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N.TATIONAL prohibition went Into
the discard on December 5. State
conventions in Pennsylvania, Ohlo and
Utah ratified the repeal amendment
on that day, making
the necessary thirty-
six, and Immediately
on being notified by
telegraph, President
Roosevelt and Acting
Secretary of State
William Phillips Is-
sued proclamations
that the Eighteenth
amendment was no
longer a part of the
Constitution. In twen.
Joseph H. ty-four of the forty-
Choate, Jr. eight states the manu-
facture and sale of liquor now is or
soon will be legal, The state laws un-
der which it can be sold vary from
those providing “wide open” saloons
in Nevada to a strict system of dis
pensing hard liquor In Montana only
through state-owned stores, one In
every county. Most widely enacted of
the laws is one providing for serving
of hard liquor only with meals.
Governmental agencies In Washing-
ton were swamped with preparatory
measures to deal with the importation
of foreign liquors, many huge cargoes
of which were waiting for entry; and
with the federal restrictions neces-
sary to protect the states that remain
dry. Joseph H. Choate, Jr.,, of New
York, son of the famous lawyer and
statesman, had been appointed direc-
tor of the federal alcohol control ad-
ministration, and he arrived In the
capital to take up his duties. Mr.
Choate halted the issuance of import
permits until a few hours before re
peal became an accomplished fact, and
in the meantime officials checked the
financial standing of importers and
worked out quotas for foreign coun-
tries.
It was understood that between four
and five million gallons of foreign
spirits and wines would be allowed
entry during December and January,
and that, If the demand were greater
than the supply, the quantity might
be Increased In order to discourage
bootlegging. The government sought
to prevent a flood of foreign liquor
from swamping the American market
to the detriment of domestic produe-
ers.
Codes for the distillers and Import-
ers already were in effect, and those
for the brewers, the rectifiers and
blenders and the wine growers were
being completed. When congress meets
in January one of the first matters to
be taken up will be legislation te in-
crease the taxes on liquor and for
permanent control of the traffic. To
draw up such legislation the house
ways and means committee and the
senate finance committee were called
to meet In joint sessions beginning
December 11.
ECRETARY of Agriculture Wallace
and Director George Peek of the
agricultural adjustment administra-
tion, disagreeing radically concerning
authority and meth.
ods, laid their dispute
before President
Roosevelt, with the re
sult that the powers
of the AAA were
sharply curtailed, part
of its code work being
transferred to the Na-
tional Recovery ad-
ministration. Stephen
T. Early, one of the
President's secreta-
ries, issued this state-
ment :
“Following a conference with Secre-
tary Wallace, George Peek, and Gen-
eral Johnson, the President authorized
the statement that, for the purpose
of co-ordination, all codes under the
NRA, including those under negotia-
tions by the AAA, will be turned over
to the administrator of the NRA."
Mr. Peek was especially annoyed by
press conference statements by Secre-
tary Wallace, which were interpreted
among officials as supporting Prof. Rex
Tugwell, assistant secretary of agri.
culture, and the liberal group allied
with him. Chief of these liberal asso-
ciates of Tugwell are Jerome Frank,
counsel for AAA, and Frederick Howe,
consumers counsel for AAA,
Wallace, In his press conference,
questioned the effectiveness of the
marketing agreements and codes in the
agricultural relief program. He sug-
gested the major necessity in farm re.
lief was strict restriction of crop pro-
duction. Peek has throughout empha.
sized marketing agreements rather
than crop control methods. Tugwell
and other liberals have taken the op-
posite position, stressing crop control
as more Important,
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J 228s of the farm relief experi-
ments, a $350,000,000 campaign to
eontrol the production of corn and
bogs by paying federal bounties to the
producers, was launched by Secretary
Wallace, The money will be raised by
processing taxes which the consumer
will pay and will go to farmers who sign
George Peek
cents a bushel for each bushel the
farmer agrees to withhold from pro-
duction in 1984. The payment will be
based on the average yleld of the
contracted acreage during the previous
five-year period. One-half the payment
will be made to the farmer as soon
as his contract has been approved,
the other half when he has fulfilled
the terms of the agreement.
In return for the farmers’ agree-
ment to curtall hog production the
government will pay $5 a head on 75
per cent of the average number of
hogs marketed or to be marketed from
litters farrowed by the producers’
sows In the last two years.
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned
from his two weeks In Warm
Springs and plunged at once into the
work of solving the various financial
problems confronting his administra-
tion. Most immediate of these was
the refinancing of government obliga-
tions amounting to about $727,000,000
maturing the middle of the
This matter was easily and speedily
settled when an entire block of $050.-
000,000 of treasury certificates was
sold In one day. The fact that it was
heavily oversubscribed was considered
In administration circles to be =a
marked victory for the New Deal eco-
nomics,
There was no cessation of the con-
troversy over the President's monetary
policy and the arguments on both sides
grew more bitter, though Mr. Roose
velt himself maintained silence. Finan-
clal Interests have been considerably
annoyed by the fact that the severe
federal securities act has checked the
movement of capital into legitimate
channels, and they were cheered up by
Senator Fletcher's statement that Pres-
ident Roosevelt wants the act amended
to correct this fault without diminish-
ing the protection of the Investing pub
He. Mr. Fletcher, who Is chairman of
the senate banking committee, sald
Mr. Roosevelt's attitude had been
brought to him by Acting Secretary
Morgenthau of the treasury. In this
connection he sald the President had
not asked the banking committee to
recommend legislation to curtail the
stock exchange operations,
He" long Budget Director Lewis
Douglas will continue to hold
question that interests
Washington. He has
worried over the ex-
pansion of emergen-
cy obligations of the
government and has
warned against any
further Increase, but
almost certainly his
warning will not be
heeded when congress
meets,
Mr. Douglas thinks
that the entire bud
get, Including both
general and emergen-
cy funds, may be brought into bal
ance toward the end of the fiscal
year 1835 If no further emergency
funds are authorized after the $3300.
000,000 public works fund and the
less than a billlon left In the RFC
fund are used up. He thinks these
funds should be sufficient for emer.
gency purposes,
Others In the administration, In-
cluding the President, have different
ideas. Secretary of the Interior Ickes
expects to ask for an Increase of as
much as $1,700,000000 In the publie
works fund. The RFC probably will
want $1,000,000,000 or more. The new
civil works administration will run
out of money In the middle of the
winter and the President already has
expressed the hope that additional
funds will be forthcoming from econ-
gress. Its allotments have come thus
far from both the public works funds
and the rellef fund of the RFC.
his job is a
observers in
Lewis Douglas
RESIDENT" Roosevelt, addressing
the Federal Couneil of Churches
of Christ In America, took occasion to
condemn severely all those who con
done lynchings, and his remarks were
interpreted especially as a sharp re-
buke for Governor Rolph of California
who approved the actions of the mob
that hanged two kidnapers and mur-
derers at San Jose,
“This new generation” sald Mr.
Roosevelt, “Is not content with preach.
ings against that vile form of collee-
tive murder—~iynch law-—which has
broken out In our midst anew. We
knew that it Is murder and a delib-
erate and definite disobedience of the
commandment, ‘thou shalt not kn’
We do not excuse those In high places
or In low who condone lynch law.”
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Whe Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
starts out to do something in the
way of aviation, he does it compe-
tently, skilfully and neatly, Aeccom-
panied and ably assisted by Mrs, Lind-
bergh, he piloted his big monoplane
across the southern Atlantic from
Bathurst, Gambia, Africa, to Natal,
Brazil, making the 1875 miles tn 16
hours and 10 minutes and landing
smoothly in the Natal harbor, where
the entire population of the city was
gathered to welcome them. Through
te 8 Yous flight Mrs, Jindvirgh at the at the
reless instrument kept
fommunication with io do Tunelro
t
EAT came suddenly to Alexan-
der Legge, president of the Inter-
national Hurvester company and one
of the country’s leading industrialists,
In his suburban home near Chicago.
He was almost sixty-eight years of age
and apparently had been In good
health,
Mr. Legge was the first chairman of
the federal farm board, under Presi-
dent Hoover, giving up his £100,000
the summer of 1020 to accept the $12.-
000-a-year government position. For
20 months he devoted himself to farm
former place,
prior to his death and of $300,000 In
his will, Mr. Legge brought to com-
philanthropic organization to be known
as the Farm Foundation,
known by Frank O. Lowden,
governor of Illinois, and chalrman of
the foundation,
In developing his whose
project,
to the Improvement of “the sdclal, cul-
tural and economic conditions of rural
life,” Mr. Lowden disclosed, Mr, Legge
enlisted as trustees a group of twenty
industrialists, educators,
and farm
the country.
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Washington.—When the Eighteenth
Federal Constitu-
tion became a mat.
ter of history the
other day, I took oc-
casion to look up
some old records about the consump-
the days gone by.
New Source
of Revenue
1914 was the record year and that in
then
consisting of approximately 100,000,000,
had disposed of almost 800,000,000 gal
whiskys, wines and other
Hquors and beer, that slightly more
80,000,000 of the total was In
whisky.
From those statistics, I learned also
that the federal government had ob
£430,000,000 In taxes,
military display the seventh Pan-
American conference was opened in
Montevideo, Uruguay, to continue
probably three weeks,
Its deliberations
managed by Enrique
E. Buero as secretary-
general. He Is one of
Uruguay's most prom-
{nent young diplomats
and was summoned
Hie
ister to Germany to
this duty in the con-
ference,
In his
augurating
sions President Gabriel Terra of
Uruguay demanded the “sealing down
in all American countries of customs
tariffs which President Roosevelt just-
ly termed unsound, fatal and direct
originators of world economic disas
ter.” He referred to Mr. Roosevelt's
indictment of the Hawley-Smoot tariff
measure and retaliatory acts “to which
other nations were forced.”
Concerning the war in the Gran
Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay,
he sald, “The noble American Jjuridl-
cal tradition cannot remain buried In
the swamps of the Chaco”
Postponed from 1832 because of the
depression, a gathering in which all
21 nations of the western hemisphere
were participating found uppermost
in the minds of delegates a mutual
search for co-operative methods to im-
prove the economic status of their
countries,
Secretary of State Hull heads the
delegation from United States, and
nine other foreign ministers are par
ticlpating in the conference.
speech In
wh
E. E. Buero
the ses
OREIGN COMMISSAR MAXIM
LITVINOV of Russia, on his way
home from his triumphant visit in
Washington, stopped over in Rome for
a conference with Premier Mussolini,
and the correspondents sald this re
suited In an agreement for Soviet.
Fascist collaboration to better the sit-
uation in Europe. The well informed
thought Mussolini had obtained the
support of Russia in his efforts to
solve the disarmament problem and
that he and Litvinov were in accord
in the matter of having Russia and
the United States asked to join In the
four-power pact. Before Litvinov left
Rome he was given a brilliant ban.
quet by the Duce, which was attended
by numerous dignitaries.
ITH his experience as a delegate
to the disarmament conference
at Geneva clearly in mind, Secretary
nicipalities had raised enough addi.
such as licenses for sa-
the total tribute paid
S1LOOO000,000, The
distributed
the consumers of
pald them, There
anti-tax fights launched
places, but the taxes were
“levied, collected and pald”
Plenty of taxes are being levied
but collecting them Is a
different proposition, because most of
our taxes are handled differently than
liquor taxes
To get back to 1914, the consumption
of liquors was accomplished by the
people in about nineteen wet states,
We have started the new era (which
repeal of the Eighteenth amendmegt
must be held to represent) with twen-
ty-four states in which liquor sale is
legal, The federal tax rate is roughly
the it was twenty years ago,
fithough it has been her In the
me » due to war le 8.
The rate of $1.10 a gallon on “hard”
liquor will be the rate operative until
congress acts: the tax of £5 a barrel
on beer that was levied when the three
pointiwe product was legalized early
this year compares with $6 per barrel
in 1014, and there is about the same
relation to other taxes of twenty years
ago. So the federal government and
the states, counties and municipalities
are going to start with a new source
of revenue to relieve other tax sources
that are heavily burdened. Which is
the point to which so much attention
has been directed In urging repeal.
It is 8 matt
to make
by liquor exceed
effect
passed along unt
beverages
strong
were
these
were
same as
anting
er of governmental pol
ley, of course, as to where funds will
d by taxes to defray costs of
government. By advoeating repeal,
those who supported that course have
in effect argued for transfer of taxes
only base to another, jut
there is a lesson in it, as 1 see the
thing. This transfer of tax has been
from levies on productive enterprise
and commerce and industry that may
be ealled a necessity back to an Item
of use in life largely of the character
of a luxury, The same is true of the
taxes on tobacco, Tobacco taxes con
sistently have yielded about $300 .000,.
000 annually, and constant smok
ers, of which your correspondent hap
pens to be one, have objected little
The answer seems to lie in the fact
that so little is taken from one person
at one time. Since repeal had the sup-
port of such a vast portion of the na-
tion's population, one can hardly ar
be ralse
from one
yet
§
report urges that the
United States abandon
leadership in the dis
armament movemen!
“by example” and pro
ceed as soon as pos
sible to build its navy
up tofull treat:
strength. He says our
concessions in the past
have been “dangerous
extravagance” and
that peace is jeopar-
dized by our weak. Secretary
ened condition “be. Swanson
cause balanced armaments fortify di
plomacy.”
The report showed Japan will have
its full treaty strength of 183 vessels
with a total tonnage of 775.370 when
the treaty expires December 31, 1088,
whereas the United States will have
only 113 under-age vessels with a to-
tal tonnage of 988520. Under the
treaty, the report said, the United
States could construct ninety six more
ships with 157.280 tons displacement.
The British empire, according to
the secretary, will have 161 vessels
with 900.308 tons displacement at the
same date, permitting It to build sixty.
four ships with a displacement of 107
607 tons, ;
Japan was highly displeased by See:
retary Swanson’s approval of the pres
ent treaty ratios for navies. The
spokesman for the naval office in Toklo
declared that Japan is thoroughly dis
satisfied with her present allotments
under the 5-5-3 ratio and is determined
pan's quota when the naval powers
reconvene to consider extension of the
Washington and London treaties,
Only a few days before the Japanese
cabitet had approved the navy's re
plenishment Pronto glo Sein
for the next three years,
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this method of taxation has their ap
proval. The circumstance has given
some conjecture, also, as fo
whether sales taxes generally might
not serve better than such things as
and property taxes under
which human backs are bending.
. - *
Now that repenl has been accom
| Piished and the states and local com-
munities can deter
mine their own
courses in dealing
with the liquor traf.
fie after a lapse since 19190, two other
questions are agitating everyone who
in sound government,
Important
Questions
I refer to the problem of
revising or re-establishing the tax
rates by congress, and the settlement
of what are distinctly loeal issues re
Inting to whether there will be sale of
liquor and how those shall be handled,
In other words, it is the old, old ques.
tion of local option,
As soon as the congress gets back
in Washington after January 1, legis
lation will be submitted by the admin.
istration to effect permanent control
of liquor trafic and lay such taxes as
the legislators think proper to assess
against liquor. This problem sounds
simple, but it is far from it. There is
obviously a proper tax base that will
yield the maximum of revenue and at
the same time be low enough to dis
courage bootlegging activities which
necessarily must have a big margin of
profit,
There is at this time considerable
support for the idea that the present
tax rate of $1.10 per gallon will re
main unchanged for six months or so.
The idea behind this is that a tax rate
so low will make whisky cheap and
bootleggers cannot compete, If they
are once driven out, this school of
thought contends, they will have great
difficulty In getting started again, I
have been unable to obtain any ae
curate measurement of the strength
behind this movement, but there Is no
As to the local option problem,
Washington observers are able only
to guess that there will be many heat-
ed fights In numerous
throughout the country. People
they will argue about {t now In many
arenas that otherwise are noted
There seems to be assurance
Such
vious enmities as a consequence,
from the Washington viewpoint, it ap-
for a good many communities:
will continue for a long time,
future,
we now have to bring about a perma-
lem,
*. *
Although 1034 as a crop
cotton Is quite some distance
Department of Agri-
ToCut Cotton culture has begun
Acreage seeking agreements
with the cotton
respecting the
Secretary Wallace sald
restrict cotton
25,000,000
farmers
acreage,
hoped to
1034 to
about
acreage of years 1028 to 1
and the agriculture
istrative considers
tion of suffici
prices on a higher level! t}
for the
BOTES,
35 per cent below tho
, Inclusive,
adjusts
a reduc
maintain
it will be
ent size to
last four yeais. In ad-
erage
dition,
rom prod n ill be paid a maxi-
mm of i per sere in benefit
ments by the Department of Agricul-
ture. This money will
processing tax, just
1983 crop reduction program
Me re pro-
gram of restricted production is to
continue throagh 10834 would seem to
be proof that the parity p
inents and the
production has been successful,
however, i8 not the
I believe Secretary
announcement that the
federal control
Case,
Wallace
mn of the
job
more than a demonstratic
to do the
rams take
innot possibly serve
ment, As
and as
themselves to
cedure of how
farm ald prog
me. One
obviously
year of
ns a the
goes
measur
on, however,
conditions adjust
new setup,
the plan will
I cannot say that
single unbiased judge
guess that the cotton adjust
gram, or the cornhog, er the
program has been either a success or
a failure.
raat me
become evident.
1 have
in writing only that there
one can say definitely
or should be withdrawn.
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One re
No Snap
Judgment °F the
money to spend. On |
the other hand, the processing tax is |
being paid Ly nearly everrone who |
buys cotton textiles, and the effect
eventually will be felt. What the ex-
tent will be. 1 can discern no way of
forecasting. Suffice it to say that a
return to them,
sales of a given cloth, But such a
change ordinarily will take place only
under normal competitive conditions,
tration began to operate. So it is my
conclusion, since the country has em-
barked upon the policy, hasty judg
ment ought to be avoided and the re
turn of delicate balances in the econ
omie structure awaited before the al
lotment plans have been wholly dis
carded or completely adopted.
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Speaker Rainey, the white-haired
leader of the house of representatives,
is on record with a declaration that
the forthcoming session of congress
will be rather mild. The veteran leg-
islator maintains there is not going to
be an unusoal roaring. He believes
congress will enact the newest ideas
of the adainistration into law and
go home—unless some one ofi.is bet-
ter plans. The speaker, of course, be-
ing a stalwart follower of President
Roosevelt, thinks there are no better
plans than those Mr. Roosevelt will
propose,
But a few inquiries has convinced
me the speaker has not taken note of
the things going on around him, He
did a fairly good Job at controlling the
house fast spring and summer, but
much water has gone over the dam
since that time and it is made to ap
pear that Mr. Rainey has overlooked it,
I personally have heard two rather
distinguished and powerful individuals
predict a hot time in the old town and
a long njght for the next session.
© 1933, Western Newspaper Union.
Young Hitlerites Told
How to Choose Wives
What kind of a girl should a true.
blue German Aryan marry? As first
aid to ardent young Hitlerites about
to venture Into matrimony, the Ber.
lin Das Wissen der Nation (Na-
tion's Wisdom) publishes a series of
recommendations designed to ensure
the purity of the Germanic race,
This weekly recommends only
blonds with blue eyes, an oval face
and white skin. The Nazis are
warned against brunettes of obvious.
ly Mediterranean origin, with long
torso and short legs, black hair and
thick, sensuous lips,
ut the recommendations
Yissen der Nation are
drastic. Suspect also sophisti.
cated soclety girls, break.
ers of sports records and even young
women who earn thelr living in the
liberal professions,
The Aryan is urged to
choose a good, industrious and pure
girl, who is known to be an adept
housekeeper, with an affection for
children—*"even though she may be
stupld.”—Literary Digest,
of Das
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