La Guardia's Victory
T AMMANY HALL went down to
inglorious defeat in the New
York municipal election. Its mayor-
alty candidate, Jeremiah T. Maho-
ney, who was sup-
ported also by Jim
Farley and Senator
Wagner, was thor
oughly whipped by
Fiorello H. La Guar-
dia, candidate of the
fusionists, the Re-
publicans and the
young American La-
bor party. LaGuar-
4 dia, the first ‘‘re-
form’’ mayor ever
T. E. Dewey ro¢lected in New
York, piled up a majority of 454,425.
The Republicans hailed the result
as a great victory for their party,
and it was. But it also put the La-
bor party in the position of holding
the balance of power in future elec-
tions in the metropolis.
Second in interest only to the
mayoralty vote was the fact that
Thomas E. Dewey, the young man
who smashed organized crime and
the rackets in New York, was elect-
ed district attorney, defeating Har-
old W. Hastings, the Tammany nom-
inee. Dewey, who is only thirty-five
years old, promises reform in the
methods of the 0™ce, and his record
gives assurance these will be car-
ried out.
The Republicans regained control
of the New York state assembly
and of many upstate cities.
C.1.O. Loses in Detroit
HE first important venture of
the C. 1. O. in politics turned out
disastrously for the Lewis organiza-
tion. Patrick H. O'Brien, its may-
oralty candidate, declared on the
stump that “labor must seize the
reins of government in Detroit and
every other American city.” Where-
upon the Detroit electors arose in
their wrath and swept O'Brien and
the C. I. O. out of the picture. Rich-
ard W. Reading, conservative can-
didate backed by the A. F. of L,,
won the office by a majority of 108,-
807 votes.
In addition, all the five C. 1. O.
backed candidates for the common
council were decisively whipped.
In New Jersey Senator A. Harry
Moore, Democrat, was elected gov-
ernor over Lester H. Clee, Republi-
can, but only by virtue of a big ma-
jority in Hudson county. Moore has
held the office twice before. It was
the first time in the state's history
that a governor has won a third
term. The state constitution pro-
hibits a consecutive re-election but
Moore was elected in 1925 and again
in 1931, each time for a three-year
term.
James M. Curley, who has been
three times mayor of Boston and
once governor of Massachusetts,
tried again for the mayoralty, but
was defeated by Maurice J. Tobin,
like Curley a Democrat.
Philadelphia went Democratic, as
did Pittsburgh, which re-elected
Mayor Cornelius Scully.
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Borah Talks Plainly
WW aiLE Republican rational
committeemen were gathering
in Chicago for an important meet-
ing, Senator Borah of Idaho jumped
into print with a
vigorous denuncia-
tion of the plan, fa-
vored by Hoover
and Chairman Ham-
ilton, to hold a mid-
term Republican
convention next
spring, for the form-
ulation of party pol-
icies.
“We have heard a
great deal about
usurpation and dic- SenatorBorah
tatorship in recent years,” said
Borah. “There could be no great-
er exhibition of usurpation or dic-
tatorship in politics than for a few
accredited men undertaking to fix
the principles and policies for 17
million voters without ever having
consulted the voters or received
their indorsement in any way.
“The Republican party is in its
present plight largely because lead-
ers of the party too long neglected
to take counsel of the voters. Lead-
ers acted upon the theory that the
voters would be led or cudgeled
along the road pointed out by the
leaders.”
Wem
Brussels Conference
JF ORMAL opening of the far east
peace conference in Brussels
brought out speeches by the chief
delegates of America, Britain,
France, Italy and Russia. Davis
for the "United States denounced re-
sort to armed force as a means of
settling international disputes, and
urged Japan and China to seek a
settlement of their conflict “by
peaceful processes.”
He continued: ‘‘We believe that
co-operation between Japan and Chi.
na is essential to the best interests
of those two countries and to peace
throughout the world. We believe
that such co-operation must be de-
ickard
“LITTLE FLOWER" WINS
Fiorello La Guardia, who licked
Tammany and was re-elected mayor
of New York in a striking pose as he
addressed voters.
veloped by friendship, fair play, and
recriprocal confidence. If Japan and
China are to co-operate it must be
as friends and not as enemies. The
problems underlying Chinese-Japa-
nese relations must be solved on a
basis that is fair to each and ac-
ceptable to both.”
Eden for England and Delbos for
France seconded these sentiments.
The Italian representatives made it
clear Italy would not stand for any
coercive measures against Japan.
China was represented by Dr.
Wellington Koo who said: “We de-
sire peace, but we know that we can-
not obtain it in the presence of
Japanese aggression. So long as ag-
gression persists we are determined
to continue our resistance. It is
not peace at any price that will |
render justice to China or to the |
credit of civilization.”
A committee was named to send
an appeal to Japan to open peace
negotiations with China, and Ger-
many was asked to reconsider her
refusal to take part in the confer-
ence.
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Labor Hits Duke's Tour
ESOLUTIONS denouncing the
American tour of the duke and
duchess of Windsor as a “slumming
trip professing to study labor’ were
adopted by the Bal-
timore Federation
of Labor, and ap-
proved by President
Green of the A. F.
of L.. They attacked
Charles Bedeaux,
the duke’s friend, as
sponsor of the
‘stretch - out sys-
tem.”
Officials of the } <n
Committee for In- a +
dustrial Organiza. Duchess of
tion, while refusing Windsor
to be quoted, said the attitude of
their organization on the Bedeaux
system was “‘well known."
Official and social Washington,
which had been in doubt as to what
to do about the distinguished visi-
tors, was relieved when Sir Ronald
Lindsay, British ambassador, an-
nounced he would give a state din-
ner for the royal couple, as he
termed them, the day after their
arrival. Immediately thereafter it
was made known that President
Roosevelt would entertain the duke
and duchess at luncheon in the
White House.
The duke’'s talk on arrival was to
be broadcast over all major net-
works, but the British Broadcasting
company announced it would not
pick up Windsor's remarks for re-
broadcasting in England.
Bedeaux said the duke while in
the United States would observe
these sixteen heavy industries:
Heavy machinery, light machin.
ery, heavy chemical work, vil refin-
ing, textiles, tobacco, steel, rubber,
either coal or metallic ore mining,
automobile manufacturing, prepared
foods, meat packing, logging, timber
sorting plus lumber milling, pulp
and paper production and vegetable
and fruit packing.
Almost Recognition
REAT BRITAIN decided to let
Franco, Spanish insurgent
chief, send consuls to England, and
to send official agents to the part of
Spain he controls. This, it was said
in official circles, did not imply
recognition of Franco, but British
Laborites thought it did, and conse-
quently assailed the government.
Anyhow, it was apparent Britain be.
lieved Franco was right when he
said in Burgos * he war is won.”
Wallace Plan Atacked
ECRETARY WALLACE'S “ever
normal granary’ plan is “politi.
cally inexpedient, economic un-
and fundamentally unwork-
" according to the Cash Grain
association of Chicago which sub.
mitted a brief to a sehate sub-
committee at a hearing Spring-
field, IIL ’
British Are Enraged
APAN and Italy have been vip
orously twisting the tail of the
British lion, and if they keep it up
that mighty beast may be stirred to
action. Within a few days five Brit.
ish soldiers were killed and a num-
ber wounded by Japanese shells in
the fighting at Shanghai. The Eng-
lish there charged the killings were
deliberate, in retaliation for the aid
the British gave a ‘‘suicide battal
fon’ of Chinese in escaping from a
warehouse in Chapei, the native
quarter, to the international settle.
ment,
Soochow creek.
settlement end an outpost where
English soldiers were quartered was
destroyed. Continuous shelling of
Shanghai by the
gered the British and American
tional settlement and shells fell
close to the American warship Au-
gusta, Admiral Yarnell's flagship.
warfare and there is a movement
in Tokio to break diplomatic rela-
tions with London. This is urged
by the ‘‘council on the current situa-
tion,” an unofficial body composed
of high army officers, political
leaders and other influential per-
sons. The council adopted a reso-
lution warning that unless Britain
““reconsiders its improper attitude"
Japan may be forced to take cer-
tain steps of “grave determination”
against Britain, despite the ‘‘deep
friendship existing between the two
countries for the last sixty years.
Japanese troops invaded a part
of the international settlement
guarded by American marines and
seized a Chinese junk loaded with
rice. General Beaumont, comman-
dant of marines, immediately en-
tered a protest and the Japanese
apologized but the marines did not
consider the incident closed because
the Japs didn’t return the junk.
The British government was not
expected to take any action that
would further anger Japan lest it
should endanger the success of the
parley in Brussels. But wise ob-
servers do not believe the nine
power treaty conference will have
any definite results.
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More "Piracy"
TALY'S latest twist of the lion's
tail came in the form the
bombing and sinking of the British
steamer Jean Weems in the Medi
terranean by a “'pirate’ airplane.
The London Daily Herald's Barce-
lona correspondent reported that
the Spanish loyalist government as-
serted that the plane bore markings
showing that it was piloted by Bruno
Mussolini, son of the Italian premier.
The pilot gave the freighter's crew
only five minutes to take to life-
boats and then sank the Weems with
bombs.
The British
of
‘battle cruiser Hood
to Barcelona to investi-
In parliament the critics of the
led by David Lloyd
ish Mediterranean policy. Lloyd
George flayed the government for
bolstering up the international com-
mittee on nonintervention in Spain,
whose history after 14 months he de-
nounced as “‘discreditable and dis
honorable.”
—
Morocco Uprisings
TATIONALIST uprisings in
French Morocco, which have
been giving the French government
a lot of trouble, are blamed on agents
of “a foreign totalitarian power,”
meaning Italy. The disorders, main.
ly in Casablanca, Fez and Medina,
were quelled by troops, mostly Sen.
of arrests were made.
The nationalists plotted to set up
an
Moulay Allal El Fassi as king.
arm
Budget Conference
HILE members of congress
were beginning to move to-
ward Washington for the extraordi-
nary session,
in his Hyde Park
home was busy
planning means of
carrying on the gov-
ernment program
Especially was he
interested in
budget, and related
financial matters,
and to advise on this
he called in Marri-
: Be aes, head
of the federal reserve
M.S. Eccles gystem. Treasury
Secretary Morgenthau and Budget
Director Bell already were there,
and all listened closely to Mr. Ec-
cles’ talk concerning current busi.
ness conditions and the stock mar-
ket situation.
It was decided by the President
that the Commodity Credit corpora-
tion sfiould provide $85,000,000 for
the corn loans, obtaining the money
from the RFC and repaying the
latter agency when congress makes
the necessary appropriations.
Officials of the Agriculture depart.
ment gave corn growers assurance
National Topics Interpreted
by William
National Press Bullding
Washington.—The old mother hen,
congress, has settled down, pre-
t hatch
What Will DE Jak
something from
It Hatch? the nest of crop
control eggs. At
no one
can make a guess as to the brood
in her chicken house,
About all that can be said for sure
is that President Roosevelt called
into special session to
enact crop control legislation and,
may not be hatched in the special
session: the chances are that the
many differences of opinion and the
many demands cannot be reconciled
in the six weeks which the special
session may occupy before the
regular session of congress con-
venes in January.
In addition to the lack of time in
which to maturely examine crop
control questions, a rivalry has de-
veloped between the house and the
senate over the honor of drafting
and putting through the law which
will tell the farmers what they can
and what they cannot do as farm-
ers. Let me say just here that such
a rivalry may work to the benefit of
on the legislation
In ot
house and senate
that finally is enacted
words, extremists, for
any proposal, will have to yield and
this may possibly result in
workable program for crop cor
The main
law to be enacted. There are two
kinds. Contr
or it may be voluntary.
the powers that be in the Depart-
the compulsory kind-—a
will tell the farmers they can or
cannot do certain things and if they
violate the decree, they can be
punished, Many groups of farm-
ers, however do not want that
sort of thing. In
untary programs and each
appears to be determined in ils posi-
tion
We have seen both types used. Po-
tato growers will remember how
the potato control law laid down
the rule that a quota of production
should be imposed upon every farm-
er and that he must pay 45 cents
above his quota.
will remember also the agricultural
adjustment
prescribed for the grower by the
AAA. In this connection it will be
addition for those who failed to prop-
Beyond these requirements, there
invoked against any person who
thereon.
Besides all this, there was an “‘in-
former'' section in the potato con-
trol law.
a bounty for any person who re-
layed to the authorities any infor.
mation he had respecting failure of
any farmer to comply with the law
It was reminiscent of pro-
paid to squeal on bootleggers.
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The compulsory cotton control
penalties attached
so that any cotton
farmer who failed
to comply with the
regulations had to pay a tax on
Cotton
Control
This tax was so high—
50 per cent of the value—that it
amounted to a fine as punishment.
The other kind of cotton control law,
the voluntary plan, had no penalty
provisions. This control was ex-
ments to farmers for raising various
crops provided they limited the
amount to the dictation of the AAA.
Thus, under the voluntary control,
the farmer could take the govern-
ment's money and limit his crop to
what the AAA said was his quota
and thus be paid for compliance.
Or, he could refuse the govern-
ment's subsidy and raise what he
pleased.
Now, in addition to these proposi-
tions, Secretary Wallace of the De-
partment of Agriculture, is promot.
ing what he calls his "ever Jos.
mal granary" plan. This is to
as supplemental to the crop trol
on the production side. The secre-
tary has an idea that the federal gov-
ernment can take the surplus of
good years off of the hands of farm-
srs and hold them through the lean
Bruckart
Washington, D, C,
the hot end when this thing is de-
bated in congress. Opponents of the
secretary's scheme contend that this
program is straight out regimenta-
tion and that it goes as far in this
effect as anything done by either
the Fascist Mussolini or the Com-
munist Stalin, It takes no stretch
of the imagination, therefore, to see
what is just ahead in the matter of
a controversy for crop legislation
for the reason that each of the pro-
grams that has been thus far ad-
vanced contains political dynamite.
* * .
Chairman Jones of the house agri-
cultural committee began work on
Jones
Drafts Bills before the session
convened, Several
weeks prior to the opening day of
the special session, Mr. Jones ap-
pointed six sub-committees; each
modity. In doing this, Mr.
threw the door wide open.
cluded six farm crops to share the
including the ‘‘ever nor-
surplus control pro-
islation,
mal granary’
rected to work out legislation cov-
ering cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco,
rice and dairy products. Inclusion
of rice and dairy products came as
Heretofore, there had
| been little talk about including rice
| and none about dairy products. The
information that filters into Wash-
| ington is that a majority of the dairy
people have no particulz ar hankering
for government dictation in their
| business. Chairman Smith of the
senate agricultural committee like-
| wise has been busy. Throughout the
| summer he has been attempting to
get a line on farmer sentiment by a
| number of hearings in various parts
of the country. From all indica-
tions,
| from South Carolina and is a farm-
| er in his own right, is not enthusias-
| tic about too much government dic-
tation in the field of agriculture.
Over on the house side of the Capi-
| tol, Secretary Wallace has many fol-
lowers. Obviously, he will co-op-
with them very closely. In-
some of the house members
| who do not like Mr. Wallace or his
| “ever normal granary’ scheme are
| referring to the Wallace supporters
in the house as "Henry Wallace's
boys." That indicates better than
anything I can say how deep-seat-
ed the feelings are.
To add to the complexity of the
job facing congress, President
Roosevelt has said definitely that
if there are subsidies paid to farm-
| ers in connection with crop control
legislation, that legislation must
| a surprise.
| erate
deed,
of the bounty payments authorized.
Simmered down, therefore, what
Mr. Roosevelt has said is that if
the farmers want that kind of crop
control legislation, they and all con-
ed taxes.
| 1 have
| tion of the President's position.
surely represents a straightforward
regard.
quired.
» * *
I see it,
Two Big
Lobbies
bearing down on
congress in the special session as
well as probably in the regular ses-
sion that convenes in January. I
think I foresee now how Secretary
Wallace and those who believe with
him are going to operate both with-
in and without the administration.
That is to say, there will be adminis-
tration pressure and when anyone
says that there is administration
pressure, they are saying nothing
more or less than that the adminis-
tration is lobbying. It has always
been that way and it is no excep-
tion that the Roosevelt administra-
tion does the same sort of thing.
The other lobby will embrace a
considerable representation of farm-
er sentiment that is opposed to
Washington dictation and which
feels that additional taxes will have
to be absorbed in part at least by
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Hi By John Barclay
Heating Expert
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turn (or smoke pipe) damper
in your furnace results in “chim-
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damper closed as nearly as pos-
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ing of fuel or causing gas to es-
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Once you have found the ideal
adjustment for it, be sure you
leave it in that position through-
out the heating season. Do not
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