Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1929, Page 29

. NAURETANIA SAILS - 24 HOURS TARDY . L3¢ Bow Damaged in Collision ‘Repaired and Passenger E List Little Affected. B2 the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 29.—After a 24-hour delay due to a damaged bow Tegeived in collision with a car float in Neéw York Harbor, the Cunard liner Mauretania was en route for Europe | ay. She carricd all passengers booked with | the exception of one woman who took | advantage of the return to port to re- main with a relative who had become | ill. Many of the American passengers | enjoyed & Thanksgiving day dinner ore. The damage sustained by the liner one hour after she sailed at midnight | Wednesday was repaired upon her re- ' turn to her pler yesterday. Several| plates on her port bow were replaced | and the new section was filled with | cement. Capt. S. G. S. McNeil, commander of | the Mauretania, said he was going down | the harbor on ebb tide when he sighted | a float a quarter mile south of the Statue of Liberty and sounded one | sharp blast: i The tug ceptain, he said, “did not re- | biasts from him indicating that he was | continuing in his course across my path. | THE_EVENIXG/ §T4R. WASHINGTON, TARIFF FORGOTTEN: BY BUSINESS HEADS { xofifiralively Few of Those Summoned by Hoover Discussed Measure. BY MARK SULLIVAN. The aggregate of the new construc- tion by public utilities whose heads co ferred with President Hoover Wednesday is enormous. One system whose orif inal plan was to expend 50 million dol- lars will now spend nearly 200 million. The only qualification brought forward about these undertakings is ability Jo get the labor during the later stages of the work. Two different programs are under way, and in a sense they may conflict. One is public works by the Federal, State, municipal and local governments. ‘The other is new construction by util- ities, railroads and industrial corpora- tions. Of the two, the latter is the more flexible. Consequently it is the new construction by corporations that will get under way first. Public building rograms by governments requires bond ssues, authorizations by legislatures, bids and letting of contracts. Conse- quently it will be weeks, and in some cases months, before public works by | Members of the convention committee of Chi Theta Sigma Fraternity, which | governments is fully under way. fpond to my signal, and then I got tW0 | will hold its sixth annual convention at the Lafayette Hotel tomorrow night,| At the same time, public works, when Front row (left to right): Donald F. Parks, treasurer; Thomas A. Maholm, chap- once under way, cannot be curtailed. Consequently scme cautious persons It was too late to do anything about him | lain, and B. McK. Aitcheson, secretary. Back row (left to right): Robert A.|foresee a possible condition about next D. C., FRIDAY, NOV two, when at full tide, so cautious per- sons apprehend, may be more than the country can take care of as respects labor supply and otherwise. In such an outcome, the corporations can take care | of the situation. They are at once more fiexible in getting under way, and more flexible in being able to slow down if slowing down by them should at some point be called for. Tarift Is Forgotten, Tt 'is ' ‘Woticeable ' that comparatively few ‘of the business leaders summoned to Washington during the past two weeks have pald much attention to the tariff. There is a group of business men who say very earnestly that speedy fin- ishine of the tariff is most desirable as a contribution by Congress to the sta- bility toward which all business leaders are earnestly striving. Those who men- tion the tariff at all say the important thing is to know definitely what the tariff will be, so that businesses affected by the tariff can plan accordingly. The amount of allusion to the tariff is, however, far less than it would have been under analogous circumstances 10 or 20 years ago. The portion of business to which the tariff does not matter has increased greatly. The por- tion to which the tariff is vital has be- come relatively small. There are huge lines of business, such as the automo- bile manufacturers, who care little or nothing about the tariff, except as it affects the ‘enenl standard of living. Also, within lines of business to which the tariff is in some degree vital, such as steel, the big units are less concerned about the tariff than the small units. To many sections of rela- tively small businesses, the tariff is everything. It is they who show acute concern. These are, however, a com- paratively slight fraction of business as_a whole. With possibly two exceptions, the items in the tariff bill that have given rise to controversy are small, relative to business as a whole. The tariff on cement has been conspicuous, but the cement tariff is imperative to only s EMBER 29, 1929. about which there is and will be much commotion, are manufactured, for the most part, in one State, Washington, with smaller interests in two adjoining States. The tariff on iron in pigs 1s of concern to only two Atlantic Sea- board States. Manganese is a smail industry in isolated spots. Textile Industry Interested.~ There are some large industries in which the tariff is of concern to the whole of the industry. An example 1s textiles. Textiles, however, have be- come only the ninth American indus- try in order of importance. The consequence of this condition is that uncertainty about the tariff, while everywhere regarded as deplorable, does not affect the capacity of business whole to go on with a program of ove! coming the effects of the financial storm. As to whether Congress will | heed the wish for speed toward com- | pleting one kind of tariff or another it is impossible to tell. No doubt Senators and members | using this week's recess to visit their | constituencies wiil learn the conditions | that make speed desirable. Almost cer- | tainly the Senate when it resumes next | | week will be less affected by the fatigue, | which was a concrete factor in the Sen- | ate proceedings for several weeks past. At the same time there are political aspects of the tariffl which make for de- lay. The political consequences of tariff action become tangible in the Spring and Summer primaries and in the elections next November, when 32 | Senate seats and all the House seats |will be filled. So far as the tariff is | expected to have a political effect, the longer it can be prolonged toward the period of the primaries and elections the greater the effect should be. There are some who predict it may be as late as March before the tariff is finally ;en- acted. Others surmise a date as early as the middle of January. - . More than 3,000 petitions for United By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 29.— Along about the Ides of March, 44 B.C., Marc Antony owed Julius Caesar $1569,435, which was a lot of money in those days. ‘The Chicago Civic Theater, devoted | to Shakespeare, has found out about it |from some old records. The point is that Marc owed the money on the Ides of March, but that about the first of April he was clear on the books. Records Hint Caesar “"Wiped Off”" Debt To Marc Antony After Assassination IThr insinuation is put forward that fm- mediately after Caesar became deceased —via Brutus—Mr. Antony took an eraser and obliterated the indebtedness. Of course, Antony made a pretty good talk in behalf of the late Mr. Caesar —"“The evil that men do lives after them: the good is oft interred with ;g\e‘lr bon;s;;but it was no more than aesar had a right to expect for | $1,569.435 |RIVER OBLITERATED BY MONT PELEE ASH | Observers Fear Avalanche of Mud Will Result From Vast De- posit From Volcano. | By the Associated Prese FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique, No- by Mont Pelee recently have choked the wide bed of the River Blanche and lit- erally obliterated the stream. There is no visible flow of water, but observers fear that avalanches of mud | may sweep down through the gulleys on | the west, south and southwest of Mont Pelee. Government officials_estimated where between a million and a million and a half ton: —— UL Rhineland’ Post Changed. COBLENZ, Germany, November 29 | high commission of the international vember 29.—Heavy clouds of ash emitted | that the weight of the ash deposits in | the bed of the River Blanche was any- | (P).—The headquarters of the German | |LISBON UNDER WATER IN TORRENTIAL RAIN Portugal Capital's Water Reservolr Bursts, Flooding Big Area. | BY_the Associated Press. LISBOW, Portugal, November 329.— Torrential rains, falling steadily for 24 | hours, caused floods yesterday in several sections of the Portuguese capital. The food market, near the Tagus | River, was several feet under water. Street car service was suspended in many parts of the town. The city water reservoir burst, flood- | ing a large section. | | | New Tariff Adopted. | BREMEN, Germany, November 29 (4. —Steamship lines "belonging to the | Canadian West Bound Freight Confer- jence, as well as the North Atlantic West Bound Freight Conference, have resolv- ed to adopt the same freight tariff for Canadian ports as is in force for Phil- except save him as much as I could. | e : March when two programs will be under | those manufacturers within the indus- | States patents have been filed by Rhine- | Rhineland commission have been trans- | adelphia. Baltimore. Norfols: aad Ben: st (hies e iIaS Eont 10 (ee;;":‘h':' :"""""" J. William Adams, sergeant-at-arms, and Ernest F. 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