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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,
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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-