MRE loudly every day is heard the demand for a return to the “sound money” by the Increasing number of those whom the President has termed “tories”; for, as the time for the assembling of con. gress nears there Is a fast growing fear that the Inflationists In that body will move for the starting of the money printing presses. Between the “tories” and the infla- tionists stands Mr. aE Roosevelt, still seem. Alfred E. ingly unperturbed, in- Smith sisting on carrying out further his gold trading plan for devaluing the dollar and thus in- creasing commodity prices, with some form of stabilization to follow—either a gold standard devalued dollar or a commodity price index paper dollar. That the dispute over the President's monetary policy Is not partisan is em- phasized by the stand taken by Alfred E. Smith in an open letter written for the December issue of the New Out: look but released to the press in ad- vance, Mr. Smith expressed his disbelief that “the Democratic party Is fated to be always the party of greenback- ers, paper money printers, free silver ites, currency managers, rubber dollar manufacturers, and crackpots.™ He added that if this is to be so “the issue is more than a partisan one, because we are dealing today with the party which actually holds responsible government office, which is not merely advocating cure-alls in a campaign, but which has In its hands the present welfare of 130,000,000 peo- ple and the future of our most cher. ished American institutions. . , . “What we need In this country is absolute dependability In our money standards, It is the only thing which will restore confidence. The latest fiscal moves of the administration have undermined public confidence. They have created uncertainty. “Uncertainty paralyzes business, dis- courages private initiative, drives money into hiding, and places the en- tire burden of sustaining the popula- tion on the central government. “In the absence of anything defi- nitely known to be better, I am for a return to the gold standara. I am for gold dollars as against baloney dol lars. TI am for experience as against experiment. If I must choose be- tween private management of business and management of a government bu- reaucracy, I am for private manage- ment, “I am ready to go through a certain amount of deflation if the cholce is between this and outright money In- flation. I! I must choose between the leaders of the past, with all the errors they have made and with all the selfishness they have been guilty of, and the inexperienced young college professors who hold no responsible public office, but are perfectly ready to turn 130,000,000 Americans into guinea pigs for experimentation. I am going to be for the people who have made the country what It Is. And 1 say this with full knowledge of the fact that there are many things in the old order of society which I should like to have changed and which I do not applaud or even condone.” Eo RESIDENT ROOSEVELT himself made no comment on Mr. Smith's letter, but it drew from General! John. gon, NRA administrator, who was at Warm Springs, a characteristically vio- lent burst of denunclation. The gen- eral also made an unwarranted attack on Professor Sprague, calling him a “hitherto obscure professor” who “by a dramatic resignation obtained his little hour or two to strut across the stage.” This of a man whom the Bank of England had been paying $25,000 a year to act as its adviser until the President persuaded him to come home and serve our treasury in a like ca- pacity for $10,000 a year, BE WAS announced by the War de partment that the low bid for trucks for the conservation corps was made by Chevrolet Motor company with an offer of $620.19 per unit. The next lowest bidder was North- west Motor company of Bethesda, Md., a Ford dealer, whose bid was 2671.10 per unit delivered at Detroit, $686.10 for deliveries at Chicago and $687.60 on deliveries at Louisville, Ky. The Chevrolet bid was for six-cyl- inder trucks and that of the Ford dealer for eight-cylinder trucks. The specifications of the War department provided for not less than six-cylinder motors, R. IL. Babine, head of the Ford agency who was low bidder on a re cent truck offer of the Department of Agriculture but complained recently that new bids had been asked for trucks of not less than six-cylinder motors, sald Ford deliveries could be made with such promptness that the government would save money and de clared that If he did not receive the order he would appeal to Comptroller General McCarl. alleged violation of the Presi- dent's re-employment argreement is Loft, Inc.,, which operates a chain of restaurants and candy stores through- out the country. General Johnson or- dered the company to remove the Blue Engle from its stores In Washington, and charges made against it by the New York compliance board were un- der Investigation. President CO Gq. Guth of the company denied the ac cusations, HOUSANDS of furious Califor nians stormed the jall at San Jose, fought a desperate battle with the po- lice and dragged out Jack Holmes and Thomas Thurmond, confessed kidnap- ers and murderers of Brooke L. Hart, the young son of a prominent mer- chant, and hanged them to trees in the city park. Fifteen thousand persons, many of them women and children. witnessed the lynching and cheered on the mob. That any of the lynchers ever will be punished is highly im- probable. The crime of the two vie. tims was pecullarly diabolical and cold-blooded and it is likely even the authorities, unofficially, welcome this reversion to old-time vigilante meth- ods of dispensing justice. Gov. James Rolph had refused to send troops to help the sheriff, and later when told of the lynching sald: “This 18 the best lesson that Call: fornia has ever given the country. We showed the country that the state Is not going to toierate kidnaping !™ OGER TOUHY and three com panions, tried in St. Paul for the kidnaping of William Hamm, Jr. fared better than did the California kidnap. ers and murderers. The four Chicago gangsters were acquitted by a jury. It was the first defeat for the federal government In the kidnaping cases in which it has figured since passage of the so-called Lindbergh law at the last session of congress. The Touhy crowd, however, were still to be tried in Chicago for the kidnaping of “Jake the Barber” Fae tor. N ISSOURIANS followed the exam. i ple set by the San Jose Californ- lans and resorted to iynch law to pun- Ish the negro assailant of a young white woman. A mob at St. Joseph battled with thespolice and National Guards men and took Lloyd Warner from the Jail and hanged and burned him. Gov. Guy B., Park declined to comment. Governor Ritchie of Maryland sent state troops to Pringess Anne and they nabbed four alleged leaders of the crowd that lynched a negro. The loeal authorities had falled to act in the matter and the governor took It into his own hands. The prisoners were taken to Baltimore after a mob had fought to release them from the sol diers. But almost immediately they were returned to Princess Anne on habeas corpus writs and the court there released them on the ground that the evidence was Insufficient. RANCE has a new premier sind a new ministry. Camille Chautemps has succeeded Albert Sarraut, who was overthrown by the chamber of depu- ties, and has formed a government that In- cludes fourteen of the former ministers, among these being Paul-Bonecour, Dala- dier and Sarraut. In other respects his se lections, it Is asserted in Paris, bear the stamp of the influence ; of Edouard Herriot, Camille and many belleve the new eabinet is de Chautemps signed to prepare the way for the return of that veteran So. cialist. Herriot was turned out of the premiership a year ago because he wanted to pay the war debt due the United States, and has refused to take part in the government until after De cember 15-—the anniversary of his downfall and the date when another installment is due. After France has repeated its act of repudiation, Her riot probably will again become pre mier, Chautemps was unable to persuade the dissident Soclalists and the left Republicans to enter his cabinet, so it Is made up of so-called radical Socialists. HE Co-operative Farmers National Graln corporation, which has been fighting for years for full membership in the Chleago Board of Trade, pro posed an amendment to the grain ex- change code which would compel the board to grant It and other co-opera- tives full trading and clearing priv. fleges, Gov, W. I. Myers of the federal farm eredit administration, In a letter to Farm Administrator George N. Peek, which went into the record, gave the full support of the government to the amendment, Two other governmental spokesmen, Dr, J. W. T. Duvel of the grain futures administration and Wendell Byrd, spe. cial assistant to the attorney general, likewise HYSICISTS of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are now ready to proceed with thelr attempt to smash the atom, for the huge gon. erator designed by Dr. RR. J. Van Dé Graft successfully passed its test at Round Hill, Mass. A 7,000,000 volt direct current bolt of man-made lightning eplit and crackled from the two giant aluminum cylinders which act as terminals of the generator and flashed between each other and to the roof and walls of the converted hangar which houses it. This first test, witnessed by a hand. ful of distinguished sclentists and the anxlous designers and makers of the generator, more than fulfilled the hopes of physicists who believe that when It is In operation to its full capacity of 10,000,000 volts it will tear the veil from the innermost secrets of nature, RESIDENT WILLIAM GREEN of the American Federation of Labor says that unemployment In the United States reached 10,076,000 in October, an increase of 11,000 over September, but that this increase was exception. ally small for that time of year. He gives warning that unstinted co-opera- tion of the citizenry will be necessary to keep the growing much larger during the win. ter, but he sets forth these favorable factors: Average increased slightly from September to October, amount ing to $1.20 a month, or 1.4 per cent. Cost of living rose only one-half of 1 per cent, slightly reducing the in- dividual worker's loss of real Income since March, bringing this down to 1.1 per cent, Dollar buying power of workers in October was $600000000 per month above March, Real buying power—that creased wages reduced by cost of living-—rose 23.1 above the March level wiuges is, In increased per cent EN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, chief of staff, In his annual re port to Secretary of War Dern, de clares that the army's strength is By “below the dan gr line” He warns that standing Is seven teenth In world rela tive strength and speaks of the “obvl cus state of unrest now prevailing throughout the world.” The general's recom mendations for "creasing the army's Ge. Douglas efficiency include: MacArthur A boost in regular army enlisted strength from 120.000 to 165,000, with lmmediate exemption of the enlisted man from the 15 per cent Eovernment pay cut, An expenditure of nearly £200,000. 000 on aircraft, modernization and motorization of the fleld artillery, mechanization, anti-aircraft equip ment and general motorization. Maintenance of the National Guard at existing strength with 48 drill peri- ods and two weeks’ active training an- nualily. At least 120.000 reserve officers with two weeks’ annual training for at least 300080. At present theré are 119.000 reserve officers but only 87.000 are eligible for active duty training. Restoration of the 1082 instruction and personnel seale for the R. O. T. Cand C. M. T. C. The chief of staff sald the army's mobilization of the civilian conserva- tion corps was In striking contrast with the 18917 mobilization and gave “renewed evidence of the value of systematic preparation for emergency.” But, he added, the heavy drain on the army's 12,000 re wlar officers In marshaling these 300000 men “has brought regular army training in the continental United States to a virtual standstill and has almost destroyed the readiness of units for Immediate and effective employment on emergen- cy duty.” our IEUT. COL. ABELARDO HER RERA, the hated chief of the Ma- tanzas military district under the regime of former President Machado of Cuba, and four other former officers paid with their lives for the many mar ders of which they were accused. They were taken from San Severino castle at Matanzas, lined up before masked men and shot to death with machine guns. The five men had been pris. oners since August 12, the day Ma. chado was driven from the island Chief of the erimes attributed to them was the killing of the five Alvarez brothers, prominent anti-Machado rey- olutionists, In 1032, RR OBERT LEY, trade union commis. _sloner under the Hitler govern ment of Germany, has announced plans for the reorganization of Germany's labor unions into a glant group to which employers and foreigners also will be elegible, The changes will become effective January 1, it was indicated, and mean. while unions wiil not be permitted to accept new members. Under the re organization scheme, every employer must join in his own name rather than in that of a firm. RANK WILSTACH, best known as a assistant to Will Hays In the Motion Pleture Producers and Distributors of America, JCRNEST W. GIBSON, who wis a congressman from Vermont, will go back to Washington to sent that state In the by William Bruckart ge Washington.—History shows that many years are required for the ac complishment of a Realignment transition in politics. New alignments in of Voters party groups are sel dom, If ever, brought about in the span of a lifetime. Yet, those alignments appear now to be very near, so near, in fact, that astute political observers of national politics are looking for a shakeup that will have been virtually completed when the time arrives for another national election. Because things move so slowly In political transitions, 1 belleve we are generally prone to dismiss each little incident as without particular signifi sance, Nevertheless, each one counts, and in the aggregate, if we pause to circumstances of must Hence, fow weeks neceszarily of the final stage in a national realignment of voters, And, ins been the case In some other focal the the which money is about United States, the center There is developing, according to the avaliable in trénd among toward Judgment definite best political Washington, a party and ation with one party or the other sole iy on the the party there are those men women affili basis of economic views of chosen. In other words. who believe In attempt ing new things In government and in its relationship with commerce and In dustry, and there are who be private Initiative to those Heve In allowing lead the way and as human nature demands, the like “liberals develop the changes Roughly, them COnsery two types to describe Bs in sevordance with the respec out observers after selves and atives™ tive views set above, So the itieanl Po who study those day and interpret f the opinion that coming. day thelr mes important ch The conclusions are reached by many early as the national campaign of 1986, there will be shifts from Itepub llean roils to Democratic rolls, and shifts of others from Democratic rolls to Republican rolls in sufficient num bers to have of the parties ns the other as distinctly conservative. The loosevell enmpaign last yeur devel oped enormons shifts; that is, it devel oped a transfer of voters from Repub lican ranks to those of the Democrats for permanent residence. In pointing to the fact, I do not include the “pro test” vole that went to the Roosevelt candidacy. Much of that will be back home in the Republican ranks if and when Mr. Roosevelt makes the race for President again. Excluding that Pree test vole, there were thousands who had checked the Republican ballots heretofore who will never do so again. That brings me to the present situ. ation, the circumstance that has come over the question of what sort of mon ey we shall have. Mr, monetary policies have found favor in vast areas of the country and they have met with an objection as vehe ment and as bitter as peacetime views ean be, The result of all of this is an issue has been so sharply drawn that a decision by the country cannot be avolded, barring one thing. That one thing is a return to prosperity at a rate much faster than is possible to expect. established one liberal and ? + fe distinctly loosevelt's * * 9» When 1 said there would be par. tisans leaving their old political haunts to ally themselves May Shift with what had been + their opposition Allegiance party, I cannot in clude such men as Alfred E. Smith, former governor of New York and 1028 Presidential candidate of the Democratic party. Nor can it be ex pected that Senator Carter Glass of Virginia will desert the affiliation of his lifetime to turn Republican, even though both the former governor and the senator strongly espouse sound money. But they serve as illustrations of the point 1 am trying to make: if those two men were not so high up in party councils they might leave the party. Thousands of less consequence will do It. Observers here contend that It Is quite possible that the La Follette group of Wisconsin and Its step-chil- dren In other states and the Norris faction In Nebraska with its kindred, the Brookhart group In lowa and the Johnson Republicans of California, among others, might logically be ex- pected to transfer their allegiance to the liberal party. They have been Re publicans only In part for some years, and Senator Norris campaigned for Roosevelt, as he did for Smith In 1028. While these factions and “wings” of the Republicans may be looked up- on as available timber for the antlel. pated liberal party, there are a great many Democrats who are Democrats almost solely because they happened to have been born, or located later, in a thoroughly Democratic Iden. are conservative by birth and instinct and by Judgment. seasoned observers size it up, namely, that the Republican party eventually | will be the completely conservative | party and the Democrats will carry | the banner of the liberal thought of | the country, | Pursuing this reasoning further, it | is made to appear that eventually we | may see the party divisions formulated | sharply In accordance with the type of | commerce and Industry in each sec-| tion of the country. For example, the manufacturing cities of the East may be expected to be hide-bound consery- | en farm areas in the Middle West may as naturally be expected to go eral, If not radically liberal vide economic lines, The seems to be set for consummation of that which the 1 gince the days on been In Moose™ has ‘Bull when leans, » * * the national burst out threat and General Johnson, administrator, i new other day, chorus of that it evoked covery with Johnson's Threat The cavalry wrong foot. hard-boiled general, officer who re under the codes of falr competition. All in my of wh is possible, of course, but i around the mversations with b ness men from other parts of the of try, 1 feel that the general would biting off more than he can chew if he proceeds far on by his announcement, There can be no honest doubt that Mr. taking ios “chiseline.™ looseyelt as scribed it, Is place in almost every « extent. It the trouble to look ommunity one taking There are hundreds of businesses that have the codes of falr competition with their fingers crossed, They knew be dangerous to to is evident to ar about m. Signeg it would refuse the famed “blue eagle” insignia, their obligation, tary, yet it is troe, that ment of business, and quite a element at that, cannot be trusted, So, as 1 see the perhaps General Johnson is right in demanding that business be policed. The wenk- ness of his plan, however, is inherent in the scheme for controlling business. Federal control necessarily means that the national government has to inject itself into the private affairs of all, a certain ele problem, up to repeal of the Eighteenth amend- ment. People resented Interference from the government in their personal affair Then, there 1s another phase of the problem, a difficulty as applicable to prohibition as it is in General John son's plan. Thousands of persons will be required for this policing job, just as thousands were used in prohibition There will be as many, or more, “meddiesome maities” get in- to the Johnson police as were found in the prohibition police, and there will be some few straight-out crooks get Jobs, The meddiesome individuals, either through fanaticism or through a misguided sense of duty, will stir up more fuss In a few minutes than they ought to stir up In a year. Crooks, If any get In, will “bleed” business which will be forced to pay for protection, exactly as occurred In the case of prohibition. - * enforcement, Washington newspaper correspond. ents who devote their time to writing of financial affairs Morgenthau in the treasury have lately come through Backs Down a brisk, although brief, battle with the new acting sec- retary. Henry Morgenthan, Jr. Neo sooner had Mr. Morgenihau, who is only forty-two years old, been In- stalled as acting secretary, than he sought to curb the rights of the cor respondents by forbidding his subor. dinates to talk with the writers. It was censorship, If ever censorship was attempted. The writers rose up in righteous wrath and with an announce ment that there would be no compro- mise on the principle. The battle lasted, as a matter eof fact, only" three days before the act. ing secretary called the correspond. ents to his office to invite them to “agree” to a modification of his gag. rule. He was met with an absolute refusal to “agree” to any proposal un- less that proposal contemplated free. dom of the writers to seek and obtain factual information that was a mat. ter of record and properly available to the public. The new head of the treasury was In a tough spot and he zielded on all points which the writ. ers demanded as their privi except that he requested they avold seeking information on treasury policies from the subordinate Sheu Since She correspondents never ve ing to take information on the framing of policies from anyone In official life excepting those who decide questions of policy, namely, department heads the writers felt they kad won, and Sweet Clover to New High Record Varieties and Strains for Almost Every Condition and Purpose, Prepared by the College of Agriculture, University of llinols~WNU Sorvice. Nlinois farmers already have adjust. ed their crop acreages to the point where they are growing almost eight- een times as much sweet clover as they were thirteen years ago, but this crop may be expected to spread to new prominence under the wheat program istration, according to a new bulle tin, “Sweet Clover in Iinols” which was recently released by the experi ment station of the College of Agri culture, University of Illinols, As a soll Improvement crop for the acres which will be retired from wheat rior among the legumes, accor the authors of the bulletin Experimental work st iz to the arted by for an Increase in the state's sweot 45000 acres in in 1032 it is the bulletin, These been expa : the acreage from 1819 to BHOO0 out In have up ‘to neres studies and econ. tinued ’ pre new ments made as early as 101 1832 With new demands being made u inte as the sweet clover crop by the sn tural farm adjustment program vari dev elope d and ads deve lopmer ts, ed to almost every condition an according to the bulletin. than twenty-five sweet clover grown the world, been tried in the Of the more known BD los nore United States, white flowered sweet Melilotus alba, most Important and constitutes more than 80 per cent clover, 5 is the of all the sweet clover grown In the corn belt. Another reason why sweet clo expected to play a leading agricultural adjustment program Is the that the that of The intter part of ver is role in the culture the y usual fact of it a 3 YI IGT than other common dates of seeding are February the the first of March In southern Illinois, and the latter part of March and the first of April In northern Niinols seeding Is important. Unht may be sown in wheat as early as De cember. A large proportion ers use sweet clover both for pasture The crop can furnish more grazing than almost any other common corn-belt pasture plant. Early seed of INlinols farm- Complex Mineral Feeds Needless Farm Expense Farmers can economize on the feed. ing of complex mineral mixtures to livestock without any danger of cut ting down their returns, “The Feeding Supplements to Livestock” issued by the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. The publication is an up to-date revision of a previous circular on the same subject by H. H. Mitchell chief in animal nutrition. Carefully conducted have falled to show any need for com plex mineral mixtures in general prac tice, the circular points out. Minerals should be used in the feed ing of livestock only as supplements fo rations that have been properly balanced in other respects, particular. ly in respect to protein. Mineral sup- plements, therefore, need contain only a few minerals In which farm feeds are known to be deficient. These can be supplied cheaply and mixed on the farm. All mineral mixtures should contain common salt and a calcium supple- ment, As a measure of safety some form of calcium phosphate may be used, particularly for dairy cows and for growing animals subsisting mainly on pastures grown on poor soils Down the Lane Insects devour one-tenth of the world's crops. according to of Mineral experiments *. =» Oats rank third among the impor tant cereal crops of the United States . ® » Land formerly planted to rice in the Hawaiian islands has yielded a big potato crop. LE Forty per cent of the United States tobacco crop has been exported, on an average for the past several years.
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