—— eR Hull's St. Lawrence Plan RESUMABLY by direction of | the President, Secretary of State | Hull submitted to Canada a new | proposal for development of the St. | Lawrence seaway, asking that it be considered as a ba- sis for a new treaty which would be a revision and ampli- fication of the treaty | of 1932 that the sen- | ate refused to ratify in 1934. Under terms of the Hul plan Canada would obtain without a completed St. Law- rence deep waterway, ready for power development, and also other valuable concessions. The United States would obtain the of building the seaway at its cost Secretary Hull own ognition by Canada of American sovereignty over Lake Michigan. tion to the plan broke out in con- licans characterizing it as a scheme state power authority. From the State department leaked information that not even Canada was expected to approve the pro- posed treaty. Canadian officials have repeatedly doubted whether re- covery from the depression would be promoted by spending millions on a waterway for which there is not sufficient commerce and for develop- ment of surplus water which no demand. there is 400 million dollars. This nounced by Senator Wagner of New York. Senator Copeland, also of New York, announced he was against seaway project “‘1,000 per cent.” He called it British canal.” Senator Key the Pittman, mittee having treaties, said the new would not have a chance of rati- fication unless materially modified. Senators and representatives from the Middle West were especially aroused. Senator Clark of Missouri permit diversion of only 1,500 cubic feet of water per second into the Chicago drainage canal. He said the Mississippi river must receive | more water than that from the canal in order to fill a nine-foot channel. Representative Claude Parsons of Illinois was even more emphatic | in disapproval. ‘This treaty,”’ he said, “is about the worst mistake Secretary Hull ever made. Under the terms of his proposal to set up an international commission for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, Canada would be given con- trol over our all-American Lake Michigan. “Furthermore, the treaty would prohibit any further diversion of wa- ter from Lake Michigan at Chicago of more than 1,500 cubic feet per second. The Illinois and Mississippi rivers must have at least 5,000 c.f.s. to insure a dependable waterway.” meats Wallace Slapped Again STERNLY chastising Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson for making assertions that were unwarranted and wholly un- founded, the United States Supreme court rejected the government's pe- tition for a rehearing of the Kansas City stockyards rate case, Twice before the court had re- buked Wallace in the stockyards case and had set aside his order fix- ing maximum rates which commis- sion men might charge for services because, the court said, they had been denied a full, fair, and open 3 giving orders to two of his officers. ickard hearing by Secretary Wallace. Justice Hugo Black, who was the | lone dissenter when the case was | decided in April, ran true to form, being the only member of the court to dissent. vote the the new pure drug bill. The had passed a similar measure and the differences were to be reconciled in conference. The act brings i devices, and foods Departmen WwW ITHOUT a record house passed food and senate { altera- misbranding of cosmetics, and drugs, requires quate tests of products before are placed on the market, provides | ade- they ctions to control n of foods, ng labels on ha ¥ L and provides for s war ing drugs, inspection, DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ac- cepted the advice of congression- al leaders and consented to the shelving of his bill for reorganiza- of the executive governmen was mnced with the ap- | proval of the President by Senator | At th me time it rade known nistra- | tion would attempt to get the meas- ure through congress early in the | 1939 session. Sen. Hiram Johnson of Cal 2 said the opponents of the bil id be ready to resume their battle against it next year. Tax Bill Unsigned But Law TOR the first time since he entered the White House, President Roose- velt permitted an act of congress to his signature. He took this course with the tax revision | bill in order to em- | phasize his objection | to ‘“‘those unwise parts of the bill” which removed all | but the skeleton of | the undistributed | profits tax and dras- tically modified the levies upon capital gains, The President an- nounced his action | was President Roosevelt families of the New Deal-sponsored rehabilitation community of Arthur | dale, W. Va., at the graduation exer- | cises of 13 high school students. His | words, however, were carried to | “l call the definite attention of | said Mr. | the bill I have talked to you about today—one of them which may re- store in the future certain forms of tax avoidance, and of concentrated investment power, which we had be- gun to end, and the other a definite abandonment of a principle of tax policy long ago accepted as part of our American system.” The President declared that he had no objection to removing any obstacles to little business which might be contained in the revenue laws but he reiterated the adminis- tration’'s determination not to allow the use of corporate forms to avoid what it considers legitimate tax bur- dens, Mr. Roosevelt made plain that he hoped for a future revision of the revenue laws in line with the objec- tives he seeks. Such revisions, he said, should be designed to encour- age new investment and the entry of private capital into new fields, —r Big Fund for Highways | [EGISLATION authorizing new federal high. erditatye of $357,400,000 for isca: yer. 1040 and 1941 won final congressional ap- proval when the senate adopted a conference report previously accept- ed by the house. Also authorized was the expenditure of $150,000,000 of old, unused appropriations. BANDONMENT of experiments by the government and adop- tion of an industrial program based on experience was advocated by Charles R. Hook, president of the National Association of Manufactur- ers before a meeting of the Chicago Association of Commerce. ‘A re- turn to sound economic reasoning and a common sense diagnosis is the sure solution to the problems of America today,” Mr. Hook said. Emphasizing that industry has a definite program for industrial re- covery, Mr. Hook, who is president of American Rolling Mill company, outlined three cardinal points, in- cluding revision of the Wagner act, revision of the tax structure and ban- ishment of existing and threatened government competition with pri- vate enterprise. ‘‘Remove these causes of fear and uncertainty,” Mr. Hook said, ‘‘and private savings will rush back into the channels of pri- vate productive enterprise. “We specifically urge amend- ments to the Wagner act to correct its one-sided character, to enforce responsibility on labor organiza- tions, to separate the functions of fact finding, prosecution and judi- cial decision, and establish impar- tial administration by the national labor relations board.” Twenty More Federal Judges RESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed the bill creating 20 additional fed- eral judges throughout the The measure is the largest judg ship bill passed by congress since 1921. cour Five additional Circuit Court of Appeals judges at $12,500 a year each and 15 judges at $10,000 a year each are authorized by the act. additional district Strike Back at Morgan "T ESTIFYING before the join congressional committee of in- vestigation, David E. Harc Tennesse authority Dr gan TVA's lega in a court case solving the constity of the au- They said, that he had en- gaged in a cam- paign of dissent and a obstruction Lilienthal These charges, together with a general denial of Arthur Morgan's accusations against vives, thems statements. Referring to the trial last winter suit of 18 private utility against the TVA, Lilien- thal said: “It is a record which suggests that he was ing to find a way to obtain a judicial decision against his agency. It is a of tampering with prospec- witnesses for the government obstructing and harassing witnesses in the very trial of a crucial con- SCC own tive counsel and heat of the Berry marble “Any r Morgan bbs aiiil 1 said: as. (Harcourt word or ide ches on Berry's claims is an outright There was absolutely no fraud could have been based; there were only rumors and suspicions.” Dies EAN HERBERT W. MUMFORD of the University of Illinois is dead, following an automobile acci- marketing experts, Mumford was a product of Michigan. In 1901 he hus- bandry in the university at Cham- Then he was made dean of rector of the agricultural experi- He was the time sixty-seven years old at of his death, Sweepstakes Winners OIS ROUSSEL, a French bred horse, won the English Derby at Epsom Downs, and four sweep- stakes ticket holders in the United States won $150,000 each. Union, second, won $75,000 each for 11 United States ticket holders. Pasch, the favorite, finished third, returning $50,000 each to seven tick- et holders in the United States. nmin Defies Harry Hopkins VICTOR A. Christgau, Minnesota WPA administrator, quarreled son and the Farmer-Labor party leaders in that state. So Harry Hop- kins, national head of the WPA, notified him he was ousted. Christ- gau refused to quit his position, cone tending that only President Roose- velt, who appointed him, had power to dismiss him. sme War Pensions Boosted PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed a bill to increase the pensions of certain soldiers, sailors and nurses who served in the Spanish war, Phil- ippine insurrection or China relief expedition. The act provides a $60 monthly pension for veterans sixty-five years old who served at least 90 days and to those who served less than 90 days and were discharged for dis- ability incurred in service. National Press Bullding Washington.—Congress is packing nts duds. what date it will Want to go home, but go home it will, in Go Home just a few weeks more. There is nothing more con- tagious than homesickness among congressmen when primaries are in the air and votes around the grass roots await to be garnered, I suppose that when they go, there will be a certain amount of criti- cism about the do-nothing congress. Particulariy will important problem unsolved. They will be told how they should have charted a course to lead the country out of the depression and how they failed to do anything towards restor- ing unemployed to permanent jobs. The prospect of this condition, it seems to me, warrants a general discussion without pulling punches. Congress is supposed to formulate national policies. It, therefore, must accept some But it is not the voters ot are some ner is to which blame for its faili alone to blame, ight to know it tention shoul directed { to the embers y airnes tt} i1airness of i! + house and senate, It must be recovery is Recovery a Attention Let us look back a bit. agreed, 1 believe, that the foremost problem. plans must be divided. must be given, first, to relief of the Second- destitute, the unemployed. i that ly, licie ust be laid down were receiving governme of one kind or another—almost 6,300,000 fam- ilies. And during the same period, the volume of business fell further into new low levels. The whole pic ture undeniably has grown worse Then, there came from the Pres ident request for money, some SiX rs of it It was the ending-spending program that has ust been enacted and the congress, ious to avoid conflict ] rubbed its cx in effect, <4 a . ance the the the a, SO-CH LIC By ~~ 5 E “There! f the unemployed." 0 we will have new bridges, road new that—some time post offices, new 1 t be put over on a day's takes time to get them where théy will employ The portion of the six billions allocated for relief, of course, can be used at once because Mr. Harry Hopkins can have his boys and girls write checks at a rate which is positively "ne be valuable, or ought to be, to the candidates because the candidates can say to their political meetings: “Here it is—and from my hands, too.” After that money is spent, then what? My conviction is will be just where we started. That is to say, we will be just where we were three years ago. Every one pump priming of business then, It some very nice postoffices and other public buildings and an addition of $4.880,000,000 to the national debt. The administration tried some other in building up the national debt still higher. It up to the forty-billion mark. " * » Since the pump priming and the complish anything in the other trials, there seems to be no reason to ex- Spending Fails It will do But 1 said at the outset that there were others to blame. This fact condition lately much publicized in Chicago and Cleveland. Scenes dis- tressingly reminiscent of the lines of starving in 1930 were re-enacted in Chicago and Cleveland within the month. The cities were out of cash and the relief lines became riotous. There is not much to be done about starving people but to feed them. That is accepted. Yet, how did that happen? Why was the condi- tion allowed to reach that stage? Here is the fact that will make me very popular, I am sure, in the areas where the shoe fits: The states have failed to assume their proper share of the responsibility. Let me repeat that: The states have failed to assume their proper share of responsibility! They have consistently done so, and the reason ing at the federal teat is because The politi because they are It was so much easier to bring pressure to bear in go home with big checks, shout to the folks that they were bringing home the bacon— without adding to the tax of their was no additional tax because it was a federal tax that had to make up for what the states drew out and the federal taxes are not as easily seen as taxes in a state, a county or a city. It has come to such a pass these days that few dare raise It would state politicians at home that they 1 y £19 ia 1 al iUnGcs J0Ccai gt ] y cide, they feel beaten and the rom President Irn OO ira of appre« nor character like iation—=s 3 ung to tra its start, 1 go back to Herbert . : It But } consti tragedy. he fact that spot where government orrowed started poli Washington It ouch for them LaFollette and oup of professors who figured he nation cou spend way out type of its f the depression moved right into he long halls and took over desks in every place they could find chairs like wil and is going, as witness the lving six billion dfire Lt I18 ¢ * § going fo require many flort to restore own boundaries. Long Road They have Ahead years states to their themselves debt w government; they » found it is to do ti they The nation will be run 1 Washington bureaucrats’ desks and good government by the people themselves will be a thing of the past. There is a phase of this fron control tions. 1 refer to the great waste that occurs when the federal gov- ernment attempts to handle such » This phase irks me and it see stupid administration use up so My morn- a dispatch from Cleveland announc- ing that public funds—from Wash. ington—were going to be used to They are going to count —counting trees as a means of giv- ing work! Surely, it is possible to create some other kind of work. I believe it would be better to give that money outright for the con- struction of some homes for fifty families, or any one of a hundred thousand things. Such things as this are bound to happen, however, when the states, counties and cities lean so heavily on Washington, Citizens lose con trol when they let their politicians dedge responsibility by calling on Washington for everything. And there is no doubt in the mind of lem but that the citizens will pay more when their relief needs are forced their own officials to assume the responsibilities of their offices. or national politicians. accomplish election the way it is now being done, they may as well continue. Each cone has only one political life to give to his country life a good long one by kidding his constituents—well, why not? 1 repeat, however, and there can be no denying the fact, that relief is going to cost each citizen more be- cause the money is being chiseled out of Washington rather than the state or local treasuries. © Western Newspaper Union, WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON TEW YORK.—President AN vargas of Brazil was western frontiersman in his still wearing “‘bombachos,”’ gaucho trousers for informal dress and quite acter SiX-gun 3 dow Getul Pres. Vargas Handy With Six-Shooter ace, and putting ian revolt. A swarthy, quick on the draw, he gun-shy, and impr has been an O his rise to supreme power + nv SLOCKY ccasionai otf When he established his total tarian state on November 10 of last year, there were those who said he was dealing in the dark of the moon with the green shirts ~that here was where Germany and fascism got a toe-hold this continent. on up Home Talent Expert at Strong Arm it He seized power in 1930 by the overthrow of President Washington Luiz, with the aid of his lifetime friend, old General Aurelio Monteiri. Luiz had won the election against him, but Vargas raised a cry of fraud. From the by decree, now Denies All Rights of Free Speech firet is rise thr i national congress standard career chart gressic record biog trict attorney, state legis all the rest of it. nai HE make-believe war the seaboard was fended against “‘black’ expeditic ary forces from overseas was first large-scal work-out of our eastern Air Forces Defend U. S. in Mock War General Frank ning the show, flying generals “flying fortresse under He gathered up the stran i unified service when the GHQ air force, which he commands, moved into the huge air base at Langley field, March 1, 1835. Called the “handsomest man in the service,” he is quietly ef- fective and the last man in the world to be called a swivel-chair officer. He warns the country against a shortage of fliers and urges civilian training. He was not an A. E. F. flier. In 1934 he made the unusual jump from lieutenant-colonel to brigadier general and was made a major-gen- eral in 1935. He was graduated from West Point in 1906 and was with the cavalry on the Mexican border, be- € Consolidated News Features. WNU Bervice. The Mayflower Party The Mayflower brought 41 men Mayfiower, proved unseaworthy and turned back. The Mayflower was followed the next year by the For- Plymouth in November, 1621, with some 30 additional emigrants. In 1623 the Ann and the James of 140 and 44 tons, respectively, arrived with 60 more members for the col-
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