tatters in the senate, where
an even division of membership makes
direct action impossible, That is one
of the reasons cited, or suggested by
Speaker Garner and Mr. Rainey for
dropping a financial program until
everything is under the control of the
Democrats. Yet such a course obvi
ougly adds to the lond of the extra
session and there are many observers
who feel also that It increases the pos
sibility of Democratic factional fights,
The rows which the Democrats will
have to settle will not arise in all leg.
islation. The tremendous majority
will make for reasonably smooth sail
ing for instance on such things as pro
hibition repeal and lessor legislation,
But when money questions are up,
questions of taking more taxes from a
tax-ridden electorate, the varieties of
views will number at least half as
great as the number of representa-
tives and senators,
Mr. Roosevelt campaigned on prom-
ises of economy. He proposed to the
voters to do away with a truckload or
80 of government functions. Most of
the Democrats in congress made the
same sort of arguments, Now, how-
ever, it seems as though some of them
had thelr tongues in the cheeks.
Economies are necessary, judging from
the argument one hears in both house
and senate, but make it apply to the
other fellow, first,
* + *
Farm Relief and Banking.
Among other things due to face the
extra session are farm rellef and
banking legislation, If the senate
takes the house “farm parity blll,” the
domestic allotment plan under another
name, it faces a certain veto from
President Hoover, The bill over
which Senator Carter Glass (Dem.),
of Virginia, has worked so long and
ably to revise the national banking
and federal reserve laws, is going no-
where in this session.
So it Is easy to see what gigantle
forces will be exerted against two
measures which it appears Mr. Roose-
velt favors. Each of bills has
opposition spreading const to
coast, but it remains to be seen wheth-
er that opposition is strong enough to
break the unit of Democratic strength.
The character of the fight that is
to come over the Glass banking bill
has been thoroughly demonstrated by
that which pince in the senate
recently. It is no game at which chil-
dren can play. There are tremendous-
ly big bankers against it, and there a
goodly number of little bankers
against It. Their are not
to the same sections, but that is imma-
terial,
This banking legisl
into the problems of debts
and that, in turn, is tied like a knot
about the use of Le Federal Reserve
system as an ald to economic restora-
tion,
Back of it all obviously
camps, one urging inf
rency even to the point
the gold standard and ti
preaching sound ‘and retention
of the gold standard. This phase of
the problem that will be left on Mr.
an entree in-
these
from
took
objections
links right
ation
a
lomestic
are the two
tion of the cur-
of abandoning
¢ other group
money
Roosevelt's lap provides
ture for all of the varied
slators who have
yvihing
reak-
to the ple
patent medicine legi
their own p
from the hiv
down.
Into
18 for curing ever
es to an economic b
this picture also is seen the
probable leaders in the
movement to pay soldiers’ bonus
immediately. them want to
pay in has just come
from th resses, and with
nothing be
The
gives the self
mic doctors another
There are farm debts and debts of
city home owners over whose heads
mortgages hang. Plenty of words will
rend the atmosphere about these con-
ditions,
Probably
out of the
debis, «
are
plained in
CONReNsEuUR Is
advent of
curren
also
GCON0-
debt situation
inted type of
opportunity.
dome hie
ADDO
Ap
some legislation will come
around
ikruptey
I ex-
an earlier dispatch. The
that this legislation is
moving in the right direction and that
something worthwhile will eventuate,
That legislation, however, has only
a very slight connection with the
general farm problem. It may, and
probably will, result in help in the case
of mortgages of city property, but it
will not deal with mortgages on farm
lands. Those mortgages are so great
that distinctive and separate consid-
eration must be given them,
* » *
hanges in the ba:
laws now impending, as
Compiex Foreign Questions.
Mr. Roosevelt lately has given much
thought to the whole category of for-
eign questions, too. Some of them are
in a situation at present that indicates
they are growing in complexity. I re
fer to the Japanese-Far Eastern con-
dition, particularly, but there are dis
turbing elements in south and Central
America as well
It can be seen, without recourse to
imagination, that these are closely ree
Inted to war debts. Any mention of
war debts connects up at once with in-
ternational tariff =olicies, and Mr.
Roosevelt is proposing some sort of an
international new deal with respect to
the high tariff walls erected in so
many countries.
Congress has sald it would have
nothing to do with any proposals for
war debt revision, but it ir going to
have that subject Before it whether it
likes the idea or not. It is extremely
improbable that there will be any re
vision, yet It must be recalled that
such men as Senator Borah (Rep.), of
ldahe, have sald they would not be
averse to a scaling down of the war
debts, provided they can enforce a lim-
ftation on the other nations also to cut
down on their expenditures for arms
and munitions of war. Let it not be
forgotten, the Boral view is gaining.
Then, too, it must be recalled that
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, a
Democrat and an astute leader, is pro-
moting an idea about world-wide agree.
ment on tariffs and is seeking to en
force reduction in arms expenditures
along with it
These are all of uncertain form at
present. But the ideas are not with.
out merit in the opinion of leaders ev.
erywhere. They must be reckoned
with, and in the extra session, too.
Thus, when one studies the picture
and observes all the detail, it can
hardly be doubted that the extra ses
slon is In for a peck of trouble. The
nature of the problems and the condi
tions of the people of this nation and
of the world preclude any evasion,
@, 1988, Western Newspaper Union,
_—
Nothing Appealing ir in
Soviet Idea of “Taking
Women Out of Kitchen”
A Young Communist paper In
Russia recently featured a photo-
graph of four girls in red scarfs and
short skirts carrying lamps,
They were “shock bri-
gade” In a Soviet eonl mine, And
above the pleture was printed in
large type, “Women's Work In the
Boviet”
We knew, of course, that in Russia
women were working as bricklayers,
motormen, soldiers and militl
as well as in many physiealls
factory jobs, Now the
The employment of women there is
part of the Communist campaig
“ret women out of the kit
meaning the home. Put If there is
anything more edifyl the
conl pit than the
to be shown, says
noted wom
Some of my readers may thrill
this “proof” that
men's
Hews
miners’
members of a
amen,
conl mines,
n to
chen” —
about
en writers,
women can do any
kind of work. Personally
do not,
For my part 1 see noth
or Inspiring in the specta
laboring In the
to dig out The
women doing It affects me les
ably, Then 1 have
exponent of that
which might be «1 ol fonling
selves, And
with men on a basis of brute
seems to me s obviously
fool ourselves,
The claim that
everything as well as men
vole Bu
good 1
Home
certain
bowels of
conl
never been an
great hun
for women
have my
can do a
than men,
sociology
“ar d art
in which the fem!
ean offer something
gelence,
have to give. And
in these fie]
thing exceptiona
em the hig!
What
CHeSK
n and
poor mit
$ mont! .
not menlionea
worms
@. 1933, Pe
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more than 50 years by grateful
users the country over. Sold by
all druggis