istered the voters.
one vote was voided.
ickard
Lend and Spend Plan
ONGRESS was asked by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to authorize the
spending and lending of a grand
total of seven billion dollars in a
special message in
which he set forth
his new program
for recovery and re-
lief. Ignoring the
expressions of vari-
ous leaders in oppo-
sition to such vast
expenditures, Mr.
Roosevelt said:
limited only by our
ability to work to-
gether. What is
needed is the will
““The time has come to bring that
will into action with every driving
force at our command. And I am
determined to do my share.”
The President declared that the
will to co-operate places ‘“‘on all of
us the duty of self-restraint,’”” and
that ‘““there can be no dictatorship
by an individual, or by a group in
this nation save through division
fostered by hate. Such division
there must never be.”
Three groups of measures were
proposed. The first involves main-
ly additional appropriations for the
coming fiscal year, as follows:
One billion two hundred
President
Roosevelt
$175,000,000 for
administration;
ress administration;
the Farm Security
$75,000,000 for National Youth
administration; $50,000,000 for the
Civilian Conservation corps, and the
$1,500,000,000 already made avail-
able to the Reconstruction Corpo-
ration for lending to business enter-
prises.
In a second group of
Mr. Roosevelt akked:
Three hundred million dollars for
immediate expansion of the housing
and slum-clearance work of the
United States Housing authority;
$1,450,000,000 for public works loans
and grants; an additional $100,000,-
000 for public roads; an additional
37,000,000 for flood control and re-
clamation projects already autho-
rized and an additional $25,000,000
for federal buildings.
A third group listed by the Chief
Executive referred to private cred-
it. It involved desterilization of
the
measures
of member bank reserve require-
ments which would add another
750,000,000 to the credit resources
of the nation’s banks.
actions Mr. Roosevelt coupled a
sion regulations to expedite small-
business financing.
Fr
Congressmen Vexed
WwW HILE committees of the sen-
ate and house were still try-
ing to reconcile the widely differing
versions of the tax
bill passed by the
two houses, Presi-
dent Roosevelt sent
to the chairmen a
long letter urging
retention of the tax
on undistributed
profits, which had
been eliminated by
the senate. Many
members of con- ?
gress thought the
Chief Executive Sen Harrison
was intimating that he would veto
the bill if this feature were omitted.
That would leave in effect the pres-
ent law carrying a severe tax which
has been widely attacked as one of
the causes of the prevailing busi-
ness depression.
The intervention by Mr. Roose-
velt at this time and in this manner
was considered unprecedented and
aroused many expressions of
amazement and indignation, espe-
cially among the senate conferees.
Senator Pat Harrison, their leader
and the chairman of the senate
finance committee, dis-
pleased, said:
“The President is entitled to his
views. Of course, he
every one else the same right to
theirs.
“The views expressed in his letter
obviously
expressed by the
majority of the senate
are well known and need not be
repeated again in detail.
“The senate conferees will insist
in conference on the amendments
adopted in the senate.
“1 believe that the repealing of
overwhelming
modifications of the capital gains
tax, as adopted by the senate,
help business.”
At the close of his letter the Pres-
ident said:
“The repeal of the undistributed
the tax on other forms of
strike at the root of fundamental
rinciples of taxation.
“Business will be helped,
hurt, by these suggestions."
npn
New French Government
RANCE has a new government
succeeded Leon
after the fall
Blum as premier
Blum's Popular
Daladier’s
is the first
nonrevolu-
leftist landslide
1936. Not one of his
ministers is even
pink, and there are
several outright con-
servatives. Most sig-
nificant of his se-
lections is Georges
Bonnet, former am-
bassador to the
Bonnet United States,
key post means synchronization of
French foreign policy with that of
Great Britain, the opening of nego-
tiations with Mussolini and complete
abandonment of the Spanish repub-
lic in its war with Franco's insur-
gents,
Blum was thrown out because he
but the parliament acceded
and then adjourned until May 1,
dictatorial powers to deal with the
financial and economic
problems.
The new premier started imme-
diately on efforts to end the wave of
strikes, which were really based on
political motives. First he obtained
a settlement of the strikes in the
nationalized aviation factories, of-
fering a pay increase in exchange
for longer hours. He then promul-
gated by decree a law making a
secret ballot obligatory in every
factory where conflicts arise. If a
majority of the workers decide for
a strike, they must evacuate the
factory, which then would be ‘“‘neu-
tralized’’ pending arbitration. If,
however, the strike is rejected by
a majority, the armed forces of
the nation will be at the disposal of
the employers to keep the plant op
erating.
—_—
Horner Is Winner
GOV HENRY HORNER won his
second great victory over the
Chicago Kelly-Nash machine in the
Illinois Democratic primaries. Al-
most all his candidates were nom-
inated, and the governor appears
to be now in complete control of
the party in his state. His co-boss
is State's Attorney Thomas J.
Courtney of Chicago.
The triumph of Horner attracted
nation-wide attention. It even led
to a proposal that he be the Demo-
cratic party for President in 1040.
This boomlet was launched in con-
gress by Representative L. F. Ar.
nold, Democrat, of Illinois,
Jones Ready to Loan
ESSE JONES, chairman of the
“ RFC, now has $1,500,000,000 to
lend to business men, states and
cities, and he asked the bankers of
the nation to turn over to his cor-
poration the loan applications they
cannot meet.
“The security put up by borrow-
ers must be reasonable,” he de-
clared, ‘but naturally we expect to
make loans which the banks consid-
er slow, frozen or unliquid.”
Jones said he expected the loans
would make capital investments
more attractive and would also
forestall sacrifice disposals of sur-
plus stocks. In his insistence on
‘reasonable’ security, however, he
warned that ‘“‘we're not going to
lend all the money in the country.”
No Peace for Labor
ANY lingering hopes that the
American Federation of Labor
and the Committee for Industrial
Organization would end their eivil
war were dispelled by John L. Lew-
is’ announcement that the C. I. O
was to be made a permanent or-
ganization, probably under another
name. To bring this about a con
vention of the 39 Lewis unions will
be held in the fall. The time and
place were left to a committee con-
sisting of Philip Murray and Sidney
Hillman, newly elected vice chair-
man of C. 1. O
The heads of the C. I. O. unions,
hearing congress might adjourn by
May 14, adopted a resolution de-
claring ‘‘that our 4,000,000 members
have to consider it
a dereliction of duty and betrayal
of labor for congress to agree to
adjourn prior to enactment of a
complete legislative. recovery pro-
gram."
will necessarily
Wheat Allotments
“HE agricultural adjustment ad-
announced it had
allotted 62,500,000 acres to 42 wheat
producing under the 1938
farm program.
Individual acreage allotments will
be based on planting and diversion
during the past ten years
with acre-
receive benefit
bushel for
allotted
ministration
states
ners who
will
12 cents a
tments
< of
average yield
acreage. A penalty tax of 90 cents
a bushel acreage in excess of
allotments will be deducted from
any benefit payments due farmers
This ye: the AAA said, no
ductions be made for excee
wheat allotments if co-operating
farmers reduce other soil depleting
to exceed the total
for
on the
Or
de-
Crops SO as
soil-depleting allotment
farm.
Acreage
{ wheat producing
lowa, 456.037: Kansas,
Minnesota, 1,609,218;
3,446,075; North Dakota,
| South Dakota, 3,345,403.
his
allotments for principal
included
12,519,879;
Nebraska,
9,431,355;
states
| Will Defend Peace
JAN-AMERICAN day was marked
by an address by President Roose-
velt, broadcast throughout the world,
hich he warned all nations that
American repub-
rr rnt
f nas
{ in whic
| the peoples of the
HCS Will
to threaten the 5
sphere. All he
are firml to
peace, though this might entail sac-
rifices—even the sacrifice of life.
He reiterated this country’s ‘good
neighbor’’ policy in its relations
with Central and South American
countries and cited this hemi-
sphere’s successful ‘demonstration
that the rule of justice and law can
be substituted for the rule of
force.”
ions
hemi-
asserted,
maintain
“
mifirnnnmen
Hitler's Big Victory
EWER than 465,000 Germans and
Austrians had the courage to vote
“no” in the plebiscite on Germany's
annexation of Austria. Nearly 49.
c 000,000 qualified vot-
ers went to the polls
and gave their ap-
proval of the *“‘an-
schluss,” and thus
Adolf Hitler scored
a tremendous vic-
tory, greater than
even his lieutenants
had expected.
est hour of my life,”
said the Fuehrer
when
an
Adolf Hitler
jubilant, and with reason. They
said the demonstration of German
Czechoslovakia'’ and that they were
ready to obey Hitler's orders blind-
ly.
It was forecast in Berlin that Hit-
ler would proceed at once to expand
and modernize the Austrian army
and strengthen Austria's frontier de-
fenses. And Vienna believed the
anti-Jewish program would be in-
tensified.
ann
Orville Wright Honored
M ORE than 200 of America’s
leading figures in aeronautics
gathered in Detroit on the invita-
tion of Henry and Edsel Ford to
pay tribute to Orville Wright, first
man ever to fly an airplane,
The celebration, dedicating the
newly restored group of Wright
buildings at Ford's Greenwich Vil-
lage, was in honor of Orville Wright
and in memory of his brother Wil-
bur, who died in 1912,
Dedication of the Wright home
aid bicycle shop in which the first
man-carrying airplane
was built was the chief event of
the day.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
sion of the Institute of Pacific
Relations will have many new fac-
tors and policies to consider, as
new power formu-
World’s Eye las bt equations
Now Turned are being drawn.
on Pacific The Philippines
have chan Ee d
their mind about cutting their Cnit-
ed States towline. Japan and Ger-
many make a joint survey of a 50-
mile, low-lying canal route across
the upper neck of Siam, which will
bring Japan four days nearer Aus-
tralia and perhaps five days nearer
India. England's Singapore naval
base isn't what it used to be. Aus-
tralia announces a big new rearma-
Ian Mackenzie, Canada’s
handsome and versatile defense
minister, breaks the news that
Canada will rely on the United
States fleet, voicing ‘reasonable
assumption,” rather than defi-
nite “commitments.”
And Paul V. McNutt, commission
er of the Philippines, says we
should carry “liberty and peace’ to
the Far East.
Mr. Mackenzie, a Vancouver law-
f.
yer, is one of Canada’s most famous
a scholars
Gaelic Ace writes fluently
Is Canadd’s publishes
Top Scholar lie
he was the most
scholar of his generation, virtually
l the medals and
of Edin-
cias-
who
and
articles
thering more
old Irish
al academy
and stories
language and
gree as a sor
up a law
I afterthought.
He went to Vancouver in 1914,
returned for the war, and
romped through grades to the
rank of captain, fighting in all
the major engagements.
He kept his i
SUCCESS In law
his later
s in Van-
al defense
garded as
st eligible bachelor. He
iis favorite recreation is study.
* » .
LYONS,
minister who ar
Australian
nounces a
Xi
uch gift
of tongues and
reached eminence
by a longer and
harder road
He rose to pow-
er in the labor movement and, in
1931, like the late Ramsay Mac-
Donald, broke with his party and
entered a coalition government. His
shift to the right brought him under
vigorous assauit, but he was re-
elected by a large majority last Oc-
tober.
He is sixty years old, gray
and tousle-haired, the father of
11 children, and walks with a
limp as the result of a railroad
accident 13 years ago.
He began his working career as
a country school teacher in Tas-
mania. Insularity and “home rule”
marked his attitude a few
ago. Now he recommends
commonwealth slogan,
tune with England.”
Everywhere, the little nations are
calling, “Wait for baby."
JOSEPH A
prime
rearmament
malely
program of
$215,000,000, has no s
appre
Rearmament
Fever Hits
Australia
as a
“Keep in
AKING arms against this sea of
troubles
Under
patronage,
includes
members of lead-
ing
World Tour which
children’s crusade.
She is recruiting young persons
from all nations, including Ger-
many, Italy and Russia, on a world
tour to flux animosities and foster
good will and understanding.
“World peace through world trade”
is their slogan.
Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd is among those who give
warm indorsement to the plan,
Headquarters for the tour are
in New York.
The French husband of the count-
ess was killed in the World war.
Since then she has been vigorously
active in social movements in Eu-
rope, Chicago, Boston and New
York. For nearly four years she
has been traveling around the
world, recruiting support for her
youth organization among diplo-
mats, economists and business men.
© Consolidated News Features,
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from what is now Bolivar,
2. Rome, Italy.
3. Though George Washington
actually was born February 11,
1731, it became February 22, 1732,
through Engiand's shift to the
Ohio.
4. 1d est.
5. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
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non-government users for $2,000 a
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7. At first the company charged
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later the charge was reduced to
$2.50.
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