R. WILLIAM A WIRT, the really eminent educator of Gary, Ind, told his story of a “red plot” to over- throw the government of the United mene States, so far as the Democratic majority of the house investi gating committee per- mitted, and the gen- eral opinion through- out the country was that it was “not $0 hot.” The Democrats declared it was utter 1 bunk. The Repub- A licans, who had x hoped to find good Dr. W. A. wirt political material In the affair, asserted that gag rule had been enforced. The revelation of the alleged scheme of the radicals, sald Wirt, came to him at a dinner given by Miss Alice Bar. rows at a country house near Wash. ington. The other guests were Robert Bruere, David C. Coyle, Miss Hilde garde Kneeland and Miss Mary Tay- lor, all, like the hostess, connected with the government, and Lawrence Todd, chief of the Tass, official Soviet gov- ernment news agency in the United States. From their conversation, Wirt sald, he gathered that men high in the councils of the administration were plotting the overthrow of the Ameri- can social order and that they con- sidered President Roosevelt as an. other Kerensky to be followed by an- other Stalin. The six men named by Wirt were Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace: Prof. Rexford Guy Tugwell, assistant secretary of agrl- culture and recognized head of the brain trust; Prof. Milburn L. Wilson, head of the subsistence homestead dl- vision of the Department of Interior; Dr. Robert Kohn, head of the housing division of the public works adminis tration; Dr. Frederick Howe, consum- ers’ counsel for the agricultural ad- Justment administration, and Henry T. Rainey, speaker of the house of repre sentatives, The most serious charges made by the gentleman from Indiana were di- rected at Professor Tugwell: but his basis for these, as for practically all of his story, was hearsay, second-hand Information and vague statements by some of his fellow guests at the din- ner. In that lay its weakness, though there are many serious-minded Amerl. cans who Insist that there should be a real Investigation of any govern- ment officials seeking to undermine the present form of government. The committee, having heard Wirt, adjourned for some days with the In- tention of calling as witnesses those who attended the country house din- ner. Some of them already had denied flatly or belittled the statements made by Writ, OTS of bickering resulted from the Wirt case, and in this some of the Democrats concerned did not make a good showing, Chalrman Bulwinkle of the committee, for Instance, as- serted thet Wirt was imprisoned at Gary during war times for pro-Ger. man activities, and this was indignant. ly denied by numerous persons who were In position to know its truth or falsity, Secretary of the Interior Ickes accused Doctor Wirt of having sought to obtaln public works money for a “Fairyland” project in the In. diana dunes by which Doctor Wirt was to sell 2000 front feet of dune land along Lake Michigan at $350 a foot, a total sale price of $100,000, The project was disapproved by the Publle Works administration as “vi slonary and impractical,” Mr. Ickes sald, Doctor Wirt issued a denial of See retary Ickes’ tale, explaining that he bad no connection with the proposed project and that the company with which he was connected had held the land In question for 12 years to pre serve It for park purposes, Representative McGugin of Kansas, Republican member of the Investigat- ing committee, was “gagged” when he tried to make a speech on the case in the house, but managed to get it inserted In the Congressional Record. At the same time the Department of Justice was seeking to revive a five year old matter in which MeGugin appeared as a lawyer for Mrs. Bar nett, wife of the wealthy Indian Jack- son Barnett. : Pesrire the opposition of the house leaders and the doubt of its approval by the President, Sena. tor Couzens persisted in his effort to put through his amendment to the tax bill calling for a flat 10 per cent increase In all income tax returns. Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finance committee had approved it as an emergenccy measure and showed no disposition to reconsider, When the Couzens amendment was first voted on In the senate it was de feated by the bare majority of 46 to 44, the Michigan senator changing his vote to the negative so as to move a reconsideration, He got busy among his fellow senators and was successful first in having the vote reconsidered and then In the measure’s adoption by a vote of 43 to 80. It was certain the proposal would be firmly opposed when the revenue bill went into conference, Under the Couzens proposal, a per son subject to a normal tax of $100 on his 1034 income would pay $110. Next day the senate adopted the La Follette estate taxes amendment to the bill, thus adding nearly” $100. 000,000 more to the tax load of the country. The amendment puts a tax of 1 per cent on estates of $40,000, This percentage is increased rapidly until 60 per cent is levied by the gov- ernment upon estates of $10,000,000 and more, Under the present law, estates up to $50,000 are exempted from the tax, P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S fishing trip on the Nourmahal ended with the arrival of the yacht at Miami Friends advised against his landing, remembering the attempt on his life there two years ago, but he laughed at their fears. However, he and Secre- tary McIntyre drove directly from the plier to the train and the President was back in Washington on the next day. General Johnson, Donald Richberg, Secretary McIntyre and some twenty White House correspondents and thelr wives narrowly escaped death as they were going from Coral Gables to meet the President at the water front. A big combination automobile trailer In which they were riding got across the rallway tracks just in time to avold by inches belng struck by a speeding train, UST before he left Washington for Miami to meet the President and accompany him back to the Capital, General Johnson decreed a radical re- organization of the NRA along lines sim- flar to those of the army, The most Im- portant part of this shakeup was the ap- pointment of Lieut. Col. G. A. Lynch, an Infantry officer of the regular army, as John son's right-hand man, Colonel Lynch, whom the administrator scribes as “the most advanced thinker in the United States army,” 18 given full jurisdiction over all matters not otherwise assigned. He has complete authority to approve codes, orders, amendments and other modifications, and may sign codes that do not require the signature of the President, The NRA administration no longer will be a one-man affair, and indeed, the ground is now laid for the retirement of General Johnson, which has been predicted for some time, FA de Col.G.A.Lynch ABOR conditions In the Detroit area, mostly affecting the automo bile industry, remained In chaotic con- dition, despite the partly successful efforts of government mediators. The strike at the plant of the Motor Prod. ucts corporation, which had caused a shutdown of the factory of the Hud son Motor company, was settled when Edward P. McGrady, assistant to Gen, Hugh Johnson, lald before the strik- ers terms that had been accepted by the corporation. The workers agreed to the terms, which called for a 10 per cent Increase in pay and arbitration of disputes over plece work pay rates This enabled the Hudson plant to re open, The 1,700 employees of the Camp bell, Wyant & Cannon foundry at Mus- kegon, Mich, struck. The concern makes castings for automobile build. ers. The 4,600 employees of the Nash Motor company still were on strike at Kenosha, Wis, The Mechanles Educational Soclety of America, an organization of tool and dle makers, had voted to strike unless executives of jobbing plants met thelr demands for a 20 per cent pay increase and 36-hour week. There was a strike by 800 employees of the Detroit-Michigan Stove com. pany who demanded a 20 per cent wage Increase, and plckets attacked men who approached the plant to work, Industrial plants in Connecticut were Involved In numerous strikes and labor disputes. The attitude of the workers was expressed by John J. Egan, secretary of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, who sald: “No company should declare any dividends until the 1920 wage level Is restored.” DMINISTRATOR JOHNSON'S or der to the bituminous coal indus try to put into effect a seven-hour day and new minimum wage rates was bitterly attacked by southern coal pro ducers at a code revision hearing In Washington. Especially objectionable to the Alabama, Tennessee and Ken tucky operators was the reduction In wage differentials accorded southern coal fields, AMUEL INSULL, fallen utilities magnate, Is on his way home to be tried for his alleged misdolsigs In connection with the bankruptcy of his financial empire. Turned over to the American authorities by the Turkish government, he was taken from Istan. bul by coasta! steamer and traln to Smyrna and there put aboard the American export liner Exilona. He Is due to land In New York about May 20, ECRETARY OF WAR DERN com- pleted the formation of the com: mittee which will Investigate the army alr corps and its tragic attempt to car- ry the air malls. Newton D. Daker, war-time secretary of war, accepted the chairmanship of the committee which was declined by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, The other civilians named to assist the military members are Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. George W. Lewis, di- rector of aeronautical research for the national advisory committee on aero- nautles; Clarence D. Chamberlin, not- ed transatlantic flyer; Ma) James IH. ("Jimmie") Doolittle, widely known fiyer and aeronautical engineer, and Edgar 8, Gorrell, president Stutz Motor Car company. criminal court Washington Bishop James Can- non, Jr, of the Methodist Church South, and Miss Ada LL. Burroughs of tichmond, his ald in the antlAl Smith campalgn of 1028, were finally arraigned to answer to charges of having violated the corrupt practices act. If convicted they EFORE the in term of two years In prison or a fine of £10,000 or both. The specific charge Is that only $17.300 of the £65,300 contribution made by Edwin C. Jameson of New York to the antl Smith movement was reported by the apti-Smith Democrats’ headquarters committee, It was indicated that the defense would contend that Miss Burroughs did not have to report the $45,000 in question, arguing that it spent within the confines of Virginla by the state antl-Smith committee, Bishep Cannon was F HENRY A. WALLACE has his way, Arthur W. Cutten, millionaire member of the Chicago wheat pit, will be barred from future trading on grain exchanges. The secretary of agricul. ture summoned Cutten to appear be fore the Grain Futures administration in Chicago on May 14 to answer charges of falling to report his trades, as required by the grain futures act, with making false reports, and with concealing his trades through false en- tries, dummy accounts and other col lusive practices. The alleged offenses were committed in 18030 and 1031. FFICIALS of the Public Works administration were elated by a report received from the F. W. Dodge corporation which indicated a pro. nounced spring Increase In Job-creat- ing building activity in which the fed. eral public works program was a lead ing factor, Reporting on the volume of con tracts awarded in March for both pub licly and privately financed bullding in the 37 states enst of the Rocky mountains, the Dodge corporation in formed the PWA that £170,163.000 of contracts were awarded last month compared with $00.716.000 In Febru. ary. Publicly financed building ae counted for £126.210.000 of the March total, and privately financed building for S52.0053,000, The $120.210,000 of publicly financed work contracted for last month Is about five times the amount contract. ed for In March of 1033 and nearly three times the amount contracted in March of 1032, according to the report. RANK WALKER, chairman of the President's national emergency council, made announcement of the next step io the administration's re covery program, the financing of housing projects all over the country with federal funds, New homes are to be built; old homes are to be re paired, remodeled, spruced up. Mort. gages are to be given on generous terms, Ah : with Interest low and payment permitted Frank Walker oor 10 and 20 years. All of the activities of the govern ment related to housing-—such as the subsistence homestead plan, the Home Owners’ Loan corporation, the home loan bank board, the farm credit ad- ministration, the Department of Agri. culture's program of new housing for farmers—are to be co-ordinated under a single authority. There is both an emergency and a permanent program in the scheme, and the temporary program as contems plated will be a rousing campaign, with citizens, real estate men, build- ing contractors, union leaders, and laborers all being exhorted to Join In a patriotic movement toward the restora- tion of the still slumbering construc. tion industry, BrcAvsE of reports that Colombia had hired 24 American aviators and was seeking to give contracts to 50 more through ita consul general in New York, the Department of State jssued a notice saying: “The United States disapproves. of American citizens taking service In the armed forces of any foreign gov- ernment and, if Americans do so, It is on thei? sole responsibility and risk and they cannot look to their govern. ment for protection while In such services.” LLIAM WALLACE McDOWELL of Butte, Mont., the new Amer fean minister to the Irish Free State, collapsed and died of heart disease during a banquet in his honor given by President Eamon De Valera in Dublin eastle. Mr. McDowell was re. sponding to congratulatory speeches when he fell back into his chair and italy Pos by ins RI HALL, PA. n Hi rreved oy National Topics Interpreted Washington.—As the political pot be. out the country, it is apparent that, In- stead of a dearth of “issues” over which candidates can harangue, there will actually be many of them. A few Red Hot Campaign elther boasted or moaned about the lack of issues for the campaign, ac- cording as the boaster or the moaner was a Democrat or a Republican. The Roosevelt had been such a huge success that Re- publieans could not find a vital or vul- nerable spot to attack. Republicans, whether they said so out loud or not, felt much the same way. In the in- however, all of this has been will be a Looking over the situation, one sees things as the alr mall contract can. cellation; the charges that the “New Deal” has overridden the Constitution of the United States; the devaluation of the dollar and the profit-taking in which the treasury thereafter engaged through seizure of all gold; the en- croachment of the federal government upon business itself through NRA and the scores of administrations and com- missions that have been set up; the proposal to revise the method of elect. ing the President, and the use of tax- payers’ money in development of such plans as the Tennessee Valley author. ity, to mention a few of them. But It seems to me that the most important issue of all is only now coming to the surface. Succinctly, it is whether the voters desire to have the various New Deal items made a permanent part of our national gov- It is to be recalled that virtually all of the items of the New Deal have been put through 6s emer. gency legislation. Some of them have been tested In courts on a constitu. tional basis and have been upheld as emergency laws, But it is necessary to think of the pronouncements by President Roosevelt almost directly as- serting his intention to make them per. manent. Otherwise, they would expire in June, 19385, a little more than a year from now, ‘he expiration fur- nishes the basis for the issue that ap- pears to be so important, The 435 members of the ge CONgress fn dale house of are up for election this fall will have been reelected or defeated eight months in advance of the time when the decision must be made on contin. uation of the New Deal items that were enacted as emergency laws. Con- gress, made up of the reelected or new members, will convene in the first week of January, 1835. That will be thie congress to decide what the course shall be. It cannot dodge the ques tion, If the President requests that the and he says he will, the new congress either will do his bidding and reenact the laws he desires or it will kill them 80 the candidates this summer and the New Deal or will work against it. That puts the question up to the vot ers. It is closely akin to a refer For the farmers, for example, it will require a decision whether they want to go on into the future with a like AAA, telling them how much corn much milk, or eggs, or fruit, or cows, or sheep, or hogs they can produce. For the manufacturer, the Issue will require a decision whether he wishes to go on with production under the codes, likewise directed from Wash- ington. For all taxpayers, it will re quire a decision on the question of the type of expenditures that have been and are now going on out of the fed: eral treasury. It strikes me as about the most important set of questions presented to American voters {n many years. Upon their decision rests the future policy of this nation. . » * I have frequently expressed the have happened so Pace Is rapidly under the Too Swift ‘New Deal” that most of us here can: not keep up with them, Frankly, as affiliation of any kind, I have been un. able sometimes to reach a conclusion for myself regarding many of the New upon us at such speed that it has been There will be quite a bit of water ore, that a better understanding of plot of the play can be dissemi to the country at large. 1 hope, tous. 1 hope, too, that the cam: paign will be the hottest we have had In generations, Otherwise, the ques tions, the Issues, will not be thoroughly debated. If they are not thoroughly de- bated, thousands upon thousands of voters are going to cast thelr ballots as Democrats or Republicans just be- cause they have always been Demo- crates or Republicans, The coming campaign is not of that structure, The best indication I have seen of a probability that all phases of the economic policies evolved from the New Deal will be thoroughly discussed 18 the greater freedom of debate in congress, All of us remember how bills were sent to the Capitol a year ago and earlier In thé present session of congress, and bate, or with very little. There is still too little debate on much of the legis lation, but that which Is going on serves to enlighten the public on the subject matter proposed. This ought to be, ministration are only of the people who pay the bill and federal has showing that the on its Mn B1OY eS at Peak S0D0yees the bighest point reached since post war days of 1020, dollars for salaries of increase has spite the foreed through WARES. been brought about that last economy laws COLETeRs year, curred since January 1, 1834. house and nor clude the members of the senate, nor thelr employees, tol. and enlisted men are not included, most 400.000 men who are enli are omitted, wrsons, although 1 am assured by the ~ which sustain about I do not criticism. a population But It seems important to there should be such a event government pay checks 3.200 000, " make these statements in Ours is a vast country and oe vast checks, ® - . 1 mentioned in an earlier paragraph in this letter that one of the issues about which argu- Norris this fall is the pro posal to revise the method of electing the President. It Is proposed, in ef- fect, to amend the Constitution of the United States so that the method of electing a President States would division of electoral vote in each state proportionately with individual ballots, proposed: a state may be allowed twenty votes In the electoral college. At present, all of those electoral votes are cast for the Presidential candidate who receives the majority of the in dividual ballots. It is a unit rule Now, the Constitutional amendment that is projected would force a division of those electoral votes so that, as suming the party votes were so divid- ed, eight of the electoral votes would be cast for one candidate and twelve for the other. The authors of the proposed amend ment are Senator Norris of Nebraska, and Representative Lea of California. It is the charge of the Republicans that the move Is designed to give the Democrats perpetual control of the Presidency. They are not making that charge out loud yet. They want con. gress to pass the resolution proposing the amendment to the states, so the Republican speakers can argue about it all over the country this summer, The point the Republicans are mak. ing is that the so-called solid South will continue to vote nearly all of its electoral ballots for the Democratic candidate. The case of Mississippl Is cited. It has nine electoral votes, The Republican party Is virtoally nonexist ent there. The result would be that certainly eight, and maybe all, of the nine votes would be cast for the Dem: ocrat, Just as they are each four years under the present system, Add to the electoral votes of the South, the gains that would come from such normally two-party states as New York, and the Republicans assert the result would be permanent control of the government machinery by the Dem ocrats, Representalive Lea says, however, that he thinks a virulent two-party fight would develop In every state in the Union. 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