ILLIAM E. BORAH, the liberal
Republican senator from Idaho,
is now a full fledged candidate for the
Republican Presidential nomination.
He formally put him-
self in the running by
announcing that he
would enter the pri-
mary in Ohio which
will be held May 12,
That state requires
that the candidate
shall declare himself
in writing, and this
Mr. Borah sald he
would do.
The senator's state-
ment follows:
“After a thorough survey of the Ohlo
situation I am convinced that the peo-
ple of that state should be given an
opportunity to express their choice in
the Presidential primary on May 12.
Under the so-called ‘favorite son’ plan
this privilege is denied them.
“To obtain an expression of popular
will it is my intention to place at least
eight candidates or delegates at large
in the field.
“I shall make a number of speeches
in Ohio and present the issues as I
see them.”
It is understood by his friends that
the senator will make a contest for
delegates In almost every state having
a preference primary. He says the G. O.
P. conventions have been dominated by
the old conservative leaders through
the operations of the “favorite son”
scheme and this control he intends to
destroy if possible. It is his opinion
that only a liberal Republican can de-
feat President Roosevelt next fall, and
few will deny that he 1s the outstand-
ing liberal in his party.
Senator Borah
N HIS press conference President
Roosevelt announced that a billion
dollars’ worth of lending authorized
by acts of congress would not be car-
ried out. For example, the Home Own-
ers’ Loan corporation has passed on
nearly all proposed loans and will not
need between 500 million and a billion
dollars, the President declared. Appli-
cations for HOLC loans closed last
June 27, Outstanding loans of the
agency amount to near 2 billion 900
million dollars.
EADS of various government agen-
cles concerned with housing have
submitted to the President a nation-
wide, low cost program based on cheap
federal loans to local communities. Ac-
cording to authoritative sources, this
undertaking would contemplate:
1. A long-range building program.
2. Interest rates perhaps as low as
1 per cent on federal loans.
8. Construction of facilities for as
many as one million families.
Full control of management and con-
demnation proceedings would be lodged
with local officials under the plan, the
alm being to decentralize activities
from Washington,
ONFORMING to the request of the
President, both senate and house
passed measures repealing the cotton,
tobacco and potato control acts. In
the house nine radicals and John J.
O'Connor of New York voted “no” as
a protest against the Supreme court
after Marcantonio of New York had
delivered a violent attack on that
tribunal,
Following this action, the senate
agriculture committee rewrote and in-
troduced the administration's substi-
tute farm bill. The revamped meas-
ure provides that the federal govern
ment would make grants to the states
Just as is done now under the roads
act. The states In turn would desig-
nate some agency, to be approved by
the secretary of agriculture, to dis
tribute the money to individual farmers,
This money would be distributed on a
formula taking into consideration:
Acreage of crops.
Acreage of soil improving or erosion
preventing crops.
Changes In farming practices,
Percentage of the normal production
of any one or more agriculture com-
modities designated by the secretary
of agriculture, which equals that per-
centage of the normal national pro-
duction of the commodity,
Evan Presidential possibility these
days must have some plan for the
salvation of the American farmer. Sen-
ator L. J. Dickinson of Towa, often
mentioned for the Re.
publican nomination,
now brings out his
permanent farm pro-
gram which he says
would divorce the
farm problem from
“bureaucratic control”
in Washington. His
plan would embrace
erosion control, soll
conservation, and res.
would be handled
Jointly by the states and the federal
government In a manner similar to
highway construction,
The program, similar to
that advocated by former Gov. Frank
O. Lowden of lllinols, includes pay-
ment of the balance due signers of
AAA contracts, a higher tariff on farm
products, continued corn loans, and ex-
tension of farm mortgages at a low
rate of interest.
J rIATIONISTS in congress, led by
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma and
Representative Patman of Texas, were
all prepared to wage a great battle to
force the printing of new money. They
were just waiting for the introduction
of a new tax program, declaring they
would try to block such legislation if
it were attempted. It was belleved
that, If the tax Issue were not raised
soon, the fight would start over the
Frazier-Lemke farm mortgaging re-
financing bill
The forces behind this bill, which
calls for the refinancing of farm in-
debtedness on easy terms through the
issuance of up to $3,000,000,000 in new
money, had succeeded in getting 215
signatures on a petition to force a vote
in the house. Only 218 were needed
and its backers were pressing for the
three names,
Administration leaders were con-
fident they could defeat the inflationists
by a wide margin.
ENATOR VANDENBERG of Michi-
gan has grave doubts of the eco-
nomic necessity or value of the ship
canal that is being dug across central
Florida, and offered in the senate com-
merce committee a resolution for inves-
tigation by a special committee. In
support of his move he produced let-
ters from eleven companies operating
steamships saying they would not use
the canal even If no tolls were charged.
They asserted the expense of employ-
ing canal pllots added to the risk of
damage to ships would offset saving
in navigation costs.
Work was started some time ago on
the canal, which, if completed, will
cost between S140000000 and $200.
000,000.
dinner In Miami, Fila.
“The Liberty league.”
sald Farley, “woul
rule America, It wonld
squeeze the worker
dry in his old age and
cast him like an orange
rind into the refuse
pail. It would con
tinue the infamous pol-
fey of using the agen-
Nn A cies of government to
create a plutocracy
J. A. Farley that would perpetuate
the sorry business of the Mellons and
the Morgans in reducing 05 per cent of
the people
the mercy
top.
“The American Liberty league speaks
as conclusively for the reactionaries
and their party as do Mr, Hoover, the
United States Chamber of Commerce
and the National Manufacturers’ asso-
clation,
“Its program is frankly platocratic
and asks for the rule of money over
men, a8 during the 12 years before
Roosevelt's administration.
“It demands that workers and
farmers be ‘put in their places’ and
made to understand that they are
mere hewers of wood and carriers of
water,
“Its idea of the ‘American way' Is
to maintain a system under which ali
the wealth of the nation was being
concentrated In the hands of a very
few—3 per cent of the people”
At their convention In Washington
the United Mine Workers also took a
crack at the Liberty league, adopting
a resolution denouncing the organiza-
tion as “inimical to the interests and
people of the United States”
of the exploiters at the
IVE of the members of the new fed.
eral reserve board were Inducted
into office with due ceremony. A sixth,
Ralph W. Morrison of Texas, was to
arrive later and be
sworn in. The seventh
member had not yet
been named by Presi.
dent Roosevelt. Mar.
riner 8. Eccles, ap-
pointed chairman, and
M. 8, Szymezak of Chi-
cago, were holdovers..
The others besides
Morrison are Ronald
Ransom, Atlanta bank- :
er; John McKee of
Ohio, former chief Warring 8.
bank examiner for the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
and Joseph A. Broderick of New York,
The reserve board, which has been
called “a supreme court of banking”
has powers unparalleled In American
financial history. Among these Is an
thority to double present margins that
member banks are required to main.
tain against deposits; the dominant
voice on the open-market committee
which charts the system's participation
in the government bond market, and
over which it had no authority under
the former law ; power of veto over the
heads of the warious reserve banks
which insures the selection of a presi.
dent who will cooperate with the
board, and the power to fix murgins
governing relations between banks and
brokers,
NITED Mine Works of America, 1a
convention In Washington, shout
ed boisterous deflance at Willlam
palgn for Industrial organization,
American labor, The A, F. of L., which
favors the craft (or skilled worker)
mittee working for industrial unions.
But as he warmed up to his subject,
the views of the miners and the seat-
tered applause which had greeted his
remarks changed to boos and shouts of
opposition,
When Lewis arose to reply to Green
he was given the support of almost
every delegate in the hall
of transportation, is trying to wipe
out an estimated annual waste of $50,-
000,000 in railroad terminal operations,
. and announced that he
would soon order the
unification of terminal
facilities In eleven
cities. This, he figures,
will save the affected
ralilronds at least
$800,000 annually. Mr.
Eastman had tried une
successfully to have
the carriers make the
changes voluntarily.
The unifications will
J. B. Eastman . ,,.qered at Worces-
ter, Mass.; Mechanicsville, N. Y.;
Grand Rapids, Mich.; Jacksonville,
Fla.; Montgomery, Ala.; Meridian,
Miss. ; Freeport, IIL; Des Moines, and
Council Bluffs, Iowa ; Beaumont, Texas,
and Ogden, Utah.
After the first group of orders, East.
man sald that, if necessary, he was pre-
pared to compel “other steps of in-
creasing magnitude,” but would “stand
aside If railroads are able to produce
their own momentum.”
Unless extended by congress, East.
man's office will expire In June. He
has recommended that it be continued
at least five years,
N ORDERS from Gov. Harold G.
Hoffman of New Jersey, further
investigation of the Lindbergh kidnap-
ing and murder case has been started,
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of
the state police, assigned two of his
star detectives for the inquiry, and
has enlisted the ald of federal Investl-
gating agencies and the New York po-
lice,
The governor wants the Investigation
to be painstaking and thorough, The
reprieve which he granted Hauptmann
will expire on February 15. After that
date at least four weeks, and perhaps
five, will elapse before the date for the
execution which will be ordered by
Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, who
presided over the trial
The governor believes that by that
time his power of reprieve will have
expired in this case, and he will not
grant another unless Attorney General
David T. Wilentz concurs, Unless new
developments warrant it, the attorney
general will not sgree to further de-
lay In the execution
AVID LLOYD former
British prime who, to-
with President Wilson and
Clemencean, was largely responsible
for the remaking of the map of the
world after the war, now admits that
work was not wisely done. Rising in
parliament to support a resolution by
Lansburg, Laborite, urging Britain to
call a world conference to deal with the
causes of war, Lloyd George sald:
*1 do not believe there will be peace
in the worid until you consider the
GEORGE,
minister
many's colonies were split up,
glum got the best part of German East
Africa and the whole of the Congo.
of square miles,
tropical territories,
you
with practically none."
proposal, however, passing instead an
ples.
er in Switzerland,
murder is likely to be bad for the
for refugees that it has been in the
past.
To reduce the danger of clashes be-
tween Jews and militant Nails, Dr,
of propaganda, prohibited all meetings
of Jewish cultural associations,
HETHER an ofl embargo against
Italy could be made effective was
the knotty problem confronting a
League of Nations committee of ex-
perts that met in Geneva. About a
dozen countries were represented, but
Poland refused to take part on the
ground that It exports no oll to Italy,
but only to Czechoslovakia,
Leugue authorities sald the investi-
gation Into practical possibilities of en.
forcing an oll embargo against Italy, in
addition to the present war penalties,
was likely to center to a large degree
on the altitude of the United States.
By
LOWELL
HENDERSON
© Bell 8yndicate —WNU Bervice,
FIFI E SNE SURES ReEseT
The Similarities Test
In each problem of the following
test there are three words. The first
words bear a certain relation.
ship to one another. Write In a
fourth word which bears the same
relationship to the third word that
the secoud does to the first
1. Flame, gas; bulb, ——,
2. Gasoline, automobile ; horse, w—,
3. Frank Frisch, baseball: Harold
McSpaden, ——,
4. Thin, thick; slim, ——,
5. Homer, poetry; Demosthenes,
6. Albany,
cord, .
7. Soldier, army; sailor, ——,
8. Roosevelt, Garner ; Hoover,
9. America's Cup, yachting ;Wight-
man Cup,
10, Stateroom,
New York; Con-
ocean liner; cell,
Use only the following words:
navy, Curlls, prison, electricity, fat,
New Hampshire, wagon,
tennis, golf,
oratory,
Answers
Electricity, 0.
Wagon,
Golf, 7.
Fat,
Oratory,
New Hamp-
shire,
Navy,
Curtis,
Tennis,
Prison,
‘
10,
Noble Ambition Is That
It is that noble ambition, the high
est
$n the heart,
brain,
and ized
which will not let a
orga
man be
content unless his intellectual power
i® recognized by i
his race, and de-
sires that it sl Ie ontribute
their welfare,
It ix the herole
ing that in old days pr
gods ; without
without
men
Zuyder Zee Most Gone
Having
Zuyder Zee has oh
Yseel Meer,
the reinforcing are
of th vid inlan
almost disappeared, the
ied
the mishty di
and the mighty dyke and
iY #
effacing
the memory 1 sea of
Holland,
German Castle Scene of
Novel Rescue by Women
Not far from Hellbronn in War.
temburg, Germany, is the ruin of the
Castle of Welbertreu, concerning
which is told one of the most curl
ous tales of the Middle ages. It ap
pears that in the Twelfth century
the castle was captured by a feudal
chief, who, holding the male Inhabi-
tants within its grim walls, planned
to put them all to death.
As a parting gesture to the wom:
en, who were similarly captured, he
gave them permission to leave the
castle and take with them only their
most valued plece of property. To
the victor's astonishment, the wom-
en marched across the drawbridge
to freedom, each carrying her hus
band on her back. For this reason,
says the old legend, the old fortress
came to be called “The Castle of
True Wives"
“Stuff a Cold and Starve
Fever” Wrong, Says Doctor
I do not know who was responsible
for the slogan, “Stuff a cold and
starve a fever.” Perhaps the same
one who started, “Eat, drink, and ba
merry, for tomorrow we die,” To
follow the former would probably
result in dying, though perhaps with
little merriment. It is unfortunate
that slogans have so strong a hold
on people and so powerful an in.
fluence on conduct,
Don't stuff a cold or starve =
fever! Eat not by slogan but to
meet the particular situation. In
that way lles Intelligent treatment
jut don’t try to treat a fever, or s
bad cold either, without expert ade
vice, Consult your family doctors
and follow his directions. —Dr Wal
ter H. Eddy, director Good House
keeping Bureau,
IVING your child a medi-
cine or remedy you don't
know all about — without csk-
ing your family doclor first — is
a bad risk for any mother to
take.
Doctors and child authori-
ties say health, and sometimes
life itself, depends on this,
So — when you're offered a
“bargain” in a remedy for your
child; ask your doctor before
NOW, ALSO IN TABLET FORM
You can assist others by refusing to
accept a substitute for the genuine
Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia. Do this in
the interest of yourself and your chil
dren—and in the interest of the
public in general.
you buy it. Do this for your
child's sake and your own peace
of mind.
Ask him particularly about
the frequently used “milk of
magnesia’ — about Phillips’
Milk of Magnesia. He will teil
you that for over 60 years phy-
sicians have endorsed it as SAFE
for your child. The kind of
remedy you want your child to
have.
Remember this when you
buy, and say “ Phillips’ Milk «
Magnesia” to your druggist.
Comes now, also, in tablets
that taste of peppermint, that
children like to take.
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