RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in a
series of conferences with congres-
sional leaders, made known his de-
sires In the way of immediate legisla-
tion. First, he told
them he would soon
submit a new request
for $1.500,000000 for
rellef purposes, as
was indicated in his
January budget mes-
sage. This bill will
include several pro-
visions — namely, a
housing program and
£500,000,000 for the
public works program
to ald employment.
The relief will be
the usual deficiency
President
Roosevelt
made a of
measure,
Next, Mr. Roosevelt wants a stock
market regulation bill with better
teeth than those in the much modified
Fletcher-Rayburn He de-
sires, too, passage of reciprocal tariff,
general revenue, municipal bank-
ruptey, and federal insurance on bank
deposits measures.
In order that congress may get
through and adjourn by the middie of
May, the President is willing to side-
track some the administration
measures, including the permanent air
mall legislation and the Wagner
bill to eliminate company-dominated
unions, He was reported also to have
expressed ition to measures to
create a central monetary authority,
part
measure,
of
nNOg
oppo
prases MUSSOLINI of Italy has
his own Ideas of the way to restore
, and are utterly at
of President
tion the coun-
de-
nake the cost
ing commensurate with the pur-
prosperity
vari
Roosevelt, By his direc
they
ose
cil of minister a series of
cree laws designe
nds at 3 to 1
h reference to
5, 11 Duce declared. The
other hand is
War prices
wd, Mussolini
and here
of the
ployees on a scale rom 6 to
2: per cent,
various
granted
and others from 10 to 50 per cent.
Ordered every landlord in Italy to
reduce rents by 12 per cent in cases
of individuals and societies, and 13
per cent in case of businesses and
shops,
leduced
Slashed and
state employees
supplements
Indemnities
prices In co-operative
stores and military co-operatives by
10 per cent.
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, British
chancellor of the exchequer, in-
troduced in parliament a prosperity
budget showing how far the country
had gone toward recovery in two
years, reducing taxes and restoring
the pay of government employees and
the dole for the jobless, The chancel. -
lor reported a surplus in the treasury
of almost £160.000000 and held out
bright hopes for the future. This
prosperity of the British, however,
isn't going to be of any direct benefit
to the United States. Mr. Chamberlain
said:
“Neither last year nor the year be
fore did I make any provision for pay-
ment on the war debt to America nor
for the receipt of war debts or repara-
tions by ourselves, and In the absence
of any further development I propose
to follow precisely the same line this
year.”
DISARMAMENT negotiations under
present conditions are futile, in
the official opinion of the French gov.
ernment, and it will have nothing more
to do with them, returning Instead to
its old plan for national security
founded on armaments and allies
This is the gist of a note delivered to
the British government which is held
to be a death blow to any accord on
armaments. The blame for fallure of
negotiations is laid by the French on
Chancellor Hitler and his Nazi gov-
ernment of Germany,
The note described the Increased
German military budget as a “men-
ace” and declared the German gov-
ernment, without awaiting the results
of negotiations In progress, has shown
its determination to continue all forms
of rearmament in violation of the
treaty of Versailles,
“The German government,” the note
charged, “intends to increase imme
diately on a formidable scale not only
the strength of its army but also its
naval and alr forces,
“Whatever explanation may be ad-
vanced, facts of such exceptional
gravity ean lead to only one observa
tion and conclusion. They prove the
German government has made Impos-
sible further negotiations.”
The French lald down one condition
. upon which they would re-engage in
disarmament conversations, and it is
regarded as insuperable. That condi.
tion is that Germany return to the
League of Nations and to the league's
disarmament conference at Geneva,
The note concluded by ealling for
the final meeting of the disarmament
conference to announce publicly that
it is useless to continue its labors
and to show the world where the
blame lies,
ERTAIN tax Increases written into
the tax bill by the senate and
passed by that body are regarded by
house leaders as quite undesirable,
Chairman Doughton of the ways and
means committee declared they were
entirely outside the original Intent of
the new revenue legislation, and a
fight against them was planned in con-
ference,
When the measure reached the sen-
ate it contained provisions estimated
to produce $258.000,000 a year in new
revenue, chiefly by stopping the loop.
holes through which legal tax avold
ance had been possible,
The bill fell quickly into the hands
of the senate “liberal” element, and
provisions were inserted to add $220.
000.000 to the yield provided by the
Also, the senate inserted the
provision for publicity of all income
tax returns, which has been proposed
many times but usually knocked out
before final enactment,
house,
Se FAR as the Democrats go, the
Wirt affair is ended. the Demo-
cratic majority of the committee of in-
vestigation deciding to report to con-
gress that the Gary
educator's charges of
a red plot to
throw the government
are unfounded. Me
Gugin and Lehibach,
the Republican mem
bers of the committee,
formulated a minority
report expressing thelr
opinion that the In.
quiry should be broad-
ened In Me
Gugin asserts there is
svidence from many sour
overs
: gCope,
Miss Kneeland
os
certain members of the
to overthrow
f the
Of i
are seeking
lished social order
United States. Representative Hamil
ton Fish New York told a gather
ing of Republican women that Doctor
Wirt falled to prove his case because
his sources of were too
remote, but that he, Mr, Fish, was go-
ing to prove it so there would be no
doubt about it. Regardless of patriotie
motives, the Republicans in congress
are not to abandon just yet the cam-
paign material supplied by the Wirt
case,
When the Bulwinkle committee
called before it the six who were with
Wirt at the dinner In Virginia they
all, with astonishing unanimity,
nied practically everything that Wirt
sald occurred that evening. Each of
them asserted that the doctor monopo-
lized the conversation, talking malnly
about gold devaluation, and that it
was almost Impossible to Interrupt
him, They verified only one statement
which Wirt had ascribed to Miss Hil
degarde Kneeland, a division head In
the home economics of the Agricul)
ture department. This was that she
had objected to Wirt's proposal that
the goal of the government should be
a restoration of conditions in the coun
try as they were in 1020,
Miss Kneeland, In acknowledging
this statement as hers, elucidated at
the committee members’ request and
said she would advocate, instead of
1026 conditions, better distribution of
property, minimum wage laws, unem-
ployment Insurance, mother’s pensions,
government control of the stock mar
ket.
Chairman Bulwinkle and some other
Democrats declared Doctor Wirt had
laid himself open to charges of per
Jury, but naturally they would prefer
to drop the entire affair rather than
to prolong it by trying to prosecute the
doctor,
of
information
do.
——.
(CONSIDERATION of air mall legis
latlon was begun by the senate
after President Roosevelt's new plan
had been made public. His proposal
was that contracts to carry the air
mail be let to commercial companies
on competitive bids, and that mean
while a commission should be named
to study the question of alr mall trans.
port and the development of commer.
cial and military aviation and report
to the next congress,
Four air lines filed In the District
of Columbia Supreme court com.
plaints seeking to enjoin Postmaster
General Farley from carrying out his
order annulling the alr mail contracts,
The complaints, brought by the Boe
ing Alr Transport, Inc.; Pacific Alr
Transport; Varney Alrlines; and Na.
tional Alr Transport, Inc, all subsidl.
aries of United Alrcraft and Trans
port, Ine, charge that Mr. Farley as
an individual eanceled thelr contracts
without a hearing, illegally, and de
prived them of property “without due
process of law In violation of the Fifth
amendment of the Constitution.”
JARAN has Issued a manifesto as
serting its responsibility to main.
tain peace in eastern Asla and object
air and military forces by other na.
tions. Especially the Japanese dislike
the sales of airplanes to China by
American and Itallan manufacturers.
ington, Mass., while preparing to
celebrate the 150th anniversary of the
battle of Lexington, decided to fire an-
other shot that, though It wouldn't be
“heard around the world,” might be
counted on to make a slight nolse in
Washington, They signed and sent to
thelr state delegation In congress a
protest against certain policies of the
government. Here In part is what
they wrote:
“We protest against federal inter
ference In business under the guise of
promoting social reform and economic
recovery,
“We protest against the passage of
legislation without more careful con-
sideration by congress,
“We protest against the Indefinite
extension of legislation originally de-
signed solely for emergency purposes,”
HE world wheat advisory commis
slon, sitting In Rome, reached the
first International agreement for price
stabilization and urged the govern-
ments represented to adopt it before |
May 1, when a committee of experts
will meet in London to put the price
system into operation.
:
Four men with wide powers will be
designated, under the agreement, to |
sit in London and control the world
movement wheat, Quotas will be |
granted and prices will be raised or
lowered In the various countries as
far as exports are concerned, accord
ing to quota shipments,
Sales below or above will
govern the increase or reduction in
prices, The advisory commission con-
siders this to be a good method of
controlling quotas through prices. It
of
quotas
was officially announced the minimum
price plan the London
wheat agreement,
supplements
TRE first measure In United States
history to limit a crop was sent
to the White House for approval after
the house agreed to the senate altera-
tions In the Bankhead compulsory cot- |
ton control bil Final action by the |
senate taken after the bill had |
earnestly by Senator |
Bailey of Texas and other southern.
ers, New
Deal
South's output of
wins
been attacked
so far of the
bill restricts
cotton this year to |
placing a tax of 50 |
cotton ginned In ex. |
the
10.06% (XX) bales by
per cent upon ail
cess of that figu
apportion to each |
iis agents, the amount
ETOY Ts
begun in Atlanta, Ga. |
as [Public
tor, asked Attorney
to file condemna-
against 134 parcels of
and there in the name of the Federal |
Emergency Housing corporation. In |
addition to these parcels the govern.
a 41
BCLng
ment is buying outright 70.000 square
feet of land to complete what Is need.
ed for a $2000,000 housing plan for
negroes,
It was indicated that similar action
in connection with housing plans will |
be taken In Chicago and other cities. |
Condemnation proceedings are to be |
resorted to only to expedite the pro- |
gram, says Mr. Ickes, and the govern
ment Is willing to pay a falr price at |
all times
Washington—~Anyone who attempts to
interpret Washington news or appraise
its effects meets a
Dr. Wirt’s circumstance fre
Charges quently where the
only course is one of
There Is no alterna.
tive, Complex situations must work
out; ulterior purposes must be dis
closed to a slight degree, If there are
such purposes, and some scent must
be had of the factors and Influences
at work, Otherwise, appraisal of the
potential effects usually will miss Its
mark under circumstances of that
kind.
Of such a type were the charges by
Dr, William A, Wirt, the school super-
intendent from Gary, Ind,
that “brain trusters”
watchful walting.
who
of
as
the
or Rus.
Doctor
of the
there
Of
and establish a communistie
out
because
accusations came
blue sky, so to speak,
notice of them,
thot
advance
there were
no
sands of per
New
most
them.
the
however,
1
the
Apparently,
events and us of
unbelieving by
about their
the setting In which Washington
found themselves to
8 new
these fad
opinions,
observers was,
the le
With
ist, one,
in mind, 1
in of Doctor Wirt's
e to
is
charges before
or to it
analyze
§ et F
ae
mp
ng
He was there, ace
famed attorney,
ames A. Reed of Missonrd
y itself, a surprise. Ar
Doctor Wirt wa
of the fan
present rev alution
itly Mr. Roosevelt
by a "Stalin"
curred in Russia,
Of course, Mr. Todd has no part In
the government, officially, and a good
many of those who scoffed at Doctor
Wirt originally contended the charges
were just “baloney.” But he made
the statements under oath and thelr
effect now is the thing with which we
are concerned. For to say that the
“ LFALFA BILL" MURRAY
governor of Oklahoma, doesn't
propose to permit resales of property |
for delinquent taxes In his state, |
These sales were
scheduled in eleven |
counties, six others
having already |
called them off. The |
governor called out
his everready Na.
tional Guard, declare.
ing that “protection
for the homes of the |
people In stressful
a times like these Is a
é vital polliey tran- |
Gov. Murray ending any tem- |
porary loss In taxes.” He ordered the |
arrest of any county official who ate |
tempted to conduct a delinquent-tax
sale,
The counties to which guardsmen |
were sent are scattered. In most coun
ties the military department consisted |
of an officer and three men, Adjutant
General Barrett sald a greater number |
was not sent for economic reasons, but
added that “more troops will be ready
to go if necessary.”
EDUCTION of passenger rates in
the South and West proved to be |
a goose that laid many golden eggs |
for the railroads in those regions, but |
now the NRA, which has no control |
over the railways, is trying to per
suade the Interstate Commerce come
mission to kill the goose because the
bus operators are complaining. A
hearing has been called in Washing
ton for April 283 and the bus operas
tors, the rallway officials and the pub-
lle will be heard. The first named
propose that the raiflroads raise coach
rates to 2 cents and pullman rates to
3 cents and that the motor bus code
be changed to halt special excursion
rates and chartering of buses, Most
0” the railroads are willing to do this
Jous J. BLAINE, for years one of
the prominent political figures in
Wisconsin, former governor of that
state and also United States senator,
died of pneumonia at his home in Bos-
cobel. He was one of the La Foilette
group of independent Republicans and
was defested for renomination to the
senate in 1032 by John B. Chapple,
who wns beaten In the election by F.
Ryan Duffy, At the time of his death
Mr. Binlue wns a director of the Re
construction Fionance corporation,
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green cheese,
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To those of us whose fob it Is to
keep a finger on the pulse of public
sentiment, It has been
Reaction apparent for several
Sets In months that a reac
tion against many of
the New Deal principles had set in.
I. for one, however, was unable to
gauge It accurately. 1 could not tell
how deeply rooted these convictions
were, It required some such incident
as the Wirt charges to focus attention
before most of us here could gain an
idea of the “oppositionist” movement
that appeared to exist. Let me say at
this point, too, that It is apparent Mr.
Roosevelt is not the only target: the
ideas prompted by his brain trust ad-
visers than the President's own re
form or recovery principles. There Is
tween the two, for one group In the
administration is promoting reform
and another recovery,
Here is where the Wirt testimony
becomes important In its effect. By
making the charges, Doctor Wirt di.
rected attention to the two schools of
thought. In effect, he has called upon
the country to distinguish between re
form and recovery programs, and has
asked the question whether we shall
sacrifice recovery In order that reform
Ideas may be forced down the throats
of those who find it difficult to swal-
low untried theories,
There can be no doubt that several
millions of Americans who, hereto
fore, were willing to trust Mr, Roose
velt to run the whole show, are now
making individual examinations of the
or propose to, set up. TI think it equal.
ly true as well that these examina.
tions by Individuals will result in a
crystallizing of opinions more than has
happened up to this time. They un.
doubtedly will find some good and
some bad, some workable and some un.
workable, items among the New Deal
plans, That ought to be a wholesome
thing for the country. History seems
to prove that a cross section of our
national mind Is nearly always correct
after the hysteria dies down. Thus.
the opinions I gather around Washing.
ton stress the importance of the re
form that obviously is golng to result
from New Deal methods, But they em.
*
Wirt testimony In balking an onrush-
ing wave of so-called reforms that so
many persons consider to be actually
destructive of the basle and proved
practices of our commerce and indus
try.
And, after all, that Is the point
at issue In this country today. Doctor
Wirt quoted Mr. Todd as having said
is In midstream and
the current is too strong for him to
turn back.” 1 still have in our
system of government and | have more
faith in a majority opinion of the peo-
ple of the United States, Since
tor Wirt testified,
It may be
trust
that “Roosevelt
Doe.
are thelr
the sun of the
they
that
on
guard.
brain theaoris
One mor
affair:
Each of the members «
wns surcharg
of the Democrats
afraid th Doctor
ing to explod
tics that would do 1}
at all, and
were afraid that
not that
quently, there was
end. 1 belleve the ox
some of the Republicans
Doctor Wirt would
bombsh Congo
without
MBENEUR ANd
explode
hage i
18
who
COTTER] ndents
Were rep
Representative
views
er
sentiment
conle's
neress rat)
quickly anges in
take place,
There was a time
f President
ferent now,
first
it is no 4
during the
Roosevelt's ad-
ministration when anythi je sent to
congress was put through, and no
questions were asked. Currently, how-
ever, there is na among
members of both politica
congress to Inquire Into the character
of legislation they
For example, the bill that the
dent wanted for controlling
curity exchanges, like the New York
Stock Exchange, was advertised by
Democratic leaders at first as being
ready to go through without question,
Mr. Roosevelt aaid be wanted “teeth”
in it, and teeth were put in it, plenty
of them, Indeed, the proposed legis
lation would have left little of the
stock exchange to operate, tigid con
trol was a mild expression compared
with that original stock market bill
- * -
months o
disposition
Stock exchange members, brokerage
houses and plain investors suddenly
awakened to the fact
Wake Up,
Then Fight ing to do things to
to fight. They found responsive chords
in the house and senate. Reason and
stood those words, began to prevall
and, presently, rumors of proposed
changes in the measure began to crop
up. And what's more, the changes be
gan to be accepted by a majority of
the committees that had the bill In
charge, despite frequent reiterations hy
Senator Fletcher, chairman of the sen.
ate banking commitiee, and Chairman
Rayburn, of the house Interstate Com-
merce committee, that the President
wanted the teeth left in,
It is to be admitted, 1 think, that
there was a lot of monkey-doodle busi
ness going on among some members of
security exchanges. My belief is that
they did not always give the individual
investors In stocks a fair shake. But
some of the reformers included In the
administration's brain trust appear to
have overlooked the good in whatever
amount it exists In the stock ex
changes,
But, to get to the point of the story.
Many persons hold to the view that the
government should not spread a par.
It has been done already beyond the
anticipation of a majority of the peo
ple. They want to be free to deal In
stocks, to speculate, even to gamble,
if you please, without having bureau.
cracy here In Washington to tell them
what to do.
The legislation will go through event.
ually. OF that there Is no doubt, In
its final form, however, It will not be
the handiwork of the reformers. There
will be reforms brought about hy fit,
only they will be for the purposes of
correcting abuses and not for the pur
pose of trying out theories on some-
body's money,
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| to Soil Sweetener
i
|
| Limestone, When Added to
Manure, Found to Greatly
Joost the Yield.
By ©. J. Badger, College of Ag:
University of Llinols WN
“Believe it or not,” soy In
are often spoken of as an acl
{ crop will from
times as much hay to
given the benefit of limest
of the
Evidence
produce
Hght-colored soils
! showing the
application of the “so
revealed in the results
of tests at two soll {
tained by the state us
At one field
of rather low
z}
xv
V
|
i
to the
grass, Crested
tinctively dro
endure extreme
Plumpness in Oats
How much hull there is In a samg
of oats cannot be Ht
ness of the kernels
by tests made by the
| tural experi
1830, "31 and
mended varieties
hull percentages.
agreement between results
at University farm and at
the average of all test
following hull per
=.1 per cent; Minrus,
266; logold, 27, and
| The studies were ma
common opinion among farmers that
varieties with plump rearing grains,
! such as Anthony and Gopher, have less
hull than those like Minrus and Minota
with grains of thinner appearance.
Minnesot:
station
here
am
entag
de because of
Brine
in South
| Preserving Butter in
A southern mammy down
{ Carolina has discovered the secret of
{ keeping butter as fresh as dew for
| six months, In cans, and without ice.
She wraps rolls of butter In a muslin
| cloth or bag, packs them in cans, jars
{ or crocks, and covers them with salt
| brine made by dissolving about tem
{ ounces of table salt in a quart of wa-
| ter, The container Is covered and set
away in as cool a place as is to be
found.
Agricultural Hints
Hybrid corns are practically free of
barren stalks,
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Crop roots cannot penetrate deeply
into a soll logged with water,
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New York state plans to provide 35.-
000,000 trees for planting on waste
lands this year,
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Bearing apple trees in the United
States were about one-fourth fewer in
number in 1030 than in 1920,
La a
Farmers In the north of England
are turning from plowing to dairying,
and farms of from 50 to 75 acres are
in demand.
La a
Owing to the inelasticity of demand,
small crops of potatoes consistently
yield larger Incomes to farmers than
large crops, -
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Production credit associations to
make short-term loans to farmers
have been organized for more than
half of the entire country,
as
0s