Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1928, Page 7

(O0LDGE SOUNDS OPTINSTE OTE | Prgsident in Annual Message | Warns U. S. Continued Ef- )« fort Is Necessary. (Continued From First Page) penditures to be made before June 30. It is necessary, therefore, during the | to refrain from new | appropriations for immediate outlay, or | if such are absolutely required to pro- | vide for them by new revenue; other- wise, we shall reach the end of the year | with the unthinkable result of an un- For the first time y term of office we face that I am certain that the Congress would not pass, and I should not feel warranted in approving, legis- lation which would involve us in that financial disgrace.” The President recommended several times in his message the continued present _session balanced budget. : fostering care of the Federal Govern- P ment toward business, although he would keep the Government out of business itself. He did not, however, e make any recommendations regarding |J "€ ape | its modification or repeal. Meantime, it TR getou. CHNIE s pechibmiTRDE o ipon (e ationalisnaiEiat governments and all our inhabitants. The Federal making every effori to prevent viola- ! parently, which he is content to leave to the next administration. Certainly there would be no time in the present short session to deal with a general revision of the tariff schedules, New |U England, the President’s own home section of the country, is clamoring for aid for its textile and other industries from a revision of the tariff. t t eighteenth amendment. Those who ob- | manufacture and transportation, and which it can secure evidence. bound to continue this policy. Under its best balance for many yecrs. But there is need for further improvement, the President said, for the farmer gep- erally. Discussing the surplus crop problem, the President recommended establish- | ment of a Federal farm board to aid the farmers solve this pioblem. While | he approved of a revolving fund to help the board and the farmers in the commencement of their work, he | announced his opposition to the Gov- ernment’s going into price fixing or granting of subsidies. He said: “The Government should aid in pro- moting orderly marketing and in han- dling surpluses clearly due to weather and seasonal conditions. As a beginning there should be created a Federal farm board consisting of able and experienced men empowered to advise producers’ | associations in establishing central | agencies or stabilization corporations to handle surpluses, to- seek more eco- |, nomical means of merchandising and | ¢ to aid the producer in securing returns according to the quality of his product. | A revolving loan fund should be pro- | vided for the necessary financing until these agencies shall have developed means of financing their operations through regularly constituted credit in- stitutions. Such a bill should carry au- | 5 thority for raising the money. by loans | or otherwise, necessary to meet the ex- penses, as the Treasury has no suprplus.” Prohibition Observance Obligatory. With regard to prohibition and pro- |} hibition enforcement, the President said n part: “The country has duly adopted the |} ject to it have the right to advocate enforcement bureau s t ions, especially through smuggling.i o prosecute generally all violations for |, It is he terms of the Constitution, however, COOLIDGE SPEECH President’s Aim in Last Mes-| The paramount policy of his admin- cepted in the sense of a valedictory House authority today that the Presi- dent, in the preparation of this last mes: suppress any would not be interpreted in that sense. was to furnish the clear-cut, business- state of the Union and at the same time clear his views regarding proposed legis- mentalities. no doubt, will be looked upon as being significant and will be very widely read because it is his final message before re- known to have intended that the mes- sage should be matter-of-fact. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, of those maiters of Government thal1 | he thought rightfully belonged to the | incoming President. | Taking the message as a whole it | could be readily accepted as a happy review of what Mr. Coolidge considered | a most satisfactory condition of the country. Tt is obvious that he attached the most importance to the physical condition of the Government and the | general prosperity and peace of the | Nation. gDeclares Coolidge Is istration has been economy in Govern- ment and the promotion of prosperity throughout the land and peace through- out the world, and it was obvious from the manner in which he treated these subjects in his message he believes firm- Iy fie has been successful so far as they ars concerned. Mz Coolidge has made no secrete of | the fact that he will be content to leave | ” the White House with that record. At|9f California, sage Was to Give Account- ing of Stewardship. der Dam Bill. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge does not want his | ast annual message to Congress, which leading g ore both Houses today, 8¢~ | with whom he has discussed the subject | he believes Congress and the people i general realize the present era of pros. perity and peace are easy to lose un. less they are carefully handled. Not only did he sound a warning in this respect, but he cautioned Congress | to be careful during the present session to refrain from new appropriations for immediate outlay, stating that unl Congress uses judgment in this respect the Government will reach the end of | the year with what he described in his message as the unthinkable result o an_unbalanced budget. The possibility of his going out of office, after all of his efforts in the interest of economy, with a Treasury deficit is known to have greatly wor- ried the President since the possibility of this was predicted earlier in the year by the director of the budget. One of the President’s intimates said today that if the latter knew he was going to leave the White House with the books of the Treasury showing a deficit, he would feel disgraced—that his whole administration would have been in vain. & ! able to our rom him. : “Not only have It was learned from a high White | on said, “but now, ge, very studiously attempted to | such feelings. He has ince expressed himself to friends to he extent that he hoped his message His sole aim in this important paper left to private enterprise; ike accounting of his stewardship and | g g o acquaint Congress with the happy exercising to power.” subdivisions from preferential rights ation, without indulging in senti- on “Coolidgesque Message.” message: ‘The President’s last message, which, ment business and affairs.” Senator Robinson, iring to private life, is typically Cool- Arkansas, dgesque. He tigated the various subjects calm- y and In a matter-of-fact way. He is gestions for legislation.” He tinetly in Favor of Boul- Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican advocate | Boulder Dam legislation, interpreted the the same time he has impressed those President's message as being “distinctly fay e the past utter- ances of the President.” Senator John- th a resume of he new Engineering Commission’s re- port before him, the President definite. ly recommends our measure. Our op- ponents have pretended to find some consolation in the statement in the mes- sage that the electrical field should be but this be construed to pro- | hibit the States, the cities or political | Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washing- one of the Republican lead made this comment on the President: . | “It is an unusually clear, concise and | business-like statement of our Govern- | Democrat, and minority floor leader, characterized the message as “unsat- isfactory and indefinite respecting sug- “This is particularly true of the sub- D. C., TUESDAY, ' DECEMBER ¢, MNESSAGE PLEASES | SEAATOR JHNSON Dis-| of | their | of 1928, ject of agriculture,” Senator Robinson | continued. “Surely the country was justified in expecting®the President to propose a substitutee plan for that which he defeated by vetoing the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill.” DRIVER IS ARRESTED FOR BEATING WOMAN Couple Found Fighting in Car| After Machine Goes Down Steep Embankment. Summoned by a resident who said that she heard a woman screaming for SERVING WASHINGTON FOR OVER THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY help in the 2700 block of Rodman road | early this morning, fourteenth precinet police say they found Mrs. Mary Bishop. 26, of the 1100 block Lamont street, and Staunton L. White, 28, of the 3100 block Georgia avenue, fighting in an automo- bile that had run over a 30-foot em- bankment. ‘The woman, they claim, badly beat- en about the face, was screaming for assistance when they reached the scene. Policemen W. H. Turner and C. C Brown, who responded to the call, first took White to the station house, where he was charged with assault, and then removed Mrs. Bishop to Emergency Hos- | pital, where she was treated for lacera- | tions of the lips and bruises on the face. After she was treated. the policemen took her home. where she was met, they say, by a man who claimed to be her husband. White, who was released on $25 col- lateral, did not appear in Police Court | | .y today, but Assistant United States At- torney Joseph C. Bruce announced an attachment would be sought to bring him in. How the automobile left the roadway and ran over the embankment and wny | it was not overturned in the drop, po- lice could not learn, since neither Mrs. Bishop nor White seemed able to ex- plain the cause of the accident. Woman of 113 Is Dead. RICHFIELD SPRINGS, N. Y. De- cember 4 (#).—Mrs. Delina Pilkins, 113 years old, died at the home of her son here today. She was born in the town t‘xl lsst«;asrk Herkimer County, N. Y., May SOL HERZOG . .. Inc. Gifts —for MEN Shirts strived at nothing more. He recog- Kellogg Treaty Emphasized. the obligation is equally on the States Foreign relations were given a prom- | ¢ to exercise the power which they have hrough the executive, legislative, judi- inent place in the message. The Presi- | ja1 and police branches of their gov- | dent laid great stress upon the Kellogg treaty renouncing war. He said: ernments in behalf of enforcement. The | Federal Government is doing and will “One of the most important treaties | continue to do all it can in this direc- ever laid before the Senate of the |f; United States will be that which the 15 nations recently signed at Paris, and to which 44 other nations have declared their intention to adhere, renouncing war as & national policy and agreeing to resort only to peaceful means for the adjustment of international differ- | ;, nces. " “The observance of this covenant, so simple and so straightforward, prom- ses more for the peace of the world than any utherhsgreement ever nego- i am the nations.” um Pr;m“int described conditions in | have taxed the industry, young men and young women have ap- plied for Federal air pilots’ licenses, and more than 80 per cent of them during the last year. jon and is entitled to the active co- operation of the States.” Aviation Advance Gratifying. President Coolidge described the ad- vance made in civil and commercial aviation, declaring it was most gratify- Demands for motors and planes ng. o over 17,000 “Our national airway system,” said he President, “extends 14,000 miles in Nicaragua, where the United States re- length, and has 7,500 miles lighted for stored order after a revolution, and where it has helped to conduct an elec- American relations with Mexico are bet- ter than they have been since the revo- ' lution began in that country a number of years ago, he said, and gave credit to Ambassador Morrow for this. Mr. Mor- . Tow has been prominently mentioned n? a possible successor to Secretary ol State Kellogg in the Hoover cabinet. Turning to the matter of national defense, President Coolidge said that the Army “could not be much reduced, but does not need to be increased.” Pleads for More Cruisers. “Our Navy,” continued the President, *“according to generally accepted stand- night flying. S o tion of president, as most encouraging. }’:"me Iy it ‘Three-quarters of our is noteworthy that this development has taken place without governmental subsidies.” The President discussed, too, the strides made by the air mail, and its extension to cover Key West, Fla.; Cuba and Santo Domingo to San Juan, Porto car Rico, where it will connect with an-|This is the greatest building program other route to Trinidad. He said there would be another route to the Panama Canal Zone, where connection will be made with still another route across the northern coast of South America to Paramaribo. River and harbor improvements are proceeding with vigor, the President said. He warned against Congress mak- ards, is deficient in cruisers. We have | ing further commitments at this time* 10 comparatively new vessels, 22 that * are old.” He urged the passage of the naval construction bill now pending be- fore the Senate. “I wish to repeat again,” said the President, “for the benefit of the timid and suspicious that this country is meither militaristic nor imperialistic.” ‘Whether the President had in mind criticisms of his Armistice day speech “Many people at home and abroad, ‘who constantly make charge, are the same ones who are even more solicitous to have us extend assistance to foreign countries. When such assist- ance is granted, the inevitable result is that we have for€ign interests. For us to refuse the customary support and rmemon of such interests would be in derogation of the sovereignty of this Nation. Our largest foreign interests are in the British Empire, France and Italy. Because we are constantly ! solicitous for those interests, I doubt if /| any one would suppose that those coun- tries feel we harbor toward them any militaristic or imperialistic design. As the civil service of the Government i the past eight years relates to the crease in salaries. tuaries on the retirement act shows by its report that July 1, 1921, the average salary of the 330,047 employes subject to the act was $1,307, while on June 30, 1927, the average salary of the corre- sponding 405,263 was $1,969. This was however, until some of the projects| already authorized, including the Missis- sippi flood relief, have been cared for. | He declared himself in sympathy with a bill for the control of the flood waters of the Colorado River, generally known as the Boulder Dam bill, but he said that a report of the engineers appointed to study the project indicated there should be some changes in th was not indicated, but he continued: | legislation, and pointed out engineers prefer the Black Canyon site. that the Reviews Civil Service Work, The President called attention to what has been done in recent years to improve and more adequately pay the classified civil service. He said: “The most marked change made in ‘The Board of Ac- are already under way and one addition e proposed | il nized the limitations placed on his dis- cussions of legislative matters because of the short time he has yet to serve. Because of this he deliberately avoided | any attempt to be dramatic. The President was very careful to frame his message so as to not go be- vond the time when he will be suc- ceeded in office by Herbert Hoover. It was not his intendtion to attempt to take away from Mr. Hoover any ever occupied such a fortunate posi- tion.” Discussing the Government’s building | program in the District of Columbia, | the President said: | “We have laid out a public building | program for the District of Columbia and the country at large running into hundreds of millions of dollars. Three important structures and one annex has been completed in the City of ‘Washington. In the country sites have been acquired, many buildings are in course of construction, and some are al- ready completed. Plans for all this work are being prepared in order that it may be carried forward as rapidly as possible. ever assumed by this nation. It con- templates _structures of utility and of beauty. When it reaches completion the people will be well served and the Federal city will be supplied with the most beautiful and stately public build- ansmwhlch adorn any capital in the world.” Asks Aid for Colored. The President gave particular at- tention to problems which involve the colored population of the country, say- ing that the Government should con- tinue its efforts to aid the colored peo- ple. He said: ploiting the negro problem for political ends is being abandoned and their protection is Leing increased by those States in which their percentage of population is largesi. Every en- couragement shouid be extended for the development of the race. The col- ored people have heen the victims of the crime of lynchinz, which has™in late years somewhat decreased. Some parts of the South already have whole- some laws for its restraint and punish- ment. 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