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News Review of Current JL”?
Events the World Over
“Second Revolution” Smashed by Hitler and Its Leaders
Put to Death—Roosevelt Names Five . ^
Boards and Sails Away. ,
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
• by W.ot.rn N.w.p.p.r Union.
»np^VAnNicn nf n rn«llcal plot Com. Kruent H. von Helroborg. made
Chancellor
Hitler
T within the National Soclallat party
to brlnf about a second revolution In
Germany, fhancellor Adolf Hitler
struck with swiftness
and nithleesnesa that
completely smashed
the revolt on the eve
of the planned coup
d’etat and left the
malcontents, chiefly
members of the Storm
troopers, dinted and
terrltted. The Chan
cellor himself exhibit
ed resolution and per
sonal bravery with
which the world had
not credited him.
Flying from Berlin to Munich In the
night. Hitler with only two bodyguards
went direct to the summer home of
Capt. Ernst Boehm, commander of the
brown shirts and long his personal
friend. Boehm and certain of his as
soclates were found In situations that
confirmed the often heard stories of
their moral perversion, and as Hitler
was certain also of their complicity In
the revolutionary plot, he personally
arrested Boehm, tore off hla Insignia
and offered him a chance to commit
suicide. This Boehm refused, so on
Hitler's order be was shot To death,
as were the others taken with him
Meanwhile, Gen. Hermann Wilhelm
Goertng, premier of Prussia, directed
a aeries of raids throughout the coun
try that resulted In the deaths of nu
merous prominent members of the con
spiracy ami the arrest of scores. Chief
among those ahbt down waa Gen. Kur!
▼on Schleicher, Hltler’a predecessor as
chancellor and reputed head of the
revolutionary plot Hla wife stepped
In the way of the policemen’s bullets
and also died. Well known Storm
troop leaders In Munich and elsewhere
were put to death summarily, and no
waa Heinrich Klausener. head of the
Catholic Action party.
Vice Chancellor Frans von 1‘apen.
who had recently attacked the radical
tendencies of the Nails, was put under
heavy guard, and forbidden to leave
hla home, and two of his adjutants
killed themselves.
Viktor Lutxe was appointed to suc
ceed Boehm as chief of staff of all the
relchswehr units. In
cluding the Storm
troops among whom
the disaffection had
existed and the regu
lar army, which was
declared to be entire
ly loyal to Hitler.
President Von Hla
denbnrg all ttTTs time
was at his estate at
Neudeck, East Prua
sla. and there were
reports of his serious vlktor Luts*
Illness, which were flatly denied. Two
days after the chancellor's drastic ac
tion the aged president telegraphed
Hitler and Goerlng his approval of
their course, congratulated them on
their victory and thanked them In
the name of the nation. Undoubt
edly, Hitler's personal position was
strengthened for the time being, and
the leftist elements In the Nasi party
were weakened and divided. Goerlng
and Hitler professed pity for the ’’mls-
led" Storm troopers, but the latter
are now out of their uniforms tem
porarlly and may never be as Impor
tant as they have been In the past.
They had become something like a
pretorlan guard that threatened Hit
ler’s supremacy.
In various European capitals there
were predictions of further outbreaks
Id Germany and the return of the
Hoheniollerns.
Hitler's “violent” methods were crit
icized by Engelbert Doll fuss, A us
trla’a dictator, who said: “Does not
the light at last dawn upon us that
one cagpot make a people happy with
violent methods?”
Paris Interpreted the affair as a
victory for conservatives and as open
ing the possibility for a return of the
Hoheniollerns. The violence, it was
claimed, revealed a breakdown la thy
unity of the Hitler movement
In London the view was taken that
Hitler bad solidified his position. Some
papers accused him of employing the
methods ef gangsters and called the
•laying of storm-troop leaders “brutal
murders.”
the presentation at Toronto and at-
tended the unveiling of a monument
erected by the United States' Daugh
ters of 1812, to the memory of General
Pike and others of the United States’
forces killed during that war.
fGNOBING the efforts of the federal
* government and the law officers of
the Middle West to catch him, John
Dllllnger, with four companions, staged
another murderous hank raid. This
time he hit In South Rend. Ind. He
kHied one police officer! shot four oth-
er |>ers«mfl and got away with S20.800
from the Merchants National bank.
As the gang lied In an automobile
they were subjected to heavy (Ire by
the police and there Is good reason to
believe that Dllllnger himself was
wounded.
J. M. Landis
P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT departed
on his cruise to the Caribbean and
Hawaii aboard the Houston, accompa
nied by his two younger sons. Frank
lin. Jr„ and John;
Rudolph Forster of
the White House sec
retarlal staff; Com
maruler Boss T. Mein
tire, naval physician;
tins Owmerlch, per
sonal bodyguard;
Richard Jervis, secret
service man, and
Pharmacist's Mate
Ge<.rge K«>x. On ac-
cnmpanylng destroy
ers are two secret
service men and three representatlvei
of three big press associations.
Before sailing the President per
formed these seven important sets:
Approved the Frailer-I^mke farm
mortgage moratorium bill.
Approved the railroad unemploy
ment and pension act Involving ad
ditional burdens of millions of dol
lars on rno carriers.
Appointed Joseph Kennedy, wealthy
New York stock operator as chairman
of the new securities exchange com
mission for a five-year term, and
George C. Mathews, James M. Landis,
Robert E. Mealy and Ferdinand Pecora
as members for terms ranging from
four years downward. •
Named Eugene O. Sykes, Thad H.
Brown, Paul Walker. Norman Case,
Irvin Stuart, George Henry Payne aad
Hampson Gary members of the new
communications commission for terms
ranging from seven years downward.
Set up the new national labor re
lations board with Lloyd Garrison,
dean of the University of Wisconsin
law school, chairman, and Prof. Henry
Alvin Mills, head of rbe Fconomtei de
partment at the University of Chicago,
and Edward S. Smith of Massachu
setts, lalnir relations specialist, as the
other members.
Named James A. Moffett, former
vice president of the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey and a me id*
her of the planning and coordinating
committee of the oil conservation
board, as administrator of the new
$1,000,000,0(10 housing program.
Appointed five members of a com
mission to study federal aviation and
air mall affairs and make recommend
ations to the next congress—Clark
Howell. Atlanta, Ga.. publisher; Je
rome Clarke Hunsakep, New York;
Edward P. Warner, Washington. D,
C.; Franklin K. I^ane. Jr., California,
and Albert J. Berres, California.
fifthi gpesttooi
la dlapotaSfrstw— tha steel
-tens and their workers Is expected and
the threatened strike probably will be
averted. The President, Invoking hts
new emergency powers, named a
three-man hoard to arbitrate the In
dustry’s troubles, aad both sides In
dicated they would aecept Its deci
sions. The members of the board are
Admiral Henry A. Wiley, James Mal
ien bach of Chicago and Jndge Walter
Stacy of the North Carolina Snprems
court The two latter fiave had.long-
experience as labor mediators. Under
Ihe emelrfency Hiw, tfili froup cih or
der and police elections In all iteel
plants to determine which onion shall
represent the men In collective bar
gaining. The board can also hand
down declslona an >11 Mbipliinf
brought by either workers or employ
ers.
President Roosevelt ordered the
board to report to him from time to
time through Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins.
F ederal judge j. p. barnes
of Chicago gave one phase of the
New Deal a rap by granting an In
junction restraining the government
from enforcing the provisions of the
AAA milk licensing agreement against
the Independent milk deafen In the
Chicago area. In effect, the Judge
ruled that the government, through the
AAA, has usurped powers which un
der the Constitution It had no author
ity to assume. " *
The AAA officials in Washington de
clared they would seek to have Judge
Barnes’ ruling set aside. Jerome
Frank, general counsel for the AAA,
admitted that If the decision were up
held by higher courts, the fifty mar
keting agreements now In force under
the farm act and hundreds of the
codes under the NRA would be with
out constitutional sanction.
BRISBANE
THIS .WEEK
Two Fine Grandmothers
Biting the Third Rail
Wedell, a Good Flyer
Fighting Language
^ President Roosevelt’s mother had
palace, served In the queen’s private
apertmenta, that few American women
have seen. Nobody knows what was
said by the two most estimable grand-
tothera. '
No doubt Mrs. Roosevelt told Qtieen
Mary a great deal about “the most
wonderful son in the world,” Franklin
Delano. Mrs.. Roosevelt might have
■aid truly to the wife of the British
king and emperor. “My son has more
power, and uses more power, than
any ruler on earth, not excepting your
fine husband. King George.”
On the Far Rockaway branch of
the Long Island railroad, passengers
saw a small dog touch the highly
H ARRIMAN hosiery mills, the con-
cern that - was deprived of its
Blue Eagle last April, has been forced
to close down, and its 653 workers are
out of Jobs. The Tittle city of Harrl-
man, in Tennessee, depended largely
| on the mills and the company had the
support of practically all the people
there In Its dispute with the NRA.
The officials of the company sent to
Administrator Johnson—and to Presi
dent Roo&velt—a vigorous protest
asserting the concern had been an-
Justly and unfairly deprived of Its
property rights In the Blue Eagle.
“We would like to know,” said the
letter, “If the Blue Eagle Is the prop
erty of the law-abiding dtlxens of the
United States or If It Is a plaything
to be held over the heads of honor
able and decent employers as a cudgel
to browbeat and bulldose them Into
surrendering their constitutional rights
for the benefit of outside agitators
whose only purpose Is to exploit labor
for their own personal gain.”
The dispute started last October,
when about 300 employees went on
strike with the claim that the com
pany would not relnatate twenty-three
workers who had Joined the United
Yorkers’ Textile anion.
Fred Held, vice president of the
American Federation of Hosiery
Workers, went to Hardman after the
mills closed, but was taken from the
train by q band of armed men. taken
gome dlstanee In an automobile and
rel»-MReU on promise nut to return.
charged “third rail" and rise yelptug
Into the air. Indignant, the dog
rushed back at the rail, biting It
More yelping. A third time the dog'
returned to the attack. Even a third
shock did not kill, and he went else
where.
As the small dog treated the third
rail so "civilized” nations treat the
highly charged war danger. But, un
fortunately, they don’t know enougl
to stay away after three tries. Half
the nations In Europe, and some in
Asia, may be back biting that/same
old third war rail In a short time.
The death of James We^ell, a flyer
who held the world’s record for flying,
means a serious lose to this country.
When only a boy, Wedell bought an
old, broken-down plane sold aa Junk,
repaired It, flew to army headquarters
seeking a chancy to fight and fly in
France. Told “You can’t possibly iy.
because you have only one eye,” he
replied. “Why can’t I? How do you
suppose I got hereT*J. . ..
He was an airplane designer of real
genius, a skillful builder, as well as
one of'the greatest pilots In the world.
His land plane record was 306 miles
an hour, and when be died he waa
king on a machine with which he
oped to win the London to-Melbourne
race next October.
work
^ope
Moscow newspapers accuse Japan of
•rousing hatred against Russia, men
tioning an anti-Soviet film called “The
Supreme Will,” displayed In Japanese
theaters. The picture shows Russian
airplanes attacking Tokyo, and men
tions the fact that 100,000 Japanese
killed In the Russo-Japanese war
“have not been sufficiently avenged.”
The Important Russian newspaper
Pravda says: “Japanese Imperial
ism does not hesitate to nse dirty
methods to slander the Soviet Union.”
That Is fighting language.
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bmckart
Washington. — Armed with -more
tats say TrrtWaat the
United States, or the
One-Man head of any demo-
C!antral cratlc government,
ever has had, Preal-
Went Rooaevelt has Started wtmf ha-
hopes will be the final drive for eco^
nomic recovery. He has all of
weapons In his own hands. There
ha no mistake that he is prepared to
use them.
When the second session of / the Sev
enty-third congress adjourned, the
work It had done together with the
enactments of the first session, com
pleted the transfer to the Chief Execu
tive of more authority than any con
gress ever before Tiad delegated to the
head of the goverrme.it. In
survey of the/sets seems to Indicate
that congress delegated to Mr. Roose
velt at least 50 per cent of the power
ordinarily reserved to the legislative
branch/alone. Some of the grants were
of a/temporary character, of course,
buy nevertheless the President has
>m and they cannot be taken away
intll after the first of January, 1935,
irrespective of their nature, unless exi
gencies should srise under whiefy Mr.
Roosevelt will call the congress back
for an extraordinary session. Those
exigencies do not now appear on the
hbrizon.
The above paragraphs are a neces
sary preludl to the further statement
that for tho 1 fuming IffiEttfr tL
Legality
Questioned
row money, to
T WO events In recent days have em
phasised the friendship that exists
between the United States and Can
ada. The first jwaa the dedication of
the new International bridge span
ning the 8L T-awrence between Roose-
veltown, N. Y„ and Cornwell Canada.
Secretary of War Dern represented
President Roosevelt at the ceremony,
and the earl of Bess borough, governor
general, was there for tin Dominion.
The second event, on July 4, was
the return to the Canadlsn government
af the mace of the parliament of up
per Canada that was taken during the
War at 1812, at the tattSs of York,
and had bean In Hie Nava) academy
at AAnapoUs ever since. On racom-
BMOdatloa of President Rooaevelt
fninTSM authorised the restitution of
ttm Rear Admiral William D.
Laahy, chief of the boreao of navlga-
‘ ‘ by Ms aM, Lieut
W INDING up its fiscal year, the
federal government found that,
counting emergency expenses, it had
*>,;ent about $4,000,000,000 more than
It had collected. Balancing receipts
against ordinary expenditures, the
government figured It was $28,000,000
“in the black” for the year.
President Roosevelt has estimated
nearly $5,000,000,000 would be added
to the national debt by emergency ex
penses during the next 12 months.
This was predicated on recovery that
would make Industrial production av
erage 98 per cent of the 1923-25 level
In July, 1935, the President ho|)e8
to start the payoff for the recovery
program. By that time, he has said,
the budget should be balanced.
According to the federal reserve
board's Index, the Industrial produc
tion figure for the year Just ended
was slightly above the 81 per cent av
erage on which the President based
his hopes In May It rose to, 87. Last
July It went to 101 for a while, boosted
by speculative business activity.
W ITH congress adjourned and the
President preparing for his
Hawaii cruise. Miss Margaret Le
Hand, confidential secretary la Mr.-
Roosevelt. decided to
take a vacation, so
she sailed for Europe.
Now comes from Paris
the positive statement
that Miss Le Hand Is
to he married to Wll-
Ham C. BulHrt. Amer
ican ambassador to
Russia, and that she
was making the final
arrangements In the
French capital. The
young lady would say
nothing In confirma
tion or denial except to declare that
she was not going to Russia, but the
correspondents were sure the plans
were well advanced for what It had
been hoped would be a dberet wed
ding. It was understood that Corne
lius Vanderbilt Jr., a close friend of
the President, would act as best man
for Mr. Bullitt Mr. Vanderbilt Is In
the Riviera, and Miss Le Hand also
was booked to go there before return
ing to America late In July.
Margaret
Le Hand
S OMETHING like a hundred thou
sand Americans and Canadian*
gathered In Detroit for the good will
celebration which was held on the
Ambassador bridge under the aus
pices of the American Legion and
the Canadian Legioa The bridge,
which links Canada and the United,
States across the Detroit river, waa
turned Into a huge playground and
customs and Immigration barriers were
lifted for the day. '
M ILWAUKEE'S street car strike
came to an end when the operat
ing company yielded to moat of the
demands of the union workers and
peace terms were signed. The prop
erty damage sustained by the com
pany during the four days of rioting
waa estimated at $250,000. One man
was killed and dosens Injured.
M I
r EXICO elected a new constitu
tional preaHaot—Qn. Lasaro
Cardenas—and It was the quietest
election in the country's history. Car
denas, thirty-nine^year-old veteran ef
the wars, was backed by the powerful
National Revolutionary party and
swamped Ma two
G IVING up hope for a disarmament
pact at Geneva, the British gov
ernment has under way extensive
puins for strengthening Its air force
for defense of the country. This Iras
announced to parliament by Lord ILon
donderry. secretary for "ulr. He
turned down a suggestion for an Im
perial air fores for the defense of the
empire, but said there would be dose
cooperation with the air forces of the
dominions.
»OV.
Dakota, recently convicted of con
spiracy to defraud the federal govern
ment, achieved a measure of vindica
tion by winning renomlnatloo In the
Republican primaries. Hla entlra
Mate, with the passible exception of
on* man, was victoriona.
In New York, a chauffeur asked
his boss to find a Job for the chauf
feur's brother. A Job was found at
$25 a week driving a truck. The Job-
lesa~l>rdther said Indignantly;
"What! Drive a truck for $25 a
week when I can get $15 a week from
the government for doing nothing?
No, thank you."
That can last a long time if the
government Is willing to print the
money. It may last not quite so long,
bat several years, if the government
continues Its present ssinlne course
of inflating with bonds, doubling its
debt by payment of Interest.
If nudist foolishness last long
enough, and foolish nudists have money
enough, Mr. Maurice Allard, who has
made himself president of the “Na
ture’s Recreative association,” Intends
to take a hundred and sixty nudists to
lovely Vanna Vanna Island in the South
seas It will cost each nudist $1,000 to
go there, and, for the sake of peace,
they must all be married and take
their wives.
Being married and taking their wives
along under nudist conditions may not
mean absolute peace. That remains to
be seen.
At a recent sale of old coins, some
body paid $100 for a “brass dollar,” of
the time of Franklin, that dollar hav
ing stamped on It the words, “Mind
your business.”
If that dollar could make this coun
try take that advice. It would he cheap
at $100,000,000. Falling to mind our
business has cost the United States
many tens of billions, and will cost
more In the future.
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In China, Mg country with the big
gest population, things are done In a
.big way. In Fukien province nine
young Chinese girls, from thirteen to
nineteen, all suffering from unrequited
love, tied themselves together. Jumped
Into the river; all were drowned.
. Under old Chinese costoma some
of £ho nine might have been thrown
Into the river aa babies as “surplus
girls.”
Catholics in Germany resent the gov
ernment's pretensions to rule la church
-as well aa outside /
Chancellor Hitler la called by Ger
mans their Fuehrer (“leader”).
Bishop Nicholas Bares, addressing
■Meting, telhf them that Christ Is their
only Fuehrer; that they shook! bo M
only by him. not listen to “tbo falter
ing words of human beings.” Tbo
papal nuado participated In the cere
—-y
least, the country will have a distinc
tive one-man control Ordinarily, we
are prone to consider this government
of ours In a little different manner
because. In a period when congress
to* session, the restrictions which
Its enactments embody serve to cir
cumscribe the powers of the executive
■branch of the government. In the
forthcoming six months, however, the
executive branch may operate with all
of the freedom discretionary author
ity carries to the New Deal legisla
tion.
Because of the great speed which
characterized passage of the New
Deal legislation for which the Presi
dent asked. Its full meaning waa over
looked temporarily In many cases.
Now that congress has gone, however,
appraisals ire possible In the light of
the relationship existing between vari
ous Items of the New Deal, and thla
has occasioned more than the usual
amount of discussion In Washington.
One line of discussion frequently
heard Is that Mr. Roosevelt has placed
himself In a spot where he can claim
full personal credit for the success of
his program. By the same token, and
since success Is not yet assured, he Is on
the spot where he must accept full re
sponsibility for failure of any part of
the program to accomplish the Job
which be has outlined. From what t
hear around Washington, there seems
no disposition anywhere to take away
"any hf f!te~cfiedii. The politicians 6b
the President’s side dare not seek any
of the credit, for their records show
them to have been wholly subservient
to his will. Anti-adminlstratfon^ poll-
Uclans are continuing to play dead,
for their strategy Is apparently one
of allowing the calf all ef the rope.
If failure attends any units of the
program, they will make great capi
tal of It If success Is complete, they
can do nothing about it anyway, thus
they are to a blind alley for the time
being.
This posltioa. I am told, does not
mean that the Republicans and other
anti administration groups will not
fight back. 1 have explained In ear
lier letters that they are going to fo
ment trouble by attacks on various of
the policfis to show vulnerable points.
As I said at the outset, the story
of the Seventy-third congress is the
story of the broad-
Just a Loan est loan of power
af Power ever g,ven - H Inu,t
be described as a
loan of power, because congress can
take It back at any time by muster
ing'sufficient votes for repeal of the
laws It enacted. But It must he re
membered that, under the so-called
Norris amendment to the federal Con
stitution, the recently adjourned ses
sion of congress was the last session.
In otheg words, when adjournment was
voted. It was an adjournment sine die.
It was finished. It cannot be recon
vened without a call by the President
and that, aa I reported above. Is hard
ly within the realm of possIMHtles. All
of which la by way of saying that Mr.
Rooaevelt will have the use of these
loaned powers completely and unequiv
ocally certainly until next January.
It might be added that he will have
most of tnem for much longer be
cause, although congress can exercise
tta right fo take them hack, recovery
of the grants of power la not as easy
as It may seem. For example, nor
mally, repeal of a law la accomplished
by a majority vote In congress. Rut
one moat atop to consider here that
Mr. Rooaevelt may not want to give
np the anthority vested to him. He
Hi the power to veto an act of con
gress. Then, to get those powers back
errlde the veto. ^To
override a veto U la accessary ander
the terms of the Constltnttoa that
two-thlrda of each house shall have
voted to the afllnpatlve
4 am maktag no assertion that any
sock attitude wM be taken by the
Eooe can make it for none
it the
will be whin the time comes for a
potot- It to worthy of
thought, In my opinion, however, that
here Ji a condition where the system
of Cnecks and balances between the
itlve, Judicial and executive
inchea .of the government have
placed a powerful whip In the hands
of the Executive. Students of the Con
stitution tell me that it Is a very un
usual condition. Frankly, as I see the
situation at this time. It will take an
overturning of public sentiment equal
In magnitude to tke landslide by
which Mr. Roosevelt was elected to
force a return of that power to con
gress were the President desirous of
retaining it
• • •
When Mr, Roosevelt came Into of-
flee March 4, 1933. the congress, ac
cording to the Con
stitution, held the
power to levy and
collect taxes, to bor-
regulate foreign and
domestic commerce, to coin money and
regulate Its value and to govern Its
relation to foreign coin, to combat
counterfeiting, to set up Inferior
cdurts, to declare war and grant let
ters of marque and reprisal, to raise
and support the army and the navy
and control calls for the militia, to
define and punish piracy, guard the
copyright of creative work, and to
make all necessary latte for carrying
out these various powers.
‘ What has congfflu retitned of these
vast powers, given It by the Constitu
tion because it represents the people?
There Is a divergence of opinion. Sure
ly, however, there has been delegated
to the President some of the meet Im
portant of those powers, snd some
authorities like Senator Borah of
Idaho, and some of the Democratic
conservatives claimed the delegation
has been Illegal. Whether that conten* _
tlon Is true, of course. Is a matter
for the courts.
To examine just a few of the things
done by congress will Illustrate the
extent to which It went In granting
authority to the President Take the
laws creating the Agricultural Ad- z
justment administration and It will be
seen that the authority to levy and
collect taxes was granted and at the
same time a big handful of control
over Interstate and foreign commerce
was given to the Executive. Produc
tion control under the so-called Bank,
head cotton control law Is Just that
An Important control over Interstate
and foreign commerce was given tbs
president also under the national re»
rovery act General Johnson, admin
istrator, exercises that authority, of
course, but he does so under execu
tive direction.
While the power la circumscribed to
Ian extent, congress gave the President
authority to change the value of the
dollar. He cannot vary It greater thaa •
between fifty and sixty cents, as we
used to measure cents, but the power
to coin money and regulate Its value
rests with Mr. Roosevelt to that ex
tent.-The Implications ge much -fur* -
titer. The treasury has an Immense
fund of gold which It can use In main
taining the relationship between oor
dollar and foreign coins.
Under the present set-up, congress
gave away temporarily the right to
make laws, or a part
U. S. in Many of that authority. In
Burinetitj "" " f
of the New Deal
congress, much discretionary power to
draft regulations and rules for admin
istration of the new laws was accord
ed the Executive. Anti-admlnistratloa
leaders contend that in using this dis
cretionary power, the executive branch
has put government into countless
businesses. Through the Reconstruc
tion Finance corporation, for example *
the government owns or has Influence
In through the medium of loans such
businesses as banking, dairying, cotton
and wheat and other grain stocks. In
the mortgage field, railroading and in ^
the various fields of commerce and
industry such as those touched by the
Tennessee Valley experiment
In the charity field, the government
has gone a long way. It Is providing
work In numerous ways. Various ex
periments are being worked out with
these funds, voted by congress for dis
tribution under the President’s direc
tion. Some of the money Is being used,
for example, fofthe building of whole
towns to conjunction with a govern
ment-owned manufacturing plant
Through NRA, It Is to be mentioned
also, the anti-trust laws were virtually.
If not wholly, suspended. The recov
ery act made the anti-trust laws In
applicable where corporations signed
the codes and complied with the Mae
eagle requirements Under that same
set of laws, too, the government vir
tually became a partner In alt busi
nesses, since It exercises anthority
over their manufacturing practices
and policies aa well aa their methods
of production and distribution.
Finally, it ought to be mentioned
that no longer can an Individual sign
* contrast by which ho win agree W
make payment In gold All such con
tract* entered Into heretofore. If they
are still In effect, mean nothing bo-
canae they cannot be enforced aa In
payssent la gold The trenenry baa
beoosM the owner ef all monetary
geld wtthla the confines of the United
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