THE CENTRE By EDWARD W. PICKARD EPUBLICAN leaders throughout | the country were immensely heart. | ened—probably too much so—by the | result of the by-election In the First | district of Rhode Is- land. Charles F. Risk, | Republican and deter- | mined opponent of the | New Deal, defeated Antonio Prince, Demo- | erat, by nearly 13,000 votes, capturing the | geat in congress which | Francis B. Condon, Democrat, resigned to | ® 4 go on the State Su- | yreme court. The re | Chas. F. Risk ns was so decisive that the Republicans halled it as a | clear Indication that President Roose- | velt would be defeated for re-election | next year. Representative B. H. Snell of "New | York, minority leader, made a speech } about it in the house in which he said: | “This is the first time the people of | any part of the country have had an | opportunity to pass on the reckless | and extravagant expenditures of the administration. They have passed up- | on it in a very decisive manner. The | election shows the people are begin. | ning to think. The handwriting Is on | the wall. From now on we will wit- | ness similar rejections by the citizenry | of the ilew Deal program.” i Other Republican congressmen spoke | in similar vein, but John J. O'Connor, | New York Tammany Democrat, coun- | tered with the assertion that there was | a split In the Democratic party In the | Rhode [sland distriet; while Tom Blan- | ton of Texas shouted shame on Rhode | Island because it had asked more fed- eral ald than almost any other state. Anti-New Deal Democratic senators, like Gerry, Byrd and Tydings, agreed the election was significant, but from the White House there was no com- ment. Former Senator Fess of Ohlo with surprising frankness expressed the be- lief that the G. O. P. would have to walt antil 1840 to elect a President. Voicing the opinion of many, the vet- eran campaigner sald: “1 don't see how the strongest Republican without all that money next year can beat the | weakest Democrat with nearly $5,000,- 00Q,000 at his disposal.” R EPUBLICANS of the ten Midwest- ern states that participated in the Grass Roots conference in Springfield, Ill, have made the Grass Roots’ move | ment a permanent auxiliary of the | party. Harrison E. Spengler of lowa | is its chairman, Mrs. Leslie Whebler of Illinois the vice chairman, and Jo Ferguson of Oklahoma, the secretary. Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, not rep- resented at the Springfield meeting. | have been invited to Join in the move ment. GENATOR HUGO BLACK of Ala bama may bring out a lot of facts in his inquiry into lobbying, but his way of conducting the Investigation is not winning him any credit. The house has all along feit that he was trying to bully it Into accepting the utilities bill “death sentence” clause and has been correspond- ingly resentful. Vari ous witnesses before the senate committee have felt, seemingly with reason, that they were being treated un- fairly. One of these witnesses who com plained bitterly was Patrick J. Hurley, secretary of war in the Hoover ad ministration. He testified that he had received £100,000 from the Associated Gas and Electric system in the last three years, but insisted he was paid for legal advice only and had done no lobbying. Hurley was not permitted to read a prepared statement, and Black's interjections and questions so angered the witness that he rose to his feet and shouted: “Everyone knows all you gentiemen are good prosecutors! Of course, you don't know what it is to be fair or just. You try to put words into a witness’ mouth. Your questions are all on the type of the ‘Why don’t you stop beating your wife? query.” Joseph P. Tumulty, who was secre- tary to President Wilson, also was put on the stand and was not treated so roughly. He, too, admitted receiving considerable sums from utility con- cerns, and like Hurley he denied that ne had done any lobbying. Tumuilty estified that he pald former Senator teorge H, Moses (Rep), N. H., $5000 ind would pay another $2,500 to John Walsh, a brother of the late Senator fhomas J. Walsh {(Dem.), Mont. Moses ind Walsh, Tumuity sald, ‘are attor veys and aided in work done for the itility clients, P. J. Hurley HERE were strong Indications that the house ways and means committee would produce an entirely sew measure to replace the Guffey bituminous coal blll. Chalrman Deughton revealed that the committes had adopted a number of amendments designed to bring the measure within constitutional Hmits and to meet ob- that It would discriminate The com- mittee still stood 14 to 11 against the The President was sald to have Informed the Democratic mem- bers that he was agreeable to any changes they might wish to make pro- ure were maintained, According to current report, the changes agreed upon in the committee included: Elimination of the section forbid- ding the Interstate Commerce commis to issue certificates of conven: Establishment of a consumers’ coun- sel to safeguard the interests of con sSumers, Addition of a provision for hearings determine whether the method of fixing prices was working to the detri- ment of any coal producing district. Reduction from nine to five in the number of commission members, and shall bave any outside connections. Reduction from to 15 per cent the amount of the tax assessed a “-) in Reduction from 99 to 90 per cent In the amount of credit allowed the pro- ducers who abide by the code. IOLENTLY attacked from all sides and nowhere defended with en thusiasm, the President's new share the-wealth tax bill nevertheless was put through the house because of the great administration major- ity and also because the congressmen are tired out and eager to go home. Represent. ative Treadway, Re publican, of Massa- chusetts, made a last effort against the measure with a reso lution to send It back to committee, but this was easily defeated. As passed by the house, the bill Is quite what the President asked Briefly summarized, It increases Sen. Barbour substitutes a graduated corpor levy, puts new taxes on inheritances and gifts in addition to those already borne by estates and gifts, imposes new taxes of 0 to 20 per cent on “ex- cess” profits of corporations. it is designed to raise revenne esti mated at between £250.000000 and $270,000,000, Its warmest friends couldn't explain how this would do much in the way of bringlog about what the President calls “wider dis tribution of wealth,” or in the way of balancing the budget. The measure was handed on to the senate with dubious prospects. It was expected the senate finance committee would study it for about a week, and in the meanwhile the conservative Re publicans and not a few Democrats were preparing to fight it. Senator W. W. Barbour of New Jersey, Repub- lican, fired an opening gun with a statement in which he sald: “Votes, and votes alone, are the objective of this half-baked measure.” Declaring the bill “has no relation to making income meet outgo, but is intended to accomplish some weird social objective,” Barbour continued: “What this bill actually attempts is to climb upon that hard-ridden steed, “Share-the-Wealth,” and ride him away while the demagogues who have pressed him sorely in the past are look- ing in the other direction. “The bill should be lald away until the next session of congress when the budget for the ensuing year will be presented. Then, in the light of care fully appropriated federal moneys, we can determine how much revenue will be needed to operate. “Taxes can be levied deliberately as a true revenue measure. Any other program is not good business and is not good government.” One change made by the house against the President's wishes involved corporfitions’ gifts to charities. Mr. Roosevelt was firmly against letting corporations deduct from their taxable income any gifts to charity. Just as firmly the house voted to let them deduct up to § per cent of their In- COMPAR, ITH some reluctance the senate begun consideration of the Walsh bill giving the President power to require minimum wage and maxi mum hour standards of all firms bid ding for government contracts. That measure has been added to the admin. istration's “must” list. The , Repub leans were preparing to fight the bil as another government plan for regu lation of private industry. They point out that It hits about every Industry in the country, since it not only ap piles to corporations selling to the government but extends also to state and local projects wholly or partly fAnanced by federal funds OT to be dismayed by the death AN of NRA, Senator J. C. O'Ma- honey of Wyoming thinks the objec tives of that contraption, high labor standards and falr competition, can be realized, and for ‘hat purpose he has drawn up a measure for the regulation of all national commerce by licensing business. The bill creates a licensing system for businesses engaged In commerce among the states and provides a na- tional incorporation law, The federal trade commission, the government's business policeman in the days before NRA and the agency to which the New Deal turned after NRA codes were outlawed, would be the key- stone of the new plan. O'Mahoney’s bili would Increase its membership from five to nine, with three com missioners representing employees, three employers, and three the gen- eral public, TOTWITHSTANDING warnings by Dr. Hjialmar Schacht and other sane Germans, some of the Nazl lead- ers Insist on pushing to further ex. tremes the war on Jews and Catholics, For instance, Paul Jo- seph Goebbels, minis ter of propaganda, ln a speech at Essen ane nounced drastic ae tion against all “en- emies” of the Nazi state—Jews, Catholics, the foreign press and the Stahihelm war vet. Paul Goebbels era ns He predicted these important de velopments: 1. Suppression of the Catholic press and Intensification of the Naz! cam- palgn against all Catholic opponents of the third reich. 2. Nationwide Stahlhelm. 3. An official ban in near future on marriages between Jews and Aryans, dissolution of the NGLAND and France were stil] try- ing to find the way to avert war between Italy and Ethiopia, but Pre mier Mussolinl of Italy was so skep- tical that he ordered 75,000 more men to the colors. By the first of October be will have about a million men in uniform. Halle Selassie, the Ethi- oplan emperor, was reported to have sanctioned the concentration of 60.000 of his troops on Italy's east African frontiers. The chiefs, It Is sald, are finding increasingly - difficult to re strain their warriors from overt acts that would surely precipitate warfare it is NANDA, the eleven-year-old king of Siam, nearly lost his throne the other day. A widespread plot was formed under the leadership of oon commissioned officers of the regular army to overthrow the government But loyalists uncovered it and effec tually smashed It. The plotters In- tended to seize and kill thelr superior officers and oust the regency council that rules the country. UDDEN death put an end to the ca reer of Nathan P. Bryan of Jack: sonville, Fila, presiding judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals Fifth Judicial circuit. Judge Bryan, who was sixty-three years old, was formerly United States senator from Florida. Frank H. Hitcheoek, publisher of the Daily Citizen of Tucson, Ariz, suc cumbed to pneumonia after several months of ill health. Prominent in Republican party politics all his ma ture life, Mr. Hitchcock managed Taft's Presidential campaign in 1908 both before and after the convention and was postmaster general In the Taft cabinet. For years he was ac tively interested In the progress of aviation OE LOUIS, negro pugilist of De troit who hopes some day to be tha heavyweight champion of the world advanced another step toward that goal by defeating “King” Levinsky In the first round of a scheduled ten round bout in Chicago. Levinsky was knocked down four times in little more than two minutes, and the referec then gave the fight to Joe on a tech: nical knockout. Louls and Max Baer, former champion, have signed for a battle In September, AMUEL INSULL'S annual pension of $21.000 has been restored by vote of the directors of the Chicago utility companies which he formerly headed, and he also receives about $£33.250 to cover payments accruing since the beginning of last year when payments were suspended by the tom panies. Insull previously announced he had made no effort to regain his pensions. Agitation to restore the payments was begun after Insull haa been freed in the federal and state courts of all eriminal charges growing out of his management of his former properties, government led to strikes and ous were naval shipyards workers at Brest, steamship employees at various ports and bus and gas plant workers liners was delayed. Finally the gov. ernment issued new decrees lowering somewhat mollified. The Communists were blamed for the violence EARLY $8.000,000--87, 784.000, to be exnct-—~has been allotted from the works-rellef funds by President Roosevelt for a census of American business. The census burean asked and received this after it had been allotted $205,000 for a survey of retail trade. The business work Is to be gin at once. and the canvass wil start on January & N SE n Washington.—Down in South Caro. lina, where cotton benefit payments abound and which is so regular in Its Democracy that even the Bishop Can- non movement did not affect It in 1028, there are sald to be rumblings against the New Deal There are enough rumblings to de cide Col. Willlam ©. Harllee, retired, of the Marine corps, to throw his hat in the ring for the senate. And against none other than Senator James F. Byrnes, generally Fegarded as the follower President Roosevelt in the senate, If not in congress. So close, In fact, that until Joe Robinson simply turned him- self into a White House rubber stamp there was very serious talk mak ing Byrnes leader In his place. closest has of Colone! Harllee, who is a graduate of West Point but the marines instead of the army and has seen serv- vice In nearly martial theater in which the devil dogs burned pow- der, thinks Byrnes is too New Deal ish to suit the South Carolina folks, And Judging from some newspaper clippings which have come to Wash ington there are at least a few edi tors In the Palmetto state who agree. chose every seems to be the but he Insists Professor Tugwell colonel’'s chief target, that is not a John Raskob Dem- ocrat either-just a plain, old-fash- foned, Jeffersonian, nullificationist, pro-Calhoun and anti-Jackson, states’ rights, low tariff, Democrat. In fact, he is not any all, sticking strongly by the ficationist doctrine, when lina held that the federal nt Washington had tariff barriers eign goods Ko he for tariff at old nulll- South Caro government ight to rear would keep for of her ports. noe r which out think might make a lot administra tion's falr-haired They say that the people who put the money up for Byrnes’ in are very disappointed In him. Par ticularly on his sticking the ad ministration on the processing taxes, and on his fight sen. tence In the publ ity holding bill me very shrewd observers o the: Colonel Harllee just of trouble for senator, the campaigns the past by for the death util Now They Doubt It the ic just interests in his several servative variety. all right, but what 1 anxious to do was to lease. Now some of them 80 that of pported happens that su races were of They many iyrnes the con liked Byrnes, they were really defeat Cole are won dering If Blease would not have voted more often in thelr interests, as they see them. “What 3yrd and writer asked Colonel Harllee pecially of way they have posed the administration on a number of important do you hink th of Giinss of Senators the *Es. Of Virginia?” the measures?” “1 wish vou would ers that 1 will tell your read iyrd Harry and ont-Glass Carter,” grinned the colonel “A great many of our people are getting tired of this relief thing. They want to get people to work, and find them on relief, buying cheap new cars on time with the relief money, and just stepping on the gas. I think Washington is going to be surprised at some of the primaries and elections to come, If the feeling In South Caro lina is any Indication” It promises to be rather warm in South Carolina pext spring and sum- mer! The Ethiopian Mess Italy will have no difficulty in de. feating the Abyssinians in whatever battles may occur in the approaching war, in the opinion of high military experts both in our own War depart ment and In various embassies here The trouble will come after that, they believe, as they fully expect there will be a constant guerrilla warfare for years during Italian efforts at colonization, Hence it is expected that the Ethi- opian mess, which the rest of the world Is so anxious to avert, but Italy is so determined to push, will prove highly costly to the Italian treasury for many a long day to come Ex. perts here figure that Italy will have to garrison the country, so to speak, with strong forces at strategic points, and this, of course, will prove expen: sive, Confidentiaily, for no officer dares speak on such a situation for publi cation, our army officers are compar ing the situation to that which ex- isted for a time after the Spanish- American war in the Philippines They expect Italy to have more trou ble than the United States did for out For example, some of thom say, it er would walk into any such trap as clamped Aguinaldo in American cus tody. Incidentally, there is no great pride, even to this day, In our army over that episode. It smacked a Mt tle too mauch of bad faith. Of treach- ery. Then, too, our military experts do not believe that any one man in Abys sinila means as much to fighters of that land as Aguinalde to the Filipinos In thelr desperate fight. Are Good Fighters jut of all, whisper, of secrecy. army officers do not believe the Fill- pinos are in the same class with the Abyssinians as fighters. Either phys leally, morally or mentally. here is that the followers of the King of Kings are pretty fine specimens, capable of great hardships and valor, and that in addition they are, at least, approaching the fanatic class. Which makes them very difficult to han die. And which promises little in the direction of their submitting to the Inevitable after a few spectacular Italian victories, the most important distinction no army officer would gave on the deepest That there will be these spectacular Italian victories no very much, Opinion force as that of the matter how brave or how rected, could possibly be a the well drilled, well the Italians will send against Especia’ly as Mussolini is apparently taking chances, He is not send ing out the forlorn hope type of ex pedition. He is pouring men to the vicinity the Abyssinian border In numbers that Lave amazed the mill tary experts of the remainder of the world, here doubts that Abyvesinians, no well di mateh for army them. one is no such equipped no of Meanwhile the answer to why noth ing happens is simply one thing-—wa- ter, The Italians are waiting for the rainy season, Shaves Hoary Legend first chance Just when the publie, for the time In a generation, had a to get a liberal education on of seniority In congress—just why the mnki-service-striped boys always run the machine—Cactus Jack Garner comes along and the whiskered legend! He is appointing conferees portant controversies house and senate to Or more to regards majority view of senate. been no par- ticular protest about for In ev- ery instance his appointees represent the majority Had it been otherwise, instance, a mere mo the by nate the value shaves hoary on between himself! reflect what im- the suit accurately, the There he as the has this, ed view, in any have resulted | the explains why the of would Ben. rs n ale's conferees Which upsetting vole, takes ly- naming ®e this an old tradition ing down. Seldom had legisia- tion is really the floor the even in the house or senate committees prior the floor between the conferees get ever before has the country such a vivid picture of how settied-—-not on of house or senate—not to bringing the —=but two through, and the eos will essures on the conference After the gesuming they is bills for fs OF in houses agree that confer this time) the mere and senate take it or leave iL. And has always been take It probability on all nothing AR Tee there Is much memberships of the house to do except generally, It Will this Which brings now he time, the time-honored rule, Tech nically house ap points five members of the house, and the Vies the sens une to somewhnt lacerated the speaker of the President five ers of the the mem te, and and two bh adjust fexts the metimes differences in ideas In asure which mises have just passed, .S it is only three. In mportant measures, particularly tax bills, it Is seven. Al ways the majority party has one more conferee from each house than the minority. Yery Norma'ly in the past no discretion has been exercised by the presiding officers In making the selections. Ap- pointments have almost Invariably been made of the ranking members of the committees that bandied the bill. Absurd Rule Vice President Garner had an ecrly illustration of the absurdities this rule sometimes effects. For instance, when he was naming conferees on the pink slip income tax publicity repeal bill, he named the three ranking Demo crats of the senate finance commit. tee, Harrison, King and George. Also the two ranking Republicans, Couzens and Keyes So far strictly according to Hoyle. But Couzens didn't like the sen ate's position—was not in sympathy with the repeal, as a matter of fact So he snnounced his resignation from the floor. Garner at once appointed the next ranking Republican, La Fol jette. The Wisconsin man shared Couzens’ views—also resigned. So Garner appointed the next ranking Republican, Metcalf, Still according to Hoyle. But there was the idea, and Garner announced he would exercise his own discretion in foture, Contrary to some newspaper ac counts, he has not tried to use this power *o impose White House will It seemed so in the death sentence of the public utility holding company bill. But the senate had voted for the death sentence, even If only by a majority of one. So Garner threw genlority to the winds. He appointed Wheeler, the chairman, skipped Smith of South Carolina and Wagner of New York, to pick administration wheel horse Barkley, and then skipped to pick Brown of New Hampshire, ranking members Couzens, Metcalf he ignored Davis and picked Ship stead, who is not a Republican at all On the TVA bill Garner took the list of conferees from George Norris, dad dy of Muscle Shoals. But on the banking bill he permitted Carter Glass to name the conferecs, Copyright. WNU Bervies, “QUOTES” COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS NOTE OF DISSENT By ARTHUR A. BALLANTINE Asst. Secretary of the Treasury. ITH a limit set by the Su- preme court on government experimentation with industry by regimentation, the President has made a8 sudden turn to ‘experimentation through taxation. The Supreme court early that the constitutional power to tax Is power to destroy, and the President now advocates of this drastic power for purposes very different from that of raising revenue, declared Re If such experiments are made, thelr effects on industry will be costly, not merely those immediately affected but to average man and woman concerned with employment and pro- motion. It seems inconceivable that such a program should be rallroaded through without real discussion, as seems to be proposed, to the CRY FOR: PEACE By HAILE SELABSIB Emperor of Ethiopia. ruona wants peace. She « needs it for completion of the work of modernization which ha been going on years and which a war would destroy. We want to spread throughout the whole empire, to build roads for com- and to develop that 80 as to work the liberated slaves, whose Interest gre our own. We are bullding stations so that Ethiopla can participate in the intellectual life of the rest of the world, Any threat of war from Italy would interfere with this work, on which we for several education merce commerce give to 1 racio wish to spend our whole time and en- ergy. Ethiopia wants to go freely and pacifically forward on her way of prog- ress, STABILIZING INFLUENCE By HARRY ING Asst HINES WOODERE retary of War. no | HE army is stranger to the z that 1t was in the decades Iy g the World find elements Be lancer longer: the arm A age A mer- ican war, jand yer of the regular or civilian every commune the army has become an Today we forces eit of our components, In almost art of the American people war. 1 without fear of contradiction that serves in peace and say our armed forces constitute the great- est stabilizing Influence today. in our country though small in numbers and having been considerably handicapped by the lack of sufficient modern equip- ment, our reonnel, through an extensive edi ional system, has be- come wit t as efficient as any military in the world, WORLD ON MEND SIR ROBERT BORDEN mer Premier of Canada " aT - N (J) ONE can deny that con- A fu 11f13 sed and very difficult cone ditions day, but even at my advanced age I am still a confirmed optimist, and I not only trust but believe that all will yet be well with the world, This is quite consistent with my belief that certain anomalies In our social order ought to be and will be corrected. The conditions today call for sctive participation in public affairs by the best elements of our people. * This is a principle that I have maintained throughout my public career, and 30 years ago 1 declared 1 would rather See a young man actively engaged in opposition to my party than remain Inactive as a drone without Interest in the public affairs of our country. Py ¥ confront the nations to- JAPAN'S WAR SPIRIT By KANJU KATO Representing Japan's Trade Unions. HE danger of war in China is spreading. The war spirit has been inspired by imperialists and Is being carefully nourished by them, The ambition for territorial expan sion in Japan belongs to the Japanese capitalists. They are pushing war preparation In spite of all we can do. The imperialistic policy of the Unit. ed States and the Far Eastern policy of Japan cannot be reconciled. They meet in direct conflict in China. Eng- land Is gradvally fading into the background, so that the chief conflict of interests is developing between the United States and Japan. A ——— KEEP UP WAGES By HENRY FORD Automobile Manufacturse, USINESS must keep up wages. If that isn’t done, some business men will find that they are out of business. Our system Is dependent upon paying wages so the working people can buy, A WAGE FIXING By WILLIAM B. BORA U, 8 Benator from hh w lief projects at $19 a month monopoly can fix the price of the worker must buy in and
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