LAGUARDIA, dy-
namic and radical Republican, is
the mayor-elect of New York, and
Tammany has been “smashed” once
more -— for how long
no one knows. The
fusion candidate easi-
ily defeated Joseph V,
McKee, recovery nom-
inee, and Mayor John
P. O'Brien, Tammany
Democrat, who ran in
that order. Because
McKee had the open
and vigorous backing
of Postmaster James
Farley, who is both
F. H. national and New
LaGuardia york state Democrat
Ye chairman, the Republicans claimed
that the result was a great victory for
their party and a slap at the Roose
velt administration. The truth is that
it was rather a slap at Farley and
machine politics In general as well as
representing a revolt against the Tam.
many regime,
Tammany Hall is furious and an in
ternecine war has broken out in the
organization. Boss John F. Curry, it
was expected, would be asked to re
linquish his leadership, and he antie-
ipated this with a demand that Far-
ley be replaced as state chairman, ac-
cussing him of disrupting the Demo-
cratic party in the city. His attack
was directed, also, against Edward J.
Flynn, secretary of state and Bronx
Democratic boss, and inferentially
against Alfred E. Smith, who had de
clined to speak for O'Brien.
Municipal elections were held In
many other cities, and some of them
were almost as Interesting as that In
the metropoils. The Republicans and
Democrats broke about even, and one
city, Bridgeport, Conn. elected a So-
clalist mayor,
Democrats made striking gains in
upstate New York. Buffalo elected a
Democratic mayor for the first time
since 1914; Rochester went Democrat-
fe for the first time in 30 years;
Poughkeepsie, nearest city to the home
of President Roosevelt, named a Dem-
ocrat for the first time in four years:
Cortland went Democratic for the first
time since its incorporation 33 years
ago; Lockport also went Democratic
for the first time in 186 years. In
Jamestown, a thirty-four-year-old
newspaper reporter, Leon F. Roberts,
unseated Samuel A. Carlson, who has
beer mayor 24 years.
Pittshurgh, Pa., upset the Mellon
Republican machine, electing William
McNair, a youthful newcomer in poll
ties who was backed by the Roose
velit Democrats, Frank Couzens, Re
publican, son of Senator James Couz-
ens, won the mayoraity of Detroit
The Republicans also won in Cleve
land, electing former Gov. Harry IL.
Davis. In Boston a Democrat, Fred
erick W. Mansfield, was chosen mayor,
TORELLO HM.
HIRTY-SEVEN states—one more
than necessary—having voted for
prohibition repeal, the Eighteenth
amendment Is knocked out of the
Constitution, The dry regiwee cones
to an end on December 5. when the
thirty-sixth state convention, that of
Maine, meets to ratify the action of
the voters. The latest states to go on
record for repeal were Ohio, Pennsyl
vania, Utah and Kentucky. On the
same day North and South Carolina
rejected the repeal amendment, being
the first commonwealths to go dry.
This result was ascribed to the fact
that the prohibitionists made nu lively
eampaign, while the repealists were
inactive. The vote of Utah was some
what of a surprise, for the Mormon
church had urged all its members to
vote for retention of the Eighteenth
amendment. Obviously, many of them
disregarded this monition.
“N EVER again will we call off this
strike until our demands are
met by the federal government,” de
clared Milo Reno, president of the Na-
tional Farmers’ Holl:
day association
Whereupon the “em-
battled farmers” of
the Middle West re
sumed thelr picketing
with renewed vigor,
determined to prevent
the moving of pro
duce to the markets
of the leading cities.
Reno and his follow:
ers were enraged be
Geo. N. Peek ue President
Roosevelt, on the advice of Geogge N.
Peek, head of the agricultural adjust:
ment administration, and Secretary
Wallace, had rejected the price fixing
plan offered by Governors Herring,
Olson, Langer, Schmedeman and Ber.
ry. And those governors were no less
Irate when they left the White House.
They declared thelr attempt to bring
about complete regimentation of agri
culture was a complete fallure and
that they were disappointed and dis
gusted. They freely predicted “a
great deal of disturbance” unless mar.
ket prices go up on this year's crops,
and the farm strikers saw to It that
this prediction was justified.
Mr. Roosevelt, In a written opinion
based on Mr. Peck's advice, sald that
the governor's plan amounted substan.
tially “to the licensing of every plowed
field, and the marketing by a ticket
punch system of ali grain snd live
stock; and he then went on to de
nounce severely such a scheme of regl
mentation, Thé effect of the adoption
of the plan, he sald, “even If success
ful In the Midwest, might be that the
very states the governors are trying
to help might be left holding the bag
while other states expanded produc
tion.
“These questions are wholly aside
from grave problems of legality un-
der existing law and questions as to
raising the necessary funds.”
The governors were called upon, In-
stead, to give full co-operation to the
program of benefits and curtailed pro
duction already under way.
EFUSAL of the Greek Court of Ap-
peals to permit the extradition of
Samuel] Insull is held by the United
States government to be “utterly un-
tenable and a clear i
violation of the Amer-
ican-Helenlie treaty of
extradition signed at
Athens on May 6,
1931." Therefore, by
direction of the State
department, Lincoln
MacVeagh, American
minister to Greece, de
livered to Foreign
Minister Maximos in
Athens a strong note
denouncing the treaty.
The document ex-
pressed the “astonishment” of the
government In Washington at the
news that the Greek authorities had
again declined to honor the request
for Insull's extradition, and continued
that this made It apparent that the
treaty Is now entirely useless
The Greek government could get out
of the embarrassing situation, If it so
desired, by Inviting Insull to leave the
country within a stipulated time. By
law the minister of the Interior may
deport any person “If undesirable for
social or public reasons.” However,
Insull's lawyer told the fugitive the
government could not remove him
without casting a slur on the Greek
Judiciary, Then, too, the Venizelists,
opponents of the present regime,
would atfack it and probably over
throw it If Insull. were deported
Lincoin
MacVeaagh
ENRY FORD has started to lay
off his men to bring their work-
ing hours under the 35-hour code max-
imum, according to his nnounced
plan, His plants had
heen operating on a
40-hour basis. The re
covery officials were
astonished by this
move, and General
Johnson tried to avert
it by offering to “eon
sider an exception” in
Ford's case, without
avail,
Observers watched
this renewal of the
prolonged NIRA-Ford
They
Henry Ford
controversy with keen interest.
said the Ford statement that the
iayoff was solely to meet NRA
requirements was another indication
that the manufacturer intends to com.
ply with the letter of the law while
at variance with the spirit of the pro
gram,
The real showdown will come later,
it was predicted, over the collective
bargaining provisions of the code.
The striking tool and die makers
of the Detroit area were returning te
work in large numbers under agree
ments with employers that were nego
tinted by the regional labor board
The terms were not made public. The
strike started in Flint and was marked
by violence and sabotage.
ORK for 4,000,000 persons now
on the relief rolls, through the
imnfediate expenditure of $400,000,000
of public works money Is contemplat.
ed In a new program announced by
President Roosevelt. Through a new
“civil works administration” under
Federal Relief Administrator Harry
L. Hopkins, the President announced,
the government will provide the finan.
cinl backing for new federal, state and
local projects of a “noncompetitive”
nature,
Mr. Hopkins asked governors
mayors and other officials to make
their suggestions for projects at once,
At his headquarters It was explained
that the projects might Include levees,
the landscaping and beautifying of
highways, destruction of breeding
grounds for germ-carrying (insects,
sanitation projects and similar “use
ful” works,
ricatos wonderful exposition, A
Century of Progress, has come to
an end, but It will be reopened on June
1, 1084, bigger and better than ever.
This welcome news was announced by
President Rufus C. Dawes, who said
the managers were acting in harmony
with the requests of President Roose
velt and of many individuals and or
ganizations. The fair next year will
have more exhibitors and conces
slonnaires, und the lighting and dee
orative scheme will be revamped.
the comfort facilities will be
stricter control will be
N A new effort to relleve the hog
farmers of the corn belt, the gov-
ernment announced the prospective ex-
penditure of another $50,000,000 in the
open market purchase of pork prod-
ucts for distribution to needy families.
The program will supplement the
£350,000,000 corn-hog production con-
trol eampaign recently Inaugurated.
In all some 800,000,000 pounds of
pork products are to be purchased, the
administration stated. The poundage
of finished products will represent ap-
proximately 3.000.000 live hogs, it was
sald, and together with reductions ex-
pected under the corn-hog program
and those actually effected In the pre-
vious emergency hog buying cam-
palgns will bring the total reductions
In. hog marketings for regular com-
mercial disposal during the current
year to about 10,000,000 head.
EVOLT flared again in Cuba, part
of the army and the A B C se
cret organization undertaking to oust
President Ramon Grau San Martin,
Military planes attacked the presi-
dential palace with machine gun fire
and troops in the various barracks in
Havana revoll The fighting in the
eapital was bivody and lasted for
many hours. Loyal treops under Col,
Fulgencio Batista, chief of staff, re
captured some of the strong points
from the rebels, and the colonel nego-
tiated a brief armistice.
The rebellion started Immediately
after President Grau announced that
he would not consider the
of the opposition factions that he re
sign. Instead he issued a decree en-
dowing himself with autocratic pow-
ers similar to those which made pos
pression of all opposition during his
] TADIR SHAH GHAZI ot
ing
according to a formal
and was succeeded
throne by his son,
Zahir Shah. Nadir Shah was fifty.
three years old and became king in
1928 when he drove from the throne
nouncement, on
had ousted King Amanullah.
preparing to lead his epochal
mass flight of Itallan planes
that its success would
mean his own relega-
tion to obscurity, be
cause of Mussolini's
determination to keep
others out of the lime
light This has now
come to pass. Balbo.
who was alr minister,
has resigned and bas
been made governor
of Libya, the colony LP
on the north coast of -
Africa. There had been Gen. Balbo
mystery almost ever since Balbo re
turned from his triumphant flight con-
cerning his standing with Mussolini,
He was received as a hero at Rome
and made alr marshal. Then he
dropped out of the news completely,
and it was rumored he was in disfavor,
The doce has reorganized his cabl-
net according to a plan formed long
ago. He has bimself assumed the
portfolios of the navy and aviation, in
addition to the five offices he already
held,
HANCELLOR DOLLFUSS is all
out of patience with the intrigues
of Austrian
employees who are in sympathy with
the Nazi movement and has decided to
get rid of those persons immediately.
He has a “federal commisiar for per-
sonnel reform” whose duty is to dis
cover the offenders and eliminate them,
Soviet envoy,
N AXIM LITVINOV,
enjoyed several days of pleasant
and profitable conversation In Wash
ington with President Roosevelt, Sec
retary of State Hull and other offi.
cials, It was expected that the Presi
dent would announce very soon that
ambassadors were to be exchanged
between the United States and Rus
sia, for~the negotiations were pro-
ceeding smoothly. Some of the ques
tions to be settied may be taken up
after recognition of the Soviet re
public,
QENATOR DUNCAN U. FLETCHER
of Florida, chairman of the senate
committee that is investigating the do-
ings of the stock market and of bank-
ers and brokers, says
he Is trying to figure
ott a method of pre
venting directors of
corporations from us
ing “inside” Informa-
tion In their personal
stock transactions to
the disadvantage of
thelr companies and
of the public. He was
especially aroused by
the evidence before
Sen. Fletcher ,.. .smmittee that
Albert FI. Wiggin, former chairman of
the Chase National bank, and Gerhard
M. Dahl, chairman of the Brooklyn.
Manhattan Transit company, sold huge
blocks of stock in the letter company
Just before it passed a dividend,
One suggestion made to Fletcher
along this line is that directors of com-
panies listing their securities on the
exchange be required to publish tran.
sactions in those stocks. In this way,
he explains, the public would at least
know when directors of a corporation
were selling its stock.
Philippines legislature has giv.
tn the women of the islan
right to vote, this being the
stance of the extension of the
chise to women In an Orlental
Am
—
Washington, — William Pitt, the
younger, observed during his premier
ship of England that
Self-Control consequences flowing
for Industry from the acts of
statesmen were the
things that mattered and the truth of
his thought has had no better demon:
stration than In the turn of events
which has followed adoption of the
principle of the national recovery act.
The acts of the statesmen, in this in
stance, conducted the national govern-
ment directly Into the middle of pri
vate business, enterprise and Initiative
under the guise of partnership with
the government. The vebnsequence
flowing from those acts Is the slow,
but certain, development of a new type
of permanent self-control for Industry.
I am referring, of course, to the
proposition that has come at once to
be known as the “Swope Plan” be
cause It was Gerard Swope, head of
the giant General Electric company.
who fathered the plan If, Indeed, he
did not work out the detalls, and gave
it the Impetus to carry on. The Swope
name 8 synonomous with big business
and industrial leadership, hence the
prestige that the Swope plan had from
| the start,
But, whether business likes it or not,
and whether the bulk of the people at
{ this time agree with the principle, 1
have found few persons in a position
to survey the future who fall to sec
anything in the picture other than con-
tinuation of some of the NRA prin-
ciples, and Mr. Bwope's
Mr
there
proposal per
| petuates them. Ewope appears to
recognize Are DUMETOWS
evils In the NRA system now obtain
Ing and at the same time to recognize
the necessity for a thorough house
| cleaning by business itself. In other
words, the Swope plan contemplates
| providing business with authority to
do the things NRA was organized to
do but, In the nature of things, cannot
i possibly do.
Sinve there are too many detalls to
{ permit of a discussion of all of them
i In these columns, permit me to sum.
| marize the Swope plan as a logical set.
| up for the control of all industry by
| Htself, with a national chamber of
| commerce at the top. In the adminis
tration of that chamber, the federal
| government would have a part, and
| that provides the necessary govern
ment supervision. The present srs
fem of codes for this and for that, hit
snd miss, enforced by men and women,
who, In some cases, have had no prae
| tical experience whatsoever, would be
i superseded by trade associations for
each Industry.
There would be the pecessary regn-
latory committees In which the indus
trial folks themselves would be in the
majority but In which the government
would participate so that it knew what
was going on. The primary respons!
bility, as becomes readily apparent,
wotild be on the business interests and
{| the government would horn in only
| when human avarice or crookedness
upset policies predicated upon sound
Judgment and far vision.
The program, too, would eliminate
what observers here have feared con
stantly, namely, the building ap of a
! gigantic bureaucracy In Washington)
{ That is what Is happening under NRA
{ and one cannot be blind to it even
| while admitting the gains resulting
from NRA activities, When Mr. Swope
| made his announcefhent before the ad
| visory and planning commission of the
| Department of Commerce, he barely
| hinted at that phase, yet It was plain
| he was aware of the growing tendency,
| #ince it 18 history how government en-
| croaches further and further unless
| the people themselves call a halt,
eo
Mr. Swope Ianid his plan before the
council and the nation with the ad-
monition that:
Favor “If business does
not organize to con-
Swope Plan trol itself, either the
state or the federal government will”
80 the program was born, and it {im-
mediately received the blessing of the
administration and expressions of
good luck from various other sources.
It may be, and probably will be,
that enmity and petty jealousy will
stick out for changes in favor of indi.
vidual groups, but as far as I have
been able to learn the structure has
been set up and It Is likely to stand
ns a principle. I mean by that, the
chances are Industry will choose in
the end to accept what it may consider
to be the lesser of two evils from its
own standpoint; It will take either
} something built up from the Swope
plan that will keep eommerce and in-
dustry on a decent plane, or it will
have to swallow further encronchments
from a governmental bureaucracy.
It Is to be remembered that Presi
dent Roosevelt has insisted that he
is not irrevocably comm’ to any
of the plans for recovery which he
has sponsored. He has described them
generally, as he said of the agricul
tural adjustment program, that it is
experimental, 8 move by trial and er.
ror to determine what will end the de
pression, Consequently, It seems fair
to assume Mat Mr. Roosevelt will sup-
port the Swope plan quite some time
yet, even If it goes awry In the end,
¢. 8» *
The President at last has launched
out on a conrse of ald for the so-called
heavy Industries, He bas determined
Big
¥
§
i
i
i
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on this program after long delay, and
only after he had bess urged to do so by
dozens of men who ought to have some
understanding of the country's eco-
nomic problems. The publle works
administration loan to the rallroads
was the first step snd others have fol-
lowed. It is a move designed to make
eapital available for expenditure by
those heavy industries in the belief
that those expenditures will encour.
age others In kindred industries to lay
out some of thelr own resources, if
flow will be restored.
" La
money
There ean be no doubt, of course,
that every time expenditures are made
for construction, re-
More Jobs, pair or remodeling,
More Money Jobs have been made
available, and when
Jobs are made avails there is
more spending by those given work,
It Is obvious that esch of these add
something to the country's buying pow-
er, but question Is, how much?
That seems to be $5: weakness of the
plan to help heavy Industries, as it
was the weakness of other plans ine
volving expenditures. While the $135.-
000.000 that was loaned to about twen-
ty rallroads, for will start
some folks to work, it require a
good many more mil i# to carry
that theory through to successful com-
pletion, to the best judgment
I have been able to obtain.
the
example,
according
But that fact is not one In eriticism.
in emphasis of
another fact, namely, that this recov
ery 1s and must of necessity be a slow
It will be so slow that most
folks will Jose patience and confidence
in the future. That will help never
one bit
Let us take the railroad loan up for
consideration, again. It is small, com
paratively speaking, but repeating that
which was sald abovs: It will result
in Joba The heavy Industries after
all are the big employers of labor, and
if they are able to increase their pay
rolls in however small amounts, there
will be just that much momentum giv
en to the wheel which must turn con-
tinuously If there iz to be prosperity
throughout the world. So as the other
industrial and agricgltural recovery
programs move forward with thelr
varying degrees of success, the at.
tempt to get those heavy Industries on
their feet surely must considered
as a unit of the general plan and one
that is highly important In the strue
ture of economic iife.
It is pointed out merels
process,
be
*® » *
The first payments to farmers under
the wheat acreage reduction program
The
Farmers Get first one was made
: to a farmer In Jowa
First Pay fron which state
Secretary Wailace of the Department
of Agriculture comes. | was told st
the department that it just happened |
the first payment went out there, All
detalls of the contract had been ar
ranged and so the cheek went forward,
it so happened, however, that Iowa
was one of the tronble spots in the
farmers’ strike, and ihé quick action
to get money out there might naturally
have been taken in hope of providing
some of those farmers with a reason |
to quit the strike, !
It is the expectation of the Depart. |
ment of Agriculture that the wheat pro-
gram will result In distribution of
around S102000000 to the farmers
The acreage reduction signed up will
take about 7.800000 acres out of pro
duction next year, and the payments
now being made represent about 70
per cent of what each farmer will re |
ceive. The remainder will be pald |
next spring when the farmers’ cote |
tracts will have been fully executed
in the sense that the acre concerned
has not been planted either this fall |
or next spring.
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Despite thelr “wet” leanings, Post |
master General .Farley and Attorney |
General Cammings have had to decree |
that lignor advertisements in newspa. |
pers and magazines may not go into |
“dry” states, They have ruled that it
is proper for a newspaper or a maga. |
eine, carrying a liquor advertisement,
to circulate in a state where prohibi-
tion is not operative under state laws, |
but otherwise the advertisement must
not be circulated.
L do not imagine it was a pleasant |
thing for “Big Jim" Farley to do, be |
cause It was he who fought harder
for repeal than any other high Demo-
eratie leader. And possibly the action |
was made more distaste to Mr, Far.
ley because it was anst%=+ Democrat,
“Jim” Reed, of Missourl, who had
sponsored the law that barred liquor
advertising from the malls, when he
was a member of the s:5ate. Senator
Reed, always a wet, had put forward
the amendment barring advertisements
of liguor for the purnssa of “seeing
how far the drys will go.” They went,
and Senator Reed had to vote for a
provision of law that be knew was
absurd.
I bave made numerous Inquiries
intely and I can find no logical reason
for barring the advertising, except that
it Is in the law, It does not occur to
me that anyone will be made more
thirsty by reading an advertisement
have been made,
i
Path in Life Greased
for Possessor of Tact
“There is wo doubt that it is ad-
vantageous to be born with a silver
gpoon In the mouth,” sald Mr. Cato
Ninetails. “It permits a pleasant and
eovifortable start In life, even if it Is
lost in the subsequent hurly-burly,
as it often is. Etill more advantage.
ous, I think, is it to be born with a
nice sense of tact in the tempera-
ment, because it is more certain to be
retained, and Is more likely to afford
a pleasanter passage through life.
Tact, 1 should inclusively define, as
the intuitive ability to say the right
thing and do the right thing at the
right time, and never to say or do the
wrong thing, No one, I take it, has a
more complete comprehension of the
value of tact than those of us who
have it not: those of us who always,
or nearly always, say or do the wrong
thing, to the embarrassment not only
of ourselves, but of other people,
“Those who would be popular must
have tact; hut, the other hand.
those who succeed In being popular
must often be bored, for the inevit-
able burden of popularity is more or
legs boredom. To be sure, those whe
lack tact, are often, as I have just
sald, embarrassed, and, what tem-
porarily seems worse, often snubbed ;
but as we so often tactiessly protect
ourselves from being bored, the law
on
of compensation would seem to work
somewhat to our advantage. It may
be, too, that there are those who are
so superiorily tactful that they ean
avold being the
princes of hnman society, whose oys-
bored. These are
ter the world Is and who are, far and
away, more blessed
began ue with thelr
silver spoons. Indianapolis News.
with and eor
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The temporary relief children get
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