By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
J.FFORTS of European nations,
notably France, to persuade the
United States to join in a neutrality
pact concerning the civil war in
Spain are not likely
to succeed. Howev-
er it is the intention
of our government
not to interfere in
the situation in any
way whatsoever. In-
structions to this ef-
fect were sent to
all American repre.
sentatives in Spain
by William Phillips,
acting secretary o
W. Phillips hg While assert-
ing that the American neutrality
law prohibiting assistance to war-
ring nations does not apply to the
Spanish civil war, Mr. Phillips said
that the United States intended to
conform with its ‘“‘well established
policy of noninterference with
ternal affairs in other countries, ei-
ther in time of peace or civil
strife.”
Most of the nations invited to
participate in the non-intervention
German nationals in
general neutrality failed,
French government would lend aid
to the Leftist government at
Madrid.
Dispatches from Seville said Gen-
eral Franco, rebel commander-in-
chief, had received a large num-
ber of German and Italian planes
manned by aviators from those
countries, and was about to launch
an attack on Madrid from the air.
The fighting for possession of San
Sebastian and in the mountain
passes north of Madrid continued
unabated and losses were heavy on
both sides. General Queipo, rebel
commander at Seville, announced
he was about to adopt new colors
of the rebellion, red and yellow,
which are the colors of the Spanish
monarchy.
FFICIALS of the
bility of drastically reducing or re-
moving altogether the planting re-
strictions on corn and wheat next
year. No decision was made and
farmers will be consulted before
any changes are ordered. It was,
however, definitely stated that
wheat acreage will be expanded.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
passing through Chicago on his way
back from Iowa, said he believed
government-controlled crop insur-
ance would prevent wild price fluc-
tuations in farm produce. The plan,
he said, has not progressed be-
yond the embryo stage, but probab-
ly would entail storage of crops in
government granaries. Each farm-
er, depending on the percentage of
his normal crop he wished to in-
sure, would make his “insurance”
payments in the form of bushels to
be stored in a common pool.
The plan, preventing “lean years
and fat years,” would tend to stabi-
lize market prices because it would
assure a continual adequate sup-
ply of whatever commodity was to
be insured. Gradually, he said, it
might be worked out to include all
major farm produce.
OLLOWING a conference of
President Roosevelt, Chairman
Harrison of the senate finance com-
mittee, Chairman Doughton of the
house ways and means committee
and Secretary of the Treasury Mor-
genthau, the administration's fiscal
program for the coming year was
thus outlined:
1. Assurance that no request will
be made to the next congress for
the levying of additional taxes or in-
crease of present tax rates.
2. Launching of an immediate
study by treasury and congressional
tax consultants of present revenue
laws as a basis for recommenda-
tions to the next congress for elimi-
nation of inequitable taxes, especi-
ally those unfair “to consumers or
to trade.”
3. Treasury assurance that “with
continued recovery” the revenue
yield is approaching the point where
it will cover government costs and
provide a surplus for reduction of
the public debt,
Governor Earle and others, and on
to Cleveland for a visit to the Great
tauqua, N. Y., to deliver
on foreign affairs.
[FIGURES compiled by Dun
tinuation of the rate of decline was
shown for the first week of Aug-
ust.
On the basis of an index kept by
the agency since the end of 1932,
July insolvencies were at the an-
nual rate of 38.2 for each 10,000
firms in business. It compared with
44.6 in June and 52.8 in July, 1935.
In January, 1933, as business was
heading for the banking holiday, it
was above 170.
July failures numbered 639, a fig-
ure exceeded on the downside only
twice for the month since 1894 de-
spite the growth of population and
business in the meanwhile. It com-
pared with 902 in the same month
last year and 2,596 in July, 1032,
around the peak of the depression
liquidation movenient.
For the year to August 8 failures
totaled 6,157 against 7.355 in the
corresponding 1935 months, a drop
of 16.3 per cent.
ORTY - THREE Democrats,
most of them prominent nation-
ally or locally and representing
twenty states, gathered in Detroit
— to tell one another
a and the world how
r much and why they
disliked the New
Deal. After two
days of conferring,
they organized
themselves as the
National Jefferson-
ian Democrats and
named Former
bs. Senator James A.
Reed of Missouri as
J. A. Reed their national chair-
man. They decided to establish
headquarters at once in St. Louis
and to set up an organization in
every state. Then they gave out
a 1,500 word declaration or plat.
form in which they declared they
“will not support for re-election the
candidates of the Philadelphia con-
vention for President and vice presi-
dent, and we call upon all loy-
al and sincere Democrats to con-
sider the question of their duty to
their country in the apprcaching
election with the same earnestness
that has guided our deliberations—
joining with us if they feel that our
The name of Governor Landon
can candidate. Among these are
Joseph B. Ely, Col. Henry Breckin-
ridge, John Henry Kirby of Texas
and Robert S. Bright of Maryland.
WO veterans of the senate, Wil
liam E. Borah of Idaho, Republi-
can, and Joseph T. Robinson of
Arkansas, Democrat and majori-
ty leader, won their fights for re-
nomination without much difficulty.
Borah defeated Byron Defenbach,
who was backed by the Townsend-
ites. His Democratic opponent at
the polls in November will be Gov.
C. Ben Ross. In the Democratic
primary to select a congressman to
succeed the late Joseph W. Byrns
of Tennessee the Townsend influ-
ence gave victory to Richard M.
Atkinson of Nashville by the nar.
row margin of 13 votes.
In the Presidential contest the
American Federation of Labor, as
an organization, will maintain its
traditional non-partisan policy, ac-
cording to the firm declaration of
President William Green. The fed-
eration, said he, is not in the Non-
Partisan Labor league, which is
backing President Roosevelt. “We
will not formally indorse any candi-
date. this fall,” Mr. Green contin
ued. “Our non-partisan committee
will merely prepare parallel reports
on the labor records of the two
chief candidates and of the plat.
forms. We will send out all data
to our membership. They will have
to make up their own minds.”
——
REBELLION among the Town-
sendites, smoldering ever since
their Cleveland convention, has
broken out into civil war. Dr. Fran.
cis Townsend has just summarily
ousted from the organization three
of the eleven directors. Apparently
the reason is that they are support-
ing President Roosevelt and object
to Townsend's effort to swing his
followers to the support ,
The three men thrown out are
Dr. Clinton Wunder, a former Bap-
tist preacher, now living in New
York; John B. Kiefer, Chicago re-
gional director, and Maj. William
Parker of New York, eastern re.
gional director.
W HEN the American Bar as-
sociation convenes in Boston
soon it will receive two widely dif-
fering reports from a special com-
mittee named to study the effects
of New Deal legislation on the
rights and liberties of citizens. They
were made public in Washington.
The majority report, signed by
John D. Clark, Cheyenne, Wyo;
Fred H. Davis, Tallahassee, Fla.;
George L. Buist, Charleston, 8. C.,
and Charles P, Taft II., Cincinnati.
Ohio, ‘deplored’ the action of
President Roosevelt in reducing
congress to a “rubber stamp’ body
legisiation.
“Novel
just
said,
nent changes in national policy,
“There has been a
whether a new social and economic
order is in the making or the old
that they may be preserved.”
These findings were challenged
by Kenneth Wynne, New Haven,
Conn.; Fred L. Williams, St. Louis,
Mo., and James G. McGowen of
Jackson, Miss.
report they said: “If the purpose
of the resolution creating the spe-
cial committee was to get the opin-
ion of the American Bar association
regarding legislative trends de-
signed to meet changing economic
conditions, the report is superficial.
It does not deal with the problem
but concerns itself with a short
range attack on surface triviali-
ties.”
The sharp divergence between
the two reports presages a conflict
and heated discussion at the as-
sociation meeting.
REMIER BLUM made good one
of his campaign promises by
putting the French leftist govern-
ment in control of the Bank of
France. The board of regents, in
existence for a century, was abol-
ished and replaced by a council of
seven headed by Leon Jouhaux,
president of the conference of la-
bor. The others are representatives
of the ministry of finance, savings
banks, consumers’ co-operatives,
handicrafts, chambers of commerce
and chambers of agriculture.
The new board is expected to
continue the anti-devaluationist pol-
icy of the retiring board of the insti-
tution.
H ENRY MORGENTHAU, secre-
tary of the treasury, and the
national commission on fine arts
have given their approval to the
design for a memorial half dollar
which will bear the likeness of
Phineas T. Barnum. The coin will
commemorate the centennial anni-
versary of the establishment of
Bridgeport, Conn., as a city, and
Barnum is honored not for his
achievements as a showman but
for his great philanthropies and
rich gifts to Bridgeport.
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
ROPER'S department has just
put out a “world economic review"
for 1935 which contains many
interesting state ,
ments. It says, for
instance, t h a t
future business
prospects are condi-
tioned in part upon
the possibility of
narrowing the gap
between go v e mn-
ment expenditures
and receipts. It as-
serted that “the
government deficit
springs from the
b
A. P. Sloan
the country,” and continued:
are still manifest.”
the growth of bank deposits and on
the prevailing level of interest
rates.”
The latter statements may well
be compared with the report of
Alfred P. Sloan, president of Gen-
eral Motors, to the stockholders.
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L as a Journalist, writ
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