Een OR WEEKLY AN iy HARRISON “ <.jine™ WHITE HOUSE: Budget Next spring the national debt will reach its $45,000,000,000 legal limit. To circumvent the issue or force an increase through a hostile congress during an election year will provide such a test of political etiquette that the New Deal will have little stom- ach for a tax-boosting campaign. If anything, it will be smart politics to slash expenditures, There were signs in late Novem- ber that such attempts might be made. One by one, administration spokesmen purred for the press: Said Mississippi's Pat Harrison, chairman of the senate finance com- mittee: ‘‘Receipts are showing up fine. The way they are coming in gladdens our hearts, If we can cut down expenses some- what, we may get along without a tax bill.” Said Utah's Sen. William King, fresh from a White House confer- ence: “The President interest in a policy that would pre- vent large deficits.” Next came White House Secretary teve Early, who has been reborn KING *. .. great interest , . . ~ lately as a ‘‘spokesman.” While Budget Director Harold D. Smith nodded his assent, Steve Early | pointed out that the President is | considering sharp economies next { year. Other leaders hoped to trim the deficit to between $2,000,000,000 and $2,500,000,000. (Last fiscal year's deficit: $3,500,000,000.) Aside from all-important political considerations, prevailing whether the President sought a third term or tried to name his successor, there were some honestly promising fac- tors in the picture. WPA rolis stood at 1,830,463 against 3,360,000 a year ago; business was better; tax in- come, if the present rate of increase is maintained, would be $1,000,000,- 000 higher next year. But there was a less pleasant side to the picture. National defense, which last year cost $1,500,000,000, may easily reach $3,000,000,000 this year and would thus wipe out the boost in tax receipts. Relief costs are predicted at $1,000,000,000 against $1,400,000,000 this year, a {| comparatively small cut. Summed up, the budget will probably hit a rough $9,000,000,000, which still fails to reverse the spending trend. EUROPE: Mad War Spies, parachutes and trade con- actual warfare as Europe ended the third month of its strange war. And if any deduction could be nobody wins. threatened during his speech at Dan- GEORG ELSER A detective thriller, parachuted from airplanes. Presum- ably scores of these were dropped in the English channel, the parachutes dissolving. In one week they took a toll of 25 allied and neutral ves- sels, Britain retaliating by strength- ening its blockade against the Reich. This was not too smart, for London soon had the wrath of Netherlands, Belgium and Italy on her shoul- ders. 5. Senator Carter Glass of Vir- ginia told reporters: ‘I know of no man better qualified for the presidency than John N. Garner or Harry Byrd (his colleague from Virginia).” Wilhelm Hohenzollern, ex-Kai- ser of Germany, narrowly missed injury when a sudden windstorm uprooted a tree one minute after he had passed the spot. Tom Pendergast, ex-Kansas City boss now in Leavenworth for evading income taxes, was denied parole, Mohandas Gandhi, Indian lead- er, demanded freedom for his fol- lowers before India will aid Brit- ain in the war. Louis Taber was re-elected master of the National Grange as its convention closed at Peoria. Chief resolution: To force suspen. gion of the U. 8. reciprocal trade program, The allies were more successful in other branches of warfare. No one knew how many French-British planes had been lost, but 20 Nazi airships were allegedly shot down in two days’ warfare over the West- { ern front. At sea the French de- | stroyer Siroco sank two German submarines within three days. While Berlin was genuinely wor- ried by disorders in the Czech prov- ince, where eight students had been | purged, the Nazis were making the | most of another disorder. Heinricl { Himmler, chief of the feared | tapo, announced simultaneously ths { a German named Georg Elser and Best and Captain Stevens, had been arrested in connection with the Mu- { nich beer hall explosion which al- | most cost Hitler's life, charged with the crime, while the Britishers were said to have financed it. Direct leadership, say the Nazis, came from exiled Otto Strasser, pioneer Hitlerite who soon became his bitter foe. Britain kept its tongue in cheek throughout the affair, for Germany was obviously making the most of this detective thriller. Biggest mystery: Why should the British instigate a plot that would martyrize Hitler? German activity also had reper- cussions in the Balkans. When Ru- | mania’s cabinet rejected Nazi de- monopoly on Rumanian oil and raw materials, Premier Constantin Argetoianu re- signed. His successor, whose ap- pointment was hailed as an allied victory, is George Tatarescue, for- mer premier and a strong Franco- phile. AGRICULTURE: Farm Vote In at least one man's opinion, 1940's presidential campaign will be won or lost in the farm vote. Ad- dressing the National Grange con- vention in Peoria, Oregon's Repub- lican Sen. Charles L. McNary (him- self a potential candidate) outlined a three - point program on which he said the G. 0. P. could win: (1) Equal- ize AAA ben- efit pay- ments. One weakness in the present plan, he maintained, is its dis- crimination favoring a few commodities (wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco, and rice). Four other products ranking ahead of these in production are dairy, live stock, poultry and eggs and hogs. (2) Repeal the reciprocal trade pact, Said Senator McNary: “While some industries may have profited by these agreements, it has been ut the expense of products of the 80 Pid (3) Liberalize the public land pol- fey to give the 14 land states a greater share of revenues from sale of forests and grazing on the pub- lic domain. SENATOR McNARY He had points. Know your news? One hundred is perfect score; deduct 20 for each ques tion you miss, Score of 60 or more is 1. The round object shown above has been the principal weapon in Europe's war, What is it? 2. Choice: Toledo's school chil- dren made news because they: (a) refused to attend classes; (b) were dismissed from classes un- til January 1; (¢) were deprived of books because the mayor charged their texts contained un- American propaganda. 3. Kermit Roosevelt is the son of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, Why has he renounced his American citizenship? 4. Sammy Boy, a l6-year-old California dog, is listed in a tele- phone directory and has been used for movies and advertising illustrations, How did he make news? 5. Owen D. Young and Gerald Swope, board chairman and pres- ident of General Electric compa- ny, made what important an- nouncement? { Answers at bottom of column.) ASIA: Mr. Welles Complains Biggest actual news of Japan's war in China came from a suddenly developed front in southern Kwang- si province (see map), where 40,000 Nipponese staged a sever China's rail connections with French Indo-China. hoped to starve the Chi ernment into submission, expecting no protests or France. Both these nations had their hands full at home. Nar g, where blitzkrieg to either from Britain ute was to be cut, held out valiantly and hopelessly against the invader. Meanwhile Japan gloated over re- ports that her puppet Chinese gov- ernment, soon to be established un- der former Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei, will be recognized by It- A so———_ C H 1 CHINA'S NEW 7 ‘LIFE LINES’ FROM SOUTH ¥ SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN The U. S. was harder to win. aly and Germany. Even Britain, trying to make friends in the Far East, was rumored about to capitu- late. But Jap Premier Nobuyuki Abe realized Chinese resistance was not easily broken. Threatened he: “Ja- pan will keep troops there until Chi- na is entirely free from the Com- munist menace." Another menace was the U, S. At Washington, Undersecretary of State told his press conference that Amer- jcans in China-—especially at the Tientsin British concession—are be- ing molested by the Japs. He also emphasized that the U. 8S. still in- sists its citizens have every right to pursue their commercial enter- prises in China, regardless of Ja- pan’s highly touted ‘‘new order." This looked bad for U. S.-Jap trade relations, which Tokyo hopes can be smoothed over before the present treaty is abrogated January 26. Although Premier Abe hoped these relations ‘“‘could be adjusted’ before the deadline, it hardly looked like Washington was in a mood to talk business, MISCELLANY : Eighth Wonder At Gillespie, Ill., labor's rival C. 1.0. and A. F. of L. staged an eighth wonder of the world by co-operating in a coal mine dispute. dent: ganization against the other , . . Corn d Also at Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace an- nounced corn loans at 57 cents a bushel (70 per cent of estimated 82- cent parity price ). Forecast: That more than last year's 235,000,000 bushels will be placed under seal through the new program, y mine, (B) is correct. were dis missed until the first of the year be cause the schools ran out of money, 3. To become a Britisher. Roosevelt is a major in the British army. 4. He died, 5. % announced their retirement January 1. WASHINGTON .—Although our na- tion is not mixed up in the European any administration to drag us in, it has been much ‘“‘phoney’’ war strike’ of the thus far There “gitdown armies, because the enemy do not propose to discuss that phase of the situation. There are some things which have happened and are happening here at home, however, that surely are worthy of considera- tion. When steel began to flash abroad, thousands, if not mil- lions, of Americans who believed a conflict overseas would pull us out of the depression. Visions of ex- ports amounting to millions of tons were seen by many of the unthink- ing and misinformed persons. High- er prices—it is hardly necessary to recall how excited some folks got about the prospects of higher prices and all of that sort of thing. was the usual effort price hysteria has in the speculation to which they talk. It is true that there are some in- war. Some, but not very many. Statistics are tiresome, but close ex- mination of them his instance, how thoroughly spotty he anticipated war boom is. ation, can experts, 1 have come to the conclu- sion that the war thus far has done our American business—agriculture, commerce and industry-—more dam- age than it has done good. to say, if it were ance the increase based all obtain on of the facts I due to the States would show an actual loss. Airplane Manufacturers And Rail Lines Benefited ing a thriving business. They are well. show how the industries producing airplane parts and equipment and are to a finished state. The rail lines have benefited. Through a stretch of six consecu- tive weeks, car loadings-—an accu- rate business barometer--have ex- ceeded 800,000 cars for each seven day period, and then dropped off. In this case, car loadings have shown a vast bulk movement but one must examine the commodities hauled to calculate what conditions are. It is to be noted that there were exceedingly heavy shipments of stuff usable in war included in the 800,000 total. A good deal of this had been ordered previously. It could not be sent out until the so- called arms embargo was removed. Experts appear to believe that a large portion of the shipments may not be repeated. At least, not in such quantities. All of which is to say that shipments of normally do- mestic products, consumer goods, must still be very much below par. Respecting the market for so- called consumer goods, mention may be made of apples and what a drug they are on the market these days. This may not be the same in all parts of the United States, but it certainly is true in the great apple growing sections of Virginia. One large grower told me that he had not sold a single apple for the Brit- ish market where he usually is able to ship several hundred carloads in Imports of The industrial conference board, a private organization which is quite accurate in its reports on business conditions and trends, said lately that our exports to Canada are due to fall with a dull thud. In 1938, Canada acquired 68 per cent of all of the things she imported right across the border in the United States. It is to be remembered, too, that about 40 per cent of all ex- ports from the United States in nor- mal years go to Canada. What Has War Done to American Merchant Marine? But the situation is changing rap- idly. Canada is going industrial as rapidly as she can under the stress and strain of war. Being a part of the British empire, does sny one think that the British war office is going to seek supplies in the United States that can be bought in Can. ada? Obviously not. To show how Canada has developed her capacity to take care of empire require- ments, I believe it is necessary only to report that the Canadian indus- trial capacity was 67 per cent greater in 1937 than 20 years ear- lier, or in the midst of the World war. The World war started the trend in Canada; the present Euro- pean war has given it new impetus and the indications are that exports to Canada hereafter will continue to get smaller, And what has the war done to the American merchant marine? Our government has spent a good many hundred millions in building ships and in helping private ship- ping companies to build ships. It has been a policy of subsidy. But about the same time our ships begin to attract attention on the high seas and in international trade, along comes new war conditions and our flag is forced to stay out of the trade routes that produce the greatest revenue because traffic is heaviest. Of course, it is a policy of the ad- ministration that has brought this about. President Roosevelt has felt that adoption of a system of selling goods to belligerents upon the docks of this country—come and get it, pay cash and carry it away in your own ships—is wise, Congress agreed with him. The same legislation provided that may e zones, what is called combat trade in our ships is iter So, gaged in warfare. It happens, how- exports are largely by rail) are the Transfer of Ship Registry The’ latest development with re- effort of one of the great shipping transfer the regis- try of its ships to Panama-—to fly the Panama flag. That action, of course, is like changing your own American citizenship and becoming the subject of another nation. It can be done under the law, but it has because this course of action simply circumvents the so-called cash-and- carry law. Under the Panama flag, those ships could sail into war zone ports which they cannot do as long as they fly the Stars and Stripes from their masthead. It does not I believe, ex- cept it shows the influenc the European war. (Incidentally, the fuss about those ships recalls how difficult it is to make a law that will not have loopholes in it or means of getting around it.) The war in the Far East has upset practically all trade relations between the United States and Japan and China. There is a quan- tity of exports yet moving in that direction, but I am told by persons war is over, Japan will be without any money and her purchases in the United States will be next to nothing for years to come. Citation of example and trend and opinion could go on quite at length in this situation. Taken all together it seems to be one of the really im- portant things, next to our own un- employment rolls, because it looks from this date as though the United States is face to face with the neces- sity of a gigantic readjustment. It seems to me the problem cannot be dodged. Changes must come within our own national economy. We will have to learn just what to pro- duce and how much, because I fear that a large chunk of our export market is gone forever. Our Cotton Exports Are Continuing to Decline We have witnessed the spectacle of our secretary of agriculture seek- ing to get our cotton or some other farm product into foreign markets by use of various forms of cash pay- ments to the producers. While he has been passing out checks, our exports have declined and are con- tinuing to decline, and there is noth- ing that can be done about it. Other folks have learned to grow cotton and they are not going to stop. We cannot control them by a law saying a farmer must plant only so much, little pigs killed off, gloomy predictions. Pollyanna stuff is much more pleasant. On the other hand, President Hoover tried hard to get prosperity to come around the corner, and he looked rather ridiculous when she stayed just around the corner through more than nine years up to the present time. Secretary Hopkins, of the de- partment of commerce, is trying now to induce the coy young woman to come around the same corner. His department has been issuing statements about bulges in produc. tion and in sales and in shipments. But I could not read the figures the same way the secretary read them. (VSR I8 R83 DEPARTMENT FOWL POX VACCINE viracheitis Vacelne — 30 % Fo Pox Vaceine — 10's. 75 Tt hw BW. DD. Swined Antigen450 tests, $1.78 ASK YOUR DEALEK TO WRITE US BIO-CHERICAL PRODUCTS CO. 15 So. Gay 51, Baltimore, BE, BABY CHICKS BRED FOR PRODUCTION: RAISED FOR PROFIT: SOLD BY QUALITY: Turkeys BTARTED CHICKS: Puliets MILFORD HATCHERY Jio kauie Md. "ikesville ¥. O. Ducks Chicks Hang New Curtains In the Dining Room By RUTH WYETH SPEARS WITH the holidays almost at hand everyone be ©r- seems to giving curtains a thought. 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