By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
citizens
seriously
Maj. Gen.
the con-
committee
minded American
difficult to take
story that
Butler told to
gressional
investigating un-Amer-
jean activities, This
retired officer of ma-
rines charges that
there {8 a plot, en
gineered by Wall
street men, to seize
the government of the
United States and set
up a Fascist dictator.
3 ship, and the chairman
of the committee, Rep
Gen. Smedley resentative John W,
D. Butler McCormack of New
York, considered the tale of enough im-
portance to warrant the calling of wit-
nesses to prove or disprove it. General
Butler made his story public through
the columns of the New York Evening
Post, as the proceedings of the com-
mittee are conducted in private,
If Butler is to be belleved. he was
approached by Gerald PP. MacGuire,
bond salesman in the stock exchange
firm of M. P. Murphy and
Company, ard urged to accept the lead-
ership of a soldier organization of hal
a million men would
ble—probably a year from
Washington, that within a
days it could take over the func
of the government."
ing to
turn of
complished
that
Roosevelt
solinl did king of Italy.”
Butler's story continued:
“He told me
least half of
OBER
J find it
the fantastic
Smedley DD.
Grayson
“which assem-
now-—in
and
MacGuire, accord-
thought the
nent
the general,
the g¢
gove
peacefully and
“we might even
with the
believed that
ican Legion am
Veterans of Foreign Wars would
low me,
“MacGulre explained to
1 me that they
had two other candidates for tl
tion of *Man on the Wh
sald that if I did not
would be made
ite Horse.’
to Gen,
Arthur, chil of staff f the
States army, and that the third chole
would be Hanford MacNider,
communder of the American
“So far as 1
MacArthur nor MacNider has been ap
proached. Their
mentioned as
Legion.
1 .
EDOow, ne
names were
‘alternates.'™
siderable sums “
did not
timated that am
plan were Mr. Mur
8. Clark, a wealthy
offices in the Stock
ing: and he added that
Clark offered him
American
cago last
retention
for expenses”
accept. He said MacGuire
y and Col
build-
er Colonel
money
vention In Chi.
fo go to the
Legion cor
of the gold standard,
Butler,
Clark, at present in France. admit
- that Me had sponsored a Fascist move.
tion for libel against any person ac
cusing him in such a connection.
Guire, after being heard by the Me-
Cormack committee, said: “It's a joke
-a publicity stunt. I know nothing
about it. The matter is made out of
whole cloth. I deny the story complete.
Jy"
O FAR as the great steel industry
is concerned, it appears that the
industrial truce asked by President
Roosevelt cannot be arranged, and the
prospect of a strike of the steel work-
ers is growing.
In behalf of the United States Steel
corporation, a proposal was made to
the American Federation of Labor that
recognition of that organization would
be granted, but that no contract would
be made. This proposal, it was said,
would be agreed to by 85 per cent of
the steel industry.
The labor spokesmen, led by William
Green, president of the A. F of L.. re-
Jected the tender on the ground that
it was hedged about in such a way to
permit collective bargaining with mi-
nority groups or company unions, and
that the employers were still unwilling
to accept the principle of majority rule
as set forth in the national labor re.
lations board's decision In the Houde
case,
If a rupture comes the Federation
of Labor may find the fr leral govern-
ment rather unsympathetic. Mr. Green's
infitence in the White House has been
waning noticeably and he has had no
personal contacts with the President
for some time,
New Yorkers with offices in sky.
scrapers were giaddened by the news
that a threatened strike of elevator
operators had been averted and an
agreement, drafted by Mayor La
Guardia’s board of arbitration, had
been signed by representatives of the
real estate Interests and the union.
The union withdrew its demand for a
closed shop; and standards of wages
and hours in various types of bulldings
will be worked out by a committee of
three arbiters, with the union recog-
nized as the bargaining agent for the
employees, .
—
[ Y ORDER of the national labor re-
lations board there will be held
great workers' election which
will determine whether organized labor
shall dominate the country's rubber in-
dustry.
The board decreed that the Fire.
stone Tire and Rubber company and
the B, F. Goodrich company of Akron,
Ohlo, must allow their employees to
ballot on the question of whether they
want a company union or an American
Federation of Labor union to represent
them In collective bargaining under the
NRA.
Twenty-one thousand workers, the
largest number ever polled by the labor
board on an NRA question, will par-
ticipate In the election. In addition
another 15000 workers of the Good-
year Rubber company may ballot on
the same question. The Goodyear an-
gle of the case has not yet been passed
upon by the board.
Both and Goodrich
companies have opposed the elections
now ordered, maintaining that condi
in their plants are satisfactory
and that electioneering In rival unions
would only disturb the peace among the
workers,
S000 a
the Firestone
tions
RICHBERG, executive
the national emergency
and now perhaps the Presi.
3
socinted Grocers of America at thelr
convention
functions of the NRA
f al trade commi
ate concerts
rone” under antitrust laws,
sing the
Discu
program for perms
siation, he
¢
I
tion He said
wages
the fixing
maximum hours
soundness for elimi
and
its
in treatment of er
admittedly dishonest by
tices should be proscribed,
HILADELPHIA
tionally
lawyers are tradi
supposed to be able
worst of tangles, so Presi.
chairman of
tional
board. He
family of that name,
and he succeeds Lloyd
K. Garrison, who re
tired from the chair
manship to resume his
law school of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin,
Francis Biddle has
been engaged In law
as a member of the Phila-
gelphia firm of Barnes, Biddle, and
Meyers. He served from 1922 to 1920
as assistant district attorney for the
district of Pennsylvania. In
his new post his task will be the set.
tlement of labor disputes arising out
of the recovery act, especially those
involving collective bargaining.
RANCE is worried by the admitted
fact that Germany has developed a
military air fleet of considerable size,
composed of modern pursuit and bomb.
ing planes, and Gen. Vietor Denaln,
French minister of alr, estimates that
by January the reich will have from
1.000 to 1,100 of these machines, swift.
er and better than those possessed by
France. Consequently he has asked the
chamber of deputies for about $230.
000,000 to finance a program for re-
covering the ground lost by French
aviation. The task is already under
way, $32,500,000 having been spent out
of an appropriation for modernization.
UGH R. WILSON, American am-
bassador to Switzerland, laid be-
fore the disarmament conference in
Geneva a proposal by the United
States for International control of
arms traffic and fall publicity to pre-
vent secret arming of nations, The
proposal was well received by most
of the delegates, and it will be studied
by committees in January.
By the American plan each govern
ment would license its manufacturers
of munitions for five year periods. No
reserve stocks would be allowed and
manufacturers would be required to
present bona fide orders before receiv.
ing a lHeense. Details of war vessels
built for other nations would have to
be reported. Reports of licenses and
orders would be turned over to a cen
tral committee at Geneva and made
a matter of public record. A perma
nent commission, Including a mem-
ber from each signatory nation, would
be empowered to Investigate transac
tions,
OTABLES of the Catholle church
gathered In Chicago from all
parts of the world to take part in the
silver jubilee of Cardinal Mundelein,
who was consecrated a bishop 25 years
ago, The pope sent his personal greet.
ings and his blessing,
ing in baths and
conference there he
tional committee that arranges birth-
benefit of infantile paralysis sufferers.
(COMPTROLLER GENERAL J. R.
M'CARL has thrown a monkey-
wrench Into part of the machinery of
Rellef Administrator Harry L. Hop-
kins. Turning down a check from Hop-
kins to the officials of the District of
Columbia which was to have started
work on a housing development, Mr,
McCarl held that the federal emergen-
cy relief act, providing for the grant
Ing of funds for various relief pur-
poses, could not apply to the acquisl-
tion of real estate and the construc-
tion of homes. This type of activity,
he sald, would be of a permanent and
not an emergency nature, and the act
was adopted to meet emergencies.
The FERA already has under way
& program of “rehabilitating” 80.000
farm families In homes and on land
to be sold to them by the government,
MORE and more it becomes evident
i that President Roosevelt intends
to pursue a middle of the road policy
in his efforts for national recovery, and
that in the over
whelmingly Democrat-
ic next congress there
will be no one faction
strong enough to die
tate to him. The Chief
Executive and the
business leaders of
the country are grad-
ually coming together,
and if and when they
reach an accord on
methods it will be
found that a good
many of the more radical ideas of the
brain trusters will bave been discard-
ed. best minds in industry and
finance are no longer standing back
and merely eriticleing. They are tak-
ing an sctive part in planning for the
future welfare of the nation. Here
with are summarized some of the im-
portant new developments in this di-
rection :
President Henry 1. Harriman of the
States Chamber of Commerce,
sursuance of a resolution adopted
the board of directors, has appoint-
ed a committee of six men, headed by
Silas Strawn of Chicago, to co-operate
with other business and agricultural
associations in drafting plans for the
recovery of business, The board of the
chamber endorsed the continuation of
relief and housing, but signified that
business is still opposed to the unbal-
budget, further reduction of
hours as embodied in the
Silas Strawn
The
unprecedented outiays for public
works, continuance of the NRA, the
doctrine of majority rule in collective
bargaining, and unemployment Insur-
ance.
Through the National Association of
Manufacturers, invitations were sent
to every manufacturer in the United
States to attend a national industrial
conference in New York on December
6 to draft “constructive recommenda
tions” for presentation to President
Roosevelt,
In an petition addressed to the Presi
dent and congress the National Econ
omy league has presented a definite
program for balancing the federal bud-
get in the coming flscal year, holding
that only by balancing the budget can
sustained national recovery be accom-
plished. The petition proposes heavy
redoctions in government expenditures
and additional taxes totaling $035,000,
000,
OT so pleasing to the industrialists
were the two speeches the Presi.
dent delivered during his inspection of
the Tennessee valley project, for If his
predictions are borne out, his “revolu-
tion™ will bring about the death of pri-
vate enterprise in the power industry.
At Tupelo, Miss, he declared himself
flatly for public ownership of public
utilities, saying: “What you are do
ing here is going to be copled In every
state in the Union before we are
through™; the allusion being tn the
fact that Tupelo has contracted for
TVA power,
In Birmingham the President said:
“I am aware that a few of your citizen.
ry are leaving no stone unturned to
block and harass and delay this great
national program. I am confident,
however, that these obstructionists, few
in number In comparison with the
whole population, do not reflect the
views of the overwhelming majority,
“I know, too, that the overwhelm.
ing majority of your business men, big
and little, are in hearty accord with
the great undertaking of regional plan.
ning now being carried forward”
RTY-FIVE new bills were pushed
through the Loulsiana legislature
in five days with Senator Huey Long
on the rostrum telling the legislators
Just what to do, but seldom stopping
to tell them why. The “Kingfish” says
he now is in position to make the state
a Utopla, or rather, in his own words,
“the kind of state nobody has dreamed
of.” It is the general belief that he
hopes his “share the wealth” program
will ultimately land him in the White
House,
The senator's most ambitious legis.
lation is the statute proclaiming a two-
year moratorium for harassed debtors,
Another bili sets up a civil service
commission, composed of state admin-
istration leaders, with power to re
move police and fire chiefs. That will
give Long control of virtually ail mu.
nicipal policemen and firemen. Long
sald the bill was intended to take them
“out of volities.”,
&
4
by William
ts
——
Washington —~Administration plans
and policles appear to be undergoing
a shaking down proc
Shake-Up
ess, Safely passing
in Policies the elections and
with no need to
make moves solely to please particu
lar segments of voters the President
appears to have started getting rid of
duplication in the various alphabetical
agencies of the government. Further,
many conservatives are taking some
hope ou of other administrative ac
tions lately and are willing to believe
that the shake-up among the many
emergency groups along with White
House pronouncements may possibly
indicate a slight return toward what
they regard as sounder fundamentals,
In a move held by many observers
to indicate an attempt by the Pres
Ident to eliminate some waste the
President has brought under one su-
pervisory control all of the agencies
lending government money. It may
be surprising to know that there are
ten important federal offices engaged
in loaning money. They
operating largely on their own
gramsg, No attempt has been
heretofore to co-ordinate thelr efforts,
The result has been conflicting policies
and undoubtedly waste In results,
The President now proposes that
this shall end. He hag named the com-
mittee for the defined purpose of es
tablishing uniform policy respecting
government loans and has declared
with emphasis that the duplication
must be eliminated.
Some leaders in and out of the gov-
ernment construed this action as In.
dicating a conviction by the Pres!
dent that there were too many agen
cles floating around odd jobs
without restraint Others believed
that Mr. Roosevelt was making an hon.
est effort to bring some semblance of
order out of chaos In the hope that
eventually expenses can be
thereby,
In support of this view was the ac
tion taken by the Home Owners’ Loan
corporation which has cut off further
loaning on homes. In announcing its
action the home loan board sald it be
lieved government ald in this
tion was no longer necessary, thus In-
ferentially at least saying that some
recovery had taken place,
The home joan agency is among
those placed under cabinet committee
control. It will begin Immediately to
shrink its organization, turning loose
eventually a total of 28000 workers
The Reconstruction Finance corpor-
ation, another one of the groups which
will be guided by cabinet committee
policy hereafter, has announced it will
pot seek additional funds from the
forthcoming session of congress. Bor.
rowers who have been using that
agency will be accommodated further,
of course, In accordance with the
terms of their obligations but the
whole tendency will be to cut down
on new joans,
And so It is for the first time in the
current administration we are witness.
ing a shrinkage, rather than an expan
sion, In governmental facilities set up
as a part of the recovery program of
the New Dealers,
- . »
Along with the establishment of the
loan policy committee, there came an
order from the treas.
May Export ury, bearing Mr
Currency Roosevelt's approval,
which once again al
Jows unrestricted exports of currency,
but not gol® or silver metal. Hereto-
fore it has been necessary for private
business to obtain a specific license
from the treasury before It could ship
currency abroad In settiement of ob-
ligations. This move is expected to
have far-reaching consequences because
it lifts from business one of those an-
noying red tape procedures to which
business always objects and a kind
of transaction that has never crept
into private business in any way.
Gold and silver, both having been
nationalized under the New Deal, must
stay in this country. Gold must stay
in the coffers of the treasury. Never.
theless, from many sources I hear fa-
vorable comment on the relaxation of
the restrictions on movement of cur
rency because it is generally believed
the sction will have a psychological
benefit. Many persons will feel that
if the government at Washington Is
been
pro-
made
have
2 ut
Qoing
reduced
direc-
ey abroad, there is no reason to fear
embarrassing situations as a matter
of dealing In currency. Of course, ob-
viously, the confidence hitherto repos.
ing in our dollar by foreigners cannot
be fully restored as long as gold can-
not be shipped but the present change
admittedly Improves the situation. It
tional trade retains anything like its
present stability, Indeed, experts de
clare that greater stability in Interna.
tional trade ought to be one of the re
sults and the treasury Is obviously
looking for that end to be served,
In some quarters the lifting of the
ban'on currency exports was accept
ed as meaning that Mr. Roosevelt is
not entertaining any thought of fur.
ther devaluation of the currency, He
may have to give consideration to that
proposition after congress comes back
Bruckart
because there are half a hundred sen-
ators and representatives who are
avidly pursuing the Inflation phantom,
They think this will solve the coun-
try's economic problems and they ean
be counted on to bear down with thelr
Ideas when the forum of CONEress
again is opened to them,
Whatever men may do, It is
pointed out now, Mr. Roosevelt would
be only complicating his own problems
by allowing free Interchange of cur
rency at this time if he had any
thought in mind of changing the dol
lar value In the not too distant future,
these
» * »
With the time only a month away
for selection by the Democrats of thelr
tandidate for speak-
Speakership or of the house
Fight that means
election
the speak-
ership fight Is attracting
tion, Heat is being and
mies are being created in every direc.
tion. There are at least a dozen mem
bers of the house who figure or hope
that the
held late In December
name for of honor posts,
speaker, majority floor leader or chair.
man of the rules committee, }
moment one ¢an deal on y with possi.
for the
is yet In the dist \
Although, as I sald, the £
open are certain
tend to show the way
blowing. There are
grounds and conditions
must be
ing.
For example,
T ennessee,
Hee
lection
much atten.
shown ene
Democratic caucus to be
will pi their
one the
bilities,
there gLraws
the
certain
ag well
accepted a8 having a
Representative
the
while the late Mr.
er, normally
chosen as speaker,
not sure, In fi
servers who de
against him. Fi
invited aboard
of Democratic
Raines
would be
train to make th
rodsburg, Ky.
There Is a ros
North and the Sot
ocrats resent
southern
Consequent
ers are atiemg gE to
whereby the speaskership
the South and
leader be filled
erat,
In this combis
Representatives Rayburn f i
and McCormack of Massachusetts,
ure most prominently. However, this
arrangement has vulnerable
cause there are many
Democrats who feel
to consideration, and they
be satisfied with such a
On top of all this Is a
from White House
President remain aloof
Roosevelt the
fight solely a house matter, but it must
be added that the President's pro
nouncement has not deterred some of
his satellites, A New
Dealers are active and sor say that
they have agreed on Mr. Rayburn and
Mr. McCormack. If that be true Mr.
toosevelt is In a tough spot unless he
wanis to declare openly that he does
pot favor Mr. Rayburn and Mr. Me
Cormack. In which event he is ex.
pected to antagonize their supporters.
oom:
iy.
the post
spots be
hern
led
other sout
they are entit
comb
quarters
will
considers speakership
dozen or md
The responsibility which the admin.
istration carries in baving such com:
piete control of gov-
Borah ernmental machinery
Criticizes Dos its thorny cush-
fon despite the abil
ity to muster a two-thirds majority In
both the house and the senate. One
of the sharpest of the thorns appar
ently Is Senator William E. Borah of
Idaho, Progressive Republican, Mr.
Borah always has played a lone hand
in the senate and he apparently is go.
ing to do so again.
The first harpoon which the Idaho
senator has thrown was directed at
the relief policies pressed through and
administered by professional relievers,
Mr. Borah says there is an enormous
amount of waste In connection with
the relief activities. He says there
ing maintained out of relief funds un.
der the guise of distributing the
money, He has called attention as
the apparent Inability of the relief
ministering to the destitute. Having
expected to give It momentum from
ed ou to be more than a puff ball
Of course,
fought to ward off just such attacks
as Mr. Borah has Inaugurated, by an
nouncement of employment plans and
transfer of unemployed from relief
rolls to work rolls. 1 reported to yon
several weeks ago that Mr. Roosevelt
favored elimingtion of the dole and
the creation of work for which the
present unemployed would be paid
Yet it is being pointed out In many
quarters here that pursuit of such a
plan as the President has In mind re.
quires an immense amount of study.
Otherwise it Is liable to flop and If it
goes off half-cocked, undoubtedly the
criticism will be more vigorous,
© Western Newspaper Union,
m— — —p
New Hybrid Wheat
Sets Good Record
Tenmarq, Fair Example of
American Type Produced
by Hybridization.
Prepared by the United Sates Deptartment
of Agriculture ~~WHL Service
Tenmarqg, the new high-yielding, ex-
cellent quality, hard red winter wheat
which made a good showing this year
in spite of the drouth, Is 8 good ex-
ample of an American variety pro
duced by hybridization from whe
other countries, ‘
and tested by the Kan
experiment station
Htates Departmen
is of
rives its name from the
ber of the
und the
Ten sixt
winter wh
jot of Crime
fem:
Russian. Marquis
Cross miade |
There Are Various Ways
of Destroying Stumps
f time iz ar bs Senge
i Li5 is BRO ho |
removed
or A
expense
but
DEeCeRSAry
used several weeks
are before the
is made inflammable
consists of boring
g severa
nto the tor
io 13 0
with
of the sltun 1
water. The chemical wi
carried to all parts of
ag the holes empty thes
After about
which time the
filled.
holes have been
the stump Is
Due to the saltpeter
ing
refilled about three times
ready to burn.
the fire will even follow the deep roots
and consume them.
World Wheat Supplies
Production of wheat in the northern
hemisphere, not including Russia and
China, is expected to be about 325.000.
00 bushels less than last year, and the
erop of the southern hemisphere about
105,000,000 bushels less, according to
the government survey, says Wallaces'
Farmer. The world carryover appears
to be about the same aa last year. The
United States carryover is estimated at
200000000 bushels, which, together
with the estimated production of 491.-
000,000 bushels, indicates a domestic
supply of 781,000,000 bushels. With a
normal domestic atilization of about
625,000,000 bifshels, this would leave
a carryover next July of about 150.000.
000 bushels if there are no net imports
or exports,
Plan Crop Locations
Considerable thought is going to be
needed to plan 1885 crop rotations so
as to avoid damage from chinch bugs.
It 1s not so easy to plan for the elim-
ination or reduction of acreages of
the grass crops such as wheat, onts
and rye. Care can be taken, however,
in planning feld arrangements so that
these crops are more or less isolated
are separated from corn by flelds of
clover, soy beans, potatoes, or other
are not likely to migrate through them
Clover in Ontario
In the clover plits at the Ontario
Agricultural college there are 238
strains of early red clover, perennial
red clover, sweet clover, white clover
and alsike, says the Montreal! Herald
Nearly 25,000 plants in all are being
studied, these Including strains and