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| (rad Hm Dicfafor BOOSTS FOR BUSINESS MorynftwTt Encouraging Spaack . •. President Has Building Plan • • • Japs Take Shanghai ^y&bhpaJbet W. ftlcJcaJtd * ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORU Isl—ce Budget: Morgeetfcau B ectrcd a cheering direct from the adminis tration. deli wed by Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau. Addressing the Academy of Po litical Sciences in New York. Ur. Mor gen thau declared the time had come for balancing the budget, but said this should be accom plished without addi tional taxation. Encouragement tar industry and busi ness was stated thus: laws should be so written and administered that the taxpayer can continue to make a reasonable profit with a minimum of inter- from his federal govern- Moreover, the treasury head went m record as opposed to a continu ance of the era at unlimited govern ment spending. Said he: *Tbe basic need today ia to foster the full ap plication of the driving force of private capital We want to see capital go into the productive chan nels of private industry. We want to see private business expand - The plan advanced by Mr. Mor gen thau for balancing the budget was to bring next year's expendi tures. under the 1939 budget which -takes effect next July 1. within this year’s revenues. To achieve s bal ance. exclusive of debt retirement payments, the present scale of ex penditures would have to be sliced 9700.000.000. be added. While be urged against tax in creases. Mr. Morgenthau suggested that a broader base for income taxes, increasing the number of tax payers above the present 3.000,000. would be a more equitable substi tute for the present federal taxes on consumers—the so-called nui sance taxes. President's Building Plan PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in a * conference with several business leaders, told of his oew plan for checking the threatening depression by stimulating private home build ing by private capital He re vealed no details, but Chairman Ee- cks at the reserve board said the President was confident such a pro gram would reach fuQ scope next year. Eccles was imprepared to say whether the tmdertaking would be directed through a new government but thought legislation of sort probably would be neces- sary. One suggestion is that the social reserve be used for loans construction. At present it is being used to pay current gov- THEJ¥ORLD*S WEEK In Brussels the Far East peace conference was considering a plan for giving direct aid to China if Japan should reject mediation. Co ercive action against Japan was not thought advisable, but the idea was that China should be permitted to obtain munitions and arms to keep up her fight. The chief difficulty would lie in American neutrality legislation. Com Crop Estimates P RODUCTION of corn in the Unit ed States this year will total X651.393.000 bushels, the Depart ment of Agriculture estimated on the basis of November 1 conditions. The estimate was 89.457.000 bushels larger than the forecast of X561.- 936.000 bushels a month ago. In 1936 1.529.327.000 bushels were har vested. Private estimates of the current crop ranged between X613.000.000 and X710.000.000 bushels, with the average about X63&000.000 bushels France Buys Our Gold T WO big shipments of gold abroad were made by the gov ernment within the week. The first was S10.2SO.OOO sent to France on the Normandie. Then $3,000,000 was started to England on the Aquitania. It was believed other shipments would fellow before long. The gold shipments were handled by the stabilization fund and were regarded as an operation under the tn-partite agreement, which binds Great Britain. France and the Unit ed States in a "gentleman's pact” to mamtam currency stability. Ramsay MacDonald’s Death R amsay mac donald. who rose from poverty and obscur ity to become three times the prune minister cf the great British em pire, died suddenly cf heart disease , on a steamship bound for South | America where he was to take a long vacation with his daughter. He was severty-cce years old and had been practically out cf politics since 1935. when Stanley Baldwin succeed ed him as prune minister. Mac Donald at that time was offered a peerage but declined the honor. Even his political fees admit that he was cne of the outstanding states men cf the time. G etulio VARGAS, BrasaL to new dictator of that com try. la a com that isaotved all put Into effect a new constitution with corporative fea tures. He issued a manifesto de claring the suspension of payment on all government debts abroad. The foreign relations ministry la Rio de Janeiro said Vargas* coup was not connected with European political ideologies and denied re ports Brazil planned to )oin the German - Japanese - Italian pact against rrynmnmcm Reasons for Thanks A MERICA can be thankful for lha of peace. President Roosevelt asserted M a proclama tion designating November 25 as Thanksgiving day. “A period unhappily marked In many parts of the world by strife and threats of war finds our people enjoying the blessing of pence.” he sa»d "We have no selfish designs against other nations.? At die outset of the proclamation Che President said. ‘The harvests of our fields have been abundant and many TT> * T> women have been given flic blessing of stable employ ment.** Bloch to Ho«d Navy A BOUT the first of next February the American navy will hava a commander-in-chief in foe per* of Admiral Claude Charles Bloch, nominated by Secretary Swanson to succeed Admiral Hep- bum. The son of a Czechoslovaki an immigrant and a native of Wood bury. Ky.. be is now fifty-nine years old. After his (raduation from foe na val academy Bloch served under “Fighting Bob** Evans on foe U. S. S. Iowa in the Spanish-American war and was cited for “meritorious” service in rescuing Spaniards from hrrmmg ships of Cervera i squad ron. During the World war. as com mander of the transport Platttburg. Bloch won the navy cross for “dis tinguished service.” W! \ ,.**>-* | decline to residential build tog to generally held ble to a large extent for foe slump to steel min activity from ID per cent of capacity to 69 per Fdfc to Jdfto Italy M Joins Anti-Reds USSOLIM has given the dem ocratic governments of Europe something else to worry about, for Italy has joined Germany and Japan to their agreement to combat commu nism. and oo one knows bow far this alliance anil go or just what are its to- tmtiflr.t The three “charter members'' of the pact—foat status was given Italy—hope that all other fascist minded nations. Poland. Portugal. Hungary and soma af the South American republics, will adhere to the agreement. Political observers saw foe pert of a world divided toto Joachim of foe of ttrta mited front to Judge Grakam Passes •nJJAM J. GRAHAM, presid ing judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Ap peals and for nine years a Repub lican congressman from Illinois, died of heart disease at his home in Washington. He was sixty-five years old. a— Our Navy Grows Rapidly S ECRETARY OF THE NAVY CLAUDE A. SWANSON re ported to the President that the navy is stronger than at any time sine* war days and to moving steadily up to the foQ strength permitted by the treaties abrogated by Japan. It will not go beyond the limi tations to pacts unless nations do so. Under its big re placement program the department has under construction two new battleships and has appre> priations for 85 other warstupe. These include three aircraft car riers, one heavy cruiser, nine light cruisers, fifty-five destroyers and seventeen submarines. Five years ago foe total num ber at under age vessels eras 101 of 728.050 tons, with twenty-three ves sels of 12X500 tens under construc tion. Today the navy has 113 ves sels of 869.230 tons under age. and eighty-seven vessels of 335.565 tons under constrocticn. Farm Measure Ready V OLUNTARY crop control for wheat, corn, rice and cotton; and compulsory limitation at tobac co production, are provided for sa the new farm measure drafted by the bouse committee on agriculture for action in the extraordinary ses sion of congress. Secretary Wallace's “ever normal granary” plan is included to the bill The measure also provides for “tariff equalizing taxes'* which would be actually a revival cf the professing taxes which the Supreme court declared unconstitutional These taxes would be applied only to wheat, cotton snd rice—3 cents a pound on cotton. 30 cents a bushel en wheat and to cent a pound on rice. For tite protection at consumers the bill provides that when prices of tbs respcctiv pertly by 10 of agriculture shall call orrmanrttng and to toto n fy, il, ,., rresBOwnT s wrmooy P! »M> 'Jhlnkd about S ANTA MONICA, CALIF. —To produce this crop takes time and planning. First your veterans must grow past fighting age because those who survive the horrors at one war never willingly enlist for another. Meanwhile be sure the women hava been bearing children, since chil dren are the seed corn of your future sowing. As the newer gen eration grows up dose it on foe old reliable P. P. P. formula — parades, pomp, propaganda. Bands and guns snd flag • wavings, murderous preachments and manufactured pa triotism; they all help to fertilize against the ultimate harvesting. Befuddle the first-born on dreams at drunken glory. Teach him the neighbor over the way is an enemy who must sane day be crushed without mercy. Make him believe his country's destiny demands re venge for old hurts, reprisals for old losses, widened boundaries writ in blood And then, in about 20 years, you have a nation ripened for ruin, a race of mothers ready to offer their sons to the slaughter. It’s a slow crop, but a sure one. and highly gratifying to professional sword-rat tlers and power-mad dictators, to profiteers and financial hijackers. Let's see. cone 1938, it’ll be just about 20 years since foe last time the world cut its own throat. Washington Digest j National Topics Interpreted ^ By WILLIAM BRUCKART S OMEBODY says foe type of poli tician who swaps worthless promises before election for the public’s confidence—and its votes— reminds him of Janus. Janus was a god with two faces, and foe an cients finally got so they couldn't trust either one of them. But it took them a long time to catch on. Might I be pardoned for thinking of a homelier simile? I'm thinking of the pack-rat of this western coun try. ne thrifty pack-rat slips with stealthy tread into your camp whilst you slumber and carries off some thing of value. But he doesn’t steal it—nothing like that. He merely ex changes with you. you being asleep at the time. He leaves a dry twig and totes off a side of meat. Ha confiscates one at your boots, but, to return, confers on you a couple at dead cactus stalks. His intentions may be honest, but these to do record shewing where a pack- rat ever got foe worst cf a trade. I figure he’s part Scotch. And foe profits resulting from his professional dealings certainly may be likened to foe career of many a chronic officeholder new flourishing to our midst. w: This Mae Dewey. HEN <he Republicans get out the heund-dawgs to run down their 1940 nominee, they might search in foe tall timbers of Man- ha run island There’s a young fellow there, foe narr.a being Dewey, and be being kin to foe great admiral whose deeds crackled at Manila cne May day morning like foe lightnings on Mount Rrnai- He comes of old Yankee stock. He hails from a de bauble state. Michigan: lives to a pivotal state. New York. StiH in his mid-thirties, he smashed foe foulest, securest nests of labor rack eteers and vice racketeers to Amer ica. He married a sweet Texas flit as southern as they make ’em. Her grand-tmcle was Jeff Davis. My daddy was Jeff Davis’ relative, too. And this young Dewey trained for grand opera. Speaking cf this charm WtMg, QifrA of a President who’d wind up his fireside radio chats sing- tog “Home on the Range.” Yea. sir. the G. O. P. might go farther and fare R events bring to mind a at some years back patriots to an county felt called on. as a Imposed upon all traa to put ti»e Black broth- place; said place, to at being i Washington —Supporters of the New Deal as well as its opponents are watching a #v ew new experiment Experiment hy President Roosevelt with more than passing interest. They are watching this experiment be cause of various circumstances in cluding obviously its political phases for they realize that the President has stepped out into a hitherto untrod field, unplowed ground in this new experiment. Chiefly because it is something entirely new and not because any one yet can tell what is going to happen I want to report this week on the President's plan to have his elder.: son James, his No. 1 sec retary. serve as a clearing house between the Chief Executive and some eighteen or more government agencies. Roosevelt, the younger, has been designated by foe Presi dent to sit down once each week with heads of each of foe enumerat ed agencies and talk over their problems, iron out those which be can help solve, co-ordinate foe work between them as far as he is able to do so, and. most important to foe men with whom he deals, decide which questions confronting these units of government may be matters for the President’s personal consid eration. It is a big order. But Jimmy as he is known around here is a big man at least physically be cause be stands something like six feet one inch. He is twenty-nine years old. The audiences at foe White House with Jimmy have already started and foe agency heads who have sat through the conferences seem well pleased. At least, there has been no criticism yet. no signs of jealousy cr indications of dis sent among these who are called upon to take up their problems with foe young secretary to foe President. In fact. I have beard in only a few places a revival of foe punning foat went out a couple of years ago when foe "Roosevelt for King” game was in its heyday, and Jimmy was laughingly labeled as the crown prince. Thus, the plan surely seems to have started off most auspiciously. But as I said what success what trials and tribu lations, await it. no one can say. • • • Undoubtedly President Roosevelt has started a plan of action that has much to be said to Mmch in its favor. It has Its Facer 01 course many possibilities at trouble and there surely is argu ment against having the White House secretariat determine policy when foe President has been elected to foat job. Yet at this time credit must be argued along with signs and portents of trouble. First let us recognize that the of fice of President of the United States is a man-kili.ng job. There is noth ing like it anywhere else m the world. There are net too many men who can stand up under foe lead af work and worry that is contin ually on foe shoulders cf foe^head af foe cation. There is no way possible for him to escape it. Vaca tions’ Sleep? Absence from Wash ington? Not a chance. The work and worry is with him always ev ery minute out of his twenty-faur aour day. Thus d there is any way foa: can be devised to lift seme cf foe our den it ought to be done. No way has been found nereicfare. oowever. and foe millstone contin ues around foe President's neex. On the ether hand this is a de mocracy. In foe cp-man of many persons there already is too much power lodged to foe hands of to- iivtdtials who were not elected but vere appointed to office. The Prestoent has vast power and he nas to unload it somewhere toto the narvU of those he appoints. Never theless throughout the federal gov ernment scores of men and wom en exercise very great authority over your life and mine who were personally selected by the Presi dent—tor whom ncee of us voted vhen we voted for a presidential nominee. Result: red tape rules and regulations, do’s and don’ts ga lore until we hardly know whether we can eat our food without trans gressing or failing to comply with some federal 1 regulation. an of that is by way of saying that by implementing foe relatioo- ■tiip between the President and men and women whom he has appoint ed to office through the insertion of an added wheel of authority, there Be potential changes to all of gueesmnsptal poffeton And bes the possibility of changes tor better or tor wane, the President having knowi- AROUND THE HOUSE What af the personal itHnfT of the officials who have > deal with a to some extent at least, tor As I said have any thoughts along this h ne * Yet I venture this observation: if they don’t resent having the Presi dent’s son tell them what to do or not to do at some time or other, the officials concerned will be unlike most other human beings. A- • • • The Department of Agriculture is quite pessimistic about the business outlook for next Business year. In a series Outlook 01 report*, analyz ing general condi tions. which the department isiued the other day, it made no effort to conceal its belief that there is some thing wrong in the business situa tion far beyond the recent violent decline to the quotations of the stock marketi These reports and conclusions take on considerably more wfeight when it is recalled that several other agencies of the government, notably Secretary Roper of the De partment of Commerce, have sought vainly to make it appear that business is “good.” At the same time I think attention ought to be drawn to foe fact that Secretary Wallace of foe Department of Agri culture is striving to have congress pass legislation to aid the farmer. It is just possible that he thinks his objectives can be achieved more easily if the congressmen are made to believe that general business and agriculture are taking a real tail- spin. That is the politics of the situation but business reports spread on the pages of newspapers seem to show that a bad slump lies ahead. Recently. I wrote in these columns how business was as spotted as a leopard; that some firms were making more money than ever be fore. and how some others were getting by only because the volume was large and faced difficulties if the volume declined. The Agricul ture department statements, based new on facts and figures, show even a worse picture than I described several months ago. They indicate strongly that 1938 is to be consid erably lower in the level of businesa than 1937. and foat spells trouble. For example, foe agriculture statement predicts that there will be “a less favorable demand for farm products” in 1938 than in 1937. Home domestic demands are down and appear likely to stay down, and foe export market holds no hope for an increase. Emphasizing foe dependence of consumption demand upco general business conditions, the department statement explained there was no certainty as to the length cf time foe present slump will continue. It added that “pros pects are against a sufficiently ear ly and vigorous rise in 1938 to bring foe average of industrial activity and cf consumer incomes up to foat of 1937.” • • • But from foe standpoint of the farmer, foe picture is made worse by the department Picture statement It Made Worse points out how there has been a r.se in production costs of crops and livestock and bow. staring the farm er in the face, are more of these in creases. adding: "Along with the higher wage rales, farmers apparently will have to pay somewhat higher prices for farm machinery, automobiles, build- xg materials, equipment and sup plies. On the other hand the prices at feed and seed will be substan tially kwer next spring than a year earlier.” The department did not go into detail to explaining these increases m production costs and increases in pr.ces for things the farmer buys. It should have given tacts and fig ures on these for they are basic and the picture is incomplete without them. Everyone knows of course that farm labor wants more money for its work and has been getting more a foe Last two or three years. De partment of Labor statistics show this and they show as well how much additional labor is receiving in its pay checks from industry. The automobile industry which has been organized by John L. Lewis and his C L O. labor group has been forced to pay much higher wages and naturally those wages have been added into foe cost of the automo bile which any one buys. The automobile industry was only an illustration. The same is true all along foe line. The truth at the matter is that fed eral taxes which have been con ceived by the President's brain trust professors and applied without stint or limit to industry are upsetting the whole agricultural as well as the whole business structure of the country. The load of taxes together with a lot of queer-looking and cock* eyed regulations have continually increased the coat of production at everything from black-eyed peas to locomotives. It follows always that the balance between supply and de* mand la upeet notwithstanding the conviction that aome men hava of ability to amend the law M When Washing Blankets: Never leave any soap in blankets as this will turn them yellow. Allow half a cupful of vinegar to each gallon cf final rinsing water; this will clear all soap from them. • • • Washing Voile*—Voile frocks will not shrink if you use a table spoonful of epsom salts to every gallon of water when washing them. • • • In Making Vegetable Salads*-. To prevent vegetable salads from becoming too watery, dry the veg- etables before combining with the salad dressing. • • • Savory Salmon Dish.—Turn out a small tin of salmon, remove skin hnd bones and flake the fish. Sea- 'son with pepper and salt. Mix 2 cupfuls of breadcrumbs with 3 ounces of flour, stir in 2 well-beat en eggs and the salmon. Mix well, then form into the shape of a fresh salmon steak. Fry in a lit tle hot fat until brown, turning carefully so that both sides are cooked. Serve garnished with sliced lemon or tomatoes. • • • Ten-Minute Sweet.—Line a but tered pie dish with breadcrumbs. Into a pint of milk whisk 2 eggs, 4 tablesp^onfuls of sugar and a dash of vanilla essence. Pour over the crumbs and bake for 10 minutes. i When Sales Drop Between 1929 and 1933 the ex penditure for advertising in news papers and periodicals dropped 50 per cent, but the value of manu factured products showed a much greater reduction percentage. 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