By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
ECAUSE the Patman inflation
bonus bill would be easier for the
President to veto than the Vinson
measure, some of the administration
«a Senators joined with
the Patman followers
to put the former bill
:
Previously, for some
devious reason,
compromise
offered by Pat
son's committee
Roosevelt
Rep. Patman sign it. That the Pres
taken as a certainty and it
lieved the inflationists could not gather
enough votes to override the veto
the senate, though they had enough in
the house,
Rather surprisingly,
G. McAdoo,
retary of the treasury,
Senator Willlam
advocated
mera conjecture” that the Issue of
$2.200000,000 in terest bearing
notes. or greenbacks, would be
tionary.
“We have nothing In the
States today but greenbacks”
“Is your money redeemable
Is it redeemable in silver?
redeemable in pothing but
in
No.
the
It is
honor
“What constitutes Inflation 1s a
matter of conjecture.
mere conjecture that
a so-called specie basis.
of that is that, since
the dollar is as sound
“The Issuance of £2.000.000.000
we must have
in
ocean and tried to stop the Incoming
tide.”
WO billion dollars of the works
relief fund were segregated for
immediate distribution by the works
allotment division at its first session,
The sum was divided Into works
classifications as provided by the works
rellef act, these including road con-
struction, grade crossing elimination,
rural rehabilitation, rural electrifica-
tion, low cost housing and general con-
struction, Allotments for specific
projects were to be made later, a list
of these contemplating expenditure of
$100,000,000 being submitted by Mr.
Ickes as approved by the PWA and
referred to Frank Walker's division of
applications and information.
tan airport at Newark, N. J., non
stop, 2,100 miles in 14 hours and 22
minutes. That is the new record set
up by Amelia Earhart
Her husband,
Palmer Putnam,
George
and
welcome her,
the throng.
After her start from
nam was not
Amelia Earhart from nor reported seen
for more than six hours
took her straight east at first, high over
fean capital and Tampico.
not seen at the oil port, nor was she
reported by radio.
line out over the gulf for her 600 mile
hop over the water to New Orleans.
municated by radio with the Depart-
ment of Commerce station there, and
then flew swiftly along the airways of
American Alr Lines and Eastern Alr
Lines. As she swooped over Hoover
airport, Washington, Eugene Vidal, di-
rector 0” the alr commerce burean, ra-
dioed: “You have done a splendid job,
so come down.” But Amelii replied,
with thanks for the invitation, that she
was going on through. And that is
what she did.
OLD medals of the National Insti.
tute of Social Science were award-
ed to four American humanitarians at
the institute's annual dinner in New
York, and no one will say they were
not deserved.
of Virginia “in recognition of distin.
guished services rendered to humanity
as one of the leaders In the planning
and ereation of the federal reserve
banking system, as secretary of the
Yreasury, as United States senator, and
as one who, through a long life, con
sistently and unsparingly devoted his
abllities and energies to public service.”
Dr. Harvey Cushing of Boston re
celved a medal for his “distinguished
services rendered to humanity as a
jeader In surgery and social medicine.”
Dr. George KE. Vincent was honored
for services “as professor of soclology,
as president of the University of Min.
nesota, as president of the Rockefeller
foundation, as president of the Chau
ers In the development of community
’
chests In the Unlted States, and as an
educator whose life and addresses have
been an Inspiration toward unselfish
public service.”
To Cornelius N, Bliss, former presi
dent of the Institute, was presented a
medal for his work “as a director of
the Julliard School of Music, as a di
rector of the Metropolitan Opera as
sociation, Inc, as a member of the cen-
tral committee of the American Red
Cross, as a governor of the New York
Memorial fund, as a trustee of the Met.
ropolitan Museum of Art, and as a
member of the board of managers of
the Association for Improving the Con-
EORGE N. PEEK, in his eapacity
of advisor to the President on for-
eign trade, has just made public sta
to show the United
States 1s losing its po-
sition as the
chief creditor
and
dations that are in ac
cord with the growing
trend interna-
tionalism in the
ministration
conflict with Secretary
he Hull's program of re
. moving barriers to In
ternational trade
reciprocal trade agree-
nation,
makes recominen
against
George N. Peek
Stating that whether or not this
country still owes less to other nations
on the true value of defaulted
debts, Mr. Peek recommends these im-
“1. The inauguration of a detalled
and foreigners’ direct investments in
studies now In progress of capital
movements,
“2. A review of all national policies
based in whole or in part upon our in
ternational creditor status.”
The proposal seems to lead toward
high tariffs and a policy of allocating
our foreign trade among other nations,
as Is done by many of the European
countries,
Figures complied by Mr. Peek Indl
cate that the United States is a net
international creditor by $16.807.000.-
000, but this includes $10.304,000 000,
principal amount of war debts owed
by foreign governments, and also for-
eign bonds held by private investors
in the United States invoiced at their
face value, and a pre-depression esti
mate of the value of American branch
factories abroad and other direct in-
vestments in foreign countries. Mr.
Peek strongly infers that a re-estima-
tion of these “assets” will result In
such a scaling down that this country
will no longer be a creditor pation and
need pot act as such.
JeoL1owika a lively debate the
housa passed the omnibus banking
bill, which rewrites the federal reserve
act 80 as to make a virtual central bank
out of the reserve system, with power
purpose of promoting business stabil
ity. The final vote, after various
amendments had been rejected, was 27
to 110,
In the senate the measure will be
ter Glass leading the opposition. Class
having the system tampered with by
Reserve Gov. Marriner 8.
Eccles,
Transcontinental Western Alr pear
Atlanta, Mo., Senator Bronson M. Cut.
ting of New Mexico and four other
persons fell to their
death. The pilot was
unable to land at
Kansas City because
of a dense fog and his
fuel gave out before
he could resch an
emergency landing
field at Kirksville
Besides Mr. Cutting
those killed were Miss
Jeanne A. Hillias of
Kansas City, Mrs, Wil-
lam Kaplan of West
Los Angeles, and Har.
Senator
Cutting
were seriously injured.
Bronson Cutting, a millionaire of an
aristocratic family, was a radical Ke
publican and was one of the outstand
ing members of the senate. He sup
ported Mr. Roosevelt for President In
1082, but when be came up for re
election last fall he was not given the
endorsement of the administration.
His victory was contested by Dennis
Chavez and the case is still before the
senate elections committee. Mr, Cut
ting was born on Long Island in 1888,
graduated from Harvard and there
after went to New Mexico. In the
World war he was an infantry cap
tain and assistant military attache at
the Ametican embassy in London. He
was appointed to the senate in 1027
to fill a vacancy and was elected next
Jear to a six year term,
®
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT strongly |
resented the eriticism of his New |
Deal policies by the Chamber of Com- |
merce of the United States, and re
torted by calling to the White House
Secretary Roper's business planning
and advisory council for an endorse-
ment of NRA extension and the social
securities program. Then to the news.
paper correspondents Mr, Roosevelt
scored the action of the chamber, as
serting that in too many cases so-called
business organizations misrepresent
the business men for whom they claim
to speak, and that he did not belleve
a single speech made at the chamber's
meeting contained any mention of the
human side of the picture. He de-
clared the business organizations were
not indicative of the mass bellef and
that he would go along with the great
bulk of the people,
Several members of the business ad-
visory council were also members of
the Chamber of Commerce, and it Is
sald they resented the President's ace
tion In seemingly using them to offset
the attack by the chamber.
LL the vast British emplre cele
brated the sliver jubllee of King
ty-fifth anniversary of thelr accession
find for three months
here will be a contin.
uous series of fetes In
the United Kingdom
and all the dominions
and dependencies, Lon-
don, of course, was the
gcene of the chief cele-
bration on the open-
ing day, and the me
tropolis was thronged
with visitors. Hotels
and rooming houses
were overcrowded and
the king ordered that
Hyde Park be kept open so some of
the overflow thousands could sleep
there,
‘here were seven state processions
King
George
speaker of the house of commons, Capt,
Edward A. Fitz Roy, with five anclent
gilded coaches: the second, that of
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald,
with six coaches In which rode the do-
minion prime ministers. Then came a
High
Chancellor Sankey, and one of the lord
mayor of London, Sir Stephen Killik.
The fifth procession was that of the
duke of York, from Buckingham pal
ace, two carriages with a captain's
escort of the magnificently appareied
royal horse guards.
The prince of Wales, as heir to the
throne, came sixth, He had with him
a captain's escort of the Life Guards
and two carriages, in the first of which
he rode with Queen Maud of Norway
and his brother, the duke of Glouces
ter, like him, a bachelor.
Finally, in the most gorgeous parade
of all, came George and Mary, and as
their ornate coach, drawn by the fa.
mous grays, passed, the voices of all
loyal Britishers rose 1a a roar of
“God bless the king and queen.” The
rulers, accompanied by all the other
notables, went to St. Paul's cathedral
to give public thanks to God.
HE senate committee named to de-
vise a means of curbing such at.
tacks on the President as are fre.
quently made by Huey Long on the
. floor of the senate has
not yet reported, but
it is sald Senator Ben-
nett Champ Clark of
Missouri bas figured
out how it can be
done, Clark is the
upper chamber's chief
expert on parliamen-
tary procedure and
for four years be was
parliamentarian of the
lower house, His
Senator pian is to rewrite rule
B. C. Clark 10 of the senate rules
to inciude the President and so pro.
tect him from unwarranted attacks
and slanders. That rule reads at
present:
“No senstor In debate shall, direct.
iy or Indirectly, by any form of words
impute to another senator or to other
senators any conduct or motive un
worthy or unbecoming a senator.”
One of Longa favorite ways of
launching bis diatribes is to rise to a
question of personal privilege, and
Clark proposes that in this respect the
senate rules be changed to conform
with those of the house, In that body
when a member feels he has heen ag
grieved he must explain exactly how
he has been Injured before he is per
mitted to speak. The speaker decides
whether or not his injury Is justified.
Senator Glass of Virginia has falled
at various times fo silence the “King
fish” and he, too, has 4 plan he thinks
might help accomplish that end. le
recommends a requirement that all
amendments offered to an appropria.
tion bill be germane. Such a require.
ment would affect other senators, but
Glass’ move admittedly Is diregted
against Long.
FFIRMING a decision of the Sao
preme court of the District of Co-
lumbia, the United States Supreme
court held unconstitutional the railroad
retirement act, ruling that many of |
its provisions are Invalid, The act pro. |
vided for a system of old age pensions |
for all raliroad workers. The decision |
was read by Justice Owen J. Roberts
It condemned many provisions of the |
law as “arbitrary.” placing an undue |
burden on the raliroads and having no |
relation to safety and efficiency in the
operation of the railways
The act was passed by the Seventy |
fourth congress just before it closed, |
and had the tacit approval of the new |
administration, although President |
Roosevelt sald ha believed it would |
have to be perfected by amendment |
It set up a compulsory pension plan
requiring contributions by both the car
riers and the benefited employees
SEEN
around the
National Capital
ESSE By CARTER FIELD ass
Washington.-—~A new gold strike in
Alaska, old-timers who know that ter-
ritory insist, is the only thing that will
save the pioneers who are now being
taken to that distant land by a benev-
olent government in the hope of glv-
ing them a fresh start in life and mak-
ing them self-supporting.
For the simple truth is that Alaska,
while a most interesting part of the
world for tourists, is not precisely the
sort of Canaan that our forefathers
who came over in the Mayflower, or
earlier with John Smith, were seeking.
Nor is It the agricultural paradise that
the later ploneers found along the
Ohio and Missouri rivers. There Is
plenty of evidence to support this con-
tention, but it Is an old saying that
no one, much less any governipent, is
willing to profit by another's experi-
ence,
covered afresh for
Warren G. Harding dreamed
same sort of future for Alaska
the Relief administration envisages for
the down and outers it Is sending to
the frozen North.
in school, he had
quisition of this marvelous
for only a few million dollars.
read how more gi
had been taken out, Yet
remained marvelous natural resources,
each generation,
about the
read
price
coal, umber, furs,
Not to mention
that
out end—and salmon,
an agricultural domain so rich
its products, put up in glass jars,
played an important part in ind
Congress to S50 000%, In
eariy Wilson os for the
yole
IVE,
ous territory up to one and all,
The rallroad was built, but the
pected results did not follow,
population of the territory was actual
ly declining instead of
ter,
snarled
ment,
It was that governmental red tape
up every effort for advance
off, both In miles and time,
Herbert Hoover,
commerce, was also
grew fond of the
impressed, He
story of the three
partment of the Interior, another under
Commerce, and the third under Agri
culture!
ahsurdity of it
What Harding Found
So Harding took the three secretaries
to Alaska, intending to
various problems and
day, and sit around table each
night with the three cabinet members
involved, snipping away the red tape,
Beautifol! But what did he find?
the
the red tape winders went back to the
states, Alaska would lose its chief in
dustry-—red tape winding!
and officials whose Jobs depended
this same red would return
“civilization”
of Alaska would
that number,
tape to
be reduced by just
considered that the
along the fifty-mill
ment railroad,
banks—longer
total
than from Washington
Francisco to Los Angeles—is 6.000, in-
cluding Esquimaux!
Secretary of Agrieniture Wallace, fa-
ered that the rich agricult
much boasted
fall less than that of
It would grow ¢
ural land so
eastern Colorado.
wed crops the first year
that would really need irrigation! See
industry was suffering from too much
activity. They were killing off the figh.
Secretary of the Interior Work was
distressed to learn that the coal, which
had been thought so valuable It had
been protected into a naval cosl re
serve, was of such poor quality and
cost so much to get on shipboard, that
down through the panhandle, including
Juneau and Sitka, they bought coal
from British Columbia instead!
All discovered that the boys who had
gone to war from Alaska did not come
back. They stopped off somewhere In
the states where opportunities fooked
better. So let us hope for the sake of
those now pilgrimaging up toward
Skagway that a new gold field Is dis
covered!
New Commerce Head
Despite the fact that the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States has
picked a new president who happens
to be a very close personal friend of
President Roosevelt--a classmate at
Harvard, both of old upstate New York
families, and all that sort of thing
prospects remain that the chamber will
continue to have just as little infla.
ence In Washington as It has since
Hoover left the White House,
If anyone could be calculated to “get
somewhere” with the White House, It
would be Harper Sibley. In the first
place, the personal relation of the two
families is so close that Mra Roose
velt, when stopping in Rochester with
Mrs. Caroline O'Day last fall, stayed
at the Sibley home. In the second, Mr,
the President as the news dispatches
about the chamber's meeting would
have one believe, A very close friend
of many years standing tells the writer
that he is one of those rich men who
regard the rich as being “trustees” not
“holders” of wealth! hich *sunds
very New Denlist,, indeed,
There 1s another angle, however, on |
which his fellow members of the cham. |
ber, in picking him for president, re-
Hed rather than on thelr misinforma- |
tion about his economic views. This
is his abllity to work out a compro-
mise, and to induce those with whom
he is working to co-ordinate. He i#
sald by those associated with him, el-
ther In his lines of business, chari-
table or church interests, to be mar-
velously persuasive, though no one
claims that he Is an orator,
But the whole pleture is wrong—
meaning the picture viewed by those
who think that Mr. Sibley Is golng to
be able to steer the President tactfully
away from the New Dealers and brain
trusters, and back into safe and sane
economic channels, President Roose.
velt is Just not that kind of person,
and there Is no club, whatever, In Mr.
Sibley's hands which rouses any fear,
whatever, In political minds,
Can’t Scare ’Em
It is not possible for an organization
States to frighten politicians
in business, but thelr potency is too
iif too scattered, spread out
thin, to bother men running for the
house or senate, Or even for President.
Two accomplishments very dear to
business hearts have been put over
in the last few months, but the machin.
ery that sccomplished it was not the
chamber, nor any other huge aggrega-
tion of widely diversified and spread
out
190
business interests
One of these was repeal of the pink
slip publicity for Income tax returns
work
One stirred up the
America. Prac
of them began writing edi-
income tax
the editorials
was done by two agencies
Trier
ing Independently
newspaper editors of
all
against
many of
ie to write to thelr senate
iter
carried
effect of Je
they
wit the
telegrams on congress,
tensive stories abe
ters and whi
naturally provoked more,
The other was the
gation, which
Pitcalrn
circulated
organi-
repeal slips,
was this
letters which
resu
did
iting
avalanche of the
trick.
Then there was the modification of
islation. This was made possible, de
the power of the President on
Hill, by utilities Inducing
their stockholders to write to their sen-
Most of the
legislators find how
utility stockholders were among
constituents, And when
Capitol the
were amazed to
thelr they
the legislation, the picture changed.
In the old days big business leaders
Their whis-
were respected. Politicians are
Just as timorous as ever, but they have
controlled political bosses
pers
or districts are on the warpath. Then
they break records flopping.
Two sgn Arthur Poe
Gorman, senator from Maryland, won
and nearly attained the
generations
Today North
Josiah W. Bailey,
as
battle against
Carolina's senator,
geting a fght
uthern hearts—the
the anti-lynching bill
The cleavage ig al
Iines—aln
The
days
is cond
dear to so
ne
strictly geograph!-
difference is that in
northern Democrats and
ough there were
mighty few of them In
to shonlder =»
ern wing of the party
practically the
oR!
cal chief
office——stond
the sonth-
Today the bil)
shoulder th
8 New York Democrat,
toth Ken-
tucky senators are voting with its ad
vocates, (Kentuckr has a lot of ne
groes voting!)
Maryland, though its percentage of
negroes voting Is as great as that of
Kentucky, stands firm by the Gorman
tradition. There's a reason, too. Re.
member what happened to Governor
Ritchie?
Boosters of the anti-lynching bill in-
gist the spirit Is entirely different from
that of the bill talked to death under
Gorman’s filibuster, despite herole at-
tempts to force it through by Henry
Cabot Lodge. They say anyone who
opposes the bill condones lynching.
Southerners point to the statistics,
which prove that lynchings have de
creased amazingly, and ask why the
federal government should trample
state rights to Intervene in a situation
which is fast correcting itself,
Object of Bill
If the proponents of th» hill will con-
sider the merits of the Force bill con.
troversy, they will find less difference
than Is at once apparent
The object of the Force bill was,
avowedly, to Insure honest elections,
honest polling liste, and honest ballot
counts in the various states. Actually,
it was timed at preventing, by federal
troops, disfranchisement of negroes In
the South who wanted to vote for the
party of Lincoln; ald coming from
leaders of that party who wanted thelr |
votes—who had to count their votes, |
honestly or not, in Louisiana and Flor |
ida, to elect their President in 1876. |
The object of the present antl-lynch- !
fng bill is to prevent mobs Interfering
in the administration of justice—avow. |
edly. Actually its chief purpose is to |
curry favor with negro voters in the |
northern, western and border states of |
those fighting for the BIL Tt 1s as
purely a local interest bill as a tariff |
measnre, liked In communities where |
products are protected, hated In com-
munities which as a result may have to
pay higher prices
Coprright—WNU Service
Uncommon
Sense ®,... 0d
©. Bell Byndicate WN Service
Make friends, but don't depend on
them,
iife
to make
Your
own,
break,
You have no right,
when you get into trouble, to ask other
people to help you out.
You got into it, and it's your busi
ness to get out again.
Leaning on other people
an end of self-reliance,
And without self-reliance you will be
& pretty poor kind of a
I have known many men, young and
old, who made it a practice to go to
their friends when they got into some
kind of trouble, financial or otherwise,
is your
or
Depend on
Yourself
soon makes
citizen,
None of them ever got anywhere, or
ever did anything in the world that
was worth doing.
» . » ® *
Every man ought to stand
feet.
Start running to this
you will soon be avoided
that you are.
Ask advice, if
who ean give you
don't make small “1
temper when
you.
Fall the
and those on whom 3
of
into
will fall away fron
If you have
to solve,
own advisor,
Above all, don't be
lites of some “big
run to kim whenever 3
Jam,
Start that, and
after jam,
and by
you expect to help you will suddenly
disappear around the corner whea they
see you coming.
. - - * * * »
There is one person in the world to
whom you have a right to go when you
don't know what te do about something
or other.
That is yourself,
If you are always asking and taking
advice, you will become an echo, a “yes
man,” a parasite,
Life isn't going to be easy for you.
If lived the right way, it is not easy
for anybody.
De your own thinking, your own plan.
ning. Make your own way.
truly suc
exactly
has there
man who
Never
cessful
that,
Within the limitations that surr
us all, you are your own boss
Be a good one, and a stern one,
Human perversity will prompt
often to go the wrong way.
ut you can go the right way.
And that is the only way you
take if you want to get the best
of your existence.
. » a . .
been a
did not do
und
y 0 go
can
out
- .
The new born baby begins life by
struggling for his breath. And- from
that time forth, It is
always
some kind of a strug-
gle. The growing
child soon discovers that he has many
i or oven 1
engaged in
Your
Private War
wars on his hands,
with his less
others are with his playmates
he wishes he could run away,
can't.
He must gradually learn that a state
of war envelops all humanity. '
After you have grown past early
boyhood, you are continually engaged
in one kind of a war or other, the most
important of which is your own private
one,
That is the struggle with
and we are informed on very reliable
authority that he who ruleth his own
gpirit is greater than he who taketh a
city.
» * - * » - *
Some of them are ne,
Often
but be
wrepl?
yoursei,
Most of the men with whom 1 be.
came acquainted in my years as a news-
paper reporter were men self-made.
They have fought and won their pri-
vate wars, 2 few with fists, but most
of them with the power of mind.
They have had to engage In keen
and gruelling competition with men
whose wits, for all they knew, were
quite as sharp as theirs
To do that they had to discipline
their wills and to widen their mental
powers,
They had to take blows without
winecing, and to give as good as they
sent.
They had to learn to work first and
to play afterward, and gradually they
found that work and play were much
the same thing, inasmuch as they both
were competitions
* * » - - - .
The boy who is led in his early youth
to believe that he will be taken care
of and be provided for soon becomes a
weakling.
He must learn to take cuffs and, in
most circumstances, give them.
He must get much the same sort of
training that an athlete does who is
about to enter a competition,
Your private war is a war against
It entails self discipline, courage, a
sense of humor and a high resolve to do
everything you coun to succeed, and be a
ing it
This is a land of opportunity. Bat
opportunity must be won and used. It
has got out of the habit of knocking
at people's doors,
Your private war is also the war for