EATHS of five army aviators
killed In operations connected
with the carrying of the alr mail have
supplied the Republicans with ammu-
nition for attacking
the administration
that they are not neg-
lecting. President
Roosevelt himself Is
distressed by the cas-
uvalties, and it is be-
lieved his supporters
will hasten to offer in
congress a bill giving
the air mall contracts
» back to private com-
- 4 panies Postmaster
J. A. Farley General Farley has
had to shoulder the greater share of
the blame, if blame there and
though he has steadily defended the
cancellation of the contracts, he prob-
ably would be glad to see the army air
corps relieved of its new task. There
Is no question as to the courage and
ability of the army flyers, but it is
evident they have not had the peculiar
training to fit them for carrying the
mails, and their airplanes are not
suitable for the work. Of course, the
weather has against them, but
little attention is paid to that fact by
those who are making
is,
been
“1 7 4 . + 1) wh
out of the deaths of the five,
air
it must cancel the cor
acted on the basis of th
conditions under whi
contracts had been m
the committee that
sible the department
f new po
respect to th
into account
ators,
iy as pos-
out
work
licy in the public
The general had
summoned
predecessor, W
postmaster
especially to
iiter F. Brow
mark
him
he sald
about Hugo L.
Senator
“He's just a publicity hound.
don't tell anybody
I've got to get along with him.”
Mr. Farley mime denied that
he had sald any thing, and,
scarlet faced, for New
York amid roars of Ul His de-
nial was but it
didn't seem to impress anyone.
Speaker Rainey says the army air
corps Is inefficient and poorly trained.
and for this he blames the three pre-
vious Republican administrations, He
indicated he support a resolu-
tion already approved by the house
rules committee calling for investiza-
tion of War department methods. Mal.
Gen. Ben Foulois, chief of the Army
Alr corps, defended his men warmly.
iately
tena
he d¢ i
necessary, doubtless
would
OW the President proposes to ecar-
ry on the relief program was re-
vealed at a press conference. In ad
dition to continuation of the CWA in
cities, relief of distressed families in
rurzl regions is to be placed on a
new basis, and the government is to
undertake the transportation of entire
communities from non-operating coal
mine localities and similar centers of
unemployment to the subsistence
homestead colonies which are being
created with 25,000,000 of publie
works funds.
In rural regions families In distress
are to be helped to raise enough food
for subsistence and to get part time
employment in Industries and on road
bullding and other public works,
Communities of miners, out of work
because of the closing down of coal
mines, the President calls “stranded
populations.” They were left stranded
when work gave out and there Is no
prospect of a resumption of mine op-
erations, In most cases the mines
have been exhausted. The President
sald the undertaking would be to move
an appreciable number of such fam-
ilies to localities where they ean main.
tain themselves on small tracts of
land with Incidental Industrial employ-
ment, which is the subsistence home.
stead idea now being tried out at
Reedsville, W, Va.
Concerning that Reedsville plant, a
pet of Mra. Roosevelt's, it 1s Interest.
Ing to read that the house refused by
a margin of 165 votes to approve the
construction and operation there of a
factory to make post office furniture.
The project was denounced as “a
plunge Into state socialism.”
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT In a spe.
cial message asked congress to cre
ate a new federal commission to regu-
late the wire, cable and radio com-
munications systems. He proposed
that the new commission take over the
duties of the federal radio commission
and the functions of the Interstate
Commerce commission which den) with
telegraph and telephone regulation,
Mr, Roosevelt sald the new body
should be given "full power to inves.
tigate and study the business of exist.
ing companies and make recommenda.
tions to the congress for additional
legislaflon at the next session.”
This means that If the President's
desires are carried out, as they un.
doubtedly will be, the question of com-
munications mergers will go over for
determination next year.
Senator Schall of Minnesota, Repub-
lican, was aroused to strong protest
against the proposed commission, as-
serting that it meant the newspapers
would be subjected to censorship by
the administration and that “not one
word of the skullduggery committed
in Washington could reach the people
of the United States”
HERE are signs Indicating that
the administration is going to mod-
ify its stand and that of its predeces-
Sors concerning the war debts. Some
Republicans in the senate tried to put
through a resolution offered by Rob
Inson of Indiana asking the President,
If not Incompatible with public inter-
est, to Inform the senate by what
agreements he had accepted token pay-
ments from Great Britain, Italy and
Czechoslovakia and had recognized
them as not in default. It also asked
what steps, if any, have been taken
to Induce defaulting nations to pay;
whether any understandings have been
reached revision; and
whether assurances havé been
given linking debt payments
tariff concessions.
Democrati
succeeded in
concerning
any
idetracked into
mittee, Senat iinson
made a speech openly re-
ssity for some fur-
the part of the
further payments
it he denied that
revision had
otion to
change from the opin-
senate In
Hoover
ARsed
December,
moratori
n successfully
been amended to in-
clude a HOT on reiterating con.
gress’ unalt ppogition to
ion of
vision or cancellat
ore
be set
porters to finance
and George N
a White
would be
tions,
the
the debts,
export-import
holt
to help
banks are to
American ex-
shipments abroad,
Peek announced, after
House conference, that
head of
up
he
the
will deal
one with Cuban, and
all other
gover:
business,
nt. One with
Russian
the third credits for
foreign countries,
with
HERE'S a new emperor In the
world and a new dynasty has been
founded. By direction of Japan, Henry
Pu-yl, who in his infancy was the
emperor” of
and who has
the chief executive of
Manchukuo, has been
enthroned s8 emperor
of that puppet state.
The young man—he
is twenty-eight — as
sumed the name of
Kang Teh, which be
ing Interpreted is
“tranquillity and vir
tue.” He probably is
Emperor 3 '
virtuous, but the
Kang Teh tranquillity is prob
lematical in view of the way Japan
and Russia are snarling at each other,
for If those nations go to war the
scene of the conflict will be the newly
established empire which used to be
Manchuria,
Great preparations were made for
the coronation ceremony, but Henry's
Japanese sponsors were so apprehen-
sive of attempts on his life that the
public was not admitted to the rites
in Hsinking, the capital. The emperor
rode the five miles from the palace
to the “altar of heaven” in an Amerl-
can bullet-proof automoblie and the
route was protected hy barbed wire
stockades and lined with thousands of
troops. For every three Manchukuan
soldiers In the lines there was one
Japanese soldier, and also there were
swarms of secret police,
Simultaneously with the elevation
of the new ruler, his invalld wife,
Yueh Hua, was vested with the dig.
nities of queenhood, although her
health precluded her participation In
the ceremonies,
“hoy
APAN and soviet Russia aré now
quarreling over military airplane
flights over each other's territory, and
have exchanged sharp notes of pro-
test. Though the situation seems to
be tense, an official spokesman for
Japan denied that hostilities are Im.
minent, .
“The world need not be afrald that
Russia and Japan are on the verge
of war” he sald, “All of these pro.
tests and the noisy fuss are a good
sign that the danger of war is far
away, When both sides are silent,
took ont.”
{VIN EIGHED by 88 pounds and
with ten Inches less reach, Tom
my Loughran was unable to eapture
the heavyweight title from Primo Car
nera In the fight at Miami, Fla. The
Philadelphia boy fought gamely and
more skillfully than the giant Italian,
hut lost the decision ip eleven of the
fifteen rounds,
THE CENTRE
ably following the ideas of Gener-
al MacArthur, chief of staff, told the
military affairs committee of the house
that he was decidedly opposed to con-
gressional plans for an independent
and greatly enlarged alr corps. He
was arguing against two bills intro-
duced by the committee providing for
the purchase of 4384 military alr-
planes and for the separation of the
army air corps from the jurisdiction
of the general staff, and the granting
to officers and enlisted men of the alr
corps special compensation and rank.
Mr. Dern held that the air corps
was only a co-ordinate part of the
army, that its flying officers and men
were not heroes of glory any more
than the Infantry and the artillery,
that the whole army organization must
proceed In balance and that the alr
corps has had more than its rightful
share of progress in recent years,
NCE more the tariff comes up as a
leading issue, for the President
has sent to congress a request for new
powers permittigg him to fix the tariff
within wide limits, The legislation he
asks Is designed to expand trade and |
would give the Chief Executive author.
ity to shift the tariff up or down by
as much as 050 per cent so that recl
procal tariff treaties with other na-
tions may be negotiated. Furthermore,
these treaties would not to be
confirmed by the senate, and the tariff
would not be consulted.
have
commission
The new authority would be limited to |
three years and no article could be
placed on the free list
from it. It was predicted that many
Republicans and some Democrats |
would oppose the scheme, but that it |
would get through congress after long |
debate,
{JNDER the management of Gen, |
Hugh Johnson, the NRA opened a |
series « Washing.
and or-
present
public hearings in
individuals
noanrnine
cerning
the codes have oper.
vor of the
wot, wife of
Pennsylvania, unex.
ippeared snd declared the
nent had been defeated by the
and she was 8 sorted
by Edward F. McGrady, assis ~
labor, Pinchot sald
glee] oo
trust”
Mrs.
cases of the big
retary of
that in the
panies the
by
workers had been betrayed
NRA, she
attack on Gener:
Next day the cause of
brought more prominently to the fron
by Mr. McGrady and others who de.
oyers had been evading the
th
ne
and
we}
3
¢ mployees,
proverbiall)
agitators of
CNGLAND is
with
when ye
all parts of the country marched
London and were reinforced by oth
thousands of the idle In the metropolis
1
fl
Bi
thousands of uner
and hordes of Communists, the police
took prevent dangerous out-
breaks. The throng held meetings In
Hyde Park and 3000 Scotland Yard
men were on hand to keep them curbed,
while the entire police force was
mobilized at its stations. At first only |
two men were arrested, for making
seditious speeches, They were Tom
Mann, veteran Communist, and Harry
Plilitt, of the same Ik, An ley raln
helped the authorities to preserve or.
der during the great mass meetings
in the park, but serious trouble was
anticipated late In the week.
The demonstrators wanted to call on |
Prime Minister MacDonald, but he re
fused to receive them, explaining that
the house of commons was handling
the unemployment situation. The |
marchers were protesting against the |
condition of the unemployed generally |
and also against certain features of |
the bill before parliament. Their ora- |
fleps to
family but were eareful not to mention |
the king. They sang the “interna!
tionale” and were dominated by the
Communists,
TRA and the Ford Motor company
are tangling up In another fight,
The company was charged by workers
with having refused to bargain collec
tively with their rep
resentatives at the
Edgewater, N. J., and
Chester, Pa., plants,
and William H. Davis,
national compliance
director, arranged to
hear the arguments ol
both sides at a meet.
ing In Washington,
Secretary Craig of the
Ford company sent
Davis a long letter
Henry Ford denying the concern
had violated any provision of the auto
mobile code or the national recovery
act, and refusing to send a repre
sentative to the meeting. The NRA
thereupon notified President Edsel
Ford that it would investigate the
charges “without his co-operation.”
The automobile industry was dis.
turbed by widespread labor troubles
and the threat of a general walkout,
Difficulties over unlon organization and
demands for pay Increases are at the
bottom of all the row,
© hy Western Newspaper Usnlom
in
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Washington.—The Department of
Agriculture has laid down another bar
rage of accusations
against a group of
large meat packing
concerns, but the
thus started promises to tran-
scend the charge of crookedness on
the part of ten corporations cited,
From the undercurrent of information
around Washington, one can readily
belleve that questions of policy may
become the focal point of the eurrent
controversy, While the packers may
fold up their tents, admit some of the
charges and not fight back any fur.
ther, the situation is fraught with pos
sibilities of politics that lead directly
to an attack on Roosevelt administra-
tion New Deal policies, Fundamental
ly, these questions {involve determina.
tion of how far the people want thelr
national government to busi
ness affairs,
It is unfalr, of course, to hold that
the ten big packers are guilty of com-
bined effort at manipulation of prices
or machinations to drive out competi.
tion In certain sections of the country,
Picking on
the Packers
fight
manage
Agriculture made the
charges. It Is likewise unfair to hold
the packers
cause the charges were made by
have clean records be
BOme
nls of the depar
was deseribed by members
as being “ful
fact that
“never {
agged into
the Departm
ugh the earls
Roosevelt's
one agreed with
wrogram or was definitely opt
» disposition was to avold
the Department of
ise of the sad plight
i to hel
industry it was supposed to help.
differences have arisen among
farm leaders and among the men
of congress from agricultural districts
as to the way things have been
at the Department of Agricul
these differences are not concenles
longer. Consequently, it apg
possible that Secretary W
the professors on whom he has le
#0 heavily may soon find a swirling
storm around their heads, which, once
started, surely will go beyond Just that
of the New Deal
program.
un
and
1
i any
phase President's
* Ad »
For instance, there is a bill pending
that proposes to make the federal gov
ernment supervisor
Far-Reaching of the security ex
changes, the stock
Proposal markets. It is far
reaching; of that, there can be no
doubt. But differences of opinion are
sharp, and, generally speaking, they
may be traced back to one’s basle be
lief as to the extent the federal gov.
business and mine. It is held by all
observers to be a perfectly normal and
patural line of cleavage.
This legislation would attempt to
control the sales of all shares of stock
and bonds whether on the floors of the
trading exchanges or across the coun-
ters of brokems: The operations would
be directed from Washington through
the Federal Trade commission. Its
scope and the fact that administra-
tion of this phase of business, like so
many others, would be centered In
vashington causes concern among
that school of thought which clings to
the idea of a policy permitting individ.
uals to conduct their own business
without having to bow and scrape be
fore a bureaucrat In Washington.
The activities of some of the NRA
leaders in dictating business policies
and practices is well known, but those
opposed to them are none the less op-
posed because they made less noise
in the last few months, They will join
in any movement that promises to over.
turn the program of business dictator
ship that has been set up, The same
is true respecting the attitude of busi
ness men and women on numerous
other phases of the New Deal, It is
an opposition that thus far has not
been allowed to blow off steam,
Thus, In many quarters of Washing.
ton and from many business leaders
who have to come to Washington these
days to Iron out even small details
with the numerous administrators,
commissions, big dictators and small
dictators, and other governmental agen
cles, 1 hear the expression that the bat
tle with the meat packers may result
in an alignment of those forces who
2nd the New Deal to hgve dealt them
a hand with a
card,
however, it seems to me one should eal)
attention to the possibility that the
Department of Agriculture may have
“the goods" on the meat packers. If
that be the case, It 18 obvious that op.
ponents of the New Deal
look elsewhere for a peg on which to
bang their hats.
ten-spot as the high
the President succeeds in his plan to
get congress out of town before it
reaches the stage where it has
hands, the chances of a frontal attack
on his program seem materially less.
idle
.
When
the
legislation
the legisla for control of
security exchanges passes, as, of
course, It will pass
since it 1s an admin
stration proposal,
the Federal Trade
commission will be piaced in the po-
sition of virtuil supervisor of all trans
actions In the and sale of se-
curities, whether they stocks or
bonds, notes or any other form of cor
The
considerable
Supervise
Security Sales
issue
be
porate circum-
stance at-
tention lately relationship be-
tween that federal agency and bus
interests, as well as the
pect from the co
indebtedness,
has directed
to the
treat:
business maj;
sl
ms, that pass
the avail
yds for corporate fi
down
mncing
consequently, restricts
development.
The Information
seins to indicate there is
availat
la
me truth
in those ciaims, but there
truth in the restrictions
were necessary in order to protect in-
assertion that
vestors from unscrupt
pulous
who issue and sell fake
bonds. Thus far,
mission seems to
sfactory admi
urities Jaw,
the
given a rather
istration of the se
however,
he
Each group probably will be found
to be partially wrong after the com-
mission starts on its
No Job for
new Job. 1 hear com-
. ment, however, to
Theorists the effect that the
commission must watch its step in se
lection of personnel in connection with
stock exchange supervision. That job
will be highly technical, and the dan-
ger that has been pointed out is that
untrained theorists may be appointed
to do much of the work. It is hardly
necessary to say that most theorists
enjoy trying out their ideas at other
people’s expense, and surely adminis
tration of the country’s trading marts
is no place to “try It on the dog"
The stake is too high.
Through some eight or ten years
past, the commission has followed a
course of citing a business for alleged
violation of fair practice rules and of-
fering no statement except the
charges. The result was a stigma on
the particular business. Oftentimes,
complaints were made by competitors
Just to gain the advantage of that
stigma. Last month, however, that
policy was changed and hereafter, the
commission will issue their citations
and will tell why the action was taken,
thus affording full publicity for anyone
to examine the case. It i= an action
that probably will reduce the number
of mischievous complaints, because
competitors won't attempt so freely to
gain an advantage by smearing the
teputation of another business when
their own part in It Is disclosed,
My conviction is that adoption of a
rule of that kind may have the effect
of fending off some of the fire that the
commission naturally must expect
from the school of thought opposed to
the principles upon which the agency
was founded. And, it is well from the
commission's standpoint for it to
watch out! Its present state of ree
crudescence, after a period when its
appropriations were cut to the bone
and its life threatened, may not go
on as now If it leans too far to the
radical «ide. Business interests are
not radical and they are not going te
cooperate with any agency, govern
mental or private, that is radical.
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years ago,
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